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Tempe firm’s $4M dispute sticks landlords nationwide

BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Tribune Staff Writer

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ozens of apartment complex owners across the country failed to receive tenant rent payments in early October due to mysterious financial issues faced by a Kentucky-based payment processor, and Tempe’s Check Commerce is stuck in the middle of the dispute.

The issue began when property owners using the eRentPayment online platform realized they had not received automated clearing house payments submitted by tenants in early

October.

Upon further investigation, it became clear that issue stemmed from financial problems faced by eRentPayment’s payment processor, a company called eCheckit.

The issue affected some payments made from Oct. 3-12 through eRentPayment.

On Oct. 16, Tempe-based Check Commerce, the payment processor for eCheckit, froze over $4 million of eCheckit’s funds in a reserve account due to irregularities it noticed in debit and credit instructions that eCheckit submitted on behalf of its merchants.

In a notice to consumers, Check Commerce

stated, “At that time, Check Commerce believed that eCheckit lacked sufficient available funds to cover the corresponding credit transactions for the debits it had submitted on behalf of its merchants.”

Two days later on Oct. 18, eCheckit filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Kentucky.

It is unclear if there is a direct correlation between Check Commerce’s actions and the eCheckit board of director’s decision to file for bankruptcy, though that decision was made at a special meeting on Oct. 17, according to See

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Longtime Mesa costume shop giving up the ghost

BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Tribune Staff Writer

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s Mesa’s Fiesta District begins redevelopment, it’s beginning to leave behind local retailers that don’t fit into the city’s plans – the mom-and-pop shops that have provided unique products and services for decades and struggled against the tide of changing demographics and the emergence of online shopping.

One of those businesses, Groovy Ghoulies Costumes, will soon be shutting its doors for good after 38 years.

Formerly known as Bubbles of Joy Costumes, the store took on its new moniker in 2012, when owner Howard Faber retired and his daughter Denise Horn took over the shop with her husband Larry. Faber also operated a balloon and helium business under the same name.

Horn’s brother Andrew Faber took over the balloon and helium division and kept the name Bubbles of Joy. That store is still operates in Gilbert with no plans to close.

Surprisingly, Groovy Ghoulies was not done in by the emergence of temporary seasonal Halloween stores like Spirit Halloween. In fact, the owners appreciated the healthy competition when the pop-up stores would set up shop in their area in the past.

“There was one year we had three (tempo-

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Denise Horn, co-owner of Groovy Ghoulies, models some Halloween masks. "We are a draw for Halloween but the rest of the year, we struggle,” Horn said.

rary stores) around us and we said ‘bring it on,’ because it’s free advertising,” Horn said.

She explained that the temporary stores would purchase advertising that brought consumers to the area; Groovy Ghoulies employees would often find themselves helping buyers disenchanted by the lack of a personal touch at the large chains.

The personal touch was never in short supply at Groovy Ghoulies. The family – Howard, his wife Mary Faber and their children – and employees have been on a first-name basis with many customers for the past several decades.

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Rare Fruit Growers bring a new taste to Mesa

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BY RALPH ZUBIATE Tribune Managing Editor

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oug Jones doesn’t seem too worried by the threat to the Cavendish banana.

As a fungus infects the common bananas the public is used to seeing on supermarket shelves, Jones grows uncommon bananas, along with papayas, guavas and more “rare” fruit.

“We’re looking at other varieties, seeing what will grow here, what may be resistant,” he said at a meeting of the Arizona Rare Fruit Growers group.

The Arizona group helps interested growers find out how to grow exotics, and they share their latest harvest at a meeting once a month at Mesa Community College. The group, which counts 500 members, meets the third Thursday of every month at 7:30 p.m.

“I’ve got 15-20 different varieties of bananas on my property, and I’m harvesting pretty much all of them off and on.

I’ve picked 35-40 big bunches this year,” he said, displaying four types of bananas at the meeting.

“They do pretty good if you know what you’re doing.”

Jones said he enjoys getting together with other growers to display his bounty.

“It’s fun to try and see what you can make happen, and show other people,” he said. “You can learn a few things.

“It’s good to teach people how to grow these things so they don’t have the same trial and error.”

He founded the Arizona Rare Fruit Growers group with that in mind.

“I started the group after visiting one in California,” said Jones, the group’s president. “They’ve been around for a long, long time. They promote growing rare fruit and educating people. They’re

(Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer)

Christine Rademan and Doug Jones look over some of the delicacies on display at a recent meeting of the Arizona Rare Fruit Growers group.

trying to expanding the things they’re growing.”

At a recent gathering, growers were showing off goji berries, persimmons and jujubes – not the candy, but the fruit, “like a little apple but not quite as sweet, and a little dry,” Jones said.

Christine Rademan and her husband started out growing plums, peaches and other stone fruit. In 2011, they found this group, and started to branch out.

They’re trying pomegranates and dragon fruit now.

“The people are friendly, they make you feel welcome,” Rademan said. “I said, ‘Wouldn’t it be fun to try something new.’

“Now, we’re attempting to grow different figs.”

Jason Tibbetts is a master gardener with the group, a designation that says he’s been certified to train volunteers who then teach the public more about

gardening.

“I’ve always been interested in gardening,” he said.

In 2012, he started a consulting business – Eden Institute – to help customers plan edible landscapes.

“I want to teach people how to do have beautiful and productive landscaping.”

Tibbetts, a graduate of the Arizona State University School of Sustainability, has transformed his own house in Mesa, growing papayas, bananas and kumquats.

Jones and the group keep trying new, different fruits. They grow starfruit, dragon fruit and he says they’ve experimented with cacao, the first ingredient in chocolate.

They also grow longan, which is also called dragon’s eye.

“When you open it up and bite in to it, it has a translucent orb with dark brown See

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Doug Jones has grown these Fukushu Kumquats. He had them on display at the Rare Fruit Growers meeting.

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Christine Rademan shared goji berries with her fellow growers.

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temporary stores is my dad,” Horn said.

“He instilled in all of us (the importance of ) customer service and, because of that, people come back,” Horn said.

Additionally, Groovy Ghoulies employed an experienced staff – some of whom worked for the store for over 10 years – and offered professional makeup and costume services.

They also offered a catalog of professional and medical-grade prosthetics that could not be found anywhere else in the Valley.

The store’s impact on the surrounding area is obvious in the community’s response to the impending closure and the fact that former customers and employees continue to stop by just to say hello.

A Facebook post that announced the closure on the store’s official account drew over 105 comments, most of which come from customers lamenting the news and/ or sharing their memories. “(My daughter) and I just love you guys and are so sad to see you go,” Mesa resident Michelle Peterson-Meyers wrote.

“Thank you all for everything.”

Brooke English, another Mesa resident, wrote to a reporter that “the people working there were so friendly and (had a) happy go lucky attitude.”

She added that the employees encouraged her to be creative and helped her develop characters using the accessories she purchased.

Although the once-booming retail area has experienced years of regression alongside the decline of its major hub Fiesta Mall, Mesa remains bullish on its plans to revive the area.

Through the strategic use of development incentives, the city plans to transform the area into a booming office and employment center.

Times were not always this hard for the store.

For much of its history, Bubbles of Joy

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like Pokemon cards and Beanie Babies.

During the height of the Beanie Baby craze, the store would host special release days with customers lining up at the crack of dawn to get their hands on the newest editions of the plush toys.

The store also operated a post office for nearly a decade. After an ominous start – it opened on September 11, 2001 – the outfit became so successful that actual USPS employees would call the store to ask for Larry Horn’s expertise, Howard Faber said.

The good times would not last forever, though, and the store has struggled in (Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer) the past five years or Sam Walker tries on “Stitch” costume at Groovy Ghoulies in Mesa. so, Mary Faber said.

– and later Groovy Ghoulies – was a flourLike many retailers in the area, Groovy ishing business.

Ghoulies’ downturn coincided with the After starting as a balloon and helium decline of Fiesta Mall as fewer shoppers business operated out of the Fabers’ home visited the area. Even streetscape improvein 1979, it eventually expanded through- ments performed by the city to entice out the East Valley with divisions, in- consumers to return did not help. cluding a gift store and costume shop, in In fact, in some ways, it did the oppoMesa, Chandler and Tempe. site. Heavy road construction two years Eventually, Howard Faber decided to ago blocked all entrances to Fiesta Mall bring all of the divisions back under one and further reduced traffic to stores in the roof in Mesa at Alma School Road and area, Denise Horn said.

Southern Avenue during Fiesta Mall’s “It did hurt a lot of businesses around heyday. here, and there are places that did go out “That intersection at Alma School and (of business) at that point because nobody Southern was the busiest intersection in wanted to drive down this road,” Denise the East Valley at that time,” Mary Faber Horn said. said.

Other retailers opted to move to newer During that time, Bubbles of Joy was shopping districts like Mesa Riverview, never just a costume shop or balloon store. which hurt the Fiesta District’s ability to The Fabers kept up with the retail trends attract consumers, Howard Faber said.

Horn added, “So between that and the mall, it’s not a draw for people to come here anymore. We are a draw for Halloween but the rest of the year, we struggle.”

The store also took a significant hit from online shopping and the economic downturn.

Some customers come to the store to try on a costume and then order it online to save money, Howard Faber said. Others opted to shop at Party City or Walmart.

Some customers who stuck with the store simply could not afford to purchase high-end costumes and opted for lowercost items.

“A part of that is the economy; people can’t afford (it),” Mary Faber said. “You have four kids and you need to dress each one so what you do is you buy a lot of accessories instead of costumes, so the sales are not there.”

Groovy Ghoulies’ future is up in the air, though there are no plans to move into another retail location. Denise Horn and her family searched for alternative, more affordable spots for nine months with no luck.

They had no interest in moving outside of Mesa due to the store’s history in the community and did not want to take customers away from other costume shops in the Valley.

Horn may still set up booths at local conventions and could, in an ironic twist of fate, end up selling her wares online.

Groovy Ghoulies will remain open until at least the end of November. The family’s short-term goal is to sell off its existing inventory, with some items on sale up to 75 percent off, and express its sincere thanks to the community. “(We want to) tell everybody, the customers, that we thank them,” Howard Faber said.

Mary Faber added, “We will miss them.

They’re like family.”

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Pop-up Halloween shops give economy temporary boost

BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Tribune Staff Writer

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very year toward the end of summer, Halloween stores pop up around the East Valley and have a significant, though temporary, effect on the commercial real estate market.

For the past decade, retailers like Spirit Halloween and Halloween City have consistently emerged in late summer to peddle costumes, decorations and accessories to

consumers, occupying vacant retail space in the process.

“I think they have become expected,” said Mark Stapp, Fred E. Taylor professor of real estate at W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. “When they first started to pop up, (people saw them as) weird, but now they’ve established themselves in consumers’ minds, and we expect to see them.”

The stores are tapping into a massive market as 179 million Americans are ex-

pected to participate in Halloween this year and spend roughly $9.1 billion on items related to the holiday in 2017, according to a report from the National Retail Federation.

The vast majority of that spending – $3.4 billion – will go toward purchasing costumes. Candy and decorations are each expected to account for $2.7 billion in Halloween spending, according to the NRF report.

Temporary Halloween stores fill a

unique niche in the local real estate market in that they occupy vacant retail space for a limited period of time. They tend to favor junior big box spaces that have a footprint of 40,000 square feet or less, Stapp said.

Overall, the commercial real estate market in the East Valley is active. The vacancy rate in the market has dropped by 0.50 percent over the past year and the area leads all submarkets in the Valley with See

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Big League Dreams vows fight over Gilbert contract termination

BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer

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ilbert’s stormy relationship with Big League Dreams has been headed for a nasty divorce since July, when the town unilaterally closed the sports park amid safety concerns about the integrity of outfield fences and faux grandstands.

Gilbert considers the divorce final, now that the Town Council has terminated a memorandum of understanding with Big League Dreams, citing a lack of confidence in the company’s ability to operate the facility without damaging it, after $14 million in repairs are completed.

But the operators of Big League Dreams say they are not ready to pack up their bats and balls and leave forever. They are appealing the case in court, attempting to get a permanent injunction that would force Gilbert to re-open the popular, yet muchmaligned, sports facility.

“We have terminated the marriage and we don’t want to make up,” said Robert Grasso, an attorney representing Gilbert in the lawsuits related to the sports park.

“The town decided to independently terminate the contract. The town has lost confidence that Big League Dreams would run it in a responsible manner.”

Because Big League Dreams failed to perform maintenance as required by the contract, “we believe that Big League Dream’s approach disregards public safety,” he said.

Grasso said the memorandum of understanding with Big League Dreams, which dates back to 2005, was a maintenance and operation contract. He said in court records that Big League Dreams agreed to pay the town 6 percent of gross receipts, but did not have a lease and did not have

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seed,” he said. “Looks like an eyeball.”

Another rare treat is a houseplant called Monstera deliciosa.

“It’s great big leaf with holes in it, and it produces a thing like a corn on the cob.

It tastes like a cross between a mango and pineapple, when it’s ripe,” he said. “If it’s not ripe, it’s poisonous.”

Jones points out that the term rare fruit “depends on how you look at it.”

“Nobody grows cherries in the Valley, but there are some new cherry varieties we’re experimenting with,” he said. “We still haven’t gotten a lot of produce out of it, but we are growing cherries.”

to pay rent or property taxes.

The brand new, $40 million facility was turned over to Big League Dreams in late 2007 and opened in 2008. It attracted many tournaments but nowhere close to the projected revenues promised by Big League Dreams.

This arrangement essentially means that Big League Dreams acted as a vendor, until the town severed the agreement on Sept. 22.

Although it was on a much larger scale and far more money was involved, the business relationship really wasn’t any different than that of a homeowner who hires an exterminator to spray for bugs once a month, Grasso said.

“We’re comfortable with terminating the agreement,” an action that was possible even without a court ruling on the pending lawsuits, he said. “We’re dealing with a bunch of people who would destroy a multimillion (dollar) facility.”

But Chuck Jelloian, a spokesman for Big League Dreams, accused the town of erecting a tall wall between the two parties and failing to negotiate in good faith. He said Big League Dreams still would like to see the park re-opened, attracting tournament games as it did in the past, and giving employees a source of income.

He said Gilbert ignored a report from an engineering consultant hired by Big League Dreams, who disputed the town consultant’s conclusions that the outfield walls and the associated faux grandstands were dangerous.

The Big League Dreams concept is to make youth fields resemble iconic Major League baseball parks, such as Yankee Stadium and Fenway Park, simulating a Major League experience.

“I thought those were extremely disingenuous comments by the mayor about

Big League Dreams wanted Gilbert to rotate the construction, only partially closing the complex, as it did in the past. Gilbert refused to do so, according to court records, saying such a plan would cost taxpayers an additional $5 million-$8 million and take an additional three years to complete.

“The Town not only (Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer) refused this request but Big League Dreams has been closed by the town of Gilbert since July. refused to even meet to Now, the Town Council has terminated a memorandum of underdiscuss this or other opstanding with Big League Dreams. tions,” according to a our integrity,” Jelloian said. “We gave list of Big League Dreams claims against them a report and the town decides with the town. one day’s notice to cancel that agreement.”

Grasso said he considers the dispute a Jelloian said Big League Dreams, based legal argument about money only at this in Southern California, has 11 parks point. He already has notified a Maricopa throughout the country and has never County Superior Court judge that he has been treated in such a hostile manner as a schedule conflict with another court case in Gilbert. on Nov. 14, the date on which the request “If they think we are going to walk away for an injunction was scheduled for a hearfrom it, we’re not,” he said. ing.

Big League Dreams court filings accuse While Grasso believes it may take a couthe town of failing to adequately super- ple of years of legal wrangling to settle the vise the town-owned park’s construction. case, Gilbert Mayor Jenn Daniels wrote Faulty construction resulted in extensive in an opinion piece provided by a spokesrepairs, with Gilbert completing $2 mil- woman that the town is planning to search lion in repairs and eventually winning a for a new operator that would take over $14 million settlement of a lawsuit from when the repairs are completed.

M.A Mortenson and Co. She called an attempt to continue the Big League Dreams claims the town partnership with Big Leagues “a risk with owes them $148,831 to compensate from little reward,” adding, “This facility needs lost business during that initial phase of a different team: an operator with comrepairs, but the real breaking point oc- mon sense, motivation and integrity. A curred when the town decided to close the team that believes in the Gilbert way.” entire facility to complete a more extensive $13.8 million repair program that will – Reach Jim Walsh at 480-898-5639 or at jwalsh@ timespublications.com. take 12-18 months.

Jones is hoping to expand the palate of the American consumer, maybe starting with his unusual bananas.

“I came back from a church mission where I ate all these great fruits in Thailand, and great bananas. When I got back, the bananas here tasted like chalk,” he said, contrasting them with his different varieties.

At 8 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 4, the Arizona Rare Fruit Growers group will sell its latest crops at the Rose Garden at Mesa Community College, 1833 W. Southern Ave. Information: facebook.com/AZRFG. – Contact Ralph Zubiate at 480-898-6825 or rzubiate@timespublications.com.

(Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer)

Jason Tibbetts said he was always interested in gardening, learning from his father, who was a landscape contractor.

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murder and 10 other criminal counts after her arrest Oct. 22 in a drunk-driving accident that killed a White Mountain singer and her fiancé on the I-10 near Wild Horse Pass.

Lauren Tamburrelli, 26, had her 3-year-old daughter in her car when it struck an SUV, triggering a five-car crash that took the lives of Lindsey Earl, 29, of Lakeside and Thomas Dempsey, 29, of Pinetop.

Tamburrelli, who is in jail on a $500,000 bond, spoke incoherently when officers tied to talk to her and became combatant with people who tried to help her, according to one. She also had tried to walk away from the crash, according to reports.

One report said Tamburrelli in 2009 pleaded guilty with another girl to making a fake bomb threat that shut down Corona del Sol High School in Tempe because the friend wanted a day off.

The White Mountain Independent said that Earl, a 2015 graduate in biomedical science from the University of Arizona, was the 2013 Arizona State Kids USA Pageant winner at age 13 and a year later won an all-expense paid trip to sing in the national finals of the 25th annual Colgate Country Showdown in Nashville, Tennessee. Her fiancé at just been promoted manager of the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Marana.

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Police seek identity of sex assault suspect in Chandler Chandler police are seeking help in identifying a suspect

who sexually assaulted a girl August 2014 in the parking lot of the Basha Library at 5990 S. Val Vista Drive.

The suspect approached the victim, 12, as she stood in front of the Library. He lured her to an older model white four-door sedan. Once in the vehicle, the suspect sexually assaulted the victim.

The suspect, whose image was released in a sketch, is described as a dark-skinned male between 18 and 25. He is over 5 feet 8 inches tall and was wearing a flannel shirt, baggy jeans and tennis shoes. The victim said the suspect spoke poor English.

The girl didn’t disclose the assault until this June.

Anyone with information on the identity of the suspect is asked to call Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS (948-6377). Silent Witness is offering a reward up to $1,000 for information that leads to the arrest or indictment of this suspect.

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Council Member David Luna was first appointed to fill the vacant District 5 seat on the Mesa City Council in 2013 and won election for a full term in 2014. He was the first Hispanic to serve on the Council in 130 years. He was named Vice Mayor in January 2017.

Former county prosecutor Jake Brown and businesswoman Jen Duff are contesting the District 4 seat currently held by Christopher Glover.

Brown says he plans to focus on property rights, ensuring a fiscally responsible government and public safety. He has served on Mesa’s Early Childhood Education Taskforce, the Imagine Mesa Committee and the West Mesa Community Development Corporation board.

Duff, who owns Jef International and Lobina Lures, is a member of several boards, including the Mesa Community College Development Board, Mesa Rotary and East Valley Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. She will focus on public safety, early education and community engagement.

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772,000 square feet of new retail space opened over the past year, according to a recent retail market report from Marcus & Millichap.

Despite that robust growth, the East Valley’s overall vacancy rate is still 10.4 percent, which is higher than the overall Phoenix-area average of 9.7 percent, according to the report.

Temporary Halloween retailers have taken advantage of that empty space.

Spirit, owned by gag gift retailer Spencer’s, has a dozen locations throughout the East Valley, including two in Tempe, three in Mesa, five in Chandler and two in Gilbert.

The other major pop-up Halloween retailer is Halloween City, operated by Party City. The company has two locations in the East Valley at Arizona Mills Mall in Tempe and in Gilbert at Power and Ray Roads.

Nationwide, Spirit has hired over 30,000 people to run its 1,300 stores, according to information provided by the chain.

Despite being a temporary occupant, these stores have a tangible impact on the real estate market and local economy.

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documents filed in the bankruptcy.

In a statement to customers, eRentPayment states that eCheckit “suffered losses due to a fraud…” and that “eRentPayment had nothing to due (sic) with the fraud eCheckit suffered.”

The statement also said that “(the fraud) was apparently caused by another client of eCheckit.”

Due to the irregularities noticed by the Check Commerce, it suspended eCheckit’s ability to submit further transactions.

It also notified eCheckit merchants of its decision to hold onto the existing $4 million, which it stated it had the right to do under the terms of the merchants’ contracts with eCheckit.

A forum on the topic on the real estate investment website BiggerPockets contains comments from dozens of property owners who claimed to use eRentPayment in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York and other states.

They had not received payments submitted by tenants.

The company’s bankruptcy filing by eCheckit, also known as CC Operations LLC, sheds little light on the source of the company’s woes.

The court-appointed trustee in the

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operator, rent for the landlord and sales tax for the city.”

Stapp compared the stores to the pumpkin and Christmas tree lots that appear for weeks at a time around the holidays and generate income on otherwise unoccupied property.

Those temporary stores are not the only seasonal aberration that affects the local economy, though. Haunted houses also have a significant effect on the private and nonprofit sectors.

Ticket sales to themed haunted sites account for about $1 billion, according to Hauntworld.com, an industry website and haunted house directory.

There are dozens of haunted attractions throughout the (Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer) Spirit Halloween has hired over 30,000 people to run its 1,300 stores, including this one at Chandler Fashion Center. East Valley, including GolSpirit is owned by retailer Spencer's. fland Fright Nights in Mesa and the Halloween Pumpkin “I think there (are) vacancies across the is it is beneficial to all the parties,” CBRE Patch at Mother Nature’s Farm in Gilbert. market, and when you’ve got places like Retail Services First Vice President Todd Spirit that come in and fill vacant space, Folger said.

– Reach Wayne Schutsky at 480-898-6533 or even on a limited time frame, the reality Folger added, “It generates sales for the wschutsky@timespublications.com. bankruptcy case, Michael Wheatley, is working to parse the bankruptcy filing, which contains an unusual lack of information, Wheatley’s attorney Peter M. Gannott said.

“We are working diligently to try and find out all we can from (the filing) and are waiting to hear from the debtor’s attorney to set up meetings,” Gannott said.

He added that when a company works with a high volume of financial transactions, it can take a considerable amount of time to sort through the information. eRentPayment has since begun working with a new bank to process its ACH transactions and has begun processing payments submitted after Oct. 12, according to a notice on the company’s website.

In its statement, eRentPayment stated that it does not know when Check Commerce will release the funds and that merchants should consider all their options, including having tenants contact their banks to request that transactions be reversed.

The company also has plans to contact the Attorney General of Arizona and to review its legal options in the matter.

It is unclear if or when Check Commerce will release the funds.

The company’s notice to consumers said that it has been in contact with the bankruptcy trustee and that “Check Commerce

is maintaining the reserve account to fund any liabilities for transactions originated through the ACH Network.”

Check Commerce is embroiled in another unrelated legal dispute as minority owners spar with majority owners of its parent company Base Commerce over alleged contractual violations.

The civil suit, filed in Maricopa County Superior Court in September 2016, stems from disputes between minority owner Jason Doolittle over circumstances surrounding the termination of his employment.

In Doolittle’s complaint, he alleges that majority owners of the company – including Brian Bonfiglio, John Kirchefer and Alexander Sidel – violated the terms of operating and employment agreements when it removed Doolittle and fellow minority owner John Hughes from their positions running the company in February 2016.

Hughes is not a party in the civil suit and previously reached a settlement with Base Commerce.

According to the complaint, Doolittle and Hughes were hired to run the company, then known as Phoenix Payments LLC, in 2012 and that their management led to a “leading global payments processor” offering to buy the company for $40.5 million in 2016.

The complaint states that Doolittle and

Hughes took salaries below their market value in exchange for minority shares in the company.

The complaint also alleges that Bonfiglio, Kirchefer and Sidel did not consider the purchase offer and then conspired to remove Doolittle and Hughes from the company in order to “claim the success and profits as their own, and to deprive Doolittle and Hughes of their rights, income and profits.”

At a meeting on Feb. 12, 2016, the majority members put Hughes and Doolittle on a temporary sabbatical in order to address the potential mishandling of a customer account in 2013 and 2014.

That temporary leave then turned into a permanent termination, according to the complaint.

Doolittle argued that the customer account issue was a guise to force him out of the company and that the removal violated previously agreed to operating and employment agreements. The complaint also makes allegations against majority members of mismanagement and defamation.

The case is currently under a stay of proceedings while the two sides attempt to resolve the issue via arbitration, according to court records available to the public.

– Reach Wayne Schutsky at 480-898-6533 or wschutsky@timespublications.com.

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THE WEEK AHEAD Tempe mayor to give State of the City address Tempe Mayor Mark Mitchell will deliver his State of the City Address on Friday, Nov. 3, from 7:15-9 a.m. at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Tempe-Phoenix, 2100 S. Priest Drive.

Mitchell will be sharing his thoughts on the local social and economic climate along with his vision for the growth and future of Tempe and Arizona.

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Sport fishing instructors from the Arizona Game and Fish Department will provide instruction, rods and reels to loan and free bait while supplies last. All participants may fish without a license during the event once they have registered at the Arizona Game and Fish Commission booth.

There also will be free crafts, educational activities and demonstrations provided by the Environmental Education Center and local vendors.

The event is hosted by the Environmental Education Center and sponsored by Arizona Game and Fish Department.

For information about fishing licenses and regulations, visit azgfd.gov. For more information about the event, go to chandleraz.gov/eec, or call 480-782-2890.

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State board to reexamine questionable school-grading system

BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

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acing a barrage of questions and criticism, the State Board of Education voted Monday to take another look at its new system for grading schools – nearly two months after Kyrene School District officials warned members that its formula was faulty.

The unanimous vote means that some schools with preliminary grades of D and F could move up. That’s important because parents use these grades to make decisions about where to send their children to school.

It could also mean more A grades. That, in turn, has financial implications with those schools eligible for additional state dollars.

But a revamp may not create all positive results, since some schools could find out that they are not performing as well – at least by state standards – as they had initially been told.

The move came amid questions about the accuracy of the data used to give out grades ranging from A to F. There also were issues raised about whether information was properly coded.

But many of the problems appear to be associated with the board’s decision on how much weight to give student improvement versus actual achievement.

That was inserted in a bid to ensure that lower-performing schools in high poverty areas had a chance to get high grades because their students were improving. But officials from some higher performing schools said that’s not fair to them because their students already were scoring at the peak and therefore have nowhere to go -and no way to earn improvement points.

Kyrene Superintendent Jan Vesely and her aides warned the board at its Sept. 6 study session about the weighting. And while board members conceded they

sistance Committee being formed to look at the results to take a closer look to find out why that happened.

“Is there something we can tweak in our calculation that would remove this influence?” she contin(Howard Fischer/Capitol Media Services ued. “I’m reTim Carter, president of the State Board of Education, explains the apparent problems Monday in the new grading system for schools. Listening is Diane ally concerned Douglas, the superintendent of public instruction, who also serves on the board. that we have too few highpoverty schools that are represented in the Maryniak: So far, Arizona school top areas.” graders merit a D ... Page 19 And then are problems with schools that made a good point, they went ahead and the system wasn’t designed to handle. adopted the formula anyway, indicating In essence, the grading is based on one they were under pressure from the Legis- set of standards for K-8 schools and anlature and governor to have grades issued other for 9-12. quickly.

Tim Carter, president of the state board, What may be worse is that the grading said the complaints are in many ways not plan may not have produced the desired a surprise. results.

“All of us knew going in that with a new Board member Patricia Welborn said grading system, based on all you’ve heard her analysis shows that among schools today, that issues were going to arise,” he where 70 percent or more of students were told his colleagues. eligible for free or reduced-price lunches, Carter said that’s part of the reason that fewer than 5 percent earned an A grade. the grades that were made public earlier Conversely, a quarter were rated D or F. this month were determined to be preAt the other extreme, she said, more liminary, with the potential that they can than 54 percent of schools with fewer than be changed.

30 percent of students eligible for free or The problems with the grading system reduced-price lunches earned an A; 90 are being monitored by aides to Gov. percent were rated A or B. Doug Ducey, who put $38 million into And there were no schools earning an F. the budget for this year to be divided up “I’m very concerned that one of the fun- among high-performing schools. damental rules that we intended not to This year it was parceled out based on happen has happened,” she told her col- scores on the AzMERIT standardized leagues. She wants a special Technical As- tests. But the plan for next year is to use

those grades.

Gubernatorial press aide Daniel Scarpinato said his boss wants to make sure the money is going where it was designed – and that the final grading system approved by the board does that.

And Scarpinato said the findings linking grades to poverty underline why “getting the formula right” is important.

“A school that may be dealing with a unique population, a unique issue, might have very high poverty issues, that the model is taking that into account so that we can truly understand what’s happening there,” he said.

But Scarpinato said his boss is having no second thoughts about providing financial incentives to high-performing schools – assuming the formula truly identifies them – because the funds can be used for everything from bonuses for teachers to helping a charter school expand to accommodate more children.

Charter schools have their own concerns. Eileen Sigmund, president of the Arizona Charter School Association, told board members more than half of those schools didn’t get a grade, partly because of their own non-traditional grade configurations. And those that did, she said, ended up with “significantly different” scores than last year.

Then there’s the question of data, specifically schools claiming one set of numbers and a different being used by the Department of Education to compute grades.

“I’m not pointing fingers anyplace,” Carter said. “I don’t think that does us any good.” But he said those numbers, including things like graduation rates, are important because they can make a significant difference in the grade a school gets.

A related issue, he said, is how those numbers were put into the grading system.

“If there are coding issues and they’re widespread, that is something we’re going to have to deal with,” he said.

Owner of Chandler-based Insys arrested, charged with conspiracy

BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Tribune Staff Writer

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ederal agents arrested the founder and former CEO of embattled Chandler pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics on charges that he oversaw a nationwide conspiracy to illegally increase subscriptions for Subsys, a powerful opioid painkiller and the company’s primary product.

John N. Kapoor, who is the majority

owner of Insys and still sits on the Board of Directors, was arrested in Phoenix on Oct. 26 and charged with a RICO conspiracy and other counts, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.

The indictment includes additional charges for six former Insys executives who were indicted in Dec. 2016 and also names 10 doctors and four pharmacies as co-conspirators.

Subsys is a drug approved to treat can-

cer patients, but none of the doctors referenced in the indictment are oncologists, though several work with cancer patients at pain centers.

Rhode Island doctor Jerrold Rosenberg recently pleaded guilty to charges related to the ongoing Insys investigation but is not mentioned in this indictment.

Kapoor’s arrest came on the same day that President Donald Trump declared the nationwide opioid epidemic a public health emergency.

Fentanyl, the active drug in Subsys, has contributed greatly to the epidemic. According to the Center for Disease Control, of the 64,000 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2016, 20,000 were associated with fentanyl and fentanyl-related drugs, the most drastic increase among any drug.

The indictment paints a picture of a multi-pronged effort by Insys executives See

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and co-conspirators to bribe doctors, defraud insurers and circumvent DEA regulations requiring the reporting of suspicious orders.

Subsys was approved by the FDA for the treatment of breakthrough pain in cancer patients. The indictment indicates that Kapoor and former Insys President and CEO Michael Babich were unhappy with the drug’s sales performance in the months following its entrance onto the market in 2012.

In order to increase sales, they allegedly conspired with other executives to devise a scheme to prescribe the drug at higher rates, according to the indictment.

“In exchange for bribes and kickbacks, the practitioners wrote large numbers of prescriptions for the patients, most of whom were not diagnosed with cancer,” according to a press release from U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.

The 10 practitioners listed as co-conspirators in the indictment received hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece in kickbacks. In 2013, Insys budgeted $2.25 million to pay these “speaker fees.” In 2014, that budget rose to $10 million, according to the indictment.

Messages between Insys executives and sales representatives indicate that the company targeted doctors with a history of prescribing a high volume of similar drugs for all types of pain, not just cancer pain, in order to increase the market for the drug.

The messages also show that executives actively pressured sales representatives to convince doctors to prescribe Subsys in dosages higher than those recommended on the drug’s label.

In the U.S. Attorney’s release, Harold H. Shaw, special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Field Division, said that “The allegations of selling a highly addictive opioid cancer pain drug to patients who did not have cancer, make them no better than streetlevel drug dealers.”

These allegations are mirrored in lawsuits brought against Insys by health insurance company Anthem and several state attorneys general, including Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich.

A report on the nationwide opioid epidemic released by U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill’s office also signals out Insys as a bad actor.

“Evidence from our investigation suggests that Insys was engaged in systemic fraud and took actions that directly harmed their own customers and public

(Special to the Tribune)

John N. Kapoor was arrested in Phoenix on Oct. 26 and charged with a RICO conspiracy and other counts.

health as a whole,” McCaskill said.

In its lawsuit, the state of Arizona claims Insys sold nearly $52 million worth of Subsys between March 2012 and April 2017. Sixty-four percent of those prescriptions came from three doctors who received speaker fees from Insys.

Bribes were only one aspect of the scheme, though.

In order to capitalize on the prescriptions written by doctors, Insys executives had to figure out a way to obtain prior authorizations from health insurers. Typically, insurers only cover drugs like Insys if they are prescribed for the approved use.

The indictment alleges that Insys executives – who pressured sales representatives and doctors to prescribe Subsys for a range of ailments outside of breakthrough cancer pain – actively sought to mislead insurers in order to obtain prior authorizations.

The indictment alleges that Insys set up a “reimbursement unit” designed to obtain prior authorizations and that employees in this unit followed a script designed to mislead insurers and, in some cases, provide false cancer diagnoses.

Insurers were unlikely to provide prior authorizations to pharmaceutical company representatives, so the executives also took steps – such as blocking phone numbers – to hide the identity of employees calling from the reimbursement unit, which was located in the Insys headquarters in Chandler.

Kapoor faces charges of conspiracy to commit RICO and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud that each call for a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000, or twice the amount of pecuniary gain or loss.

He also faces charges of conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Law that calls for a sentence of up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a $25,000 fine.

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BY DAVID M. BROWN Tribune Contributor

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hat’s for dinner tomorrow?

Sit down at the table and ask the chef mentors and future chefs at the Careers through Culinary Arts Program.

The New York City-based nonprofit has been transforming the lives of at-risk students for 26 years by preparing them for college and careers in the restaurant and hospitality industry.

This 2016–2017 academic year, C-CAP AZ, the local affiliate, served 4,300 students attending 50 schools, including in the East Valley. And, last spring, more than $435,000 in scholarships were awarded to students from a variety of school districts throughout Arizona.

Recently, East Valley students were among 14 young people who participated in the first AZ Summer Job Training Program, which met once a week for 10 weeks in Phoenix at the C-CAP Training Kitchen, sponsored by Nine Degrees North Catering and Sysco Arizona.

On Nov. 5, Mesa and Basha high schools will send student teams to participate in the fourth Harvest Moon Feast, C-CAP AZ’s annual and scholarship fund-raiser.

During the inaugural summer program, students received intensive technical and soft skills training and participated in an international-inspired cooking competition sponsored by the Pork Council of Arizona, explained Jill Smith, director of C-CAP AZ. Executive Chef Andrew Helmandollar of Casino Arizona mentored, and “each student also received a knife kit, cookbooks, uniforms and other culinary-related materials throughout the summer,” Smith said.

This academic year, high school seniors and juniors are again working toward “CCAP Recommended” certification, and graduating high school seniors can participate in the 2018 summer program.

East Valley high schools involved with C-CAP are East Valley Institute of Technology and Mesa High in Mesa; Highland and Perry in Gilbert; and Chandler, Hamilton and Basha high schools in Chandler.

“C-CAP gives our students techniques

(Jenelle Bonifeld/Special to the Tribune)

Mesa High School aspiring chefs, from left, Connor Millar, Anthony Fimbres and Walley Andriade pause with Chef Helmandollar before building a dish.

that will benefit them in the culinary world, such as team work and employability, organizational skills and communication skills,” said Priscilla Yazzie, a culinary teacher at Mesa High.

Smith said the job training program “provides intensive training in kitchen skills including knife cuts, food and equipment identification, safety and sanitation, as well as soft skills such as communication, time management and problem-solving.”

“Training is followed by a paid internship in a professional kitchen, where students gain critical job skills and experienc-

es. The program serves many of our high school students looking for their first job,” Smith added.

Lee Hillson, executive sous chef for the Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass in Chandler, will emcee the Harvest Moon event at Unexpected Art Gallery in Phoenix.

“I value the enrichment of future culinarians and am proud to donate my time to an organization that has given thousands of deserving students scholarships for further culinary education,” Hillson said.

The event will feature approximately 25

(Jill Smith/Special to the Tribune)

Basha High students at last year’s Harvest Moon Festival included, from left: back row: Tyler Alexander, Isabella Martinez, Savanah Duran, Eli Miller, Alexys Soto and Mikayla Davis. Sitting in front are Dushyant Singh, executive chef at The Camby and Cara Summerfield, culinary teacher at Basha High.

high school C-CAP culinary programs and their chef mentors, offering prepared dishes at 30 stations. Five tables will feature C-CAP alumni chefs such as Marcos Seville, Omni Scottsdale at Montelucia in Scottsdale, and Chef Port, who has just opened Fitzgerald’s BBQ, a Phoenixbased food truck and caterer.

Wesley Cervantes will be one of the students representing Mesa High.

“He wants to be a chef and he believes the CCAP program will make this possible for him,” Yazzie said.

The two dishes her students will prepare are the French omelet and cucumber salad. At school, they practice recipes again and again.

“Sometimes they practice so much that they rather not eat any eggs for a while,” Yazzie said.

Wesley said Yazzie “believes in my potential and my future career.”

“When I cook, it makes me happy, and when I see people eating my food, it makes me happy also. This is what makes me want to become a chef,” said Wesley, who wants to own his own restaurant and host a television show.

Cara Summerfield, who teaches culinary arts at Basha High School in Chandler, will take as many as five juniors and seniors to the party. Her team will include seniors Tyler Alexander, Savanah Duran and Isaac Elzer and juniors Alle Morfin, Kayla Cooley and Aria Roberts.

Most of her participating students plan to attend college for culinary arts or hospitality.

“They utilize C-CAP in making connections to gain employment throughout high school and college and to gain or hone skills that they may not get a chance to practice at school,” said Summerfield, who is in her third year directing the program at Basha.

The students are expected to practice dishes in class and at home. In the early stages, they make a classic French omelet and a tomato cucumber salad.

“Both require a variety of technical skills that every good chef should know, including knife skills, seasoning, timing, waste versus edible portion and presentation,” Summerfield said.

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MESA man, said some people may have made copRegister online at chandlerirish.org/South MCC Hall of Fame to induct Her students are also encouraged to atwestTea2017.html. For more information, ies or distributed the images electronically tend local practices sponsored by C-CAP in trying to warn other residents in the area. contact Ellen Harrington at chan.to.tull@ 12 community members where they can receive professional feedBut, he said, those people may have inadverTwelve outstanding community members gmail.com. back before the event, she said. tently committed a felony: sexual exploitawill be welcomed into Mesa Community Last year for the Harvest Moon, Basha tion of a minor.

College’s Hall of Fame during a reception ‘Fashion Forward Bandit’ High was paired with Chandler resident “It is our recommendation to immediately and ceremony at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, in Dushyant Singh, executive chef at The arrested at home in Chandler delete whatever images they may have as they the MCC Theatre at the Southern and DobCamby in Phoenix.

A man wanted for more than a dozen robare considered contraband, and therefore are son campus, 1833 W. Southern Ave. By the school’s request, he is working The MCC Hall of Fame honors alumni, beries of a variety of businesses across the Val- illegal to possess and/or distribute,” Elcock with Basha High again this year. ley has been taken into custody. said in a news release. community members, and MCC employees “Chef Singh represents the intensity The suspect, identified as 26-year-old Kip He also said there is no indication a child is whose personal and professional accomplishand patience needed to be a strong leader Lessard, was arrested Oct. 23 at his home in immediate danger. ments, and positive contributions to the colin a kitchen and is a good example to the in Chandler, according to the FBI. Initially, lege and community, set them apart. students,” Summerfield said. agents said he was connected to 10 robberRSVP at tiny.cc/MCCHallofFame.

Tempe to host job fair Smith said that besides raising money ies, though the FBI said he would be charged for workers with disabilities for aspiring chefs’ further education, the with 16 robberies.

CHANDLER Tempe is hosting a job fair for people who Harvest Moon Feast “is a can’t-miss opThe robber was dubbed the “Fashion Forward Bandit” due to the clothes and disguises are deaf, or hard of hearing, and for people portunity for C-CAP students to work Sister Cities Southwest Tea with disabilities on Tuesday, Oct. 31, at the alongside some of Phoenix’s most talenthe used during the robberies. pairs Chandler, Irish city Tempe Public Library, 3500 S. Rural Road. ed hands.”

The FBI said Lessard had been transferred The 6th Annual Chandler-Tullamore Sister According to Deaf to Work, a nonprofit Chef Hellmandollar, in his second year to the custody of the U.S. Marshals.

Cities Southwest Tea will be held on Saturserving deaf and hard-of-hearing job seekers, with the program and a mentor for the day, Nov. 4, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The 25 percent of such people have jobs. The re- event at Mesa High, said the Harvest Cotton Room, Tumbleweed Recreation Cen- TEMPE maining 75 percent are unemployed.

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Residents warned not to share Job-seekers who are deaf or hard of hearing so many different elements of the busiBagpipers will open the celebration, and are encouraged to attend the job fair from 10 ness. Not only that, but it is so exciting to other live entertainment will follow, along child porn found in mailboxes a.m. to noon. People with disabilities other be around so many people.”

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Women, men nail DIY trend, bond over wine and power tools

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ather than sipping martinis as they got manicures, a typical girls’-nightout activity, a group of women recently bonded over nail guns, hammers and paint as sawdust flew in the air.

With some stencils and wine thrown in, the ladies chatted as they participated in a hot, new trend for nights and afternoons out in Chandler and around the country: Woodworking.

Creating pieces of art out of wood is becoming more common as a social event for women, men and children. AR Workshop, a boutique do-it-yourself studio, opened in July in a strip mall on West Ray Road just west of McClintock Drive in Chandler. The business is a different twist on the DIY trend and popular painting stores.

Customers, who can bring wine and beer with them to the parties and classes, drill nails into wood planks, as well as sand wood, chisel wood and paint letters and pictures using stencils.

Besides the camaraderie that comes in the gatherings, students get to take home the wood signs and frames, centerpiece boxes, jewelry organizers and trophy shelves. All participants, except for children, use power tools or hammers for all the projects other than decorating canvas tote bags, pillows and wall hangings with stenciled art.

“People love it,” said Emily Marsh, 25, one of the co-owners of AR Workshop in Chandler. “It’s very HGTV trendy,” she

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Z’Tejas closes Tempe restaurant, two others in Phoenix area

Z’Tejas Southwestern Grill has closed its Tempe restaurant off of Mill Avenue and 6th Street, along with two others in the Valley. Z’Tejas said the locations weren’t as profitable as they had hoped.

Restaurants at Scottsdale Fashion Square and at 16th Street and Bethany Home Road were shuttered suddenly, without any warning to workers.

The chain’s restaurant in Chandler will remain open.

(Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer)

Bob Marsh, co-owner of AR Workshop in Chandler, helps customer Julie Freeman with a power tool as she creates a sign during a private party at the do-it-yourself store.

said, referencing DIY shows on the TV network. “It’s a home décor that you’ll have in your home forever.”

The popularity of DIY home projects in the country is evident on HGTV shows including “Curb Appeal,” “Flip or Flop” and “Rehab Addict.” It’s also easy to find a wide range of wood crafts and other homemade creations on Pinterest.

Students at AR Workshop come for public classes or can rent space for private parties. They learn how to drill together wood planks with nail guns, stain wood in several different colors and cut out stencils, then paint them onto their pieces

to create letters and pictures. Customers have hundreds of patterns and stencils to choose from in the shop for their wood or canvas artwork, and Emily gives instructions before they start.

Emily and her parents, who are the Chandler store’s co-owners, Bob and Mary Marsh, frequently walk around answering questions and cheering on customers.

Business is steady at the new store, which has seen 26 people in its largest class.

The average cost to take part in a class is $62.50, including all the supplies for two and a half to three hours in the studio. That’s the price to decorate and build

Z’Tejas, which has been around for about 20 years, filed for bankruptcy in 2015 and sold to Austin-based Cornbread Ventures that same year.

from December through May 2018 and culminate with a graduation ceremony at the 2017 Women in Business Conference.

Monthly organized events are complemented by one-on-one meetings and outings between the mentors and their protégés.

Information and applications are at jotform.com/TempeChamberAZ/WIBMentoring2017.

Mentoring Program for women presented by Tempe Chamber

The Tempe Chamber of Commerce and its Women in Business Council are unveiling the 2017-2018 Mentoring Program at a free social at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 7, at the AC Hotel, 100 E. Rio Salado Parkway, Tempe.

The Mentoring Program will take place

Maracay Homes closes deal worth $5.9 million in EV land

Maracay Homes has closed on two land purchases in the East Valley, totaling ap-

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Customers can make and decorate a variety of wood pieces, using power tools, paint, sandpaper and chisels, at AR Workshop in Chandler. The national chain provides classes and allows private parties to rent space.

a 14-by-19-inch plank wood sign, among other projects. To decorate and assemble a 26-by-38-inch, oversize wood frame costs $90, while stenciling designs on canvas tote bags costs $20. In order to host a private party at the business, customers pay a non-refundable $75 fee to rent the space, and each student pays the regular class costs.

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proximately $5.9 million.

The parcels, in Queen Creek and Mesa, will be developed into new, single-family home neighborhoods scheduled to open in late 2018, said Jason Weber, Maracay Homes’ vice president of land acquisitions and development.

In Mesa, Maracay paid $3.67 million to buy the land for 53 additional homesites in the Eastmark master-planned community, near Ellsworth and Ray roads. In Queen Creek, 38 homesites at Highland See

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Vistas, a 19.4-acre, gated subdivision at the northwest corner of Hunt Highway and 172nd Street, were closed.

EV ophthalmology center rebrands as Hiatt Eye Center

Longtime East Valley ophthalmology center Swagel Wootten Hiatt Eye Center has rebranded as Hiatt Eye Center.

The practice has offices in Mesa and Chandler.

Cataract surgeon Matt Hammond has been named the practice’s Medical Director.

Sprouts to add 120 jobs as new Mesa market readies

Sprouts Farmers Market will soon finish construction on a new location in Mesa and will add approximately 120 full- and part-

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create their own decorations for their home or office, or to give someone as a gift, participants say pounding and drilling nails into wood is also a stress relief and empowering.

“Most of them have never touched any of these power tools before,” Mary said.

“They’re all amazed that they can actually do it. This is the perfect place to bring your staff for a holiday party. This is a night out for people.”

Bob, Mary’s husband and Emily’s father, retired from Intel, where he had worked in IT for 35 years and had always loved doing woodworking in his spare time.

“He always had a woodshop in the garage,” Mary said. “I decided that he shouldn’t be retired. Bob’s very artistic. He retired and really didn’t have a whole lot to do.”

AR Workshop’s founders, graphic designers Maureen Anders and Adria Ruff, had started a company in 2010. Anders Ruff featured graphic design, party styling, a DIY blog and an online shop. Fans and clients wanted hands-on workshops to learn their skills, so Anders and Ruff began AR Workshop in Pineville, North Carolina, in June 2016.

The Chandler AR Workshop offers five or six classes a week. Not only has it been a hot spot for girls’ nights out, but also for bridal showers, children’s birthday parties and date nights, Mary said. Customers can also pay to have AR staff custom-design wood or canvas pieces for them.

“We are perfect for team building and holiday events,” Emily said.

At a recent private party on a Monday

time jobs.

The 30,000-square-foot store will be at Loop 202 and Recker Road and will open in January.

To learn more about available career opportunities or to apply, visit sprouts.com/ careers or call 1-866-925-2396 for nonmanagerial roles.

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Small business workshops held at Chandler Sunset Library

A series of free workshops to help small business owners start or grow their business will be from 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1, Nov. 8 and Nov. 15 at the Chandler Sunset Library, 4930 W. Ray Road. The Chandler Public Library and the city’s Economic Development Division are hosting.

Attendees may attend one or all of the workshops offered in the series. Registration is required. For more information, call 7822800, or go to bit.ly/ChandlerBiz. night, several women standing at tables decorated and nailed together wood plank signs and other wood pieces as they sipped wine.

The women chose from five different wood stains including charcoal gray and espresso, and at least one woman used a chisel to carve out a distressed look on her wood. The group painted messages with brushes guided by stencils. Emily advised them to pick colors that “will look well together.” Later she cheered as one of them pounded a nail into wood, while Mary helped a woman cut out stencils before painting them to create letters and patterns.

Some women created Halloweenthemed patterns while others picked stencil designs with the words “Just Breathe” and other messages. Customers have many choices in styles to select for their wood, including pictures and words to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Valentine’s Day and Halloween, along with “Home Sweet Home” messages, and state names.

“You can buy anything you see in the store,” Mary said. “It’s more fun to come make your own.”

Julie Freeman of Gilbert said it was a great way to spent time with long-time friends. She was decorating a plank wood sign to say “The Freeman Home” and “Happy Halloween.”

“It’s super fun,” Freeman, a registered nurse, said. “I love it. You feel like you can do something. I’ve done a lot of stressful jobs; something like this is so nice and relaxing.”

To learn more about AR Workshop, visit arworkshop.com and to find out more about the Chandler store, visit facebook. com/arworkshopchandler.

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Quitters never win ... unless they’re U.S. senators, I suppose

BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Tribune Columnist

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ou keep reading Sen. Jeff Flake’s speech heard ‘round the nation, poring over it like a math equation, hoping the sentences will add up to a different result, one that makes sense. You want to love this speech, after all, because every single paragraph save one contains every single thing woefully missing from American politics today.

Flake’s Tuesday speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate was lofty and principled, heartfelt and humble, laced with history and high-mindedness, all qualities which no longer please us in the age of the Tweeter-In-Chief. Most of all, Flake nailed it in describing what ails our dysfunctional political system, in this, the 241st year of our republic.

“We,” said the junior senator from Arizona, “must never meekly accept the daily

sundering of our country – the personal attacks, the threats against principles, freedoms and institutions; the flagrant disregard for truth or decency, the reckless provocations, most often for the pettiest and most personal reasons, reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with the fortunes of the people that we have all been elected to serve.”

It was the most inspirational line in a speech full of great lines. And it stood out as perhaps the most direct call to arms yet from a Republican against President Donald Trump and what he has wrought in his 10 months in office. It was the right thought – a summons to action – at precisely the moment action seems necessary to replace the rancor and partisan ugliness that now marks both parties, their leaders and this moment in our political life.

Then the good senator undercut the whole thing in a single sentence – by quitting his job. “I am announcing today,” said Flake, “that my service in the Senate will conclude at the end of my term in

early January 2019.”

This from a man who only paragraphs earlier reminded us that “children are watching”? As Flake put it: “When the next generation asks us, Why didn’t you do something? Why didn’t you speak up?

— what are we going to say?”

“I quit” hardly strikes me as the right answer to such pointed questions.

Oh, I know all the reasons underlying Flake’s retirement: The animosity he’s created within the Arizona Republican Party’s conservative wing, the group who will decide the next GOP primary; his unwillingness to shape-shift on issues like immigration, where Flake’s “pathway to citizenship” principles have made him a pariah to the ultra-right; and Flake’s targeting of Donald Trump with pointed barbs like the senator’s recent book, “Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle.”

Far be it for me to tell a lifelong public servant like Flake that he needs to embark on a political suicide mission, but reject-

ing destructive politics by in effect saying, “I’m taking my ball and going home,” feels like something less than a return to principle. Flake cloaked his retirement in Teddy Roosevelt quotes and eloquent talk about America’s role in the world. By contrast, shying away from taking on Trumpaligned Kelli Ward parallels the American withdrawal from world affairs Flake lamented in his speech. The “implications of this abandonment are profound,” Flake said of Trumpism’s “screw the rest of the world” attitude. “And the beneficiaries of this rather radical departure in the American approach to the world are the ideological enemies of our values.

“Despotism” said Flake, “loves a vacuum.”

Well said. But vacuums are what quitters create. So now we wait for Flake’s next act. He has spoken truth to power, for certain. Whether he walks the walk remains to be seen.

– David Leibowitz has called the Valley home since 1995. Contact david@leibowitzsolo.com.

So far, Arizona school graders merit a D with whacky drama

BY PAUL MARYNIAK Tribune Executive Editor

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et’s suppose you were waiting for a copy of your job evaluation. You were pretty confident it would be a good one, maybe already spending in your mind the bonus or raise that you knew would follow.

The long-awaited copy arrives and with each word, your dismay turns to shock.

It was tepid at best.

Then your boss walks in and tells you, “Don’t worry. We’re changing the benchmarks we used in your evaluation. You’ll get another one in a few months.”

No raise. No bonus. No real certainty about anything.

Sound disturbing? Well, if you have kids or are somehow related to kids attending a public or a charter school in Arizona, you, they and the people charged with educating them are in that nightmare right now.

If you’ve been following the unfolding

whacky drama surrounding the return of Arizona’s first letter grades for schools in a couple of years – and you should be – you already know about that nightmare.

The state Board of Education released letter grades despite its members’ own concern that the formula used to generate them might be more than a little unfair and way too complex.

The tape of the board’s Sept. 6 meeting – which you can search and find on youtube.com – is all the evidence you need.

Kyrene school Superintendent Jan Vesely and Susie Ostmeyer, her chief information and accountability officer, laid out the inherent unfairness in the complicated formula – noting it actually penalized schools doing exceptionally well.

At least five of the 11 board members, including Chairman Tim Carter, voiced concerns about the revelations and debated whether a delay might be in order.

Carter, the superintendent of Yavapai County schools, wasn’t just taking Kyrene’s word for it. He admitted that he had attended a number of meetings with rural school superintendents who voiced

the same concerns.

But then Carter said the board would press on anyway and voted on the new system three weeks later – which it did.

And in pushing aside concerns about the formula, he explained the real reason for the rush: He was under pressure from the governor and the legislature.

Now the Board of Education has voted to reexamine the formula. It is appointing a whole different set of people to review the formula from the ones who came up with it in the first place.

Its action came after public hearings that were given little publicity, were set up hastily and which were held in the daytime during the week, when most parents presumably are working.

In the meantime, no one seems to be giving much attention to state Superintendent of Public Schools Diane Douglas’ assertion that letter grades don’t say much about a school anyway because they are largely based on one test.

She has suggested a report card, one that gives a more thorough analysis to the wide variety of tasks any school or district

must fulfill in order to educate your kids properly and prepare them for a world that is rapidly changing.

Mainly, she’s being ignored because the governor and legislature don’t want it.

They want a simple grade.

So, ask yourself what you would do if your child came home with a report card that had just one letter for all the different things he or she must accomplish in order to be successful in school.

You wouldn’t know how they’re doing in any given subject. You wouldn’t know how they behave in class and related to their peers, teachers and staff.

You wouldn’t even necessarily know how that grade was determined in the first place.

And by the time the board adopts a new system, you still might not know much.

Kids, teachers and school administrators deserve some better yardstick than what is being served up right now.

Come to think of it, so do parents and caregivers.

And yes, taxpayers, too.

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As your state representative, I support our local schools. Strong public schools are integral to the success of our local businesses, neighborhoods and our children.

Our community has a long history of support for high-quality education as evidenced by support for needed bond and override funding.

Excellent public schools are the foundation for our economy, our quality of life and our property values. This is why I urge you to vote Yes for our Kyrene and Tempe Union High School elections today.

Our public-school classrooms have been underfunded by over $1,000 per student since 2008. When adjusted for cost of living, Arizona high school teacher pay ranks 49th in the nation, while Arizona elementary teacher pay ranks dead last.

In spite of this underfunding, TUHSD and Kyrene are well-represented among the highachieving students in Barrett Honor College in ASU, and scholarship winners in other highly selective colleges. This point of pride in our community reflects the great work of our schools and students.

Your Yes vote for overrides will ensure that our district schools can keep class sizes at their current levels and help pay for teacher salaries.

Our state legislature has clobbered DAA (capital) funding to a small fraction of adequacy, so our schools rely on these bonds and overrides

to provide essential funding for technology, student safety, transportation, ParentVue and technology required for AZMerit testing.

Yes! I mentioned technology twice. It is that important. Tempe Union will use the small increase in its override to support teacher salaries. The Kyrene M&O override will support current class sizes, teacher salaries and important classes such as music, art and PE. Your Yes vote for the Kyrene Bond ensures buildings receive maintenance for safety. Community support for a bond helps keep our school buildings safe and sound as the state continues to underfund this portion of funding.

Please join me in voting “Yes” on all ballot questions for your Kyrene and Tempe Union High Schools!

– Rep. Mitzi Epstein

– Legislative District 18

Don’t judge

Kristine Tolman writes that “Trump was cold, heartless and cruel” in his phone call with the grieving widow (“A cruel thing to say,” Oct. 22). She should look in the mirror. Sad that she thinks she can judge an entire 5-minute phone call and the person making it from 8 words.

I would not want to be her acquaintance or family member. I would always wonder if she was just waiting to judge me and all my life based on 8 words out of context.

– Dale Mukavetz

– Chandler

‘R.I.N.O.’ Flake saw it coming

Our Junior “R.I.N.O.” senator was finally forced by his election campaign staff to read the “writing on the wall” and he saw that no one wanted him in Washington, D.C., anymore.

No one has wanted him in the Senate representing Arizona for years. Even Sheriff Joe has had higher poll numbers with Democrat voters, much less Republican voters, for a long time.

The junior senator’s “Mr. Deeds” farewell speech was given to an empty Senate. No other senators rushing to shake his hand, pat him on the back ... nada, nein, zippo, zilch.

Of course, he couldn’t do the “right thing” for Arizona and just leave. No, the Republican Senate Leadership is stuck with another “R.I.N.O.,” Trump-hating Arizona senator who can’t bring himself to do the “right thing” but who knows what may happen in the future.

It seems that Arizona’s voters who approved SB 1070 (67 percent) which stopped the whole “illegal alien” amnesty movement once and for all, can’t seem to elect senators who represent their political core beliefs very well. Hopefully, that will come to an end in the 2018 election.

– Leon Ceniceros – Mesa

Thank you, Sen. Flake

Dear Sen. Flake, Thank you for your service to the state of Arizona and to our country. Thank you for being

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a principled man and senator. Your speech was moving and poignant, not to mention timely.

As proud as I am of your bold words today, I can’t help but feel a deep sadness at your announcement. What are true conservatives in Arizona to do? Are we to permanently align ourselves with the likes of the Kelli Wards and other alt-right variety? That is something I cannot do in good conscience. Are we to abandon the principles of conservativism we hold so dear, like free trade or the rights of the unborn?

I am willing to vote across party lines, and have when I have recognized a candidate of character in another political party. I have to wonder, however, is this a permanent solution?

Yes, many people are abandoning core values in favor of “anger politics,” but many of us are not. Many of us are clinging to the hope politicians like you bring, who have been willing to serve with integrity and loyalty to those core values.

I loved your speech and respect your decision, but please, do not think you do not have supporters, others trying to navigate the current political minefield. We are here. We are grateful. We would also love to support you still, if not as a Republican, as an Independent. Regardless, we will do all we can to support you from now until January 2019.

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Concussion scares cause Chandler student to quit football

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his past summer, Chandler High senior Devin Shivers caught a pass out of the backfield during a 7-on-7 football game at Northern Arizona University and turned his head to start up field.

“I caught the ball and as soon as I turned my head I felt – I even feel it now – all I remember was just going black.

After that I think I fell, I don’t know,” Shivers said as he recalled how he suffered his third concussion. “All I remember was going to the bench.”

At the time the 17-year-old running back didn’t know It was an injury that would cause him to make one of the toughest decisions of his life and that recently came to fruition. Shivers decided to leave the game of football, a sport he has played since the age of 5, behind for good.

“It was a very hard decision,” Shivers said. “I don’t even know how it came up

(Tracey Chamberlain/Special to the Tribune)

Devin Shivers says he has walked away from the game he loves to preserve his future.

actually. I think we were just talking and it kind of came up, like what if I get hit again? What would be the consequences of getting hit again? After that, I started thinking and doing research. Then, a couple weeks ago we decided.”

On Oct. 15, Shivers posted a message on Twitter about his experience with his third concussion and how he came to his decision, saying his health was the most important thing.

During his recovery, Shivers said he

suffered from multiple headaches and even experienced forgetfulness, which he added were much more severe than any of his past concussions. His mother, Tracey Chamberlain, noticed a lot of changes in her son as well.

“He had a lot more headaches, he was dizzy, his balance was off. That all came from when he took the hit and liquid got in his inner ear and caused the whole equilibrium to be off,” Chamberlain said.

“I think that was kind of the major thing and it seemed to just carry on longer. Not doing well in school, can’t concentrate, having a hard time remembering. It’s hard, as a mom, to see what your son is going through.”

As a junior, Shivers was a part of the 2016 State Championship team and carried the ball three times for 74 yards and a touchdown in their 62-20 win over the Perry Pumas in the semi-finals. That performance came after switching from defense to offense, midway through the See

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Corona looks to defend title in state volleyball tournament

BY GREG MACAFEE Tribune Sports Editor

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ixteen girls’ volleyball teams from each conference have an opportunity to continue their seasons and compete for a state championship.

The seedings were to be released on Saturday, after press time.

Some teams from the East Valley made it via an automatic bid, by finishing in the top eight teams of their conference, while other teams that were ranked between 9th and 24th had to play one final game to secure a spot.

Mesa and Highland were two East Valley teams that squeaked into the 2017 6A State Tournament Thursday night while the Chandler Wolves fell to Desert Vista.

In the 5A play-ins, Williams Field fell to Verrado to end their run.

Some of the teams that fought their way into the tournament will possibly have to matchup with top teams that have dominated the volleyball scene all season long.

Defending 6A champion Corona del Sol is one of those teams looking to defend their title.

Head Coach Ben Maxfield and the Aztecs have powered their way to a 21-2 record. Both of their losses came to No. 1-ranked Xavier Prep in tournament style games at the Nike Tournament of Champions and the Gilbert Invitational. Corona did defeat Xavier Prep in the semifinals last year after falling to them in the Gilbert Invitational. But, the only Arizona team to take down Xavier Prep in 2017 has been Mountain Pointe, another automatic qualifier in 6A. The Aztecs have been led by a trio of seniors who were key contributors in last year’s state championship run. After representing the USA at the FIVB World Championships in Argentina, Brooke Nuneviller is fourth in kills in the state of Arizona with 513. She has added 45 aces from behind the service line. Abby Meyer See

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Mesa sophomore Kate Hatch sets senior Eliza Heiney. Mesa won their way into the 2017 6A State Tournament.

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season. Heading this year, Shivers said he was ready to contribute in a big way before suffering his concussion, which played into his decision as well.

“It was very hard, coming off my junior year and then coming back and being one of the top athletes my senior year,” Shivers said. “Then getting hit and not playing at all really played a part in it. And then me playing football my whole life really took a big toll on me not playing anymore.”

Concussions have become a popular topic in the sport of football since the discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE, which is a degenerative brain disease found in those with a history of repetitive brain trauma.

In CTE, a protein called tau forms clumps that slowly spread, killing brain cells.

At the beginning of the 2017 high school football season, the Barrow Neurological Institute released its newest findings on concussions in high school sports. The findings revealed that one-third of parents from around Valley would not allow their kids to play football. But because of the dangers in the sport, certain protocols have been installed to prevent as many

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concussions as possible.

Although he is leaving his playing days behind him, Shivers intends to help spread awareness of the dangers of concussions. He wants to help other football players who are facing the same type of struggles.

“I want to get my story out there, so people can hear my side, so that they can put that into their life so I can help them change their life,” Shivers said.

“He said, ‘I know if anyone ever has any questions or anything like that, I want to be able to help them because I went through it and I know how it feels.’” Chamberlain said.

Shivers says he wants to preserve his future and attend college, where he said he aspires to pursue firefighting and business.

– Contact Greg Macafee at gmacafee@timespublications. com or at 480-898-5630 or follow @greg_macafee on Twitter.

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Valley Christian freshman picked for USA Volleyball team

Jaci Jones, a setter and incoming freshman at Valley Christian High, was named to the USA Volleyball High Performance team and represented Arizona in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at the HighPerformance championship tournaments.

Last year, Jones was named CAA’s (Canyon Athletic Association) Division I Girls Junior Varsity volleyball’s most valuable player when she helped lead her team to win the state championship. As an eighth grader playing on the high school JV team, she once scored 24 of 25 points during her first serve of the game.

“I’m just really honored to be involved,” she said. “I love volleyball and I love being a setter. My coaches and trainers have really helped me grow and develop my God-given talents a lot this year.

“My goal is to go to the 2028 Olympics after college so there is a lot of work to do between now and then.”

EV players, teams represented In Hoophall West series (Tracey Chamberlain/Special to the Tribune)

Chandler High senior Devin Shivers was playing 7-on-7 football when he suffered his most recent concussion.

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high schools will be among those from the East Valley represented Dec. 8 at the fifth annual American Family Insurance Hoophall West.

This event serves as the West Coast version of the original Springfield, Massachusetts-based event hosted by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

This year’s event will include some of the top talent on the West Coast, including Timmy Edwards from Red Mountain.

The event will be held at Chaparral High School in Scottsdale.

Chandler High student earns Community Leadership Award

Damion Maxwell, a Chandler High student and strong safety for the football team, was recently named a 2017 Community Leadership Award winner by the Linking Sports and Communities organization for being a Mega Scholar-Athlete.

Maxwell, who has racked up 27 tackles this season as well as a pass deflection and fumble recovery, will be given his award on Nov. 11 at the Phoenix International Raceway as a part of the 2017 Community Leadership Award Ceremony.

With the most recent two-year block set to expire, the Arizona Interscholastic Association released the initial regional and conference placements for the next two-year block, which is set to begin at the beginning of the school year in 2018.

Many teams across the state have moved up, down, in conference, or into a different region, depending on the conference alignment.

There are some big movers in the East Valley, as 3A football powerhouse Casteel moves to 5A San Tan due to enrollment.

Both Gilbert, moving down from 6A, and Higley, moving up from 4A, will be in the region, creating one of the toughest football regions in 5A. Williams Field and Campo Verde stay put.

Another big mover is the Queen Creek Bulldogs. Due to enrollment, the Bulldogs move to the 6A Central region and will have the lowest enrollment compared to other teams in the region like Desert Vista, Mountain Pointe, Highland, Desert Ridge and Corona del Sol.

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has contributed to most of those kills as the senior is second in Arizona with 1,117 assists, behind only Gabby Leo from Mountain Pointe.

Other top teams from the East Valley that may make a splash in the state tournament includes the Perry Pumas, who fell to Mountain Pointe in the quarterfinals last season. With a 34-6 record, the Pumas have been led by senior Ryann Davis, who has tallied 299 kills, 51 aces and 59 blocks this season. While the Pumas fell to Xavier Prep twice this season, they also fell to the Hamilton Huskies (24-15).

The Huskies were the No. 1 seed in the 6A conference last season but lost both their top hitter and top blocker to graduation. Senior Darian Clark has tried to fill those voids this year with 376 kills. Shannon Ryan also has had another successful season leading the Huskies in assists with 531.

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Church-centered program helps overcome addiction

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awn had a severe neck injury in 2003 that necessitated the use of prescription drugs. As years passed and the pain didn’t subside, her intake of opioid medications spiraled out of control and became an addiction.

Seven years ago, Lee had a dental procedure that went awry. Unable to bear the non-stop throbbing of a nerve in the mouth, she underwent several surgeries and was given progressively stronger medications until she almost lapsed into a coma. She, too, was addicted to painkillers that kept her in a constant state of fog.

Because the drugs were prescribed by a doctor, they felt “justified,” in taking them.

The two Gilbert women are classic examples of how prescription pill popping leads to chaos. Not surprisingly, both their marriages and family lives were crumbling along with their extended social fabric.

Fortunately, the two women had turning points that led them to seek professional help. And when they emerged from the detoxification programs – still nowhere near normal – they were lucky to have the support of a local nonprofit organization to rebuild their lives.

Redeemed 2 Repeat was founded by Liz Beck about four years ago to connect with local churches to provide the extensive support necessary for addicted individuals.

“We help train members of the local church on how to mentor someone who’s had a struggle with addiction and help them walk with someone in the everyday, real-life situations and give them tools so they can be successful in their life instead of going back to using drugs,” Beck said.

The Christ-centered program began at Sovereign Grace Church in Gilbert and has extended to a few other churches in the Valley. Eight more churches from across Arizona are also in training for the program, and the group is looking for more churches to enroll.

“We teach the church that they are just like people who struggle with addiction.

At the core, we all have the same issues.

We all need hope, and we all need help to walk this life,” Beck said. “When they’re

(Special to the Tribune)

Redeemed 2 Repeat, together with a local church, offer a firm helping hand to those recovering from an addiction. Those redeemed repeat by helping another.

needing escape, they’ll run to a substance meds and come back home and I guess it where I would run to Netflix or food. would be normal, whatever that means,’” When we look at what the real issue is, said Dawn, whose last name is being withthen we can deal with it and we can fix it. held. “And it was far from it.”

That’s what we do.”

She found that she needed counseling Opioid addictions take a toll that can’t and direction on a daily basis. be easily remedied.

“You need to be conFamilies are fearful and nected to somebody and mistrustful after living you need to be talking to with erratic members. them everyday,” she said.

Dawn’s younger “Here I am, three years daughter was affected later and I’m just now by her mother’s unpreready to deal with some dictable behavior. things that happened in “She would come the past. It’s a journey.” home from school and One of the bleakest not know what she was sides of the experience is walking into – If Mom the loss of hope. was going to be passed Lee, whose last name out, if Mom was going is also being withheld, to be coherent, if Mom could barely sit in class (Special to the Tribune) was going to get sick Liz Beck is founder of Redeemed 2 because she was sweatthat night, if Mom was Repeat. ing and shaking. She going to walk up the told a woman at the restairs and fall over,” she said. covery center that she was devoid of hope.

It was no less disturbing for Lee’s house“I said I don’t ever see myself coming hold. out of this addiction, ever. I said I see a “After all the surgeries, I lost ability to black hole,” she said. just function,” she said. “I couldn’t take Subsequently, she left the program and care of my two kids. I was sleeping all relapsed two weeks later. the time and my mom was taking care of That’s when she got connected to Rethem.” deemed to Repeat.

Even though the daily pill popping has Lee needed help “20 times a day,” she stopped, those on the path to recovery said, even with the most basic chores. have fresh challenges: they are fragile, un“I would be on the phone with her while certain and fearful. she’s in the store,” Beck recalled. “That’s “I thought ‘I’m going to get out of these why we need to be able to walk with peo-

ple in those situations. A lot of times, she would come and sit at my house because she did not know how to do ‘today.’ We would sit and talk through budgets and things like that.”

Lee also got help from Dawn, who had by then recovered enough herself to be able to volunteer for the organization.

After all, its name is Redeemed 2 Repeat: God redeems us, then we repeat by helping others.

Just now, about 20 former addicts are turning their lives around with the help of Redeemed 2 Repeat.

Beck runs Redeemed 2 Repeat from her Gilbert home. The volunteers have meetings around her kitchen table, and she devotes a room to an office and counseling.

For funding, she manages with grants and private contributions; the town of Gilbert gave $5,000 to the group this year.

While this is Beck’s full-time job, she has two part-time staffers, including Dawn.

The group organizes an annual fundraiser and other smaller events; upcoming is a comedy night on Nov. 3.

The organization also works with the Chandler/Gilbert Substance Use and Treatment Task Force to provide rehabilitation.

Although Beck has never been addicted herself, she watched an addiction firsthand when her husband struggled with drugs for 17 years.

“His addiction cost us our family. He chose to be in his addiction; he chose that over his family,” she said.

They divorced six years ago and she lost everything she had, including her house.

Her former husband died last year.

“As I was trying to rebuild my life, the way that my church walked with me through that, they were a part of that process with me for years and years. They saw the ugliness of addiction. They were at the hospital with me, they were at my home, they were helping me as I was trying to rebuild my life,” she said.

That closeness with the church became the basis of the organization she founded.

“During all that time when it was very dark for me and I didn’t have hope and I didn’t think that my life will ever change, God gave me hope and he changed me See

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Enjoy the calm before the stress sets in

BY RABBI DEAN SHAPIRO Tribune Guest Writer

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heshvan is the only month in the Hebrew calendar without any holidays. That’s why it’s called “mar” – bitter.

Following the flurry that is Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Simchat Torah (and those are just the major ones!), and anticipating the lights of Hanukkah that follow, there’s nothing special about Cheshvan. It feels empty and unloved.

Ask any rabbi, however, and we’ll tell you: We appreciate Cheshvan.

As much as we love the heightened experiences of Elul, Tishrei, and Kislev – the holiday-laden months that surround Cheshvan – we’re happy not to have anything special to prepare. We need some respite.

It’s OK to take a break from time to time, to return to normalcy. Sometimes, the most powerful experiences are the regular ones.

I regularly hear from people battling

major illness: On their best days, they get out for a coffee with someone important to them. They chat about nothing much, or sit quietly. They no longer take for granted the simple moments of life, seeing now, perhaps for the first time, that these moments are the most precious of all.

All human beings need down time. We need to step away from the rat race, to regroup and replenish. We need the simple moments that make life worth living.

Many of us burn the candle at both ends; that’s neither healthy nor sustainable.

That’s why we need weekends – in Hebrew, “Shabbat,” the mandated day of rest, of simplicity, of basic human interaction. We need calm.

The last several months have been full of holidays and other events, too: wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes and mass shootings. Even for those of us outside the danger zones, it’s been scary, heartbreaking.

When roofs collapse and systems break down, we remember the fragility of our lives. When lives are snuffed out, we are all diminished. When other human beings suffer, we all suffer.

This year, I imagine, Cheshvan is hoping to be normal – no disasters, whether natural or human-made. We could all use a bit of normal right about now, couldn’t we?

But as carbon levels continue to rise, as seas continue to acidify, as coral reefs die off, forests burn out and ice shelves melt, disasters will continue apace. Suffering and mayhem will increase. People will migrate as resources – especially fresh water – grow scarce, and the systems we depend on will collapse under the pressure.

Intense stress will become the new normal. We’ll long for days of normalcy, when we could sit with friends and sip a coffee, chatting about nothing much rather than the latest crisis.

I fear we’re just starting to see our new normal. So this month, let’s all enjoy whatever peace may come our way.

Let’s rest, so that we can return with renewed vigor to ongoing the struggle of protecting each other and the earth.

Let’s take a deep breath, and another, and thank God that we’ve lived to see another day.

MONDAY, OCT. 30 JEWISH AND CIVIL LAW

The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute will present “You be the judge: Explorations in Jewish and Civil Law.” The course will run for six weeks with a break for Thanksgiving. Rabbi Mendy Deitsch of Chabad of the East Valley will conduct the sessions. The course will address issues such as the Jewish view on burden of proof, what constitutes ownership and the meaning of justice.

DETAILS>> 7:30 p.m. beginning Monday, Oct. 30, at Pollack Chabad Center for Jewish Life, 875 N. McClintock Drive, Chandler. Cost is $99 for the textbook, with a 10 percent discount for bringing a friend. Information and registration: 480-855-4333 or visit chabadcenter.com.

FRIDAY, NOV. 3 VINTAGE CAR SHOW

Believe Marketplace and Cornerstone Online host a vintage car show at Cornerstone Christian Fellowship in Chandler. Vehicles 25 years and older will be accepted for display and to earn prizes. The day also features live music, food trucks and shopping.

DETAILS>> Opens at 1 p.m., car show at 5 p.m., 1595 S. Alma School Road. Register cars at cornerstoneonline.com/believe. Information: believe@cornerstoneonline.com.

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and he gave me a love for people who struggle with addiction,” she said.

Nowadays, Lee talks to Beck once a month or so.

“She sent me pictures of her cooking with her kids. Things that we take for granted, what we just do, was an amazing thing for her,” Beck said.

It’s a long, hard road to resume relationships after an addiction.

“A unique piece of what we do is not excusing them with the ways they hurt their families, but helping them face that and take that responsibility,” Beck said.

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Jim Pipkin, LeeLee Robert, JC and Laney are featured.

A food cart will be on site. Bring a new, unwrapped gift for children 2-12.

DETAILS>> 6 p.m., 952 E. Baseline Road. Suite 102, Mesa. Admission is $15. Information: 480-593-8798.

SUNDAY, NOV. 5 CELEBRATE VETERANS

Attention all veterans, Valor Christian Center wants to celebrate you. The color guard, Gilbert’s mayor and city officials want to honor you on that day. If you can still get into your uniform, wear it!

DETAILS>> 10 a.m., 3015 E. Warner Road, Gilbert, between Greenfield and Higley. Information: 480-5454321, valorcc.com

WED-SAT, NOV. 8-11 HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE

The Hope’s Treasures Holiday Boutique returns this year with quality handcrafted goods at Hope Covenant Church. The boutique features holiday and home décor, decorations, gifts for kids and adults, stocking stuffers, jewelry, handcrafted apparel, comfort items and more. Shoppers are invited to bring a non-perishable food item to be donated to Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank.

DETAILS >> Wednesday 4 to 8 p.m., Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., 1770 S. Dobson Road, Chandler. For more information, go to hopechurchchandler.com or contact Cathy Kalin at cathykalin@gmail.com or 480-229-5393.

FRI-SUN, DEC. 15-17 ‘WALK THROUGH BETHLEHEM’

First Baptist Church Chandler is featuring its annual live nativity event. Crafts, hot chocolate and hot cider will be free, and food trucks and a photo booth will be available. A brass band and carolers will perform. A walk will end at the manger of Jesus.

DETAILS>> 6-9 p.m., 3405 S. Arizona Ave., Chandler.

Admission is free. Information: fbc.net or 480-9633439.

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The Interfaith CommUNITY Spiritual Center offers New Thought, ACIM, Ancient Wisdom and Interfaith teachings, with uplifting music and positive messages. Ongoing classes include Qigong, A Course

with addiction.

“By connecting them with people in the church who would be considered ‘normal,’ they’re able to see that they really are all the same,” she said.

There’s help for drug addiction, such as crisis intervention, prevention and treatment, but there’s little help for transition.

“This is the missing piece,” she said.

Redeemed 2 Repeat is holding a family comedy night fundraiser, “Unchained and Unhinged,” 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3, at Sovereign Grace Church, 1280 N. Cooper Road, Gilbert. Tickets are $12 adults and $8 children ages 17 and under. For tickets, visit redeemed2repeat.org/tickets.

For more information on the nonprofit, call 480-213-0873 or visit redeemed2repeat.org.

In Miracles, Pranic Healing, Kirtan, Drum Circle and many others.

DETAILS>> 10:30-11:45 a.m., 952 E. Baseline Road, Suite 102. Information, 480- 593-8798 or interfaithcommunity.org.

HEBREW SCHOOL

Registration has opened for Chabad Hebrew School at the Pollack Chabad Center for Jewish Life. Classes will teach children ages 5-13 about Jewish heritage, culture and holidays.

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

VALOR CHRISTIAN OUTLINES MISSION Valor Christian Center in Gilbert offers “great praise and worship and great messages for today’s living,” according to Associate Pastor Thor Strandholt. “Our mission is to evangelize, heal and disciple through the word of God.” DETAILS>> 10 a.m. Sundays and 7 p.m. Thursdays.

3015 E. Warner Road. Information: valorcc.com.

NEW CHURCH IN MESA

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

DETAILS>> Sunday school at 9 a.m., worship at 10 a.m., 931 E. Southern Ave., Suite 108. Information: 480393-3001, tlmchurch.info@gmail.com.

SUNDAY CELEBRATION SERVICE

Inspirational messages and music to lift your spirit. A welcoming community committed to living from the heart. Many classes and events offered. We welcome you!

DETAILS>> 10 a.m. Sundays at Unity of Tempe, 1222 E. Baseline Road, Suite 103, Tempe. Information: 480792-1800, unityoftempe.com.

KIDS CAN LEARN JEWISH LIFE

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

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

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huai “Mark” He certainly used his noodle opening his new Chandler restaurant last month.

With Let’s Eat Noodles, he introduces the region to authentic “alleyway cuisine” from his native Chongqing, also known as Chungking, in southwest China.

“The food we have is spicy, and the ingredients are unique and complicated,” said Mark, a marketing student at Arizona State University.

Each dish has as many as 20 ingredients, all freshly prepared, including fried peanuts, broiled sprouts and chili peppers – what he calls the “soul of the noodle soup.” Food is spicy in Chongqing, as in other warm southern Asian areas, to help the body cool through perspiration, he explained.

“Of course, we can make your food less spicy. Just ask any of us,” he said.

He and his business partner have five employees. Both his business partner and his girlfriend are also from Chongqing.

“She helps me a lot, too, when I make the hot chili oil. She gives me a lot of inspiration, loves to cook and gives me ideas for new recipes.”

Chongqing food is similar to that from the Szechuan province, but the emphasis

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Spicy noodles are a staple in many of the dishes at Let’s Eat Noodles.

is on noodles – the base of many, although not all, of Mark’s dishes. Some ingredients come directly from that city, while others he acquires from local wholesale purveyors and ethnic groceries.

For instance, instead of some of the Chongqing hot peppers he can’t buy from China, Mark uses habaneros from Mexico or Chinese hot peppers from Los Angeles, which offer similar spice levels.

Mark spent almost 20 years in Chongqing, and his family still lives there. He tries to visit at least once a year.

Chongqing is an enormous city. With a metro population of 30 million and an urban population of 18.38 million, it’s the most populous Chinese municipality.

(Special to the Tribune) “It’s so large, it’s consid- Shuai “Mark” He offered passersby a chance to sample some of his ered like a province, like dishes last winter.

Sichuan (Szechuan) or Hunan,” Mark said. He explained that Chongq- the provinces are. The others are China’s ing is one of China’s four municipalities that See on page 28 are, in essence, administered the same way

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utumn Hurlbert was a self-described “ham” as a kid growing up in Mesa.

She performed for her family and her stuffed animals.

By the seventh grade, she was a professional actress, appearing in “Bye Bye Birdie”

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at the Herberger Theatre.

“I remember doing it for fun, but a lightbulb went off in my head,” Hurlbert said. “I thought, ‘Wait a minute. They get paid money for doing what they love? How do I get in on this?’”

She did precisely that. After attending Crismon Elementary School and Rhodes Junior High, she studied at Dobson High School. She graduated from Sinagua High School in Flagstaff.

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Something Rotten!” is the story of the Bottom brothers, Nick and Nigel, who struggle to find success in the theatrical world, as they compete with the wild popularity of their contemporary William Shakespeare.

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Arts communities to celebrate Bengali writer’s universality

BY SRIANTHI PERERA Tribune Staff Writer

despite coming to an accepting and progressive American culture, tend to form groups and “to live on our own cultural islands where it could get stagnant.

“Being an American should be a much deeper and fulfilling experience than this,” she said.

Barlingay said that Tagore’s literature is suitable and inspiring for this thought process to be brought into action.

“It is universal. People from other cultures, countries could relate to it. His writing, though published in early 1900s, is still relevant,” she said.

A case in point is the poem “Where the mind is without fear,” where Tagore examines his own concept of freedom starting with the words: “Where the mind is without fear, and the head is held high; where knowledge is free; where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls…”

Tagore, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1913, played a crucial role in the cultural renaissance of India and Bengal in the 19th and early 20th century.

His influence was widespread and he had an enormous impact on Sri Lankan art and music. While he compiled the national anthems for India and Bangladesh, his philosophy inspired Sri Lanka’s national anthem as well.

Ananda De Silva of Tempe said that the Sri Lankan community is honored to be a part of the program.

“Tagore had a tremendous impact on Sri Lankan art and music in the early part of the 20th century,” he said. “During a period where foreign dominance dictated lives of people, his influence inspired many contemporary local artists who became legends to reestablish a Sri Lankan identity in music and art.”

Among them is classical musician T.M. Jayarathna, whose song “Anduru Kutiya Thula,” is a translation of Tagore’s poem “Leave this chanting.”

At the concert, led by De Silva and Ranjula Kulapala of Gilbert, community representatives will perform a dance to this song.

In his spiritual style, Tagore wrote that God is not hiding and unreachable to man.

“Tagore expresses that God is within us, lives among us and that God is part of our day-to day-lives,” Kulapala said. “The song’s essence is aligned with Tagore’s thinking of who God really is. Praying, trapped in the dark, does not make God hear you. Step out of darkness, and embrace the God who lives among working people like us.”

“The mysticism of Tagore will express the uniform nature of human realization expanding the boundaries of multicultural spiritual similarities,” said Rupanjana Sengupta, organizer. “On the other hand, the play reading from Tagore’s novel ‘Gora” shows the trivialities of parochial arrogance; its narrative upholds humanism to be the strongest elixir that enables our human progress.

“I feel it’s a great time to have these conversations between different communities through the platform of art bringing us all together and connecting us through our similarities,” Sengupa added.

Barlingay, an avid Tagore follower, said that the broadmindedness and clarity of thought are two features that strike her most about his literature.

“He does not hesitate to criticize or condemn his own people; with the same token he doesn’t ignore the importance of the core values which were bestowed upon him by his upbringing in India,” she said.

She said that the stage platform will bind the artists from different ethnicities, and that they will “understand it in their own way, in their own cultural context and express it in performing arts creating beauty, joy and friendship in the process.”

For audiences, she hoped the takeaway message would be that art is an equalizer.

“It will make you see that we are more alike than different and our differences bring charm and enjoyment to each other… which translate into peace,” she said.

him.”

He said he learned that great food requires great commitment.

“In Chongqing, the noodle-house owners are a group of early risers,” he writes in his menu. “Around 4 o’clock in the morning, they start to cook a rich, flavorful spicy oil.

The fragrance of the homemade pepper begins to permeate the neighborhood.”

His Uncle You Liu is visiting him this fall to offer some insights on restaurant management and development. At ASU, his marketing studies have already helped him with the business, he said.

“I came to the U.S. because I wanted to study business at ASU and I wanted to know more American culture. Besides, I

love basketball and the NBA,” he said, noting that he wants to make his life here after graduation. “This is my American dream.”

Signature dishes at Let’s Eat Noodles are spicy beef noodles, fried potato, cold noodles, mushrooms & short ribs xiao mian and braised beef mian. In Mandarin Chinese, “mian” is noodles and “xiao” is a “small amount.”

The restaurant’s hot pot is also native to Chongqing, and you can order it with vegetables such as kelp, tofu, potato and lotus root as well as fish, tripe and calamari.

Also available are dishes with fish and seafood such as the barbecue fish and the seafood xiao mian, as fish is a staple in Chongqing. The Jialing River, which feeds

the great Yangtze River, passes through the city.

The signature dessert is magic ice jelly, reminiscent of Jell-O but with organic bean jelly, peanuts, white sesame, sweet wine, osmanthus – a fragrant flower native to south China – and brown sugar.

“It will make you feel you are in Alaska, not in Arizona,” Mark said.

“All of the food we serve is authentic and represents the people’s favorite food,” he said. “Chongqing food and noodles are unique, and the food we serve here is almost the same, the same flavor. That’s why we opened: to bring real Chongqing food to the U.S. I want more people to know the food I’ve loved since I was young.”

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oet, playwright and philosopher Ravindranath Tagore wrote his acclaimed Bengali literature in Calcutta, India, more than a century ago.

Its universality is being hailed by the Valley’s arts communities of India, Mexico, China, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, which are uniting for a one-of-a-kind stage performance next week.

Mesa-based nonprofit arts group Akshaybhasha is presenting “Celebrating Universal Tagore” from 4-6 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 4, at the Phoenix Center for the Arts.

The program proclaims the universal qualities of beauty, joy and peace through a dance-drama, a play, a speech on Tagore’s literature, music and poetry through dance.

“Rabindranath Tagore has said that Earth is a single country where races as individuals must find both – their freedom of selfexpression and their bond of federation,” said Bhagyashree Barlingay, president of Akshaybhasha. “The first step towards realization of this is to create opportunities for revealing the different peoples to one another.”

Barlingay left her native India to settle in the United States 25 years ago and became a medical doctor. She said that immigrants,

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capital Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin.

This was done in 1997 as part of the massive Three Gorges project, which forced migration from the areas filled by the world’s largest dam. People came to the city looking for homes, jobs and futures.

They also found great food.

Mark acquired his love for cooking and hospitality when he was a boy.

“I worked as a waiter in my Uncle Yu Liu’s three restaurants in Chongqing. I worked in the front and back for about three months and gained a lot of experience. He’s also a great chef. I learned a lot of things from

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Known mostly for his poetry, Ravindranath Tagore also wrote novels, essays, short stories, travelogues, dramas and thousands of songs.

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Classic Jazz Festival swinging into Chandler resort

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n event in downtown Chandler is going to validate the city’s distinction as a national jazz hub.

So says Helen Daley, president of the Arizona Classic Jazz Society, about the Arizona Classic Jazz Festival, which will draw several bands and musicians Thursday-Sunday, Nov. 2-5, to the Crowne Plaza Phoenix Chandler Golf Resort at 1 N. San Marcos Place.

Daley, also director of the Jazz Festival, said well-respected jazz musicians from around the country will perform and guests from around the United States and even Canada are expected to show up.

“This will be our 28th festival,” said Daley.

“It started in Scottsdale and moved around for a while. People love the downtown Chandler area. It’s traditional jazz. New Orleans is considered where it started. We get a couple hundred Lindy Hoppers because our music’s very danceable.”

The 94 hours of music kicks off the evening of Nov. 2 at 5:30 and winds down with a grand finale the evening of Nov. 5. Classic jazz had its starts in the late 1800s and early 1900s and transitioned into swing in

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The New Orleans Swamp Donkeys will take the stage at the Arizona Classic Jazz Festival.

the 1930s, according to the Arizona Classic Jazz Society.

One of the more than a dozen groups that will take the stage at the Resort at 1 San Marcos Place is the New Orleans Swamp Donkeys, which performed and recorded

live last year and in 2015 at the De Melkbus in Dordrecht, Netherlands. The versatile young group of musicians plays traditional jazz, blues, vaudeville, modern jazz adaptations, original music and other jazz and New Orleans-founded styles, according to

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From the West Valley, Dan Reed’s Dixieland Hotshots will also perform at the festival.

“They’re wonderful,” Daley said. “He (Reed) was the music director of a cruise ship for 21 years.”

The St. Louis Rivermen of the St. Louis area and Hot Jazz Pie out of Florida are two other groups from out-of-state who will bring their classic tunes to Chandler. The High Sierra Jazz Band with its “real-hard driving, two-beat traditional jazz” from Three Rivers, California, will also perform at the festival, Daley said.

A jazz talent who lives in Chandler, guitarist and banjo player Howard Alden, is looking forward to performing at the event.

“I grew up in southern California,” Alden said. “I was always interested in jazz, even when I was very young.”

He listened to Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman and Count Basie as a child and started playing the four-string banjo at age 10.

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Jazz pianists Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi, who are married, will perform at the Arizona Classic Jazz Festival at Crowne Plaza Phoenix Chandler Golf Resort.

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Chandler festival.

“It’s very relaxed and the audience is very nice,” he said. “The weather’s always good.”

Alden moved to Chandler from New York City about two and a half years ago and people told him about the jazz festival, where he went to see friends play before Daley asked him to participate. He has performed with late trumpeter “Dizzy” Gillespie and the late jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger and bandleader Benny Carter.

“A lot of these people you see playing on the East Coast and the West Coast and the Midwest, too,” he said. “It’s really a gathering of traditional and swing jazz. It’s just some of my favorite musicians are there. I’m looking forward to a fun weekend.”

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She honed her acting skills at the University of Northern Colorado, and moved to New York to pursue her dream. Now she is returning home to play Portia in the national touring company of “Something Rotten!”

“It’s amazing,” she says about her hometown shows. “With all of the fabulous things in the Renaissance, you can’t have it all without some Puritans.

“I play a Puritan who is under lock and key from her father. She’s only supposed to be reading the Bible. She’s supposed to be chaste and pure. Then, she literally runs into Nigel Bottom. They fall in love and she is the light that awakens Nigel to be true to himself and test his creativity as a writer. They have a hilarious and beautiful relationship. I get to be a lovesick idiot for the whole show.”

The actress Hurlbert is just as lovesick

Alden moved to Chandler as his wife had been living here and he is glad he did.

“I’m really loving it,” he said. “It’s a great place to live and nice, easy to get in and out of. I’m enjoying a great lifestyle.”

Alden also praised Pita Jungle restaurant on West Ray Road in Chandler for offering a weekly jazz jam session, where he has played before, as well as The Nash, a jazz venue and educational center in Phoenix.

“There’s a variety of audiences from younger people to a lot of senior citizens, who have been listening to jazz a long time,” he said. “In the late 70s, people said, ‘I don’t know if jazz is going to last.’ There’s more young people playing than ever, learning different styles. Once people have the opportunity to hear it, everybody likes it.”

For ticket prices and more information on the Arizona Classic Jazz Festival, visit azclassicjazz.org/jazz-festival.html. with her husband, Tim Norman, and their 2-year-old son, Lincoln. The family of three travels together so Hurlbert can pursue her love of acting.

“I might have a little gypsy on my hands,” she said enthusiastically. “He’s thriving. He loves traveling on buses and planes. Our company is a big family. He has so many honorary aunts and uncles.”

Hurlbert admitted she admires her peers who get to return home. Now she is one of them.

“I’ve been waiting for this,” she said. “I’ve always been a little jealous of performers who get to go back to their hometowns, play the theaters where they saw their first musical or show.

“I’ve been so close to performing at Gammage. It just hasn’t come to fruition. When I saw Gammage on the itinerary, I thought, ‘I’m making it at least that far on our itinerary! I’m going home.”

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hen Thrice ended its three-year hiatus in 2015, the band didn’t write songs that were “reactive” to previous albums.

Few of the band’s 2000s efforts had more than a year between release dates. Now Thrice had a five-year gap to rethink things between 2011’s “Major/Minor” and 2016’s “To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere.” Vocalist Dustin Kensrue is quick to note the overall musical landscape hadn’t changed much in that time, but it has evolved throughout his act’s 18 years.

“It’s been changing a lot ever since we kind of started playing almost 20 years ago,”

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Kensrue says. “I feel like when we started, a bunch of changes were ramping up. We were trying to figure out how to keep doing

it for a living without selling our souls.”

The hiatus gave the group a “fresh perspective and new appreciation,” he adds.

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ing back, it was definitely rejuvenating and recharging,” he says.

During Thrice’s hiatus, the music industry hadn’t changed as much as one may expect, but the political landscape had. “To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere” was a partial reaction to recent events.

With songs like “Whistleblower” and “Death from Above” having obvious political undertones in the titles, the record’s lyrics delve even further into the current sociopolitical landscape, with lyrics approaching subjects like war, racism, drones and spying. Kensrue sings these lyrics on “Blood on the Sand,” the album’s second track: “We panic at the sight of different-colored skin And we’ve got a plan to justify each mess we’re in But I’ve seen too much (of this fear and hate) I’ve had enough (and I’m not afraid) To take a stand, to make it right – this has to end,” But in the 18 months that have passed since the release of Thrice’s ninth studio effort, the country has seen the confirmation of Donald Trump’s presidency and political unrest. This doesn’t make writing easy for Kensrue.

“I feel burdened to try to have the music that I make do something good in the world,” he says. “Whatever’s happening around is always on my mind and the cur-

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mingbird Habitat in Desert Breeze Park and Veterans Oasis Park, both in Chandler. The tour also includes talks at Wild Birds Unlimited, 2136 E. Baseline Road, Mesa. Proceeds from ticket sales help fund the free Family Birdwalks in Chandler and Gilbert, hosted

by Desert Rivers Audubon members.

DETAILS>> 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4. East Valley, public and private gardens.

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Downtown Mesa Festival of the Arts and Farmers Market

Tempe Book Festival

The event features the work of established and emerging artists whose media include woodworking, metal crafts, jewelry, art, photography, handmade soaps and holiday gift items.

DETAILS>>10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays Nov. 4 and Nov. 18. Macdonald, off Main Street, downtown Mesa. Tickets: Free. dtmesafest. com.

It’s all about books, writing and reading at the Tempe Public Library’s annual book festival. Local authors, publishers, booksellers and readers unite for youth story time, book sales and panel presentations and

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discussions. This year’s featured authors are journalist Jana Bommersbach and author Jenn McKinlay.

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Gregory Porter

Gregory Porter won the 2017 Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album for “Take Me to the Alley.” His new music reflects the singer’s mindful growth as an artist and person amid the constant touring demands that result from tremendous international success.

DETAILS>> 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 5. Mesa Arts Center’s Piper Repertory Theater, 1 E. Main St., Mesa. Tickets: $37-$47. 480-6446500. mesaartscenter.com.

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Guests can learn how to attract birds to their yards by using native plants and xeriscape. This year, the tour features 10 stops in the East Valley including the Humrent events are definitely heavy. My main hope would be that the music would be trying to bridge gaps. One of the main problems is that people are just not hearing each other. They can’t be addressed if we don’t hear each other.”

For Kensrue, who views art as a way to get past barriers, this is important.

“I think art, in general, serves a different form than an essay or a news article or a book,” he says. “It can get underneath some of the barriers and can get underneath some of the things that we block out.”

Now the band is bringing this new LP and a selection of songs from the quartet’s previous eight projects on a co-headlining tour with friends Circa Survive.

“We took them out on the road a long time ago,” Kensrue says. “Great guys; known them forever. We were looking for someone to kind of pair up with to finish out this touring cycle, and it worked out timing wise and definitely worked out people- and band-wise.”

The two bands will perform at Marquee Theatre Sunday, November 5, with Chon, and Balance and Composure. This tour is a return to Arizona for Thrice, who last stopped in the Valley for a July 9 show at Ak-Chin Pavilion.

With this new project still fresh in the bands’ and fans’ minds, Kensrue notes “The Long Defeat,” “The Window” and the album’s first single, “Black Honey,” are particularly fun choices to perform, and gauging by recent set lists, some of these songs will likely stay in the California band’s live repertoire.

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CITY OF MESA MESA, ARIZONA REHABILITATION OF A DUPLEX PROJECT NO. 691 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS PUBLICATION October 29, 2017 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received until Thursday, November 30, 2017, at 2:00 p.m. All sealed bids will be received and must be date and time stamped prior to that date and time, at Mesa City Plaza Building, Housing and Community Development Division, 20 East Main Street, 2ND Floor, Suite 250, Mesa, Arizona; any bid received after the time specified will be returned without any consideration.

This contract shall be for furnishing all labor, materials, transportation and services for the demolition, construction and/or installation of the following work: Complete rehabilitation of a duplex including but not limited to; correct structural deficiencies; roof structure and roofing, new plumbing system; new drain/waste/vent system; sewer lines; new electrical service and system; dual pane windows; insulated exterior doors; HVAC unit; insulated ductwork; attic/wall insulation; new interior walls and ceilings; new interior doors; fencing; proper grading of entire property; and all other work required per the approved plans and/or written specifications.

Contractors desiring to submit proposals must attend all mandatory City of Mesa Housing and Community Development training classes, have a City of Mesa Tax License, possess at least a General Residential Contractor License (B-), be in good standing with the Arizona Registrar of Contractors, not be on the HUD Excluded Party List (EPL), registered with System for Award Management (S.A.M.), and have a minimum amount of $1 million per occurrence/$2 million aggregate Commercial General Liability insurance. All bidding contractors are subject to, and shall comply with Federal, State, County and City of Mesa procurement laws, policies and regulations including but not limited to; Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968; Woman and Minority Owned Business recruitments; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; Equal Employment Opportunities (EEOC) regulations not discriminating against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, age or national origin; Americans with Disability Act (ADA) of 1990; Drug Free Workplace regulations; Davis Bacon and Labor Standards regulations; Federal and local bond requirements; Lead Based Paint Hazard Control regulations; Maricopa County Air Quality Department environmental regulations regarding Dust Control, Asbestos and NESHAP; Energy Policy Act (EPA) of 2005; The Federal Immigration and Nationality Act (FINA) and Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986, and Arizona Revised Statutes (ARS) 23-214 related to the verification of employment eligibility of employees or anyone working on the project. Woman and Minority owned businesses, and Certified Section 3 Businesses are strongly encouraged to participate.

For more information or to request an “Invitation to Bid”, call Raymond Thimesch at 480-644-4521 Or by e-mail: ray.thimesch@mesaaz.gov A mandatory walk-thru of the site has been scheduled. Please refer to the “Invitation to Bid” for additional information. No contractors or sub-contractors are permitted on the premises at any time prior to the walk-thru. Work shall be completed within one hundred twenty (120) consecutive calendar days, beginning with the day following the starting date specified in the Notice to Proceed. If at any time the contractor is delayed in performing the work under this agreement by circumstances beyond his/her control, the contract may be extended by the same amount of time as was caused by the delay. The contractor shall request any extension in writing.

Bids must be accompanied by a Bid Bond for not less than ten percent (10%) of the total bid, payable to the City of Mesa, Arizona, or a certified or cashier's check. PERSONAL OR INDIVIDUAL SURETY BONDS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE. The successful bidder will be required to execute the contract within five (5) days after formal award of the contract, and simultaneously with the execution of the Contract, will be required to furnish a Payment Bond in the amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, and a Performance Bond in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, on all qualifying projects.

The right is hereby reserved to accept or reject any or all bids or parts thereto, to waive any informalities in any proposal and reject the bids of any persons who have been delinquent or unfaithful to any contract with the City of Mesa.

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Obituaries BOYETTE, Mary Wilmoth Barber

Mary Wilmoth Barber Boyette, wife of Dr. Edward Gerock Boyette (d. June 24, 2009), died on the morning of October 5, 2017. She was ninety-three years old. Mrs. Boyette was living at Heritage Estates Nursing Home in Gering, Nebraska near her younger daughter, Cynthia Callahan, at the time of her death.

Mary Boyette, known to her friends as Mary Wilmoth, was born on October 30, 1923 in Winston Salem, North Carolina, to Edgar Fletcher Barber and Lucy Raine Burton Barber. She spent her childhood in Winston Salem. In 1945, Mary Wilmoth graduated from the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (which later became UNC – Greensboro) with a major in Spanish and a minor in French. Immediately following her graduation, she was scheduled to begin her career with the U.S. State Department as a Spanish translator, but with the end of the war in Europe the job was cancelled. Shortly afterwards, she answered a newspaper ad which led to a teaching position in LaBelle, Florida. In addition to her teaching duties, Mary Wilmoth was named the girls’ basketball coach although she'd seen only one basketball game in her life. The following summer, 1946, she witnessed her first hurricane.

In 1948, Mary Wilmoth returned to Raleigh to teach at Needham Broughton High School. Six months later a fellow teacher arranged a blind date with an Emory University dental student from Ahoskie, NC named Edward Boyette. In December 1950, Edward and Mary Wilmoth were married in Raleigh.

Until Edward‘s final year of dental school, the newlyweds lived apart during the school year—Edward in Atlanta, Mary Wilmoth in Raleigh where she continued to teach high school. During the summers, in order to be together, Edward would find work as a dentistry assistant and Mary Wilmoth would find a position in the same town. During Edward’s final year in dental school, Mary Wilmoth was able to find work teaching in Atlanta, where they lived until Edward’s graduation in May of 1953.

Following graduation, Edward and Mary Wilmoth returned to North Carolina where Edward opened his first dental practice in Enfield, near Edward's boyhood home of Ahoskie. In 1957, Edward and Mary Wilmoth began a family. Five years later, with their two young daughters, they moved to Butner, North Carolina, where Dr. Boyette became Chief of Dental Surgery at John Umstead Hospital. In Butner, Mary Wilmoth was very involved with her church, the school activities of her children and in starting the community library. She also served as a substitute teacher in the Granville County School system for many years.

In 1982, Edward retired from John Umstead and he and Mary Wilmoth enjoyed a decade of worldwide travel. In 1994, after wintering in Arizona for several years, the Boyettes permanently relocated there to be near their younger daughter and their 2 young grandchildren, as well as to be closer to their older daughter in Nevada. They spent many years there in the sun and warmth of the Southwest and flourished there, seeming to regress in age. Not until their mid-eighties did their health begin to fail. In 2009, they moved to Nebraska to be closer to their daughter Cynthia, who had left Arizona for the Midwest.

Mary Wilmoth leaves behind two daughters: Cynthia Boyette Callahan of Crawford, Nebraska and Kathleen Burton Boyette of Las Vegas, Nevada; a son-in-law, Stephen Callahan; and two granddaughters: Stephanie Callahan Watson, of Petaluma, CA, and Katherine Callahan of Cheyenne, WY. Since Edward’s death, Mary Wilmoth had longed to be with her husband again. Now we know that they will once again garden and bike, walk a dog and continue to love each other dearly. We will forever miss her, as we do Edward.

Oh Lord, support us all the day long, until the shadows lengthen and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done. Then in thy mercy grant us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last. Amen.

Prayer for the Holy Rest. Anonymous.

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MARSH, Jean Ann

Jean, 57, transitioned into Glory on October 1, 2017.

She was a beloved Daughter, Sister, Mother, and a Dearly loved Friend (we will meet again Jean!)

She enjoyed being a respiratory therapist in the NICU for the majority of her career.

Let's gather together and celebrate her memory November 5th, 2017 at Red Mountain Park in Mesa the Hummingbird covered picnic annex from 12:30 3:30pm.

ROBERTS, Howard LaVarr Jr.

Howard LaVarr Roberts Jr. passed away October 17, 2017, in Pleasant Grove, UT, at the age of 85.

He was born July 8, 1932, in Mesa, Arizona, to Howard LaVarr Roberts and Margaret Standage Roberts. He attended school in Mesa and served a Spanish speaking LDS mission in Texas/New Mexico. He has one living brother, Stephen Paul (Luann) and three sisters, Dorothy Anne Berryman, Mary Jane Millett (Mark), and Kristen Rogers (Randall). He married Laura Jo Phelps in the Mesa, Arizona LDS Temple in 1957. He and Laura Jo have eight children: Natalie Gate (Richard), Laurel Frost (Jeffrey), Celia Johnson (Val), Craig LaVarr (Julie), Rhoda Anderson (David), Samuel Lewis (Lori), Leah Crawford (Joseph A.), and Nathan David (Heather). He has 30 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren.

Howard attended BYU for 2 years, received a Bachelor's Degree from Arizona State College, and then attended medical school at the University of Utah, interning at the Thomas Dee Hospital in Ogden, Utah.

He was a Captain in the Air Force as a Flight Medical Officer at Fairchild Air Force Base, near Spokane, Washington.

Howard was a patriot; he loved his country and the Constitution. He was active in scouting, and was an Eagle Scout, a BSA District Leader, and was awarded the Silver Beaver Award. He served as the Kane County Commander for the Mormon Battalion for about 17 years, leading at flag raisings, parades, Battalion dinner dances, and the 24th of July community dinners at Kanab city park. He loved God and was a fully committed member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving in many leadership callings in the church, including counselor to Stake President Val Jackson for 8 years.

Howard practiced family medicine in Mesa, AZ, Snowflake, AZ, and Kanab, UT, for a total of 35 years (26 in Kanab). He retired from medicine in 1997 and dedicated much of his time and energy to beautifying the city of Kanab, cleaning debris on road edges and serving on the Beautification Committee and the Heritage Council. In 2004 he was awarded the "Above and Beyond" award for community service by Kanab City. He and Laura Jo served an LDS mission together in Salt Lake City in the Family History Center.

Howard was an avid hiker, and loved the beautiful trails of Utah. His fine singing voice and piano talent contributed much to his family, church, and community. He loved reading, and he encouraged his grandchildren to learn uplifting poems; he was also an accomplished family history researcher and gardener. His positive influence will be felt for generations.

Howard was preceded in death by his parents and his beloved brother David Lawrence (Junith).

A viewing will be held from 6 to 8pm on Friday, October 27, 2017 at the Kanab 7th Ward Chapel, 600 S. Hwy 89A. There will be a funeral at 11:00 on Saturday, with a viewing from 9:30-10:45. Interment will be in the Kanab Cemetery following the funeral. Funeral arrangements with Mosdell Mortuary in Kanab.

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HRIS Analyst 5 PayPal Inc. seeks HRIS Analyst 5 in Scottsdale, AZ to drive the successful delivery of sys & process solutions on PayPal’s Global HR Sys Roadmap. Identify enhancement opportunities in the dvlpment of a technology roadmap.

Act as subject matter expert on technology solutions & biz processes w/in HR lines of biz. Reqʼs: MS (or equiv.) +3 yrs. exp. OR BS (or equiv.)+5 yrs. exp. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship. Submit resume w/ ref. to: Req.# 17-2631 to: ATTN: HR, Cube 10.3.584, PayPal, Inc. HQ, 2211 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95131. EOE

MetaSoftTech Solutions has openings for Software Engs (SE) Operations Research Analysts (ORA) and Computer Systems Engs (CSE) in Chandler, AZ. SE/ORA candidates must have US Masters degree/foreign equiv or Bach +5 yrs exp; CSE candidates must have US Bachelor/foreign equiv. SE/ORA skills in .Net/ASP.Net/SQL/XM L/WebServices/AngularJS: CSE skills in Java/Agile/Scrum/Iterative/Waterfall to analyze/design/develop/i mplement/test software/systems.

Email resume to Thamiya @ hr-us@mstsolutions.com with ref no 2017-19 for SE; 2017-20 for ORA; 2017-21 for CSE on resume and ref EVT ad

Employment General IT/Software PayPal Inc. has the following job opportunities in its Scottsdale, AZ office: MTS 2, Software Engineer (Req.# 16-4944) to analyze, design, & lead the implementation of architectural & technical solutions. Create highly scalable & agile software apps that are built on the same tech stack as Paypalʼs other domains.

Reqʼs: MS(or equiv.)+3 yrs. exp. OR BS(or equiv.)+5 yrs. exp.

Senior Salesforce Developer/Architect (Req.# 17-2735) to participate in all phases of software dvlpment life cycle including working w/ architects in understanding the design of reqs, prototyping, coding, testing, deployment & support. Help dvlp highly interactive UI using Visualforce, JavaScript & JQuery technologies.

Reqʼs: MS(or equiv.)+4 yrs. exp. OR BS(or equiv.)+6 yrs. exp.

Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship. Submit resume w/ ref. (please include the Req. No.) to: ATTN: HR, Cube 10.3.584, PayPal, Inc. HQ, 2211 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95131. EOE

Experienced SS Process Welders and Pipefitters needed for Phoenix area project Nov 2017 thru Feb 2018. OT required.

Per Diem paid. Must be experienced with SS Process piping. Email resume to cortezincof fice@gmail.com Drug free workplace EOE

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Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s leading retailers. We’re hiring and can’t wait to meet you.

join us at our hiring event: • Saturday, November 4th from 9:00am-3:00pm.

• The Target Financial Services Office 8550 South Priest Drive Tempe, AZ, 85284 • Bring government issued form of ID and your resume.

to apply in advance: • Visit ¬.com/careers, use keyword fin00099z

work somewhere you © 2017 Target Brands, Inc. The Bullseye Design and Target are registered trademarks of Target Brands, Inc.

Virtuouspros has opening for Software Engineer in Phoenix, AZ. Reqs US Masters degree/foreign equiv or Bach + 5 yrs exp w/ skills in J2EE/JSP/ EJB/Java 1.7/Oracle 8.1/9i/Visio/UML to analyze/design/develop/implement/test systems & apps. Fax your resume to Tanya @ 623-888-6716 with ref no 2017-19 on resume and ref ad in EVT Experienced Millwrights/Riggers needed for Phoenix area project Nov 2017 thru Feb 2018.

OT required. Per Diem paid. Email resume to cortezincoffice@gmail. com Drug free workplace EOE

LOOKING FOR A SWEET JOB? Andy’s Frozen Custard is opening soon in Mesa! We’re looking for positive, energetic, motivated individuals to serve the world’s greatest frozen treats! Ideal candidates should possess the ability to perform well in a fun and fast-paced environment, while maintaining the ability to pay close attention to detail and deliver outstanding customer service!

If this describes you, please come to our open interview HIRING EVENT on SUNDAY NOVEMBER 5TH from noon – 6 p.m. at the Mesa Marriott located at 200 N Centennial Way. If you can’t attend the event, you can apply online at www.eatandys.com/arizona-careers or you can pick up an application at our Ahwatukee store.

We are hiring Store Associates at $11/hr. Must be at least 16 years old to apply. Full and part-time positions available.

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Employment General Graphic Designer Design graphics to meet commercial needs using skills of CSS, HTML, Javascript, supply forecasting.Translate Graphic design products English user menus into Chinese for manufacturers. MS in design req. mail to Joy Loc: Ming's Mark, Inc. 3000 E. Chambers St. Phx AZ 85040 NOTICE TO READERS: Most service advertisers have an ROC# or "Not a licensed contractor" in their ad, this is in accordance to the AZ state law.

Arizona Registrar of Contractors (ROC): The advertising requirements of the statute does not prevent anyone from placing an ad in the yellow pages, on business cards, or on flyers.

What it does require under A.R.S. §32-1121A14(c) www.azleg.gov/ars/ 32/01165.htm is that the advertising party, if not properly licensed as a contractor, disclose that fact on any form of advertising to the public by including the words "not a licensed contractor" in the advertisement.

Again, this requirement is intended to make sure that the consumer is made aware of the unlicensed status of the individual or company.

Contractors who advertise and do not disclose their unlicensed status are not eligible for the handyman's exception.

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OPTIMIST CLUB Would you like to belong to an organization dedicated to improving children's lives in a variety of ways? Do you have a desire to give back to the community?

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