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COMMUNITY.......... 11
Legally blind Mesa teen prepares to sail the Carribean.
SPORTS ..................... 22 Kamaile Hiapo is helping to make Skyline High’s volleyball team a champ.
Beans and more at the Chandler Chuck Wagon Cook-Off
FOOD ......................... 29 Jan D’Atri has a sure-fire way to make chicken salad.
COMMUNITY ........... 11 BUSINESS.................. . 16 OPINION............... .... 20 SPORTS........................ 22 CLASSIFIEDS............. 32
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Sunday, November 4, 2018
It’s almost over except the counting 2 council, 2 school seats up for grabs in Mesa
Mesa voters get say with nearly $500M on the line
BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer
BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer
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esa voters will pick two new council members and fill two school board seats in Tuesday’s general election, with the city candidates reporting a high level of interest and predicting a better turnout than usual for a mid-term election. District Three, in west Mesa, and District Four, in central Mesa, were hotly contested in the primary and no candidate collected more than 50 percent, requiring the runoff in the general election. District Four was especially close, with two first-time candidates, Jennifer Duff and Jake See
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Did monsoon leave your dog sick?
COUNCIL on page 6
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(Special to the Tribune)
The end of the 2018 campaign also promises relief from the proliferation of political signs along East Valley streets.
hile the highly combative U.S. Senate race in Arizona has dominated this election cycle, a former longtime Mesa City Council member has one simple suggestion for voters. Instead of focusing on the dustup between U.S. representatives Martha McSally and Kyrsten Sinema, former council member Dennis Kavanaugh said voters should focus on local issues that are likely to have a direct impact on their quality of life – now and into the city’s future. These issues include a sales tax increase to See
BOND on page 8
Mesa church ringing in 125 years of worship BY JASON STONE Tribune Staff Writer
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irginia Berg still remembers when the First United Methodist Church of Mesa was literally a hop, skip and a jump away from her home in downtown Mesa. Berg and her friends would spend postWorld War II summers running barefoot across a burning hot First Avenue just to prove how tough they were. “It was a great way to see how calloused our feet could get,” said Berg, 83. Nearly 70 years later, nobody is recommending running across the intersection of First Avenue and Center Street now that the immense Mesa Arts Center is in the neighborhood and vehicle traffic has grown exponentially. But one mainstay of the intersection is the presence of the First United Methodist See
CHURCH on page 4
(Special to the Tribune)
Mesa United Methodist Church will be 125 years old this month and it certainly has changed over the course of time, from a humble structure erected in 1895 that replaced the barn first used to the majestic edifice that now stands at First Avenue and Center Street.