East Valley Tribune - Southeast November 18, 2018

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NEWS............................... 3 Mayor sees no more soccer complex votes

COMMUNITY......... 10 Dental school helps jailed juveniles

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Kyl planning on staying put in Senate BY JASON STONE Tribune Staff Writer

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.S. Sen. Jon Kyl plans to remain in his seat until a special election is called to fill the late John McCain’s term. But whether that will still happen in the wake of U.S. Rep. Martha McSally’s Senate election loss to Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema remains to be seen. “I’m going to talk to the Governor (Doug Ducey) about that,” Kyl told the Tribune on Nov. 9, several days after touring Mesa. He joked, “You’ll be the second to know.” Ducey’s spokesman did not return a request for comment.

Kyl was appointed by Ducey after U.S. Sen. John McCain’s death in August. At the time of his appointment in early September, Kyl said he would serve through the start of the next Congress in January, but he always left open the possibility he could remain until a special election is called in 2020 to fill the remaining two years of McCain’s term. “I said I would serve until the end of the term,” Kyl said. Sinema declared victory on Nov. 12 after McSally conceded. At the time of Kyl’s appointment, political insiders were speculating he would step down to make way for McSally in case she lost. Now that it’s happened, it’s anyone’s guess

what he’ll do, although Kyl told the Tribune that McSally’s fate had no bearing on his timetable for staying. “Obviously, I’m supporting McSally,” Kyl said before Sinema was declared the winner. Once McSally conceded, Kyl issued a statement of congratulations to Arizona’s first female senator. “Congratulations to Senator-elect Kyrsten Sinema on winning a hard-fought race to represent the people of Arizona in the United States Senate,” he wrote. “Having recently returned to the Senate after a fiveyear absence, I have been reminded what an See

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Chandler woman helps save Paradise one truck at a time BY JASON STONE Tribune Staff Writer

T GETOUT ................... 22 Get merry on Main Street

FOOD........................... 26

Quick hits for Turkey Day weekend

COMMUNITY................ 10 BUSINESS........................14 OPINION......................... 17 SPORTS ..........................20 GETOUT.......................... 22 CLASSIFIED.....................31

he mountainous ridge of Paradise, California, is the kind of place you go to get away from it all – not experience a living hell. But from the safety of his mother’s Mesa home, Scot Rayl is still trying to come to grips with the hell he experienced last week in Paradise as fire obliterated the community. Rayl’s sister, Chandler resident Jennifer Simas, knew she had to do something to help the devastated community the moment her mother broke the awful news about the town where her brother lived, as well as other assorted family members. To help ease that suffering, Simas is organizing an East Valley donation drive with the help of a Gilbert nonprofit. “My mom called me and she said, ‘Paradise is on fire. I want to stay close to the phone,’” Simas said. “Every year they evacuate everybody because of fire (danger). This time, it couldn’t be saved.” At the time, Scot, a Paradise resident, didn’t know if he was going to live or become one of the dozens killed in the worst wildfire in California history. Then again, nobody in the Northern California community of nearly 27,000 people

(Kimberly Carrillo/Staff Photographer)

Caleb Carter, left, and Corey Yeaman load up a truck with supplies destined to help victims of the fire that leveled the retirement town of Paradise, California.

thought Nov. 8, 2018, would be the day the town was virtually wiped off the map. The top story in the “Paradise Post” that morning focused on a still-undecided race for the Paradise town council. Just a few hours

after that issue went to press, however, there would be no town for the council to oversee. And in just a few hours, Rayl would be expeSee

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