East Valley Tribune: Gilbert Edition - Aug. 14, 2016

How to stop Zika virus in East Valley

Road’s vibrant past holds key to future

BY DAWSON FEARNOW TRIBUNE CONTRIBUTOR

‘Ihope this isn’t another story about how Main Street is making a comeback,” says local historian and lifelong Mesa resident, Dilworth Brinton Jr. “Because they’ve been writing that same story for decades, and here’s the sad truth. It ain’t happening, and I’m afraid it never will.”

Not so fast, says dedicated defender Michelle Streeter of Visit Mesa (aka the Mesa Convention and Visitors Bureau).

“Revitalization is happening along Main Street, from really exciting new shops and restaurants to former alleyways transformed into pocket parks,” she says.

But even Streeter acknowledges, “We need more to really create the truly thriving and vibrant downtown Mesa that we all want to see.”

So what is the status of Mesa’s signature streetscape, the former highway and once bustling heartbeat for the entire East Valley that’s now been famously struggling for decades?

Is it in the midst of a renaissance thanks to a new crop of mom-and-pop boutiques and a restored appreciation for its midcentury architecture and retro-cool neon signs? Or is it condemned by the same suburban growth it THEATER

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East Valley residents urged to prevent Zika by blocking mosquitoes

BY MIKE BUTLER TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Maricopa County public health and environmental services officials, who are battling to stay a step ahead in the fight against the Zika virus, are urging East Valley residents to rid their yards of standing water and report pockets of high mosquito activity.

The Zika virus alarm level ratcheted up a notch last week after federal and Florida state health officials reported that a growing number of people in that state have become infected after being bitten by local mosquitoes carrying the virus.

Most of the damage is confined to a north Miami neighborhood, for now. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an unprecedented warning to pregnant women— or women expecting to become pregnant— to avoid Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood. Meanwhile, Yuma County reported its first travel-related case of Zika, the 18th documented case in Arizona.

By comparison, South Florida (MiamiDade, Broward and Palm Beach counties) had documented more than 400 travel-related Zika cases when the first locally transmitted case was reported July 29.

But James Will, eastern region supervisor of the Vector Control Division in Maricopa County’s Environmental Services department, said it’s a question of when, not if, the East Valley will see its first local case.

“We thought we’d get a localized case last year, but it didn’t happen,” Will said.

Will said what keeps him up at night is the thought of all those visitors at the Olympic games in Rio returning to Arizona and the United States.

“We’re wondering if Zika will be the only thing that comes back,” he said.

Zika is spread through Aedes aegypi mosquitoes, aggressive daytime biters that are abundant in Maricopa County. They’re especially bothersome in Gilbert and Chandler, which have become breeding “hot spots” according to Will. The Zika mosquito can also spread dengue and chikungunya virus.

If a person has Zika in their blood and is bitten by a mosquito, the mosquito can pass it on by biting another person. Zika can be passed through unprotected sex if one of the partners has the virus. And, tragically, Zika virus can be transmitted during pregnancy and cause the birth defect microcephaly.

Maricopa County is also home to an abundance of Culex mosquitoes, night biters that carry the West Nile and St. Louis encephalitis viruses.

Whether Culex or Aedes aegypi, mosquitoes require stagnant water to lay their eggs and

continue the life cycle. Larvae can hatch in just a few days into hundreds of thousands of bloodthirsty adults from pools of rainwater.

Retention basins, which often double as greenbelts and informal parks, are frequent and familiar sights in East Valley neighborhoods and along major roadways. They are also prime breeding grounds for mosquitoes.

City crews monitor retention basins in parks and other public property, but the vast majority of them are owned by HOAs. Laws require private property owners to maintain retention basin drywells so that these lowlying areas drain in 36 hours. City and county officials also want to hear from neighbors about backyard swimming pools that have turned green, which are also nirvana for breeding mosquitoes. Neglected swimming pools were a big problem six to eight years ago during the housing recession.

Will said the trouble with Aedes aegypi mosquitoes is that they don’t really need big retention basins and swimming pools to breed. They can reproduce in empty flower pots, small holes or depressions in the ground, and buckets left outside and forgotten when everyone in the East Valley headed indoors as the monsoon season began.

“We’ve found them breeding in soda bottle caps–that’s all the water they need,” Will said. “That’s why we’re more worried about people’s yards.”

That fear, and the knowledge that Zika mosquitoes have a flight range of only about 150 yards, prompted county environmental and health experts last week to ask the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to give them the authority to access private properties as soon as possible when there is a Zika threat. It can take a week or longer currently to obtain a warrant.

When state and county public health employees confirm a travel-related case of Zika, they visit the individual and impress upon him

or her the importance of not getting bitten by mosquitos. Abatement teams trap, test and spray the person’s yard and nearby properties if possible.

There is no vaccine to prevent Zika and no specific medicines to treat it. Prevention is the best protection. Residents are encouraged to eliminate sources of standing water, use DEET repellent and wear long sleeve shirts and long pants.

Four out of five people infected with Zika don’t become ill. Those who do may experience mild fever, rash, joint pain, conjunctivitis, muscle pain and headache.

– Reach Mike Butler at 480-898-6530 or at mbutler@timespublications.com.

Fighting mosquitoes

Anyone who sees mosquitoes breeding, increased adult mosquito activity or a green pool in their neighborhood is encouraged to call the county mosquito hotline at 602-506-0700. Online complaint forms are available online at FightTheBiteMaricopa.org. The site also provides information on mosquitorelated diseases, prevention, monitoring and fogging.

(Maricopa County Environmental Services/Special to the Tribune)

Maricopa County’s Vector Control Division lab tests mosquitos caught in traps for viruses and targets areas for fogging accordingly.

MAIN STREET

once fueled to always be a shell of its past glory?

Maybe it’s all of the above.

To truly understand Main Street’s future, you have to understand its past.

And not the typical stuff, but the fact that Route 66 once ran right down Main Street. Or how Mesa’s forefathers cut a secret backroom deal to bring the highway down Main Street in the first place.

And to think it all started with Teddy Roosevelt, a railroad publicist, and a heck of a lot of mules.

Highways ahead

“The reason why Main Street or Apache looks like it does today, the reason why it was extended into a highway in the first place, was the Roosevelt Dam,” says Vic Linoff, president of the Mesa Preservation Foundation.

“It’s why Mesa became the commercial center of the East Valley and by far its largest city.”

Originally named Salt River Dam #1, this monumental project would finally provide the Valley with a reliable source of water after it was dedicated by President Theodore Roosevelt personally in 1911.

But first, the dam’s planners faced a conundrum—how to haul millions of pounds of equipment to this dangerously remote construction site.

The answer is literally written onto the surface of Main Street, or at least a small bronze marker at the corner of Main and Center streets. It reads, “In 1905, this road was built to Roosevelt Dam from the Mesa railhead. Construction materials were hauled by mule teams 60 miles to the dam.”

It’s difficult for modern Mesans to understand how impactful this single road was, Linoff says.

Loops to nowhere

More important, the new Mesa-Roosevelt Dam Road (quickly dubbed the Apache Trail by an enterprising railroad publicist) literally put Mesa on the map. According to “Good Roads Everywhere: A History of Road Building in Arizona,” when the newly formed State of Arizona published its first maps in 1912, it included plenty of “wagon roads and railroads, but only two ‘highways.’”

One ran north from the Mexican border and terminated at the Grand Canyon. The other extended east from Yuma through Phoenix and Globe, terminating at the mining town of Clifton near the New Mexico border.

And guess which city what at the exact crossroads of both state-straddling highways? Mesa, of course.

But that was just the beginning of Main Street’s heyday as a cross-country highway.

“The cool thing about the Valley was it was the only place that had four major cross-country

wide, busy main street was a vital artery. “It

roads all intersecting. They were the U.S. 60, 70 and 80, all coast-to-coast east-west roads, and the 89, which ran north from Nogales to Canada,” says Douglas Towne, a hydrologist for the state of Arizona who’s also an expert on roadside Americana.

“All of which brought a truly amazing amount of tourist traffic.”

And it didn’t happen by accident, says historian Brinton, who swears that at least one

“

It all started with Teddy Roosevelt, a railroad publicist, and a heck of a lot of mules. ”

of Mesa’s signature highways, the U.S. 60, “was originally not scheduled to go as far north as Mesa, but instead connecting somewhere in Chandler,” he says.

“But a former member of the Mesa city council told me that they got together with the people from Wickenburg and cut a deal. If they voted Mesa onto the route, then we’d make sure Wickenburg was added as well. Which is why, even to this day, the 60 makes that crazy loop north to Wickenburg.”

“I’m not at all surprised to hear that,” Towne says. “The highways of that era were laid out by private auto clubs in concert with local promoters, and the route was more for the benefit of certain cities than picking the best roads or the shortest route from point A to B.

“Even after the Federal highway system was

implemented, politics still affected that and led to lots of loops to nowhere,” he added.

As the nation was switching from highway names to a number-based system, Main Street was briefly designated Route 66 in the early 1920s, before the number was shifted to the world famous highway running through Flagstaff, Arizona (don’t forget Winona).

Heartbeat of the city

No matter what shenanigans the city may have pulled to bring the new traffic roaring down Main Street, the results “made Mesa the trading center for the East Valley,” Brinton says.

“Because of that bypass, for decades people from across the area came to Main Street because there were no real businesses in Gilbert and very few in Chandler. Apache Junction was just a café and a gas station where the highway split.”

“Main Street in its heyday was so full of cars and people,” Vic Linoff chimes in, “they had angled parking along the curbs and even parking in center median.

“It was the heartbeat of the city, both businesswise and also as a community gathering point. You could park and do a full day of shopping, hit the bakery, pick up some groceries, eat dinner or enjoy some entertainment at one of the five movie theatres in downtown Mesa.”

But it wasn’t just locals moseying down Main Street, Towne says, as whole new groups of Americans fell in love with the open road.

“Before the highway system was formalized in the mid-1920s, travel was impossible for most people. Those who went traveled by train.

But then, in pre-World War II, people started traveling in their own cars. “You saw a lot of drivers camping along the side of the road. Entrepreneurs saw that and said, ‘we can make money here,’ and that’s when motels really took off,” Towne says.

But what sparked Mesa’s world-class collection of eye-grabbing neon signs that once adorned everything from motels and restaurants to bicycle shops, bathing Main Street in a festive glow from dusk ‘tll dawn?

“You might have started with a sign for, say, Joe’s Hotel, that was simple and rectangular and informational,” Towne explains.

“As competition for tourist dollars heated up, businesses added larger signs with funky shapes and those amoeba design elements and incredibly intricate neon lighting.”

Signs were created by famed local craftsman, such as the late Paul Millet or Larry Graham of Graham’s Neon, who recently restored one of Main Street’s most iconic creations, the StarLite Motel’s Diving Lady (pictured on page 1).

Years ago, a wind-storm toppled the nearly 60-year-old landmark. After some drama and delays, it now shines in all its former glory. As for his own career handcrafting several of Main Street’s most iconic signs, Graham is more modest.

“My mom read an article about it, saw they were offering classes, and said I should try it. And it worked.”

Forty years after starting his namesake business, Graham says requests for neon signs

Mesa’s

was the heartbeat of the city, both business-wise and also as a community gathering point,” says Vic Linoff, president of the Mesa Preservation Foundation.

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have plummeted, though he hopes it never fades away completely because, unlike modern signs, he says, “There’s an art to making neon.”

End of the road

In some ways, Main Street’s demise is easy to pinpoint. It died in 1991 when an all-new U.S. 60 was completed five miles due south.

Slicing through former farmland, the newly named Superstition Freeway was part of a larger movement to shift traffic from city streets to dedicated Interstates and highways.

Just one year earlier, Phoenix had filled the final missing link in the national Interstate Highway System—and bypassed its own outdated tourist strip on Van Buren Street— when it opened the I-10 tunnel through downtown Phoenix.

“These were major throughways that also doubled as regular city streets,” says Linda Gorman, director of communications and public affairs for AAA Arizona.

“But as the Valley has grown and expanded ever outward, the question became, what do you want from your streets–efficiency, individual charm, or neighborhood convenience?”

Which gets to the heart of Main Street’s dead end.

“Nobody lives down there anymore,”

Brinton says. “As the city expanded and people continued to move farther out from the historic core, stores on Main Street have never solved the problem of why drive by three different suburban jewelry stores just to get to one downtown?”

Even Main Street’s most dedicated fans, the snowbirds who flocked to the same motor courts every winter, eventually flew the coop.

“A few old timers who had been vacationing

there for years kept coming after the highway moved. But, with new competition from regional chains, the whole industry on Main Street really cratered,” Towne adds.

‘Worth’ saving?

So if Main Street will never again be Mesa’s main street, what hope is there for a vibrant, bustling downtown?

The answer, as ever, is as simple as taking a

drive down Main Street. Even better, get out and talk to people like Heather Smith, who runs the retro-fabulous cookie shop, SmithO-Later. And more important, she now lives in a nearby historic home, which is what first drew Smith and her husband to move there from downtown Gilbert.

“We’d looked for a historic home in Phoenix and Scottsdale and had no idea this neighborhood even existed,” Smith says.

“I really like the juxtaposition of the old and new, and seeing people walk in the door every day and say they’ve never been down here, or haven’t been in years. And also not spending an hour and a half of my day commuting.”

Just down the street at the scrumptious new sandwich shop, Worth Takeaway, Kelsey TK says she and her husband, Jim Bob, “loved the idea of living in a historic home with some character, and the idea of live-work-play.”

“But we also wanted to stay small and humble, so even though we looked in Scottsdale and downtown Phoenix, we ended up buying a home in historic downtown Mesa.”

“Five years ago I don’t think Main Street would have been right for us,” Kelsey says. “Now it’s a great neighborhood, a very tightknit community.”

As she speaks, she wraps up a customer’s sandwich in a crisp white wrapper sealed with a large circular sticker. It reads, “Did we just become best friends?”

(Will Powers/Tribune Staff Photographer)

The Hiway Host Motel displays some of the iconic neon that used to light up Main Street at night. Now, only a few of the signs remain.

Light rail’s expansion earns mixed reviews

BY SHELLEY RIDENOUR TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

The exact number of people who have discovered downtown Mesa in the last year since light rail expanded is tough to assess.

Some business owners know they’ve got new customers because of the trains. Others say they may not personally be benefitting, but they see more people milling about the area. If there are people who think it’s been bad for the neighborhood, they’re keeping quiet.

Last Aug. 22, the first extension of Valley Metro’s light rail system in the Valley occurred when a 3.1-mile stretch of rail opened in Mesa. The train now runs from its former end point at Sycamore Drive to Mesa Drive. Next up in Mesa is a 1.9-mile extension from Mesa Drive to Gilbert Road. That project is scheduled to begin within two months and be finished in two years. The $152.7 million cost includes not only the rail line, but three new rail cars, two passenger stations, a transit center and a park and ride lot.

“I think we’re going to see a lot of changes in downtown Mesa because of light rail, ASU and new and revitalized businesses,” downtown business owner Suzanne Woodford said.

Woodford owns a Main Street building which houses both her One Oh One Gallery and other businesses.

Some people “thought business would boom immediately,” she said, “the day the train started running.”

Woodford recognizes that “re-energizing an area is not an overnight project. It’s not going to be tomorrow, but it will come.”

Realizing change wouldn’t be immediate, people now are excited, Woodford said, and “things are happening. Art and energy are coming along in downtown.”

One business owner decided to move onto Main Street in part because of light rail.

Pole Barn Primitives has been on Center Street for about 10 months. Now, owner Lisa Sorensen is ready to move to Main, where she’ll have about three times as much space and, hopefully, more foot traffic. She expects to make the move in the next couple of months.

So far, light rail hasn’t brought any customers in to her shop.

“Honestly, light rail is not a factor for our shoppers,” Sorensen said.

Sorensen is eager, and says other merchants are too, “to get more from light rail, to get user numbers up and people in our stores.”

Gary Brown, who’s owned Surf and Ski

for decades, says he spots plenty of empty rail cars operating during the day in Mesa. He acknowledges that the cars tend to be full at the start and end of the typical work day, but not so much in between.

Like other business owners, Michelle Skaarup of Dickson’s Jewelers said light rail hasn’t brought new customers inside. As a seller of fine jewelry, Skaarup said her store is a destination shop, not usually a store for browsers or window shoppers.

“But, we’ve noticed a lot more people in downtown Mesa, especially on Saturdays, people are walking around and window shopping and stopping in,” she said.

“The only complaint we’ve heard is it’s hard now to turn left,” Skaarup said, because autos have to wait for the trains to pass before crossing Main Street to turn onto a side street.

Gotham City Comics and Coffee owner Miguel Vega has seen an uptick in customer traffic since light rail expanded. More public transportation is necessary if the Valley wants to succeed in promoting itself as a major metropolitan city, Vega said. He’s confident that day is coming. “It’s only beginning here,” he said. — Contact Shelley Ridenour at 480-898-6533 or sridenour@evtrib.com.

Effort to lure restaurants to downtown Mesa continues

BY SHELLEY RIDENOUR TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

AMesa native is continuing his efforts to help lure restaurants to Mesa’s Main Street.

Two years ago, Kelly Smith and some of his friends tackled a project they named Project Downtown Mesa.

It came about after Smith, his wife and two other Mesa couples headed out for dinner one evening. They ended up in downtown Gilbert.

“I was disappointed,” Smith said. “I wanted to be in Mesa.”

So, their dinner conversation turned to how they could all help make Mesa— their home—better. It’s not their goal that downtown Mesa become like downtown Gilbert or any other city, Smith said. Rather, he wants Mesa “to be great and be unique.”

Their mission is clear: “getting top-tier new restaurants,” to the city’s Main Street.

He and his supporters want to foster culinary innovation in Mesa.

So, they created a website (dtmesa.org/ supporters), did some online marketing, printed business cards, created a Facebook page, and compiled “a big email list.”

Supporters would drop off business cards at restaurants where they ate asking that the owners consider establishing a restaurant in Mesa.

“The internet allows you to build support around an interest,” Smith said. “This is the first time in history we’ve been able to do this.”

The effort has attracted all sorts of people, he said, from hipsters to Boomers and a lot of people around Smith’s age, 35. Downtown developers and property owners are keen on the idea, too.

The business cards “spurred conversations,” Smith said, but so far, no results. They also coordinated a “grassroots, citizen-led initiative” with real estate

investors, owners of downtown buildings and restaurateurs for a downtown tour of available buildings. About 150 people participated, he said.

The buy-in from downtown business owners has been varied, Smith said.

“They have been vociferous,” he said. Long-time downtown business owners have “seen it all. We’re still earning their trust, but they opened their doors for the tour.”

Nonetheless, “we haven’t found a taker,” Smith said. He thinks most restaurateurs are afraid to be the first to make the commitment. But, he’s convinced once the first new restaurant arrives, more will follow.

The group has even talked about crowdfunding. Supporters would agree to spend a certain amount of money in a new restaurant, “to pre-pay for your meals.”

Smith repeatedly says he’s not a developer or a real estate agent and claims he has no

idea what he’s doing.

“But good things are happening” in spite of that, he points out.

He believes the plan to expand Arizona State University in downtown Mesa with four new multi-story buildings will only help bring more restaurants to the downtown walking corridor.

“We’re thrilled by the ASU proposal. It will make making the case to a restaurant even easier,” he said.

Smith has heard the often-cited claims that Mesa is not hip enough for higherend restaurants, or that people won’t dine out enough to support a business. He thinks those thoughts are fading, if not already gone.

“There is conversation brewing,” Smith said. “We hope it works to all our advantage.”

– Contact Shelley Ridenour at 480-898-6533 or sridenour@evtrib.com.

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The light rail runs down Main Street during the Central Mesa Extension Media Tour on Valley Metro Rail last year.

(Tribune staff photograph)

THE WEEK IN REVIEW

El Nino delivers below-median runoff for sixth year

For the sixth consecutive year, El Nino has underperformed, delivering a belowmedian runoff of 338,181 acre-feet, well below the projected 1 million acrefeet runoff that the Salt River Project anticipated for their water-storage system.

The Salt and Verde water-storage system, which includes multiple reservoirs on the Salt and Verde rivers, currently stands at only half-capacity, nearly the same position it was at a year ago.

Roosevelt Lake also stands at only 40 percent of capacity, while the two reservoirs on the Verde River are down 52 percent from last year, at a combined 42 percent of capacity.

– CONNOR DZIAWURA, TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Guide to state elections released online

A comprehensive guide to the 2016 elections has been released online. The Purple Book is available at purplebookaz.com.

Veridus, an Arizona lobbying and public affairs company, publishes the guide to politics in the state. Featured are biographies, details about political races and voter registration breakdowns by legislative districts.

The website will be updated after the elections with new results.

– RALPH ZUBIATE, TRIBUNE EDITOR

Livability.com names Tempe 2016’s best college town

According to Livability.com, Tempe is the best college town in the country for 2016.

By analyzing data about ability to maintain a post-graduation population and town education, Livability.com narrowed down the top contenders, with Tempe coming in the No. 1 spot. With its large population and cultural opportunities, Tempe is called the perfect place for college students and graduates alike, providing both career and entertainment opportunities.

“The thing about college towns is that they aren’t only great places for high school seniors to consider,” said Livability managing editor Christopher Pilny. “They’re great places for everyone to consider, as many of the best places to live in the U.S. are those that have colleges and/or universities.”

– CONNOR DZIAWURA, TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Chandler program provides essential materials to students

Operation Back to School Chandler has donated more than 2,500 pairs of underwear and socks, 1,400 uniforms, 1,000 books and 300 pairs of shoes to students.

This event included the involvement of Chandler Christian Community Center, Chandler Unified School District, CARE Center, Fans Across America, CrossRoads Nazarene Church, Chandler Neighborhood Resources, ICAN, Boys & Girls Club, EV Jewish Community Center, M.I.L.K., Valley of the Sun United Way and For Our City –Chandler, as well as various faith groups and more than 50 organizations.

“This is our fourth annual event, and each year, it gets bigger and better,” said Councilmember Kevin Hartke. “We couldn’t organize this event without the help from our corporate partners, nonprofits and the donations from our residents and City employees. We thank everyone who contributed this year.”

– CONNOR DZIAWURA, TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

ASU ranked among top universities worldwide

Arizona State University has been rated in the top one-half of 1 percent of institutions of higher education worldwide, according to the Center for World University Rankings.

The center says it measures such factors as the quality of student education and the quality of faculty members and their research.

ASU outranked institutions such as Michigan State University, Georgetown and Florida State University.

2 East Valley hospitals among Arizona’s best

Two of the top hospitals in Arizona are in the East Valley, according to a ranking by U.S. News & World Report. The facilities are owned and operated by Banner Health.

The two are Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, which was ranked No. 7, and Banner Baywood Medical Center in Mesa, ranked No. 9.

The top-ranked hospital in Arizona was Mayo Clinic in Phoenix.

TRIBUNE STAFF

Teachers get free car service from Chandler repair shop

Desert Car Care of Chandler is giving an oil change and checkup to teachers’ automobiles this Saturday.

All teachers with a school I.D. will receive the free service, which includes belts, fluids, hoses, filters and battery check.

The service will be first-come, first-serve, from 8 a.m. to noon at Desert Car Care of Chandler, 95 N. Dobson Road. Prizes and food will also be available. Contact 480-726-6400 or visit desertcarcare.com for more information.

– RALPH ZUBIATE, TRIBUNE EDITOR

‘Alien’ date-night party hosted at i.d.e.a. Museum

The i.d.e.a. Museum will be conducting an Alien Party date night at 6 p.m. Friday.

This Adult Take-Over will feature DJs, dancing, appetizers and a cash bar. The costumes are the focus of the night. A costume parade will let cosplayers show their looks, and prizes will be awarded.

Admittance prices range from $25 to $55. The i.d.e.a. Museum is at 150 W. Pepper Place in Mesa. For more information, contact 480-644-4332 or ideamuseum.org/ adulttakeover.htm

– CONNOR DZIAWURA,

TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Chick-fil-A welcomes students back to school with party

Chick-fil-A is gathering school supplies and celebrating the new term with a Back to School Bash this Tuesday.

Diners who donate three new school supplies will receive one free chicken sandwich, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Mesa Riverview Chick-fil-A, 905 N. Dobson Road.

Dessert will feature a free sundae topping bar with the purchase of a small Icedream cup.

Pokemon to take over Mesa

museum

The Arizona Museum of Natural History is joining the Pokemon Go craze with a party this Friday from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Lures and a trainer’s lounge will be set up, and Pokemon-related activities will be found among the fossils.

More Pokemon stops will be available around downtown Mesa.

The party, at 53 N. Macdonald, is free for members and $5 for nonmembers under 18, $9 for all others.

For information, call 480-644-2230 or visit AzMNH.org.

Nighttime golf and pool party coming to Mesa

“Nine At Night,” a golfing and pool party, is from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Saturday at the Arizona Golf Resort & Conference Center in Mesa.

Along with 9 holes of golf, participants will also get to eat, drink and hear music. Shotgun start is at 8:30 p.m., with 4 Man Scramble following. Prizes will also be offered, with rewards given to 5th and 10th place, longest drive and closest to the pin.

The event will be at 425 S. Power Road. Cost is $30. With limited space, only 36 golfers can participate, so reservations are recommended. Contact 480-832-3202 or online at arizonagolfresort.com.

– CONNOR DZIAWURA, TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Writers meet at Tempe Library

Writers Connecting, an informal writing group, will meet Friday at the Tempe Library.

The group is free and open to anyone interested in writing. Writers will get help and ideas during the meeting.

The group gathers from 2 to 4 p.m. in Library Meeting Room B at the library, 3500 S. Rural Road.

Benedictine outgrows space, plans expansion

BY SHELLEY RIDENOUR TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

As Benedictine University readies for its fourth year of classes later this month, it’s finding alternatives to prevent the seams from bursting at its East Main Street locations in Mesa.

Benedictine officials are in the midst of moving out of the building at 51 E. Main St., relocating administrative and athletic offices into the Mesa Higher Education Center a few blocks away on West Second Street. Other offices are moving into Benedictine’s main building down the street at 225 E. Main St.

The building at 51 E. Main was intended to be “a launching pad,” Benedictine’s Mesa Campus Executive Officer Charlie Gregory said.

College officials leased that site four years ago. Coaches and administrators have offices in the building, but it’s not used for student services.

If a plan to expand Arizona State University into downtown Mesa materializes, the smaller building at 51 E. Main will be torn down and a larger structure built on that lot.

But Benedictine’s move this month is prompted by the lack of space, Gregory

said, not the possibility of losing that building.

When Benedictine opened in the fall of 2013, it had 73 students, Gregory said. This fall, the school expects 350 undergraduate students and 125 graduate students on campus.

Benedictine University President Michael Brophy last fall said his goal is to see enrollment in Arizona reach 500 by fall 2017.

Benedictine leaders are pleased with the college’s expansion.

“But, we need solutions,” Gregory said.

One of those is to move some offices and classes into the Mesa Higher Education Center.

Some Benedictine science classes were already being taught at the higher ed center. The two buildings are about three blocks apart, Gregory said, not too far for students to get back and forth for classes.

“The higher ed center is a solution for us now,” he said.

But, university officials still want to build out the third floor at 225 E. Main. That will happen, Mesa Mayor John Giles said. The city owns the building and leases it to Benedictine. No time frame for expansion has been completed, Giles said.

Additional office and classroom space aren’t the only construction issues on the mind of Benedictine officials.

“We are working on housing,” Gregory said. College officials are “very, very close” to working out an agreement with a developer in Mesa that would lead to construction of apartments that could be rented to Benedictine students.

Benedictine has a current enrollment of about 9,000 at its main campus in Lisle,

Illinois, a hefty increase in the last 20 years, he said. In 1997, enrollment was 2,100. Giles, like Gregory, is thrilled with the university’s growth, as well as growth at Wilkes University, also housed in the Mesa Higher Education Center.

“We’re responding to the successes of Benedictine University and Wilkes University to build (their properties) out,” Giles said. – Contact Shelley Ridenour at 480-898-6533 or sridenour@evtrib.com.

New Chandler museum to take over McCullough-Price House near Fashion Center

BY SRIANTHI PERERA TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Chandler history buffs have been awaiting a new museum for decades.

Now, they can look forward to one on the site of the historic McCullough-Price House, near the Chandler Fashion Center, to open in the fall of 2018.

Recently, Chandler City Council awarded more than $600,000 to an architectural firm—Weddle Gilmore Architects LLC—to design a 10,000 square foot, single-story building that will connect to the 3,300 square foot historic structure.

“The two structures will then become the new Chandler Museum,” said Jody Crago, the city’s museum administrator.

Crago said that the architectural firm has been given direction to design a modern building that’s respectful of the 1938 Pueblo revival home that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

the recession, even though two bonds had been passed by then – for $8.5 million in 2004 and $4.5 million in 2007.

The reimagined, $5 million project will use some of the voter-approved funds. Most of Chandler’s museum collection is in city storage. Once the new facility is ready, it will display or by archival means make it available to the public material including:

The new building will contain at least 4,000 square feet of gallery, programming and education spaces, collection storage and a research and archives library for the city’s photographs and document collection.

A redesign of the McCulloughPrice House’s interior is also in the works. Currently, the historic structure accommodates an archive research center, satellite exhibition space and the museum staffers, who moved from the former museum in downtown Chandler.

“We don’t want it to detract or put the National Register status of the McCullough-Price House at risk. The new structure is supposed to work in conjunction with the historic structure,” he said.

“We’re excited at the opportunity to produce a modern museum for the city of Chandler. There’s been a lot of people looking forward to this for a number of years,” Crago said.

Until 2012, Chandler’s history was exhibited in a cramped, former library building in the downtown area that was constructed in 1957 and had developed infrastructure issues (it was later demolished). City officials planned a new museum downtown, in a site located behind the Serranos Restaurant, to be readied for Chandler’s 2012 centennial year.

However, the plan was ditched due to

• 18 boxes of documents and photos from the descendants of Dr. A.J. Chandler and his brother Harry.

• Material from the San Marcos Hotel including those from its third owner, the Quarty family.

• Part of the 500,000 photographic archive from the East Valley Tribune that Chandler holds in conjunction with the East Valley Cultural Heritage Coalition.

• Other three-dimensional and paper items collected for several decades, among them original furniture from San Marcos Hotel, clothing and objects from Chandler High School.

– Contact Srianthi Perera at 480-898-5613 or srianthi@timespublications.com.

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A new, 10,000 square foot structure is to be added to complement the historic McCullough-Price House; together, the complex will comprise Chandler’s new museum. (Special toTribune)

This fall, Benedictine University in Mesa expects 350 undergraduate students and 125 graduate students on campus.

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Eight candidates vying for 3 Chandler City Council seats

BY PAUL MARYNIAK TRIBUNE MANAGING EDITOR

Eight candidates are running for three Chandler City Council seats in the nonpartisan primary election Aug. 30.

With Nora Ellen the only incumbent seeking re-election to a second term, this year’s races will produce a different look on City Council come January. Councilmen Rick Heumann and Jack Sellers are termed out.

Although the deadline to register for the primary has passed, voters have until Friday to request an early ballot.

Primary candidates who win more than 50 percent of the vote are automatically assured a seat, so if fewer than three primary candidates reach that total, a runoff will occur in the November General Election.

Besides Ellen, a real estate broker and investor, the other candidates include: Matt Eberle, a business finance consultant; Gregg Pekau, a manager for Intel; Seth Graham, a Salt River police officer; Aaron Harris Sr., director of federal programs for the Agua Fria School District; Sam Huang, a director of the Oasis Education Foundation; Mark Stewart, a smallbusiness owner; and John A. Repar, a brokerage adviser.

The East Valley Tribune asked all eight candidates their opinions on the two most important issues facing Chandler. Three hopefuls answered the questionnaires.

“Our top priority is build-out and that we oversee and ensure that our five employment corridors and six highgrowth areas develop to the greatest potential possible during this crucial time,” Ellen said.

She also said the city “needs to have the latest in technologies to run at the highest level of efficiency.”

Pekau also listed build-out as one of Chandler’s most important issues. “As we near build-out, we must ensure every parcel of land left to develop will bring the greatest long-term economic return to the city,” he said.

An equally important issue, he said, is “protecting our economic base and highwage jobs.”

“We must continually evolve to continue to deliver the best services at the lowest possible cost while maintaining our low

property and sales taxes,” Pekau added, stating that cities across the Southwest are emulating Chandler and “trying to lure our highly successful companies and our economic base away from Chandler.”

High-paying jobs also is a priority for Eberle, who said that while the current council “has done well” to attract companies, “we still have work to do.”

Eberle also listed “the integrity of our neighborhoods” as a big issue for the city, adding that investing in public safety is important to maintaining it.

Ellen stressed technology for public safety that “can make a difference in response time and saving lives in addition to freeing up time for our police officers to be on the streets.”

Pekau stressed a similar theme, saying he wants to “continue Chandler’s great legacy regarding public safety by investing in much-needed technology” and ensuring the city has sufficient numbers of trained personnel.

Because incumbents were asked to discuss two accomplishments they personally sponsored or spearheaded during their term, Ellen said, “One of my proudest accomplishments was starting Operation Welcome Home,” a patriotic ceremony for veterans returning from overseas duty. She also said she “helped to secure improved social media presence” for Chandler police and “installing a kid-sized basketball hoop in Chuparosa Park.”

Eberle touted his “20 years of proven financial leadership within Fortune 500 and publicly traded companies” as one of his major qualifications for office.

He and the other two candidates assessed the shape of Chandler’s finances to be excellent, noting it is one of only 27 cities in the country with the highest rating possible from all three bond rating agencies.

To our readers

This is the second of three reports on East Valley municipal primary elections. The Gilbert election will be covered next Sunday. The stories are based on the candidates’ responses to a questionnaire prepared by the East Valley Tribune. To see all the questionnaires from all the races, go to tiny.cc/evtribquestionnaires.

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EVIT students to help with Mesa master-planned community

BY SHANE DEGROTE TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Cadence at Gateway, a new community designed by real estate and developmental company Harvard Investments, is offering East Valley Institute of Technology students more than just a look at master planning.

With the introduction of a special partnership, the students will get their hands dirty with the process of building a community from the ground up.

“It is going to give our students a bird’s-eye view of what it takes to put together a community of houses, structures and everything,” EVIT Superintendent Sally Downey said. “This is going to be a unique experience for our construction and interior design kids.”

The partnership will produce a 12-month program that begins Aug. 25. About 200 students who are enrolled in the constructions trades program or interior design program at EVIT will receive access to all of the planning that goes into a masterplanned community. They’ll see how property is zoned and marked. And, they’ll get real-time experience with professionals.

About 200 students who are enrolled in the constructions trades program or interior design program at EVIT will receive access to all of the planning that goes into a master-planned community.

The student experience was why Arizona-based Harvard Investments reached out to EVIT for this partnership.

“When we learned about EVIT and what they are doing in the East Valley, we kind of just brainstormed one day and it just seemed like a great

idea to share with the students there,” said Craig Krumwiede, president of Harvard Investments. “It seemed like it would be a lot more fun to do it realtime and share with the students what we see and what we do and why we love doing it.”

The community, Cadence at Gateway,

will be next to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, between Ray and Pecos Road. The first phase will provide about 600 residences, with an anticipated completion by May 2017.

Additionally, Cadence at Gateway hopes to bring shopping, services and recreation to accompany the community, which includes parks, a community center, pools, fitness center and more.

Krumwiede said he believes the community will be a big benefit for Mesa.

“It adds a lot of value to the city of Mesa or any city as long as it’s done properly,” he said. “It makes for a more cohesive community, and studies have shown that property values are higher in master-planned communities and the satisfaction of residents are higher in them, too.”

EVIT students will have access to some of the best talent in the industry through interactive lectures.

“We are all about our students and we are all about trying to develop options for them,” Downey said. “The more that we can expose are kids to and the more we can open their eyes, the more options they are going to have.”

Homeless youths can get help from mobile unit

BY SHELLEY RIDENOUR TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Homeless young adults in more parts of the Valley now have access to showers, laundry facilities, the internet, counselors, food and backpacks filled with various supplies with the arrival of a mobile youth resource center.

Owned and operated by the Tumbleweed Center for Youth Development, the mobile center is a pickup that tows an enclosed trailer. From the exterior, it may look like any other utility trailer, but inside it’s a different story. The 16-foot trailer has two showers, two toilets, two sinks,

two washers and two dryers. It carries its own water supply and collects its water waste for disposal.

A van travels with the unit. A case worker is in the van that’s loaded with food, water, hygiene supplies and backpacks that are given to youths.

Tumbleweed spokesman Ken Lynch said the mobile unit will spend time in six cities—Mesa, Chandler, Guadalupe, Peoria, Surprise and Glendale.

The center operates permanent facilities in Phoenix and Tempe. It provides services to homeless youths ages 12 to 25.

Lynch said everyone knows that not

all homeless people have the ability to get to Phoenix or Tempe. That’s part of the reason for establishing the mobile unit.

“We’ve found that the need is overwhelming,” Lynch said. “Our little trailer and van can’t do enough; we can’t provide enough.” Nonetheless, their efforts will continue, he said.

Many of the youths who come to the Tempe and Phoenix centers are on their own, Lynch said, and seek out help. But, thousands of homeless kids live with family members in cars, at campgrounds, in shelters, in parks or stay with people for short periods of time. He expects it will take some time

to get the word to those kids about the mobile unit. But word on the street will come about, he said.

“It feels good to go where the kids are,” Lynch said.

The unit is in Chandler from noon to 3 p.m. Mondays at Oasis Behavior Health, 2190 N. Grace Blvd.; in Mesa from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Fridays at the Family Advocacy Center, 225 E. First St.; and in Guadalupe from 1 to 4 p.m. in Biehn Park at 5700 E. Calle Iglesia.

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East Valley musician to play, learn, experiment at world music laboratory in Amsterdam

BY SRIANTHI PERERA TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

As the national anthems rang out on television and Olympians were being awarded medals in Rio, Colin O’Donohoe was preparing for an “Olympics” of a musical variety.

The Chandler freelance musician and founder of the world instrument Pangean Orchestra will attend the Atlas Lab in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from Aug. 27 to Sept. 5. There, he will help develop intercultural music with topnotch musicians playing the Chinese pipa, Japanese sho, Palestine oud, Indian sarangi, Spanish flute and other lesser-known traditional instruments.

“It’s like a U.N. meeting or the Olympics; and like the Olympics, it’s a volunteer thing,” said O’Donohoe, who is raising funds for his expenses via a GoFundMe campaign at gofundme.com/worldmaestro.

The invitation to the global stage came following O’Donohoe’s entry in a composing competition organized by the Atlas Ensemble, which has a mission to cross-pollinate music of different cultures and develop new repertoire in order to preserve the instruments and stay relevant.

Winners don’t receive medals, but receive entry to the prestigious event. O’Donohoe, who is a percussionist, and violinist Sarah Cave, based in Bombay, India, are the only participants from the United States.

Opportunities such as the Atlas Ensemble (atlasensemble.nl) are important, O’Donohoe said, because the workshop gathers open-minded people who want to draw from their own heritage to create music for the 21st century.

The world has a tendency to look up to American music and set their standards accordingly, O’Donohoe said.

“So much of the world is going toward whatever’s the top 10 in America and other countries are trying to mimic it,” he added.

“These instruments are so under the radar even in their own countries.”

The one way to preserve these instruments is to make them relevant in this century and make the music likable.

To that end, participants will share their skills, experiment and “let their guard down” in order to create bold and modern work.

About seven years ago, O’Donohoe did the same in Gilbert. He founded the Pangean Orchestra (also known as The Immigrant Orchestra), a gathering of more

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than 30 ethnic musicians in the Valley who collectively made “unusual” music on the local stage on a theme of peace. The orchestra was subsequently moved to New York on a smaller scale when O’Donohoe did the same, but Pangean has played at least one annual concert in the Valley.

When O’Donohoe returns from Amsterdam, he plans to give new impetus to the Pangean Orchestra, starting with a concert planned for November at the Tempe Historical Museum. Rather than play folk music with a modern spin, the group will play new work with the ancient instruments, he said.

In addition to creating the Pangean Orchestra, O’Donohoe’s resume has other notable recent accomplishments. In New York, he played with actor/musician Dominic Chianese, known best for playing Uncle Jr. on “The Sopranos,” and composed music for “The Dr. Oz Show,” “Access Hollywood” and “Oprah’s Next Chapter.”

“Apostrophate Me,” a musical that he wrote with his late brother based on their Irish heritage, is being optioned for a feature film to be made in Ireland next year.

O’Donohoe, 38, believes the best is yet to come. He harkens to the time the Beatles

made the sitar “cool.”

“I’m not famous, and I don’t have a pulpit like they did,” he said. “But it is possible. People are ready for it.”

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Colin O’Donohoe will take along his doumbek, or goblet drum, as he composes and experiments with new music at the Atlas Lab in Amsterdam.

Best of Chandler voting is open

The East Valley Tribune’s annual Best of Chandler issue will publish Sept. 25, and voting is taking place now.

Cast a ballot for dozens of categories, including Best High School, Best Asian Food, Best Dance Studio and Best Medical Practice.

Go to eastvalleytribune.com and click on Best of Chandler 2016 to vote until Aug. 31.

TEMPE

Banner Health to offer series of parenting classes

A national workshop series on parenting is planned on six Wednesdays this fall.

Banner Health officials will lead the workshops planned from 6 to 7:30 p.m. every Wednesday from Aug. 31 until Oct. 5 at Banner Children’s Academy, 1410 W. 10th Place, Tempe.

Cost is $25 a person or $45 for a couple for each night of attendance. To register, call 602-230-2273.

The workshops are designed to help participants turn parenting and teaching

into a fun and rewarding experience, instead of a stressful and chaotic one, Banner Public Relations Specialist Corey Schubert said. Each session is expected to help parents develop a respectful, healthy, positive relationship with their children.

The classes are based on a philosophy founded in 1977 by Jim Fay and Dr. Foster W. Cline.

Tempe among top 25 cities in national rankings

Tempe finished 22nd in a ranking of the Best Cities in America.

Niche analyzed census records, crimes public schools, cost of living, job opportunities and other records to find the best places to live. Arlington, Virginia, was ranked the best city.

Almost $200,000 given out in Tempe art grants

The City of Tempe Arts and Culture Division awarded 25 art grants to individuals and nonprofit organizations recently.

The city awarded $199,428 in grants, a 25 percent increase from last year. This year’s art grants categories were doubled

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to promote community art projects, expand informal arts programming and encourage collaboration between schools, universities and nonprofits.

More than half of the grants are for youth-centered programming. This was also the first year that Tempe offered grants to individual artists.

Tempe Community Action Agency names new executive director

Deborah Arteaga is the new executive director of the Tempe Community Action Agency.

She was most recently project director with Arizona Jobs Program. She has more than 20 years of human services experience.

Arteaga received her bachelor’s degree in social work from the University of Texas at El Paso and a master’s degree in organizational management from the University of Phoenix.

MESA

Seminar for caregivers set for Tuesday

Banner Alzheimer’s Institute has scheduled a free seminar to help caregivers

of patients with Alzheimer’s, dementia and Parkinson’s diseases. It runs from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Mesa Public Library’s Red Mountain Branch, 635 N. Power Road. Experts will discuss the basics of clinical trials, which allow patients to receive treatments that have potential benefits while assisting researchers in fighting against diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

Registration is required. Call 602-8396850 or email baiiinfo@bannerhealth. com.

Silver Shovel Awards given to Mesa projects

Two Mesa economic development projects were awarded 2016 Silver Shovel Awards by Area Development.

Santander Consumer USA, a consumer finance company, and Special Devices Inc., a manufacturer of initiators in airbag inflators, received the award.

Santander announced plans last November to employ over 970 people over three years with an average wage of $51,000. Special Devices Inc. created 175 new jobs with an average wage of $40,000.

COMMENTARY

Pot proposition is a struggle between libertarianism and personal experience

BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ TRIBUNE COLUMNIST

For all the talk of choosing between two forms of poison in this presidential election, now it turns out the toughest choice on the November ballot won’t be atop the ticket. Further down, in the ballot measure section, Arizona will confront Proposition 205 and a decision about whether or not to legalize marijuana.

Prop. 205 officially made the ballot Wednesday, having gathered the 150,000plus signatures necessary. If the measure passes, adults 21 and older will be allowed to legally possess up to one ounce of pot at any given time. And you’ll be allowed to grow as many as six pot plants at home. And we’ll see a new taxable industry sprout up like, uh, a weed, with 150 new pot shops opening statewide.

Having recently spent a few weeks in the state of Washington, where voters legalized pot in 2012, I can tell you we’ll also see

lots of new green-themed signs, billboards and ads touting “recreational marijuana” for sale. Plus, one more reason for drivers to act like idiots, and a likely surge in marijuana-related fatal car crashes.

Still, I’m not writing to persuade you to vote one way or another. Because, frankly, I’m still undecided. Which is an awkward place to be when you’re writing a newspaper column. The trouble is, “pot for fun and profit” brings into sharp conflict my personal principles versus my experience of the world.

On the one hand, there’s my belief that meddlesome government should essentially restrict its lawmaking to preventing us from actively doing harm to one another. At the risk of turning this into a treatise on libertarianism, I believe adults should have the right to decide for themselves whether to partake in potentially dangerous activities—be it jumping out of an airplane, doing Jagermeister shots until you puke, riding your Harley without a helmet, or smoking some “chronic” in the

privacy of your own home. While personal responsibility seems to have gone out of fashion in the 21st century, I’m generally for more non-violent freedom in this country, not less. And legalizing pot seems to qualify.

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My take? Nothing positive has come from this lifestyle.

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But then there’s my personal experience. While I might be the last 50-something alive who has never inhaled—not once— I’ve spent my entire life around friends and loved ones for whom weed is an everyday habit. My take? Nothing positive has come from this choice of lifestyle. High or not, the pot smokers in my life did not deal better with their problems in the long term, did not succeed more in love or in their careers. They were not better moms and dads, not better friends, not better human beings. Some of the people I know who habitually

leaned on pot got into harder drugs later. Others seemed to lose steam in life, to aim for nothing more than a comfortable spot on the couch, 300 channels of cable and a bag of anything Lay’s.

Am I judging? I guess I am, a bit. Smoking pot for recreation simply isn’t for me. I think it’s a waste of time, money and potential. But that’s just my opinion about how life tends to go. My principles say something else again: That this choice isn’t mine to make for you. This is America, so you should get to live the life you want to live, to make your own choices, at least until the point where your choices create violence or infringe on the rights of your neighbors.

The November proposition to legalize marijuana represents an incredibly tough choice. Do we say no and play high and mighty? Or do we say yes and pick just plain high?

Hillary’s hard left turn leaves charter schools in the dust

BY TOM PATTERSON TRIBUNE GUEST COLUMNIST

Hillary Clinton and others on the Left (Bernie, Barry, etc.) talk a lot about income inequality. They profess that their consciences are pricked by the widening gap in America between the haves and have-nots.

They have a point. It’s a concern for all when America—traditionally a citadel of opportunity—morphs into a land where millions are stuck at the bottom of the income ladder with scant prospects for advancement.

So even in an election year that’s already beyond depressing, it’s disappointing to see Hillary turn away from education reform and charter schools in particular. Surely this is the foundational policy choice to reduce inequality: equal educational opportunity for all.

This isn’t rocket science. We live in the Information Age, where educational achievement is highly correlated with income. When children of certain races and classes attend low-performing schools that produce poor academic outcomes while others get to choose the best schools and learn significantly more, what do you expect? Entrenched, ever-increasing income inequality is the inevitable result.

D.C. public schools. Like the majority of congressmen and D.C. teachers and later the Obamas, she sent her offspring to private school, in her case the tony Sidwell Friends.

Why wouldn’t parents who are able avoid the D.C. public schools do so? Like innercity districts across the country, they’re educational wastelands with undisciplined classrooms, unions committed to

“ For Hillary and her ilk, it’s OK to force the children of D.C. to attend subpar schools if that’s the way the teachers’ unions want it.”

Hillary knows well the benefits of being able to choose one’s school. Educated at elite public and private schools herself, she wasn’t about to send daughter Chelsea to

protecting failing teachers and even students who graduate not learning much. You wouldn’t want that for a child you loved. D.C. parents, mostly minority,

actually feel the same way. But for Hillary and her ilk, it’s OK to force the children of D.C. to attend subpar schools if that’s the way the teachers’ unions want it. Although giving poor children the chance to attend private schools is a bridge too far, Hillary in the past understood how charter schools provided a much-needed beacon of hope for many. In “It Takes a Village” (1996), she praised the president’s Charter School Initiative. Later she noted that “charter schools are a way of bringing together teachers and parents and communities.”

Charter schools have only improved since then, as a visit to any of several charter schools in our area serving underprivileged children would quickly convince you. Six of the top 10 high schools in the state, according to US News & World Report,

– David Leibowitz has called the Valley home since 1995. Reach him at david@leibowitzsolo.com.

are also charter schools.

So what accounts for Hillary’s sharp left turn against charters? Here’s a clue: The American Federation of Teachers, (AFT), a major teacher’s union, endorsed Clinton a full 16 months before the election. The National Education Association (NEA) followed soon after. These unions are the largest of the interest groups within the Democratic Party. Because of their numbers, their efforts are especially valued for the crucial Get Out The Vote effort on Election Day.

This political support doesn’t come for free. Unions have apparently retracted their previous tepid support of charter schools and have decided to bring down the hammer.

So, according to the Wall Street Journal, Hillary was booed at an NEA meeting for simply suggesting that traditional public schools and charter schools should share best practices. That was the end of that. Instead, she promised the usual union wish list of higher pay, universal pre-K and less testing (even though testing is still the premier way to determine which students are learning and which teachers are teaching).

Later, Clinton doubled down with the old shibboleth that charter schools “don’t take the hardest-to-teach students.” In fact, charter schools are not allowed by law to discriminate and have to address their waiting lists by lottery. But ... never mind.

The good news for inequality warriors with a smidgen of sincerity is that we know how to provide educational opportunities for all students. It’s done every day in highperforming schools across our state and nation.

The obstacle to creating better schools isn’t lack of know-how or even money. It is politics, specifically public union politics, that stands in the way of a better tomorrow for hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren.

– East Valley resident Tom Patterson is a retired physician and former state senator. He can be reached at pattersontomc@cox.net.

Column distorts gun violence issue

I take objection to some misleading comments made about gun violence by Rabbi Dean Shapiro in his column titled “In the wake of massacres, our brothers’ blood cries out” (Aug. 7).

Shapiro cites the CDC statistic that there were 33,636 deaths by firearms in 2013. What he fails to mention is that almost two thirds of those deaths were suicides and thousands more were the result of justifiable shootings by police and civilians protecting themselves from violent criminal attack. Much of the remainder is comprised of gang and drug-related shooting deaths in big cities like Chicago, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., which already have very strict gun controls. He goes on to scold Arizona residents because “we accept that our representatives in Congress take massive amounts of money from the NRA.”

Shapiro may not like the fact that most of our elected representatives aren’t clamoring for more and more gun restrictions on honest citizens, but there are plenty of good reasons they aren’t, none of which involve the NRA. Here are just a few:

1.) Even if guns were made completely illegal, people still have many other ways to commit suicide, and gangs and drug dealers will always be able to obtain their guns on the black market.

2.) Gun control advocates use each mass shooting as an excuse to demand new gun restrictions, yet they cannot point to a single mass shooting that any of their proposed restrictions would have prevented.

3.) Every mass shooting that has taken place over the past 50 years, with the exception of Tucson in 2011, has occurred in a socalled “gun-free zone” where law-abiding citizens are prohibited from having firearms.

4.) Contrary to Shapiro’s ludicrous claim that “our whole nation

is drenched in blood,” FBI crime statistics show that the number of gun homicides peaked in 1993 and has declined almost 50 percent since then; it now hovers near 40-year lows.

If the goal is to mitigate mass shootings, the most logical step to take would be to eliminate “gun-free zones,” which self-defense expert Massad Ayoob once referred to as “hunting preserves for psychopathic murderers.” Additional gun laws accomplish nothing except to make it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to protect themselves.

–Reid Lusk –Phoenix

Ideas to bolster downtown Mesa

Now that light rail is going right through downtown Mesa, can we make our downtown more thriving business-wise? Let’s have more night life, entertainment, dancing, fun, hip shops and get more ASU and MCC students to congregate downtown. How about offering very reasonable rent for the first 3 years of a new business startup and then higher or much fairer rents later for long-term renters? ASU and MCC graduates have a large sphere of influence but a smaller cash flow.

How about a three-day downtown promotion called Rodeo Days to stimulate the slow business traffic during August and September?

I saw this become successful in my small western Pennsylvania steel mill town, Aliquippa, in the 1960s-1980s.

I can show leaders of downtown Mesa’s development authority how Aliquippa merchants did this. Is there some downtown Mesa volunteer group I can join, as a volunteer, to make our downtown more viable, vital and fun?

Together, we can make downtown Mesa the place to be seen. –Jeff Eger –Mesa

Strip malls, shopping centers find their feet as market picks up

BY MIKE BUTLER TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Although some East Valley strip malls and neighborhood shopping centers continue to struggle with vacancies, the commercial real estate market is picking up steam, said Michael A. Pollack of Pollack Investments.

“We are in a red-hot market right now,” he said, adding that he can see a day on a not-so distant horizon when East Valley commercial space will be fully leased and have waiting lists. With scores of shopping centers in the Valley, Pollack has his share of minor vacancies, but many are 100 percent leased. It’s a payoff for the hard work and careful navigation that was needed to make it through the choppy waters of 2008-2011.

“If you were in commercial real estate, you were not in a recession; you were in a depression,” Pollack said. “I hope we never see that again.”

When Pollack lost five grocery store anchors during those hard times, he retrofitted and instead welcomed in Goodwill retail stores. Other successful shopping center owners with big-box and smaller vacancies have been following that playbook by courting everything from private charter schools to public library branches. Often, church groups and health-care providers find a fit in a neighborhood shopping center.

Pollack said a center that struggles to replace an anchor tenant creates a downward spiral because rents have to be reduced to keep remaining tenants happy.

Vacancies and below-market rents cause troubles for owners who have loans against their properties, said Sean Barrie of Trepp, the New York City firm

See CENTERS on page 18

Losing an anchor can be helpful

BY MIKE BUTLER TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Often, grocery stores and other big-box anchors of neighborhood shopping centers own their property and pay their own taxes, so when a store like Mervyn’s packs up and leaves, there isn’t much the strip mall’s owner can do about it.

But some nimble East Valley center owners have created an interesting recipe for dealing with the loss of a “shadow anchor,” according to Judi Butterworth,

senior vice president of Orion Investment Real Estate in Scottsdale.

Anchors always place restrictions on the types of stores they want to be neighbors with, she said. A grocery with in-store dining, for example, might prohibit a center owner from leasing a pad to a fastcasual restaurant.

But when an anchor sinks, restrictions also go away. A neighborhood center with a diverse mix of dining, medical/ dental, retail shops and a fitness center can generate a lot of traffic and thrive, Butterworth explained.

The owners of Dana Park Village Square at Baseline Road and Val Vista Drive want to tweak their already highly successful, 66-acre luxury shopping center to include a four-story, 260- to 320-unit residential tower and a 40,000-square-foot movie theater.

(Mike Butler/Tribune Staff)

This small, outdated shopping center at Gilbert and Ray roads gave neighbors the shivers every time they had to drive by it.

(Pollack

Investor Michael A. Pollack recently transformed the strip mall with a faux two-story Old West facade and kept the iconic fiberglass horse for nostalgia’s sake.

that analyzes and provides data to the commercial real estate market.

Nationally, according to Trepp, the commercial mortgage-backed securities delinquency rate has been going up for the past four months. But a delinquency rate of 4.6 percent is still a big improvement over the 9 percent delinquency rate that was reached July 2011.

Pollack said the Valley commercial market is shaking out some of the last amateurs that jumped into commercial real estate during the boom years of 2005-2007 to chase rates of return. Before the crash, he added, there was also too much new retail space being built, often on speculation.

Pollack figures he has bought and renovated 11 million to 13 million square feet of commercial space since moving here from San Jose, California, 25 years ago. He hunts for functional but aesthetically and financially distressed shopping plazas that can be bought and renovated for the right price.

The key is to avoid centers that have become physically obsolete, he said.

An obsolete center has too many buildings and not enough parking.

Another kind of obsolete neighborhood shopping center you probably drive by every day is one in which the backs of the stores face the street. That’s inconvenient and annoying for both shoppers and retailers, who want high visibility.

Pollock’s own 31,000-square-foot corporate headquarters on West Baseline Road in Mesa is a good example of repurposing. As a former Reliable Furniture Store, the building didn’t work for retail anymore because the city put a median on Baseline, preventing left-hand turns.

Mesa city officials are considering a proposal from Chicanos Por La Causa Inc. for a mixed-use project on the vacant northwestern corner of Main Street and Country Club Drive. The Hispanic community development corporation is planning a five-story building that would include 200 residential units with retail and commercial spaces and parking.

The owners of Dana Park Village Square at Baseline Road and Val Vista Drive want to tweak their already highly successful, 66-acre luxury shopping center to include a four-story, 260to 320-unit residential tower and a 40,000-square-foot movie theater.

– Reach Mike Butler at 480-898-6581 or at mbutler@timespublications.com.

Corporate headquarters moving to Chandler site

Rogers Corp., a major global materials technology leader, is moving its global headquarters to Chandler.

The company, which is moving from Rogers, Connecticut, already a presence in the city. Rogers Advanced Connectivity Solutions division is in Chandler.

The company has 400 employees in the area, and 70 more will be joining them.

Grabbagreen fast-casual eatery opens in Gilbert

Scottsdale-based Grabbagreen will open its sixth Valley restaurant in Gilbert, at the Rivulon Center off Gilbert Road and Loop 202.

The new shop will open by the end of the year.

Grabbagreen plans to open at least 15 new restaurants in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas by the end of the year.

Baked Bear ice cream shop to open Tempe location

The Baked Bear, an ice cream sandwich shop, will open its second Valley location in less than six months.

The new location will be at 420 S. Mill Avenue, Suite 106, on the northwest corner of 5th Street and Mill Avenue in Tempe.

Owners believe the new restaurant will draw crowds from Arizona State University students, as well as locals in the area.

Credit union opens branch at EVIT campus in Mesa

Landings Credit Union and the East Valley Institute of Technology (EVIT) have partnered to open a new branch on the school’s main campus at 1601 West Main Street in Mesa.

The new branch will also be a teaching and training branch for both Landings employees and EVIT students.

The new branch officially opened on August 1st. Students interested in enrolling in the new banking program can go to evit.com.

Unfolding the blueprints

Casteel football setting program path in first year of varsity action FOOTBALL

BY JASON P. SKODA TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Spencer Stowers knew starting a football program from the ground up was going to be full of unknowns. Each day is a chance to put his imprint on a program.

The one thing he knew for sure when he left Westwood for Casteel in February 2015 was that he had two years to get the program as firm as the concrete poured for the foundation at the newest Chandler District high school before taking on a varsity schedule.

The Colts would play an independent freshman schedule in 2015 and a junior varsity schedule this year. Then, the initial class would make their varsity debut as juniors in 2017.

By then, many of the phases of the program would be in place and they’d be ready for football on Friday nights. But plans change.

“We knew there were going to be unexpected things along the way,” said Stowers, who even had a hand in coming up with the school fight song. “But everything became expedited, but there was no other decision to move forward with it.”

The Colts’ timeline was shifted in February when the Arizona Interscholastic Association decided to change the classification system a year early instead of finishing the 2015-16 to 2016-17 twoyear scheduling block.

It means Casteel, at the corner of Power and Riggs, is now taking on a 3A Conference varsity schedule this year with sophomores and freshmen instead of next year with a junior class leading the way.

In other words, Phase III has been moved up to now.

“I can’t wait,” sophomore linebacker Luke Musselman said. “Getting a chance to play

varsity football for three years is something not everyone gets a chance to do.

“This gives us a chance to create memories with my classmates for three seasons.”

Stowers had another option—he could have done a two-year block at the JV level instead of rushing things. It would ensure the Colts would be completely ready for 32 minutes of varsity action every week in 2018-19.

“I couldn’t do that to this group of sophomores,” he said. “It would take away their junior year on varsity, and that’s not something we were interested in.”

The AIA recognized the situation and placed the Colts in the 2A Conference based on this year’s enrollment instead of the usual four-year projection that would have placed Casteel in 4A.

The school petitioned to move up to 3A. That gives them a chance to acclimate to the varsity level of football with a challenging but not extremely difficult set of games.

The Colts were placed in Metro Region to start, so it locked in five games against ASU Prep Academy, Fountain Hills, North Pointe Prep, Valley Christian and Yuma Catholic.

The non-region schedule includes Globe to open the season on Friday. Casteel will host its first home game at Joel Wirth Stadium at against Payson on Aug. 26.

Empire, Odyssey Institute and Kingman follow before the region schedule begins.

“Coming from Westwood and playing against the 5A and 4A schools, we’re not as familiar and it’s harder to get film on some of these teams,” said Stowers, who had a 16-15 record in three years at Westwood.

“There are some challenges in there, and it’s a good fit for us.”

The players don’t seem to care about who or where they are playing. They’re

just excited to keep things going forward. They went 8-1 on the freshman level a year ago with the only loss in a close battle against Williams Field.

“We are ready to go,” sophomore running back/safety Casen Simonton said. “When they told us we were going to varsity, we were all ready for it. Who doesn’t want to play on Friday night?”

Stowers and his staff, most of who came with him from Westwood, have been in full-go mode from the start, but there is something different about moving the game.

“None of these guys has played under those bright lights,” he said. “Wednesday night is one thing; Friday night is a whole different deal. There is a lot of emotion running on to that field with home crowd behind you and representing the school.

“That’s what stands in front of them now.”

Williams Field coach Steve Campbell

knows all about that first time stepping on the field after building a program from a freshman class up to juniors.

It’s all about patience, celebrating each milestone, setting standards and expectations that set the program on its course for years to come.

“You know you are going to be undersized to start,” said Campbell, who has developed the Black Hawks into a powerhouse since the initial year of 2008. “The good thing about it is those kids only know what you tell them about what it takes to play on Friday nights. You get to show them the Casteel Way.”

– Contact Jason Skoda at 480-898-7915 or jskoda@ahwatukee.com. Follow him on Twitter @ JasonPSkoda.

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(Cheryl Haselhorst/Tribune Staff Photographer)

Head coach Spencer Stowers instructs his players during practice. Casteel High School has only freshman and sophmores in 2016/17. Their football team, coached by Spencer Stowers is in its infancy.

Chandler grad, Arizona senior Zach Hemmila dies in his sleep in Tucson

BY JASON P. SKODA TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Friends and family continued to mourn Arizona senior offensive lineman and Chandler graduate Zach Hemmila, who was found dead Monday morning.

Hemmila, 22, died in his sleep, according to Arizona athletic director Greg Byrne.

Circumstances behind Hemmila’s death are unknown.

“We lost a great young man,” Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez told reporters. “Everybody in the program is hurting.”

Hemmila was expected to compete for the starting center on the offensive line. He was a three-year starter for Chandler

before graduating in 2012.

“His family was always big supporters of Chandler football,” said Wolves coach Shaun Aguano, who was an assistant when Hemmila was on the team. “It’s a tough time right now. I got a lot of calls from his former teammates. We’re all in disbelief.

“He was one of my babies.”

Aguano, who found out about the death from Arizona assistant Charlie Ragle, said he will remember more than Hemmila’s toughness on the field.

“His smile and his quirkiness stick out,” the coach said. “He was a great teammate.”

Former Chandler coach Jim Ewan said Hemmila’s athleticism separated him from others in the trenches.

Plenty of changes on the way with new 2016 football season

BY JASON P. SKODA TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

The element of football that separates it from all of the other sports is the fact that there isn’t all that much to go around.

The physicality of the sport forces it to be played only once a week, and the games are almost exclusively one day a week over 10 weeks.

Until there was a need for more.

Week Zero was created in recent years for showcase games like the Sollenberger Classic, but now there are 16 games involving area teams on Friday before Week 1 even arrives.

Each week the anticipation builds until the stadium lights come on to signify it is game night.

It’s time to flip that switch. The 2016 season is here.

What’s new?

The classification system has been revamped after last year, when three factors and appeals led a 17-team big school classification. But the general sense that most football programs, especially the Phoenix Union schools, were in the right place was scrapped.

In its place is a system that essentially took each tier of 45 to form six conferences and reverted back to the old region system.

Return of region play

The names are familiar—East Valley, Metro, Central, Desert Sky—but the significance has lessened.

“He was probably the only offensive lineman who played four years of lacrosse in high school,” Ewan said. “He was an offensive lineman who could move really well. It’s all very said.

“He was well liked and popular and not a trouble maker. He did all his work and made sure he finished his commitments.”

Family and friends are sharing condolences and stories on Twitter with the hashtag #Forever65.

It is the second time in less than a year that a local football player has died in his sleep. Perry senior Michael Roach passed away in December.

– Contact Jason Skoda at 480-898-7915 or jskoda@ahwatukee.com. Follow him on Twitter @ JasonPSkoda.

A regional title sounds good to a lot of programs, especially those that aren’t in the state title hunt and could get a regional banner in the gym.

It’s a nice link to the past, but so much emphasis is placed on power points and getting into the postseason that making the top 16 is more vital than winning a region.

“It’s good to have regions back, but really we are going look at those power points first,” Desert Vista coach Dan Hinds said. “I’ll be more concerned where we are in the power rankings than the region standings.”

Taking over

There were close to 10 coaching changes since last season, with Paul Moro taking over Marcos de Niza, Chad DeGrenier setting up shop at Mesquite and Josh Brittain replacing his father, Tommy (now at St. Mary’s), at Tempe Prep.

The one that just might be the most significant is Mike Fell coming in from Ohio with hopes of restoring Mountain View.

The football program once was the pride of the school and the envy of just about every other school in the state.

Fell feels that the pieces are in place, the administration is behind him, the facilities can get the job done and the players are committed.

The key just might be the schedule. There are some tough games—Mountain Pointe, Brophy—but the regional games are all winnable.

It just might lead to a top 10 seed and maybe even a home playoff game.

“We are on the chase,” Fell said in June.

The talent

Seven 2015 All-Tribune first-team selections return along with another host of players looking to do their part.

Some of the names to remember are Basha quarterback Ryan Kelley, Highland tight end Tyler Johnson, Desert Ridge defensive end Jalen Harris, Tempe defensive end My-King Johnson, Queen Creek offensive lineman Mike Young and Williams Field kicker Brandon Ruiz.

The area player with the biggest impact after a great offseason might be Mountain Pointe’s Isaiah Pola-Mao, a 6-foot-4, 190pound wide receiver and safety.

He was among the few in the nation invited to Beaverton, Oregon, for The Opening, a top prospect showcase put on by Nike.

The teams

The senior made quite the impression with a few pick-sixes and matched well with the top players in the nation.

Last year was only the second time in 20 seasons the East Valley didn’t have a football state champion.

That won’t happen again.

Here is our East Valley Top 10 regardless of division:

1. Mountain Pointe

Basha quarterback Ryan Kelley hopes to stay healthy and push the Bears into the top tier of programs in the 6A Conference.

Chandler

Hamilton

Desert Ridge

Basha

Desert Vista

Skyline

Williams Field

Red Mountain

Highland

Zach Hemmila’s family and friends are sharing condolences and stories on Twitter with the hashtag #Forever65.

Football coverage changes this fall

The East Valley Tribune’s award-winning coverage of high school athletics will have a new look starting this fall.

All previews, stats and features for football each week will be online only since our only print edition is on Sundays.

Our deadlines will not allow for coverage of Friday night games in the paper edition so

Tribune travels to San Diego

East Valley Tribune

Sports Director Jason Skoda will be traveling to San Diego at the end of the month as Desert Ridge, Mountain Pointe and Chandler play teams from California. Watch for his reports online and in the Tribune on Sept. 4.

the results from Friday’s football games will also be online only. A select number of games will be covered each week and play-by-play of the games can be followed on Twitter by searching for the hashtag #VXLive.

Follow Prep Sports Director Jason Skoda on Twitter at @JasonPSkoda and @VarsityXtra for all updates involving the East Valley athletics.

Arizonans headed to Paralympics Games

Once the 2016 Rio Olympics are over, another group of Arizona athletes will be traveling to Brazil.

The U.S. Paralympics team will have several athletes from Arizona, including a handful from the East Valley. The games begin Sept. 7 and run through Sept. 18.

In archery, Eric Bennet from Glendale will be competing. Allysa Seely of Glendale will take part in the triathlon and track & field. In rugby, Joseph Delagrave of Chandler, Nicholas Springer of Phoenix and Joshua Wheeler of San Tan Valley are teammates.

Arizona squad wins RBI title in senior baseball

Arizona RBI has won the Senior Baseball Division Championship of the 2016 Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) World Series, earning Phoenix its first RBI World Senior championship in the 24-year history of the tournament.

Arizona RBI defeated Passaic RBI in a 3-2 contest today at the P&G Cincinnati MLB Youth Academy. Arizona RBI,

which played in its second consecutive RBI World Series and third appearance in five years, won four consecutive games after starting 0-2 and finished the tournament with a 4-2 record.

Arizona starting pitcher Genner Cervantes, 17, held the dangerous Passaic lineup to two runs (one earned) and three hits in 5.2 innings and was named the Most Valuable Player of the Senior Division Championship Game. Making only his second appearance on the mound, Cervantes held Passaic’s best four hitters in this tournament to only two hits in 13 at-bats and retired 17 of the first 21 batters he faced. Cervantes is a student at St. Mary’s High School.

Mountain Pointe adds 4 to its Hall of Fame

Mountain Pointe will have four new inductees into the school’s Hall of Fame, including current Olympian Will Claye.

The other entrants are wrestler and track athlete Clifford Sparks, Hollywood writer and comedian T.J. Chambers and student Gabe Trujillo.

The sixth annual event will be held Sept. 8 before the Pride’s game against Chandler.

– Send submissions to jskoda@evtrib.com

Tilt Studio brings video game fun back to Arizona Mills

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI GETOUT/TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

When Gameworks left Arizona Mills, it left a void in the outlet mall and in the available entertainment for youngsters.

Scheduled to open at 10 a.m. Monday, Tilt Studio is fulfilling that need by providing gaming fun for all ages, according to Nancy Roggio, vice president of marketing for the facility.

“We have about 150 different games at all different types of skill levels,” Roggio said. “There’s something for everyone.

“On our second level, we have a whole retro area that has 20 pinball machines and some of the old favorites like PacMan, Ms. Pac-Man, Millipede. We also have a bunch of new games—some of which are brand new in the industry. So we’ll be showing off new games that the competition hasn’t seen yet.”

Other games include Monster Drop Extreme, Ghostbusters, Angry Birds, Transformers DLX with an 80-inch screen, Top World four-player air hockey and Outrun Deluxe race car simulators.

The Arizona Mills location is the ninth Tilt Studio facility in the United States. The mall was chosen because of Tilt Studio’s relationship with the management, Simon Properties.

Roggio said the company is “growing very rapidly.”

“They already have a 10th location planned that may open before the end of the year,” she said. “That’s in Beaumont, Texas. There’s another location that has been chosen for the beginning of next year in Ontario, California.”

The 40,000-square-foot Tilt Studio in Tempe is the first one, however, to have two floors.

“We’re a little bit different in that we appeal to all ages,” she said. “Our competition has a really narrow niche. Chuck E. Cheese is for really young kids. Dave and Buster’s is for older kids. We cover everybody.”

Tilt Studio will also house a restaurant, BYO Craft Kitchen and Bar on the second level. It’s the first location to offer this.

“We’re going to have burgers and footlong hot dogs, quesadillas and chicken tenders,” she said.

“What we’re doing is build-your-own. We have a toppings bar. So you get your burger and we’ll have 15 toppings to put on the burger. There won’t be French fries, but we’ll have tater tots and sweet potato fries.”

There is the Taproom at Tilt Studio Bar as well on the second level. It will offer an array of popular beers, bottled or on tap, wine by the glass or bottle, specialty

alcohol cocktail and nonalcoholic mocktails and frozen drinks.

There is no admission charge, but there is a price for the games.

“They can walk around, look at what they want to do and figure out how much they’d like to spend.”

Patrons then purchase a game card, which is similar to a credit card, in any

amount. The card is swiped at all of the games. The points will never expire and kids and adults can pull the card out on another visit.”

– Contact Christina Fuoco-Karasinski at 480-8985612 or christina@timespublications.com.

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Broadway shows at Gammage Theater brought big bucks to East Valley

Broadway meant big bucks for the Valley, according to ASU Gammage.

Its 2015-16 Desert Schools Broadway Across America/Arizona season had an estimated $100 million of economic impact on the Valley during the fiscal year that ended June 30.

More than 400,000 people flock to see Broadway annually at the Tempe theater, which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The majority of theater-goers are Valley residents but ticket buyers in every county in Arizona as well as out-of-state patrons visit, a Gammage spokesman said.

“The arts as a whole are a tremendous

piece of Arizona’s economic engine,” said Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, executive director for ASU Gammage and associate vice president cultural affairs for ASU.

Jennings-Roggensack has been leading ASU Gammage for 24 years, during which the theater had an estimated economic impact of more than $1 billion.

Based on research by The Broadway League, since 2006 ASU Gammage has created more than a $550-million economic impact for Arizona.

“The variety of arts and cultural events in Tempe make our city a destination for both locals and visitors,” said Stephanie Nowack, president and CEO of the Tempe Tourism Office. “ASU Gammage, with its 10 to 20 weeks of popular

Broadway shows, is a true Tempe gem which consistently benefits the city by boosting sales of Tempe businesses such as restaurants, hotels, and retailers.”

ASU Gammage now has a record number of season subscribers, about 13,000, for the full seven-show Broadway series.

Subscribers who renew for the 20162017 season will be able to guarantee their seats for the premiere 2017-2018 Tempe engagement of the hit musical “Hamilton” before tickets become available to the general public.

“Patrons know that subscribers get great seats at a great value,” JenningsRoggensack said. “There is so much excitement and anticipation of all the great things to come to ASU Gammage

including the new restrooms and elevators that will be completed in 2017.

“‘Hamilton’ is transcendent and powerful and the community wants to be a part of it,” she added.

The 2016-2017 Desert Schools Broadway Across America/Arizona season includes “Cabaret” and “The Sound of Music” as well as “Matilda,” “Finding Neverland,” “An American in Paris,” and “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.”

Its headline musical is “Beautiful,” the Carole King musical that traces her rise to stardom.

Season subscriptions are still available at asugammage.com and start at $145 for seven shows.

Racing games are always popular, and Tilt Studio has them lined up. The new gaming center will open Monday.

(Special to the Tribune)

2016 State Fair concert lineup

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI GETOUT/TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Apop star who rarely plays concerts, an “American Idol” winner and two ’90s alt-rock bands are among those scheduled to play the Arizona State Fair this October. Iggy Azalea, Scotty McCreery, The Flaming Lips and Garbage are among the acts booked.

Tickets go on sale Sept. 10 for premium seating. General admission seating is free with paid fair admission. Visit azstatefair.com/concerts for more information.

Here is the list as of press time:

 Country stars Big and Rich, 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, $20

 TBA, Sunday, Oct. 9, and Wednesday, Oct. 12

 Hip-hop recording star B.o.B., 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, $15

 Fiesta Friday with MC Magic, Baby Bash, Amanda Perez, Brown Boy, MOBFAM and Kap-G, 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14, $15

 Rapper Iggy Azalea, 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, $25

 Latin pop star Luis Coronel, 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16, $20

 “American Idol” winner/country star Scotty McCreery, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, $15

 TBA, Thursday, Oct. 20

 Pop star Charlie Puth, 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, $20

 Alt-rockers The Flaming Lips, 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, $20

 Pop-rap duo Jack and Jack, 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23, $15

 Hard rockers Slayer, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26, $20

 Alt-rockers Garbage, 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, $20

 Pop stars Gavin DeGraw and Andy Grammer, 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m.

 Old School Jam with SOS Band, One Way, Evelyn Champagne King, Grandmasters Furious Five featuring Melle Mel and Scorpio, and Rob Base, 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, $15.

The Arizona State Fair opens Friday, Oct. 7, and runs through Sunday, Oct.

30. It is open Wednesdays through Sundays.

Scott Stapp is touched by fans’ support during his recovery

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI GETOUT/TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Scott Stapp has had a harrowing battle with the downward spiral since Creed collapsed in 2004. Two years ago—just before he was to make two Valley appearances—Stapp suffered a mental breakdown brought on by drug and alcohol use, as well as bipolar disorder. He even claimed that his family were members of ISIS.

But Stapp is getting his life together, and he’s flattered that his fans have his back.

“I’m human and they’re human, too,” said Stapp, sounding content. “When I meet the fans personally, I find out we’ve been through the same experiences— mine’s just public and theirs isn’t.

“I think the music has connected with folks on a deeper level, and I think both of those have synergy.”

He’s hoping to connect with fans on his “Proof of Life” tour, which hits the Marquee Theatre in Tempe on Aug. 21. He has various meet-and-greet opportunities for fans so he can feel connected.

“We wanted to try to create as many ways as possible to connect up close and personal,” he said. “They’ve been so good to me over the last nearly 20 years. I want them to have the chance to hang out and get to know me, and me to know them—and tie it in with the show experience as much as we can.”

For his show, Stapp is trying to bring an “arena rock show” to smaller, intimate settings. He stepped up the production quality and is bringing selections from his entire catalog to the concert— including Creed tracks.

“For me, Creed is part of the story,”

said Stapp, who turned 43 on Aug. 8. “It’s the story of my life. I love to play those songs and the fans want to hear them.”

Stapp is keeping busy not only with his recovery, but side projects as well. He volunteers for ChildFund USA and adopted a village of children in the Philippines. He made it his mission to provide necessities to the kids, while

raising awareness of the organization. Later this year, he will release an album with Art of Anarchy, a band formerly fronted by the late Scott Weiland. The rock act also boasts former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal, Disturbed bassist John Moyer, and twin brothers Jon and Vince Votta. A single is set to be released soon, with an album to follow in the fall.

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IF YOU GO

What: Scott Stapp

When: 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 21

Where: Marquee Theatre, 730 N. Mill Ave., Tempe Cost: $25

Information: 480-829-0607, luckymanonline.com

Scott Stapp has been lead vocalist and lyricist for Creed and Art of Anarchy.

What man and the world need now is God more than ever

BY BRAD BUTLER TRIBUNE GUEST WRITER

Ilove playing sports, and my favorite “go-to” place most of my life has been Sports Authority. My garage is full of basketballs, volleyballs, Frisbees, pingpong paddles, slingshots, croquet mallets—you name it, all bought at Sports Authority.

And so it was a sad day when I saw a banner hanging outside their building saying, “Store Closing.” Of course, it’s nice to go in there and buy golf clubs at ridiculously low prices, but that doesn’t take away the sadness of seeing them close up shop.

More people are living paycheck to paycheck and just don’t have the extra money to spend on camping, boating, golfing and $100 tennis shoes.

There is another corporation going under that is much larger than Sports Authority. In fact, it is worldwide. It is called “The World.”

Now “The World” went belly up one other time (Google “Noah”). It reopened a short time later, but now— after about a 4,000 year run—it is about to go under for a second time (Google

TUESDAY, AUG. 16

CHURCH OFFERS DIVORCE CARE

A 13-week DivorceCare program offers a safe environment for people struggling with divorce or separation.

DETAILS>> 6:30 p.m., Mountain Park Community Church, 2408 E. Pecos Road, Ahwatukee. Childcare is available. Information/registration: mountainpark.org.

SATURDAY AUG. 20

GAMES AND ICE CREAM ON TAP

Pilgrim Lutheran Church and School is holding a “Minute to Win It” game and ice cream social. Players are given 60 seconds to complete each simple game, such as blowing up a balloon and knocking cups off the table; tossing toilet paper rolls into a hoop; knocking soda cans down with rubber bands; and building a pyramid with 36 plastic cups. Simple games will also be provided for preschoolers.

DETAILS>> 4-5:30 p.m. at the school, 3257 E. University Drive, Mesa. Information: 480-830-1724, pilgrimmesa.com, office@pilgrimmesa.com.

“End Times”).

So what is causing the world to go under? That’s an easy one: It is hate. If the world were growing in love, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Things would be getting better and better.

But they are not. The opposite is happening. Things are getting worse and worse.

In the 1950s and early ’60s, life seemed pretty good. There was some racial strife, but for the most part we all got along. Most of us were “proud to be an American” and there was a strong “we the people” feeling as we focused outwardly on trying to help other countries that weren’t as fortunate as us.

focus, things will eventually go bad. Self causes the hate meter to go up.

Fast forward to the ’90s and the rising hate meter is causing issues like bullying and road rage. Fast forward another 10 years and we start seeing shootings in our schools and movie theaters.

“ People can’t stand people who don’t think or act like them. Their recourse is to go grab a gun, or a bomb or just hop in a truck and start driving into people. ”

Next came the hijacking of airplanes and rise in suicide bombings. Fast forward to today and we all know what the issues are. The hatred and divisiveness in our country and in our world is at an all-time high.

That works for me halfway through my yoga class, but that’s not much of a solution here. Our president says, “We need to have open hearts.” Ummm … OK … I don’t even know what that means. Do you know why we won’t be hearing of a truly effective solution? It breaks my heart to say, but it’s because there is no solution. There is no person or man-made plan that will turn back the hate meter. It will keep rising—not as fast as Sports Authority closing—but we all know it’s rising.

And so does God. He is not surprised. That’s why He made a plan long ago to send His Son back again. Jesus will return. And He will set the hate meter on zero by getting rid of evil once and for all (Rev. 20:10).

In the mid-’60s, things began to break down. Our focus turned inward. We became more self-centered. We adopted the mantra “If it feels good, do it.” We became a generation of drugs, sex and rock ’n’ roll. Now all this “free love” going around didn’t seem to be hurting anyone. But it was. Anytime “self” becomes the

SUNDAY AUG. 21

CHABAD CENTER MARKS 3 YEARS

The Pollack Chabad Center for Jewish Life and the Chandler Jewish Preschool will celebrate their third anniversary with a barbecue. Parents and children can learn about programs and meet the staff. It will feature balloons, inflatables, caricaturist and other activities.

DETAILS>> 5-6:30 p.m., 875 N. McClintock Dr., Chandler. Free admission and food will be on sale. RSVP required: 480-855-4333 or chabadcenter.com.

TEEN NETWORK TO BE LAUNCHED

While celebrating its preschool’s anniversary, Chabad of the East Valley also will be launching its CTeen program for Jewish teenagers. The CTeen Network is inspired by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, “whose belief in the power of youth transformed the teen years into a time of purpose and self-discovery,” according to a release. “Our mission is to provide a nurturing environment where teens can learn about themselves through giving to others, identify with individuals who share the same faith, and be part of a group that focuses on building core values and stresses positive character development,” the release added.

DETAILS>> 6 p.m., Pollack Chabad Center for Jewish Life, 875 N. McClintock Dr., Chandler. Free. Information/RSVP:

People can’t stand people who don’t think or act like them. Their recourse is to go grab a gun, or a bomb or just hop in a truck and start driving into people.

With mass killings happening now almost weekly, people are asking more and more, “What is the solution? When will it stop?” I’ve been glued to the news like most of you and all I’ve heard is things like, “We all just need to stop and take a deep breath.”

Rabbi Tzvi Rimler, 347-241-7089, rabbi.t@chabadcenter. com, facebook.com/CTeenAZ.

SUNDAYS

VALOR CHRISTIAN OUTLINES MISSION

Valor Christian Church in Gilbert offers “great praise and worship and great messages for today’s living,” according to Pastor Thor Strandholt. “Our mission is evangelize, healing and discipleship through the word of God.”

DETAILS>> 10 a.m. Sundays and 7 p.m. Thursdays. 3015 E. Warner Road. Information: valorcc.com.

HORIZON SEEKS YOUNG PEOPLE

High school and middle school students meet to worship and do life together.

DETAILS>> 5 p.m. at Horizon Presbyterian Church, 1401 E. Liberty Lane. 480-460-1480 or email joel@horizonchurch.com.

BEREAVED CAN SHARE GRIEF

A support group designed to assist people through the grieving process. One-time book fee $15. DETAILS>>2-4 p.m. at Arizona Community Church, 9325 S. Rural Road, Room G3, Tempe. 480-491-2210.

Until then, let’s keep looking up and worshipping God. Let’s keep looking around at how to best love our neighbors and let’s keep looking forward to the awesome things God has in store for those who love Him (1 Cor. 2:9). Sports Authority—I’m gonna miss you. Third opening of “The World”—I look forward to your first day of business. – Brad Butler is a PGA Golf Instructor who attends both Central Christian and Mountain Park Community Church in Ahwatukee. Reach him at bbgolf@cox.net

UNITY OFFERS INSPIRATION

Inspirational messages and music are offered, along with classes and special events.

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

RABBINIC LIT COURSE OFFERED

Ongoing morning study of two classics of rabbinic literature by medieval philosopher Moses Maimonides (the “Rambam”). At 10 a.m., Prof. Norbert Samuelson, Grossman chair of Jewish Philosophy at ASU and TBS member, teaches “Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed: What Jews Ought to Believe.” At 11:15 a.m., TBS member Isaac Levy teaches “Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah: How Jews Ought to Behave.” Readings in both Hebrew and English. DETAILS>> Community Room of the administration

String connects East Valley Jews with their heritage

BY RALPH ZUBIATE TRIBUNE EXECUTIVE EDITOR

It’s little more than a fishing line strung between 10-foot-tall poles, but it represents freedom to many Jews in the East Valley.

Nearly two years ago, the Chabad of the East Valley helped put up an eruv around parts of Chandler and Tempe.

An eruv is a symbolic wall, delineating an area in which orthodox Jews can move about freely during the Sabbath. In the East Valley, that wall can sometimes be no more than a string.

“You want to be unobtrusive and respectful of other people,” said Yehoshua Bedrick, treasurer of the Chabad of the East Valley in Chandler. “Unless you’re looking for it, you never see it.”

The Chandler eruv also uses existing walls—in this case, the freeway walls of Interstate 10 to the west, Loop 101 to the east, Arizona 60 to the north and Loop 202 to the south.

According to Jewish law, no work can be performed on the Sabbath—from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday. That means no carrying, either—whether prayer books, water bottles or children. Even pushing strollers or using wheelchairs is forbidden for Orthodox Jews.

Many Jewish moms have to stay home with younger kids because they can’t carry them or push them to synagogue. And no other work can be done.

But neighborhoods are considered a single property, a community created as with walls of old.

“It’s like Jericho,” Bedrick said. “It’s a wall demarcated so you can carry things on a Sabbath.”

An eruv, which means “boundary,” lets modern Orthodox Jews create those walls and communities so more people can participate in the Sabbath observance.

Adina Anhalt used to live in a community without an eruv—Little Rock, Arkansas.

“I was at home with my oldest daughter on the Sabbath,” she said. Her husband Joseph went to synagogue, but “I was lonely.”

When the Anhalts had an opportunity to move, they looked for a community with an eruv.

“That was the deciding factor for us,” Anhalt said. “We weren’t going to go to any community that wasn’t going to have one.”

The Anhalts found the Chandler eruv and happily moved in. Now, they fill an important role in the community: They

check the eruv before the Sabbath.

The Anhalts take their children—Abigail, 5, and Evelyn, 3 months—with them every Thursday to survey the boundary.

“We keep the kids engaged in learning about our traditions,” Adina said.

The family loads the car and drives around the East Valley, checking on the status of the fishing line. If it’s broken, they notify Fluoresco, a private company contracted to repair the line.

“At least once a month, the eruv breaks,” Anhalt said. “Wind, rain, things like that can break the fishing line.

“Last week, there was a motor vehicle accident that took out the pole and string.”

When the family certifies that the eruv is unbroken, meaning the community is intact, Joseph sends out an email with the good news to those who have put their name on a list at the Chandler Eruv website.

The success of the project depended

CHANDLER ERUV

To see a map of the Chandler eruv, go to tiny.cc/eruv-map. To get on the list for email alerts about the eruv’s status, go to tiny.cc/eruv-email.

on a vibrant Jewish community.

“Surprisingly, there is a very strong and active one right here,” said Rabbi Mendy Deitsch of Chabad of the East Valley.

“Part of why we did the eruv is to allow Jews be engaged and empowered. It shows it’s OK to be who we are,” he said. Anhalt said the funding for upkeep and repair of the line comes from donations from the East Valley Jewish community.

“The eruv would not stay up if we didn’t work together and make it such a priority,” she said.

ANSWERS TO PUZZLE & SUDOKU

Joseph Anhalt and daughter Abigail, 5, inspect the fence along I-10 in Tempe looking for gaps in the “wall” that Orthodox Jews cannot go beyond during the Sabbath. Joseph is an engineering student at Arizona State University.

(Will Powers/Tribune staff Photographer)

The Chandler eruv is little more than fishing line strung between 10-foot poles. It isn’t a continuous line, but if it were, it would stretch more than 20 miles.

(Will Powers/Tribune staff Photographer)

building at Temple Beth Sholom of the East Valley, 3400 N. Dobson Road, Chandler. 480-897-3636.

UNITY OFFERS A PATH

Unity of Mesa says its Sunday service offers “a positive path for spiritual living” through “transformational lessons, empowering music and various spiritual practices with an open-minded and welcoming community.”

DETAILS>> 9 a.m. Spiritual discussion group and meditation practices group. 10:15 a.m. service. 2700 E. Southern Ave., Mesa. Child care available at 9 a.m. Nursery for infants through kindergarten at 10:15 a.m. 480-892-2700, unityofmesa.org, joanne@ unityofmesa.org

MONDAYS

JOIN CHRIST-CENTERED YOGA

This Flow 1-2 class (intermediate) is free and open to the community.

DETAILS>> 6-7 p.m., Mountain Park Community Church, 2408 E. Pecos Road. Greg Battle at 480-759-6200 or gbattle@moutainpark.org.

CLASS TARGETS THE GRIEVING

Classes for those grieving over death or divorce. DETAILS>>6:30 p.m., Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 739 W. Erie St., Chandler. 480-963-4127.

STRUGGLING FIND SUPPORT

Support group for those struggling with how to deal with a loss in life.

DETAILS>> 7 p.m., 1825 S. Alma School Road, Room C201, Chandler. Pastor Larry Daily, 480-963-3997, ext. 141, larrydaily@chandlercc.org or chandlercc.org.

TUESDAYS

DIVORCED CAN FIND COMFORT

People suffering through a divorce or separation can find understanding and caring support to face these challenges.

DETAILS>>6:30-8 p.m., Mountain Park Community Church, 2408 E Pecos Road, Room 117, Ahwatukee, 480759-6200 or mountainpark.org

FINDING HEALING FOR PAIN

HOPE, an acronym for “Help Overcome Painful Experiences,” offers support for men and women who seek God’s grace and healing.

DETAILS>> 6:30 to 8 p.m. Mountain Park Community Church, 2408 E. Pecos Road. mountainpark.org.

SENIORS ENJOY ‘TERRIFIC TUESDAYS’

The program is free and includes bagels and coffee and a different speaker or theme each week. Registration not needed.

DETAILS>> 10:30 a.m. to noon, Barness Family East Valley Jewish Community Center, 908 N. Alma School Road, Chandler. evjcc.org or 480-897-0588.

HOLY TRINITY HAS GRIEFSHARE

DETAILS>> 2 and 6:30 p.m., 739 W. Erie St., Chandler. 480963-4127.

READ BIBLE FOR PLEASURE

Bring a Bible, or Bibles are available at these free sessions. DETAILS>>7 to 8 p.m., Chandler Seventh-day Adventist Church, 1188 W. Galveston St. Lori, 480-917-3593.

WEDNESDAYS

CELEBRATE RECOVERY MEETS

Celebrate Recovery says it “brings your relationship with the Lord closer to your heart as it heals your hurts, habits and hang-ups.” Participants can discuss issues ranging

from feeling left out to addictions. “Nothing is too small or too large.”

DETAILS>> 5:30 p.m. at Mountain View Lutheran Church, 11002 S. 48th St., Ahwatukee. mvlutheran.org/ celebraterecovery or email cr@alphamvlc.com.

WOMEN’S BIBLE STUDY OFFERED

Living Word Ahwatukee women’s Bible study and fellowship that offers “a short, low-key time of praise and worship in music and message.” It’s also an opportunity to meet other Christian women in Ahwatukee.

DETAILS>>10 to 11:30 a.m., Living Word Ahwatukee, 14647 W. 50th St., Suite 165, Ahwatukee. Free child care.

TAKE A COFFEE BREAK

Corpus Christi offers a coffee break with scripture study, prayer and fellowship.

DETAILS>> 9:15 to 11:30 a.m. Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 3550 E. Knox Road, Ahwatukee. Loraine 480-8931160 or CoffeebreakMin@aol.com.

GET A ‘SPIRITUAL SHOWER’

A release calls this “a 15-minute energetic tune up each week” and says the Twin Hearts Meditation “is like taking a spiritual shower: when your aura is clean, you experience a higher level of awareness. You see through things more clearly and good luck increases.”

DETAILS>> 7-9 p.m. at Unity of Tempe, 1222 E. Baseline Road, Suite 103, Tempe. 480-792-1800 or unityoftempe.com.

DIVORCED CAN FIND COMFORT

People suffering through a separation or divorce can find understanding and caring support to face these challenges and move forward.

DETAILS>>6:30-8:15 p.m. Arizona Community Church, 9325 S. Rural Road, Room G5, Tempe. One-time book fee of $15. 480-491-2210. DivorceCare 4 Kids (DC4K) will also be offered in Room G7.

CHABAD HAS TORAH FOR TEENS

The Teens and Torah program offered by Chabad of the East Valley is for teens ages 13 to 17, and combines education and social interaction with videos followed by discussion, trips, games, community service projects and thought-provoking discussions.

DETAILS>>7:30 to 8:30 p.m., Chabad Center for Jewish Life, 3855 W. Ray Road, Suite 6, Chandler. Shternie Deitsch, 480-753-5366 or chabadcenter.com.

THURSDAYS

MAN CHURCH IN CHANDLER

“Man Church offers coffee, doughnuts and straight talk for men in a language they understand in just 15 minutes. No women, no singing, no organ and no long sermons,” a release states.

DETAILS>>Doors open 6 a.m., message at 6:30 a.m. 1595 S. Alma School Road, Chandler. Bob, 480-726-8000 or cschandler.com/manchurch.

KIDS CAN FIND SUPPORT

Support group for children ages 6 to 12 coping with a separation or divorce in the family. One-time $10 fee includes snacks and workbook.

DETAILS>>6:30 to 8:30 p.m., 1825 S. Alma School Road, Room C202, Chandler. Pastor Larry Daily, 480-963-3997, ext. 141, larrydaily@chandlercc.org or chandlercc.org.

ULPAN INSTRUCTION AVAILABLE

Class is based on Israel’s successful Ulpan instruction. Taught by Ilan Berko, born in Israel, schooled in the U.S. DETAILS>> 7 p.m. Chabad of the East Valley, 3875 W. Ray Road, Suite 6, Chandler. chabadcenter.com or 480-855-4333.

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Chester Lawrence Montgomery (Larry), beloved hus-

Kennewick Washington on August 6th 2016 from complications associated with leukemia

Larry was born on October 17th,1932 in Danville Virginia to Adrian & Edna Montgomery He was the youngest of 6 kids Larry lived in Danville until he enlisted into the army at age 18 Shortly after he enlisted he was sent to fight in the Korean War where he was part of the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team

After Larry returned home from the war he moved to Arizona

That is where he met and married his sweetheart, Dorothy Frances Link They were married on November 12th 1966, and later sealed in Mesa Arizona LDS Temple on July 20th, 1973 In August 2014 when his eternal companion Dorothy passed away, Larry moved to Washington State to live closer to his youngest daughter Donna and her family

Throughout Larry’s life he has held many different jobs As a young man he pumped gas and delivered telegrams on his bike in Danville In Arizona he was employed for 25 years as a Lineman for Mountain Bell When he retired from Mountain Bell he worked part time as a security guard

Larry and Dorothy were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of LatterDay Saints where they both served in many wards and stake positions H

watching westerns and baseball games He especially love d watching his Boston Red Sox

Mona Montgomery, Jackie Hauersperger and Donna Bagley, and his sons Edward, Michael and their families

Our hearts are sad for the loss of our beloved family patriarch, but what brings us peace and comfort during this time is knowing that he is reunited with his sweetheart and that we will a be reunited again

He will always be remembered for his kind and loving spirit He was greatly loved by us all....

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Receptionist / Utility Clerk I

The Hohokam Irrigation and Drainage District is seeking a person with exceptional customer service skills who has the ability to multitask in a busy environment

This person will have a variety of duties, some of which include answering phones, directing call, assisting customers, accepting payments and data entry Applicants must be proficient in Word, Excel and Quick Books Our benefit package includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Short and Long term Disability, Life Insurance and a SEP Retirement Plan. Interested parties should email their resume to hiddopenings@powerhhk com No phone calls please

HEWITT, Barbara Ellen

Cancer took her body though she bravely battled it three times

She will be sadly missed by her husband John, 3 daughters and spouses, Lori Winn (Brent), Kelly De Rosa (Kevin), Cheri Sims (Geoff), 8 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren

Barbara was a practitioner of Jin Shin Jyutsu for over 25 years, sharing her gift with others Barbara will be remembered for her wonderful sense of humor, fun-filled parties, creative nature, beautiful singing voice and talent in whistling Although her life was cut short she lived a full and fun life, after she retired from 23 very long years with the City of Mesa She enjoyed her time volunteering for the Mesa Arts Center where she received the Volunteer of the Year Award in 2007 Barbara loved to travel, held game filled parties, laughed often and loved deeply She taught her truth to those who welcomed it, whic h included that Anchor Man is the best movie of all time but Mama Mia has the best sound-track, and you are never too old to use crayons Others may say that they had the best mother, wife or grandmother in the world but we were actually the ones that had her Her body may no longer be with us but the wisdom she bestowed upon us will last for generations She now enjoys time dancing, singing karaoke, organizing parties and watching over her loved ones (This obit was approved by Barbara Hewitt)

A celebration of her life was held August 13 at Sunland Village East, 2615 S Farnsworth Drive, Mesa

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PROJECT MANAGER & RECEPTIONIST (2 positions)

Non-profit supporting Christian ministries seeks applicants with leadership experience to assist with our operations Two part-time positions available (may combine depending on applicant): phone receptionist (answering calls) & project manager (ex finding a realtor for a Nebraska property) PERFECT FOR RETIREES and all others who want some extra income & have executive or management experience $15-20/hour, 10-30 hours per week These are remote positions with flexible hours Send cover letter & resume to serviceteam293@gmail.com & specify which position(s) you re applying for

TechMileage has openings forSoftware Engineers in Scottsdale, AZ area Reqs US Masters degree/foreign equiv or Bach degree + 5 yrs experience w/ skills in C++/SQL/Matlab to dsgn/dev/implement/ test apps/systems Email resume to Rajesh at contacttm@ techmileage com with ref # 2016-19 on front of resume & ref ad in EVT

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Project Manager at Works Consulting, LLC (Gilbert, AZ): Manage and work on Hwy Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) submittals to the FHWA for various clients (Depts of Transp), using HPMS Online sw UPACS access is req’ed MS in Civil Engg w/emphasis in Transport/Traffic Engg 3 yrs in job offered or related Add’l duties and reqmts avail upon request Email resume & cover ltr to careers@ gisworks com Ref Job#AG01

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CITY OF MESA, ARIZONA ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT FOR FALCON FIELD AIRPORT REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Consultant for the following: FALCON FIELD AIRPORT MASTER PLAN

UPDATE PROJECT NO CP0256 The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Consultant or team to provide comprehensive airport planning services to update the existing Falcon Field Airport (FFZ) Master Plan All qualified firms that are interested in providing these services are invited to submit their Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) in accordance with the requirements detailed in the Request for Qualifications (RFQ)

NOTICE OF INVITATION FOR BID SOLICITATION # AGFD17-00006617

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The Arizona Game & Fish Department, Support Services Branch, 5000 West Carefree Highway, Phoenix , AZ 85086, (623) 236-7209, will accept competitive sealed offers for the above-mentioned service Copies of the Solicitation are available online at https://procure az gov Offers are to be submitted in the Procure AZ system by AUGUST 30, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. Arizona Time.

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Meetings/Events

Grief Care

6 30 p m Wednesdays

A place to come share your feelings or just listen to others as we try to navigate through our grief You don’t have to do it alone

Epiphany Lutheran Church, south campus old church building 800 W Ray Rd Room 325, Chandler, a quarter mile south of Alma School Road on the north side of Ray Info: griefcareaz@gmail com

East Valley Jewish Couples Club

Offers once-a-month social activities such as dining, movies, plays etc for Jewish couples in the 45- to 65year-old age range Info: Melissa, 480-785-0744, beadlover@cox net

JumpStart

11:45 A-4:30P Saturdays

JumpStart is a sidewalk Sunday school community outreach program serving “some of the poorest neighborhoods” in Chandler, offering snacks games and teachings about Jesus to area children

Participants meet at Faith Family Church 11530 E Queen Creek Rd

Chandler Info: Joanne Sweeney 480-539-8933

This project will utilize federal funds administered by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

The City’s 2009 Master Plan needs to be up- dated to reflect new facilities, current projections of airport operations and activity, and new environmental and other regulatory constraints Planning and study services must also include plans for an appropriate mix of land uses to support projected aviation needs and the long-term financial health of the airport; and to include a Wildlife Hazard Management Plan (WHMP) based on a Wildlife Hazard Assessment recently completed by Mead & Hunt and approved by FAA The City and the FAA desire to implement Airport Geographical Information Systems (AGIS) and Electronic Airport Layout Plan (eALP) systems for Falcon Field Airport as part of this project

All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, assure that contract decisions are made in public and to protect the integrity of the selection process All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified below

CITY OF MESA, ARIZONA ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Consultant for the following:

SOILS AND MATERIALS SAMPLING AND TESTING ON-CALL SERVICES

The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Consultant to provide Consulting Services for Soils and Materials Sampling and Testing on an on-call basis All quali ed rms that are interested in providing these services are invited to submit their Statements of Qualification (SOQ) in accordance with the requirements detailed in the Request for Qualifications (RFQ)

The following is a summary of the project The required tasks will be reviewed with the selected Consultant and defined to meet the needs of the project as part of the contract scoping

Scope includes miscellaneous soils and materials testing services such as sampling, laboratory and field tests and analyses, preparation of reports, etc The technical services requested include providing material technicians who will perform quality control (QC) and/or quality assurance (QA) testing of construction materials in the laboratory and/or field

A Pre-Submittal Conference will not be held

Contact with City Employees All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, assure that contract decisions are made in public and to protect the integrity of the selection process All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified below

SOQ Submittal. The Statement of Qualifi- cations shall include a onepage cover letter, plus a maximum of 1 0 p a g e s to address the SOQ evaluation criteria (excluding resumes but including an organization chart with key personnel and their affiliation) Resumes for each team member shall be limited to a maximum length of two pages and should be attached as an append ix to the SOQ Minimum font size shall be 10pt Please provide eight (8) hard copies and one (1) CD of the Statement of Qualifications by 2:00 pm on September 7, 2016 The City reserves the right to accept or reject any and all Statements of Qualifications The City is an equal opportunity employer

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The Statement of Qualifications shall include a one-page cover letter, plus a maximum of 1 0 pages to address the SOQ evaluation criteria (excluding resumes and certifications but including an organization chart with key personnel and their affiliation) Resumes for each team member shall be limited to a maximum length of two pages and should be attached as an appendix to the SOQ Minimum font size shall be 10pt Please provide six (6) hard copies and one (1) CD of the Stateme nt of Qualifications by 2:00pm on August 31, 2016 The City reserves the right to accept or reject any and all Statements of Qualification The City is an equal opportunity employer

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Delivered or hand-carried submittals must be delivered to the Engineering Department reception area on the fifth floor of Mesa City Plaza Building in a sealed package On the submittal package, please display: Firm name, project number, and/or project title

Firms who wish to do business with the City of Mesa must be registered and activated in the City of Mesa Vendor Self Service (VSS) System (http://mesaaz gov/business/pur- chasing/ vendor-self-service)

Questions. Questions pertaining to the Consultant selection process or contract issues should be directed to Maggie Martinez of the Engineering Department at maggie martinez@mesa az gov

BETH HUNING City Engineer

ATTEST: DeeAnn Mickelsen, City Clerk

Publish: DNS-August 5, 12, 2016; EVT-August 7, 14, 2016 ; 131316

Delivered or hand-carried submittals must be delivered to the Engineering Department reception area on the fifth oor of Mesa City Plaza Building in a sealed package On the submittal package, please display: Firm name, project number, and/or project title

Firms who wish to do business with the City of Mesa must be registered and activated in the City of Mesa Vendor Self Service (VSS) System (http://mesaaz gov/business/purchasing/vendor-selfservice)

Questions Questions pertaining to the Consultant selection process or contract issues should be directed to Heather Sneddon of the Engineering Department at heather sneddon@mesaaz gov

BETH HUNING City Engineer

ATTEST: DeeAnn Mickelsen City Clerk

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’ S SALE TS#: 16-16972 Order#: 02-16037975 The following legally described mist property will be sold, pursuant to the power of Sale under that certain Deed of Trust dated 11/20/2013 and recorded on 11/27/2013 as Instrument # 20131023057, Book Page in the office of the County Recorder of Maricopa County Arizona, NOTICE! IF YOU BELIEVE THERE IS A DEFENSE TO THE TRUSTEE SALE OR IF YOU HAVE AN OBJECTION TO THE TRUSTEE SALE, YOU MUST FILE AN ACTION AND OBTAIN A CO URT ORDER PURSUANT TO RULE 65, ARIZONA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, STOPPING THE SALE NO LATER THAN 5:00 P M MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME OF THE LAST BUSINESS DAY BEFORE THE SCHEDULED DATE OF THE SALE, OR YOU MAY HAVE WAIVED ANY DEFENSES OR OBJECTIONS TO THE SALE UNLESS YOU OBTAIN AN ORDER, THE SALE WILL BE FINAL AND WILL OCCUR at public auction to the highest bidder at At the Main Entrance to the Superior Court Building Maricopa County Courthouse, 201 W Jefferson Street, Phoenix, AZ 85003, on 10/11/2016 at 10:00 AM of said day: LOT 5, UTOPIA ESTATES, ACCORDING TO BOOK 265 OF MAPS, PAGE 32, RECORDS OF MARICOPA COUNTY, ARIZONA, The successor trustee appointed herein qualifies as trustee of the Trust Deed in the trustee’s capacity as a licensed insurance producer as required by ARS Section 33-803, Subsection A Name of Trustee’s Regulator: Arizona Department of Insurance ACCORDING TO THE DEED OF TRUST OR UPON INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY THE BENEFICIARY THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS PROVIDED PURSUANT TO A R S SECTION 33-808(C): Street address or identifiable location: 2844 E PIUTE AVE PHOENIX, AZ 85050 A P N : 213-17-094 Original Principal Balance: $74,246 00 Name and address of original trustor: (as shown on the Deed of Trust) SHERRILL ARVIN, A SINGLE WOMAN 2844 E PIUTE AVE PHOENIX, AZ 85050 Name and address of beneficiary: (as of recording of Notice of Sale) Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC c/o Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC 1600 Douglass Road, Suite 200 A Anaheim, CA 92806 If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidders sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have not further recourse The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designations, if any shown herein Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the unpaid principal balance of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, including fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee, Conveyance of the property shall be without warranty, express or implied, and subject to all liens, claims or interest having a priority senior to the Deed of Trust The Trustee shall not express an opinion as to the condition of title, NAME ADDRESS and TELEPHONE NUMBER OF TRUSTEE: (as of recording of Notice of Sale) Carrington Foreclosure Services, LLC P O Box 3309 Anaheim, California 92803 (888) 313-1969 Dated: 6/29/2016 Carrington Foreclosure Services, LLC Tai Alailima, Director, Foreclosure Services Sale information can be obtained online at www auction com or use t h e a u t o m a

08/16/2016, 08/23/2016 Publish: August 8,9,16,23 / NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’ S SALE TS#: 1616972 Order#: 02-16037975 The following legally described mist property will be sold, pursuant to the power of Sale under that certain Deed of Trust dated 11/20/2013 and recorded on 11/27/2013 a

County Arizona, NOTICE! IF YOU BELIEVE THERE IS A DEFENSE TO THE TRUSTEE SALE OR IF YOU HAVE AN OBJECTION TO THE TRUSTEE SALE, YOU MUST FILE AN ACTION AND OBTAIN A COURT ORDER PURSUANT TO RULE 65, ARIZONA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, STOPPING THE SALE NO LATER THAN 5:00 P M MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME OF THE LAST BUSINESS DAY BEFORE THE SCHEDULED DATE OF THE SALE, OR YOU MAY HAVE WAIVED ANY DEFENSES OR OBJECTIONS TO THE SALE UNLESS YOU OBTAIN AN ORDER, THE SALE WILL BE FINAL AND WILL OCCUR at public auction to the highest bidder at At the Main Entrance to the Superior Court Building Maricopa County Courthouse, 201 W Jefferson Street, Phoenix, AZ 85003, on 10/11/2016 at 10:00 AM of said day: LOT 5, UTOPIA EST A T E S , A C C O R D I N G T O B O O

COUNTY, ARIZONA, The successor trustee appointed herein qualifies as trustee of the Trust Deed in the trustee’s capacity as a licensed insurance producer as required by ARS Section 33803, Subsection A Name of Trustee’s Regulator: Arizona Department of Insurance ACCORDING TO THE DEED OF TRUST OR UPON INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY THE BENEFICIARY THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS PROVIDED PURSUANT TO A R S SECTION 33-808(C): Street address or identifiable location: 2844 E PIUTE AVE PHOENIX, AZ 85050 A P N : 213-17094 Original Principal Balance: $74,246 00 Name and address of original trustor: (as shown on the Deed of Trust) SHERRILL ARVIN, A SINGLE WOMAN 2844 E PIUTE AVE PHOENIX, AZ 85050 Name and address of beneficiary: ( as of recording of Notice of Sale) Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC c/o Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC 1600 Douglass Road, Suite 200 A Anaheim, CA 92806 If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidders sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have not further recourse The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other co mmon designations, if any shown herein Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the unpaid principal balance of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, including fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee, Conveyance of the property shall be without warranty, express or implied, and subject to all liens, claims or interest having a priority senior to the Deed of Trust The Trustee shall not express an opinion as to the condition of title, NAME ADDRESS and TELEPHONE NUMBER OF TRUSTEE: (as of recording of Notice of Sale) Carrington Foreclosure Services, LLC P O Box 3309 Anaheim, California 92803 (888) 313-1969 Dated: 6/29/2016 Carrington Foreclosure Services, LLC Tai Alailima, Director, Foreclosure Services Sale information can be obtained online at www auction com or use the automated sales information at (800) 280-2832 A-4585987 08/02/2016, 08/09/2016, 08/16/2016, 08/23/2016 Publish: August 8,9,16,23 / 129425

CITY OF MESA, ARIZONA ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Design Consultant for the following:

BENEDICTINE UNIVERSITY TENANT IMPROVEMENTS 225 E MAIN, MESA AZ 85201

PROJECT NO M99-2016-011

The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Consultant to provide Design Services for the Benedictine University Tenant Improvements Project All qualified firms that are interested in providing these services are invited to submit their Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) in accordance with the requirements detailed in the Request for Qualifications (RFQ)

The following is a summary of the project The required tasks will be reviewed with the selected Design Consultant and defined to meet the needs of the project as part of the contract scoping

classroom space The work is expected to include interior walls, ceilings, finishes, electrical, lighting, HVAC, restroom, fire suppression and fire alarm improvements Close coordination with the City and Benedictine University will be required A floor plan showing the location of the unfinished spaces will be posted along with this RFQ at the link below

A Pre-Submittal Conference will be held on August 15, 2016 at 11:00 am at the Mesa City Plaza, Room 170, 20 E. Main, Mesa AZ. At this meeting, City staff will discuss the scope of work and general contract issues and respond to questions from the attendees Attendance at the pre-submittal conference is not mandatory and all interested firms may submit a Statement of Qualifications whether or not they attend the conference All interested firms are encouraged to attend t h e P r e

spond to individual inquiries regarding the project scope outside of this conference In addition, there will not be meeting minutes or any other information published from the PreSubmittal Conference

Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, assure that contract decisions are made in public and to protect the integrity of the selection process All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the auth orized representative identified below

The Statement of Qualifications shall include a one-page cover letter, plus a maximum of 10 pages to address the SOQ evaluation criteria (excluding resumes but including an organization chart with key personnel and their affiliation) Resumes for each team member shall be limited to a maximum length of two pages and should be attached as an appendix to the SOQ Minimum font size shall be 10pt Please provide six (6) hard copies and one (1) CD of the Statement of Qualifications by 10:00 am on August 30, 2016 The City reserves the right to accept or reject any and all Statements of Qualification. The City is an equal opportunity employer.

Delivered or hand-carried submittals must be delivered to the Engineering Department reception area on the fifth floor of Mesa City Plaza Building in a sealed package On the submittal package, please display: Firm name, project number, and/or project title

Firms who wish to do business with the City of Mesa must be registered and activated in the City of Mesa Vendor Self Service (VSS) System (http://mesaaz gov/business/purchasing/ vendor-self-service)

Questions Questions pertaining to the Design Consultant selection process or contract issues should be directed to Maggie Martinez of the Engineering Department at maggie martinez@mesaaz gov

BETH HUNING City Engineer

ATTEST:

DeeAnn Mickelsen City Clerk

Publish: DNS-August 5, 12, 2016; EVT-August 7, 14, 2016 / 131322

N o t i c e o f T r u s t e e ’ s S a l e O r d e r N o : 160115540-AZ-VOI TS No : AZ-16-6396- JY

APN : 220-81-616 2 The following legally described trust property will be sold, pursuant to the power of Sale under that certain Deed of T r u s t d a t e d 1 2 / 6 / 2 0 0 6 a n d r e c o r d e d 12/11/2006 as Instrument 20061613122, Book x x , P a g e x x , in t h e o f f ic e o f t h e Co u n t y Recorder of MARICOPA County, Arizona; and at public auction to the highest bidder Notice! If you believe there is a defense to the trustee sale or if you have an objection to the trustee sale, you must file an action and obtain a court order pursuant to rule 65, Arizona rules of civil p

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Time: 8/31/2016 at 10:00:00 AM Sale Loca-

t i o n : I N T H E C O U R T Y A R D , B Y T H E M A I N ENTRANCE OF SUPERIOR COURT BUILDI N G , 2 0 1 W E S T J E F F E R S O N , P H O E N I X , ARIZONA Legal Description: LOT 211, CRISM O N C R E E K V I L L A G E , A C C O R D I N G T O

THE PLAT OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF MARICOPA COUNTY, ARIZONA, RECORDED IN BOOK

6 9 9 O F M A P S , P A G E 3 0 P u r p o r t e d S t r e e t

A d d r e s s : 1 0 0 5 7 E I S L E T A A V E , M E S A , A Z 85209 Tax Parcel Number: 220-81-616 2 Orig i n a l P r i n c i p a l B

o f C u r r e n t B e n e f i c i a r y : L S F 9 Master Participation Trust, by Caliber Home Loans, Inc , solely in its capacity as servicer C/O Caliber Home Loans, Inc 16745 W Bern-

a r d o D r i v e , S t e 3 0 0 S a n D i e g o , C A 9 2 1 2 7 N a m e a n d A d d r e s s o f O r i g i n a l T r u s t o r :

C H R I S T O P H E R J L I E R O W , A N U N M A RR I E D M A N A N D A N G E L I C A L I E R O W , A N UNMARRIED WOMAN 10057 EAST ISLETA

A V E N U E , M E S A , A Z 8 5 2 0 9 N a m e a n d A ddress of Trustee/Agent: SUMMIT SERVICES AND REALTY, LLC 16745 W Bernardo Dr , Ste 100 San Diego, CA 92127 Phone: (866) 248- 2679 Sales Line: 714- 730-2727 Login to: w w w s e r v i c e l i n k a s a p c o m A Z - 1 6 - 6 3 9 6 - J Y

T h e s u c c e s s o r t r u s t e e q u a l i f i e s t o a c t a s a trustee under A R S Section 33-803A (1) in its c a p a c i t y a s a l i c e n s e d A r i z o n a R e a l E s t a t e Broker If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole a n d e x c l u s i v e r e m e d y s h a l l b e t h e r e t u r n o f monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse If the s a l e i s s e t a s i d e f o r a n y r e a s o n , t h e P u rchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid The Purchaser shall h a v e n o f u r t h e r r e c o u r s e a g a i n s t t h e M o r tgagor, the Mortgagee, or the Mortgagee’s Att o r n e y D a t e d : 5 / 2 7 / 2 0 1 6 S U M M I T S E RVICES AND REALTY, LLC By Justin Yahnke, A V P A - 4 5 8 2 3 4 9 0 7 / 3 0 / 2 0 1 6 , 0 8 / 0 6 / 2 0 1 6 , 08/13/2016, 08/20/2016 Publish: July 30 August: 6,13,20/ 129484

ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SECOND BID CALL ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

BID OPENING: Friday, September 16, 2016, at 11:00 A M (M S T )

TRACS No: 0000 MA AVN SZ079 01C

Project No: CM-AVN- 0(216)T

Termini: City of Avondale

Location: Dysart Rd; Rancho Santa Fe Blvd to Indian School Rd

This project is being readvertised Firms that already purchased contract documents are instructed to destroy them as the contract documents have been revised All bidders and subcontractors, previous or new, must download o r p u r c h a s e

tions the revised Second Bid Call documents

The amount programmed for this contract is $746,000 00 The location and description of the proposed work are as follows:

County within the City of Avondale on Dysart Road from Rancho Santa Fe Boulevard to In-

(CCTV) cameras, and associated equipment

Project plans, special provisions, and proposal pamphlets, as electronic files, are available

cifications website, or they may be purchased

CITY OF MESA MESA, ARIZONA

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING

Kleinman Park Improvements Project No CP0553

Kleinman Park will be undergoing a few major i m p r o v e m e n t s w i t h

Winter 2016 through Spring 2017 The work will include replacing the existing tennis court b

area, replacing the four existing tennis courts with three new tennis courts and four pickle ball courts, improvements to the parking lots and restroom building to meet current access-

concrete near the existing softball fields and replacement of the softball backstop fencing

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where Design Consultants and City Staff will b

Date: Thursday, August 25, 2016

Time: 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Location: Redbird Elementary Multi-Purpose Room 1020 S Extension Mesa, AZ 85210

Publis h: DNS August 13, 20, 2016; EVT August 14, 21, 2016/131720

Notice of Trustee's Sale Order No : 160115540-AZ- VOI TS No : AZ-16- 6396-JY APN : 220-81616 2 The following legally described trust property will be sold, pursuant to the power of Sale un-

20061613122, Book xxx, Page xxx, in the office of the County Recorder of MARICOPA County, Arizona; and at public auction to the highest bidder Notice! If you believe there is a defense to the trustee sal e or if you have an objection to the trustee sale, you must file an action and obtain a court order pursuant to rule 65, Arizona rules of civil procedure, stopping the sale no later than 5:00 p m mountain standard time of the last business day before the scheduled date of the sale, or you may have waived any defenses or objections to the sale Unless you obtain an order, the sale will be final: Sate Date and Time: 8/31/2016 at 10:00:00 AM Sale Location: IN THE COURTYARD, BY THE MAIN ENTRANCE OF SUPERIOR COURT BUILDING, 201 WEST JEFFERSON, PHOENIX, ARIZONA Legal Description: LOT 211, CRISMON CREEK VILLAGE, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF MARICOPA COUNTY, ARIZONA, RECORDED IN BOOK 699 OF MAPS, PAGE 30 Purported Street Address: 10057 E ISLETA AVE, MESA, AZ 85209 Tax Parcel Number: 220-81- 616 2 Original Principal Balance: $161,050 00 Name and Address of Current Beneficiary: LSF9 Master Participation Trust, by Caliber Home Loans, Inc , solely in its capacity as servicer C/O Caliber Home Loans, Inc 16745 W Bernardo Drive, Ste 300 San Diego, CA 92127 Name and Address of Original Trustor: CHRISTOPHER J LIEROW, AN UNMARRIED MAN AND ANGELICA LIEROW, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN 10057 EAST ISLETA AVENUE, MESA, AZ 85209 Name and Address of Trustee/Agent: SUMMIT SERVICES AND REALTY, LLC 16745 W Bernardo Dr , Ste 100 San Diego, CA 92127 Phone: (866) 248-2679 Sales Line: 714-730- 2727 Login to: www servicelinkasap com AZ-166396-JY The successor trustee

the

CALL FOR ELECTION

The Board of Directors of Ocotillo Water Conser-

on Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Nominating petitions can be filed by

candidate at

The last date to register to vote in the election is September 26, 2016

Write-in candidate nomination papers can be filed by a candidate at the District offices

didate at the District offices located at 160 N.

November 4 2016 Signed: Jennifer Torpey District Secretary Date: July 27 2016

ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS BID OPENING: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 07, 2016 AT 11:00 A M (M S T )

TRACS NO 0000 CH CCH SS954 01C PROJ NO HPP-STP-CCH-0(202)T TERMINI CONNECTION SR-80 to US-191 LOCATION DAVIS ROAD, MP9 9 T h

$4,055,000 00 The location and description of t h e

posed project is located in Cochise County on Davis Road, which connects SR80 to US 191

stone With the mileposts increasing west to

between MP9 59 and MP10 33 The work consists of the placement of con- crete arch culverts and vertical and horizontal re-alignment

s Road Improvements also in- clude addition of guardrail and concrete barri- er, construction of an earthen diversion struc- ture, installing access gates at ranch ingress/ egress locations, and other related work Project plans, special provisions, and pro- posal pamphlets, as electronic files, are available free of charge from t

The cost is $28