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Town campaign heads to the finish line

BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor

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lthough the Gilbert Town Council election is nonpartisan, a group of conservative Republican candidates are hoping to take over the majority on the dais.

Four of the seven Council seats, including the mayor’s, are up for grabs in Tuesday’s primary.

Mayoral candidates Matt Nielsen and Council candidates Tyler Hudgins and Laurin Hendrix are running on a slate as conservatives.

All three have received the endorsements of sitting members Aimee Yentes and Jared Taylor. Taylor is leaving office at the end of the year.

Yentes and Taylor usually vote against new spending, voted against this year’s adopted budget and against the town’s now-expired mask mandate.

Council candidate Bus Obayomi has been endorsed by former Gilbert Councilman Victor Petersen and Jason Cvancara, who ran unsuccessfully for council and is the host of a conservative podcast show.

“I met with him, interviewed with him and

had lunch together,” Petersen said of Obayomi. “He’s very conservative. He is a good man who represents my values. Keep in mind I am not a tax increaser, voted against those every year I was there.”

Petersen also supports Nielsen, Hudgins and Hendrix.

Nielsen’s endorsements include GOP conservative stalwarts like state Reps. Warren Petersen and Travis Grantham and Gilbert Watch, an internet publication that promotes limited government, low taxes and personal

Gilbert districts wrestle Opening serve with school reopening

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BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor

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ilbert Public Schools expects to meet Sept. 22 to re-evaluate opening campuses if the district hasn’t met safety guidelines to do so before then as the district prepares to start the 2020-21 school year Wednesday with remote learning for all students.

But Higley Unified is looking at a campus return for students and teachers on Aug. 17, provided it meets opening data-driven criteria that the state Health Services Department is expected to release this week. The district began the new year last Monday online.

Gov. Doug Ducey two weeks ago gave school districts the au-

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Nick Asrari last weekend was among the first tennis players to try out one of the six newly opened tennis courts at Gilbert Regional Park.Two basketball courts and 16 pickleball courts also were opened and more new features are expected this fall. (Pablo Robles/GSN Photographer)

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thority to decide when to open classrooms after Aug. 17.

But under his latest order, districts that aren’t fully open for in-classroom learning by Aug. 17 must offer campus space with free on-site support of remote learning for students who need a place to go during the school day. That includes special education students and English learners.

Neither GPS nor Higley Unified had details for meeting that directive last week as GPS said it is waiting for more guidance for state education officials.

Both districts’ governing boards held lengthy meetings last week to discuss the new school year.

It was a different kind of first day of school for Higley Unified last week as all students took to laptops instead of a bus. The district still hopes to open classrooms on Aug. 17, if it meets guiddelines the state is expected to release this week.

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GPS wrestles with issues

At its meeting last Tuesday, GPS board members wrestled over whether to set a date for in-person learning after hearing from 22 people. Board members also have been inundated with emails from parents and teachers on both sides of the issue.

A dozen speakers, including Angela Philpot, asked the board not to set an arbitrary date for reopening campuses but to follow medical guidelines instead.

Philpot is a mother of three children attending GPS schools and a district teacher for English learners.

“Make the ethical choice to delay in-person school until the end of the first quarter or when health metrics are met as deemed by professionals in the field,” Philpot said.

Looked around the meeting room and noting attendees were spaced apart and wearing masks, she said the board was following the health guidelines that teachers out in the field can’t.

“I don’t know how we can ask teachers to go in person,” said Philpot, adding that she has over 20 students at a time in her classes.

She said although children may be low-transmitters of COVID-19, they are taught by adults who may have the disease and can bring it back to their homes.

“As a 22-year veteran school teacher, I want to be in a classroom with my students more than anyone, especially my ELL students,” she said. “They deserve in-person learning. However, I cannot risk

my students’ lives and their families’ lives.

“A lot of my students live with their grandparents who are elderly and even though my students may not get as sick, it could be detrimental to their grandparents and I do not want to attend the funeral of a student or of their family this school year nor do I want to contract something and bring it back to my own loved ones,” Philpot said.

Amy Rowe, a special education teacher for nearly 20 years in the district, asked that schools stay closed beyond Aug. 17 so there is time to plan and prepare.

When campuses do reopen, she recommended, class sizes should be based on the size of a room. She also said elementary schools should reopen first, followed by secondary and then high schools.

Kyle Nobile, the father of a Finley Farms Elementary student, said this was not time to reopen schools, given inadequate data with a backlog in Covid-19 testing and the two-week turn-around for test results.

“We know Arizona is getting slammed with one Arizonan dead every 14 minutes,” he said. “There’s a very vocal group trying to pressure you to open.”

And, kindergarten teacher Martha Romero said it would be impossible to enforce social distancing in a class of 20-40 students and difficult to keep them safe.

She said kindergarteners are not good about washing their hands, staying put in their area or wearing a mask. She said she was leery of the district opening up schools only to shut down again if cases skyrocket in the state.

Eight people spoke for reopening of schools.

“I’m concerned a vocal minority is driving the bus when most of us want kids back in school,” said Colby Ashton, who has two kids in GPS school. “I want my kids in the chairs on Aug. 17. I’ll sign a waiver. Let’s learn in the classroom and let those who don’t want to have that option as well.”

He said the district will lose students if it delays in-person instruction.

Dr. Kelly Slater said she and her husband “are both full-time doctors and fulltime parents in the morning and the second that we get home until the kids either pass out or we lay on the couch until we’re going to pass out.

“So, to say that we want to send our kids back to school full time is an understatement,” said Slater, who with her husband Nick have a dental practice in Mesa.

Slater said she found it hard to understand opposition to reopening schools when the district is giving three options for learning – full-time online, in-person and flex, a combination of the two.

“That should be enough for parents and teachers,” she said. “My in-laws are teachers. I have nothing against people wanting to stay home to be safe. But they have that option.”

She said as a doctor she is well-aware of the CDC guidelines and its importance in her practice in order to keep the doors open.

“This data everybody is talking about, I

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Downtown parking survey open till Aug. 14

BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor

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esidents have until Aug. 14 to give their feedback on parking downtown as Gilbert looks at possibly building a third garage in the Heritage District.

The survey asks respondents 28 questions – such as how do they travel to the downtown, the reason for their visit and options they would consider using during their visits such as share-riding and valet parking for a fee.

Following the survey, work will continue with Walker Consultants, a stake-

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holder group, a steering committee and Town Council to prepare a draft of the Heritage District Parking Master Plan for September, according to spokeswoman Kiley Phillips.

“In general, this effort will include a detailed analysis of existing and future parking conditions, parking behaviors, preferences and needs and will provide scalable parking solutions and alternatives,” Phillips said. “It will provide a projection of parking supply information at various future increments.”

Additionally, the master plan will evaluate and propose a library of regulatory solutions and strategies best suited for the Heritage District in terms of on- and off-street parking, parking policy, special-event management and use of technology to enhance parking experience, according to Phillips.

She added the study will be coordinated with the most recent Heritage District Redevelopment Plan, other guiding documents as applicable, private devel-

opment and ongoing and planned capital improvement projects.

Another downtown parking garage was one of 43 projects proposed for a $465-million transportation and infrastructure bond the town originally anticipated for the November ballot that Council has now postponed until next year.

Phillips, however, said there is “no certainty” of a third parking garage downtown.

The garage’s location and size will be reviewed.

Currently, there are 2,600 townowned parking spots in the Heritage District, which includes off-street parking, the 588 parking stalls in the Hearne Plaza garage that opened in 2019 and 369 spaces in the Vaughn Avenue garage that opened in 2014.

Phillips said there are an additional 900 on-street spaces within the district.

Although one survey question asks respondents to pick a range of the max-

imum hourly fee they are willing to pay for parking, Phillips said the Council to date has opted to keep parking downtown free to the public.

“Paid parking is one of many tools available to manage parking supply and behavior,” she said, adding it would be up to the Council if there is a move to paid parking.

The 192-acre Heritage District includes the commercial areas on both sides of Gilbert Road from Juniper Avenue to near Elliot Road and the residential neighborhoods one quarter mile east and west of Gilbert Road between the Western Canal and Elliot Road. The Park University building also is located in the Heritage District.

It is a destination place for dinning and shopping and for events such as a farmers market and the annual Gilbert Days Parade.

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responsibility.

Gilbert Watch, to which Taylor is a contributor, is recommending Hendrix for the two-year seat and Hudgins and Obayomi for the two four-year seats.

A July straw poll vote by the Arizona Legislative District 12 Republican Committee showed Nielsen, Hudgins and Hendrix ahead in their respective races, followed by Obayomi. Although there were approximately 70 respondents in all, Petersen said it could translate to votes at the ballot box.

Petersen said this year more so than ever with the pandemic nixing face-toface contact with candidates, he’s been receiving calls from people for his opinion on the candidates and he believes other precinct committee members are getting the same calls.

Nielsen is a political newcomer run-

ning against well-heeled businesswoman Lynne King Smith and Brigette Peterson, who stepped away from Council in February to run for mayor.

Although Peterson doesn’t have the war chest Nielsen or King Smith have, she has name recognition from her many years of involvement in the community and town government.

Matt Nielsen Brigette Peterson Lynne King Smith Also going into the Council race with name recognition are Scott the town creating its own ambulance Jenn Daniels.

Anderson and Kathy Tilque.

Tilque spent 23 years at the helm of service – which doesn’t sit well with conPeterson, who is running for his sec- the Gilbert Chamber of Commerce be- servatives, who see it as an expansion of ond term, was a longtime town employee fore she retired in June and is actively government. who retired as its planning director. He is involved in community and town groups.

Hendrix also has name recognition credited with creating the Riparian PreSpence, who is running against Hen- from is past service on the state Legislaserve at Water Ranch in Gilbert and is the drix for the shorter term, has only been ture and he current services on the Maronly council candidate to have garnered on the Council since March. the endorsement of departing Mayor Spence also has publicly supported see ELECTION page 8

BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor

Richard Moss of Schoolhouse Development, which develops charter schools, gave Nielsen $375.

Nielsen’s expenses totaled $53,707 and included $4,000 for polling services, while the bulk was spent on advertising.

King Smith, a businesswoman and political newbie, kicked off her campaign with $50,000 of her own money.

She’s received $44,526 in contributions over $50 and $1,785 in donations under $50, according to her filings.

King Smith’s biggest donors included master-plan developer and her campaign treasurer Howard Morrison and Healthcare CEO Justin Bayless; both gave $6,450, the maximum allowed under state law.

Mariana Abelson, owner of Creo School, a Montessori school in Gilbert, also donated $6,450.

Adelaida Severson, owner of Gilbert telecommunication company Bushtex, gave $4,000; Adam Webster, CEO of Rocky Mountain Restoration, $4,300 and Matthew Even, Deloitte managing director gave $1,000.

Another notable donor to King Smith was James Johnston, owner of Fire and Brimstone at Agritopia, who gave $250.

Filings detail candidates’ support, spending

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eb domains, yard signs, car magnets and T-shirts are among the campaign items that the Gilbert mayoral and Town Council candidates bought to grab voters’ attention for the Aug. 4 primary.

According to pre-primary election filings last week, Matt Nielsen was out spending Brigette Peterson and Lynn King Smith in the race to become the town’s next mayor.

Nielsen spent most of the $54,231 that he raised while King Smith spent about a third of the $94,164 she amassed in her war chest while Peterson spent just $5,108 of the $17,279 she received.

Nielsen, who works for Charter One and is a political newcomer, saw the bulk of his donations – including a $30,000 loan from his own pocket – come during the second-quarter filing period ending June 30.

His donors included two attorneys and the wife of a third from the land-use law firm Pew&Lake. Attorneys Sean Lake and Reese Anderson and Janene Pew, the wife of attorney Ralph Pew each gave $250.

King Smith’s reported spending of $37,437 included $12,167 for printing and postage, $7,500 for campaign management costs, $68,500 for consulting, $1,880 for signs and $500 for fundraising services.

Peterson, a former town councilwoman who resigned midway into her second term to run for mayor, reported receiving $8,000 from political action committees.

They included $4,500 from Arizona Association of Realtors; $2,500 from Gilbert Firefighters and $500 each from Southwest Gas PAC and COX AZ PAC. Peterson also raised $4,710 in donations over $50 and received $2,800 for an in-kind donation from Aaron Childs.

What he provided was not reported.

Peterson’s donors included seven land-use attorneys. Jason Morris and Michael Withey from the same Phoenix law firm, each gave $250; Adam Baugh gave $300; Sean Lake, Reese Anderson and W. Ralph Pew from Pew & Lake, each gave $250 and Brennan Ray gave $250.

Peterson also received $400 from Eric Emmert, vice president of Dorn Policy Group, a lobbying and public affairs firm; $500 from Greg Davis, owner of Iplan Consulting, a land-use planning firm; and

$100 from Chad Fuller, an attorney for K Hovnanian home builder.

Peterson’s spending included $19.23 for Facebook ads, $1,053 for signs and $1,075 for yard signs. She also spent $103 for campaign shirts, $410 for sign stickers and $63 at Barrio Queen for a campaign meeting.

Mayor Jenn Daniels, who announced in February that she wasn’t seeking re-election, is spending down her war chest that at one point reached $13,000.

In her second-quarter filing, she reported a balance of $5,655 after giving money to the campaigns of Maricopa County Supervisor Jack Sellers, former Councilman Jordan Ray’s campaign for Highland Court justice of the peace and Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel.

Daniels gave each $500.

COUNCIL CANDIDATES

For the two open Council seats that carry four-year terms, Tyler Hudgins did not file his pre-primary election report by the July 27 deadline. But his second-quarter spending outpaced opponents Kathy Tilque, incumbent Scott

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Chandler ready for a very different school year

BY KEVIN REAGAN GSN Staff Writer

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ichael Buist feels ready to start the new school year.

It will be a year unlike any other when Chandler Unified students – including about 10,000 in Gilbert – start online classes Wednesday, Aug. 5, the Casteel High School math teacher acknowledged, but he’s prepared for the changes that are ahead.

Buist has been spending his summer thinking about how to adapt his teaching style to fit with the virtual landscape that’s become more ubiquitous during the COVID-19 pandemic.

After teachers were forced to suddenly shift to online instruction at the end of the last school year, Buist said he and his colleagues were forced to reassess what it means to be a teacher in the 21st century and consider revamping methods that have long been outdated.

“Teachers were really forced to think

about their practice, think about their pedagogy, and really evaluate what’s important,” he said.

Even before the shutdown, Buist was trying to introduce his students to more digital tools they could use to challenge their mathematical wits.

His frequent use of one particular software program, Mathspace, was prevalent enough for the company to name Buist one its most “esteemed educators” this year.

The honor was meant to demonstrate Buist’s dedication and compulsion to prepare for teaching in a more tech-dependent future.

Whenever he finds a new tool, Buist said he’s always eager to test the program out – it might just come in handy when a pandemic unexpectedly closes school, he said.

Buist said he has spent his summer break participating in webinars, taking online courses on blended learning and trying out new video applications like Flipgrid – anything that might help him

adjust to becoming a virtual teacher.

“I’ve basically been trying to keep my mind fresh,” he said.

Buist is one of hundreds of teachers at the Chandler Unified who have recently undergone professional development to be better equipped at navigating the virtual world.

Larry Rother, the district’s senior executive director for K-12 services, said very few CUSD teachers had ever had to instruct their classes entirely online before the pandemic hit.

Once Chandler Unified realized its campuses wouldn’t reopen for the end of its spring semester, Rother said administrators immediately started training teachers on Google Classrooms and other online tools.

So much of what happened during the last semester was done in reaction to the pandemic, he said, and there wasn’t time to flush out all the unexpected challenges of educating 47,000 students online.

The district hadn’t been sure how many

students even had access to a computer at home – forcing some families to rely on paper assignments they’d have to regularly pick up from their school site.

Chandler Unified has since spent millions purchasing hundreds of extra laptops for the upcoming school year and district officials say they are confident they’ll have enough to avoid any students having to depend on paper packets again.

The district also is allowing some students to use computers located at their respective school campus. These in-person computer sessions would be supervised by staff and students are expected to keep a safe distance from others.

The expanded access to technology and retraining of teachers will make this upcoming semester much different than how the last one ended, Rother said.

Chandler Unified has spent the summer preparing for a semester that will be more comprehensive and structured than

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icopa County Community College District Board. His endorsements include Rep. Petersen.

“Having been on the Council is beneficial,” said Paul Bentz, senior vice president of research and strategy for HighGround, a Republican consulting firm.

“Especially during this pandemic, incumbency and name ID are very helpful,” Bentz added. “Candidates without it can’t go door-to-door or hold events or go to typical places you go in public to meet people when running for office.”

Bentz said other things that can help candidates are endorsements and money.

“Money is always important in politics,” he said. “But there’s been lots of candidates spending lots of money and don’t win.”

Yentes and Yung Koprowski are the only two Council members not running.

Also on the ballot is the town’s General Plan, a 10-year blueprint guiding Gilbert’s growth.

In order to win the primary outright, a candidate needs a majority of the votes, which is based on a complicated formula.

It includes dividing the total number of votes by the number of seats in that race to be filled, then dividing that number in half and rounding to the next highest whole number.

If there is no majority, the election goes into the Nov. 3 General Election.

Town Clerk Lisa Maxwell said there’s a chance at least some candidates could win outright Tuesday night.

“The only one I am pretty much certain that will be done in August is the two- year seat,” she said. “That could go to November though if it is close between the two candidates on the ballot and the two write-in candidates get enough to keep anyone from getting the minimum number of votes needed to win. Otherwise, I really don’t know.”

Joshua Lipscomb is running as a write-in candidate for mayor and Ronaldo Ruiz is running as a write-in candidate for the twoyear seat.

Anderson and Bus Obayomi.

Hudgins, owner of a Social Tech Consulting business, raised $17,670 through the end of June 30 and spent $14,439.

For the second-quarter, Hudgins loaned his campaign $2,400 and reported $5,000 for in-kind donation from himself for social tech consulting services.

His donors included land-use attorneys Ralph Pew, Sean Lake and Reese Anderson, who each gave $200; developer Gerald Ricke, $500; attorney Brennan Ray, $200; Realtor Raymond Olsen, $500 and real estate developer William Olsen, $500.

Town Councilwoman Aimee Yentes gave $150 and Councilman Jared Taylor gave $300. Taylor has given the Hudgins campaign a total of $650 to date.

Hudgins also got PAC money of $500 from Pinnacle West and $350 from COX. Hudgins’ expenses include $8,800 for signs and $171 for ads.

Tilque was the next highest fundraiser with $15,815, of which she spent $5,096, according to her pre-primary report.

Donors included Emmert of Dorn Policy Group with $400; attorneys Withey and Morris, who each gave $250; and attorney Baugh, who gave $300. Kathleen Dowler of Dignity Health gave $250 and Bryan Brundrett of Norwood Furniture gave $200.

Her in-kind donation included $1,226 from Eric Reber, owner of SpeedPro; Total PAC donations to Tilque included $350 from Cox; $3,000 from Arizona

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Scott Anderson

Laurin Hendrix

Tyler Hudgins

Bus Obayomi

Bill Spence

Kathy Tilque

Where to vote

Polls will be open from 6 a.m.-7p.m., Election Day, Aug.4.

People in line at 7 p.m. will be permitted to cast a ballot.

People can cast a ballot at any voter center, regardless of where they live.

In Gilbert, those centers are: • Southeast Regional Library, 775 E. Greenfield Road • Gilbert Freestone Recreation Center, 1141 E. Guadalupe

Road.

• Gateway Fellowship, 60 N. Recker Road • American Leadership Academy, 1010 S. Higley Road • American Leadership Academy, 1750 E. Riggs Road

For other polling locations, go to recorder.maricopa.gov/ pollingplace

Association of Realtors; $800 from Salt River Project; $500 from Pinnacle West and $1,200 from Gilbert Firefighters.

Tilque also loaned her campaign $875.

Her campaign spending included $3,116 for endorsement decals, $2,847 for campaign signs and $184 for campaign car magnets.

Anderson raised $11,310 for his shot at a second term.

His donors included $4,500 from Realtors of Arizona PAC and $350 from COX. He also received money from attorney Pew of $200; attorney Lake, $200 and attorney Anderson, $200.

Other donors included small-business owner Debra Carr, who gave $100 and Gilbert Public Schools Governing Board mem-

ber Jill Humpherys, who gave $60. Anderson also loaned his campaign $4,000.

His spending was the second highest with $6,517 – all going for campaign mailers.

Obayomi, a digital consultant, reported raising $4,367 and spent all of it.

However, a tally from his filings showed he raised $4,799.

His donations in the second quarter totaled $2,550 from six donors. He also loaned himself $821 in the second quarter, for a total of $ 2,249 in personal loans to date. He spent $3,071 in the second quarter for signs and reported spending $1,296 in the first quarter but did not

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Gilbert charter’s lunch menu goes anti-allergen GSN NEWS STAFF

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he cafeteria at San Tan Charter School in Gilbert is focusing on healthier lunches meals this school

year.

As a result of a partnership with Intentional Foods, a Mesa company that specializes in allergy-friendly products, PreK through sixth-grade students at San Tan Charter will get hot lunches that are also low in sugar, high in nutrition and free from common allergens.

Principal Sarah Laramie said that for the last few years, Intentional Foods has provided food for San Tan Charter School’s teacher galas and family events.

But to further advance the school’s “whole child” approach to education – which includes daily physical education classes – the school is encouraging a low-sugar diet with firm boundaries for sugary items.

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For example, on Mondays starting this fall, students who buy their lunch will choose from pasta with meat or marinara sauce with a tossed side salad; a SoCal Mexi bowl or a House Carol Page, Santan Charter’s office manager, and culinary teacher Justin Chop Salad tossed in ranch Richardson, recently served a lunch catered by Intentional Foods to more style dressing. than 60 staffers at the school’s Power Road campus. (Special to GSN) On Tuesday, the choices will be turmeric chicken San Tan is ‘active bodies mean engaged served with rice, tahini-free hummus and minds,’” Laramie said. veggies or a taco salad.

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BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor

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wo former Gilbert councilmen who left midway into their terms for higher office are running in highly contested races in Tuesday’s primary.

Eddie Cook is running for the Republican nomination for Maricopa County assessor Jordan Ray is one of four candidates in the Republican primary for justice of peace for Highland Justice Court in Gilbert.

Cook and Rodney Glassman are vying for a chance to face unchallenged Democrat Aaron Connor in the November.

Both Cook and Glassman have some name recognition – Cook from his years on Gilbert Council and his short time as assessor and Glassman, a former Tucson councilman who’s run for U.S. Senate and the Arizona Corporation Commission.

Glassman also unsuccessfully applied for appointment bv the county supervisors to the Maricopa County Attorney job in 2019 and the assessor’s post earlier this year when the supervisors were replacing Paul Peterson, who is now convicted in a massive human smuggling operation.

Glassman, a former Democrat and current Phoenix resident, is ahead of Cook in raising campaign donations, according to their pre-primary filings.

But Glassman is no stranger when it comes to raising big money. In 2010 when he was seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate against the late John McCain, Glassman reportedly raised over $1 million, of which $500,000 came out of his own pocket.

In the assessor race, Glassman’s raised $359,684 with hefty contributions from Joseph and Kasey Steenbergen of Colorado, who each gave $5,000 and Mesa investor Elijah Cardon, who gave the allowed maximum of $6,450.

Gilbert donors included Brandon Craig, who provides leadership consulting; contractor Devin Breinholt; Dale Huish, owner of Ideal Cars; and Maurice Tanner, owner of M.R. Tanner Construction, who each gave $2,500.

The Elect Noel Campbell for House committee in Prescott donated $5,000

Eddie Cook and political action committees, UFCW Local 99 and Arizonans for Stronger Universities, each gave $6,450.

Other notable donors included Jerry Moyes, owner of Swift Transportation, limited partner in the Arizona Diamondbacks and minority owner of the Phoenix Suns, who gave $1,000; and Mark Schnepf, owner of Schnepf Farms, who gave $450.

According to his latest filing, Glassman’s spent $220,142, mostly on consulting services and digital media.

Cook’s campaign raised $145,000 of his own money, $4,000 from Realtors of Arizona and the Gilbert Firefighters PACs and $1,300 from contributions over $100.

So far, he’s spent $141,281 for campaign consulting, yard signs and campaign management and related services and items.

Glassman’s spending is obvious, one expert noted.

“In my neck of the world, he has tons of signs out,” said Paul Bentz, senior vice president of research and strategy for HighGround, a Republican consulting firm.

Bentz said both Cook and Glassman, an attorney, are politically connected. And, because the general public is clueless about the office, the race can be won or lost by precinct committeemen, he added.

“Talk to them and get a gauge who they pick,” Bentz said. “It’s a stronger indication who will win.”

Both Cook and Glassman are running as conservative Republicans.

Cook ‘s endorsements included U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-AZ, County Supervisors Bill Gates, Steve Chucri, Jack Sellers

and Clint Hickman, state Senate Majority Leader Rick Gray, Gilbert Mayor Jenn Daniels, Peoria Mayor Cathy Carlat, Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane and Chandler Mayor Kevin Hartke.

Glassman’s supporters included U.S. Rep. Jordan Ray Paul Gosar and David Schweikert, both of Arizona, state House Speaker Rusty Bowers, former Gov. Jan Brewer and Gilbert Councilman Jared Taylor.

Cook acknowledged he didn’t have the funds to buy TV and radio ads like his opponent has. He also noted that he can’t get out and meet people on the campaign trail due to the pandemic.

“The thing I always say to folks is I was unanimously selected by the Board of Supervisors,” Cook said. “They completely vetted all 11 candidates and they deemed me the most qualified and based on my 30-plus years in corporate America as a business leader and nine years serving as a public servant on Gilbert Town Council.”

At the time of Cook’s selection, supervisors noted his background, which includes in technology, his character and his ability to bring integrity to the office.

“There’s this unbelievable mess as it relates to technology in the assessor’s office,” Cook said. “That previous leadership team has been trying to work on it the last five years. The Board of Supervisors know with my technology background I could get this back on track.

“This system our office is using today was created back in 1992. The original vendor that sold this to the assessor’s office back then no longer supports this technology….It’s like a fancy calculator – if it breaks, our office is shut down.”

“That is partly why supervisors picked me,” he said. “My opponent has no skills in this area, zero.”

Ray’s opponents are Aaron Burroughs, Gregory Kelly and Ken Sampson. There

are no Democrats running.

Ray reported raising $25,006, $10,000 of it his own money, and spending $11,238.

His donors included Gilbert retiree George Dottl, who gave $1,000; attorney Adam Baugh, $300; and Gilbert Public Schools Governing Board members Reed Carr, $200, and Sheila Ugetti, who gave $50.

Ray, a trial consultant, also received money from candidate committees Jenn for Mayor, $500 and Vote Jordan Ray, $6,031.

His spending included buying signs, shirts and magnets and Facebook ads.

Endorsements included Gilbert Mayor Jenn Daniels, Gilbert Councilmen Scott Anderson and Scott September, Gilbert Public Schools Governing Board members Reed Carr, Lori Wood and Jill Humpherys and developer Howard Morrison.

Ray saw a slight hiccup early in his election bid after Sampson filed a challenge to his nomination petition. Ray won in court.

Attorney Burroughs financed his campaign with his own money to the tune of $25,786 and spent all of it, according to his filings. His expenditures included YouTube ads, signs and printing costs.

Kelly, an asset recovery agent, received no outside donations, spending $1,405 of his own money on his campaign for signs, precinct voter list, internet hosting and business cards.

Attorney Sampson did not file his pre-primary election report by the July 27 deadline.

His second quarter report showed he had $7,691 in the bank from donors, including Gilbert Councilman Jared Taylor, who gave $100, and state Rep. Warren Peterson, who gave $300. Sampson loaned his campaign $6,424.

There were no details of his spending in the filings.

Sampson touts a long list of supporters, including U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-AZ; state Sen. Eddie Farnsworth, state Reps.

Warren Peterson and Travis Grantham, Gilbert Council members Jared Taylor and Aimee Yentes and former Gilbert Councilman Victor Petersen.

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don’t know if we are just all watching Fox news or everyone is watching CNN but the cases are supposed to go up,” Slater said.

“Everyone is supposed to have contracted this at some point. We are all supposed to have some sort of antibodies to this eventually.”

She said COVID-19 is a disease of the elderly and those with comorbidities but for “children not so much.”

She said she gets that adults are teaching the children but she didn’t see it as a reason to shut down a school district and that if that was the line of thinking, then school should be canceled for the fall because of the flu.

“The percentage of deaths is going down,” Slater said. “The cases that we are focusing on are going up. The facts are there, how we perceive them are so different.”

She added she’s not a teacher and would not be good at it, and was not asking but hoped the board would reopen schools on Aug. 17.

Superintendent Shane McCord said the board could keep with the Aug. 17 date or push it back.

Board members went back and forth over a motion with Reed Carr and Lori Wood favoring language that the district would open schools when the state benchmarks are met without setting a date for return.

However, President Charles Santa Cruz and board members Sheila Rogers Uggetti and Jill Humpherys wanted some sort of a date so teachers and families could plan accordingly.

Dr. Kelly Slater, who runs a Mesa dental practice with her husband, urged the GPS Governing Board to reopen campuses. (Special to GSN)

They finally agreed to see what guidelines the state releases this week before deciding what will happen Aug. 17.

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Associate Superintendent Dawn Foley, charged with overseeing the reopening of schools, said the surveys are due back Monday, Aug. 4, and will help the district with staffing.

The board scheduled a 9 a.m., Aug. 8 meeting to discuss the survey results and the state benchmark for reopening classrooms.

Foley also updated the board on the first days of online learning and said they went smoothly.

She and staff also detailed on how attendance is being kept, the safety protocols in place and how food services are being maintained.

Michael Fowler, assistant superintendent of support services, reported that an outside evaluation of the district’s buildings found Higley is “ahead of the curve” for safety for when students and staff return to campuses.

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Noting that computers are part of virtual learning, Cox also is partnering with local schools and organizations to

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said last week. “I will miss serving the teachers, students and community of HUSD.” The race now drops down to five people running for the three seats – incumbents Greg Wojtovich and Kristina Reese and challengers Tiffany Shultz, Michelle Bugg and Michelle Anderson.

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30 years after ADA’s signing, disabled still face challenges

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pril Reed remembers what it used to be like before the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed.

Reed remembers her father, who wears hearing aids, telling her how he was turned away from a job interview. She remembers a colleague hoping every day that the bus would be wheelchair-accessible when it came by, so she could go about her day.

She remembers another colleague with a master’s degree but an obvious physical disability that cost him his job.

The ADA, signed 30 years ago July 26, changed all that.

“That’s what the ADA did,” said Reed, the vice president of advocacy at Ability360.

“It released people from some of these limitations and gave them the basis of civil rights to go into a job interview and have those protections or expect for a bus to roll up and be accessible.”

But the act did more than force physical and legal protections – in the words of one advocate, it forced Americans to see people with disabilities “as fully human” for the first time.

Despite the gains of the last 30 years, however, advocates say there is still work to improve what one called a “baby law” if the country wants to fully guarantee the rights of people with disabilities.

“Every day there are court cases that further expand … the ADA so that people understand their rights and then employers and public accommodations understand their responsibilities,” said J.J Rico, CEO of the Arizona Center for Disability Law. Gilbert lists ADA coordinators and other information to help disabled residents at gilbertaz.gov/community/about-us/ ada-compliance.

On that site, it notes the town “will not discriminate against qualified individuals with disabilities on the basis of disability in its services, programs, or activities” and says it “all reasonable modifications to policies and programs to ensure that people with disabilities have an equal opportunity to enjoy all of its programs, services, and activities.”

It adds, “The ADA does not require the

The late President George H. W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act 30 years ago and Gilbert is one of the top municipalities in the nation for disabled people to thrive, according to a recent survey. (Special to GSN)

Town of Gilbert to take any action that would fundamentally alter the nature of its programs or services, or impose an undue financial or administrative burden.”

The personal finance website wallethub. com last fall ranked Gilbert sixth among 150 cities nationwide – and third among all Arizona municipalities – for overall friendliness toward people with disabilities.

Wallethub analyzed 21 different metrics to determine the economic environment, quality of life and healthcare.

In that survey, Gilbert was behind second-ranked Scottsdale and third-ranked Peoria, but ahead of Chandler, which ranked 14th and Mesa, which tied in 39th place with Kansas City, Missouri.

President George H.W. Bush signed the ADA into law on July 26, 1990. It prohibited discrimination in housing, employment, public accommodations, transportation and more for the disabled community.

The law defines a person with a disability as someone who has physical or mental impairment “that substantially limits one or more major life activities.”

The Census Bureau estimates that 12.6 percent of Americans were categorized as

having a disability in 2018, the latest year for which numbers were available, while the rate in Arizona was 13.3 percent.

Jon Meyers, the executive director of the Arc of Arizona, said that before the law was passed, people with disabilities were considered an afterthought and accommodating them was considered “too much work.”

The act “completely remade the world,” at least in terms of accommodations, he said.

“I would say we as a society are now viewing individuals with disabilities, Arizonans with disabilities, as fully human – as people who deserve the respect and the equal level of access to public accommodations and to public benefits that everybody else deserves,” Meyers said.

It’s been a struggle, but he said the “awareness and the advocacy have snowballed … over the last several decades, and will continue to snowball.”

“There is no fairy dust that we can sprinkle that’s going to change everybody’s attitude immediately but we’ve come so far,” Meyers said. “We’re going to start seeing what each individual needs and how we can meet those needs to help them become better employed, better educated,

and have more opportunity for inclusion in their communities.”

But hurdles remain. Meyers noted that in addition to providing people with intellectual and developmental disabilities with services, the Arc of Arizona also actively works with state legislators to tackle laws and bills that expand, or defend, the purpose of the ADA. Legislators like Arizona Rep. Jennifer Longdon, D-Phoenix, who uses a wheelchair.

“I still encounter barriers on a daily basis – barriers that you would think, 30 years post-ADA, wouldn’t exist,” Longdon said. “It’s going to be a continued fight to bring awareness and visibility of this particular community to the typically abled community.”

Longdon, who was paralyzed in a random drive-by shooting in 2004, has been working on bills focusing on people with disabilities since she was elected to the House in 2018. She sees it as part of the larger struggle for civil rights.

“Civil rights have always been taken – by women, by African Americans, by Native Americans, by people with disabilities, by the LGBTQ community,” Longdon said.

“None of these communities have just been given rights. They had to speak up, and demand them and take them.”

And the community faces new challenges today that could not have been dreamed of when the act was passed in 1990 – like access to the internet, a problem that has been highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

As society has transitioned to remote work and online shopping, the challenges that people with disabilities face with utilizing the internet have become obvious.

What’s not obvious, Rico said, is how far the ADA goes to accommodations for online services.

“We’re talking about a pandemic that has been restricting us to our homes,” Rico said. “So how do we shop? We use the internet. We have Instacart and other delivery services. And so I think the ADA has to clearly apply to websites.”

Rico said the pandemic has also put a damper on what should have been

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what students had to endure at the end of last year.

“Our schools are going to be up and running come Aug. 5 and it will look very much different than the fourth quarter,” Rother added.

Like many districts in Arizona, Chandler Unified will spend the first couple weeks teaching all its students virtually and eventually open up its campuses for in-person learning on Aug. 17.

That date is still tentative, district officials said, since it could be pushed back after Gov. Doug Ducey two weeks ago gave districts the authority to decide when to start in-classroom learning after Aug. 17.

Ducey said he would release by Aug. 7 guildelines for basing that decision on scientific data related to the prevalence of the coronavirus in their communities.

At least two members of the Chandler Unified Governing Board – Lindsay Love and David Evans – had spoken out against Ducey’s earlier mandate to open in-person classes on Aug. 17 and petitioned the governor to delay it until October.

Regardless of when CUSD campuses reopen, at least 13,000 students are planning to enroll in the district’s online curriculum for at least the first half of the upcoming semester.

About 2,500 of these students have indicated they plan to learn online for the entire year.

The district will permit online students to switch to in-person learning at the end of each quarter. Nearly 7,800 students

for the in-person students will be quite different than what the district’s online students will experience.

The Chandler Online Academy, which is the platform online students will enroll through, operates with a specific curriculum developed by Florida Virtual School.

The Academy’s secondary students work at Math teacher Michael Buist is anxious for Chandler Unified to reopen campuses, but their own pace only when it’s safe. In the meantime, he’s been boning up on technology so he is ready for virtual classes when the district begins the school year Wednesday. (Pablo Robles/GSN) to get through six assigned courses are planning to return to their campuses and can virtually chat with online inwhen the second quarter starts. structors.

Since only 13,000 students have comThe Academy’s elementary students mitted to online learning, that means a will be given a more structured schedlarge majority of Chandler’s 47,000 stu- ule with times set out for when they’re dents intend to return to the classroom expected to start and finish a lesson. whenever campuses reopen.

Students are guaranteed to have at least In the meantime, students will be as- three live interactions with an Academy signed a schedule and begin correspond- instructor each day. ing with their teachers through Google Teachers will provide skill-based inClassrooms. When students arrive to struction based on each student’s needs, campus to begin in-person learning, driven by data collected from the Acadthey’ll have the same teachers as during emy’s self-paced content and other asthe virtual period. sessment protocols.

Rother said this initial virtual period Elementary students will additionally

be assigned virtual classmates they’ll engage with in community-building activities, group projects, and social emotional curriculum.

If an Academy student wishes to switch to in-person learning, Rother said then they would return to their respective campus and be assigned new teachers.

The district is trying to avoid in-person teachers from having to teach virtual students simultaneously to their classroom students and vice versa for the Academy’s instructors.

“Our hope is to make the transition as seamless as we can for students who leave Chandler Online Academy and come back to the homesite,” Rother said.

Buist said he’s trying not to think of in-person and online teaching as two separate realms.

There’s not much difference between the two, he said, because the content doesn’t change when it’s delivered virtually.

Though Buist seems fairly confident about how he’ll handle teaching content this year, he worries about how he’ll build relationships with his new students.

It will be difficult creating a sense of community during those first couple weeks when every student will be learning online, Buist said.

He’d like to figure out a way for him and his students to feel connected without being in the same room together. But accomplishing that goal may be easier said than done.

“I don’t know if I ever figure things out,” Buist joked.

show how that money was spent.

In the race for the two-year Council seat, Laurin Hendrix garnered five times the amount of money raised by his oppo-

nent, incumbent Bill Spence.

Hendrix received no outside donations, according to his filings.

All his $30,956 came out of his own pocket. He also spent it all, with most going to The Resolute Group for direct

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Spence raised $6,204 and spent $5,329, according to his latest filing.

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in-person 30th anniversary celebrations for the ADA, but he has been pleased to see virtual celebrations.

“I would have loved to see people with disabilities out celebrating the progress and sharing the stories out in public,”

Rico said. “But I’m hoping that some of these virtual ADA celebrations get attention so that people with disabilities can share their stories.”

Reed sees the fact that people have taken to social media with hashtags and

pictures to share their stories for the 30th anniversary is more proof of the support for the ADA. “Just those simple signs – it really does remind you of what the ADA has done,” she said.

“And again, we are not done. There is still much work to do,” Reed said. “But certainly being grateful for where we are, knowing this is the foundation, this is the basis for what work we will do in the future.”

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Gilbert photographer shoots to give back

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en days after he turned 60, Jeff Dewey got a pink slip from Oracle.

The former senior account executive was one of the millions of workers across the country sent to the unemployment line by COVID-19’s stranglehold on the economy.

“I was in the software business for 32 years,” Dewey said. “Customers weren’t buying and they cut back and I was one of the ones they cut.”

To help Dewey and others in the Valley get back on their feet, Gilbert professional photographer Cari Hall recently took their headshots for free.

Hall was part of a single-day initiative spearheaded by Headshot Booker, where 200 photographers in pop-up studios nationwide took pictures of 10,000 people out of work so they can post it on LinkedIn to find a job.

According to the online job and networking service, a profile picture is a key element of a person’s LinkedIn presence and that research found a profile with a headshot is 14 times more likely to be viewed by others.

“It’s huge,” Hall said. “This is the first digital handshake.”

A longtime professional photographer, Hall switched to taking headshots four years ago with her company HeadshotProsAZ.com.

She has felt the pandemic pinch in her business but stayed afloat by shooting real estate assignments.

But she knows others haven’t been as fortunate and wanted to volunteer her labor and equipment for free. Normally she would charge $150 for a basic headshot and some photographers charge upwards of $200 to $400, according to Hall.

“The biggest thing here is people who

Gilbert Photographer Cari Hall helped job-seekers by donating her time and talent to taking professional head shots they could use on LinkedIn as they look for work through the social media site. online (Pablo Robles/GSN Staff Photographer)

Jeff Deey took advantage of Cari Hall’s generosity and got a professional head shot he can use on LinkedIn as he looks for a new job after losing his during the early stages of the pandemic. (Pablo Robles/GSN Staff Photographer)

are out of work, it’s hard for them to see an end to this corona thing,” she said.

“It’s frustrating. Hopefully we can do

something, maybe get someone in front of the camera and give them some confidence and excitement.”

The 10,000 Headshots initiative is the brainchild of Tony Taafe, who co-founded Headshot Booker with renowned portrait photographer Peter Hurley and national event photographer Lauren Lieberman.

Taafe, who has a photography studio in Scottsdale and in Los Angeles, was taking headshots in Las Angeles for the event.

One other Valley photographer dropped out, leaving Hall and two photographers in Tucson shooting for Arizona.

The 200 hand-picked independent photographers in 50 states were limited to 50 participants in order to allow for social distancing. The estimated value of their work for the event was pegged at $2.5 million.

Those who signed up for their 10-minute session also were given access to a private Facebook group, where they were given tips on how to pose and get a great headshot.

Hall said a well-taken headshot conveys to potential employers that a person is approachable, confident and competent, adding “a picture is worth a thousand words.”

Hall was fully booked for the nine hours July 22 with 50 participants who showed up at The Forum, a co-working space in Chandler that provided the studio space. People wore masks until their portrait was taken.

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“This is an excellent opportunity,” he said. “I’m happy to find out about it.”

He was called into the makeshift studio, with a screen and light units.

Hall climbed onto a step stool and called out instructions for him.

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“Imagine you have a string coming off the top of your head,” she told Byrd.

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Now have a smile.”

After a few shots, she paused and gave him a paper towel to wipe his forehead to reduce the glare. Pre-Covid-19, she would have make-up available and worked alongside a makeup artist when shooting a client, Hall said.

“OK, I need the nice guy, the superhero, what does that look like?” Halls said, eliciting a toothy smile from Byrd.

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Dewey, who said he doesn’t take good pictures, was immediately put at ease in front of the camera.

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Dewey said the Amazon gig was a side business but now it’s become full time, making it important he had a good picture of himself on the site.

His wife had a professional headshot from her real estate job while his “looked cheesy.” It was from a photograph of him at a party and his wife tried to erase the background and it looked like his head was cut out, he said.

Despite being on her feet for most of the day, Hall said she was honored and excited to take part in the event.

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atie Ellering, one of Tortilla Flat’s new owners, isn’t about modernizing the remnant of the Old West

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She and her fiancé/operations director, Chris Field, just want to bring a fresh look to the tourist attraction, which boasts a population of six.

“The most important thing to remember is we—the owners—are temporary,” said Field, who lives in Gilbert with Ellering.

“We’re transitioning what Tortilla Flat was into the 21st century. We’re not a sports bar or a strip mall that’s going to be gone in 10 years. This is a historical Arizona property that will be here for another 100 years,” Ellering said, adding: “Our goal, as caretakers, is property maintenance and we want to keep the look and the feel and provide programming to make sure we’ll be able to pass it on.”

Ellering has owned it since September with partners Ryan Coady, Tom Misitano and Dale Evans.

“We thought this was such a unique thing and we were like, ‘Yeah, let’s do this,’” Ellering said. “We got together and made it work.”

So far, the team has upgraded the kitchen and the food on the menu, except – Ellering and Field are quick to add – the famous chili recipe that’s been around since the 1940s.

“It’s a time-honored tradition and that will not change,” she said.

The chili, which is also found on the chili dog, is part of a hearty American menu that includes the Mucho Macho nacho ($15.99); Roosevelt Dam Good wings ($7.99 starting price); Gaucho cheesesteak ($12.49); Ol’ Faithful BLT ($11.49); chicken street tacos ($12.59)

Nestled in the Superstitition Mountain range, Tortilla Flat boasts a population of six and is a draw for hundreds of tourists.

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The saloon at Tortilla Flat is known for its saddle bar stools and good food.The new owners, including Katie Ellering of Gilbert, intend to add some fun features as well. (Special to GSN)

and fajita salad ($14.39).

“We have great food,” Field said. “We

do. Is our food better than what you’ll find elsewhere? Maybe. We’re trying to

create an experience. It’s a little gem of an experience.”

After having a meal in the saloon, guests can head to the Tortilla Flat General Store and Ice Cream Shop, where they can enjoy its well-known prickly pear gelato, or take home prickly pear barbecue sauce or a Tortilla Flat “Killer Chili” packet.

The owners have heard plenty of heartwarming stories from visitors to Tortilla Flat. They see children dressed up as cowboys and cowgirls and the awe on their face when they’re out there.

“They’re used to growing up in the city and when they come out here, they play in the dirt and see cactus everywhere,” she said “They have a lot of fun.

They have a lot of fun with the dollar bills, too.”

“I got a letter a few months ago that had a dollar bill in it. A young kid had taken one of the dollars off of the wall (at Superstition Saloon and Restaurant) and had written us a letter of apology and sent us the dollar bill back. It was really cute.”

The couple have been visited by folks who have donated the collectibles that fill the saloon, like the saddles that sit atop hand-carved bar stools and worn leather goods that are tacked to the walls.

One of the fun parts of Tortilla Flat is its history and games. Field explained in the frontier days, if there were more than 100 permanent residents, you were considered a town or settlement and you’re officially on the map.

“Tortilla Flat was never big enough to have that prestige,” he said. “We were big enough to have a post office. Because of that, there’s no real town hall records or building plans. Most of what we know about Tortilla Flat has been assembled by different people who were here.”

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No one knows the real story behind the name, Tortilla Flat. But one is believable, Field said. It’s understood that it came from a family who was caught in a monsoon in the 1930s in the area. After being stuck for a couple days, all they had left was masa and water.

“They were down to eating tortillas for the last couple of days,” he said. “So, they called it Tortilla Flat.”

A man who visited in the early 2000s said he lived there when he was a child.

He sketched a picture on a napkin of the town before fires and floods ravaged it. It included the Goldbrick Motel, which was constructed from mud bricks manufactured on-site out of clay in the ground and then mixed with gold-dust from the local miners in the Superstitions at the time.

The kitchenettes in the motels were rented to tourists until 1987 when a fire destroyed the entire town. A building that replaced it houses the gift shop and post office.

“Every time it rains, we have a little

creek alongside the property,” he said.

“You can see little shiny flecks.”

Other stories revolve around the items that adorn the walls of the saloon.

“One of the funny things is, maybe a month ago, there was a couple here who were like, ‘Hey, that stuff right there is ours—that gun and jacket. We donated that,’” Ellering recalls.

“People are so proud to have their things up on the wall and just be a part of history. There are some really cool, fun stories and things that happen out here.

Tortilla Flat is a self-sufficient little town, according to Ellering.

“We’ve got a sewer plant. We’ve got a water plant. We do process our own water,” she said. “However, we don’t even have a phone line. We can’t get a landline here. So, when people call us, they don’t know that they’re calling a cellphone because we don’t have a landline. We can’t get the internet.”

Field and the all-female leadership team – Ellering; restaurant manager

Renee Lockhart; restaurant supervisor Marba Carroll; and kitchen manager Kaleena Gallegos; and retail manager Stephany Duarte – are planning some improvements.

They include painting signs and creating a town newspaper with treasure hunts for kids, a historical crossword puzzle and stories of Tortilla Flat.

“It’ll be all silly advertisements, like period pieces,” Field said. “I have this really fun idea.”

Field said Tortilla Flat, which also houses a museum, is perfect for a day visit for Valley families during the pandemic.

“You don’t have to commit to a day of travel or two days of travel,” he said.

“You can spend a half day with us and get away from all the craziness.

“Our goal is to take what’s here and just make sure that it looks fantastic, it’s in repair so people can create memories with their families long after we’re dead and gone.”

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At National Cardiovascular Partners (NCP) and our partnering clinics, we take the privacy and security of our patients’ information seriously. NCP is a managing partner of Cardiac Cath Lab of Phoenix, Arizona Cardiovascular Institute, Cardiovascular Center of Mesa, and Cardiovascular Therapeutics of Mesa in Mesa, Arizona (the clinics). We are providing the following information to inform our patients that a third party may have had unauthorized access to information about some patients who were seen at the clinics.

On April 27, 2020, an unauthorized individual obtained access to an NCP employee’s email account. NCP became aware of the unauthorized access on May 19, 2020 and took immediate steps to contain the incident. We terminated the unauthorized access to the email account the same day it was discovered and worked with a leading cybersecurity forensics firm to investigate this matter.

As part of our investigation, NCP conducted an extensive review of the employee’s email account to determine if any emails contained personal information. As a result of that review, beginning on June 18 NCP identified emails containing the names, addresses, dates of birth, dates relating to the provision of medical services or the payment for services, medical history and diagnosis information, prescription information, health provider information, insurance numbers, email addresses, and medical record numbers for some of our patients. We also identified emails containing the Social Security numbers of two individuals and the financial account information of one individual for whom we do not have current contact information to send a personalized notification letter.

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At this time, we are not aware of any unauthorized viewing or misuse of our patients’ information. All available evidence suggests that the unauthorized individual’s purpose was to attempt to commit financial fraud against NCP—not to seek and obtain any personal information of patients. NCP sent notification letters by first class mail to all potentially affected individuals for whom we have up-to-date contact information and have arranged to provide them with 12 months of identity protection and fraud resolution services through Experian.

Any individuals who receive a notification letter from NCP or who might otherwise be concerned about identity theft are encouraged to regularly review statements from their accounts and to periodically obtain their credit report from one or more of the national credit reporting companies. Individuals may obtain a copy of their credit report once every 12 months by either visiting http://www.annualcreditreport.com, calling toll free at 1-877-322-8228, or completing an Annual Credit Report Request Form (found at https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/ 0155-free-credit-reports) and mailing it to: Annual Credit Report Request Service, P.O. Box 105281, Atlanta, GA 30348-5281. For questions about identity theft, credit monitoring, and how to keep information secure, patients can visit this website: http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/topics/identity-theft.

Individuals who received care at one of the clinics and have not received a notification letter may call (833) 281-4826 toll-free to determine whether their information has been identified as being involved.

Published: East Valley Tribune, July 26, Aug 2, 12, 2020 / 32042

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