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NEWS................................3 New Town logo faces rethinking.
COMMUNITY.......... 17 Limelight Theatre emerges from COVID-19 darkness.
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Gilbert toilets a gateway to COVID-19 observers BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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very time someone flushes a toilet in Gilbert, it helps Arizona State University scientists track the spread of COVID-19 in town before it becomes an outbreak. Since May, the town has been collecting weekly samples of wastewater from three locations – the Gilbert Commons lift station, which moves wastewater from a lower to higher elevation, and the Neely and
Greenfield water reclamation plants. It sends the samples to ASU’s Biodesign Institute for testing. “When sampling first started, the COVID-19 restrictions were keeping COVID-19 wastewater concentrations so low they came back as ‘non-detect’,” said town Wastewater Manager Ken Snow. “We eventually became concerned our testing locations were too diluted to get any reading at all. As restrictions were lifted we started getting detections, generally correlating with other reported metrics.”
Gilbert’s strategy captures almost the entire community, the only exception being a small area in northeast Gilbert, which flows to Mesa, Snow said. Snow said the town general gets a “a snapshot of health” for northwest Gilbert discharging to the Neely Water Reclamation Facility, a separate reading on southeast Gilbert discharging to the Greenfield Water Reclamation Facility and one for the Gilbert Commons community, which
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Gilbert’s pandemic loss: 100 memorable years No parade, no rodeo
BY SRIANTHI PERERA GSN Contributor
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or the first time in more than four decades, Gilbert Days Rodeo, the traditional celebration of Gilbert’s Western heritage, won’t be held in its original form. The pandemic has robbed the town of the entertaining threeday spectacle of handsome cowboys bucking bulls and nattily dressed young women executing drills on stately horses. Maricopa County did not issue organizers Gilbert Promotional Corporation the necessary permits on time, and there was a question as to whether the permits would be issued at all. Hence, this week, the group called it off. The event, which last year drew about 1,200 people a day and had spectators sitting elbow-to-elbow on crowded bleachers,
Mildred Riggs Korsten, a resident at The Oaks at Gilbert, marked her 100th birthday last week. For a look at her life, see page 8.. (Pablo Robles/GSN Staff Photographer)
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