February 2015
Relentlessly local coverage of Gilbert and our neighboring communities
Arizona snow day
Bianca Darling rocks her cool shades for the Flurry Festival at Adora Trails.
Town, church await Supreme Court decision
Friends remember Highland High grad after tragic accident
BY MEGHAN MCCOY
BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI
The pastor of Good News Community Church said he never imagined that his fight against the Town of Gilbert to use temporary directional signs would be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. “I am 82 years old and have been a pastor for over 40 years,” Pastor Clyde Reed said at a January press conference held outside the Washington, D.C., court. “All we wanted to do was use temporary signs to welcome and invite the community to our Sunday morning services.” Reed’s representation filed suit in March 2007 as Alliance Defense Fund in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona against the Town of Gilbert for “discriminatory practices against churches.” The organization, now known GOOD FIGHT: Good News Community Church Pastor Clyde Reed and his wife, Ann. as the Alliance Defending Freedom, see CHURCH SIGN page 8 Submitted photo
Katelyn Conrad, a 21-year-old ASU student who died while rappelling in mid-January, was known to friends as kind, courageous and genuine. “She was 100 percent herself, sometimes even to a fault,” said her friend Jessica Jia in an emailed statement to the Gilbert Sun News. “This sort of honesty shines brighter than anything you will ever meet in people. I quickly came to realize that this was a person I could always count on. And so did others. We will miss the HONEST AND DEPENDABLE: Highland High School graduate Katelyn Conrad, above, who died most dependable and strong-willed in a rappelling accident, is fondly remembered by person we ever met.” friends like Jessica Jia. Photo courtesy of Facebook Jia and Conrad were among 25 ASU Office (MSCO) deputy Joaquin Enriquez. Outdoors Activity Club members who “It’s basically a bunch of cliffs,” were rappelling in Coon Bluff Recreation Enriquez said. “You hike the trails and Area, a popular area near the Salt River, according to Maricopa County Sheriff’s
see KATELYN CONRAD page 6
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