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ilbert Public Schools has seen a steady decline in enrollment over the past several years, triggering a reduction in teaching positions and posing long-term negative �inancial implications for the district.

Although it serves one of the nation’s fastest growing municipalities, GPS e pects enrollment to decline by 400 students in the upcoming school year.

Due to those losses, the district cut 20 teaching positions in its new budget, Assistant Superintendent eff Gadd said during a recent budget presentation to the school board.

Since 2010, the district’s average daily membership has dropped from appro i-

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Gilbert Public Schools is seeing a drop in student enrollment that some attribute to charter schools.

mately 3 ,753 to 32, 72 for the upcoming school year.

Higley Uni�ied School District has not e perienced the same trend. The district is e pecting enrollment to increase in the ne t school year and has added 3 teachers, with

eight open positions left to �ill, HUSD CF Gary Holland said. either esa Public Schools the state’s largest public-school system nor Chandler Uni�ied reported a reduced number of teachers for 2018-1 .

Decreasing attendance at Gilbert Public Schools could have long-term conse uences.

Gadd said the decrease in attendance effectively negates the 1.8 percent in�lationary increase the district receives in per-student funding.

Gadd also said the district would lose $500 per student between now and 2023 as the state restores district additional assistance funding.

That decrease in funding harms school districts because �i ed costs like building

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mportant deadlines are approaching for Gilbert voters who want to participate in the upcoming Aug. 28 primary.

To vote in the election, residents must register to vote by tomorrow, uly 30. ligible residents can register to vote online at servicearizona.com.

Independent voters, or voters with no party affiliation, also have to notify the aricopa County Recorder’s ffice of their ballot preference by tomorrow in order to receive a ballot for the primary election. oters with no party af�iliation, which number nearly 4 ,000 in Gilbert, account for appro imately 33 percent of active voters in the town, making it the second-largest voting bloc in the town behind

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Certified medical assistant Maria Puente prepares a vaccine at Banner Health Clinic on Mercy Road, Gilbert as more parents get exemptions for their kids' shots, alarming health officials. See page 3.

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s the new school year gets into full swing across the ast alley, the Arizona Department of Health Services offers this eye-opening report Parents are increasingly choosing to forgo vaccinating their children.

Immunization rates among children in the state have dropped from 2012 to 2017 for a number of infectious diseases including polio, measles, chickenpo and whooping cough, according to the department’s annual report this month.

The report covers the 2017-18 academic year for preschool, kindergarten and si th grade and is based on self-reporting data.

“The health department is concerned about the rising e emptions and reduced coverage,” said essica Rigler, the department’s branch chief of public health preparedness. “As the trend continues, we are going to see a continued risk to students, their families and citizens of Arizona for preventable diseases.”

In 2017, the immunization rate was such that in an event of an outbreak, over 5,000 kindergartners would be at

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Republicans, according to aricopa County Recorder’s f�ice data. ven if independent voters do not wish to participate in a party primary, they must notify the recorder’s of�ice of their preference to receive a town ballot, Gilbert Town Clerk Lisa a well said They can notify the county of their preference on a postcard mailed by the aricopa County Recorder’s f�ice or by going online to re uest.maricopa. vote or by calling 02-50 -1511.

Independent voters can choose to vote in the primary for the Republican or Democratic parties or eligible third parties. They also can choose to only receive a Gilbert town ballot or not participate at all. arly voting for the primary begins on Aug. 1 and registered voters have until Aug. 17 to re uest an early ballot by mail. oters have until Aug. 22 to mail their ballots. They also can return them to early-voting dropoff locations. Residents can �ind their nearest dropoff location at recorder.maricopa.gov ear-

tions continued to rise in Arizona, with the highest rates reported in public charter schools, followed by private and then public schools.

In 2017, non-medical e emptions increased to 4.3 percent from 3. percent the year prior for preschool, umped to 5.4 percent from 4. percent for kindergarten and rose (Kimberly Carrillo/GSN Photographer) to 5.4 percent from By the time a child is 2, he or she should have had 14 vaccinations against 5.1 percent for si th dangerous contagious diseases. But more parents are keeping their kids grade. away from the shots, swayed by discredited claims they cause autism.

The numbers are risk for measles, state health of�icials somewhat misleadsaid. ing, contended elissa ’Connor at Arizona allows parents to e empt ontessori Children’s Centre. their children for three reasons mediThe esa private school, with an encal, personal and religious. However, rollment of 41 kindergartners in 2017, students in grades -12 can’t use reli- reported 51 percent of those students gious beliefs as an e emption and child were e empted from the polio vaccine care centers, preschool and Head Start 51 percent from diphtheria 54 percent can’t use personal-belief e emptions. ��� VACCINES ���� 4 Data showed the non-medical e emplyballotdropoff. arly voters also can vote in person until Aug. 24 at aricopa County early polling sites, including the location at 222 . avelina Avenue in esa. Additional locations can be found at recorder.maricopa.gov pollingplace.

Limited early polling sites will be available during the �irst week of voting, and additional sites will open in the following weeks, a well said.

Gilbert Town Hall will be an early ballot dropoff center this year but will not be an early polling place, a well said.

The primary election could have signi�icant conse uences for Gilbert residents as candidates for Town Council can win a seat outright at the primary if they garner a signi�icant vote total. a well said the threshold to determine outright winners at the primary is calculated by dividing the total number of votes by the number of open seats and then dividing that number by two.

There is uite a bit of precedence for councilpeople being elected in the primary, though no candidates won outright in the primary in 201 .

In 2014, �ive candidates reached a ualifying vote total in the primary, so

the top four incumbents ddie Cook, ictor Petersen, Brigette Peterson and ordan Ray were all elected outright in the primary. That negated the need for a Council election in ovember.

That highlights the importance of showing up to vote in the primaries in Gilbert, a well said.

“A lot of people don’t realize” the importance of primaries, she said. “They think, I am going to vote for president I’m going to vote for senator.’ But, really, it’s the local people who have the most effect on their lives.”

Gilbert, like many other cities and towns across the country, has a low voter turnout in primary elections compared to general elections. In 201 , only 2 .8 percent of eligible voters participated in the primary while 80.31 percent participated in the general election.

Gilbert was able to bump up its participation rate in recent years by moving its local elections to Aug. and ovember to coincide with other statewide and national elections. Prior to 2012, the town held local elections in arch and ay.

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from the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, 41 percent from hepatitis B and 41 percent from chickenpo .

“A lot of our parents for the e emptions are on a slower path,” e plained ’Connor, who oversees the school’s immunization records. “They are getting their kids immunized but ust at a slower rate. That is what I am �inding with a lot of my parents, not so much that they are completely e empting their kids.”

So, by the time she has to �ile the report with the state in ctober, not all of the kindergarteners have had their immunization yet, she said. Parents in Arizona must show proof of all re uired immunizations or a valid e emption before their children are allowed into the classroom.

“We don’t have breakouts here of measles, polio or any of that,” said ’Connor, who has been with the school for 17 years. “ ur kids are very healthy here. A ma ority of our kids are immunized but they are taking a slower route.”

Rigler said the data doesn’t show what percentage of students reported as e empted later get vaccinated.

“There are some students marked as e empted from vaccination, but their parents are still intending to vaccinate them,” Rigler said. “The data we provide is ust a snapshot in time. We ask every school every year to report for all kindergarteners currently enrolled, all si th-graders currently enrolled and childcare facilities of students in a certain age range at that point in time during the beginning part of the school year.”

The data, she said, gives the understanding that, for e ample, if an outbreak of measles were to occur at that particular point in time, the 5,000 kindergartners in 2017 who were not vaccinated against measles would be susceptible to the highly contagious disease.

“Schoolchildren are a marker for us as vaccination coverage,” Rigler said. “I think it demonstrates our coverage level for vaccination is not as high as it should be to protect the community against preventable outbreaks.”

Will Humble, former Department of Health Services director and now e ecutive director for the advocacy group Arizona Public Health Association, also e pressed concern with the trend of dropping vaccination.

“When we took a deeper dive into the data, this trend continues to be in the high-income parts of the state,” he said.

“It’s the higher-income parents that are the ones contributing to the higher-e -

emption rate, the unvaccinated kids. The problem areas are in Prescott, Sedona, some of the places in esa, north Scottsdale those higher-income places.”

Another problem is the uneven distribution in the state, with far more e emptions found in charter schools than public schools, he added.

“The same parent who chooses a charter school over public is more likely to challenge a pediatrician about vaccines,” said Humble.

A study performed by the state health department and the University of Arizona several years ago identi�ied parents in the top 20 percent of income earners as less likely to vaccinate their children but why is dif�icult to say, Rigler said.

“Some of the things we know is there is a lot of access for care for lower-income communities and more trust in healthcare providers,” she said. “Whereas with higher income, which correlates with higher education, we often see people do their own research and not look at all the credible sources or listen to what their pediatricians tell them.”

Dr. Chinwe gbo, medical director for Banner Children’s Urgent Care centers, has seen an increase of parents uestioning the safety of vaccination.

She said a number of parents see the growing autism rate in the country and persist in believing there is a link between that and vaccination.

In 1 8, British Dr. Andrew Wake�ield published a study claiming the measlesmumps-rubella vaccine could lead to autism. His paper was later discredited and retracted and his license to practice medicine yanked. “ ven though it was debunked and there is no clinical evidence and studies to prove that, we still have parents who are concerned and don’t want to take the risk,” gbo said. “And sometimes we get parents who want to spread out the vaccination and get it later.”

Those parents worry about the level of mercury or elements in the vaccine, she said.

By age 2, children should have received vaccines against 14 diseases, according to the immunization schedule approved by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But a ma ority of parents who don’t vaccinate do so because they say they want to raise their children healthy, through a “natural” route, the doctor said.

“That is what we are getting a lot more now than in the past,” she said. “Those are the ones we can’t get to vaccinate.”

She said the parents of today were vac-

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he Gilbert Police Department is reminding residents to lock their car doors and remove valuables from their vehicles as the town e periences a surge in automobile-related crimes.

Department records show that Gilbert has seen a 41 percent increase in car-related thefts and burglaries from anuary to uly over the same time period last year.

The biggest ump came in burglaries from vehicles, with incidents rising from 33 between anuary and uly 1 , 2017, to 502 in 2018. Incidents of thefts from vehicles, a separate category, rose from 71 to 83. otor vehicle thefts rose from 77 to 104 during the same time period.

The issue is not isolated to Gilbert, said Department spokesman Sgt. Darrell rueger.

“We hear of it all over the alley all over the country, really,” he said. rueger said these types of thefts and burglaries are often “crimes of opportunity,” with offenders taking advantage of unlocked vehicles or possessions, such as a purse, left in plain view.

However, he said organized criminal gangs are targeting vehicles in cities

throughout the Phoeni metro area.

“We are putting together cases with agencies throughout the alley,” he said. rueger said the rise in vehicle-related crimes affects the entire town and is not isolated to speci�ic neighborhoods.

However, he said, large population centers like downtown and properties that attract lots of vehicles (like larger churches, malls and schools) are more at risk. rueger said the department has consistently employed multiple techni ues to prevent these types of crimes, including targeted enforcement and proactively informing residents who may be putting their vehicles and property at risk.

The department posts weekly on social media to remind residents to lock out burglars by keeping vehicles, homes and businesses secured whenever they are unattended.

“Along with that, in vehicles we remind them to take belongings with them or hide them out of sight,” rueger said.

He said of�icers will also leave a reminder on a business card if they happen to come across an unsecured vehicle while responding to other calls or reports.

“We will leave them a thank you for practicing crime prevention or a notice as a reminder to roll up windows or keep their cars safe,” rueger said.

The rise in crime could cause auto insurance rates to rise for Gilbert residents, though that is not a sure thing. im Whittle, associate general counsel for the American Insurance Association, said that the competitive auto insurance market in Arizona may stop insurers from raising prices despite the recent rise in auto-related thefts and burglaries. “ ou can understand how those competitive forces might tamp down price increases,” he said.

Whittle noted that basic auto insurance does not cover theft, which is typically included with comprehensive coverage, so customers without comprehensive coverage are less likely to see a rate increase in these situations.

Whittle said that every company has its own formula for calculating rates that includes factors like where a car is stored, what IP code the car is stored in and whether or not the company views the spike in theft as an aberration or a legitimate trend.

Because of this, he said, it is dif�icult to predict how any individual company will react to in these situations.

“However, insurers do strive hard for rates to as accurately as possible re�lect risk,” Whittle said. “ ou have to do that to make sure you have ade uate insurance premiums coming in from risky areas and are not charging less-risky people too much.”

He recommended that customers who see an increase in premiums shop around to ensure they are getting the best price for the insurance package they have chosen.

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In Gilbert’s last arch and ay elections in 2011, voter participation hovered around 14 percent. In 2012, which was also a presidential election year, participation in the primary umped to 24.3 percent and participation in the 77.83 percent. oving the elections in line with other statewide elections also has the added bene�it of decreasing the cost burden on the town because Gilbert no longer has to pay for 100 percent of the election costs.

The move has potentially negative side effects too, though. For instance, the combination of elections can lead to voter fatigue especially in presidential election years because local issues are dropped to the bottom end of the ballot.

“People get so tired that they ust don’t vote,” a well said.

Gilbert voters will have several local issues to look at in the August primary, including who will represent them on the Town Council.

Seven candidates are running in the election for four open council seats.

Candidates include incumbents ice ayor Brigette Peterson and Councilmen ddie Cook and ordan Ray. Councilman ictor Petersen, whose seat also is up in the election, is not running for re-election.

The incumbents will face four challengers from a variety of backgrounds.

Aimee Rigler operated the Gilbert Small Business Alliance with her mother and is currently director of communications and government relations for the Arizona Free nterprise Club, a free-market advocacy group.

Barbara Guy is a realtor and a member of Gilbert’s Parks and Recreation Board. ames Candland is the only challenger with previous council e perience as he �illed a vacancy for seven months in 201 . He is a small-business owner and operates the Clarus Companies business consulting �irm. ason Cvancara is a former law enforcement of�ice and former vice chairman of the Gilbert Human Relations Commission. He is president of Phoeni -based Silbar Security.

Residents also will vote on whether to approve the sale of ust over 3 acres of town-owned land near Lindsay and Germann Roads. Because the land is valued at over $1.5 million, the town must receive voter approval before selling the land.

Gilbert bought the land with over $14 million in Public Facility unicipal Property Corporation bond money in 2008 with plans to build a facility for

use by the town’s �ire and police departments.

The town now views the parcel as a prime spot for commercial development and moved plans for the public safety facility to a new location. oters can visit gilbertaz.gov departments clerk-s-of�ice primary-elections for more information on the land sale and candidates or call the Clerk’s f�ice at 480-503- 871 to re uest an information packet.

Some Gilbert residents will also have the chance to vote in party primaries in state legislative races.

In Legislative District 12, current state Rep. ddie Farnsworth is running against local businessman immy Lindblom for the Republican nomination.

Democrat lizabeth Brown is running unopposed for her party’s nomination.

The race for the open state House seats in LD12 is packed, with incumbent Rep. Travis Grantham and current state Sen. Warren Petersen taking on challengers ick yers and Blake Sacha for the Republican nominations.

The Democratic primary features middle school ST teacher oe Bisaccia, attorney Lynsey Robinson and retired steam�itter D. . Rothans competing for their party’s nominations.

In Legislative District 17, incumbent Rep. eff Weninger, former Chandler City Councilwoman ora llen and nurse ulie Willoughby are running for the Republican nominations.

Former elementary school teacher ennifer Pawlik is running unopposed for the Democratic nomination for the state house in the district.

Current Arizona House Speaker .D. esnard is running unopposed for the Republican nomination for state senate in LD17. Steve Weichert is running unopposed for the Democratic nomination. n the national stage, a crowded pack of candidates are vying to replace retiring Sen. eff Flake.

Congresswoman artha cSally (R2) is running against former State Senator elli Ward and infamous former aricopa County Sheriff oe Arpaio for the Republican nomination. Write-in candidates icholas Glenn and William Gonzalez are also vying for the nomination.

Congresswoman yrsten Sinema (D) is taking on attorney Deedra Abboud for the Democratic nomination.

In Congressional District 5, small business owner oan Greene and engineer ose Torres are competing for the Democratic nomination and the chance to take on incumbent Rep. Andy Biggs, who is running unopposed, in the General lection.

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AAA bond rating. Gilbert is one of 5 communities in Arizona with this rating. There are about 100 municipalities in the country with AAA from two rating agencies (like Gilbert has) . This is an honor that less than 1% of municipalities in the US have. This rating has saved millions!

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Average annual household cost for property tax, sales tax, water, wastewater and solid waste services is $1,440. This is less than all our adjacent cities.

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Great trash service. Our town takes care of all 6 categories. Most other cities only cover 2 or 3 categories.

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They have provided us with many great parks, which will include the new regional park at Higley and Queen Creek.

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And last but not least we have a very friendly police department that does it the Gilbert way.

With this track record I believe that our town council deserves to be re-elected.

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Arizona Chamber sues to block Invest in Ed referendum

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he fate of whether voters get to decide on an income ta on the wealthy could depend on what math a udge decides is appropriate.

A new lawsuit �iled Tuesday by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry contends the petitions circulated by the Invest in d committee are “obectively false and misleading.’’

Attorney ory Langhofer wants a udge to block the issue from getting on the ovember ballot.

Part of Langhofer’s contention is that the measure, if approved, would do more than boost income ta rates on individuals making more than $250,000 and couples in the $500,000-plus range.

He argues it also would rescind a 2015 law that inde es all income ta brackets, a move that would affect those in lowerwage categories and that the 100-word description fails to inform voters of that fact. im Barton, attorney for the campaign, counters that Langhofer is offbase and the inde ing is preserved.

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maintenance and air conditioning do not measurably decrease.

“They are losing income and they have �i ed costs,” said im Hall, a former educator who spent 23 years as a principal before founding the Arizonans for Charter School Accountability nonpro�it.

What is causing the downward trend in GPS It depends on whom you ask.

Gadd said one factor is a maturing population in the downtown area that outpaces growth in the district’s outlying areas.

He also said the popularity of charter schools in Gilbert likely has had an effect on the district’s declining enrollment.

Hall said e pansion in the ast alley by large charter schools has pulled students away from Gilbert Public Schools.

Great Hearts Academies, BASIS Charter Schools, Ben amin Franklin Charter School, Legacy Traditional Schools, San Tan Charter School and American Leadership Academy account for appro imately 8,200 students enrolled in 14 campuses serving Gilbert and surrounding communities.

“The bottom line is, since about 2012, we have added ,000 charter kids (to these large charter schools), and overall there are 8,000 charter kids going

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to these schools that serve the Gilbert area,” Hall said.

During the same time period, GPS lost appro imately 3,000 students.

“When you look at it that way, Gilbert (Public School District) is doing ,” he said. “They are getting this tremendous pull from all of these corporate charters and they still only decreased slightly in (enrollment).” ileen Sigmund, president of Arizona Charter Schools Association, said charters may have played a role in the decreasing enrollment at GPS. However, she does not believe they are the primary factor.

She pointed to a Center for Student Achievement Study from 201 that showed the districts with the largest net gain of charter schools within their geographic boundaries from 200 to 2015.

Gilbert Public School District did not make the top 10 on that list.

Rather, Sigmund believes Arizona’s school choice laws, which allow students to apply for admission to any public school even if they do not live in the district, has had a greater impact.

“In Gilbert, there are robust public charters and robust open enrollment,” Sigmund said.

Still, there is no denying that charter

schools are ma or players in public education in the ast alley.

A presentation made by Sigmund to the Arizona State Board of Charter Schools earlier this year shows that Legislative Districts 12 and 17 which collectively include Gilbert, Chandler, ueen Creek and small parts of esa had some of the highest charter school enrollment numbers of any legislative district in the state in the 201 -17 school year.

LD 12 ranked �irst in the state with over 1 ,000 charter students, which accounted for 25 percent of students in the district.

LD 17 ranked third with nearly 12,000 charter students, which accounted for 24 percent of students in the district.

Proponents of charter schools often argue that they offer students in struggling districts the opportunity to access higher- uality education than their local district can provide.

However, the concentration of public charter schools in the ast alley and Gilbert speci�ically are predominantly located near well-performing public district schools.

According to Arizona State Board of ducation letter grades, all schools in Gilbert Public School District e cept one have an A or B grade.

But much of the litigation is based on numbers and how voters may understand them.

Langhofer points out that individual Arizonans now pay 4.54 percent on any income of more than $150,000, or $300,000 for couples.

The initiative, if approved, establishes a new 8 percent ta bracket for earnings above $250,000 for individuals and $500,000 for couples. And those in the $500,000 individual and $1 million married category would pay percent on earnings above that level.

Based on that, the initiative description says that the law increases ta rates by 3.4 percent for those in the �irst category and 4.4 percent for those in the new top bracket.

Langhofer, however, says that the math is bad, at least in how the increase is described.

He said if the rate was really going up ust 3.4 percent, someone who owes $17,085 under current law would owe $17,725 under the proposal.

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Hall said he is not outright opposed to charter schools as long as they serve an underserved population or provide uni ue services, such as Arizona School for the Arts or Arizona Autism Charter School.

He added that placing A- and B-rated charter schools near A- and B-rated public district schools results in the use of state public money to purchase and maintain redundant school facilities.

“We are replicating places we don’t need to,” he said.

Sigmund pushed back on that criticism, saying that the uality of education is not the only reason parents choose to send their children to charter schools.

She said many parents also seek out speci�ic curriculums, civic-minded instruction and ST -heavy curriculums provided by charter schools She pointed to the use of the Socratic ethod at Great Hearts Academies as an e ample.

“If the family demand did not e ist, charter schools would not be able to open their doors and keep their doors open,” Sigmund said.

The districts and charters in Gilbert �irst butted heads over this issue in 201 , when American Leadership Academy purchased then unincorporated county

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What Langhofer said would be accurate is telling people that the ta rates on income above $250,000 would go up by 7 .2 percent the percent increase between 4.54 and 8.0 percent translating to a liability of $22,311 if the initiative becomes law.

“The 100-word summary’s representation ... hence is false and misled signers into believe the act would enact only modest ad ustments to current rates,’’ Langhofer is arguing. “Accordingly, the initiative petition’s 100-word summary misrepresents a principal provision of the act, is factually false and mislead-

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land at Higley Road and Loop 202 for its new campus. The land is within the Higley Uni�ied School District and was coveted by the district.

The Gilbert Town Council had previously discouraged developing the land for a school, saying it viewed the lot as prime real estate for business development.

At a Town Council meeting concerning the anne ation of that land which the

ing, and creates a substantial danger of confusing or unfairness.’’

And Langhofer wants a udge to rule that every petition with that description meaning all of them are invalid and the signatures cannot be counted.

“This lawsuit is such a reach, I can’t even believe it,’’ Barton said.

He said it is Langhofer who is trying a bit of creative math that didn’t sell any better in 2008 when foes of a proposed percentage point increase in the state’s 5. percent sales ta rate told a udge it should be described to voters as a 17.8 percent increase in ta es. The udge threw out that claim.

“I’ve gone to court successfully and

council approved of�icials from both GPS and HUSD spoke about the detrimental effects unbridled charter growth could have on their districts.

Then-GPS Superintendent Christina ishimoto said enrollment in the district was dropping despite an increase in school-age students in Gilbert.

She said charter school growth had cost the district $10 million in state revenue and caused the consolidation of two schools, according to an ast alley Tribune article from anuary 2017.

had that kind of nonsensical libertarian unk thrown out,’’ he said, calling it “absolutely deceptive’’ to claim the initiative would result in a 7 percent ta increase. “It is a 3.4 percent increase.’’

If approved, the ta increase would raise an estimated $ 0 million for education. Proponents contend the state needs a dedicated source of revenues to guarantee not only promised teacher raises but also help bring state perpupil spending closer to the national average.

Langhofer has another legal theory to try to uash the initiative if his arguments about the 100-word ballot description get no legal traction.

At the meeting, Higley Superintendent ike Thomason suggested bringing together the area’s public and charter schools to discuss ways to promote “the �iscally responsible growth of the schools within our boundaries.”

He e pressed concern that poor planning would lead to more abandoned public school facilities.

Those abandoned buildings could be the source of further con�lict between charter schools and districts in the future following the passage of HB 24 0

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The legislation would make it easier for charter schools to purchase abandoned school district facilities.

The legislation, which has its roots in Tucson Uni�ied School District’s refusal to sell a closed school to a charter �ive years ago, prohibits districts that are selling buildings from accepting an offer “that is less than an offer from a charter school or private school.”

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He said Arizona law re uires a person who circulates petitions to check whether he or she is paid or a volunteer. But in this case, Langhofer said, the petitions had the check marks already made when they were given to circulators.

While that may be a technical violation, Langhofer pointed out that state lawmakers approved a change in laws earlier this year re uiring initiative petitions to be in “strict compliance’’ with every aspect of election statutes.

He said the failure of each circulator to make the check mark means the petition drive did not strictly comply with the law. o date has been set for a hearing.

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EV police see no change in policy on lawmakers’ immunity

BY CECILIA CHAN

GS Staff Writer

ast alley police agencies don’t e pect a signi�icant change in how they would handle state lawmakers who invoke legislative immunity from arrest despite Gov. Doug Ducey’s desire to eliminate it.

Ducey recently inked a directive that allows state troopers to cite and even arrest legislators for any criminal violation that endangers the safety of another motorist including e cessive speeding, reckless driving and driving under the in�luence. The governor urged other law enforcement agencies to follow suit.

“This has not been an issue for us,” said Sgt. Darrell rueger with the Gilbert Police Department. “The e ecutive order will be incorporated into our policy for the rare circumstance we have to use it.” rueger said it has always been the department’s protocol to enforce reckless driving laws and treat DUIs and misdemeanors that involve violence as an arrestable offense lawmaker or not.

The state Constitution gives legislators immunity from arrest in all cases e cept treason, felony and breach of peace when the Legislature is working and 15 days before the start of each session.

The governor took action after the well-publicized traf�ic stop in arch of Lake Havasu state Rep. Paul osley, who was clocked driving 7 mph in a 55-mph zone.

He was let off with a warning by a La Paz County Sheriff’s deputy, who indicated in his report the lawmaker claimed legislative immunity.

Since 2017, the Republican House member reportedly had been pulled over �ive times for e cessive speeding

by Arizona Department of Public Safety

of�icers, who let him off with a warning each time because of the constitutional immunity clause.

Chandler Police have not dealt with an errant state lawmaker in recent history.

Department policy dictates its offices arrest legislators for misdemeanors only for offenses involving violence or DUI. The policy followed the state’s in e empting legislators from civil traffic citations.

“If we had a state legislator during the session get stopped and there was an impairment issue, we would make an arrest and process for a DUI and do what we will do with most everybody else,” said police spokesman Seth Tyler.

For a misdemeanor DUI, the legislator would not be booked into ail, Tyler said.

“We would not interfere with the legislative process but would still work through a misdemeanor investigation, arrest if applicable,” he said. “In short, we would still pursue the criminal process.”

Same goes for misdemeanors involving violence, he added. esa and Tempe Police did not respond to re uests for comment.

Before Ducey’s directive, DPS policy did not de�ine breach of peace, which generally relates to disorderly conduct, said agency spokesman uentin ehr.

“Breach of the peace is a concept de�ined by the courts and is determined based on the facts and surrounding circumstances of each situation,” he said.

“Generally, actions that threaten disaster and disorder and pose a perilous public risk may be a breach of the peace.”

Although Ducey’s order speci�ically included drunken driving as enforceable, Arizona courts already determined driving under the in�luence could be a breach of the peace in 2005, ehr said.

Prior to 2005, legislative immunity

came into play in 1 88 after a state senator was suspected of driving under the in�luence when she smacked into the back of another vehicle on Interstate 17.

DPS administered several �ield sobriety tests that then-Sen. an Brewer failed.

Brewer, who later became governor, was detained but released when of�icers decided she had immunity from arrest.

Brewer denied she was under the in�luence and did not re uest immunity at the time.

If we had a state “ legislator during the

session get stopped and there was an impairment issue, we would make an arrest and process for a DUI and do what we will do with most everybody else.

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–POLICE SPOKESMAN SETH TYLER

Legislative immunity also played a role in 2011 when a state senator and his girlfriend were involved in a domestic-violence incident while driving on State Route 51.

Then-Sen. Scott Bundgaard invoked immunity while handcuffed in the back of a Phoeni police patrol vehicle and was let go while his girlfriend spent the night in ail, according to a police report.

The of�icer in his report, however, recommended a domestic violence assault charge be brought against Bundgaard

when the Legislature was not in session.

Bundgaard was later prosecuted and agreed to a plea deal.

Phoeni Police in addition to the state protocol also limits legislators’ arrests for misdemeanors to crimes of violence, “an immediate disturbance of the public order,” or a drunken driving case, according to department spokesman ince Lewis.

When asked why Bundgaard was not arrested on suspicion of domestic violence, Sgt. Lewis responded the governor’s order was not in effect in the 2011 case. “ ur policy states that the interpretation of a breach of peace and the decision to arrest will be referred to a supervisor in all cases,’” he said. “This would be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.”

Days after he signed the order, Ducey tweeted “It’s time to repeal so-called legislative immunity’ from our state Constitution.”

He added he intended to work in collaboration with the Legislature ne t session to address this issue by bringing a referendum before the voters, but legislative leaders are cool to the idea.

There’s been a number of attempts to revise or repeal legislative immunity in Arizona.

In 2012, The People for thical Government failed to get a constitutional amendment on the ovember ballot banning lawmakers from claiming legislative immunity and then-state Sen. Steve Gallardo couldn’t get support for a similar measure that year.

And in 201 , a state senator and three state representatives introduced a concurrent resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to go before voters that would limit legislative immunity to civil proceedings. That measure failed.

-Capitol Media Services contributed to this report.

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Model trains make a stop at Mesa Library The Arizona Big Train perators come chugging down the track to esa ain Library, 4 .

First St., from uly 30 to Aug. 4 in a 500-s uarefoot, model-trains e hibit of G-scale (garden size) railroads with passing tracks, historical dioramas, bridges and villages.

The free e hibit is open 10 a.m.-7 30 p.m. onday, uly 30, through Thursday, Aug. 2 10 a.m.-4 30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 3 and 10 a.m.2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4.

Free rides for adults and children will be available aboard the esa Library press trackless train 10 30 a.m.-noon and 2-4 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 3, and 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 4. Final pickups will be 30 minutes before closing time.

Two sets of four tickets for a train ride at cCormick-Stillman Railroad Park in Scottsdale will be raf�led each day by Arizona Big Train perators. A grand-prize at the end of the e hibit for two passes to the Grand Canyon Railway also will be raf�led.

For more information visit mesalibrary.org. For more information on the Arizona Big Train perators visit azbigtrains.org.

Crossing-guard training slated

ou’ll soon see crossing guards in school zones, and it is important for those on both sides of the hand-held stop signs to know the rules.

As thousands of children in the ast alley return to school, many of the people who make sure they get there safely will take part in regional crossing-guard training workshops, including a session a.m.-noon Thursday, Aug. 2, at Dobson High’s orth Lobby Auditorium, 1501 W. Guadalupe Road in esa.

All -8 schools may use the workshops to train their crossing guards but the responsibility remains with each school for hiring, training, and de�ining when and where crossing guards are on duty.

Those interested in participating in the training must preregister in coordination with their school district.

Information and registration forms are available at the AG Safe Routes to School website, srts.azmag.gov. any districts have trouble �illing the slots and interested persons should contact their local district head uarters.

Park University appoints executive director, wife at its Gilbert campus

eff hrlich is the new e ecutive director of Park University’s Gilbert campus, where fall-term classes begin onday, ct. 15.

Park University Gilbert, at 2 W. aughn Ave., is a private, nonpro�it accredited university featuring degree programs in business, public administration, communication, �itness and wellness and computer science. Classes are offered online and face-to-face. hrlich has been with Park since 2011. Among his roles was interim president from uly 2015 to anuary 201 . ost recently, hrlich was director of special pro ects and strategic initiatives, a pro ect-based incubator that strategizes and implements innovative ideas across Park’s campuses nationwide. hrlich’s wife, Donna, has been appointed academic director of the new Gilbert campus. She oined Park in 2011 as an ad unct instructor teaching courses in management, health-care administration and business administration. hrlich earned his Doctor of ducation degree in healthcare leadership from the College of Saint ary. Donna hrlich earned her doctorate degree in information systems from ova Southeastern University.

Park University’s �lagship campus is in Parkville, issouri. It has nearly 17,000 students at its network of campuses.

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cinated as children, which stopped many of the diseases. And, because they don’t see the diseases anymore, they don’t feel the need for vaccination, she added.

Although some anti-vaccine parents rely on herd immunity if enough people are vaccinated, it is unlikely anyone will get sick and infect anyone else to protect their children, there is still an increased risk for unvaccinated children of catching diseases, gbo said.

Arizona is not alone in seeing a steady increase in non-medical e emptions.

Twelve of 18 states with this e emption have seen an increase of parents seeking waivers since 200 , according to a study published this year by PL S edicine.

The study’s researchers found several ma or cities, including the Phoeni metropolitan area, stood out for their “very large numbers of non-medical e emptions,” and the high numbers suggest that outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases could either originate from or spread rapidly throughout the populations of unimmunized children.

“The fact that the largest count of vaccine-e empt pediatric populations originate in large cities with busy international airports may further contribute to this risk,” the report said.

To date, the only infectious disease that has been eradicated is smallpo , with polio ne t on the list.

Humble said that in his last year as the state health director, in 2015, the department overhauled the e emption sheet. Instead of a blanket form, parents are now re uired to check off and initial each individual vaccine they are seeking an e emption.

“What we were trying to do is build more transparency in the system,” he said. “In other words, make it clear to the parents, that by signing the e emptions and not vaccinating, what it means to risk their kids and the risks to their classmates.”

Among the groups of people who are most at risk from those who are unvaccinated are infants and children simply too young to be vaccinated.

Humble added the Arizona Partnership for Immunizations is working with school administrators to help parents overcome barriers that might prevent them from getting their children vaccinated and by reducing so-called convenience e emptions, in which parents sign a waiver because they can’t get their children immunized in time to meet school re uirements.

Rigler said the state is doing more education and outreach with school nurses,

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healthcare providers and schools, which are often the frontline for parents when registering their children. “ ne of the things we know is conversation with a trusted individual has a lot of impact on decision-making,” Rigler said. “We are educating them about vaccination and safety so they are e uipped to have that conversation with parents.”

She said a one-on-one between a pediatrician and parent carries more weight than hearing a message from a health department.

The state also is working with county health departments. The state health department last year launched an online pilot program in which parents seeking personal-belief e emptions must �irst take an immunization education course, which takes between 25 to 0 minutes to complete, depending on how many e emptions they are seeking.

The program was launched at 17 public schools in Glendale, esa and Paradise alley.

Rigler said plans are to e pand the program to schools in other counties.

“I have no beef with the religious e emption if it’s true or medical e emptions,” Humble said. “It’s the personal e emption I have a problem with and I didn’t use to with all the interventions.”

But the interventions are not working as immunization levels continue to drop in Arizona, he said.

Whether Arizona will go the way of California, ississippi and West irginia (which don’t allow religious and personal e emptions) and allow only for medical e emptions is entirely in the hands of state lawmakers, who generally frown on laws that they consider nanny-state issues, Humble said.

Two years after California removed personal and religious e emptions, vaccination rates have risen in that state, especially in high-income enclaves like arin County, which had the highest personal-e emption rates, Humble said.

The Golden State’s law was spurred by a 2014 measles outbreak at Disneyland that spread to multiple states, including Arizona. Federal health of�icials suspected a foreign visitor or an American coming home with the virus was the culprit and the reason why the disease spread was due to the low-vaccination rates. A ma ority of the people who came down with measles were unvaccinated, according to the CDC. The news was shocking considering the United States in 2000 declared measles eliminated in the country.

Humble doesn’t e pect to see any changes in the state’s vaccination policy until it hits the pocketbook for charter schools.

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Star a ers are loc in to il ert o servator Air n sa s

BY SRIANTHI PERERA GSN Contributor

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targazing is on the rise in Gilbert.

That’s according to Airbnb, which recently measured “astro-tourism” around the world and put Gilbert Rotary Centennial Observatory, located within the Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch, on its list of �ive prime orth American spots.

The town had 9,400 Airbnb guest arrivals last year. This represents a 164 percent increase over last year for inbound travelers, the vacation rental giant said.

“We looked at year-over-year growth in guest arrivals to destinations close to areas certi�ied by Fundaci n Starlight, or regions with dark skies identi�ied by this foundation,” said Laura Rillos, a spokeswoman for Airbnb.

Prime dark-sky spots that are home to the best telescopes are trending among Airbnb guests globally, championing sustainable travel to remote, rural regions, she stated.

While Airbnb doesn’t actively promote any dark-sky spots, its hosts share local hotspots with guests who are interested.

Gilbert Rotary Centennial Observatory, located within the Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch, is in a region noted for dark skies.

(Photos courtesy of East Valley Astronomy Club)

Inside view of Gilbert Rotary Centennial Observatory; the East Valley Astronomy Club recommends that people visit several times during the year because the astral bodies change through the seasons.

“Our community of hosts love sharing their favorite local activities and businesses with guests and encouraging them to visit hidden gems they may not have found otherwise, like the Gilbert Rotary Centennial Observatory,” Rillos said. “The observatory and the Riparian Preserve are both just the type of local secrets Airbnb hosts love sharing with their guests.”

The East Valley Astronomy Club manages the town-owned observatory. Manager Claude Haynes said the observatory is a listed attraction in tourist sites, but it doesn’t have a direct association with Airbnb.

He said the observatory, which is funded by donations, “appreciates the publicity and the recognition. We are happy about it because we do see that we are a destination for people who want to come and view from clear, less-lightpolluted skies.”

Haynes is cognizant that Gilbert has less-light-polluted skies but doesn’t claim the town to be free of light pollution.

“Gilbert has a better light pollution ordinance and seems to enforce it more strictly than some of the other communities around us,” he said.

Established by the Gilbert Rotary Club in 2006, the observatory has a 16-inch telescope open for viewing every Friday

and Saturday night, weather-permitting.

It’s a family activity that attracts people from around the Valley.

On an average night, about 100-150 people peer through the telescope, while the numbers rise to about 200-250 during spring and winter months because sunset is earlier and there are more winter visitors in the Valley.

The observatory has recorded a steady increase in viewers over the last few years: 8,800 in 2014; 11,000 in 2015; 15,500 in 2016; and 16,000 in 2017.

Since its inception, it has welcomed about 100,000 visitors.

Some are amateurs like Haynes himself, who has nurtured the pastime for 25 years. Others can be as young as 3 years old. If they can reach the lens, they will be permitted to view.

“We have lots of kids who come, and they are fascinated,” Haynes said.

“Grandmothers come along and say, ‘I’ve never looked through a telescope before,’ and they are 80.”

Haynes concedes that the two main reasons for the increased viewership is the overall increase in the popularity of the Riparian Preserve, which offers hiking trails, bird walks and �ishing among several other activities, and players using the Pokemon Go mobile video game who stumble upon the observatory.

The observatory also organizes special events such as last year’s total eclipse, which drew hundreds, the monthly star parties and the night sky program for youth.

Mars will be closest to Earth since 2003 during the last few days of July.

However, because it’s not a night-time object when the observatory opens in the evening, there won’t be a special event to coincide with the occurrence.

The club encourages people to go look at Mars in the morning sky. The red planet will be a nighttime object toward the middle of the August and until late September, when it will begin to recede.

Celestial events such as Mars’ proximity and eclipses contribute to people’s interest.

According to Airbnb, 50,000 guests from 26 countries traveled to the United States to view the total solar eclipse last summer.

“Since then, we’ve continued to see a tremendous amount of interest around traveling for astral events and stargazing, with the number of guest arrivals in prime dark sky spots climbing,” Rillos said.

The Gilbert observatory is in good company in Airbnb’s roll call.

It enjoys prominence along with Acadian Skies & Mi’kmaq near Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, which had a 221 percent year-over-year growth of inbound travelers; Natural Bridges National Monument near Oljato Monument Valley, Utah, with a 70 percent year-over-year growth; National Astronomical Observatory near San Felipe, Ba a California, e ico, with a 164 percent year-over-year growth; and Mauna Kea near Kailua, Hawaii, with a 68 percent year-over-year growth of inbound travelers.

As word gets around, there may be more tourists headed this way. Can the humble town observatory handle it?

“We are always delighted when people come,” Haynes said. “The worst-case scenario would be if we had 500 people show up one night and that became the average. Then we would �ind another telescope; that would be a way to handle it. It’s not a bad problem to have.”

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Trans lant atients rin awareness throu h athletics

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI GSN Staff Writer

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andy Shepherd and former Gilbert school principal Jill Bowers are walking advertisements for organ donations.

Shepherd, who had a heart transplant four years ago, and Bowers, who underwent two kidney transplants, are part of the 35-member Team Arizona traveling to Salt Lake City for the biannual Donate Life Transplant Games of America.

Participants compete in events like basketball, ballroom dancing, golf, swimming, Texas Hold ‘Em Poker, a trivia challenge and a virtual triathlon Aug. 2-7.

The games were designed so everyone could participate whether they received a transplant a month or a year ago. Highlights include an opening ceremony, quiltpinning ceremony and various workshops/seminars. Basketball player Sean Elliott, actor Larry Hagman and snowboarder Chris Klug are former participants.

Bowers, the former principal at Mesuite and Green�ield unior highs, is going

to play tennis, “which I’m never good at,” and bike. She added pickleball as well.

“The main reason I want to participate in the game is for the families, particularly the ones who lost a child, parent or whatever,” she said.

“I want them to see us and know we have a second life. Even though I had a living donor, we thank you for being so generous at a very tragic time in their lives. Because of that, look at us. We’re here competing. It’s not about winning. It’s about being there.”

Bowers was hospitalized in 1992, when she was hospitalized with migraine headaches and erratic blood pressure.

“Nobody had high blood pressure. Nobody had kidney issues,” she said. “I was young and single. I didn’t get married until I was 41. I had a bad diet. I was on the pill.

I was a smoker. I didn’t pay attention. You just don’t.”

She was also working 16-hour days as a �irst-time principal at es uite. Work consumed her life.

Six years later, on June 3, 1998, the symptoms destroyed a kidney, forcing her to have a transplant. Her husband, George, was her donor.

“Everybody says, ‘Oh, you guys matched,’” she said. “No, we did not. He’s a blood type O, which is a universal donor.

We matched on nothing.”

She had his kidney for 14 years before it started failing. That warranted a second transplant on July 25, 2012, this time by a former eighth-grade student, atie Faber Moorhead.

“It overwhelmed me,” she said. “There were about �ive people who put in to be my donor and she happened to be the �irst.”

Gilbert Public Schools treated her and her husband well during the transplant, she said, noting: “My husband was a principal there, too.

They said, ‘Whatever you guys need, we’ll cover you.’”

When she returned to work, she and her husband spoke to schools about transplants and kidney function.

“Our message was to take care of yourself,” she said. “It really does make a big difference.”

Shepherd is picking up basketball for the �irst time in years, something he can do now, thanks to a heart transplant four

years ago.

“We’re just going to go all out for six days and the come home and take a nap,” he said with laugh.

Shepherd—whose family collects Tin Man memorabilia because he, too, needed a heart—required a heart transplant after having rheumatic fever as a child and again when he was 17. In his late teens, he had open heart surgery to replace his valves and that lasted for 18 years.

“The build up of scar tissue caused my heart to just get bigger and bigger,” he said. “It was in bad shape. I thought it was time to get checked. I thought, worse-case scenario, they’re going to have to replace those valves again.

“When the doctor said, no, I needed a whole new heart, it took me back.”

His wife, Tiffany, said the family relied on their Mormon faith and each other to get through the troubling times. Tiffany, Randy and their two children kept a vision board, and created index cards with lists of things they were going to do with their children when Randy recovered.

“We tried to not have a hard time at the same time,” she added.

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Big differences exist between market analyses, appraisals

BY CARI GILILLAND GSN Guest Writer

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s a Realtor, I often receive questions from my clients about the difference between a CMA (comparative market analysis) and a professional appraisal.

They both have an important place in the home-selling process and both should be considered when determining a listing price for your home.

The CMA is an analysis prepared by a Realtor to help determine a price range or potential value for a home.

There are many things a Realtor takes into consideration when putting togeth-

er a market analysis.

They include the most recent sales of like properties in the same neighborhood or general area, market conditions and the condition of the property. They are analyzed and compared against the most recent sales, pending properties and homes currently for sale.

A great Realtor will spend hours researching and comparing to determine the best price range for a home seller to consider. There are many websites you

can visit to see what is touted as the value of a home. Don’t be fooled!

In most cases, these quick online valuation systems have no way of knowing your home’s true features and bene�its or de�iciencies, for that matter. The best way to obtain a true market analysis is to talk to an experienced, reputable Realtor.

The professional appraisal is a third-party, unbiased opinion of value. This value is based on history of sales and veri�iable information. A licensed appraiser also spends

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hours researching to come up with their opinion of value.

Their report is much more formal and complicated in nature and will include general market information, sales data, adjustments for property differences, property photos, any limitations for the report and, of course, the appraiser’s uali�ications.

The appraisal is most commonly paid for by the buyer and required by the buyer’s lender to justify the sales price.

Here is your Gilbert real estate update simple data that even the least analytic person can appreciate. This information comes directly from Arizona Regional Multiple Listing System. Information based on sales between 5/1/187/16/18, single-family homes only.

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For real estate questions or suggestions on future real estate tips, contact Cari Gililland at Cari@CariSellsHomes.com, 480-390-9247 or Facebook.com/CariSellsHomes.

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ne of the nation’s hottest and trendiest business empires for women is setting up its �irst outpost in the East Valley, choosing Gilbert as its �ifth location after having establishing outlets in Scottsdale, the Biltmore area and Paradise Valley.

Drybar is opening at 2080 E. Williams Field Road, Suite #103, in San Tan Village around Thanksgiving, bringing a wildly successful business model re�lected by its slogan of “ o cuts. o color. Just blowouts.”

Drybar is the decade-old creation of Alli Webb, a 38-year-old former stayat-home mom from California who started during the Great Recession to make some money by offering to blow

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Though Drybar’s San Tan Village location is under construction, a company spokeswoman said it will follow a fairly standardized look the company uses for all its outlets.

out women’s hair for $40 and coming to their home of place of business.

Now, she presides over a company that has more than 70 franchise outlets across the country, employs 7,000 people, sees more than 100,000 customers a month and is poised to see revenue totaling more than $40 million this year.

Its franchises sell for anywhere between $650,000 and $1.6 million, depending on size and location and putting it in the same league with the biggest selling franchises in the country such as Wendy’s, Taco Bell, cDonalds and KFC. Webb and her company have been the subject of stories in more than a dozen national publications not ust fashionfollowing Vogue and Allure but Inc., Fortune, Fast

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ilbert residents can now wear their love for the town on their sleeves literally.

To celebrate the 8th anniversary of Gilbert’s founding on July 6, the town released limited-edition T-shirts on its online store that depict a silhouette of the state of Arizona with an inlaid illustration of the town’s famous water tower.

Residents can purchase the shirts for $30 to $32 at shop.gilbertaz.gov. The initial release of 100 shirts sold out in three days, and the town has since ordered about 150 more, Gilbert spokesoman Jennifer Alvarez said.

While the shirts are technically a limited-edition offering, Alvarez said the town will respond to resident demand.

“As long as people want the shirts, we will continue to provide them,” she said.

The shirts are a product of Chandlerbased State Forty Eight, the clothing company known for producing Arizonathemed products.

The company produces a range of shirts, hats and accessories emblazoned

with the company name written inside an illustration of the state of Arizona.

Alvarez �irst reached out to the company after hearing about its frequent collaborations with local organizations like 100 Club of Arizona, a nonpro�it that provides support for public safety of�icers throughout the state and their families.

“We are always looking for ideas and ways to engage the community and to show community pride,” she said.

State Forty Eight co-founder Mike Spangenberg said those types of collaborations are becoming a larger part of the company’s growing business.

“Collaboration this last couple years have been a big part of our business,” he said. “It goes back to what our brand is all about. We’re three guys from Arizona who want to show our love for it.”

Spangenberg said the company is now producing about three collaborations a week for organizations like the American Heart Association, Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank and former Arizona Cardinals Head Coach Bruce Arians’ foundation.

The company also made shirts for Gonzo’s Hometown Heroes Fund, the charitable fund backed by former Diamondbacks out�ielder Luis Gonzalez that bene�its �irst responders.

In addition to nonpro�it and charitable organizations, State Forty Eight also works with local restaurants and businesses like Gilbert’s Arizona Wilderness

Brewing Co. and Chandler’s SanTan Brewing Company.

Spangenberg said these collaborations are an extension of the company’s original mission, which was to give Arizonans a simple way to show off their local pride. That’s why State Forty Eight has largely stuck to shirts, hats and similar items rather than expanding its offerings.

“T-shirts and hats can be worn every day,” he said. “We thought less is more, and we will stick with that. You can spread your love for your state wherever you are.”

While Gilbert is the �irst municipality to collaborate with State Forty Eight. It likely will not be the last.

Spangenberg said the company would like to create shirts for communities throughout the state, either through collaborations like Gilbert’s or by selling them directly through the company’s online store. “ ur ultimate goal is to create a shirt for every city in Arizona,” he said. “As much as people love Arizona, they love their city even more.”

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She built her empire on blowouts costing between $35 and $45, but she has said in interviews, “We’re not selling blowouts; we’re selling happiness and con�idence.”

That’s why, she explained, the cashiers she calls them “bartenders” who go through her rigorous training program are required to ask every customer at checkout, “How was your e perience ” As for the happiness angle, she told a San Francisco newspaper that Drybar does what women generally can’t.

“It’s really hard to do your own hair,” she said. “ ost women I would say 5 percent of women ust can’t handle their own hair. And not because they’re not a professional stylist and they don’t know how to do hair. It’s more about the angle. When you watch blowouts being done, we’re standing above your head, working with very small sections and perfecting each section before we move onto the next. You physically can’t do that when you’re doing your own hair.

“When women do their own hair at home, their hands are over their head, they’re getting tired, their arms are

starting to hurt. They’re not perfecting every section, making sure that every section is perfectly dry and perfectly styled before they move onto the next.

Frankly, nobody has the time either.”

That time element is important to her success.

As Webb e plained “People look at me like I’m crazy, and say, ‘I’m going to do my hair in 15 minutes, and then I’m out the door.’ Well, if we did your hair in 15 minutes, it wouldn’t look great either.

It’s about taking the time and perfecting each section.”

That’s why it takes anywhere from 35 to 45 minutes on average for a blowout at Drybar, with the expectation it will last three to six days.

“We have women who say, I don’t even wash my own hair at home anymore.’ If you get a really great blowout, it lasts, and then you don’t have to deal with your hair except for touchups here and there to maintain it. All of sudden, you’re free from having to worry about your hair every day,” Webb told the New York Times.

Talking to Fast Company magazine, Webb said her approach as a businesswoman was simple.

“We didn’t invent blowouts we ust created a much better experience. And

We didn’t invent “ blowouts; we just

created a much better experience. And we made it affordable.

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we made it affordable,” she said. “When we opened our �irst location in Brentwood [California], we had no idea what to e pect. But that very �irst day, women were lining up.”

Though she recalls those early months as frantic as she tried to run the front desk, administer blowouts and just keep her salon running smoothly, she noted, “ ne of the biggest pillars of our success is customer service.”

Selecting Gilbert for her �irst foray into the East Valley was no accident,

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especially since it has the highest per capita income in the Valley, according to the latest Census data.

“Gilbert’s SanTan illage is home to some of the most sought-after shopping and dining in the area, Webb said. “Since we continue to get requests to expand in the Phoenix area, we knew this would be the ideal location for our newest Arizona shop.”

The new 1,384-square-foot location will be equipped with eight chairs and what a publicist called “all of the signature elements that de�ine the uni ue Drybar experience.”

That experience includes, a publicist said, “Italian chairs, tufted fabric walls, marble bars with built-in phone docking stations and �lat screens featuring cult favorite chick �licks.”

And it will include a menu of styles with names that suggest drinks, like “The Straight Up,” “The Cosmo,” “The ai Tai” and for those who can’t make up their mind “The Cosmo-Tai.” There will even be a blowout called “The Shirley Temple” for girls 10 and under.

Despite its penchant for naming styles after alcoholic drinks and its scheduled opening the Friday before Thanksgiving, there’s no word on whether it will offer a seasonal do named “Wild Turkey.”

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EDITOR’S NOTE The Gilbert Sun News today starts a threepart series of columns that we invited Town Council candidates to write in advance of the Aug. 28 primary election.

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The candidates were asked to address this uestion in their �irst column What can Gilbert citizens and businesses expect from you as a council member? The topics for the second and third columns will

be their choices.

Candidate James Candland did not send in a column.

Monday, July 30, is the last day to register to vote. Early voting begins Wednes-

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Go to the Gilbert Sun News tab at eastvalleytribue.com to read the candidates’ responses to our questionnaire.

childhood, but my parents imparted a valuable lesson from that change that still resonates with me today.

In order to handle change, one must also have established practices that remain constant. Dinner was always around 5 p.m. with the family gathered around the table. Friday nights were movie night! Sundays were breakfast

with Dad reading the newspaper and sharing his opinion about the articles, especially politics.

As your Gilbert councilman, I will apply the lesson I learned many years ago from my parents that was the foundation of our family traditions.

As our community grows, the things that we cherish the most about life in

Gilbert does not have to change or be lost to advancement.

I will keep the core aspects of what makes Gilbert great at the heart of all decisions I make as your councilman because I will always put Gilbert �irst I am always open to meeting with anyone in our community. Please contact us at contact@jdcaz.com.

commissions to ensure a well-rounded, inclusive representation of Gilbert.

I will provide a different frame of reference and a voice that incorporates those communities south of Loop 202, an area of Gilbert underrepresented in the current Council. Emphasis on my term as a councilmember will include open lines of communication with the community in the following ways Residents I will be available directly

to residents with a focus on community outreach, particularly in areas that have felt disenfranchised.

Businesses I will ensure that town processes, which impact business, run ef�iciently with an honest, open dialogue regarding policy matters.

Schools The town’s largest employer should be included in policy matters that affect their ability to provide topnotch education.

H As I will work ointly on improvements to quality of life through increased dialogue between associations and Council members.

My work ethic, integrity and ability to listen will add a unique perspective to the Council and grant me the capacity to con�idently address the needs of our residents and our business community.

Through availability, transparency and excellent communication, I will be, “A voice for all of Gilbert.”

‘I will keep the core aspects of what makes Gilbert great’

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hanges in schools I attended, towns and neighborhoods I lived and friends I had over the years was a repetition growing up in a military family. Change was a constant in my

‘I will provide a different frame of reference and a voice’

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ilbert citizens and businesses can expect an effective leader, a commitment to the town through service, the ability to connect with our community, and common-sense actions.

I will encourage diversity when seats become available on town boards and

Expect consistency in harmony with my past service

BY JORDAN RAY

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hen I joined the Gilbert Town Council seven years ago I made business growth, public safety and �iscal discipline my top priorities.

Since then, the Town of Gilbert has been recognized and awarded by many organizations and publications with awards like “Best Place to Raise a Family in Arizona,” “2nd Safest City in the United States,” “Top 10 Cleanest Cities in America” and many more.

During my tenure, the Town Council

also has served Gilbert by redeveloping the Heritage District in Downtown Gilbert, which has greatly bene�ited local businesses and has brought in signi�icantly more tax revenue.

We have also helped Gilbert attract and retain businesses that provide job opportunities for our citizens and tax dollars for our town such as Deloitte moving to Gilbert and providing 2,500 high-paying jobs.

Additionally, Gilbert’s Bond rating has been upgraded to AAA in 2015 based on the rown’s ef�iciency, �inancial stability, and town management – a rating that only 79 out of the thousands of communities in the nation have earned. This

rating has saved the town millions of dollars in interest.

I love Gilbert and am proud of all that we have done as a Town Council to help our community.

As we move forward, I will continue to have business growth, public safety and �iscal discipline as my top priorities.

In addition, I will maintain my commitment to open communication with all parties by listening to the many perspectives that accompany complex decisions.

I will remain consistent in my actions to make Gilbert a place the businesses want to be and a place where our children can enjoy safety and op-

portunity. I will continue to make education a bright spot in the community.

There are many talented and dedicated teachers and staff who do so much for our children.

If I am re-elected to the Town Council, Gilbert citizens and businesses can expect to see consistency from me that is in harmony with the years of service to Gilbert that I have given.

I love living in Gilbert and serving the community and I will continue to do everything in my power to make Gilbert a wonderful place to live for generations to come.

I humbly ask for your vote for Gilbert Town Council.

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‘I’m fair, honest, logical and an independent thinker’

BY BRIGETTE PETERSON

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ilbert residents and businesses can count on another four years of me being an engaged, active representative in the community.

I’m very fortunate to not work outside my home, and my No. 1 goal for running for Gilbert Town Council is to be actively involved. I attend all Town Council meetings, town events, ribbon cuttings for

small, medium and large businesses, and support our education community.

Additionally, I serve as liaison with many groups in Gilbert and in the Southeast valley. I meet with and respond to all residents or make sure someone on our team responds and assists when anyone has a question or issue. When I can, I make connections between residents and businesses or non-pro�its.

I don’t just talk about statistics. I engage our town employees by joining our public works team in garbage trucks,

Gilbert Fire & Rescue at the local stations and as they answer calls, and with the Gilbert Police Department as they serve the residents of Gilbert.

Additionally, I am very thorough in my job by meeting with stakeholders, making phone calls, and attending extra meetings with town staff to ensure our residents are being effectively served.

I am endorsed and supported by the Gilbert Chamber of Commerce, SEVRAR (South East Valley Regional Association of Realtors), Police & Fire Associations

among many members and leaders of our community. I’m fair, honest, logical and an independent thinker!

I’m here to serve, not only as an elected of�icial but as a proud member of this community. I want to make sure this great town maintains its wonderful attributes, the reasons we all love to call Gilbert home.

Please visit my website at VoteBrigettePeterson.com. Also, you can �ind me on Instagram @votebrigettepeterson and Facebook @votebrigettepeterson

Our policies, strategies have created wonderful successes

BY EDDIE COOK

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ran for Council in 2011 after realizing that I could better serve my community by bringing business ideas to the town’s government. I could not be more excited to work with a team whose hearts are about service for our community.

The transformation of the town into a higher performance government guided by corporate best business practices and changing the culture to re�lect a “ ne Team” spirit has been remarkable.

I’m extremely pleased with the progress of the Town during my two terms and am excited to continue our efforts to “Build a Legacy for Gilbert” during my next term.

Assuring �iscal responsibility and fos-

tering economic development are my top two priorities.

As a team, the Council has developed the “Gilbert strategic plan” to identify six strategic initiatives to guide our efforts for the ne t �ive years. They are focused on the following areas balanced �inancial planning, long range infrastructure planning, driving economic development, implementing an ef�icient highperformance government, becoming a technology leader and community livability (clean, safe and vibrant).

We have successfully executed upon these initiatives and have seen the tremendous results that our residents and business owners bene�it daily that are provided by the Town.

I’m very grateful and humbled to have served on the Council these past seven years. I look at this role as an extension of my “community service” that I’ve done

for years here in Gilbert and the region.

During the last seven years we have created policies and strategic plans that have led to many wonderful successes such as the transformation of our Downtown Heritage District that is the envy of the Valley. ur goals included creating a family focused destination to build community while allowing our downtown businesses to thrive, becoming the safest community in Arizona and the second-safest in the country, maintaining the lowest taxes in the valley while providing the highest level of services, and keeping local government at the smallest number of town employees per 1,000 residents compared to any of our neighbors.

The town adopted the enterprise business practice of “zero based/priority based budgeting” so that we fund only those things that should be funded. This process has transformed the town of Gil-

bert to become a very ef�icient and high performance business-like entity.

The results have awarded the Town of Gilbert two AAA bond rating increases from Finch and oody. The �inancial bene�its for the Town and its citizens will be felt for years to come.

Most recently we welcomed the announcement of Deloitte, a Fortune 100 company, which selected Gilbert for their expansion into the Phoenix market. Deloitte will provide 2,500-plus jobs with salaries above $95K. If you as a citizen and/or business owner have experienced and enjoyed these bene�its, then I would suggest that you vote to keep the “one team” together. We have a tremendous opportunity to build the “best legacy” together with your help.

Thank you for your consideration to reelect me, Eddie Cook, as your councilmember for the Town of Gilbert.

‘Expect thoughtful, fair and compassionate leadership’

BY AIMEE RIGLER

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he taxpayers of Gilbert can expect thoughtful, fair and compassionate leadership from me as a council member.

I have always had a passion for �ighting for the unrepresented and a deep conviction that everyone should be treated fairly and consistently by their government. I cofounded an organization in 2008 called the Gilbert Small Business Alliance.

For seven years, we united many people under the banner that our town could do better in creating an environment conducive to the success of small businesses. We never �inancially gained from this mission – and our efforts were tireless and without notoriety. It was pick-and-shovel work, really.

And that is the stuff of good public policy.

It isn’t ribbon cuttings, ground breakings, and photo-ops. It is attention to the details.

It is thoughtful examination. It is reasonable and rational scrutiny married with a greater vision, compassion, love for our

community and a dash of idealism.

And that is me to my core.

I want to serve on Town Council because I enjoy the work of good public policy and I believe I am good at it. I also believe that our talents and gifts should be used to serve a higher purpose.

Our residents can expect from me exactly what I have demonstrated over the past decade in our community. To do the work that others can’t see needs to be done and do it with the kind of elbow grease others aren’t willing to apply. They can expect continued devotion from me to improving

our town while preserving what has made it uniquely special.

I call myself a “Gilbert Girl” through and through. Since moving here in the eighth grade (from Tempe), I have felt a connection to this community. As an adult I could have moved anywhere, and I have chosen to stay in Gilbert – where my roots, family, and heart is.

I love the town of Gilbert, I am devoted to the town of Gilbert, and believe I would continue to serve the town of Gilbert’s residents and businesses well on Town Council.

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rizonans are accustomed to extreme summer heat, but even so, the conditions take a toll on daily outdoor activities.

That is the case for high school football programs across the East Valley, which were forced to modify practice schedules when preseason camps opened last week.

“We recommend splitting the time up, going indoors to get out of the heat,” said David Hines, executive director of the Arizona Interscholastic Association. “There’s a lot of stretching, formations and other things you can do indoors to cool down and get out of the heat.”

The AIA has implemented guidelines to aid athletes in acclimating to the heat during preseason practices In a new protocol, players are required to wear no more than shorts, shirts and helmets the �irst three days of practice in the climate where they play home games, followed by three more days adding only shoulder pads before they are allowed to practice in full pads.

East Valley teams that had preseason camps in cooler climates to escape the heat, therefore, were required to start the protocol over upon returning to the desert.

The AIA continues to do research to re�ine its protocol for football practices in the desert’s dry heat. Most protocols around the country are based on places where humidity is more of a factor.

Alongside trainers across the Southwest, the AIA’s Sports Medicine Advisory Committee is researching dry temperatures using the heat index – calculated using outside temperature and humidity.

While some districts have established their own guidelines regarding practices, Hines hopes to establish a speci�ic baseline for schools in different regions to follow.

“The concern is dry temperatures. There isn’t a lot of research done about them,” Hines said. “It’s important to give kids a break and to take it easy.

“It’s going to be hot.”

For now, Hines is calling upon East Valley schools to make the right call to keep the athletes safe.

For Gilbert Highland High, practices are 7 to 9 a.m. to avoid the hottest part

(Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Photographer)

Perry High guard Kobe Stanley, above, quenches his thirst on an afternoon last week when temperatures were well above 110 degrees as Highland High quarterback Kaleb Herbert, right, does the same. As part of the new AIA guidelines for helping young athletes acclimate to the high temperatures, players are required to keep most of their gear in the locker room and wear only shorts, shirts and helmets.

of the day.

Morning practices, however, have their own dif�iculty for other reasons.

“The hardest part of morning practice is getting them up out of bed,” Highland coach Brock Farrel said. “But I think they would rather get up in the morning than practice in the afternoon with the sun beating down on them.”

Humidity also tends to be higher early.

Farrel uses the �irst week of practice to work on special teams and conditioning, allowing the players to become acclimated to the heat.

Once school resumes, Farrel said practices will move to the afternoon. The Hawks won’t take the �ield immediately after the �inal bell at 2 30 p.m.

“We normally watch �ilm as a team until roughly 3 45 p.m., so no matter how hot it is, we don’t start practice until 4 p.m. anyway,” he said. “We will adjust practice so we don’t do anything that requires contact until later. We can get in more than half of practice without putting pads on and still get a lot of work done.”

In his second year leading the Highland program, Farrel hasn’t yet been forced to cancel a practice due to heat. And the same goes for his three years leading

Shadow Mountain in Phoenix.

He and his coaching staff have implemented measures to ensure the safety of the players, including decreasing time on each drill.

Farrel has a plan in place if temperatures reach dangerous levels for athletes even without pads on.

“We haven’t had to go into the gym yet, but I’m always open to that,” he said. “If we get the �irst hour in without pads, now it will be 5 p.m. It is still hot, but it doesn’t feel like the sun is beating down on you.”

Monitoring conditions has become a daily task for Lance Michel, head athletic trainer at Hamilton. nce ichel identi�ies whether the Huskies can practice outside, he and his training staff jump into action with precautions to keep the athletes safe.

“When they don’t have to have contact, the helmets are off,” Michel said. “We continue to push �luid through them, get them ice buckets, just make sure they stay cool.”

Hamilton’s practice was cut short by about 30 minutes on Tuesday to get athletes out of the record-tying heat.

Fluids and ice baths are present at all

times on the Huskies’ practice �ield, with Michel keeping a watchful eye on athletes for signs of heat-related symptoms.

“It’s all about watching the athletes,” he said. “It may not even be the hottest day. It’s kind of an accumulative affect.

Within a week or two you’re going to be sluggish and sweating like crazy. We hit them with water 24-7.”

A similar strategy has been implemented at Chandler Perry.

Despite the sun bearing down on them, Perry coach Preston Jones and the rest of the team have managed to maintain high energy throughout the sessions.

“I think the key is preparation,” Jones said. “So many people want to try to hydrate at practice, but we always tell our kids to hydrate 24 to 48 hours ahead of time. We require them to carry gallon jugs with them. We have done that forever.”

Drinking at least a gallon of water before practice, Jones says, helps keep body temperatures down while on the �ield.

Jones said the biggest hydration issue is on Mondays, when kids generally do not drink as much water over the weekend.

Jones is aware that cramping muscles or even heat illnesses are more common when practices resume at the beginning of the week.

The Pumas make water available at all times, never restricting a player – even if it is during a drill.

“We’ve never been restricted on what we do, and our philosophy and rules have always been the same ids can get water any time they want,” Jones said. “They can stop drills and go over and get water. We don’t ever hold that from them.”

The staff at Perry knows the heat can take a mental toll on players, as well.

“You want to err on the side of caution,” Jones said. “You want to build mental toughness, but at the end of the day you want these kids to be safe. That’s most important.”

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hen Joey Pena emerged from a two-and-a-half-year military tour of Iraq, he did what he says most veterans do: He applied for a Mesa police job to be close to his family, who lives throughout the Valley.

“I made it to the interview process, but toward the end, my heart wasn’t in it,” says Pena, who now lives in Las Vegas.

“It wasn’t an avenue I wanted to pursue.

I started looking at other things, like modeling and going to school.”

The chiseled, handsome veteran of the 82nd Airborne was referred to the Chippendales by his agent.

“I thought they were dirty strippers,” Pena says with a laugh. “My mom was a ballerina. Strippers don’t know what a plie is. They have no idea what it means to spend hours rehearsing.”

One night, Pena had a little too much to drink while out with his agent, who then took him to a Chippendales show.

He enjoyed the camaraderie between

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Joey Pena applied for a Mesa Police job when he emerged from a two-and-a-half-year military tour in Iraq, but decided to join the famed Chippendales instead.

the dancers and the upbeat attitude.

“I later auditioned and I killed it,” he says. “I was the Latino guy they wanted.”

Pena said initially it was awkward because of his values and morals, which were reinforced during his six years in the Army.

“In the military, we’re all about pride and honor,” he says. “The most dif�icult part for me was showing my butt. I ran a lot without my shirt on, but it was a little hard to take off my pants.

“I love performing, though. I’m giving my best self and presenting my true self on the stage. I still get the little kid jitters.”

His audition was �ive years ago. Besides dancing, he hosts and he works in Chippendales’ management, running the back end of the business.

“It’s an eye-opening experience,” he says. “I’m learning how the structure goes, learning promotions and marketing. I’m doing investments, too, and I’m planning to go back to college.

“Our company is one of the greatest companies to work for. They’re really

good about working with us. They don’t want to lose us.”

Pena is part of the traveling team and the group that performs regularly in Vegas. He knows how to woo the ladies, he says.

“My favorites are the old ladies,” he says. “They’re just sitting in the chair, quiet. When I go out in the crowd, I sit right next to them, put my arm around them and show them a good time. That’s what makes it for me.

“The pretty girls always get attention.

I want everyone to feel like that. I want the little old lady who came in from the casino to feel like that. She needs a little lovin’.”

to pursue their dreams.

During its 17-year-run, the USA and world competitions have taken place in cities like South Beach, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Phoenix.

During both championships, crews compete in the 7- to 12-year-old junior, 13- to 17-year-old varsity, 18-and-over adult and all-ages megacrew divisions.

The megacrews are made up of 15 to 40 dancers, and the other crews have between �ive and nine dancers.

All events except the world championship �inals take place at the Arizona Grand Resort and Spa Ballroom. The top teams from around the world will compete at the Grand Canyon University Arena Aug. 11.

On Aug. 10, individuals or duos will compete against each other in breaking, locking, popping and all styles battles.

This year, the world championships will have more than 4,000 dancers from

more than 50 countries. For the �irst time, countries such as Sierra Leone, Bolivia and Hong Kong will have representation in the competition.

International judges score crews on their incorporation of different styles, precision and skill and overall performance and entertainment value.

Howard said the world championships highlight the different forms hip-hop dance has taken throughout the world.

“We see it in the music. We see it in some of the actual dance moves,” Howard said. “We encourage it. In hip-hop competition, there’s no reason we can’t and we shouldn’t look at what’s speci�ic to someone’s home country and their culture.”

The competition has developed a strong reputation in the dance world. Talent scouts from all over the world attend the championships, and dancers have a

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ip-hop dance developed in the 1960s and ’70s as a type of street dance. Through styles such as breaking, popping and locking, dancers were able to express a wide range of emotions and tell stories.

Over the years, hip-hop dance has grown and gained popularity worldwide.

During the USA and World Hip Hop Dance championships from Aug. 3-11 – partly at the Arizona Grand Resort in Ahwatukee – top crews and dancers will showcase their dance skills.

The competition is hosted by Hip Hop International, a company founded by America’s Best Dance Crew creators Karen and Howard Schwartz. Karen said the competition and TV show highlight the artistry of hip-hop dance.

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Hip-hop artists from Italy and around the world will participate in the 2018 Hip-Hop Dance Championship.

“We have an appreciation for dance.

There’s no question,” she said. “We also have a knack for bringing great events in front of people around the world and developing it in such a way that it showcases talent and entertains people.”

Howard said he and his wife also want to provide avenues for hip-hop dancers

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chance to audition for Cirque du Soleil.

Throughout the week, the dancers can take part in workshops taught by elite dance instructors. The workshops are open to the public.

The resort will offer dance parties following the competitions, food trucks with different types of cuisine and a marketplace with international hip-hop vendors. It becomes an Olympic-style village, with people from all over the world. During the competitions, especially the �inals, spectators often show their national pride, Howard said.

In recent years, Arizona crews have had a strong showing at the USA and world championships.

The Exiles crew from Coolidge took silver last year in the adult division at the USA championships, and the Elektrolytes out of Gilbert won silver in the

megacrew category.

Exiles, a dance ministry, is based out of the United Dance Studio. Along with the adult team, the studio will take United Dance Company, a megacrew of 27 to 30 dancers, to the hip-hop championships.

The team, made up of dancers from different parts of the Valley, is skilled in styles such as krumping, b-boying, popping and tricking.

“Since we all come from different places in Arizona, we grew up with different styles. We get to learn from each other so we can be a well-rounded dance team.

We do our very best to push each other and challenge each other to the next level,” Cordova said.

Based out of the Rise Dance Academy, the Elektrolytes won season seven of America’s Best Dance Crew and placed �irst at the USA Hip Hop Dance Championships in 2011.

This year, the studio will have crews

in the junior, adult and megacrew divisions. The Elektrolytes megacrew of Gilbert has 40 members, ranging in age from 12 to 30.

Sal Banuelos, one of the group’s choreographers and original members, said that with the megacrew, he can get more creative with the choreography.

While on America’s Best Dance Crew, the group gave the illusion of �loating and created three robots.

A self-taught dancer, Banuelos started in high school. He and a group of friends practiced in his parents’ garage and performed at school pep assemblies.

Over the years the group has developed the high-energy dance style for which it is known and has continued to improve with the addition of dance styles such as krumping, Banuelos said.

During his time as a dancer, the Arizona hip-hop scene has continued to grow in size and talent, he said, adding,

“There’s a lot more competition now, and there’s so many good crews.”

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World Battles Final, Arizona Grand Resort and Spa Ballroom, 8000 S. Arizona Grand Parkway, Phoenix. hiphopinternational.com, 9 p.m., Friday August 10, $30 for world battles.

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“One day, he was visiting me at my store in Scottsdale, Sam’s Liquor, and he said, ‘I just lost a tenant and it would be a perfect spot for a restaurant.”

They visited the space and knew they had a great recipe for success. It was that simple.

“Zoran wanted the location right away,” Arikat said. “He suggested we go in as partners and I told him I didn’t have restaurant experience. He said it didn’t matter. ‘I see all the potential in the world.’”

The wheels were set in motion for Sam & Luca Rustic Kitchen, named after Klisara’s son, Luca, and Arikat. The menu focuses on fresh starters ($8-$12), such as bruschetta, grilled asparagus and rustic boards, and salads adorned with strawberries and rustic ingredients.

Pasta and risotto selections include

pappardelle Bolognese ($17), fettuccini carbonara ($16), shrimp scampi ($16) and penne arrabiata ($16). Other entrees include pollo Milanese ($17), New York strip ($24) and a mixed grill ($23).

The duo found it important to bring something different to the neighborhood.

“We’re not a chain, and everything here is made from scratch,” Arikat said.

Pizza soon will be added to the menu, and Arikat and Klisara are considering opening additional restaurants.

“Now we’re in the exciting stage,” Arikat said. “We’ve opened the doors and people are ranting and raving about it. We’re getting nothing but �ive-star reviews and it’s getting busier every single day.”

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Arikat owns Sam’s Liquor in Scottsdale. Klisara is the brains behind Tommy V’s Urban Kitchen in Scottsdale. Klisara also opened Mastro’s and Mastro’s City Hall. He previously managed Lon’s at the Hermosa Inn. Arikat said the joint venture, which opened in early May, was unexpected.

“It was de�initely not planned,” Arikat said with a laugh. “My ‘uncle,’ who’s not a blood uncle, owns the Fry’s Plaza at Power and Baseline.

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BY JAN D’ATRI GETOUT Contributor t’s only five ingredients and in the “easy and delicious” category. It’s also a 5-star dish. Plus, it’s too hot to cook for more than 15 minutes.

This guacamole salsa chicken enchilada casserole could be a new go-to favorite because one jar of a store-bought savory sauce does pretty much all the work.

Herdez Guacamole Salsa is one of the newest products in the Herdez family of salsas and I’m happy to have stumbled upon it because of this recipe.

You may have seen it on grocery store shelves and wondered what to do with it. This enchilada recipe is the perfect place to start. The guacamole salsa is a rich and creamy blend of avocado, tomatillo, chiles

and spices with a bit less kick than most salsas, but the flavor is all there.

All you need is a jar of this special sauce, some corn tortillas, rotisserie chicken, some cheese and cream, and in about 20 minutes you’ll have a fantastic meal. It’s as easy as it gets, but if you want to take the dish to a new level of flavor, I’ve added an additional recipe for homemade tortillas. Es delicioso!

Guacamole Salsa Chicken Enchiladas Ingredients: 1 package (8) Corn Tortillas 1 (15.7 oz) jar Herdez Guacamole Salsa 1 cup half and half 1 cooked rotisserie chicken 1 (12 oz.) package cheddar cheese or Mexican Blend Directions: Remove all skin and bones from rotisserie chicken.

With your hands, tear off chicken into strips. In an 8-inch skillet or saucepan, heat Herdez Guacamole Salsa and cream, stirring to combine. Dredge both sides of a tortilla in the warm salsa then place in a 9 x 13 inch casserole dish. Fill the lower third of the tortilla with a few strips of chicken and about 2 tablespoons of cheese.

Roll up tortilla. Repeat with remaining tortillas, chicken and cheese to fill up casserole dish. Pour the remainder of the salsa over the enchiladas. Sprinkle the rest of the cheese over top. Bake at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes. To get a golden brown top, turn on broiler mode of oven and cook for about 5

minutes or until browned. Serve immediately.

Homemade Corn Tortillas Ingredients: 1 cup corn meal 1 cup flour 1 egg 2 cups water 1/4 teaspoon salt Directions In a bowl, whisk together corn meal, flour, egg, water and salt. (Batter should be consistency of thin pancake batter. Add more water if needed.)

Heat a small amount of oil or cooking spray in a small cast iron skillet or crepe pan.

With a ladle measuring cup, pour a thin layer of batter in pan to make a 6-inch tortilla.

When tortilla forms bubbles, flip and cook for about 30 seconds. Put on place and cover with towel to keep warm. Repeat until batter is used up.

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Joseph Calderone was born at home in Monessen, Pennsylvania on December 26th, 1934. He entered into rest at his home in Mesa, July 21st, 2018. He was preceded in death by his eldest infant son, Steven Joseph Calderone and his grandson Dominic Joseph Calderone. He is survived by his wife of 62 years Grace Dianne (née deVos); five children, Stephanie Pacheco (Porfirio), Joel Anthony (Carolyn), Dianne Marie, Dominic (Kimberly), Marguerite; nine grandchildren; and five great grandchildren.

Joseph enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1951 and proudly served his country for 20 years.

Upon his honorable discharge from the U.S. Air Force in 1974, Joseph attended Arizona State University and received a Bachelor of Science degree in political science in 1980. He worked at Work Force Development for 25 years, retiring in 1999 as the director of the Eastern Training Center for Maricopa County, Arizona. A Mass to celebrate Joseph's life will be held at All Saints Catholic Church, 1534 North Recker Road, Mesa, Arizona, 85205 at 10:00 AM on July 31st, 2018.

Interment will be held immediately after Mass at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona located at 23029 North Cave Creek Road, Phoenix, Arizona 85024.

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NOW HIRING ADJUNCT FACULTY Business | Mathematics | Physical Science | Reading Applicants must meet MCCCD established hiring qualifications in all areas: For Academic Areas: Possess a master’s degree in the teaching field, or a master’s in any teaching field with 18 graduate semester hours in the teaching field. Degrees and credit hours must be from an accredited college or university.

For Occupational Areas*: The same qualifications as those listed for Academic Areas, or a bachelor’s degree plus 3 years work experience in field to be taught, or an associate’s degree or 64 semester hours and five years’ work experience in the field to be taught, or 5 years’ experience in the field to be taught.

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The Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) is an EEO/AA institution and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, or national origin in their programs or activities. For Title IX/504 concerns, call the following number to reach the appointed coordinator: (480) 731-8499. For additional information visit: http://www.maricopa.edu/non-discrimination.

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T he draft p ermit and related documentation are av ailab le for p ub lic rev iew , Monday throug h F riday , 8 : 3 0 a.m. to 4 : 3 0 p .m., at A DEQ , 1110 West Washing ton S treet, Records Manag ement C enter, P hoeni x , A riz ona, 8 50 0 7. I n P hoenix , p lease call ( 6 0 2 ) 771-4 3 8 0 or e-mail RecordsC enter@ az deq .g ov 2 4 hours in adv ance to schedule an ap p ointment to rev iew the file.

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T he p ub lic comment p eriod is in effect from A ug ust 1, 2 0 18 , to S ep temb er 7, 2 0 18 . C omments may b e sub mitted in w riting to: Dav id Haag , A DEQ , G roundw ater P rotection and Reuse Value S tream, 1110 West Washing ton S treet, MC 550 0 E-3 , P hoenix , A Z 8 50 0 7 or v ia email at haag .dav id@ az deq .g ov . C omments must b e receiv ed or p ostmarked b y S ep temb er 7, 2 0 18 .

A p ub lic hearing w ill b e held at the S up erior T ow n Hall, at 19 9 N . Lob b A v e., S up erior, A Z 8 5173 , on S ep temb er 5, 2 0 18 at 6 : 0 0 p .m.. T he p urp ose of the hearing is to allow the p ub lic to make comments for the record. A DEQ w ill resp ond in w riting to all comments sub mitted during the p ub lic comment p eriod.

A DEQ w ill take reasonab le measures to p rov ide access to dep artment serv ices to indiv iduals w ith limited ab ility to sp eak, w rite, or understand Eng lish and/ or to those w ith disab ilities. Req uests for lang uag e interp retation serv ices or for disab ility accommodations must b e made at least 4 8 hours in adv ance b y contacting : 7-1-1 for T DD; ( 6 0 2 ) 771-2 2 15 for Disab ility A ccessib ility ; or I an B ing ham, T itle VI N ondiscrimination C oordinator at ( 6 0 2 ) 771-4 3 2 2 or idb @ az deq .g ov .

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Mesa Unified School District No. 4 of Maricopa County, Arizona (the "District"), will hold a special bond election on Tuesday, November 6, 2018.

The District seeks authorization to issue bonds in the principal amount not to exceed $300,000,000. The estimated average annual tax rate for the proposed bond authorization is $0.88 per $100 of net assessed valuation used for secondary property tax purposes. The Maricopa County School Superintendent will be preparing an informational pamphlet that will be mailed to households containing one or more registered electors within the District. Any persons wishing to submit an argument "for" or "against" the bond question (not to exceed 200 words) may do so by mail or hand delivery of the argument to the Maricopa County School Superintendent's office, 4041 N. Central Avenue, Suite 1100, Phoenix, AZ 85012; telephone: (602) 506-3866.

To be included in the informational pamphlet, such argument must be received in the office of the Maricopa County School Superintendent on or before 5:00 p.m., August 10, 2018. Such argument must be signed and should include the name of the school district, the author's name, address and telephone number. The last day to register to vote in order to be eligible to vote in this election is Monday, October 8, 2018. For more information concerning the election, please contact Mesa Unified School District, 63 East Main Street, Mesa, AZ 85201, telephone: (480) 472-0000.

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SOLICITUD PARA ARGUMENTOS "A FAVOR" O "EN CONTRA" DE LA ELECCIÓN ESPECIAL CONCERNIENTE A LOS BONOS FINANCIEROS DISTRITO ESCOLAR UNIFICADO NÚMERO 4 DE MESA El Distrito Escolar Unificado Número 4 de Mesa del Condado de Maricopa, Arizona (el "Distrito"), celebrará una elección especial concerniente a los bonos financieros el martes, el 6 de noviembre de 2018. El Distrito busca autorización para emitir bonos financieros en la cantidad principal que no exceda $300,000,000. Se estima que el promedio de la tasa de impuestos anual para la propuesta autorización de los bonos financieros es $0.88 por $100 de valor tasado neto usado para los propósitos de los impuestos secundarios sobre la propiedad. El Superintendente de Escuelas del Condado de Maricopa estará preparando un folleto informativo que será enviado a los domicilios que contienen un elector o más inscritos para votar dentro del Distrito. Cualquier persona que desee entregar un argumento "a favor" o "en contra" de la cuestión de los bonos financieros (no debe exceder 200 palabras) puede hacerlo por correo o por entregar el argumento personalmente a la oficina de Maricopa County School Superintendent, 4041 N. Central Avenue, Suite 1100, Phoenix, AZ 85012; teléfono: (602) 506-3866.

Para ser incluido en el folleto informativo, tal argumento debe estar en la oficina del Superintendente de Escuelas del Condado de Maricopa a las 5:00 de la tarde o antes, el 10 de agosto de 2018. Se tiene que firmar tal argumento y se debe incluir el nombre del distrito escolar, el nombre del autor, dirección y número de teléfono. El último día para inscribirse a votar para poder votar en esta elección es el lunes, el 8 de octubre de 2018.

Para más información sobre la elección, favor de comunicarse con Mesa Unified School District, 63 East Main Street, Mesa, AZ 85201, teléfono: (480) 472-0000.

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OT C TO S: ost ser ice ad ertisers ha e an OC or ot a licensed contractor in their ad this is in accordance to the state law. ri ona egistrar of Contractors OC : The ad ertising reuirements of the statute does not preent anyone from placing an ad in the yellow pages on business cards or on flyers.

What it does re uire under . .S. 2-1121 14 c www.a leg.go ars 2 01165.htm is that the ad ertising party if not properly licensed as a contractor disclose that fact on any form of ad ertising to the public by including the words not a licensed contractor in the adertisement. gain this re uirement is intended to make sure that the consumer is made aware of the unlicensed status of the indi idual or company.

Contractors who adertise and do not disclose their unlicensed status are not eligible for the handyman s e ception. eference: http: www.a roc.g o in est licensed by law.html s a consumer being aware of the law is for your protection. You can check a businesses OC s t a t u s a t :

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