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Volume 29 • Number 46 November 9, 2022
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volleyball roars INSIDE Fashion show to benefit families, victims Tiger to region title
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hen Eva Hendrix transferred to Oro Valley after 32 years in California, she and her family didn’t know a soul. Thanks to the referral organization BNI 6 Figure Success, Hendrix has become entrenched in the community. Hendrix and BNI are hosting the free 6 Figure Success fashion show and holiday gift market with 30 vendors from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, at The Buttes at Reflections. Food trucks will provide the snacks. Two glasses of wine will be sold for $6, and Mark Willis will entertain. “BNI is a national networking group, and we just launched it here in the Northwest area in May,” said Hendrix, the chapter president. “We’re pretty new and we have about 28 local business owners from the area who are involved. One of them is the nonprofit that we took on, the Oro Valley Rotary Club. At the end of the day, it is a community-based organization. I wanted to support local—not just say it,
Left: Eva Hendrix is chapter president of BNI 6 Figure Success. (Eva Hendrix/Submitted) Right: Oro Valley Police Chief Kara Riley will model during the BNI 6 Figure Success fashion show and holiday market. (Kara Riley/Submitted) but actually do it. Everybody (in the group) is a business owner. It just made sense to pour back into what we love.” Georgina Anderson, the owner of The Buttes at Reflections, is part of BNI. Hendrix said she was gracious in allowing the organization to use her venue. “Usually, you pay the most with venues,” she said. “That’s where you’re paying top dollar. She’s willing to share her venue with us, which allowed us to make this event free. “Her focus is to find people who want to utilize her venue for things other than weddings. This is going to be really good exposure for her. Her
venue can be used for 50th anniversaries, a women’s gathering, maybe the mayor wants to do something here. We want to give the venue exposure so she can have more clients.” The community event is a fundraiser for the Oro Valley Rotary Club and its family and children’s programs, IMPACT and EMERGE. The models include Oro Valley Town Councilmember Joyce Jones-Ivey, KVOA News 4 Anchor Monica Garcia, Leticia Ortez from Azteca TV Tucson, Lydia Camarillo with the Golder Ranch Fire Department and Oro Valley See FASHION SHOW Page 5
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he Marana Tigers girls’ volleyball team won the 6A South Region championship with a perfect 6-0 mark. For coach Jen Ball, who, in seven years as head of the program has never had a team finish lower than third, it was business as usual. In fact, it has been another characteristically good year for girls’ volleyball across Northwest Tucson. While Amphi, which won its region championship and hosted a state playoff game last year, fell back this season with a young squad, the rest of the Northwest contingent showed out. Flowing Wells finished in the top 24 in the year’s final Power Points ranking, but got bumped from the State Tournament by a Phoenix team that reached the state playoffs on a technicality. Marana Mountain View had a fine season, going 11-6 and advancing to postseason play. (They fell to Williams Field on the road in the first round of the playoffs.) Ironwood Ridge went 14-3 and won the 5A Southern Region title. Some would argue that Canyon Del Oro is the best of them all this year, but it finished second in their respective region after losing two close matches to Salpointe (which, as we all know, doesn’t belong in the 4A). Ball is the daughter-in-law of the legendary Kenny Ball, who was a starting forward on what is considered the greatest boys basketball team in Tucson history, the 1969 Tucson High
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