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n yet another sign of the relentless increase in housing prices, the Valley’s top market analyst said the average price of a home listed in Mesa ZIP codes 85213 and 85215 exceeds $1 million, putting it among 28 Valley postal zones with seven-figure list price averages.

“If rising house prices scare you, then the best place not to look is the average price for active listings,” the Cromford Report wrote.

“Unless you are made of stern stuff, you should look away now.”

Cromford Report then proceeded to note that the average home list price in 85213 is $1,039,66 – nearly double the $596,795 average list price in that ZIP code three years ago this month and ranked 27th among the 28 high-dollar ZIP codes.

In 85215, the average list price is $1,082,213 – far higher than the March 2019 average list price of $658.118 and placing 23rd among the 28 ZIP codes.

Leading that compilation is the Paradise Valley ZIP of 85253, with average list price of $7.2 million while the lowest is the Windsong area of Phoenix with just over $1 million.

That group of what Cromford Report calls “eye-watering numbers” also includes one ZIP code in Ahwatukee and four others in Phoenix, all of Carefree, Wickenburg and Cave Creek; seven in Scottsdale, two in Gilbert, the Gold Canyon ZIP in Apache Junction and one each in South Tempe and Glendale.

To understand the significance of that, Cromford provides this stunning fact: Just three years ago, average list prices topping $1 million existed in only seven Valley ZIP codes.

Of course, the Cromford Report stresses,

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Fans celebrate spring ball’s return in Mesa

BY JOSH ORTEGA Tribune Staff Writer

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lue skies and green grass set the perfect tone as Sloan Park’s gates opened to welcome fans back to Spring Training.

The only thing missing was the green ivy on the outfield wall but a cactus outside the stadium was fine with fans who shuffled their way through the gates on March 14 – four days before the first game – as the Seventh Inning Stretch blared on the speakers.

Officials had opened the stadium’s first base gate to give away free hot dogs and soda to fans after they took pictures on the concourse or in front of the replica of the Wrigley Field marquee sign with their own custom message.

see SPRING BALL page 4

With Sloan Park open for a March 14 celebration of the beginning of a shortened Cactus League season, Chicago Cubs fans Charlene and Don Udoni of Illinois took a video to send to family.

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ince 2019, Mesa 911 dispatchers have routed 4,000 emergency calls related to mental health away from police, fire and medical services and over to behavioral health professionals.

If proposed upgrades to the program are implemented this summer, those numbers could be higher in the future.

City staff Mesa City Council at its March 11 study session that their 911 mental health diversion program is succeeding and they would like to expand the program using $2.4 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds.

Several council members expressed support for the program and encouraged staff to continue planning the expansion.

Crisis mental health care touches on two of Mesa residents’ biggest community concerns: homelessness and mental health in general. They were the No. 1 and No. 3 most concerning issues, respectively, for Mesa residents in a poll conducted by Arizona State University’s Morrison Institute of Public Policy last spring. Human trafficking was No. 2.

Staff told Council that diverting select 911 calls to mental health professionals was less expensive than sending police for certain situations and provides better service to people in crisis.

“We believe this is a program that, while efficient, (also) provides the highest level of service to the citizen,” Assistant City Manager John Pombier said.

Mayor John Giles remarked that currently, behavioral health appeared to represent a large share of the workload on Mesa’s officers.

“The times that I’ve gone on ridealongs with the police department, it’s struck me that everything that we did on those calls was either tied to mental health or substance abuse,” he said.

Mesa dove into connecting 911 callers with mental health services in 2019

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The entire two-hour was to celebrate the start of an abbreviated Cactus League season after Major League Baseball owners reached a new labor agreement with the players’ association, ending a stalemate that has put a major dent in this year’s Cactus League season after two years of disruptions by COVID-19.

“All those sights and sounds that are typical in Arizona this time of year are really back and they’ve come back fast,” said Justin Piper, who has worked as the general manager of spring training operations for the Chicago Cubs for the past nine years.

He rejoiced that life at the park and the Riverview Complex has returned to normal – not only because the 2022 Spring Training Season was finally getting underway but also because pre-pandemic normality was returning.

“We’re really operating a lot like we did prior to the pandemic,” Piper said.

Games started March 17 with a seveninning exhibition against crosstown rival Chicago White Sox and the Cubs will host only eight more games at the stadium through April 4.

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every day March 18 at the Riverview Baseball Complex next door to the stadium.

But even before the first pitch was thrown, Piper was happy that “it’s quickly all coming back.”

“This quickly turned into a celebration by the fans and the many people that support the operation here, and that this operation supports in the community,” he said.

Steve Adams a.k.a. Big Ho, president of the Mesa Hohokams, said “it was a possibility” early on of the lockout happening but he's “ecstatic” for baseball’s return.

“We’re just glad that it’s back,” he said.

“Ten games is better than no games.”

Spring Training represents a major source of the nonprofit’s revenue – which goes to helping local youth sports, among other community betterments.

Adams, along with his 165 members and more than 70 volunteers, helps fans with parking and navigating the lot during game days.

The Hohokams also run a 50/50 raffle during the games, from which they get half of the proceeds.

Adams said he can walk an average of 10 laps around the stadium trying to raise money for the organization.

He said it’s good to have the “excellent”

Rich Labbate of Gilbert posed for a picture with his son Rocco, 7, in front of the Wrigley Field replica marquee sign at Sloan Park with a custom message. (Josh Ortega/Tribune Staff)

Chicago Cubs fans Jamie and Jim Bussis took a selfie in front of Sloan Park March 14 as fans celebrated the end of the lockout and the beginning of Spring Training. (David Minton/Tri-

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weather and he enjoys having the smell of the grass again, which makes him optimistic for this shortened Spring Training Season.

“We’re pretty confident we can manage,” he said.

Fans clamored through the gates to take in the ballpark’s sights, sounds and smells.

It’s a place Don and Charlene Udoni of Illinois know all too well since they’ve been coming to Arizona for their beloved Cubs nearly every year since 2008.

The Udonis, who will celebrate their 54th wedding anniversary this October, have been fans of the “North Siders” all their lives.

While the couple became “pretty disgusted” by the lockout, they said they’re “glad to be here.”

“We got to the point where we didn’t care if they were going to start or not,” Charlene said. “But happily, everything turned out and here we are.”

They made the trek from Midlothian, Illinois, about an hour drive from the friendly confines of Wrigley Field.

Don said he fell in love with the game because his aunt and uncle took him to games when he was a kid.

Charlene attributes her love of baseball to her late brother-in-law Bob. She recalled jumping on the L Train at age 12 with him and her sister from their South Side neighborhood.

“For a dollar, I had a full day,” she said.

Unfortunately, her childhood esca-

pades all came to an end after a few day games. “My mother finally caught on to me,” she said.

Although Bob passed away in 2008, Charlene was expecting her sister to arrive for Spring Training on March 22.

Even baseball’s youngest fans came out to watch their favorite players and dream of a day they could step up to the plate.

Rich Labbate, owner of Rocco’s Sweet Shoppe in Gilbert, grew up in California a Dodgers fan until age 11, then quickly got into music.

He spent 20 years playing bass and got to meet musicians like Eddie Vetter.

Labbate has spent the last 11 years in Arizona, helping to care for Vetter’s late uncle, a big Cubs fan.

That reignited his love of the game, a new fandom for the Cubs and eventually a meet-and-greet with then-team president Theo Epstein.

Now he shares in that fandom with his wife Sandy and 7-year-old son Rocco, whom the bakery is named after.

He said the lockout bothered him and “it damages the game,” conceding maybe he felt that way because he had tickets for three Spring Training games that were canceled by the lockout.

“It feels petty for the people that love the sport,” he said. “It felt very intentional from the owners.”

But he still made it out to Sloan to play catch with his son and Rocco’s little league “brother” Brock.

“I’m glad it’s back for the kids,” he said.

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that doesn’t mean all the homes for sale in are priced in the seven-figure range.

But, at the time of the Tribune’s deadline last week, there weren’t many houses listed for sale in either ZIP code.

Indeed, in the two weeks since the Cromford Report published its list, the average list price in 85215 changed to $1,335,000 because it was the only house listed for sale.

In 85213, five of the six houses listed for sale were priced in the seven-figure range between $1.25 million and $2.55 million. The one that didn’t hit seven figures was priced at $800,000.

“ZIP codes are often very small and the number of homes for sale may be minuscule right now,” the Cromford Report noted, adding that “average prices are often much higher than median prices” and “the majority of homes sell for less than the average price, something many people do not realize.

But those caveats hardly compensate for the fact, it said, that in most of those 28 ZIP codes, “if you are shopping for a home, you are looking at an average list price more than double what you would have seen three years ago. You are also looking at a tiny number of homes for sale compared with three years ago.”

Inflation is now fueling a fire in the housing market that existed well before $5-a-gallon gas was only the stuff of nightmares, experts say.

One factor is the availability of resale and new homes on the market – which last year see-sawed a bit but remained well below the number that would meet the demand and tip the scales

This 6,128-square-foot, three-story house in East Jaeger Circle in Mesa ZIP code 85213 was the most expensive home listed last week in that ZIP Code. Priced at $2,550,000, the five-bedroom, 4 ½-bath house, built in 2000, sits on an acre and boasts a number of luxurious amenities – including a heated towel rack. (Special to the Tribune) that have been tilted way in favor of home sellers.

In fact, the Cromford Report noted, yet another downward trend in inventory is currently dominating the housing market throughout Maricopa and Pinal counties.

“The downward trend in supply that started in late October continued throughout February, but slowed down,” it stated.

“Demand is slightly below last year but given the sharp increase in interest rates, it is holding up pretty well. The market is cooler than a year ago, but not by much.”

The contract ratio – the total number of homes under contract versus total

This home on East Hermosa Vista Drive in Mesa ZIP code 85215 is priced at $1,335,000. The 4,385-square-foot house, built in 1980, boasts a private orchard, four bedrooms and baths, fivecar garage, over-sized kitchen and family room, and numerous upgrades. (Special to the Tribune)

listings – dipped from 281 this time last year to a current 263,” Cromford said.

But that’s hardly something to celebrate when you realize that “in a normal market, this would be somewhere between 30 and 60.”

With inflation driving up the cost of building materials, new-home prices are going up and that in turn is adding more fuel to the fire in the resale market, experts say.

“Prices are rising at colossal speed,” Cromford said. “The median sales price is up from $425,000 to $445,000 in two months and looks likely to break $470,000 by the end of the second quarter. The third quarter is always a slower period and we may get some respite from the rising prices between June and September.”

It’s not like homes aren’t being built, of course.

Storage café, a blog that primarily monitors the storage facility industry, reported last week that Phoenix was the fourth most active metropolitan area in the country for real estate construction over the last 10 years – behind, respectively, Dallas, Houston and New York City.

It said between 2012 and 2022, 207,370 single-family home permits and 95,330 multifamily building permits had been issued in the Phoenix Metro region.

Home prices likely will continue to rise, according to what several national

experts said last week.

While 2022 began with predictions of a cool-down in the market, many are revising their predictions.

Zillow initially said prices would grow by 11% this year, compared to an 18.8% growth rate in 2021. But in February, Zillow said it now sees home prices to grow by 17.3% this year.

Fannie Mae at first predicted resale home prices would rise by 7.9% this year. Last week it bumped that projection to an 11.2% increase.

“There are plenty of observers suggesting the market is due for a downturn, but the market is not giving off any data to support that opinion,” Cromford said.

“Supply remains extremely low with no sign of significant new supply of homes to buy. Demand is down a little but seems to be extremely resilient and although it is lower than last year, it remains very strong by historic standards.

“A change may happen,” it added. “Right now there is no change to report.”

“In Arizona, we have a history of building more and more homes until there is a very obvious reason to stop,” it continued. “There will come a time, and nobody knows exactly when it will be, when we have built enough shelter for the population and demand sinks below supply. It seems likely that we will see that in rentals before we see it in homes for purchase.”

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Salt River Project said in a release that a proposed 230 kV line, which would be suspended from poles about 125 feet tall, are needed to deliver large loads of electricity to Meta’s $800 million data center, now under construction at Ellsworth and Elliot Roads.

Residents will have the opportunity to learn more about the project – dubbed Project Huckleberry – and weigh in at two virtual meetings hosted by Salt River Project March 22 and 23.

SRP said in a release that in order to “meet the ultimate reliability and power quality requirements from Meta,” it will need to feed the facility with a high-voltage transmission line from the planned Southeast Power Link, a 7-mile 230 kV

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line from Queen Creek to Mesa set for completion in 2023. As the primary beneficiary, Meta is funding the spur line.

The proposed line is higher voltage than the 69 kV lines more commonly seen for distributing power to commercial and residential users. Poles for 69 kV lines are typically between 55 and 70 feet tall, according to SRP. High voltage power lines, like the 230 kV connector proposed for the Meta data center, are generally used to transport electricity over long distances or to deliver power to very large energy consumers.

Poles for these lines typically stand between 100 and 150 feet.

The Meta data center will be a large ener-

gy user. Data centers use electricity both to power their equipment and also to cool it, since their operations generate lots of heat.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, “data centers are one of the most energy-intensive building types, consuming 10 to 50 times the energy per floor space of a typical commercial office building.”

The agency estimates data centers now account for 2% of U.S. electrical usage.

To power its almost 1 million-squarefoot future facility, Meta has signed deals to purchase 450 megawatts of new solar energy from SRP. The energy company is contracting to build three solar plants in Pinal County, totaling 500 megawatts, to deliver the needed solar power.

Meta is supporting the construction of the solar plants through long-term pur-

chasing agreements.

According to estimates from the Solar Energy Industries Association, 450 MW of solar is enough energy to power 85,000 homes. That’s about two-thirds of Mesa’s estimated 125,000 households.

This is Meta’s first data center in Arizona.

The company said one factor in its selection of Mesa for the facility was Arizona’s potential to generate renewable energy.

To alert residents of the proposed utility projects, an SRP spokeswoman said the company mailed over 13,000 notifications to customers and landowners in the area on March 4. SRP will hold two virtual public meetings at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 22, and Wednesday, March 23.

Residents can sign up and view project details at srp.net/huckleberry.

SRP estimates a spring 2024 completion of Project Huckleberry, which includes the new high voltage line and the construction of a substation on Ellsworth Road.

The Meta data center is expected to open before project completion, and SRP said it will serve the facility in the interim with existing 69 kV lines.

In addition to the community meetings, there will be another opportunity for residents to weigh in before the lines move forward. Before starting construction, SRP must apply for a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility from the Arizona Corporation Commission. The company said a public hearing at ACC’s Arizona Power Plant and Transmission Line Siting Committee is scheduled for late June 2022.

through a partnership with Tempebased nonprofit Solari Crisis and Human Services.

In the first stage of the partnership, emergency dispatchers trained to identify calls that could be effectively handled

by Solari’s crisis phone line or mobile teams. In what city staff described as a pioneering innovation among U.S. cities, Mesa adopted an official policy stating that dispatchers could route certain call codes to Solari.

Now, when someone calls 911 because of suicidal thoughts, dispatchers have the option of patching the caller to Solari’s crisis line or asking Solari to send a two-person mobile team to the caller’s location.

Dispatchers “have three baskets now – police, fire and behavioral health,” Pombier told Council. “This allows us to send the appropriate response. It could be all three, or it could be any one of the three.”

Solari Chief Operating Officer Andrew Erwin told council that roughly 50% of the crisis calls they receive from 911 can be helped over the phone alone.

When in-person mental health attention is needed – and desired by the caller – Solari deploys a mobile team. Erwin said the mobile teams include a master’s level mental health clinician and bachelor’s-level clinician, and each team includes a member who has completed emergency medical technician certification.

“These are people that have experience

generally in outpatient settings,” Erwin said. “Crisis work is a very special type of work.”

Many cities across the U.S. are interested in sending social workers to noncriminal 911 calls, but a hurdle that is being worked out – which was on the minds of some council members – is the team members’ safety.

Erwin told council the Mesa mobile teams are having good outcomes, and he is not aware of any incidents. He said that law enforcement accompanies the mobile teams on fewer than 1% of calls.

Erwin suggested the key to success was careful selection of which calls are diverted to mental health teams.

“The policy we built is very honed in to the type of support we deliver,” he said.

Phoenix is hiring scores of people to take similar burdens off officers – a critical move since staffing levels in Phoenix PD have been in freefall for a year as the number of new recruits pales in comparison to officers who are retiring or leaving for a different job.

In the first year of the partnership, Solari staff said they diverted 369 emergency calls from the Mesa fire and police departments. That number rose steadily in subsequent years, with 1,125 calls diverted in 2020 and 1,867 in 2021.

Last summer, Mesa and Solari deepened the partnership by “co-locating” Solari staff with 911 dispatchers at the Mesa Police Communications Center for about 20 hours per week. Embedded Solari staff confer with dispatchers or listen in on calls to help decide if mental health

resources are the best response.

Solari said mental health diversions from 911 have increased 175% since they started embedding at the communications center.

City staff and Solari think they can get the numbers even higher by using ARPA funds to create mobile response teams dedicated to Mesa, reducing response times.

Currently, about 30 behavioral health response teams serve the entire Phoenix-metro area, Solari staff said. Because of their wide service area, mobile team response times are currently about 30 minutes on average.

Pombier said having Mesa-focused teams with faster response times might lead police and fire to request mental health assistance in the field more frequently, since many calls are recognized as being primarily mental health-related once officers are on the scene.

Faster response times will encourage firefighters and police to utilize the teams, since time is often critical.

The Mesa Police Department expressed support for building on the partnership, saying “the co-location crisis response model allows us to get a mental health professional in touch with a person in crisis, or in need of mental health care faster.”

“Additionally, mental health crisis calls are not usually criminal in nature, so a police officer would not need to respond, making that police officer available to handle criminal calls for service,” it added.

Pombier thinks Mesa’s approach has

been successful because they have integrated a third party partner into their existing emergency systems, rather than trying to build a mental health care system from scratch.

“We took the unnatural step of starting with the community providers and said, ‘We don’t want to reinvent the wheel, how do we do this right?’ It’s been a great partnership all the way through this process, where we are continually updating how we do things,” Pombier said.

“Mesa’s really the cutting edge of this,” said Matthew Moody, Solari director of contact center operations. “Mesa saw the way forward in my opinion, (on) what is going to be the model for the rest of the country, which is, let’s have this separate entity that specializes in this.” ■

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Mesa couple offer home to Ukrainian refugees

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Bonnie and Ed Hickman want to open their Mesa home to refugees of war-torn Ukraine.

(David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer)

onnie Hickman knows firsthand what the ravages of conflict cause and that prompted her to open her own home to Ukrainians displaced by the invading Russian Army.

So when the Mesa woman saw accounts of the chaos Ukrainian refugees are enduring, she felt compelled to act.

The sixth-grade teacher for the Gilbert Public Schools saw a Facebook post about people donating money to Ukrainians on AirBnb and her effort snowballed from there.

Now, she’s ready to welcome into her home anyone whom the nonprofit working with the rental app sends her way from half a world away.

“If we’re going to make a difference in the world, we better start where we can,” she said.

On Feb. 28, AirBnb announced it would offer free, short-term housing to up to 100,000 refugees fleeing Ukraine.

“These stays will be funded by AirBnb, Inc., donors to the AirBnb.org Refugee Fund, and the generosity of hosts through AirBnb.org,” it announced.

All this started when Hickman read about people purchasing AirBnb rentals in Ukraine for approximately $32 per night. She purchased three nights herself.

“It was one of the ways to get money into the country,” she said.

She said the rentals she purchased in Ukraine were mainly by rescue teams and humanitarian workers helping people escaping the violence.

Eventually, she read about the possibility of taking refugees personally and she remembered her own experience stationed in Wurzburg, Germany, with her

husband.

The couple has been married for more than 30 years and her husband, Ed, served 20 years as a meteorologist in the Air Force.

Ed deployed with the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division to Northern Iraq in April 1991 as part of Operation: Provide Comfort that helped the Kurdish refugees escape after the Gulf War. From 1990-92, the couple lived among the German people during the fall of the Berlin Wall and Ed witnessed firsthand the gratitude East Germans had for American servicemembers.

“You were treated like you were liberating Paris during World War II,” he said.

Now, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine along with the withdrawal from Afghanistan, Ed said “it really hurts” and feels helpless to watch.

“If I could go and make a difference, I would do that,” he said. “It starts to feel like it was for nothing.”

When his wife told him about her idea, he said he’d support her generosity.

“If that’s where your heart is, I’m behind it,” he said.

While he doesn’t think people would want to come to Arizona, he’ll welcome anyone who needs their help.

“They’re more than welcome to come,” he said.

Over the past five years, AirBnb and AirBnb.org have connected more than 54,000 refugees and asylum seekers – including people from Syria, Venezuela and Afghanistan – to temporary housing through AirBnb.org partners, according to their website.

Last year, AirBnb.org announced the creation of its Refugee Fund and has galvanized more than 4,000 donors to further support its work with refugees and asylum seekers worldwide.

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Bill would require schools to post lesson details

BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

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tate senators voted last week to enact specific new requirements for what schools and teachers have to make available to parents.

As approved on a 16-13 party-line margin, SB 1211 requires a listing of all materials and activities for student instruction. This ranges from textbooks and digital materials, to online applications and school assemblies and guest lectures.

Sen. Paul Boyer, R-Glendale, said this will not be a hardship on teachers as they need post only the titles and information within seven days.

Separately, SB 1211 requires school districts and charter schools to provide information on their websites the procedures for parents to access, in advance, to review the current learning materials and activities being used. The materials would have to be organized, at a minimum, by subject, grade and teacher as well as be displayed in electronic formats that can be searched or sorted.

All the Democrats on the Senate floor voted against the measure.

"I am 100% in favor of transparency and parental involvement," said Sen. Christine Marsh, D-Phoenix.

"I know first-hand that open communication between parents and teachers allows for better instruction and adaptability for the students," she said. "But there are other ways to facilitate that without this particular bill which will have ... unintended consequences on both students and on teachers."

Marsh said the additional requirements will create more work for teachers that ultimately will result in them being able to spend less time with their students.

"They’re going to be busy loading thousands of points of data online every week or two," she said.

But Boyer called SB 1211 "one of the most important, if not the most important bill of the session."

"It’s painless," said Boyer, who indicated he is returning to full-time teaching next year.

"As teachers, we’re always submitting lesson plans every single week," Boyer said. "It’s so simple teachers can just upload to a Google Doc or a Word Doc, just the titles of whatever it is."

"Some of you know that parents, not all of them, but some of them do distrust their school districts," Boyer said. "This bill helps to alleviate that."

He also said actually will help teachers, enabling them to see what others in the field are doing. "Maybe, just maybe, I can apply some of the same kind of teaching materials in my classroom," Boyer said.

But Sen. Tyler Pace, R-Mesa, questioned whether what’s in the bill is workable, particularly at the elementary school level.

For example, he said his son is in the third grade where they give him his choice of what to read from perhaps a thousand books.

"Which one of those thousand books is required reading?" Pace asked, and has to be listed online. Still, Pace voted for the measure, saying he hopes there are changes when the measure is considered by the House where it now goes.

Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, R-Scottsdale, also voted with all the Republicans to approve the measure. But she questioned whether this was little more than window dressing – "to look like we are doing something" – to deal with a deeper problem.

"Putting up loads and loads and loads of information isn’t really going to solve the problem that we have in K-12," Ugenti-Rita said.

"We have a leadership problem in K-12," she continued. "We have a problem with teacher unions. We have a problem with board members who sit on school boards who are elected in non-partisan races and nobody knows who they are."

In fact, Ugenti-Rita proposed legislation this session to require board candidates to list their political affiliations, only to have it defeated.

"This will leave parents with the impression that something is done when nothing is done," she complained. In-

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stead, Ugenti-Rita said, SB 1211 will "add a lot of busy work for teachers."

The measure outlines enforcement procedures, including requiring a response from the school principal to a complaint with 15 days and then, if the parent is not satisfied, gives the governing board another 25 days. It also spells out that parents can pursue legal action, as can the state school superintendent, the auditor general, the attorney general or the county attorney.

Not everything that teachers would have to post would come afterwards.

The measure spells out that materials on certain subjects actually have to be put on display at least 72 hours before first use. These include issues of discrimination and diversity and bias based on race, ethnicity, sex or gender.

Also covered by this 72-hour rule is "action-oriented civics," defined as assignments or projects that require students to contact elected officials or other outside entities, whether to advocate for a political or social cause or to participate in political or social demonstrations.

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Book pays homage to Mesa Temple’s Easter pageants

BY PAUL MARYNIAK Tribune Executive Editor

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s excitement begins to build over next month’s return of the Easter Pageant to the Mesa Arizona Temple after a three-year hiatus, a newly published book offers a detailed look at its evolution across eight decades.

For nearly three years, writers Jill Adair, a Mesa resident and the Temple’s communications director, and Cecily Condie, a former Mesa resident and editor-owner of Inglestone Publishing, combed through hundreds of photos, interviewed scores of people and burrowed through microfilm to produce an homage to a production that draws over 100,000 people over the course of its multi-day presentation.

Adair and Condie teamed up with Gilbert book designer Leslie Thompson to produce “The Mesa Easter Pageant – 80 Years of Sharing the Story of Jesus the Christ,” a 280-page hardcover book that

details both the pageant’s history and its community impact and historical significance.

From a humble Easter sunrise service, it has evolved into a work that depicts the life of Jesus Christ with a cast of more than 400 people and another 400 other volunteers.

The free pageant this year features a revised script, a new soundtrack specially recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra and a massive stage with new props. It will be presented at 8 p.m. April 6-9 and 12-16, on the north lawn of the Mesa Arizona Temple, 101 South Lesueur.

No tickets are needed.

As Adair and Condie show, the colorful spectacle started in 1938 as a Easter sunrise service that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints held on the Mesa Arizona Tempe lawn.

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Co-authors Jill Adair, left and Cecily Condie, center, credit book designer Leslie Thompson, right, with the engaging look of their book, “The Mesa Easter Pageant - 80 Years of Sharing the Story of Jesus the Christ.” (Special to the Tribune)

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C Mesa Fire Chief Mary Cameli congratulates Jonathon Baez, who received a commendation for helping to save the lives of two children trapped in a burning house on Feb. 18. (City of Mesa)

ity officials formally recognized a local resident whose actions Feb. 18 helped save two children from a burning apartment.

Jonathon Baez was formally recognized for his action in the fire in the 1900 block of E. Hampton Ave. by Mayor John Giles, Councilmember Mark Freeman, Councilmember David Luna, Assistant City Manager John Pombier, Fire Chief Mary Cameli and Police Chief Ken Cost for what they called Baez’s “extraordinary efforts and selfless acts of bravery.”

The children, ages 2 and 6, suffered only minor injuries as the result of Baez’s quick action, authorities said.

They had been trapped in the secondfloor apartment in a back bedroom and Baez climbed into it after a Mesa police officer threw rocks at it to break it.

Baez “got inside the bedroom by pull-

ing out the frame of the window where he found the children inside,” according to a Fire Department report.

“The citizen handed them out of the window to the officers. The officers stayed with the children while Fire personnel treated them for their injuries.

Two of the officer’s rode with the children until they reached the hospital and were turned over to medical personnel.

Four of the officers were treated at the hospital and released.

“According to all who were there, if it wasn’t for the citizen who assisted, the outcome of this incident may have been different,” the report continued. “He saw the fire from a distance, jumped a wall to the apartment complex, and ran towards the fire to help. They all agreed that he went above and beyond to assist in getting these children to safety. He put his life on the line for these children.”

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Its popularity has grown so much that 9,600 folding chairs will be set up for each of the nine performances next month.

For a show that has grown in size and stature over time, you’d think its history would be well-established.

But Adair and Condie discovered multiple gaps in the collective memory of pageant and church leaders and decided a meticulously documented history was in order.

They interviewed more than 50 principals in past pageants – such as directors, men who played Jesus, pageant presidents, crew members and costume designers – and sifted through a variety of documents to achieve that goal.

“We also had hundreds of photos,” said.

Adair, whose husband, Scott, took many of the photos over the years. “We said we could do 10 volumes, so we included as much as we could, particularly the photos, to make it more than just a historical book.”

Added Condie: “To take 80 years of history and boil it down would be a challenge under any circumstances. But in this case, you add the hundreds of individual stories from a cast of nearly 500 and a crew of almost that many every year and you start to see the magnitude of what it would take to put it together.”

The two women struggled to decide on the best way to present all the information they had acquired, finally opting for a chronological approach.

Among the interviews – which will be donated as oral histories along with a profusion of all kinds of memorabilia to the Mesa Public Library and the Church Historical Museum in Salt Lake City – is a chat with the oldest person they could find with a connection to the pageant.

He is Grant Gunnell of Mesa, who sang at the sunrise service when he was a senior at Mesa High School in 1944.

Through a painstaking review of microfilmed editions of the Mesa Tribune for 80 years – “We found at least something published about the event from every year,” Adair said – the two women also clear up

The book is filled with photos from eight decades of Easter pageants at the Mesa Arizona Temple. (Special to the Tribune) some historical ambiguities and misconceptions about the pageant.

They found that the pageant has been held every year between 1938 and 2018 except for 1975 – the year the Mesa Temple held an extended open house prior to its rededication after its first major renovation – and became an evening event in 1977.

Prior to embarking on their project, Adair said she and Condie discovered in conversations with former pageant leaders that they didn’t know answers to some basic questions.

“Cecily and I would look at each other and say, ‘Someone should document the history of the pageant before it’s lost,’” Adair recalled.

“As we uncovered the vast number of articles written in the Tribune and other newspapers, found personal mementoes and letters, and then interviewed individuals who had made contributions over the years, we were able to collect and to verify facts and to even sort out some of the mistaken ideas about the pageant that

had been passed down over the years,” Condie said, adding: “The result is not only a clear history of the growth of the annual Easter celebration, it is also a chronicle of what the event has meant to those who have participated and attended and, also, how it has impacted the community as a whole over the past 80 years.”

“From the time I first worked as the communications director,” Adair said, “I wondered about the beginnings of the pageant and was inspired by the stories I heard of people sharing their talents and time to be involved in this event. From my earliest involvement with the pageant, I have been impressed with the way that people sacrifice and donate their time and resources to join in sharing the story of Jesus Christ in this way. It’s a unique and very beautiful and touching experience for the cast and crew and one that causes the audience to reflect on the meaning of Easter and of Christ’s mission and life as well.”

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Both women, mothers of now-adult children, have been in past pageants, as have some of their immediate family.

They are happy with the outcome of their labor, crediting book designer Thompson with making the book “visually beautiful with her careful placement of photos, text and decorative touches,” Adair said.

“It was one of our goals to make the book beautiful because the pageant is so visually beautiful and we wanted to represent that with our book,” Adair added.

Condie, the author of a children’s book titled “If I Made A Bug,” feels the book “will mean a lot to those who want to reminisce about their own pageant experience, but, also to anyone who wants to know more about Mesa’s history or about the sharing of the story of Jesus the Christ in this way. “ The book is published by Condie’s Inglestone Publishing and available at inglestonepublishing.com and amazon.com.

More information about it is at mesaeasterpageantbook.com.

Contact Paul Maryniak at 480-898-5647 or pmaryniak@timespublications.com

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Gender wage gap has not narrowed – may widen

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women educators made 87 cents to male educators’ ASHINGTON – The dollar, and female customwage gap that had er service representatives been narrowing made 89 cents per dollar. between men and women But experts pointed out stalled in 2019, according to that those numbers were new numbers from the Cenfrom before the pandemic, sus Bureau, and advocates which hit women workers fear the situation will only harder than men. get worse when pandemic“Women were impacted, era data is released. both at the beginning of The gap improved in the pandemic, and now two both Arizona and the U.S. years in, we’re seeing womas a whole over the last five en at a whole different kind years, but the pace of change of range also being impacthas been slow and is getting ed by the pandemic,” Baraslower. jas-Román said. “We know “The most recent research that’s going to have a deep has shown that women in impact on wage equality in the labor force are at a 33the future.” year low following the panExperts agree that the demic,” said Elizabeth Barapandemic had a negative jas-Román, president and effect on women workers CEO of the Women’s Funding This chart shows how the wage gap between women and men differs among the states. (U.S. Census Bureau) across the board, but they Network. “At this pace, we say it disproportionately won’t close that wage gap until 2157.”

The gap is wider and the pace of gains dustry in Arizona. Women in farming, affected working-class women, some On average, women who worked full is slower for women of color, disabled fishing and forestry occupations earned of whom were furloughed or reduced time and year-round in the United States or LGBTQ women who experience pay 44% of what their male counterparts to working part time, or who were earned 81 cents in 2019 for every dol- disparities disproportionately to non- earned in 2019, for example, while wom- forced to take on extra responsibilities lar their male counterparts made. That Hispanic white women. en in health diagnosing earned 59% and at home. was down from 81.1 cents in 2018, but “The labor force effects were much, “Women earn 83 cents on the dollar, women in construction and extraction still represented a better than 1-cent in- but really that breaks down when we jobs earned 66%. much bigger for working-class women crease since 2015. happen to look at race,” said Christian F. The most-popular occupations for than for women with at least a bachelor’s In Arizona, men’s wages averaged Nunes, president at the National Orga- women in Arizona were customer ser- degree,” Brown said.

During his State of the Union address $50,069 in 2019, compared to $41,617 nization for Women. “It’s really a white vice representatives, nurses and elemenfor women that year, according to the woman earning 83 cents on the white tary and middle school teachers. But this month, President Joe Biden touted bureau, or 83 cents of income for a man’s dollar.” even those predominantly women-led several initiatives he said would help get women back in the workforce, including man’s dollar. While Arizona women did Nationally, there’s no industry where industries experienced pay inequity. better than the nation as a whole, their women’s earnings exceeded men’s, re“There’s definitely no guarantee that proposals to cut the cost of child care and gain since 2015 was only 0.4% – and the gardless of the worker’s educational just because an industry or an occupa- expand pre-K education.

Nunes welcomed those efforts, but said state’s wage gap actually widened by 2 background and prior experience. tion is women-dominated, that there’s cents since 2017.

In Arizona, women did make more going to be more pay parity there,” much more needs to be done. And soon.

“This is a whole-system issue. There “On a national scale and in Arizona, than men in 2019 in one field: installa- Brown said. “There’s definitely a gap for it hasn’t really been closing that much tion, maintenance and repair occupa- example, in health care and social assis- are things that Arizona can do … at the and it’s been a fairly slow process,” said tions, where they earned $1.07 for every tance and in education, where you would state level to make sure that they’re takHayley Brown, a research associate at dollar a man made. But in every other theoretically expect that gap to be small ing care of their residents,” she said. “You don’t always have to wait for the federal the Center for Economic and Policy Re- industry, women fell short. to nonexistent.” search.

But the wage gap varied widely by inThe Census Bureau data showed that government to do things.”

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849 Arizona taxpayers had a curious impulse

BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Tribune Columnist

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omewhere in this sprawling state of ours, there are precisely 849 people that I would like to meet. I’ll buy a cup of coffee, a beer, lunch, steak dinner for two. Whatever it takes to have one of these 849 individuals sit down with me for a few minutes, the length of a simple conversation.

Those of you who understand text messaging shorthand will appreciate the single question I intend to use as an icebreaker.

WTF? Some circumstances in life require such a blunt approach, because they are so stupefying, so insane, they defy all logic. Truth be told, while I do not condone murder, there are circumstances where I understand what the murderer was thinking.

But these 849 Arizonans? I haven’t a clue.

Each year on our Arizona tax returns, a number of boxes appear that allow taxpayers to make voluntary gifts. You can donate to the Special Olympics, to prevent child abuse, to support veterans in need. Then there’s the box that 849 people checked last year, making voluntary donations that totaled $25,735.

That would be the state revenuers’ I Did Not Pay Enough taxes fund.

I want to know – no, I need to know – what these 849 people were thinking?

All day, I’ve tried to imagine Joe and Jane Arizona at the kitchen table, tax documents spread out, sweating over their state 140A form.

Joe: “Dammit, looks like we’ve got a refund coming to us again. How do you want to handle that?”

Jane: “I guess we could take the grandkids to Outback. They love that Bloomin’ Onion.”

Joe: “Oh, hey, here’s an idea. The state government only collected $24 billion in

tax revenue last year. Let’s give it to them!”

Jane: “Now that’s good thinking, sweets. Either that or we can donate it to Jeff Bezos. Maybe he can buy more scalp.”

These 849 neighbors of ours represent a record number of donors to the I Did Not Pay Enough fund, established in 2010 by that noted band of deep thinkers, the Arizona Legislature. According to a recent story in the Phoenix Business Journal, the fund has collected about $185,000 total – or about $185,000 more than anyone would have predicted.

Look, I understand that Arizona is a relatively low-tax state, especially compared to California, which taxes top earners at more than 13 percent of annual income versus Arizona’s top rate of 4.5 percent.

But gifting the government more money?

Voluntarily? I don’t get it, especially when you consider that we collectively paid $14.2 billion in state sales tax last year and another $8.3 billion in state income tax. And that was before recreational marijuana taxes re-

ally ramped up – $116 million contributed to the state in six months last year – and before the legalization of sports betting statewide in September 2021.

Toss in a few billion extra dollars from the feds in COVID relief funds, and the state is looking Bezos-style wealthy, even as inflation bites residents hard.

To my way of thinking, checking the I Didn’t Pay Enough box is like seeing a family of homeless people in need seeking donations at a stoplight, reaching into your pocket and handing a few crumpled singles to the guy in the Porsche next to you. He was doing just fine, thanks.

At least one of these 849 people should sit for an interview to explain their thought process, and I want to be the guy.

Then again, maybe a free meal isn’t much of an inducement to these folks.

How about we go out to eat, we chat, and you pay the check? Since all 849 of you clearly have more money than you know what to do with.

boom generation hear the threatening “BAHHM-bum-bum-bum-bum-buhBAHHM” that would inevitably usher the audience into a commercial break as Captain Kirk and crew confronted the latest peril unfolding in the plot of that particular episode.

Curiously, the melodic “theme-of-undoing” for the American Left enjoys a widebut-weird appeal across all demographic groups who share that political ideology, despite the fact that it first permeated the collective consciousness of our culture in the monochromatic mid-20th century.

It’s the “Dragnet” Theme, with those unmistakably ominous opening notes, now updated with a one word lyric: “TRUMP-Trump-Trump-Trump! TRUMPTrump-Trump-Trump-TRUMP!” And, just as Jack Webb revised and rein-

troduced “Dragnet” in living color for NBC in the late sixties, so too does the Left fear that Donald Trump will return as a “Twenty-First Century Grover Cleveland,” only this time as a Republican, employing a makeup artist who was trained using the “golden tan” pancake so prevalent in the colorful productions emanating from “Beautiful Downtown Burbank” decades ago.

The memory of “Mister Rogers,” on loan from his estate and PBS, courtesy of the generosity of taxpayers (and perhaps “viewers like you”) might put it this way: “Can you say 45th and 47th President of the United States? Sure you can! No worries for you, King Friday…After all, you rule the ‘Neighborhood of Make Believe!’

But for our friends’ parents and their Volvo-driving pals, this is all-too-real!”

Of course, on the other side of the polit-

ical street, the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue prompts fears that are also all-too-real…not to mention contemporaneous. Conservatives are often accused of a desire to “turn the clock back,” but based on the current calamitous atmosphere in the USA, who can blame them?

With war raging in Europe, runaway inflation here at home, and our southern border still wide open as an “invitation for invasion,” what’s a right-winger to do?

You guessed it…”turn back the clock,” but with a high-tech twist.

Since late night network television has abandoned any pretense of even-handed political humor, (much as their news divisions have deserted any efforts at ob-

Sometimes, you gotta laugh to keep from crying

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omedian Robert Klein offers a lament-for-laughs, regretting that life does not come with an audible soundtrack.

He jokes that we would be spared mistakes, mishaps, and maybe even an “apocalyptic occurrence” if only we could hear foreboding music to warn us.

You can be forgiven if current events have your “internal speakers” blaring a certain song.

Based on the tenor and tone of developments over recent months, perhaps you’ve been hearing an “age appropriate” tune-of-doom in your own mind.

Based on a very limited survey conducted exclusively for this column, it seems that “StarTrek” enthusiasts of the baby

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And then there are products we pay good money for that are difficult, if not impossible, to fix when something small goes wrong.

In recognition of Consumer Protection Week 2022, Arizona PIRG Education Fund has released a series of consumer protection tips and tools to help Arizonans address some of the most common consumer issues.

Top consumer complaints. In 2021, a record number of individuals from across the country filed complaints with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Complaint Database.

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Failing the fix. Chances are you don’t walk into an electronics store and think, “I’m wanting to buy something unfixable.” But how do you know which products you’ll be able to repair to last? We compiled repairability rankings for 186 phones and laptops, grading manufacturers on whether they are Failing the Fix. Our resource guide is designed to help consumers who want to purchase easily repairable products.

Dark patterns. Apps, especially social media apps, collect an incredible amount of information about us without

us realizing it. The Arizona PIRG Education Fund has compiled step-by-step instructions, using screenshots, on how to change your settings on leading apps to protect your privacy on both iPhones and Androids.

The ‘buy now, pay later’ phenomenon.

The new ‘buy now, pay later’ financing scheme is causing complaints to soar.

Consumers making purchases as small as $50 online are offered payment plans, which can turn into debt traps. We offer tips to avoid the interest and fees that often come with ‘buy now, pay later’ “deals”.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Growth depleting Arizona’s SRP ignores customer resources rapidly energy choice I am a Phoenix native and have lived here the majority of my life some 45 years.

I love the Valley or at least did until the out of control migration to Phoenix started six to eight years ago. A million new arrivals in the 1990s and currently 900k in the first two years of this decade and we are out of water and in a drought living in a desert!

Population doubles in 10 years from 7 million to currently 14 million. And yet no alarms are going off? In spite of that, city fathers keep calling out for people and corporations to move here?

One big question, at our current growth rate, when does the water run out?? We need a fence around Arizona, if that were possible. Many areas are already out of water. Apache Junction’s wells have been dry off and on for 10 years, and most residents haul their own water. Rio Verde is in serious trouble.

Seems city councils are more interested in tax revenue than vital resources??!! -also near the ceiling of our power grid, I have been informed. What is going on?

Soon we are going to hit a wall! Clues to impending problems are key rivers and lakes are drying up. Vegas, LA and Phoenix are the cause, not just Phoenix Valley. We live in a desert; when we’re out of water no options. Seems nobody that should be is paying attention to the outrageous overgrowth.

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Rumor has it that an ambitious creative offering is “in development,” led by a couple of logical candidates. They wish to remain unnamed, pointing out that they are now grandfathers who earned their comic chops in the that’s-not-funny-that’s-gross heyday of “National Lampoon.”

With a proposed theme song set to the tune of “Petticoat Junction,” get ready for “District of Corruption!”

When temperatures exceed 100 degrees for five-plus months, do you ever ask yourself what types of energy are powering your air conditioner or why you have no choice in how that energy is generated?

Arizona’s monopoly energy utility in the East Valley, the Salt River Project doesn’t want you to ask questions – or to have a choice.

SRP thinks it can ignore electric customers’ concerns for carbon free, renewable energy and spend almost $1 billion of its money to expand an already massive gas plant outside of Coolidge, more than doubling the size of the facility.

SRP greenlighted this project in only three weeks (announcing it on August 24 and approving it on Sept. 13), without competitive bidding. It takes longer to decide to buy a car!

The Arizona Corporation Commission must give this project greater consideration than SRP did.

Arizonans value choice, and know that competition helps the economy. And yet, Arizonans are captives of monopoly utility companies. Market structures like Community Choice Energy let cities purchase energy for citizens in a competitive energy market instead of being forced to rely on one company.

We must unleash the free market to make sure that residents have the cheapest and cleanest energy possible.

-Shelly Gordon Come ride the Amtrak Train that is heavily subsidized… to the District…

It’s a real short ride, but expensive just the same… in the District…

Lotsa deals you bet…more big bucks than you ever thought you’d get…in the District!

District of Corruption!

There’s a big White House on P-A Avenue in the District…in reality it’s run by a leftist few in the District…

And there’s confused ol’ Joe…still hopin’ he can make more dough in the District…

District of Corruption!

So…why the burst of “conservative creativity” amidst all the doom and gloom?

Simple.

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cent of his passes for 540 yards and four touchdowns. t doesn’t take long for Willy Roberts to As a junior, he passed for 900 yards and recall his favorite memories at Moun- seven touchdowns. He began his senior season as the starter but gave up those tain View to this point.

Roberts was a sophomore quarterback duties to sophomore Jack Germaine midon the varsity roster for the Toro football way through the season. Germaine, the team. Brandon Nieto had just exited, and son of new head coach Joe Germaine, sat Roberts was thrown into the mix against half the season due to transfer rules.

With Germaine under center, it alMountain Pointe trailing 21-10. The Pride lowed Roberts to return to his first love: had no answers for him as he quickly led linebacker.

He had 55 total tackles, inthe Toros back from the large deficit to cluding 2.5 sacks, for a Toro defense that take the lead and ultimately, the win. wreaked havoc on opponents.

That was just the start of Roberts’ imRoberts helped lead Mountain View pact at Mountain View. A year later, he to an 8-2 regular season record on the helped lead his team to a win over rival gridiron and an appearance in the first Red Mountain. That win began to cement round of the 6A playoffs.

When the Toros his legacy as someone who dedicates were upset in the postseason, he didn’t himself to making Mountain View athtake time to sulk.

He immediately began letics better as a hole. He now hopes to training for his return to the diamond, further solidify that in his final season on just like he has every season. the diamond.

“Willy is a really special kid,” Mountain “It was a lot of fun,” Roberts said of View baseball coach Jesus Arzaga said. both memories. “I just love being with “I’ve always admired his passion for both my guys. Whether it be in football pracsports.

Doing two sports isn’t easy but tice or going from there to baseball. We he works really hard on both ends of the are all close.” field and if you ask any of his teammates, Roberts played four games as quarterit really shows.” back that season, completing 61.7 perArzaga raved about Roberts’ leadership qualities and how it translates from his time as a quarterback and linebacker to baseball.

Younger players look up to him and the other two senior leaders — BYU commit Ezra McNaughton and South Mountain commit Sam Christiansen.

The trio have their own leadership styles.

Roberts can be vocal Roberts’ best memory on the football field include leading at times. McNaughton Mountain View to a come-from-behind win as a sophomore tends to lead by his play at quarterback and beating rival Red Mountain his junior year. on the field and ChrisNow, he hopes to make more memories on the diamond betiansen a combination fore he graduates in May. (Zach Alvira/Tribune Staff) of the two. All three have

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Mountain View senior Willy Roberts has made an impact in both football and baseball since his sophomore year. Now, he hopes to leave a lasting legacy centered around hard work, dedication and a love for the Toros. (Dave Minton/Tribune Staff) helped Mountain View up to this point in the season, especially when facing a deficit or in a close game.

While he tends to enjoy his first moment of fame leading the Mountain View football team back from a deficit two years ago, Roberts has also had his fair share of memorable moments at the plate.

In his first game of the season against Desert Vista he hit a grand slam that helped the Toros win 7-1. Against Queen Creek on Monday, March 14, he trimmed the Bulldogs’ lead to two with a two-run shot to right field. It was his third home run of the season. He also has 10 RBI on the year.

“He reminds me a lot of me in terms of the energy he brings to the table,” Arzaga said. “He’s just a really passionate person and it shows with his body language. He continues to work hard and when you have that passion and that drive, it’s so easy for him to get a good game.”

Roberts’ goal to leave a lasting legacy on the entire Mountain View athletics department with his hard work and overall love for the school has started to catch the attention of those outside the school.

After falling to Queen Creek, a fan of the Bulldogs shook his hand and complimented him on his game and the way he carried himself.

“It meant a lot for mentors and adults to come up to me and show respect,” Roberts said. “I try to show respect to adults and try to look like a hard-working player. So it means a lot when people I respect come up to me.”

Roberts hopes to earn an opportunity to play football, baseball or both at the next level. But his immediate plans after high school include serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

For now, however, he plans to enjoy the last few months he has as a Toro while continuing to make an impact “I’ve enjoyed every second of my high school career. I knew what I wanted to do, and I think I’ve left my mark,” Roberts said. “I just want to leave behind a legacy of hard work and success. I’ve been in the weight room since I was a little kid and I want people to see that hard work can really pay off if you dedicate yourself to it.

“I want us to become the campus of champions like we once were.”

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dance form that requires a decade of study to perfect will come next weekend to the Mesa Arts Center.

Bharatanatyam, a South Indian classical dance that originated in the temples of India 3,000 years ago, is the basis of “Vimshathi Vaibhava.”

The 21-year-old Silambam Phoenix will present at 5 p.m. Saturday, March 26, “Sarvagnya: She is Limitless,” a production highlighting the many facets of woman as creator, nurturer, educator, activist and artist. The 7 p.m. March 27 production, titled “Dasa Mahavidhya: She is Omniscient” is about the Mother Goddess by Srimathy Mohan and visiting dancer Priya Murle.

“Bharatanatyam is a highly complex visual art from that combines layers of melody, rhythm, emotions, story, philosophy and poetry. However, beyond all this that one sees at the outset, lies the essence of this art form – its tradition rooted in devotion and spirituality,” said Srimathy Mohan, the school’s founder and artistic director.

Since the tradition combines spirituality with physicality, she said, “Every Bharatanatyam performance is an experience for both the artist and the audience.”

Mohan established the nonprofit Silambam, named for the ancient practice space of the dance, in 2000 with six students. Among them was her own daughter, Prithvi, who turned 5 that year.

“It’s incredible to see how much Silambam has grown over 20 years. I’ve been a student, performer, and teacher since the beginning and I’m so proud of the growth, commitment to arts and culture, and philanthropy,” said Prithvi Mohan, now a resident physician in pediatrics at NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Prithvi said that her mom built the school not only for Bharatanatyam, but also as a safe space for mentorship and growth.

Bharatanatyam dance teacher Srimathy Mohan, center, and her students prepare for their 20th anniversary celebration of the dance school Silambam Phoenix at Mesa Arts Center.

(Courtesy of Kayla Dewees.)

Prithvi and 13 others who are away in college are returning to participate in the concert, along with current students.

“We have been together for so long at this point that we’re basically all a big family,” said Meghna Jayaraman, 24, a former student who has been dancing for more than 15 years.

Graduation is by presenting a solo concert, called an “arangetram,” which Jayaraman did in 2013. The two-hour performance has about eight items, the longest of which is about 40 minutes. So far, the school has presented 17 graduations.

Born in America to Indian parentage, Jayaraman said she didn’t know anything about the dance form when she first began learning at 7 years old.

“The way she teaches dance, it’s very holistic,” she said. “It’s not just the dance, she teaches you the ideologies behind the stories, the history behind it, the Carnatic music; she teaches a lot about growing up because she sees us over our formative years.”

Bharatanatyam has a steep learning curve.

“It took seven years to feel really com-

fortable,” Jayaraman said.

“It takes a long time before you come to learn any sort of full piece.”

Each October, Mohan enrolls seven to 10 new students.

“The goal of Silambam Phoenix is to not only make the young students good dancers, but also mold them into cultured and artistic individuals who are confident, team players and better citizens with high moral values,” she said.

The teaching and learning ambiance at Silambam are informal, but the training is systematic and disciplined. The students are taught to pursue art for art’s sake and develop an appreciation for the arts.

Jayaraman voices her appreciation for the training that goes beyond the form.

“Dance has played such a formative role of who I am. Because we went to dance class and spent our full Sundays there for so much of our time while we were growing up, it really influenced us who we are,” she said.

“There are so many values that I have.

How to work hard. There are so many perspectives that I have because of dance and how I’ve grown up and how it has in-

fluenced me.”

After mastering the basic steps, endurance comes a close second. Further along, expression and emoting have to be perfected.

Sinchana said she likes the dance form as it gives her many benefits: The level of discipline she learns, the exercise she gets and the opportunities to be with others of her culture.

“Since I don’t have any other family here, it helps me keep in touch with the rest of my culture and family by practicing this dance form,” she said.

For Mohan, an after-school activity has become a lifelong passion.

“Once I started my dance school, it has become my purpose,” she said. “I strongly believe that my training and my love for the art form are things that I need to pass onto the next generation.”

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What: “Vimshathi Vaibhava” celebrates 20-plus years of Indian dance school Silambam Phoenix with two evenings of dance at Mesa Arts Center.

Proceeds will be donated to seven charitable organizations, including Arizona South Asians for Safe Families, Center for Rare Childhood Disorders and Save the Children. AZ Commission on the Arts provided a Youth Arts Engagement grant toward the Sarvagnya production McQueen Road, Chandler When: 5 p.m. March 26: “Sarvagnya: She is Limitless” is a thematic Bharatanatyam production featuring the many facets of woman by students of Silambam Phoenix.

3 p.m. March 27: “Dasa Mahavidya: She is Omniscient” is a thematic Bharatanatyam presentation on the Mother Goddess by Srimathy Mohan and Priya Murle.

Tickets: $20-$75 (valid for both performances).

Details: 480-644-6500 or mesaarts. com.

The school: silambamphx@gmail.com or 602-820-8548.

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OUT WITH THE OLD, CHIP RETURN

Tower Asset Group, LLC proposes the installation of a new telecommunications tower (Monopole) (77’ AGL), with no lighting system, at APN: 303-34977H, (PHO ACERO), Mesa, Arizona 33-2018.37N, 111-36-04.79W, FCC ASR file# A1209164.

Interested persons may review the application by going to www.fcc.gov/asr/applications and entering the FCC ASR file# listed above. In accordance with the FCC’s rule 47 CFR §14.4(c), Tower Asset Group, LLC hereby solicits public comment concerning its proposed site and any impacts it may have upon environment. Requests for Further Environmental Review should be submitted online. Instructions can be found at www.fcc.gov/asr/environmentalrequest. Paper copies may be sent to FCC Requests for Environmental Review, Attn: Ramon Williams, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554. Requests should also be sent to: Tower Asset Group, LLC, ATTENTION: FCC Regulatory Compliance Contact, Andrew Messing, 1501 S. Euclid Avenue, Tucson, Arizona 85713. In order for your comments to receive full and timely consideration, they should be received at the addresses above within 30 days of the date of this notice and reference FCC ASR file# A1209164.

3/11/22 CNS-3564123# MESA TRIBUNE

RETURN YOUR TABLE GAMES CASINO CHIPS AT HARRAH’S AK-CHIN BEFORE THEY EXPIRE! If you have Table Games Casino chips received before July 7, 2021, please redeem them at the Harrah’s Ak-Chin Casino cashier cage no later than March 31, 2022 for a full refund.

Disclaimer: Any discontinued Table Games chips not returned by March 31, 2022 will be void and hold no cash value. Redemption must take place at the Harrah’s Ak-Chin Casino cashier cage in person. Harrah’s Ak-Chin Casino is not responsible for any unreturned Table Games chips.

Advertisement of Sale NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned intends to sell the personal property described below to enforce a lien imposed on said property pursuant to the Arizona Self-Service Storage Act, Arizona Statutes 33-1704, Section H, Enforcement of Lien. The Undersigned will sell at public sale by competitive bidding on or after March 25, 2022 at 9:00am using an online auction at www.storagetreasures.com, said property has been stored and located at US60 Self Storage, 1661 S Alma School Rd, Ste 105, Mesa, AZ 85210.

Property to be sold as follows: Misc. household goods, personal items, furniture, clothing, toys and/or business fixtures and items belonging to the following: Tenant Name Unit # Sapphyre Pearson 914 Charles Sluder 321 Sarah Westover 210 Ronald Robins 226 Ronald Robins 332 Christian Alcivar 507 Christian Alcivar 528 Nadia Banashley - 656 Telesia Foleti 742 Sale subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and obligated party. Items sold “as is”, CASH ONLY, and Buyer must pay a security deposit and broom sweep/clean the unit.

Go to www.storagetreasures.com to bid on unit(s).

Published: East Valley Tribune Mar 13, 20, 2021 / 44745

NOTICE TO READERS:

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Public Notices

Public Notices

CITY OF MESA, ARIZONA ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Consultant for the following: City of Mesa Integrated Water Infrastructure Improvement Study

CITY OF MESA, ARIZONA ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ)

PROJECT NO. CP0988 The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified consulting firm or team to develop an integrated water master plan.

The proposed integrated masterplan will update the City’s 2010 Water Masterplan including any subsequent in-house updates, and City’s 2009 Wastewater Masterplan and any subsequent in-house updates.

All qualified firms that are interested in providing these services are invited to submit their Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) in accordance with the requirements detailed in the Request for Qualifications (RFQ).

The proposed integrated water masterplan includes four major components, each component being a standalone, comprehensive master plan. The four components are: • Water Resources Masterplan • Water Master plan.

• Wastewater Master Plan.

• Reclaimed Water Master Plan The purpose of the integrated master plan is to integrate the four components and optimize the overall solution and infrastructure planning.

The City seeks to consider issues like water rights, resource availability, contingency plans, emergency planning, and water right enhancement opportunities with the Integrated Water Master Plan.

This project will also seek to identify elements of demand and flow analysis, flow projections, model updates and calibration, treatment plant capacities, feasibility studies, and recommended infrastructure improvements.

The project may include other elements of planning and modeling for the City, as needed.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Consultant for the following: PLAZA DESIGN MCP ANNEX PROJECT NO. LF0497 The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Consultant to provide design services for the Public Safety Campus Microgrid Project. All qualified firms that are interested in providing these services are invited to submit their Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) in accordance with the requirements detailed in the Request for Qualifications (RFQ).

The project consists of providing updated Programming Documents & Schematic Drawings (including presentation boards and renderings), Final Construction Drawings, and potential Construction Inspection Services for the renovation of a portion of the Mesa City Plaza building located at 20 East Main Street in Mesa, AZ. The goal of this project is to provide an inviting meeting and gathering space for both the community and Mesa City Council.

Assistance with Public, City Council, Citizen Advisory/Committee, and Design Review Board meetings, as well as other coordination efforts may also be required.

The project scope includes: 1. Review and adjustment of the Programming Documents and Schematic Drawings presented at the City Council Strategic Planning Session on March 3, 2022.

2. Demolition of the “Annex” wing of Mesa City Plaza.

3. Construction of a new building having a footprint of 10,000 S.F. 4. Site, Utility, and Landscape improvements for the areas directly adjacent to the new building.

5. The City may include other miscellaneous improvements at the site, as needed.

A Pre-Submittal Conference will be held on March 30, 2022, at 8 am through Microsoft Teams. At this meeting, City staff will discuss the scope of work and general contract issues and respond to questions from the attendees. Attendance at the pre-submittal conference is not mandatory and all interested firms may submit a Statement of Qualifications whether or not they attend the conference. All interested firms are encouraged to attend the Pre-Submittal Conference since City staff will not be available for meetings or to respond to individual inquiries regarding the project scope outside of this conference. In addition, there will not be meeting minutes or any other information published from the Pre-Submittal Conference.

A Pre-Submittal Conference will be held on March 22, 2022 at 9:00am through Microsoft Teams. If you would like to participate, please send an email to Stephanie Gishey at stephanie.gishey@mesaaz.gov to receive the invite. At this meeting, the project team, including City staff will discuss the scope of work, general contract requirements and respond to questions from the attendees. The video conference PreSubmittal Conference is not mandatory. All interested firms may submit a Statement of Qualifications whether they attend the conference or not. All interested firms are encouraged to attend the Pre-Submittal Conference since City staff will not be available for meetings or to respond to individual inquiries regarding the project outside of this Pre-Submittal conference. In addition, meeting minutes or any other information will not be posted from the Pre-Submittal Conference.

Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, to assure that contract decisions are made in public, and to protect the integrity of the selection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified below.

Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, to assure that contract decisions are made in public, and to protect the integrity of the selection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified below.

RFQ Lists. This RFQ is available on the City’s website at http://mesaaz.gov/business/engineering/ architectural-engineering-design-opportunities.

RFQ Lists. This RFQ is available on the City’s website at http://mesaaz.gov/business/engineering/architectural-engineering-design-opportunities.

The Statement of Qualifications shall include a one-page cover letter, plus a maximum of 10 pages to address the SOQ evaluation criteria (excluding resumes but including an organization chart with key personnel and their affiliation).

The Statement of Qualifications shall include a one-page cover letter, plus a maximum of 10 pages to address the SOQ evaluation criteria (excluding PPVF’s and resumes but including an organization chart with key personnel and their affiliation). Resumes for each team member shall be limited to a maximum length of two pages and should be attached as an appendix to the SOQ. Minimum font size shall be 10pt.

Please provide one (1) electronic copy of the Statement of Qualifications in an unencrypted PDF format to Engineering-RFQ@mesaaz.gov by March 31, 2022 by 2:00pm. The City reserves the right to accept or reject any and all Statements of Qualifications. The City is an equal opportunity employer.

Resumes for each team member shall be limited to a maximum length of two pages and should be attached as an appendix to the SOQ. Minimum font size shall be 10pt. Please provide one (1) electronic copy in an unencrypted PDF format to Engineering-RFQ@mesaaz.gov of the Statement of Qualifications by 2 pm on April 21, 2022. The City reserves the right to accept or reject any and all Statements of Qualifications. The City is an equal opportunity employer.

Firms who wish to do business with the City of Mesa must be registered and activated in the City of Mesa Vendor Self Service (VSS) System (http://mesaaz.gov/business/purchasing/vendor-self-service).

Questions. Questions pertaining to the Consultant selection process or contract issues should be directed to Donna Horn of the Engineering Department at donna.horn@mesaaz.gov.

BETH HUNING City Engineer ATTEST: Holly Moseley, City Clerk Published East Valley Tribune, Mar 20, 27, 2022 / 45340

Firms who wish to do business with the City of Mesa must be registered and activated in the City of Mesa Vendor Self Service (VSS) System (http://mesaaz.gov/business/purchasing/vendor-self-service).

Questions. Questions pertaining to the Consultant selection process or contract issues should be directed to Stephanie Gishey of the Engineering Department at Stephanie.Gishey@mesaaz.gov.

ATTEST: Holly Moseley City Clerk Published in: The Mesa Tribune March 13, 20, 2022 / 45240

BETH HUNING City Engineer

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