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Sears, Ellingson, O’Reilly likely
BY PAUL MARYNIAK Tribune Executive Editor
Voters appear to have returned incumbent Kiana Marie Sears to the Mesa Public Schools Governing Board – and sent Lara Salmon Ellingson and Joe O’Reilly with her, according to unof�icial results from last week’s election.
From the time the �irst batch of results were released by the County Recorder, Sears held
on to 19 percent of the vote that put her at the head of pack the six candidates vying for the three seats on the �ive-person board.
She maintained that position with the latest tally released by the Recorder’s Of�ice Friday morning, just before the Tribune’s deadline.
Ellingson – an MPS substitute teacher who had been a fulltime teacher in the district and the daughter of former Congressman and well known East Valley leader Matt Salmon – also held her second-place position in balloting
with 18 percent throughout the vote counting.
But the third spot was nip-and-tuck between O’Reilly, a longtime MPS administrator before he becoming director of the Arizona State University Decision Center for Educational Excellence, and Cara Mae Schnepf Steiner, a retired MPS teacher and elementary principal.
Both Steiner and O’Reilly held 17 percent of the vote from the �irst results release and
BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer
ith no fanfare, two decaying and troublesome relics from a longgone past disappeared from west Mesa in
The demise of the boarded-up Fiesta Village shopping center at Southern Avenue and Alma School Road and the once fashionable Dobson Ranch Inn on Dobson Road near US 60 was much anticipated – and a long-time coming.
But what might be considered West Mesa’s most prominent dinosaur – Fiesta Mall – remains in limbo.
Fiesta Village was among the city’s worst eyesores, and a source of years of fruitless negotiations and �ights between the city and the owner.
Dobson Ranch Inn was only a shadow of itself, literally crumbling and attracting a shaky clientele to what was once Mesa’s premier motel, built nearly 50 years ago from one of the founding fathers of the Cactus League.
Both properties are going through a transition, with city of�icials and advocates hoping their demolition will serve to reinvigorate the area.
Councilman Francisco Heredia and former longtime council member Dennis Kavanaugh anticipate the most immediate changes will occur on the former Dobson Ranch Inn site. During the next year or so, it will turn into Broadstone Dobson Ranch, a 288-unit apart
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ment complex with a series of one- to fourstory buildings whose heights will escalate nearest the freeway to avoid what Heredia calls “encroachment’’ on neighbors.
“We love the area and we are very excited about the project,’’ said Tom Lewis, managing director of Alliance Residential. “We’ve had a lot of support from the community and from the Dobson Ranch Association.’’
He said everyone seems to welcome the demolition of the Dobson Ranch Inn, which fell into decay the last four or �ive years.
“We recognize this as a very type-A project,’’ comparable to apartment developments built in Phoenix, Tempe and Chandler, with the market emanating from the close location to U.S. 60 and the two nearby hospitals, Banner Desert Medical Center and Banner Children’s at Desert, he said.
“We think this is going to be a highly desirable area to live in,’’ Lewis said, expecting the development will attract hospital employees with a short drive or walk to work. “It will be affordable for the income and the jobs in the area.’’
He said construction is underway with the installation of underground utilities.
He anticipates that in a year or so, the clubhouse, some housing units and a rental of�ice will open, off Isabella and Dobson. The entire project is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2022.
Brick and stone will be included in the project’s design, creating the contemporary look city of�icials sought, Lewis said.
“This will be nice, upscale residential units. We’re bringing in new housing options,’’ Kavanaugh said. “This is the �irst new housing in Dobson Ranch in 20 years.’’
He said low room rates and low occupancy had created an environment for criminal activity at the former Dobson Ranch Inn as maintenance declined to the point that parts of it were literally crumbling.
It was a sad, but necessary end for a property once owned by a partnership that included the late Dwight Patterson, a rancher, a hotelier and a stalwart civic leader credited with attracting the Chicago Cubs to Mesa for spring training, boosting the Cactus League.
In a time long gone, the Dobson Ranch Inn served as the home of the Chicago Cubs and the Milwaukee Brewers before that spring training tradition became obsolete when millionaire players bought or rented their own houses or condominiums.
“It adds to a good trend and provides a new housing option,’’ Kavanaugh said.
After years of frustration with the decaying Fiesta Village, Kavanaugh said, “I was thinking happy thoughts’’ when he drove by one day and realized it had been leveled.
In recent months, Fiesta Village had been surrounded by a sagging fence and was covered with graf�iti.
The city decided to focus on improving the area rather than years of disputes and approved tax incentives to help WM Grace Development Corp. redevelop the project.
The Landing at Fiesta Village includes at least 220 apartment units in 21 buildings. The development also is expected to offer some restaurants and service businesses.
“The Dobson Ranch Inn looks to be on the fast-track. They hope to start building it later this year,’’ Heredia said.
But he said The Landing at Fiesta Village is a more complicated project.
“You have restaurants in the front, apartments in the back. We’re talking about some minor changes with the development,’’ Heredia said.
The Dobson Ranch Inn and Fiesta Village both date back to the same year, 1979.
Fiesta Mall and its environs were a shopping and entertainment mecca in those days but that era is hard to imagine today.
Although the improvements around the Fiesta District may act as “encouragement’’ to redevelop Fiesta Mall, Heredia and Kavanaugh said, they realize that the hulking, closed mall must be transformed if the area is to undergo a true overhaul.
Despite a series of frustrations over the past few years, where redevelopment plans have �izzled, Heredia, Kavanaugh and Mesa economic development director Bill Jabjiniak are optimistic about Fiesta Mall’s future.
A major obstacle has been multiple owners who have been unable to agree to plan but ownership has been winnowed to two major real estate players, Ernie Garcia and Wayne Howard.
Garcia, the CEO of Carvana, is a billionaire considered by Forbes magazine to be the richest man in Arizona while Howard was the owner of nearly 3,000 properties at one point, according to news reports.
Kavanaugh said that Garcia owns most if not all of the big boxes that once were the mall’s lifeblood, while Howard owns the concourse area where many smaller stores were located.
“There’s been tons of conversations,’’ Heredia said, but there are limitations on
what the city can do to move the process forward.
“Really, one owner should be owning that. We’re down to two. I think there is new interest there,’’ he said.
Kavanaugh said Fiesta Mall is still an appealing property, despite the lack of progress.
“It gives you a big palette to paint on,’’ he said. “The location of the site is what’s so valuable.’’
He said Fiesta Mall is not far from either Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix or from Phoenix Mesa-Gateway
Airport, because of access to the freeway system.
Jabjiniak also was hopeful, saying in an email, “the two remaining owners are at least talking! Looking forward to 2021!”
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People who pass by the site of the old Fiesta Village at Alma School Road and Southern Avenue can now see the homes that were hidden by the stores, which have been leveled. (Pablo Robles/Tribune Sta Photographer)
Up until recently, Fiesta Village's old stores were still standing, though the old Beningan's Restaurant had been leveled. (Pablo Robles/Tribune Sta Photographer)
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Mesa’s cultural scene slowly reawakening
BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer
Mesa’s cultural facilities are slowly, cautiously reawakening, using precautions against the spread of COVID-19 amid lingering concerns about the pandemic.
The Arizona Museum of Natural History and the I.D.E.A Museum are both open, with tickets only available in advance so that of�icials can limit the capacity and maintain social distancing and face mask requirements.
Art classes will resume in person at the Mesa Arts Center in December and the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum also will reopen with capacity gradually increasing.
A series of 15 Mesa Arts Center shows presented outdoors in the Mesa Amphitheatre also will start in January.
“The real goal is to bring wonderful entertainment to the community in a safe outdoor space,’’ said Cindy Ornstein, Mesa’s director of arts and culture and executive director of the Mesa Arts Center.
While layoffs have been required since March, she said her staff has created a new, robust series of digital artistic programs to enrich people’s lives and to help them survive the pandemic emotionally.
These digital offerings include 38 locally produced online classes that have proven popular on the city’s website, Channel 11 and You Tube. Staff members turned closed theatres into temporary recording studios.
Ornstein said someone using the Arts in Service program, designed for veterans, sent a highly gratifying comment: “Thank you for saving my life.’’
“I really do feel it’s been tough, it’s been
a challenging time,’’ Ornstein said. “The performing arts community nationally and locally has been one of the hardest hit. It’s totally contrary to COVID protocols’’ to have visitors crammed into a theater.
“I am so proud of what the staff has done, their creativity and their hard work,’’ she added.
With no need for a box of�ice or ushers, the Mesa Arts Center laid off 13 full-time and 37 part-time employees. Some were diverted to the Mesa Cares Program, the city’s sweeping response to the pandemic using more than $90 million in federal aid to provide food, rental and utility assistance and to �ight homelessness.
Ornstein said two more full-time staff members and 15 part-time employees at the museums were laid off but that some are being rehired as facilities reopen.
“One of the reasons we went through the layoffs was the reduction in revenue. We also had a big reduction in expenses,’’ Ornstein said, praising the city, corporations and private donors for propping up the arts. “We had to bring our budget into balance and get through this year.’’
The reopenings represent some hope, at long last, although the pandemic will be closely monitored to protect against spreading the virus. Highlights include:
The Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum reopens on Dec. 18 with a maximum space of 20 visitors than will increase gradually, using online timed ticketing.
Classes in arts studios will reopen with 10 workshops on Dec. 1, limited to 4-10 students. The schedule expands to 12 arts in service classes on Jan. 11. Eight online classes continue weekly.
-While the Mesa Arts Center’s theaters
will remain closed until further notice, a series of 15 performances will resume at the Mesa Amphitheatre, scheduled from Jan. 19-May 18. The number of tickets sold in advance will start at 750 and expand to 1,500 at a venue with a capacity of 4,950 to enforce social distancing.
When members were allowed to use the museums last week, the capacity of 25 guests at a time worked well, Ornstein said.
“It was extremely comfortable. Everyone felt safe. It was almost like a gallery per family,’’ she said.
To buy tickets in advance for the museums, go to ideamuseum.org and arizonamuseumofnaturalhistory.org. Links for signups to activities at the Mesa Arts Center will be available at a later date.
Mayor John Giles and City Council members were happy to see the cultural facilities re-open. Giles said the challenge is to open the facilities in the safest manner possible.
“It’s really an inconsistent message that we have to protect the public and at the same time open up some of these services,’’ Giles said.
“I think we will look back in future years and say we came up with some good ideas for inter-acting with the public during COVID-19,” he added. “Physical health is important but mental health is important as well.’’
Councilman Dave Luna suggested that guests receive temperature checks before entering the city cultural facilities.
Councilwoman Jen Duff praised the expanded online offerings, noting that little was available online prior to the pandemic.
“I really like the Mesa Amphitheatre and I’m glad to see more programming,’’ Duff said.
Church of Christ, Thunderbird Charities aid needy here
the food bank and another $5,000 to Mesa United Way.
ood-deprivation in Mesa has long been a concern among local of�icials and since the pandemic’s onset in March, the need for help has grown exponentially.
But United Food Bank and Mesa United Way got a few shots in the arm recently to help meet that need.
On Oct. 30, four local branches of Iglesia Ni Christo (Church of Christ) – from Phoenix, Maricopa, Gilbert and Tempe – contributed 100 boxes of food and $5,000 to
The gifts, presented by Church of Christ District Minister Brother Artemio Pilon Jr. and Brother Ador Apostol.
Mayor John Giles and Mesa United Way Vice President Alicia Holmes praised the church for its donation.
“This gift from the church is directly related to our efforts to get food to the community,” Giles said, recalling how “there was real panic” when the pandemic’s impact �irst began hitting the city in March.
Holmes said the church’s gift, if emulat-
ed, makes a signi�icant impact.
“If everybody gave a little bit, it creates an ocean of humanity and kindness,” she said.
This year, United Food Bank will distribute an additional �ive million pounds of food through food distribution events and its 220 partner agencies to address increase need due to the pandemic.
Meanwhile, Thunderbirds Charities awarded United Food Bank and af�iliate Waste Not a combined $200,000 grant. Waste Not rescues suddenly-available
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Planned Parenthood drops Arizona abortion suit
BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services
Planned Parenthood has quietly dropped its lawsuit challenging several abortion restrictions in Arizona that had forced it to close its Chandler clinic.
Without explanation, attorneys for the organization �iled paperwork on Tuesday telling U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer Zipps to dismiss the legal challenge.
Last week’s action means the state is free to continue enforcing the coolingoff period as well as other challenged restrictions.
Those include who can perform what abortion-related services and prohibiting doctors from prescribing abortion medications by telemedicine.
No one from Planned Parenthood of Arizona, which promoted its �iling of the 2019 lawsuit, would explain the decision to drop the case.
Lola Bovell, a vice president of the organization, provided only a written statement about its ongoing concerns about the statutes in question.
“The status of this lawsuit does not change the fact that harmful laws like telemedicine bans, advance practice clinician bans, and mandatory waiting periods push abortion access out of reach for far too many people,’’ she said.
But Kevin Theriot, senior attorney for the Alliance Defending Freedom, which supported the restrictions, pointed out the decision to drop the case comes in the wake of a changing legal environment.
In June the U.S. Supreme Court did rule 5-4 that Louisiana has no legal right to
perishable foods from restaurants and event venues that closed abruptly and match it directly with people in need.
“We value our partnership with United Food Bank and Waste Not and the support they provide for those in need in our community,” said Tim Woods, Thunderbirds Charities President. “At Thunderbirds Charities, we know the deep and long-lasting impact that food insecurity has on families.”
The coronavirus pandemic has caused an unprecedented spike in hunger; affecting family’s right here in Arizona with 1 in 8
Center for
prohibit doctors from terminating pregnancies unless they also have admitting privileges at nearby local hospitals.
That, however, really was a divided ruling, with Justice Stephen Breyer, writing for himself and three other justices that the requirement served no legitimate purpose in protecting the health of women.
Chief Justice John Roberts, casting the deciding vote, said he was not accepting those arguments but agreeing to the result based on different precedents.
That 5-4 ruling had Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the majority. She is now replaced by Amy Coney Barrett, who may prove more inclined to give states leeway in restricting the procedure.
In �iling suit in federal court last year, attorneys for Planned Parenthood acknowledged that some of the laws at issue had been unsuccessfully challenged in the past.
people struggling with hunger. Thunderbird Charities awarding United Food Bank and Waste Not this grant comes at a vital time for the food banks to meet this demand.
“This grant is an example of the wonderful ways in which Thunderbirds Charities continues to provide vital funds to meet our community’s most pressing food needs,” said Dave Richins, United Food Bank president and CEO.
“Responding to increased food assistance needs brought on by the economic impact of the pandemic has required signi�icant added transportation resources – from refrigerated trucks and trailers to drivers --
That includes that 24-hour waiting period, something that means a patient needs to make two trips to a clinic to terminate a pregnancy and a requirement for only licensed physicians to perform abortions.
In a 2011 ruling, for example, state appellate court Judge Peter Swann rejected arguments that the restrictions impose undue restrictions on a woman’s constitutional right to choose.
And he said that it is legally irrelevant that nurse practitioners, who are more available in rural areas that abortiontrained doctors, have a comparable safety record.
But Alice Clapman, a Planned Parenthood staff attorney, told Capitol Media Services at the time that she was counting on Zipps to look not at the individual restrictions but the overall effect.
She cited a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court decision that said abortion restrictions need to be judged on whether they create an “undue burden’’ on women.
What that means, she said, is that courts look at the statutes “to determine if the bene�its of the restriction outweigh the burdens.’’
“When states restrict abortion under the guise of women’s health they have to actually produce evidence that the restric-
that this grant will greatly support.”
“The generosity of Thunderbirds Charities is something we at Waste Not are so thankful for. These funds will be used to provide food to over 60 nonpro�its in the Valley that serve countless children and families impacted by this pandemic,” added Kate Thoene, executive director of Waste Not.
In 2019, United Food Bank distributed almost 24 million pounds of food providing nearly 19.5 million meals to our neighbors in need. In response to the economic impact of COVID-19, the food bank projects it will distribute nearly 29 million pounds
tions enhance patient safety,’’ Clapman said. She said several of the challenged statutes are “sham public safety laws where there’s no evidence of bene�it.’’
Cathi Herrod, whose Center for Arizona Policy has been behind crafting many of the statutes at issue, said when the lawsuit was �iled that they all are justi�ied and justi�iable.
“Abortion is different than other medical procedures,’’ she told Capitol Media Services.
“It involves taking of a life, it involves risk to the woman’s health,’’ Herrod said. “So the state is completely justi�ied in requiring only doctors perform abortions.’’ She also defended the other challenged restrictions like a requirement for a personal consultation with a doctor 24 hours before terminating a pregnancy and forbidding doctors from prescribing the pills for a medication abortion unless there is a face-to-face visit.
“Women who are considering abortion deserve a chance to be one-on-one with a doctor before they take the abortion pill,’’ Herrod said.
Planned Parenthood said the laws have had an effect, including the closure of clinics in Yuma, Goodyear, Prescott Valley and Chandler. And the Flagstaff clinic can provide abortion services only one day a week.
Bryan Howard, who was president of Planned Parenthood Arizona until retiring at the end of last month, said the cumulative result is that the number of abortions performed dropped from between 9,000 and 10,000 a year a dozen years ago to fewer than 6,500 when the lawsuit was �iled in 2019.
of food (24 million meals) this year. Waste Not is an Arizona nonpro�it dedicated to creating sustainable food systems. Each year, 40 percent of food is thrown away, and at the same time, nearly 1 million people in Arizona are struggling with food insecurity, it said.
“We’re transforming this broken system by connecting tens of thousands of Arizonans with quality food that would have otherwise gone to waste,” a spokesman said.
The Thunderbirds were founded in 1937 to promote the Valley of the Sun through sports and Thunderbird Charities is its charitable arm.
Cathi Herrod, whose
Arizona Policy has crafted many anti-abortion statutes in Arizona, hailed Planned Parenthood's decision to drop its suit. (Fle photo)
COVID-19 cases continue upward spiral in Mesa
BY HAILLIE PARKER Cronkite News
Health of�icials last week warned of a “staggering” death toll in Arizona as COVID-19 cases continue to rise unabated, citing fatigue over the virus and crowded holiday gatherings as potential dangers.
Dr. Joshua LaBaer, executive director of Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, said its team attributes a resurgence of cases in Arizona and nationwide to a potential new era in the pandemic.
That era is one in which Americans weary of eight months of isolation return to pre-COVID-19 routines of work, school and play. That could lead to a rise that surpasses even the state’s spike last summer, when nearly one out of four tests were positive, he said.
LaBaer’s alarm comes as the latest COVID-19 data, released last Thursday by the county health department, showed that cases per 100,000 people – one of the three benchmarks for measuring virus spread was at the “substantial” level.
The percentage of positive new test results in Mesa, another benchmark, was steadily creeping up in the moderatespread category.
Hospital ER visits with COVID-like symptoms, the only benchmark in the lowest category and signifying minimum spread, remained low. Some health experts consider that metric not as reliable as the other two because it depends on the subjective assessments of hospital staffs.
The citywide average for cases per 100,000 people was 125 in the week beginning Oct. 24, the latest available from the county. That represented an increase from the 94 per 100,000 the previous week.
But numerous ZIP codes in Mesa far exceeded the latest citywide number. The highest number of cases per 100,000 was in 85206, which showed 162; 85208 recorded 150; 85204, 142 cases; and 85215 showed 148.
Positive test results in those ZIP codes also exceeded the citywide average of 7.4 percent and ranged between 8.7 percent in 85204 to 9.8 percent in 85208.
For Mesa Public Schools, the districtwide readings for the week of Oct. 24 were 124 cases per 100,000 people, 7.3 percent test positivity and 4 percent hospital visits. MPS reported last Thursday a districtwide total of 90 COVID-19 cases, 62 of them students and 86 involving school campuses.
About two weeks ago, LaBaer cautioned
that cases were about to reach 1,000 a day. That estimate turned out to be conservative.
“Arizona’s moving average is now around 1,300, almost 1,400, new cases a day,” he said. “It’s not rising quite as rapidly as it did at the end of June, but it is rising consistently day-over-day and that’s a concern.”
He recommended minimal mingling during the holidays and a return to pandemic precautions of wearing masks, social distancing and frequent testing for the disease, which since January has killed
more than 6,000 people in Arizona and 230,000 across the nation.
“I would suggest, for the upcoming holidays, that people really limit it to their immediate family this year. I don’t think it’s a great year for big family get-togethers,” LaBaer said.
Nearly 10 percent of tests in Arizona are positive, according to the Arizona Department of Health website, and half the 250,000 cases of the virus reported in Arizona are in Maricopa County.
LaBaer said Arizona has some confusing markers. A number of people have recovered from COVID-19 and appear to be immune for up to six months, which should mean a slowdown in the transmission of the disease. But that hasn’t happened.
“The fact that the transmission rate is as high as it was back then means that people are doing a better job of transmitting it, which is not good,” he said. “People are interacting more, and some of that may be COVID fatigue, some may be that people are back at work more often, but we really need to be attentive to reducing that sort of thing.”
As the global race for an approved COVID-19 vaccine pushes on, more people
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Weed, tax on wealthy sail to approval in Arizona
BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services
Arizonans have decided they want to be able to smoke marijuana and apparently are just �ine with taxing the richest state residents to help add funds for K-12 education.
They’ll be able to do the �irst by the end of the month.
But it could take more than a year for new revenues from the income tax surcharge to reach the classroom.
With the measure being approved on a 3-2 margin, the law takes effect Nov. 30 and all adults will be able to possess up to an ounce of the drug without facing criminal charges. Ditto being able to grow up to six plants – double that for households with more than one adult.
Getting it legally, however, is a different question.
The initiative requires the Department of Health Services to come up with the rules for the new recreational marijuana outlets.
And that is unlikely to happen before March, leaving no legal place for those without a medical marijuana card to purchase weed.
It may actually be later.
Sam Richards of the Arizona Dispensaries Association suggested that the operators of the planned recreational outlets are aiming for an April 20 ceremonial start-up date, playing off the fact that 4-20 is considered an unof�icial “marijuana day.’’
Tuesday’s voter approval drew a stinging rebuke by Lisa James, spokeswoman for the anti-207 campaign, saying the ballot measure was marked by “deceit and self-interest.’’
The measure includes a 16 percent tax – similar to what is assessed on alcohol – that proponents say will generate $300
million a year in new revenues to fund community colleges, public safety, health program, and for the construction and repair of roads.
James countered that the experience in Colorado shows there is far more being spent on marijuana-related expenses than what the tax there brings in.
She also said the measure has other shortcomings, including the lack of a speci�ic standard to determine exactly what concentration of marijuana’s psychoactive chemical is proof that someone is driving while impaired.
Approval also is good news for some who have previously been convicted of illegal possession of up to 2 1/2 ounces of marijuana, allowing them to petition to have their convictions erased.
While James has conceded defeat, not so for Garrick Taylor, spokesman for the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and In-
dustry, which was behind the effort to kill Proposition 208.
Although the Associated Press on Thursday declared Prop 208 had passed, he said on Wednesday the 5-point edge the initiative had is not yet enough to convince him that voters actually want to raise taxes on the rich.
The latest �igures from the Secretary of State showed Prop 208 passing with a 5248 percent approval and a margin of about 120,000 votes – a margin that experts doubted could be overcome when remaining ballots are counted.
Right now individuals earning at least $250,000 pay state income taxes 4.5 percent for any earnings above that �igure. The same cutoff exists for couples making more than $500,000 a year.
The initiative includes a 3.5 percent surcharge on top of that, bringing the effective
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for a while Steiner was slightly ahead. But O’Reilly took over the third spot with about a 300-vote margin on Thursday and then widened his lead to 1,129 votes by Friday.
Steiner was already conceding on her Facebook page before Friday’s results, congratulating the winners and thanking her supporters.
In other results, Mesa’s delegation to the State Legislature will be virtually unchanged in terms of its party composition – as will the East Valley’s delegation as a whole.
Republicans won in LD25 and LD16, where Democrats failed to even put up a full slate of candidates, while Democrats coasted to victories in LD18 and LD25, which includes small portions of Mesa.
Republican lawmakers were so con�ident there would be no major change in the overall party makeup of the Legislature, where they control both chambers, that they already have reelected Mesa Rep. Rusty Bowers as House Speaker.
The overall makeup of the East Valley delegation also remains the same, including in Chandler’s LD17 – home of Arizona’s most
are getting the coronovirus that causes the disease.
“We’re hitting a milestone here where the seven-day average for new cases is approaching 100,000 new cases a day. To put that in some perspective, the number of new cases we saw yesterday was around 90,000. That is more than the total number of cases in the original Wuhan outbreak,” LaBaer said, referring to the industrial city in central China where COVID-19 emerged late last year.
Herd immunity has never been achieved without a vaccine, he said. Despite the widespread devastation and death toll caused by the virus, Arizona and the rest of the world are nowhere near the necessary 60 percent level to achieve herd immunity.
ASU has managed to keep the number of new cases low, LaBaer said.
Regularly aggregated data on ASU’s COVID-19 management website recorded 86 of the 91 total known positive cases, as of Nov. 2, as off-campus students. Sixteen faculty and staff members have tested positive.
expensive campaign this election cycle.
After more than $3 million were spent by independent groups opposing and supporting incumbent Republican J.D. Mesnard, the longtime legislator won a second term in the Senate, defeating challenge Ajlan AJ Kurdoglu by a wider margin 5248, than he defeated his 2018 rival. What will change is the party makeup on the �ive-man Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, where Democrat Jevin Hodge
such regular testing.”
ASU has tested more than 106,000 students and employees since Aug. 1, using a saliva-based test the university developed that also is available to the public. The test has since been used at Northern Arizona University.
In previous months, health of�icials across the country have warned against potential spikes in cases after national holidays, such as the Fourth of July and Labor Day, though LaBaer did not share the same concern over the possibility of a post-Halloween surge among ASU students.
“I think our student population has been pretty well behaved,” LaBaer said, referring to those living on campus. “The harder part, for me, is the off campus population, because those folks are in the community and it’s clear that our community numbers are rising and hard for them to escape that. I think that’s probably the likely bigger source of the issue.”
ousted former Chandler Council member
Jack Sellers, who had been hoping to get elected to a full four-year term after his appointment to the seat in January 2018.
Democrats still have a chance at the Tribune’s deadline to gain a 3-2 command of the board because Republican incumbent Bill Gates was in a see-saw race with his Democratic challenger and was leading by only about 300 votes.
Sears, a Mesa resident for more than two decades whose daughters are Red Mountain High School grads, took her seat on the board in 2017 after winning her �irst election the previous year.
She holds a masters degree in public administration and has been a longtime community advocate who has been active in public policy activities statewide and locally.
Ellingson has four children in Mesa schools – from second grade to a junior in high school – and is a graduate of Mesa schools with bachelor’s and masters degrees in education. Besides her teaching gigs in MPS, Ellingson also has been a PTO president and his on the School Improvement Advisory Council at her kids’ elementary school.
Besides her strong belief in the impor-
tax rate on those top earnings to 8 percent. Supporters, however, point out that the levy affects only those earnings above the threshold. So a couple with taxable income of $550,000 a year would pay that extra 3.5 percent only on $50,000, or an additional $1,750 a year. And anyone earning less will see no change in tax liability.
Taylor, undeterred, said it still would create one of the highest marginal tax rates in the nation. And just that fact, he said, will become a barrier to businesses locating here and chill what has generally been a healthy economy.
But Taylor was less interested in other state-to-state comparisons, including that the average class size in Arizona is higher than the national average and that teacher pay here, even after the 20 percent average increases of the past four years, still ranks near the bottom among all states.
tance of a quality education, she said her other motivation to seek a board seat was a desire to see the district move to a more phonics-based reading program rather than a whole language approach.
She also described herself as having a strong interest in special education as well as having a determination to ensure that tax dollars are primarily geared to bene�it children.
O’Reilly for 30 years was director of MPS’ s Research and Evaluation Department and Student Achievement Support before moving to ASU and has remained active in the district’s largest scholarship program, helping hundreds of Mesa high school grads get to college.
He said his goal is to help the district “rebuild the trust that has been the bedrock of Mesa’s success for decades.”
He also told the Tribune he spent years working on MPS’ budgets “so I know where the money comes from and where it goes” and vowed to use his experience with complex educational data to create information that would lead to sound board decisions and intelligible communication with teachers, administrators and parents.
Education Association, acknowledged that school districts, who will get a share of the cash based on a weighted per-pupil formula, may decide to hire more teachers to reduce class size rather than providing raises. It will, however, take some time for the dollars to start �lowing.
The higher tax rates are effective with income earned in 2021. And even with some high wage earners making estimated payments to the state during the year, the big infusion won’t come until the spring of 2022.
According to the most recent �inancial disclosure reports, proponents and opponents spent a combined $30 million as of two weeks before the election. The pro208 side had spent about $3 million more than foes. But those numbers also include the cost of getting the measure on the ballot in the �irst place.
It almost didn’t get there.
And if nothing else, Taylor questioned how much of the $940 million the levy will raise actually will end up in teachers’ paychecks.
“We’re lucky there,” LaBaer said. “I personally believe that part of the reason our numbers are so good is because we do
ASU shifted all classes online after Thanksgiving. LaBaer encouraged students to get tested before traveling and again before returning to campus in the spring to avoid the likelihood of spreading the coronavirus.
(The Mesa Tribune contributed to this report.)
He pointed out the 50 percent earmarked for salaries covers not just teachers but also classroom support personnel like nurses and counselors.
Joe Thomas, president of the Arizona
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Chris Coury, ruling in a lawsuit �inanced by the state Chamber, concluded the measure could not go to voters because the legally required 100-word description was misleading and failed to describe all the key provisions.
But that decision was overturned by a unanimous ruling of the Arizona Supreme Court. VIRUS
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Eastmark leads way in Mesa’s continuing growth
BY RUDY CAVAZOS Tribune Contributor
Mesa’s population growth – with roughly 18,000 new residents settling in the city in recent years –continues to fuel the growth of Eastmark.
Located in southeast Mesa, Eastmark was born in 2006 when DMB Associates bought �ive square miles of former agricultural land.
Since then, Eastmark – which encompasses about 3,200 acres of land – has seen area restaurants, schools and many other businesses take their place in the development.
“People have told me that it is essentially a city, within a city,” Senior Community Representative Lori Chaplin said.
The past seven years have changed fast
for the community, she said, explaining, “None of us here ever expected it to grow as quickly as it did… it got off to a phenomenal start and has been growing ever since.
Currently, there are about 13,000 residents in Eastmark since homes opened in 2013. The community is just shy of 5,000 homes that have been sold or under construction.
Job availability within Eastmark is another reason for the growing population, Chaplin said.
“It’s just going to continue to evolve as we start opening up more area and implement more jobs; it will bene�it a lot of people.”
The City of Mesa expects its total population to hit 551,151 by 2025 – a 6.4 percent increase since 2019.
And there’s the primary reason for that
growth is “jobs – people go where the jobs are,” said Kim Lofgreen the city’s marketing and business development manager.
The job growth in Mesa derives from current and new businesses expanding locations and operations in the area, which adds to economic growth as well.
Industry clusters throughout Mesa include healthcare, medical technologies, aerospace and aviation, defense, education, and business and �inancial services.
“Mesa has thousands of acres of available land for new builds, redevelopment opportunities, and we have a lot of industrial speculative space,” Lofgreen said.
Lofgreen said the residential-employment growth work hand in hand.
“People come to Mesa, purchase a home, which must be built, so that creates jobs.
They purchase goods and services from companies and local businesses, that creates jobs, those businesses then expand and hire more people.
That improves the economy which means there is more money in the local economy which then gets spent, which grows the retail sector, that grows more jobs,” Lofgreen explained, describing this as a “self-perpetuating cycle.”
Despite the pandemic, Mesa currently has an unemployment rate of about 5.7 percent – lower comparable �igures for Maricopa County or the nation.
“We have a huge tech-savvy workforce and it’s growing with workers coming out of college, universities, and technical schools; there is a large workforce here.” Lofgreen added.
Mesa voters overwhelmingly OK $100M city bond issue
BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer
Mesa voters overwhelmingly voted to invest in new roads, mostly in southeast Mesa, to help keep up with anticipated growth.
Question One, the only unresolved city issue on last Tuesday’s ballot, was headed toward an easy 124,692-55,389 victory –a margin of 69-31 percent – according to unof�icial results.
Mayor John Giles and City Manager Chris Brady billed the bond issue as a deal too good to pass up.
With Mesa voters approving the sale of $100 million in bonds, the city will get back $62 million in sales tax revenues they already paid through Proposition 400.
The extra $62 million, promised to the city by the Maricopa Association of Governments, allows for a longer list of improvements.
“We couldn’t leave $62 million on the table,’’ Giles said, noting that the city faced a deadline for getting the projects started to qualify for the funding.
“I think people saw that this was essential. Traf�ic congestion is something that
people understand. I think that people appreciate that,” Giles said.
“I’d just like to thank the voters for the con�idence they have shown in city government,’’ he said during a City Council study session on Thursday.
Ellsworth Road is a prime example of traf�ic congestion in southeast Mesa.
“There’s a lot of folks anxious to get on and off Arizona 24 and a lot of developments in that area as well,” Giles said, with the bond issue likely accelerating the development plans.
The bonds will be used to replace substandard roads in southeast Mesa and to make vital connections between major arterial roads and Arizona 24, a new freeway that is the driving force behind growth in the previously overlooked area east of Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport.
Giles initially had reservations about asking voters to approve more debt during the pandemic, but eventually agreed with council member Kevin Thompson that a delay in the road projects would be unwise because of heavy growth in the area.
He said the bond-issue represents a long-term investment in the city that eventually will pay off in the future as an
auto mall, housing developments and industrial parks �ill up vacant desert areas.
At least three projects in the bond issue will create a variety of connections to the new freeway, which will run east from Ray Road to Signal Butte, vastly improving the �low of traf�ic between Mesa and Queen Creek.
Signal Butte would be four lanes between Williams Field and Pecos Roads, serving as a direct connection to State Route 24.
Another project aimed at reducing highway congestion would be the widening of Williams Field Road to six lanes between Ellsworth and Arizona 24, laying the foundation for new entrance to the airport.
Yet another important East Mesa project would be the widening of Val Vista Drive between U.S. 60 and Pueblo, reducing traf�ic congestion in a busy area.
Giles said another East Mesa project that likely would have a major impact on residents is the widening of Val Vista Drive between U.S. 60 and Pueblo, reducing traf�ic congestion in a busy area.
He said Mesa considers all of them a high priority, but it can only issue a certain number of bonds at a time and could not supervise all of the projects at the same time.
“They are shovel ready and ready to go
forward,’’ Giles said.
Mike Hutchinson, a former Mesa city manager and now executive vice president of the Phoenix East Valley Partnership, said the bonds will have a major impact on southeast Mesa, Queen Creek and southeast Gilbert.
“Historically in Mesa, bonds have done quite well over many years,’’ Hutchinson said. “The public has generally supported well-designed and wellcrafted bond issues.’’
But he acknowledged Mesa voters have not acted as a rubber stamp, either. They approved a small sales tax increase to fund hiring of police and �ire�ighters in 2018, but rejected the Mesa Plays soccer complex.
In 2016, voters set the stage for a bitter political �ight when they rejected a sales tax increase that coupled the public safety spending with an Arizona State University campus. A scaled-down version is now under construction with a different funding source.
In the late 1990s, voters also rejected two parks bond issues that would have created a district park on property that eventually was auctioned off by the city to Blandford Homes for $21 million.
Sun Lakes veteran recalls Pearl Harbor horrors
BY KEVIN REAGAN Tribune Staff Writer
Jack Holder claims he’s never really considered himself much of a hero.
The World War II veteran and Sun Lakes resident, who will turn 99 next month, is quick to recall speci�ic dates and �igures of battles he witnessed during his stint in the Navy. He can vividly describe the mayhem of watching young men drown in the Paci�ic seas as he himself dodged enemy �ire.
Yet, Holder still maintains a humble attitude when he discusses his wartime experiences and said that while his life may seem extraordinary, he still thinks of himself as a simple farm boy from Texas.
As Veteran’s Day nears Wednesday, Holder is preparing to celebrate the achievements of his fellow servicemen the same way he does every year – though he admits that the commemorations will feel notably different.
The COVID-19 pandemic has radically changed how public community events can be held this year. Many cities have opted to cancel their Veterans Day parades, while others are choosing to stream events online.
Veterans Day is typically a special one for Holder, so he hopes to �ind a way to acknowledge it in a pandemic-friendly manner – as he has other commemorations this year.
In September, Holder participated in a digital ceremony recognizing the 75th anniversary marking the end of World War II. He had originally planned to �ly to Hawaii and visit Pearl Harbor but fears of COVID-19 forced of�icials to put the event only online.
The move was a disappointment, Holder said, because his memories of his time there are still fresh in his mind. He only started retelling his war stories publicly a few years ago, keeping his memories private for decades.
That choice to remain silent for so long may stem from the small-town humility Holder said gained being raised in a culture where most families struggled just to survive and didn’t brag much about themselves.
His medals honor him as a heroic airman, yet he’s fast to say that he was only one of many young men who wanted to serve their country as the world was en-
gulfed in war.
“I’m proud of the small part that I played,” he said.
Holder was born about 30 miles outside of Dallas on Dec. 13, 1921.
His family moved to the small community of Prof�itt, which is now listed as a “ghost town” with nothing left there except an old church and cemetery.
Holder spent his childhood working on his father’s 360-acre cotton farm. His family spent long hours each day working the �ields and sweating underneath the hot Texas sun.
This type of laborious life wasn’t des-
graduated high school, so he joined the Navy and was dispatched to San Diego for boot camp.
Life in the Navy was wonderful and exciting, Holder recalled, despite grueling work and a strict regimen.
“It turns a boy into a man,” he said.
After boot camp, Holder was sent to the military’s naval base in Pearl Harbor. President Franklin Roosevelt relocated the �leet of ships from San Diego to Pearl Harbor in 1940, around the time diplomatic tensions between Japan and the United States were starting to rise.
By the end of 1941, negotiations for peace had soured between the two nations and a Japanese attack almost seemed imminent.
tined for him, Holder said, as he dreamed of getting out of Texas and seeing as much of the world as he could.
So, he searched for the �irst opportunity that could get him away from his family’s farm.
“It’s all work and no money,” he said, “I learned pretty quick that I wasn’t going to let farming consume my life.”
Like his father, who had traveled across Europe during World War I, Holder said he longed for a similar opportunity and got as World War II loomed.
In 1940, Holder convinced his mother to sign enlistment papers shortly after he
On that fateful morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Holder remembered assembling for the daily roll call when he heard a terrible explosion.
“The �irst bomb that fell in Pearl Harbor fell about 100 yards from me,” he recalled. He and his crew members ran outside and saw several Japanese planes �lying over the harbor. One shipmate noticed an empty construction ditch nearby so he and Holder jumped inside to take cover from aerial bombardments.
The shipmates clung to each other and prayed for the attack to end swiftly. Holder recalled an enemy plane zeroing in on their ditch and opening �ire with a
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Jack Holder has never talked about living through the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor until now. The Sun Lakes veteran, who turns 100 next month, reminds us of why we honor those who served. (Pablo Robles/Sta )
As a young Navyman, Jack Holder of Sun Lakes was caught in the middle of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. He has put some of his memorabilia from World War II on a wall in his home. (Pablo Robles/Sta Photographer)
machine gun.
A pile of dirt surrounding the ditch protected Holder and his friends. The Navy men eventually found the courage to climb out of the ditch and inspect their surroundings.
“When I came out, I saw devastation I’ll never forget,” he said.
Several battleships, including the U.S.S. Arizona, had been obliterated by Japanese bombs and hundreds of servicemen were desperately trying to swim to safety.
“I’d seen guys swimming through burning water and oil,” Holder said. “A lot of them died in the water, some of them died when they reached the beach.”
The hours following the attack comprised a mixture of fear, confusion and monotony for Holder and his shipmates.
They were ordered to hunker down in gun pits and keep watch on the skies. As the men fended off thirsty mosquitos, Holder tried to ignore the smells emanating from his dirty uniform; their spare clothes were given to doctors to use as bandages for the wounded.
In his 2014 autobiography, “Fear, Adrenaline and Excitement,” Holder went into
detail about how they patiently sat and waited for the sound of plane engines to barrel over their heads again.
“For three days we listened for that sound, scared as hell the Japanese were going to come back and �inish what they’d started,” he wrote.
In the end, more than 2,400 Americans were killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor and another 1,170 were wounded.
Holder managed to survive the incident unscathed. In fact, he said he survived the rest of the war without any major injuries.
There were a few close calls, Holder said, yet luck always seemed to be on his side.
“Bullets came so close sometimes I had debris showered on me but I never got hit,” he said.
Holder was later sent to Europe and
conducted several aircraft missions �lying over the English Channel. He was part of �ive squadrons that �lew more than 6,000 missions over the sea patrolling for enemy submarines -- during which time they managed to sink at least eight.
“I managed to get one of them,” Holder remarked.
Holder was discharged in 1948 and reentered civilian life by �lying planes for a charter airline in California. After his wife convinced Holder to stop �lying planes, he moved to Arizona and retired in 1991.
Though his retirement years have been full of relaxing days on the golf course, Holder’s still had his share of misfortune in recent years.
In 2016, he fell victim to a scam that had con artists swindling $43,000 out of his retirement account. Community members later raised more than $65,000 to supplement Holder’s losses.
He survived a terrible bout of pneumonia a couple years ago that drained Holder’s energy.
His health still isn’t 100 percent, he said, but he is still feeling well enough to look forward to a time when it will be safe to hold Veteran’s Day events again.
Although he belongs to the “Greatest Generation,” Holder hopes today’s young people won’t ever have to witness the horrors of war that he has seen.
As he wrote in his autobiography, Holder noted how many members of his generation didn’t get to live long lives. If millennials don’t have to make the same sacri�ice, then he thinks that’s a sign of progress.
“By the end of my war, more than half of those friends were gone and most of them before they reached their 25th birthday,” Holder wrote. “I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.”
Jack Holder may be turning 100, but he still gives back to the community. Recently he helped the Sun Lakes Rotary distribute 3,000 dictionaries to third graders. (Pablo Robles/ Tribune Photographer)
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HONORING OUR VETERANS
The East Valley says thanks to those who served
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From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Wednesday, Nov. 11, residents are encouraged to grab their family, decorate their car or truck in patriotic themes and head to the annual East Valley Veterans Parade to thank the men and women who protected and served our nation.
This year, the pandemic and the need to maintain social distance has prompted organizers to present a novel twist –a parade in reverse.
As many as 30 parade entries will be stationed along the East Valley parade route on Center Street in Mesa while the spectators drive their own vehicles and in effect become the parade as they stop by those entries.
“Residents from throughout the Phoenix region are encouraged to decorate their automobiles in patriotic themes to express appreciation for lives of service as they drive through the parade route to view the parade entries,” organizers said.
Displays include a military helicopter, a large-scale replica of
the USS Arizona provided by the Lt. Frank Luke Jr. Memorial Museum, the annual display of our region’s Fallen Soldiers, a tank, and much more.
Flyovers will occur throughout the three hours.
In addition, there will be a radio broadcast of live patriotic music and parade information available to tune into on your car radio.
Look for signs noting the radio frequency as you arrive at the spectator vehicle waiting area near University Drive and Center Street.
“As it became obvious that the traditional parade format would not be feasible in the midst of the ongoing pandemic, we looked for a new way of holding our annual event to honor and thank our active and retired military as a community,” said Lisa Sandoval, EVVP president and parade director.
“This way, the parade will go on and people will still have an opportunity to support past and present members of our military through an active and pub-
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People can follow this route Wednesday between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. to find about 30 parade entries positioned along the way in a “parade in reverse” necessitated by the pandemic. (Special to the
2020 Parade Grand Marshal re�lects theme of service
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Reflecting this year’s East Valley Veterans Parade theme of “Celebrating Lives of Service,” Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser was named the Grand Marshal of the Nov. 11 event.
The Parade Association selected Jasser for being “a model of a life spent in service to his country and his fellow man.”
Now in private medical practice in Phoenix, Jasser served as a medical officer in the Navy for 11 years, leaving the service as a Lt. Commander in 1999.
While in the Navy, he received the Meritorious Service Medal and Navy Achievement Medal.
He then served as Chief of Residents at Bethesda Naval Hospital and was selected to be Staff Internist at the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court.
He was the only physician on duty, along with four corpsmen, during the 1998 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
He and his corpsmen provided immediate on-scene emergency response during the attack.
Jasser has specialized in internal medicine (primary care) and nuclear cardiology in private practice since 1999 after finishing his Navy service.
He is a bioethicist and has provided bioethics education and consultation for Banner Health since 2003.
He served on the Maricopa County Board of Health from 2004 to 2012 and the board of directors of the Area Agency on Aging between 2007-2012.
He is a former president of the Arizona Medical Association, serving from 20062007, and is currently one of four delegates for the Arizona Medical Association to the American Medical Association. He also chairs the Private Practice Physicians’
Congress at the AMA House of Delegates.
He has written several books, along with many articles for national publication, hosts his own radio show and has testified in front of Congress.
Jasser has become known nationally and internationally as an activist for Muslim reform though his work as founder and president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy.
Formed in 2003, it is a counter-ideology, counter-terrorism national security organization based in Phoenix.
Jasser also co-founded in 2015 the Muslim Reform Movement, a coalition of proliberty Muslim reform-minded organizations based in the United States, Canada and Europe that rejects interpretations of Islam that call for any violence, social injustice or politicization of the faith.
Parade Marshal Lt. Commander M. Zuhdi Jasser (ret. Navy), M.D. (Special to the Tribune)
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Luke Memorial Museum entries at the parade
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The 1st Lt. Frank Luke Jr. Memorial Museum and Restoration Center is providing five military vehicles along the East Valley Veterans Parade route.
All of the vehicles have documented service use and are attended by drivers with formal military background. The museum also will feature a large-scale replica of the USS Arizona along the route.
The museum is a nonprofit formed in December 2014 dedicated to creating an interactive experience highlighting the wars and conflicts from WW1 through Afghanistan, including the history of the organization’s namesake, Medal of Honor recipient 1st Lt. Frank Luke, Jr.
The museum currently holds its collection of military vehicles, aircraft and service memorabilia at two locations.
There are plans to develop a three-lev-
el building featuring displays, classrooms and a state-of-the-art below ground firing range at one of sites – 40 acres located adjacent to Luke Airforce Base.
Private tours of the two current fa-
ABOVE: A United States Marine Corps Gama Goat will be on display. This six-wheel drive, semi-amphibious off-road vehicle was originally developed for use by the U.S. military in the Vietnam War, the Gama Goat was renowned for its ability to move over extremely rough and muddy terrain. (Special to the Tribune)
LEFT: Parade-goers will get to see an extraordinarily accurate large-scale model of the USS Arizona, the wreck of which still lies at the bottom of Pearl Harbor beneath the USS Arizona Memorial. (Special to the Tribune)
cilities can be arranged by calling 602677-6175.
The museum also is looking for financial support for the planned construction.
“We love our history and remembering
it helps put the future in focus,” said Lt. Col. William Simon, (ret.), the museum’s president and founder. “We have paid dearly for our past and want to ensure future generations do not forget it.”
Salt River gardens honor USS Arizona heroes
Since opening in February, the USS Arizona Memorial Gardens at Salt River has been visited by thousands of guests who pay tribute to the men aboard the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, sharing their stories, efforts and sacrifice.
The Gardens has also reconnected many visitors to family and friends who were lost during the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and incited a need for them to share some remarkable stories, just as Chelsea Jordan did.
Her great, grant uncle, James Harvey Sanderson, played the clarinet and saxophone in the USS Arizona’s “last band” and died in the attack.
The community celebrated the grand
opening of the USS Arizona Memorial Gardens at Salt River on the eve of the 2020 spring training season.
A few months later, the Gardens was named the 2020 Outstanding Facility Award for populations under 10,000 at Arizona Parks and Recreation Association’s Best of the Best awards show.
Located on tribal land, the gardens were built by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community to honor those who served and those serving today.
“It is a great honor that the land of the O’odham (Pima) and Piipaash (Maricopa) is now the permanent home to a relic from the USS Arizona,” said Martin Harvier, President, of the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian
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The USS Arizona Memorial Gardens include a column for each crew member who lost his life when the ship was attacked. (Special to the Tribune)
Celebrating lives of service
This year the East Valley Veterans Parade is honoring those veterans who went into lives of service. Their contributions as doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals, police officers, firefighters and teachers continue the service they gave in the military. These are just a few examples of the lifetime of military, first responder and community service these area residents have given.
NP Trauma/Acute Care Surgery
Regional Medical Center;
Mesa Police Department School Resource Officer currently in the Army Reserves in his 18th year, First Sergeant. Four deployments. Driving force behind The Archangels, dedicated to providing and supporting programs that bring confidence, support and peace to military veterans and first responders.
Angie Phillips
at Chandler
nine years in U.S. Army Nurse Corps, Captain.
Officer Sean Stoddard
Joshua Strickland
Registered nurse and lead singer of The Bayou Bandits; served 12 years in the Army, including a combat tour in southern Afghanistan.
Randy Walters
Served six years in Navy, orthopedic corpsman at Philadelphia Naval Hospital. Worked for two years as an ambulance paramedic on reserve duty and as a physician in the prison system for 14 years.
Kimberly Smith
Lead dental assistant for Premier Family Dental; four-years in the Army, Private First Class.
Gina Nesbit Fiesta Division Commander for Mesa Police Department; 25 years of service, Army Reserves, Sergeant First Class.
Kyle Kuball Mesa Fire & Medical Department Firefighter since 2014; Retired last month from the U.S. Army as a Major after 17 years of service.
Nicole Powell
5th grade teacher, Las Sendas Elementary School; Seven years Army service reaching rank of Sergeant, E5, Military Musician (MOS 02J).
Jennifer Creighton Trauma nurse practitioner at the trauma intensive care unit and emergency deptartment with Dignity Health; Served in the Army as a 96B intelligence analyst and reached rank of PFC.
‘Path of honor’ salutes Chandler veterans
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Chandler is hosting a walk-thru memorial that pays tribute to local servicemen and women.
The city’s “Path of Honor” memorial is a public display at Veterans Oasis Park, 4050 East Chandler Heights Road, featuring pictures and stories recognizing 20 residents who have served in various branches of the U.S. military.
Visitors will have until the end of November to stroll through the park and learn about Chandler residents who served in the military during World War II and the Vietnam War.
The “Path of Honor” is intended to still commemorate the November holiday at a time when most public events have been hindered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Niki Tapia, the city’s community resources and diversity supervisor, said her staff spent the last couple months coming up with a new event that could abide by
Community.
The gardens span the exact length and width of the USS Arizona, with over 1,500 commemorative columns, outlining the actual perimeter of the USS Arizona.
Each column is representative of a life aboard the ship that day. Additionally, there are gaps within the column outline representing an individual who survived the attack.
As the day ends, each column illuminates, transforming the memorial at night representing each individual as a light and that their light will continue to go on and stand through the test of time.
“I walked through the garden tonight for the first time and found my great uncle’s name,” Jordan
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the pandemic’s health guidelines while still honoring the city’s veterans.
“Many surrounding cities have parades or special events and we wanted a unique way to celebrate our Veterans’ safely during the pandemic,” Tapia said. “We’re grateful we were able to make this happen and we hope to make it an annual tradition for our community.”
One of the oldest veterans represented in the memorial is Arthur E. Price, who served in the U.S. Army during World War I.
Originally an attorney by trade, Price had been a business partner of A.J. Chandler –the city’s founder and namesake – before deciding to enlist in the military in 1917.
Price served as an artillery instructor in France and was later transferred to Camp Funston in Kansas – believed by some historians to be the place where the deadly “Spanish flu” virus originated in 1918.
Price was spared from the virus, which infected more than 500 million people across the globe, and safely returned to Chandler.
said. “I haven’t felt chills like that in a long time. It is a stunning memorial. I just want to say thank you to the Community for doing such a beautiful job with it.”
The Gardens are open daily from dawn until dusk and is free to the public. Located in the Talking Stick Entertainment District at 7455 N. Pima Road between Salt River Fields at Talking Stick and Great Wolf Lodge Arizona, the relic room is staffed by volunteers. Those interested in learning more can also come by the Discover Salt River Visitor Center at 9120 East Talking Stick Way, Suite E-10, Scottsdale in the Pavilions at Talking Stick shopping center.
Information: 888-979-5010 or memorialgardensatsaltriver. com. lic display.”
This year’s parade theme is “Celebrating Lives of Service,” in recognition of both military service on behalf of our country as well as the many ways veterans continue to serve their communities through first responder and medical careers, as well as ongoing volunteer ser-
Another veteran memorialized is Zora Folley, the world-famous boxer and first African-American resident to sit on the Chandler City Council.
Folly enlisted in the military as a teenager and saw combat during the Korean War. While serving in the military, Folley discovered he had a knack for boxing and went on to win several championships.
After going up against Muhammed Ali in the ring, Folley retired from boxing in 1967 and returned to Chandler. Not long after he was appointed to fill a seat on the council, Folley died from a poolside accident in 1972.
One of the few women featured in the “Path of Honor” is Virginia Gleason Norton, who served in the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve during World War II.
Norton grew up around Chandler and was motivated to enlist in the military after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. She was stationed around Virginia up until the war’s end in 1946.
“I was proud to be in service and I had
great pride when we had parades. We were able to show people that we were trying to help,” Norton said in a 2010 interview.
Norton went back to school after leaving the military and taught in schools around Arizona before dying in 2010 at the age of 86.
Some living members of the city’s “Path of Honor” inductees include Councilman Matt Orlando, who retired from the Air National Guard in 2008, and Vice Mayor Rene Lopez, a third-generation Navy veteran.
The individuals featured along the “Path of Honor” were selected from Chandler’s Veterans Database – a project started by local historians earlier this year – and the Chandler Museum’s existing collection.
Local veterans or family members interested in sharing their stories can visit the Chandler Veterans Database and complete an online form. The information may be used as a foundation for future initiatives to honor their service and continue to tell the stories of Chandler’s veterans.
vice – vital parts of our nation’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
The parade will start at University and Center Streets and head south to 1st Street. Details on participating entries are on the East Valley Veterans Parade website at evvp.org and at facebook.com/EastValleyVeteransParade.
The parade was born out of two local residents’ passion and economic hardship.
When the annual Mesa Veterans Parade fell victim to necessary budget cuts in 2006, local residents Gerry Walker and Frank “Gunny” Alger spoke out on behalf of the 40-year-old Mesa tradition. Indeed, Walker vowed, “There will be a Veterans Day parade if it is only me marching down the street with Frank watching.”
The Marine Corps League Saguaro
Chapter in Mesa took the lead and the Mesa Veterans Parade Association was formed.
In 2013, the all-volunteer organization changed its name to the East Valley Veterans Parade Association to reflect the participation of parade entrants and sponsors from most East Valley communities. Donations to this nonprofit are taxdeductible.
The USS Arizona Memorial Gardens at the Talking Stick Entertainment Center are shaped like the footprint of the doomed ship, which was destroyed in the attack on Pearl Harbor. (Special to the Tribune) SALT
Mesa group maintains breast cancer help
BY SYNDER MACKIE Tribune Contributor
Even though October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month, many groups found that the pandemic limited their ability to do hold the fundraising and awareness efforts they usually do then.
But Mesa-based Bag and Boob Babes, a nonpro�it a women’s cancer awareness group founded in 2012 by Marilyn Reed and Kay Foley kept the spirit of the month alive.
“We have sewn over 1,000 face masks and donated to MD Anderson Cancer Center, Ironwood Treatment Center and Hospital caregivers,” Reed said.
“We depend on donations from individuals, company’s and the community,” she explained. “We usually have two fundraisers, one in February – Women’s Health Month – and in October but we have not been able to have either fundraisers this year due to COVID-19.”
She said the group appreciates that sup-
porters have been sending donations through Paypal at its site, bagandboobbabes.com” so it can continue purchasing material, yarn and postage for the materials the group makes and ships to other hospitals.
Those materials include aprons to hold
JP drains after mastectomies, knitted knockers for breast prosthetic, chemo turbans, eye masks, lap throws, small totes, knit comfort throws, prayer shawls and handmade inspirational cards.
Reed and Foley started the group by
recruiting women who loved to sew and knit and had the passion to help women confronting breast cancer.
From starting with three women in
County gives EV Assistance League much-needed help
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For more than two decades, the Assistance League of the East Valley has helped people in need of all ages in the region, but now, amid the pandemic’s impact on most nonprofits, it’s the Assistance League that could use a little help.
It’s cut the hours of its thrift store in Chandler and reduced some annual programs as donations have declined and its spring fundraiser canceled because of COVID-19 concerns.
Maricopa County of�icials last week provided some muchneeded help with a $25,000 grant from their share of federal pandemic relief money.
The purpose is to cover expenditures related to the public health emergency brought on by the pandemic.
“This grant from the county comes at a most dif�icult time for us,” said Lois Eitel, president of the all-volunteer Assistance League chapter.
“Due to the pandemic we had to close our Thrift Store, a major funding source for us, and we have been able to open only limited hours ever since. The grant will play a big part in helping us continue supporting 24 schools that depend on us. I join with the more than 125 volunteers in thanking Maricopa County for this much-needed grant.”
Member Sarah Auffret added,
“Many of our grants from the public have dried up. We are hoping to receive end-of-year tax credit donations.”
Still, she said, “We are continuing to provide emergency assault survivor kits of clothing and toiletries to East Valley �ire and police departments and hospitals.”
The nonpro�it is one of more than two dozen Assistance League nationwide.
In its 2018-19 �iscal year, the local chapter contributed more than 31,087 service hours, “enabling us to touch the lives of more than 16,300 men, women and children,” it says on its website.
Bonnie Domin, who manages the Assistance League of the East Valley thrift store in Chandler, said a county grant will help it cover rent and utilities for two months. (Courtesy Maricopa County)
Marilyn Reed of Mesa helped organize the Bag and Boob Babes to sew supplies for breast cancer victims anmd provide moral support. The group, which Reed formed with Kay Foley in 2012, has about 150 local members and more in several parts of the country. (Special to the Tribune)
2012, “we have over 150 women and men in our group all over the U.S.,” Reed said, including a northwest chapter in Idaho and a northeast one in Indiana headed by Sheila Wayman and Cathy Haley, respectively.
While the Mesa group pre-pandemic numbered around 50 women, smaller groups now meet in various senior parks.
The Bag and Boob Babes follows a mission statement of “women helping women through dif�icult times.”
“Some of the women in our group have gone through the journey of breast cancer, some have had family or friends that have breast cancer, some are in the medical �ield and some just want to do something good for someone going through something bad,” Reed said.
“Winter residents from other states and Canada go back to their home state and spread the word and get together with their friends and sew and knit,” she continued. “We donate our comfort items to many hospitals, treatment centers and surgeons in Arizona and across the country. We donate all our items and we never charge for anything that we make. We totally depend on donations from individuals, our community and by having fundraisers.”
The women helped by the group confront a particularly traumatic time as a result of the ongoing pandemic, according to breast cancer survivor and physical therapist Suzanne Dilli,
“I think the hard thing with the coronavirus right now is that cancer is such a traumatic diagnosis and with the restrictions on visitors, many have to go through this by themselves right now,” she said.
According to the Arizona Department of Health Services, an estimated 276,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in women in the U.S., along with 48,530 new cases of non-invasive breast cancer” this year alone.
Melissa Shelby, a breast cancer nurse practitioner for over 20 years, said Bag and Boob Babes has done an admirable job with its activi-
ties even though the pandemic has put a crimp in fundraising efforts.
“They pay about $6,000 to $8,000 in fabric per year so they can make these things,” Shelby said.
Shelby noted that when it comes to breast cancer treatment, “there’s a disparity and it’s heartbreaking, especially living in Arizona, with our Native American population.”
“Those who are African American and develop breast cancer tend to have a higher mortality rate because the presentation is delayed due to sometimes the lack of screening or lack of support systems in their area,” she said.
According to the American Cancer Society, in Arizona, the mortality rate of breast cancer is 19.7 - 20.4 percent for non-Hispanic whites and 25-27.9 percent for nonHispanic Black citizens.
The U.S. Department of Health’s Of�ice on Women’s Health has reported that fewer American women are dying from breast cancer every year, while diagnoses have remained stable, with a drop in mortality at an average of 1.9 percent per year in the previous 10 years.
This drop can be attributed to new drugs such as the recently introduced practice of immunotherapy, which works alongside traditional chemotherapy and according to Shelby “has made a huge difference in women with metastatic breast cancer.”
Additionally, Shelby said, genetic testing has improved greatly and allows those with unforeseen risk factors to have earlier detection, which is crucial in a breast cancer early diagnosis.
The state health department has noted that if caught early, women have a 98 percent chance of beating breast cancer.
Both Dilli and Shelby said women need to stay vigilant on screenings as well as practice active-risk reductions, while staying connected and aiding those in their social circles who may be affected by this disease.
“I think it’s always ideal to ask them, ‘what can I do to help you?’” Dilli said. “For me, it was someone to go and walk with me and get my exercise or helping get healthy food and meals prepared. It’s just really asking that person what they need at that moment.”
Mesa World War II hero marked 105th birthday
World War II hero Irving Wohl of Mesa celebrated his 105th birthday Oct. 12 with a visit from his daughter, who �lew in from New York for the occasion.
His special day included getting his teeth cleaned at Carrington College’s free dental clinic in Mesa.
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Wohl served between October 1942 and December 1944 with the 84th Chemical Mortar Battalion, participating in the Europe/Africa/Middle East campaigns.
In the war, he earned the Purple Heart, Bronze Star among a dozen medals that also included Combat Action, Army Good Conduct, World War II Victory, National Defense Service and other achievements.
He married Muriel Goffman in 1951 and has two children, Phil and Robyn Wohl.
Wohl operated a family business in Newark, manufacturing and installing skylights and sheet metal products for
commercial buildings.
He moved to Mesa in 1985.
He’s a fan of Carrington College, which is why he has had his teeth cleaned by students for years.
The college even keeps a picture from his 100th birthday on the wall in the clinic lobby.
The funds it raises are returned to Mesa, Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert, Scottsdale and Ahwatukee through philanthropic programs that include Operation School Bell, its assault survivor kits, adult day care socials, scholarships and its and Share Our Spare programs.
The county grant will help the Assistance League provide new school uniforms to more than 7,000 elementary school students this year, part of its Operation School Bell program.
“By dipping into reserve funds, we will still provide new uniforms for 7,000 elementary school children in 24 East Valley schools, but we’ll no longer provide shoes, hoodies, underwear and toiletries,” Auffret said.
However, the League had to eliminate its in-person dressings at Target for children in non-uniform schools.
The thrift store, at 2326 N. Alma School Road in Chandler, is now open only three days a week, Thursday through Saturday 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
“This schedule barely covers our store rent and operating costs,” said Auffret, explaining hours were reduced from 35 a week because many volunteers are retirees whose health may be adversely impacted by the pandemic.
The group hopes that as the holiday season approaches, people will open their hearts and their wallets and donate at assistanceleagueeastvalley.org.
Also needed are donations of goods to the shop, which offers clothing, household items, books, toys, linens, sewing supplies and more. Donation hours are ThursdaySaturday 10 a.m.-3 p.m. and Monday during those same hours.
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Last year, it dressed almost 10,000 children from both uniform and non-uniform schools
Mesa resident Irving Wohl shows the medals he earned serving the nation in WW II. (Carrington College)
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Mesa is home to Harbor Freight Tools’ 27th store in AZ
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Harbor Freight Tools, which boars quality tools at low prices, is opening its 27th Arizona store in Mesa on Saturday, Nov. 14.
Located at 1260 West University Drive, the new store brings approximately 25-30 new jobs to the community and will be open seven days a week, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. every day except Sunday, when hours at 9 a.m.-6 p.m. It will resume its regular hours of 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday “after the COVID-19 crisis has passed,” the company said.
“We’re ready to serve and deliver value to customers in Mesa and all of Maricopa County,” said Ron Fudge, store manager. “At Harbor Freight, we recognize that now, more than ever, our customers depend on Harbor Freight for the tools they need to get the job done at an affordable price.
“We are the place for quality tools at the lowest prices for mechanics, contractors, homeowners and hobbyists – any tool user who cares about value.”
The store will stock a full selection of tools and equipment in categories including automotive, air and power tools, storage, outdoor power equipment, generators, welding supplies, shop equipment, hand tools that come with a lifetime warranty and more.
At 14,500-square-feet, the store is
“much easier to shop than the huge home centers,” the company said in a release.
Harbor Freight has its own credit card that customers can apply for in-store and, if approved, earn 10 percent off their �irst purchase and 5 percent back on their future purchases in Harbor Freight Money. Or, they can choose 0 percent interest with equal monthly payments on purchases of $299 or more. Details are harborfreight.com/credit.
into a successful mail-order company.
tools and accessories annually after testing them for performance and durability.
Harbor Freight Tools also offers deeper discounts with special coupon pricing. Customers can sign up to receive a monthly coupon book by mail with dozens of product coupons and additional discounts. Customers can also receive additional discounts by email.
They can sign up at HarborFreightSignUp.com.
Another company core value is giving back to the communities it serves.
To protect healthcare workers caring for COVID-19 patients, Harbor Freight recently donated its entire stock of nitrile gloves, N-95 masks and face shields to hospitals in every community served by one of its stores.
During the COVID-19 crisis, all Harbor Freight stores have implemented more frequent cleaning and are following the guidelines from the Center for Disease Control, including social distancing to protect customers and associates.
People with COVID-19 symptoms are asked to shop at harborfreight.com rather than in person.
The California-based company was founded in Southern California in 1977, when 17-year-old Eric Smidt began transforming his father’s small sales business
That year, Smidt cut out the middlemen and sourced tools directly from the factories, realizing that if he could buy tools directly for less, he could pass the savings on to the customer.
Today, Harbor Freight has over 1,100 stores across the country with over 21,000 employees.
Still family-owned, the company serves more than 40 million customers who earn a living, repair their homes and cars and pursue their hobbies.
It boats “core values of excellence, continuous improvement and doing the right thing and introduces hundreds of new
Harbor Freight Tools for Schools, an initiative of The Smidt Foundation, established by the company’s founder, advances skilled-trades education in public high schools across the country.
Its �lagship initiative is the annual Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence, which honors 18 teachers and their programs with $1 million in cash awards.
Harbor Freight Tools also supports nonpro�it organizations that serve K-12 public education, �irst responders and veterans. For more information on the gift card donations program, visit harborfreightgivingback.org.
Mesa's Nelson Estate Jewelry wins BBB ethics award
AMesa jewelry store has won Better Business Bureau Serving the Pacific Southwest’s 2020 Torch Award for Ethics.
Nelson Estate Jewelers, 2051 S. Dobson Road, is the �irst jewelry store in Arizona to win the award, aimed at raising awareness in marketplace ethics and honoring businesses for operating with integrity.
The winner of the Tribune’s second con-
secutive Best of the Best award for jewelry stores, owner David Nelson said, “We built our business around honesty, integrity, and unwavering attention to quality. Being recognized for something that is built into our core values is really an incredible honor.”
The BBB Torch Awards for Ethics were established to recognize outstanding businesses that maintain a solid commitment to ethics and trust in the marketplace.
Companies are selected by an independent panel of volunteer community lead-
ers based on criteria established by the International Association of Better Business Bureaus.
Winners must demonstrate a commitment to ethics leadership, communication, performance management, human resource practices and their community.
“This has been a dif�icult year for businesses, and doing the right thing is not always easy. These companies have demonstrated a commitment to ethical business practices even in the most dif�icult times,”
said Shelley Bradley, BBB director of programs and special events.
“This year’s winners represent BBB’s community of trustworthy businesses that operate with integrity at the forefront.”
Nelson Estate Jewelers is a full-service jewelry store that buys, sells, and repairs valuables. It pays market price for scrap gold, silver, and platinum.
Information: NelsonEstateJewelers. com
Harbor Freight Tolls is opening a new store at 1260 University Drive in Mesa next Saturday. (Special to the Tribune)
Election 2020 aftermath taught us a few things
BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Tribune Columnist
Even before the race for President was of�icial, you could learn some early lessons from Election 2020.
Like: Our need for immediate grati�ication con�licts deeply with our need for election accuracy.
Every election cycle is a journey that takes four years. The cycle culminates in millions of pieces of paper marked with dozens of selections.
It should not be mystifying that it takes a few days to total those pieces of paper with zero errors.
The ranks of the impatient will scream absurdities like, “If Chick-�il-A was counting this, it would have been done in an hour.” This isn’t whipping up a sandwich and waf�le fries, people.
This is thousands of jurisdictions counting millions of ballots in thousands of races under extreme pressure.
If we want the count to be correct – a premise many Americans seem to want only when the count goes their way – then we should give elections of�icials around the country a break.
If a once-every-four-years presidential
election takes, say, four days to tabulate, you’d think we might control ourselves for that brief interval.
We also learned stupid people will do stupid things and elections bring out the dummies.
On Wednesday night after Election Day, hundreds of angry pro-Trump folks gathered to protest outside the Maricopa County vote tabulation center downtown – and even tried to force their way inside.
Naturally, an angry crowd of anti-Trump folks showed up for a tense standoff policed by sheriff’s deputies in SWAT gear. Congressman Paul Gosar, R-Stupid, showed up to add to the clown show.
The mob’s big concern? That we “count every vote!” Which is exactly what elections workers were doing inside the building at the time.
What next, an angry mob outside McDonald’s demanding they make burgers and fries?
Speaking of pointless, it’s time for the media to stop calling races. On Election Eve, the Associated Press and Fox News called Arizona for Joe Biden while the other networks and CNN did not. This led to widespread confusion and �inger-pointing.
This is great for the media, who love a dumpster �ire, but not great for voters or democracy, which the media claims
to serve.
Calling a race serves no of�icial function and has no legal bearing; it simply exists to serve journalists’ need for suspense and to give reporters a chance to feel super important on election night.
Every race call is a prediction – a sophisticated prediction, sure – but still only as good as the underlying math about voter turnout, geography, political preference and human behavior.
Football broadcasters could “call” the Super Bowl early, too, and likely be almost perfect. But the games still get played to the �inal whistle and election workers still tabulate every ballot. If no one gets to call it quits, what’s the point of calling the race?
We also learned pollsters also are a generally useless bunch. To be fair, the pollsters in Arizona were nowhere near
as wrong on the presidential race as pollsters in other states and those making national predictions.
Most Arizona pollsters gave Joe Biden a lead in the range of three or four points on their �inal polls.
As we know in hindsight, that was wrong – but it was within most polls’ margin of error. Clearly, there’s something pollsters don’t understand about today’s voter turnout and the behavior of Trump voters in particular.
As someone who has paid pollsters for campaigns I’ve run, I think they can help provide insight into trends and the impact of certain messages. But do I believe them like I do my bank balance or a thermometer? Hell no. And neither should you. Stay tuned, folks. Who knows, next week we might even have a President to discuss.
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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:
VAL VISTA DRIVE IMPROVEMENTS
(US 60 TO PUEBLO AVENUE)
PROJECT NO. CP0062
The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Consultant to provide design services for the Val Vista Drive Improvements (US 60 to Pueblo Avenue) 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 following is a summary of the project. The required tasks will be reviewed with the selected Design Consultant and defined to meet the needs of the project as part of the contract scoping.
Buildout of the Val Vista Drive and Southern Avenue intersection that will improve safety, increase capacity, and reduce congestion that occurs at the intersection during peak travel hours. This Project is included in the MAG Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) that will receive Regional Area Funds for design, land acquisition, and construction. This Project will improve Val Vista Drive to accommodate 3 through lanes in each direction from the US 60 to Enid Avenue. Dual left turn lanes (with raised medians) will be constructed at each leg of the Val Vista Drive and the Southern Avenue Intersection. It is anticipated that Val Vista Drive from Enid Avenue to Pueblo Avenue will remain 5 lanes (2 through lanes in each direction, 1 two-way left-turn (TWLT) lane and require pavement rehabilitation improvements.
Roadway improvements will include the following:
• Safety upgrades, such as bicycle lanes, sidewalks improvements, and ADA compliance.
• Drainage improvements such as new storm drain, catch basins
• Reconstruction of the existing pavement section
• New pavement due to widening
• New curb and gutter
• Removal and replacement of existing driveways along Val Vista Drive
• New signage and striping
• Landscaping improvements
• Utility Relocations (Both City and Non-City Utilities)
• Traffic Signal Modifications at three (3) intersections that include Val Vista Drive / Hampton Avenue, Val Vista Drive / Southern Avenue, Val Vista Drive / Pueblo Avenue.
• Roadway lighting (New and Relocated streetlights)
• City owned Gas Line System Improvements that may include the replacement of high pressure valves, anode installation at regular intervals, replacement of steel pipe segments (with PE) on the IP system within the scope of the project, possible replacement of “black-caps” on tees
•Other miscellaneous improvements
The proposed improvements are based on the Southern Avenue and Val Vista Drive intersection exhibit which is available for download at: http://mesaaz.gov/business/engineering/architectural-engineering-design-opportunities.
An electronic Pre-Submittal Conference will be held on November 5, 2020, at 9 amthrough 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. Any parties interested in attending the Pre-Submittal Conference should request a meeting invitation from Stephanie Gishey (stephanie.gishey@mesaaz.gov).
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.
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 November 19, 2020, by 2 pm. 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 Stephanie Gishey of the Engineering Department at stephanie.gishey@mesaaz.gov.
BETH HUNING City Engineer
ATTEST: DeeAnn Mickelsen City Clerk
Published: East Valley Tribune, Nov 1, 8, 2020 / 39057
CITY OF MESA MESA, ARIZONA
NOTICE OF VIRTUAL PUBLIC MEETING
Broadway Road Phase 1 Mesa Drive to Stapley Drive Project No. CP0666
This City of Mesa will be starting construction on the Broadway Road Phase 1 project. The work will consist of a full street reconstruction along Broadway Road from Lesueur to Spur. The scope includes replacing pavement, curb/gutter, sidewalk, and bike lanes. In Broadway Road, the water and gas lines and storm drains will be updated. Existing private irrigation lines on the south side of Broadway Road will be relocated. The City’s existing electric overhead lines on Broadway Road (west of Horne) will be converted to underground, as well as the existing SRP overhead lines (east of Horne). Improvements at the intersection of Broadway Road/Stapley Drive will consist of all new right turn lanes.
You are invited to attend a Virtual Public Meeting where City staff will be available to answer your questions
Date: Wednesday November 18, 2020
Time: 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Virtual Public Meeting: online at mesaaz.gov/engineering
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this project, please contact Curt Albright, Michele Arrollado, Lucy Lopez, or Juanita Gonzales with the City of Mesa Engineering Public Relations Department at (480) 644-3800.
Si usted tiene preguntas de este proyecto, favor de llamar a Lucy Lopez, con la Ciudad de Mesa al (480) 644-3800.
Published: East Valley Tribune, Nov. 8, 15, 2020 / 34321
CITY OF MESA, ARIZONA ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mesa is seeking qualified Consultants for the following:
ON-CALL CONSULTING SERVICES FOR ELECTRIC UTILITY TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION SERVICES
The City of Mesa is seeking qualified Consultants to provide design services and/or construction administration services on an on-call basis in the following area/category: Electric Utility Transmission and Distribution Services. 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).
From this solicitation, the Engineering Department will establish a list of on-call consultants for Electric Utility Transmission and Distribution Services. This category is further defined below:
Electric Utility Transmission and Distribution Engineering Design projects might involve studies, new construction, upgrades, rehabilitation, or other modifications. Typical projects include, but are not limited to, 69KV transmission poles and lines, 69/12KV distribution substations, 12KV overhead and underground distribution poles, lines, ductbank, vault, cables, and Electric Utility Commercial Service Designs.
A Pre-Submittal Conference will not be held.
Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this RFQ (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, 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.
The Statement of Qualifications shall include a one-page cover letter that contains current company/firm contact information including a valid phone number and email address, 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 in an unencrypted PDF format to Engineering-RFQ@mesaaz.gov by 2:00PM on Thursday, November 19, 2020. Maximum file size shall not exceed 20MB. SOQ’s that are unable to be opened by City staff will not be considered for award. Submitters may request a single opportunity to verify that a test email and attachment are received and can be opened by City staff. Test emails must be sent to Engineering-RFQ@mesaaz.gov. 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 Michele Davila of the Engineering Department at Michele.Davila@mesaaz.gov
BETH HUNING City Engineer
Public Notices
CITY OF MESA MESA, ARIZONA
NOTICE OF VIRTUAL PUBLIC MEETING
North Center Sports Fields Project No. CP0915
Please join us for a live online Virtual Public Meeting for a project update of the North Center Sports Fields Project. There will be a presentation showing the revisions to the site layout, sports fields, lighting, etc. These were based on feedback from previous site and neighborhood meetings. This will then be followed by a Q&A session, where you can provide your input or have your questions answered. The site is located North of McKellips Road on Center Street in Mesa, AZ. The project was made possible by Mesa voters in the 2018 General Obligation Bond Election. We hope you register and attend this online meeting
You are invited to attend a Virtual Public Meeting where City staff will be availabl e to answer your questions
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Time: 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Virtual Public Meeting: online at mesaaz.gov/engineering
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this project, please contact Curt Albright, Michele Arrollado, Lucy Lopez, or Juanita Gonzales with the City of Mesa Engineering Public Relations Department at (480) 644-3800.
Si usted tiene preguntas de este proyecto, favor de llamar a Lucy Lopez, con la Ciudad de Mesa al (480) 644-3800.
Published: East Valley Tribune, Nov. 8, 15, 2020 / 34312
Arizona Registrar of Contractors (ROC): The advertising requirements of the statute does not prevent anyone from placing an ad in the yellow pages, on business cards, or on flyers.
What it does require under A.R.S. §32-1121A14(c) <http://www.azleg.gov/ars/32/01165.htm> is that the advertising party, if not properly licensed as a contractor, disclose that fact on any form of advertising to the public by including the words "not a licensed contractor" in the advertisement.
Again, this requirement is intended to make sure that the consumer is made aware of the unlicensed status of the individual or company.
Contractors who advertise and do not disclose their unlicensed status are not eligible for the handyman's exception.
Reference: (http://www.azroc.gov/invest/licensed_by_law.html)
As a consumer, being aware of the law is for your protection. You can check a businesses ROC status at:
ATTEST:
DeeAnn Mickelsen City Clerk
Published: Glendale Star, Nov 1, 8, 2020 / 34115
Obituaries
LolaAnnAndrews
LolaAnnAndrews wasbornonValentine's Day,February14,1937 atMrs.Saylor's maternityhomein Underwood,ND.She wasthe6thof9 childrentoMiltonand MaryJohannes.Lola wasraisedonthe familyfarminNorth DakotauntilshewentofftocollegeinGreat Falls,MTandbecameateacher,marriedher firsthusbandGeraldAndersonandwentonto havefourchildrenwhiletravelingtheworldas amilitarywife.
AsaChristianlady,LolaputGodfirstinall thatshedid.Whetheritbeasawife,mother, grandmother,friendorsister,sheledby exampleandlivedtoserveChrist.Lolawasan incrediblecookwhowasknownbymanyfor heramazingskillsinthekitchenbutespecially forherKuchenandCinnamonRolls.She lovedplayingthepiano,singinginchurch, baking,shoppingandwasatruefashionista. In1997Lolawasdiagnosedwith Parkinson'sbutsheneverletthatstopher.She livedlifetothefullestwithhersecondhusband GarnettAndrewslivingbetweentheirdream homeonWhidbeyIsland,WAandspending thewintersinAhwatukeeuntilhepassedaway in2013.
OnSunday,October18,2020Lolapassed awaypeacefully,surroundedbyfamily,after fallingillwithpneumonia.
Lolaisprecededindeathbyherhusbands (GeraldAnderson&GarnettAndrews),her parents(Milton&Mary),3sisters(Eileen, Doris&Claudia)and3brothers(Maynard, MerlandIver).Sheissurvivedbytwo brothers,(Terry&Lane),herchildrenConnie Becker(Dwight),DawnAnderson,Patricia Hampton(Guy)andTimothyAnderson (Kathleen),all11grandchildrenand15great grandchildrenaswellasnumerousniecesand nephews.
Acelebrationoflifewillbeheldfrom2:00 PMto4:00PMon2020-11-21atMountain ViewLutheranChurch,11002South48th Street,Phoenix,AZ,USA.
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Employment
ANALYST/ASSET MANAGER Perform financial due diligence, interpret market studies, develop financial proformas, budgets and analyses for real estate transactions for Low Income Housing Tax Credit development in accordance with Section 42 of IRS Code using YARDI Property Management software M ust have Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and Accounting or related field (or foreign equivalent), plus 2 years of experience in job offered or as Accountant. Must have 2 years of experience (can be gained concurrently with the above experience) in: (1) compiling, analyzing and reporting on financial data i n a ccordance with Low Income Housing Tax Credit (section 42 IRC) regulations and project-based Section 8/Tax Credit residential properties; (2) utilizing Y ARDI Property Management software, includin g the Affordable and RentCafe modules; (3) collection, a nalysis and development of data using SQL dat a query tools; (4) interpreting and verifying financia l data from market studies, including financial analysis, loan sizing, financial modeling and creation of development/operational forecasts/proformas based on data of sales/acquisition of residential multi-famil y real estate. Must have successfully completed training in LIHTC and HOME Investment Partnerships Program. Employer will accept any suitable combina tion of experience training and education. Dru g Testing and Background check required. Employer : Atlantic Development & Investments, Inc. Job location: Scottsdale, AZ. Qualified applicants email resume to jraymond@atlanticdev.com.
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NOTICE CAREFULLY. An important court proceeding that affects your rights has been scheduled. If you do not understand this Notice or the other court papers, contact an attorney for legal advice. 1. NOTICE: An application for Change of Name has been filed with the Court by the person(s) named above. A hearing has been scheduled where the Court will consider whether to grant or deny the requested change. If you wish to be heard on this issue, you must appear at the hearing, at the date and time indicated below. 2 COURT HEARING. A court hearing has been schedu led to consider the Application as follows: DATE : 1 2/3/2020 TIME: 10 am BEFORE: Commissione r Susan White, 222 E. Javalina Ave, Courtroom, Mesa AZ 85210 DATED: 10/19/2020 /S/ Jennifer Lamste r Applicant's Signature, Published: East Valley Tribune, Oct. 25, Nov 1, 8, 15, 2020 / 33907
SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICAL) Case Number (Num ero del Caso): 18STLC13699 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: Oussama Bahri and DOES 1 to 25, (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): INCLUSIVE. YOU ARE BEING SUED BY P LAINTIFF: NANCY RAMIEREZ CASTANEDA; (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): SHAURY E DER HERNANDEZ; EMILIO DAVID SINAYR AMIREZ, a minor, and NANCY MELISSA SINAYRAMIREZ, a minor, by and through their guardian ad litem N ANCY RAMIREZ CASTANEDA NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS afte r this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you wan t the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that y ou can use for your response. You can find these cour t forms and more information at the California Courts Online S elf-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your c ounty law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If yo u cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you ma y want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Onlin e S elf-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or b y contacting your local court or county bar association. Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para s u respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/espanol/), en l a biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le qued e más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé un formulario de exención d e pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo , puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia. Hay o tros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a u n abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un program a de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/espanol/) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o e l colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 O mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesion de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar e l gravament de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el c aso. The name and address of the court is: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, 111 N HILL STREET, 111 N HILL STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012. The name, add ress and telephone number of plaintiff's attorney, o r plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono de abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): GEORGE J. SHALH OUB, ESQ #158894 LAW OFFICES OF GEORG E S HALHOUB 5187 CHIMINEAS AVENUE, TARZAN A CA 91356. 818-264-3830 818-264-3836 DATE: JUNE 3, 2 019 Sherri R. Carter Clerk, by Maria E Valenzuela , Deputy. Published: East Valley Tribune, Oct 25, Nov 1, 8, 15, 2020 / 33948
