East Valley Tribune: Northeast Mesa Edition - May 14, 2017

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DUI is detour but not dead end for Mesa’s Winkle

BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer

Ryan Winkle seemed like a man on top of the world when he was sworn into office only a few months ago as a Mesa City Council member, his wife at his side with his newborn baby, his family and friends giving him a rousing ovation at the Mesa Arts Center.

But after a misstep a week ago, when he was arrested in Tempe on suspicion of driving under the influence, Winkle found himself under a cloud, making the wrong kind of headlines, with his political future seemingly in doubt.

The good news, according to three political consultants interviewed independently, is

that the cloud can blow over for Winkle if he deals with this self-imposed crisis in the right way, owning up to a mistake, taking concrete steps to address a potential problem in his life and spending the rest of his term proving his worth to Mesa.

Most of all, Winkle cannot stumble in a similar manner again, especially not in a conservative, family-oriented city like Mesa. And especially not when voters already forgave him for a past indiscretion in 2008, when he was convicted in Scottsdale of an extreme DUI.

“He stumbled out of the block, but he still has the majority of his term left,” said Mike Noble, a political consultant. “This should be a wake-up call.”

Noble used a baseball analogy for Winkle’s predicament, saying, “I can get away with two strikes, but three strikes, you’re out.”

Bill Scheel, a Phoenix political consultant who usually works on progressive causes, agreed with Noble and fellow political consultant Jason Rose that Winkle has an opportunity to redeem himself.

“He’s got 3½ years to prove himself. It will be under additional scrutiny. He needs to be on his best behavior,” said Scheel, of Javelina, a public relations firm.

“I think there is a lot less tolerance for these things than years ago. I think it’s something Ryan can recover from,” Scheel said. “If there is any sense there is a pattern, voters are not going to be very forgiving.” Scheel added that he does not consider two DUIs eight years apart a pattern.

Parents’ deaths from cancer led Chandler mom from despair to hope

BY PAUL MARYNIAK Tribune Executive Editor

There is a segment of Chandler author Lynne Hartke’s new book where she writes about her mother’s final weeks in terms of a relay race.

“Mom’s job will be to place the baton in my outstretched fingers,” the Chandler author writes. “In that moment, her race will be done.”

“Mom has been preparing me for this moment my entire life – to run my race with God’s strength, choosing family and faith as my feet hit the ground in practiced rhythm.”

Hartke, the wife of Chandler pastor and Vice Mayor Kevin Hartke for 35 years, never counted on cancer playing such a huge role in the “race.”

As a daughter, the disease deeply affected her relationship with her parents – both of whom were fighting cancer at the same time. But it had a particularly profound impact on her during her mother’s final years.

And as a mother, the disease has affected Hartke’s relationship with her four children,

especially her two daughters, because she herself had just finished her own battle with breast cancer when her parents were diagnosed.

Hence, “Mother’s Day is complicated.”

“It’s still hard to walk past the Mother’s Day cards in the supermarket,” said Hartke, whose mother died three years ago at age 78 – roughly two years after her father succumbed to the disease.

She aches for her daughters in the wake of her own bout with cancer.

“They can no longer check ‘no’ at the doctor’s office” when a form asks if there’s a history of cancer in her family, she said.

“I’m concerned for their future,” added Hartke, noting that until she developed cancer, there had been no history of the disease in her family.

Hartke’s book focuses on cancer’s devastating impact on her as a daughter.

(KImberly Carrillo/Tribune Photographer)

Author Lynne Hartke holds a gift made by her daughter – a digital portrait of Hartke applying lipstick near a portrait of her mom doing the same.

(Special to the Tribune)

Ryan Winkle replaced Dennis Kavanaugh as the representative of District 3, which includes southwest Mesa, on the Mesa City Council earlier this year.

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At 102, Mesa man isn’t slowing down

BY BRENT RUFFNER Tribune Contributor

For a guy who just turned 102 years old this month, Albert Vargas gets around.

Most mornings, the Mesa centenarian drives himself to his neighborhood McDonald’s restaurant at Southern Avenue and Greenfield Road to meet friends for a small cup of joe and a breakfast burrito topped with plenty of hot sauce.

Recently, he returned from a cruise that went to the South Pacific.

And well into his 80s, Vargas tooled his Honda Twinstar motorcycle down “every dirt road in Arizona.”

Once, well into his retirement, he stayed overnight in Nevada after a motorcycle ride with a friend because they “lost track of time” during the trip and didn’t want to drive in the middle of the night.

When he’s not driving around, Vargas, who lives by himself, likes to play pinochle and bridge twice a week.

The quick-witted, humble man individually thanked each of about 35 friends who came to his birthday celebration May 4 at his favorite McDonald’s.

The group recently took over about one-third of the restaurant to celebrate the birthday of the former California tugboat skipper, who once traveled 2,225 nautical miles from Los Angeles to Honululu in the 1934 Transpacific Yacht Race.

His 30-foot, 1-inch Sparkman & Stephens sailboat successfully made it without a hitch.

“I was just out of high school and away I went,” Vargas said, calling it one of the highlights of his long life.

Retired now for more than three decades, Vargas worked as a tugboat skipper at Crowley, a transportation and logistics company that offers services from vessel management to emergency response.

He guided a tugboat for about 15 years and has been on the water most of his life in one form or another.

He said he remembers San Francisco’s “rough and terrific currents” before the days of global positioning systems.

He also had a good handle on navigating his vessel through the Pacific Islands.

“I’ve been to every island in the Pacific,” Vargas said. “I liked Fiji the

best – for the Bloody Marys.”

He retired to Mesa because he grew to like Arizona from countless trips to the state with friends for square-dancing competitions.

He has 50 years of square-dancing experience under his belt. But Vargas hasn’t slowed down.

He also owns a computer and a cellphone.

“I keep very active,” Vargas said. “Activity keeps the mind working. It’s so important as you get along in years.”

It seems as if his friends greatly appreciate his company. Several people who attended his party called him a ”true gentleman” as they wished him a happy birthday.

The group of retirees has monthly birthday gatherings at the Mesa restaurant.

Neighbor Richard Stauder said he gives Vargas a wakeup call every morning at 6:45 because the centenarian’s alarm clock isn’t loud enough to wake him.

“I want you to be the master of ceremonies at our 50th wedding anniversary,” Stauder said, quickly adding, “in five years.”

Another friend, Rocky Emma of Mesa, 100, used a bullhorn to address Vargas. She will celebrate her 101st birthday in June.

“How long have I known you?” Emma asked. “You don’t know? Either do I. But, I’ve been trying to catch up with you ever since I met you.”

Vargas also gets the royal treatment from other establishments.

Gwen Shippy, who works at Red Mountain Cafe in Mesa, knows Vargas from his regular visits to her restaurant.

He often orders the minestrone there. Shippy brought her customer a crown for him to wear during his party.

As the group sang “Happy Birthday,” the 102-year-old raised both arms in excitement in an area decorated with a banner and several balloons.

Vargas said he enjoys meeting people of different backgrounds and will share a story with anyone who asks.

“You ever been to up to Young, Arizona?” Vargas asked. “Oh, man, you ain’t lived till you’ve been there. Take that dirt road up to Young. It’s a beautiful drive. They have the biggest hamburgers there.”

(Brent Ruffner/Tribune Contributor)

Albert Vargas of Mesa celebrated his 102nd birthday with about 35 of his closest friends at a McDonald's he frequents for breakfast.

4 candidates for Mesa police chief field residents’ questions

BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer

It’s been a long, grueling process, but the four finalists for Mesa police chief are approaching the finish line, with City Manager Chris Brady likely to make a decision in about two weeks.

The finalists – Interim Chief Mike Dvorak and three other veteran police administrators from other cities –fielded questions from a relatively small group of residents recently at the Mesa Civic Center.

When interviewed separately, the potential successors to retired Chief John Meza touched on similar themes, none of which would be new to the Mesa police, which has a national reputation as a progressive department.

Dvorak stressed his strong relations inside the department and in the community, built during a 29-year career in Mesa. Former San Jose Police Chief Rob Davis wants to attack the root causes of crime and work in partnership with social service agencies and community groups.

Davis said he wants to become a chief again, after a seven-year hiatus and working as a national police consultant, “because I love it.”

Texas State University Police Chief Jose Banales stressed the value of community policing, saying he longs for a return to more challenging municipal police work. He has been at Texas State for a year after more than three decades with the San Antonio police.

Tucson Assistant Police Chief Ramon Batista also supports working with the community and stressed his background working at Arizona-related police issues, including immigration and a shrinking number of sworn officers.

Brady said he believes all four candidates are capable of running the Mesa Police Department, but added that he wishes Meza wasn’t forced into retirement by the state pension system. He said he would have been comfortable with Meza serving as chief for another five years.

Dvorak, Davis, Batista and Banales faced a high level in scrutiny in Mesa before the neighborhood meeting. They met with about 40 police employees of various ranks; they met with the unions; they were interviewed by Brady and by Mesa City Council members.

Still, it is possible that Brady could reopen the bid process if he was somehow

dissatisfied with the candidates.

Among those meeting with the candidates were community activists of all sorts, including Phil Austin, a longtime Hispanic activist who was a strong supporter of Meza and former Chief George Gascon, a lightning rod hired from the Los Angeles Police Department.

the chief’s role full time.

“I’m more visionary than most. I have been involved in our strategic planning for years,” he said.

Dvorak said he knows the department and the community. “I’m not starting at ground zero,” he said. “I’m good at change. I have always asked, ‘How can we get better?’”

enforcement and education program, in a gritty neighborhood near Stapley and Broadway roads, in 2012.

“Mesa has a good department, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t things you can improve,” he said. “San Jose is very similar to Mesa. If you looked at downtown San Jose 25 years ago, it looked like Mesa now.”

Banales said he thought that taking a job at a university police department after 32 years in San Antonio would be less stressful, but he finds that he misses municipal police work.

“I thrive on that challenge,” he said. “If anything, it gave me a good sabbatical.”

He said he believes he would be a good fit in Mesa because of its strong record of community engagement.

“My philosophy of policing is that I am a big proponent of community policing,” he said.

Batista said he is attracted to Mesa by its “feeling of community,” adding, “It lines up with my values.”

He praised the Mesa police, saying, “It is a police department not only known in the state, but nationally.”

Batista views his experience in Tucson as applicable to Mesa, saying that he has dealt with such issues as immigration and reduction of resources.

“I see some of the same challenges in Tucson happening here,” he said.

Austin and Nate Gafvert, president of the Mesa Police Association, declined to endorse a particular candidate, with Gafvert criticizing the process and Austin saying he wants a chief committed to community outreach, not just a public relations campaign.

Gafvert said officers were disappointed when they were not allowed to ask questions at a meeting with the candidates.

“It gave us the impression that our input was not valued,” he said.

Gascon is largely credited with establishing Mesa’s crime-fighting approach, concentrating on the worst repeat offenders and using statistics to allocate resources and to adjust tactics. He also was embroiled in a high-profile conflict with former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio over immigration enforcement.

Dvorak said his experience in Mesa, playing a part in many technological improvements such as body cameras, makes him uniquely qualified to assume

Davis retired as San Jose police chief in 2010, capping a 30-year career in which he rose from patrol officer to chief. He has worked as a police consultant since that time, trying to help struggling departments, such as the Baltimore police, improve.

Davis looks at police departments as being in a unique position to attack social issues by partnering with social service agencies to address the root causes of crime. Mesa used a similar approach with its D-Block community

But Brady denied that, saying that some of the candidates told him they met with the MPA. He said he picked eight semifinalists and that community groups selected the finalists.

Austin said the new chief doesn’t have to be Hispanic but needs to have a proven record of community outreach, and has to be someone willing to stand up to city management when necessary.

“We want the chief with the most experience dealing with the community,” he said. “We don’t want another assistant city manager. We want a police chief.”

(Special to the Tribune)

Texas State University police chief Jose Banales spent more than three decades with the San Antonio police.

(Special to the Tribune)

Tucson Assistant Police Chief Ramon Batista says his experience in Tucson will translate well to Mesa.

(Special to the Tribune)

Interim Chief Mike Dvorak has had a 29-year career in Mesa.

(Special to the Tribune)

Former San Jose Police Chief Rob Davis has been working as a national police consultant.

WINKLE

Rose, who usually works on conservative causes, said politicians have rebounded from far worse mistakes. He cited the case of David Vitter, a former Louisiana U.S. senator who was caught up in prostitution scandal but won re-election before he eventually was defeated.

“Unquestionably, a career can be redeemed,” Rose said. “DUIs are not good, but everyone knows someone or a dozen people who have gotten them.”

Rose and Noble agreed that Winkle should apologize and show real contrition, admitting a mistake and announcing steps he is taking to correct a problem.

Rose said voters “don’t want to see arrogance from someone trying to abuse their position.”

Noble concurred, saying, “The sooner he addresses it, owns it and makes some corrections, the better off he’s going to be.”

The arrest will probably be enough for someone to challenge Winkle when his term expires and will likely be used against Winkle during campaigning, Noble said.

Winkle, 38, was cited on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, a misdemeanor, after a Tempe police officer noticed frightened pedestrians running out of his way about 1 a.m. at Baseline and Kyrene roads.

The officer reported he made a U-turn and followed the gray 2006 BMW that Winkle was driving. The officer saw the BMW swerving in the curb lane, nearly hitting the curb, and pulled Winkle over.

Winkle’s wife, Ericka Varela, was the only passenger and the car was registered in her name.

Winkle maintained his composure throughout the incident, repeatedly denying guilt but treating the police cordially. He never told officers he was

The patrol officer called in a traffic officer, who administered field sobriety tests to Winkle.

Eric Jensen, the traffic officer, noted in his report a “poor performance” by Winkle on the tests. The council member refused a standard breath test.

more.

Winkle is scheduled to appear at a pretrial conference in Tempe Municipal Court on June 14, according to court records.

Mesa Mayor John Giles declined to comment on Winkle’s arrest. In an interview before Winkle took office, Giles spoke about the new council member in glowing terms, describing Winkle as very enthusiastic about his new position and a young man with a lot of energy.

a Mesa council member, but he didn’t have to, because Valera did so several times.

“I’m sorry it turned out like this. I made a bad decision. I appreciate you being here,” Winkle told a Tempe traffic officer, according to a body camera video released by Tempe police.

But Valera, who attended the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Black and White Ball with her husband that night, told officers that her husband was the only council member supporting the Mesa police and fire unions and questioned why they were arresting him.

“Is this the best you guys can do, to arrest a council member who is supporting police and fire?” Valera said.

“I think this is BS. I understand he shouldn’t be drinking and driving.”

But a Tempe officer calmly responded, “We are doing our job,” according to the video.

During questioning by police, Winkle denied twice that he had been drinking, but officers reported that he exhibited the classic symptoms of intoxication: a strong odor of alcohol, watery eyes and slurred speech. Winkle was handcuffed and taken to an East Valley DUI Task Force booking area in Scottsdale, where he agreed to a blood test.

In a conversation with Officer Anibal Espinoza, who made the routine traffic stop, “Ericka stated that she knew neither should be driving because they had been drinking. I told her something to the effect of calling for a cab ride or an Uber would have been a better idea and she agreed,” according to a Tempe police report.

Detective Lily Duran, a Tempe police spokeswoman, said that Winkle’s blood sample is being analyzed by the state Department of Public Safety crime lab and that the results are not expected to be available for at least two weeks.

Duran said it’s possible that Winkle could be cited on additional charges, such as extreme DUI, if his blood alcohol content is 0.15 percent or more. Drivers are presumed under the influence in Arizona with a BAC of 0.08 percent or

Giles supported Jerry Lewis, the candidate Winkle defeated, in the 2016 city election, as did Phil Austin, a longtime Mesa attorney and activist.

“I wish him well. I think he’s just a quality guy. I think he is in a position to help the city of Mesa,” Austin said.

Former Mesa Vice Mayor Dennis Kavanaugh, who supported Winkle and considers him a worthy successor in District 3, said that it was too early speculate on Winkle’s political future but that Winkle will have an opportunity to prove himself to voters.

“I think the measure of the man will be how he responds to this and to rise above it so it can be a learning experience for him and community members,” Kavanaugh said in a text message. “I think he has the skill sets to do so. He had three years and nine months left in his term to demonstrate his ability to lead and to serve.”

Lewis, the candidate Winkle defeated, was magnanimous toward Winkle, saying he likes Winkle and considers him a friend. Lewis, an administrator at Sequoia Charter Schools, is primarily known for defeating ex-state Sen. Russell Pearce in a memorable 2011 recall election.

“My feeling is to pray for the man and his family. It’s got to be a difficult time for him,” Lewis said. “I hope he is afforded a fair hearing in the court of public opinion and also in the court of law.”

(winkleforemesa.com)

Ryan Winkle and his wife, Ericka Varela, were pulled over in a gray 2006 BMW. According to a police report, Varela told an officer that "she knew neither should be driving because they had been drinking."

THE WEEK AHEAD

Gilbert to weigh picking Mesa assistant for police chief

The Gilbert City Council will consider selecting Mesa Assistant Police Chief Mike Soelberg as the town’s next police chief this week.

Soelberg would replace former Chief Tim Dorn, who retired earlier this year. His selection is listed on the council’s agenda for Thursday, May 18, which says Soelberg would assume his new position on June 5. He joined the Mesa police command staff when former Chief John Meza promoted him to handle officer wellness and community outreach efforts.

Soelberg joined the Mesa police as a patrol officer in 1995 and later served as commander of the Superstition District, in East Mesa.

– JIM WALSH, TRIBUNE WRITER

WestJet Airlines’ Canadian flights returning to Gateway Airport

WestJet Airlines has announced that its Canadian flights will be returning to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in October.

The nonstop flights provide access for the growing number of Canadians who visit the region and own homes in the East Valley, according to a release.

The Arizona Office of Tourism reports that more than 1 million Canadian residents visited Arizona in 2016, spending an estimated $1.1 billion during their stay in the state.

– TRIBUNE STAFF REPORT

Mesa to host meeting on Baseline Road improvements

Mesa plans to reconstruct Baseline Road from 24th Street to the Consolidated Canal, and the city will answer questions about these plans Thursday, May 18, from 6 to 7 p.m. at Porter Elementary, 1350 S. Lindsay Road.

The scheduled improvements will provide three lanes in each direction, bike lanes, pavement reconstruction, raised center medians, new drainage structures and facilities, landscaping and street lighting.

City staff and the design consultant will be available to answer questions about the project, but no formal presentation will be given Information: 480-644-3800.

– TRIBUNE STAFF REPORT

While doing what she could to make her parents’ final years comfortable and as vibrant as she could amid the ravages of an unrelenting disease, Hartke also found a deeper relationship with God.

Bible passages are used to illuminate her childhood memories of her parents and her interactions with them in their final years. Her book, “Under a Desert Sky,” started “as a way of processing my mother’s death” and ended as a testament to the power of her Christian faith.

Hartke was particularly close to her mother, whom she cared for daily during her final four months after moving her from her native Minnesota to Chandler.

“Under a Desert Sky” chronicles how near-constant heartbreak and despair brought her to a deeper understanding of the Bible and its message.

That’s why the book is subtitled “Redefining Hope, Beauty and Faith in the Hardest Places.”

Hartke started the book three years ago, shortly after her mother died.

“I had no intention of writing a book,” she said. “I didn’t consider myself an expert on anything.”

“I wrote the book for myself as a way of processing the death of my mother,” Hartke explained, adding she wanted “to find out where God had been” during her parents’ ordeal.

“I wrote 90 percent of that book in three months, starting it May 1 and ending Aug. 1. The words were in my brain and I had to get them on paper. Then I had the hard work of editing” and finding an agent and publisher over the subsequent three years.

The book is not only an extended meditation on finding God at the moments of greatest despair, but also an encouragement to readers.

“We live in a world where everyone is waiting for the dust to settle,” she writes, adding that “this season of cancer

has taught me this truth: The dust never settles.”

That lesson, she said, underscores the importance of “embracing normal life, the beauty that’s found in the ordinary.”

Her journey left her “realizing the legacy my parents left me. I want to leave that for my kids,” she said.

Hartke said her parents each had left her their own legacy as well as one they jointly imparted.

“I didn’t realize until writing this book the legacy of storytelling I had from my dad,” she said, recalling how her father, an English teacher, would correct the letters she sent home from summer camp as a little girl.

“My mom was entirely the organized, behind-the-scenes person,” Hartke said.

And when her mother’s memory started to fray and her body would no longer let her tend to all the details of life, Hartke said, “What she was left with was this queenly graciousness. She would welcome doctors into their own exam

room during appointments.

“I remember a receptionist at a clinic who told me, ‘I used to be very angry with God and I have watched your mom and how she has dealt with what God has dealt her and I have to revisit my anger issues.’”

Her parents’ joint legacy has been the strong sense of family and a deep faith in God.

“My father always said, ‘I’m going to live until I die and then my real life will begin,’” Hartke recalled.

Likewise, even though she struggled with unbearable pain, her mother often tried to comfort Hartke as she as she tried to understand why God would allow such a good woman to suffer so terribly.

One of the more comforting moments came when Hartke discovered how “fanatical” her mother was about lipstick – even at the hospital.

Hartke realized the lipstick in her mother’s final months was an affirmation that “cancer was not so powerful after all.”

“Cancer cannot strip away femininity.

“Cancer cannot erase God-given purpose and destiny.

“Cancer cannot steal beauty.

“Mom proves it over and over again –every time she grabs her lipstick.”

“Under a Desert Sky,” published by Revell, is available on amazon.com and at Barnes & Noble. Information: lynnehartke.com

Elementary schoolkids fitted with free bicycle helmets

BY RACHEL EROH Tribune Contributor

Recently, Cardon Children’s Medical Center traveled to 13 elementary schools across the East Valley to fit students into their free bike helmets.

This project was made possible through a grant from the Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, which gave Cardon $10,000 to purchase the helmets.

The bike helmet program through Cardon has been around for about 30 years, but this is the first year that a state grant helped.

Tracey Fejt, injury prevention coordinator outreach manager at Cardon, said the program was originally created by emergency room physicians.

“They decided that they needed to not just treat the injuries but also prevent them,” Fejt said.

In January, Fejt traveled to the schools to teach the children about bike safety and used a fake brain to demonstrate how fragile the brain is and why it needs

to be protected.

“You can’t just give things away without explaining them why,” Fejt said. “If kids understand how important it is to wear their helmets, then they will be more likely to use them.”

She explained the consequences of getting into an accident without a helmet in very simple terms the kids could understand.

Fejt talked about her friend who was injured in high school and now can’t move part of his body.

“I’ll ask the kids simple things like ‘Can he play video games with two hands?’ or ‘Can he ride a bike?’” Fejt said.

Fejt didn’t sugarcoat the possible consequences of riding without a helmet.

“I’m very black and white with the

kids,” Fejt said. “I’m the same way even with the kindergartners.”

The volunteers who helped with the program were a mixture of friends, family, other volunteers from the hospital and firefighters from the Chandler Fire

Department.

Fejt also travels to schools to teach kids about water safety, stranger danger and poison.

Angelica Neal, the behavior specialist at Hartford Elementary School in Chandler, said that Fejt not only helps teach the kids about safety but also teaches the community in the process.

“She is able to teach the whole community because when she teaches the kids they take it home to their families,” Neal said.

Neal said she thinks there are two reasons why kids don’t wear helmets when riding scooters or a bike. It’s either because they can’t afford to buy a helmet or they don’t think they are cool to wear.

The free bike helmets help balance the need for those students who don’t have the means for them.

When it comes to helmets not seeming cool enough for the older kids, Fejt brings more appealing BMX helmets, Neal said. Fejt has made a difference in the school

(Special to the Tribune)

Lynne Hartke and her husband, Chandler Vice Mayor and pastor Kevin Hartke, have been married 35 years and have four children and three grandchildren.

(Rachel Eroh/Tribune Contributor)

Chris Smith of the Chandler Fire, Health and Medical Department fits kindergartner Kimberly Aparicio into her bike helmet.

Tempe streetcar project gets federal funding

A $50 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation will help the Tempe streetcar project begin construction in June. Tempe Streetcar, the region’s first such transportation option, will connect riders to Mill and Ash avenues in downtown Tempe, Rio Salado Parkway, Apache Boulevard and two light rail stations.

Brookville Equipment was approved by the Valley Metro Rail Board in April to build six streetcar vehicles. Vehicle paint scheme options and designs, including art concepts at all 14 stops, are being worked on.

$1 million raised in walk for diabetes research

A walk for diabetes research raised nearly $1 million at Mesa’s Sloan Park on April 29.

The One Walk, sponsored by the JDRF’s Desert Southwest Chapter, was attended by nearly 14,000 adults and children from across the Valley. It was the chapter’s 27th annual charity walk, and one of more than 200 community JDRF Walks nationwide.

Participants in the 5K Walk ended inside Sloan Park, where the World Series champion Chicago Cubs play during spring training. JDRF One Walk nationally raises more than $68 million a year.

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Mesa changes policy on graduates

Mesa Public Schools has changed its policy on graduation celebrations, nearly a year after it refused to allow a cancer survivor who was 2.5 credits shy of a diploma to walk in the ceremony.

A new provision allows students who aren’t graduating to participate in the annual commencement ceremony if approved by a school principal and district superintendent.

The school system was heavily criticized for excluding student Stephen Dwyer last spring. Dwyer had missed a year of school for leukemia treatment.

Governor’s Arts Awards laud Mesa physician, arts center

Tribune Staff Report

Mesa came up with two big honors at the recent Governor’s Arts Awards celebration.

opportunities for children.

She has served multiple terms on the Mesa Arts Center Foundation board and is on the board at the i.d.e.a. Museum.

Dr. Ruth Tan Lim of Mesa, a practicing physician for more than 35 years and also a devoted arts advocate, donor and volunteer received the Individual Award while Mesa Arts Center received the Community Award for being the largest multidisciplinary arts center in the Southwest.

Lim also ushers for Arizona Opera and Chandler Center for the Arts and last year joined the docent corps at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum. She also joined MAC’s Street Pianos Task Force.

The awards are presented by Arizona Citizens for the Arts in partnership with the Office of the Governor.

Since 1981, more than 200 artists, individuals, arts and cultural organizations, educators and businesses have received Governor’s Arts Awards.

Lim has had a long career as an advocate for the arts and for organizations addressing health care for uninsured children, the homeless, migrant workers and non-violence.

“Her support of the arts reflects the important values she places on broad access to quality arts for all people, especially children and young adults,” a spokesman for the awards said. “She speaks passionately about what music does for brain development and takes joy in bringing a wide array of arts learning

by making the kids more

“I think, for the most part, a lot of kids are really good at remembering to wear their helmets and I think it’s because of how fun she makes learning about safety for them,” she said.

Fejt’s mother, Jo, helps volunteer at the different programs Fejt plans for schools and will even step in to teach the programs herself.

The retired elementary school librarian missed being around kids and now has the opportunity to change lives by teaching children about safety.

She takes time to show each kid the proper way to wear their helmet and the

Mesa Arts Center opened in 2005 with a mission “to inspire people through engaging arts experiences that are diverse, accessible and relevant.”

It features 60-80 performances by established and emerging touring artists and the venue is home to six founding resident companies: the Southwest Shakespeare Company, East Valley Children’s Theatre, Metropolitan Youth Orchestra, Mesa Encore Theatre, Symphony of the Southwest and Ballet Etudes.

MAC’s 14 state-of-the-art studios offer nearly 1,000 visual and performing arts classes annually and four major festivals and numerous events for visitors of all ages.

The awards committee praised its “new ways to engage citizens and developed programs that model the benefits of a healthy arts ecosystem and ways the arts serve as a resource to other sectors.”

importance of making sure their helmet covers most of their forehead.

“I tell them, ‘The front of your brain is where your personality is. Do you want to keep your personality?’” she said.

“Sometimes the little kids don’t get it, but the older kids understand.”

She said that the time, money and effort put into every program is always worth it because she knows she is making an impact.

“I like to see the kids happy,” Jo said. “I want to see them happy, well and safe.”

Injury prevention is difficult to prove. However, Fejt said she likes to measure how far kids have come and reminds herself that she is leaving a positive influence on the kids.

“I really think that if I’ve saved one life, then I’ve made a difference,” Fejt said.

(Special to the Tribune)

Dr. Ruth Tan Lim of Mesa has served multiple terms on the Mesa Arts Center Foundation board and is on the board at the i.d.e.a. Museum.

Valley Metro chief: Federal cuts threaten light rail, trolley projects

BY ARREN KIMBEL-SANNIT Cronkite News

Transportation Department budget cuts proposed by the Trump administration could threaten Valley rail projects in which the federal government has already invested $75 million, the head of Valley Metro said recently.

CEO Scott Smith joined other public transit officials who said the proposed cuts could also hobble the economic development that often accompanies investments in transit infrastructure.

“We are now close to $9 billion in real estate activity within a half-mile radius of the light rail corridor in just eight years,” Smith said during a conference call.

But Smith said proposed rollbacks of the Federal Transit Authority Capital Investment Program and other federal grants in the Trump budget blueprint could jeopardize expansions on the outer reaches of the light rail system and the construction of a streetcar system in Tempe.

Nationally, the cuts could put 800,000 jobs at risk, put $90 billion in economic

output in the balance and halt progress on 50 transit programs with decades of planning and tens of billions of dollars already invested, said Dick White, president of the American Public Transportation Association.

“I’m not terribly surprised that they don’t like (the cuts),” said Michael Sargent, an infrastructure policy analyst with the Heritage Foundation. “Free money is incredibly popular. Especially when it comes to capital investment grants, you’d be hard-pressed to find a transportation program that provides worse incentives for localities.”

He said federal grants encourage local governments to come up with “flashy,” wasteful systems that leave cities on the hook for future maintenance.

Most federally funded transit systems are flat-out unnecessary, Sargent said. The ones that are necessary often exceed budget, fail to meet projected ridership and have extra costs because of conditions that come with federal money, like requiring Americanmade materials.

Federal funding also promotes rail systems, which Sargent said are more expensive than other transit options.

But Smith, a Republican and a former Mesa mayor, said federal investment generally represents the minority of funding for a project. The standards for getting that money require that “things are done with as much work and as much detailed planning and engineering as possible” prior to cashing a government check.

One academic agreed with the transit officials that investing in transit systems benefits local economies and that cutting federal investment would have the

opposite effect.

“Cuts to public transit will hurt, there is absolutely no question about that,” said Ram Pendyala, a professor of transportation systems at Arizona State University.

He said public transit provides choice and often bolsters economic development in metropolitan areas. And while opponents of federal investment in mass transit often point to a lopsided benefit for urban areas, Pendyala said it can also help rural communities.

“Public transit could actually fill a very important mobility need for rural areas that want to access economic opportunities in metropolitan areas,” he said. “The question is whether we should be enhancing public investment in rural communities.”

As a conservative, Smith said transit investment is an ideal federal investment.

“When I look at the conservative side of what government does, it should be limited, but it should also be smart,” he said. “Public transit is both limited and smart. Investment in capital projects is like honey that attracts private investment bees, and they do it in swarms.”

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(Cronkite News Service)

Valley Metro CEO Scott Smith said light rail has sparked $9 billion in real estate activity within a half-mile radius of the system.

Community

Mesa woman makes wish on balloon come true for girl

BY MELODY BIRKETT Tribune Contributor

AMesa woman and her sister helped make true a wish that a 12-year-old girl had put on a balloon that traveled miles away from her Phoenix home.

Vanessa Gonzalez had written a wish for the complete series of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” books on a balloon before she inflated it and sent it into the air on March 22.

The balloon landed 20 miles away in Mesa a week later in the backyard of Barbara Mattingly, who was on the phone with her sister in Ahwatukee, Kathy Schumacher, when it landed.

“My dogs started to bark so I had to hang up. They were frightened, you could tell, because they were looking at something by my feet and barking and backing up,” Mattingly said. “I looked down and there’s a balloon at my feet.”

Mattingly first thought it was an advertisement but then called her sister back and read the balloon message.

Mattingly had never heard of the books, so Schumacher looked them up on her iPad.

“We were bickering over who was going to buy the books,” Mattingly said.

“She had it up so she ordered them and we just split the cost.”

Days later, Schumacher received a notice that books were undeliverable because the address on the balloon was incomplete.

She found a phone number and reached Vanessa’s dad to confirm the address. He said to Schumacher, “You’re kidding me. You got that balloon?”

Schumacher said, “He just went crazy.”

After Vanessa received the books, she left a message on Schumacher’s phone, thanking her.

“It wasn’t like a toy or something. It was books and we just thought how awesome for a child … to want books,” Schumacher said.

Vanessa still had another wish, and that one came true, too.

She wanted to meet the sisters who bought her the books. So, recently she met them at the library near downtown Phoenix.

When Vanessa walked in, Mattingly said she felt “pure joy. I had a lump in my throat.”

Vanessa felt the same way, saying, “When I walked in, I wanted to yell.”

The sisters gave her the somewhat deflated balloon in a box colored in pink – Vanessa’s favorite color.

“I thought that nobody would actually buy me the books, but now I see there is kindness in this world,” Vanessa said.

The sisters said they didn’t do this for the attention but just wanted to do something nice.

“If you can make a child feel good, just do it,” Mattingly said.

Vanessa gave the sisters a letter from

her teacher.

“Dear Barb and Kathy,” it read. “This is Vanessa’s teacher and I thought you would like to know that you could not have done such a wonderful thing for a more deserving student. Vanessa is top of her class. Your generosity landed exactly where it should be. This teacher can’t thank you enough.”

East Valley mom and son veterans graduate together as engineers

BY DAVID M. BROWN Tribune Contributor

Like mother, like son.

Mesa resident Barb Blanchard and her son, Rodney Buller, who lives in Gilbert, followed that path to degrees last week from Arizona State University.

Both earned degrees from ASU’s Ira Fulton Schools of Engineering and, as military veterans, attended the seventh year of the university’s Veterans Honor Stole Ceremony on May 6. They were among the approximately 215 students who participated in the ceremony, first held at the university in 2011 with just 10 students.

Tempe City Council member and Army veteran Robin ArredondoSavage keynoted the event, which honored all 650 ASU student-veterans graduating this spring.

Blanchard and Buller received stoles emblazoned with the branch of military service in which they served.

They wore them over their academic regalia during graduation ceremonies, which took place last week.

“The Stole Ceremony acknowledges and honors my service to my country,” said Blanchard, a native of Delaware.

“I have worked hard for, and a long time for, my degree, and I have finally achieved my goal,” she added, explaining that she has attended

other colleges and universities since 1982. “This is my dream come true.”

Buller, her older son, added, “The ceremony is an opportunity to join my fellow veterans in collecting our stoles and being able to say our farewells as we move onto the next chapter of our lives.”

When Blanchard enrolled at ASU in 2015, she didn’t know that she and her son would be attending the same school at ASU on the same campus. She entered as a graduate of the Associate of Science Program at Phoenix College; he came to ASU as a sophomore immediately after serving

(Melody Birkett/Tribune Contributor)

Flanking Vanessa Gonzalez are Barb Mattingly of Mesa, left, and her sister Kathy Schumacher of Ahwatukee. In the box is the original balloon with Vanessa’s wish.

(Charlie Leight/ASU)

Retired Air Force Sgt. Barbara Blanchard of Mesa and her son, retired Marine Corps Sgt. Rodney Buller of Gilbert, graduated together from Arizona State University.

Authors try to find balance in tour around the U.S

BY MICHAEL BUTLER Tribune Contributor

One bus, two guys, 50 states, 1 million dreams.

That’s the tagline for the Oola Dream Tour, which got underway recently in Florida. The two guys are Troy Amdahl of Chandler and his friend Dave Braun of Salt Lake City.

They are the authors of “Oola: Find Balance in an Unbalanced World,” which ignited a powerful and fastgrowing self-help movement in 2012. Arizona Cardinals star Kurt Warner wrote the foreword.

Their second book, “Oola for Women,” hit shelves and tablets May 2 and is published by HCI, of “Chicken Soup for the Soul” fame. What is Oola?

“It’s a state of awesomeness,” Amdahl explains. “It is when your life is balanced and growing in the seven key areas of life. It’s re-connecting people to their dream.”

The key areas are the seven “Fs” of Oola: fitness, finance, family, field (career), faith, friends and fun.

Amdahl and Braun lived the Oola philosophy on their way to becoming successful businessmen.

Amdahl, a chiropractor in Rochester, Minnesota, sold his practice at 42 and came to Arizona a few years ago to retire. But then Braun, who hadn’t been in touch with Amdahl for a while, called to say that he’d lost everything.

In addition to seeing his fortune disappear, Braun’s marriage unraveled. His health faltered.

The two got together and began to figure out where Braun had gone wrong, and how he could get his Oola back. Braun became the Oola Seeker, Amdahl the Oola Guru.

“Bad things happen,” Braun said in a recent blog post. “A lot of the choices you make from that point are decided by

your attitude toward it. If you feel you’re a victim, you’ll probably stay where you are. I changed my mindset.”

In their talks, the two realized that Amdahl made choices that propelled his life forward and put him on the fast track. These became the Oola Accelerators: gratitude, love, discipline, integrity, passion, humility, wisdom. Braun, meanwhile, developed traits that were dream killers, the Oola

Blockers: fear, guilt, anger, self-sabotage, laziness, envy and focus (having no focus or too broad a focus).

To promote their first book, which was self-published, Braun and Amdahl hit the road in a 1970 VW surf bus. They parked at beaches and other places to spread the word.

They invited folks to write down a dream on a sticker and paste it to their two surfboards as a way to take a step on the Oola path.

Stickers were then plastered on the bus itself. The bus is on its sixth layer now, representing more than 25,000 dreams.

“We’re going for a million,” Amdahl said. “We’re on our third engine.”

Amdahl remembers receiving a note from a truck driver taking a break at one stop. He wrote, “I want to have more fun.”

As he and Braun drove down the road later, they noticed a semi driver behind them, frantically trying to get their attention and to get them to pull over. He wanted to write a new dream: “I want to be a better father to my daughter.”

“Hopping on that bus and meeting people – you can’t beat it,” Amdahl said. “I’ve never worked harder, but it’s so rewarding.”

The Oola Dream Tour will be in the Valley May 24-26, then finishes in Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Diego in June. People can submit their dreams online at oolalife.com and follow the tour on social media sites.

East Valley volunteers seek more Little Brothers and Sisters

BY RACHEL EROH

Tribune Contributor

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona, the organization that matches adult mentors with children, has a problem it’s never had before.

BBBSAZ has more volunteers in the East Valley than it has children to match them with.

“We have been actively recruiting a lot of volunteers throughout Maricopa County for the last few years, and I think a lot are just stepping forward right now,” said Brandi Devlin, senior director of marketing.

To try to balance the influx of volunteers, the organization has been

reaching out to other nonprofits, youth organizations and school districts to let them know that children would be matched quickly with a mentor.

“We really want to get the word out to families right now,” Devlin said.

“Especially since summer is coming and the kids won’t be in school anymore.”

Kids enrolled in the program in Central Phoenix, South Phoenix and the West Valley have much longer wait times. Kids could wait up to two years to be matched with a mentor.

“In those areas, we have more kids signed up than adults have signed up to be mentors,” Devlin said. “It’s just one of those weird quirks of geography.”

Kids who enroll in the East Valley may have to wait only up to two months

before being matched with a mentor.

“Kids in the East Valley are very lucky because they’ll be matched really quickly,” she said.

BBBSAZ is tryingbenefits of enrolling children in their program, Devlin said. They are less likely to skip school, are more involved in extracurricular activities and are more likely to graduate.

Out of all the seniors enrolled in the program last year, 98 percent graduated and 65 percent went on to college.

“A lot of the kids said it was because of the influence of their Big Brother or Big Sister that got them thinking

(Special to the Tribune)

Roy Amdahl of Chandler and Dave Braun of Utah are successful self-help authors who are on a nationwide tour in a 1970 VW bus.

Big Brother Sam Leyvas and his 10-year-old Little Brother, Skyler Aguilar, have been matched for two years now.

GRADUATES

in the Marine Corps.

“Rodney inspired me and encouraged me to enroll at ASU and even assisted me with selecting my first semester classes,” she explained. “Not too many parents can say they received their degree with their offspring: same school, same program.”

Fulton Schools Dean Kyle Squires said the mother and son exemplify “the leadership skills brought to our programs by veterans,” who “are highly valued and inspire not only their fellow students but also our faculty and staff.”

“We are proud that Barb and Rodney have followed their family’s legacy of national service by earning degrees at ASU and look forward to hearing about the continued contributions they will make to their community,” he added.

Military tradition runs deep in Blanchard’s family.

Her father and uncle served in the Korean War in the Army and Air Force, respectively. From high school, her oldest brother joined the Army and retired recently after 30 years, moving to Arizona from Delaware.

Her middle brother also joined the Air Force after high school and was stationed

at Luke AFB.

Blanchard’s younger son, Bryan, who also lives in Arizona, served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. His wife was also in the Army.

In August 1980, Blanchard joined the Air Force after working for the DuPont Company.

She served two terms, first stationed at Barksdale AFB in Louisiana, where she

typhoon that October.

Soon after, from the USS Essex, anchored off Sri Lanka, his group assisted people following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, delivering food, water, clothes and transport. The natural disaster killed as many as 280,000 people in the area.

He was next in Iraq, serving in the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit.

“ Not too many parents can say they received their degree with their offspring: same school, same program. ”

-Barbara Blanchard, Retired Air Force Sgt.

met Rodney’s father and where Rodney was born.

Next, while at Royal Air Force

Lakenheath, Suffolk, United Kingdom, Bryan was born. Her final stop was Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii. She lived there for five years after leaving the service, before moving to Arizona in 1996.

Buller enlisted in May 2002 and became a mechanic, then an aerial observer/ gunner. His first deployment was delivering food and clothing to people in the Philippines after a devastating

“One mission involved the flight of 11 aircraft during low light levels to conduct a helicopter raid on terrorists linked to the production of improvised explosive devices that had been used around the local area,” he said. “The mission was a complete success and very rewarding.”

During his final stop, in Okinawa, his unit was alerted in 2011 to the earthquake and tsunami on the east coast of Honshu.

“Operation Tomodachi was yet another rewarding part of my career because I was provided an opportunity to help those in need and in a place where few could

go,” he said.

At about the same time in Arizona, Blanchard, who had worked for Intel for eight and a half years, was laid off in 2009. She completed the Paralegal Studies program at Phoenix College in spring 2015 but decided this was not the career for her.

An unemployment counselor told her that the Trade Adjustment Act might pay her up to $20,000 toward further education because her job had been adversely affected by offshore business.

With this grant, she began her online studies in Operations Management at ASU while working full time with the Department of Homeland Security in Casa Grande.

“I would like to find a promotional opportunity within the federal government,” she said. His degree in mechanical engineering systems completed, Buller is already working toward his master’s degree in electrical engineering. He wants to design and develop software and do systems work. “

Graduation is just a mission accomplishment or check in another box,” he added, with a smile. “It’s a big relief to be that much closer to a successful life goal.”

MESA

Mesa city pools prepare to open for summer season

All nine Mesa city pools will open for the summer season on May 27. They will remain open daily through July 29.

Admission fees are $2 for youths 17 and under and $4 for adults 18 and over. FlowRider rates are $5.50 for youths and $11 for adults for a one-hour ride.

Family season pool passes are on sale at a 50 percent discount, and individual passes are 25 percent off through May 26. Passes are being sold at the Mesa Parks and Recreation Office, 200 S. Center St., Building No. 1. For pool locations and specific hours and dates, go to mesaaz.gov/pools.

GILBERT

Gilbert plans more parking for growing Heritage area

Gilbert is planning a new parking garage off Gilbert Road to help serve patrons of its busy Heritage Marketplace area.

The Heritage area is already home to Liberty Market, Grubstak, Barrio Queen, Joyride Tacos and other popular restaurants.

The new 600-space parking garage will be off Gilbert Road near Vaughn Avenue right next to the planned Yard and O.H.S.O restaurants. The $18.5 million project is in

BIG BROTHER

from page 13

about their future,” Devlin said.

Some of the friendships that are created through the program continue even after the child is no longer in the program, she said.

“We hear stories every day about mentors staying in touch with their Little Brothers or Sisters for 10, 20 and even 30 years after being matched,” Devlin said.

Andrea Sanchez, a former Little Sister and now Big Sister, became inspired by the organization and currently works for BBBSAZ as a community relations specialist.

Sanchez was 9 years old when she was enrolled in the program and matched with her mentor. Her match lasted for eight years after that.

“I was really quiet and reserved and she was very talkative and outgoing,” she said. “That’s why she picked me to be her Little because she wanted to get me out of my shell.”

Sanchez was struggling to make

the planning stages.

The Gilbert Town Council approved a $1.35 million engineering and architectural contract for BWS Architects to help plan the new parking garage.

National Citizen Survey to measure town’s service

Gilbert is participating in the National Citizen Survey to provide a baseline of how the town of Gilbert is serving its residents.

All Gilbert residents are eligible to participate. Residents who received a mailed version of the survey are encouraged to submit it as instructed. All other residents should take the survey online at tiny.cc/gilbertsurvey. Responses will be accepted through May 22.

Information and questions: 480-503-6956.

TEMPE

Tempe joining Mesa, Phoenix in Grid Bike Share

program

Tempe is joining Phoenix and Mesa in offering public bicycles for rental through the Grid Bike Share program starting Monday, May 15.

The system will feature 300 bikes, 425 racks and 30 stations throughout Tempe. The Grid Bike Share program across the Valley will boast a total of more than 1,100 bikes at more than 100 hubs across three cities.

Bikes can be located and reserved via the Social Bicycles mobile app or online

friends and, because her mother was working two jobs, she didn’t get to see her much.

It was taking an emotional toll on her and having her Big Sister to be there for her helped her out a lot, she said.

“She was especially helpful with family stuff and how to be an adult,” Sanchez said.

Sanchez has stayed in touch with her mentor and will even call her for advice, she said.

Shayne Lopez became a Big Brother in July as a way to give back to the community, Lopez said.

“I get a lot out of this,” Lopez said. “I feel like I’m making a difference.”

Benjamin, his 9-year-old Little Brother, was having behavioral issues in school when he was enrolled in the program. Since hanging out with Lopez, he has grown academically and doesn’t get into trouble as often.

Benjamin enjoys being outdoors, so when they hang out Lopez takes him to the zoo, sporting events and rock climbing, he said.

Having Lopez in his life gives him the

CHANDLER

City makes Expedia’s list of top vacation destinations

Chandler is the 41st most popular vacation destination in North America, according to Expedia.

The site said, “Chandler’s parks and public spaces, walkable (and shoppable) downtown, and surrounding nature provide endless ways to discover the captivating American southwest.”

This list includes cities with 600-plus reviews. Chandler was the only East Valley city to make the list of the top 50 cities.

Wailea, Hawaii, topped the list, followed by Quebec City, Quebec; Springdale, Utah; Victoria, British Columbia; Calgary, Alberta; Cambria, California; Paso Robles, California; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Ashland, Oregon; and Charleston, South Carolina.

Christian Community Center to unveil new name this week

The Chandler Christian Community Center, in its 50th year of service, will unveil a new brand name on Tuesday, May 16, during a ceremony.

According to a news release, the new branding will “acknowledge the many ways in which CCCC has grown over the last five decades and positions the nonprofit organization for the next 50 years and beyond.”

ability to talk about issues he is dealing with and receive advice.

“I tell him how I would handle things.

Having someone to talk to, who is not his parent, is really helpful,” Lopez said.

“He has someone who will hear him out and not try to correct him”

Even though Benjamin is only 9, Lopez still tries to get Benjamin to think about the future.

“I’m not shy about how I grew up socioeconomically challenged and now

Last year, the center served over 17,000 people in Chandler and Gilbert with food boxes, senior nutrition and activities, rent and utility assistance, homeless services and more.

The announcement will be made at 4:30 at the center, 345 S. California St., Chandler.

Bike lane safety project to start in five locations

Short gaps in Chandler’s bike lanes are to be fixed beginning Monday, May 15. Federal funding will cover nearly 60 percent of the safety improvement project’s cost.

The project will fill in the gaps at five locations where a bike lane goes away for a short distance and then picks up again and involve minor curb, gutter, sidewalk and paving modifications.

Information: 480-782-3324.

QUEEN CREEK Bloodmobile will collect at Queen Creek Town Hall

United Blood Services’ Bloodmobile will be at the Queen Creek Town Hall, 22350 S. Ellsworth Road, on Thursday, May 18, from noon to 4:45 p.m.

Donors are encouraged to schedule an appointment online at BloodHero.com using QueenCreek as the sponsor code. The can also complete the Health History Questionnaire online prior to their appointment. Information: UnitedBloodServices.org.

my life is different,” Lopez said. “I make that connection with him that it’s because I went and got a degree.”

The program has been making progress with reaching out to families in the East Valley and getting kids enrolled for the past two to three months now.

“We want parents to know that when they enroll their kids in the program that they are basically giving their child one more adult to help them realize their potential,” Devlin said.

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Legacy Business

Pete’s Fish & Chips has the formula down, for 70 years now

BY PETER CHENG Tribune Staff Writer

Coming off its 70th anniversary, Pete’s Fish & Chips isn’t looking to change a thing.

The Valley institution has been frying up tasty and affordable eats since founder Pete Grant opened his first location in Phoenix in 1947 after receiving a medical discharge from the Navy.

“He got malaria and dysentery from a mosquito bite during the war and the doctors told him he needed a warmer climate. His famous words were, ‘Well, since I don’t speak Egyptian, I’ll head out to Arizona,’” said Pete’s daughter Kathy Adams, who now runs the company alongside one of her sisters, Pat Foster.

The young couple arrived in the Valley on Christmas morning 1946.

Grant had a teaching job lined up at a Phoenix school. As the story goes, he never showed up for that job because he decided to open up a little fish-and-chips stand instead.

“It was just a 6-by-8 shack, with no running water (or electricity),” Adams said.

To power the lightbulbs, he ran his own wire up to a nearby power line.

“You could do things like that back in

Legacy Business

This is a continuing series of stories highlighting longtime East Valley businesses.

If you know of a Legacy Business, contact rzubiate@timespublications.com.

Freedom Financial Network to lease building in Tempe

Freedom Financial Network will lease a 300,000-square-foot building at Rio2100, a development under construction at the intersection of Loop 202 and Loop 101 in Tempe.

Completed in March 2017, Phase I of Rio2100 offers a total of 100,000 square

’47,” Adams said. “He bought a cooker and some fillets, he breaded them himself, and a bag of potatoes, sliced the potatoes,” and the rest is history.

The little chip shop found early success, earning $12 on its first day, a pretty penny back in those days.

The first East Valley location was opened in Mesa in 1951, just blocks from the current Mesa store and the company’s downtown Mesa headquarters. The Mesa store is now the busiest of all the stores.

The first indoor restaurant opened on Mill Avenue, in Tempe in the mid1950s. All eight locations were operating by the end of the decade. The Tempe store, now on Apache Blvd a few blocks east of Mill, has become a part of the college experience for many students at

Arizona State University’s main campus.

“I was in L.A. wearing my Pete’s shirt and this guy came up to me and said

‘I put myself through college at Pete’s.

Pete’s was my first job,’” said Kathy Adams’ daughter Carley Adams.

Carley is part of the third generation of the Grant family to work in the business. She runs public relations and marketing for the company.

“My grandpa started with this small little idea, but to think of all the families

feet and includes one additional two-story office building, supporting retail space, restaurants, multifamily housing, a Hilton Garden Inn and a Homewood Suites. Phase II and III are in the works.

Data center campus coming to Elliot Road tech corridor

DuPont Fabros Technology has purchased an undeveloped 56.5-acre site on Crismon Road just north of Elliot

and people that were able to support themselves (is amazing),” she said.

Grant got the idea for the simple takeout window after seeing similar fast food operations during his service in Australia.

“The States didn’t have anything like that, where you get your food from a window and you leave,” Kathy Adams said. “Here, there were diners where you went in and sat down.”

Grant was murdered in at 1987 at age 72. That’s when daughters Kathy and Pat took over. Despite the tragedy, the company has been steadily successful over the years.

Even the Great Recession couldn’t damage Pete’s lasting fish-and-chips empire.

“When the economy goes south, it’s

Road in Mesa’s Elliot Road technology corridor. The company plans to develop a data center campus with capacity for up to 1 million square feet.

DFT’s 12 data centers are in three major U.S. markets and total 3.5 million gross square feet and 302 megawatts of available critical load to power the servers and computing equipment of its customers.

DuPont Fabros Technology is a real estate investment trust headquartered

good for us,” Adams said. “It’s because of our prices. People are still going to eat out, and they want a good product for a fair price, so they’ll come to Pete’s.”

Pete’s has built up a dedicated and loyal customer base over the decades. Married couple Lori and David Timbrook of Mesa have been meeting for lunch at the Mesa store for 25 years.

“We love the sauce,” Lori said. “We always get shrimp and fish and kind of share a couple meals. It’s always fresh, it’s always hot, and really reasonably priced.”

For the most part, the Grant family has taken an “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” approach to business.

Pete’s still doesn’t advertise, and they have no plans for expanding beyond the current eight locations, but Carley has an eye toward the future.

“I do want to do a food truck one day,” she said, much to her mother’s chagrin.

in Washington, D.C.

East Valley Partnership, SRP to host sustainability forum

Keynote speaker Grady Gammage Jr. will headline the 2017 SRP Forum –Sustainability in the PHX East Valley at 11:30 a.m. May 23 at the Phoenix Marriott Tempe at The Buttes.

(Special to the Tribune)

Pete Grant opened up his first East Valley location in Mesa in 1951.

(Peter Cheng/Tribune Staff) Lori and David Timbrook have lunch at Pete’s Fish & Chips in Mesa.

Fitness center focuses on helping moms, other women get healthy

BY RACHEL EROH Tribune Contributor

Burn Boot Camp, a fitness center that focuses on workout camps for moms and other women, plans to expand to 10 new locations in the Valley by 2020.

The fitness company already has one center in Gilbert.

Burn Boot Camp offers free child care services for moms and an environment where all women can feel comfortable working out.

CEO Devan Kline cofounded Burn Boot Camp with his wife in 2012. They had their first session in a North Carolina parking lot.

Their camp quickly grew to 250 clients in the first eight months, he said.

“At that point, my wife and I realized we really had something going here,” Kline said.

Kline fell in love with Arizona while playing minor league baseball in the San Francisco Giants organization and living in Scottsdale, he said.

“I knew once we started expanding nationally that I wanted it to be a target area,” Kline said.

Along with free child care, another aspect to Burn Boot Camp that makes it appealing is that no workout is ever the same or repeated, Kline said. Each session is 45 minutes long and is filled with dynamic, high-energy five-minute workouts.

The sessions focus on strength training with bursts of cardio to burn more calories, Kline said.

Each day also focuses on exercising a different part of the body so clients won’t overwork any of their muscles.

The facilities don’t have any workout

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Gammage’s book, “The Future of the Suburban City: Lessons from Sustaining Phoenix,” will be featured.

A panel of experts will look at sustainability from the viewpoints of agriculture, business and entrepreneurship, municipal planning and economic diversity. The panelists, along with weekly announcements, will be revealed on East Valley Partnership’s Twitter (@EVPartnership) over the next two weeks.

Registration is $75 for East Valley Partnership members, and $100 for nonmembers. RSVP by May 16.

machines inside but have other equipment that are incorporated into the sessions, like battle ropes, kettle balls and sliders.

“We like to say that we don’t have machines because we are machines,”

Kline said.

Each Burn Boot Camp environment is geared toward positivity and empowering women, he said.

“It’s about being real, being raw and really allowing the women to open up,” Kline said.

Kevin Platt, head trainer and manager at the Gilbert center, joined the Burn Boot Camp team a year ago to help change women’s lives, he said.

“I kind of realized if I could change a mom’s aspect on fitness then I could change the whole family’s aspect on it, too,” Platt said.

Platt teaches camps while also giving focus meetings to each client to help them track their weight and teach them how to come up with a diet that fits their own lifestyle, he said.

“We don’t just have a one set plan for everybody because it really depends on

Information: evp-az.org or 480-8348335 ext. 201.

YC’s Mongolian Grill debuting new Health Bowls for free

YC’s Mongolian Grill is rolling out its new Health Bowls with free servings for the first 50 patrons beginning at 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 18,

The restaurant worked with a certified nutritionist to create five new health bowls with new ingredients, sauces and easy-to-follow recipes.

The bowls will be offered at the four restaurants in the East Valley in Tempe, Chandler and Gilbert

Information: ycs-mongoliangrill.com.

the person,” Platt said.

Similar to the diet plans, each workout has modifications so that every person can do them no matter what level of workout experience they have.

“Everyone goes at a different pace, but the difficulties will go up and down depending on which modification you choose,” Platt said.

The gyms do offer co-ed classes at the end of the day, when women like to bring their husbands or significant others.

“It usually doesn’t last because the guys

generally can’t keep up,” Platt joked.

Desiree Bethel, 35, has attended sessions at the Gilbert location since it opened.

Bethel said she has noticed that she is stronger and has lost almost 30 pounds, she said.

“I’ve never liked working out, but I love coming here,” Bethel said.

Bethel has two sons that she will occasionally drop off in the daycare after school so she can work out.

Bethel had tried exercising at other gyms but could never keep up a regular routine, she said. Even though she came in with very little experience, she has noticed that her energy has increased dramatically and said she plans to keep attending the camp.

There are seven tiers of membership prices depending on what the client wants. The lowest price for a membership is $99 per month.

Kline said he believes that women in the valley will quickly realize that there isn’t any other workout program like Burn Boot Camp.

“The reason we can grow organically in 24 months from seven units to 251 is because we are truly and uniquely different,” Kline said.

(Jesse Stawnyczy/Tribune Staff Photographer)

Head trainer/manager Kevin Platt works with client Desiree Bethel.

‘Serial

Street Shooter’

– the nickname says a lot about ourselves

BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Tribune Columnist

The accused killer’s mugshot depicts him as nothing special, but then again mugshots never do. Dark hair shaved close at the temples; scraggly, pubescent mustache; elephantine ears. He has the hint of a lazy eye. The picture begs you to stare at it in an attempt to discern what could have been going on in the mind of Aaron Juan Saucedo, age 22, a punk now better known as the accused in a series of nine murders and 12 shootings in the Valley.

The “Serial Street Shooter,” the news calls him. Because when men – and it is almost universally men who do this –murder one person after another across time, we can never resist the temptation to bestow a nickname.

Do not confuse Saucedo, our latest accused celebre, suspected of nine

Sound advice for pedestrians

Regarding your article about pedestrian accident rates rising because of electronic distraction (“Pedestrian deaths growing with rise in distractions,” May 7), the cause isn’t the devices themselves, but where the sound originates.

Sound coming from inside the ears, as when wearing ear buds or headphones, is perceived inside the head and dominates attention. That isn’t true if the sound comes from speakers any distance from the listener, such as from a boombox or car speakers.

Years ago, I worked for a newspaper with 20 photographers driving company cars receiving assignments via two-way radios in each car. When the assignments came through a car’s speakers, we had on average one car accident per year. When we switched to handheld (up to the ear) radios, then later to cellphones with ear buds, we averaged five accidents per year.

The difference was sound outside the head vs. sound inside the head. Sound inside the head is unavoidably distracting for both drivers and walkers.

– Ron Burda – Gilbert

Mom’s tale of transgender child

Mother’s Day always reminds me of the phrase “I would not change my child for the world but I would change the world for my child.” This phrase has come to have a

counts of homicide and three attempted murders, with Arizona’s previous Serial Shooters, Dale Hausner and Samuel Dieteman. That notorious pair of Mesa roommates together shot or stabbed to death at least six of our neighbors between spring 2005 and summer 2006, and they wounded 19 others. Hausner got the death penalty six times over before committing suicide on Death Row four years ago. Dieteman, the snitch of the duo, is serving out a trio of life sentences in Safford.

Hausner and Dieteman’s killing spree happened concurrently with the bloody heyday of Mark Goudeau, the Baseline Rapist later known as the Baseline Killer for his trail of terror: nine dead and 33 victimized over 13 months beginning in summer 2005. Goudeau’s nine death sentences are slowly working their way through Arizona’s legal system, meaning his beady, wide-set eyes and punchable face still appear on the TV news at biannual intervals.

They go away, these serial killers, but never completely. Hausner, said to have been obsessed with his fame, was not wrong when he told the jury at his sentencing hearing, “I’ve created a huge black cloud for my family name for eternity. Like Charles Manson. Well, 150 years from now, you think of Hausner, it’s going to be the same way.”

I have heard it argued that such nicknames, the creation of notoriety, is something the media should abandon because the practice encourages the sickest of the sick to kill in the pursuit of their 15 minutes of fame. I disagree. To me, it seems that our impulse to name evil is not merely to celebrate it, but also to contain it. We catalog the scary things lurking in the dark as a way of making the frighteners less frightening. Or maybe Edgar Allan Poe was right in coining the term “imp of the perverse,” that part of us drawn to the things we fear the most.

Serial killer news inevitably catches my

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

special significance in my role as the mother of child who is transgender.

When my child first began to express – and then insist – he was a girl, I started to worry that I had done something wrong. But through research, talking to doctors, psychologists and families of transgender children, I started to realize and accept what my child already knew: I have a daughter. And watching my child love life and blossom as our daughter confirmed everything for my husband and me.

But unfortunately, our acceptance has not been enough, we still have to navigate the real world, which for some reason looks at my daughter as a threat. That anytime my daughter takes a new recreation class, goes to a babysitter, sees a new doctor or makes plans for a play date with friends from school, I talk to the teacher, doctor, babysitter or friend’s parent ahead of time. Teachers have refused to have her in class and parents have refused play dates. But it’s my job as a mother to find those places and people who will support and accept her.

My job is to spread awareness, to advocate, and to educate – to change the world for her.

– Cherise

Basques – Gilbert

Nonsense from Trump

Yes, fire James Comey! He was ‘too harsh’ on Hillary Clinton (ha ha!). How much nonsense will the Republicans in Congress tolerate before they change their fawning acceptance of everything Donald Trump does?

Financial conflicts of interest, emoluments from foreign governments, hidden tax returns, complete consent (with no “advise” counterbalance) to Trump appointments, multiple lies and never ending “fake news.” Can Republicans find some spine to seriously question anything the president does? Will this change now? Don’t hold your breath. Commitment to party, even now, “trumps” service to country again and again! Our democracy is being seriously threatened! Come on, Republican Congress! Start doing your real job for our country! You can start by assigning a special prosecutor clearly needed for investigating Russian activities related to President Trump.

– George Krebs – Tempe

A pro-Trump chant

Naa-naa-naa-naa, naa-naa-naa-naa, hey-hey-hey, goodbye … is right.

Goodbye, Obama “Legacy.”

Goodbye, Nancy Pelosi “Legacy.”

Goodbye, Democrat Party “Agenda.”

Goodbye, Hillary Clinton’s “Stronger Together.”

Hello, Trump “2017 Budget.”

Hello, Trump “Care Act.”

Hello, Republican “Agenda.”

Hello, “Make America Great Again.”

eye, while those silly bandit nicknames we bestow on bank robbers I can ignore all day. It has been this way since I was 11 years old and a twin-nicknamed murderer, David Berkowitz, known as the “Son of Sam” and the “.44 Caliber Killer,” terrorized the streets of New York City where I grew up.

The Zodiac Killer. The Night Stalker. The Green River Killer. The Hillside Strangler. BTK. Then, closer to home, here in our streets, a predator crawling Baseline Road and others who kill in serial fashion, one bullet after another, at random, plucking good people from this Valley for no explicable reason.

Saucedo’s name is the latest in a long list. He doesn’t look like much, just a disease in human form. He is a virus with many names and only one solution: A trial, a conviction and a lethal needle to put him out of our misery.

– David Leibowitz has called the Valley home since 1995. Contact david@ leibowitzsolo.com.

In only 15 weeks, President Trump and the Republican House and Senate have abolished or dismantled 8 years of President Obama’s rules and regulations.

Nancy Pelosi’s Democrat House members, Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer’s Senate members, saw their liberal/ progressive world collapse like a house of cards. Goodbye and good riddance.

– Leon Ceniceros

– Mesa

Water park in Gilbert

I think that Gilbert has a lot of good things to do. I do think that they should add a water park in Gilbert. It would help with tourism, tax revenue, it could help with hotel development, and also help taxpayers to stay in Gilbert on “staycations.”

First, it would help with tourism. Tourists usually spend good money on vacations, too, which would help local businesses and give us revenue from sales tax as well. Second, hotel development would give us more tax dollars. It would also invite tourists to come stay in Gilbert. Thirdly, it would also keep residents that are living in Gilbert to stay rather than leave out of town or out of state on vacation. Gilbert is a great place to live, and with a new water park and surrounding hotels, it could be a great place to vacation. –

Hayden Buckner – Gilbert

Sports

Basha’s Gage Workman leaving his options open

BY RYAN CLARKE Tribune Staff Writer

The decision to reclassify as a senior accelerated Gage Workman’s promising baseball career, but Basha’s star on the diamond will now play the waiting game, as his future remains a certain uncertainty.

What is clear, however, is Workman’s talent, which could lead the Bears to a state title this season under the guidance of coach Jim Schilling. Workman makes Schilling’s life easier with his hard work and positive attitude.

“He’s very low-maintenance because he’s such an intrinsically motivated kid,” Schilling said. “He just loves the game of baseball, and he’s a leader.”

You can hear motivation in Workman’s voice. His determination, optimism and drive match his athleticism, skill and focus. Schilling calls Workman a fivetool player with pop in his bat who can run and field with the best of them.

These factors drew plenty of recruiting attention, particularly University of Arizona, before Schilling made a call to Arizona State recruiting coordinator Ben Greenspan. The Sun Devils were sold after attending one of Workman’s games. He made a verbal commitment to Tracy Smith and company soon after.

“I love Tracy Smith – he’s an awesome coach,” Workman said. “He’s open about everything and he’ll tell you straight up about where he sees you.”

Smith’s advice is just a fraction of what Workman has absorbed in the last few years. Whether he’s in the backyard with his father, playing for the USA Baseball 18U National Team or putting in work at Basha, Workman is always searching for a way to improve his game.

Workman has all the physical tools necessary to play at the next level. The area he wants to improve the most is the mental game, something his father – who made it as far as Double-A in the minor leagues – has been able to provide perspective on.

“He still thinks he can strike me out, but he hasn’t got me yet,” Workman said with a laugh. “He teaches me everything, and that’s why I like working with him – he’s been to that level and knows what it’s like.”

Almost every night, Workman and his father go out to their Chandler backyard and put in extra batting practice. Sometimes he has friends over, sometimes his younger brother joins in, and sometimes it’s just the two of them. Regardless, it’s that extra work that sets Workman apart. He’s willing to do whatever he can to hone his craft.

(Special to the Tribune)

Basha senior Gage Workman took on a heavier class load to reclassify himself as a senior rather than a junior this school year so he could hit Arizona State’s campus for a year before going on his church mission.

Seeing where he stands relative to national competition was an eyeopening experience for Workman, and it only added to his motivation. It was also a factor in deciding to reclassify as a senior after taking extra classes over the summer.

Workman thinks his reclassification helps him keep up with the competition in-state and around the country, and coach Schilling thinks major league scouts will look upon this decision favorably. It will allow teams more years to develop Workman if he chooses to forgo college and pursue the professional route.

The Workman family doesn’t want to make a decision too hastily with the MLB Draft approaching in June. His career could take one of three paths: sign a professional contract and play right away, head to college and play a minimum of three years, or go on a twoyear mission for his church.

“We’re just trying to keep as many doors open as possible,” Workman said. “We don’t want to make any final decisions too soon before we know all the variables.”

While his future is up in the air, the past proves that Workman has always made the decision that gets him closer to his dream. For now, though, he just wants to win a state title for Basha in his final season with the program.

“I’m just going to finish out this year and let the cards fall where they may,” Workman said. “Hopefully we can achieve our goal of a state championship as well.”

Open enrollment makes choosing high schools complicated for athletes

BY FABIAN ARDAYA Cronkite News

It’s one of the most important decisions parents have to make: Where will their child go to school?

The open-enrollment policy in Arizona high schools can make the decision even more complicated, especially for student-athletes.

According to the Education Commission for the States, Arizona and 36 other states or territories have open-enrollment policies that make it easy for parents to send their children to any high school of their choosing.

school, regardless if the student-athlete’s residence has changed.

transfer, it becomes the part that’s tough to manage.”

However, the open-enrollment policies apply to academics, not athletics. While athletes in Arizona are able to initially enroll at any school without penalty, the Arizona Interscholastic Association implemented a new policy in 2016-17 that requires athletes to sit out at least half a season if they transfer to a new

If the student transfers a second time, or transfers in-season, he or she must sit out an entire year.

“Our philosophy has been that education is your right, and athletics is a privilege,” said David Hines, who takes over as executive director of the AIA in June. “We follow state law when it comes to their first enrollment in Arizona and their eligibility. Once they

Former Chandler High School wide receiver and current Oregon State signee Dionte Sykes said his transfer from Basha High School was recruiting-based. Sykes, who was eligible to play right away under the old policy because he moved homes, said his transfer paid off instantly: He saw one college recruiter

ENROLLMENT

during spring football in his time at Basha, he said, while spring practices at Chandler drew coaches ranging from junior college programs to Division I.

“Chandler was where I needed to be the whole time,” Sykes said. “The exposure that you get, it changes instantly once you step foot on campus and once you become part of the team.”

Chandler High, with an International Baccalaureate program to boast of academically, the Chandler Center for the Arts on campus for extracurricular programs and a nationally ranked football program, has become one of the biggest landing spots for high schoolers with Division I aspirations.

Each of the school’s last four quarterbacks has gone on to earn a scholarship from a Pac-12 school. None of the four, plus current starter and rising junior Jacob Conover, lived or live within the school’s boundaries.

“I enjoy open enrollment,” Chandler football coach Shaun Aguano said. “The reason why I like open enrollment is because my kids are on open enrollment, too. I’m going to look for the best place that fits for my kids as well from a culture standpoint, from an academic standpoint and an athletic standpoint. I think that Chandler High fits all of those molds.”

Sykes said his visit to Chandler’s campus was eye-opening, and not because of what he wanted to accomplish in terms of landing a scholarship or being

successful on the football field.

“They don’t talk about football,” Sykes said. “Not one bit. They are worried about you coming in and working hard – not in the weight room or not even on the football field, but in the classroom. That’s a big part of why Chandler is so successful, I think.”

If a student-athlete like Sykes were to transfer schools now, he would have to fill out an AIA Form 250, which must be signed by both athletic directors and certifies that the transfer didn’t involve any impropriety. The form asks about the student’s living situation, reasons for the move, the motive behind the transfer. And it seeks to weed out recruiting by coaches or members of the programs.

The rule allows student-athletes to

have their cases heard in the form of an appeal, meaning they have to show hardship in order to avoid sitting out. Hines said a hardship must be something “unforeseen, unavoidable and uncorrectable,” such as a parent no longer being able to afford tuition at a private school or a job transfer that uproots a family across the state. Hines said the biggest loss from having an open-enrollment policy is the loss of community in high schools. While schools in areas with strictly enforced closed boundaries can have a reasonable expectation of knowing what their class size will look like and which kids they can expect to have in the school, open enrollment creates variances. It also means the school’s

athletic accomplishments may not be attributable to the community.

For example, Chandler High School has won two big-school state championships in the time since Sykes transferred to the program. Hines argues it is difficult for parents to root for a team that won two titles with players who are not from that area.

“We are losing some of our community schools, where you grew up in an area and the whole community could get behind kids when they compete,” Hines said. “Now, you have some schools where some of their best kids aren’t from that area and so they don’t have quite as much community support.”

Chandler High School Principal Larry Rother said he understands the concern for losing the community aspect of high school athletics. However, he said his goal is to provide a school that helps as many students as possible. Rother estimates that about three in every 10 Chandler High School students come from outside of the school’s boundaries.

“I like when communities support their schools, but I also believe that students have to make a choice on where they go to school based on what’s best for them,” Rother said. “I take pride in the fact that three out of every 10 of our kids choose Chandler High School.

“If a student demonstrates that they want to work hard and they want to follow the rules and they want to take a great education opportunity that we offer here in Chandler, I want them to come here.”

Hamilton football gets new head coach for upcoming season

BY GREG MACAFEE

Tribune Sports Editor

Hamilton High School assistant principal Dick Baniszewski has been named the interim head football coach for Hamilton High School for the 2017 season.

Chandler Unified School District spokesman Terry Locke said officials have not decided what to do at the position beyond this year.

Baniszewski has been filling in for former head coach Steve Belles, who was “reassigned” after six Hamilton football players were arrested in connection with hazing incidents that allegedly occurred over a 17-month span.

Three juveniles on the team face criminal charges. One of them is charged as an adult on multiple counts of sexual assault, aggravated assault and kidnapping

involving minors.

Belles, who has led the program to five state titles during his time with the program, has been offered a contract to continue teaching during the 2017-2018 school year, Locke said.

Locke also stressed that the decision to replace Belles temporarily on the team is not disciplinary in nature.

“With Chandler Police and Chandler Unified investigations continuing, there is a strong desire by the school and the district to continue the program under Baniszewski for the 2017 season,” Locke said in a release.

for the 2017 season, he was the offensive line coach for the junior varsity team.

About four weeks ago, he was informed that he would be the interim head football coach for spring football.

(Tribune file photo)

Steve Belles played one season with the Arizona Rattlers as quarterback.

In the past, Baniszewski has held positions at various East Valley schools.

He coached at McClintock High, where he also played and graduated from. He also coached at Mountain Pointe High and served as its athletic director.

Most recently, he also was the athletic director at Basha High School for two years.

“We’re going to move kids forward,” Baniszewski said after his first official practice. “We’re going to do things right and get things done and keep Hamilton playing good football.”

Although he has worked with the JV offensive line, Baniszewski has been around the team a lot during his time at Hamilton High.

As director of football operations, he has with the teams on Friday nights. Having been around the team in the past, Baniszewski offers an extra sense of ease for a team going through a difficult situation.

Baniszewski has served in multiple positions at Hamilton over the past decade. Before being named head coach

Now that the decision has been made, Baniszewski said his plan is to move forward and continue to improve the program.

“I think they know what to expect from me and I am familiar and I think that will help us to move forward,” Baniszewski said.

– Contact Greg Macafee

(Fabian Ardaya/Cronkite News)

Chandler High School linebacker Sam Pepper runs through a drill during football practice last fall.

A mother’s pursuit of contentment should include God

BY DIANE MARKINS Tribune Guest Writer

Contentment can be an elusive state, but even more so for moms. Mother’s Day is every day, and it isn’t always happy. For as long as I can remember, I have preached to loved ones that contentment can’t be dependent upon circumstances, possessions or relationships. It is something we establish in our minds and spirits.

This sounds a little trite and maybe even kind of pious, but I believed it then and I believe it now. The problem is, a few years ago I came to realize that, while I fully apply that principle to my life, I still struggle with contentment as a mom. And my kids are fully grown adults! Sigh. I don’t long for a fancier car, a bigger house, a different job or a better husband. I have every earthly thing I could ever want, and I think I show that.

So, by Merriam-Webster’s definition, I am content. It says, “Feeling or showing satisfaction with one’s possessions, status or situation.”

FAITH CALENDAR

FRI.-SAT., MAY 19-20

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION CONFERENCE

The Lawrence Memorial A.M.E.Z. Church is hosting a Back to Basics Christian Education Conference. The Rev. Dr. Shirley Moon-Childs will facilitate.

DETAILS>> 6 to 9 p.m. May 19, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 20, 931 E. Southern Ave., Suite 108, Mesa. Cost: $20 for materials and continental breakfast. Register by Wednesday, May 17. Information: 480-393-3001.

SUNDAYS

NEW CHURCH IN MESA

The Lawrence Memorial A.M.E.Z. Church has opened in Mesa with the Rev. Albert Bolden leading as pastor. DETAILS>> Sunday school at 9 a.m., worship at 10 a.m., 931 E. Southern Ave., Suite 108. Information: 480-3933001, tlmchurch.info@gmail.com.

VALOR CHRISTIAN OUTLINES MISSION

Valor Christian Center in Gilbert offers “great praise and worship and great messages for today’s living,” according to Associate Pastor Thor Strandholt. “Our mission is to evangelize, heal and disciple through the word of God.”

DETAILS>> 10 a.m. Sundays and 7 p.m. Thursdays. 3015 E. Warner Road. Information: valorcc.com.

My lack of contentment is found in the definition in Easton’s Online Bible Dictionary:

“A state of mind in which one’s desires are confined to his lot, whatever it may be” (1 Timothy 6:6; 2 Corinthians 9:8).

“It is opposed to envy” (James 3:16), “avarice” (Hebrews 13:5), “ambition” (Proverbs 13:10), “anxiety” (Matthew 6:25, 34), and “repining” (1 Corinthians 10:10).

“It arises from the inward disposition, and is the offspring of humility, and of an intelligent consideration of the rectitude and benignity of divine providence” (Psalm 96:1, 2; 145), “the greatness of the divine promises” (2 Peter 1:4), “and our own unworthiness” (Genesis 32:10); “as well as from the view the gospel opens up to us of rest and peace hereafter” (Romans 5:2).

I’m fine except for that one part about contentment being “opposed to anxiety.” In most areas of my life, I’m at peace, but I allow anxiety to penetrate my peaceful existence as it concerns my children.

I trust God with their futures,

HORIZON SEEKS YOUNG PEOPLE

High school and middle school students meet to worship and do life together.

DETAILS>> 4 p.m. at Horizon Presbyterian Church, 1401 E. Liberty Lane. 480-460-1480 or joel@horizonchurch.com.

UNITY OFFERS A PATH

Unity of Mesa says its Sunday service offers “a positive path for spiritual living” through “transformational lessons, empowering music and various spiritual practices with an open-minded and welcoming community.”

DETAILS>> 9 and 10:45 a.m. 2700 E. Southern Ave., Mesa. Nursery available for infants through kindergarten at service times. Youth ministry classes are open in the Education Annex at 10:45 a.m. Information: 480-8922700, unityofmesa.org, lori@unityofmesa.org.

SUNDAY CELEBRATION SERVICE

Inspirational messages and music to lift your spirit. A welcoming community committed to living from the heart. Many classes and events offered. We welcome you!

DETAILS>> 10 a.m. Sundays at Unity of Tempe, 1222 E. Baseline Road, Suite 103, Tempe. Information: 480-7921800, unityoftempe.com.

KIDS CAN LEARN JEWISH LIFE

Children can learn and experience Jewish life. Chabad Hebrew School focuses on Jewish heritage, culture and holidays.

DETAILS>> 9:30 a.m. to noon, for children ages 5-13 at

prosperity, relationships, health and especially their eternal life. The problem is I still feel what they are feeling. Mothers will always be connected to their children emotionally.

If you didn’t think I was nutty before, now you must really think I’m a wacko. When one of my kids is having a bad day, I’m right there with them experiencing the fear, pain, rejection, grief, anger or longing as though it belongs to me.

Their emotions are my emotions. It’s as if my participation in their struggle will spread the pain or challenge around, making it easier for them to bear. Since I’ve realized this about myself, and even as I put it in writing, I see how ridiculous it is.

But I know a lot of you are reading this and nodding your heads. Moms get it.

If parents are going to please God by our contentedness, we need to let our kids go through their “stuff” without us tagging along for the emotional ride. We can offer compassion and guidance, when asked, without feeling the weight of the problem on our shoulders.

I think our kids want us to listen and care deeply but I don’t think it helps

Pollack Chabad Center for Jewish Life, 875 N. McClintock Drive, Chandler. 480-855-4333, info@chabadcenter.com, or chabadcenter.com.

MONDAYS

BEYOND BELIEF

Reflections on Jewish faith, reason, and experience. The course will provide the Torah’s perspectives on many of the most important questions that are asked by each one of us, and that we are sometimes challenged by.

DETAILS>> Mondays, 7:30-9 p.m., until June 12 at 875 N. McClintock Dr., Chandler. Cost: $99, includes textbook and light refreshments. Information and registration: info@chabadcenter.com or 480-855-4333.

PROSPERITY RECIPES AT UNITY OF TEMPE

Internationally known speaker and author, Maureen G. Mulvaney brings back her Prosperity Recipes class series to Unity of Tempe on Monday evenings. Cost: $10 per session

DETAILS>> 6:15-8:15 p.m., Unity of Tempe, 1222 E. Baseline Road, Suite 103, Tempe. Information: 480-7921800, unityoftempe.com.

TUESDAYS

WOMEN OF INFLUENCE BIBLE STUDY

Join Valor Christian Center in Gilbert for great fellowship and walk through the word of God with depth.

DETAILS>> 10 a.m. Tuesdays, 3015 E. Warner Road

them to know our peace is stripped away when they share a problem with us. I also believe that if we walk through life in peace and contentment, we model that behavior for our kids and others.

Even in the midst of their worst circumstances, we are a calm port in the storm, not participating in the frenzy of their emotional turmoil.

There is an old expression that goes, “If Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.” I think it could also be said that “if Mama ain’t content, ain’t nobody content.” I’m going to increase my efforts toward contentment, even when one of my kids isn’t.

If you’re still fortunate enough to have a mom living on Earth (mine’s in Heaven), thank her for all she’s contributed to your life, especially the unimaginable amount of emotional investment.

If you’re a mom, release your kids to God’s care, especially today. You deserve that grace and peace.

Happy Mother’s Day.

– An Arizona native and Ahwatukee resident, Diane divides her time between family, platform speaking, radio, business, and writing.

between Greenfield and Higley. Free. Information: 480545-4321, valorcc.com.

MESA BIBLE STUDY

The Lawrence Memorial A.M.E.Z. Church conducts Bible study on Tuesdays.

DETAILS>> 6:30 p.m., 931 E. Southern Ave., Suite 108. Information: 480-393-3001, tlmchurch.info@gmail.com.

CELEBRATE RECOVERY

Celebrate Recovery is a Biblical program that helps us overcome our hurts, hang-ups, and habits. Through teaching, worship, and sharing in small groups, you will find genuine people devoted to help discover the power of Christ through the recovery process.

DETAILS>> 6:30 p.m., Central Christian Church, 933 N. Lindsay Road, Mesa. Information: Eric at 480-924-4946.

GRIEFSHARE

Mountain Park Community Church is offering an ongoing GriefShare programs to help people deal with the pain of losing a loved one.

DETAILS>> 6:30-8 p.m., 2408 E. Pecos Road, Ahwatukee. To register: mountainpark.org and click on Launch. Information: Alex at 480-759-6200

FINDING HEALING FOR PAIN

HOPE, an acronym for “Help Overcome Painful Experiences,” offers support for men and women who seek God’s grace and healing.

DETAILS>> 6:30 to 8 p.m. Mountain Park Community Church, 2408 E. Pecos Road. mountainpark.org.

Arizona Restaurant Week promises something for every taste

BY CARSON MLNARIK GetOut Contributor

There’s no need to make up an excuse to go out. For 10 days this month, more than 150 restaurants have you covered with showcased meals for Arizona Restaurant Week.

From Friday, May 19, to Sunday, May 28, Arizona Restaurant Week participants will serve three-course meals for $33 or $44 per person.

The biannual celebration turns 10 this year, marking a decade of fall foodie festivities and six years since the Arizona Restaurant Association expanded the event to a week in the spring and in the fall. Arizona has made its mark as a foodie destination, so it makes sense to have a week devoted to eating out. According to event organizers, Arizona leads the nation in job growth in the food-service sector. The eateries see about a 20 percent increase in business during Arizona Restaurant Week, too.

“Arizona Restaurant Week has remained a strong culinary driver to many local chefs and restaurant owners, as well as a treasured memory maker for diners,” says Arizona Restaurant Association president Steve Chucri.

Over 3 million people have dined during Arizona Restaurant Week’s run, with establishments like The Capital Grille, The Melting Pot and Roaring Fork participating in the past. This year, foodies can enjoy dishes at The White Chocolate Grill, MATCH Cuisine & Cocktails, The Market Restaurant + Bar, Ajo Al’s Mexican Café and Firebirds Wood Fired Grill and others.

Jennifer Russo, owner of The Market Restaurant + Bar in Phoenix, says she uses Arizona Restaurant Week to showcase its seasonal menu, reach new customers and decide on its summer selections. This year, Russo said her restaurant will serve gnocchi, yellow fin nicoise and corn bisque.

“I feel the food scene is (filled) with

seasonal ingredients and local products,” Russo says. “At least the independent restaurants seem to follow this trend.”

Brian Blake is the director of food and beverage at FOUND:RE Phoenix hotel’s MATCH Cuisine & Cocktails. He explains that Chef Matt Hobbs will offer a three-course menu on its own and with wine and beverage pairings for an additional $18. He says he thinks Arizona flavors are evolving and changing constantly.

Arizona Restaurant Week gives you an opportunity to try new dishes at reasonable prices.

“The greater Phoenix area is starting to come into its own with many different cuisines featured across the Valley,” Blake says. “Chefs here in the Valley are not afraid

Restaurant Week specials in the East Valley

These East Valley restaurants are participating in Arizona Restaurant Week.

CHANDLER

Firebirds Wood Fired Grill

Home of the unique FIREBAR, Firebirds serves up American steak and seafood. 3435 W. Chandler Blvd., 480-814-8003, $33.

Porkopolis

This modern barbecue joint’s roots stretch back to 1830. 1445 S. Arizona Ave., 480-899-7675, $44 per couple.

Roy’s

Visit for Hawaiian cuisine, the exhibition kitchen and the aptly named Aloha Hour. 7151 W. Ray Road, 480-705-7697, $33.

The Keg Steakhouse + Bar Dine on the winning combo of steak and seafood in a casual and relaxing atmosphere.

3065 W. Chandler Blvd., 480-899-7500, $44.

GILBERT

Barrio Queen

The Day of the Dead décor won’t ruin your appetite for hip tacos and cocktails.

388 N. Gilbert Road, 480-634-5025, $33.

Liberty Market

Try award-winning locally sourced cuisine for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

230 N. Gilbert Road, 480-892-1900, $33 (includes beverage).

Nico Heirloom Kitchen

Chef Gio Osso uses heirloom family recipes and local produce to create seasonal Italian cuisine.

366 N. Gilbert Road, 480-584-4760, $33.

Thirsty Lion Gastropub & Grill

Local ingredients form the basis for this eatery’s multi-cultural menu and craft beer-

infused specials.

2212 E. Williams Field Road, 480-899-0119, $33.

MESA

Beaver Choice

Head for cooler climates and sample comfort food from Scandinavia, Poland and Canada.

745 W. Baseline Road, 480-921-3137, $33.

Rodizio Grill

America’s first Brazilian steakhouse transports you to South America for an authentic dining experience.

1840 S. Val Vista Drive, 480-813-5400, $44 per couple (lunch), $33 (dinner).

TEMPE

Cafe Lalibela

Get an authentic taste of Ethiopia at this family-owned local landmark.

849 W. University Drive, 480-829-1939, $44 per couple.

to take a chance.”

For more information about other participating restaurants, visit ArizonaRestaurantWeek.com.

The Dhaba

Enjoy a rich mix of foods from India and the surrounding region at this casual Punjabi restaurant.

1874 E. Apache Road, 480-557-8800, $44 per couple.

The Funky Monk

This American restaurant is about the experience from the psychedelic décor to the dance floor.

526 S. Mill Ave., $44 per couple.

Top of the Rock

Dine on New American cuisine as you take in the one of the most scenic views of the Valley. Be sure to wave at us; we’re just across the freeway!

2000 W. Westcourt Way, 602-431-2370, $44.

(Special to the Tribune)

Andy DiMino loves his role as Dean Martin in ‘A Toast to the Rat Pack’

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI GetOut Contributor

Andy DiMino has been called “the quintessential crooner.”

After a varied career that took him to Hollywood clubs and Colorado ski lodges, the Southern California native moved to Las Vegas, where he discovered his inner Dean Martin.

For the last 14 years, he has been onethird of ‘A Toast to the Rat Pack,’ a tribute act that comes to Chandler Center for the Arts Sunday, May 21. DiMino stars as Martin, while Sebastian Anzaldo and Lambus Dean perform as Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr., respectively.

“It’s a really fun show,” said DiMino, via

If You Go...

Where: Chandler Center for the Arts, 250 N. Arizona Ave., Chandler

When: 3 p.m. Sunday, May 21

Cost: $29-$44

More info: 480-782-2680, chandlercenter.org, dhsproductions. com/rat-pack

telephone from his Las Vegas home.

“In theaters, we break it up into two sets. During the first set, we focus on the individual performers. Dean Martin usually opens the show with three songs, then he turns it over to Sammy for three songs and Frank for three songs. That way, each performer gets to do the solo numbers from the catalog.”

Before the intermission, the trio comes together for a handful of songs. They return to the stage as The Rat Pack, with the three tuxedoed performers interacting and closing with “big-finish numbers.” The six-piece band features a three-piece horn section that harks back to the Big Band Era.

DiMino grew up watching “The Dean Martin Show” from 1965 to 1974, but he was a self-professed “child of the 1960s,” raised on The Beatles.

After a stint with bands, he stepped back to raise his son. In 1990, DiMino relocated to Las Vegas and started working odd jobs ranging from a strolling minstrel/guitarist at Excalibur Hotel & Casino, to singing the Italian-American songs of Martin. Then,

he saw a Rat Pack tribute show at the now-shuttered Desert Inn in Paradise, Nevada.

“A lightbulb went off in my head,” DiMino said. “I thought, ‘I could do this. I like this music. I like the comedy. I like the era. I’m already Italian.’ The pros outweighed the cons and it made sense.

“I studied all the music. I read everything I could. I picked up the mannerisms by watching DVDs of his TV show. I loved the attitude and the fun they were having.”

Singing and performing weren’t the hard parts. Instead, DiMino admits, he was a little leery about Martin’s comedic side.

“I had never done comedy before,” DiMino said. “Dean Martin was a natural comedian. I had done some musical theater. These were such great characters, though. Through our show, we hope to remind the audience how much they loved the characters and music of that time, and how it made them feel. If we can do that, that’s success for us. We’ve done our jobs.”

(Special to the Tribune)

Andy DiMino is Dean Martin, Lambus Dean is Sammy Davis Jr. and Sebastian Anzaldo is Frank Sinatra in “A Toast to the Rat Pack.”

Tiny Dances

Contemporary dance company CONDER/ dance presents an hour and a half of Tiny Dances. The intimate setting allows audience members to ask performers questions about the works.

DETAILS>> 10-11:30 a.m., Tuesday, May 16. Tempe Center for the Arts, 700 W. Rio Salado Pkwy., Tempe. Cost: Free. tempe. gov, conderdance.com.

International Museum Day

Spend a free day at the Pueblo Grande Museum and learn about the history of the area dating back to the Hohokam tribe 1,500 years ago.

DETAILS>> 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Thursday, May 18. Pueblo Grande Museum, 4619 E. Washington St., Phoenix. Cost: Free. 602-495-0901. phoenix.gov/calendar/ parks/1745.

‘The Book of Mormon’ Winner of nine Tony Awards, “The Book

of Mormon” tells the irreverent tale of two Mormon missionaries and their challenges abroad and with each other. Warning: Contains explicit language. DETAILS>> Times vary, May 18-28. ASU Gammage, 1200 S. Forest Ave., Tempe. Tickets: $50-$150. 480-965-3434. asugammage.com.

Cinepark

Head to the park for a free outdoor screening of the popular jukebox movie “Sing.” Pre-movie activities include karaoke, making your own microphone and dressing room star, and more.

DETAILS>> 6 p.m. activities, 8 p.m. movie, Friday, May 19. Tumbleweed Park, 2250 S. McQueen Road, Chandler. Cost: Free. 480-782-2665. chandleraz.gov.

Lemonade Days

Participate in the largest lemon squeeze in Arizona. Also enjoy food and beverages from local restaurants, a kids zone, hot dog and hamburger eating contests, live entertainment and plenty more.

DETAILS>> Noon-8 p.m., Saturday, May

20. Founder’s Park in Queen Creek, 22407 S. Ellsworth Road, Queen Creek. Tickets: $8 online, Free for kids 12 and under. lemonadedaysaz.com.

Billy Childs Quartet

Grammy Award-winning pianist Billy Childs brings his quartet to the Valley for an evening of unique jazz arrangements and original compositions.

DETAILS>> 7:30 p.m., Saturday, May 20. Tempe Center for the Arts, 700 W. Rio Salado Pkwy., Tempe. Tickets: $40. 480-350-2822. tca.ticketforce.com, lakeshoremusic.org.

Peach Festival

Tour peach orchards and pick your own right off the tree. Savor homemade peach products and foods like peach cinnamon rolls and a peach pancake breakfast. Plus, enjoy rides, games and live music.

DETAILS>> 9 a.m.-4 p.m., SaturdaySunday, May 20-21. Schnepf Farms, 24810 S. Rittenhouse Road, Queen Creek. Tickets: $5, free for children 12 and under. 480-987-3100. schnepffarms.com.

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One-minute kitchen: English trifle a mom’s delight

BY JAN D’ATRI

Happy Mother’s Day, Moms!

My Italian momma calls this recipe our “Made for TV” dessert. Not only is it delicious, fresh, simple to make and easy to serve, but the presentation is absolutely spectacular. English trifle (also known as Zuppa Inglese) is so versatile, too. You can use different fruit if you like. We always choose strawberries, kiwi and a blackberries or blueberries because you can find them fresh all year long. Clip out this column and make it for any special occasion.

Watch my how-to video: jandatri.com/recipes/ one-minute-kitchen.

English trifle (Zuppa Inglese)

Ingredients:

1 box of yellow or white cake mix

1 large or two small boxes of vanilla or white chocolate pudding and pie filling (Instant or cook and serve)

Whole milk for vanilla pudding (see package amounts)

2-3 pints ripe strawberries

8-10 fresh ripe kiwi, peeled

2 tablespoons sugar

2 pints of fresh blackberries or blueberries

1/4 cup granulated sugar

1 pint whipping cream

1/4 cup powdered sugar

Directions:

Bake cake mix as directed and pour into three 8-inch pie tins. If you only have one pie pan, bake each for about 12-15 minutes or until done.

Prepare pudding as directed, and set aside. Cut uniform slices of strawberries and kiwi and set aside. Reserve 1 cup each of strawberries and kiwi to be chopped

up for filling. (I use the smaller slices and ends.)

Mix together chopped strawberries, kiwi and 2 tablespoons of sugar. Set aside.

Assemble trifle:

Place the first cake disc in a trifle or clear glass bowl. Around the edge of the trifle bowl, alternate slices of kiwi and strawberries, laying fruit flat against the outer edge of the bowl. With a spoon, spread one half of the chopped strawberry/kiwi pieces over cake layer.

Drop spoonfuls of one third of the pudding over strawberry/ kiwi mixture. Add second cake disc. Line the edge of the bowl with fresh blackberries or blueberries. Add second layer of strawberry and kiwi slices on top of the berries. Spoon remainder of the strawberry/kiwi mixture over cake. Add 1/3 of the pudding over top.

Add third cake disc. Place strawberries and kiwi around the edge of the bowl. Spoon the remainder of the pudding over cake disc. Combine whipped cream and powdered sugar, beating until stiff. Spread whipped cream over pudding and decorate with remainder of fruit slices.

For the final touch, if desired, spoon some whipped cream into a piping bag and create a mound in the middle of the cake and top with a fresh strawberry. Refrigerate for at least one hour or overnight. Spoon into clear dessert bowls or parfait glasses. Serves approximately 8.

Tribune Contributor

Public Notices

CITYOFMESA MESA,ARIZONA

NOTICEOFPUBLICMEETING

BaselineRoadImprovements, 24th StreettoConsolidatedCanal ProjectNo.CP0658

TheCityofMesaplanstoreconstruct

BaselineRoadfrom24thStreettotheConsolidatedCanal.Theseimprovementswill providethreelanesineachdirection,bike lanes,pavementreconstruction,raisedcenter medians,addingdrainagestructuresandfacilities,landscapingandstreetlighting.Otherimprovementsincludetheins tallationofa12inchwaterline,replacementofcurb,gutter, sidewalk,drivewayandhandicaprampsin variouslocationsinresponsetotheAmericanswithDisabilitiesAct(ADA).

YouareinvitedtoattendaPublicMeeting whereCitystaffandthedesignconsultants willbeavailabletoansweryourquestions. No formalpresentationwillbegiven.

Date:Thursday,May18,2017

Time:6:00p.m.to7:00p.m.

Location:PorterElementary–MediaCenter 1350SLindsayRoad Mesa ,AZ85204

Ifyouhaveanyquestionsorconcernsregardingthisproject,pleasecontactRenePowell, JaimeOtter,orMicheleArrolladowiththeCity ofMesaEngineeringPublicRelationsat(480) 644-3800.Siustedtienepreguntasdeste Proyecto,favordellamaraMaggieMartinez, conlaCiudaddeMesaal(480)644-5672.

Published:EastValleyTribune,May7,14, 2017/5755

Public Notices

CITYOFMESA MESA,ARIZONA

NOTICEOFPUBLICMEETING

RooseveltRoadImprovements, BroadwayRoadto8thAvenue ProjectNo.CP0528

TheCityofMesaplanstoimproveRoosevelt RoadfromBroadwayRoadto8thAvenue. Theproposedimprovementsincludenewcurb andgutter,sidewalks,pavement,streetlighting,landscaping,andstormdrains.The projectalsoincludestheabandonmentofthe existingsewerlinealongRooseveltRoadand theinstallationofanewlinewithinthene w streetsection.

YouareinvitedtoattendaPublicMeeting whereCitystaffandthedesignconsultants willbeavailabletoansweryourquestions. No formalpresentationwillbegiven.

Date:Tuesday,May23,2017

Time:6:00p.m.to7:00p.m.

Location:RooseveltElementary–MultipurposeRoom 828SValencia Mesa,AZ85202

Ifyouhaveanyquestionsorconcernsregardingthisproject,pleasecontactRenePowellor MicheleArrolladowiththeCityofMesaEngineeringPublicRelationsat(480 )644-3800.Si ustedtienepreguntasdesteProyecto,favor dellamaraMaggieMartinez,conlaCiudad deMesaal(480)644-5672.

Published:EastValleyTribune,May14,21, 2017/5824

Public Notices

CITYOFMESA MESA,ARIZONA

SIDEWALKSATRAILROADCROSSINGONALMASCHOOLROAD

FEDERALPROJECTNO.MES-0(203)A ADOTTRACSNO.SR23101C

CITYOFMESAPROJECTNO.CP0184ALM DAVISBACONWAGESAPPLY

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BidsmustbesubmittedontheProposalFormprovidedandbeaccompaniedbytheBidBondfor notlessthantenpercent(10%)ofthetotalbid,payabletotheCityofMesa,Arizona,oracertified orcashier'scheck.PERSONALORINDIVIDUALSURETYBONDSARENOTACCEPTABLE. ThefollowingformsaretobesubmittedwiththeBidProposalforFederal-AidProjects.

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Thesuccessfulbidderwillberequiredtoexecutethestandardformofcontractforconstruction withinten(10)daysafterformalawardofcontract.

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Obituaries

STONE, Jayson Alan

Jayson Alan Stone, 50, of Gilbert died Saturday, May 6, 2017 in Gilbert His sudden and unexpected death leaves his family aching with huge holes in their hearts

Jayson was a family man through and through In his spare time he enjoyed water sports, reading and watching Sci-Fi

Originally from Toledo, Ohio, he owned successful IT Consulting company in GI bert

Katie Stone; his stepchildren Matthew Gumowskyj and Nathaniel Gumowskyj and many friends

A private memorial service was held May 13 in

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BARKER, Charles Edward (Ed)

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Charles Edward (Ed) Barker, 72, was born in Knoxville, Tennessee on October 28, 1944 while the Tennessee Volunteers were cleaning the ti-

from that day until he peacefully passed away on Saturday, April 29, 2017 He left this life with

Ed served his country in Vietnam and later graduated from Kearney State College (University of Nebraska at Kearney) with a degree in psychology He had a life-long love affair with journalism working for the Atlanta Constitution, the Knoxville Sentinel and the Hastings Tribune He was the founder, publisher

a

News with his partner, Chuck Baker, for the past 20 years

He was preceded in death by his son, Scott Barker, step-son, Martin Barwick and step-daughter, Emily Tomazin He leaves behind his wife, Robin, step-daughter, Trisha Hoagland, step-son, Alan Barwick, daughters, Sonya, Sandra and Susan, son, Stan, sister, Patricia Gosh, mother, Elizabeth Barker, 20 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren

Ed was passionate about his family, his community, his newspaper and the state of the world around him He was also a compassionate man He registered black voters in the south in the ‘60s-’70s, worked with women’s shelters in the ‘70s, counseled addicts in the ‘80s and founded a shelter for victims o f domestic violence in the ‘90s He never met a stranger, but he didn’t suffer fools or charlatans He made us think He tried to balance an age old dilemma: The roar of the crowd on one hand, the small voice of your conscience on the other He gave his family the courage to follow their dreams and reach for the stars He loved deeply and was loved in return and all, even those who railed against his views, we will miss him terribly

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Obituaries

GANGEY, Douglas Wayne,

Douglas Wayne Gangey, 82, Passed away on March 14, 2017 in Mesa, Arizona Arrangements being handled by Horizon Funeral Care in Mesa, Arizona Survived by Son, Stephen and Daughter, Cheryl Memorial Services to be held in North Carolina

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GORMAN, Florence "Bimi"

Florence "Bimi" Gorman 89 of Sun Lakes passed away April 28, 2017 S

United Methodist Church 9248 East Riggs Road Sun Lakes Memorial donations may be made to Arizona Humane Society, Justa Center, or the Building Fund of Sun Lakes United Methodist Church

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480.898.6465

June 13, 2017 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. or 5 to 7 p.m.

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), in conjunction with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), invites you to attend a public open house about the US 60X Study (locally known as Main Street and Apache Trail). Two open house events are planned to provide study information and allow you to share your input on the existing and future transportation needs and issues along Main Street in Mesa, between Sossaman and Meridian roads. The project team will be available to answer questions, and maps and other displays will be available for viewing. The same information will be shared at each meeting.

ABOUT THE STUDY

US 60X: Sossaman Road to Meridian Road Comprehensive Transportation Study: US 60X, also known as Main Street/Apache Trail, is a local roadway in the highway system. ADOT and the FHWA have initiated a study to assess current and future corridor conditions on Apache Trail in order to develop a long-term improvement plan that enhances

and mobility for all modes of

The study will result in development of a Corridor Master Plan that creates a

for the corridor, identifies short-term investment priorities and guides long-term improvements to address safety, mobility, access and drainage needs. This study will also define the scope and funding requirements for future design and construction of improvements.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Public comments are an important part of the study and are welcome at any time for review and consideration. For additional information please visit the project website at: azdot.gov/ US60XMainStreetStudy.

MAIL COMMENTS

ADOT c/o US60X Main Street Study 101 N. 1st Avenue, Suite 2600 Phoenix, AZ 85003-1902

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), ADOT does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability. Persons who require a reasonable accommodation based on language or disability should contact ADOT Community Relations Project Manager Julian Avila by calling 602.320.7263, or emailing JAvila@azdot.gov. Requests should be made as early as possible toensure the State has an opportunity to address the accommodation.

De acuerdo con el título VI de la Ley de Derechos Civiles de 1964 y la Ley de Estadounidenses con Discapacidades (ADA por sus siglas en inglés), el Departamento de Transporte de Arizona (ADOT por sus siglas en inglés) no discrimina por raza, color, nacionalidad, edad, género o discapacidad. Personas que requieren asistencia (dentro de lo razonable) ya sea por el idioma o por discapacidad deben ponerse en contacto con el Oficial de Relaciones Comunitarias Julian Avila llamando al 602.320.7263, o enviarlas por correo electrónico al Javila@ azdot.gov. Las solicitudes deben hacerse lo más pronto posible para asegurar que el equipo encargado del proyecto tenga la oportunidad de hacer los arreglos necesarios.