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Police: Drive-by shooting scenes are complex football team his freshman year for causing disruptions in the classrooms and, reportedly, drug use.

“From what I understand, our coach had decided that having him be a part of the program did more harm than good,” McCutcheon said.

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When 19-year-old Ashin Tricarico allegedly terrified the West Valley with a string of drive-by shootings, many residents were shocked.

However, one teen said he believed the senseless shootings were the end of a dark path Tricarico had been headed down since he was in high school.

“I hadn’t heard his name since freshman year of high school, but as surprised as I was to hear that he had committed those crimes, I wasn’t shocked to see that he had gone down that path in life,” said Cole McCutcheon, who played football with Tricarico at Sandra Day O’Connor High School.

Tricarico was reportedly kicked off the

Surprise resident and alleged drive-by shooter Ashin Tricarico is connected to an incident in May. (Photo courtesy of the Peoria Police Department)

Long investigation Police said the investigation into the June 17 90-minute drive-by shooting rampage will take time, as the eight scenes are complex.

“With multiple agencies involved and the fact that this person went on this spree for an hour and a half, there is a lot for us to investigate,” said Peoria Police Department Sgt. Brandon Sheffert.

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BY TYLER WEGLEITNER Peoria Times Staff Writer

Walmart recently expanded its Community Academy to its Peoria store near Grand Avenue and Cotton Crossing.

The academy offers free classes to the public, and registration is open, according to Andy Trainor, Walmart’s vice president of U.S. learning.

The Community Academy offers a wide variety of courses in areas such as resume building, personal finance, college ad-

missions, car and home purchasing, test preparation and natural disaster preparedness. Anyone interested in registering for classes through Walmart’s Community Academy can do so online.

Trainor said Walmart is “trying to continue to listen to local communities” and offer courses that residents in those individual areas need.

“I think ideally we would try to offer it everywhere we can, so as many locations in stores as possible,” Trainor said.

“I think it’s also really understanding the

needs of the local community, so classes we offer in one location might be slightly different than another based on the needs of that community.”

He said this is part of Walmart’s effort to “be more than just a place to shop.” It wants to be involved with the community.

Classes are only being offered virtually because of the pandemic, but Walmart is planning to offer these courses in person as soon as it is safe to do so.

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Once they are offered in person, classes will take place using the same facilities and resources used to train Walmart associates.

Walmart’s Community Academy is offered at more than 200 locations across the country, according to Trainor. Aside from Peoria, the class is held in Mesa, Oro Valley, Prescott Valley and Gilbert.

He said that each academy can support about 15 to 25 stores. Annually, Walmart determines if more academies are needed. One location was built last year in Florida, and another will be constructed in Indianapolis.

Trainor said these classes were originally only offered to Walmart associates. Last year, Walmart opened the program to friends and family of associates and is now open to all customers.

He said Walmart wanted to expand the program because it yearned to show its appreciation for customers.

“This is a way for us to really not only appreciate our customers and our communities but really help everybody grow and try to fill some of this educational void that we’ve seen here in the last year,” said Trainor.

“It’s become more apparent this is our way of trying to help fill that gap and help everyone achieve the success

Andy Trainor, Walmart’s vice president of U.S. learning, said Walmart hopes to continue its Community Academy, which recently opened in Peoria.

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they deserve.”

He mentioned that these programs are also aimed at addressing bigger issues in society.

“There’s a gap in opportunity in certain communities to get the skills they need for future life, future jobs or just to move on in their careers, so this is a way for us to help bridge that gap and provide cost-free training opportunities to learn about things they have an in-

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West Valley Art Museum presents ‘Potpourri of Prints’

The West Valley Art Museum has unveiled a Potpourri of Prints, a new summer exhibit displaying notable national and international artists whose work includes a variety of printmaking techniques including lithographs, serigraphs, etchings, intaglio and the complex mezzotint process in fine art prints.

Artists Alexander Calder, Armado Pena Jr., Bertha Horta, Susan Rios, Elaine Rothwell and Carol Jablonsky have work on display. In addition, this exhibit features a series of Street Art works and a unique mixed-media series

by artist Viggo Vake. The museum is in Peoria City Hall at 8401 W. Monroe Street and is open and free to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. On Thursdays, it is open from noon to 6 p.m.

For additional information call 623972-0635 or visit wvam.org.

Join parks board meeting to hear Paloma second phase plans

Peoria’s Parks, Recreation & Community Facilities Board is scheduled to hear the plans for Paloma Community Park’s second phase at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 24, at Copper Hills Church, 27035 N. Black Rock Boulevard.

terest and desire in or need to learn,” he said.

Trainor said Walmart hopes to continue to expand the program.

“This is really an effort for Walmart to help improve the lives of our customers and just give back to our community,” Trainor said. “It’s a really sincere effort to help fill this educational gap that’s become more apparent, and we’ll continue to grow it.”

During the past nine months, Peoria residents have provided more than 2,300 survey responses and unique suggestions on Paloma’s second phase, which will include the final development of 40 more acres in the park, as well as the connections to surrounding open spaces and trail systems. Residents are invited to join the design team virtually or in person for a facilitated presentation on the new amenity layouts.

Visit peoriaaz.gov/paloma for the Zoom meeting information and additional details on Paloma Community Park.

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Peoria High hosting vaccination events

BY TYLER WEGLEITNER Peoria Times Staff Writer

The city of Peoria and the Peoria Unified School District are working together to host Pfizer vaccination events for those 12 and older at Peoria High School this summer until July 30.

Anyone interested in having the vaccine can schedule an appointment online, but walk-ins are also welcome, according to Sherie Steele, Peoria’s family and youth services manager.

She said the vaccines are provided by the Maricopa County Department of Public Health and administered by Safeway/Albertsons pharmacy.

Staff from the city of Peoria and the

Peoria Unified School District, along with volunteers, are also assisting with the vaccination events.

Steele said the city has administered around 16,000 vaccines at the community center since the program began in February. The city was forced to find a different location because, with the loosening of COVID-19 restrictions, the center’s programs picked up.

“When we knew our community center was opening back up, we reached out to see if they (PUSD) would be interested in continuing to host this because we’ve hit a lot of residents in Peoria and surrounding West Valley cities,” Steele said.

Steele said the vaccination site moved

to the Peoria Sports Complex before relocating to Peoria High School due to the heat. Steele said due to availability, air conditioning and parking, Peoria High was an ideal location.

“We obviously found a niche in the community that we were filling, so we just kind of wanted to transition that over if we couldn’t keep an area available,” she said. “Fortunately, because of our partnership with Peoria Unified, they were interested and open to moving the vaccines to a school site.”

The vaccine events at Peoria High School began the first week of June.

In the first five days at this location, around 100 people received a vaccine, according to Steele.

The city and PUSD planned to keep the vaccine events open for five days per week throughout the summer, but due to low turnout, the site plans to remain open for three days per week.

“We want to be mindful of our resources and how much time we’re having staff and volunteers out there if there’s not high numbers happening,” she said.

She said, however, the sites’ hours will vary to provide vaccinations to as many people as possible.

“We’re trying to accommodate offhours for working families with that,” Steele said. “So, each week it’s vary-

that had randomly opened fire.

Police later responded to a call of a vehicle off the road near the 101 and Thunderbird Road, where a 56-yearold man was shot. The as-of-yet unidentified man later died of his injuries.

The other scenes occurred near 109th Avenue and Union Hills Drive, 111th Avenue and Union Hills Drive, 113th Avenue and Bell Road, 118th Avenue and Bell Road, Loop 303 and Happy Valley Road, and 21800 N. El Mirage Road.

Around 12:42 p.m., a Surprise Fire-Medical Department employee noticed the Tiguan driving on 147th Avenue and Grand and immediately alerted Surprise police, who later stopped the vehicle. The weapon was found at the scene.

“We’re happy that he gave up and was compliant with our officers,” said Surprise Police Sgt. Tommy Hale.

The Loop 101 northbound was closed from Thunderbird Road to Grand Avenue to accommodate the investigation.

Banner Health received nine patients at its hospitals in connection with the shootings. Two were transported to Banner Health Boswell, three to Banner Health Thunderbird and four to Banner Health Del Webb.

Though this was a tragic situation, police were thankful with how quickly they apprehended the suspect and that there were no further incidents.

Sheffert said the responding agencies have a heavy heart for the deceased’s loved ones as well as with those who arrived at the murder scene.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the loved ones of the deceased as well as our officers and the firefighters who had to deal with this all day,” Sheffert said.

There are resources available to victims and employees of the Peoria and Surprise police departments as they sort through this incident.

“We have a victims assistance program for the victims and those involved, including our officers,” Sheffert said.

Though the crimes are still under investigation, police have strong reason to believe that the shooter acted alone.

“We have no information at all to allude to a second shooter,” Hale said.

“The suspect was taken into custody, and there is no reason for the public to

feel unsafe.”

If anyone has any further information for police, they are encouraged to call the Peoria Police Department at 623-773-8311 or Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS. It was later reported that Tricarico was involved in May 5 incident near Black Canyon Access and Dunlap Avenue.

Tricarico was working as a licensed armed security guard at a restaurant and was asked to deal with a male customer who was reportedly intoxicated and causing a disturbance.

Tricarico went outside to call 911. The man followed and allegedly charged Tricarico, who fired one shot, striking the man, which can be heard on the 911 call. The adult male was transported to a local hospital with a nonlife-threatening injury. Tricarico remained on scene and cooperated with investigators. Tricarico claimed he shot in self-defense.

Evidence from the scene, including the gun, was impounded and remains in Phoenix police custody.

The aggravated assault case is under investigation. The department is awaiting forensic analysis of physical evidence. Once completed, the report will be turned over to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office for review.

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volves the Peoria, Surprise and Glendale police departments; Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office; the Arizona Department of Public Safety; FBI and ATF. The Peoria Police Department is the lead investigative agency.

Tricarico was taken into custody without incident in his hometown of Surprise. His motive is unknown.

“The reason that this guy was taken into custody so quickly was because of the great teamwork among agencies that gave us the ability to share information with our neighboring partners,” Sheffert said.

“The Surprise Police Department also did a fantastic job working on tracking down this vehicle and getting the suspect into custody. I also want to note that our fire agencies through the West Valley were extremely busy tending to injuries and transporting people during all of this, and they did a phenomenal job doing everything they could.”

The first shooting occurred near 103rd and Northern Avenue around 11:10 a.m., when a call came in of a driver in a white Volkswagen Tiguan

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Victims’ demographics The victims range in age from 19 to 56 and are males and females of various races, according to Surprise Police Sgt. Tommy Hale. A 3-year-old child was in one of the vehicles that was shot at but was not struck or injured.

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Steele said vaccinations are available for everyone. She’s been working with nearby cities to increase awareness of the vaccine site.

“I have been sharing the information with our partnering cities when we’ve been doing these vaccine events,” Steele said. “It’s definitely been a West Valley collaborative effort.”

She said they’ve received great feedback from the public. She credits each organization involved for making these vaccine events possible.

“It’s been really rewarding to see the collaboration and partnerships among the city of Peoria, PUSD, Albertsons/ Safeway Pharmacy and Maricopa County Department of Public Health,” said Steele. “We really have had a strong partnership and collaboration to serve the community in this way during this time, and it’s been very well received by the community.”

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Feel like a victim? Don’t invite me to lunch

BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Peoria Times Columnist

The argument began, as so many do, over words. A friend, male, late 40s, Jewish, was detailing an anti-Semitic insult he’d suffered at the hands of a client. Then he wanted it to be my turn.

“You must be the victim of discrimination like that all the time,” he asserted.

My response? “I’ve never been the victim of anything in my life. Have I experienced anti-Semitic language or insults? Sure. A lot. But victimized? I don’t think so.”

Our conversation descended into semantics and harshness over what constitutes victimhood. My friend argued that we’re all — all 7.6 billion Earthlings — victims of slights and people we may never admit or never know harmed us. I argued that his definition of victimization trivializes real injury.

“If everyone’s a victim, then no one’s a victim” was my final salvo.

The server mercifully delivered the check. “I’ve been to murder scenes.

I’ve interviewed survivors of concentration camps and rape. I just don’t see a parallel between how they’ve been hurt and some idiot calling you

a hebe.”

It’s true that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Mine probably cost me a friend.

I thought about this exchange for days, about why being called a victim so lodged in my craw.

I guess it’s because in America today, the prevalent narrative — one I reject with great force — is that we are a nation of victims and victimizers, the afflicted and the afflicting, and I try every day to live my life as neither one.

To consume news in 2021 is like reading an endless scroll of society’s victims.

Violence, racism, income inequality, police brutality, bullying, ageism, sexual harassment, gender inequality, COVID-19, LGBTQ discrimination, kink shaming, sizeism, and countless more stigmas and prejudices.

If I sound intolerant, cold or sarcastic — or like I’m “mansplaining” in a discriminatory huff — that’s not my intention.

But lately I find myself experiencing an “empathy deficit,” the sense that my well of compassion might be running lower than Lake Mead on a blazing June afternoon.

A confession: I do everything I can to empathize with victims in proportion to the injury done to them and the

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theft committed against them.

I grieve the murdered dead. I want justice and greater compassion for all who suffer sexual assault or hate crimes. I loathe Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein for their criminal acts. I want police officers to seek out wrongdoers without seeing skin color.

I donate to charity. And yes, I “hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” and that we, one and all, possess “certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

I was raised to honor the Golden Rule. Or, as Jesus put it in Matthew 7, “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you.”

That’s an old-fashioned way of thinking, of course. Today, it’s insufficient to treat others as you hope to be treated. Instead, we’re asked to treat everyone exactly as they would

like to be treated or risk being branded a victimizer.

Alternately, we are expected to empathize with anyone who has not been treated up to their own exacting standards. Don’t believe me? Check the scathing Yelp reviews authored by anyone who has ever been served a not-quite-medium-rare burger.

There are victims in the world, and I do feel for them. But there are also people who seem to define themselves chiefly by the injuries they have suffered, every sickening insult, every deprivation, every last inequality.

That is their prerogative, I suppose.

But they probably shouldn’t invite the rest of us to lunch anytime soon.

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

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Looking through a dark glass, confusedly

BY J.D. HAYWORTH Peoria Times Columnist

Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin spent a mid-June day in Geneva, talking to each other at a summit conference.

NBC News headlined its preview of the event: “Biden begins long, tense meeting with Putin.”

Don’t believe it.

NBC and the other alphabet networks, plus their cable cousins, along with the New York Times and the Washington Post, no longer disseminate news — they construct narratives.

In a world where the true news cycle would change by the nanosecond, the old-line press organs in the United States have remained remarkably consistent, especially over the last decade.

Collectively, they spout varied narratives under this broad theme: Conservative principles are wrong and dangerous, while leftist goals are somehow “forward thinking” and to be embraced.

You may be tempted to file that general theme under the heading “Wrong is Right,” and you would be correct.

But when it comes to the pre-summit headline from NBC, further analysis is in order. The National Broadcasting Company is better defined these days by the words “Never Believe Conservatives.” Accordingly, the pro-Biden press partisans wanted to project an image of the 46th president as the “tough guy in the aviator shades.”

If only.

Sadly, we saw a very different image of Joe Biden during the G-7 meetings, just prior to the Russian summit. The swagger was replaced with a shuffle.

Confidence gave way to confusion.

Statements of certainty became mumbled, incoherent mutterings. The “Leader of the Free World” had to be led by his wife.

Joe Biden has cognitive problems, and the press has a real problem with credibility.

Our international adversaries suffer no such delusions. Neither should we.

Russian “President” (in reality, Neo-Soviet Dictator) Putin resembles the cat who ate the canary. He remembers the days of the old USSR, when he was a young KGB agent and “old” was the operative term in Moscow.

The Soviet Politburo was a gerontocracy. When President Reagan was asked why he had not held a summit with the USSR during his first term, he responded, “My problem for the first few years was they kept dying on me.” Brezhnev.

Andropov. Chernenko.

Now, in the United States, there’s an aging Democrat Troika on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. Pelosi. Schumer.

Biden. Of the three, the Senate majority leader is the “spring chicken” at age 70; the House speaker is the most senior at 81; and the president is 78.

What’s Russian for “Now the shoe’s on the other foot?”

Over a year ago, when he was a little

more spry, candidate Biden challenged a Marine veteran who criticized his son’s unsavory associations to a pushup contest.

During the one-day U.S.-Russia summit, President Biden meekly pushed a list across the table to Putin — a list of 16 critical infrastructure targets “off limits” to Russian cybercriminals. So, can the internet thieves begin with No. 17 on the target list, or should Vlad have thanked Joe for helping Russia’s cyber warfare experts by doing their work for them — or both?

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BY PEORIA TIMES STAFF Homebuilders Fulton Homes concluded its School Salute from Home program for the 2020-21 school year.

With all 33 selected, the local homebuilder is doing a deeper dive into the trends and patterns that were revealed during the school year.

This year’s program was designed to recognize individual musicians in grades 6 to 12 for their renditions of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

To be considered, interested students submitted their rendition to 94.5 KOOL FM virtually. Weekly winners received $250 to aid their education in

music. Fulton Homes gave out a total of $8,250 to the winning performances of the 2020-21 school year.

A few different patterns can be seen from the selected winners.

This was the school year of singers for Fulton Homes’ School Salute from Home, with 16 winners performing the national anthem vocally. The other most popular instruments for performances included the trumpet, clarinet and violin, all with three winners per instrument. Other students’ performances included the trombone, tuba, saxophone, xylophone, viola, guitar, oboe and flute.

While the contest was open to stu-

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According to Fulton Homes, there were standout schools for the promotion this school year. Mountain Ridge High School in Glendale (six students) and Trevor G. Browne High School in Maryvale (five students) had the highest numbers of winners.

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Glendale an official Super Bowl LVII sponsor

BY TYLER WEGLEITNER Peoria Times Staff Writer

The city of Glendale will pay $1 million to be an official sponsor of Super Bowl LVII on Feb. 12, 2023.

The $1 million will be paid in four installments of $250,000 through September 2022, according to city documents.

This comes after the Glendale City Council approved the sponsorship agreement with the Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee on June 8.

When Glendale hosted Super Bowl XLIX in 2015, the city did not sponsor it. That was something Glendale City Manager Kevin Phelps wanted to change when he joined the city in February 2016.

“The city didn’t participate at all with the Super Bowl Host Committee,” Phelps said.

The city only provided traffic and public safety support. Peripheral events were held in Phoenix and Scottsdale instead.

One of Phelps’ goals was to work closely with sports organizations.

“I said from day one that we need to have a stronger relationship with the NFL, Arizona Cardinals and with the Coyotes,” Phelps said.

Working together After a yearlong conversation with the host committee, Phelps worked directly with it to negotiate a package that “we felt had great benefit to the city and to our citizens.”

Besides covering the Super Bowl’s cost, the sponsorship “predetermines specific benefits, (items) that would benefit both the Super Bowl coming up and our citizens.”

Phelps said the sponsorship package includes the Business Connect Program, which helps small businesses in the area.

“They created this program to specifically connect our small businesses, especially those small businesses that are women, minority, veteran and LGBTQ-owned businesses,” he said.

“We will have a series of workshops that will be run by the NFL, and we will extend invitations to our small-business community.”

Phelps hopes this agreement will continue to benefit Glendale and its residents even after the Super Bowl.

“This package really allows us to do some things that I know we’re going to be able to turn into gigantic benefit, not just during the event but will be things that will have a benefit to the city and for our community for years to come,” Phelps said.

Jay Parry, CEO of the Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee, said that there were many long-term, positive impacts of hosting a Super Bowl, one of which is the “enormous, direct economic impact.” She said that because of this, there has been a lot of support and interest from the public.

According to a 2015 study by the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and the Seidman Research Institute, that year’s Super Bowl brought more than $719 million to the Valley’s economy.

Parry also referenced the significant exposure the city received when it hosted Super Bowl XLIX in 2015 and the continued exposure in 2023.

“There’s no bigger audience for sporting events than a Super Bowl,” Parry said.

“So, if you think back to 2015, that still is the most widely watched Super Bowl ever, and over 100 million viewers were tuned in.”

Parry said the NFL and the Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee will work together to give back and leave lasting impacts on the surrounding communities.

“One of the other major impacts is leaving a lasting legacy after Super Bowl has happened in Arizona,” Parry

said. “So, the host committee, the host committee partners and the NFL work together and award grants to nonprofits in the local communities of over $2 million.”

Phelps said the committee chose Glendale because it previously showed it could host major events like this.

“The NFL is not coming to Glendale because they really like being here in Glendale,” Phelps said. “They’re doing it because we demonstrated that we can put on big mega events and do them really, really well and that we’ll do our part to help defray these costs that are associated with such a huge event.”

He said that he hopes fans, residents and nearby cities will continue to realize all the effort that goes into hosting a Super Bowl and being selected as a host.

“We can’t sit back and just assume that we’re going to get our Super Bowl every six or seven years,” Phelps said.

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Wade Cota prepares fans for debut full-length album showcase good artists,” Cota said.

“I wanted to create a better environment for customers by booking the best artists I know. I think it’s cool to be playing at all, no matter the venue, and to be able to bring out a group of musicians who are hungry to play. The talent I see every week at open mic events and elsewhere is out of this world.”

He is most excited to play a Sept. 3 festival in Corpus Christi, Texas, alongside another “American Idol” alumni, Chris Daughtry, and headliners the Offspring and Pop Evil. He hopes that he can tour with any of those artists following the show.

“Everything is looking up, and I’m feeling good,” Cota said.

Cota hopes fans will not just hear his voice but find comfort in the album’s lyricism.

“I want people to really listen to the words of the album. I hope that everyone can listen to the words and take something from it,” Cota said. “I want there to be something on there for everybody.”

BY ALEX GALLAGHER Peoria Times Staff Writer

Former “American Idol” contestant Wade Cota named his forthcoming debut full-length album “Sweet Boy Summer.”

However, it’s anything but playful, as its focus will be on the highs and lows that Cota faced over the last year.

“I’ve gone through a lot. I went through a major breakup, and I lost my dad and my nephew,” Cota said.

“It’s been a dark space for me lately, and I wanted to get out some of those messages as well as some of my healthy triumphs. There’s so many little things that have happened as well.”

He’s sharing his stories through song on “Sweet Boy Summer,” which he plans to release in August. Inspired by the term “hot girl summer,” Cota wanted to create a title that suited him a bit more. While conversing with a friend, the phrase “sweet boy summer” slipped out. Cota immediately knew that was what he wanted to call his album.

In terms of sound, Cota has given fans a taste of what to expect with the singles “Fake It” and “Ordinary Life,” two songs he hopes will reinvigorate rock ’n’ roll.

“I’m trying to bring back rock ’n’ roll.

I feel like it’s dying,” Cota said. “I want people to nudge back into rock like it’s 1999 again.”

Cota also yearned to create a collection with a variety of stories.

“With my first EP, the entire thing was a story,” he said. “I wrote it to be more like a movie. With ‘Sweet Boy Summer,’ I wrote it to be a bit more like a sitcom.”

“Sweet Boy Summer” and the tracks “Constellations” and “I Know” are evidence of Cota’s self-improvement mission.

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He described the artwork as a photo of him with his tousled jet-black hair and his face smeared with blood, which drips onto his shirt as he holds a human heart with a bite taken out of it.

“I wanted to do something obscure

that catches people’s eyes,” Cota said.

For fans that are anxious to hear Cota’s voice, he plays original music the last Saturday of each month at Charley’s Sports Grill in Glendale.

He also hosts studio sessions on Mondays at Tim Finnegan’s Irish Restaurant and Pub in Glendale, and Tuesdays at The Golden Margarita in Downtown Phoenix. It’s a concept he created to highlight the up-and-coming artists the state has to offer.

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Step back in time at The Spicery in Our 1895 Home

BY CLAIRE SPINNER

Peoria Times Staff Writer

The Spicery in Our 1895 Home in Glendale is a hidden gem.

Set inside a residential home in the Catlin Court Historic District, The Spicery is a step back in time.

“It’s like going to your grandma’s house — if your grandma was a good cook, of course,” said owner Matt Borowski.

The quaint restaurant’s charm stems from its authenticity. The afternoon lunch and tea restaurant in one of Glendale’s oldest buildings has allowed patrons to relive their childhood since the 1980s.

The retrofitted home, purchased in 1986 by Martha Campbell, was opened as The Spicery in Our 1895 Home in 1987.

After being resold in 2002, Campbell missed running The Spicery and repurchased the restaurant in 2010.

She ran the restaurant for two years until, after turning 82, she retired.

She sold it to its current owner, family friend Borowski, in 2012.

“It took a little pushing, but I came around to the idea and I honestly was looking for something new,” Borowski said.

While Campbell is no longer around to see the restaurant, The Spicery continues to operate with the same traditions that she put into it.

Primarily a lunch eatery, The Spicery offers a three-course tea. The staff bakes bread every day from scratch and creates classic dishes with a twist.

“The traditions are all still there,” Borowski said. “The decorations, the food, everything — it’s all Martha. I just keep the place open, honestly.”

The Spicery has several themed rooms — the children’s tea room, the garden room, the blue room and the rose room, to name a few. Each room is intricately decorated to look like a true home from the 1980s. From the ceramic animal sculptures and the wall art to the printed tablecloths, the decor is reminiscent of a different time.

potatoes or mac and cheese.

Borowski joked that the restaurant “does it for the men, because they like to eat.”

The lunch menu has Matt Borowski, owner, holds a tray with some traditional and homedesserts at The Spicery. (Photos by Pablo Robles) cooked-inspired salads, sandwiches and soups, as well as a dessert menu.

All of the menu items at The Spicery are ornately presented to induce nostalgia and elegance. The restaurant is designed to draw diners into an interactive experience.

“It’s not necessarily high-end dining, but everything is presented in really traditional ways, es“I think the most unique thing about pecially with the teas,” Borowski said.

“It’s just fun and relaxing. People The Spicery is that it really is like stepping back in time,” Borowski said. love to dress up and take pictures of “It’s relaxing, it’s comfort food and all the desserts and little sandwiches, it’s full of tradition. It really does feel it becomes a whole fun event, it’s very Instagrammable.” like going to your grandma’s house.”

The pandemic took its toll on The The tea menu includes a threecourse tea with pastries, sandwiches Spicery, as customers couldn’t experiand desserts, as well as options from ence the restaurant in person.

“Our clientele isn’t really the takethe restaurant’s lunch menu. There is also the choice of a children’s three- out crowd,” he said. “They are ladies course tea, which includes ice cream, and gentlemen who lunch. They want to visit and have that in-person atmosandwiches and cupcakes.

The lunch menu includes a daily sphere.”

In response, they switched to a farmspecial, like roast beef with mashed

ers market-style system during lockdown. Every two weeks, The Spicery released a menu with shareable-sized dishes.

“We would premake all sorts of things,” Borowski said. “And everything was in these large quantities that were really perfect for small gatherings. We’d sell packs of a dozen cinnamon rolls, a pound of chicken or tuna salad, pretty much what’s on our menu but made to be taken home.”

Borowski said it is refreshing to see customers return to The Spicery after a challenging year. He said business is finally returning to normal, and he expects a successful summer season.

“It’s been a slow process, but we’re starting to get back to normal,” Borowski said.

“You can’t necessarily expect people to jump right back into socializing immediately, especially when you’re talking about dining out. But I’m starting to see familiar faces again, as well as new ones, and I think things are evening themselves out.”

The 45-year-old restaurant has become a family tradition. Many of its patrons who visited the restaurant as children are returning with their children and grandchildren. Borowski said this family environment is what sets The Spicery apart. With friendly service and a team that knows each SEE SPICERY PAGE 21

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Arizona is a hot spot for afternoon tea

BY TAYLOR O’CONNOR

Peoria Times Contributing Writer

Sipping tea and eating finger sandwiches while donning pristine outfits wasn’t done just for looks. Although that may enhance the experience, it was done to fill the day until a late dinner.

Great Britain is the queen of high tea, but it grew into a worldwide phenomenon.

We may not be in the United Kingdom, but Arizonans can still appreciate teatime in all its classy glory. Hold up your pinkies — or maybe not — and sip tea with friends this summer inside these five Arizona tea houses.

The Phoenician The Scottsdale luxury resort hosts afternoon tea from 2 to 3 p.m. Wednesdays to Sundays. The Phoenician afternoon tea includes finger sandwiches, scones with Devonshire cream and preserves, pastries, and a selection of fine tea blends. Gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan and vegetarian options are available with 24 hours’ notice.

To enhance the atmosphere, pianist Alan Comyns performs contemporary music. Be sure to make reservations.

Full tea is $65, and Royal Tea, which includes sparkling wine, is $85. The Grand Royal Tea, which includes Perrier-Jouët Grand Brut, is $100, and children ages 4 to 12 years old are served for $35.

The Phoenician, A Luxury Collection Resort 6000 E. Camelback Road, Scottsdale, 480-941-8200, thephoenician.com English Rose Tea Room Anglophiles will love the English Rose Tea Room in Carefree. The walls are covered in English memorabilia: Kate and Wills, and Meghan and Harry goodies, as well as a life-sized Queen Elizabeth II that’s perfect for Instagram.

Those who feel like they don’t have the class for tea can brush up on etiquette with owner/England native Jo Gemmill.

Since 2002, the tearoom has offered

50 teas, along with scones, crumpets, cottage pie and Ploughman’s lunch to suit any palate.

The romantic interior and shady patio makes this a gem within the desert. Be sure to bring your best hat — or borrow one from the dress-up trunk filled with vintage chapeaux and thoroughly enjoy the pleasure of taking time for tea.

Prices are $32 for formal afternoon tea, $12 for nursery tea, $14 for cream tea, and $16 for just desserts.

English Rose Tea Room 201 Easy Street, Suite 103, Carefree 480-488-4812, carefreetea.com TeaTime Scottsdale This Old Town Scottsdale spot honors tea traditions but with a fresh, modern twist. TeaTime strives to turn tea into a lifestyle by creating a culture that appreciates the science and art of tea.

Along with afternoon tea options, TeaTime offers classes, private events, and more than 100 teas from around the world — or in-house blends. Customers can order their own tea boxes to take home. Delivery is available through DoorDash, Grubhub or Uber Eats.

Individual tea prices vary, but full tea services are $50, or $45 with a party of more than three people.

TeaTime Scottsdale 7051 E. Fifth Avenue, Suite C, Scottsdale 480-686-8503, teatimeaz.com Drink Me! Tea Room This whimsical, “Alice in Wonderland”-inspired tearoom offers a variety of tea blends in potion bottles with names like the Mad Hatter, Queen of Hearts, Cheshire Cat and White Rabbit.

The menu has savory sandwiches, scones, all the sweets imaginable, and organic tea. All teas are plant based and gluten free. Special-Tea Cocktails are for guests who need a little zip in their tea. Drink Me! hosts private events. To schedule, email contactus@ drinkmetearoom.com.

The full afternoon tea, which includes savories, scones, sweets and a pot of tea, is $49.50. There are seasonal, pe-

tite and children’s options. The Literary (seasonal) is $33, and Petite Tea is $17. The Children’s Tea includes a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, shortbread cookies, meringue mushrooms, fresh fruit, and an herbal tea or lemonade.

Drink Me! Tea Room 1730 E. Warner Road, Suite 5, Tempe 602-206-5469, drinkmetearoom. com Crowning Glory Tea Room For $51, guests can enjoy Crowning Glory’s full afternoon tea service with savories, salad, scones and sweets served on three tiers of fine china on Saturdays for dining in. Relax and have unlimited cups of tea from the extensive collection of more than 20 loose-leaf teas.

The high tea to-go option, available every Saturday in August, comes with an array of heavenly handmade savo-

ries, homebaked breads and spreads, and a glorious selection of sweet dainties.

There is an online tea shop where customers can pick out their favorite Morning Glory Teas to brew at home.

Crowning Glory Tea Room 16733 E. Palisades Boulevard, Fountain Hills 480-868-4832, crowningglorytearoom.com

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For people of a certain age, there are a few TV shows that are completely unforgettable. Of those iconic shows from the 1960s, one that stands out as corny, silly and sure to bring a smile is Sherwood Schwartz’ “Gilligan’s Island.”

A show that ran for only three seasons (1964 to 1967), with its first season filmed in black and white, the characters marooned on the deserted island became mainstays of pop culture.

Tapping into that nostalgia, the Arizona Broadway Theatre is offering “Gilligan’s Island: The Musical” on its stages through July 11.

“This past year with COVID and everything, one of the ways people have been coping is going back to things they find really comfortable, such as favorite TV shows and films,” said the show’s director, Jon Gentry.

“It is something you come into with an awareness of and a knowledge of that feels comfortable. The songs are really fun, and it still has that familiar feeling of ‘I know these people,’ and I think people will like that. It’s like revisiting old friends. It’s a bit cliché, but it’s a little true.”

The musical — whose book was written by the original creator Schwartz and his son, Lloyd Schwartz, with music and lyrics by Hope and Laurence Huber — brings back all the well-known characters: Gilligan (Stephen Hohendorf), the Skipper (Dave Seaburg), Mr. Thurston Howell III (Darren Friedman), Mrs. “Lovey” Howell (Cynthia Elek), Ginger (Lynzee Foreman), The Professor (Tim Shawver) and Mary Ann (Liz Fallon).

In this production, there is also actor Tony Blosser playing, well, you’ll have to see the show to find out what role.

Fallon doubles as the choreographer.

Tapping into the TV show’s favorite elements, the musical sees Gilligan

foiling attempts to get off the tropical island on which the characters have been marooned. There is romance, an ancient legend, a spooky cave, hieroglyphics and a giant storm.

With 18 songs, the show is designed to be family friendly.

Gentry got involved with the show when Kurtis Overby, the company’s associate artistic director, asked him if he would direct. Gentry read the script several times and said the more he read, the funnier the show was. He then started watching old episodes of the show and realized how good the actors were, despite the silliness of the show.

“It appealed to a certain aspect of my personality as a theater person,” Gentry said.

The dinner theater show will be in the Encore Room, which Gentry describes as a very small stage that feels a bit “island-esque.”

Scenic designer Jacob Nalley makes use of projections to help move the show through different moods, times of day, and locations on the island.

There isn’t space, Gentry said, to have a lot of scene changes, but it is a fun challenge to figure out how to fit the eight people on a tiny island.

He has high praise for his actors and said all of them are doing a good job of recreating a character type without doing dead-on impressions.

As a musical, the songs range from establishing characters, such as the Howells’ “It’s Good to Be Rich,” to reinforcing settings, such as “Island Lullaby.” They are catchy tunes that, Gentry said, fans hum afterward.

“The music, it’s surprisingly good,” Gentry said.

“I don’t know why I say surprisingly. I wasn’t sure if they were going to go with the idea of being a hokey show and was the music going to be hokey.

It’s fun — a lot of fun — but it’s not at all hokey. It’s really clever, and they SEE GILLIGAN’S PAGE 19

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Lake Pleasant Sailing Club resumes activities

BY ALLISON BROWN

Peoria Times Staff Writer

After more than a year of restrictions and regulations, the Lake Pleasant Sailing Club will resume normal activities this fall with a full event schedule.

Approximately an hour from anywhere in the Valley, Lake Pleasant is an easily doable day trip that serves as an oasis during the hot summer months.

Many come to the sailing club for the water, but they stay for the friendships.

“We have monthly meetings, guest speakers, organized on-the-water boating and networking. We promote and educate boaters, helping them to develop their skills, fully participate in and enjoy boating, all while making new friends,” said Cathy White, club secretary. “We’re really more of a social club that has a boating habit, because really it’s all about the people.”

The club has about 150 members who hail from around the Valley, and White said they are always excited to have new members. Potential members can try out the club by attending a few of its meetings or joining in on a “guest sail,” where those without boats can tag along with someone else.

Russ Test has been a member of the Lake Pleasant Sailing Club for eight years.

“We became a member when they had a guest sail, where they invited people from the community to come out and sail,” Test said. “We met some people and joined that same day. It was just a no-brainer.”

Former Florida residents, Test said he and his wife sailed around the coun-

Members of the Lake Pleasant Sailing Club do not have to own a boat.

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try, but when they moved to Chandler in 2014, they sold their boat, thinking there was no use for it, but they were soon proved wrong.

“Within a few months, we found out that there’s a very active sailing program in Phoenix,” Test said. “We immediately joined the club and haven’t looked back. I would say it’s an extremely active club, even more so than some of the boat clubs on the coast.”

Since joining, the Tests are members. He said they have made “forever friends,” thanks to the club.

Twenty-year member Doug Payne echoed this sentiment. Payne said that besides his love of sailing, the friendships he has made at the club are what keep him involved.

“We’ve made some long-term friends in the club, and we share that passion for sailing and also a little bit of RV, camping and travel,” Payne said. “We have the clubhouse RV trips as well.

My wife and I participated in that, and that kind of makes it double the fun because we can sail and we can RV with

our friends in the club.”

Besides sailing and socializing, the club does a number of other activities.

One, mentioned by Payne, is RV trips.

Other activities include community cleanups, educational programs, cruises, and movie and dinner member meetings.

One of the club’s most popular events has been its cruises. Payne said they cruise to Catalina Island every year and led the trip last spring. Test said he went on a weeklong Bahamas cruise with the club a couple times.

However, Test said he enjoys the educational programs.

“We’ve had various speakers from around the world who have spoken at our meetings, and they will talk about things like trimming the sails, line handling, knot tying, docking, safety, and all kinds of things that are important for boaters to know,” White said.

These educational programs, along

with lessons offered by the club, can take someone who has never been on a sailboat and turn them into a pro — or at least a solid beginner.

There are no certifications or experience required to join.

“There aren’t any criteria for joining,” White said. “All they have to do is go to our website and sign up. In fact, you don’t even have to have a boat.

Only 50% of our members have boats.

So, we have public events called guest sails, where we take members and nonmembers alike to let them experience sailing.”

A bundle membership is available for two adults in the same household for $50 a year, with a one-time initiation fee of $40. To sign up, view the event calendar or learn more, visit lakepleasantsailing.com. For inquiries specifically about membership, email membership@lakepleasantsailing.com.

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put a lot of time into it. It’s nicely done and it sticks with you.”

After more than a year of isolating because of the pandemic, Gentry said at first it was weird to be in a room with others not wearing masks. He said they are mindful of interactions on stage because the show has kissing in it. Theater staff took into consideration the actors’ health and safety, and the audi-

ence’s comfort level and how they will react seeing this on stage again.

“It is going to be an experience for those who are now starting to go back to the theater to sort of go, ‘Oh, OK, we’re sort of going back to where we were before,’” Gentry said.

He’s hoping the show’s nostalgia will combine with the experience of returning to Arizona Broadway Theatre.

“We are going back to what we do and what we hope we do best,” Gentry said. “It is home on two levels and fun for people who aren’t aware of this show to find something new. They now have this whole canon of stuff to go rent or go online and watch the original episodes.”

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Retired colonel honors fellow Vietnam veterans

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Peoria Times Executive Editor

Retired Col. Joe Abodeely does not mince words when he speaks about the Vietnam War. He’s tired of the mistreatment of Vietnam veterans. He’s frustrated that these soldiers and airmen are not remembered accurately nor often.

“We celebrate all the other veterans,” said the Maricopa resident.

“We do all this stuff for Memorial Day, (but) we don’t say anything positive about those who served in Vietnam.

It infuriates me. I’m a Vietnam veteran, and I’m proud of it. I try to honor those guys who served in Vietnam.”

For 10 years, the former Maricopa County deputy county attorney has hosted Arizona’s Vietnam Veterans Dinner with the Arizona Military Museum, a Vietnam War Commemoration Partner. Abodeely runs the Arizona Military Museum and heads there on Wednesdays.

The $50 tickets are on sale for the Saturday, Oct. 2, dinner at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort, 7200 N. Scottsdale Road. It begins with a no-host bar at 5:30 p.m., followed by 6:30 p.m. seating and 7 p.m. program.

To purchase tickets, make checks payable to Arizona Military Museum for $50 per person and mail the check to Arizona Military Museum, 9014 N. Wealth Road, Maricopa, before Sept.

24. Guests are asked to legibly print names, addresses and contact phone numbers of attendees.

Retired Col. Joey Strickland, veterans affairs secretary for the state of Louisiana, is the keynote speaker.

“He is a true friend of all veterans,”

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The 1st Air Cav, as they called themselves, was the only airmobile division and the first full Army division deployed to Vietnam.

“It was a new concept for the Army Retired Col. Joey Strickland, deployment At Arizona’s Vietnam Veterans Dinner, retired Col. Joe the veterans affairs secretary of light inAbodeely will show a video for the state of Louisiana, is fantry troops, about the Air Cavalry Division the keynote speaker. (Photo their artillery and the Marines at Khe Sanh. support, courtesy of the state of Louisi- fire (Photo courtesy of Retired Col. supplies and ana) Joe Abodeely) equipment — primarily by helicopter,” he said. “We Abodeely said.

The video theme and challenge coins had mobility and firepower that the relate to USMC at Khe Sanh and 1st other Army units simply did not have.”

Upon his return, he earned a Juris Air Cavalry.

Doctor from the University of Arizona Law School in 1971. He served in the Educating the public Abodeely, who turns 78 in July, is a U.S. Army Reserve from 1969 to 1995.

Tucson native who studied at UA. Af- As a judge advocate general legal offiter he graduated in 1965 with a Bach- cer, he provided legal advice and trainelor of Arts in English, he changed his ing on issues relating to terrorism, the course of study from law school to law of war and international law to law enforcement and military personnel in business.

“In those days, if you changed your the National Guard, Army Reserve. He course of study, you’re in the Army also worked as chief legal officer for now. I was sent to the Fort Benning the MP Operations Agency at the Pentagon.

School for Boys,” he said in a jest.

“I try to educate people,” Abodeely Eventually, he received his orders to go to Vietnam in January 1968, in the said. “I’m a highly literate guy. I un1st Air Cavalry Division during the Tet derstand what went on. When we do these dinners, I show a video about the Offensive.

According to his biography, he was Air Cavalry Division and the Marines an infantry lieutenant with the 1st Cav- at Khe Sanh.

“The mass media — and worse, yet, academia, the guys who didn’t go to Vietnam and stayed in school and got their history degrees — put their spin on the history of Vietnam.”

Vietnam remembrance This year’s dinner will be held outside due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Abodeely said there will be “nice am-

biance.”

“We have a dais and a podium,” he said. “We’ll have risers out there. We’ll have Joey and his wife at the head table. My wife and I will be there. Betsey Bayless usually shows up. There will be five at the head table.”

At 7 p.m., the Vietnamese and the American Legion Post 58 color guards will post the colors.

“We have a mixed color guard,” Abodeely said. “It’s the American Legion Color Guard with a couple Marines in it. They will do rifle drills and come down the aisle.”

Afterward, DK Orchestra will perform the Republic of Vietnam and U.S. national anthems.

From 7:15 to 7:20 p.m., Father Virgil Petermeier will say the invocation and, immediately following, Abodeely will welcome attendees and recognize veterans.

During dinner, from 7:40 to 8:15 p.m., the DK Orchestra will return to entertain. Abodeely’s video presentation is from 8:15 to 8:45 p.m., followed by a tribute to Lam Bui, a toast to the fallen and Vern West playing taps.

Strickland will speak from 9 to 9:20 p.m., service songs will be performed and challenge coins will be distributed from 9:20 to 9:40 p.m.

“I honor Vietnam veterans because nobody else really does,” Abodeely said.

“They’re jumping over to the new guys. I do what I do to honor Vietnam veterans because I don’t think other people do. They camouflage Vietnam veterans.”

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BY PEORIA TIMES STAFF The acclaimed Sounds of the Southwest Singers will celebrate the nation’s independence with songs of “Faith and Freedom” this Fourth of July.

The public show begins at 6 p.m. Sunday, July 4, at Bellevue Heights Church in Sun City. Admission is free, though a free-will offering will be received.

The all-volunteer choir is under the direction of Matt Deller and features more than 75 voices. Sounds of the Southwest Singers has performed at New York City’s Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall and has been invited to sing again at Carnegie Hall in May of next year. Along with many other appearances in the United States, the group has performed at locations throughout Europe, including the Vatican in Rome.

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Comedian Lee is ‘tall, dark and pleasant’

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Peoria Times Executive Editor

California comedian Pete Lee loves the Grand Canyon State.

He calls Scottsdale “the new Vegas.”

He filmed his forthcoming Showtime special, “Tall, Dark and Pleasant,” at Tempe Improv.

Needless to say, he’s excited about playing CB Live at Desert Ridge Marketplace Thursday, June 24, to Sunday, June 27.

“It’s very special to me,” Lee said about the CB Live, Copper Blues, Tempe Improv and Stand Up Live family of venues.

“It felt really emotional to tape a special in the pandemic. For them to take all the COVID precautions and get that ready, and for all the fans in Phoenix to come out to the Tempe Improv, I will always love Phoenix. I can’t wait to come back.”

As a former Wisconsinite, Lee is pleased with the Midwestern contingent

Pete Lee was the first standup comedian to get a standing ovation on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

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in Arizona.

“There are a lot of Wisconsin transplants down there,” he said. “The sunshine is a factor, I’m sure. Every time I

play in the Phoenix area it feels like an away game for the Wisconsin team.

“They come out in full force. I’m very hands-on. I like to meet everyone after the show and say hello. So many artists tell me they’ve sold VIP tickets. I don’t do that. I just meet everyone.”

Lee was the first standup comedian to get a standing ovation on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” and it resulted in him appearing on the show several times over the years. Lee made his fifth appearance on “The Tonight Show” in March.

In 2008, Lee made his network TV debut performing on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing,” finishing as a semifinalist.

That same year, he made his TV acting debut on the CBS Soap Opera “As the World Turns.” At the end of 2008, he shot his own Comedy Central half-hour special, which earned him a cult following at comedy clubs and the opportunity to perform over the next 10 years at 500 colleges across the country.

July 9 will mark the debut of his onehour special “Tall, Dark and Pleasant” on Showtime. Since he was in Tempe, Lee penned a new show and is grinding it out on tour.

“When you do a special, you have to write a new hour to tour with,” he said.

“If people see that hour on TV, they want to come out and see new stuff.

“It’s the opposite of music. They want to see your new stuff. I’ve been working really hard since the day after I taped my special on Feb. 25 to come up with a new hour. It’s banging.”

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Many times in life, we make judgments about behavior we don’t understand.

Often, the younger look at older people as those to be tolerated, not celebrated. Honestly, younger people may be seeing farther than more senior people because they’re sitting on older folks’ shoulders.

This column is a true and extraordinary story that many people don’t know. It is a shining example to be careful about judgments and how one might learn to be cautious with our older folks until you know them better.

You never know what they have done for younger people during their lifetimes.

The story comes from Max Lucado’s book “The Eye of the Storm.” I’ve shortened the story a bit to fit into this article.

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“Before long, however, he is no longer alone. Up in the sky, a thousand white dots come screeching and squawking, winging their way toward that lanky frame standing there on the end of the pier. Now, dozens of seagulls have enveloped him, their wings fluttering and flapping wildly. Ed stands there tossing shrimp to the hungry birds. As he does, if you listen closely, you can hear him say with a smile, ‘Thank you. Thank you.’

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When he finally turns around and begins to walk back toward the beach, a few of the birds hop along the pier with him until he gets to the stairs, and then they, too, fly away. And old Ed quietly makes his way down to the end of the beach and on home.

“If you were sitting there on the pier with your fishing line in the water, Ed might seem like a ‘funny old duck,’ as my dad used to say. Or, to onlookers, he’s just another old codger, lost in his weird world, feeding the seagulls with a bucket full of shrimp. Old folks often do strange things, at least in the eyes of others. Most would probably write Old Ed off, down there in Florida. That’s too bad. They’d do well to know him better.

“His full name is Eddie Rickenbacker. He was a famous hero in World War I, and then he was in WWII. On one of his flying missions across the Pacific, he and his seven-member crew went down. Miraculously, the men survived the crash, crawled out of their plane

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squawk from the gull, Eddie managed to grab the bird and wring its neck. He and his starving crew made a meal of it — a very slight meal for eight men.

Then they used the intestines for bait.

They caught fish, which gave them food and more bait for fishing, and the cycle continued. With that simple survival technique, they were able to endure the rigors of the sea until they were found and rescued after 24 days at sea.

“Eddie Rickenbacker lived many years beyond that ordeal, but he never forgot the sacrifice of that first life-saving seagull. And he never stopped saying ‘thank you.’ That’s why almost every Friday night, he would walk to the end of the pier with a bucket full of shrimp and a heart full of gratitude.”

P.S. Eddie Rickenbacker was the founder of Eastern Airlines. Before WWI, he was a race car driver. In WWI, Eddie was a pilot and became America’s first ace. In WWII, he was a combat instructor and military adviser, and he flew missions with combat

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Two rising seniors from BASIS Peoria brought home the second-place trophy at the Tournament of Champions, an international high school debate competition.

Mateen Sekandari and Pranav Saravanan became debate partners during their freshman year and have been on the team together since. After performing well at local competitions, they qualified for the apex of all debate tournaments, making them the first Arizona team to become a finalist.

“Honestly, we’re just feeling really great and really proud,” Sekandari said. “We’ve been debating for almost three years now, and it’s always been our goal to qualify for this tournament, let alone get second place. We’re proud to be able to represent Arizona and our school.”

Sekandari and Saravanan competed in the public forum division and faced debaters from the United States, Canada and China.

To be invited to the tournament, debaters were required to have performed exceptionally well in national circuit tournaments.

“This tournament, it only consists of the top-performing high school debaters from all across the world,” Sekandari said.

While the debate partners found success this year, they admitted to having their initial struggle to even come out with their first win as a team.

“At first, we actually lost every single round, all four of the rounds that we did,” Saravanan said with a laugh. “It probably was the best experience because it really showed that we weren’t the same team that lost all four rounds in our first local tournament. We were

Mateen Sekandari, left, and Pranav Saravanan competed and placed second in the public forum division at the Tournament of Champions, where they faced other high school debaters from the United States, Canada and China. (Photo courtesy of Mateen Sekandari)

improving along with the team and finally proved to be good enough to go to the Tournament of Champions and placed second there.”

The final topic Sekandari and Saravanan debated was the International Monetary Fund and whether or not it is beneficial. As a team, the young men said they were confident about the top-

ic, as it was one they had especially prepared for during practice.

Preparing for the tournament included late-night study sessions, countless phone calls, and research on various topics. While it was a challenge, Saravanan admitted the preparation has become one of his favorite parts about being on the team.

“I would stay up for hours at night preparing for the arguments, preparing for how we would handle arguments, and we would do practice speeches,” Saravanan said. “Honestly, despite the tournament, this was probably the best experience I had on the team because Mateen is one of the most hardworking people I know, and I don’t think anyone else on our team would stay up for hours just preparing speeches and practicing like he does.”

Looking toward the next debate season, Sekandari said the goal is to continue to do well at competitions to qualify again for the Tournament of Champions.

“Hopefully we get very far in the first tournament of the competitive season.

And if we do get very far, then we’ll have a better chance of qualifying again. It’s really about going to these national circuit tournaments and going farther than we did this year, and hopefully we can go again next year and win first place,” Sekandari said.

Sekandari hopes to continue competing on a debate team in college while Saravanan plans to take the coaching route and teach high schoolers the ins and outs of being on a debate team.

For now, however, the two are looking to celebrate their recent success and take what they’ve learned into their last year of high school.

“It’s all been surreal,” Saravanan said. “This was one of the dreams that we had, and we worked so hard to prepare. Seeing it all pay off and getting second place was amazing. It was like all our hard work was finally rewarded, and we were also able to get something for our school, because it was the first time that our school was able to get a debate award. It’s all probably been the best high school experience I’ve had.”

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NOTICE OF HEARING PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is given pursuant to ARS §9-462.04, ARS §9461.09(A) and the City Code of Peoria, Arizona, that the Planning and Zoning Commission for the City of Peoria will hold a public hearing on Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 6:30 p.m. in the Peoria City Council Chambers, 8401 W. Monroe Street, Peoria, Arizona 85345. Further information related to these requests or the Public Hearings may be obtained from the Planning Division of the Planning & Community Development Department, 9875 N. 85 th Avenue, Peoria, Arizona 85345, or by calling the Planning Division at 623- 773-7200.

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