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area, and will provide additional enhancements for this critically important area of Glendale,” City Manager Kevin Phelps said. istrict at Sportsman’s Park, “We look forward to continuing to Glendale, is the new moniwork with Plaza Companies and the ker for the mixed-use projArizona Cardinals on this project as ect under construction near State we create a new economic engine Farm Stadium. for the community and a dynamic Built in a collaboration between live-work experience in Glendale the city of Glendale, the Arizona Cardinals and Plaza Companies, District at Sportsman’s Park, Glendale, is the new mon- that is unrivaled in the region.” District at Sportsman’s Park, the 62-acre project is located east of iker for the mixed-use project under construction near State Farm Stadium. (Twitter Photo/@GrowGlendale) Glendale, includes two parcels of Loop 101 south of State Farm Stadiland in the northwest portion of the prop“This project will create new employum and to the east of the new VAI Resort, erty owned by an affiliate of the Arizona which will also contain the new Mattel ment opportunities for the community, attract business and commerce to the Theme Park. SEE PARK PAGE 3
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Peoria Times Staff Writer
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Flesh-eating bacteria survivor hikes Mount Kilimanjaro BY JORDAN ROGERS
Peoria Times Staff Writer
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hristin Lipinski, a special education teacher at Oakwood Elementary School, has dealt with her fair share of adversity in her life. Back in 2018, she spent two and a half months in the hospital dealing with necrotizing fasciitis, or flesh-eating bacteria. Initially, Lipinski said she couldn’t even see the cut in the area that wound up leading to her necrotizing fasciitis. Additionally, she had been feeling flu-like symptoms, but at the time, her whole family had been sick, so she thought she had simply contracted the flu.
“It’s so hard to know,” she said. “That’s the scary part about necrotizing fasciitis, is it can sneak in in such a tiny way and then do so much damage.” It took seven days for Lipinski’s body to show any real sign of necrotizing fasciitis. After being rushed to the operating room at St. Joseph’s Hospital on Central Avenue and Thomas Road, surgeons had to cut away about 30% of her soft tissue to halt the spreading of the bacteria and even had preliminary thoughts of having to amputate her arm. From there, Lipinski was in a medically induced coma for 24 days. As far as treatment went, Lipinski’s was unconventional. The RECELL System was
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used to help her in healing. Typically used exclusively for burn victims, RECELL is a device that enables health care professionals to produce a suspension of spray-on skin cells using a small sample of the patient’s own skin. “We later found out after RECELL had been used on me, it had kind of leaked out that I was actually the very first necrotizing fasciitis survivor who was able to get RECELL,” Lipinski said. “That was really great and kind of opened the doors to be used for all patients after that.” Now a few years removed from the life-altering situation, Lipinski is as close to back SEE LIPINSKI PAGE 4