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Carlat: New community helping Peoria be a ‘complete city’ BY CONNOR DZIAWURA
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Upon opening in the Northwest Valley, Arrowhead Valley Retirement Resort’s team took a regional approach to partnership. As such, Peoria Mayor Cathy Carlat and Ironwood District Councilman Bill Patena, representatives for Congresswoman Debbie Lesko and the Arizona Department of Housing, and the Peoria and Glendale chambers of commerce teams, among others, showed their support for the 55-and-older, independent living community September 12. Located at 81st Avenue and West Beardsley Road, the Resort Lifestyle Community, according to Peoria Chamber President
and CEO Scot Andrews, is the product of a $30 million project, one which created 40 to 50 jobs — and a place for the aging West Valley population to call home. “The one thing that we’ve learned as we’ve opened our 30th community — our 29th was the second in the Valley area, so we are honored to be a part of this amazing community — is that the chamber quickly becomes our guidance, our friends, and the warm welcome we’ve received from the very beginning of just a few of us becoming members has been an amazing journey of warmth,” said Kelly Jo Hinrichs, vice president of marketing for Resort Lifestyle Communities. “We’re humbled by the welcome that we
Council agrees to more Project WET festivals for kids
received from each and every one of you as we brought senior retirement living to a group of amazing people that have quickly become our family.” Carol Ditmore, director of the Arizona Department of Housing, speaking on behalf of Gov. Doug Ducey and the state as a whole, noted the governor’s attendance at a national meeting in which he and others spoke about the aging population. Ditmore said that discussion emphasized how seniors need housing and services. “I think they have encompassed all of that right here in this one location,” she added of Arrowhead Valley Retirement Resort. SEE RETIREMENT PAGE 5
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The Peoria City Council agreed in a recent meeting to permanently increase the amount of Project WET festivals held annually for the city’s young students. Project Water Education for Teachers (WET) is a study unit for fourth-graders at Peoria schools, sponsored by the University of Arizona, encompassing a variety of aspects of maintaining and supplying water to the city. The festival, a two-hour daytrip activity for the kids during or around their learning units in school, gives kids a chance to experience the lessons from class first-hand from the city’s environSEE PROJECT WET PAGE 2
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