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The Queen Creek Police Department, still in its infancy at just over half a year old, has responded to nearly 2,000 calls at Queen Creek elementary and high school campuses. The calls ranged from traffic control to trespassing and everything in between, but Queen Creek Police Chief Randy Brice said that most were not criminal in nature. “Less than 5% were actual crimes,” Brice told Town Council at its meeting Aug. 17. “Most of that was engagement activities. Sometimes they will just sit and talk with parents as they come in. Most of it is Monday to Friday during school hours.” High schools led the way in number of calls with 129 at Casteel High School, 213 at Queen Creek High, 190 at Ben Franklin Charter High and 143 at Canyon State Acad emy. Sossaman Middle School was high on the list, too, with 120 police calls. The department technically is not allowed to get involved with enforcing school rules. But Brice said that given the increase in violent acts at schools across the country, people want to know that police are ready to respond to dangerous situations in what Brice called the “rare” and unlikely chance
BY MARK MORAN Tribune Staff Writer W hat better way to tell the sto ry of a town’s growth than through its traffic lights? No where is that better illustrated than in Queen Creek, where the signals are sprouting up all over the place. “You can see that 2022 is the year of signals,” said Queen Creek public works director Mohamed Youssef. “15 signals inWith2022.”the addition of those lights, this see LIGHTS page 4 brings traffic answered 2K calls from schools
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BY ZACH ALVIRA Tribune Staff Writer
Queen Creek submitted corrective action to the AIA for the pitch discrepancy before Monday’s meeting. It included a meeting between Driving Hawk and Moreno to review pitch count by law
“We will follow the proper process to ap peal this decision,” a statement from Queen Creek Athletic Director Chris Driving Hawk said.“We are reevaluating the corrective ac tions we presented to the Executive Board and plan to present an appeal that: (1) ad dresses previous bylaw violations, (2) pro vides action steps that eliminate future vio lations from taking place, and (3) gives our baseball student-athletes the opportunity to compete in the postseason,” Hawk said. An investigation by the AIA found Queen Creek Coach Mikel Moreno did not use an approved device to count pitches during its postseason matchup against Chaparral. The Bulldogs recorded 55 pitches for their starter. Chaparral, using an approved device, recorded 64.
The pitcher in question came in as a reliev er against the Huskies and led Queen Creek to a However,win. the Bulldogs were later disqual ified by the AIA and placed Hamilton back into the tournament, which it went on to win. “Unfortunately, they were not able to con tinue with the playoffs,” AIA Executive Direc tor David Hines said. “Then, the board has to address the violation that occurred. Based on the information, the board was able to get from all involved, a decision was made.”
The difference required an extra day of rest, which would have made the pitcher in eligible to pitch against Hamilton.
Queen Creek’s appeal is expected to be heard by the board in the coming weeks.
Queen Creek High School plans to ap peal the Arizona Interscholastic Asso ciation Executive Board’s decision to put the baseball program on probation for a after a pitch count violation last spring.
The decision, which bans the baseball program from the playoffs for this year, was announced last week during the board’s first meeting of the school year.
Hines said Queen Creek’s removal from the postseason was an immediate action the AIA had to take because the violation occurred last spring. However, the Executive Board still had to vote to take action for the violation.“Being removed from the playoffs is not a corrective action. They didn’t try to make it a corrective action, but unfortunately, they weren’t able to continue at that time,” Hines said.“What’s kind of unfortunate is this took place when we have no board meeting until the middle of August. We would certainly like to have those things addressed earlier but there’s a process we have to follow.”
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The21.1.5.corrective action also said the two would have weekly meetings throughout the baseball season to ensure bylaws are being followed.Thebaseball program will also adopt Ga meChanger, a new application that tracks pitch counts and will be run by a parent. Additionally, pitch counts from every var sity game will be submitted to Driving Hawk on an approved AIA form. According to the corrective action, Moreno will also be disci plined, though the AIA did not elaborate.
The Bulldogs emerged as a dark horse in the 6A baseball playoffs last season. They went 20-6 on the year and knocked off Coro na del Sol and Basha before falling to Chap arral in the game that sparked controversy.
The Bulldogs went on to win an elimina tion game against Hamilton before an inves tigation by the AIA revealed the pitch count discrepancy.“Wearecommitted to providing a positive spring season for our baseball student-ath letes while holding our programs and coach ing staff to the expectations articulated in the AIA bylaws,” Driving Hawk said.
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The addition of high-tech traffic lights will allow the town to see socalled “red and green corridors,” and allow traffic signals to be adjusted accordingly in an attempt to keep traffic flowing as smoothly as possi ble, even with the limited infrastruc ture that currently exists.
“This is the latest technology and that will help us, for example, see what is the impact of State Route 24 on our street network,” Youssef said. “The good news is that now we have the technology in our signals that now we can see the traffic patterns.” The town is in the process of train ing technicians to use that technolo gy, time the lights and react to traffic conditions.“Wewillbe
“We don’t have the access from Signal Butte or Meridian yet for the town residents,” Riegel said, “but that’s supposed to happen by the end of January and that will have an impact on what’s happening at Iron wood. “Things are going to be very much in flux for the next four to six months.”Overall completion of SR 24, which was originally envisioned to join up with US 60 near Florence Junction is in the distant future as funding on the Pinal County side is still in question.
LIGHTS from page 1 is by far the busiest year for signal installations, town officials said, adding the number of new signals will go down to four next year and two in “20222024.was the heavy hitter. We expanded the system by 22%,” said Marshall Riegel, Queen Creek’s traf fic engineer.
Queen Creek will have a total of 86 signals in town by the end of 2024. “That’s significant for us,” Youssef said. “All of the signals are connect ed to the Traffic Management Center. We can change timing and we can look around and see what’s going on. I don’t think that any other city or town has what we have in terms of technology.”
The traffic light masterplan is be ing coordinated with an eye toward the expansion of SR 24, known as the Gateway Freeway, which just opened a five-mile extension from Ellsworth Road in Maricopa County to Iron wood Drive in Pinal County and is expected to alleviate traffic in town. Once finished, the “interim phase” of State Route 24 will consist of three general purpose lanes, an auxiliary lane and an HOV lane in each direc tion to provide ample freeway access for Queen Creek residents.
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While 86 signals by the end of 2024 is the official number, mem bers of the Transportation Advisory Committee cautioned that as fast as Queen Creek is growing, that number is only an official estimate, at best. “This doesn’t include any un knowns like any developments that may happen,” Riegel said. “Or other warranted signals that may occur. We are rapidly approaching the cen turyAmongmark.”other key intersections, lights have been added at Germann Road and Ironwood Drive, Queen Creek and Pima Roads and Ocotillo and Ironwood Roads. “This is all in preparation of know ing that State Route 24 is going to be coming on line,” Riegel said. “Knowing that the freeway is in a po sition at Ironwood, knowing that Iron wood is the main delivery point for San Tan people, we are trying to make that corridor operate better for when we have jurisdiction,” he explained. With just under 70,000 people at last count, Queen Creek was Ameri ca’s third most rapidly growing city by percentage between July 2020 and July 2021, according to US Cen susThedata.town seems to be growing faster than its infrastructure can keep up. The town doubled in population between 2010 and 2020 – leading to major traffic bottlenecks at key in tersections.ButQueen Creek officials are look ing beyond temporary slowdowns on the surface streets.
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With a nod to the town’s equestri an roots, which are still active today, the town will install what is called an “equestrian capable” signal at the in tersection of the Queen Creek Wash and Meridian Road. “There will be a button that the horse riders will push. They don’t have to get off the horse,” Marshall said. “It will have its own little indicator.”
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“And it doesn’t look like the typical signal,” Youssef added. BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer
“Every time I drive by the project, my kids point it out, ‘there’s Daddy’s tow er,’” Minor said. “It’s a source of pride for me and a landmark for the community that it’s cool to have been a part of.”
Members of Arizona’s congres sional delegation and dignitar ies from the region will dedi cate Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport’s new 199-foot air traffic tower. It’s a major milestone for the East Val ley and the airport, but for the children of Queen Creek’s Geoffrey Minor, who managed the project for builder DPR, it will likely remain “Daddy’s tower.”
The town routinely dispatches technicians to the scene of an acci dent to save what parts they can as quickly as they can, just as emergen cy medical personnel are sent to help the people involved. The boneyard also helps alleviate supply-chain issues by making hardto-get parts available to be re-used in new signals right away. Queen Creek’s past is not lost in all of the future planning.
The new control tower at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, left, will soon take over local air traffic control and ground movement operations from a control tower that is over 40 years old and served the much smaller footprint of Williams Air Force Base. (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer) see
Gateway’s new traffic control tower is now Mesa’s second-tallest building, after the 224-foot Mesa Financial Plaza at the corner of Southern Avenue and Alma School Road. At the dedication, which is not open to the public, officials will announce the traffic control tower’s name, chosen to honor an Arizonan who worked hard to make the $30 million tower a reality. Minor said he will be out-of-town working on another project during the dedication, but other representatives for DPR will be at the event. The newly completed tower, which will go into service Aug. 26, is seen as a key step in the airport’s ambition to become a world-class hub of travel and commerce.Theexisting tower has been in service over 50 years, and is one of the busiest contract traffic control towers in the U.S. Contract towers are air traffic control towers staffed by employees of private companies rather than by Federal Avia tion Administration employees. Roughly half of the nation’s towers are contract. Airport spokesman Ryan Smith said the facility’s current and future de mands had exhausted the capabilities of the old tower. The new tower will double the num of the year, “Youssef said. The technology doesn’t come cheap. According to the town Trans portation Advisory Committee, it costs roughly $800,000 to install each light from start to finish. “That’s a big chunk,” said commit tee member David Goldman. Queen Creek has relied heavily on grants from the Maricopa Associa tion of Governments to help pay for the new traffic lights. Of $3.3 million that was allocated to Queen Creek, $1.8 million was used for traffic lights and there are more MAG grant applications in the works. The town also operates a “bone yard” to salvage what remains after a signal is either damaged in an ac cident or rendered obsolete by the expansion of an intersection that re quires more robust signals.
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The department’s primary focus is identifying threats before they become violent incidents and keeping minor in cidents from escalating into “significant grievances” for some students, he said. He added the department also wants to make sure that every student has at least one adult in their school commu nity that they trust enough to take their concerns to. “It’s just not a one-size-fits-all,” Brice said. “It’s a broad spectrum of factors that we had to look at. Do we have a risk and how do we respond to that and how and when can we make a difference.” Brice said that his department will work with schools to create teams that will learn to assess those threats and learn how to identify dangerous behav ior, taking every threat seriously. “You can’t say ‘uh it’s just kids play ing’ because that used to be the M.O. of a lot of agencies and organizations and schools, as well. They went ‘well, it’s not SemperFiHeatingCooling.com
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QUEEN CREEK TRIBUNE | QUEENCREEKTRIBUNE.COM | AUGUST 21, 2022 9NEWS a big deal.’ And we know that’s not the case,” he said. “You need to take every threat seri ously, investigate thoroughly and take the appropriate action so that you can neutralize those conditions very quick ly.”Aside from responding to potentially dangerous situations and other crim inal matters, QCPD is heavily involved in community engagement, including at theBriceschools.said he hopes to help parents and administrators understand that just because a police car is at a school does not necessarily mean something bad is happening.Toaddress that, the schools have hired a new supervisor in charge of community engagement. “This is more than a school resource program,” Brice said. This is a holistic approach to helping our children in the community.“Alltocreate better connections, to increase that parent engagement and bring in faith-based organizations that can help bridge the gap that we have sometimes when we have those difficult cases where people are being bullied,” he“Thissaid. is a matter we can never give too much attention,” said Mayor-elect Julia Wheatley said of bullying, both in per son and online. “A lot of times the bullying doesn’t get to where we are doing a report,” Brice said. “We don’t try to criminalize things that can be handled at the school level.” Brice said that future growth in the number of school campuses in the town will require additional coordination that involves at least three different school districts and a number of charter and private entities. “It seems like we are adding a new school every year,” Brice said.
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“The current total budget for the Oco tillo Bridge and roadway improvements project is $79 million, which includes link triggers protests
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“The only portion of the bridge that will feature the Palo Verde design con cept will be the main section located over the future phase of Gilbert Regional Park,” she said.
The need for the bridge was identified in 2001 and the project reflects substan tial public involvement and feedback, according to spokeswoman Jennifer Snyder.Thebridge will have four travel lanes along with bicycle lanes and pedestrian pathways on both sides. Although the town has directed the public’s focus on the bridge that’ll have the Palo Verde design concept, there are actually a total of four separate bridges spanning the existing water channels. Those channels include the Roosevelt Water Conservation District Canal, East Maricopa Floodway, Chandler Heights Regional Basin and Queen Creek Wash, according to Snyder.
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Aproject linking two segments of Ocotillo Road and giving Queen Creek motorists an additional route east is under fire in Gilbert by res idents who question a price tag that well exceeds $79 million. Gilbert officials want to build the 545-foot-long Ocotillo Bridge as a “state ment piece” with all kinds of bells and whistles, but it also plans three other spans that the town administration has barely discussed. The Ocotillo Bridge will cross over watercourses at Gilbert Regional Park to connect Ocotillo Road between Hig ley and Greenfield roads, improving response times for police and fire and giving a direct access to the 272-acre recreational amenity. Some residents are calling the town out for the expense, which a town spokeswoman put at $79 million for all four“Therebridges.was an option for four garish, outlandish fancy bridges,” said Terri Naddy, who spoke at a recent council meeting. “But I didn’t see an option for a plain one. You didn’t give the community an opportunity to spend less money.”
Although Naddy is a county island resident, she faces losing a portion of her backyard under Gilbert’s plan to widen Ocotillo Road from 148th Street to Greenfield Road to two lanes in each direction with a center turn lane. Ellen West called it a “Disneyland-style bridge,” adding “if it was like every other bridge that crosses that wash, we would save probably several million dollars.”
And, Roy Morales said now was not the time to build the bridge. “We don’t need to be spending money on that bridge,” he said. “We’re in a re cession. We have inflation and we have a federal government out of control print ing“Imoney.don’tknow what that’s going to do to my child and my grandchildren be cause we’re taxing them. We need to be frugal with our money here in Gilbert.” Dozens of people on social media also criticized the bridge’s cost, calling it a waste of taxpayer dollars. According to the town, this area of Gilbert is unique as it connects commu nities through multiple modes of travel and extends through the future phase of the Regional Park, a destination spot for local residents as well as national and internationalCompletingtravelers.theproject with a “state ment bridge,” the town says on its web site, “further enhances the experience for all users and provides a landmark for Gilbert’s residents for years to come. “
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14 QUEEN CREEK TRIBUNE | QUEENCREEKTRIBUNE.COM | AUGUST 21, 2022NEWS ber of air traffic controllers who can occupy the control cab at the top, from four currently to eight, and includes two floors of space below the cab for train ing, breaks and meetings. Air Traffic Manager Doug Mack called the new tower “absolutely amazing.” The new tower also occupies a better position at the airport, Smith said, giv ing controllers enhanced visibility for managing aircraft all across the facility. The better visibility is important, he said, because PMGA currently handles such a wide array of air traffic: F-16 fighter jets, large commercial planes, small propeller planes, Apache helicop ters and more. In July, space tourism company Virgin Galactic selected PMGA as the site of a fi nal assembly location for its spaceships. So, the “and more” above may eventu ally include large Virgin Galactic “moth erships” carrying spaceships on their underbellies between Mesa and the company’s New Mexico spaceport. The new tower took just under two years to build. Minor said the project has a lot of “unique features,” requiring “coordina tion like none other than I’ve ever par ticipated in in my career.”
One of the interesting features of the tower is the cab and offices on top of the shaft are made from just two pieces of prefabricated steel, weighing 206,000 pounds and 110,00 pounds, respectively. The climax of the entire build may have been when a crane hoisted up those mas sive pieces and placed them on top of the shaft in two separate picks in August 2021. “Just the physical act of picking that up” was challenging, Minor said, as well as making sure the two massive steel pieces were perfectly level and lined up with the connection points. “The rigging had to be perfect,” Minor said.Another key feature of the tower is be low ground. tower is relatively small, the structure is “built like a high rise,” Smith said. “It will withstand 100 mph wind, earthquakes –it will stand the test of time.” To resist lateral forces on the tower from wind and seismic activity, Minor said the tower is built on a 6-foot slab of re inforced concrete on top of 37 caissons –holes drilled 80 feet deep into the ground and filled with reinforced concrete. Smith said airport leaders are “really proud” of the new tower. “We had to move mountains to get it approved – had to change laws,” Smith said.Smith explained that the FAA used to have a $2 million cap on grants for con tract airport control towers. Following a major effort by Arizona’s congressional delegation, a 2018 bill eliminated the restriction on funding for contract towers, clearing the way for PMGA to build the high-tech tower with federal“Previoussupport.mayors and congressional delegations had to work hard to con vince government” to change the law,
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The 545-foot Ocotillo Bridge is considered by town officials as a “statement piece” for motorists and makes a pricey statement for taxpayers too at an estimated $50 million. (Town of Gilbert) Amid yet another snafu by the Pinal County Elections Department, at least one of the three Queen Creek Town Council seats could be headed for a November run-off following the results of Tuesday’s primary. With some ballots countywide still being counted as of the Tribune’s print deadline Friday, results from the Maricopa County Recorder’s Officer showed incumbent Dawn Oliphant with 27% of the vote; Bryan McClure, 25%; Travis Padilla, 25% and Matt McWilliams, 23%. The Pinal County results had Oliphant with 27%; McWilliams, 25%; McClure, 24% and Padilla, 23%. According to the latest available data, Pinal reported that total 2,559 ballots had been cast in its portion of Queen Creek while the Maricopa portion saw 10,482 ballots. The threshold for an outright win involves dividing the total number of votes by the number of available seats, then dividing by 2. As of Friday, the whole numbers put Padilla ahead of McWilliams, 6,100-5874. But the math may be further compli-
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Another potential redesign is the arches“Beingthemselves.intertwined, a leaning arch is definitively a very hard thing to make happen,” Rutkowski said. “We’re exploring that more and more as we get into the concepts. So, may be straightening them out, still having them offset (and) trying to stay true to the concept as much as we possibly can.” They are also looking at adjusting the height of the pedestrian rail to prevent people from climbing on the arches and extending shade structures, he added. The firm is expected to submit 30% of its plan Sept. 8 and a value engineer ing session is scheduled for Sept. 26 to look at potential cost savings, Rutkow ski“We’resaid. hoping to see construction of the actual project start sometime late next year,” he concluded. The town in 2017 hired Kimley-Horn for $217,878 to perform the Ocotillo Road Bridge assessment. “The Town’s design budget for the Ocotillo Bridge is approximately $4.7 million,” Snyder said. “Kimley-Horn’s cur rent design contract will take the design to 60% plans. A contract modification will be taken to council in late fall for final design and post design services.” Snyder said the firm’s total contract amount is expected to stay within the existing budget of $4.7 million. The bridge is anticipated to open for traffic in fall or winter of 2025.
“They’re rather large arches. They’re 40 feet tall and what they’re made out of is heavy steel, potentially concrete. They may need more support so we’ve been exploring what does it look like if we start adding the different columns and what not throughout so that’s another piece to this puzzle that we’re working through.”
“Palo Verde was in the lead with the No. 1 survey and still in the lead with the No. 2 survey,” Rutkowski said. “That really led us to Palo Verde being the pre ferredThatconcept.”said,the concept is undergoing design changes, according to Rutkowski. “We’ve started changing things like shade structures and looking at differ ent variations of the project,” he told the council. “There will be updates to come as we go through and refine the design.”
After a second survey, the Palo Verde design continues to be the public’s fa vorite, according to David Rutkowski, project manager for Kimley-Horn.
Rutkowski said some of the refine ment includes choosing a color for the lighting.“We’ve been thinking about how to light the bridge, what colors light best at night and just what colors weather bet ter,” he said. And, they are looking at po tentially changing the color of the arches or even go as far as changing the color of the bridge, according to Rutkowski. “And another piece that we’re look ing at as we move into kind of finalizing the concept is the number of columns,” Rutkowski said. “We’re getting more and more into the technical details, the engi neering details of the project and we’re thinking that the arches.”
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BY JOSH ORTEGA Tribune Staff Writer East Valley municipalities in the last fiscal year took advantage of unantici pated general fund revenue increases to make big additional payments on their debt to pensions earned by thousands of retired police officers and firefighters. But Tempe, Mesa, Gilbert, Chandler and Scottsdale still have long way to go before they erase their huge unfunded liabilities. Those five municipalities still owe to tal $1.4 billion for pensions covering 955 retired firefighters, 1,471 retired cops and see PENSION page QC an exception amid big pension debt Pinal snafus muddy outcome of QC council races Tribune Valley
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Cloud is not exactly your run-of-the mill hippie peacenik-turned God-lov ingAfterpreacher.growing weary of his low pay ing teaching jobs, he eventually woundup developing warfare software for General Dynamics – and working with the Coast Guard and the Army – so he could start a family and afford to live. So, perhaps ironically, Cloud was getting paid to create military defense projects and spending his salary on things that were anything but battle related.“Allthis time I’m involved in my church,” he said. “So, I’m helping build the kingdom, so to speak, the Heaven ly kingdom. So, we came out here and planted a community center that a church meets in.”
Cloud held his warfare software job until he knew whether or not his church in Queen Creek would work. When it did, he quit his job, took a pay cut and went to work full time as a pastor.Completely funded by what they collect in the offering plate on Sunday morning, Third Place Cup/Amadeo church feels like an old-fashioned “coop meets modern day gathering spot.” And that was by design, Cloud says. Based on research by urban sociol ogist Ray Oldenburg, Cloud set out to create a place where people of all backgrounds could come together and beIncomfortable.hisresearch, Oldenburg describes third places as “the public places on neutral ground where people can gath er and interact.
Ben Cloud not only runs a coffee shop across Mountain View Funeral Home but also is pastor of Amadeo Church in Queen Creek. (Mark Moran/Queen Creek Tribune)
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B y his own admission, 51-year Ben Cloud is more than a little bit odd. “I am absolutely a crackpot weirdo,” heCloud,said. with his salt and pepper goa tee, t-shirt and ball cap, runs a place called The Third Cup coffee shop in Queen Creek across the blacktop park ing lot from Mountain View Funeral Home and AlthoughCemetery.youwould never know it because the word does not appear on the marquee or storefront anywhere outside, nor anywhere inside the place, The Third-Place Cup coffee shop is actually a front for Amadeo Church, where Cloud is the pastor. But this isn’t your typical church, and as pastor, Cloud wears a lot of hats.
Self-described QC ‘weirdo’ plants churches
“Community activist, futurist, farm er, bookstore and coffee shop operator, philanthropist, do-gooder, non-profit leader,” is how Cloud describes him self.He is part of what’s known as a “church planting movement,” where the idea of the church itself is not front and“Somecenter.churches create a building and then they want to do community center stuff in it,” Cloud said. “Amadeo Church wanted to create a community center that they meet in and I am the pastor.”Inaddition to having been a crisis pregnancy center, homeschool gath ering spot, food pantry and a source of help with social services, Amadeo Church also operates King and Queen Creek organic farm just west of Ells worth Road on Germann Road. Members of the congregation donate time, expertise, even live animals to theTheyeffort.give away the produce they grow, including peaches, apricots and grapes.Like the coffee shop/church build ing, which are open for public use as long as the public benefits from it, “if you want to use the farm for good, like if you want to grow healthy stuff, we’ll let you use the spot,” Cloud said. “I just always sort of had this idea – how do we serve the community in practical ways because that’s what Christ calls us to do is to love people, serve people, create safe places, family friendly places,” he continued. “If Jesus washed feet, we serve cof fee. If Jesus washed feet, we give free produce away.”
“In contrast to first places (home) and second places (work), third plac es allow people to put aside their con cerns and simply enjoy the company and conversation around them,“ he writes.That’s where Cloud came up with the name for Third Place Cup. Cloud preaches two sermons on Sun days at Amadeo in Queen Creek then heads to Pinetop, where he has opened an 860-square-foot community cen ter/church. Cloud envisions planting 40 churches in 40 years. One down, 39 to go. “We are trying to find metaphorical ways to wash peoples’ feet. No one wants their feet washed, but everyone will take a cup of coffee,” he said. “Really, what they want is conver sation. They want community. We are trying to create spaces and show the love of God.”
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Conventional methods of reducing rat populations simply can’t overcome their rate of Ifreproduction.leftunchecked, rodents will do what they do best – reproduce rapidly. Two sexually active rats can be responsi ble for the birth of up to 15,000 descendants in just one year, according to SenesTech CEO Ken Siegel. If the breeding isn’t stopped, then you can’t get a handle on the population. “One side of the equation is the birth rate, but the other is the death rate,” Siegel said. “Rats become mature in a very short peri od of time and then they can have a litter of pups basically every six weeks. “The pups become mature and they have pups. You see a geometric explosion in the population. If you’re simply relying on death, you can’t kill them fast enough or sustainably enough to offset how fast they reproduce. That’s why birth control is so important.”
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The suspended bait station is easily ac cessible by roof rats, but out of the way of people, pets, livestock and food storage areas.Itis more than 90% effective in eliminat ing rat populations, according to SenesTech. This is especially important for Arizonans considering that Phoenix is ranked as one of the worst areas in the U.S. for roof rats.
“They fight over it,” said Meagher, who set up a rat camera to make sure that the rats were actually drinking ContraPest, and sure enough, they were. “ If it runs out before I fill it up, they’ll chew the container like, ‘Where is it?’ If one is drinking and taking too long, another one will bump him out of the way like, ‘Hey, it’s my turn.’ They absolutely love it.”
It’s not just consumers who are pleased with ContraPest, the rats love it too.
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The Elevate Bait System uses the same contraceptive but with a different dispens ing system that’s specifically designed for roof rats in elevated indoor spaces.
SenesTech was founded in 2004 to serve women’s health. It wasn’t until researchers developed a model for inducing menopause in mice, which later became known as “mou seopause,” that they began looking at birth controlDevelopmenttechnology.of ContraPest took several years, but in 2016 SenesTech finally won approval from the EPA to market ContraPest for use against rats. Now, the company has gone a step further to eliminate roof rats in elevated spaces by designing the Elevate Bait System with Con traPest, which was approved by the EPA in March.“Elevate is a unique way to deal with a problem that no one has been able to tack le before,” Siegel said. “It enables for the first-time pest control to be easily deployed above ground. Up until this point, there was really no way to deploy poison or ContraPest above ground. “So now there’s this groundbreaking dis pensing system that you can put where the roof rats are most likely to be.”
The latest tool to solve your rat problem has arrived, but it’s not what you ex Insteadpect.of eliminating rodents using poi son or traps, a Phoenix company has devel oped a more humane method: “Rat birth control.”SenesTech, Inc. produces ContraPest, a new fertility control technology for manag ing animal pest populations, primarily Nor way and roof rats. It’s a non-toxic, non-lethal liquid dispensed inside tamper-resistant bait stations that causes infertility when in gested.And it is the only Environmental Protec tion Agency -registered contraceptive for both male and female rats. “It’s so good for the environment and just being a kind human,” said Kim Meagher, the founder of Wildhorse Ranch Rescue in Gil bert and an early customer of ContrPest. “There are a lot of us who don’t want to harm critters, so it’s a really nice way to take care of your rodent population,” she said. Animal lovers, like Meagher, aren’t inter ested in killing any. So, when Meagher’s res cue of 27 years developed a roof rat issue, she searched for non-lethal ways to eradi cate the infestation. That’s when she found ContraPest.“Ittookcare of our population in a very humane way very quickly,” she said. Rats weren’t the only animals Meagher was concerned about. She had seen a notice posted by Liberty Wildlife, of Phoenix, about how rodenticide poisoning not only kills rats, but also the ea gles, hawks, owls, livestock and other wild life or pets that eat them. She was thrilled to have found a solution that doesn’t harm any animals and actually works.“You can poison or kill as many as you want all day long, but they’re still going to have babies,” Meagher said. “You’re not going to get them all. They’re going to reproduce faster than you can exterminate all of them.”
Rats drink about 10% of their body weight in water every day, according to SenesTech. So, ContraPest was formulated to satisfy theirThethirst.sweet, fatty liquid formula has prov en successful in reducing rat populations, in turn preventing the serious property dam age, dangerous food contamination and dis ease spread caused by rodents. To learn more or to order ContraPest or the Elevate Bait System with Con traPest, call 1-866-886-RATS or visit contrapeststore.com.
Contributor ContraPest, a new fertility control technology for managing ani mal pest populations, fits into a box with a hole for the critters to get into.
Roof rats spend about 90% of their life four feet or more off the ground, according to Maricopa County Vector Control. They can be found on power lines, fences, attics, garages, patios and more. So, Senes Tech wanted to develop a better way to de ploy ContraPest for roof rats.
ContraPest works because of its two active ingredients. The first ingredient reduces the number of eggs female rats produce, while the second impairs sperm development in male rats. Although ContraPest targets the reproductive capabilities of rats, it is not a sterilant. For the product to be effective, rats must regularly con sumeThoughit. Siegel hasn’t seen an effect in other animals, he knows that if a non-targeted animal were to consume Con traPest then its effects would be temporary. With ContraPest not posing a danger to other animals or people, it’s no wonder why it is being used by many zoos, animal sanctuaries, farms, businesses and homes around the country.
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Why golf is better than everything else
Let me begin by saying that this is not a column about golf, though it be gins with a story involving golf. Or, to be specific, a thought about golf. I was catching up with a buddy from high school, lamenting the state of man kind: politics, the workplace, gender relations, sports. Our friendship spans four decades, so we had a lot of com plaining to do. We also share a golf addiction, so nat urally the game was a topic. Non-golfers are far more sane than ac tual golfers having not subjected them selves to torturous years of chasing a dimpled white ball over hills, through deserts, into lakes and bushes, behind trees, and occasionally into holes in the ground.Theyoften ask golfers, “What the hell do you see in the game?” It looks miser able.”I’ve never had the perfect answer, un til that talk. I haven’t experienced many epiphanies, but this was one. Golf is loveable for the exactly the same reason so many of us detest every thing else, from MAGA loons vs. progres sive scolds, the latest episode of “Love Island,” Hollywood preaching, Inflation Reduction Acts that won’t reduce infla tion, election controversies, Supreme Court controversies, and even the PGA Tour vs. LIV Golf controversy. Playing golf involves zero bull – unlike virtually everything else in the 21st cen tury.You swing, you hit the ball, you count a stroke. Tally the strokes, that’s your score. The ball goes in the hole or not.
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BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Tribune Columnist see LEIBOWITZ moment for Arizona’s senior senator W hoever said that idential“pres politics is two thirds theater” and that the White House is a grand stage should have taken a closer look at the other end of Pennsylvania on Capitol Hill, sits an institu tion called the “world’s greatest delib erative body” by some and the “world’s most exclusive club” by others. You know it best by its proper name: The United States Senate. Among the 100 who serve are more than a handful who readily embrace the spectacle, pomp and prestige that comes with the title of “Senator.”
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End of Whichdebate.iswhy after hours spent drenched in controversy, consuming, managing or writing about the news, it feels liberating to stand on a 108-degree golf course facing a 103-yard shot from the fairway to the flag. You swipe at the ball with a wedge. It comes to rest – somewhere. That’s one stroke.Unlike, say, casting your election bal lot – which may be a vote or may not, de pending on which political party you’re in and whether your preferred candi date wins the election. Or wishing a barista “good morning,” which risks using the wrong pronoun and creating a controversy where you only meant to be kind. Or deciding whether or not to pay an exorbitant sum to see Bruce Spring steen, because being ripped off by the voice of the working man would still get you in to hear “Born To Run” live – a bucket list item – but also subject you to a lengthy political rant, which you would absolutely file under B. Not for Bruce or for Boss. But under B for “more bull.” Over time, I seem to have shifted away from doing things that will likely deliv er more such nonsense: Scrolling social media, watching or reading the news,
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The late Robert C. Byrd of West Vir ginia often spoke of the Senate as if he had confused both time and place. That was not due to diminished cog nitive skills, though his Senate service spanned more than a half century and concluded with his death in 2010. In stead, it was due to his inflated sense of status about both the institution and his own reputation there. Byrd would employ his photographic memory and excessive sense of selfworth to recount episodes of political antiquity from the Roman Senate, cre ating word pictures recalling a group clad in togas, philosophizing and fili bustering. That “Byrd’s Eye” view was a combination of “Ben-Hur,” “Gladia tor,” and (surprisingly or not) “Animal House.”ACinematic Senate? Better check the spelling…it’s really a “Sinematic Sen ate” these days, courtesy of Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema. She came into the chamber with her own sense of fashion and attitude, wearing thigh-high boots like Jane Fon da’s “Barbarella,” employing a persona akin to Sigourney Weaver in “Alien,” and most recently, enacting a contro versial high-finance provision that would warm the cold, calculating heart of Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in “WallKyrstenStreet.”named a price for supporting Joe Biden’s inaccurately named “Infla tion Reduction Act,” insisting on lower taxes—not for everyday Americans, but for the rich and famous. “Sinema took Wall Street money while killing tax on investors,” read the headline from the Aug. 13 article writ ten by the AP’s Brian Slodysko. Prospective opponents read it as a real opportunity—including possible opponents from within Sinema’s own party.While the Washington Press Corps is excessively accommodating to Dem ocrats, most political reporters are somewhat befuddled by Arizona’s senior senator and the mega dollars stuffed into her political war chest by hedge fund managers and their ul tra-wealthy associates. Of course, what Washington might collectively regard as Kyrsten’s “LBJ Moment” isn’t a good look for her at all in What’sArizona.good for Wall Street is not necessarily good for Main Street or for BY
going to Fourth of July barbecue picnics, striking up a conversation in line at Ba sha’s.Instead, I try to hit golf balls on all the days of the week that end in the letter “y.”
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eliminate a proposed “carried interest” tax increase on well-heeled and passive private equity investors. So the high-finance crowd will enjoy a $35 billion exemption that won’t ex empt other corporations – or several small businesses. The AP article invites Arizonans of every political stripe to connect the dots”“Sinema has long aligned herself with the interests of private equi ty, hedge funds and venture capital, helping her net at least $1.5 million in campaign contributions since she was elected to the House a decade ago. But the $983,000 she has collected since last summer more than doubled what the industry donated to her during all of her preceding years in Congress combined.”Sinemais comfortable collecting all that cash, because she considers it a “wise investment” that will help her stay in the Senate. Besides, the Demo crat Leadership there won’t desert her in the event of an intraparty challenge back home. Talk is cheap…mounting a success ful challenge to an incumbent Senator isn’t.Right now there’s a lot of chatter sur rounding Rep. Ruben Gallego but when push comes to shove, will CGallego give up a safe seat in the House for a highrisk Senate run? SinemaNope. will face a strong Republican challenge in 2024, but over the next two years, she will try to embody the predictable title of yet another Holly wood production: “The Sure Thing.” to a letter E-mail: pmaryniak@timeslocalmedia.com
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There’s a truth to the game that no longer seems to exist in so much of what we call life. Like I said, this isn’t a story about golf. It’s a story about missing the days before all the bull, back when the news, actual ly real, was the only form of “reality TV.” Back when the phrase “hey guys,” wasn’t grounds for a complaint to human re sources.Andback when someone could write “these truths are self-evident,” and in spire a revolution, not a food fight on three different TV networks with two political slants. And now, friends, back to the bull.
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AIA introduces big school sports changes
Cole Cesmat’s high school football ca reer has been anything but normal. He had doctors and trainers tell him one of his legs was longer than the other based on his inability to properly squat and run in seventh grade. That carried over to his freshman year of high school at Casteel. His first thought was tight hips. But more tests revealed he had hip dysplasia. He underwent surgery in November of his freshman year at Casteel High School. He had to travel to Vail, Colorado for the surgery, where his pelvis was broken into four places and his hip rotated 24 degrees. He thought the surgery would help put him on a path to play high school football. But that was just the beginning of all he has gone through.
The Arizona Interscholastic Associa tion Executive Board on Monday ap proved an extra state track division and a true state championship format. The proposal was announced Aug. 12 during the first annual AIA media day held at the association’s offices in Phoenix. Ex ecutive Director David Hines also had up dates on other sports, including football, basketball and girls flag football. “We will run a true state championship with a trophy and a banner,” Hines said. “We are going to have a California-style state meet where the elite of the elite get to go against each other.” State track will now have a fifth division. Currently, there are four divisions, with the fourth designated for schools in the 1A, 2A and 3A conferences. Division V will be for 1A and 2A schools and leave Division IV for 3A teams. The other divisions — I, II and III — would re main unchanged, servicing 6A through 4A schools.Theproposal also included a new for mat for the state championship meet, which typically kicks off in the second week of May. The meet will now begin a week earlier and crown division state champions. Divi sions IV and V would compete at one loca tion over the course of two days. Divisions II and III would compete the same day at a separate site, and Division I on its own elsewhere. From there, the top 18 athletes and teams for all events in all divisions will be merged and move on to compete in pre liminaries of the overall state champion shipThemeet.top nine from each event would move on to the sec ond day of the state meet. There, state championships for individuals and teams will be crowned. “We have done a lot of data on that,” Hines said. “At one point we would’ve had a 1A kid win the state cham pionship, it was a girl that ran the 100. We had multiple kids at 2A and 3A that would be state champions and then of course four, five and six. It will be fun to watch.”
The Open Division for football was in troduced in 2019 to bring together the 6A4A conferences and to crown a true state football champion. At the time, Saguaro was dominating at the 4A level. The Sabercats were moved up to the 5A level two years ago and again to 6A with the most recent update to the football classifications. That change also BY ZACH ALVIRA Tribune Sports Editor
The Arizona Interscholastic Association on Friday announced a new proposal for state track that would crown a true state champion, much like in the Open Division for football and basketball, which will take place for the first time this year. (Dave Minton/AFN Staff) see AIA
Cole Cesmat inspiring others through difficult journey
Brad said. “We go in and shop and then the same thing. He pulls in the driveway and tells me he has to talk to me about something. He told me, ‘I have visions that my friends are going to be in the car with me and we are go ing to get into an accident and they’re going to burn to death.’” Cole overcame the fear after seeing a ther apist. He also planned to use football as an escape. Casteel coach Bobby Newcombe also took the time to sit with Cole in classes he be gan to struggle in because of his mental health. He managed to see the field his sopho more season in 2020. But a bout with COVID forced him to miss games. As a junior he was expected to be elevated to the varsity roster. He was already 6-foot-5 and had started to put on muscle. The summer before his junior season he at tended camps with Newcombe and other play ers. While at Northwestern, he tweaked his leg.
“Room 36,” Cole said. “That room number is where I’ve received all the bad news with my injuries. Me and my dad laugh about it. I can’t be in room 36.” Cole knew his recovery would be a long process. Shortly after his surgery, he and his mom, Chris, were picking up his older sister at the airport when they were rear ended.
His father, Brad – the owner of Sports360AZ – had to coerce him into taking a short drive to the store before he was due for his license. Brad could immediately sense something wasn’t right. “He was gripping the steering wheel and breathing hard, so I ask him, ‘Are you alright?’
The collision caused airbags to deploy, and smoke began to come from the car’s air vents. Cole, unable to move freely as it is, was locked in the car due to his seatbelt jamming. By the time he was able to hobble outside, the damage was done. Physically, he was relatively fine. The seatbelt dug into his incision and started to bleed. Mentally, however, Cole suffered from PTSD and had a new fear of being trapped in side of a car should another accident occur. It hampered his desire to earn his license, but he was too afraid to admit it for over a year.
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Trainers thought it was a simple calf strain. To be safe, he sat out the camp at Purdue. His leg continued to bother him until foot ball camp with the Colts. But he put the pain to the side and participated at a high level in every drill. That is, until he went out to block on a play. He compared the feeling to being an action figure that gets its leg pulled off from the knee down. He screamed immediately. Nearly two years after hearing his season was over due to his hip, his junior season was now lost because of a torn PCL.
New for Open Division football
The AIA will host an Open Division bas ketball tournament for boys and girls to conclude the winter sports season this year. It will feature the top eight teams from the 6A-4A conferences and the next best rated eight teams from those confer ences.Those 32 will be put into a bracket, with the first round taking place before oth er conference tournaments. The second round of the Open tournament will coin cide with conference play-in games, which feature an additional 16 teams. Those who are eliminated from the Open Division will be placed back into the conference playoffs with teams that win play-in games.
“All state games, 3A through 6A, will use a shot clock,” Hines said. Girls flag football Girls flag football has grown exponen tially in the last few years. The Chandler district crowned its first-ever champion after district-play between the six high schools last spring. With Chandler leading the way, other districts have now started recruiting stu dent-athletes for programs at their high schools. Mountain Pointe, all Mesa schools and others have jumped on board this year. With that, the AIA has identified girls flag football as an emerging sport. If it con tinues to grow, it could officially become a sanctioned sport under the association as soon as next year. “We are going to have a committee to gether and start talking about that,” Hines said. “We are hoping to tie that to state football. The culminating event for that would be tied to our state football.” AIA from page 22 CESMAT from page 22 “It destroyed me,” Cole said. “I knew I had to get it fixed because I wanted to play foot ball. I put in all this hard work to get to that point and now it was gone.” Cole suffered mentally from the injury. There were times where he admittedly ques tioned his purpose on earth because he was once again limited to his bed and a wheel chair after surgery. It nearly broke him. But one day he decid ed it wasn’t time to give up. Since he was younger, he had worked with Chad Dunn and his team at Move Per formance in Chandler. Cole, still weighing attempting to make a return to the football field, attacked rehab. Dunn said his progres sion and work ethic was astounding. Now a little over a year after knee surgery, Cole is gaining some strength back in his squat and other exercises. “With Cole’s tenacity and his resilience to not give up in rehab or even on the field, he is a true competitor,” Dunn said. “How many injuries? How many setbacks can you go through? It’s my job to tell Newcombe he’s ready to go. He just needs to get on the field and get some playing time.” Dunn, who works with several other local high school, college and professional ath letes, cleared Cole to play this season. His doctors did, too. The news came when they sat in room 35. As of right now, he’s still taking it easy. He’s stepping out of contact drills until he is sure his body can handle it. But that time will come. He knows it, his dad and mom know it, and his coach knows it. His teammates can’t wait. “He battles through everything,” New combe said. “Not only are we excited about him, we’re big fans of Cole. Everyone knows everything he’s been through. To see him get physically back in it and to get on the field and make some plays, that’s going to be pret ty Hisawesome.”mother, Chris, was nearly brought to tears at the thought of him stepping on the field for Casteel. Her eyes began to water when asked about senior night. She admits she is hesitant for him to play. She knows how much his previous injuries broke him. But she also recognizes his mental ity to fight and keep pursuing what he loves. “For him to want to continue, it shows immense courage because he knows he can always get hurt again,” Chris said. “I don’t know if I can watch him play this year be cause I’m afraid of him getting hurt again with a collision. But for him, as a person, to want to keep doing it … he’s working so hard to come back and it’s amazing.” Brad agreed. “I couldn’t be more proud of my son for his stick-to-itiveness,” Brad said. “I believe he’s impacted others by simply showing up.”
Hines said a vote in May by the 4A Con ference committee to continue including the conference in the Open Division fin ished in a tie. But to offset that, new multi pliers were introduced. All 6A teams will receive a multiplier of 10 after the regular season. Teams in the 5A Conference will have a multiplier of nine and 4A teams a multiplier of eight. Hines said this will even the playing field, to a certain degree. In retrospect, it will reward teams that play a tougher schedule in the higher con ferences. And while it doesn’t fully elimi nate 4A teams from contention, it makes their path to the Open harder. “Our process of reclassification has made a huge difference in the parity of high school football,” Hines said. “Even with the multiplier, if they’re good enough, a 4A team can still make the Open.”
“I’m just happy to be walking. I’m happy to have the chance to play football again,” Cole said. “A year ago, I thought I would be the kid on the sideline … the charity project. Run ning in the heat, being with my teammates. I’m happy. I’m just happy.”
Casteel senior Cole Cesmat has gone through countless setbacks throughout his high school football career. But now, after hip surgery, COVID and a torn PCL in his knee, he and his parents, Chris and Brad, are eager for his chance to get on the field this season. (Corey Cross/Tribune Contributor) Cole Cesmat has spent countless hours at Move Performance in Chandler rehabbing various in juries. Every time, however, he attacks it with purpose. He knew he had to if he wanted to play football again. (Corey Cross/Tribune Contributor)
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Basketball Open Division
brought up teams like Cactus and Amer ican Leadership Academy - Queen Creek, two 4A schools that made the Open Divi sion last season.
Those teams from the Open will main tain their original ranking before being taken to the Open tournament. The eight who remain in the Open will then play for a true state championship, much like the football format. Conference champions will still be crowned for 1A-6A. From the start of basketball playoffs through the first few days of March, the AIA will host 275 tournament games. All championship games will take place at Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. “It’s a humongous job but we’ve worked with the coaches and our schools, and we think we are going to have, basically, 30 days of state basketball,” Hines said. Hines said the AIA will also introduce 335-second shot clocks for 3A-6A confer ences this season. The 1A and 2A voted againstDuringthem.the regular season, shot clocks will be used if schools have technology in place. If they don’t, games will be played without them. In the playoffs, however, shot clocks are mandatory for all games. If a host school does not have the technology, the games will be moved to a different venue.
Cole’s journey has been unlike many other high school athletes. But even during dark times in his room alone with half of his body unable to move due to pain, he never gave up. He kept imagining himself stepping on the field with his team and just being there for them in general. In July at Casteel’s football camp, Cole spoke to the team alongside the rest of the se niors. His message to them was simple: never give up and embrace the underdog mentality. His speech brought several players and coaches to tears. All of them wanted to go out and practice for a third time at 7:30 at night. While he hasn’t always been able to be there in the way he wanted to, Cole is a Colt through and through. And he’s looking for ward to when he’s able to take his first varsi ty snap, whenever that may be.
Canadian metalcore band Silverstein intends to jam a set full of screaming and storytelling into the Marquee Theatre when the band jaunts into town on August 25. (Courtesy of Wyatt Clough)see SILVERSTEIN page 25
W hen the Burlington, Ontar io, metalcore outfit Silver stein sits down to write an album, its members try to take listeners on a journey through their lives.Silverstein’s latest record “Misery Made Me” offers a glimpse into the last two years, which vocalist Shane Told admits has been miserable at times.“Over the last couple of years, with what we’ve gone through, there was no way we were going to be able to write a love song on this record,” Told“Thesaid.reality is that we ... were frus trated, we were scared, our mental health wasn’t the best and this is what came out from us. We had to get (this) off our chest.”
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Tickets are on sale for the 21st Prescott Jazz Summit, a weekend of music and fund, that will be held at three Prescott venues Aug. 26-29. Guests will include Walt Johnson, who played lead trumpet for Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley; Tom “Bones” Malone, played on Saturday Night Live and David Letterman); and members of the Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra and vocalists Ronnie Rose and Dennis Rowland. Mike Vax, the director of the Prescott Jazz Summit, was trumpeter in Stan Kenton Big Band for many years and now takes the Stan Kenton Legacy Band on tour ev ery
Theyear.events begin with a chance to meet the musicians and have light re freshments at the Hassayampa Inn, 122 E. Gurley St. That will be followed by a concert titled “A Journey from South America to the United States” at the Elks Theatre, 117 E. Gurley St., On Saturday night, big band music will be performed at the Ruth Street Theatre at Prescott High School, 1050 Ruth St. Sunday afternoon’s show, titled “A Jazz Journey from Broadway to Hollywood” will be held at the Hassayampa Inn. A special brunch will precede that concert, Proceeds benefit musical education of high school students. Summit musicians give clinics to stu dents on the weekend of the summit. Students will also get a chance to display their talents at the Saturday night show. The weekend concludes with a Sunday night jam session will be at Murphy’s Restaurant.Tickets and more information: prescottjazzsummit.net or 925-8721942.
This tasty, colorful plate of veggies is loaded with Southwest flavors and lots of crunch. It’s perfect for a make-ahead dish, it transports beautifully and couldn’t be easier to make. What makes the flavor? Fresh ears of corn that are grilled in a skillet or on the bbq, then sliced into niblets of charred goodness. Charring the red peppers before dicing them also adds a great taste.
With JAN D’ATRI GetOut Columnist Veggie medley captures the look and taste of the Southwest Ingredients: • 2 (15-ounce) cans of black beans, rinsed and drained • 3 ears of corn, cooked and kernels removed from the cob • 2 red bell peppers, charred and diced • 1 large jicama, peeled and diced • 2 cloves garlic, minced • 2 TBSP shallots, minced • 2 tsp salt • 1 tsp pepper • 2 TBSP sugar • 9 TBSP extra-virgin olive oil • 1 TBSP Dijon mustard • 1 teaspoon lime zest • 6 TBSP fresh lime juice • 1/2 cup fresh cilantro, plus more for garnish, chopped • 2 avocados, chopped Directions In a large bowl, combine the black beans, corn, red bell peppers, garlic, shallots, salt, pepper, sugar, olive oil, Dijon, lime zest, lime juice and ½ cup cilantro. Stir well to combine and refrigerate. When ready to serve, add the chopped avo cado and gently mix to combine. Garnish with remaining cilantro. Serves 8. Despite the dark nomenclature of the record, Told feels the record has been mutually cathartic for fans and himself.“When ‘Misery Made Me’ came out, the sentiment from our fans was, ‘We needed you to say this,’” Told said. “With our fanbase, we help each oth er out. I give to them, and they give back to me. “The fact that the words and mu sic that I’ve written has helped them through a dark time, in turn, helps me through a dark time because I know that what I’m doing makes a difference.”Although he’s fond of most of the songs, one special one may sneak into Silverstein’s setlist during its jaunt with the Australian post-hard core outfit The Amity Affliction.
“‘The Altar/Mary’ is a great exam ple of storytelling and taking the lis tener through all the hardships that people have had — particularly mil lennials who have been beaten down economically and unable to make ends meet,” Told said. “That’s one track that we want to try to pull off live. It’s not going to be easy by any means with the energy of the first half and the synthesizers in the second half but we’re welcom ing that Althoughchallenge.”Silverstein aims to tell a story with its lyricism, Told also said that the band marries stories with catchy choruses. “We want to be a hardcore band that has catchy singalong parts and over the years I think we’ve gotten better and better at writing melodies that stick in your head and lyrics that people want to sing along to,” Told said.“It’s cool that we’ve become a sing along band because, sure, people can mosh to our songs, but it’s also great that they can sing along to them too.”
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WHAT: Silverstein and The Amity Affliction w/Holding Absence and Unity TX
WHEN: 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25 WHERE: Marquee Theatre 730 N. Mill Ave. Tempe COST: Tickets start at $29.50 INFO: silversteinmusic.com
Picnics, parties, salads and sides. If you’re looking for a new dish that fits in all of those categories, this Chilled Southwestern Veg gie Medley is the answer!
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Also, I’ve always cooked with shallots, but these days I’m realizing how much they bring to a dish. (They may be one of the most misunderstood veg etables out there—do they replace onions? Garlic? Can they be used with onions and garlic?) While some folks replace onions with shallots, a shallot has its own flavor profile, and can add so much to a dish! (Try slicing them very thin and frying them to a deep golden brown, then sprinkle them over a salad or potato dish. Wow!! Over the top goodness!)Theflavors of the Southwest permeate this salad with the addition of black beans, jicama, avocados and cilantro. The dressing is lively, with the perfect combination of lime juice and zest, Dijon Mustard and a little sweetness to cut the tang. Over all, it’s a great main meal salad for the veg etarian, a tasty side for your grilled burger lover or just spooned into little tortilla cups for a terrific ap petizer! Tortilla cups are simple. Just cut 2-3 inch circles out of flour tortillas, tuck them into a greased cupcake tin and bake for about 15 minutes. Done! I love recipes that give you all the flavor and nu trition you need and are pretty darn effortless to create! Here’s to another hat tip to our wonderful flavors of the Southwest!
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Because of this, Told is anxious to kick off the cross-country trek Thursday, Aug. 25, at the Marquee Theatre and stand amid the roar of an audience singing his lyrics in uni son once more. “I’m looking forward to an ac tion-packed hour or so of just the jams old and new, like ‘My Heroine,’ ‘Smile in Your Sleep’ and ‘The After glow,’” he said. “Hearing the fans sing is one of the greatest feelings in the world and having that taken away from us for the last couple of years made me forget just how loud they sing and the way that made me feel every single time it happens. “Whether they’re singing a cappel la during the chorus of ‘My Heroine’ or whether they’re singing along to a brand-new song that we’re playing live for the first time, it’s going to be great.” from
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