“I don’t have those answers,” said Queen Creek Chamber of Commerce President Chris Clarke. “So, let’s bring in the people by states’ water bickering
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The Bureau of Reclamation in June demanded the deep cuts to bolster the amount of water in Lakes Powell and Mead, which have been dropping faster than predicted in recent years amid longterm drought and warming climate. About a third of Arizona’s annual water supplies come from those reservoirs.
Arizona’s delegation of negotiators said in a statement that “Arizona and Nevada put forward an aggressive proposal that
There was hope that the states, faced with the increasingly realistic threat of dead pool conditions on the Colorado and loss of hydropower production, would come together and deliver a deal. But those hopes were dashed two weeks ago as states started to point fingers when the deadline passed.
Arizona residents felt the reality of that maxim on Aug. 15 as several West ern states announced that two months of closed-door negotiations to cut an emer gency 12% to 25% from next year’s Col orado River withdrawals had yielded bu pkus.
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Just a stone’s throw from a 223,000-square-foot charter high school designed to equip kids for voca tional technical careers, the Queen Creek Chamber of Commerce last week brought together 140 business and higher educa tion to find ways to address the gap be tween high school graduates and what em ployers say are unqualified workers.
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The Town also is awaiting Bureau of Reclamation action on a plan it and GSC Farm LLC has proposed since 2019 to stop irrigating 485 acres of farmland near the Colorado River and to have that water sent to Queen Creek.
The Bureau of Reclamation has told the states to reduce their usage by 2 to 4 million acre-feet in 2023. That amounts to Arizona’s entire annual consumption. Maybe more.
Queen Creek Public Utilities Direc tor Paul Gardner, has said that the proposed deal is consistent with the town’s philosophy of reducing its reli ance on groundwater by securing oth erQueensources.Creek residents won’t have to worry for now about the states’ squab bling but for area farmers, it’s a differ ent“Itmatter.isreasonable to say that Queen Creek is not going to run out of wa ter any time soon, but it’s going to be for municipal use, not for ag use,” said Mark Schnepf, owner of Schnepf Farms in Queen Creek, which grows peaches on a commercial scale and is a major agritainment center in the Valley.
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“The Bureau of Reclamation’s recent announcement of a Tier 2a Shortage does not impact the Town’s groundwa ter supply,” writes Queen Creek Public Information Office Constance Hal onen-Wilson. “The Town has a 100year assured supply of groundwater.
“There is still time,” Deputy Interior Secretary Tommy Beaudreau told re porters earlier this month. He did not set a new deadline, but he and other federal officials warn Arizona’s water situation is severe.
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Despite the 100-year supply of available groundwater, Queen Creek is facing other logistical and geograph ic challenges, largely because of how quickly the town is sprawling, Schnepf
The land is located within the Cibola Valley Irrigation and Drainage District in La Paz County and the deal would yield 2,083 acre-feet of Colorado River water — about 678 million gallons.
An acre foot generally equals three to three-and-a-half years of a house hold’s interior and exterior water needs in Arizona, according to the state Department of Water Resources, although many variables affect that av erage.“Currently this matter is with the Bureau of Reclamation for their ap proval,” said Sharon Scantlebury who works in the department’s legal divi sion.The Department of Water Resources on Sept. 4, 2020, endorsed the sale.
“Municipal water providers face op erational challenges with their treat ment plants and delivery systems without knowing how significant a cutback will be required from their Colorado River water supply,” the AM WUAQueenstated.Creek has made no changes to curb residential or commercial wa ter usage for now, nor does it seem to have any immediate plans to do so.
“You can’t possibly overestimate how hard this is,” Felicia Marcus, a fel low at Stanford University’s Water in the West program and former chair of the California State Water Resources Control Board told Politico magazine in July. “Each state has their own pe culiar set of politics.” Here in Arizona, the Municipalities Water Users Association says that despite the states’ failure to reach a mid-August agreement, people won’t see any difference at their taps – at least right away. Its website notes that “unpredictability” can always change immediate access to water.
“We have given up so much of our water to the city and to the tribes to accommodate the feds, so agriculture is going to be the first to be cut off from water,” he said. “They will save the water for municipal uses.”
“The Town continues to have ample groundwater supply and is taking pro active steps to conserve water through programs, education and infrastruc ture.”
That looming unpredictability re mains a big issue for Arizona.
Under the existing Water Rights Compact hammered out in the 1980s during the formation of the Central Ar izona Project, Arizona is lowest on the priority list .
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“If the federal government steps in and does the drastic cuts that it could, Arizona is going to be the hardest hit,” Schnepf said. “We had to do that in or der to get the funding. It was a politi cal decision that was made way back when.”
“From our perspective, the an nouncement left us wondering if the mid-year cuts will take place in 2023 or not,” said Mesa Councilman Kevin Thompson of nearby Eastmark, who sits on the Municipalities Water Users Association“Reclamationboard.hasn’t really pro vided guidance on how to proceed, which is causing frustration from ADWR [Arizona Dept. of Water Re sources] all the way down to the local municipalities that rely on Col orado River water. Even though the City is in a good position current ly, we would still like time to work through contingencies to ensure our citizens are protected.”
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“The whole river system is stressing because of a lack of water,” Schnepf said. “And California is still taking their 100% and we’ve been cutting back and we’ve been cutting back. And now we could potentially be cut back more. We can only hope that it will be a shared sacrifice on all of our parts.”
“If the fed steps in and decides it’s going to run everything,” Schnepf warned, it’s going to come down to “who has the better lobbyist, who has the better ear or the bigger hammer … and California is a lot bigger than we are.” Creek
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gry“Ascompanies.abusiness owner, who do I speak to?” asked Mark Leonard, owner of Jeremiah’s Italian Ice in Queen Creek. “Who do I go to to offer my volunteer services? And the school district, who do they turn to from a business per spective?”Somein the education communi ty deny that there is a problem at all. Rather, they say, success is a matter of making sure there is consistent mes sage reaching the right students in the right“Theplaces.problem or the challenge that comes is connecting the students with what they’re interested in,” said Kevin Imes, youth external affairs coordinator for the East Valley Institute of Technology. Once they find something that they are interested in, he said, “school is no longer a burden for them, but an oppor tunity.”Imes cited as evidence the 97% grad uation rate at technical high schools like EVIT as opposed to lower figures at traditional schools. Clarke said the Chamber will take all of the information it collected from breakout groups at the summit and turn it into data they can use to help ad dress the “ready-to-work” issue, incor porating it into upcoming job fairs.
Kendall said there is a misconception today that high school kids should be willing to take a minimum wage job just to have a job because it is really all that they are qualified for when, in fact, they want more than that.
“People have always wanted to know that their work has purpose,” Clarke said. “It’s just a matter of whether they find that out at a teenage year or a mid lifeBusinessyear.”
owners in Queen Creek are willing to help and are looking for ways to be involved. But say there is no tem plate for how to bridge the gap between interested students and employee-hun
“I think trying to find value besides just a paycheck is important for my generation,” said Combs High School student Quinton Kendall. “A workplace should be somewhere you want to go, not just someplace that you have to be and it should be someplace you’re com fortable being at.”
Town officials broke ground last week for the new 85-acre Frontier Family Park Signal Butte, north of Queen Creek Road. Slated to open by the end of 2023, the park will feature an in clusive play area, five-acre fishing lake, lighted ball fields, picnic areas, splash pad, basketball and volleyball courts. New amenities include 24 pickleball courts and a 1.5-mile multiuse path that will span the perimeter of the park. The park was designed by J2 Engineering and will be built by Hunter Contracting. The northeastern portion of Frontier Family Park will include a recreation and aquatic center, which is slated to open in 2024. (Town of Queen Creek)
The lack of workforce-ready high school graduates is an ongoing prob lem, business and education profes sionals said at the Queen Creek BizEd Summit on the Arizona State Universi ty Polytechnic campus, now in its sixth year.Clarke said there are themes emerg ing that the Chamber gauges through regular business surveys. “They don’t have the soft skills,” Clarke said. “They don’t have the abil ities that they need to be successful in the“Partworkplace.ofthat comes from not having realistic expectations of what it means to go to work. Part of it’s from not knowing why each job is important to the team.”
Getting students to understand that, though, has been a challenge in recent years.For example, at a recent Town Coun cil meeting, economist Alan Maguire, a consultant for Queen Creek, addressed the issue during his state of the econo my“Therepresentation.seemsto be over the last 15 years a lack in the fundamental attrac tiveness of work as a good in and of it self,” Maguire said. “Our education sys tem is not preparing our students for work – which can be unpleasant.”
Educators, students, recruiters and business leaders are trying to meet the high school graduates where they are, realizing that not all of them will want to go on to college. But they say they are having trouble recruiting qualified job candidates.
“Absolutely,” said James Grizzard, a talent acquisition specialist with Digni ty “IHealth.justfeel that it’s the market overall. People aren’t as engaged or they don’t want to work, but I feel that events like this can help us find those individuals who didn’t know that opportunities ex ist.”During this summit, attendees net worked, broke into small groups and came up with ideas. They not only discussed how to better educate students about potential em ployment opportunities, but vice versa, too – helping potential employers know where to find qualified graduates with career aspirations that may be different than they used to be.
“In order to get people to participate year after year,” Clarke said, “it’s really important they know those ideas are being put into use and that it’s having real world, positive effect.” 1
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Johnson said if a healthy person present ed to an emergency room with COVID-19 symptoms at the same time as a person with Down Syndrome, the healthy would be treated first.
“Having an intellectual disability was the strongest risk factor for presenting with a COVID-19 diagnosis and the strongest in dependent risk factor other than age for COVID-19 mortality,” the study found.
“We still have families who are going into the hospital because their kids are getting COVID,” Thorne said. “And because of their comorbidities are having a harder time fighting it off.”
In March, Gov. Doug Ducey signed House Bill 2659 into law that bans providers from discriminating against people with disabil ities in organ transplant decisions.
“The pandemic brought out a lot of dif ferent inequities that exist within our sys tem, not only who gets priority to life sav ing vaccines, but also who gets priority to care,” Thorne worked as a geneticist at Trans lational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), a non-profit genomics research facility, until she opted to care for her chil dren.Despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s changes in guidelines this month, Thorne said the disabled com munity still faces an increased threat from COVID-19.
Thorne said she wants to help people understand the mRNA vaccine and reduce vaccine hesitancy because it remains the best way to protect this vulnerable com munity.“It’sjust a different way of creating an immune response,” Thorne said. “But it al lows researchers to be a little bit more tar geted and specific with what the vaccine is going to target.”
On July 17, the CDC released a study that looked at hospitalization rates among Medicare recipients from Jan. 1, 2021, to Nov. 20, 2021. The data showed a higher rate of COVID occurrence and hospitalization in those who were eligible for aid because of a dis ability over those who were age-eligible.
The study said this further highlights the need for greater levels of vaccination and COVID-19 prevention among the disabled community.“Ithinkthat we have to look at all forms of life being equal, and being deserving of medical treatment,” Thorne said.
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Johnson is the founder and executive director of Sharing Down Syndrome Arizo na, a nonprofit in Mesa that advocates for people with Down Syndrome and supports families in their journey after diagnosis.
Along with having two children diag nosed with autism, Thorne said her back ground as a geneticist also drew her to this review about those with intellectual or de velopmental disabilities.
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Gina Johnson knows all too well the ad versity the developmentally disabled have faced during the pandemic given that her son David, 38, has Down Syndrome.
Ahwatukee resident Michelle Thorne is the founder and executive director for Care 4 The Caregivers, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides emotional, physical and ed ucational support to those raising a child with a “Thisdisability.population was very overlooked when it came to the vaccine rollout,” Thorne said. “I think that had a detrimen tal effect to the population in whole.”
he pandemic revealed many vul nerabilities in healthcare, especially among the most vulnerable. This month, the Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council released its findings in “COVID-19 Impact on the Dis ability Community.”
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“I saw that the car was on fire and that there was still a passenger in there, so I pulled over to render aid to her,” KOLD quot ed him as saying in 2012.
The Arizona Department of Corrections says Cobb served about two-and-a-half years in prison for an aggravated DUI conviction in 2003.He had previously been found guilty of en dangerment in 2001, but was not sentenced in that case.
Three residents of an apartment complex at the 2200 block of Frye Road called Chan dler Police around 3 a.m. July 17. One of the callers claimed a man had tried to take a young woman inside her apartment for the purpose of sexually assaulting her. She briefly escaped, shouting for help, and that’s when the neighbors called police. When police officers arrived, they could not immediately locate the suspect. However, they learned more about him, including that he was a resident of the apartment complex. They surrounded his apartment.
Johnson said she holds nothing against healthcare providers because she under stands the difficult decisions they faced in the thick of the pandemic.
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Police say he barricaded himself in and threatened to commit suicide. Later, while officers were waiting for a S.W.A.T. team to arrive, he tossed a home made fire bomb out of his apartment toward the staircase of the building. It did not ignite and there was no damage. The suspect left his apartment and climbed to a third-floor unit, breaking in. As officers were trying to negotiate his surrender, he broke a window and climbed out on to a roof. Officers say he then tried to break the window of another unit to gain entry. That did not work and the suspect ran, eventu ally dropping down to a porch roof on sec ond-story.Officers confronted him, ordering him to drop the knife. He did not comply. S.W.A.T. team officers used eight rounds of less lethal rounds to force compliance. It had little effect, as the suspect sat down on the roof, but did not drop the knife. After six minutes of negotiations, the sus pect dropped down from the roof, still carry ing the knife, and began to run at an officer. Two officers fired at the suspect.
Johnson said she knows that the in creased morbidity in this community comes down to the fact that diseases such as COVID-19 overwhelm their immune system and not being overlooked for care.
The suspect was identified as 44-yearold Cobb. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.Following standard procedures, the use of force is being reviewed internally and by the Maricopa County Attorney’s office. It will also be reviewed by a citizen’s use-of-force panel. Cobb told KOLD-TV about the incident that earned him being called a hero. He was on his way home after working the overnight shift.
“It makes me happy to know that I can serve my community and people appreciate it, cause oftentimes we don’t know how the community feels about it.”
“Now that sounds so awful,” Johnson said. “And it is, but I know parents that have dealt with that.”
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KOLD-TV in Tucson reports that Cobb re signed in 2019, and did not give a reason for his departure.
Aman shot and killed by Chandler Po lice last month was identified as a for mer Tucson firefighter who was once honored as a hero. Tyson Cobb worked for the Tucson Fire Department from 2010-2019. He was recog nized after pulling a person out of a burning car in 2012, saving their life.
“I do feel it goes against our kids because our kids are already compromised,” she said.While great strides have been made such as with the passing of HB 2659, John son said people like her son still face strug gles in receiving necessary care.
“I’ve seen a lot of strides for and I’m so grateful,” Johnson said. “But I know we’re not all the way there yet on serving people with disabilities.”
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“This is nothing against the medical peo ple,” Johnson said. “They’re doing their lev el best and they were slammed.”
“With the people comes the revenue. They do a lot of good planning,” he said.
Many of the council members admit ted to being somewhat uncertain about the state’s economic recovery and the trickle -down effect it is having on Queen Creek. But Mayor-elect Julia Wheatley saw Maguire’s analysis as a welcome bright spot.“I’m going to share this far and wide to hopefully boost that consumer con fidence that we’ve talked about at least here in Arizona, specifically Queen Creek,” she said.
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f Queen Creek can be summed up in one word, it’s growth. “It’s more challenging to be a Queen Creek where you’ve got people coming in at a ferocious rate compared to if you are relatively stable,” econo mist Alan Maguire said. “You have more time to react. They have to react every single day.”
“In some respects, Maguire said, “planning for schools can be more prob lematic because you can end up with ex cess supply of buildings 20 years down the road. Students age out. Water users don’t. I’ve got to plan for schools but as my population begins to stabilize, I may have too many.”
“That’s a real challenge and it’s a na tional challenge and to some extent a global change,” Maguire responded.
Maguire predicts continued job growth despite the fact that the country is getting back to normal more slowly than Arizona. He says that the U.S. is go ing to be a drag on Arizona, citing supply chain issues.
Nowhere is that growth more pressing and prominent than with Queen Creek’s schools. The district’s enrollment has ballooned by 148% in the past decade, and there is no slowdown on the hori zon.It’s projected to grow by another third in the next five years and there are plans for multiple schools on the horizon.
Council members all agreed that econ omy and the perception that it creates is a big concern for the town, even though it is rapidly growing and would seem to have a rosy outlook from that stand point alone.
Maguire predicts that Arizona, and the Valley in particular, will remain vibrant. “We’re creating jobs. We’re creating tons of jobs in Arizona,” he said. “We’ve been creating jobs in Arizona for 70 years and we’re going to keep on doing it for quite a while. Queen Creek is at the cutting edge of the growth of Arizona.”
“So as long as you’re planning ahead, you’re fine,” he said. “It really doesn’t matter if the expected growth happens in 2025, 2027 or 2029, as long as it doesn’t happen before you are ready for it. Because you can always slow down. It’s really a problem when you fall be hind.”
“This is something that people are thinking about,” Councilwoman Leah Martineau said. “To be honest I was a lit tle more doom and gloom and so I really appreciate this giving me more of a pos itive outlook on things here.”
“Probably the number one question I get asked by business people here local ly is ‘yes, we are creating jobs but we’re having a real hard time filling those jobs,’” Benning said.
“Over the last 15 years there seems to be a fundamental change in the attractive ness of work as a good in and of itself. It certainly is having an impact.
Economist praises QC’s growth management
“I think it is complicated by the fact that in many important areas our educa tion system is not preparing students for work that can be unpleasant.
Maguire, a consultant for Queen Creek who discussed Arizona’s economy with Queen Creek Town Council earlier this month.“They are thinking about their water, their wastewater, their street plans. So that’s a really good thing. What hurts a growing community is when they get be hind the curve.”
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An economist praised Queen Creek’s forward-thinking as key to managing its rapid growth. (Tribune file photo)
Maguire pointed out that each seg ment of a successful town needs to plan in conjunction with the others. If Queen Creek plans for an addition al 20,000 people next year, for example, it takes planning to have enough water, sewers and roads to serve those people, and to make sure that the power compa ny is generating the additional electrici ty needs.
Councilman Robin Benning wanted to know about employment numbers, and specifically, how to make open jobs more attractive to would-be employees.
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“I know among my friends almost none of their children had a high school job so they didn’t get in that pattern of working and so when they get out of col lege they go ‘this really stinks. I’m going to go sleep on the sofa at home.’”
“A month ago, General Motors had 95,000 cars sitting at their factories that they could not send to the dealers because they did not have the chips that they needed,” he Transportationsaid.isa big focus in Queen Creek. In addition to the traffic light ad ditions and portions of State Route (SR) 24 opening, Maguire looked beyond lo cal roads to the bigger picture for Queen Creek.“You have a real benefit that almost no one else your size has in the Valley. You have two routes into downtown Phoe nix. You can go north and west or you can go west and north That’s a big deal. That will put you in good stead for a long time and you’ve got a good airport just around the corner.”
The key to the town’s success, is stay ing ahead of that growth. But that is a good problem to have, he said.
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Brutinel pointed out the online portal set up by the Secretary of State to register circulators does not allow any individual to submit more than one affidavit.
In separate orders, the Arizona Su preme Court said those who gather signatures for money are required to register with the Secretary of State’s Office for each petition campaign for which they work. And Chief Jus tice Robert Brutinel said that did not happen in any of the three ballot measures.
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More to the point, Brutinel said knocking the petition drives off the ballot for a problem that circulators and organizers did not create – and could not fix – “would unreasonably hinder or restrict’’ the constitutional right of the people to propose their own laws. So he and his colleagues agreed that the signatures gathered by those who did not register anew should count. That conclusion was enough to clear the way for the dark money and debt measures to appear on the Nov. 8 ballot.Butthe business-oriented Free En terprise Club, which is fighting what has been proposed by Arizonans for Free and Fair Elections, still has oth er last-minute arguments it could present to the justices to convince them the measure lacks the 237,645 valid names needed to qualify.
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“Any circulators’ lack of compli ance with (the law) does not inval idate the signatures gathered by these circulators on the record or circumstances before us,’’ he wrote. And the key is that record and those circumstances.
But Brutinel pointed out that the Secretary of State’s Office provided no procedure for those already reg istered to circulate other petitions to submit new registrations. He said that made it physically impossible for circulators to comply with the law.
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Thoselaws.statutes require public dis closure of who is spending money to influence candidate elections and ballot measures. But state lawmak ers crafted an exception for “social welfare’’ organizations which are free to run commercials seeking to influence the outcome but can hide the names of their donors. The initiative seeks to deal with that by requiring the disclosure of true source of donations of more than $5,000 on political campaigns.
Former Attorney General Terry God dard, who is leading the effort, said those dollars would have to be traced back to the original source and can not be “laundered’’ through a series ofScotgroups.Mussi, president of the Free Enterprise Club, is calling it “an un constitutional measure designed to silence and harass private citizens, and non-profit groups from exercis ing their First Amendment rights.’’
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The election measure would al low people to register and vote at the same time, including on Election Day. And people would be registered to vote automatically when they get an Arizona driver’s license unless they opt out.
The measure on debt, if approved by voters, would increase the amount of equity someone could have in a home to keep it from being seized in bankruptcy to $400,000, up from $250,000. And it would mandate an nual cost-of-living increases in that figure rather than having to wait for state lawmakers to marshal the votes for future changes.
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Current law also allows individuals to keep up to $6,000 in household furniture, appliances and consumer electronics. That would increase to $15,000, also with inflation adjust ments.Andthe protected equity in a mo tor vehicle would go from $6,000 to $15,000 for most individuals, with the figure going from $12,000 to $25,000 for any debtor or family member with a physical disability. Separately, the measure would cap the amount of someone’s wages that could be attached. And another pro vision specifically limits the amount of annual interest that could be charged on medical debt to no more than 3%.
make major changes in state laws. What’s dubbed the Voters’ Right to Know Act is designed to elimi nate exemptions in state campaign finance
The proposal also would reinstate the state’s permanent early voting list which automatically provides mail-in ballots for anyone who opts in. Lawmakers voted to repeal that last year, replacing it with a system that stops the early ballots from coming for those who do not use them for at least two election cycles, though they still would be able to vote in Backersperson.ofthe initiative said that is not fair for those who may not be regular voters, turning out only when there are issues or candidates on the ballot of interest. Also gone if the initiative is ap proved would be the law that makes it a crime to take someone else’s vot ed early ballot to a polling place un less that person is a relative, member of the same household or a caretaker. And the initiative would roll back decisions by lawmakers to increase the amount of money that individu als and political action committees can give to candidates, a figure cur rently set at $6,250. It would have been capped at $1,000 for local and legislative candidates and $2,500 for statewideConversely,races.candidates who forego special interest donations would be en titled to additional public dollars. from page 12
Academic performance, athletic prow ess, bullying on social media and gam ing platforms and the increase in youth mental health issues such as anxiety and depression “must be met with a call to ac tion that includes front loading them with prevention and resiliency training to con front these challenging times,” she said.
The Queen Creek Rotary Club has been steadily growing. (Courtesy Jason Jantzen) Celebrating the Queen Creek Rotary Club’s formation are member Mike Flores, club Chairman Jason Jantzen, member Brenda Brandhorst, Rotary District Governor Bret Mckeand and Rotary Assistant Governor Ed Anderson. (Courtesy Jason Jantzen)
“As a satellite club you get to rely on the experiences and strengths of the existing club,” said Jason Jantzen, who chairs the Queen Creek Rotary. “For instance, there is an existing board with Gilbert. There is a process for collecting dues, and interacting with Ro tary international. There is an existing treasurer, existing secretaries. There’s kind of a learning curve to be an inde pendent club.” Rules dictate that the Rotary has to have at least eight members to form a satellite arm. The Queen Creek club is currently up to 21 members and will begin the pro cess of stepping away from Gilbert in the not-too-distant future.
So rather than focus specifically on teen suicide Jantzen says, the event will focus on resources that are available for par ents that they can use to help their kids face challenges by building resiliency.
The membership rolls are growing fast.
With Queen Creek businesses growing in number and stat ure, the town has formed its own Rotary club and will begin meeting this fall as a satellite of the Gilbert Rotary.
is some divide in the community of Queen Creek among the parents where a lot of them don’t want to talk about teen suicide,” Jantzen said. “It’s not something they want to ac knowledge or even talk about.”
“Addressing the subject matter of mental health is crucial for everyone, and as a community we must create a culture that’s smart about mental health and suicide prevention,” said Natalia Chimbo-Andrade, Director of Communi ty Education & Outreach for Community Bridges, a social services agency. “There are many ways we can work to gether to address this, but education and awareness is key. I applaud the Queen Creek rotary for taking this on and see ing the importance of speaking up about this crucial subject matter,” she said.
“Our members are mostly business owners and professionals, but they are parents. They’re mothers, they’re fa thers, they’re counselors, they’re teach ers. We have a police officer that’s a member,” Jantzen said. Despite being a fledgling upstart and still under Gilbert’s wing, the Queen Creek Rotary is not shying away from difficult subjects. In its inaugural meeting, “Raising Resilient Kids,” the Rotary is holding a “parent night event,” and has invited a panel of mental health care professional to focus on teens and the weighty issues they face on a daily basis, including sui cide, the prevalence of which has risen dramatically.“Iknowthere
Arizona ranks 28th in the nation when it comes to young people diagnosed with major depression, and while the state is roughly in the middle of the pack and not at the withresssomeimprovement.thereChimbo-Andradebottom,saysisalotofroomfor“Arizonahasmadewonderfulproginthelast5yearslegislationthat has passed to help face the teen mental health crisis such as the Mitch Warnock Act, Jake’s Law, and the recent Mental Health Instruction Law,” Chimbo-An dradeFifteensaid.organizations are scheduled to participate in the Rotary’s initial meet ing, Sept. 8 in the Queen Creek Commu nity Chambers, including officers from the police department, advocacy groups, counselors and parents. “I applaud the Queen Creek rotary for taking this on and seeing the importance of speaking up about this crucial subject matter.”People who want more information on the club can email: info@rotaryclubqc. com.
“It is imperative that trusted adults and caregivers recognize that childhood has drastically changed with the advent of the smartphone and other devices we hand our children,” said Katey McPher son, a Chandler educator and a leading advocate for more mental health ser vices for young people. McPherson pointed out that the stress ors kids face today are drastically differ ent than they were a generation ago.
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There has been a sharp increase in demand for behavioral health services nationwide, but there is still a need, es pecially in rural Chimbo-Andradeareas.noted that “83% of communities in AZ did not have enough mental health providers to serve resi dents in 2021.”
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As the owner of the Queen Creek Running Company, Logan Brooks and his business partner can spend one-on-one time with customers to ensure they get the best footwear possible for their running style. (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer)
“I almost felt like I had a super power instilled in me that day,” he said. “From that day forward, I have never really been afraid of anything. I think that was built through some thing that occurred in those moments afterwards. I’ve never stepped down from a challenge.”
And there were plenty of them.
“It was either go to school in small town Oregon or take a chance,’ he said.“Looking back, as I’ve gotten a lit tle older, I wonder ‘what the hell was I thinking and how did I make it through that?’ But I think it’s just part of who I am. From what I remember I never looked back,” he said. Brooks spent the next decade searching for purpose and dealing with challenges. A severe bout of insomnia cost him a marriage and he began to search for something to make him feel like his life, miracu lously spared, had some meaning. He happened to have grown up in the same town as distance running legend and Olympian Steve Prefon taine.Even years after Prefontaine’s death, Brooks stumbled on his inspi ration. He took up running on a whim, traversing trails in Arizona.
“This is exactly where I was sup posed to be; This is exactly the sport I was supposed to find. This is the meditation I was supposed to find,”
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Running, his QC business brought him meaning L ogan Brooks, 6, and his 9-year old brother Brian were headed out on Brian’s bicycle to play some Saturday morning football at an elementary school by their house in Coos Bay, Oregon, with the younger sibling riding on the handlebars.
Nobody really knows what hap pened next that day in January of 1987.“There was a stop sign. Somehow, we went out into the street and I got hit and pretty much took the brunt of it. Fractured my skull,” Logan Brooks recalled. “I was told I was millimeters from being brain dead.” He was left for dead by a nurse who happened on the scene as the boys’ dad rushed to the scene. “I was laying in a pool of blood. The nurse told him that I was dead, actu ally gone and we don’t need to focus on him, we need to focus on this one here that’s alive. My brother in the end came out almost completely un scathed.”Loganwas unconscious and teeter ing on the edge of life, his face and body badly disfigured. Rescued and stabilized in Coos Bay, he was eventually taken by air ambu lance to Portland, where he required months of hospitalization, recon structive surgeries and rehabilitation.
Fast forward a decade or so from the accident, and just having graduat ed from high school, Brooks followed his brothers to Arizona, a little bit directionless, looking for work and something to help shape his future.
“In the running work, he was a god,” Brooks said. “He was the guy who made running cool. He died in a car accident and there were some paral lels there. Running went from nobody knew what running in America was to this guy changing the idea of what running even meant to our country.”
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Inspired, Brooks took up road rac ing, continues running competitively to this day, and wanted to help others do the same. But there was more frustration. More setback. Ready to open a run ning shop in Prescott, the timing, finances and his personal situation sunk those plans and Brooks found himself living in Queen Creek, making a go at having a family. After some market research, he transferred his plans south from Prescott and opened Queen Creek Running Company in 2018, a special ty shop devoted to all things running.
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Tucked inconspicuously between a doughnut shop and a tanning salon, Brooks aims to help customers who have taken their running to the next level and want to be competitive, fo cusing on individual service.
“Amazon and all these other institu tions and softwares have ruined that handshake between people where they can come in and get physical attention and technical knowledge,” Brooks said. And there is a lot of technical knowl edge wedged into this strip mall store at the corner of Chandler Heights and Power Rd. Brooks and his business partner Karl Neimeister greet cus tomers with a series of questions to help narrow down what it is that the runner is looking for in a pair of shoes. What are you running for? What’s your weekly mileage target is your goal, and what’s your injury history and basic knowledge of running and how your body reacts to it? Armed with that knowledge, it’s off to a multi-colored machine with lights and screens … the Aetrex foot scanner.“Itgives us clear dimensions of your foot. Everything from the length of your foot to the width of your foot to the height of your instep to the girth of your arch,” he said. And it gives us a map of the pres sure under your foot so it shows us where you have a tendency to lean and how you pressurize or depres surize your foot. We can literally zoom in and show them a 3-D image of their Brooksfoot.”sends that image electroni cally to a specialist who can create a shoe insert, or orthotic, for the cus tomer within a few days. Using the Aetrex image, Brooks helps the customer select a shoe that is best for their foot. Then he puts the wall to test the shoe and see if it really is the best one for the custom er’s foot. “I bought a new pair of Sauconys for an upcoming event that I have. I have two more months of training,” said Alexis Earhart. “I needed a good pair of shoes and I needed someone who knew what they were talking about and would analyze my gait and my foot and give me the appropriate rec ommendations.”Inagoodweek, Brooks sells about 150 pairs of shoes. Because his business is small, he takes his time and focuses on each customer as they come through the door. The business is growing though and, Brooks says, will need more spaceBrookssoon.wants Queen Creek Running Co. to be an integral part of the busi ness“Wecommunity.eventually would like to put on a couple of races here in this area. There is no point in being successful and making money without giving
he said. “I took up trail running when I was about 29 years old and I’ve nev er looked back. It just became my ab soluteIronically,passion.”Prefontaine died in an auto accident while he was running for the University of Oregon, training for the 1976 Olympics, years before Logan Brooks was born.
Queen Creek is now in a buyer’s market
“Builders are saying, ‘We’re going to wait and see how the market progress es,’” said Wolf.
Queen Creek was recently declared offi cially a buyer’s market. A buyer’s market has the buyer in the driver’s seat in the market and that often will lead to being in the driv er’s seat for the transaction as well. This is great news for buyers!
What’s worrisome is that in May, builders began noticeably pulling back on the number of permits they applied for to put up new homes, according to U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development data. Housing starts, which are homes builders have begun construction on but haven’t yet completed, also fell in May.
“You raise rates to this level, and you’re going to have folks who can’t qualify” for mortgages, said Devyn Bachman, senior vice president of research at John Burns Real Estate Consulting. “There is a very large group of buyers who could buy but are choosing not to because they’re worried about a reces sion, inflation, and the national econ omy. People are afraid they’re going to buy a home and a year from now it will be worth less than it is today.”
Some would-be buyers have decided to sit tight for now to see if they can get a better deal down the line.
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In June, there was a roughly 31% de cline in sales in new-home developments compared with the same time a year ago, according to data from John Burns. The number of sales fell even further in July, according to preliminary data. That’s given builders pause. They don’t want to put up the money to con struct homes if they’re not confident they can sell them.
Some have begun cutting prices, and the majority are slowing down the pace of construction—despite the nation’s dire housing shortage that’s hit crisis pro portions.“Weshould anticipate fewer homes being built over the next 12 months,” says Ali Wolf, chief economist of Zonda, a real estate consultancy. “The new-home market is struggling right now. Demand has cooled more than you would imag ine this time of year.” Many buyers were already reeling from record-high home prices. Add in higher mortgage rates, and suddenly many were unable to afford the monthly payments on a new home, which are often more ex pensive than older properties.
“Without a doubt, the first half of 2022 qualifies as a housing recession,” said Robert Dietz, chief economist of the Na tional Association of Home Builders.
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Our local real estate market has been cooling down since April of this year. In the spring we had approximately 4,000 active listings on the market to serve the entire Phoenix metro area. In April, pric es peaked and the buyer demand slowly started to soften. By June, we were in a different market. List ings peaked June 28th adding an astonishing 12,246 new listings in the prior 30 days. The volume of new listings hitting the market felt like the pelting rain we recently experienced. And just as that rain eventually stopped and the water receded, the number of new listings hitting the market are final ly beginning to slow down. It won’t be as abrupt as the end of a rain storm, but we will gladly take the reprieve. In the last few weeks, the volume of list ings has “dropped sharply”, according to The Cromford Report. They go on to say that there were “fewer than 10,000 appearing in the last 28 days”. It’s a minor improvement. However, let’s focus on the direction of the improvement.
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This home on E. Natalie Way in Queen Creek recently sold for $1.2 million,. The new-build has nearly 3,000 square feet, four bedrooms and bathrooms, and boasted high-end appliances, a great room with fireplace and numerous other amenities. (Special to the Tribune)
Homebuilders backing off as sales plummet
Just a few months ago, builders couldn’t put homes up fast enough to appease the hordes of eager buyers. They boasted about lengthy waitlists, even holding lotteries to choose those lucky enough to purchase their newly constructed homes. Those days are now over as the hous ing market corrects after two years of runaway prices. Buyers are now canceling orders and extracting themselves from waitlists as higher mortgage rates have pushed their dreams of owning new construc tion beyond their financial reach. Sales areAmongdown. the slowing-down markets is Phoenix, Realtor.com reported. Builders are responding by throwing out incentives, like spaghetti against a wall, to see which ones attract buyers.
“Building had a big drop-off,” said Re altor.com® Chief Economist Danielle Hale. “Unfortunately, with this pullback in building, that shortage is unlikely to be solved anytime soon.” Roughly 87% of builders are now planning to slow down their pace of con struction, according to Zonda.
Buyers had few choices for almost two years. They had to act quickly, offer to buy the home without an inspection, pay much higher than the asking price, and pay the dif ference between the appraised value and the sale price. Not now. Buyers have choices. They have a plethora of homes to choose from. They have time to slow down and make their decision. Buyers have room to negotiate. They do not have the pressure of foregoing the home in spection or repair requests. Nor do they have to supply extra cash to cover the appraisal gap. Why are so many listings still on the mar ket? That’s part of being in a buyer’s market. There are more listings than there is demand from buyers. Couple that with buyers seeing rate movement and uncertain of when they should lock in a home and their rate.
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Buyers are beginning to feel better about entering the market again. There was a re cent dip in interest rates, which may account for the increase in buyer activity. There has been much information about securing a rate buy down as well. Sellers can pay for an interest rate buy down on the buyers’ behalf. This could be in lieu of a price reduction, assuming the home is at or near the value of the home, at least in the eyes of the buyer.
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Sellers have improved the overall show ing of the homes by adding staging back into their listing process. A wise seller will heed the advice of their real estate agent and have the home professionally cleaned, including windows. This helps the buyer feel the home has been maintained and cared for. The last four months have brought so much movement in our market. If you are needing to move, it is still a good time to move. Rates are still low and you have more choices now. Melanie Nemetz, the owner and found er of The Melanie Nemetz Team with Keller Williams Integrity First can be reached at 480- 221-3034, melanie@fosteringre.com or fosteringre.com.
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Bachman expects builders to take out 5% to 10% fewer permits to put up new homes next year. The largest homebuilder in the nation, D.R. Horton, reported that about 24% of orders for new homes were canceled from April through June, according to its most recent earnings report. Orders for new homes fell 7%. (Last year during the same period, about 17% of all orders werePulteGroup,canceled.)the third-biggest home builder, reported cancellations were up to 15% in the second quarter of the year—compared with 7% a year earli er. Orders for new homes dropped 23% from a year ago. “We are seeing increased cancella tions, which is an early sign of distress in the new-home market,” said Bachman. In a sharp shift from earlier this year, homebuilders are now wooing prospec tive buyers with a slate of incentives. These perks vary by builder, but they can include companies offering to buy down mortgage rates so that their cus tomers have lower rates, shouldering some of the closing costs buyers are tra ditionally responsible for, offering fan cier finishes and amenities, and ending the premiums they charge for corner lots and other locations with views. About 20% have cut prices, which many builders view as a last resort. In some cases, they’ll go back to the drawing board and see if they can re work projects to put up more affordably priced homes. That could be erecting smaller homes, scrapping single-family developments in favor of more condos and townhomes, or using less expensive finishes in an ef fort to get costs down. Smaller homes of ten cost less in materials, labor, and time to Newproduce.home construction could dip the most in some of the housing markets that got the most overheated during the COVID-19 pandemic. These are the kinds of places that are already correct ing, with home sellers in many of them being forced to cut prices to woo buyers. This report was provided by Realtor. com. from page 18
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Now, “My Plate” offers official federal food guidance…and has for over a de cade.Meantime, everyday Americans seem to encounter new “nutritional stud ies”— well, everyday. That includes one BY JD HAYWORTH
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Of course, Washington being Washing ton, that development was not met with wide-spread unanimity – but at least the disagreements about “eating right” didn’t break down along the tradition al political lines of left versus right. In stead, disputes developed over the fed eral approach to nutritional “multilevel marketing.”TheUSDA was all about inclusion at the base of the pyramid, grouping bread, cereal, rice, and pasta together, suggest ing six to 11 daily servings. On the next level, vegetables and fruits shared ele vated status, with guidance of three to five servings of veggies, and two to four helpings of fruit.
Critics were unsparing in their scorn. The most common complaint dealt with style as well as substance. Ameri cans associate success with the top…not the bottom. Accordingly, the advice of the Agriculture Department was to “in vert the pyramid.” Adding “fat to the fire” was a failure to recognize research extolling the ben efits of unsaturated fats in weight loss, as well the lowering of blood sugar and cholesterol levels. But blood pressure levels increased on the banks of the Potomac with accusa tions of “lactose tolerance”—allegations that the dairy lobby “milked” the bene fits of the pyramid with larger visuals that made their products easier to rec ognize.USDA bureaucrats recognized they had created problems with the pyramid, but like most government workers, they were slow to embrace needed changes. Finally, in 2011, the pyramid trans mogrified into a “personalized plate.”
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Recalling the transformation of the food pyramid
Here’s a thought that borrows another social media acronym: How about you all STFU and spare the rest of us your talking points? The rest of us being the approximate ly 250 million Americans not registered as Republicans or Democrats and/or the 150 million Americans who didn’t vote for either Biden or Donald Trump in 2020. Why such hard feelings? It’s the glar ingInhypocrisy.2008,when Lehman Brothers, AIG and Wall Street irresponsibility crashed the American economy, McConnell led the way on a $700 billion bailout of the rich, which he lauded as “one of the fin est moments in the history of the Sen ate.”And Warren, who’s rarely met a gov ernment giveaway she didn’t like, didn’t celebrate Pres. Trump’s $2 trillion CARES Act spending spree, which includ ed $500 billion in checks for individuals and $350 billion in Paycheck Protection Program loans to business owners – in cluding all sorts of millionaires who, uh, maybe didn’t need the cash.
Student debt giveaway underscores bigger problem
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The reaction? The usual partisan the atrics.Liberal Democrat Sen. Elizabeth War ren nearly broke both hands applauding Biden: “This is one of the biggest acts of consumer debt relief in American histo ry, and it will directly help hardworking people who borrowed money to go to school because they didn’t come from a family that could write a big check.”
Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell was apoplectic: “President Biden’s student loan socialism is a slap in the face to every family who sacrificed to save for college, every graduate who paid their debt, and every American who chose a certain career path or volunteered to serve in our Armed Forces in order to avoid taking on debt. This policy is as tonishingly unfair.”
The penultimate placements belonged to milk, cheese and yogurt on one side; meat, poultry, fish, dry beans, eggs, and nuts on the other…with both groupings listing suggested servings of two to threeAnd,daily.atthe top, what most nutrition ists in the early ’90’s considered the “bottom feeders” among consumables: fats, sweets, and oils…with the admoni tion to “use sparingly.”
Early Aug. 24, Pres ident Joe Biden doddered to the White House micro phone and announced the forgiveness of an estimated $300 billion in student loanThedebt.plan, should it survive court challenges, will wave a magic wand at $10,000 in debt for borrowers making less than $125,000 a year and up to $20,000 for Pell grant recipients.
Whatever the history of an cient Egypt, there’s one “pyramid” that’s not shrouded in mystery.It’sthe “food pyramid,” which attract ed quite a bit of controversy following its “construction.”BabyBoomers can be forgiven if they carry a vague recollection of this dietary diagram from the scratchy, sprocket threaded, 16-millimeter monochromat ic motion pictures featured during their school days. Actually, “official” recognition of the food pyramid did not occur until 1992. That’s when the U.S. Department of Ag riculture introduced its own version, al ternatively called the “Food Guide Pyra mid” or the “Eating Right Pyramid.”
My reaction? It was what kids today would abbreviate as “SMH,” for shaking myIt’shead.allthe response I can muster any more for the predictable screeching that arises whenever the government – local, state or federal – does anything. Depending on the decisionmaker, whether it’s a MAGA hat Trump acolyte or someone who worships at the altar of Old Joe Santa of the Left, forever giving away cash, record inflation be damned, it’s yet another moment to exhort or complain, so long as you root, root, root for the home team.
It was the type of explanation that never would have flown with my par ents, who worked hard to help me pay the college costs scholarships did not cover. “Two wrongs don’t make a right,” my mother liked to say. Then again, my mother never held public office in this country, because she had common sense and disliked reward ing poor decision-making, two qualities that would have rendered her unfit to serve in 21st century politics.
LEIBOWITZ from page 20 from the University of Michigan that was curiously released one month after Inde pendence Day. Did you enjoy a hot dog on July 4? An article in the Aug. 4 edition of “The U.S. Sun” claims you might have cut more than a half hour from your life span. Re searchers in Ann Arbor claim that sum mertime staple may put nails in your coffin 36.3 minutes sooner that a nonhot dog Scientistseater.conducting the study said they calculated the direct influence of 6,000 various meals, snacks and drinks. They claim that if someone who eats beef and processed pork products would exchange just 10 percent of their caloric intake for plant-based food, those “en lightened eaters” could gain an extra 48 minutes of life per day. No word on who financed the study, but it sounds as if the U of M has engaged in dubious scholarship to promote its school colors: “Eat maize so you won’t turn blue!”
Rightly skeptical folks could reflexive ly suggest that the research is flawed, since it “compares apples to oranges,” in a manner of speaking. And “wrong eating” Egyptologists might point out that the pyramids they study were built as burial sites for the pharaohs.Thetakeaway?Enjoywhatyou like in moderation. Be sure to exercise and get the sleep youAndneed.realize that, despite our best (or worst) efforts, we all will one day en counter the same fate as the pharaohs – without a grand pyramid to house our remains, or a “food pyramid” to follow, thankfully.
“Is this unfair to people who paid their student loans or chose not to take out loans?”Biden, almost to the door, turned back to deliver a one-liner. “Is it fair to peo ple who, in fact, do not own multi-bil lion-dollar businesses if they see one of these guys getting all the tax breaks? Is that fair? What do you think?”
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After a day of back and forth in the media – and a few text messages from friends celebrating or attacking Biden’s decision – I found myself transfixed by a moment that crystallizes the entire ar gument.Towards the end of Biden’s 20 minutes of self-congratulation, a reporter shout ed a reasonable question at the man:
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The pandemic put a wrench in the plans of several East Valley high school football programs the last two years. Queen Creek included.
The Bulldogs have been planning an outof-state trip to open the season for years. But plans never came to fruition. Now, during a time in which several other football programs are hitting the road to start the season outside of state lines, Queen Creek will join them.
“I think it’s cool we are playing with Cam po Verde and Williams Field,” Schureman said. “We’ve sort of come up the ranks to gether. We’ve had some great battles with those teams over the years.” To go out of state and do something differ ent is a unique opportunity. San Joaquin presents a challenge for the Bulldogs. The Panthers are coming off a 9-1 campaign in 2021 and are led by 1,000-yard rusher Brandon Ramirez, who returns for his senior season.
Queen Creek head football coach Travis Schureman is preparing to take his program out of state for the first time as the Bulldogs will face San Joaquin Memorial out of Fresno, Calif. in the Moorepark Classic just outside of Los Angeles. (Dave Minton/ Tribune Staff)
It’s a unique opportunity that head coach Travis Schureman hopes will be memorable for his players. It will also be memorable for the whole program, as it’s the first time in history it will play an out-of-state opponent.
“We’re some dogs, that’s all I have to say,” Candell said. “Our defense is a beast and I think our offense is going to shock some people. I just want to show people who we reallyTheare.Moorepark Classic Queen Creek will take part alongside Williams Field and Cam po Verde and is just one showcase featuring East Valley Arizona teams the first weekend of football for big schools. Down in San Diego, Red Mountain and Chandler kick off their respective seasons Friday at The Honor Bowl held at Cathedral Catholic High School. Desert Vista plays in the showcase on Saturday for the second time in three years.
Queen Creek’s players, especially the se niors, know what is at stake in California and throughout the rest of their difficult schedule. They want to prove they belong in the conversation as an Open Division con tender on a yearly basis.
Queen Creek among many to open season in California
Creek will load up on buses Thurs day morning to head west to California. The Bulldogs will stay in the Los Angeles area in preparation for their season opener against San Joaquin Memorial out of Fresno on Sat urday.The game is part of the Moorepark Clas sic, a showcase event of sorts for California and Arizona teams to battle it out on the gridiron.Along with Queen Creek, Campo Verde and Williams Field will also make the trip. The Black Hawks play Friday and the Coy otes Saturday, just after the Bulldogs.
“It’s a chance to represent your state,” Schureman said. “But more importantly to us we get to represent who Queen Creek is. We’ll go up there and play our butts off and we’ll see if it pays off. But it’s a fun opportu nity to go up there and represent this area and the state of Arizona.”
Basha will travel to California to take on Los Alamitos, while Mountain View travels to face Helix. Perry will also travel out of state but to Nevada to face Spring Valley out of Las Vegas. Saguaro, instead of traveling, is hosting New Jersey power Bergen Catholic.
“We’re excited, we’re ready for the chal lenge,” said senior Davey Morales, who led the team in receiving yards last year. “We’re kind of a sleeper team that nobody is really expecting. So, I’m ready to prove everybody wrong.”While
The reach for Arizona high school football teams has broadened in recent years as the state elevates in high school football talent. But it remains widely underrated. Schure man hopes his team, and others, can make a statement for Arizona football.
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While San Joaquin graduated it’s top wideout last season, several starters return for quarterback Carson Dean, including Ra mon Ruiz and Ryan Wristen, who both had over 50 receiving yards in San Joaquin Me morial’s season-opening win against Clovis North.Ramirez is also a standout linebacker for the Panthers while Marquis Jones leads the defensive line. Even with that talent, however, Queen Creek players remain confident.
“I think it speaks to the character of the seniors that we feel like this is a class that can go out of state,” Schureman said. “This is something we’ve talked about but with COVID and those other things … just to have a senior class we feel is ready and can handle something like that, we’re excited aboutQueenit.”
This will be the first-ever trip to take on an out-of-state opponent for Queen Creek. The Bulldogs hope to make a statement alongside Williams Field and Campo Verde, who will also be in Moorepark for the showcase. (Dave Minton/Tribune Staff)
Queen Creek has some question marks at certain positions this season, the Bulldogs also return several multi-year starters. Candell has been in the defen sive secondary for three seasons now. He’s joined by linebackers Porter Reynolds and Cole LaLama, the team’s top two tacklers a year ago. Ethan Wilson will also play a role at linebacker while the defensive line is led by Griffin Schureman and Brody Curtis. Griffin, the son of Schureman, and Cur tis also start on offense. Curtis is making the move from center to running back this season after losing several pounds during wrestling season.
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All pilots are required to have a minimum of 500 flight hours and are regularly tested for drugs and alcohol. They are also required to carry a 2nd Class Airman Medical Certificate.
Appelman says the company has won countless awards and has been named the only official ride operator for world-re nowned events “due to the impeccable safe ty record we hold as a company.”
The North Phoenix-based hot air balloon company boasts four decades of experience providing rides to over 500,000 passengers.
Thewebsite.Phoenix location offers daily scenic rides year-round over Deer Valley and the Sonoran Desert vistas. Rainbow Ryders seeks to provide an “unforgettable bucket list experience,” explained founder/owner Scott“BeingAppelman.inArizona, you’ve got the beau tiful mountains around us and the desert landscape – it’s just stunning,” he said. “I’ve flown in over 45 states and three different countries. There is nothing like flying here. It’s just so pretty. It’s like the pictures that are painted.”
The flight team will drive passengers to and from the drop off and pickup locations before and after the flights.
The Phoenix location offers yearlong group and private sunrise rides. Sunset rides are also available from November through March due to cli mate and weather factors.
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“A majority of our people will do this once to fill that bucket list,” Appelman said. “And I am amazed that a lot of people have multiple flights with us and bring back new family members or new friends.”
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“The wind will change based on the geo graphic conditions of where you are,” Ap pelman explained. “You can’t fly through the mountains, because it has weird weather sensations that compromise safety.”
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Hot air balloon company a bucket list destination
Whether it’s conquering a fear of heights, boosting adrenaline or simply enjoying a romantic set ting, hot air balloon rides are a top bucket list contender for many – and Rainbow Ryders is here to help.
Adult group ride tickets originally cost $275, but can vary depending on the time of purchase and poten tial specials. Individual adult tickets for private rides are slated as $425 per person. Both types of rides take about 3 and a half hours in total, with 45 minutes to 1 hour of flight time.
While each typically services between two and four people, and can fit up to 12 to 14, personal requests seeking smaller baskets are“Whenavailable.you’re coming out here with your grandma, grandchild or your sweetheart, you know you’re in the best hands possible,” Appelman said. “The simple fact is you’re floating with a bag of hot air and you’re at the mercy of mother nature, which has all of the cool romance that goes with those words, but you just want to make sure you’re with an operator that is reputable and will treat you right.”
Rainbow Ryders, headquartered at 715 E. Covey Lane, is the official balloon ride oper ator at events around the country, according to its
Mesa Contemporary Arts Muse um will celebrate the opening of five new exhibitions with a free re ception.Thereception, 6-9 p.m. Sept. 9 will include a Ron English pop-up store, musical enter tainment by DJ Pickster and a cash bar. Headlining MCA Museum’s fall season is cultural provocateur Ron English, who be came notorious for his illegal billboards in the 1980s and was later known for his visual satires of mainstream icons.
Sunrise Rainbow Ryders’ passengers are asked to first meet the pilots at the head quarters 30 minutes prior to sunrise. The pilots will then study the wind conditions to determine the best location to launch.
Appelman says the flight’s sensations are similar to what it would feel like to float. He adds it’s very quiet, other than the sound of the“It’sburner.likethe ocean, there are different cur rents down there and it’s the exact same thing when you’re up in the air,” he says, noting that the pilot will steer by adding more heat.
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Rainbow Ryders, Inc. dates began offer ing hot air balloon flights in the scenic Rio Grande Valley in 1983 after Appelman made away from his family’s construction busi ness and pursued his passions in the air.
Once the balloon is inflated, pilots will fly from ground level to a couple thousand feet above, depending on wind direction and speed. The conductors will steer the balloon by moving it to different altitudes to get dif ferent wind patterns, so the height of the bal loon will vary throughout the flight.
Rainbow Ryders, Inc. is the largest hot air balloon business serving the Southwest, with offices in Albuquerque, Phoenix, and Colorado Springs. (Courtesy of Rainbow Ryders)
“I thought, ‘Holy mackerel, I’m doing something that really matters,’” Appelman says. “It’s a luxury item – it’s not like put ting dinner on the table but it’s being part of making people’s lives and being part of that memory. It is probably the greatest privilege of my “Nonelife.”of us are promised tomorrow and the bucket list thing has become a very big thing – especially since we get younger gen erations,” he says. “This is a way that peo ple can go on out and fill up their list and do something different and exciting during what has been challenging times.”
Each trip concludes with a traditional cel ebratory toast and a commemorative flight certificate.
“When I was 12 years old, I lived in Albu querque. They had the first balloon festival there and I was fascinated as a young boy,” he says. “I love aviation and I saw these bal loons fly and I thought, “Oh my gosh, this is soAppelmancool.’” attained his license in 1983 and began to fly hot air balloons recreation ally. When he launched Rainbow Ryders, he started with one two-passenger balloon and did every task from answering the phones to booking reservations to piloting the flights. And he hasn’t looked back since.
All company pilots are FAA-certified and have nearly 200 years of combined experi ence, the site continues.
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His works also appeared in films like Morgan Spurlock’s documentary “Super SizeOtherMe.”highlights included a collective ex hibition of 150 sketchbooks by emerging and established artists from across the globe in the Moleskine Project, the street art of lo cal creatives Such and Champ Styles, as well as the childlike wonder of Giorgiko’s dream scapes and Reen Bareera’s toy-inspired sculptures.Aspartof Mesa Arts Center, Mesa Con temporary Arts Museum says it “showcases the best in Contemporary Art by emerging, nationally and internationally recognized artists and provides support and advance ment to artists through solo, group and ju riedMCAexhibitions.Museum’s added that its free ad mission and “strong engagement programs provide visitors with free school and public tours, a robust docent program and free art ist talks.” Here’s a list of upcoming exhibits: The Moleskine Project Sept. 9-Dec. 4 The Moleskine Project is a collective ex hibition of customized sketchbooks by hun dreds of emerging and established artists from across the globe. The exhibition spans various artistic styles and mediums, delving into how art ist’s sketch and develop creative ideas. The exhibition, which made its initial debut at Spoke Art San Francisco in 2011, is a con tinuation of that project where artists are provided with a blank Moleskine book and invited to create an original work of art with in its pages. It is Curated by Harman Projects of New York City. Living in Delusionville - Ron English Sept.9-Jan. 22 Known as the Godfather of Street Art, Ron English has emerged as one of the most influential and controversial artists of our time. Taking direct inspiration from the leg endary Andy Warhol, English merges Amer ican iconography with art history to create social and political statements about con temporary American society. From Ronald McDonald to Mickey Mouse, no cultural icon is sacred. Living in Delusion ville, which is also the title of the latest docu mentary on the artist, features 37 paintings and sculptures by English from the last de cade. Dark Matter - Giorgiko Sept.9-Jan. 29 Giorgiko (pronounced jee-OR-jee-koh) is a collaborative experiment by husbandand-wife California artist team Darren and TrishaConceivedInouye.in 2012, the Giorgiko universe is home to lost boys and wayfaring girls and explores the stories of their wanderings and dreams of being found again. Through minimal, expressive character illustrations, Giorgiko’s classically designed large-scale paintings playfully capture urban and classical youth in city and nature scenes as part of their journeys through the world.
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This exhibition features the latest indi vidual and collaborative paintings by Phoe nix father and son duo Such and Champ Styles.Dedicated to the historical foundation and spirit of aerosol, this family graffi ti team often incorporates popular cul ture icons, like Howard the Duck and Hello Kitty, into their graphic lettering and motifs.Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tues days through Saturdays and noon - 5 p.m. Sundays. Information: mesaartscenter.com/mcam or 480-644-6560.
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Directions: Heat the oven broiler to high. In a dry skillet over high heat, pan roast the red bell pepper. When charred, remove from skillet, cool, and then peel off skin, seed and dice. In the same skillet, add diced onion with 2 TBSP of butter. Sauté until golden brown, about 10 minute. In a large bowl, combine the potato chips, red pepper, onion, prosciutto, thyme, eggs, and salt and pepper. Let sit to allow the chips to soften in the eggs, about 5 minutes. Heat the oil in a 10-inch nonstick skillet over medium-high heat; add the egg mixture and cook, without stirring, until the bottom begins to brown, about 3 minutes. Transfer to the broil er, and broil until the top is set but still slightly jiggly (not sloshy) on top, about 3 minutes. Cut into wedges or small squares to serve warm or at room temperature. Serves 8. Deep-fried olives
The facial expressions, symbols and pat terns in the artist’s ohlala characters are drawn from the idiom “it’s written all over your face” and represent the power individ uals have in designing their own fate.
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Inspired by his “toy deprived” childhood, Filipino artist Reen Barrera repurposes found materials into mixed media figurative sculptures and paintings.
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e’s one of the world’s most famous culi nary masters. Spanish chef Ferran Adrià is known for taking a dish that is well known and transforming all of its ingredients. His take on Tortilla Española is no different, made with crushed potato chips instead of fried potatoes. It’s wonderful, and simple and world famous. Here, I’ve combined it with a delightful recipe for deep fried olives – also a treat!
Ingredients: 4 cups thin style potato chips
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