East Valley Tribune: Southeast Edition - March 19, 2017

East Valley citrus trees keep falling to new homes, businesses

BY BRENT RUFFNER Tribune Contributor

Afew dozen citrus trees sit in the shadows of a small housing development under construction along McKellips Road, once known as a main artery for fruit in Mesa.

Less than a mile away, Allen Freeman minds his store, Orange Patch Too, which

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dubs itself “Arizona’s Favorite Citrus” because he sells so many varieties, from naval and Valencia oranges to lemons and pink grapefruit.

But he sees himself on the fringes of an industry that is dying – just as the acres of trees that perished a mile away where Blandford Homes is building The Estates at McKellips and Val Vista Drive.

Vast, lush citrus groves once dominated the East Valley landscape. Now, they only dot it as more groves are bladed each year to

make way for shopping malls and housing developments.

“I’ve been doing this 47 years,” Freeman said. “We have been direct-marketing to the public. You get to know people and end up making good friends. It’s awful hard to say, ’This is your last bag of oranges you will ever get.’”

Freeman remembers carrying trees covered in burlap sacks as a child while his father, Art,

BY SHELLEY RIDENOUR Tribune Contributor

Researchers are working on two vaccines to prevent people and animals from catching valley fever, the debilitating illness caused by a fungus growing in the lungs.

Meanwhile, valley fever is working its way into more conversations around the country, but some people say the disease isn’t on enough – or the correct – radar screens.

The disease, which occurs in very select regions of the United States, is gaining awareness in part because a congressional task force was created in July 2013 to address the disease. The task force is co-chaired by U.S. Reps. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., and Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.

The task force recommended to the Food and Drug Administration that new vaccines under development – nikkomycin and deltacps1 – receive fast-track approval as orphan drugs. If the vaccines are so classified, the result is “faster methods of research and

Debbie Varner, of Follow Your Heart Animal Rescue, said she’s taken in plenty of dogs with valley fever. Local veterinarians say they've treated dozens of dogs with valley fever every year. Story, Page 10

money for research,” Schweikert said. Schweikert is cautious in his optimism about the effectiveness of the vaccines.

“Please understand this,” Schweikert said. “It’s a fungus. This may be the first time they’ve looked at a vaccine for a fungus.”

In Arizona, research on valley fever has

been taking place for 20 years at the Valley Fever Center for Excellence in Tucson. The center is largely funded by grants, including a recent $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the

(Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer)

Marine vet barred from restaurant because of neck tattoo

BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer

AU.S. Marine Corps veteran of two tours of duty in Iraq said he was humiliated Wednesday night when he was denied admittance into Gilbert’s new Dierks Bentley Whiskey Row restaurant because of his neck tattoo.

Brandon Andrus, the Iraq veteran, said he was not allowed to have a drink with family members because he has the number “22” tattooed on his neck as a suicide awareness statement. Military organizations say an average of 22 veterans commit suicide each day across the nation.

“I have been to a lot of different places and never once had an issue with anyone,” Andrus said. “They wouldn’t speak man to man. It was, ‘Sorry, sir, it’s a policy.’ They just thought I was going to cause trouble.”

Robyn Moore, a spokeswoman for Riot Hospitality of Scottsdale, which operates three Whiskey Row restaurants in Scottsdale, Tempe and

Gilbert, apologized to Andrus, but said the company was upholding a policy recommended by police.

“We do apologize for making him upset. We don’t want anyone to feel discriminated against,” she said.

Moore said the new Gilbert restaurant had a problem the night before with someone who had a neck tattoo, so the need to enforce their rule was fresh in the minds of employees. She said the company would review the policy after consulting with police.

“I think they will be making steps toward changing the policy,” Moore said.

the street, yelling profanities about Whiskey Row.

Andrus served two tours of duty, a total of 14 months, in Iraq during 2004 and 2005. He said he has a 30 percent disability from the Veteran’s Administration for post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Ben Andrus, Brandon’s brother, returned to the new restaurant on Gilbert Road, which celebrated its grand opening on Thursday night, where he demanded an explanation.

made for his brother, because his brother’s tattoo has nothing to do with gangs and is related to his military service.

But Ben said the general manager told him that if Whiskey Row made an exception for his brother, “we would need to make an exception for everyone.”

“Your issue is with gang-related visible neck tattoos. You are basically profiling my brother,” Ben said.

Brandon, a hairdresser, also has a tattoo of some scissors next to his ear.

Ben and Brandon Andrus, and their wives, had just had dinner at Nico’s, a nearby restaurant, and wanted to have a drink together at Whisky Row.

Andrus walked away, even though he said he was “beyond pissed,” feeling embarrassed and humiliated. Moore said Andrus walked up and down

“It represents the 22 soldiers who commit suicide. This is not gangrelated,” Ben said. “It was a very embarrassing moment. It was very uncomfortable.”

Ben said he understands why Whiskey Row wants to keep a clean atmosphere, but he believes an exception should have been

Moore said Whiskey Row employees initially had no idea Brandon was a veteran when he approached the door, but Ben said he made that clear to them when he demanded an explanation.

She later conceded that anyone with neck tattoo is not allowed inside a Whiskey Row, whether they are veterans or not veterans.

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Mesa teen wins $5,000 scholarship for free trade essay

BY BECKY BRACKEN Tribune Contributor

When it comes to explaining the relationship between tariffs and gross domestic product, most high schoolers probably wouldn’t have much to say on the topic. But Juliana Good is special.

Juliana, a Red Mountain High School senior, just won a national contest and a $5,000 scholarship from the National Center for Policy for an essay she wrote about whether international free trade agreements are in the best interest of the United States.

She wrote her essay titled “Production and Possibilities: The Benefits of Free Trade” after learning about the Young Patriots Essay Contest from her AP Literature teacher, she said.

“This essay required a lot of research,” Juliana said. “I think I spent four hours at the library one Saturday just to find the information I would use. As soon as I started researching, I was hooked on this topic.”

She credits her economics teacher,

Bradley Kaufman, for providing her with materials on both sides of the argument to consider before writing her essay.

“Trade is such an integral part of how the U.S. relates to other countries in the world, not only because of the goods and services we trade, but because of how we trade them,” according to Good.

Dr. David Grantham, a senior fellow from the NCPA, the Dallasbased free market think tank that runs the essay contest, says Juliana’s work stood out from the more than 700 entries from middle and high school students they received from across the country.

“Free trade agreements have been a cornerstone in American economic policy since the country’s founding, and have continued to benefit the U.S. economy in significant ways,” Juliana wrote in her essay’s conclusion. “While foreign competition has its downsides, and alternatives to a free market are appealing at times, the competitive

nature of free trade keeps American businesses on their toes and drives them to be better. The United States must continue on the path to fiscal betterment, for to expand the scope of trade is to expand the realm of opportunities available to this great nation.”

school of her choice to put toward her tuition.

“As of right now, it’s between Northern Arizona University, the University of New Hampshire, and Berklee College of Music,” Juliana said about her college plans. “I am pursuing music education and educational policy, and all of these schools have a lot to offer in both of those fields.”

Kelsey Ge of South Setauket, New York, and Kim Phan of Boston, Massachusetts, wrote the secondand third-place essays. Copart co-sponsors the competition with NCPA.

Juliana still isn’t sure where she plans to attend college, but when decides, the NCPA will send her $5,000 prize to the

“Copart is a proud sponsor of the Young Patriots Essay Contest, a program that helps young people become acquainted with public policy and to learn to research and voice their opinions on critical issues,” Copart CEO Jay Adair said. “On behalf of Copart and the NCPA, congratulations to all the winners.”

The winning essays can be found at ncpa. org/youth/young-patriot-essay-contest-2017.

(Emily Chavez/Special to the Tribune) Brandon Andrus hugs his son Christian and shows off his tattoos, one of which - the "22" - caused him to be denied entrance to Dierks Bentley Whiskey Row restaurant.

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Juliana Good is considering Northern Arizona University, the University of New Hampshire and Berklee College of Music after she graduates high school.

Art supply center lets charities explore their muse for free

BY RALPH ZUBIATE

Tribune Managing Editor

Hidden in a small two-building industrial park in Tempe is a treasure trove for artists, crafters, teachers and the merely curious. Art Resource Center has rows and stacks of art supplies for non-profit charities and teachers to use for free. Sherrie Zeitlin, executive director of the center at 1860 W. University Drive, Suite 102, says others can get supplies too, for a nominal fee.

“Everything has been given to us by somebody,” she said, including buckets of paint, brushes, fabric, handmade paper and more.

“ e first question anybody asks me is, ‘Are you sure it’s free?’” ere are so many free supplies that Zeitlin is having trouble finding enough room for them.

“We get way too much fabric,” she said, but then clarified. “Actually, not too much, but it comes in so often. We’ve given away a lot to a woman who makes quilts for Ronald McDonald House.”

One theater group came in recently looking for help with their production of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”

“ ey saw this wavy brown fabric we had, and now they’re using it for the chocolate river,” Zeitlin said.

Many schools don’t have art programs anymore, or don’t have enough supplies. at’s where ARC, as it’s called, comes in.

“Teachers come in all of the time,” Zeitlin said.

One of their favorite items is the egg cartons, which have many uses for the creative teacher.

“People use them constantly,” she said.

Gently used items, such as halffilled paint buckets or old markers, are still useful to the artists.

donated to the center.

“We had a teacher who retired, brought us boxes and boxes and boxes of cut magazines that were categorized,” she said.

A quick flip through the files revealed such categories as “Clocks” and “Faces.” “ ose would be great for collages,” she said.

filled their van with supplies.”

One unexpected ARC beneficiary is a local homeless woman. ARC gives her art supplies, and she paints in a nearby library.

ARC runs on volunteers – even Zeitlin doesn’t take a salary. Because of those limited resources, the center is open sporadically.

“We get to share great ideas,” volunteer Suzanna Yazzie said. “For example, old markers, you can make watercolors out of them.”

ARC has paper by the ream, some given to them from an Alphagraphics store up the street.

“ ey give us broken lots, and stuff they don’t need,” Zeitlin said.

ARC also gets clay supplies, broken tiles and even glass.

“Someone donated some fabulous glass for flat glass, or stained glass,” Zeitlin said. “It was yummy.”

She never knows what’s going to be

As artists retire or pass away, supplies they’ve left behind find their way into the center.

“Every year, we get an entire studio donated,” Zeitlin said. “Easels, paints, brushes – everything.”

e center also loans out bigger pieces, such as fabric looms, sewing machines or papermaking frames.

Groups come from all over the state for ARC’s supplies.

“We had a non-profit from Tucson show up. ey have special-needs adults that they take care of,” Zeitlin said. “We

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“We open when we can. We try to open at least one weekend a month,” she said. “We tell people to follow us on Facebook so they’ll see our next hours.”

Zeitlin says the one big need is not donated materials, but money.

“We need more money to keep the ARC afloat,” she said with a glint in her eye.

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Zeitlin would like to have 10,000 square feet somewhere nearby because now, “I turn away a tremendous amount of stuff.”

“We had a vertical blind company that wanted to give us pallets of material,” she said, “But we had no place to put it.” e struggles with space and money won’t keep the ARC from going forward, though.

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ASU campus hosts largest 3-D printing research facility in Southwest

BY AMANDA LUBERTO Cronkite News

Most schools would warn students away from lasers and saws, but officials encourage the students on the Arizona State University Polytechnic campus in Mesa to use them. The campus serves as the Southwest’s largest 3-D printing research facility: The Manufacturing Research and Innovation Hub.

This workspace is open for students to do anything from class projects to passion projects with top-of-the-line technology. It boasts $2 million in equipment, which includes a desktop 3-D printers, large 3-D printers, laser engravers and vinyl cutters.

The hub opened its doors to the public recently to show off its new toy, a Concept Laser.

Unlike most 3-D printers that print by heating and layering plastic or metal filaments – sort of like a hot glue gun –the new machinery prints in 3-D metal by melting layer upon layer of ultra-fine metal powder. The lab also received a

molecular microscope that will help students discover how to print the metal more effectively.

Lab manager Sean Dengler said having a wide variety of technology available to students allows them to push the boundaries.

He said the students learn things at the hub that he had to learn in the workforce. He said the exposure gets students hired right out of college.

“They’re doing projects freshman, sophomore, junior, senior year,” he said. “I know that large companies like Honeywell are looking to hire them.”

Riley Chicci is one of those students.

Chicci, a junior at the Polytechnic campus, works as a lab technician in the innovation hub.

He comes in during his personal time to play with the printers and see what he can do next. Recently, Chicci was a part of a bigger project where he printed the tracks and wheels of a robot used to find land mines in developing countries.

He said that he’s one of the reasons the hub got 3-D printers in the first place.

“I started messing around with one in

Gilbert apartment complex joins ‘smart home’ movement

BY FARAI BENNETT Cronkite News

The apartments at Vistara at San Tan Village look like many other “luxury” units available in the Valley with its granite countertops and walk-in closets.

But step inside one of the Gilbert complex’s apartments, and you can control the thermostat, turn on the lights, lock the door and blast music with the press of a button.

The 366-unit complex has partnered with Clare Controls to make the apartments “smart.”

The complex is marketing its apartments as the first in Arizona to offer this kind of technology. It’s part of the “smart home” trend the public may recognize through consumer products such as Amazon’s Echo and Wink Hub 2.

But property manager Tamara Cade said their apartments work through a phone app she claims is safer and more efficient because you can use your finger instead of your voice.

Vistara has been open for more than six months and Cade said they have

my free time,” he said. “We (together) decided which ones to get and stuff.”

3-D printing is still relatively new to the masses. According to technology blog Harboring Systems’ timeline on 3-D printing, it started in 1989, but the technology wasn’t made available to the public until four years later. It wasn’t until 2008, 20 years later, that the first self-replicating 3-D printer consumers recognize today went on the market.

Now 3-D printers can work with

printing different materials such as plastics and metals. Car parts have been printed for a few years now. And in December, Adidas even made its first 3-D printed shoe.

Dengler said he believes it will take a few more generations before the average household can easily 3-D print everything at home, but he said it’s coming: “Soon people will just be able to order the template on Amazon and print it right at home.”

rented more than half their units. Rents start at $1,000 a month.

Although Cade said they’ve found success with their units, industry experts said they’re still waiting for the smart home market to take off.

John Greenough, a writer for Business Insider, said they believe “the smart home market is stuck in the ‘chasm’ of the technology adoption curve, in which it is struggling to surpass the earlyadopter phase and move to the massmarket phase of adoption.”

Several factors have kept consumers away, including high prices and privacy concerns.

Kim Hanson, owner and broker of Turning Point Realty in Scottsdale, Arizona agreed that the demand isn’t so high just yet, but she said she expects it to rise soon enough.

“The people my market specifically caters to are Baby Boomers and Gen X,” she said. “Just the other day, I sold a home to a family in Washington – one of the biggest tech places in the country – and none of that tech stuff even came up. It didn’t matter to them. But for millennials in five years? That’s going to change the game of the market.”

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Sean Dengler, the lab manager at the Manufacturing Research and Innovation Hub, said he believes it will take a few more generations before the average household can easily 3-D print everything at home, but he said it’s coming.

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planted more than 20,000 trees along the Salt River in east Mesa. His citrus orchard spanned 240 acres in a project that started in 1966.

He is fighting to retain a part of that history and routinely gives free advice about citrus, as he did recently to a group of about 150 people.

numbers, according to Dave DeWalt, a state statistician for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

e Associated Press reported last month that within Arizona’s $6.3 billion agriculture industry, citrus doesn’t even rank among the state’s top 10 cash crops.

As the 2017 citrus season winds down, so will Freeman’s store. He has run two family stores the last 15 years as one of seven children that have helped keep the family business running for decades.

“ e reason the citrus industry is smaller now is because of urban growth,” Andy Kurtz, executive director of the Arizona Farm Bureau, told AP. “Many new homes are built in former citrus orchards.”

He also is a fourth generation citrus farmer who lost 71 acres to the state to make way for the Red Mountain Loop 202.

“Someone’s got to stay behind and help the family farm,” Freeman said. “I don’t know if it’s on accident or on purpose. But I’m here.”

Acreage in Arizona is so low now that agriculture experts only count lemons rather than all citrus, DeWalt said, noting Arizona accounts for only 15 percent of the nation’s lemon crop. California produces the rest.

Freeman recalls the many farms that existed when he was a boy and gave way to homes and commercial properties –and notes others that are about to be mowed down.

For example, a large 60-year-old grove just west of Mesa’s Falcon Field Airport is earmarked for a 63-acre cutting edge business park near Greenfield and McDowell roads.

e park, Falcon Tech Center, is touted by city officials as a generator of many high-wage jobs.

Shrinking acreage

e downward trend of citrus acreage has been a common storyline as farmers take advantage of skyrocketing land prices and opt to sell out.

Citrus acreage in Maricopa County shrunk by about 73 percent between 1997 and 2012 – the latest recorded

Other data show Maricopa County in 2012 dropped to 3,196 acres of groves from 11,955 acres in 1997. Yuma County fell to 13,202 from 22,254 acres in that time. In some counties, such as Pinal and Pima, citrus acreage plummeted from 9,410 to 1,432 acres over the 15-year span.

“(Acreage) has basically gone down,” DeWalt said.

Over the last five years, shipped cartons of Arizona citrus have also declined. For example, shipped cartons of oranges went from 106,539 in 2011 to 54,783 shipped in 2015-2016. Grapefruit shipments declined the same time period.

Citrus was once one of the five C’s in Arizona’s economy, which also included copper, cotton, cattle and climate. Arizona citrus reached its growing peak in the 1950s and 1960s.

e history of East Valley citrus groves dates back to the 1920s.

According to author Joan Franks

(Special to the Tribune)

The Mesa Citrus Grower's building, built in 1932, was a central distribution center for citrus sent nationwide. The building closed in 2010, but now houses a manufacturing business.

THE WEEK AHEAD

Formal wear given out just in time for prom

The Cinderella Affair for high school juniors and seniors begins Saturday, March 25 from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. at 411 N. McKemy in Chandler.

Hosted by the East Valley Women’s League, the event lets teens choose new and gently-used formal wear along with shoes, purses and accessories at no cost. The event continues April 1 and 8.

Last year, nearly 1,500 dresses were given away to students statewide, and more than 11,000 have been handed out since the program began in 2002.

For more information about the Cinderella Affair and how to donate dresses and for volunteer opportunities, visit cinderellaaffair.org.

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Designs for Chandler Museum to be unveiled

Conceptual designs for the new Chandler Museum will be unveiled to the public at a special open house on Wednesday, March 22, from 6-7:30 p.m., at the historic McCulloughPrice House, 300 S. Chandler Village Drive.

Chandler Museum staff and the project architects will present the preliminary designs. They will also outline the construction schedule for the project, which has been planned by the City for nearly two decades.

Currently, the Chandler Museum resides in the historic 3,300-square-foot McCullough-Price House, on the southwest corner of Frye Road and Chandler Village Drive, across from Chandler Fashion Center. The new museum will be a 10,000-square-foot building on the same property, just north of the historic house.

For more information, visit chandlermuseum.org or call 480-782-2717.

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Mesa to weigh $1.9 million water, sewer and gas main contract

The Mesa City Council will consider awarding a $1,871,510 contract to Degan Construction for water line, sanitary sewer and gas main improvements at a meeting Monday, March 20.

The meeting begins at 5:45 p.m. in the council’s chambers, 57 E. First St.

The water, sewer and gas lines were constructed in 1949 and now need replacement. The locations are at North Macdonald, East Covina Street and City Well No. 15.

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THE WEEK IN REVIEW

Wrong-way driver who caused crash was not impaired, DPS says

A wrong-way driver who caused a three-vehicle crash on Loop 202 on March 13 was confused and without her glasses, but wasn’t impaired, the Arizona Department of Public Safety said.

Theresa Jordan, 51, realized she was heading the wrong way on Loop 202 through Chandler. She attempted to turn her car, causing the collision.

Jordan hit a pickup driven by Daniel FloresDominguez, 37, who is hospitalized with injuries that are not life-threatening. William Gemma, 60, was driving a third vehicle involved and was not injured.

Jordan was injured and also remains hospitalized.

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Pregnant woman’s claim she was hit by officer is investigated

Gilbert Police have launched an internal investigation after a video surfaced online showing an altercation between an officer and a woman claiming to be pregnant. She has claimed she was punched by an officer during the struggle.

Police said they were at Elliott and Gilbert roads around 6:30 p.m. March 5, trying to arrest Rickeda Jobe, 24, for violating a court order.

During the struggle, witnesses say Jobe yelled she was pregnant. Witnesses also say Jobe spit in one officer’s face, and then an officer struck Jobe with a closed fist. The video does not show the alleged punch.

Jobe is facing two counts of aggravated assault against a police officer, resisting arrest and violating a court order.

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Man who yelled slurs, fired a gun at couple still being sought

Chandler police are searching for a man who yelled racial slurs at an interracial couple in a parking lot before pointing a handgun in their direction and firing.

The victims were not injured in the incident. The suspect fled in a dark-colored, four-door pickup truck.

Phoenix police pursued the suspect as he crossed Interstate 10 into Phoenix, but he fled from the officers onto the Gila River Indian Community, where he struck a light pole. Although the truck was damaged, the driver still managed to make his getaway.

The victims were an interracial married couple, a black man and a white woman. They had just left the Sand Bar on March 14 and were arguing as they walked in a parking lot of a Lowe’s home improvement store at 7100 W. Ray Road. Anyone with information is asked to call Chandler police at 480-782-4130, or Silent Witness at 480-948-6377.

– JIM WALSH, TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

effectiveness of fluconazole in treating valley fever. at’s the most common drug used for both people and animals.

“We shook loose some money,” Schweikert said of the NIH grant. “We have a good-sized study taking place to develop baselines. We got some resources, now we wait for what the study tells us.”

Figuring out how to prevent a fungus from lodging inside a person or animal isn’t the only hurdle to producing a vaccine, Schweikert and others say.

Because so few people are exposed to the spores that cause valley fever, finding a drug company willing to spend the money required to develop a vaccine won’t be easy. e development of a vaccine is complicated by that fact, said Gilbert veterinarian John Carr and Dr. John Galgiani, director of the Valley Fever Center for Excellence.

“You can’t make it make money,” Carr said. “You can’t sell enough of the vaccine.”

It will take a lot of money to develop a vaccine and a drug to treat it, Galgiani said.

“We need people willing to invest to get the drug to market,” he said.

Ahwatukee veterinarian Jeffrey Jenkins would like to see work on a possible vaccine for valley fever to continue. But, he acknowledges, “it’s hard to have a vaccine for a fungal infection.”

Arizona would benefit the most from advances in preventing and treating valley fever, Galgiani said, because twothirds of all the cases of the disease are reported in Arizona.

“Arizona investors should have an interest in this,” Galgiani said.

It may affect only a few people,

Schweikert said, but the disease is debilitating. He talked about two Arizonans he knows who suffer from valley fever. One, a young man, “has it in his spine and essentially his spine is dissolving because of the fungus.”

Another man has to have the yeast and fungus pulled out of his hands regularly because the disease is in his bones, Schweikert said.

Jenkins’s daughter also had valley fever.

Another function of the congressional task force, Schweikert said, is to help medical organizations educate more doctors about valley fever. Most doctors who practice in Arizona attended medical school in another state and haven’t heard of valley fever, he said.

A lack of awareness of the disease leads to too many misdiagnosed cases, Schweikert said.

Some valley fever symptoms are similar to symptoms experienced by people suffering from pneumonia and heart attacks. As doctors try to diagnose valley fever, it can be confused with cancer, tuberculosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or chronic fatigue syndrome.

Galgiani, of the Tucson center, agrees that better education within the medical community is important.

“So often doctors don’t make the diagnosis correctly, or it’s delayed, so the outcomes can be less successful,” he said. “It requires specific tests, so if you don’t look for it, you won’t see it.”

A hotline for physicians has been set up at the Valley Fever Center for Excellence. Doctors can call 520-6266517 to consult about diagnoses and treatment.

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Tao Peng, a senior research assistant at the Valley Fever Center for Excellence, prepares sample vials in the lab in Tucson.

Valley fever familiar to local veterinarians

BY SHELLEY RIDENOUR Tribune Contributor

Arizona veterinarians are very familiar with valley fever.

Gilbert veterinarian John Carr and Jeffrey Jenkins, an Ahwatukee veterinarian, both treat dozens of dogs with valley fever every year. Carr estimates he treats 25 dogs a year suffering from the virus, and Jenkins

said about 50 a year come into the Ahwatukee Animal Care Hospital and Pet Resort.

Dogs are more frequently diagnosed with valley fever than other animals. Cats and horses can also contract the disease, but much less often, Carr said.

“For every 100 cases we see in dogs, there’s one case of a cat,” Carr said of Warner Vista Animal Hospital.

Jenkins recalls just two cats brought to

his practice that had valley fever.

Dogs seem to be more susceptible to Valley Fever than humans, Carr said, and medical experts aren’t sure why. He said the disease is six or seven times more common in dogs than people.

Veterinary schools teach about valley fever, Carr said. He learned about the disease at the Colorado veterinary school he attended. He grew up in Sierra Vista and had heard about it as a kid, too.

“Every time I see a sick dog, I think of valley fever,” Carr said. “If you’re a veterinarian in Arizona and you practice for a year and don’t diagnose valley fever, you’re doing something wrong.”

Jenkins agrees that veterinarians should always suspect valley fever.

“We’re always looking for it when we have a really sick dog,” Jenkins said.

Dogs infected with the spores usually have a cough, lose weight, experience lameness, are lethargic and have seizures. A blood test confirms the disease in dogs, just as it does in humans.

Dogs and people are treated with the same drug – fluconazole. e medication “almost always works” for dogs, Carr said. Some dogs do require the medication forever and others for years, but many are on it for only a few months. A large percentage of dogs he treats recover after being on fluconazole for three or four months, Jenkins said. Dogs can die from valley fever. Jenkins described fluconazole as “the drug of choice” to treat valley fever, in part because it has the fewest side effects and usually works well.

Both men said dogs usually contract valley fever in their lungs, but lately more cases of it getting into animals’ bones have been cropping up.

How many animals have been diagnosed with valley fever isn’t known, Carr said. Doctors who diagnose it in people must report it, but veterinarians aren’t required to file similar reports.

Mesa resident Debbie Varner operates Follow Your Heart Animal Rescue. She’s taken in plenty of dogs which have

Once the animals undergo treatment and start recovering, they are eligible for adoption. e rescue group pays for the medication after adoption, to ensure the dogs get all the needed treatment.

Fluconazole is somewhat expensive for treating animals, Jenkins said. e medicine would cost between $30 and $35 a month to treat a 50-pound dog,

(Jesse Stawnyczy/Tribune Staff Photographer)

Dr. Jeffrey Jenkins shows X-rays of a dog afflicted with valley fever.

“We’re always looking for it when we have a really sick dog,” Jenkins said.

Gannon, the introduction of refrigerated railway cars made for easy transport of citrus. A heightened awareness of the health benefits of vitamin C spurred a steady growth of commercial citrus groves.

Early Mesa citrus groves included the farm where Chauncey Harvey McKellips developed about 1,200 acres under the name Hermosa Vista Land and Cattle Company.

The farm was bordered by McDowell Road, Brown and Greenfield roads and Val Vista Drive.

An account from the Chandler Museum Archives says the Chandler Improvement Company created the Chandler Heights Citrus District along Hunt Highway east of the city. The company planted 800 acres of orange, lemon and grapefruit trees starting in 1928.

Original orchard trees can be seen in some south Scottsdale neighborhoods – from Camelback Road south to Washington Street and Hayden west to 56th Street.

Scottsdale citrus orchards were “all around” as early as the 1900s, according

to Mike Hills, master gardener at the University of Arizona Maricopa County Extension.

At the Ahwatukee/Phoenix line, citrus ran from I-10 and Baseline Road and to the west of that area.

The Mesa Citrus Growers building, which went up in 1932, was a distribution center from which citrus was shipped nationwide. It closed in 2010 and the building now houses a manufacturing business.

In many East Valley areas, the only legacy of the citrus industry are the words “orange” and “lemon” on street signs.

Legacy of citrus

Joe Johnston of Gilbert doesn’t want signs to be the only reminder of the East Valley’s citrus industry.

He remembers when Ray Road was a dirt pathway and the smell of orange blossoms hung heavy.

“It was all farming as far as the eye could see,” he said. “Nobody would come by on the dirt roads. It was like out in the boonie.”

Although the 320-acre Johnston family farm originally produced wheat and cotton starting in 1960, citrus trees

had been planted around the home beginning in the 1930s.

Johnston said a small group of grapefruit, orange, tangerine and lemon trees were shared among friends and family.

His company, Johnston Properties LLC, is helping preserve the East Valley’s citrus history.

Johnston started construction of the Agritopia community in 2001 near Higley and Ray roads in Gilbert

Agritopia has a self-serve U-Pick Orchard where the public can purchase five- and eight-pound bags to fill with citrus from the farm. The citrus is USDA-certified organic and also is used in the pizza made nearby and poured in the beer and wine sold to the public.

Johnston said about 300 more trees were planted in addition to those already on the property.

“We lived here and so I felt as though I had a stewardship responsibility for the 320 acres,” Johnston said. “I thought we’d like to maintain our family heritage and not just sell it and move on.”

Protesters claim victory in picketing Ostrich Festival

BY COLLEEN SPARKS Tribune Contributor

Animal-rights activists are claiming victory after they say they steered some people away from a Chandler festival where they believe ostriches are abused for entertainment.

About 35 protesters representing the Arizona Vegan Animal Liberation Activists and United Poultry Concerns carried signs pleading for the end of ostrich races at the 29th Annual Chandler Chamber Ostrich Festival recently.

They said it’s unnatural and harmful for ostriches to be forced to run with jockeys riding on their backs. Festival organizers and some people in the public, however, said the ostriches are treated well and are strong enough to withstand the racing, which they consider a fun, familyfriendly activity.

Arizona Vegan Animal Liberation Activists organizer Robert Franklin of Phoenix said three different families heading to the festival told the protesters they decided not to attend the event after all because of the activists’ signs.

The protesters carried signs at the corner of McQueen Road and Celebration Way with pictures and messages meant to generate sympathy for the flightless birds. They protested in a roped-off area near the north gate of the festival at Tumbleweed Park on East Germann Road.

“It’s a huge win,” Franklin said. “What we accomplished was to empower more people to take a stand against animal exploitation.”

One of the protester’s signs said “ALL Animals feel fear and pain! They are not on this earth for human amusement!! #boycottostrichfest.” Another said “Stop the ostrich races!” and one sign said, “The only thing we need from animals is forgiveness. #Notyourentertainment”

action of carrying jockeys on their backs and the noise from people close to the ostriches is “absolutely traumatizing” to the animals.

However, festival organizers say the utmost care is taken to keep the ostriches healthy and they’re doing what comes naturally to them – running.

Terri Kimble, president/CEO of the Chandler Chamber of Commerce, which owns the festival, said ostriches run around a small track. Each race lasts only about 30 seconds, and each ostrich only races in one event per day, Kimble added.

Ostrich races were held twice on March 10, three times on March 11 and three times on March 12, with about 20 ostriches participating altogether.

Kimble said that the race is less than a quarter-mile and that an ostrich farmer spends the rest of the time talking to the audience about ostriches, and showing off emus, zebras and camels.

Franklin of Phoenix has watched the ostrich races in the past.

“Honestly, it brought me to tears,” said Franklin, 37. “I’ve always had an affinity for animals.

“Just because we can do something to an animal, does it mean we should?” he added. “Maybe it’s something we did 100 years ago. This is 2017.”

Franklin said he believes the unnatural

She said ostriches can run up to 45 miles per hour and weigh up to 350 pounds.

“Their legs are powerful enough to kill a mountain lion,” Kimble added. “They like to run.”

She said an exotic bird veterinarian is on call round the clock to help the ostriches if they have problems. Kimble

(Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer) Willow Wind shows her support for the ostriches in the Freedom of Speech area of the Chandler Ostrich Festival.

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Police chief steps away after 41 years with a badge

BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer

Retiring Gilbert Police Chief Tim Dorn feels blessed on many levels.

Dorn, 60, chose two dangerous career paths that he pursued simultaneously for decades. He survived 41 years in law enforcement, noting that he buried many officers who were not as fortunate, including two Gilbert officers killed in the line of duty.

Dorn also survived a 36-year-career in the U.S. Army National Guard, including a yearlong deployment that included the invasion of Iraq.

Following his family’s long history of public service, there was never a doubt that Dorn would pursue both tracks, even after his uncle, a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office deputy, was shot to death in the line of duty during a traffic stop.

Tim Dorn was 9 when his uncle, Robert Dorn, was killed in August 1965 when he stopped to help a stranded motorist at 91st and Glendale avenues. It didn’t exactly intimidate Dorn, even though it is a traumatic event in his life that he will never forget.

Dorn has made it a point to deliver the bad news to family members himself, making next-of-kin notifications when possible, sparing his officers from one of an officer’s least pleasant duties. He said he wanted people to know that he cared about them and their loved ones.

“I think some of that goes back to having a death in my own family. It was the only time I ever saw my father cry,”

Dorn said.

He said he still did traffic stops as chief, trying not to forget what it’s like on the street for an officer, not asking his troops to do anything he wouldn’t do himself.

“ ere’s nothing more honorable than selflessly serving other people,” Dorn said. “I am blessed that I got to do the two things in life that I wanted to do.”

Despite a life spent in command of police officers and soldiers, no one would ever describe Dorn as overbearing. He is the opposite, with more of a steady, reserved, understated bearing, trying to inspire others through his own actions.

Dorn retired March 10, capping a career that started in Gilbert in 1976, when he was 19. Dorn said he was enrolled in ROTC at Westwood High School and fully expected to go to Vietnam after graduation, but the conclusion of the war ended all that.

Former Gilbert magistrate Don Skousen, who also served as a Town Council member and a county justice of the peace during his long career, gave Dorn a heads up that Gilbert was hiring officers. It was a difficult process for the town because the pay was just shy of $600 a month.

Dorn filled out an application and

“My hearing loss cost me three friendships that I know of, a strained relationship with my husband, two grandchildren who think I don’t understand them, boredom at church, and lost interest in attending get-togethers.”

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Retiring Gilbert Police Chief Tim Dorn plans to make a fresh start in the Gulf Coast region of Texas, where he hopes to volunteer with the American Red Cross and animal rescue groups

was hired the same day, a process that takes months today with extensive background checks.

Because Dorn was too young to buy a gun in Arizona at the time, his father took him to a Mesa sporting goods store to buy his first service weapon, a Smith and Wesson Highway Patrolman revolver, a standard police firearm at the time. It would be an unheard-of practice in today’s world, where police departments issue guns and have strict rules about the types of guns officers can carry.

But Edwin Dorn, a U.S. Border Patrol officer for 40 years and a counter intelligence officer during World War II, knew exactly what his son needed.

Tim said it was difficult at times to juggle both his police and military careers, especially when he was deployed to Iraq, from 2003-2004.

“There is a lot of commonality,” Tim Dorn said. “It’s the pride of serving the country and the pride of serving the community.”

Dorn said he left the Gilbert police and joined MCSO in 1978 for the opportunity to earn a better paycheck

and to work for a larger police department. He returned to the Gilbert police in 2001 as a commander and replaced John Brewer as chief in 2005.

“When I left MCSO, I was ready to make a change. I wanted to make a mark, to make a difference,” Dorn said. “I had no intention of being the next chief.”

But that’s what happened, and Dorn ended up guiding the Gilbert police through an explosive growth spurt that was required by the town’s own growth, especially in south Gilbert.

Throughout his career, Dorn said he tried to stay in touch with the community, realizing that his relatively small number of officers could not do their job well without community support.

Dorn said he also matured during his tenure as chief, realizing it was important to listen to everyone, even people that he knew didn’t agree with him. He realized police need to explain their actions to the public, rather than just giving orders as authority figures.

“The biggest danger of this job isn’t chasing bad guys, it’s the baggage that comes along,” Dorn said. “I am going out on top.”

– Reach Jim Walsh at 480-898-5639 or at jwalsh@timespublications.com.

OSTRICH PROTEST

also said each jockey weighed less than 145 pounds and was “well-trained” to work with ostriches.

“We teach everybody to respect animals,” she said. “I don’t know how much more responsible we can be.”

Ostrich Festival committee chairman Ralph Guariglio of the Chandler Chamber of Commerce board said the Kansas farmer who owns the ostriches is “enormously passionate” about his birds.

“He treats them better than I treat my dogs,” Guariglio said. “They (ostriches) don’t do anything that’s unnatural.”

The protesters disagreed.

Franklin said the ostriches probably run often but making them carry a jockey “is not a natural behavior for them.”

Protester Carrie Klute, 38, of Tempe, said “all animals deserve respect.”

“Ostriches are not meant for human entertainment,” Klute said. “The animals, they don’t have a voice.”

Stephen and Danielle Antonwicz of Gilbert and their daughter, Rhyan, 8, also carried signs protesting Friday night.

“These ostriches, they feel,” Danielle Antonwicz said. “It is making a mockery

of a living being.”

Rhyan said festival-goers were just “riding rides and not even caring that animals are getting hurt.”

The protesters talked to married couple Becky and Joel Hoffmann of Chandler as they left the festival, but didn’t get much sympathy.

“I think it’s a little silly,” Becky Hoffmann said of the protests. “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with enjoying the animals.”

Joel Hoffmann said it was “hard to judge whether there’s something extreme one way or another” but the race was a “good show for kids.”

However, Amy Lent, 44, of Chandler, had concerns about the races.

“I tend to be more of an animalsensitive person,” Lent said. “My guess is that’s not what they (ostriches) normally do.

“It’s important that people stop and think, ‘Is this good for animals?’” she said.

Kimble with the Chamber of Commerce said festival organizers were happy to set aside a freedom-of-speech area where activists could picket. The festival reserves an area for activists every year.

Mesa ‘budtender’ helps others find the best medical marijuana

BY COLLEEN SPARKS Tribune Contributor

Former U.S. Marine Jack Albini of Gilbert says working at a medical marijuana dispensary doesn’t feel like a job; he feels he is fulfilling his mission to save other veterans.

The 32-year-old patient consultant is a “budtender” at Giving Tree Wellness Center in Mesa, a reference to the part of the marijuana leaf he sells.

Albini suffered a traumatic brain injury and serious problems with his back and knees while deployed to Iraq in 2004 and 2005, then battled more demons when he returned to civilian life in North Carolina. He felt guilty and sad about his fellow soldiers killed in combat.

Doctors prescribed him strong painkillers, anti-depressants and sleeping pills to cope with his physical, mental and emotional issues. But the medications left him feeling exhausted and emotionally numb.

Relief came when Albini started using medical marijuana on a regular basis after he moved to the Valley about two years ago. Now he’s much happier – and passionate about helping other veterans find the right medical cannabis to alleviate pain and handle their physical and emotional wounds.

“Being a veteran, I wanted to help other veterans,” Albini said. “I wanted to show them the light, to show them there is another alternative besides chemicals.”

“I’m seeing my brothers kill themselves at an alarming rate,” he added, citing veterans who commit suicide. “I might not be here if I had still been on the medications.”

Albini earns $15 an hour and works more than 32 hours a week at the dispensary on East Juanita Avenue. He helps veterans and other patients with state medical marijuana cards figure out what strain, potency and species of cannabis to buy.

He’s among the six patient consultants who help patients not only choose among the many different strains, but also select the way they want to consume it.

Usually, Giving Tree Wellness Center in Mesa has 12 to 15 different strains of medical marijuana, which can be used to treat illnesses such as PTSD, arthritis, nausea, depression and carpal tunnel syndrome.

And in a locked area that looks like a store, patients can also buy gummy bears,

brownies, chocolate bars, coffee and other pot-infused edibles. Then, there are mints and capsules with cannabis as well as tinctures, which are drops that contain marijuana. The center also sells cannabis oil and vapes that resemble pens to breathe in the oil.

Some days, Albini talks to 200 patients and he gets to know them and their conditions.

“You get familiar with them and what their needs are,” Albini said. “They like specific effects.”

Michael Leone, Giving Tree’s assistant manager, that kind of relationshipbuilding makes Albini an asset.

“Jack’s a great employee,” Leone said. “He’s very personable, extremely knowledgeable.”

Patients tell Albini about any side effects they have experienced, including unusual hunger or jumpiness. Everyone’s needs and the way the plant affects them are different, he noted.

About 100 to 130 patients visit the Juanita Avenue center per day, while a slightly smaller crowd visits the Giving Tree Wellness Center in north Phoenix, where a dispensary and a grow house operate, Leone said.

Albini said he has seen young children, accompanied by their parents, and people in their 80s come to the center for medical marijuana. He explained that cannabis oil can reduce the number of seizures suffered by some children with serious health conditions.

When patients have complicated medical questions, they can talk to Giving Tree Wellness Center co-owner, co-founder and medical director Dr. Gina Berman, a former emergency room physician. Co-owner and co-founder Lilach Mazor Power, the managing director of the center, is a former sergeant in the Israeli Air Force.

Albini said he’s happy to be helping other veterans improve their lives.

“That’s one of the biggest things we hear: ‘I was on so many pills and I was tired of it,’” he said.

Information: givingtreeaz.com.

ODD JOBS:

This is the first in a biweekly series of stories on East Valley people with unusual jobs. If you work an unusual job in the East Valley and want to talk about it, email pmaryniak@evtrib. com.

East Valley schools dominate Academic Decathlon

East Valley high schools dominated the 33rd annual Arizona Academic Decathlon state championship, with five ending in the top 10 and two students winning first place in individual competitions.

The decathlon tests student teams’

knowledge of art, economics, literature, music, science and social science as well as their skill in essay-writing, speech and interviews by framing the competition around a particular theme. This year’s theme was “World War II.” The teams are composed of nine students.

Hamilton High School placed second, getting a chance to compete in the

national decathlon online championship for large schools.

The Westwood High team from Mesa placed third, and Westwood student Nathan Bergman won first place for essay writing. In addition, Williams Field High School student Trey Leveque won first place in the interview competition.

Mountain View High School, also in

Mesa, placed fifth among the 26 high schools statewide that competed. BASIS Chandler came in sixth, followed by Seton Catholic, also from Chandler, in eighth place.

The top team, from Canyon de Oro High School in Tucson, will travel to Wisconsin next month for the national decathlon.

(Colleen Sparks/Tribune Contributor)

Patient consultants Cristina Juracich, left, and Jack Albini help customers choose medical marijuana at the Giving Tree Wellness Center in Mesa.

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MESA

Mesa preparing to discuss utility rate increases

Mesa is considering raising utility rates at the city council’s regular meeting at 5:45 p.m. on May 22.

Proposed new rates would go up by 3.4 percent for solid waste, 3.5 percent for water and 4 percent for wastewater.

Reports and data supporting the revised rate schedules for district cooling, electric, irrigation water, natural gas, reclaimed water, solid waste, wastewater, and water will be available in the Office of the City Clerk, 20 E. Main Street, Suite 150, by Monday, March 20.

Bestselling

author J.A. Jance to speak at Mesa library

Novelist J.A. Jance will discuss her newest novel, “Man Overboard,” Thursday, March 23, from 3-5 p.m. at the Red Mountain Public Library, 635 N. Power Road.

With more than 20 million copies of her books in print, Jance is the bestselling author of four mystery series. Her books will be available for sale and signing after the presentation.

This event is free and open to the public. Information: mesalibrary.org or call 480-644-3100.

GILBERT

Swim tryouts taking place over next few weeks

Life Time is hosting its semi-annual swim team tryouts the next few weeks at its Gilbert location, 381 E. Warner Road. The tryouts are open to members and non-members of all abilities ages 5 and up.

Life Time Swim Team is a part of USA Swimming and offers weekly practices, specialized training, regular competitions and the chance to win awards.

Tryouts are: Wednesday, March 22, 6-8 p.m.; Saturday, March 25, 10 a.m.-noon; and April 1, 10 a.m.-noon. Information: 480-892-5020.

TEMPE

Tempe bakery named best in state by Yelp

Yelp has named Squarz in Tempe the state’s best bakery.

The bakery, at 975 E. Elliot Road, Suite 103, was named after a Yelp algorithm looked at the number of reviews plus the

The Tempe Community Action Agency’s 3rd Annual I-HELP 5K Run/Walk to Alleviate Homelessness takes place Saturday, March 25, beginning at 7:30 a.m. The event is at Kiwanis Park, 5500 S. Mill Ave. For more information, contact Lexie Krechel at lexiek@tempeaction.org or go to tempeaction.org.

star rating for every bakery on Yelp.

The bakery has had 102 reviews since 2011 on the site, 86 percent of which are five-star reviews.

New behavioral health center for teens to open this week

Mulligan’s Manor’s new Behavioral Health Center opens Friday, March 24, at 4601 S. Lakeshore Drive, Suite 1.

The event will be marked by a ribboncutting ceremony from 3-6 p.m., with refreshments furnished by Manuel’s restaurant in Tempe.

Mulligan’s Manor is a licensed group home for eight boys ages 12 to 17 who have been referred by the courts. This center will be the first of its kind in the East Valley.

McClintock Drive design to be discussed

at meetings

Proposed design concepts for McClintock Drive will be discussed at upcoming community meetings.

One public meeting will be Saturday, March 25, at 9:30 a.m. at Tempe Public Library, 3500 S. Rural Road in Meeting Room A. The other is Tuesday, March 28, at 6 p.m. at McClintock High School, at 1830 E. Del Rio Drive. Input can also be submitted online March 25-April 5 at tempe.gov/mcclintockdrive.

In 2015, McClintock Drive was reconfigured to include bike lanes on each side of the street, which required the removal of at least one vehicle lane on McClintock Drive. Since making changes, Tempe has been collecting data and feedback from the public.

The meetings will provide a brief project overview and the opportunity to offer

input and ideas on alternatives as well as to speak to staff members.

For more information, visit tempe.gov/ mcclintockdrive or call 480-350-4311.

Board of Education conducting hearings on letter grades

The Arizona State Board of Education’s A-F School Accountability Ad Hoc Committee will be holding statewide public hearings on a new school letter grades accountability plan.

The next East Valley hearing is at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 23, at the Tempe Union High School District Office, 500 W. Guadalupe Road.

The public may provide public feedback on the working draft components of the A-F School Letter Grade Accountability by a taking a survey at azsbe.az.gov/ schoolgrades or attending a public hearing.

Information: azsbe.az.gov/f-school-lettergrades.

Tempe’s Memory Café changes days at library

Tempe’s Memory Café has moved its meeting days from Wednesday to Monday.

The group now meets 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Tempe Public Library, 3500 S. Rural Road.

Information: tempe.gov/dft.

Ex-Tempe police chief threatens $1M suit against city

A former Tempe police chief says he’ll file a $1 million lawsuit against the city, saying his successor broke a nondisparagement clause in his retirement agreement that has kept him from getting

another job.

Tom Ryff, the former chief, alleges that current chief Sylvia Moir advised the Tempe Union High School District against hiring Ryff as a safety director for the district.

Ryff retired from the Tempe Police in June 2015.

CHANDLER Artists and volunteers sought for downtown Chandler project

The Downtown Chandler Community Partnership, in collaboration with local artists and volunteers, will bring one-ofa-kind art designs to the historic area on Saturday, March 25, starting at 11 a.m.

Volunteers are being sought to lend a hand in bringing these art projects to the downtown. Three popular crosswalks along Arizona Avenue were chosen as the sites for the artists’ designs.

The task involves applying paint on the road to the specified areas.

Interested volunteers can sign up at signup.com/client/invitation/6775657374/ 1826141/false.

BASIS Chandler students win ‘Brain Bee’ science competition

Three students from BASIS Chandler won the top spots in the annual Arizona Regional Brain Bee, an educational competition similar to a spelling bee, which focused on neuroscience.

BASIS’ Brain Bee finishers were Rahul Jayaraman, Grace Xu and Latavya Chintada. For the third straight year, BASIS Chandler won the team prize for the overall high score.

The competition at Midwestern University’s Glendale campus, featured 85 students from 16 Arizona high schools. They were tested in their knowledge of the human brain, how it governs human behavior and the science that helps medical professionals understand brain function.

Jayaraman will now compete at the upcoming United States Regional Brain Bee in Baltimore, Maryland.

Chandler hospital nurse retires after 40 years on job

Janet Althoff, a nurse at Dignity Health Chandler Regional Medical Center for the last four decades, has retired. In 1977, the facility was known as Chandler Community Hospital and was on McQueen Road and Chandler

(Special to the Tribune)

Leadership group to honor Muslim physician from Tempe

TRIBUNE NEWS STAFF

AMuslim physician from Tempe will be among seven women who will be honored for their leadership next month at an awards luncheon sponsored by the Arizona affiliate of the ATHENA International.

Dr. Nadia Katrangi, a doctor and lifelong educator, founded the Good Tree Institute of Arizona in 2010 to provide a study of the Quran “that develops and nurtures exemplary individuals, communities and societies,” ATHENA said in a release.

Founded in 1982, the non-profit ATHENA develops and honors women leaders through mentorships and other initiatives. Since its inception, more than 7,000 women leaders in over 500 communities across the world have been recognized for their work.

The ATHENA Leadership Awards luncheon is 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday, April 4, at the Marriott Tempe at the

Buttes, 2000 West Court Way, Tempe.

Born in Syria, Katrangi studied both medicine and religious sciences and is consider an American Muslim scholar.

“Wherever Nadia moved, she established and mentored other teachers, especially women in Islamic and Quranic teachings. She is always stressing the spiritual element of Islam and how that ties to not only transformation but also a connection to people of all religions, races and ethnic backgrounds,” the ATHENA release said, adding she stresses “the importance of deep spirituality to connect humanity on a daily basis.”

Besides also obtaining degrees in chemistry and biology, she founded the Good Tree Institute to provide “a safe space to both Muslim youth and adults during this highly politicized and racially charged environment that we live in these days,” ATHENA said.

ATHENA honors women who exemplify its leadership principles: live

authentically, learn constantly, build relationships, foster collaboration, advocate fiercely, act courageously, give back and celebrate.

Information/luncheon tickets: athenaaz.com, Kristine@athenaaz.com or 612-860-5992.

Boulevard. Althoff started as a medical/ surgical nurse. In 1981, she was promoted to supervisor of the emergency room. She then served as emergency room director until 1988.

From 1988 to 1995, Althoff served as a house supervisor. She eventually served as director of the Dignity Health Ahwatukee Urgent Care, a human resources recruiter, and in Employee Wellness.

Chandler to start drilling

new water production well

The city of Chandler will begin drilling a new water production well on property it owns near the southeast corner of Chandler Heights and McQueen roads.

The drilling, which will take place nonstop for about a month, will be adjacent to Fire Station No. 10. The new well will be 1,500 feet deep and is expected to produce 1,500 gallons of water per minute.

Chandler is supplied with water from 29 active wells tapping into aquifers under the city.

(Special to the Tribune)

Dr. Nadia Katrangi, a Tempe physician and educator, is being honored for her leadership,

Nonprofit saves stray animals through foster and adoption program

BY JENNIFER GORDON Tribune Contributor

Pound Animals Worth Saving, also known as P.A.W.S., is a successful Mesa-based nonprofit organization that each year saves hundreds of dogs and cats.

The corporation takes these animals from pounds in Arizona, California, Mexico and New Mexico and in foster homes, where volunteers get them ready to be adopted. Since 2012, volunteers have fostered animals until they are ready to be adopted.

“Fostering is the most important role, the bridge between a dog’s past and dog’s future,” said Karen Mikus, executive director of P.A.W.S.

This organization started with the dedication and passion of Mikus. After she stopped working for the city of Mesa, she said she turned her newfound time and energy to volunteering, bringing blankets to local pounds. She started her own adoption events after she rescued nine pit bulls from a local pound. She marketed 19 dogs at her first event, and five got adopted.

P.A.W.S. quickly took off after that, Mikus added.

After two years of adoption events, she turned more of her focus to fostering animals.

In the early days of P.A.W.S, she boarded the animals she rescued from the pounds, but then realized that taking them back to her home would save money, as well as helping them become better, friendlier pets.

Mikus said that the most rewarding time for her is when the animals are bathed and have full stomachs and they snuggle up on a big comforter.

“I’m big into blankets,” she said.

Seeing them sleep in a warm home and not on the cold ground in an animal shelter is an amazing thing to see, she added.

Jackie Moreno, fostered two Chihuahua mixes from Mexico named Leo and Lucy, and said it was personally rewarding knowing that she was giving stray animals a chance.

“I knew all the time and effort I was putting into training and socializing the puppies was going to pay off and make it easier for them to be adopted by their

future family,” Moreno said.

P.A.W.S supplies people fostering dogs and cats food, medicine, blankets and a cage. All that is necessary of the foster is to provide a home for them to stay, Mikus said.

P.A.W.S supplies people fostering dogs and cats food, medicine,

and a cage.

The nonprofit also screens foster applicants looking for a suitable person to look after the animals, Mikus said. Dogs feel abused and do not trust when they are rescued, she said, and finding a foster family that gives them patience and love is all the animal needs.

P.A.W.S. also covers medical expenses for the animal when it is newly adopted. The group charges an adoption fee of $50. This fee goes toward medical bills for the animal.

More donations would be beneficial in making sure all of the animals are cared for, Mikus said.

Madison Burke, Arizona State University student, fostered a boxer mix.

“I was instantly connected to Stella when we went to the house to look at the puppies, so I knew she was the one I needed to take care of!” Burke said. “It was an amazing experience!”

Most animals are adopted and taken out of foster care within a month. Mikus explains that this is a rewarding process because it is easier to let go of the animals when they are going to a stable home. She added that “sometimes you have to love a dog enough to let them go.”

Photos of P.A.W.S.’ adoptable dogs and cats are posted on the nonprofit’s Facebook page.

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Tempe brothers skimp on themselves to grow woodworks business

BY COTY DOLORES MIRANDA Tribune Contributor

Thad and Jordan Trubakoff are brothers who would like to treat themselves to a fine dinner out. But they say it looks like it could be another year before they can afford it.

The Trubakoff brothers founded and own TruCollective, a Tempe design and fabrication business that counts private individuals and companies among its customers.

The brothers, wood artists and craftsmen, started the business in 2012, but said it “really got going” in 2014 and have seen “healthy growth” in the last two years.

“We’re getting there,” said younger brother Jordan. “We are really hoping that 2017, for lack of better words, is the year we can pay ourselves a livable wage. For that we need to continue to remain disciplined while not forgetting to live.

“But that’s the balance we have to strike – take ourselves out to lunch or buy another sander,” he added. “We routinely choose to go with another machine. But when we turn out the lights and look at the machines and know we don’t owe anybody money, that makes it worthwhile.”

Added his older brother, who earned a masters of fine arts degree in woodworking from Arizona State University in 2015: “We’ve learned to live a very unlavish lifestyle.”

They initially envisioned their businesses as “a proverbial one-stop shop for local businesses or individuals who needed creative services.”

“TruCollective was initially intended to be a collection of hand-selected local artisans specializing in a variety of skills ranging from woodworking to photography, graphic design to audio engineering,” said Jordan, a graduate of the Conservatory of the Recording Arts & Science, adding:

“We’re still true to the original intention but have greatly focused our efforts on primarily heirloom quality furniture, custom fabrications for businesses, and art installations.”

The brothers Trubakoff moved into their 3,700-square-foot office/workshop,

and it is filled with the aroma of freshly-cut wood.

There’s no wood veneer here; Tru-Collective uses only natural hardwoods.

Everything is handcrafted with minute attention to details, evident in the dovetailed joints inside drawers, or the furniture backs.

Pieces have included a side table crafted of manzanita burl and ash with steel rod. A console table is made of hickory and bocate with its cream color and black bands.

And then there are other woods like beech, knotty alder, cherry, mahogany, walnut, and more.

“We fabricate heirloom, quality furniture,” said Jordan proudly as he stroked an eight-top dining room table made of smooth ash.

“We see the nation starting to move away from disposable, and we admittedly overengineer and overbuild to make our furniture last,” he continued. “These are pieces made well enough that people want to pass along in their wills.”

Though custom home furnishings remain a staple, corporate customers are increasingly knocking at their door.

Among their accounts is Coconut’s Fish Café, which has used TruCollective to work at all three of its restaurants, including one in Chandler.

Its work has included building surfboard-shaped, multiwood tables and helping interior designer Suzanne Whitaker add three-dimensional depth to a wall mural at the Chandler location.

“TruCollective has a way of translating my vision into reality,” said Whitaker, owner of Passion 4 Murals. “I do a very rough sketch of an idea and they take it and run with it. It’s so delightful to work with other vision-oriented artisans. They just get it.”

Another business client is Current Meditation in Phoenix, whose

2,000-square-foot facility includes a gracefully-rounded, multilevel front counter fabricated by TruCollective.

“We were introduced to Jordan and Thad through our design firm and knew they were the right choice to help us fit out our meditation studio,” said Ross Weisman, president of Current Meditation. “TruCollective helped us create a flow to our space that is inviting and community-oriented by creating custom pieces for our front desk and social table.”

Whether it’s a family wanting a dining room table able to withstand active kid use or wine stains, or a business looking to set just the right ambiance for their clients, the brothers say hearing what customers tell them and then envisioning what they want is a big key to success.

“Our ability to really listen to our clients is hyper-important,” nodded Jordan.

The business at 1032 W. 23rd St. is open to the public but requires an appointment.

“We don’t want people to come by and find a locked door if we’re out with clients at their business or home, so we encourage people to phone us first,” Thad said.

Though their personal sacrifices at times have been difficult, the brothers have no regrets.

“Both of our experiences in academia and employment taught us something important: we found little fulfillment in mandates and predefined milestones. What we truly loved was teaching and the discipline of cultivating a skill,” Jordan said. “In founding our own business, we had the flexibility to teach, be taught, hone our crafts, and be the leader we wish we always had.”

Information: TruCollective.com, 928699-4698 or info@TruCollective.com.

(DIanne Ross/Tribune Contributor)

Thad Trubafoff, left, and his brother Jordan Trubakoff, are owner/operators of TruCollective in Tempe, a design and fabrication shop known for custom wood furniture.

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Car chase fed our worst instincts as we watched man die on TV

BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Tribune Columnist

On Wednesday afternoon in this Valley of ours, a snuff flick was broadcast live on TV and online. What was the oddest thing about this lethal moment, when a 25-year-old murder and carjacking suspect was put down by police or committed suicide in real time, with tens of thousands of bloodthirsty voyeurs enjoying the moment on screens across the metro area?

That no one seemed to question whether a man’s death should be broadcast at all.

Maybe it’s a quaint thought nowadays – that perhaps viewers should be shielded from certain kinds of gore and death –but there was a time when such questions would have occasioned at least a remark or two in our homes and newsrooms. Now? A “viewer discretion advised” graphic seems to suffice. Meanwhile, the anchorbots who recite teleprompters

Minimum wage aftermath

It seems a little hypocritical of the mainstream media to lament the consequences of passage of the referendum to increase the minimum wage when most of them supported it (“Treatment programs endangered by increase in minimum wage,” March 12).

While the phrases “… deserve a living wage …” and “… can’t support a family on minimum wage …” are intended to tug at the heartstrings, they defy the reality of our modern economy. The word “deserve” is especially onerous because it implies an entitlement to a wage determined by the individual’s needs or desires and not by the skill or dedication brought to the endeavor. This, of course, is the main failing of pure communism – the death of entrepreneurism as those who are achievers see their gains going to support the non-achievers. Minimum-wage jobs are not, and should not be expected to be, intended to raise a family. The entrepreneur’s ability to run a profitable business should have nothing to do with whether an employee has, or wants, a family. Those wages are for entry-level jobs into the labor market, based on the skills, or lack thereof, the individual brings to, or is required by, the job.

As Trib writer Jim Walsh, points out, “Minimum wage hike called ‘an experiment for economists.’”

for a living toss around hyperbole like methheads looking for spare change.

From ABC 15: “A wild chase! With a deadly ending! But this also had a deadly start! A total of six different scenes all believed to be connected!”

Wednesday’s action began in Ahwatukee near 48th Street and Elliot Road, with a murder initially linked to drug activity. The ensuing police chase took Phoenix cops and the suspect all around the northwest Valley, first in a white pickup truck and later, in a moment that must have had TV news producers orgasmic with joy, in a gleaming yellow Corvette. How exciting was this midafternoon interruption to regular programming?

A Fox 10 reporter tweeted: “I was so busy actually covering a police chase that I forgot to tweet about covering said police chase. :-/ #PhoenixChase #Pursuit.”

And so we were deprived of a moment worthy of Cronkite and Murrow.

One reason such chases draw so much coverage has to do with adrenalin, which drives virtually every decision about local

How wonderful for the economists! Not so wonderful, however, for school districts, with set budgets, who are now facing unexpected increases for janitorial and service workers, or organizations such as Mesa’s Marc Community Resources that provide critical services for the handicapped. Also not so wonderful for the millions of people who will lose their chance to enter the labor market, gain experience and move up the economic ladder as employers, faced with, not just increased payroll but also increased payroll taxes (which are a percentage of the employee wages), and unable to pass increased costs on to customers, cut their payroll and innovate to replace displaced workers. How many of us have used the devices now being put on our restaurant table to pay our bill rather than go to the cashier? How many have seen the robotics that have replaced so many manufacturing workers? Increased wages or not, technology will continue to displace workers is many fields. But the impetus of increased overhead due to higher minimum wages in lower-skilled jobs results many times in cutbacks and decreased service.

Contrary to what the liberal mind believes, no one goes into business, no one invests in financial markets, to provide jobs. Jobs are one of the perks that result from a successful business – not the other way around. They, of course, argue that the jobs lost will return in time.

TV news. Most stories that matter – how government spends our tax dollars, how laws impact our lives, how institutions shape our culture and economy – pack all the excitement of a bank statement. But high-stakes “cops and robbers”? Through Valley neighborhoods? With a yellow sports car and SWAT guys with rifles? Scramble the news choppers.

Which, by the way, marks another reason car chases attract such coverage. TV stations have tons of money invested in helicopters. Car chases, more interesting visually than hovering over rush hour traffic jams, function as a return on investment.

The coup de grace? Car chases give those who bring us so-called “breaking news” the opportunity to adopt one of their preferred guises – the protector, the concerned community sentinel delivering us from the dangers of the big, bad streets. As in, “you’ll want to stay away from the intersection of North Valley and Dove Valley Parkways right now, where a high-speed chase is coming to a deadly conclusion.”

Yes, they will, as inflation wipes out the difference between costs and production caused by the increase in wages. However, the cost in lost opportunity will never be recovered and we resort to the liberal answer for every problem – higher taxes to support those who couldn’t find an entrylevel job into the marketplace.

Jim Barber

Mesa

Sen. Flake’s wildlife vote

As an Arizona voter and constituent of Sen. Jeff Flake, I was appalled that he co-sponsored SJRes 18 to remove prohibitions on barbaric methods for killing bears, wolves and other apex predators in Alaska’s National Wildlife Refuge.

This refuge was designed to protect the wildlife and “allow natural processes to remain as nature intended, uninfluenced by humans.” It is the United States’ only wildlife refuge, and should remain as it was intended when it was created in 1960 by President Eisenhower.

The killing methods in SJRes 18 are universally abhorred, regardless of party affiliation. It is not ethical “hunting” to use lethal gas to kill a mother and her young in their den as they hibernate, nor is it ethical to shoot any animal from an aircraft. There is simply too much risk that an animal escapes with

As if we might be both driving and watching TV simultaneously. Which half the people in Arizona might actually be doing, judging by their driving.

The folks at Fox 10 reposted the twoand-a-half-hour deadly chase on their Facebook page, in case you missed the fun the first time. The livestream momentarily freezes at the moment of truth. The reporter’s narration at the climax, with the helicopter cam zooming in: “I want to thank all the thousands of you watching on Facebook Live as well as YouTube. I want to give a shout out to one of our viewers … (who) tweeted me ‘Thank you for the incredible job to all those involved. This ended right before the suspect got to my neighborhood.’”

Then the only understatement all broadcast-long: “It doesn’t end well for the suspect.”

It didn’t end well for any of us. But snuff flicks never do.

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

mortal injuries, left to die a slow death later.

Sen. Flake should listen to his constituents and withdraw his co-sponsorship of this resolution, effective immediately.

– Lou LaChat

– Flagstaff

Wage increase is deserved

In my opinion, a much-deserved increase in minimum wage will not close the doors on businesses and services (“Treatment programs endangered by increase in minimum wage,” March 12).

Keeping workers in poverty is a crime, and I pray that Arizona Chamber of Commerce measure to have the Supreme Court overturn Proposition 206 is struck down. (Ed. note: It was.)

The article highlighted a care facility. If or when I need that kind of service, I would want happy employees, not resentful underpaid, disrespected care takers. $10 per hour is chump change to many families living in the East Valley. Many minimum wage workers are still young kids, but also older people trying to make ends meet.

Bottom line, in my humble opinion, to oppose Prop. 206 is giving your approval to exploit minimum-wage earners.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

All-Tribune boys soccer: Gilbert’s Danny Baca makes most of alone time

BY JASON P. SKODA Tribune Prep Sports Director

Danny Baca was left alone. That’s never a good thing for an opponent, but this time it was done by his own team, knowing that Baca was all they needed. And it was.

The Gilbert senior forward scored the game-winning goal in the 6A Conference state soccer championship to beat Tolleson 1-0.

“He was clutch all year,” Gilbert coach Jeff Perry said. “He had six goals and a game-winning assist in four playoff games. He came up big like he always did.”

The game winner against Tolleson came under special circumstances as the Tigers were playing a man down nearly the entire game because of a red card. Perry changed the formation so that Baca was the lone player up front.

Tolleson doubled him the whole time, making sure he never had a moment to get loose for a breakout opportunity. Then, teammate Michael Johansson was getting ready to make a connection. As soon as his leg started to swing, Baca took off, splitting two defenders, corralling the ball and tucking it past the goalie with 6:22 remaining in the match.

“That was the most unreal feeling,” Baca said. “Scoring in that situation is every athlete’s dream – hitting a threepointer for a buzzer beater, a walk-off home run, game winner in the state finals. I thought I had a taste of it last year (in the championship game). This time, it held up and we had a different outcome. Words can’t even describe how uplifting it is.”

It’s just one reason why Baca was selected as the Tribune Boys Soccer Player of the Year, but there were plenty of other reasons, including 36 other

goals and 11 assists.

Baca was the only player to lead his team to the championship game two years in row. He finished it off with a goal that will always remain entrenched in program history, giving the Tigers their first outright title.

“It was a special play by a special player,” Perry said. “He deserves it. Danny eats, drinks and sleeps soccer. He put himself in this position because of all the work he did.”

Baca is headed to Fort Lewis College to continue his career at the Division II program in Durango, Colorado, and will be joined by his twin brother, Robby.

“I had lot of other offers, talking to bigger D1 schools, but each one always had a thing that made it feel like it didn’t seem right,” Danny said. “Then, Fort Lewis came to the door and they wanted us both. It’s a great fit. They’ve won three national titles, and the environment reminded us of the Gilbert brotherhood. It was like a carbon copy.”

The Bacas will get a chance to leave an indelible impression on the program just like they did at Gilbert.

“I felt like I had to do my part for the team,” Danny said. “I didn’t want my season to end. We lost (in the state championship) last year and it was an absolutely terrible feeling. I remember our first meeting (before this season) and we all knew we wanted to get back and finish it.

“I just happen to be the one who tucked it away.”

– Contact Jason Skoda at 480-898-7915 or jskoda@evtrib.com. Follow him on Twitter @ JasonPSkoda.com.

First team

All-Tribune Boys Soccer

Name Yr. Pos. School Comment

Beto Vidana Sr. Mid. Hamilton Strong ball handler, top distributor

Johnny Halter Sr. Mid. Campo Verde Spearheaded a talented offense

Nick Rizzo Sr. Mid. Highland Vital to team’s success on a nightly basis

Danny Baca Sr. For. Gilbert Six goals, key assist in playoffs

Ryan Flood Sr. For. Corona del Sol Nearly 10 matches with two or more goals

Josh Drack Sr. For. Hamilton Special with the ball, difference maker

Michael Johansson Sr. Def. Gilbert Leader of the back end

Brian Gomez Sr. Def. Mesa E.V. Region defensive POY

Nick Mootz Sr. Def. Hamilton One of the state’s top defensemen

Justin Zimmerman Sr. GK Campo Verde Allowed just eight goals in 24 games

Second team

Name Yr. Pos.

School Comment

Kevin Olivarez Sr. Mid. Gilbert Had 12 goals, 23 assists for champs Robby Baca Sr. Mid. Gilbert Found the back of the net 14 times

Ryan Holguin Jr. Mid. Horizon Honors 10th in the state with 25 goals

Hector Govea Soph For. Tempe 4A Desert Sky Region POY had 19 goals

Liban Sanchez Jr. For. Williams Field Ranked third in 5A with 23 goals

Luka Zivkovic Soph. For. Red Mtn. Had 16 goals, seven assists

Jonathan Peralta Sr. Def. Tempe Has a knack for separating ball, player

Zach Jakpor Sr. Def. Mountain Pointe Helped Pride back to respectability

Ty Iannone Jr. Def. Desert Vista Plays much bigger than his size

Reese Corwin Sr. GK Hamilton Huskies had 12 shutouts

Honorable mention

Colton Cluff, American Leadership; Nathan France, Arizona College Prep; James Seaman, Arizona College Prep; Vincent McNeil, Basha; Nathon Smith, Campo Verde; Daniel Corona, Chandler; Preston Grayson, Corona del Sol; Tanner Pile, Corona del Sol; Tanis Davis, Desert Ridge; Connor Stevens, Desert Vista; Alexander Castillo, Dobson; Donovan Cameron, Highland; Aiden Williams, Highland; Noah Rivera, Gilbert; Moises Durazo, Mesa; Jesus Tapia, Mesa; Chris Boyle, Mountain Pointe; McCay Anderson, Mountain View; Josue Navarro, Perry; Nicholas Umali, Queen Creek; Oscar Reyes, Red Mountain; Jacob Matsumoto, Tempe Prep; Chase Sanchez, Valley Christian; Alejandro Gomez, Westwood.

(Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer)

Danny Baca of Gilbert High is headed to Fort Lewis College to continue his career at the Division II program in Durango, Colorado.

All-Tribune girls soccer: Olivia Nguyen checks all the boxes

BY JASON P. SKODA Tribune Prep Sports Director

It’s easy to pick out a team’s best player.

It doesn’t matter if it is a practice, pregame warmups or in competition. They just do things differently from everyone else.

It’s a combination of athletic ability, instincts and hard work.

What isn’t known by a simple eye test is what kind of teammate someone is and how they do in the intangibles department.

Olivia Nguyen checks all of the boxes.

“She is a humble kid who just wants to win,” Corona del Sol girls soccer coach Matt Smith said. “We were a good team, and she made us special.”

The Corona junior led the Aztecs to a 6A Conference state semifinal run that included knocking off the No. 1 seed Hamilton in the quarterfinals before losing to Desert Vista in the semifinals.

“We had a great season and we were so close to getting to the championship,” Nguyen said. “Beating the No. 1 seed, beating Hamilton, was an incredible team effort. Everyone thought we were big underdogs, but that didn’t matter to us. We just played our best.”

That usually starts and begins with Nguyen, who finished with 26 goals

and 23 assists, including two assists in the 2-1 win over Hamilton.

Corona went 16-7 on the year, but 15-2 in games she either scored or helped a teammate find the net.

“She’s the right-footed Messi of girls high school soccer,” Smith said. “She’s the best player I have coached at Corona. Teams marked her, gave her a shadow, doubled-teamed her and she still produced.”

Nguyen, who plays club for SC Del Sol and is committed to Arizona State, plays striker for the Aztecs and midfield for her club team. She has the ability to transition her game to fit whatever formation or position the coach uses or puts her in.

What doesn’t change is her ability to be a playmaker no matter where she stationed on the pitch.

“We were at our best when we make that extra pass,” she said. “It doesn’t matter who scores as long as we do. There are times you have a good angle, but there’s someone who has a better one. It’s easy to get it to them. It’s better for the team.”

And with that, another box has been checked.

– Contact Jason Skoda at 480-8987915 or jskoda@evtrib.com. Follow him on Twitter @JasonPSkoda.

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First team

All-Tribune Girls Soccer

Name Yr. Pos. School Comment

Isabel Deutsch Sr. Mid. Desert Vista Remained a top player

Ali Turk Sr. Mid. Mountain Pointe Tallied 15 goals, 9 assists

Amanda Dahl Jr. Mid. Perry Explosive playmaker

Aubree Incardone Sr. For. Red Mountain Wracked up 36 goals

Paige Maling Sr. For. Desert Vista Top offensive threat

Olivia Nguyen Jr. For. Corona del Sol 15-2 when she scored/assisted

Niki Hoey Sr. Def. Corona de Sol Named co-defensive POY

Lauren Schooler Sr. Def. Desert Vista Shared honor with Hoey

Ashley Gewecke Sr. Def. Mesquite 5A San Tan defensive POY

Kamrie Gunderson Sr. GK Desert Vista The main netminder

Player of the Year: Nguyen

Coach of the Year: John Roberts, Perry: Led the sixth-seeded Pumas to the 6A Conference semifinals to 21 wins before falling to eventual champion Xavier

Second team

Name

Abby Robertson Jr. Mid. Corona Nine goals and 19 assists

Kiara Parker Sr. Mid. Perry Jumped from two goals to 20

Jessica Wong Sr. Mid. Hamilton One of the Huskies’ mainstays

Kylee Ryan Sr. For. Higley Dynamic season, region POY

Samantha Anger Fr. For. Casteel Found the net 37 times

Sophia Serna Fr. For. Queen Creek Had 31 goals, 11 assists

Brianna Oliveras Sr. Def. Higley Region Def. POY was a force

Emma Robson Sr. Def. Hamilton Controlled the back end of defense

Jessica Hale Sr. Def. Desert Vista Good bridge from back to midfield

Makayla Aman Jr. GK Perry Posted 15 shutouts

Honorable mention

Katy Cafaro, Apache Junction; Skylar Nicholas, Arete Prep; Madison Smith, Arizona College Prep; Cameryn Boucher, Basha; Whitley Johns, Campo Verde; O’Reilly Kreipke, Campo Verde; McKenna Radder, Casteel; Paige Burns, Combs; Kayla Fairbanks; Combs; Skylar Byrnes, Corona del Sol; Corey Zaremba, Desert Vista; Michaela Burke, Gilbert Christian; Rachel Wilson, Highland; Anissa Montoya, Perry; Annie Wolter, Perry; Laura Henderson, Mesquite; Samantha Sanchez, Mountain View; Brooke Baldwin, Queen

Axenia Alo, Seton Catholic; Bailee Roberts, Skyline; Morgan Cryder, Tempe Prep; Hannah

Williams Field.

Creek;

Best, Valley Christian; Aris Lukins,

(Jesse Stawnyczy/Tribune Staff Photographer) Olivia Nguyen of Corona del Sol also plays club for SC Del Sol and is committed to Arizona State.

Corona del Sol graduate hoping for trip home for Final Four

BY RYAN CLARKE Tribune Staff Writer

The NCAA tournament looms ahead for Oregon guard Casey Benson, and his road to the Final Four could lead him right back home.

If the Ducks advance to University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Benson would be playing just down the road from where he grew up.

“It’s cliché, but it would be a dream come true,” Benson said. “To be able to play at home in the Final Four with an opportunity to go to a national championship would be surreal.”

Benson graduated from Corona del Sol High in Tempe in 2014 as a threetime state champion and the school’s career assists leader. Now in his junior year in Eugene, he’s making plays and providing a positive presence for the Ducks.

The roots of Benson’s success are planted in Tempe, where former head coach Sam Duane Jr. continued a culture of winning first established by his father, Sam Sr.

basketball court. Benson also learned from watching Arizona State and Arizona games as a kid – taking with him the competitive fire that stems from the rivalry.

Being selfless, positive and a good teammate are principles that Benson adheres to.

“It’s fun to think about and reminisce on my high school years,” Benson said. “It was a blast to win three championships and play for coach Duane.”

During high school, Benson’s clutch shooting and knack for finding the open man made him a highly-sought recruit by schools in the west. One school that didn’t recruit him was Arizona –something that has left a substantial chip on Benson’s shoulder.

That chip was never more present than Oregon’s second regular season game against Arizona on Feb. 4. The Ducks blew out the Wildcats 85-58 and Benson led Oregon’s bench players with 13 points.

While the Ducks lost 83-80 to the Wildcats in the Pac-12 Tournament title game and Benson struggled, he

Oregon to join Arizona as a regular in the conference’s upper echelon.

“Arizona, in the Pac-12, they’ve been the leader for years now,” Benson said.

“To be able to play them is exciting –they’re such a legendary program.

“I think with Dillon Brooks, me and Jordan Bell coming in the same class, we just wanted to try and build something

in Sacramento in a first round Midwest Region game.

Benson’s winning mentality – instilled at Corona – will prove crucial in the final stretch of Oregon’s season. With forward Chris Boucher sidelined due to a torn ACL, Benson will be relied upon even more to provide playmaking and lead Oregon’s thin bench.

If the Ducks are able to make that elusive Final Four run, it will be a homecoming for Benson, who grew up attending Cardinals games at the very stadium where he could win a national championship.

“You couldn’t write it any better,” Benson said.

East Valley players in the NCAA tournament

Casey Benson, Oregon, guard, 6-3, 185, junior, Corona del Sol; 4.9 points, 2.1 assists, 1.6 rebounds, 29 3-pointers

Markus Howard, Marquette, guard, 5-11, 175, freshman, Perry; 13.2 points, 2.3 rebounds, 2.2 assists. 79 3-pointers

Tommy Kuhse, St. Mary’s, guard, 6-2, 185, freshman, Mountain View; redshirt year

Mitch Lightfoot, Kansas, forward, 6-8, 210, freshman, Gilbert Christian; 0.8 points. 1.1 rebounds, 50 percent field-goal percentage

White accepts role as consultant at ASU

College Football Hall of Fame Inductee Danny

White, who led Arizona State to three consecutive bowl games and led the NFL Dallas Cowboys to five consecutive playoff appearances as their starting quarterback, is returning to the Arizona State football program.

White will be a consultant and an ambassador in conjunction with Sun Devil Athletics and the Sun Devil Club.

In addition, former University of Wyoming Head Coach Dave Christensen, a veteran of 35 years of college football coaching, is joining the ASU coaching staff as a non-coaching consultant.

Christensen spent 19 years as an assistant under Head Coach Gary Pinkel, first at Toledo (1992-2000) then at Missouri (2001-08). He served as Offensive

Timmer steps down at Valley Christian

Valley Christian girls basketball head coach Scott

will step down as head coach of the program, but will continue his roles in teaching and as assistant athletic director.

Timmer has led the girls program for the past 20 years and is stepping down to spend more time with family. He has recorded over 500 wins at Valley Christian, and his teams have played in six state championship games, winning three state titles.

The Trojans finished 26-3 and won this year’s 3A state championship, with Timmer earning 3A Coach of the Year honors.

(Oregon sports/Special to the Tribune)

Corona del Sol graduate and Oregon junior Casey Benson, right, is one of four former East Valley players competing in NCAA Tournament.

Coordinator under Pinkel from 1997-2008.

Timmer

Discerning truth, walking the talk

Pastor fled segregationist South, started church in Mesa

BY PAUL MARYNIAK Tribune Executive Editor

Had it not been for Mississippi’s virulent racism in the early 1960s, the Rev. Jack Troutman probably would never have made Mesa his home.

But Troutman and 27 other white United Methodist pastors found themselves in the bull’s eye of the Ku Klux Klan simply because they signed a statement in 1962 that declared blacks would be welcome in their churches.

On Saturday, Troutman, 90, will be honored by congregants at Grace United Methodist Church – the church he founded at the intersection of Gilbert Road and University Drive in Mesa after he fled the hostile reaction triggered by the pastors’ declaration.

The declaration, titled “Born of Conviction,” is detailed in a book of the same title that was written by a Methodist minister and published last year. “I never thought it would be like that. It stirred Mississippi up like you wouldn’t believe. I didn’t think it was going to amount to anything but it caused 20 of us to leave Mississippi,” Troutman said. “They didn’t want us anymore. They didn’t want us to serve the people anymore.”

Asked who “they” was, he replied, “Hardline segregationists.”

“We came out of the seminary brainwashed into thinking all men are created equal,” Troutman said sarcastically. “We signed a statement saying we believed everybody ought to be welcomed in church. Well, a lot of white people didn’t want black people worshipping with them.”

Among those segregationists were Troutman’s brother and sister, both of whom pulled their children out of public school when a federal court ordered Mississippi to desegregate its all-white public schools despite stiff opposition from then-Gov. Ross Barnett.

Barnett, who futilely defied a National Guard unit when he tried to block a black man from entering the University of Mississippi, once declared, “The Good Lord was the original segregationist. He put the black man in Africa” and that Mississippi had the largest percentage of

“Our mission is evangelize, healing and discipleship through the word of God.”

SATURDAY, APR. 8

EASTER EGG HUNT

New Heights Church’s annual free Community Easter Egg Hunt has moved to Valley Christian High School’s football field. The day will feature 15,000 eggs, inflatables, characters for the kids to take pictures with, popsicles and more.

DETAILS>> 10 a.m., 6900 W. Galveston St., Chandler. Information: kidsegghunt.com

SUNDAYS

NEW CHURCH IN MESA

The Lawrence Memorial A.M.E.Z. Church has opened in Mesa with the Rev. Albert Bolden leading as pastor. DETAILS>> Sunday School at 9 a.m., worship at 10 a.m., 931 E. Southern Ave., Suite 108. Information: 480-393-3001, tlmchurch.info.com, f@ TheLawrenceMemorialChurch.

VALOR CHRISTIAN OUTLINES MISSION

Valor Christian Center in Gilbert offers “great praise and worship and great messages for today’s living,” according to Pastor Thor Strandholt, associate pastor.

DETAILS>> 10 a.m. Sundays and 7 p.m. Thursdays. 3015 E. Warner Road. Information: valorcc.com.

HORIZON SEEKS YOUNG PEOPLE

High school and middle school students meet to worship and do life together.

DETAILS>> 5 p.m. at Horizon Presbyterian Church, 1401 E. Liberty Lane. 480-460-1480 or email joel@ horizonchurch.com.

KIDS CAN LEARN JEWISH LIFE

Children can learn and experience Jewish life. Chabad Hebrew School focuses on Jewish heritage, culture and holidays

DETAILS>> 9:30 a.m. to noon, for children ages 5-13 at Pollack Chabad Center for Jewish Life, 875 N. McClintock Drive, Chandler. 480-855-4333, info@ chabadcenter.com, or chabadcenter.com.

RABBINIC LIT COURSE OFFERED

Ongoing morning study of two classics of rabbinic literature by medieval philosopher Moses Maimonides (the “Rambam”). At 10 a.m., Prof. Norbert Samuelson, Grossman chair of Jewish Philosophy at ASU and TBS member, teaches “Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed:

black Americans because “they love our way of life here, and that way is segregation.”

Barnett also was a cousin of Troutman’s mother, who became angry with her son when he refused an invitation to deliver a sermon at an annual family reunion held in the governor’s mansion.

“I told her mother I can’t go. He’s out there in public treating those black people like they were mules and cows,” Troutman recalled, adding that even his mother bore some of harsh reaction to the pastors’ declaration.

“It was pretty tough on my mama,” he said. “She got a lot of calls asking, ‘What’s wrong with Jack? Has he gone crazy?’” The reaction was tougher on some of the 28 ministers.

“The Ku Klux Klan burned crosses on our lawns, slashed the tires of a neighboring pastor’s car, threatened to burn the churches of those pastors who signed the statement,”

What Jews Ought to Believe.” At 11:15 a.m., TBS member Isaac Levy teaches “Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah: How Jews Ought to Behave.” Readings in both Hebrew and English.

DETAILS>> Community Room of the administration building at Temple Beth Sholom of the East Valley, 3400 N. Dobson Road, Chandler. 480-897-3636.

UNITY OFFERS A PATH

Unity of Mesa says its Sunday service offers “a positive path for spiritual living” through “transformational lessons, empowering music and various spiritual practices with an open-minded and welcoming community.”

DETAILS>> 9 and 10:45 a.m. 2700 E. Southern Ave., Mesa. Nursery available for infants through kindergarten at service times. Youth ministry classes are open in the Education Annex at 10:45 a.m. Information: 480-892- 2700, unityofmesa.org, lori@ unityofmesa.org.

ALL ARE WELCOME

All on a peaceful spiritual path are welcome and honored in this inclusive, loving, thriving Unity Community. Join us for Interfaith CommUNITY Spiritual Center’s Sunday Celebration Service DETAILS>> 10:30 a.m. Toddlers and children meet

he said, adding that white congregants in many of those pastors’ churches “left in droves and never came back.”

Troutman was a circuit pastor, presiding over three rural churches in the middle of Mississippi. Each congregation ranged in size between 60 and 100 people.

That circuit put him on the fringes of more populated Methodist churches where pastors who signed the declaration were in physical danger.

Nevertheless, he said, he feared constantly for the safety of his two young children because of the Klan.

And he had to put up with the animosity of the white non-church members where he lived.

On the first Sunday after newspapers in Mississippi published the pastors’ declaration, Troutman said, “I got into the pulpit and told my members, ‘You probably read the article I signed, and it’s an article I would expect any of you to sign.”

“I had my people conditioned,” he added. “They knew where I stood before I signed that document. So, the only reaction they had was, ‘We don’t agree with you but we love you and we’re going to stay with you.’”

See TROUTMAN on page 28

during our service. Interfaith CommUNITY Spiritual Center, 952 E. Baseline, Suite 102, Mesa. Information: info@interfaith-community.org.

SUNDAY CELEBRATION SERVICE

Inspirational messages and music to lift your spirit. A welcoming community committed to living from the heart. Many classes and events offered. We welcome you!

DETAILS>> 10 a.m. Sundays at Unity of Tempe, 1222 E. Baseline Road, Suite 103, Tempe. Information: 480-7921800, unityoftempe.com.

MONDAYS

CHURCH PRAYER CALL

The Lawrence Memorial A.M.E.Z. Church in Mesa has a prayer call every Monday.

DETAILS>> 7 p.m., 1-712-775-7085. PIN 162106#.

JOIN CHRIST-CENTERED YOGA

This Flow 1-2 class (intermediate) is free and open to the community.

DETAILS>> 6-7 p.m., Mountain Park Community Church, 2408 E. Pecos Road. Greg Battle at 480-759-6200 or See CALENDAR on page 28

(Special to the Tribune) Pastor Jack Troutman will be honored next weekend by Grace United Methodist Church members for standing up to racism more than 50 years ago in his native Mississippi.

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It wasn’t the same with the non-church members.

He left Mississippi the day that a search began for three civil rights workers who eventually were found shot to death. Their murders became the subject of a best-selling book and film called “Mississippi Burning.”

“I was sort of ostracized as far as the community was concerned,” he said.

And the reaction from the church hierarchy was even more dispiriting.

Troutman said when he arrived in Mesa in 1964, “I saw I had five acres of tumbleweeds.”

The presiding Methodist bishop and district superintendents “wouldn’t stand with us,” Troutman said. “They didn’t back us up.”

He started his congregation, meeting in a funeral home on Stapley Road in Mesa while he and his followers raised money to build a church.

That was the last straw for 20 of the 28 pastors.

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They began looking for approval from their bishop to be transferred to churches outside the state. The eight who remained “were like chaplains for institutions like hospitals and military bases, where I’m sure they had black members already.”

Many of those pastors fled to the Methodist district covering Southern California and Arizona.

But word of their declaration didn’t sit too well with some churches there, either.

“They wrote on the wall of one church our names and said, ‘These pastors will never serve here,’” Troutman said.

Despite the pleas of his bishop, Troutman insisted on being transferred out of his native Mississippi and was told, “I’ve got a nice five-acre piece of land in Mesa where I want you to start a church.”

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CLASS TARGETS THE GRIEVING

Classes for those grieving over death or divorce.

DETAILS>> 6:30 p.m., Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 739 W. Erie St., Chandler. 480-963-4127.

STRUGGLING FIND SUPPORT

Support group for those struggling with how to deal with a loss in life.

DETAILS>> 7 p.m., 1825 S. Alma School Road, Room C201, Chandler. Pastor Larry Daily, 480-963-3997, ext. 141, larrydaily@chandlercc.org or chandlercc.org.

PROSPERITY RECIPES AT UNITY OF TEMPE

Internationally known speaker and author, Maureen G. Mulvaney brings back her Prosperity Recipes class series to Unity of Tempe on Monday evenings. Cost: $10 per session

DETAILS>> 6:15-8:15 p.m., Unity of Tempe, 1222 E. Baseline Road, Suite 103, Tempe. Information: 480-7921800, unityoftempe.com.

TUESDAYS

MESA BIBLE STUDY

The Lawrence Memorial A.M.E.Z. Church conducts Bible study on Tuesdays.

DETAILS>> 6:30 p.m., 931 E. Southern Ave., Suite 108. Information: 480-393-3001, tlmchurch.info.com, f@ TheLawrenceMemorialChurch.

Grace Methodist grew rapidly to 1,000 members and Troutman led the congregation in erecting three buildings on the campus before he was transferred to Anaheim, California, nine years after he arrived. After a couple years, he went back to Arizona and presided over First United Methodist Church in downtown Mesa for six years before being transferred to Sun City.

He retired in 1991 and spent his time for nearly a decade traveling the country with his late wife and volunteering for the Red Cross.

Now living at an assisted living facility not far from the Mesa church he founded, Troutman said he last visited Mississippi for a reunion of the “Born of Conviction” pastors.

“The bishop invited the pastors about nine years ago,” he said, “but many had died. There are only a few of us left.”

CELEBRATE RECOVERY

Celebrate Recovery is a Biblical program that helps us overcome our hurts, hang-ups, and habits. Through teaching, worship, and sharing in small groups, you will find genuine people devoted to help discover the power of Christ through the recovery process.

DETAILS>> 6:30 p.m., Central Christian Church, 933 N. Lindsay Road, Mesa. Information: Eric at 480-924-4946.

GRIEFSHARE

Mountain Park Community Church is offering an ongoing GriefShare programs to help people deal with the pain of losing a loved one.

DETAILS>> 6:30-8 p.m., 2408 E. Pecos Road, Ahwatukee. To register: mountainpark.org and click on Launch. Information: Alex at 480-759-6200

FINDING HEALING FOR PAIN

HOPE, an acronym for “Help Overcome Painful Experiences,” offers support for men and women who seek God’s grace and healing.

DETAILS>> 6:30 to 8 p.m. Mountain Park Community Church, 2408 E. Pecos Road. mountainpark.org.

SENIORS ENJOY ‘TERRIFIC TUESDAYS’ The program is free and includes bagels and coffee and a different speaker or theme each week. Registration not needed.

DETAILS>> 10-11 a.m., Barness Family East Valley Jewish Community Center, 908 N. Alma School Road, Chandler. evjcc.org or 480-897-0588.

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Falcon Field Airport opens its doors to the public March 25

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Tribune Contributor

Get a close look at unique aircraft, classic cars and model railroads at Falcon Field Airport’s Open House from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 25. The event will be at Falcon Field Park, 4636 E. Fighter Aces Drive, north of McKellips Road between Greenfield and Higley roads. Admission and parking are free on the grounds, and shuttles are available on the west side of Higley Road north of McKellips Road. Patrons are asked to bring donations to the United Food Bank.

“This isn’t just for aviation buffs,” said Dee Anne Thomas, the airport’s marketing/ communications specialist.

“They’re interested in it, obviously. But you hear seniors who want to see the different aircraft and reminisce. Maybe they’ve flown in the military or for pleasure and they see aircraft similar to the ones they’ve flown.”

Thomas added that parents of small children and teenagers also stop by to educate the kids about the world of aviation.

“It does have appeal across many demographics,” she said.

Falcon Field visitors can see Boeing’s AH-64E Apache attack helicopter; two unmanned aerial vehicles – the S-100 Camcopter and ScanEagle; and a ground control station; vintage warbirds; a 1967 AH-1F Cobra helicopter; experimental aircraft; general aviation aircraft and others.

“Aircraft displays are obviously the most popular,” Thomas said about the exhibits.

“It’s the chance for them to see aircraft up close, as opposed to the sky or far away, or looking through a window at the airport.”

Patrons can also feel what it’s like to be in the pilot’s seat by using a flight simulator.

“They’re buckled up, but it’s a moving experience,” Thomas said. “You feel what it’s like to sit in the pilot seat and fly the plane.”

Adults and kids can explore flight training and aviation careers with representatives of area education programs, businesses and aviation organizations.

The Commemorative Air Force Museum is hosting an exhibit about Falcon Field’s origins as a World War II pilot training base. The Southwest Military Transport Show also will be held at the CAF from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Highlights include military vehicle and static aircraft displays, collectibles, vehicle parts, plastic model contest and swap meet. Discounted admission of $5 per person or $10 per family on March 25 cover the museum and Southwest Military Transport Show.

But the event isn’t limited to just aircraft. Impala Bob’s Car Show will see more than 100 classic cars on display, while Arizona Big Train Operators will show off a model railroad exhibit. Kids can indulge in inflatables, face painting and balloon animals. Food, music and aircraft flyovers add to the fun.

“Impala Bob’s is a business near Falcon

Field,” Thomas said. “They’re in the business of selling parts for those restoring classic cars. They coordinate that car show because it relates to their business and customers.

“They have a lot of contacts in the world of classic cars, so they coordinate that every year. The entry feeds benefit the Mesa Boys and Girls Clubs.”

Everything at the open house comes back around to aircraft, however. Thomas is proud of the event because she and city officials try to corral things that are new and different each year.

surprises for the 2017 event.

Regardless, the Apache Boeing helicopter is always a popular attraction, she said.

“It’s very rare that people get to see those at all,” she said. “But people can see them close up, climb up the steps and talk to the people who make them. A lot of people really enjoy that part of the show.”

At Higley and McDowell roads, Boeing is also bringing unmanned aerial vehicles. Guests can see the control station that is used with drones.

“Drones and unmanned aerial vehicles are more and more popular and are of interest to people,” Thomas said. “It’s a neat chance for people to see these up close. These aren’t the kinds that you would see in hobby shops, either. These are for commercial and military use.”

IF YOU GO

What: Falcon Field Airport’s Open House

When: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 25

Where: Falcon Field Park, 4636 E. Fighter Aces Drive, north of McKellips Road between Greenfield and Higley roads.

Cost: Free

Information: 480-644-2450 or falconfieldairport.com.

(Special to the Tribune)

Falcon Field Airport’s Open House allows guests to explore the world of aviation.

(Special to the Tribune)

Helicopters are part of the show at Falcon Field Airport’s Open House.

Chow down at the Great American Barbecue and Beer Festival

BY JORDAN BLITZ GetOut Contributor

Barbecue, beer and country music could be considered the essence of America. Throw all three – and March Madness – into one event and you get the eighth Great American Barbecue and Beer Festival in downtown Chandler

Produced by HDE Agency, the party begins at noon Saturday, March 25, with restaurants like Tom’s BBQ, Honey Bear’s BBQ, Sweet Magnolia Smokehouse, Porkopolis, Montana Bar-BQ and Bourbon Jacks serving up food, and 100 boutique vendors offering quirky wares. Over 75 percent of the vendors are local, and about 30,000 noshers are expected to plow through 30,000 pounds of barbecue on the day.

“Back when we started the event, a lot

IF YOU GO

Where: Dr. AJ Chandler Park, 178 E. Commonwealth Avenue, Chandler

When: Noon, Saturday, March 25

Cost: Tickets start at $20

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of barbecue restaurants were opening in Arizona,” says Jen Pruett, HDE Agency’s public and media relations director.

“Barbecue competitions were a big thing on TV and around the country. We created this event originally to support that growing trend.”

The Great American Barbecue and Beer Festival has become so ingrained in the community that participants call it “Barbecue Christmas.”

“Our event is the biggest barbecue festival in this state and in this region,” Pruett adds.

“We do have a few barbecue pit masters that travel from across the country to participate each year.”

The afternoon also features eating competitions, a March Madness lounge, grilling demonstrations, a kids’ zone, mechanical bull riding and a farmers’ market.

The grilling demonstrations and March Madness lounge are in their first year, but Pruett is confident that they will be crowd pleasers.

A quarter of the proceeds will be given to the Boot Campaign, a national charity that helps active and veteran military personal and their families, to fund programs

A barbecuer turns a slab of ribs during last year’s Great

Organizers say 30,000 pounds of meat will be consumed

that support employment for veterans and hotlines. For more information, visit bootcampaign.org.

The Great American Barbecue and Beer Festival isn’t just about food. The headlining act is three-time American Country Awardwinner Easton Corbin.

“Easton Corbin is one of the fastest-

growing names in country music right now,” Pruett says. “We are super excited to have him joining us for this year’s Great American Barbecue and Beer Festival.”

Corbin’s support acts include local performer Laura Walsh, who is influenced by Grace Potter, Michelle Branch and Carrie Underwood.

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American Barbecue and Beer Festival.

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All About Rattlesnakes

Get the scoop on our potentially dangerous, but misunderstood, desert neighbors, including their habits, habitat and how to get safely through an encounter.

DETAILS>> Noon-1 p.m., Wednesday, March 22. User Mountain Regional Park, 3939 N. Usery Pass Road, Mesa. Tickets: $6 park entry fee. 480-984-0032. maricopacountyparks.net/events.

‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’

The beloved Broadway musical set in the 1920s sees a woman take a job in an effort to marry the boss’s son. Naturally, hilarity ensues, along with dazzling dances, hit songs and plenty of fun.

DETAILS>> Times vary, Wednesday, March 22-April 1. Hale Centre Theatre, 50 West Page Ave., Gilbert. Tickets: $18-$30. 480-497-1181. haletheatrearizona.com.

2017 Annual Quilt Show

See dozens of quilts from some of Arizona’s best quilters, plus attend lectures, get quilt appraisals and even try to buy your favorite quilt at auction. The theme this year is “Salute America.”

DETAILS>> Times vary, ThursdaySaturday, March 23-25. Mesa Convention Center, 263 N. Center Street, Mesa. Tickets: $10 per day or $15 for Friday-Saturday pass. azquiltersguild.org.

Lyle Lovett and Vince Gill

Two Grammy-winning artists, Lyle Lovett and Vince Gill, join forces for an intimate evening performance. Gill describes it as, “just two guys sitting on stools, telling stories and singing songs.”

DETAILS>> 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 23. Mesa Arts Center, 1 E. Main St., Mesa. Tickets: $56-$86. 480-644-6500. mesaartscenter.com.

Highland Jazz Festival

The Highland/ASU Jazz Festival is back in town, and you can catch two amazing concerts headlined by Dick Oatts or Jim McNeely, along with accomplished jazz performers from around the country.

DETAILS>> 7:30 p.m., Friday-Saturday, March 24-25. Highland High School, 4301 East Guadalupe Road, Gilbert. Tickets: $20. 480-543-7315. highlandjazz.com.

Dragon Boat Festival

See giant, colorful dragon boats race across Tempe Town Lake powered by 16 or more rowers. Also, enjoy a full festival

celebrating Chinese culture, including authentic food, martial arts demonstrations and more.

DETAILS>> 8 a.m., Saturday-Sunday, March 25-26. Tempe Town Lake Marina, 550 E. Tempe Town Lake, Tempe. Cost: Free. azdba.org.

Falcon Field Airport Open House

Celebrate aviation with a wide range of modern and vintage aircraft and exhibits. Talk to industry experts and pilots, plus enjoy Impala Bob’s Car Show and much more.

DETAILS>> 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, March 25. Falcon Field Airport, 4800 E. Falcon Drive, Mesa. Cost: Free. 480-6442450. falconfieldairport.com.

Southwest Military Transport Show

Get a front-row view of more than 40 military vehicles from throughout the 20th century, including WWII Warbirds, Willys Jeeps and armored personnel carriers. In addition to the military vehicles, enjoy a swap meet that offers collectibles and vehicle parts.

DETAILS>> Times vary, Saturday-Sunday, March 25-26. Arizona Commemorative Air Force Museum, 2017 N. Greenfield Road, Mesa. Tickets: $5 individual, $10 family on Saturday, $15 adults and $5 kids 5-12 on Sunday. ahmta.com.

The Great American Barbeque & Beer Festival

Sixty BBQ masters will serve up 20,000 pounds of savory flame-cooked goodness. Wash it down courtesy of 200 kegs of craft beer as you listen to live music. You can also participate in multiple eating competitions, beer games, a farmers’ market and more.

DETAILS>> Noon-10 p.m., Saturday, March 25. Dr. A.J. Chandler Park, 3 S. Arizona Ave., Chandler. Tickets: $15 pre-sale, kids 12 and under are free. 602-276-2499. chandlerbbq. com.

Family Movie Night at Vertuccio Farms

Watch an outdoor screening of the hit movie “Zootopia.” Plus, ride a train, play games and chow down on pizza, nachos, pretzels and kettle corn. You can also bring your own food, blankets and chairs.

DETAILS>> Opens at 5 p.m., movie at sundown, Saturday, March 25. Vertuccio Farms, 4011 South Power Road, Mesa. Tickets: $7, Free for kids under 3. 480-8821482. vertucciofarms.com/events.

Springtime lemon pie can be made in blender

BY JAN D’ATRI Tribune Contributor

Monday is spring! That means it’s lemon season in Arizona. And I’ve never found a better idea for a lemon than throwing it into a blender, and out comes the most amazing Arizona Springtime lemon pie! Yes! Toss in a whole lemon, and watch what happens!

BLENDER LEMON PIE

Ingredients:

1 large lemon, cleaned well

4 large eggs

1 stick (8 tablespoons) melted butter

1 teaspoon pure vanilla

1 1/2 cups sugar

1 (8-9 inch) unbaked piecrust

Whipped cream for topping

Directions:

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Sprinkle a little sugar over the pie crust and bake until light golden brown, about 15 minutes. (Poke with toothpick or fork if it bubbles during baking process)

Cut lemon in chunks, leaving rind on. Remove seeds. In a blender or food processor, blend together lemon chunks, eggs, butter, vanilla and sugar until mixture is smooth and creamy. (It should be fairly runny.) Pour into pre-baked piecrust. Bake at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes. If crust becomes too brown, cover gently with foil and finish baking. Let set up for about an hour, then refrigerate to chill. Serve with a dollop of fresh whipped cream.

– Connect with Jan on Facebook/jandatri1 or at jandatri.com/ For a video recipe: jandatri.com/recipes/lemonblender-pie/?category_id=384

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Beloveddaughter,sister,mother,soulmateand friend,wenthomewiththeLordDec3.

BornMay6,1967inTucsonsheattendedKino LearningCenter,CraginElementary,DoolenJr High,CatalinaHighSchool,andNorthernArizona University.

SheissurvivedbyhermotherBernice,2sisters Dani(Billy)Coran,Lora(Tom)Post,and2brothers, RichardandPatrick(Dawn),3sonsNick,Teddyand Tim,granddaughterJadeTamara,nephewsandniecesNate,Ryan Taylor,Sharon;fiance 'TimBallantyneandhis3sons,Jordan,Jonah, andJadenwhoalllivedasalargehappyfamilyinLasSendas.

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Accepting applications through April 1 Western State Bank is an EEOE and Affirmative Action Employer. Member FDIC

Microsoft Corporation currently has the following opening in IT Tempe, AZ (job opportunities available at all levels, e.g., Principal, Senior and Lead levels): Cloud Solution Architects/Solution Architects: Architect software, platform, services, hardware or technology solutions.

http://bit.ly/MSjobs_Tech_Solns

Multiple job openings are available for each of these categories. To view detailed job descriptions and minimum requirements, and to apply, visit the website address listed. EOE.

Barnett Management Burger King

We are looking for friendly, energetic, people to join the Burger King Team! Hiring for team member and management positions!

 General Managers:

 Assistant Managers:

 Shift Managers:

 Team Members:

We offer competitive pay and benefits. We are a growing company looking for talented people.

Now hiring for our new locations:

2865 E. Octillo Road Chandler AZ 85249

10726 E. Guadalupe Rd, Mesa, AZ 85209

If you would like to be part of this exciting opportunity and join a winning team, please apply at www.work4bk.com

Questions? hr@barnettmgt.com

XpresSpa is looking for licensed technicians to join our 2 new spas in Phoenix Airport.

Job Fair: Monday March 20th-Friday March 24th from 9am-6pm 1001 East Jefferson (southeast corner of 10th and Jefferson) Phoenix, AZ 85034

Full bene ts* package including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401K, paid maternity/paternity leave, tuition reimbursement. Competitive commission structure.

Contact jporter@xpresspa.com, 646.598.6016 or careers@xpresspa.com * Visit www.xpresspa.com for details

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PayPal, Inc. has career opportunities in Scottsdale, AZ for:

ENGINEERS including: Software, QA, Web Development, Software Developers, Database, Data Warehouse, Data Architect, User Interface, Information Security, System Integration, Release, Network and Cloud.

Positions include: junior, senior, and management positions. Positions require BA/BS, MA/MS, MBA or PhD. Multiple positions/openings. Must be l egally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Please mail resume w/ ref. to: Req. No.: SWE300PP(EVT) at: ATTN: HR, Cube 15.1.131, PayPal, Inc. HQ, 2211 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95131. EOE

MTD Southwest, Inc. sks 1 FT Supply Chain Specialist in Tempe, AZ. Coordnts supply & demand of raw material & components necessary to achieve reqd production outputs. Apprx 10% unanticipated int’l & domestic trvl. Reqd: 5 yr exp as MRP Analyst or rltd; MRP software capabilities, specific to AS400 suite; 5 yr exp wrking for global sourcing & mfg Co.; 5 yr exp wrking in a seasonal mfg envirmnt; 4 yr exp of trend analysis & linear regression forecasting methodologies; 4 yr exp w/inventory Push-Pull Syss & material planning production items; min of 6 mos in high season applying Supply Chain Mgmt Principles in Outdoor Power Equiptmt Industry; worked for an ISO certified Co. & has the ability to eval suppliers to the currnt stndrd; trbleshting & diagnostic skills in order to have less than 5% Line Down Time on a min of 5 production lines. Mail cover lttr &

2 BDR/2 BA/2 CAR "Stick built" #144 A.W II is a 55+ premier gated 166 home community.

$295 HOAC covers all outside maintenance Water/Cable/Trash Jerry 651-247-8573

By Owner, 4341 E Pearce Rd, next to So Mtn Preserve, 4 bdrm, 2 B, open plan, remodeled kit, bathrms, great backyard, move-in ready $344k

Open House March 25, 26th

Manufactured Homes

Manufactured Homes

OPEN HOUSE

MAR 20 11AM-1PM

202 N MERIDIAN RD #52, AJ, AZ HOT DOGS, CHIPS, DRINKS

1 YEAR FREE RENT !! 2B/1B Home, Furn, Appl, W/D,Cent A/C, Covered Patio & Carport, 2 Sheds & AZ Room in a 4 star, 55+ Resort Comm with tons of amenities/activities, walking distance to e'thing $9,500 Bill 480-228-7786

Brand new 2017 Schult 16X44, 2B/1B, 3 T A/C, walk in shower, Appls, W/D Hkup, Covered Carport, Firepit on a 55+, 5 Star RV Resort, loads of amenities/activities.

55+ Windsor Park in Mesa Has open lots waiting for your new home as well as homes for sale, already set up and ready to go. Come by and choose which option will work for you. Contact Debbie at 480-969-7192

BRANDNEW,2017 18X52Schulthome, 2B/2B,6'Front Porch,CentralA/C, CoveredCarport,in a4Star,55+Resort CommunityW/Tons ofAmenities/Activities$60,900 MeridianMHP351 N.MeridianRdsp# 96ApacheJct.Call Bill480-228-7786

Annual rent $3750 Call Bill 480-228-7786 for details

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1 year free rent 14X56

2 B/1B, Front Kitchen, AZ Room, 2 Sheds, 2 Awnings, $9,500 in a 4 star, 55+ Resort Comm with Tons of Amenities/Activities. El Dorado Mobile Estates, 202 N. Meridian Rd sp #52, Apache Junction. Call Bill 480-228-7786 Recreation/Vacation/Timeshare

Weekend/Vacation Home Roosevelt Lakeview Resort 14 x 70 Mobile Home. Fully Furnished, decorated, deck w/spa and screen room Call 520-743-8085

Female Roommate Wanted for furnished 2 story condo in Chandler w/ patio, pool & garage 1 year lease. No pets. $600/mo incl util/WIFI Call Karen 480-518-5676

Roommates

ANAGRAMMIES

TempeElementarySchoolDistrict#3 PublicNoticeMarch22,2017 6:00P.M.

BustozProfessionalLearningCenter 2020E.CarsonDr. Tempe,AZ85282

Apublichearingwillbeheldatthistimeto discusstheFY2017-2018TitleVIIndian EducationActandGrantapplicationfor supplementalservicesforidentifiedTitleVI NativeAmericanstudentsintheTempeElementarySchoolDistrict#3. Pleasecall480-730-7221formoreinformation.

Public Notices

Notice is hereby given that following vehicle will be sold at a public sale on 4/18/17 at 9:00 AM by Service King at 2299 W. Broadway Rd. Phoenix, AZ 85041 to satisfy a mechanics lien.

2012 Red Nissan Versa 3N1CN7AP3CL803222

Registered Owner: Jennifer Nicole Tucker Legal Owner: Ally Financial Fees owed: $ 2,428.50

2001 White Ford Expedition

1FMPU16L61LA27421

Registered Owner: Jennifer Lynn Comorre

Legal Owner: Wheels Financial Group Fees Owed: $3,749.48

2004 Gold Pontiac Grand Prix

2G2WS522541208390

Registered Owner: Laura Marcela Diaz Figueroa Legal Owner: Titlemax of Arizona Inc. Fees owed: $1,301.50

NOTICE:

Meetings/Events

SENIOR SONGBIRDS LOOKING FOR MALE AND FEMALE SINGERS. If you are age 50+ and love singing and entertaining, we would be happy to have you check us out at one of our rehearsals. We are all volunteers and perform weekly at assisted living and care centers. We sing secular songs primarily from the 30's, 40's, and 50's, as well as patriotic and gospel songs, from September through May. We rehearse Wednesdays from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Pyle Adult Recreation Center, 655 East Southern Avenue, Tempe, AZ. For more information, call 480-775-0730.

Your newspaper. Your community. Your planet. Please recycle me.

Most service advertisers have an ROC# or "Not a licensed contractor" in their ad this is in accordance to the AZ state law

Arizona Registrar of Contractors (ROC): The advertising requirements of the statute does not prevent anyone from placing an ad in the yellow pages, on business cards, or on flyers.

What it does require under A.R.S. §32-1121A14(c) <http://www.azleg.gov/ars/32/01165.htm> , is that the advertising party, if not properly licensed as a contractor, disclose that fact on any form of advertising to the public b y including the words "not a licensed contractor" in the advertisement.

Again, this requirement is intended to make sure that the consumer is made aware of the unlicensed status of the individual or company.

Contractors who advertise and do not disclose their unlicensed status are not eligible for the handyman's exception.

Reference: (http://www.azroc.gov/invest/licensed_by_law.html)

As a consumer, being aware of the law is for your protection. You can check a businesses ROC status at: h

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LightingontheConsolidatedCanalPhase 2,AdobetoLindsayRoad ProjectNo.CP0274

TheCityofMesawillbeinstallingapproximately2.5milesofnewLEDpathlightingalong theexistingConsolidatedCanalPathwayfrom AdobeRoad/8thStreettoLindsayRoad.This projectisbeingfundedbylocalstreetsalestax fromTransportationwithaportionbeingreimbursedbySaltRiverProjectAestheticsfunds.

YouareinvitedtoattendaPublicMeeting whereCitystaffandbothcontractorswillbe availabletoansweryourquestions. Noformal presentationwillbegiven.

Date:Thursday,March23, 2017

Time: 6:00p.m.to7:00p.m.

Location:JohnsonElementary-MediaCenter 3807E.PuebloAve. Mesa,AZ85206

Ifyouhaveanyquestionsorconcernsregardingthisproject,pleasecontactRenePowell, JaimeOtter,orMicheleArrolladowiththeCity ofMesaEngineeringPublicRelationsat(480) 644-3800.Siusted tienepreguntasdeste Proyecto,favordellamaraMaggieMartinez, conlaCiudaddeMesaal(480)644-5672.

Published:EastValleyTribune,March12,19, 2017/4896

Your Ad can go ONLINE ANY Day! Call to place your ad online!! Classifieds 480-898-6465

ATTENTION:GENERALCONTRACTORS

TheCityofMesaHousing&CommunityDevelopmentDivisionissolicitingGeneralContractorstoparticipateintheNeighborhoodStabilization&HomeRehabilitationPrograms. Projectsincludeemergency,minorandmajor rehabilitation,andrenovationsofexisting singleandmulti-familystructures,usinggreen buildingpractices.Tobeeligibletoparticipate, acontractormustpossessaresidentialcontractorʼslicensef romtheStateofAZRegistrar ofContractors(ROC)(allowingtocomplete emergency,minor,andmajorprojectsranging from$1Kto$250K),possessproperID,bein goodstandingwiththeROC,havegoodreferences,meettheCityʼsinsurancerequirements, andpossessaCityofMesaSales&UseTax license.Allcontractorsmustalsocomplywith theCityofMesaimmigrationpolicies.WomenandMinority-ownedbusinessesandSection3 certifiedbusinessesarehighlyencouragedto apply.Theseprogramsreceivefundsfromthe USDepartmentofHousing&UrbanDevelopment(HUD);thereforeallcontractorsmustbe registeredinHUD ʼ sSystemforAwardManagement(SAM)(www.sam.gov).Formoreinformation,ortoreceiveanapplication,call MesaHousing&CommunityDevelopment, (480)644-3208.

Published:EastValleyTribune,March29, 2017/4937

WANTED:

WANTED:

36 People to try the latest digital technology in hearing aids

to try the latest digital technology in hearing aids

Are you, or someone you know, struggling with hearing loss?

Are you, or someone you know, struggling with

Are you, or someone you know, struggling with hearing

loss?

We need 36 people with difficulty hearing, especially in noisy situations, to evaluate the new style in digital technology from NuEar. We will perform thorough hearing consultations FREE of charge to ALL callers. We will then choose 36 qualified candidates for this program.

We need 36 people with difficulty hearing, especially in noisy situations, to evaluate the new style in digital technology from NuEar. We will perform thorough hearing consultations FREE of charge to ALL callers. We will then choose 36 qualified candidates for this program.

We need 36 people with difficulty hearing, especially in noisy situations, to evaluate the new style in digital technology from NuEar. We will perform thorough hearing consultations FREE of charge to ALL callers. We will then choose 36 qualified candidates for this program.

We need 36 people with difficulty hearing, especially in noisy situations, to evaluate the new style in digital technology from NuEar. We will perform thorough hearing consultations FREE of charge to ALL callers. We will then choose 36 qualified candidates for this program.

We need 36 people with difficulty hearing, especially in noisy situations, to evaluate the new style in digital technology from NuEar. We will perform thorough hearing consultations FREE of charge to ALL callers. We will then choose 36 qualified candidates for this program.

DAYS

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Tuesday – Thursday March 21, 22, and 23

Sanchez, Board Certified Hearing Instrument Specialist

Sanchez, Board Certified Hearing Instrument Specialist

Dawn Sanchez, Board Certified Hearing Instrument Specialist

Dawn has 26 years of experience helping the hearing community, this being her 14th year in the Valley.

Dawn has 26 years of experience helping the hearing community, this being her 14th year in the Valley.

Dawn has 26 years of experience helping the hearing community, this being her 14th year in the Valley.

Dawn has 26 years of experience helping the hearing community, this being her 14th year in the Valley.

Dawn Sanchez, Board Certified Hearing Instrument Specialist

Dawn has 26 years of experience helping the hearing community, this being her 14th year in the Valley.

Dawn is a licensed hearing specialist in New Mexico and Arizona and Board Certified in Hearing Instrument Sciences. She is also a member of Hearing HealthCare Practitioners of Arizona (HHPA) and a member of the International Hearing Society (IHS). She has been a member of the licensing board in Arizona and currently holds a position with an IHS board.

Dawn is a licensed hearing specialist in New Mexico and Arizona and Board Certified in Hearing Instrument Sciences. She is also a member of Hearing HealthCare Practitioners of Arizona (HHPA) and a member of the International Hearing Society (IHS). She has been a member of the licensing board in Arizona and currently holds a position with an IHS board.

Dawn is a licensed hearing specialist in New Mexico and Arizona and Board Certified in Hearing Instrument Sciences. She is also a member of Hearing HealthCare Practitioners of Arizona (HHPA) and a member of the International Hearing Society (IHS). She has been a member of the licensing board in Arizona and currently holds a position with an IHS board.

REWARD

Dawn is a licensed hearing specialist in New Mexico and Arizona and Board Certified in Hearing Instrument Sciences. She is also a member of Hearing HealthCare Practitioners of Arizona (HHPA) and a member of the International Hearing Society (IHS). She has been a member of the licensing board in Arizona and currently holds a position with an IHS board.

Dawn is a licensed hearing specialist in New Mexico and Arizona and Board Certified in Hearing Instrument Sciences. She is also a member of Hearing HealthCare Practitioners of Arizona (HHPA) and a member of the International Hearing Society (IHS). She has been a member of the licensing board in Arizona and currently holds a position with an IHS board.

REWARD

REWARD

Candidates selected will receive tremendous savings due to their participation.

REWARD

Candidates selected will receive tremendous savings due to their participation.

Candidates selected will receive tremendous savings due to their participation.

Candidates selected will receive tremendous savings due to their participation.

Candidates selected will receive tremendous savings due to their participation.

If your evaluation shows hearing improvement with the new NOW hearing aids, you may choose to retain them and receive up to $1,500 OFF the suggested retail price! Participants who choose to keep the hearing aids will also receive FREE in‑office maintenance for the life of the hearing aids.

If your evaluation shows hearing improvement with the new NOW hearing aids, you may choose to retain them and receive up to $1,500 OFF the suggested retail price! Participants who choose to keep the hearing aids will also receive FREE in‑office maintenance for the life of the hearing aids.

If your evaluation shows hearing improvement with the new NOW hearing aids, you may choose to retain them and receive up to $1,500 OFF the suggested retail price! Participants who choose to keep the hearing aids will also receive FREE in‑office maintenance for the life of the hearing aids.

If your evaluation shows hearing improvement with the new NOW hearing aids, you may choose to retain them and receive up to $1,500 OFF the suggested retail price! Participants who choose to keep the hearing aids will also receive FREE in‑office maintenance for the life of the hearing aids.

If your evaluation shows hearing improvement with the new NOW hearing aids, you may choose to retain them and receive up to $1,500 OFF the suggested retail price!

Participants who choose to keep the hearing aids will also receive FREE in‑office maintenance for the life of the hearing aids.

Her experience gives her tremendous insight into the problems and frustrations that accompany hearing loss and the exciting solutions that are now available. She has a passion for helping people with all types of hearing loss.

Her experience gives her tremendous insight into the problems and frustrations that accompany hearing loss and the exciting solutions that are now available. She has a passion for helping people with all types of hearing loss.

Her experience gives her tremendous insight into the problems and frustrations that accompany hearing loss and the exciting solutions that are now available. She has a passion for helping people with all types of hearing loss.

Her experience gives her tremendous insight into the problems and frustrations that accompany hearing loss and the exciting solutions that are now available. She has a passion for helping people with all types of hearing loss.

Her experience gives her tremendous insight into the problems and frustrations that accompany hearing loss and the exciting solutions that are now available. She has a passion for helping people with all types of hearing loss.

Please call immediately to schedule your evaluation to determine if you are a candidate for this program!

Please call immediately to schedule your evaluation to determine if you are a candidate for this program!

for this program!

Dawn

Dawn Sanchez, Board Certified Hearing Instrument Specialist