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City Council identifies its big concerns

BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer

NEWS.............................. 16 Scottsdale snags Arabian breeders from Vegas.

NEIGHBORS.............22 Scottsdale author gets her "tiny ninja" on.

ARTS...............................26 Harkins in Scottsdale hosts Phoenix Film Fest.

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itigation of Scottsdale’s heat island and creating and implementing a sustainability plan are among the top issues on City Council’s to do-list for 2022.

ARTrageous Gala returns under the stars

That was the consensus at Scottsdale City Council’s annual retreat last week as members sorted through and prioritized the top action items in the General Plan 2035.

Also at the top of the list of things to get done this year is creating an emergency management plan and program, housing and human services programs and updating

A dream flowers

the economic development strategic plan.

A heat mitigation plan was created and presented to Council last October, and members now want to implement it.

Council felt that goes hand in hand with creating a sustainability plan and working it

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BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer

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t is no secret by now that when Gerd Wuestemann took over as the CEO and president of Scottsdale Arts nearly four years ago, he had grand plans for expanding the use of Civic Center and surrounding area.

One of his grandest ideas was hosting a gala there under the stars just as spring began.

COVID-19 put a screeching halt to his idea.

Then came the groundbreaking on the multimillion-dollar Civic Center project that is still on pace to conclude early next year.

But next weekend, Wuestemann will get

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Rio Verde homeowners sue county over water

BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer

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upporters of creating a water district in the Rio Verde Foothills have sued the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to force it to vote.

The group wants Superior Court to order the board to vote on whether to create a non-contagious domestic water improvement district, or DWID, noting it has been before the board since Feb. 17, 2021.

DWID supporters say they need to buy water for the district by June and simply do not have any more time for the supervisors, who by law must vote to create it, to drag their heels.

“The ongoing delay from Maricopa County Board of Supervisors jeopardizes the ability of the DWID to secure water for residents as time is running out, water supply is diminishing and costs for water continues to increase due to demand,” the group said in a written statement.

“The proposed Board for the Rio Verde Foothills DWID felt there was no choice but to legally force the Maricopa County Supervisors to act.”

Supervisors spokesman Fields Moseley said, “We have no comment on matters pending before the court. Supervisor (Thomas) Galvin continues to work with all stakeholders in Rio Verde who want a long-term solution to the water supply.”

The county cannot legally provide water but the road to getting a district formed starts with the supervisors’ approval.

A group of homeowners in the Rio Verde Foothills area who oppose the DWID have an attorney on standby if needed, according to their leader, Christy Jackman.

Jackman said the petition is an attempt to circumvent HB 2055 in the Arizona Legislature. The bill would allow water to be pulled out of the Harquahala Valley watershed by a private company.

If successful, the bill, which has already passed the House and is making its way through the Senate, would allow Epcor, a private water utility, to pull water from the Harquahala Valley watershed and use it to service the Rio Verde Foothills area.

“If that happens, Epcor would be a shoe-in,” and there would be no need for

Among those concerned about having a water supply next year are Rio Verde Foothills homeowners Meridith DeAngelis and Karen Nabity, seen here with water hauler John Hornewer. (Progress file photo)

a DWID, Jackman said.

Those opposing the water district would rather see EPCOR simply service the area.

Epcor spokeswoman Rebecca Stenholm has said in the past the company would be happy to service the Rio Verde Foothills area but doesn’t know where it would get the water. She did not return the Progress’ calls.

District opponents contend a DWID would give too much power to a select group of people.

“They can condemn land,” Jackman said. “I don’t know if they would do it, but they can. They can annex us. I don’t know if they would do it, but they can. If they can’t get water from Harquhala, they can start drilling into our aquifer.”

Getting water from the Rio Verde Foothills aquifer would harm people in the area who depend on wells.

And Jackman fears it could all be done without the knowledge of anyone outside of the water district. “A legal entity should never be run like a club,” Jackman said.

The federal Bureau of Land Management’s announcement last year that it would begin water rationing on the Colorado River in January, prompting Scottsdale to launch stage one of its Drought Management Plan, which terminates water hauling in the Rio Verde Foothills area starting January 2023.

Somewhere between 500 and 700 homeowners in the area pay to have a tanker fill up with water from a massive spigot owned by the city and haul it to their homes, where they store it in tanks.

If homeowners can get all the paperwork in place and buy the water in the Harquhala watershed by June, Scottsdale officials have said they would be willing to front the district’s members water until the system could get up and running – which could take as long as two to three years by some estimates.

“The delay caused by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in failing to vote and approve the (Rio Verde Foothills) DWID has led to the diminishing availability of water options for petitioners to secure and increases prices for available water, as well as exacerbated already tight time constraints for petitioners to work with the City of Scottsdale and other temporary water sources and solutions,” the suit claims.

The Rio Verde Foothills community is made up of approximately 2,100 homes.

An estimated 500 homes are entirely dependent on hauled water. Approximately another 200 homes partially rely on hauled water. The primary source of water for both commercial and private water haulers has been the City of Scottsdale

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Petition drive for council districts begins

BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer

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fforts to gain enough signatures to ask voters to end the city’s at-large city council system have gotten underway.

Members of the 3-2-One Scottsdale Political Action Committee, which wants the city broken into council districts, have submitted an initiative to the City of Scottsdale and are gathering signatures with the hope of getting the initiative on the Nov. 8 ballot.

The group wants to collect 30,000 signatures by June 21 and is looking for volunteers.

They want to create three districts – a north, central and south – each with roughly the same number of constituents and two council members elected in staggered terms. The mayor would be elected citywide under 3-2-One Scottsdale’s plan.

“The majority of Scottsdale residents live south of the Shea Boulevard corridor, yet not a single city council member does.”

Says Paul Simonson, chairman of 3-2-One Scottsdale, “District elections will improve residents’ access to city council, make elections simpler, and may reduce spending by special interest groups and outsiders.”

The issue has cropped up at council for years.

Most recently, Council voted 5-2 during its February 15 meeting to tell city staff not to look any further into the idea. Mayor Ortega and Councilwoman Betty Janik cast the two votes supporting the staff looking further into the idea.

“Because of its unique geography, Scottsdale grew in three ‘generations’ south, central and north,” Ortega said. “In many ways, three voting districts, makes perfect sense since our population exceeds 240,000. Each district population would be 80,000 and two council would know the unique challenges of their district. And all six council members and the mayor will share in decisions effecting the whole.

“I fully support three districts, each having two council members who are elected at-large in their district,” Ortega said.

“From a practical stand point, the cost of reaching 180,000 voters is a barrier with the costly, obsolete at-large method.”

“Some opponents falsely stated that districts in Scottsdale, would cause corruption, or ‘tribalism,’” he added. “Sadly,

One way of dividing Scottsdale into council districts was proposed by 3-2-One Scottsdale. (Progress file photo)

this ploy disparages council colleagues in adjoining cities. I am more concerned that some at-large candidates and elected (officials) take donations from every developer, zoning attorney and even fire unions from Mesa, Tucson, and Tolleson and from the multi-housing lobby. Bankrolled candidates have a lesser advantage with voting districts."

Ortega also contended that a district system would encourage voter participation “because your council member bears direct responsibility."

Janik said she doesn’t know where she stands on the issue of districting.

“I’m in support of letting the voters de-

cide,” she said. “I‘m not sure exactly where I stand other than I want to hear from the voters. With my vote I was hoping we would not need to go to an initiative. I did that with the preserve, it’s expensive and it’s a lot of work.”

Others, like Councilwoman Linda Milhaven, vehemently oppose districts dividing up the city. She said she believes it is in the best interest of the city to have all seven council members doing what’s best for the city as a whole.

Districts, she said, would create incentives for council members to only look for

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into the city’s codes and ordinances.

Both issues were the top issues identified by council members Solange Whitehead, Kathy Littlefield and Betty Janik.

“If we want to remain a tourist destination, if we want to attract businesses, if we want to be a quality of life city, if we want to protect public health, then that is our challenge,” Whitehead said. “We are a hot city and getting hotter.”

Littlefield said heat mitigation is a top priority for people coming to live in Scottsdale as well as current residents.

“We live in a desert where it’s hot and dry,” she said. “We don’t have a whole lot of water ... I think that’s really, really important for everyone in the city, everyone who lives here, everyone who visits here and everyone who is planning on coming.”

Janik added, “I think the future of our city depends upon us being sustainable, liveable.”

Vice Mayor Tammy Caputi and Littlefield identified the emergency management plan and program as a top priority.

“I think the last few years have demonstrated without a shadow of a doubt that we have no idea what is going to happen tomorrow and we need to have an emergency management plan in place and raring to go at the drop of a hat for the safety and well-being of all of our citizens and our visitors,” Littlefield said.

Caputi said, “Really, all the other things downstream don’t matter if we’re not prepared for emergencies.”

Janik and Mayor David Ortega identified housing and human services programs as another top need.

“I do think we need to focus more on it,” Janik said. “I think we’ve got a lot of different ideas up in the air. I think they are all great ideas but I really think we need to have more focus so we can accomplish

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what’s best for their district and would lead to council members trading votes for pet projects.

Scottsdale has had at-large council members since it incorporated 1951 with a population of about 2,000 living within an area of less than a square mile. With a population of almost 250,000 people in 184.4 square miles today, some feel the city has outgrown that system.

Scottsdale is currently the second larg-

Kathy Littlefield

Betty Janik

Solange Whitehead

some of these rather than just saying, ‘Let’s do, let’s do.’

For instance, Council has budgeted $10 million for affordable housing with no clear plan on exactly how to use it.

“We should continue to apply best practices, even some after school programs things that can help people get back to work,” Ortega said.

Caputi and Councilwoman Linda Milhaven listed updating the city’s economic development strategic plan a top priority.

“When I looked through the description, it talks about growing our existing industry, attracting investment, inclusion and diversity, being a premier destination for the Southwest, our brand prosperity,” Caputi said. “Helping the economy, to me, is the most important thing and we need to implement that as soon as possible.”

Milhaven said, “That’s where it all comes together all of the relationships and all the inter-dependencies.”

She also identified updating the city’s arts and cultural ordinances as a priority.

“We spend so much time trying to solve problems but I think this is a fun thing,” she said. “We don’t do a lot of neat, fun

stuff.”

Councilman Tom Durham identified the integrated water resources master plan as a top priority.

“Certainly, I think there are legitimate concerns,” Durham said. “Some of them may be people trying to cause trouble but I think this is an issue people are very much concerned about. That’s both people who live here and people who want to move here, particularly people who want to move here with businesses.

“I think for any businesses locating here or relocating here, that’s something they would legitimately be concerned about and asking about. Several people have mentioned similar concepts but I think this is a predicate to everything else, it’s a predicate to economic development. Its foundations border everything else we do,” he added.

He also identified the net-zero energy strategic plan as a priority for this year, calling it “an issue of rising concern.”

Ortega also want the implementation of the neighborhood area plans as a priority for the year.

“We have a heat island effect and in cer-

tain areas of our city we have a housing situation and some overload questions and we also have some land-use questions arriving at commercial being converted to residential,” Ortega said.

Whitehead wanted neighborhood preservation and conservation programs development as a priority.

“If we have the best neighborhoods ... the businesses and tourists will follow.

There were a lot of things to me that seem to fall under neighborhood preservation, certainly the emergency management plan that’s part of just managing the city.”

City Manager Jim Thompson said all 28 action items in the general plan will eventually get done at some point.

“All of these have to be done because they are in our general plan, the voters approved it,” Thompson said. “We’re obligated to go forward and do these. They are going to be done in the next five years.”

Some of the action items, like the arts and cultural ordinances updates, implementing the infrastructure improvement plan and the smart cities strategic road map are already being worked on by city staff.

est city in Arizona that uses an at-large council system. The state’s three largest cities – Phoenix, Tucson and Mesa – all use a district system along with Glendale, which has a slightly smaller population than Scottsdale. Both Chandler and Scottsdale, the state’s fourth and fifth largest cities, respectively, use at-large systems.

The city explored a six-district system, with the mayor elected at large, in 2003 by forming a citizens task force to research the topic. The in-depth report compared Scottsdale to similarly-sized cities across

the country and found that of 48 “comparably sized cities” nationwide, only nine — or 19 percent – had at large forms of government.

The proposition went on the ballot in 2004 but failed with just 39 percent of voters supporting it.

Then mayor Jim Lane brought the idea of three districts to council in 2016 but the idea died there.

Simonson said the idea of districting just makes sense, given the size and population of the city.

“The United States is a representational democracy,” Simonson said. “We elect members of Congress and State-wide representatives from districts. But many Councilmembers from one part of town continue to fight American-style democracy here in Scottsdale, even though it would benefit most of the City, as well as the councilmembers, through more affordable elections and smaller constituent bases.”

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Scottsdale man arrested for shooting near schools

BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer

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fficials locked down Desert Canyon Elementary School, Desert Canyon Middle School and the McDowell Mountain Ranch Aquatic Center March 21 after a Scottsdale man allegedly fired a gun near the facilities.

Justin Bowser, 31, was arrested and booked into the county jail on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges.

There is no indication he was targeting the schools for any criminal activity, a Scottsdale Police Department

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for more than 20 years.

The situation is made possible because of “wildcat subdivisions” that do not require lots to have a 100-year water supply before they are developed. State law allows a landowner to split land into as many as five lots without being subject to certain regulations on size, infrastructure

statement said.

Bowser is lives the nearby neighborhood and has no apparent direct ties to the schools, according to the statement.

The incident occurred around 11:15 a.m., when witnesses reported to police a man firing two rounds on the soccer fields that are part of the aquatic center but adjacent to the schools.

Police located Bowser in the area with a hand gun. Two shell casings were also found.

One of the officers who handcuffed Bowser was a school resource officer.

“The principals are to be commended

and amenities.

Former County Commissioner Steve Chucri began addressing the issue in 2014 when he created a water committee to look into the issue.

In 2016, that committee met with the Arizona Department of Water Resources, which suggested creating a DWID. Residents then penned a draft petition to create it in 2019 and submitted it

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“The principals are to be commended the teachers, everyone in our buildings executed the lock down just as it has been practiced.” the teachers, everyone in our buildings executed the lock down just as it has been practiced,” Scottsdale Unified Superintendent Dr. Scott Menzel said at a regularly scheduled governing board meeting the

for approval to the county before they could collect signatures. The county finally approved it at the end of 2020, so signatures could start being collected.

Supporters have almost 600 signatures.

But things came to a halt when Chucri suddenly resigned his position in November.

The Board of Supervisors put the subject on hold until Chucri’s replacement BEFORE

following night.

Parents with students in the two schools received robo calls, text messages and a letter sent home, according to district spokeswoman Kristine Harrington.

Some district parents wanted to know why all parents were not notified of the incident, Menzel said.

“We don’t typically do that in these cases but I do think this was a nice opportunity to reiterate we extended the agreement with the city for SROs for the next five years,” Menzel said.

No injuries or property damage were reported.

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SUSD Board may seek a budget override

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The question does not seem to be whether the district goes out for the additional tax request so much as when.

The district’s current district additional assistance override ends in June 2024 and board members want to get a new funding source in place before that runs out.

So, if the district goes out for the request this year and it fails, there is still another year to pitch it to Scottsdale property owners before the current funding ends.

“I do think if we don’t go for it this year and choose to go for it next year instead, the risk is much higher because if we don’t go for it in 2022 and go for it in 2023 and it fails for whatever reason, the money’s gone,” governing board member Jann-Michael Greenburg said.

“It would be my recommendation that we go for it this year when the risk is at it’s lowest and if it fails we have a second bite of the apple to really make sure we fix whatever messaging has gone awry,” he said.

Board member Zach Lindsay echoed that sentiment, stating, “If we wait until next year we only have one shot and then the funding would go away.:” District superintendent Dr. Scott Menzel supported the move.

“For maintenance and operating override votes there is a tiered reduction but for district additional assistance (overrides) there’s no tiering, it’s a complete loss of revenue so I think that is the reason why going in November of ’22 makes more sense,” Menzel said.

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GALA from front

starlight anyway as the ARTrageous Gala returns in-person after last year’s virtual production.

This year, however, those stars will twinkle over the gala in Scottsdale Stadium because the Civic Center mall is under construction.

“Of course, we normally want to be on our own campus but with this going on we had to go off campus. I immediately thought that the city needs to highlight this beautiful new venue that opened right as COVID-19 hit and there was no spring training,” he said.

“This clubhouse has this beautiful big space and has never been able to use it because of the two years of COVID,” Wuestemann said. “We literally are the first major event inside this room that is built to really accommodate anything from a big trade show to a big gala like this and I think we’ll be the first to utilize all the systems that are available there.”

The venue was not without challenges for Wuestemann.

With Spring Training dipping into April this year due to the delay caused by the MLB lockout, the Giants will play a game on April 1 – the day Wuestemann was counting on to convert the ballpark into an elaborate gala space.

“We had to work very closely with the city stadium operators and the Giants to really navigate this because there is a game on April 1 when we would be full-force setting ourselves up for this event on April 2,” he said.

“So, it was a fascinating challenge and I want to say huge kudos to the Giants organization and the city for really working with us and making that work so that I think we now are in excellent shape to get this done.”

Although crews will have to work around a baseball game and pull a long day on April 1, Wuestemann and gala co-chairs Anita Lang and Oscar De las salas believe the evening will be, as Lang describes, “fantastical.”

When the nearly 420 guests arrive, they will be greeted by possibly the largest red carpet they have ever set foot on as host Carey Peña of Inspired Media 360 conducts interviews that will be livestreamed on all of Scottsdale Arts platforms and viewed by an expected audience of over 7,000 people.

“It treats all our guests like they’re the celebrities they are for being part of our

ARTrageous Gala co-chairs, Oscar De las salas, left, and Anita Lang flank Dr. Gerd Wuestemann, president and CEO of Scottsdale Arts during the 2021 event at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. The 2022 gala will be held April 2 at Scottsdale Stadium. (Courtesy of Steven Fellheimner)

As they did at the 2020 Artrageous Gala, performing arts groups will entertain guests next weekend during the 2022 edition of the event. (Progress file photo)

community and part of our organization,” Lang said.

Guests will enter what Lang calls an “alternate reality.”

They will be greeted by black draperies that will be pulled back for them as they walk through an installation full of dangling pixel balls.

Another set of drapes will lead into a room where the first greeter will be a person wearing a 12-foot peacock costume standing in front of a backdrop of 12-foot mirror balls used by the House of Dior.

All of this will continue to be live

streamed and viewers will notice a QR code on screen that they can scan should they wish to donate to Scottsdale Arts.

As daylight recedes, the party will shift from under the sky to the 10,000 square foot fieldhouse, where guests will be entertained by Quixotic Fusion, an innovative performance art collective that uses the music, dance, large-scale props and stunning lighted projections.

Guests will dine on a three-course dinner as they enjoy the entertainment, an awards ceremony and a dynamic live auction hosted by Letitia Frye.

Among those being honored are the surviving inaugural board of directors for the Scottsdale Cultural Council, which preceded Scottsdale Arts.

Saguaro artworks from the “The Cactus Collective” exhibition at Scottsdale Fashion Square will be available to bidders. Anyone, whether attending the event or not, can bid on the silent auction items like “The Cactus Collective ‘’ artworks, which are on view at the mall through March 31.

The ARTrageous Gala benefits dynamic and diverse performances, exhibitions and arts education and outreach programs presented by Scottsdale Arts through its four branch leaders – Robert H. Karatz, Jim Bruner, Nancy Schamadan and Joe Sparks.

Walter Productions will be taking home the Trailblazer Award for Local Artist while the late Francis “Fran” Cohen, who ran the Arizona Wolf Trap program for early childhood arts education, will posthumously receive the Trailblazer Award for Arts Educator.

“We wanted to make this about an experience where you’re immersed in a performance throughout the night that starts from the moment you leave your car and walk in and never finishes until you’ve had your extra nightcap cocktail at the end of the night,” Wuestemann said.

Gala organizer hope to raise between $300,000 and $350,000 for the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA), Scottsdale Public Art and Scottsdale Arts Learning & Innovation as well as two signature events: Scottsdale Arts Festival and Canal Convergence.

“It goes to arts education; it goes to support events like in our convergence so they remain free to our community and support everything we do. It goes to help make sure that small continues with world class exhibits in a beautiful setting and it will help us bring outstanding performance not just inside the center, but soon out here to these outdoor stages,” Wuestemann said.

Although there is the goal of raising funds, organizers also want people to express themselves and create long-lasting friendships.

“We’re asking the guests to be a little more friendly with the idea of the theme of the night when they are going to wear their attire to show us how creative you are because you’re at a creative gala,” De las salas said.

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Senate panel wants detailed classes on patriotism

BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

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Senate panel voted last week to dictate what Arizona schools have to teach students about how communism and totalitarianism are in conflict with freedom and democracy.

HB 2008 spells out in some detail what this new civics education will include.

The measure was crafted by Rep. Quang Nguyen, R-Prescott Valley who told members of the Senate Education Committee of his own family’s experience escaping Vietnam as the communists took over following the war there.

But the measure does more than mandate a comparison.

It also requires the state Board of Education to develop standards that instruct students about “`the civic-minded expectations of an upright and desirable citizenry that recognizes that accepts responsibility for preserving and defending the blessings of liberty inherited from prior generations an secured by the United States Constitution.’’

And the state board also would have to establish and maintain a list of oral history resources to provide “portraits in patriotism based on first-person accounts of victims of other nations’ governing philosophies’’ who can compare those with the United States.

Nguyen said that’s based on more than 100 million people being killed in a century of communism.

“And the voice of these victims and survivors, such as myself, need to be heard,’’ he said. “We have so much to share with those who live in the greatest nation God has given to humanity.’’

Barbara Jennings, a Scottsdale parent, said the measure makes sense.

“It’s very disturbing, what we are seeing with our young people today, their lack of appreciation for where we live,’’ she said.

But Jennings had some other reasons she thinks there need to be changes in curriculum.

“We know the Chinese government has infiltrated our higher education,’’ she said.

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“It’s part of our history and it’s part of what my brother went to go fight in the Vietnam war,’’ she said.

But Gonzales said lawmakers are being disingenuous by saying they want students exposed to more history even as they have taken actions in the past to curb them. She said that includes a 2010 vote by lawmakers to outlaw ethnic studies programs, including one on Native Americans, “a very powerful and effective program that was open to everybody at the high schools in Tucson.’’

And Gonzales, who is Native American, said it didn’t stop there.

“This Legislature is currently prohibiting the history of the U.S. being taught to our children and what happened to the Indigenous people of this country,’’ she said. That refers to current proposals to limit how certain subject can be taught in ways she believes are designed to limit how racism and its history can be taught.

“And it hurts me because, as an Indigenous woman, I live through that discrimination on a daily basis,’’ Gonzales told her colleagues on the committee, saying peo-

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non Crozier is recommending an override of $13.5 million.

That would result in a total tax burden of $126 on a $600,000 home for schools – about $48 more per year more than the current tax load for schools.

Lindsay said he is worried about asking for more money in a time when inflation is so high.

But he felt the request amount is reasonable and added that inflation is hitting the school district as well.

The money would be used for furniture, fixtures, and equipment; software and tech upgrades; library books and instructional kits, workbooks, sheet music; shade structures; items like leaf blowers, power tools, a/c compressors; and smaller capital items that need refreshed or replenished more frequently.

Board President Julie Cieniawski is not ready to say if she supports going out for the override request this year or next.

“It is the Governing Boards responsibility to ensure all our students are pro-

ple of color face discrimination not only at grocery stores and banks but even in the halls of the legislature. “And yet, we do not want to hear the truth and allow schools to teach the history of the U.S.’’ Sen. Teresa Hatathlie, D-Coal Mine Canyon, went a step farther, saying there has been bias and discrimination even on the dais of committee hearings.

And Sen. Christine Marsh, D-Phoenix, who is a teacher, questioned why legislators believe it is their role to dictate exactly what has to be taught and how.

She said lawmakers are free to make policy decisions. But those details, she said, are best left to the state Board of Education which regularly brings together educators to review and alter curricula.

But Sen. Tyler Pace, R-Mesa, said the legislation simply spells out what he believes to be true.

“Communism and democracy are at odds with each other,’’ he said. “Totalitarianism is at odds with freedom.’’

The measure, which already has been approved by the House, now goes to the full Senate.

vided the best learning opportunities,” Cieniawski said. “Updating and upgrading resources is part of that expectation ... We will collectively consider what, how, and when we request the continued support of our community.”

In other business, the board last week approved a policy that would require school employees to get suicide prevention training. The policy also: • Requires putting a suicide prevention hotline number on new high school student ID’s.

• Requires publishing a list of resources for parents in a visible and easily accessible electronic location, regarding the safe storage of firearms.

• Requires age-appropriate firearm safety education by a district school resource officer or retired law enforcement officer to students in grades K-12 at least annually with notice and parent or guardian written consent.

• Allows the district, with parental consent, to conduct social/emotional health and wellness screenings of students subject to the state requirements for surveys.

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Arabian Breeders World Cup gallops into WestWorld

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fter holding the Arabian Breeders World Cup in Las Vegas for more than a decade, organizers last year were confronted by the task of finding a new venue because the traditionally jampacked city was still under strict COVID-19 restrictions.

The Arabian Horse Breeders Alliance realized only one other place in the world made sense for its competition.

That helped make Scottsdale with WestWorld’s polo grounds the winner as the new host of the popular event, which will stay here at least for the next three years.

“The Arabian Horse Breeders Alliance figured what better place to bring it than Scottsdale where we are the Arabian horse mecca and we have a beautiful outdoor polo field,” said Lee Courtney, a board member and volunteer with the Arabian Horse Breeders Alliance and Arabian Breeders World Cup. Although unsure how the event would stack up against the traditional stadium

Arabian horses from across the world will once again compete for best in show at the Arabian Breeders World Cup. (Special to the Progress)

show in Sin City, Courtney said the new venue is a perfect fit.

“In Las Vegas, this was done inside of

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“Our beautiful climate and the fact that the grass polo field is the ideal location to show halter horses – or horses shown in hand and not ridden – because it adds a European aspect to the show and offers a unique show ability for the breed,” she explained.

Additionally, horse owners like herself find it a more convenient venue.

“Coming to Scottsdale was a natural fit based on how many Arabian breeders there are here in town,” she said. “We have hundreds of breeders that breed anywhere from one to two horses a year up to 50 or 60.”

The event saw so much success last year that organizers will keep it here for at least the next three years.

“This is a very social event that provides a great place for the breeders to connect and see the youngest, latest and greatest of the breed,” Courtney said.

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Tutoring program a pleasant surprise for SUSD

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OVID-19 forced hundreds of Scottsdale Unified School District students home during the darkest days of the pandemic.

Aside from the missed social time with their peers, that meant hundreds of hours of instruction went unfulfilled.

So SUSD looked for ways to try and make up for those missed hours of classroom instruction. It offered bonuses for teachers willing to tutor before and after school and even during their planning period.

“It was an all-hands-on-deck situation,” said Assistant Superintendent in charge of Education Services Dr. Kimberly Guerin.

It helped for some students.

But, she said, “Not all parents can pick up their kid between 3:20 p.m. and 3:50 p.m.”

Not to mention the teachers began burning out.

“They were exhausted,” Guerin said.

There is a national shortage of substitute teachers so that didn’t help trying to find tutors either, Guerin said.

So the district tried something novel. It took the innovative approach of teaming up with national tutoring agency Varsity Tutors to provide extra instruction.

The program started out offering students six free hours of tutoring in any subject to any student.

Guerin admits she had her doubts at first. She did not think on-line teaching would work but she’s said she’s been surprised.

It was a success, with 631 students taking advantage of the program and 15 requesting more hours.

In fact, the program was such a success that the district rolled out an ondemand program at Desert Mountain High School. Students could call in and get one-on-one attention in Algebra I, Algebra II and biology any time between the hours of 1 p.m. and 8 p.m.

“You can order an Uber, you can have food delivered, well now you can get tutoring on demand,” Guerin said.

That too has been a success, so much so, in fact, the district is piloting the program at all four of its high schools.

The district pays Varsity Tutors $60 per hour of tutoring.

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Horse Show in February as horse season continues to roll on in Scottsdale.

“This fits as a complement,” she said.

“Most people come here to enjoy our unique lifestyle and because this is an outdoor event, it takes advantage of so much that is Scottsdale.”

Although this event does draw in awe from horse lovers across the world, Courtney attributes the format of the show to a different style of event.

“This is most similar to the Westminster Dog Show,” she said.

That’s because the s horses are being judged on confirmation – or bone structure, musculature and body proportions, the beauty of their face and neck, top line, length and straightness of their legs and their ability to be a foundational breeding

horse for the future by a panel.

The horses are also shown in-hand, meaning they are not ridden.

“Many people own these horses and show them but don’t ever ride them; it’s purely for the enjoyment of showing them at halter,” Courtney said. “I think this offers a unique perspective even if you have no intention of riding but really enjoy their beauty, you can really enjoy a show that circuses in the beauty of them by themselves.”

Subsequently, the horses compete in age classes, which adds to the delight and excitement of the audience.

“The neatest thing is seeing the different age of breeds,” Courtney said. “Horses are shown as yearlings, ages 1 to 4 and as seniors or ages 5 and up.”

Because of this, crowds tend to get loud for their favorite horses.

“This show is all about cheering for your favorite horses being shown,” Courtney said. “There’s a ton of energy and the overall experience is very positive and energizing from a perspective of purely enjoying everything about the horse and everything Scottsdale has to offer.”

While the main attraction is viewing gorgeous horses, the cup will also have food trucks on hand as well as local craft makers selling their products.

“The vendors that are showcasing are a boutique group of artists and jewelry makers that sell things that tie into the equestrian lifestyle,” Courtney said.

Whether guests come to shop, watch horses or gawk at people dressed in derby-like dresses and hats, Courtney believes that everyone will be united in one front.

“People can expect to see people who are truly passionate about the Arabian horse

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very May an Arizona tradition continues. Children roll sleeping bags, pack duffel bags and make their way to Friendly Pines Camp in Prescott.

Located in the cool pine forest of the Bradshaw Mountains, Friendly Pines Camp fills the summer with activities.

Founded in 1941 by Bud and Isabelle Brown and accredited through the American Camp Association, Friendly Pines Camp is the longest-running, family-owned summer camp in Arizona.

Designed for ages 6 to 14, this coed sleepaway camp offers more than 30 traditional camp activities, including horseback riding, swimming, ball sports, rock climbing, performing arts, fine arts, pet care, fencing, hiking, canoeing, kayaking, dancing and sewing.

The camp offers one-, two-, four- and six-week sessions.

“We’re now seeing a fourth generation of campers,” said Megan May, the camp’s director, who is the greatgranddaughter of the camp’s founders.

“Many of our former campers, who are now the parents and grandparents of current campers, tell us that they love the fact that we’re still teaching the same, classic camp songs and square dances, still cooking Dutch oven biscuits over a campfire, and offering many of the same outdoor sports, activities, and camp traditions that they remember doing.”

Friendly Pines Camp is also a place where boys and girls are required to make their own beds every morning and are assigned individual chores to help keep their cabins clean.

Children quickly learn how to share

a small, cozy cabin with one bathroom and shower with new kids from around the world.

Parents should know that while many of the camp’s activities and traditions have remained the same over 81 years, all the main buildings and cabins have been remodeled and upgraded. Plus, while many of the same classic camp foods continue to be served, the kitchen staff accommodates children who are vegan, glutenfree and lactose-intolerant.

“Our daughter has been going to Friendly Pines for four years now and we have also attended family camp,” said Allison Frumker of Chandler.

“There is so much thought and energy

“There is so much thought and energy put into every single detail, from registration, to pre-camp checklists, activities, food, safety, communications, the entire experience…as soon as camp is done for the summer, our daughter is already planning for next year.”

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Friendly Pines Camp is also looking for counselors and it has the highest staff salary of any Arizona summer camp. Their camp counselor pay breaks down to $17 per hour, $697 per week, and $6,274 for nine weeks of

employment. That includes room and board plus three meals a day.

“Not only will a job at camp keep you gainfully employed, but it will also enrich your life in a variety of ways,” May adds. “Camp counselors have the opportunity to be a positive influence and role model in the lives of children and they get to experience a great deal of adventure, exercise, and nonstop fun in the great outdoors.”

Save the dates

7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, March 28: Friendly Pines will host a YouTube Live information night.

7 p.m. Monday, April 25: In-person roundup at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess, 7575 E. Princess Drive, Scottsdale. Families can learn about the camp program. The first half of the presentation is specifically directed toward new families.

11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 21: Families are invited to visit Friendly Pines Camp in person for camp tours, wagon rides, toasting marshmallows, zipline rides, and drawings for prizes.

A complimentary lunch will be served.

Advanced registration is required. For more information, call 928-445-2128 or visit friendlypines.com

Would you like your child to get a few helpful and fun-filled lessons in manners and proper etiquette this summer? Certified etiquette instructor, SueAnn Brown, owner of It’s All About Etiquette, will offer four-day summer etiquette camps for three different age groups.

There will be a camp for ages 6 to 8, ages 9 to 12 and teens 13-18. The children meet for four days, two hours a day, from 10 a.m. to noon and the teen workshop will meet two days, for three hours each day, from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.

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Local author pens new ‘Tiny Ninja’ book

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lthough winning may feel great, it can often be taken to excess.

And author Sasha Graham’s “Whitney Wins Everything” – the latest edition to her collection of children’s books titled “Tiny Ninja Books” – addresses that point.

The book is centered around a little girl named Whitney who is obsessed with winning and ostracized by a classmate who is hosting a birthday party out of fear that Whitney will win all games.

Confused why she was singled out, Whitney begins to reflect on her behavior. Enter her “tiny ninja,” a concept Graham developed from her own children.

“Before my daughter was born, her big brothers nicknamed her ‘Tiny Ninja’ because they were looking forward to her completing their trifecta of ninjas,” Graham said. “They knew that she would, at least at first, be very little so they called her their ‘tiny ninja.’”

Inspired by the new term, Graham put

her creativity to the task in incorporating the term into literary works.

“As our kids get older and spend less time at home, I think it’s really important that we’ve given them the confidence to trust their own inner voice,” Graham said. “Reminding them to “listen to their tiny ninja” is a shorthand way of saying, ‘You’re strong, smart, brave and compassionate and you know in your gut the right thing to do.’”

Although the book is geared toward a younger demographic, the inspiration for it came to Graham while playing recreational sports as an adult.

“One night after a tough loss I was pretty bummed and I realized that my own competitive nature and desire to win had made me lose sight of why I was playing the game – which, ultimately, was to have fun,” Graham said.

“I had been playing sports for so long that I was really startled to find that this realization actually changed the way that I experienced the game from that moment forward. I still think it’s a lot more fun to win, but now when I play,

Author Sasha Graham poses with her pooch Mocha pose in support of Graham’s latest children’s book titled “Whitney Wins Everything.” (Special to the Progress)

I actively recognize how wonderful it is to be out there with great friends, building each other up and working towards a common goal.”

Graham felt this was a lesson everyone could learn from starting at an early age.

“Too often we just keep doing things out of habit even when they are no longer making us happy,” Graham said. “In Whitney’s case her Tiny Ninja helps her realize that she doesn’t need to give up the thing she loves, which is winning, but that there’s a way to do it that is going to bring her a whole lot more joy.”

That is not the only takeaway from the book, though.

“I would love for readers to take away that we all have it in us to change course when we realize that the way we’ve always done something no longer serves us. Graham said.

“I also hope Whitney helps readers remember the life changing magic of being part of a team. Working together for

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Scottsdale author to release 2nd memoir

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icking up where her last novel concluded, Scottsdale author Linda Pressman has returned for the first time in nearly a decade with her memoir titled “Jewish Girls Gone Wild.”

The story begins with her large Jewish family headed by parents, who were Holocaust survivors, settling in Scottsdale and details the trials and tribulations Pressman faced leading up to graduating from Chaparral High School in 1978 prior to heading off to

Linda Pressman is set to release her memoir titled Jewish Girls Gone Wild: A Memoir of Skokie, Scottsdale & the Seventies on April 3 at The J in Scottsdale.

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the University of Arizona.

Pressman, who previously published “Looking Up: A Memoir of Sisters, Survivors and Skokie,” still vividly remembers her first trip to Arizona.

“We started taking road trips from Chicago in 1971 after my father had what was termed a “mild” heart attack.

I also developed asthma that same year,” Pressman said. “On one of those road trips, we went to California, stopping in Arizona. I could breathe in Arizona, so that seemed to be the deciding factor.”

“I remember thinking it was beautiful on the first trip, when we stayed at

the old Holiday Inn on Scottsdale Road, and I remember being quite enamored with Camelback Mountain,” Pressman said. “I loved the spaciousness. It felt normal the minute we moved, yet completely different from what I’d come from.”

The youngest of seven children, Pressman and her relocated from the Chicago suburb of Skokie, Illinois.

“Skokie had street after street of square houses just like mine, interspersed with brownstone apartment buildings whereas Scottsdale had

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Her parents purchased a home in a neighborhood where Pressman estimates that 10 of the 16 original homes were bought by Jewish families moving from the east and midwest.

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“First, there was no male left in our family of eight women, the seven sisters and our mother, and there was no longer a disciplinarian,” “My father had an overpowering presence and, when it was gone, it was very noticeable. Our store seemed to be held up only by his energy and, when he died, the business slowly started failing, leading to us losing it two years later. “ Pressman’s mother – who had spent

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her teen years in a displaced persons camp in Germany – had to find a way to provide for her daughters.

“She found out she had a knack for sales and, after the first company she worked for went out of business, she discovered real estate,” Pressman said.

“While this meant we could keep our house, it didn’t mean we were rich.”

Pressman began dabbling in debauchery, such as shoplifting, barhopping with a fake ID and experimenting with drugs as she lived in a home where there were almost no rules.

Pressman eventually headed off to the University of Arizona, where she relied on financial aid for the first three years of her degree until returning to the valley to attend Arizona State University.

While studying towards her degree, she remembered, “My mother talked about the war a lot and used to ask my sisters and I, “Who is going to write my book?” This came up a lot.”

“I really had no intention of doing that, though by my teen years, I started having a feeling that I needed to write a book, that it was sitting inside of me.”

However, Pressman did not want to pen the Holocaust survival story her mother wanted, and instead wanted to create something that had a more universal theme.

“The two books together tell the sto-

ry to age 18; of growing up in unique circumstances and understanding that there was a universal story there too,” Pressman said. “I understand as a writer of memoir that my story is the story of many, my awkwardness the awkwardness of many, and my making sense of the world as I grew, also reflected the experiences of others.”

The book is set to be released on Sunday, April 3, during an official release event held at the Jewish Community Center in Scottsdale.

Pressman also has another book in the works that will continue to tell her story.

“I’m at work on the third book, which will most likely start with me getting married at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas in 1986,” she said.

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are able to play and feel that same magic on uniform day and beyond,” Graham said.

“I hope that the money that Tiny Ninja Books contributes to the Phoenix Rising FC Youth Soccer Foundation enables a few more kiddos to experience the lifechanging magic of being part of a team.”

The book is now on sale at Kidstop Toys and Books and tinyninjabooks.com.

Graham will also be doing an exclusive book signing April 9 at Cochise Elementary School.

a common goal, having people to cheer you on, and also cheering other people on is incredibly important and feels great.”

Although this is the second installment of Graham’s “Tiny Ninja” books and the books stand alone, there is an element of continuity that a keen eye may detect.

“Each of the books in the collection stand on their own, but eagle-eyed readers may spot Milo from ‘Milo Does Not Like Mornings’ in the pages of ‘Whitney Wins Everything,’” she said.

Graham is donating a portion of the proceeds from the book to the Phoenix FC Rising Youth Soccer Foundation to fund scholarships.

“Supporting the Phoenix Rising Youth Soccer Foundation gives me a chance to ensure that a few kids whose families may not otherwise be able to afford it

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What: Jewish Girls Gone Wild: A Memoir of Skokie, Scottsdale & the Seventies book release When: 2-3:30 p.m. April 3 Where: The Jewish Community Center in Scottsdale, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road Cost: $5 for non-members.

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What: “Whitney Wins Everything” Picture Book Launch Party When: 10 a.m. to noon April 9.

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Teen business owner achieves big distinction

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t 16, Dylan Capshaw has achieved a dream and, in the process, a national distinction.

The Scottsdale teen is the youngest person to open a brick-and-mortar store.

He achieved a long-held dream on March 19 as he opened Stemistry in the plaza on 90th Street and Via Linda, where he sells �lowers and runs a coffee bar.

Dylan has started nonpro�it organizations like The Dylan Capshaw Wildlife Foundation, For The Frontline – which 3D prints face shields and face masks for �irst responders – and The Sanitation Station, whose vending machines dispense pandemic gear like wipes, gloves and masks, His business was �irst titled GardenMisc and started online in April 2020.

“It exploded, I had so many orders,” Dylan recalled. “I started selling other things like olives off our olive tree and cutting our landscaping to ship it out.”

He began saving then began saving his pennies from his new business and building relationships with local �lower producers and selling their products through his booming online platform.

But he wanted more.

“It’s always been a dream to have a storefront,” Dylan said. “I started saving every penny I made and two years later, after shipping �lowers to every state and four countries, I had the money and some locations in mind.”

With his parents’ blessing, Dylan began working up a business plan that included

Dylan Capshaw was busy last weekend as he opened his new business, Stemistry, in Scottsdale. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer)

both �lowers and coffee.

“When I was 12,” he explained, “all I wanted for Christmas was an espresso machine so my parents bought me one but with the condition that I couldn’t drink any coffee until I turned 13. I started making drinks for my parents or would dump them out until I turned 13 when I could taste them.”

With talents honed on his espresso machine, Capshaw began working on the other part of his business plan – having customers make their own �loral arrangements while they sipped housemade beverages.

“My goal for this is to offer an experience where people sit down for an hour, build a bouquet, try our coffees and make an evening of it.” he said. “I set up all of my �lowers to where they are for sale by the stem

where clients pick a bucket, write down what they pick and �ill it themselves.”

However, he needed a catchy name.

“I was sitting in chemistry class thinking of a name and how to combine stems, �lowers and coffee when I thought of Stemistry,” the sophomore at Rancho Solano Preparatory School said. “The second I thought of the name, I knew that was the name that would work.”

“I looked everywhere but when a lot of Realtors found out my business model and age, they weren’t interested,” he said.

And in �inally �inding a place, Dylan stumbled on one that’s at the midpoint between his home and Rancho Solano, which he attends weekdays from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

People who applied for a job at Stemistry had varying reactions when they met their potential boss.

“Most of the applicants didn’t ask me my age but some people weren’t comfortable having a boss that young and I understand that but I think it’s good to be openminded,” Dylan said.

He also admits there have been kinks he has had to work out as someone who has never been a supervisor.

“It’s tough because I’ve never had a job where I was managed by someone else and now, I’m managing a whole staff but during the two-week soft launch we did prior to our grand opening I’ve learned a lot,” he said.

“The biggest lesson I’ve learned is to not over-expand at once,” Dylan said. “I come in thinking that I want to have a big sign and a big royal table. I’ve had to learn to start with a good set budget.”

He also asks his staff for input on his decisions.

“Every day I come in and move things around but I always ask my staff for their opinion because the only way to grow is by picking other people’s brains and growing with other people on board. I’m so thankful to have the staff that I have.”

Dylan hopes that he has set an example by showing people that age should not be a stumbling block to achieving one’s dreams.

And he sometimes is amused by the reaction of customers who learn how old he is.

“I’ll be in here and people will ask for the owner,” he said. “When I tell them I’m the owner, they’re always shocked and ask me my age.”

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Phoenix Film Fest starts this week at Harkins

BY CONNOR DZIAWURA Progress Staff Writer

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Oh, here we go again,” the Phoenix Film Festival’s Jason Carney remembers thinking leading up to last year’s event.

Delayed from its usual spring setting to late summer, he said the annual festival came right as concerns were mounting due to the COVID-19 delta variant.

Thankfully, the event performed well — better, in fact, than the previous year’s event, which had itself been delayed and dissected into a smaller version of itself amid the pandemic’s early waves.

Carney, the festival director, is similarly hopeful for this year’s 22nd annual Phoenix Film Festival, which returns to its usual spring setting at Harkins Scottsdale 101 from Thursday, March 31, to Sunday, April 10. The International Horror & Sci-Fi and

The Phoenix Film Festival Kids’ Day puts families on the red carpet. (Jennifer Mullins)

Arizona Student film festivals are once again tied in.

This year’s diverse lineup is projected to include more than 200 works spanning local, national and international productions, plus appearances from guest filmmakers.

Audiences will be able to see films from all over the world compete for awards.

Films range from feature length to shorter projects, encompassing mediums and genres like live action, animation, narrative stories, documentaries and college productions – or, “kind of a little bit of everything,” as Carney puts it. The inclusion of the annual International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival lends credence to genre pictures.

Highlights, according to Carney, include director Dan Mirvish’s Watergate thriller/

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Famed Austrian artist’s works come alive

BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer

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hen Massimiliano Siccardi began developing the idea for immersive art experiences beginning with Vincent Van Gogh, he had two other artists in mind to follow the famed painter.

Siccardi felt the best way to captivate the next generation of art enthusiasts was to feature the world of Gustav Klimt and Frida Kahlo.

While some markets have gotten to immerse themselves in the works of all three artists, Scottsdale is next for a show on the works of Klimt.

“The idea comes from Massimiliano Siccardi,” said Richard Ouzounian, a creative consultant at Lighthouse Immersive. “For him, the trilogy was Vincent Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt and Frida Kahlo because he felt they were all revolutionary artists in totally

Patrons can enjoy Gustav Klimt’s works in a different way at Lighthouse Immersive in Old Tonw. (Special to the Progress)

different ways.”

The revolution surrounding the works of Klimt was so noteworthy that the show itself had to be named “Immersive Klimt:

Revolution.”

The show begins with patrons walking through a tunnel where interesting facts penned by Ouzounian meet historic pho-

tographs of Vienna, Austria, the setting for Klimt’s story.

In 1897, there was a stirring of revolution coming through music, literature, architecture and psychology.

“What I found fascinating about the revolution, or the Vienna Secession as it’s referred to, happened through the artists,” Ouzounian said. “That to me is strange since most revolutions come from political movements, social movements, writers or even theater.

“In this case, Klimt and his colleagues decided the old ways had had and they wanted a new way of thinking, feeling and a new way of expressing, which wound up leading a whole movement that changed everything.”

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Philharmonic presents live, online concert today

BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer

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fter re-emerging from the pandemic, the Scottsdale Philharmonic has continued to roll forward with live streaming performances to keep people together during the times they felt the most separated.

“Live streaming is excellent but the live performances are so much better because you can feel the energy of the audience,” said Scottsdale Philharmonic co-founder Joy Partridge.

After testing the waters over the summer with a scaled-down show with a decreased crowd capacity and smaller orchestra, the Philharmonic struck a deal in October with the City of Scottsdale to fill the walls of the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts with its lavish sound.

“The Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts is a beautiful auditorium that is very intimate and pleasant to be in,” Partridge said.

However, there was one downfall to the venue for the Scottsdale Philharmonic: It can’t seat enough people as the orchestra has played for as many as 1,600 people at a time.

“In October, we decided the best thing to do was to become partners with the City of Scottsdale as an orchestra and perform in the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts,” Partridge said. “The problem was that the venue only holds 853 seats.”

So, the Philharmonic decided its best course of action was to live stream the performance.

“We decided that we would develop a live streaming platform, so that at 4 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, people could go to our website and hear the whole concert for free at their home,” Partridge said.

The orchestra’s next concert is at 4 p.m. today, March 27, at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts.

“All of us are so happy to be playing again and seeing an audience again has been great,” Partridge said. “We’re just really thrilled to be back on stage.”

But the concert isn’t free; tickets are $15.

“We have to reserve that seat and we have to sell it for something in order to guarantee spectators get a seat,” Partridge said. “There was one time we did this for free and we had to turn so many people away and that was something we didn’t ever want to do again.”

The concert will feature music from

composers such as Mozart, Chopin and Beethoven as well as award-winning symphonic and operatic guest conductor Dmitry Polyakov from Moscow conducting. “(Polyakov) is a young, up-and-rising conductor that is going to be a celebrity conductor someday in our country,” Partridge said. “He’s so filled with passion and brings that out.”

“We have this interesting, eclectic group within our organization,” Partridge said.

“We have world-renowned scientists, doctors, lawyers, anything and everything that comes together and enjoys music.”

Because of that, Partridge feels the orchestra will take the audience on a spiritual journey.

“We do feel that we’re providing beautiful classical music to anyone who really loves classical music either at home or in the auditorium,” Partridge said. “Music is spiritual and when you’re performing something great like Beethoven’s third in a rehearsal of two hours, you’re in pure pleasure playing.”

Although this marks second of three performances for the Scottsdale Philharmonic this year, Partridge hopes to repeat its last show, which received a standing ovation so powerful that it still brings a tear

Starting college at age 16, Simon is a chiropractor in Scottsdale. So, to run Dance Fusion smoothly, she hired the best in the business for Dance Fusion.

“I found a dance studio eight years ago that had adult classes,” she said. “I went for a year and the studio closed. People were heartbroken when the studio closed.

I didn’t want to let this go. So, within 90 days, Dance Fusion was created.”

When Simon renovated the studio, an old karate dojo, she was touched by the outpouring of support. More than $18,000 worth of wood was donated to her.

“It was a miracle, miracle of miracles that helped us get this place together,” she said.

“Dancers are a very loving community.

I’ve never seen anything like this. Dance Fusion has been a labor of love since the very beginning.

“Other studios shuttered, so people relo-

cated to attend Dance Fusion. That’s how we’ve expanded. It’s been phenomenal.

It’s been like a miracle. We have this great artwork in the studio. It’s all about love and joy. That’s what dance is — love and joy.”

Dance Fusion Teen Division/Dance Fusion Youth Academy is a noncompetitive developmental dance program for teens and youth. It takes a different approach.

“Most of the dance studios have a similar business model, where the kids come in really, really hungry and they pick the ones who are dancers and get them into competitive programs,” she said.

“The kids are competing every single year. With the competition schedules, there’s no time to dance during the summer.”

Teachers and students told Simon that

to Partridge’s eye when she recollects the moment.

She also hopes that the next performance satisfies the goal of the Scottsdale Philharmonic.

“The preparation for us is to satisfy the mission to always bring beautiful classical music to anyone who wants to hear it,” Partridge said.

If you go

What: Scottsdale Philharmonic When: 4 p.m. Sunday March 27 Where: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, 7380 E. Second Street Cost: Ticket Donations are $15 Info: scottsdalephilharmonic.com or call 480-499-8587. All attendees age 12+ will need proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken within 72 hours of the event start time or show their vaccination card. The online show can be accessed for free at the orchestra’s website.

Dance Fusion celebrates the artform

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r. Linda Simon grew up watching musicals starring Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

“My parents were huge dance and musical theater fans,” she said. “Growing up in New York City, we would go to Broadway shows three to five times a year.”

Simon was inspired by her mother who saved every Playbill from the Broadway shows she attended in the 1950s. Simon’s love of her mother and musicals is reflected in Dance Fusion, a Scottsdale dance, fitness and yoga studio for adults, at 7601 E. Gray Road, Suite B-C. “I took 25 of the best Playbills and made a collage back in my studio,” she said.

Simon does not have formal dance training but took jazz and tap classes with Fred Kelly at Pace University in New York City.

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was doing the �irst psychoanalysis, Klimt developed a new way of looking at art and architecture.

Klimt’s works were somewhat controversial at the time and he fought a considerable number of censorship battles throughout his life.

Siccardi also wanted to display the cultural struggle that occurred during Klimt’s career, which is why he decided feature the works of Klimt’s protege.

“Massimiliano wanted to show part of

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the cultural struggle that was going on so he added one other painter, Egon Schiele,” Ouzounian said. “When Klimt and Schiele started out, one was perceived as the angel of light and the other was the angel of darkness. Klimt was perceived as being this wonderful, warm, loving man and Schiele was a very dark, troubled young man who came from a horrible background and painted twisted self-portraits of himself.”

“Klimt kept working with him and as we get near the end, Schiele is painting more like Klimt and Klimt is painting a bit more like Schiele,” Ouzounian said.

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“One of the things I say is ‘If you parse any one of Klimt’s works in detail, you get a crash course in 20th century art,” he said. “‘you’ll �ind Picasso, Matisse, Monet, Pollock, Kandinsky and Rothko.”

Klimt’s works help people understand the time he lived through. He lived through a cultural revolution, World War I and the in�luenza epidemic of 1918 prior to his death of a stroke in 1918.

“There’s a recurring cycle of political struggle, pandemic, excess, and it keeps going,” Ouzounian said. “You can see that it’s a mega world where there are images that are possibly unsettling and distorted but the overall effect is that Klimt believed in beauty and art was something you cling to.”

For Siccardi, the musical score for the show had to aid in telling Klimt’s story.

“Luca Longobardi – who did the score for Immersive Van Gogh – uses a lot of Arnold Schoenberg since he was the artist of the time but he also has a David Bowie recording of ‘Helden’ – a powerful song with the lyric ‘we can all be heroes for just one day,’ which is what Klimt believed,” Ouzounian said.

The show concludes with techno music constructed by Siccardi himself and titled “MMXXI,” or 2021.

The show runs at just around 40 minutes

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“The studio started as adults only,” she added. “We do have the youth students.”

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“Dance Dance Fusion Revolution” celebrates the love of dance and video games.

It will feature numbers in ballet, tap, jazz, musical theater, hip-hop, Bollywood, gypsy folk, Indian classical, belly dance, contemporary and lyrical.

“This is a jam-packed show,” Simon said. “We have 36 routines. We’re also go-

and Ouzounian said, “It’s kind of a liberation.”

“You follow Klimt through most of Klimt’s life like you did with Van Gogh but at the end, it’s a sense of where did this all come from,” Ouzounian said.

Because of this, he encourages patrons to gain the full experience through revisiting the show, which they are allowed to do during their visit to Lighthouse Immersive Artspace in Scottsdale.

“I encourage people to view the show, go out to the lobby and look at the books and exhibits, then go back in so they’ll see something new,” he said.

Ouzounian also hopes the show sparks an interest in Klimt’s life and the history surrounding it.

“People who have not been weaned on Van Gogh or don’t really know who Klimt was will say ‘this guy is fascinating; I want to see more and I want to learn more.

That’s what we would like to see happen,” he said.

“If there’s anything people should learn, it’s that you shouldn’t pigeonhole an artist,” Ouzounian said. “ “Immersive Klimt: Revolution” will alternate with Immersive Van Gogh.

Information/tickets: immersiveklimt. com ing to livestream it so families on the east coast can tune in, and grandmothers and grandparents can watch their grandchildren dance if they want to. The showcase brings everybody together—other outside groups, different dance studios that have relationships with the academy.”

The show will serve as an outreach to the greater dance community, she said.

The lobby will have vendors selling items like dancewear and jewelry.

“It’s a real fun environment,” she said.

“It’s a blast. Everybody who comes to the show gives such amazing feedback.”

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dark comedy “18 1/2” and the “wildly entertaining” documentary “The Pez Outlaw,” about a smuggling operation of rare Pez dispensers from Europe into the United States in the ’90s.

“You want to come to a festival and you don’t want to see a bunch of dramas or you don’t want to see a bunch of dark documentaries,” Carney said, emphasizing the variety.

“You want to be able to see some light stuff, too. And so it’s important for us to program some romantic comedies, you know what I mean?” he continued.

“There’s a place for that, and you want to lighten up; you want to have an enjoyment of your day.

“You’re going to see these powerful,

“You’re going to see these powerful, amazing performances of trauma, but like, hey, let’s cleanse our palette and see something that’s going to make us laugh or see a documentary that’s going to raise awareness or just give us a good feeling.”

amazing performances of trauma, but like, hey, let’s cleanse our palette and see something that’s going to make us laugh or see a documentary that’s going to raise awareness or just give us a good feeling.”

The recent Unified by Film category, on the other hand, has been rebranded and expanded as Community Spotlight – showcasing the diversity of filmmakers from the African American, Latinx, Native American, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and LGBTQ+ communities.

The idea, Carney said, is to work with and promote nonprofits in those communities to create opportunities and raise awareness of the issues they face, while also giving those communities the opportunity to see films with their same world view.

“It’s nice to see yourself represented on screen in some regard or at least getting that vision and having that commonality with the director of films,” Carney said.

The Arizona Student Film Festival is set for Saturday, April 9. The annual competi-

tion screens short films created by grade school and high school students, with one high school winner to receive a $1,000 scholarship.

“It’s always a fun day at the festival that Saturday morning,” Carney said. “It’s just exciting to see not only have the opportunity for these young filmmakers to have their films on the screen, we get to see the family, their parents, their siblings, their grandparents, they’re all there and they’re all supportive. It’s just such a great feeling and we’re just really proud of that program for sure.”

Notable this year, beyond films, is more of an emphasis on the social aspect that had been reduced the past couple festivals.

While last year’s audience was not the size it had been just a few years back, Carney said it “set the tone for us just kind of moving forward and setting us up for hopefully an even bigger comeback this year with the return of our Party Pavilion, which we haven’t been able to do since 2019.”

The opening weekend Party Pavilion, he said, is back with some changes aimed to ensure comfortability and openness. Highlights are the Opening Night cocktail party; Friday’s Industry Night, which Carney calls “the biggest networking event of the year for the state”; and the Saturday night Film Prom.

“It’s kind of fun to intermingle that with so many great films we play,” Carney said.

Free educational filmmaker panels will also be set up in the theater on each weekend. Plus, there’s the free Kids’ Day the first Saturday morning, April 2, another opportunity for connection and education.

“We try to do a whole thing where it’s different parts of the filmmaking so it’s educational and fun, and it’s a wide enough variety so they can kind of go from station to station without waiting forever to do an activity,” he explains.

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4-GP-2021#2 (Pima McDowell General Plan 2035 Amendment) Request for a minor General Plan Amendment to the City of Scottsdale General Plan 2035 to change the land use designation from Mixed-Use Neighborhoods to Commercial on a +/- 7.22- acre site located 8705 E. McDowell Road.

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5-GP-2020#2 (Hawkins General Plan 2035 Amendment) Request for a minor General Plan amendment to the City of Scottsdale General Plan 2035 from Office to Commercial land use designation on the northern +/- 1.97 acres of an approximately +/- 3.53 gross acre site, located at the southwest corner of N. 114th Street and E. Shea Boulevard. Amending the 2035 General Plan land use map pursuant to Resolution 12255. All approved entitlements and stipulations on the property will remain as previously approved with case 8-ZN-2020 by Council. Staff contact person is Ben Moriarity, 480-312-2836.

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