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Campaign 2022 begins for Scottsdale Council BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer

NEIGHBORS............. 24 Scottsdale teen pens kids' book on poetry.

BUSINESS................... 27 No candles in the wind for Scottsdale shop.

ARTS...............................29 Arts District celebrates the season.

NEIGHBORS.......................................... 24 BUSINESS................................................27 ARTS............................................29 FOOD............................................ 31 CLASSIFIEDS............................... 31

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lection 2022 has officially begun in Scottsdale as seven candidates filed for three city council seats. Incumbents Kathy Littlefield and Solange Whitehead are looking to retain their seats while newcomers Pamela Carter, Barry Graham, Daniel Ishac, Tim Stratton and Raoul Zu-

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bia are also in the hunt. Council members are allowed three fouryear terms, which means Councilwoman Linda Milhaven is termed out. The Primary Election is scheduled for Aug. 2 and any seat not filled by a candidate who gets more than 50% of the vote then goes to the General Election ballot, when school board races also will be decided along with a number of statewide and legislative races. The crowd-

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ed ballot also is expected to include at least one proposed amendment to the Arizona Constitution and several referendum questions. There is no primary election for school boards and candidates for those positions filed between mid-June and mid-July. Here’s a look at the Scottsdale City Council candidates.

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BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer

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City’s sustainability director rolls up her sleeves BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer

cottsdale City Council identified the creation and implementation of a sustainability plan as a top priority during its recent retreat. That will be the job Scottsdale’s new sustainability director, Lisa McNeilly, who took her position March 14. “Right now, when I’m in the midst of these conversations, the challenges I’m most aware of is listening to the range of stakeholders and helping to distill all of those conversations into a plan that has broad support and that really does help get some clarity on what path we are going to take,” she said. Creating a sustainability plan can be a bewildering experience, McNeilly said. “Because sustainability can be so much, it can be very easy to get a plan that’s so big it’s hard to know where to start,” said McNeilly, who is hoping to create a city-wide sustainability plan by the end of the year. “I think one of our biggest challenges is narrowing down where we’re going to start with all of the things we can do.” There is energy conservation to consider – along with the use of renewable energy, water conservation, air quality…The list goes on and on. One area likely will take center stage early on is heat mitigation, McNeilly said. Scottsdale has a heat island in the southern half of the city, according to a three-year study by Arizona State University. Of the 20 hottest areas in metropolitan Scottsdale, 19 were located in the southern half of the city – specifically, a 4.2-mile, largely residential area south of McDowell and west of Hayden roads. Tree density in the area is approxi-

mately half in this area of the city’s greenest neighborhoods. But planting more trees would cool the area down but would also take more water, so there’s a trade-off there, McNeilly said. “In sustainability we are very conscious of the trade-offs,” she said. She noted there are other ways to mitigate urban heat. For instance, switching the color of walls, roofs, sidewalks and roads can cool down an area, she said. “We want to make sure we have a coordinated city-wide strategy that recognizes there are going to be some areas where we need to do more and there are going to be some areas where it may be harder to do what we need to do,” McNeilly said. “We need to make sure there are a lot of voices at the table as we identify and prioritize the steps to be taken.” And to do that, community forums will be scheduled. McNeilly holds a master’s degree in public policy from Princeton University and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. She has written on equity considerations for climate change and food policy in developing countries and volunteered for the national park service Condor Nest Watch Program, the Grand Canyon Trust and Canyonlands National Park. Most recently, McNeilly held a job in Baltimore that was similar to her current one, leading that city’s sustainability efforts and overseeing work on equitable climate action, floodplain management and community resiliency hubs. Previously, McNeilly was the director of sustainability at UC Berkeley, served as a program director for the Arizona chapter of The Nature Conservancy, managed sustainability and compli-

Lisa McNeilly ance at the Grand Canyon and directed international programs at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. “This Scottsdale position gives me a little bit more on the implementation side than what my role was in Baltimore,” she said. McNeilly said she’s been wanting to get back to Arizona since she left in 2008. “I’ve always really loved the state,” McNeilly said. “When I was here I really got a lot of time to hike, explore and enjoy the night sky. While I had moved on to other roles, in the last couple of years I have been thinking about where I wanted to end up and we knew it was back here in the Southwest, my husband and I. “At one point we said, if that’s where we want to be, why aren’t we there now? When this position came open I just couldn’t think of a better place than Scottsdale to work and continue public service and work for local government. I’m just so honored I’ve been given this opportunity.”

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shley Crose has always had a passion about teaching youngsters about the Holocaust and genocide, but he got an idea about how to do it when he visited the Martin Springer Institute at NAU about eight years ago. Crose, a Saguaro High School teacher the last 19 years, put a curriculum together, got permission from the Scottsdale Unified School District Governing Board and launched the class this year. “A lot of people, when it comes to the Holocaust and genocide studies, think it’s about death and you’re talking about death and destruction and bad things. But I wanted to bring it to my students with the aspect of teaching them empathy through learning about the Holocaust and bringing the human side to it,” he said. “It’s much more than just teaching them the numbers of 6 million Jews perished during the Holocaust. It’s more to teach the human stories behind it.” Those lessons are just as relevant for today’s high school students, he said. “It’s teaching empathy, it’s teaching antibullying, it’s teaching that choices have effects on others,” Crose said. The class, which had 14 students in the fall and 13 this semester, spends nine weeks each on the Holocaust and at other genocides, such as the Armenian genocide as well as those in Darfur and Rawanda. Crose was awarded the Shofar Zakhor Award by the Phoenix Holocaust Association this year for his work teaching the class. “Ashley’s committed to the study of the

holocaust in the schools as a way to help students understand the horrors of genocide and how not to let it happen again,” said Eva Flaster, Phoenix Holocaust Association board member and chair of the Yom HoShoah Commemoration, which celebrates the survivors of the Holocaust and the righteous who worked against it. The Shofar Zahkor award is for those who teach about the Holocaust. “Shofar” is Hebrew for a rams horn and “zahkor” means “memory.” “It’s not just against Jews,” Flaster said. “There is genocide, there is hate against many groups and that's something we need to work against.” She noted that racism is on the rise today across the nation. “I think there is a lot of division in this country and people are unnerved and then you look for scapegoats,” Flaster said. Crose’s class stands as a lesson of what can happen when racism takes hold in society. He starts by instilling a sense of selfawareness in his students and explained: “It’s very important early on to build an atmosphere of understanding among (the students) so that they feel comfortable in the class so they are able to share. We spend a lot of time on building identity. (They) identify as a group, identify as a student. What’s the identity of the school? What’s the identity of Scottsdale, Arizona? By building that kind of a self awareness, where they’re coming from, they can understand the survivors’ testimony that much more and the human condition that much more.” Crose, who is a fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, intro-

Ashley Crose duces his students to individual survivors through memoirs and in-person through Zoom calls. He tries to get as many different stories into the class as possible. “There’s not one single story to tell,” he said. “There’s all different aspects.” He even takes his students on a tour of the Auschwitz death camp with someone in Poland through Zoom. Crose said it is a great honor to win the Shofar Zakhor Award. “You have no idea,” he said. “When the Phoenix Holocaust Association called me last week, I didn’t know what to say. “I got goose bumps and the hair on my arms stood up. It’s a great honor to receive this. I can’t believe my name is being associated with some of the educators that are on this list. Understand, 54 holocaust survivors that are local won the award last year and to be mentioned in the same aspect as that, I am very taken back.”

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building housing a Scottsdale Arts District nature gallery and a real estate investment company recently sold for $1.22 million. Snowy Owl Investments LLC and Laurence Palestrant of Paly Nature Art and the Paly Foundation sold the building at 4251 N. Marshall Way to Nini Invest-

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victions in March in Maricopa County hit a 10-year high for March but the pace of those legal actions is still 9% behind pre-pandemic 2019. “There has been a gradual increase in eviction filings since the CDC Order expired last August,” said Scott Davis, public information director for the Maricopa County Justice Courts. “This is what the Maricopa County Justice Courts expected all along, despite dire predictions of a so-called ‘tsunami.’” Still, Davis said, the 4,700 eviction cases filed in March meant “this was the busiest March we’ve had in a decade.” A group of faculty and student researchers at Princeton University offered more analysis of eviction trends in the county in their blog, evictionlab.org. Confirming that “eviction filings in Maricopa County fell sharply in April 2020 and have remained below historical averages,” evictionlab.org reported last week that a fifth of all eviction filings

since the pandemic began have involved just 10 buildings. Of those, eight are in Phoenix and one each are in Mesa and Cave Creek, it said. The eviction trends come at a time when rents continue to rise in the county at record rates. Rent.com reported that nationally, year-over-year in February, rents nationally had increased 7.8% for single-family houses, 24.4% for one-bedroom apartments and 21.8% for twobedroom units. Rent.com is run by redfin, a Seattle-based real estate brokerage. The overall annual increase in rent between 2020 and 2021 in Arizona was a staggering 49.4% for a one-bedroom unit and 45% for a two-bedroom apartment, according to the website. For one-bedroom apartments, rent.com said, Chandler and Mesa had the second-highest and 10th-

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nancial issues, rising inflation and a lack of rental options forced many renters to stay in their current homes,” it said. “A competitive housing market prevented other renters from becoming home buyers. That strained the apartment supply even more.” It also said the latest vacancy rate of 5.6% isn’t too far away from the lowest rate in history – 5%, which has occurred only in seven quarters since the Census Bureau started tracking that rate in 1956. For comparison, the highest vacancy rate in history nationally was 11.1%, which occurred in 2019 when the Great Recession sparked widespread foreclosures and empty houses.

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DAR Chapter rededicates Scottsdale K-9 monument

he 173-member Grand Canyon Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution recently rededicated the K-9 monument at the Scottsdale Police Headquarters. Terri Mott, honorary state regent and chapter regent led the rededication ceremony with Stephanie Troth, honorary state and chapter regent; and Jean Howell, honorary chapter regent; Chapter Regent Karen Andrews and Scottsdale Police Chief Jeff Walther. Scottsdale K-9 teams joined the ceremony, in which Chapter Chaplain Yvonne Savage presented the invocation and Amy Casaldi led the Americans Creed. “Our chapter was organized here in Scottsdale almost 40 years ago,” said chapter member Terri Mott said. “We commissioned and dedicated the marker 10 years ago as a visible and lasting tribute to the service of the Scottsdale Police Department K-9

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operated by DraftKings. TPC officials plan on having the new facility open for the 2023 Superbowl, which will be in Glendale in February. Councilwoman Kathy Littlefield cast the lone vote against the permit, arguing that it “requires this be reasonably compatible with the surrounding area. “I do not see this as reasonably compatible with the surrounding area, nor do I see it as an improvement of the quality of life for the existing residences who live nearby, she said. “In fact, it might very well be a taking from their quality of life especially if their streets are filled up with cars that are parking along the sides.” She noted, “It’s unfortunate that this new building is very close to an existing neighborhood and a large park and children’s sports facilities. You are asking for seating for 400, according to what I read in the application, with 122 parking spaces. At two people per car say 250, that’s 150 people without parking spaces as it fills up as they assume it will … Where will the overflow of cars park? In front of the houses, on the street? Public parking lots that are supposed to be used for park use and children who come to play their games at the facilities? Is the city now providing free parking for a gambling house?” The site lies across Bell Road from a city-owned soccer field complex. Councilman Tom Durham also raised some concern that he only counted 114 parking spaces on the site but the architect of the facility confirmed there will be 122 spaces. That appeased Durham. Jordan Rose, an attorney representing the PGA, noted the PGA is providing a High-intensity Activated crossWalK (HAWK) on Bell Road, paying for a traffic study and is providing a tree-lined buffer on the east side of the property, the side of the property closes to the nearby Montana del Sol condominium complex. She also noted the building’s outdoor patio will be on the west side of the building – the opposite side of the building from the condominiums, which are 208 feet from the building. She said no DJ or live bands will be allowed to perform on the patio. “The PGA has a world class reputation just as Scottsdale does for luxury,” Rose said, adding that the sportsbook will only take up about 18% of the new building.

“It’s really a restaurant for people who are sports enthusiasts,” Rose said. Councilwoman Linda Milhaven said she was excited to see the new facility and was sure it will be a “world class” facility. “The PGA has been a wonderful partner with the City of Scottsdale and we’re very excited,” Milhaven said. Vice mayor Tammy Caputi echoed Milhaven’s sentiments, telling Rose and her clients, “Thank you for being a great partner.” Councilwoman Solange Whitehead said, “I appreciate the HAWK and the traffic study so I will be supporting this.” There was no public opposition to the project. In fact, two people spoke in favor of the project. Tom Higginbotham said his daughter plays soccer at the nearby soccer fields and it would be “nice to have somewhere we can just cross the street and grab a burger.” Ed Grant said, “One of the things I think we’ve done here in Scottsdale very well is as we grow, we’ve paid attention to our past and we’ve grown intelligently. In this case the city has made a significant investment in infrastructure in the form the TPC and the Scottsdale soccer complex. One of the things we hope to see with that of course is private investment and that’s exactly what this is.” The permit request was approved by the Scottsdale Planning Commission 5-1 last month, with commissioner Barney Gonzales the lone vote against it. With operating hours from 9 a.m. to midnight, Gonzales worried the noise might disturb the neighboring condominium complex. The Tournament Players Club Scottsdale was built in the 1980s on a mix of lands owned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Scottsdale. The city, which uses the federal portion of the property through a Recreational Land Use Agreement, utilized its 50-year lease with the PGA Tour in 1984 to build the golf complex. Under the lease, the city is entitled to 12.5% of all golf-related revenue on site and two percent of all food, beverage and pro shop sales. The lease will be amended to give the city a 2% cut of all sportsbook revenues, though there are no projections yet on what that number might be. Additionally, the city could receive a

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is why he sought and won appointment to the city Board of Adjustment. However, after watching council in action, Ishac said he became convinced his skill set would serve the city well. Ishac’s platform includes making sure the city’s finance remain strong for the next 15 years, maintaining open space, planning for a dwindling water supply and continuing to ensure residents and tourists feel safe in Scottsdale.

good for the city, what’s good for the area and what do the residents say about it where the development is going in,” she said.

possible projects built and has protected the preserve and neighborhood character. She sees energy and water conservation as well as mitigating the heat island on the south side of the city as top priorities for the next four years. “It really matters who’s in City Hall. It matters who has the confidence and ability to get things done,” she said. “It’s not just about good intentions.”

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Pamela Carter Carter describes herself as a television host with IBTV television by trade. After working on the Trump campaign and the audit of the 2020 general election, Carter said she felt God calling her to run for office. On her website Carter said she opposes the development projects that Council has approved. “We’re a city of people, relationships, families, not developers,” she said in a video on her website. “I want to keep Scottsdale, Scottsdale. I want it to be a city with a small town feeling and big city flare.” She declined to give her age. Barry Graham Graham, 37, is a certified public accountant and his campaign slogan is “Putting Residents First.” He describes himself as “residentfriendly and tourism-friendly” and feels like the current council is not listening to the residents. The Greenbelt 88 apartment complex is a case in point for Graham. Council voted 5-2 to approve the rezoning of the mixed-use development near the intersection of Hayden and Osborn roads despite what Graham said was numerous letters opposing the move. Until recently, Graham was a member of the city’s Planning Commission and also chaired the city Transportation Commission and Building Advisory Board of Appeals.

Daniel Ishac Ishac, 57, is a retired actuary and human resources consultant and said he promised himself when he retired he would give back to his community. That

Kathy Littlefield Littlefield, 73, is a retired computer business owner seeking her third term on council. She is running on a platform of protecting neighborhoods from what she sees as harmful development, defending Scottsdale’s special character, approving conservative fiscal policies, promoting tourism and small business, and above all, supporting public safety to protect residents and neighborhoods. Littlefield has been a consistent vote opposing what she sees as harmful development. For instance, she and Mayor David Ortega were the lone votes against the Greenbelt 88 project. “The main determinant I ask is, what’s

Tim Stratton Stratton, 48, is a municipal finance attorney and a former chair of the city Board of Adjustment and city Industrial Development Authority. He supports the formation of neighborhood councils to help inform council members and promises to respect, listen, and vote on behalf of residents. He also promises to make himself accessible to all residents and treat everyone with respect and dignity. He feels the city can do better budgeting for expenses such as roads and police. He also wants to keep Scottsdale’s brand relevant in order to keep tourism alive and thriving in the city. Solange Whitehead Whitehead, 60, is a retired electrical engineer seeking her second term on council. She says she has “fundamentally changed development in the city” by bargaining with developers to get the best

Raoul Zubia Zubia, 61, is a process consultant and life long resident of Scottsdale. “I love this city, I love the charm, the beauty, I want to make sure it stays Scottsdale,” Zubia said. He wants to ensure the police and fire departments remain funded at necessary levels, stating, “They are the ones that keep us safe.” He also wants to ensure small businesses have a voice on council because “a lot of times they feel left out, they don’t feel like they are heard.” To register to vote, visit recorder.maricopa.gov. Residents must be registered to vote by July 5, to vote in the primary and by Oct. 11 to vote in the General Election.

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Public can join Scottsdale 20/30 Club Olympiad BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer

gents Benefiting Children and Brokers For Kids are set to square off in another day of fun in the sun when the 20/30 Club Olympiad returns on Friday April 15. The 20/30 Club, which helps nonprofits around the state that support the needs of children and provide leadership opportunities, hopes to raise over $750,000 to benefit Boys Hope Girls Hope and The Care Fund as well as other charities. “I think that with the pandemic and the economy shutting down for a while, it was hard for a lot of organizations that rely on events and fundraisers to fund their missions,” said Trent Hancock, the co-chair of the Olympiad and the marketing vice president for Camelot Homes. “Going a year plus without being able to hold an event where we could bring people together puts them in a precarious position which is why we are going

The 20/30 club’s annual Olympiad is set to return on Friday, April 15, and that’s great news for nonproﬁt organizations across the state. (Special to the Progress)

out and championing these causes to bring those funds in on their behalf.” Although Hancock is passionate about the causes this year’s organizations support. “Boys Hope Girls Hope is an organization that we’ve been working with

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A family’s plight fails to bridge partisan divide BY PAUL MARYNIAK Progress Executive Editor

wice in the last two months, Kendra Riley appeared before legislative committees to implore for the passage of a bill that she feels could ease the burden for parents who endure the heartbreaking ordeal that befell her family in March 2020. The Ahwatukee mom had appeared on behalf of SB1163, – promoted by the Goldwater Institute as the “Right to Try 2.0.” It would give parents the right to obtain individualized experimental treatments in this country instead of forcing them to do what Kendra and her husband David had to do two years ago: Spend more than $500,000 to go to Italy to try to save two daughters’ lives. But her plea fell on Senate Democrats’ deaf ears. But her plea fell on deaf ears where Senate Democrats were concerned, except for Ahwatukee Sen. Sean Bowie and Yuma Sen. Lisa Otondo – who broke ranks with their caucus and were the only two members to vote in favor of the bill. One other Democrat, Tempe Sen. Juan Mendez didn’t vote – nor did Republican Sens. Kelly Townsend of Mesa and Michelle Rita-Ugenti of Scottsdale. While SB1163 passed 16-11-3 on Valentines Day and two weeks later was recommended for approval by two House committees – where only Republicans again voted for it – it has yet to come up for a final floor vote. The Rileys’ plight is the genesis for Right to Try 2 – which, if passed, would make Arizona the first state to go beyond the similar but more limited Right To Try law that Congress passed and President Trump signed in 2018. Arizona and 40 other states have adopted similar laws. The Rileys’ ordeal began in March 2020 – just as the pandemic was starting to grip Arizona and the rest of the world. The couple had far bigger worries than COVID-19: Their 2-year-old daughter Olivia had difficulty walking. An odd vibration developed in the iris of one eye. Tests subsequently confirmed Olivia had metachromatic leukodystrophy

At 3 years of age, Olivia Riley of Ahwatukee is in hospice care as the result of a very rare terminal brain disease. Her mother, Kendra Riley, appeared before state Senate and House panels in February and March to press for the Legislature’s passage a bill making it easier to seek experimental treatments for diseases like Olivia’s. But aside from Ahwatukee Sen. Sean Bowie, Senate and House Dems ignored her pleas. (Courtesy of the Goldwater Institute)

a daily basis, she is now in hospice care. Children with MLD typically aren’t expected to live past 6.

Kendra Riley appeared on Feb. 2 before the Senate Health and Human Services Committee to tell her heartbreaking story as the mother of two daughters with a terminal brain disease. (Arizona Legislature video)

(MLD), a rare genetic brain disease that has no cure as it destroys the protective fatty layer surrounding the nerves in the central nervous system, aggressively taking away motor function and other abilities. Within 90 days of her first symptoms, Olivia could no longer walk or talk. Subjected to moderate to severe pain on

More alarming news The Rileys’ heartbreak only worsened after that. Neither devastated parent knew they were carriers and so they had their two other daughters tested. And while their eldest daughter Eva is a carrier and not affected by the disease, the tests showed their 6-month old daughter Keira also had MLD. The Rileys found that only one medical facility in the country, located in Iowa, offered a treatment program for Olivia. “It wouldn’t cure the disease” Kendra told the Senate Health and Human Services Committee Jan. 13 on behalf of a bill introduced by West Valley Sen. Nancy Barto. “It would require weekly trips for us from Phoenix to Iowa,” Kendra continued. “So we were doing that every single week during the pandemic with her just to try and get as much time with her as we could with her.” Meanwhile, an advocacy group offered the Rileys some hope for their baby: A medical facility in Milan, Italy, had developed a gene treatment that

showed great success with children who had MLD but had not yet developed symptoms. A team of doctors in Milan told Kendra that Keira could be the 31st kid in the world to have this treatment. “Kids that have had this treatment in the past – they’ve only been doing this for a decade – are now 11 and 12 and living completely normal lives. So they’re walking, they’re talking, they’re good playing soccer and going to school and you never know they have MLD.” “We could have had everything done here, but it wasn’t in place,” Kendra continued. And so, she said, “We had to raise a half a million dollars. We had a month to do so. We had to get passports for the girls, visas for the girls. We had to move Olivia’s clinical trial to a site in Amsterdam. And we needed my parents to come with us.” Thanks to the generosity of family, friends and especially the Ahwatukeebased Armer Foundation for Kids and the Desert Foothills Credit Union Foundation, the Rileys raised the money and stayed in Milan for six months as their infant received treatment at the San Raffaele-Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy. “I’m very happy to say she’s advanced for her age. She’s walking, she’s talking, she’s running, she’s climbing,” Kendra said, her voice cracking with emotion. “It’s amazing. It’s things Olivia could never have the chance to do.” “So I’m here today in support of this bill because if it were in place, and we were going through this right now, we would get this treatment for cure and we’d be here. We wouldn’t have to raise hundreds of 1000s of dollars, leave our jobs and our family and our friends and go halfway around the world during a global pandemic to save our daughter’s life.” Now, a Minnesota clinic is providing the same kind of individualized treatment that has made Keira, now 2, able to do “all these things that we never got to see Livvy do. “And Livvy is now enrolled in hospice

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Freeway bottlenecks top MAG transit priorities BY KEN SAIN Progress Staff Writer

ounty transportation planners anticipate developing a rapid-bus route between Scottsdale Fashion Center and its Chandler counterpart. During a presentation to the Chandler Chamber of Commerce two weeks ago, Audra Koester Thomas, transportation planning program manager for the Maricopa Association of Governments, outlined a series of bus and highway projects the agency is planning over the next few years. The rapid-bus route between Chandler Fashion Center and Scottsdale is one of two new such routes the agency plans to bring to the region, with the other going from downtown Chandler to Mesa. Thomas said the Chandler-Scottsdale line will improve access in a number of ways. “The purpose of the route is more about connecting Chandler, Scottsdale and Tempe residents with downtown Tempe/ASU and downtown Scottsdale, along with a connection to either mall at the north/

and Scottsdale roads. A key to addressing all those priorities is voters passing an extension to Prop. 400, a half-cent sales tax dedicated to addressing the region’s transportation needs. It will likely be included on this year’s ballot in November, although at this newspaper’s deadline, both chambers in the Legislature were considering a bill to put the tax on renewal on this year’s ballot. The current tax expires in 2025. Thomas said a lot of infrastructure has been built in East Valley since the 1980s and it has helped fuel the growth of Chandler to being Arizona’s fourth largest city. “That half-cent sales tax is what This chart illustrates a tentative plan for how the Maricopa Association of Governments, delivered this network that you working with state and municipal agencies, could divvy up projects for funding if the ½-cent see here,” Thomas said, saying there are other projects in the transportation tax renewal passes with voters. (MAG) works that will impact area comsouth end and the Chandler Fashion Cen- to light rail and other regional bus lines in muters. ter,” said Jason Crampton. “Additionally, the area.” the route will provide a faster connection That route would travel mostly on Rural see TRANSIT page 23

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and we just have to keep her as happy and comfortable as possible.”

About Right to Try 2 The 2018 federal Right to Try law gives families access to potentially lifesaving treatments for their children in the United States but under various conditions. The biggest condition is that the treatments must have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for large groups of patients. Even a Minnesota clinic now providing the same kind of treatment that Keira found in Milan must get special permission from the FDA on a case-bycase basis. “Patients now have the right to seek treatments that are safe enough to be used in clinical trials but remain under clinical evaluation for final FDA approval,” Naomi Lopez, Goldwater Institute director of healthcare policy, told the House Health and Human Services Committee March 14. She explained that even though such treatments might be considered “individualized,” the FDA requires they apply to large groups of people. “Today this law needs to be modernized to account for the rapid advancements in medicine, such as gene therapy, which aren’t covered under the original Right to Try law,” Lopez said. “That’s where Right to Try 2 comes in: Many of the medical innovations being pioneered today have made it impossible to take an individual’s genetic information and create a treatment for that individual person,” she continued, explaining: “The current clinical trial evaluation system – which was created more than half a century ago – isn’t keeping pace

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small bump in tax revenue, according to an economic study commissioned by the PGA Tour. A report by economist Elliot Pollack determined the sportsbook would contribute $2.8 million in annual tax revenue to the city, county and state, including $724,200 to Scottsdale. That total would account for a fraction of the city’s annual local sales tax haul, which can exceed $120 million.

with these modern medical advances. And the end result is that individualized treatment is still subject to the same clinical trial process as single treatments that are intended for hundreds or even thousands of patients. “And that doesn’t recognize how these new individualized treatments work. It’s a mismatch… Right to try for individualized treatments counts for new innovations and it helps get those innovations to the patients that need the most.” SB1163 has a number of safeguards and limits. It does not require a clinic to individualize treatment, nor require insurers to pay for it. It prevents the state from blocking patients from receiving it. For the most part, it exempts a provider of those treatments from lawsuits as long as “it complies with the law and has exercised reasonable care.” And it requires a very detailed explanation for the patient and their loved ones on the potential risks of the treatment. Still, “SB1163 is a game changer for families like mine and Kendra’s,” said Christine Hoffman, a member of the MLD Foundation who lost her daughter to the disease at age 8 in 2010. Testifying before the House committee, Hoffman said, “We have come so far in the last few years with gene therapy… The costs to take part in the treatment overseas are exorbitant and the logistics nearly impossible, especially if the family has other affected siblings that need to be taken care of at home. “Expanding the bill to cover individuals that need life-saving treatment like our daughters means that the treatments can be done in the States. We can remain surrounded by our support systems, including medical and therapy providers, family and friends. “Imagine being able to receive these potentially life changing treatments

The total economic impact of the project on the city economy is expected to be around a $47.1 million annually, according to the report. Gov. Doug Ducey signed a law last April giving 10 professional sports operators and 10 tribes the opportunity to acquire a sports betting license. The PGA and DraftKings announced plans for a sportsbook at the TPC Scottsdale golf club the day before the governor signed the new law. The new law permitting gambling in Arizona only allows for up to 20 sports

without having to leave our state, our kiddos and everyone with a rare disease deserve a fighting chance here at home. And this bill gives us that opportunity.” Democrats react There was no debate when the measure came to the Senate floor, but Democratic members of both the Senate and House Health and Human Services Committees gave different reasons why Kendra’s testimony failed to persuade them. Sahuarita Sen. Rosanna Gabaldon said Kendra’s “very compelling testimony” resonated with her because she has a child with an autoimmune disorder, “However, I still have questions. And I’m very torn with this bill because it’s something that could be really good, but there’s just not enough information,” Gabaldon said. “I’m gonna vote no today, but I’m gonna do my homework, I promise. And when it comes to the floor, my vote may change.” Her vote didn’t change on Feb. 14. Tucson Sen. Sally Ann Gonzales also thought Kendra and Hoffman gave “very compelling testimony,” but said, “We have had a lot of advances in the medical field. But sitting up here, we have to – we’re not doctors. And so it’s very hard to make these decisions up here." During the House Health and Human Services Committee hearing, Tucson Rep. Pam Powers Hannley asked Lopez how many patients have survived with experimental treatments under the 2018 Right to Try law. Lopez said she had no idea because the Biden administration has not finalized rules for a law passed four years ago. Lopez stressed both Right to Try measures “work in tandem with a clinical evaluation system. There is nothing being done that is random or that medical professionals would deem as unsafe.”

betting licenses in the state and TPC is the only site in Scottsdale that qualifies. In other business, Council unanimously approved the rezone of a .2 acre site with an office building on it near the intersection E. McKnight Avenue and N. 75th Street to allow a five-unit apartment building with nine parking spots. The planning commission voted 5-1 to recommend the council approve the request. The project had met with opposition from nearby neighbors in the past, but

A few minutes later, Powers Hannley said, “A phase one trial determines whether or not the drug is going to kill you. It doesn’t determine whether it’s going to work or not in any case. So this bill is a Right to Try bill but it’s also a ‘buyer beware bill’ in my opinion. “It will expand the types of experimental treatments that patients can try but it will also most likely increase the patient’s out-of-pocket medical costs because these treatments will not be covered by insurance for the most part. This is a consumer protection issue in my opinion. And with that, I vote no.” Scottsdale Rep. Kelli Butler noted that her mother has a brain cancer “and it’s awful and I’m sure you feel desperate and would like to have anything that you think might help. “I’m worried that this bill that we’re the first in the nation to contemplate an expansion like this. I’m worried that this is going to open a door to people who may not have the best intentions potentially, and that they will have the potential to really prey on people who are desperate.” “We have a clinical trial process for a reason because it’s a careful process,” Butler continued. “It is not fast enough. It should be faster, but this bill worries me. Also worrying is that I’m looking at who’s signed in support of this bill, the Goldwater Institute, the Republican Liberty Caucus, a bunch of individuals. “But I don’t really see anybody associated or at least identified as being a medical person who is signed in in support of this. And I think it could open a troubling door to potentially take advantage of people and so I vote no.” Bowie said he saw no reason to oppose the bill, adding that there had not been much discussion about it prior to the vote among his fellow Democrats.

they rescinded their opposition when the property owner agreed to put in the building’s covenants, conditions and restrictions that rentals on the site can be no shorter than 30 days. “There will not be short-term rentals here,” said Lauren Proper Potter, an attorney for the property owner. Councilwoman Betty Janik said “I really like the fact you worked with the neighbors to come up with a compromise. That is the model of what our community should always be.”

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EV fire districts raising alarm on money woes BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Progress Staff Writer

ikers, boaters, horseback riders and even BASE jumpers get into dangerous situations in the national forest just outside Mesa and just like in the city, emergency responders rush to the scene to help. While the EMTs who fish people off ledges and shock hearts in the backcountry have the same qualifications as rescuers inside town limits, there’s often a subtle difference: the words “fire district” rather than “fire department” are emblazoned on their uniforms and vehicles. The distinction between a fire department and fire district is not obvious, but local firefighters say it means a lot for access to resources. Fire districts are special taxing districts formed by voters to add fire and medical service in places where none exists – often in unincorporated communities or smaller cities and towns. They are funded by secondary property taxes and governed by local boards of directors. Fire departments, on the other hand, are part of a city or town government, and are funded from city coffers. In recent years, city budgets have benefitted from robust sales tax revenue and generous aid packages connected to the pandemic. Bryan Jeffries, president of the Professional Fire Fighters of Arizona, said fire districts have been missing out on the boom times while dealing with extra burdens. In the midst of COVID, climate change and economic growth, costs and calls for service are increasing while fire districts’ revenue is staying comparatively flat, slowly pushing some fire districts to the brink, he said. “Fire districts are in a total crisis. We have myriads of our fire districts out there that are running dangerously low staffing levels, and those staffing levels make a dramatic difference on response times,” Jeffries said. About 2,500 of Arizona’s 7,500 professional firefighters work for the state’s 154 fire districts. While smaller than the state’s municipal fire departments

Members of Superstition Fire and Medical District Station 263 include, from left, Capt. John Walka, Brady Harmon, Sophie Boukatch and Rob McMinn. (David Minton/ Progress Staff Photographer)

in terms of people and budgets, fire districts play an outsized role in responding to calls in rural areas where Arizonans go to play or travel. The Superstition Fire & Medical District, which covers 70 square miles east of Mesa and includes Canyon Lake, the Superstition Mountains and the U.S. 60 corridor, is feeling recent funding limitations. SFMD Chief John Whitney said his firefighters are “phenomenal,” but stunted budgets make it hard to hire and train firefighters and update facilities. “We have some facilities just in unacceptable shape in my opinion,” he said. Whitney previously served with the Scottsdale Fire Department, and he said the difference in resources between fire districts and municipal fire departments is “shocking.” “I would say the districts operate on the bare bones mentality” compared to municipal departments. “You miss out on a lot of the innovations of technology. It’s just a different context at the end of the day.” Jeffries blamed a combination of factors for what he views as today’s severe underfunding for Arizona’s fire districts. He noted that a referendum passed in 2012, Prop 117, capped increases in the taxable value of residential properties at 5% per year. The resolution passed when property values were still sitting near the bottom

of a dip following the Great Recession, Jeffries said, so fire district revenue has been anemic even as real estate values have boomed and service calls increased. Adding salt to the wound, he added, COVID brought extra hardship to fire districts, but they didn’t get direct relief. “Our districts got slaughtered by COVID, and unlike cities, received no federal relief at all,” he said. Some fire districts have gone to county governments for help covering extra COVID expenses, but not every district has gotten it. Whitney said his district has not received help from Pinal County yet for the $900,000 extra the district spent to meet the demands of the pandemic. “It’s the death by a thousand paper cuts,” Whitney said of increased costs and stagnant revenue. “Even with the housing market the way it is, I’ve heard of districts that have had decreases in their net assessed value. … It’s just constantly struggling just to maintain with the growth.” Fire districts have a few levers to pull to compensate for budget strains, including raising their property tax rates up to 3.25% and requesting bond approval for capital improvements. But advocates say if assessed property values stay low compared to a district’s demand for service, these measures provide limited help. After years of discouraging efforts to increase fire district funding, the Profes-

sional Fire Fighters of Arizona wants to put a .1% state-wide sales tax to fund fire districts on the next ballot as an initiative. Jeffries estimated the tax increase, which would sunset after 20 years, would net $150 million to $200 million annually for fire districts. Jeffries said the PFFA, which represents firefighters in both departments and districts, is going to bat for the fire districts “because we all work together, (and) as firefighters we care about our citizens regardless of what city or county they reside in.” PFFA filed an initiative petition with the Arizona Secretary of State in October, but Jeffries said the group hopes the Legislature will vote to put the measure on the next November ballot. “Thresholds to get on the ballot are so high,” Jeffries said of the 237,000 signatures needed to put the Arizona Fire District Safety Act on the ballot. “That is a tough, tough number to get to.” But the legislative route is not easy, either. Legislators are “less likely to pass a tax measure in an election year,” he said, but “when it comes to public safety, we think that politics should be pushed aside.” The measure, currently championed by Glendale’s Sen. Paul Boyer (District-20), received a boost last month when it passed the Senate’s Committee on Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs. At the March 21 hearing, Aimee Yentes, vice president of the Arizona Free Enterprise Club and vice mayor of Gilbert, argued against the legislature putting the sales tax on the ballot. Among her reasons, Yentes said there would be no oversight over how fire districts spend the new sales tax revenue other than their local boards. She viewed that as bad financial management and a taxation without representation issue. She also thought it was bad precedent to help fire districts create a new tax, and it might encourage other groups to try the same. Finally, she said the state legislature should reserve the power of taxation for Legislators, rather than the voters of Arizona through direct elec-

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teve Siegel, a volunteer with Meals on Wheels, walks back to his vehicle after delivering prepared food to an older homeowner who lives alone. “We’re the only contact that they have once a day,” Siegel said. “It assures them that they’re at least checked on daily, depending on how often they get their meals.” That daily contact gives volunteers critical insight into whether lonely clients are suffering health consequences. Meals on Wheels America and Arizona State University now are partnering on a study of the effect pets have on social isolation and loneliness, and how the meal service can expand its programs for pet owners. As more baby boomers pass retirement age, the problem will only grow. Nearly one-fourth of adults 65 or older are considered socially isolated, which can lead to loneliness and health risks, including higher rates of anxiety, depression and suicide, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Isolation robs people of important human interactions, said Aaron Guest, an assistant professor of aging with ASU’s Center for Innovation in Healthy and Re-

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Addressing bottlenecks on the Santan and Loop 101 freeways also is a high priority, she said. Another high priority is addressing the rush-hour bottleneck on the Loop 101 between U.S. 60 and the Red Mountain Freeway. “Finishing up the HOV lane, here out east of Chandler, around the Santan, so completing that freeway network,” she said. “Build out of the SR 24 (Gateway Freeway) and the southeast network.” The Arizona Department of Transpor-

silient Aging. “When we’re disconnected or isolated and don’t have people around us.” he said, “we kind of don’t have the benefits of things like touch, the ability to see someone else or the ability to debrief after an event.” Guest said pets help their owners feel less alone. Meals on Wheels America is a national association dedicated to addressing hunger and isolation among seniors. It supports Meals on Wheels programs across the country that provide services tailored to the needs and resources of their communities. Programs generally serve meals to adults 60 or older, and the cost ranges from free to full price. The organization also delivers pet food; cat litter; leashes and other supplies, including toys and treats, through its Meals on Wheels Loves Pets grant program. And it helps clients obtain temporary pet boarding, preventative veterinary care and grooming services. The study ASU is conducting builds upon previous research that Meals on Wheels America conducted with 415 clients with pets, which highlighted the extent of the human-animal bond. “For the first round of research we did, we found that about 70% of those surveyed lived alone, and this group reported

almost 100% that their pets bring happiness to their life,” said Morgan Hultquist, manager of the Meals on Wheels America Strategy and Impact team. The majority of respondents agreed that having a pet makes them healthier and feel less lonely. Hultquist said the previous study also revealed a need for pet assistance. “Meals on Wheels clients cited needing pet food, vaccinations and nail trims the most,” she said, adding that about 30% of those interviewed mentioned they sometimes ignore their personal needs to care for their pets. About half of the 415 clients also reported they had no one outside Meals on Wheels to help them with their pets. Hultquist said many of the Meals on Wheels community programs began offering pet services after seeing clients feed their pets portions of their home-delivered meals. The organization has distributed pet food donations to more than 350 local programs across the nation. Meals on Wheels America’s partnership with ASU will help expand its services for clients with pets. “I just think that those results are going to really complement our first round of research and give us additional insight into not only confirming things that we already knew, but also to add to continuing

to work,” Hultquist said. “To expand programming and make sure that we’re creating proper resources and technical assistance just through what we learned and to better support Meals on Wheels programs and their clients as well.” Researchers will survey 400 Meals on Wheels clients with and without pets. Questions for pet owners include whether the owner receives support from any professional service for their pet, has someone to drive their pet to the vet, and whether they have ever gone without personal care or necessities to provide for their pet. The survey also includes prompts that target the bond between animals and their owners. Respondents are asked whether they consider their pet a family member and whether their pet provides comfort or emotional support. The study results are expected by late spring or early summer, Hultquist said. Guest said the results will provide more insight into the human-animal bond and allow him and fellow researchers to provide a set of recommendations for national implementation. “I think we will see that pet ownership is protective in some ways, meaning that owning a pet will result in reduced rates of social isolation and reduced rates of, Guest said.

tation two weeks ago opened another four-lane stretch of SR 24 to help access Bell Bank Park in Mesa as well as some residential areas toward the south of the mega complex. Once all of SR 24 is completed, it’s also expected that Scottsdale residents will have a quicker access to the mammoth park because they will be able to jump on the Red Mountain Loop 202 freeway to connect with SR 24 for easier access to Bell Bank Park. The new section is part of ADOT’s $77 million project to build SR 24 as a divided

four-lane roadway between Ellsworth Road in Mesa and Ironwood Drive in Pinal County. The entire five-mile-long project is scheduled for completion later this year. Thomas said there’s not a lot more that can be done for U.S. 60 because the freeway’s footprint is maxed out. However, she said they will look at it to see if there are things that can be done to improve the flow of traffic. MAG officials asked community leaders for their transit wish list for the coming decades. The estimated cost for all of those more than 1,400 projects is $90 bil-

lion. They have worked up a plan that will be able to meet the region’s transportation needs through 2050 if voters approve the half-cent sales tax for another 25 years. That $36 billion plan includes: • 367 new freeway/highway miles; • 186 new HOV lane miles; • 1,300 new or improved arterial lane miles; • 45 new or improved traffic interchanges; • 12 new dedicated HOV lanes or system interchange DHOV ramps; • Nearly 12 miles of new light rail; • Nearly 37 miles of bus rapid transit; • Nearly 7 miles of new streetcar tracks;

in rural areas. The committee passed the resolution to add the Fire District Safety Act to the next initiative election with one member absent and another voting present, and the bill now heads to the Arizona House Rules Committee.

For Jeffries, the extra penny on a $10 meal is a good investment. “Not having adequate staffing has a dramatic impact on mortality” in fire and medical responses, he said, noting that fire districts play a role in battling wildland fires, which are a

growing hazard. “The math on our business just doesn’t work,“ he said. “No matter where you live in the state of Arizona, you likely travel through, visit, do business with, or have family in an area that’s covered by a fire district.”

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A Scottsdale teen pens children’s poetry book

ver since Camille Campbell learned how to write in the first grade, she has penned books. The 17-year-old Scottsdale teen has fond memories of writing short books and sharing them with classmates. “Seeing their positive reactions and excitement about the stories that I told made me inspired to continue sharing them,” she said. One assignment changed her perspective on writing almost entirely. “One day, I had a writing assignment where I wrote a poem in the shape of a fish. I was so proud of this shape poem

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that I wanted to continue writing poetry,” Camille said. Fast forward over a decade and Camille is revisiting her roots in poetry with an engaging children’s book titled “Her Poems: Women Poets Who Changed the World.” The interactive poetry book features the works of poets such as Amanda Gorman, Joy Harjo, Mary Oliver, Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho and offers activities for readers to create their own poems. Camille also made it a point to educate readers about the unique profiles of each poet.

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lthough he was excited to learn that an astronaut would be visiting his school on March 24, Gateway Academy senior Joseph Salomon was ecstatic when he was handed the aeronautical award by Sian Proctor, the first Black woman to pilot a spacecraft. Proctor also had a surprise for Joseph: An Inspiration 4 Challenge coin that flew in space. The gesture moved most of the room to tears. “There wasn’t a dry eye in the room,” said Gateway Academy cofounder and Executive Director Robin Sweet. Gateway Academy senior Joseph Salomon said Most of that emotion stemmed the school has helped him on a path toward a cafrom the journey that led to Jo- reer in aeronautics. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer) seph’s award. dynamics, making sure the structure will Joseph arrived at Gateway Academy hold up and making sure the rocket has around the seventh grade after bouncing enough thrust and isn’t too heavy,” from schools with what his parents considJoseph began assembling his first model ered sub-par special education programs. rocket in August 2020. The parents found Gateway Academy – a After 16 days of construction, he had a school devoted to “twice-exceptional stuliftoff and knew this was what he wanted dents” who are academically capable and to do for the rest of his life. diagnosed with a level 1 autism spectrum “It just flew up, deployed the parachute disorder. and the wind took it away,” he recalled, The school gave Joseph the perfect place admitting he is less interested in how high to find what he was passionate about. a rocket flies and more concerned about Around this time, Joseph became interperforming a safe landing. ested in space. He started launching modThat’s where he diverged from one of el rockets, using skills he learned through his heroes – former NASA engineer Homer more than 1,200 hours of playing a video Hickam — who trained the first Japanese game called Kerbal Space Academy , astronauts. “Kerbal Space Program, when you’re “He had a similar story as far as having learning, can be played as a game of trial a passion for space and then deciding to and error,” Joseph said. “You make a rocket and see what works in terms of the aerosee SALOMON page 26

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Scottsdale man embarks on coast-to-coast walk

BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer

evin Ericksteen, who owns Terroir Wine Pub in Scottsdale, was one of many bar owners most impacted by the pandemic. He had to close and when his staff did not return as he reopened, he went into rebuilding mode. The stress became so difficult to deal with, Ericksteen began drinking to cope with his depression – and in October 2020, he checked into a hospital with severe stomach pain. Ericksteen wound up two months ago at St. Joseph’s Hospital, where he was told he would need a new liver. Temporarily removing himself from the liver transplant list, he’s planning to walk to Charleston, South Carolina, to complete the 2,400-mile leg of a journey that began on the coast of California. Ericksteen’s truncated coast-to-coast journey is partly an effort to raise money for St. Joseph’s Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, partly to raise awareness for organ donation because April is National Donate Life Month and partly because the journey was something on the bucket list he developed after he first learned he needed a new liver. Since he was first told about the need to get a new liver, he started going to the gym and eating healthier after doctors told him that would help his chances of enduring the long wait for a new organ. “The more I worked out and the cleaner I ate, the better I was feeling and my medication was going well,” said Erickson, who began thinking of the coast-to-coast walk. “I asked doctors if there was any chance that I could get off the list for a new liver,” Erickson said. The doctors told him his liver was so damaged that was not likely. Nevertheless, Ericksteen persisted, going to the gym as often as four times a day and walking as much as 12 miles a day. His numbers continued to improve and for a moment it looked like a new liver had been found. He spent nine hours in the hospital waiting for his operation to no avail. Four hours after leaving the hospital, he was back in the gym.

After overcoming the challenges to being placed on a list for a liver transplant, Kevin Ericksteen, who owns Terroir Wine Pub, decided to celebrate by walking across the country. (Special to the Progress)

“Something went off in my head that I was feeling good and I wanted to see how good I could feel,” explained Erickson, who temporarily took himself off the waitlist to visit family in Vancouver, Canada, for Christmas. While visiting his family, he would walk as far as 15 miles a day. It was then he had an epiphany: “As I was looking at the ocean, I thought ‘I’m going to walk across the country,’” He still needed his doctor’s approval,

and his numbers looked good and they signed off. He then realized that he would have to carry a heavy backpack, so he opted to find a baby stroller to push if he was going to make it across the county. He decided to start at the Santa Monica pier In California and began a trek to Scottsdale. Leaving Santa Monica by himself on Feb. 1, Ericksteen confronted the busy streets of Los Angeles – which he found more hos-

pitable than the desert. “The dichotomy between walking for seven days through a city and then spending 14 days alone in the desert proves it’s not easy to go from one extreme to another,” Ericksteen said. He made it home to Scottsdale on March 10, surviving over 540 miles of trekking through the desert, having coyotes surround his tent one night while camping and coping with blisters. He then met with his doctors again and used a 2 1/2- week break to restock on survival items, including a fourth stroller that he hopes will survive the remaining 2,400 miles. On the first leg of his trip, he also learned that the most important things to pack are body wipes, water, blister balm, proper clothing and proper underwear, socks and shoes. Ericksteen also rotates three pairs of shoes. Rounding out his supplies are protein bars, dehydrated camping meals, speakers, headphones, a satellite phone, an iPad, his cell phone, rain gear, a first aid kit and food. Ericksteen had his final procedure on March 23 and by March 25 he was cleared to head for Folly Beach in Charleston, South Carolina. “I learned a lot on the first leg and I’m ready for the rest of the country,” he said. Ericksteen’s next hurdles include trotting through the deserts of New Mexico and Texas as he works his way through Louisiana and into Alabama, where he will head northward. Provided he is still in good health, Ericksteen plans to head up to Tennessee to witness the Tennessee Valley through Chattanooga and Knoxville before returning south through the Carolinas with the end goal of trotting through the white sands of Folly Beach to dip his toes in the Atlantic Ocean. However, he may not stop there: “If I’m healthy and my feet still operate, I’m planning to go to Key West, Florida,” he said. Ericksteen put his feet back on the pavement on April 1 for a lonesome journey that will likely span the next six months. His journey will be tracked online at theuncomfortablewalk.com and on Instagram (@theuncomfortablewalk).

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“Each poet has something different to offer in terms of the themes in their poetry and their life stories. For example, I learned that Emily Dickinson would walk with her loyal dog Carlo in beautiful fields of flowers,” Camille said. “She also wrote letters and poems to close family and friends, then sent them along with some beautiful, pressed flowers. This historical fact inspired the story I told about her and the activity where children can press actual flowers

on the pages with their poems.” Homeschooled since the third grade, Camille also is a blogger, silk artist and education activist. She originally intended to write a book about the trailblazing efforts these poets made during their literary careers, But she decided that in order to spark the next generation of young poets, she needed to create pages for activities. “There are various books about trailblazing women in different areas, but not poetry, which is something that I

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wanted to change with my book,” Camille said. “After writing about the women poets, I realized that I wanted to turn the book into something that could be used by both teachers and parents to teach poetry to children. That’s when the idea of creating poetry activities was added to the book.” Although it has been over a decade since Camille attended public schools, she remains concerned about the lack of poetry taught in them. “Before there were books, there was poetry,” she said. “Poetry has shaped our culture and preserved rich histories of various cultures. It is a vital form of language. “Learning about poets isn’t something extremely prevalent in elementary school curriculums yet, even though poetry has been proven to promote literacy and the age 6-10 is the pivotal age for learning. I felt that this book might best serve children who otherwise may not have an in-depth introduction to poetry since typically children don’t learn about some of these women poets until later.” Camille has already received rave reviews from educators praising the effectiveness of the book in their classrooms. “Teachers have told me how the book

made their students excited about learning how to write poetry and was a fun resource for their lessons,” she said. “One third-grade teacher even wrote to me and said how the kids were very inspired that I wrote books as a teenager and became very passionate about doing the poetry activities.” Camille hopes that the book works its way into curriculum and classrooms across the nation, inspiring young writers like herself. “I hope to introduce young readers to poets early on so that they can get a head start when learning about inspiring women in poetry,” she said. “Through this book, I hope to make a difference for children learning poetry, as this is certainly the way I’d like to learn the subject –with a lot of room for creative expression.” Camille plans to keep her fingers moving and her inventive mind buzzing with new books in the works. “Aside from continuing to spread the word about Her Poems, I’m working on several books, including a new picture book, another fantasy novel, and revising the third book of my Wishner Prophecy series.” Info: The book can be purchased at CamilleSCampbell.com and Amazon.

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it’ll definitely help to have a community who support each other, pursue similar interests and work collaboratively in the field,” he said. His acceptance letter arrived the same day he was awarded the aeronautical award by Proctor. “I didn’t know how to feel, it was too amazing,” Joseph said. In addition to giving him a coin that traveled to space and the award, Proctor also advised Joseph on scholarship opportunities and ways he could ease the burden of college. Joseph is currently working at an internship at the Challenger Space Center in Peoria. He also has his sights set on applying for an internship at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and hopes to be accepted into an accelerated master’s program through Embry-Riddle so that he can get closer to his goal of one day becoming an astronaut. “I’m an adventurer and I want to be able to do research out in space,” he said.

take up amateur rocketry,” Joseph said. “However, my methods are different from his because he was focused on getting altitude and doing the math from tracking the rocket.” “He would take the amount of time the rocket was in the air and use math to see what the altitude would be whereas I use recovery as a goal and haven’t aimed for the high altitudes yet,” he said. “I’m testing concepts and pieces of hardware for the rocket to make sure that I’ll be able to do one big supersonic flight.” Since then, Joseph has launched countless rockets and began looking for programs that would best suit his interests. His best subject in school was physics and when he heard that Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott offers a degree in space physics, he applied to that program. He toured the campus and after leaving exclaimed “I have found my people.” “I love the community there and I think

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rother-sister twins Ron Jones and Laurie Guidi had only been in business at Scottsdale Quarter for a few months in March 2020 when they were forced to shut their doors. The two had quit their day jobs to open Candle Chemistry – a build-your-candles shop – and were thinking of asking their former employers for their jobs back because “COVID-19 threw us for a wrench,” Guidi said. “COVID-19 took away the senses we utilize the most since it takes away sense of smell and people touch everything,” Instead, however, Guidi began thinking of ways to keep the business going. “We were a brand-new business and nobody knew who we were and we had to close for a couple of months which forced us to think outside the box in terms of how we were going to promote our business when we re-opened.” “We came into the space every day and we sat here thinking of what we could do,” Jones said. Ironically, it was inside a box where the business moved to. Lots and lots of boxes. “We had to �igure out how to do it since we have all these machines in our shop,” Jones said. “We then realized that people could use items like a hair dryer to melt the top of the candle and toenail clippers to clip the top of the wick.” Guidi and Jones produced the idea of selling at-home candle creation kits online. For local customers, they offered free personal delivery. The kits became a hit with some orders as large as 150 boxes heading out the door. Then came hand-sanitizer mania, which Candle Chemistry saw as an opportune time to create a new product. The only problem was that hand sanitizer was a tough product to market.

Ron Jones and Laurie Guidi own Candle Chemistry in the Scottsdale Quarter. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer)

Candle Chemistry has an extensive line of candles of all sizes and scents. (David Minton/ Progress Staff Photographer)

“We couldn’t advertise that we were selling hand sanitizer because it was labeled as ‘taking advantage of the pandemic,’” Guidi said. “A lot of businesses were trying to pro�it off it or were price-gouging hand sanitizer at the time.” Candle Chemistry offered a free bottle with online orders, but even that was taken down. “As soon as Facebook and Instagram

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he Scottsdale Gallery Association will hold its spring Gold Palette ArtWalk 6:30-9 p.m. Thursday, Apr. 14. The Spring into Art event — along Main Street from Scottsdale Road to Goldwater Boulevard and north of Indian School on Marshall Way to 5th Avenue – will feature an homage to the season as guests enjoy live music and refreshments. “Spring is an amazing time to explore the city of Scottsdale for both visitors and

residents,” said Scottsdale Gallery Association President French Thompson. “It’s the most beautiful time of year to get out, stroll the streets of Old Town and simply enjoy all the area has to offer. For art enthusiasts, we’re showcasing the incredible breadth of artists represented within the Scottsdale Arts District that celebrate spring through their various mediums.” Participating galleries include: Carstens Fine Art. A reception will include new paintings, live music by professional harpist Jocelyn Obermeyer and

refreshments. French Designer Jeweler. One of this gallery’s new artists, Elizabeth Garvin, will show her new collection, Stripe, which features a new approach to ornamentation, glowing 18k gold, deeply engraved with stripes and paired with a wide assortment of precious gems. Each pattern is drawn and engraved entirely by hand and each pattern is just a little different than the next. The Legacy Gallery. Paintings by Kathy Anderson and Daniel Keys will be fea-

tured along with stunning small floral paintings by Laura Robb. The Marshall Gallery. Frank Balaam’s colorful oil paintings will be highlighted during a reception. On the Edge Gallery. Guests can meet several artists, including abstract artist Lori Call, who uses inks, collage, spray paint, acrylic and oils to build the images of enchanted places and dream-like possibilities; Sandy Newell, who specializes in

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Award-winning folk singer debuts here BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer

rammy Award winning singer/ songwriter Aoife O’Donovan is back on the road and slated to make her first appearance in Scottsdale on April 15 at the Center for the Performing Arts. Although she has already made her rounds throughout the nation touting her latest album, “Age of Apathy,” O’Donovan is excited about hitting the road again after a six-day break. “The tours have been going great,” she said. “It’s been great to play this new music and I’m really excited to be playing with this new band in support of ‘Age of Apathy.’” O’Donovan has 90 minutes to fill with all 11 songs off “Age of Apathy” and mixing in signature pieces from her two previous records. “We’ve worked up everything from ‘Fossils’ and ‘In The Magic Hour,’ so it really depends on night by night what we’re throwing into the equation,” she said.

Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter Aoife O’Donovan will make her local debut on Friday, April 15, at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. (Courtesy of Omar Cruz)

O’Donovan has had to work as a curator to find where certain songs fit in her setlist.

“I try to create a setlist that’s going to propel the night,” O’Donovan said. “There’s songs that really work as open-

ers, there’s songs that really work as closers and for the rest of the set I try to mix it up in a way where I can maintain work and flow.” But her experience has helped her in crafting the best possible setlist, she believes. “I’ve been on the road for a long time and making a setlist is something that you get better at the more you do it,” O’Donovan said. Although she finds ease in where to place songs into her setlist each night, O’Donovan still feels rewarded to have the ability to give the songs she wrote. “It’s been musically rewarding in the sense that I wrote these songs by myself but seeing where the song goes each night while performing with a live band that’s open to the room and the vibe of the audience has been really cool,” she said. She has also felt that the songs have sounded best with her live band. “Usually when you’re a solo artist with a new record, you put together a band

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Doll Skin plans energetic live show BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer

fter meeting at The School of Rock in Scottsdale nearly a decade ago, the duo of Meghan Herring and Sydney Dolezal that founded the punk outfit Doll Skin are playing a free show at Tempe Marketplace on April 16. The last time they played that venue, Dolezal made the band’s presence known by getting into a little bit of mischief. “I got into a little bit of trouble because I started climbing on things,” Dolezal said with a laugh. “I like to get into shows and have as much fun as possible. I’m going to try not to get into trouble but I might push the limits again.” However, Dolezal is most excited to play a show with the goal of spreading hope, joy and a sense of community. “I want people to feel a sense of joy, hope and community,” Dolezal said. “Those three things are three very important words to me and important things I strive to express from the stage.” Dolezal reflected on the free shows downtown on the first Friday of each month and plans to emulate some of the most exhilarating acts. “Going to shows like that really opened my eyes to what kind of community I could find as a young musician through playing

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watercolor using a pouring technique to create unexpected textures and reactions; and Lorita Winfield, whose photographic floral art expresses her passion for the play of light on flower petals and natural foliage. The Signature Gallery. Local artist Cara Moran will display her sensationally colorful original impasto oil paintings. Striking colors, rich layers of texture applied with a palette knife, and an unmistakably positive energy are key elements Moran’s unique style. Among her most popular subjects are effervescent florals . Wilde Meyer Gallery. Wilde Meyer Gallery will present a spring show featuring various artists including Andrea Peterson, Sarah Kathryn Bean, Brenda Bredvik, and more. Spring into Art is the Scottsdale Gal-

Doll Skin will be playing a free concert at Tempe Marketplace Saturday. (Photo courtesy of Victoria Schmidt)

free shows,” Dolezal said. “I’ve always been about the concept that if the crowd’s not having fun, I’m not having fun,” Dolezal said. However, striking a balance between having fun and ensuring the audience is too can be a challenge. “It’s something that I used to put way too much pressure on myself with,” Dolezal said. “The most important thing is that I had to consciously make an effort to not think too much. If I do that, I’ll eventually forget to get lost in the music.”

lery Association’s final Gold Palette ArtWalk of the 2022 season. The Gold Palette ArtWalk series brings together the finest art in Scottsdale including 28 galleries and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West. In partnership with the City of Scottsdale, the SGA also presents multiple Gold Palette ArtWalk events per year that feature a dedicated theme and activities specific to each theme including demonstrations, live entertainment and more. The Scottsdale Gallery Association also hosts its weekly ArtWalk most every Thursday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. For more information, visit scottsdalegalleries.com. A nonprofit organization, the Scottsdale Gallery Association consists of gallery owners that promote fine art galleries in the Scottsdale Art District. Scottsdale is home to more than 100 galleries.

“I also feel like a lot of this comes from my neurodivergence in how I use physical emotion to express my energy rather than holding it in because I feel self-conscious about it,” Dolezal said. “In letting go of that self-consciousness in my everyday life, I’ve let go of it on stage. Getting that energy out has helped me hone in on my performance aspect rather than think too much about it.” “Crowd participation is my favorite thing,” Dolezal said. “My favorite part about seeing a band that I like is singing along but this song is something that everyone can

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that can best represent what you did in the studio,” O’Donovan said. “This band is a bass player, a drummer and a great guitarist who’s also a great singer that plays the fiddle.” “We got together in the fall and worked up all the material,” she said. “I’ve known these musicians for quite some time so it’s been really cool to work on my older music with them.” O’Donovan has become accustomed to walking into a new building each night and calculating how to fill it with sound. “Every day on tour is filled with entering a new space with new music,” she said. “Even if you’ve played the venue ten times, it’s going to be a new experience since no venue has your settings saved from the last time you played there.” With that figured out, O’Donovan

sing along to.” The band recently played at 8123 Fest in downtown Phoenix in January and included a new song called “Melancholia.” It plans to play the same songs Saturday. “When I was making the setlist for this show, my mentality was to be myself,” said drummer Meghan Herring. The band also had to consider creating a setlist that didn’t require much rehearsal since its bassist lives in California. “I feel like part of it is that we know what’s time tested and we know what works,” Herring said. “Plus we don’t want to throw a bunch of stuff at our new bassist and guitarist.” Doll Skin will complement the headlining metal act Escape The Fate. “Something I pride the band with is that we know we can fit into any space that we are put into,” Herring said. “We can fit into any genre in terms of the umbrella of rock.”

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hopes that fans leave the venue eager to hear more from her and that they remember having a good time at the show. I hope that fans enjoy the show and walk out thinking ‘that was a great show and I can’t wait until she comes back to town,'” she said. “Fans can expect a night of great music, good energy, good vibes and it’ll be a good way to spend a Friday night.”

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