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Hospital compounded Scottsdale parents’ grief BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer
BUSINESS. ................. 24 Old city firehouse a developer's dream HQ.
SPORTS....................... 28 Scottsdale Prep duffer dominates the links.
FOOD................... ..........32 Trio of chefs aims for edible school food.
NEIGHBORS..........................................20 BUSINESS............................................... 24 OPINION..................................................27 SPORTS................................................... 28 ARTS............................................29 FOOD............................................32 CLASSIFIEDS...............................33
Sunday, April 24, 2022
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s Wilfredo and Grace Gumaru prayed for a miracle that would save their 26-year-old daughter’s life two weeks ago, the Scottsdale couple also encountered an unlikely battle with the hospital to keep her alive. On Easter morning, Micah Gumaru, 26, a medical student at the Southwest College
of Naturopathic Medicine and Health Sciences and a 2018 Arizona State University undergraduate, passed away – the victim of a severe asthma attack nine days earlier that had left her without oxygen for 15 minutes. As she lay in a coma, her parents waged what they called a frustrating – and at times insulting – fight with BannerHeath over a doctor’s decision to remove her
from life support. That battle caught the attention of state Sen. Kelly Townsend, R-Mesa, who joined protestors outside Banner Desert Medical
see MICAH page 18
Snake, rattle and roll
Airport noise, city silence riles Scottsdale man BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer
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ity officials like to brag that Scottsdale has the fourth busiest airport in the world for business departures. “WingX, which tracks business aviation flight activity globally, shows Scottsdale Airport just below Palm Beach International, Teterboro and Miami-Opa Locka executive airports through Feb. 14, outshining 2021 numbers by 39 percent,” the airport’s web site boasts. “These airports all have more than one runway, which also
makes Scottsdale Airport the busiest single runway airport.” But the flip side of all that traffic at Scottsdale Airport is noise, some neighboring homeowners complain. “How many flights is too many flights?” asks Russ Underwood, who owns a home nine miles north of the airport. “When do we reach our limit?” Underwood says he’s had a hard time getting anyone in city government to listen seriously to him. He has repeatedly complained to city and airport officials about the noise.
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In addition to giving hikers a crash course on desert vegetation, retired Scottsdale educator Gary Wojton gives hikers close-up look at a rattlesnake by allowing people to touch snakeskin, a taxidermy snakehead and a snake rattle. Why he does it is explained on page 20. (Special to the Progress)
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