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Gallery owners score win in tourism plan war

BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer

NEWS............................... 17 2 new galleries grace Old Town.

BUSINESS ...................21 Scottsdale coin mint honors The Beatles.

FOOD .............................. 29 Scottsdale woman's wine thrills taste buds.

NEIGHBORS ............................................ 19 BUSINESS ..................................................21 OPINION ...................................................26 SPORTS...................................................... 27 ARTS .............................................28 FOOD ............................................29 CLASSIFIEDS ................................30

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ome of the Downtown gallery owners who vehemently opposed the city’s fledgling tourism and events strategic plan have taken a much more agreeable approach to the document after sev-

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eral key sections were removed.

The plan, which is still in its gestational phase, lists eight principles to bring tourism and events to Scottsdale.

They are: Community well being, culture and creativity, festivals and events, meetings and events, outdoor pursuits, placemaking and entertainment, sports

Battle of the giants

tourism, and travel and hospitality advocacy.

Each principle contains several “strategies” and “tactics” for their implementation and some of those tactics drew the ire of Old Town gallery owners until they

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Parents Council, Progress slate election forum PROGRESS NEWS STAFF

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he Scottsdale Parents Council and Scottsdale Progress are teaming up to present an online forum for the Scottsdale Unified Governing Board candidates.

Technical details for the forum will be announced shortly, but the Parents Council and Progress are now soliciting questions from voters for the 90-minute forum, which will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27.

All five candidates in the race for two board seats have been invited and so far, candidates Amy Carney, Mary Gaudio and Robert Vaules have committed to participate. Five candidates are vying for two seats on the five-person board.

Questions can be submitted at tinyurl.com/SUSDforum22. The deadline for questions is Sept. 18.

Candidates will not be given questions in advance and all candidates will be asked to answer the same questions in a timed format. They will have a chance to give timed introductions and closing remarks to discuss their candidacy.

“The Scottsdale Parent Council is pleased to co-sponsor the SUSD candidate forum and we encourage all voters to submit a thoughtful question, attend the event or watch it on YouTube,” said Brian Novak, SPC vice president of advocacy.

“As a non-partisan, non-profit organization, the SPC works to promote communication and collaboration between the SUSD community and district leadership and staff to ensure the highest quality of education for all students,” he said. “We look forward to working with all of the newly elected board members.”

Progress Executive Editor Paul Maryniak said co-sponsoring the forum is part of the Progress’ effort to advance voters’ knowledge of the candidates and the issues in local elections.

“We worked with the Parents Council in 2020 to present a candidate forum then and have co-sponsored City Council candidate forums for the last three election cycles,” Maryniak said.

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“This is part of our job. Democracy thrives on an informed electorate and that is particularly true in local governance,” he continued, adding: “There are many tough decisions governing boards throughout the Valley make. We want to help parents and citizens in general to have as much information as possible when they are electing the people who will make those decisions.”

Scottsdale Parent Council is an allvolunteer, nonpartisan, nonsectarian Arizona nonprofit corporation that works to ensure a high-quality education for all SUSD students by bringing together SUSD families with the goal of fostering collaborative relationships among parents/caregivers and district administration.

SPC offers monthly meetings that include a question-and-answer session with Superintendent Menzel and presentations from SUSD administrators; organizes quarterly parent association (PTO/PTA/APT) roundtables that focus on discussion of best practices for fundraising and community engagement; hosts special events such as the upcoming Governing Board Candidate Forum in September; and supports parent-run committees that are based on shared K-12 interests.

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“Running for school board in Scottsdale Unified is an extension of her current mission of strengthening children, families, education and community,” her website says, adding her top issue is refocusing on academics.

“Let’s get back to strengthening our students in the basics of reading, writing, and math and keep divisive ideologies and political propaganda out of the classrooms,” she states.

She also lists transparency and restoring trust with the governing board

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were recently removed from the plan.

One of them called for bringing new artists to the art gallery sector.

“Part of it was the interpretation I would say of the (tactic),” Scottsdale Tourism and Events Coordinator Karen Churchard said. “That particular (tactic) was under ‘culture and creativity’ and the strategy was to position Scottsdale as a center for artists, art and design.

“One of the (tactics) involved was to engage with our artists and cultural partners in Scottsdale to attract artists to Scottsdale and to promote working artists to help expand the creative community within Scottsdale, and they just felt we should be supporting the artists who are already here and not necessarily attract new artists and so we just decided to take that specific tactic out at this time.”

Another tactic called for a “made in Scottsdale” brand “to celebrate and certify Scottsdale artists, artisans and producers,”Churchard said.

But that didn’t sit well with local artists and gallery owners.

“There was just a lot of questions in regard to what that all meant so again we felt just take it out at this point,” Churchard said.

One of the most contentious tactics called for lengthening event hours and bringing in merchants in tents to compete with brick-and-mortar shops.

That has been a sore spot since the city re-wrote the ordinance in 2016.

But part of creating a new tourism and events strategic plan this time around was to have the city’s consultant, Resonance Consultancy, review the city’s various plans.

Those included past events and tourism strategic plans, the General Plan, the economic strategic plan and the Downtown 2.0 study. Additionally, the consultants would survey hundreds of people.

The owner of the Wilde Meyer At Gallery in Old Town hasn’t yet signed a new lease and says he’s frustrated by city inaction on the long-term parking space shortage in the area.

(Instagram)

“One of the things that bubbled up was we should reconsider updating our (events) ordinance, specifically about duration and including retail sales.”

But that brought up the old angst of gallery owners and merchants who fought the issue back in 2016, so it was removed – though a sliver was kept in.

“You know, there is the other side,” Churchard said.

“There are some retail establishments that want to have special events and retail doesn’t bother them and some of the event (leaders have) given feedback that they would like to have the duration changed and again have us look at the ordinance.”

Churchard explained, “What we have kept in the plan and will be doing is reviewing and considering restructuring the special event application process and the guide information. So, we will be

looking at the full picture holistically.”

Part of the problem was that there were no stakeholders on the steering committee, which comprised four city staff and three Experience Scottsdale staff, said Old Town gallery owner Bob Pejman.

The steering committee did work with four members of Resonance Consultancy, which was paid $150,000 to develop the plan.

Before the latest changes were made, Pejman, called the plan “a slap in the face of Old Town merchants.”

However, he is now more amenable to the plan.

“A lot of the polarizing elements have been removed,” Pejman said. “That’s a good thing so instead fighting the plan, we’re looking to improve the plan.”

There is still room for improvement, said gallery owner French Thompson.

He pointed out that the plan says nothing specifically about promoting existing gallery owners and merchants.

And there’s nothing in there that specifically says anything about parking in Old Town.

That upset Christi Bonner Manuelito, co-owner of Bonner David Galleries in Old Town.

“We really want the tourism, but the problem is there’s no parking here,” she said.

She said Scottsdale has changed in the 20 years she’s been in business.

“When I first moved here it was such class down here, now all we have is bicycle rolling bars,” Bonner Manuelito said.

Thompson said Old Town merchants and gallery owners have had a contentious relationship with the city for decades.

“There’s just a perception of the businesses down in this Old Town area that the city would love to bulldoze all of this stuff and build up something brand new that doesn’t include all these independent small business owners,” Thompson said.

“They would just as soon turn it into a corporate downtown where they don’t have to care about independent business owners that care about their city.”

Case in point: The Wilde Meyer Art Gallery.

The gallery has been a fixture in Old Town since Betty Wilde and Mark Meyer first opened up for business in 1983.

But the shop almost left Old Town this month after Wilde’s son Jonathan Henderson thought about not re-signing the gallery’s three-year lease agreement.

The lease still hasn’t been signed but Henderson’s pretty sure he will.

“To be honest. I didn’t have the time to find a new place,” Henderson said.

Henderson said there just isn’t enough parking downtown and he’s tired of fighting with the city staff, which he said should to be working for him.

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About a third of Arizona’s annual water supplies come from those reservoirs.

There was hope that the states, faced with the increasingly realistic threat of dead pool conditions on the Colorado and loss of hydropower production, would come together and deliver a deal.

But those hopes were dashed two weeks ago as states started to point fingers when the deadline passed.

Arizona’s delegation of negotiators said in a statement that “Arizona and Nevada put forward an aggressive proposal that would achieve 2 (million acre-feet) of reductions among the Lower Basin and Mexico in 2023 and beyond. That proposal was rejected.”

The high-level fighting between states means that Scottsdale may be waiting more months to find out exactly how much of its Colorado River water allocation is going to be tied up in conservation next year to shore up the reservoirs.

About two-thirds of Scottsdale’s water supply comes from the Central Arizona Project’s 336-mile-long system that brings about 1.5 million acre-feet of Colorado River water per year to water users in Pima, Pinal and Maricopa counties.

The city a year ago entered the first stage of its four-stage Drought Water Management plan, which did not impose any restrictions on water consumption but did encourage customers to reduce their use by 5%.

One way to do that is for businesses, HOAs and individual homeowners to not overseed this fall.

“Scottsdale Water estimates 20% of residents over seed their lawn, which averages roughly 1,000 square feet,” department spokeswoman Valeria Schneider said. “If everyone stopped over seeding, the city would save an estimated 1,727 acre-ft of water (an acre foot of water is roughly 325,851 gallons).

“It’s also important to note that people can also selectively not overseed. Meaning, if they have grass in the front and back yard, but a pet or kid uses one of the grass areas frequently, then maybe the non-used area is the one that does not get over seeded.”

For every 1,000 feet of overseeding, a resident could save 8,000 gallons of water – which can lead to big financial sav-

The latest U.S. Bureau of Reclamation report paints a grim forecast for water levels in the two lakes that serve Arizona and six other states. (Bureau of Reclamation)

ings as well, Schneider said, adding that shunning overseeding, also results in less green waste, less noise from mowers and cleaner air.

A release from the Arizona Municipal Water Users’ Association, of which Scottsdale is a member, highlighted the challenge for cities heading into what could be months of arguing and potential litigation over how much each state must give up.

The immediate problem for Arizona cities is not water supply, the group said, but the “unpredictability” of how much Colorado River water will be available next year and beyond, making planning difficult.

“Municipal water providers face operational challenges with their treatment plants and delivery systems without knowing how significant a cutback will be required from their Colorado River water supply,” the AMWUA stated.

“These challenges include determining how to move their other water supplies – groundwater and Salt and Verde River water – to ensure the reliability of their systems. These adjustments require time for planning, stretching their existing workforce, and a significant amount of money from already set bud-

gets for 2023.”

There was recent precedent for Western states working together successfully to save water.

Nevada, California and Arizona collaborated in 2020 when they created the 500+ Plan to voluntarily leave 500,000 acre-feet in additional water in Lake Mead in 2021 to protect water levels.

In that deal, California, which has more senior water rights than Arizona, agreed to give nearly as much water as Arizona.

That was a pleasant surprise for Glendale’s Water Resources Manager Drew Swieczkowski, who called California’s robust participation in the 500+ Plan “unusual” because California typically fights “tooth and nail for their water,” Swieczkowski said.

But Swieczkowski’s comment appears to have been prophetic of the current impasse, as the vastness of the new cuts required evidently overcame any earlier fellow-feeling among states.

As AMWUA put it, the states failed to “overcome provincial self-interests and develop a holistic approach for protecting the river for all users,” Arizona and Nevada both issued letters this week blasting other states for their unwillingness to adequately sacri-

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Arizona’s negotiators were Arizona Department of Water Resources Director Tom Buschatzke and Central Arizona Project General Manager Ted Cooke.

“It is unacceptable for Arizona to continue to carry a disproportionate burden of reductions for the benefit of others who have not contributed,” the men wrote in a statement after the deadline.

They said Arizona is committed to a plan that protects the reservoir system “through equitable contributions from all water users.”

Arizona Senator Mark Kelly also chimed in last week via a letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, complaining that “Arizona has already reduced its consumption of Colorado River water at a pace and scale not seen in other states.”

The Aug. 15 deadline coincided with the release of the latest 24-month study, which projects reservoir levels for the coming two years.

As was widely expected, the new projections put Arizona, California and Nevada in a deeper tier of the 2019 Drought Contingency Plan, Tier 2a from Tier 1.

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Controversial church facility wins council OK

BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer

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t. Apkar Armenian Apostolic Church will get its controversial assisted living facility near the intersection of E. Cholla Street and 88th Place.

Scottsdale City Council voted 5-2 Aug. 23 to up-zone the property and approve a conditional use permit for the facility.

Councilwomen Betty Janik and Solange Whitehead voted against the project.

“I think it’s admirable that you want to do this project,” Janik said. “I know it’s a need. I know you have compromised or responded to all the requests. I too have a mom who passed away a couple of months ago at the age of 97.

“She was in an independent facility and graduated to the type of facility you are requesting, but for me it’s just too compact. We’re talking about 96 beds (48 specialized care beds and 48 minimal care units) in less than five acres.”

“I think it’s way too crowded,” Janik

The two council members who voted against St. Apkar Armenian Apostolic Church’s plan for an assisted living facility thought there were too many beds in 5 acres.

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For Whitehead, it was all about the size of the three-story building.

“All of the issues that have been brought up (would be solved with) one simple solution, that’s right sizing the solution and that’s right sizing the project,” Whitehead said.

“The issue for me is the height,” Whitehead continued. “This neighborhood is one to two stories and a one- to two-story facility would have fit in beautifully in this community.”

Ed Bull, an attorney for the church, listed some of the changes the church made to accommodate area residents.

They include: • To distance the facility form homes, the church will create “H” shaped building so much of it is pulled back from the east and moving it father from the west property line.

• Putting trash and receiving in the basement to block noise and moving the entrance to the west side of the building.

• Increasing open space and increasing the size of trees.

• Eliminating some windows on the east side of the building and using opaque glass in the remaining ones on the east buildings so nobody will be able to look down into someone’s backyard.

• Stair-stepping the top floor on the eastern side so the building only looks like it has two stories from that perspective.

Church official Mark Roman Mach

called the assisted living facility, “a very important mission, a mission for the people of God to serve the people of God. “We’re not building a singular facility for the Armenian Church,” he said.

“It will be a facility for the community … we love the United States of America.

We are dedicated to the United States of America and as much as we love our culture and heritage, we also love our neighbors. We care for them and will continue to do so.”

But neighbors spoke against the project.

Gary Peruzzini, said adding the facility – along with things like the short-term rental homes and treatment facilities already there – leads to the commercialization of the community.

“We’re inserting businesses into these residential neighborhoods,” he said.

“And the impact of this business piece in addition to all those other (businesses) completely changes the ecosystem.”

But Councilwoman Kathy Littlefield said, “I like this project.

“I think it’s good,” she told church officials. “It will cause some problems during the construction phase. I’m hoping during that phase, … that everything in your possible ability to keep the noise and the traffic down to the least amount of inconvenience to the neighbors (will be done).”

In other business, Council moved to make sworn Scottsdale police officers’ pay more comparable with surrounding departments by creating a step system for their paying and giving them a 5% annual pay hike.

The new pay system goes into effect Sept. 11.

“The majority of people should get some percentage of a raise,” Scottsdale Police Chief Jeff Walther said.

Council also voted to allow officers in the Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP) to extend participation an extra two years.

The program allows officers who are eligible for retirement to keep working and earn interest on investments from their retirement funds.

“The goal is to help us ride out this wave where not a lot of people want to

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though, as water managers thought the projected lake levels could be low enough to put the states in Tier 3 of their drought plan.

California doesn’t have to make any cuts under the drought contingency plan until Tier 3.

But the cuts under the plan pale in comparison to the extra cuts the Bureau of Reclamation is saying are needed to protect power generation and water flows in the reservoirs, which in its latest calculations are estimated to be between 600,000 AF (acre ft.) to 4.2 million AF, depending on Lake Powell’s inflow.

Many stakeholders worried the federal government might drop the hammer if the talks this summer failed, immediately issuing its own plan for cuts among the states in the absence of a voluntary deal.

Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton issued some stern remarks to this effect in a June congressional hearing, warning “It is in our authorities to act unilaterally to protect the system and we will protect the system.”

But in a release following the missed deadline, the Interior Department took a softer approach, promising “continued engagement with impacted states and Tribes” going forward.

In pledging to focus on “consensus support,” and “system conservation and voluntary agreements” without a specific timeline, the feds have backed off being the stern teacher in the unruly classroom.

Some municipalities may have preferred the feds stepping in at this point with a stronger hand, as entrenched positions among the states may lead to continued uncertainty surrounding future cuts, making water planning more difficult for cities.

U.S. Rep. Greg Stanton, whose district includes west Mesa, chided the Department of the Interior about its soft-touch approach at this point in a letter last week.

“The Department’’s failure to act as well as its failure to require all basin users to share the sacrifice to solve this crisis has created a significant state of uncertainty that pushes this delicate system closer to collapse,” Stanton wrote.

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Debt, dark money initiatives survive challenge

BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

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rizonans will be able to vote in November on two controversial ballot measures even though petition circulators did not comply with the law, the state Supreme Court ruled last week.

In separate orders, the justices said those who gather signatures for money are required to register with the Secretary of State’s Office for each petition campaign for which they work. And Chief Justice Robert Brutinel said that did not happen in either the initiative to require disclosure of “dark money’’ in politics or another to cap medical debt payments.

But Brutinel pointed out that the Secretary of State’s Office provided no procedure for those already registered to circulate other petitions to submit new registrations. He said that made it physically impossible for circulators to comply with the law.

More to the point, Brutinel said knocking the petition drives off the ballot for a problem that circulators and organizers did not create not could fix “would unreasonably hinder or restrict’’ the constitutional right of the people to propose their own laws.

A contrary ruling would have left both measures short of the number of valid signatures needed to appear on the Nov. 8 ballot.

Still undecided is the fate of a third initiative which would reverse some of the changes in election laws approved by the Republican-controlled legis-

lature. Its fate hangs on whether the courts decide on the validity of thousands of petition signatures, unrelated to the registration requirement.

Wednesday’s rulings are setbacks for business interests who oppose both greater financial disclosure of who is putting money into political campaigns and those who believe it is a bad idea to provide individuals more protection from creditors.

In seeking to keep them off the ballot, attorneys Thomas Basile and Kory Langhofer, who represented the foes of both measures, pointed out state law requires anyone who is a paid circulator to first register before gathering signatures. The same requirement exists for out-of-state residents.

And that requirement, they argued, exists for each petition they want to circulate and for each election.

Brutinel said the lawyers are legally correct. But the justices refused to

“By also refusing to accept manual submission of a hard copy affidavit, the secretary of state rendered it impossible for circulators to successfully submit a registration application as required ... if they had already registered to circulate other petitions.’’

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void the signatures.

“Any circulators’ lack of compliance with (the law) does not invalidate the signatures gathered by these circulators on the record or circumstances before us,’’ he wrote.

Brutinel pointed out the online portal set up by the Secretary of State to register circulators does not allow any individual to submit more than one affidavit.

“By also refusing to accept manual submission of a hard copy affidavit, the secretary of state rendered it impossible for circulators to successfully submit a registration application as required ... if they had already registered to circulate other petitions,’’ he wrote.

And that would make it unfair and improper to keep a measure off the ballot for failing to comply with a law that could not be complied with, he said.

Going forward, Brutinel said, he and his colleagues have “every expectation’’ the Secretary of State will fix the problem.

What’s dubbed the Voters’ Right to Know Act is designed to eliminate exemptions in state campaign finance laws.

Those statutes require public disclosure of who is spending money to influence candidate elections and ballot measures. But state lawmakers crafted an exception for “social welfare’’ organizations who are free to run commercials seeking to influence the outcome but can hide the names of their donors.

The initiative seeks to deal with that by requiring the disclosure of true source of donations of more than

$5,000 on political campaigns. And former Attorney General Terry Goddard, who is leading the effort, said those dollars would have to be traced back to the original source and cannot be “laundered’’ through a series of groups.

Foes include the business-oriented Free Enterprise Club. Its president Scot Mussi, called it “an unconstitutional measure designed to silence and harass private citizens, and non-profit groups from exercising their First Amendment rights.’’

The measure on debt, if approved by voters, would increase the amount of equity someone could have in a home to keep it from being seized in bankruptcy to $400,000, up from $250,000.

And it would mandate annual cost-ofliving increases in that figure rather than having to wait for state lawmakers to marshal the votes for future changes.

Current law also allows individuals to keep up to $6,000 in household furniture, appliances and consumer electronics. That would increase to $15,000, also with inflation adjustments.

And the protected equity in a motor vehicle would go from $6,000 to $15,000 for most individuals, with the figure going from $12,000 to $25,000 for any debtor or family member with a physical disability.

Separately, the measure would cap the amount of someone’s wages that could be attached. And another provision specifically limits the amount of annual interest that could be charged on medical debt to no more than 3%.

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academy but do not stay with the department for three years liable for paying back some of the some of the training and supply costs.

“Having a competitive pay structure, rank classification assessment, performance criteria and predictable compensation for years of service have not been reevaluated for over 15 years,” Mayor David Ortega said.

“Necessary Step Pay increases are vital to retain and recruit our police force.”

be cops,” Walther said.

The moves are meant to make SPD compatible with other local police forces.

When at full force, there are 408 sworn officers in the SPD but the department is 34 positions. Some of that is due to officers going to nearby departments that are offering signing bonuses and/ or may be closer to the officers’ homes.

Council also approved a measure that makes officers who pass the police

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Study underscores impact of COVID-19 on the disabled community

BY JOSH ORTEGA AFN Staff Writer

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he pandemic revealed many vulnerabilities in healthcare, especially among the most vulner-

able.

This month, the Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council released its findings in “COVID-19 Impact on the Disability Community.”

The review highlighted a 2021 U.S. study of more than 64 million people across 547 healthcare organizations that showed a link between intellectual or developmental disabilities and COVID-19.

“Having an intellectual disability was the strongest risk factor for presenting with a COVID-19 diagnosis and the strongest independent risk factor other than age for COVID-19 mortality,” the study found.

Ahwatukee resident Michelle Thorne is the founder and executive director for Care 4 The Caregivers, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit that provides emotional, physical and educational support to those raising a child with a disability.

“This population was very overlooked when it came to the vaccine rollout,” Thorne said. “I think that had a detrimental effect to the population in whole.”

Along with having two children diagnosed with autism, Thorne said her background as a geneticist also drew her to this review about those with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

“The pandemic brought out a lot of different inequities that exist within our system, not only who gets priority to life saving vaccines, but also who gets priority to care,” Thorne worked as a geneticist at Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), a non-profit genomics research facility, until she opted to care for her children.

Despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s changes in guidelines this month, Thorne said the disabled community still faces an increased threat from COVID-19.

“We still have families who are going into the hospital because their kids are getting COVID,” Thorne said. “And because of their comorbidities are having a harder time fighting it off.”

Thorne said she wants to help people understand the mRNA vaccine and reduce vaccine hesitancy because it remains the best way to protect this vulnerable community.

“It’s just a different way of creating an immune response,” Thorne said.

“But it allows researchers to be a little bit more targeted and specific with what the vaccine is going to target.”

On July 17, the CDC released a study that looked at hospitalization rates among Medicare recipients from Jan. 1, 2021, to Nov. 20, 2021.

The data showed a higher rate of COVID occurrence and hospitalization in those who were eligible for aid because of a disability over those who were age-eligible.

The study said this further highlights the need for greater levels of vaccination and COVID-19 prevention among the disabled community.

“I think that we have to look at all forms of life being equal, and being deserving of medical treatment,” Thorne said.

In March, Gov. Doug Ducey signed House Bill 2659 into law that bans providers from discriminating against people with disabilities in organ transplant decisions.

Gina Johnson knows all too well the adversity the developmentally disabled have faced during the pandemic given that her son David, 38, has Down Syndrome.

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Arizona life expectancy fell in 2020, CDC reports

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ASHINGTON – Arizona life expectancy fell by 2.5 years in 2020, posting one of the steepest drops in a nation that saw the sharpest declines in lifespans since World War II, according to a new report.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report said life expectancy in Arizona fell from 78.8 years in 2019 to 76.3 in 2020. U.S. life expectancy in the same period fell by 1.8 years, from 78.8 years to 77, putting Arizona lifespans below the national average for the first time since 2006.

“It just is extraordinary to see that kind of drop in life expectancy,” said Will Humble, executive director of the Arizona Public Health Association.

A CDC official said COVID-19 played a large role in the national drop of 1.8 years, but that heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and overdoses also played

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as a person with Down Syndrome, the healthy would be treated first.

“Now that sounds so awful,” Johnson said. “And it is, but I know parents that have dealt with that.”

Johnson said she holds nothing against healthcare providers because she understands the difficult decisions they faced in the thick of the pandemic.

“This is nothing against the medi-

cal people,” Johnson said. “They’re doing their level best and they were slammed.”

Johnson said she knows that the increased morbidity in this community comes down to the fact that diseases such as COVID-19 overwhelm their immune system and not being overlooked for care.

“I do feel it goes against our kids

because our kids are already compromised,” she said.

While great strides have been made such as with the passing of HB 2659, Johnson said people like her son still face struggles in receiving necessary care.

“I’ve seen a lot of strides for and I’m so grateful,” Johnson said. “But I know we’re not all the way there yet on serving people with disabilities.”

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While he recognized the gravity in the numbers, Humble said he was not surprised by the CDC’s findings.

He said that while other factors like opioid overdoses, diabetes and traffic deaths were all up in 2020, they were not the driving force for the decline in life expectancy.

“That is not the reason for this,” Humble said. “It’s flat out COVID-19.”

Dr. Joe K. Gerald, an associate professor of public health at the University of Arizona, blamed the steep drop on two things: What he called the state’s lax COVID-19 rules combined with health disparities in the state.

“I think it’s the combination of our poor policy response and some unique vulnerabilities that exist in Arizona,” Gerald said. “So poverty, inequality, high proportions of disadvantaged

groups.”

Gerald pointed specifically to Native American and Latino populations, two groups that he said have been heavily affected by the pandemic, in Arizona and across the country.

“They were heavily exposed because they were often frontline workers and so they bore the brunt of the infections and oftentimes lacked access to medical care,” Gerald said.

According to the CDC, three states along the U.S.-Mexico border – Arizona, New Mexico and Texas – had the largest decrease in life expectancy by region. New Mexico had the seventhhighest and Texas the ninth-highest drops among states.

Anderson said it was unclear what exactly was behind the regional trend and suggested that it would require

further study specifically into the conditions in those states to find a clear answer.

National life expectancy estimates from 2021 are not expected to be released until early next year, but Anderson warned that there will likely be another large decrease, although it may not be as big as the 2019-2020 drop.

Humble said he also expects 2021 numbers to be grim for Arizona. The state experienced multiple waves of COVID-19 caused by the delta and omicron variants in 2021 and saw some of the highest case counts and death rates in the country.

Even though the 2021 drop could be smaller, Anderson said it should not be taken lightly.

“It won’t be trivial,” he said.

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of Playworks of Arizona and a mentor and girls’ circle facilitator for New Pathways for Youth.

School funding is a top issue for Gaudio, who vows to advocate for more state money. She also said offering a top-level education will help ensure enrollment increases in the face of the expansive new voucher program.

Obtaining and retaining top-level staff is also her priority and says the board should show more empathy toward parents. Robb Vaules Vaules, 58, is a senior vice president for ONRAD, a telemedicine company.

He graduated from NAU with a bachelor’s in advertising and journalism and did some grad work at the University of Texas in Advertising.

He is a graduate of Arcadia High School, where his son attends the special needs program. Vaules has been in the district for the last 16 years and was a substitute teacher here between

2016 and 2018.

He serves on the Arizona Center for Disability Law board of directors and was recently named a 2022 Save Our Schools candidate for his pro-public education stance. He has also served on the state boards of the March of Dimes in Arizona and Minnesota.

“I focus primarily on discussing how better we can run the Special Ed program in the district and how that can not only save money but also help children because right now my belief is we’d be better off as a district, we’d have lower legal liability exposure if our teachers better know how to treat special needs kids and what their rights are,” he said.

Funding is Vaules’ main issue. Part of that is paying teachers properly, he said.

He also thinks the school district needs to do a better job marketing itself.

director of Sharing Down Syndrome Arizona, a nonprofit in Mesa that advocates for people with Down Syndrome and supports families in their journey after diagnosis.

Johnson said if a healthy person presented to an emergency room with COVID-19 symptoms at the same time

ment for illnesses like cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and opioid overdoses, among others.

In Arizona, COVID-19 has been one of the leading causes of death, along with heart disease and cancer, according to CDC data. The Arizona Public Health Association said coronavirus was the leading cause of death in the state between March 2020 and March 2022.

as another top issue, along with respecting parents’ rights.

“We must have district leaders who abide by the Arizona Parents Bill of Rights which ensures that parents understand what their children are learning, are confident that their children are being prepared for college and careers, and are respected when they voice their concerns,” Carney says.

Gaudio, 55, is a retired advertising agent who has lived in the district for seven years. She has adult children who did not attend SUSD schools.

She has served as a PTA president in the Plano Independent School District, in Texas. She was also a board member of the Plano Independent School District Council of PTAs. She served three years as a substitute teacher in Texas as well.

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Erin Hanson’s unique “open impressionism” uses a limited palette of only five oil colors and brush strokes laid side-by-side without layering.

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wo artists have each opened their own Old Town galleries.

Internationally renowned multimedia artist Jeff Zischke opened the Zischke Design Gallery and Café in Old Scottsdale at 7212 E. Main St. in Old Town and contemporary impressionist Erin Hanson, hailed the “alchemist of color,” opened the Erin Hanson Gallery at 7117 E. Main St. in Scottsdale, The Guggenheim Museum in New York and Bilbao and the Salone Del Mobile in Milan, Italy, are two of the prestigious venues that have featured artist Zischke’s artworks.

He said his artistic style is ever-evolving thanks to his fascination with different media and emerging technologies, such as augmented art (AR) and 3D printing. His intention is “to embrace the new while loving the old.”

“Aristotle was the first to note the “big five” among the senses — touch, hearing. sight, smell and taste,” said Zischke. “My gallery was created to engage all of our

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Artist Erin Hanson’s Old Town gallery is her third. She also has galleries in California and Oregon. (Special to the Progress)

senses: touch via tacit and tangent engagement with my sculptures; sight via augmented reality art pieces accessed via Matterport and 3D printed sculptures, and paintings; smell, via locally made perfume,

Jeff Zischke displays some of his cutting-edge works at his newly opened Zischke Design Gallery and Café in Old Town. (Special to the Progress)

soaps and body care products; and taste with locally sourced teas, coffees and pastries.

“And, finally, sound, we will always be playing music from all around the world.

There will, quite literally, be something for everyone to enjoy here.”

For more than 40 years, artist Jeff Zischke has been creating artwork for public and private spaces throughout the world, including light installations, towering sculptures, and restaurant and nightclub design.

Information: jeffzischke.com.

Hanson’s impressionist landscapes celebrate the vibrant color of the Southwest.

Her gallery showcases original oil paintings and 3D textured replicas, as well as her canvas prints, coffee table books, and calendars.

While her other two galleries, located in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Oregon wine country, focus on her California coastal works and Northwestern paintings, respectively, Hanson’s new gallery celebrates the colors and landscapes of the Southwest.

She said she is inspired by a lifetime of backpacking and exploring the national parks and monuments of the West as she captures the iconic scenery of the Grand Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Arches National Park, Monument Valley, Mojave Desert, Saguaro National Park, and more.

Erin Hanson’s unique “open impression-

ism” uses a limited palette of only five oil colors and brush strokes laid side-by-side without layering.

It was first developed about 20 years ago when Hanson was living and rock climbing in Las Vegas. Exploring Red Rock Canyon, Hanson decided to firmly dedicate herself to painting one painting every week for the rest of her life.

She has stuck to that decision ever since, and her wide body of work is avidly collected by lovers of impressionism around the world.

Information: erinhanson.com.

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rnav Hingorani started learning coding at age 9 and now, four years later, the northern Scottsdale student has been named one of 18 �inalists in a prestigious, global coding competition for an app he created.

“Anyone with advanced level coding (was invited) to make an app that can help solve a real world problem,” Arnav said. “There were thousands of applicants and they picked the best to be �inalists, and mine ended up being one of those… I’m honored to be one of them. I think they’re all very good.”

Arnav’s dad, Naresh Hingorani, said he and his wife always encourage their kids to pursue different educational and athletic opportunities. Coding was one of those opportunities, and Arnav ended up excelling at it.

“I believe learning AI and data science are table stakes for all students in the future,” Naresh said. “Studying coding has

Arnav Hingorani is a 13-year-old math whiz, national tennis champ and Taekwondo black belt — now he can add global coding competition finalist to the list, too.

(Naresh Hingorani/Special to the Progress)

developed Arnav’s approach to solving complex problems and, as a parent, it’s gratifying to watch his progress.”

Arnav’s coding skills amped up in July 2020, when his parents enrolled him in an advanced coding course. Arnav said he already advanced in math and had a knack for learning languages, so coding seemed like a natural progression and something he knew would be helpful to learn.

“Learning to code has many bene�its,” said Richa Agnihotri, Arnav’s coding teacher at BYJU’S FutureSchool. “First and foremost, it is a skill that is highly valued in the workforce, and jobs related to computer programming are growing exponentially. Beyond the computer, coding teaches critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity and resilience.”

During the summer of 2021, Arnav’s coding teacher encouraged him to think of a problem that can be solved using technology via an app.

Arnav decided to create an app for students to keep track of important per-

sonal events, milestones and memories, organize them and share them.

“I do a lot of things in my life. I do tennis, coding, math and other stuff, and I had no easy way to store all of the milestones that I got in all these different things,” he said. “I talked with a lot of different people and they all agreed there was no easy way to organize these different milestones using an app.”

When Arnav says he “does a lot of things,” he’s not kidding.

He has frequently participated in national tennis tournaments, math contests and taekwondo competitions, and his hobbies include traveling and cooking.

With all these events, it’s hard to keep track of everything, which is why he created his app, My Life Resume.

The app is designed to help kids upload and organize events by categories like academics, sports, arts or volunteer, and they can search for their events using keywords.

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Eagle Scout takes a swing at Chapparal dugouts

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f you stop by Chapparal Park this weekend, you may notice something different about the dugouts on the baseball �ields.

After years of having a bleacher and a chain link fence that kids would use to mount their bats and helmets on, the dugouts now have racks for that gear – thanks to Scottsdale Boy Scout Eli Bump, 17.

The racks were funded through a GoFundMe campaign started by Eli, a Scout since he was 6, and assembled nearly 20 fellow Scouts had had rounded up for the

Scottsdale Eagle Scout Eli Bump stands near a dugout at Chaparral Park, where his Eagle project involved some improvements to the dugouts. (David Minton/ Progess Staff Photograpehr)

project as part of his effort to attain Eagle rank, the highest in Boy Scouts.

“This was really to support and raise money for my Eagle project and getting as many people as possible from friends to family to people that I’ve grown up with either through baseball or the scouts to help,” Eli said.

Before joining the scouts, Eli began playing tee-ball and over time baseball competed with his interest in scouting.

The dugout project helped him pursue both passions.

Eagle projects require a Scout to plan and execute a project that bene�its the

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elta Dental of Arizona’s president and chief executive of�icer Michael Jones was elected to Greater Phoenix Leadership, a CEO business roundtable.

The Airpark resident joins fellow newly elected members in Viavi Solutions president and chief executive of�icer Oleg Khaykin, Meritage Homes chief executive of�icer Phillippe Lord and Willmeng Construction chief executive of�icer James Murphy.

“Greater Phoenix Leadership’s mission is to improve Arizona by bringing together talent, resources, and leadership to create action on priority issues,” Jones says.

“Delta Dental of Arizona is similarly

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community and demonstrates leadership skills by assembling a team to carry it out.

Eli saw this as the perfect opportunity to give back to the game he he loves and – more importantly – improve the �ield where he caught his �irst ball and launched several baseballs into the sky.

He originally allocated a budget of $2,000 to fund four bat racks and four helmet racks – one for each dugout at Chapparal Park that did not have one.

“It’s to support the young kids who don’t have anywhere to put their gear, it’s either underneath the benches or out in the walkways of the dugout, so it gives

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Users can also share noteworthy events with friends and family. In addition, the app is a way to network with others in the same age group with common interests.

In July 2021, Arnav was selected to participate in BYJU’S “18u18” competition, where 18 advanced coding students under 18 years of age globally compete for recognition. As a �inalist, he was then assigned a mentor to help develop his prototype into a functioning app.

“I had to build the app on a certain (coding) language that was completely

focused on bringing together talent, resources and leadership to create action to improve oral health and access to oral health care across Arizona. I look forward to being an active member of GPL to help create actions that affect positive change on a statewide level, both to bene�it our members and the community at large.”

Jones is also the president of the charitable Delta Dental of Arizona Foundation, which provides funding, education and dental supplies to those in need across the state.

To date, Glendale-based Delta Dental of Arizona, through its foundation, has given more than $15 million toward these efforts.

Jones works closely with the corporate and Foundation boards of directors

them more of an organized area,” Eli explained.

With his idea in mind, Eli went to the drawing board and drew up a 44” wide, 84” tall and 16” deep helmet rack allotting each helmet to have a 12” by 12” by 12” slot supported by painted wood planks, PVC planks and steel fencing staples.

Eli also up a square bat storage rack to be made out of 1-and-a-half-inch diameter PVC pipe measuring 20” on all four sides and 20” in height.

With diagrams drawn, the next step was to convince the Boy Scout Council and Chapparal Park to let Eli and his troop take a swing at aiding the community. new to me. And you have to do it within about two months, so my mentor helped me to learn that language, transfer things over and then make more features,” Arnav said.

“The new language was certainly very interesting, but just being able to think of a problem, being creative with it and building different functions of the app were all learning experiences.”

My Life Resume, along with the other apps in the �inal stage of the competition, are in the process of being published on Google Play.

Arnav isn’t waiting around, though. In fact, he’s already working on a new mov-

and the executive leadership team to create and leverage partnerships that strengthen Delta Dental of Arizona’s ability to meet current and evolving market demands while remaining true to its mission of improving lives by promoting optimal oral health.

In addition to new members, GPL elected chief executive of�icer of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Pam Kehaly as chair; SRP chief executive of�icer Michael Hummel as vice chair; Snell & Wilmer Phoenix �irm chair Matthew Feeney as treasurer; and Emerging Airport Ventures chief executive of�icer Gonzalo de la Melena as secretary.

Re-elected to their third three-year terms are MAP Strategies president and chief executive of�icer Mi-Ai Parrish; Urias Strategies president Lisa

Eli began conversing with Chapparal Park Operations Supervisor Phil Hershkowitz about the project.

Fortunately for Eli, the project required little persuasion and Hershkowitz greenlit it.

Then came the challenge of getting funding for the project. Eli started a GoFundMe page in early August and crossed his �ingers hoping he would raise a minimum of $2,000.

The community knocked his goal out of the park and Eli wound up raising nearly $2,300 in just a week and a half.

He is mulling over whether to use the excess funds to fund additional activities for the troop or to donate them to the Vista Del Camino food bank. ie recommendation app that uses AI and machine learning concepts to rate movies and give users recommendations.

“It is a very proud moment for me as a teacher to witness the success of my coding student, Arnav,” Agnihotri said.

“I feel that I was able to help him learn and pass along my knowledge, technical concepts and experience in coding.

I wish Arnav a bright future and all the best.”

Arnav said he plans to keep learning and continue to build.

Naresh joked that maybe Arnav will create an app that helps with tennis and combine his two hobbies. Or, Naresh

Urias; Lewis & Roca managing partner Ken Van Winkle; and re-elected to their second three-year terms are Banner Health chief executive of�icer Peter Fine, Goodman’s Interior Structures chief executive of�icer Adam Goodman, Sundt Construction chief executive of�icer Mike Hoover and Valor Global chief executive of�icer Simer Mayo.

“This is a terri�ic team of leaders, and we are grateful for their willingness to serve,” says Neil Giuliano, GPL president and chief executive of�icer.

“With signi�icant individual and collective community engagement, they will provide thoughtful direction and strategic vision for strengthening the business advocacy voice of GPL and our role in helping guide and strengthen the future of Arizona.”

With the funds secured and materials purchased, Eli rallied fellow Scouts from Troop 201 and began cutting and painting all of the supplies Aug. 20, �inishing this weekend.

Eli hopes that his act of service serves inspires more acts of community service.

“I don’t need them to know how hard it was,” he said. “I just hope that they enjoy having a place to put all their stuff and it makes things easier on them.”

A senior at Saguaro High School, Eli will suit up for one more season at shortstop and third base for the school’s baseball program this spring.

“I just hope that whoever uses it enjoys it and I think they should last for a long time.” said, maybe Arnav will become a chef, because he also loves to cook in his free time.

Whatever it may be, he knows his son has learned a lot and has a bright future.

“I believe learning AI and Data Science are table stakes for all students in the future,” Naresh said. “Studying coding has developed Arnav’s approach to solving complex problems and, as a parent, it’s gratifying to watch his progress.”

The “18u18” �inalist, national tennis champion, national math champion, Taekwondo black belt holder and beginner chef currently attends ASU Preparatory Academy.

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New soap boutique ready for busy holiday season

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nyone who has walked around the Arizona Boardwalk may have noticed a sweet scent coming from the newly opened Soap Bubble Boutique.

The Soap Bubble Boutique opened in June in the former space of Vitality Oxygen Bar and has blown its customers away with its array of locally grown and crafted soaps, bath bombs and several other goodies.

“Our products are 95% to 100% organic and all-natural. They won’t have any microplastics in them and they won’t have artificial colors or sense, which means everything in here should not stain your body, your skin or your tubs,” said store manager Nala Kahamphasithivong. “Something that we worked on with all of these

Nala Kahamphasithivong manages The Soap Bubble, which just opened on the Arizona Boardwalk. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer)

is they’re biodegradable, so nothing should get stuck in the tubs and nothing should create any issues.”

In addition to sourcing products that are organic and biodegradable, Soap Bubble Boutique has a selection of products that are locally crafted.

“With the local vendors making them they make them either with pure shea butter or pure coconut oil, they’ll have just pure plain ingredients straight from the source,” Kahamphasithivong said.

Kahamphasithivong says she found most of her suppliers through local markets or through relationships that vendors had with other shops that call Arizona Boardwalk home.

“I met a lot of them at markets and some of the vendors are close friends with some of the tenants around here

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Scottsdale �irm memorializes Beatles with coin

BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer

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hen The Beatles unveiled their 1968 animated �ilm, “Yellow Submarine” the �ilm was quickly immortalized with art, toy versions of the submarine and now, nearly �ive and a half decades later, a limited-edition coin.

Scottsdale-based The Crown Mint — an independent �irm that develops products and packaging for the collectibles industry — recently announced it is selling 24kt pure gold or .999 silver coins shaped like the iconic yellow submarine in four weights and sizes. The coins are currently available for pre-sale on crownmint.com “The Beatles are probably the most in-

Crown Mint Principal Steven Harris holds up his company’s new collectible coin that honors The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine.

(David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer)

�luential band in the history of rock and roll so it was a pretty obvious choice,” Crown Mint principal Steven Harris said.

“There are a lot of coin companies from around the world that went after that license for a long time and at one point, we were in direct competition with the Royal Mint — the company that produces circulating coins in the UK,” Harris said. “So, it’s a pretty big deal to have gotten that license over everybody else that’s been after it.”

It was also something of a dream come true for him.

Harris remembers sifting through pocket change alongside his father, looking for silver dimes and quarters. He

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ne Medical in Arizona has opened a modernized primary care practice with four Valley locations, including Biltmore, Kierland Commons, SanTan Village and Scottsdale Fashion Square.

Its mission is to make quality care more affordable, accessible, and enjoyable and is a practice designed around aging patients.

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too,” she said.

“A lot of us have used their products and so when we got this started, we thought ‘We already know we use and love them, so why not ask them and see if we could buy products from them wholesale to feature in the store and help them get a bigger spotlight?’”

Stocking up on locally made products has proved to be successful for the Soap Bubble Boutique and Kahampha-

it easy for patients to get care when and where they need it through the One Medical app and website.

At no additional cost, virtual care services include year-round on-demand video chats with no copays, provider messaging for follow-up questions and needs, easy prescription renewals and convenient access to lab results, specialty referrals, vaccine records, prescription details and more.

“One Medical seniors expands our ability to serve more seniors with our shared focus on delivering exceptional primary care through an accessible, high-quality approach with an integrated 24/7 telehealth and in-of�ice care experience,” said Dr. Giovani Michieli.

“We do have members of our technical support team that can help our senior patients as well as the local team that is willing to ensure seniors are set up for success

with their membership.”

“Through our 24/7 virtual care services and same and next-day appointments, One Medical helps our patients avoid expensive emergency, hospital or specialty care,” said Michieli.

One Medical accepts most major insurance plans and bills for services through personal insurance.

sithivong has already noticed these products fly off the shelves – particularly among people who are getting a head start on their holiday shopping.

“We have tons of people gearing up for the holiday season already,” Kahamphasithivong said. “So, it’s a good store for people looking for wedding season, birthdays around the corner and then the coming holiday season.”

Kahamphasithivong said she is talking with vendors about stocking up for the holiday season early, especial-

ly after noticing that there were challenges when opening the store with sourcing products and tracking down deliveries.

“Shipping delays were one thing for us when we were getting the store started,” she said. “It was a lot of having to track down where some shipments have gone and being in Arizona, it was really scary to me because we don’t know if the products had melted on the way here.”

Because of this, Kahamphasithivong

is doing everything she can to ensure that her shelves and bins scattered about the store stay full for customers.

“We want to make sure that we would have products before that holiday season came so that we can avoid those shipping issues,” she said.

Not only does Kahamphasithivong hope to maintain full supply, but she also plans to alter some of the products she offers to keep up with the

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started The Crown Mint in 2008, looking for ways re-introduce younger people to coin collecting.

“These days, people don’t carry a lot of pocket change, so there isn’t that touchstone,” Harris said. “My thought was, ‘This is a really neat hobby, how do we get it and direct it towards a younger audience?’ I then thought pop culture is a good tool that could work and so far, it has.”

The �irst coins rolled out in 2013 and were authentic, legal tender coins based on the Star Wars �ilms. With them, the Crown Mint became the �irst company in the world to produce a legal tender coin that featured a major Hollywood property.

Since then, The Crown Mint has produced coins in conjunction with Coca-Cola, Marvel and The Rolling Stones before venturing into a yellow submarine and taking on the world of The Beatles this year.

“Ideally, we’re trying to get a younger group into collecting coins but in reality, we’re trying to get anybody into collect-

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ing coins,” Harris said. “So, you have to look at things that people are passionate about and one of those things certainly is music.”

When Harris began targeting music fans, there were two bands he eyed: The Rolling Stones and The Beatles.

“If you ask people, ‘What are the two biggest rock and roll bands ever?’ I think the Beatles would certainly come up and I believe the Rolling Stones would also come up. So those were two groups that we targeted,” he explained.

However, The Beatles turned out to be more of a challenge than he anticipated.

The Crown Mint had to partner with Apple Corps Ltd. – the conglomerate company created by the band in1968 that controls The Beatles Property and is still owned by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to this day.

That wasn’t the only company that The Mint Collective had to persuade to make the vision of the Yellow Submarine coin a reality.

The deal had to also be brokered by Sony’s Thread Shop, the Beatles’ North American licensing agent.

However, once the two entities saw

the work that The Crown Mint had done with other entities, it seemed like a nobrainer.

With the project given the go-ahead, The Crown Mint got to work producing submarine-shaped coins out of either 24k pure gold or .999 silver embossed with a golden yellow submarine that looks identical to the one featured in the �ilm.

The coins are currently available for pre-sale in four options: One ounce of pure 24kt gold, 12 grams of pure 24kt gold, one ounce of pure .999 silver and 10 grams of pure .999 silver and orders are expected to begin shipping out as early as Sept. 16.

The coins are currently selling for $129.95 on crownmint.com.

With two of rock’s most famous acts already immortalized with authentic, legal-tender collectible coins, Harris teased that there could be another rock act that The Crown Mint pursues with its next set of coins.

However, Harris’ current focus is on giving fans of The Beatles a unique relic to add to their collection.

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“I’ve already got a few holiday items and we plan on getting more in September so that we will have different gift box sets,” Kahamphasithivong said.

“We will have holiday-themed items and holiday-scented items as well and we made sure to pick those things before those seasons came so that we didn’t have to worry about not receiving them or not having the product that we wanted here.”

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Scottsdale’s political landscape shifts dramatically

BY JASON ROSE Progress Guest Writer

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ran my �irst successful campaign in Scottsdale in 1994. Two years later I consulted on the campaign that elected the city’s �irst female mayor, Sam Campana.

Ever since I have been heavily involved in the Scottsdale political scene leading elections for other mayors, hockey arenas and bonds to fund new infrastructure.

I offer these credentials not to tout but they cause frequent questions of me with many in Scottsdale: what the heck is going on politically in the city?

Most of the questions come from those in the business or development community. Over the years my answer when asked similar questions has been “welcome to Scottsdale schizophrenia.”

City council elections have often been decided by who was pro-business or prodevelopment, and how much money was raised from such interests. These candidacies most often, but not always, prevailed and governed the council’s majority.

Unlike other cities, Scottsdale’s electorate persistently wanted to keep a leash on pro-development proclivities. Sometimes the majority would swing decidedly in a pro-development favor, as it did in

2008 when the economy was down, but most other times enjoyed smaller 4-3 or 5-2 margins. This had been the case for decades.

But then something remarkable happened in 2018, largely caused by a citizen uproar over the ill-conceived Desert Discovery Center that returned and swept an incumbent and newbie – Kathy Littl�ield and Solange Whitehead – to the City Council. Incumbent Linda Milhaven barely hung on to win.

The next cycle in 2020 saw the arrival of a growth suspicious Mayor Ortega to replace the very pro-business Mayor Lane. Then, just weeks ago, Little�ield and Whitehead overwhelmingly won re-election and all three of the more prodevelopment candidates �inished last with development skeptic Barry Graham also performing impressively.

This can no longer be called “Scottsdale schizophrenia.” This may very well be a political pendulum becoming permanent, a fundamental change in the Scottsdale body politic.

Looking to Scottsdale’s next-door neighbor, Paradise Valley, may be instructive.

There, undoubtedly, lies a beautiful community that has settled into its identity with desert, views, resorts and low crime.

Those who run for of�ice there know

they are no more than custodians for the enviable enclave because the leadership before them was so outstanding.

Paradise Valley doesn’t need anything to be great; it already is. It’s that electoral evolution that drives decision-making and candidacies there.

And it seems to be what is happening now in Scottsdale.

Scottsdale, like Paradise Valley, has determined that between McDowell Mountain preservation, a thriving Old Town, the Indian Bend Wash, great employment centers, great neighborhoods and fantastic special events, it too is exceptional already.

And factoids would seem to bear that out as signature events enjoy record attendance, property values have skyrocketed, and the city has even become the number two destination in the country for bachelorette parties!

Campaigns that touted “Keep Scottsdale Special” in the past with mixed results now win in landslides. That type of messaging is emblematic of most every political campaign in Paradise Valley, and has been for years.

Scottsdale doesn’t need a bunch more stuff to be cool, voter attitudes seem to be.

It already is cool, they are proclaiming at the ballot box.

Are there economic risks with such

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an approach? Sure. But Paradise Valley, which doesn’t even have a property tax, has proved enduring, so why not Scottsdale?

Redevelopment will still occur in both communities, as it should and must. And silly opposition to some of these plans isn’t in keeping with the shifting attitudes being expressed here. It’s just, as said above, silly.

But it is undeniable that more plans, proposals, and appropriations are now judged more suspiciously by the ultimate bosses – the people – and if it keeps Scottsdale, or Paradise Valley, special.

Three election cycles in a row of successful slow growth candidacies is not a blip. It is a trend. Of something.

Time will tell if my assessment is right, or wrong. But just as Scottsdale’s �irst decades were dominated by can do councils that created and approved so much it may be now, like Paradise Valley, voters really want to applaud those achievements by not applauding those who want to do too much more.

Rose is a long-time, Scottsdale-based political consultant and public relations executive who founded and runs Rose & Allyn Public & Online Relations in Scottsdale. He can be reached at jrose@roseallynpr.com.

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Saguaro prepares for national power Bergen Catholic

BY ZACH ALVIRA Progress Sports Editor

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aguaro High School’s football program has never been the one to shy away from competition. If anything, the Sabercats embrace it.

That has been the case for the last decade when Saguaro began its rise as a state power. That’s been the case since head coach Jason Mohns took over and started to schedule out-of-state teams to compete against on a near yearly basis.

The Sabercats have faced some of the best teams from California, Colorado, Nevada and Utah during their reign as one of the best programs Arizona has to offer.

They see each matchup with a team from outside the state as a way to put their program and Arizona high school football on the map. But this year, to start the season, they’re going wellbeyond surrounding states for perhaps their biggest test to open the season the program has ever had.

On Friday, Sept. 2, 12th ranked Saguaro will host New Jersey’s Bergen Catholic, the third-ranked team in the nation in 2021 and No. 21 entering this season.

“These guys are at Saguaro for a reason,” Mohns said of his players during Saguaro’s media day. “It was important for them to wear the black and gold and to compete at the highest level. They’re not afraid of that. They’re not afraid to compete at practice, they’re not afraid to compete against the rest of the state or the country, which is why we’re taking on Bergen Catholic.

“The reason why Bergen is willing to travel across the country to play us is because nobody else would play them.”

Bergen Catholic’s rise to one of the top programs in the nation doesn’t come as much of surprise given the sheer level of talent on the roster.

Saguaro head coach Jason Mohns said his team embraces the challenging schedule they have this season. They want to prove they’re one of the best teams in the nation and that starts with Bergen Catholic. (Dave Minton/Progress Staff)

The Crusaders’ defense is led by 6-foot-5, 335-pound defensive tackle Sydir Mitchell, a Texas commit. Alongside him at defensive end is DJ Samuels, a Maryland commit.

Kaj Sanders is one of the top athletes in New Jersey in the 2024 class and running back Saeed St. �leur returns to lead the back�ield after rushing for more than 700 yards as the backup last season.

While Bergen Catholic’s talent pool runs deep, so does Saguaro’s.

The Sabercats are led by quarterback Devon Dampier, who came on strong in the playoffs last year leading his team to an Open Division state championship win over Chandler.

Dampier was without one of his top wideouts in Deric English, who is now healthy after a knee injury in Week 6 that sidelined him for the season. Dampier will also have running back Zaccheus Cooper in the back�ield, who was also lost to a knee injury in Week 6. Cooper

will be joined by standout junior Jaedon Matthews.

Wide receiver Chris Nimcheski will also provide support for Dampier, among others who are all explosive athletes on the outside. The offensive talent as a whole makes Dampier’s job easier.

They also have helped keep him calm and level-headed heading into perhaps one of the biggest tests of his career outside of Chandler last season.

“I might be a little too excited,” Dampier said. “It’s going to be a big game and the receiving core I have this year is ridiculous. Just to be able to pass to them and knowing I have them to throw to, it feels easy on my part.”

On defense Saguaro is led by senior cornerback Cole Shivers, a Northwestern commit. Opposite of him is sophomore Jaci Dickerson, who is already one of the top players in the nation for his class. Levi Robbins at defensive back also presents a challenge for op-

posing offenses.

JoJo Clark leads a linebacking core that includes John Butler and Trey Morrison, the younger brother of current Arizona State linebackers Kyle and Connor Soelle.

Shivers believes the defense is ready for the challenge Bergen Catholic presents. It’s a physical team up front, but so is Saguaro. Shivers believes his team is in good position to win on Friday. He’s banking on the team’s chemistry to get it done.

“I really feel like we’re in a good position to win that game,” Shivers said.

“We have a strong winning culture here.

We’re a strong knit group and every day we try to get better. If we ever have a bad period, we �ix it. That’s championship football.”

Saguaro enters the season with 20 players of all ages having received a Division I scholarship offer to continue their football careers at the next level.

Even more have received Division II and III offers.

The Sabercats have the right pieces in place to contend for and win another Open Division state title. But it will require getting through a gauntlet of a schedule that is easily on of the toughest in the state. It features three Open Division teams from last season and Highland and Chaparral, which have played for the 6A title the last two years.

Saguaro will also face 5A Desert Edge, which �igures to play for a spot in the Open this year. But it all starts with Bergen Catholic in a battle of two national powers.

“Personally, I love competition,” Dampier said. “I think it makes me a better player and I think it makes everyone on the team better players. We have a bond that is going to keep us going. I think we are going to be prepared every week.”

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Taliesin West working on accessibility, infrastructure

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aliesin West, the famed winter home of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, is nearing the end of a nearly four-year renovation to make the facility more accessible and is about to renovate a water and sewer infrastructure that is over eight decades old.

Railings have been added, bathroom accessiblity improved and parts of the campus made more level to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Replacement of the sewer and water infrastructure is expected to begin next spring and take a year.

“The last couple of years, we’ve focused on improving accessibility,” said Fred Prozzillo, the vice president of preservation at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. “Our main goal is to share Taliesin West with as many people as possible and it’s a tricky thing to make the historic site accessible.”

The site received The National Endowment for the Humanities grant for $50,000 in October 2019 to become more ADA-compliant.

However, this proved to be a challenge for the historic property.

“We’re limited with what we can do because we are a national historic landmark and a World Heritage Site,” Prozzillo said. “We don’t want to take away from the property’s historic character or remove historic materials. So, we must devise creative ways to get people through.”

One of those ways involved blending the new additions with the property’s historic architecture.

“We’ve improved surfaces and walkways and ramps to allow people to get through with walkers and wheelchairs, we’ve added handrails at steps and we’ve worked to create pretty simple

Painted to blend in with the surrounding environment, a metal ramp provides access over the steps outside Frank Lloyd Wright’s office as accessibility improvements at Taliesin West. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer)

clean lines so that the handrails kind of fade into the background and don’t detract from the character things,” Prozzillo said.

Although the renovation started smoothly, it was signi�icantly derailed in March 2020 by nearly a year and a half because of pandemic lockdowns and supply shortages.

“With the changes in the accessibility of the site, having to work from home and the workforce issues that are coming up now and the issues with the supply chain, so that makes it a little more challenging,” Prozzillo said.

“We have things like air conditioning units that we’d typically get within a week and now we’re waiting four to six months for things like that. So that hurts.”

Rising costs have also put the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in a pinch since the foundation is a nonpro�it organization.

“As a nonpro�it you know, we depend on tourism and gifts from donors and grants,” Prozzilo said. “However, by the time we go out to do the actual construc-

tion, numbers have changed and then that’s really tough on us because it’s hard to go back to a donor and say, ‘you know what, now it’s two times what we estimated.’

“So that poses a real challenge to cheer our team to be able to go out and fund a lot of this work.”

However, Prozzillo was able to manage and is seeing the project through to its �inal stretch.

His two other projects involve redesigning new water and sewer infrastructure for the property and replacing the canvas roofs over the main buildings.

“The whole infrastructure of this site was all done by these young men and women who were 20 to 30 years old and were learning construction by building these walls and by putting the plumbing in the ground,” Prozzillo said.

“While it was a great learning experience for them, today for us, it makes it challenging because they weren’t trained plumbers and they weren’t trained electricians. The materials and the way they put things together, over time, have deteriorated and are at the

end of their lifespan.”

“Without water and restrooms, we can’t open to the public,” Prozzillo said.

“That’s work that could be disruptive to a site so we had to be careful with planning. We worked with a local civil engineer to come up with ways to loop the new water system around the property so that we’re disturbing as little surface ground as possible.”

The canvas roofs that loom over the main buildings are currently being assessed to be redesigned with new panels made out of contemporary fabrics capable of withstanding the harsh desert climate.

In preparation, the Foundation’s preservation team has been monitoring the interior environment in Wright’s of�ice – one of the facility’s signature buildings – since October 2021 to track temperature, humidity, rain and other natural elements to understand the effect those elements have on the building.

Once a year’s worth of data has been compiled, the team will create a computer-generated model with the proposed panel designs to test different materials, such as polytetra�luoroethylene (PTFE) coated �iberglass fabrics and aerogel insulation to measure durability and impact on the interior environment.

“We want to look at restoring the site to the character that was stored in Wright’s lifetime and this idea of having fabric groups is intriguing to us,” Prozzillo said. “So, we want to get back to that canvas tent-like feel because the idea of making this feel like a camp was very important to living here.

“We want to get back to the camplike feel but we need to do it in a way that the Frank Lloyd Wright foundation can occupy the site year-round and we can have people going through the site year-round.”

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Scottsdale author marries poetry with wine

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ward-winning author and filmmaker Alexandria Rizik sat at home during the 2020 pandemic lockdown thinking about what she would do when the world became “normal” again.

From an epiphany, she launched a red wine called “Poetry in a Bottle.”

“I wanted to have my own business and I’ve always been so passionate about wine,” Rizik said. “So, I combined my love for writing and poetry with my passion for wine and came up with Poetry in a Bottle.”

Rizik stumbled upon a company called Blendtique in Happy Canyon outside of Santa Barbara, California, which delivered samples of wine to her doorstep.

Rizik told Blendtique that she was looking for a specific red wine that tasted fruit-forward but was still dry as well as what percentage of certain types of grapes she wanted.

Rizik received a bottle of her custommade wine and after popping the cork and pouring herself a glass, she knew she had found the perfect drink.

Rizik then shared the bottle with her three sisters, who, she admits, are not the biggest fans of red wine. They couldn’t resist the sweet, dry beverage.

“We all tried it together and we all agreed that this is it,” Rizik said. “This is the perfect wine for people, whether they like red wine or don’t like red wine. It’s something that will bring people together over dinner, drinks or good company.”

As an accomplished writer, Rizik’s next plan was to draft a witty title for her new concoction when she thought of a writing style, she often equates it with red wine.

Award-winning author and filmmaker Alexandria Rizik has sensationalized tastebuds with two lines of wines; a red wine titled “Poetry in a Bottle” and a sauvignon blanc titled “Kiss in the Rain.” (Courtesy of Poetry in a Bottle)

“With the title ‘Poetry in a Bottle,’ I wanted something kind of poetic,” she said. “When I think of the word poetic, I think of red wine.”

Rizik began pitching her new wine to some of Scottsdale’s most notable restaurants like EVO, Dominick’s Steakhouse, Sorso Wine Room, Steak 44 and Ocean 44.

“Scottsdale is so great with supporting small businesses and so I’ve had so much support from my accounts that the wine is in,” Rizik said. “It was hard work to get in some of these restaurants but, as a female entrepreneur, you have to be persistent and keep turning people onto the wine.”

Rizik got her wine into the glasses of customers at all of the restaurants she pitched and has been astounded at how

well it has paired with their menus.

“I think they do Poetry in a Bottle perfectly because it’s not a wine you’re going to see just everywhere and anywhere, It’s a little bit more exclusive and I love the accounts that it’s currently available at,” she said. “I enjoy it with different types of pizza, like Margherita pizza, or pasta with red sauces and I also think it pairs well also with meats like filets or beef kebabs.”

After the success of Poetry in a Bottle. Rizik began crafting another wine with a contrasting taste to her inaugural bottle.

She wanted to create something for white wine lovers, which was why she decided to craft a sauvignon blanc that would be equally provocative and refreshing.

Just like with her red wine, Rizik received a sample of what she had in mind and fell in love with the �irst bottle.

“They were both nailed it on the first try and the Sauvignon Blanc is a perfect complement to the red wine,” she said.

Building on her experiences with her first wine, Rizik also found some food that she feels the wine pairs perfectly alongside.

“Since it’s a very light, crisp California white wine, I think a white fish or light salad pairs best,” Rizik said.

“I think it’s the wine you start the night off with and end the night off with,” she said. “I think it’s perfect for a girls’ night and I think it’s perfect if you are just looking to kind of cozy up after a long day and read a book. There are so many settings that you can drink this wine in, and that’s why I love it.”

After tasting the wine with her friends and family, Rizik’s last step was to give it a title before releasing it this summer.

“I wanted something a little bit more mysterious and had a sense of romanticism to it,” she said. “On the bottle, it’s a picture on the front of a couple kissing in the rain, hence the name ‘Kiss in the Rain.’ So, I wanted something a little bit lighter and something a little bit happier and more romantic.”

In addition to offering two unique variations of wine, Rizik’s bottles also include verses of poetry for connoisseurs to read as they sip.

“I wanted to re�lect with this product speci�ically that wine tells a story which is why it has the original poems on the back of the wine bottle,” she said.

With both wines now available for consumption, Rizik is eyeing releasing a rosé by next summer to pair with her current collection of wines.

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17-UP-2021 (The Osborn Residential Health Care Facility) Request by owner for approval of a Conditional Use Permit for a residential healthcare facility with +/- 247 units/beds including both minimal and specialized care, on a +/- 3.59 gross acre site with Downtown/ Downtown Multiple Use Type-2 Planned Block Development Downtown Overlay (D/DMU-2 PBD DO) zoning located at 3380 N Scottsdale Road. Staff contact person is Bryan Cluff, 480-312-2258. Applicant contact person is John Berry, (480) 385-2727.

10-AB-2021 (Garmo Residence Abandonment) Request by owner to abandon 20 feet of the Public Right of Way along the south property line, and abandon the east 8 feet of the 33-foot GLO roadway easement along the west, and abandon the south 8 feet of the 33-foot GLO roadway easement along the north property line for a parcel located at 27301 N 79th St with Single-family Residential, Environmentally Sensitive Lands, Foothills Overlay (R1-70 ESL FO) zoning. Staff contact person is Omar Smailbegovic, 480-3123087. Applicant contact person is Carlos Rayas, (602) 368-9375.

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