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Prestige Cleaners puts its neighbors and staff first BY BRIDGETTE M. REDMAN Progress Contributor
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restige Cleaners has been committed to doing the right thing by its customers, employees and community since 1964. It wasn’t about to let a thing like a pandemic change that. President and CEO Denise Testori said she’ll never forget when the news of the pandemic and the lockdowns hit. “It was St. Patty’s Day and there were a lot of rumors swirling around of what was going on,” Testori said. “I called my team — meaning all my plant managers — and we came in for an emergency meeting. It was so awesome. With a click of your fingers, they adjusted the schedule. I had outlined what was happening and how we needed to pull together and devise a system to be able to survive through this. In other words, take care of our customers, take care of our employees and maintain financial
Offering exceptional dry cleaning and laundry services, fine tailoring and alterations, and wedding dress preservation, the company has grown to six Scottsdale locations plus a corporate office. (Facdbook) Denise Testori, Prestige Cleaners CEO, has been with the company for 36 years. (Special to the Progress)
health for the company.” A 36-year Prestige Cleaners employee, Testori assumed the title of president and
CEO in 2019, just before the pandemic hit. They have seven plants and when volume dropped overnight, they consolidated into three plants, keeping their equipment running and servicing their customers. They made very few changes in company
policy and procedures — they already had drive-thrus, after-hour drop-offs, free delivery and pickup and contactless payment through either their app or their website.
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Tribe sues to halt sports betting in its tracks BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services
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ne of the state’s Native American tribes is suing to bring a halt to off-reservation wagering on sports just days before it is scheduled to begin. The lawsuit, filed in Maricopa County Superior Court by the Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe, contends that state lawmakers have no right to permit sports franchises to start taking wagers on professional and collegiate games. Attorney Luis Ochoa said that’s because Arizonans went to the polls in 2002 and voted to confine certain kinds of gaming to reservations. Ochoa said noted that another mea-
The Diamondbacks and Caesars Palace unveiled renderings of the sportsbook that will open at Chase Field. The 20,000-square-foot, two-story venue will feature with both indoor and outdoor seating, bar and VIP lounge with 1,500 square feet of LED screens and 10,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor dining space.
sure on the ballot that same year to permit off-reservation gaming was defeated, with 80 percent of the votes cast against it. Ochoa does not dispute that other tribes state have signed agreements with the state to permit such off-reservation gaming. In exchange, these tribes got the right not only to accept similar sports bets at their gaming facilities but got to expand the number and types they can offer in their casinos. But he said that still doesn’t get around the 2002 measure which he said is subject to the Voter Protection Act. That constitutional provision allows lawmakers to alter what is approved at the bal-
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