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NEWS............................... 4 4 schools miss enrollment target.

BUSINESS ............... 32 And the winners are....

SPORTS ..................... 36 Scottsdale Prep swim star's heart with horses.

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Sunday, November 17, 2019

Marijuana dispensary hits a roadblock

BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor

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proposed downtown Scottsdale medical marijuana dispensary is back to square one after it pulled its application last week amid scrutiny from city council.

The dispensary’s backers tried a lastminute Hail Mary, threatening to sue the city if it failed to approve the proposed Sunday Goods dispensary’s zoning request.

A West Valley lawmaker entered into the mix with a threat to remove state funding due to the Scottsdale’s restrictive medical marijuana zoning ordinance.

“A couple of days ago we received an indication that we would be sued if we did not vote for this item and it was followed today by someone going to Cesar Chavez, a state representative from District 29, that threatens us with withholding of our state shared tax revenues,” Mayor Jim Lane said at the Nov. 12 meeting.

The threat of litigation came from Dave Zeitlin, an attorney for Sunday Goods, in a letter to City Attorney Sherry Scott.

The letter made a case long argued

by Sunday Goods: Its current site is the only property in southern Scottsdale – the area where the state authorized Sunday Goods to open a dispensary – that complies with Scottsdale’s zoning ordinance.

see DISPENSARY page 8

Eggs-plosion of A different kind of graf�iti breakfast joints sweeps area

BY KRISTINE CANNON Progress Staff Writer

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arlier this year, Oregon-based Biscuits Café expanded into the northern Scottsdale area.

In late spring, popular Phoenix-based Matt’s Big Breakfast announced its expansion into the Scottsdale area, to take place sometime in the fall.

In September, Tucson’s popular brunch hot-spot, Prep & Pastry, celebrated its grand opening at the Scottsdale Waterfront.

And soon, Calgary, Canada-based OEB Breakfast – which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year – will open its first U.S. location in Scottsdale.

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ecent district enrollment data show all four elementary schools put on enrollment-growth plans

by Scottsdale Unified School District have not met goals set by the Governing Board last year.

Superintendent Dr. John Kriekard introduced the growth plan concept to the board last November as a way to boost enrollment at Echo Canyon School, and Navajo, Anasazi and Yavapai elementary schools.

The goal is to boost enrolment at the schools to 400 students in two years – excluding pre-K and special programs.

Schools that fail to meet the goals could be considered for closure or consolidation by the board.

The plans were based on a similar tactic used in the Paradise Valley Unified School District, said Kriekard, who was PVUSD’s superintendent in the past.

The district set the bar at 400 students, because schools below that level struggle undercurrent the state’s existing funding model, interim SUSD Chief Financial Officer Jeff Gadd told the board last year.

“Four hundred is on the lower end of the spectrum, but it is within reason in terms of how this state funds public schools, and I think the 400 threshold would give this district, and any other district for that matter, a reasonable position to be in financially,” Gadd said.

The plans set an initial 10 percent growth goal within the first year and require each school to identify a specialized program it would use to attract new students, such as the STEAM – science, technology, engineering, arts and math – program at Navajo.

The district’s first deadline will come due when the board discusses the enrollment plans on Nov. 19.

According to the district’s 40-day enrollment numbers, while all four schools on growth plans did not meet the 10 percent target, Echo Canyon did reach 400 students.

Echo Canyon, a K-8 school in the neighborhood just west of downtown Scottsdale, had 40-day enrollment of 390 students in 2018. The school’s 40-day enrollment in 2019 was 401 students, which missed the 10 percent benchmark by 28 students.

A study presented at the board’s meeting Oct. 15, showed some excess

Navajo Elementary, which has operated out of a temporary campus since an August 2018 fire damaged the school, is one of four schools in Scottsdale on enrollment growth plans.(Wayne Schutsky/Progress Managing Editor)

capacity in Echo Canyon’s K-5 section but also showed the Echo Canyon’s middle school was actually overenrolled by 11 students.

The school still had room for more students in its kindergarten and firstgrade classrooms, according to the study.

Echo Canyon was the lone school on the growth plan list to reach 400 students.

Anasazi, a northern Scottsdale school currently on track to become one of the few International Baccalaureate, or IB, Primary Years Programme schools in the Valley, grew from 378 to 390 students between 2018 and 2019.

Navajo, which had 344 students in 2018, had a goal of 378 but added only one student in 2019.

Yavapai lost students, going from 262 to 247 between 2018 and 2019, falling short of its 288-student goal.

Yavapai is currently sharing its campus with Hohokam Elementary students and staff as that school is being rebuilt using a bond approved by voters in 2016.

Failure to meet the 10 percent goal will not mean automatic consolidation or closure. Rather, it gives the board an opening to begin discussions on the schools’ future.

Additionally, the plans appear to leave wiggle room open for schools that have not reached the goals but are making a good effort to improve enrollment.

The enrollment plans – signed by each school’s principal – state that “Schools

not actively implementing the agreedupon approach and that are below the first year 10 percent enrollment increase by Nov. 2019 will be considered by the SUSD Board for consolidation.”

Similarly, schools that survive the November 2019 discussion could still be considered for consolidation if they do not reach 400 students by November 2020.

According to a presentation by Kriekard to the board last year, the process to make a decision to close a school would last no less than 20 days.

The board would first give at least 10 days' written notice to all stakeholders when it plans to hold a public meeting to discuss a proposed closure. The board then would wait another 10 days after that meeting before voting.

Last year, Kriekard told the board that at Paradise Valley district, the growth plans resulted in some schools boosting enrollment and others consolidating but also offered transparency into the decision-making process for the community.

“After the process, parents understood why. They (welcomed) the new (consolidated) schools,” Kriekard said.

In SUSD, district leadership is likely to recommend giving at least one school a temporary reprieve.

Navajo has been operating out of a temporary campus for over year after an August 2018 fire caused millions of dollars in damages. The board ulti-

see ENROLLMENT page 6

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SUSD board OKs school chief criteria

BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor

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he Scottsdale Unified Governing Board approved its selection criteria for the next superintendent, checking one more item off the list as it works towards picking the district’s next leader.

The board unanimously approved the search criteria at a special meeting Nov. 5.

The board could pick its new superintendent as early as February, according to a timeline approved by the board in October.

Much of the criteria discussion focused on accountability and how candidates demonstrated their accountability in past positions.

The board members discussed different ways to specifically word the accountability portion of its criteria and whether or not it should require a “record” of accountability or prioritize candidates that have built a “culture” of accountability.

Ultimately, the board decided to use “a culture of accountability to all stakeholders of the schools and community,” according to district documents.

Phrasing aside, Board President Patty Beckman emphasized that finding an accountable leader was more important than the specific verbiage of the

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mately voted to renovate the campus at the same time as repair work took place.

“Although enrollment will be reviewed in Nov. 2019 as part of the growth plan commitment that was established, we know that due to the he

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The Scottsdale Unified School District Governing Board approved search criteria as it prepares to find a replacement for Superintendent Dr. John Kriekard. (Progress file photo)

criteria.

“I don’t have a problem with either; it’s the accountability, in general, that is my concern,” Beckman said.

By and large, the criteria are similar to the criteria used by the last Governing Board last year during a search that was ultimately canceled.

However, the new criteria differed in a few ways, board member Allyson Beckham said.

The new criteria removed a previous stipulation that the new superinten-

fire on Aug. 22, 2018, Navajo has been placed in a situation where it is at a disadvantage to grow its enrollment,” Assistant Superintendent Ibi Haghighat told the board Sept. 17.

Navajo is scheduled to move back to its renovated permanent campus following the district’s winter break, Principal Matt Patzlaff said.

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Patzlaff said he is happy the school has been able to at least maintain its enrollment in the midst of the turmoil caused by the fire.

Haghighat told the board that giving Navajo a year to grow its enrollment at its permanent campus “will provide a better idea regarding whether it is able to sustain itself.”

Patzlaff said he believes returning to the renovated campus will benefit its STEAM program and efforts to boost enrollment.

In October, the board approved $126,000 for both Navajo and Laguna Elementary to contract with Discovery Ed to pursue a three-year-long STEAM accreditation.

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dent must have experience in a K-12 district of a similar size in a “competitive choice environment” and have experience with a bond of $200 million or more.

The board also added criteria that candidates have “an understanding of the importance of creating an exceptional educational experience that enables the district to attract and retain students, parents and staff.”

The rest of the criteria focuses on how the new superintendent would lead the

district, including requiring a record of data-driven decision making.

The candidates must possess “datadriven decision making that has produced successful academic outcomes for all children,” according to criteria approved by the board.

Board member Jann-Michael Greenburg said he supported using data in making decisions for the district but questioned why that was the only type of decision-making singled out in the criteria.

“Most people make decisions looking at a number of things, including data,” Greenburg said. “For me, it’s an interesting one to emphasize the data aspect of that….I just think that data is one aspect of the decision-making process.”

Beckham said that while the district may now use data effectively, that was not always the case.

She said she supported including the data stipulation in the criteria to avoid backtracking.

“Now that we do have data, we don’t want that to get lost because we have a superintendent who isn’t used to using it,” Beckham said.

The board also stipulated candidates should show “A strategic approach to identifying the needs of the district and our students and possess the ability to develop plans that target measurable growth in identified critical areas.”

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The letter said by denying an application, the city would be violating the state law that legalized medical marijuana.

“Since the City of Scottsdale has designated an extraordinarily tiny area in which a new medical marijuana dispensary can operate,” Zeitlin wrote.

“And because Sunday Goods has the only viable location within that area, should the City of Scottsdale not pass the pending rezoning/CUP case, the City’s actions will be illegal as exclusionary and contrary to” state law, he added.

The City also received a letter making similar threats from state Rep. Cesar Chavez, D-29, minutes before the meeting, Lane said.

The letter was submitted without a name by an anonymous email address called residentscottsdale@gmail.com.

Scerbo said Sunday Goods was not involved in the letter from Chavez.

“A group of lawmakers previously sent in a letter of support for Sunday goods. The person who sent the letter would need to be asked directly. We did not have contact with that person,” Scerbo wrote via email.

In the letter, Chavez wrote of his concern that the city’s current zoning is unreasonable and that he may ask the Attorney General to investigate if the city is in violation of state law – posing a possible loss in state shared revenue.

Chaves did not respond to a request for comment.

Lane argued Scottsdale’s ordinance does not violate state law and railed against the threats.

He said the legal threats put the Council in the position “of having to put the taxpayers’ resources in great jeopardy when you talk about shared tax revenues and the violation that’s being alleged. I’m not sure there really is one, but just the allegation puts things on hold.”

Sunday Goods asked the City Council to postpone the hearing, but the Council denied that request on a 4-3 vote, leaving the dispensary with only two options - present its case or pull its application.

Lane and Council members Suzanne Klapp, Guy Phillips and Kathy Littlefield voted against granting the extension. Council members Solange Whitehead, Linda Milhaven and Virginia Korte voted for the extension.

Milhaven said she supported the applicant’s request because the city granted similar extensions in recent

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argued that “spot zoning” the single dispensary property to designation with lower heights would make it difficult to build their project on surrounding property.

Spiro’s group joined forces last week with other downtown property owners who are opposing increased height and density in downtown Scottsdale to form a political group called the Committee for the Preservation of Old Town Scottsdale.

In a letter filed with the city, the new group threatened to inject money in the next year’s elections and possibly pursue a citizen referendum to promote its goal to preserve the character of downtown Scottsdale.

This rendering shows what owners of the proposed Sunday Goods envision as the look for their Janet Wilson, the new medical marijuana dispensary that would replace a shabby tattoo parlor. (Progress file photo) Old Town PAC’s cochair and a downtown complicated zoning cases to address report that those owners used a rule community concerns. tucked into state law to stage a suc- property owner, opposes proposed Attorney Jordan Rose, who repre- cessful legal challenge to the project, projects like Southbridge Two that sented Sunday Goods, made a similar forcing Sunday Goods to garner yes include buildings with heights up to argument, citing the recent approval votes from five of seven council mem- 150 feet.

Wilson’s group and the anti-dispenof the Museum Square development, bers to gain city approval of its zoning sary property owners make strange which was delayed before its approval request. in late October.

The state law allows 20 percent or bedfellows as one contingent is opposSince it did not appear the dispen- more of area property owners to pro- ing height and density while the other is opposing a two-story dispensary sary had the votes to pass, Rose pulled test proposed zoning amendments. the dispensary’s application – mean“If the owners of twenty percent with plans to build a high, dense muling Sunday Goods will have to go back or more of the property, by area and tiuse project in its place.

The group also threatened recall through the city’s entire approval pro- number of lots file a protest in writcess again if it wishes to open a dis- ing against a proposed amendment, elections if the Council approved the pensary in Scottsdale. the change shall not become effective projects it opposes.

The group spawned a competing PAC Lane said “we put in specific zon- except by the favorable vote of threeing requirements” in place and that he fourths of all members of the govern- backing Sunday Goods called Halting was clear with the owner from the be- ing body of the municipality,” accord- Inappropriate Growth, Heights and Hypocrisy, or H.I.G.H.H. ginning that he did not want to change ing to the statute.

That PAC, which has not yet filed that zoning.

The property owner group told the One major issue involved a preschool Progress that they had plans to assem- with the city, is chaired by Paula Sturlocated near the site well within the ble parcels and build a tall, mixed-use geon, who called the Old Town PAC’s city’s 1,500-foot limit. Sunday Goods development in the area that would be opposition to medical marijuana disrepresentatives had said they had a permitted under existing C-2 zoning. ingenuous.

“There are people who plain don’t deal in place to move the school, but C-2 allows for heights up to 60 feet, or like (marijuana) and then there are its presence became a rallying cry for 90 feet if certain city criteria are met. the opposition nonetheless.

Sunday Goods was requesting to re- the folks who want that land for other Rose indicated the dispensary would zone its site to a different designation purposes and are using that second group as cover,” Sturgeon said. come back before the city with an ap- with lower height limits.

Lane said the Old Town PAC’s threats plication after working through the Denial of the zoning request would community’s concerns. effectively kill the dispensary re- did not bother him as much as the Opposition to the dispensary has in- gardless of council’s decision on the threats of litigation coming from Suncreased in recent weeks, mostly from permit because the proposed site is day Goods.

“Frankly, that’s part of the process,” property owners that own buildings zoned C-2 commercial, which does in the vicinity of the proposed site on not permit medical marijuana dis- he said. “You want to put together a referendum? Do it. It’s not an easy Winfield Scott Plaza. pensaries.

On Nov. 4, the Progress was first to Daniel Spiro, one of the opponents, course, but it’s part of the process.”

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2nd plan advanced for recreational pot

BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

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rizonans who want to use marijuana recreationally would get a lot of places to buy it under a plan unveiled Wednesday that sponsors hope voters will approve.

The legislation crafted by the Arizona Cannabis Chamber of Commerce seeks to put a measure on the 2020 ballot to allow for 230 retail marijuana outlets – 100 more than the number now under the 2010 voter-approved medical marijuana.

It also would allow for establishment of 25 “craft’’ licenses to help those who want to process marijuana but are not associated with big growers or retailers.

Mason Cave, a member of the advisory board of the group crafting the new measure, said it also is designed to recognize that there are rural areas of the state without easy access to medical marijuana.

A quarter of the new licenses that would be created under the recreational marijuana proposal would be earmarked for cities and towns that do not have an existing dispensary within 25 miles.

The measure also would allow possession of up to an ounce of marijuana by any-

one 21 and older. It also envisions an excise tax – a levy atop sales taxes similar to what exists on liquor -- capped at 16 percent.

It also would keep in place requirements enacted by the Legislature earlier this year for testing marijuana that is offered for sale for everything from mold to pesticides.

And the industry would be regulated by the Department of Liquor Licenses and Control, the agency now responsible for enforcing liquor laws.

The move is in direct response to the Smart and Safe Act, an initiative crafted and being pushed by major players in the state’s existing medical marijuana industry.

That measure would limit the number of licenses to sell recreational marijuana to about 170 – mostly for the people who already have state medical marijuana licenses.

Cave said it is unfair to others who have effectively been locked out of the Arizona market.

He acknowledged that’s why much of the funding for this alternative is coming from interests, both in and out of Arizona, who want to get into the marijuana business, though he declined to identify them.

He also said the Smart and Safe Act is too lax in its testing requirements.

Cave said the Cannabis Chamber is looking for the middle ground between those who find the initiative too restrictive and those who would rather not legalize recreational use.

Polls have shown that if a marijuana measure is on the ballot, it will pass.

That buy-in from both sides is crucial because his organization is hoping to have its plan placed on the 2020 ballot by lawmakers.

If nothing else, that saves them the cost of hiring petition circulators to gather the 237,645 valid signatures needed by July 2 to send the issue to voters, the path being taken by the Smart and Safe Act. He conceded the result could be two measures on the 2020 ballot.

If both are approved, they both take effect, with the proviso that the one with more votes takes precedence in cases of conflicting sections.

It also means that voters, being confused, could reject them both, leaving Arizona without a recreational marijuana program.

Cave said he’s not concerned about that.

He said Missouri voters, confronting three separate measures last year on medical marijuana, managed to sort them out and approved only one.

State lawmakers could be asked to enact this plan or something close to it.

That would put something already on the books long before next November, giving voters a chance to decide whether they like what the Legislature did or seek to replace it with the initiative.

Legislative enactment also would allow lawmakers to make changes if problems developed.

Anything approved at the ballot, whether referred by lawmakers – as is the case with Cave’s proposal – or put there with petitions like the initiative cannot be repealed and or altered except for minor changes with a vote of three-fifths of the House and Senate.

“We would love to see that happen,’’ Cave said of legislative enactment.

But he also pointed out that Gov. Doug Ducey has strongly hinted he would veto any attempt to legalize marijuana for recreational use.

“I don’t think any state ever got stronger by being stoned,’’ the governor said.

The initiative also would allow those who have previously been convicted for possession of an ounce or less of marijuana to ask a judge to have their criminal records expunged.

Areas with more than 10 cases per 100,000 people include Maricopa, Pinal and Pima counties in Arizona, where average annual temperatures exceed 50 degrees Fahrenheit and annual rainfall is less than 23.6 inches.

Gorris then gathered climate projections from several climate models to estimate future temperatures and precipitation levels. She used that to estimate which counties might face outbreaks in the future.

“One way that I hope this research can be used is to really help educate our physicians that valley fever may be a potential risk in their area, so that they are aware to check for it when a patient comes in and shows symptoms,” said Gorris, who now works with the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

More than 1,000 Californians are hospitalized each year for valley fever and roughly 8 of every 100 people hospitalized die from the infection annually, according to the California Department of Public Health. In Arizona, health officials say more than 8,200 cases of the illness have been confirmed this year.

Last month, California Gov. Gavin New-

som signed into law new requirements for construction companies for training on prevention methods, early detection, diagnosis and treatment.

Arizona, however, doesn’t mandate valley fever awareness training.

Valley fever is spread by inhaling Coccidioides spores that become airborne when the soil is disturbed. It usually infects the lungs but can spread to other parts of the body, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The infection also affects domesticated animals but is not contagious.

Symptoms usually mimic those of the flu, and recovery often comes without treatment. But severe cases may require antifungal drug therapy or surgical removal of cavities in the lungs.

In May, identical bills were introduced in the U.S. House and Senate to “support endemic fungal disease research, incentivize fungal vaccine development, discover new antifungal therapies and diagnostics, and for other purposes.”

The House version was introduced by Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and cosponsored by Reps. Greg Stanton, David

Schweikert, Raul Grijalva and Ann Kirkpatrick of Arizona. The Senate bill was introduced by Arizona Sens. Martha McSally and Kyrsten Sinema.

Dr. John Galgiani, director of the Valley Fever Center for Excellence at the University of Arizona, said misdiagnosis is one of the biggest mistakes made with valley fever.

With so many transplanted newcomers in the nation – a big step toward protecting against the infection is educating the public on recognizing what to be tested for if they have the flulike symptoms, Galgiani said.

Although there’s no cure for valley fever, Galgiani said a vaccine is in development. The illness affects non-humans, too – 6% to 10% of dogs in Pima, Pinal and Maricopa counties contract valley fever each year, according to UArizona.

However, most dogs recover with early diagnosis and intervention, as well as adequate antifungal therapy, the university said. It already has a vaccine candidate that shows efficacy in mice, and researchers hope to have one available for dogs by 2021.

Arizona, California account for most valley fever cases

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Valley fever is an infection caused by a fungus that lives in soil in the Southwest.

New research finds that as climate change alters American landscapes in the coming decades, valley fever has the potential to spread far beyond the Southwest.

Researchers at the University of California/Irvine predict it will more than double over the next 75 years, spreading to the Midwest and Canada.

“This disease, as we know right now, is not currently found in Canada, but by the end of the 21st century, it may even extend into a whole new country,” said Morgan Gorris, lead author of the study and recent UC Irvine Ph.D. graduate, Gorris studied climate conditions in places where valley fever is most common and concluded that low rainfall and higher average temperatures allow the fungus to thrive.

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BREAKFAST from front

It’s a phenomenon we’ve watched before our eyes throughout 2019: the influx of breakfast- and brunch restaurants in Scottsdale and throughout the Valley.

But why now? And why the Valley?

“We’ve always been unique in a way that we’ve been a test market,” said Steve Chucri, president and CEO of the Arizona Restaurant Association. “Because we’ve been a melting pot of California, people from the Midwest out West, people from the East coast, very few people are natives here. And so as, as such, we have had ideas and concepts tested here.”

The breakfast segment may be thriving now, but according to Ryan Field of Plated Projects, Over Easy was one of the first to hit the market.

“And we look forward to ongoing continuous growth throughout Arizona,” said Field, Over Easy’s franchise partner.

Over Easy opened its first restaurant in 2008 in Phoenix. Now, the franchise has six locations in Arizona with two more opening in downtown Chandler and northern Scottsdale this month.

Over Easy also plans to expand into Flagstaff by the end of the year – and open new eateries in Mesa, Queen Creek, the West Valley and Tucson next year.

According to Chucri, homegrown restaurants, like Over Easy and Wildflower Bread Company, began to expand around 2012 or 2013.

This was also around the time that out-of-state breakfast restaurants, like Snooze and First Watch, expanded into Arizona.

Snooze first arrived in 2013 after opening its first restaurant in Colorado in 2006; and in 2014, First Watch purchased The Good Egg and converted all 19 locations into First Watch restaurants.

“Arizona was our third state we expanded to after starting in Colorado and expanding to Southern California,” said Andrew Jaffe, chief marketing officer for Snooze.

“Our CEO, David Birzon, had lived in the Valley for about 17 years and knew the market well as a great place for business. We understood that the valley offered great long-term opportunities for growth.”

Snooze has done so well in Arizona, it now has five locations, with a sixth to open at Circle Records and Tapes in downtown Phoenix in December.

“It’s an incredibly cool building and we have wanted to bring Snooze to this neighborhood since we first began looking at the Arizona market,” Jaffe said.

Mauro Martina is the founder and owner of OEB Breakfast Co, which will open its first U.S. location on the southeast corner of Scottsdale Road and Chauncey Lane.

(OEB Breakfast Co./Special to the Progress)

Scottsdale’s OEB Breakfast Co. will be a 2,900-square-foot restaurant with a menu that boasts elevated breakfast dishes, like the Holy Crab Eggs Benny made wild blue crab, fresh dill, dijon mustard and served on a butter croissant served with duck fat fried herb potatoes. (OEB Breakfast Co./Special to the Progress)

Jaffe said he’s seen an influx of – and emphasis on – the breakfast and brunch businesses over the last three to five years.

“I think this is a convergence of two things happening, the first one being that breakfast is part of a morning routine. I think people are wanting to start their day off right and including breakfast in that routine is important,” Jaffe explained.

And he’s right.

According to a 2017 report by NPD Group, a food and consulting research firm, out of the three mealtimes, only breakfast has seen a growth in traffic and breakfast visits for the year ending in March 2017 increased by 1 percent.

Additionally, Technomic’s 2016 Future of FSR Consumer Report found that 22 percent of consumers are more likely to visit full-service restaurants in the daytime hours than they were two years ago.

Further, NPD estimated that breakfast consumption, both in and away from home, would grow by 5 percent through 2019.

Jaffe said the second, broader trend that explains the increased interest in breakfast is people seeking more meaningful experiences.

“People are connecting with brands who provide deeper experiences and opportunities like that,” Jaffe said.

What Jaffe said Snooze does differently – and well – is making its guests feel part of the Snooze family and delivering an “uncompromising guest experience.”

“Our ever-evolving Snooze menu will continue to be innovative and will evolve ahead of guest needs and current food trends,” he said, adding: “We believe that continuing to tell our larger story about who we are and how we do breakfast differently from the way we think about our community and sustainability initiatives to the emphasis we

put on our responsibly sourced, Snoozeapproved ingredients.”

But why are restauranteurs choosing breakfast? What makes opening a breakfast-centric restaurant so appealing?

OEB Breakfast Co. founder, owner and chef Mauro Martina wanted to create his own schedule, one that would allow him to spend more time with his family.

“I wanted to have a restaurant. I wanted something small, something cozy, something that I can make the ingredients shine. And I want to have the right hours,” Martina explained. “Ten years ago, I thought it was the right thing, and I still today think that’s the right thing to do.”

Jaffe added that the advantage of owning and operating a breakfast restaurant is the ability to balance one’s career in the hospitality industry while still maintaining a personal life.

“Work-life balance is important at Snooze and being a breakfast restaurant allows for Snoozers to work and then be home with their families in the evening,” Jaffe said.

For the most part, breakfast restaurants also have the advantage of lower cost of goods, like eggs, bacon and bread — but not at OEB. “Sure, there are huge profit margins, but that’s not who we are,” Martina said.

“It’s European bacon. We’re working with truffles. We’re working with sturgeon caviar. We’re working with duck fat. It’s not cheap.”

OEB’s is a farm-to-table, chef-driven concept. For example, at its Scottsdale location slated to open on Nov. 25, OEB will use pasture-raised eggs and butter from Vital Farms based in California and Texas.

“We had a pretty hard time finding the perfect egg for us because I wanted a cage-free, free-range pasture, vegetarian-fed, GMO-free egg,” Martina said.

Martina said he chose Scottsdale as OEB’s first U.S. location because it’s already a year-round travel destination for Canadians.

He had plans to expand into Arizona two years ago.

“That sectors exploding right now in the U.S. and in Canada, not so much in Europe, but I think it will eventually,” Martina said. “I’m not surprised. I’m actually excited because this generates interest; this generates, for anybody in this sector, to explore further, and it’s fun. An egg is not just an egg. There’s so much you can do with it.”

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Fee hikes eyed at Scottsdale Airpark S PROGRESS NEWS STAFF

cottsdale Airport is proposing increased rates and fees after staff at the city-owned airport found its current rates and fees fell below market averages.

“The Scottsdale Aviation Department reviews its rates and fees annually to determine if any changes are necessary to cover costs associated with operating the airport,” said Sarah Ferrara, Aviation Planning and Outreach coordinator.

The airport is proposing increases to fees on fuel, fuel storage, overnight aircraft parking and rental cars and the hourly rate charged to customers who have work performed by airport staff.

The airport wants to hike its fuel flowage fee from 8 cents per gallon to 11 cents.

According to the airport, a recent market analysis of 18 Arizona airports found that Scottsdale’s current rate, in place since 2002, was well below the 11-cent average fuel flowage fee.

Scottsdale Airport was tied with Buckeye Airport with the lowest fuel flowage fee on the list. Yuma International Airport had the highest with 22 cents per gallon.

Scottsdale Airport is also proposing dou-

Scottsdale Aviation is proposing increased rates and fees for operators at Scottsdale Airport. (Pablo Robles/Progress Staff photographer)

bling its fuel storage facility fee from 25 cents per gallon to 50 cents.

Scottsdale Aviation also found that some of its aircraft parking fees were below market rate when compared to area airports.

Scottsdale currently charges overnight parking fees of $5 per night for single-engine aircraft and $15 for twin-engine aircraft. The airport also charges $75 for jets.

A market analysis found that the average charged overnight parking fees charged at 11 U.S. airports was $9.60 for single-engine, $15 for twin-engine and $89.13 for jets.

Scottsdale Aviation is proposing increasing its fee to $50 for single and twinengine turboprops and $110 for jets.

Scottsdale Airport is also proposing in-

creasing its nightly parking fee from $4 to $5 for single-rotor helicopters under 12,500 pounds and from $8 to $10 for single-rotor helicopters over 12,500 pounds.

The airport is proposing increasing the parking fee for twin-rotor helicopters from $12 to $15 per night. Scottsdale Aviation is also proposing an increased fee on rental car operators that work with fixed-base operators at the airport.

The airport is proposing increasing the monthly fee from 8 to 10 percent of the rental car operator’s gross income.

Revenue from the fees covers service costs, debt service and future capital costs.

Scottsdale Aviation is an enterprise fund, meaning it operates self-sufficiently without allocations from the city’s general fund.

Ferrara said the airport estimated it could bring in an additional $400,000 in revenue if all proposed rates and fees are approved.

Scottsdale Aviation is hosting a public open house on the increases on Nov. 21 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Thunderbird/Stearman meeting room, located in the Aviation Business Center at 15000 N. Airport Drive.

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EVIT �inds way to get City Council tweaks superintendent on campus Scottsdale General Plan

BY JIM WALSH Progress Staff Writer

BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor

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he East Valley Institute of Technology found a way to get Superintendent Dr. Chad Wilson back to work despite the automatic suspension of his fingerprint clearance card for his indictment on theft and misuse of public money.

Wilson, 49, who was promoted from interim superintendent to superintendent in July, has been reassigned to a new position that doesn’t require the card, director of external affairs.

The state requires most teachers and superintendents to carry the card if a criminal background check using their fingerprints shows they have no been convicted of most crimes.

Dana Kuhn, who previously was an assistant principal at EVIT, was promoted to interim superintendent, a position she is expected to fill until Wilson regains his fingerprint identification card.

The suspension of Wilson’s card left his job in a precarious situation.

His contract requires him to possess the card as a condition of employment, said Kevin Koelbel, EVIT’s director of legal services.

Koelbel acknowledged the job switch is a work-around, intended to get Wilson back to work after he took 16 days of personal leave when the card was suspended.

EVIT’s intention is for Wilson and Kuhn to return to their usual jobs eventually after Wilson regains his card, Koelbel said.

Originally, it was hoped Wilson would regain the card much faster, after an expedited administrative review on Oct. 18, before the Arizona Board of Fingerprinting.

But the state board declined to restore Wilson’s card without a full hearing, which could take three or four months.

Koelbel said it is possible that Wilson’s criminal case in Pinal County Superior Court could be cleared up before the fingerprinting board rules on his case.

Kuhn was filling in for Wilson, anyway, while he was off-campus. In return for her added responsibilities, Kuhn is receiving a stipend as compensation.

“We have regular leadership team meetings where educators get together to toss around ideas,’’ Koelbel said. “The board wants to let Wilson’s due process play out.’’

T DR. CHAD WILSON Because of that reason, Wilson’s pay also was not reduced, he said.

In addition, the board has recognized that Wilson’s alleged misdeeds had no connection to EVIT and that the charges stem from his actions while serving as superintendent of Apache Junction schools.

The obstacle with the fingerprint card is another complication from the board’s decision to retain Wilson, despite his indictment.

That indictment stems from a state Auditor General’s Office investigation of Apache School Unified School District records.

The state Attorney General’s Office used the audit to obtain charges of misuse of public monies, alleging that Wilson arranged for $133,223 in payments not authorized by the Apache Junction Governing Board to administrators during a five-year period, from 2012 to 2016.

The $126,000 in “performance payments’’ went to 11 to 15 administrators, while another $3,880 was spent on “professional development instruction,’’ and $2,550 was spent on paying three administrators to attend athletic events on Friday nights.

Wilson himself received $480 in unauthorized payments, according to the Auditor General’s report.

Despite the indictment and the case pending in Pinal County Superior Court, the EVIT board voted to retain Wilson, with additional financial safeguards in place.

An administrator from a Tucson vocational school was loaned to EVIT to handle financial duties.

he Scottsdale City Council adopted minor updates to the city’s General Plan on Nov. 12 as the city prepares to work on more substantial changes over the next few years.

The updates adopted by the Council include state-mandated sections on energy use, neighborhood revitalization and bicycle use that did not already exist in the current General Plan, which was adopted by the City Council in 2001 and approved by voters in 2002.

State law mandates that the city adopt a new general plan every 10 years and put that plan before voters.

Scottsdale’s first attempt to update its General Plan in 2011 was adopted by the City Council but shot down by voters in 2012.

The City began the process again in 2014 and drafted General Plan 2035 with a citizen-led task force, but that draft was not approved by the City Council and never made it to the ballot following disagreements between the Council and former members of the task force over how to treat rural neighborhood land use categories.

The new portions of the 2001 General Plan adopted on Nov. 12 were pulled from the draft of General Plan 2035

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The Scottsdale City Council adopted minor changes to the city’s General Plan on Nov. 12. (Progress file photo)

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More preterm births in state raise concerns ASHINGTON – Rising rates of preterm births in 30 states – Arizona included – are a sign that health care providers are “failing our many mothers and babies,” maternal and infant health advocates said last week.

Their comments came as the March of Dimes released its 2019 report card that showed a slight increase in the number of Arizona babies born too soon – from 9.3 percent in 2017 to 9.5 percent in 2018.

That was still better than the national average, which also inched up last year to just over 10 percent of babies in the U.S. born preterm.

Arizona is one of 11 states to earn a “C+” on the report card released this week for its overall performance. But it is also one of the states where the gap between the overall preterm birth rate and rates for racial and ethnic groups was wider than the national average.

Breann Westmore, government affairs and advocacy director for March of Dimes in Arizona, said her chapter realizes there is work to be done, but she is still “extremely proud” of the state’s improvements in recent years.

Preterm births have fallen from 10.2 percent in 2008.

“I want to make it clear: We understand there’s still a problem,” Westmore

said. “It’s not that we think getting a C is really exciting. We definitely are excited about the changes we see that will impact making that grade better.”

Among the changes helping Arizona’s standings is a recently passed health reporting law and the state’s expansion of Medicaid, said Stacey Stewart, March of Dimes president and CEO. The law requires the state Department of Health Services to review maternal mortality reporting protocol and recommend changes.

Although Stewart said both factors are promising signs, it is still on states such as Arizona to meet the rest of mothers’ and infants’ needs.

“The fact of the matter is that we as a country are just not doing well by moms and babies,” Stewart said.

“That’s why we consider this to be the most dangerous developed nation to give birth.”

The report considers any birth before 37 weeks of gestation a preterm birth, which it said can lead to longterm health problems and even infant death.

But while preterm birth rate in Arizona was 9.3 percent in 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that there were just 5.7 infant deaths per 1,000 live births that year – or an infant mortality rate of 0.57 percent.

The report found that preterm birth rates worsened in Maricopa, Mojave,

Pima and Pinal counties while improving in Yavapai and Yuma counties.

Black and Native American mothers in the state saw the highest rates of preterm births.

Westmore said the state chapter has been focused no reviewing morbidity data and working with partner organizations to address implicit biases in care provided to mothers.

A state law signed in April established a 13-member committee to recommend enhancements for data collection and reporting for the Arizona Maternal Mortality Review, as well as release a

report on maternal deaths in the state.

That report is due to the state legislature at the end of the year, according to Gov. Doug Ducey’s website.

The state also received a $10.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to improve health outcomes for all women in the state.

Arizona’s March of Dimes organization and partners such as the Department of Health Services and the Public Health Association are also exploring ways to reduce toxic stress among expectant mothers, which may contribute to higher rates of complications during and after pregnancy.

“We are not surprised by the grade because we’re constantly looking at and evaluating the data,” Westmore said. “We know the progress we have made here.”

Six states and Puerto Rico got an “F” on the March of Dimes report card.

Oregon had the lowest preterm birth rate, at 7.8 percent, while Mississippi saw the highest rates, at 14.2 percent.

The March of Dimes aims to lower the national preterm birth rate to 8.1 percent by next year to curb the leading cause of infant death in the U.S. The organization has asked that states extend comprehensive Medicaid coverage for all women to at least one year after birth; establish mortality review committees; and offer group prenatal care enhanced reimbursements.

“The reason we are not re-creating the wheel here is because that was a citizen task force that created that content,” said Erin Perreault, Scottsdale’s long-range planning director. “Not only did 25 members create it, but we took it out citywide and vetted it with the community and vetted it through all boards and commissions as well at that time.”

The changes included elements drafted during the 2035 plan process that touches on new state-required neighborhood preservation and revitalization elements.

It also includes an energy element drafted during the 2035 process and a new bicycling element, Perreault said.

The update will add new maps, graphics and demographic information to better reflect what Scottsdale is today.

The update did not affect the land-use matrix, Perreault said.

Councilman Guy Phillips asked whether the minor updates should be put before Scottsdale voters.

Perreault said because the updates are minor, they only require City Council approval.

Perreault said the minor update was the first of two phases that will result in more substantive changes to the overall plan.

The second phase, which will begin in 2020, will resemble the 2014 process and include a citizen task force to draft a new general that can be put before the Council and, if approved, submitted to voters.

Perreault said the new plan could go before voters in Nov. 2021.

If the city can successfully adopt that new plan in 2021 it would resolve a contentious situation resulting from the two previous failed attempts that put the city at odds with the state law mandating cities update general plans every 10 years.

The law requires cities like Scottsdale to have voters weigh in on a new or updated plan every 10 years.

When the General Plan 2035 process failed in 2016, the city stuck with the updated 2001 plan 2001 without going to voters.

The city has maintained this does not constitute a violation.

Perreault told the Progress in March, “Planning staff has been advised that the 2011 General Plan update process satisfied Scottsdale’s 10-year state-required General Plan update requirement.”

However, the state feels differently because the 2011 plan was not approved by voters, forcing the city to revert to an old plan that was not reapproved by voters.

Following an inquiry from the Progress earlier this year, state Rep. John Kavanagh consulted with the Legislative Council, which provides nonpartisan research

services to legislators.

That group concluded Scottsdale likely violated provisions of general plan law, but that the law has no enforcement mechanism.

“The structure of the statute appears to be as follows: If a city adopts a plan and submits it to the voters, and the voters reject the plan, the city is then required to either resubmit the plan or submit a new plan to the voters,” according to a Legislative Council memo.

Ultimately, Kavanagh said, it would likely take a court decision to determine whether or not the Legislative Council’s analysis is correct.

However, that question is largely moot without enforcement.

Kavanagh told the Progress in March that he could introduce legislation to add an enforcement provision to the general plan law in the next legislative session.

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Arizona’s March of Dimes organization and partners such as the Department of Health Services and the Public Health Association are also exploring ways to reduce toxic stress among expectant mothers, which may contribute to higher rates of complications during and after pregnancy.

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State lawmakers grapple with ACA health coverage issues

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wo Chandler Republican legislators and Attorney General Mark Brnovich are taking the first steps to craft legislation to ensure Arizonans with preexisting conditions can still buy health insurance if federal courts strike down the Affordable Care Act. The move comes even as Republican attorneys general – including Brnovich – are working to have the law declared unconstitutional, including the provisions about access to coverage. They contend Congress lacks the power to mandate people buy health insurance.

Last December a federal judge in Texas agreed. That sent the case to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which could rule any day.

But the final word is likely to belong to the U.S. Supreme Court. Depending on how quickly they schedule arguments, a ruling could come as early as this spring.

The law, approved by what was at the time a Democrat-controlled Congress has never been popular among many Republicans.

But Sen. J.D. Mesnard said that if the Affordable Care Act disappears, so does the provision requiring insurers to provide coverage for those with preexisting conditions. And he acknowledged that particular part of the statute, in particular, remains popular.

Mesnard is working with state Rep. Jeff Weninger and Brnovich “I think there’s growing appreciation that we want to make sure that those with preexisting conditions aren’t now somehow unable to get coverage,’’ he said.

How that would work and who would pay for it, however, remains to be decided.

“There are obviously going to have to be conversations with a wide assortment of folks, including insurance companies that will obviously be impacted by this,’’ Mesnard said.

Those costs, he said, are likely to be passed on to all people with health insurance, no matter where and how it is purchased.

“I suspect there’ll be a domino effect for all of us to be impacted by this potentially in our premiums,’’ Mesnard said. “But at the end of the day, I think that most people acknowledge that the preexisting conditions issue has always been a chal-

lenge and one that we have to overcome.’’

The wide-ranging 2010 law, required employers to provide health insurance for their workers and individuals to obtain their own coverage. It also created insurance exchanges to provide discounted coverage for those who meet income guidelines, expanded Medicaid coverage and eliminated lifetime monetary caps on insurance coverage.

And then there was the prohibition against insurance companies from excluding people for preexisting conditions.

The Supreme Court upheld the law in 2012, with the majority hanging its hat on the mandate for individuals to purchase insurance, saying that fits within the power of Congress to impose a tax.

But all that fell apart in 2017, when Congress eliminated the financial penalty for failing to have insurance, a move that the current round of challengers eliminated any legal basis for the law.

It is that, Mesnard said, that creates the need for a contingency plan if the Supreme Court finds the current version of the law unconstitutional.

“We don’t want to be caught unprepared,’’ he said.

Mesnard said he believes Arizonans should not have to go back to the days before the Affordable Care Act when they could find themselves unable to purchase insurance.

Mesnard said while there can be debate over other provisions of the law, this issue is “one that most people on both sides of the aisle have rallied behind as an issue we have to tackle.’’

None of this would be necessary if there were no lawsuits, one in which Brnovich has joined. But aide Ryan Anderson defended his boss’ decision to join the litigation to challenge the law.

“There is a question here as to whether or not the act, as it stands today is unconstitutional,’’ he said.

Anderson said it is separate from the policy questions of whether there should be mandated coverage for preexisting conditions and whether more needs to be done to ensure that Americans have better access to health care.

“He personally believes that preexisting conditions should be covered by insurance companies,’’ Anderson said of Brnovich. “But that doesn’t mean the American people should be forced to accept a broader unconstitutional mandate in order to keep the act’s most popular provision.’’

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Big issues loom with driverless cars, experts say

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ho is liable for a car accident when no one’s driving the car?

That was one of several questions explored by experts in Arizona’s autonomous vehicle industry during a special symposium last Thursday as representatives from public and private sectors hashed out what the near future looks like for driverless cars.

As more self-driving cars move around the East Valley, stakeholders and policymakers gathered in Chandler to discuss how Arizona will adapt to the rapidly-developing technology.

“A lot of work needs to be done,” said Jill Sciarappo, senior marketing director for Intel, “and we need to come together to solve a lot of problems to make that happen.”

A reoccurring theme of the symposium, organized by the Chandler Chamber of Commerce, involved the liability factors involving self-driving cars.

“That is an enormous issue,” said Patricia Doersch, an attorney specializing

in transportation. “That’s a bear at the federal level.”

If humans no longer control their vehicles, the courts will have to decide whether they can still be held liable for accidents and property damage.

Some experts have suggested judges think of self-driving cars as analogous to elevators, autopilot systems – or horse-drawn carriages.

The laws currently on the books were written to regulate human drivers, who are expected to have the ability to adhere and react to certain environments on the road.

“But now the (computer) system is the driver, so there may be a little bit of grey area there,” said Kevin Biesty, deputy director of policy for the Arizona Department of Transportation.

For example, Biesty mentioned how adult drivers can be held criminally liable for leaving children unattended in a car. But it’s unclear whether the same standard should apply to self-driving cars, he added.

The insurance industry is grappling with similar questions on how to factor autonomous vehicles into its business model.

workers arriving in autonomous vehicles, reducing the number of parking spaces that normally would be mandated when most employees drove themselves while requiring larger areas for drop-offs and pick-ups.

City officials also have talked of one day working out arrangements with Valley Metro that would allow driverless cars to pick up passengers at the agency’s bus stops/ Cities in Arizona could become more pedestrian-friendly as autonomous taxis and shuttles become the norm, de la Torre said, and the demand for parking spaces starts to drop.

“We’re gonna need to find out what to do with all those parking lots that are out there,” de la Torre added.

Because these vehicles are constantly gathering data and surveying their surroundings, some wonder what keeps them from becoming vulnerable to hackers.

“That’s the big question,” said Ram Pendyala, a professor from Arizona State University’s School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment.

He thinks data is the biggest ethical dilemma of the self-driving industry; not only regarding how it’s protected but in terms of how companies decide who has access to their information.

Chandler currently has no data-sharing agreement with Waymo or any other companies, but representatives said the city may consider it in the future.

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Drivers traditionally bear the risks associated with driving, but companies now have to evaluate who or what takes on that risk.

Doersch expects Congress to draft a bill next year that finally addresses some complex issues surrounding autonomous vehicles.

But it may be too late by the time legislation is passed, she added, because the technology keeps evolving and changing.

“Congress is terrified of looking stupid and getting it wrong,” Doersch added.

Chandler was the appropriate location to host the first-ever symposium dedicated to the self-driving industry.

The city is home to Waymo, which operates an autonomous ride-share service in the East Valley, and was one of the first municipalities to pass an ordinance related to self-driving cars.

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taurant openings in the Valley.

He said that while it’s unsurprising to see existing restaurants like Snooze expand, it’s concerning to see so many restaurants brand-new to a niche market open up.

“That’s when you start to raise an eyebrow and say, ‘OK, this is good. However, how much capacity do we have as an industry for a very narrow niche when it comes to breakfast and lunch places?’”

Chucri said. “I do get a tad concerned when I see more and more independent restaurants that are new to the marketplace opening.”

Add to the ever-increasing minimum wage, which will lead to food-service companies responding to the higher wages via increasing menu prices.

Currently, the minimum wage in Arizona is $11 per hour and will increase to $12 on Jan. 1, 2020.

“We’re keeping our eye on that because it’s not easier to stay in the restaurant industry. It’s getting harder with these labor issues,” Chucri said.

He added that as the minimum wage increases, production costs will increase – then lead to increased menu prices.

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How restaurants will succeed, according to Chucri, is strong branding and distinguishing the restaurant from the competition.

“If you don’t define yourself, if you don’t stand out, you’re not going to succeed — plain and simple,” he said.

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t Alpio Barbara’s event venue, Alpio’s at Troon, a $2 tip turned into a $40,000 check for charity.

Northern Scottsdale resident Barbara and Sue Pille of Platinum Companies presented a $40,000 check to the Phoenix Children’s Hospital Foundation/ Golf-Fore-Charity at Barbara’s Cars and Coffee event at Alpio’s at Troon.

“It’s no secret that Alpio has a passion for cars, people and helping kids. We’re honored to be a part of this great event,” said David Reese, co-chair of Golf-ForeCharity 2020.

The tips were collected at Cars and Coffee, a monthly event that started in Nov. 2017.

At Cars and Coffee, car enthusiasts roam around the Alpio’s at Troon parking lot, take a look at the high-performance, classic and collector cars brought in by people from all over the Valley, sip coffee and mingle.

Attendees are also welcome to check out the Alpio’s at Troon Event Center, where Barbara keeps about eight of his own classic cars, motorcycles and other memorabilia, like vintage gas pumps, large-scale models of military aircraft acquired from private collections and more.

“I’ve seen other Cars and Coffee in the Valley and I figured, let’s try one up here, up North,” Barbara said.

Cars and Coffee started with 20 to 30 cars, and this month, it grew to 160.

“That’s max; that’s as many we can really put in that parking lot,” Barbara said.

On average, 300 to 400 people attend the monthly event.

“It’s a fun thing. People will come and no matter what you drive, they’re car enthusiasts. It’s a lot of camaraderie over a cup of coffee and doughnut holes. No car show. There’s no entry fee. There are no plaques. You just show up, have a cup of coffee and a doughnut, walk around and talk to everybody,” Barbara said.

At the Cars and Coffee June 2017 event, a gentleman wanted to leave a tip for the free coffee provided by Platinum

Alpio Barbara, northern Scottsdale resident and owner of Alpio’s at Troon, and Sue Pille of Platinum Companies presented check for $40,000 to the Phoenix Children’s Hospital Foundation/Golf-Fore-Charity at Barbara’s Cars and Coffee event on Nov. 9.

(Chris Mortenson/Progress Staff Photographer)

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Barbara assured him he didn’t have to leave a tip, but he did anyway, prompting Barbara to place a tip jar for the Phoenix Children’s Hospital (PCH) at the Alpio’s at Troon coffee counter.

Barbara and House of Hardtops have matched the tips every month since.

Additional donations are raised by the North Scottsdale Coffee Group charging a nominal fee to go on group rides around Arizona.

Last year, Barbara donated $7,777 to PCH; this year, that number more than quintupled.

And for the month of November, specifically, Golf-Fore-Charity will match any donations collected up to $2,000.

“It all adds up,” Barbara said. “It’s not about me; it’s all about the kids.”

Giving back is second nature to Barbara, who came from humble beginnings.

“My mom and dad immigrated from Europe. Our family is seven, my mom and dad, and we slept in a single twobedroom home. I’ve seen how some of these kids struggle and families struggle,” Barbara said. “Sometimes we take things

for granted and I’ve never taken things for granted and anytime I can help I help.”

But Barbara isn’t the only one quick to help; his friends were also by his side following Barbara’s life-threatening motorcycle accident in April 2018.

“I’m still recovering,” he said. “It’s going to take me another two years of physical therapy.”

Barbara was riding down Carefree Highway when he was sideswiped by another vehicle.

“He made a left and didn’t see me and plowed me into the road. Thank God I had a helmet on and saved my life,” he said.

The accident left Barbara with four broken ribs and a broken back. He now has a fuse his in his neck, a fused back, a new shoulder and a new hip.

The weekend of the accident, Barbara had a Cars and Coffee event to host. So, his friends stepped in.

“To this moment I’m talking to you right now, I don’t know how they pulled it off.

I don’t remember the accident an hour before and I don’t remember three days after, but somehow they pulled it off,” Barbara said.

Barbara also credits Pille for being the “backbone” of the event.

“Sue was very instrumental,” he said.

“And we’ve got a couple of good people that are behind it that make the coffee and what have you.”

Barbara’s passion for cars started in college, in 1968, while working at a tire store.

“I put on tires and we didn’t know the “Bullitt” car was for Steve McQueen,” he said. “We put the tires on and about a week later my boss said, ‘Put some wheels and tires on that Mustang,’ and I said, ‘Didn’t I just do that last week?’

“He goes, ‘Yeah, the guy wrecked it.’ And I said, ‘Oh my God, what an idiot. We didn’t know it was Steve McQueen because we were doing it for another shop.”

They found out six to eight months later that it was McQueen’s car.

Barbara would go on to own and operate Redwood General Tire in Redwood City, Calif.

He was also awarded Tire Dealer of the year by Modern Tire Dealer Magazine in 2016.

“My brother was a mechanic and then, of course, I started out as a mechanic and I just love cars. It’s just an amazing thing.

And now that I could afford the cars that I worked on way back when, you know, like I just have them, so I’m very fortunate.

Very blessed,” Barbara said.

Currently, Barbara owns 23 muscle cars from the ‘50s through ‘80s, including Ferraris, Porsches, and a ‘54 Corvette.

He opened Alpio’s at Troon in April 2016, not originally as an event center, but as a man cave where he could store and display his cars and motorcycles.

But as more people asked to have events in the 1950s style diner-designed space, he eventually opened it to the public to rent.

“I said, ‘What the hell?’ I might as well cover my life bill,’” he said with a laugh.

Now, the nearly 5,000-square-foot space is rented out about three times per month for events, including weddings, birthdays, holiday events, and more.

Cars and Coffee runs from 7 to 10 a.m. the second Saturday every month.

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s a Fiesta Bowl Committee member, Scottsdale’s Nick Smith may wear their yellow jackets now, but 30 years ago, he was all about blue and gold.

Smith attended the fabled University of Notre Dame – whose school colors are blue and gold – from 1989-1992 and played linebacker for the Fighting Irish under legendary coach Lou Holtz.

“Coach Holtz always imparted on us to live our lives by answering three simple questions,” Smith said.

The first question: Can I trust you?

“Coach always said to be someone people can trust; strive to always do what is right,” Smith said.

The second question: Are you committed to excellence?

“Coach said people will see your commitment to excellence through your preparation and the amount of pride to put into everything you do,” Smith said. “Always be prepared and always give 110 percent.”

The third question: Do you care enough?

“This one really stuck with me. He always said that if people care, anything is possible,” Smith said.

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“My father would always say that ‘the right thing’ and ‘the hard thing’ lived on the same street, an allegory about making choices in this life.” ing choices in this life,” Smith said. “Often, in order to follow the right path, there are going to be hard decisions, hard trials and hard moments along the way. But that doing what was right was always worth dealing with those hard neighbors on that street.”

These two men’s words would carry Smith throughout his life.

After graduating from Notre Dame, Smith played in the Canadian Football League in 1993. That same year, he and his college roommate Irv Smith moved to Scottsdale to put down roots.

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He quickly fell in love with its mission, which is to enhance organizations that contribute to the success of their communities through youth, sports and education.

Through its two annual bowl games in the Valley, the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl and the Cheez-It Bowl, as well as community events throughout the year, Fiesta Bowl Charities has given more than $15.5 million across Arizona in the last nine years, including $3 million this year.

“Talk about worlds colliding,” Smith said.

“By joining the Yellow Jackets and the Fiesta Bowl, I could impact those in need through football in a way. It was a match made in heaven.”

Smith dove into volunteer and fundraising opportunities and was named the organization’s Rookie of the Year for 2012-13.

That next year, Smith remained committed to the Fiesta Bowl’s mission, and also began volunteering and coaching at his son’s school – fittingly, Notre Dame Preparatory.

“I coached my son and his teammates as freshmen, and eventually joined the varsity coaching team, where I still work as the defensive coordinator,” Smith said.

His son is now a sophomore at USC. He also has a 28-year-old daughter and a 21-year-old daughter, who will graduate San Diego State next year.

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football, it’s no surprise Smith’s favorite charitable giving program within the Fiesta Bowl realm is its annual football clinics for at-risk youth.

“We took the Notre Dame Prep football team out there with me the last few years to volunteer,” Smith said.

He’s hoping he inspired the players to be good men, just like his father and Holtz did for him.

Beyond the clinic, 40 Arizona nonprofit organizations will benefit from Fiesta Bowl support this year. The impact for 2019-2020 at-a-glance includes: a million people served, 600,000 youth impacted, 283,480 meals served, 10,000 books for underserved youth to enhance early language and literacy, 61,000 kids received STEM programming in underserved and rural communities and six playgrounds donated.

“Another recent program I’m especially proud of is Wishes for Teachers, powered

by DriveTime,” Smith said. “Through the program, we granted 200 wishes at $5,000 each to Arizona teachers, totaling $1 million given in one day.”

Smith, who serves on the executive team at National PEO, a company owned by Vensure Employer Services, is serving as the chairman-elect of the Yellow Jacket Committee and actively promoting individual tickets for the 2019 College Football Playoff Semifinal at the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl and 31st annual Cheez-It Bowl, which are on sale and make all of the giving possible.

His duties come December will include hosting one of the semifinal teams, after being media operations committee chairman for two seasons.

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Jewish study group

Explore a variety of non-political Jewish topics, including people, history, current events, culture and more in weekly meetings 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

No extensive knowledge of Judaism is required. Registration is required at joboaz@cox.net.

Days NOVEMBER

Sunday

17 Pet festival

This free family-friendly community event features animals including native wildlife rescued by the Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center, Elvis the camel and Zuni the mustang 1-4 p.m. at Living Water Lutheran Church, 9201 E. Happy Valley Road There will also be horse-drawn cart rides for the children, music and refreshments. Pets must be leashed or otherwise secured. Information: 480473-8400.

JCC boutique, craft fair

Start holiday shopping early 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road Find unique gifts including jewelry, artwork, books, clothing and more.

Admission is free. Information: 480-481-1756.

Frozen Jr.

Come see a youth theater production of Frozen Jr. at Thunderbird Adventist Academy, 7410 E. Sutton Drive The first performance begins at 1 p.m. followed by a second performance at 3:30 p.m. Ticket prices vary.

Information: www.vosjcc. org/event/youth-theaterpresents-frozen-jr-3/.

Monday

18 New Faces AA meeting

Find recovery from alcohol addiction alongside this support group at 7:45 a.m. at North Scottsdale Fellowship Club, 10427 N. Scottsdale Road Club membership is

not required to attend meetings.

$5 Fido Frisbee Meals

Treat your dog to a delicious outdoor breakfast, brunch or lunch. The Brunch Cafe at 15507 N. Scottsdale Road is serving $5 Fido Frisbee meals to all well-behaved dogs on their patio 6:30 a.m. -2:30 p.m. Dogs are served two scrambled eggs on a frisbee and owners get to keep the frisbee. Information: www. brunchcafe.com.

Homework help

Students 8 to 18 can stop by the Arabian Library at 10215 E. McDowell Mountain Ranch Road for help on any subject 3:30-5:30 p.m. Information: 480-312-7323.

Tail waggin’ tales

Children 6 to 10 can practice their reading skills with a certified therapy dog 3:304:15 p.m. at Mustang Library, 10101 N. 90th Street Information: 480-312-7323.

Native American �lute

Drive Ron Bonnstetter will provide an understanding of the history and workings of the enchanting flute instrument and share insights into the healing power of music 5-6 p.m. at Holland Community center of the Foothills Community Foundation, 34250 N. 60th Street

Tiny tot time

Develop babies’ literacy with songs, rhymes, movement and board books 11-11:20 a.m. at the Scottsdale Civic Center Library, 3839 N. Drinkwater Blvd. Information: 480-3127323.

Teen Advisory Board

Teens are encouraged to gather to brainstorm new ideas for teen programs and collections in the library 5-6 p.m. at Arabian Library, 10215 E. McDowell Mountain Ranch Road Information: 480-312-7323.

Book discussion group

Tuesday

19 Let’s knit

Learn or practice knitting with others 1:30-4 p.m. at Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road Free. Information: 480-483-7121.

Drums, rhythm and relaxation

Group drumming empowers people to more effectively express themselves while enabling them to move beyond perceived limitations.

Bring a drum or borrow one from. Join a class from 6 to 7 p.m. at Ironwood Cancer and Research Centers, 8880 E. Desert Cove Avenue Information: 480-314-6660.

Coping with grief

Develop strategies for moving through a challenging season when struggling with grief 11 -11:45 a.m. at Holland Community Center of the Foothills Community Foundation, 34250 N. 60th Street

Wednesday

20 Speedy bridge

Join others in a fast round of bridge at 10:30 a.m. at Via Linda Senior Center, 10440 E. Via Linda. Registration is required. 480-312-5810.

Walkin’ Wednesdays

Make friends while exercising during a brisk 1.5-mile walk through The J neighborhood 9-10 a.m. at Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road Bring water, walking shoes and meet at the campus’ flagpole. Strollers, dogs and all walking paces are welcomed. Information: 480-481-1797.

Discuss Sigrid Nunez’s “The Friend” in a lively, informal book discussion 1-2 p.m. at Scottsdale Civic Center Library, 3839 N. Drinkwater Blvd. Information: 480-312-7323.

ESL classes

Beginner and intermediate conversation levels are encouraged to practice the English language 1-3 p.m. at Mustang Library, 10101 N. 90th Street Free. Information: 480-3127323.

ers 1-3 p.m. at Scottsdale Civic Center Library, 3839 N. Drinkwater Blvd. Information: 480312-7323.

Advanced beginner bridge

Join others in playing a fun game of bridge 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at Appaloosa Library, 7377 E. Silverstone Drive Information: 480-312-7323.

Chair yoga

Achieve liberation through physical postures, breath practice, meditation and philosophical study. Join a class to better physical health 1-2 p.m. at Ironwood Cancer and Research Centers, 8880 E. Desert Cove Avenue Information: 480-3146660.

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Thursday

21 Tai Chi

Everyone is welcome to join a class that focuses on gentle and controlled movements that center the mind, body and spirit for health benefits 3-3:45 p.m. at Ironwood Cancer and Research Centers, 8880 E. Desert Cove Avenue Information: 480-314-6660.

Jewishness in crisis

Explore meaningfull ways German Jews constructed new modes to flourish in the midst of cultural and political instability as they recall horrific past events while making sense of present Jewish identity 7-9 p.m. at Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road Free.

Discussion is lead by Professor Nahme from Brown University.

Little libros

Children up to 5 can learn fun songs, stories and rhymes in English and Spanish 10-10:30 a.m. at the Scottsdale Civic Center Library, 3839 N. Drinkwater Blvd. Information: 480312-7323.

Friday

22 In Stitches knitters

Gather with other knitters to work on individual projects, share advice and talk with oth-

Books 2 boogie

Children up tp 5 and their caregivers are invited to participate in music, movement and song 10:30-11 a.m. at Mustang Library, 10101 N. 90th Street Information: 480312-7323.

Family storytime

Children up to 5 and their caregivers can listen to stories and music and participate in rhyming activities from 10 to 10:30 a.m. at Scottsdale Civic Center Library, 3839 N. Drinkwater Blvd. Information: 480312-7323.

Thanksgiving storytime

Children through age 5 and their caretakers can celebrate Thanksgiving with stories and a simple craft 10:30-11 a.m. at Appaloosa Library, 7377 E. Silverstone Drive Information: 480-312-7323.

Sunday

24 Story stop (Ages 0-5)

Build children’s literacy with a free picture book program 2-2:15 p.m. at the Scottsdale Civic Center Library, 3839 N. Drinkwater Blvd. Information: 480-312-7323.

Philharmonic free concert

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ing Haydn, Rossini and Sibelius performed by the Scottsdale Philharmonic 4-6 p.m. at La Casa de Cristo Lutheran Church, 6300 E. Bell Road Doors open: 3 p.m. VIP seating available with a $15 donation.

Messages in Ink exhibit

This exhibit displays work by print artists from the Phoenix Metro area including lithographs, etchings, letterpress, linoleum cut, woodcut and laser-engraved work. The artwork is on display 1-5 p.m. in the Scottsdale Civic Center Library, 3839 N. Drinkwater Blvd. Information: 480-3127323.

Monday

25 Business Energizer

Learn about setting weekly goals and generate business ideas with fellow business owners 9-10 a.m. This group meets virtually. To join, meet the group online through the “Monday Business Energizer” group LinkedIn page. Free. Information: edgar@compasscbs.com.

Twos and threes together

Young children 2 and 3 can learn social and literacy skills 11-11:30 a.m. with short stories, finger-plays and action rhymes at the Appaloosa Library, 7377 E. Silverstone Drive Information: 480-3127323.

Drop-in e-reader help

Receive help with downloadables. Bring your device, library card and questions 11 a.m.-noon at Arabian Library, 10215 E. McDowell Mountain Ranch Road Information: 480-312-7323.

Advanced beginner bridge

Join others in playing a fun game of bridge 3-5 p.m. at Appaloosa Library, 7377 E. Silverstone Drive Information: 480-312-7323.

Film series: ‘Spider-Man’

Enjoy the action-packed movie “Spider-Man: Far From Home,” 5-7 p.m. at the Scottsdale Civic Center Library, 3839 N. Drinkwater Blvd. Information: 480-312-7323.

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Arizona Musicfest venues abound here

formance.

“Our mission is really resonating with the comrom November through S munity,” Naplan said. cottsda March, northern ScottsAll proceeds from Arile dale is home to high-caliber zona Musicfest’s season and immensely popular musical go toward the nonprofartists, reputable orchestras and other it’s educational programentertainers largely unknown to the rest ming, including its Young of the Valley.

Musicians program.

And to further prove that, the monthsThe Young Musicians long Arizona Musicfest and its lineup Competitions, which only continues to garner acclaim since its include piano, voice, founding 29 years ago. strings, chamber ensem“We are thrilled to offer Arizona Mubles, brass and woodsicfest audiences another exciting season winds, were added to the filled with exceptional artists from across annual Arizona Musicfest the music spectrum,” said Arizona Muevent 20 years ago. sicfest executive and producing director “At the very beginning, Arizona Musicfest’s impressive festival Allan Naplan. it was the chamber conlineup includes Michael Bolton, who Arizona Musicfest’s 2019-20 festival certs, but music educawill perform at Highlands Church on season, which continues through March tion and youth perforFeb. 27. (Arizona Musicfest/Special to the Progress) 13, includes 27 performances taking place mance were followed at various venues throughout Scottsdale soon after because this a “very strategic progresand Phoenix. was the commitment of those people that sion.”

They include Highlands Church, La Casa “We’ve been bringing started [Arizona Musicfest] and those de Cristo Lutheran Church, the Musical Inin major celebrities now that followed that they wanted to give strument Museum and Pinnacle Presbytefor the last five years or back to the community through music rian Church. so. We now will have education and celebrating and rewarding Lineup highlights include Grammy over 30,000 attendees young musicians. It’s a major part of our award winner Michael Bolton, chartthis year. Our budget is history,” Naplan said. topping entertainer Vanessa Williams, The Young Musicians Competition, $2.7 million, so we are acclaimed country star Sara Evans, and Gracie Potter, a 17-year-old trombonist who attends the Ar- a major destination cul- which features more than 100 talented iconic TV, stage and screen celebrity Tony izona School for the Arts, is one of many young musicians tural destination of the young musicians from around the Valley, who will participate in Arizona Musicfest’s Young Musicians Danza. takes place today, Nov. 17, at the Musical Valley,” he said.

Competition. (Courtesy of Gracie Potter/Special to the Progress) Returning artists include American inThe nonprofit is on- Instrument Museum. strumental artist Chris Botti and Gram- phony, the Metropolitan Opera and other Gracie Potter, a 17-year-old Surprise track for another remy Award-nominated singer Michael top U.S. orchestras. cord-breaking philanthropic season, ac- resident, is a trombonist in this year’s Feinstein.

“This is a rather extraordinary ensemble cording to Naplan. competition.

“While some artists are returning to the of the top players of America’s finest orShe practices two-and-a-half to three According to Naplan, 60 percent of Arizona Musicfest stage, others are mak- chestras,” Naplan said.

Arizona Musicfest’s budget comes from hours each day — “just to make sure that ing their much-anticipated festival deArizona Musicfest, a secular nonprofit ticket revenues and 40 percent from phi- I’m improving,” she revealed. buts,” Naplan said. “Combined, our line-up arts organization based in northern Scott- lanthropy.

Gracie’s older sister Emma is a French of diverse artists and musical genres offers sdale, was founded in 1991.

“And it’s because people are engaged horn player who won prizes in the Young something for everyone.”

“Twenty-nine years ago, there were dirt in our mission, which is to provide music Musicians Competition and now studies The festival also includes holiday con- roads in this area [northern Scottsdale and education at no charge to area schools, re- at the Manhattan School of Music. certs, like the 5 Browns and New York Carefree], so access to classical music, spe- ally exceptional opportunities for young Their brother, Caden, is a pianist and Voices, and ensembles, like the legendary cifically, was quite a trek to make it down musicians to perform, to compete and to will compete in Arizona Musicfest’s DiviJohn Pizzarelli Trio, the Hot Sardines, Back to Phoenix. So, [the residents] were re- get scholarship funds,” he said. sion III piano competition Nov. 24. to Bacharach and Under the Streetlamp. sourceful people and they said, ‘Well, let’s This year, Arizona Musicfest will host “It’s so rare to get the opportunity to In February, Arizona Musicfest will bring classical music up to our area,’” Na- more than 150 events for lifelong learning play at a concert,” Gracie’s mother, Lori host Festival Orchestra Week, which in- plan said. and creative aging.

Potter, said. “It really pushes these musicludes a salute to John Williams, MusThe festival started modestly, featuring Naplan estimates about 6,000 kids will cians to be better and better, and if they sorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” small chamber quarters and ensembles get involved in the nonprofit’s music edu- get that opportunity to perform, it’s just works by Beethoven, Ravel and Rach- that would play about four concerts over cation and youth performance, with about such a rare treat to be able to perform maninoff and more. the course of one week.

3,000 adults and seniors engaged in the on a stage like the MIM and an audience The Festival Orchestra, which is in resi“It has grown in amazing ways over the nonprofit’s lifelong learning programs. like AZ Musicfest provides. It’s really an dency for one week during the annual fes- last many, many years, but at the core was Arizona Musicfest also provided over exceptional experience for these young tival, features players from the New York this was an affinity for classical music and $30,000 in free instruments to area artists.”

Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Phila- to bring great instrumentalists to north schools and contributed over $90,000 in Arizona Musicfest tickets range from delphia Orchestra, San Francisco Sympho- Scottsdale,” Naplan said. college scholarships to local Valley teens $20 to $89. ny, Boston Symphony, the National SymNaplan calls Arizona Musicfest’s growth pursuing collegiate degrees in music perInformation: azMusicfest.org.

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Sisters in STEM celebrate at Saguaro High

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o celebrate National Sc ottsdale STEM Day, Saguaro High School hosted its second-annual Sisters in STEM event.

This year’s event, which attracted more than 350 guests, was a “raging success,” said Sisters in STEM co-founder and coordinator Kayli Battel, 17.

“I can’t describe the feeling of watching these girls grab fistfuls of dirt and worms, storm our planetarium, drive robots, and stare wide-eyed at the glow of 3-D printers in action,” Kayli said.

“It’s incredible to see the impact that a little bit of enthusiasm can make on so many lives.”

Of the 350 guests, 200 were young girls between the ages of 5 and 15.

The event featured 10 STEM disci- Kayli Battel, 17, and Elizabeth Arnold, 19, are founders of Sisters in STEM, an event inplines and more than 50 demonstra- troduced to Saguaro High School in 2018. (Scottsdale Math and Science Academy/Special to the Progress) tions and exhibits, including new stations for geology, entomology and environmental science.

“My daughter really wants to be an engineer, so getting hands-on with the robots blew her mind,” said Tracey Cayer, mother of a first-grader at Tavan Elementary School, adding: the Sisters in STEM “truly hit the mark of girls inspiring girls.”

Kayli, Elizabeth Arnold and Laney Olson – all key members of Saguaro’s Sabercat Robotics team last year – founded and launched Sisters in STEM in 2018.

The event promotes science and technology and “to inspire young girls to pursue interests in STEM,” Arnold said.

“I didn’t even know girls could be programmers until eighth grade,” said Arnold, 19, who is now studying comThis year’s Sisters in STEM event featured 10 STEM disciplines and more than 50 puter science at Arizona State Univer- demonstrations and exhibits, including new stations for geology, entomology, and sity. “I wanted little girls to know what environmental science. (Scottsdale Math and Science Academy/Special to the Progress) I didn’t know at their age.”

In its inaugural year, Sisters in STEM aimed at girls 5-15 years old. local elementary school as well as a lofeatured seven STEM disciplines with Since its launch, Sisters in STEM cal girls’ programming club.

30 demonstrations and activities launched a new tutoring program at a And this year, the Sisters in STEM

(SiS) team plans to take the program on the road, dubbing it the “SiS Roadshow.”

“It’s going to be so incredible to take SiS out to areas that can’t make it into our annual event,” said Saguaro High School tenth-grader and SiS co-coordinator Natalie Foster, 16. “Girls everywhere need to know these programs exist, so they can make them a part of their futures, too.”

Established by MGA Entertainment, the world’s largest private toy company and creators of STEAM-based franchise Project Mc2, National STEM Day celebrates science, technology, engineering and mathematics education throughout the United States.

According to the National Science Board’s Science and Engineering Indicators 2018 report, STEM employment in the United States continues to grow at a faster pace than employment in other occupations.

However, much work remains to be done in terms of diversity in the STEM workplace.

Although women make up half the population, they comprise less than 30 percent of the STEM workforce.

And although women lead 45 percent of all U.S. businesses, just 17 of the 225 new biotech companies launched in the last four years were led by women CEOs — and only four are women of color.

Introducing STEM and STEAM concepts to kids of all genders encourages students to take interest in these subjects at an early age.

“We want to show children that STEM and STEAM are already all around them, and that their favorite hobbies are actually rooted in science, technology, engineering, art and math,” said Isaac Larian, CEO of MGA Entertainment, adding: “Women, in particular, are vastly underrepresented in STEAM fields and their absence in those jobs is bringing down the earning averages of women overall. Sparking interest in S.T.E.A.M. among girls is critical to their future earning potential.”

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Plexus, a finalist at last year’s Sterling Awards, has a history of giving back to the community.

Earlier this year, Plexus employees contributed 418 volunteer hours to the St. Mary’s Food Bank in Phoenix. The company also sponsored a new police dog for the Salt River Police Department.

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he Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce held its 2019 Sterling Awards ceremony on Nov. 15, honoring three local businesses and one area nonpro�it.

The annual awards banquet recognizes notable Scottsdale micro, small and big businesses as well as non-pro�it organizations every year.

This year, 10 to 1 Public Relations won in the micro-business category, which recognizes companies with one to �ive employees.

A two-time nominee for the award, 10 to 1 Public Relations is a Scottsdalebased PR and communications �irm working with a range of clients from Arizona to others from around the country, including Plexus Worldwide, Rosendin, Vantage Mobility International, Title Alliance, Platinum Living Realty and Clinica Sierra Vista.

In June, 10 to 1 moved into a new of�ice near Scottsdale Quarter to accommodate the company’s growing client roster.

Other nominees in the micro business category included Classic Cooking Academy and Green Bin LLC. TraVek Inc. took home the award in the small business category.

The Chamber’s small business category recognizes businesses with 6 to 99 employees.

TraVek is a full-service home remodeling business, founded in Scottsdale in 2001.

Prior to opening TraVek with his wife and children, owner Randy Raisanen owned and operated a house painting company in Minnesota before moving to Arizona in 1984.

Today, TraVek’s services include bathroom and kitchen remodeling, home additions and handyman services.

In 2018, TraVek’s Von and Todd Raisanen received the Big50 designation for kitchen remodeling from Remodeling magazine, which recognizes top professionals throughout the country.

Other small business �inalists includ-

Plexus, which recently sponsored a new police dog for the Salt River Police Department, won the Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce’s award for big business at the 2019 Sterling Awards. (Progress file photo)

ed Casago and Windom Security Strategies Today.

Scottsdale-based Plexus took home the prize in the big business category, which recognizes businesses with 100 or more employees.

From its headquarters in the Scotts-

dale Airpark, Plexus Worldwide runs one of the world’s largest direct-selling companies with 400 employees on-site in Scottsdale.

Through a network of contractors, the company sells a variety of dieting, gut health and skincare supplements.

Plexus, a �inalist at last year’s Sterling Awards, has a history of giving back to the community.

Earlier this year, Plexus employees contributed 418 volunteer hours to the St. Mary’s Food Bank in Phoenix. The company also sponsored a new police dog for the Salt River Police Department.

Wells Fargo & Company and Hotel Valley Ho were also nominated in the big business category.

The Chamber singled out one of the city’s more unique non-pro�its in naming Phoenix Herpetological Sanctuary the winner in the non-pro�it category.

The category awards organizations that contribute to the social, cultural or educational wellbeing of the community.

The Phoenix Herpetological Sanctuary, which is actually located in Scottsdale, is the only facility of its kind in the state and maintains Arizona’s largest anti-venom bank.

The organization cares for approximately 1,000 reptiles, including endangered species, and provides educational services to �irst responders, animal control and other individuals who may come into contact with reptiles.

The sanctuary also advocates for environmental conservation and the protection of the many varieties of wildlife it houses.

Harvest Compassion Center and Scottsdale Arts were also up for the award.

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High school students can reduce college tuition

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ursuing higher education requires a huge commitment in both tuition and time.

For parents of high school students, planning for this next important step in their educational journey is critical.

No one wants to graduate from college strapped with tens of thousands of dollars in student debt just as they enter the workforce and adulthood.

Scholarships and �inancial aid can certainly help, though some lesser-known programs – starting when a student is still in high school – can save signi�icant time and money when it comes to achieving that important college degree.

Dual enrollment allows high school students to take college courses that earn both high school and college cred-

We need to do better in next year’s elections Having lived in Scottsdale for 27 years, (my son graduated from Chaparral-�irst ever to be newspaper editor for two consecutive years) l know Scottsdale, both then and now.

And I was attracted to the then Scottsdale for many reasons, some of which were its old-time feeling of a cowboy town, the downtown was truly an arts district, plenty of open space throughout the city, a feeling of small-town America yet a sophistication that was absent in other Valley cities, including Tempe, whose tall buildings are the envy of a majority of our City Council.

Today’s Scottsdale is not the one I moved to 27 years ago. There is no longer a feeling of a cowboy town of years gone by.

Downtown is no longer an arts district, rather a western version of Manhattan with developers falling all over one another to get their up zoning approved to build the next skyscraper, which will be approved by a more than accommodating City Council.

Open space is becoming scarce with all of the approved building permits and zon-

its simultaneously.

That means students sitting in Spanish class in high school could be earning college credits at the same time as completing high school requirements.

Instead of paying for the class at a more expensive four-year university – not to mention the time having to take the same coursework again – the cost is signi�icantly lower through a community college.

Scottsdale Community College, for example, offers one of the lowest tuition rates in Arizona at only $85 per credit hour.

Courses taken at SCC can easily transfer to other institutions, including all three state universities in Arizona.

The college has established agreements with local high schools to offer selected courses to students who have been identi�ied as candidates for college-level work.

Concurrent enrollment is an option designed for high school students who want to take college courses on the SCC cam-

pus while still in attendance at their high school full time.

The program is open to all high school students, as long as their high school is in agreement.

For students who may not consider going to college, the Achieving a College Education program provides mentoring and coursework while attending high school.

The goal is to academically prepare students for college and help increase graduation rates among �irst-generation college-bound students.

This helps provide a seamless transition from high school into community college and then transfer into a four-year university to complete a baccalaureate degree Hoop of Learning is a high school to college bridge program that serves Native American students who, largely due to socio-economic reasons, would not have access to higher education.

The approach has provided more than

1,000 Native American students in the last decade with a pathway to higher education.

To learn more, high school students and their parents are encouraged to work with high school guidance counselors and teachers, as well as connecting with dedicated team members at SCC who directly support these programs.

Community college offers robust academics, diverse degree and certi�icate options, easy credit transfers and extensive support and resources to ensure students are successful along their educational path.

Wrapping these advantages, along with lower cost and shorter timeframes, can be a winning formula for high school students who wish to pursue higher education sooner.

-Chris Haines is interim president of Scottsdale Community College, a Maricopa Community College. 480-423-6450 or scottsdalecc.edu/dual.

ing variances granted by the build now crazy City Council.

Just look away from downtown at North Hayden Road, with the now in the ground construction beginning on Mark Taylor’s several hundred apartment units-not what North Scottsdale needs.

Just north of this project is the now under construction new regional of�ice complex of Nationwide Insurance, which was given the most humongous sweetheart deal that will cost taxpayers millions of dollars.

Nationwide manages the Scottsdale employee pension fund. That’s interesting.

A third-party consultant hired by the City calculated the project could generate an estimated $24 million in sales over the next 20 years and for this the City of Scottsdale is paying for $21.9 million of public infrastructure. OUCH!!

And a new �irehouse is now needed due to this very large complex of Nationwide of�ices, apartments, condos and commercial. It is a part of the bond issue, so more payout/subsidy from the taxpayers.

So many folks in Scottsdale do not believe that more is better, that bigger is better, that taller is better – contrary to that

majority on the City Council that does believe that.

So many folks in Scottsdale moved here because, the city was different when they did, from the city we now know.

And so, when the election comes up in a mere 13 months, and the two candidates that have indicated interest in being the next mayor, Ms. Korte and Ms. Klapp, we as the electorate need to know and understand their visions for the future of Scottsdale and their City Council voting records of the past.

Unfortunately, for the slow responsible growth folks, the folks that love open spaces and the desert, both of these candidates are all in on more and bigger and taller is better.

We will not be better off nor moving in a different direction if we elect a clone of the present mayor.

We need to do better!

-Jim Bloch

pose a variety of projects in the downtown Scottsdale area, I lent my support. By way of background, I live downtown and serve on the Scottsdale Planning Commission.

But the breadth of this group’s opposition to quality redevelopment in our badly aging downtown district is now becoming more apparent, and troublesome.

Therefore, I must withdraw my support.

First, this past weekend, Scottsdale celebrated one of its great recent creations: Canal Convergence.

This family-friendly event would not have been possible without Southbridge 1.

The so-called Old Town Alliance does not appear to recognize this fact, or the merits of the proposed Southbridge 2, as they now take aim at a good plan and the natural completion of the original Southbridge development.

I believe that Southbridge 2, as the �irst phase, will be a positive addition to the downtown area and bring with it a muchneeded revitalization of Old Town.

Their tactics to oppose the proposed Sunday Goods dispensary also do not stand up to my further scrutiny.

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I was the lone member of the Planning Commission who voted against Sunday Goods.

It’s fair to say I am not a fan of marijuana, but I also realize that times have changed and that I need to get my mindset out of the 60s. I also realize that our city cannot legally prohibit a state license that has been issued for the area.

Therefore, if the choice is this proposed high-quality redevelopment of an existing tattoo parlor to be operated and developed by a Scottsdale-based company, or some unknown, out-of-state group that might develop who knows what, I will take the local group every time.

Over the past year, I have been very sympathetic and proactive with downtown businesses on key issues to include championing a reevaluation of the downtown parking code.

However, it now appears that my genuine concerns are being taken over by antigrowth professionals who want to use the Sunday Goods case as a springboard to oppose future downtown development, to include Southbridge 2.

As a result, I must withdraw my support for the activities of the “Old Town Alliance.”

-Larry Kush

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Technology can help prevent suicides

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n Arizona, one person dies by suicide approximately every seven hours. That’s more than three people every day. Twenty-four every week. One hundred every month. More than 1,000 every year.

I was very nearly one of them. After �ive suicide attempts, my sixth try almost landed me into those statistics – instead, I wound up in the hospital, where I technically died twice before being revived.

My daughter was one of them.

Seventeen years ago, my beautiful 13-year-old McKenna completed suicide in her bedroom, where I thought she was napping in preparation for her choir recital that evening. I was in the next room. And I found her two hours too late.

My son, Noah, may be one of them. He died of a drug overdose 10 years after McKenna took her own life. I’ll never know whether it was accidental or on purpose.

Trauma is the common thread woven throughout these tragedies in my life, and in many other cases of suicides and

attempts at suicide.

I was a victim of sexual assault at the age of 21. That trauma left me with damaged self-worth and a dangerous pattern of behaviors that led me to marry an abuser.

Eight out of 10 women survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse report signi�icant short- or long-term impacts such as anxiety, depression, and PTSD. After nine years, I eventually got out of that marriage with my children and moved them away so we could start a new life.

But I didn’t know that my trauma was being passed on to my daughter and son without any outward signs.

The loss of my children brought more pain than I thought was possible to bear in this lifetime. That’s when I made that �inal attempt at suicide in 2015.

Today, I am healthy.

My transformation was achieved in six months with a program that uses innovations in brain technology to form healthy neuropathways.

I went from survival mode to thriving as an advocate for others in the depths of despair.

I want every woman trauma survivor out there to have access to this transfor-

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That’s why I started Veronica’s Initiative – to fund a research study with the hope of making this program readily available and affordable to any woman anywhere.

The one-year study of 100 women survivors is designed for publication, with oversight and results measured by PhD clinical research psychologists.

The goal is to make this program widely accepted and integrated into the mental health community and become part of everyone’s healthcare and insurance bene�it package.

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Scottsdale Prep swimmer’s heart with horses

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s a girl, Karina Kimery would walk out of her family’s horse property in the cover of nightfall to recite the names of neighbors’ horses and wish them a good night’s rest.

Ties to horses run deep in her family bloodline, from her grandparents breeding Arabians to her mother’s dream of owning family horses.

The only thing that kept the Scottsdale Preparatory Academy junior from total devotion to equestrian was money.

“When I was younger, we couldn’t really afford it, just because it is a more expensive sport,” Karina said. “I’d get to do one riding lesson, once a month. Which in terms of schemes of horseback riding is de�initely not that many and that would be my Christmas present.”

Although she knew at a very early age equestrian was her passion, her parents encouraged her to try other activities – which is how she ended up on SPA’s swim team.

Karina swims various events for the Spartans, including the 200-yard freestyle, 200 medley relay and 200 freestyle relay.

The kindness she showed to horses at an early age spilled over to her character as a teammate.

“She seems really supportive of the team.

She’s always cheering for people,” said Mariah Barnetche, a sophomore and relay partner of Karina’s.

Barnetche noted Karina is “outgoing overall.”

Barnetche was unaware Karina competed in equestrian events such as reining and horsemanship.

Despite her unique abilities, Karina doesn’t talk much about equestrian to those outside of her close friends and family.

“I have been labeled in the past as ‘the horse girl’, and so a lot of times that stigma comes along with like the third-grader who has horse posters on her wall and horse stuffed animals and loves the movie Spirit,” Karina said.

“The way I see horseback riding is the same way you see swim team, or tennis, or football. It’s something that’s a part of my

Larina Kimery, right, displays her ribbon from winning varsity intermediate reining in last December’s Arizona Quarter Horse Association dall championship.

Denisyako wasn’t concerned at all about injuries from equestrian affecting Karina in the pool.

He said each sport progresses body development and physical philosophy in different ways and he slowly learned equestrian was not just a hobby sport for Karina, it was her primary focus.

This head-down, forward mindset landed Karina some great accolades, including scholarships from the Arizona Quarter Horse Association’s Fall Championship in 2017 and 2018.

She also worked closely with assistant Scottsdale Prep swim coach Ted Collins this swim seaAs a kid, Karina would walk out of her family’s son to �ine-tune her freestyle horse property to wish all of the neighbor’s horses stroke. The stroke has shown a seven-second improvement from goodnight by name. (Courtesy of Holly Basteyns) her sophomore year.

Karina has a hunger for growth in life, but I’m not obsessed with it.”

Karina wants to rise above these stereo- anything she competes in. She never wants types and the best way she knows how is appreciation until she reaches the very top of the mountain. through hard work.

After her �irst equestrian national’s tour“I think she brings a very goal-oriented personality to the team,” said Nikita Deni- nament in the summer of seventh grade, syako, coach of the SPA swim team. “She Karina was unaware she was disquali�ied really pays close attention to small details.” for bumping her horse in the show ring de-

spite having what she felt was the performance of a lifetime.

She couldn’t believe she didn’t make the top-10 after her showmanship event.

Karina’s father decided to take her to get her boots shined to take her mind off the whole thing.

She told a friend and mentor of hers, who she bumped into at the boot shining shop, that she got an “almost top-10”, even though in reality she came in dead last.

What followed after this quote was a playful mockery of the word almost by the boot shiner and her dad.

“You can never be almost. That just means you failed and you were close to succeeding, but you still failed,” Karina said. “I never want to be the almost.”

Currently, Karina is searching for a college providing the perfect blend between equestrian competition and her academic pursuits in marketing or entrepreneurship.

Some schools on her watchlist include Baylor University, Texas Christian University, the University of Georgia, and Denisyako’s alma mater, Texas A&M University.

Karina’s dream is to one day start her own breeding program with her younger sister, Annika, 14, following in the footsteps of her grandparents, Jerry and Margaret Ford.

Karina would handle the training and marketing while her sister, who also rides, would assist in the training and handle the breeding side of the business.

Karina managed to make special connections with her teammates, coaches and most importantly, horses, over her dualsport tenure that started at the age of 11.

Her two most in�luential horses are Everest, a 5-year-old gelding provided by her grandparents and Prim, a grey who she and Annika currently compete with and see often.

Outside of the sporting realm, you might �ind Karina rewatching episodes of her favorite television show, Friends, or writing stories in her school’s newspaper club.

Whether it’s in the pool or out on the ranch, Karina is always occupied. She’s focused on forging her own path, by absorbing the knowledge from countless coaches and mentors that have shattering past almost being successful.

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‘Lion King Jr.’ marks milestone for director

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or 14 years, Terry Temple was a member of the Our Lady of Perpetual Help professional staff as the director of liturgy and worship.

But in 2010, he craved a more creative, more impactful role, he said — one that allowed him to work more closely with the students.

He wanted to direct musical productions for Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School.

“I went to the new principal and I said, ‘What do you think?’” Temple recalled.

That new principal was Donna Lauro, and she was quick to give Temple the green light.

Now, nearly 10 years later, the school is one weekend away from putting on its 10th-annual musical production, “Disney’s The Lion King Jr.” This may be the school’s first time tackling “Disney’s The Lion King Jr.,” but all 10 productions have one thing in common: They were all directed by Temple.

“Terry Temple has a reputation synonymous with excellence,” Lauro said. “Older families tell new families, staff members share with newer families; the experience working under the direction of Terry Temple continues to stand the test of time. It is looked forward to among our students, especially as they near eighth grade, hoping to earn a most coveted role.”

This year, Temple also is celebrating the 10th anniversary of his family business in southern Scottsdale, Temple Music and Performing Arts.

“That is a significant thing,” Temple said of his business’ milestone anniversary. “It grew to the point where I was able to retire from full-time ministry and really do this full-time and do shows all over the Valley.”

The “Lion King Jr.” cast – comprising 100 students between second and eighth grade – will take the stage on Nov. 22-24, in four performances.

“Casting’s always difficult, but we’ve had a couple of recent surprises with kids who had never done shows. They sang in front of their peers for the first time and you could have heard a pin drop. They just —

Terry Temple not only marks directing 10 musicals at Our Lady of Perpectual Help School, but also marks the 10th anniversary of his family business, Temple Music and Performing Arts, in southern Scottsdale. (Kimberly Matura Photography/Special to the Progress)

“Disney’s The Lion King Jr.” features a cast of 100 students.

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they were surprising,” Temple said. “We said, ‘Oh, we’re onto something this year.’”

The eighth-graders voted for “The Lion King Jr.” over “The Wizard of Oz.” “With the movie and all the hype with that, they chose ‘Lion King,’” Temple said.

“We have a lot of eighth-graders this year, more than normal,” said Emily Temple, assistant director and choreographer — and Terry’s daughter. “They all

got together and decided, ‘Let’s do this for the last time together.’ So, I think we have 20-something, one of our larger eighth-grade classes.”

Emily is a graduate of the school, Notre Dame Prep and Azusa Pacific University.

“OLPH is my alma mater and it really feels like home when we’re there. Mrs. Lauro was my principal and my seventhgrade teacher, maybe sixth grade, so I know her super-well. And the parents

we all have, there’s great relationships and a great spirit,” Emily said.

As an eighth-grader, Emily was involved in Our Lady of Perpetual Help’s first musical production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.”

That experience inspired her to pursue a BFA degree in the performing arts.

“I’ve wanted Emily to work on our shows forever,” Terry said. She’s my daughter, but she’s — and I’ve said this, and I’ll say it to anybody — she’s the best choreographer that I’ve ever had work for me. So, when she graduated, we said, please come work for the family.”

Emily is currently choreographing all over the Valley, including Desert Foothills Theater in Scottsdale and Veritas Preparatory Academy in Phoenix.

Emily is also the reason Temple Music and Performing Arts exists.

Terry recalls driving around town, his wife, Ginny, in the passenger seat and 10-year-old Emily in the backseat.

“I started getting involved at Desert Stages Theater and the kids were asking me, ‘Can you give the lessons?’ I didn’t have time, and I didn’t have a place to do it. But then my wife and I start talking, ‘Can we make this work? Can we find a place and maybe just do it in the cracks of my schedule?’” Terry recalled.

As they identified possible studios on their drive, Emily asked from the backseat: “Is this studio thing going to be something that we just talk about or are we actually going to do it?”

“I thought, ‘My 10-year-old daughter has thrown down the gauntlet,’” Terry said with a laugh.

Over the years, Temple Music and Performing Arts continue to grow, and the Temple family went full-time with the business about five years ago.

The studio has been so successful, their students received a combined 56 wins and nominations from the National Youth Arts, Gammage High School Musical Theater, and ariZoni Awards in 2015 alone.

Terry credits the business’ success to the church.

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us and the passion that it brought into my life and Emily’s life, we’ve done close to 40 shows in that 10 years across the Valley,” Terry said.

Past productions include “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Seussical,” “Cinderella: A Ragtime Musical,” “Wizard of Oz,” and “High School Musical.”

OLPH’s productions have won a total of 11 National Youth Arts Awards, on top of dozens of nominations.

Dozens of Our Lady of Perpetual Help alumni volunteer for each year’s musical production and more Emily Temple is a graduate of Our Lady of Perpetual than 1,000 students have Help, Notre Dame Prep, and Azusa Pacific University.

As an eighth grader, Emily was involved in the school's performed in the school’s first musical, “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor nine musical productions. Dreamcoat.” (Kimberly Matura Photography/Special to the Progress) “My daughter and a lot of camaraderie that it might have otherwise her high school friends are coming from all over and they’ve gone to taken years to achieve,” Alaimo said.

Information: olphaz.org/school, all different high schools. They’re coming on Saturday night to see the play,” said templeperformingarts.com Erin Alaimo, OLPH parent and alumna.

“OLPH was an important part of their elementary school experience, and they just want to stay connected. It’s marvelous.”

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Local chefs plan bountiful holiday feasts Mountain Shadows What: Thanksgiving dinner at Hearth ’61, including slow-roasted “Two Wash Ranch” turkey dinner with country gravy, yukon gold mashed potatoes, chorizo cornbread stuffing and more.

When: 11 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Where: 5445 E. Lincoln Drive Price: $44 per adult, $16 per child (12 and under) Phone: 480-624-5400 Website: mountainshadows.com.

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estled into the north side of Camelback Mountain, Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort’s on-site restaurant, elements, may have year-round, jaw-dropping sunset views of Praying Monk.

But come Thanksgiving, the restaurant – with Executive Chef Beau MacMillan at the helm – continuously offers one of the best Thanksgiving turkey dinners in Scottsdale.

For a heftier price, of course.

This year is no different.

This Thanksgiving, patrons can choose between a four-course, prix-fixe menu at elements or opt for the Thanksgiving buffet at The Views Ballroom.

The prix-fixe menu includes a traditional turkey dinner with chestnut stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry apple relish and gravy.

Other menu items include filet of beef with gratin potatoes, garlic and brioche stuffed pork tenderloin with cipollini onion ragu, and pumpkin spice creme brûlée with pepita brittle.

For those who crave a more diverse culinary sampling à la Valley’s best and most talented chefs, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess offers a Thanksgiving brunch.

The brunch features seven chefs from Bourbon Steak, La Hacienda, Toro Latin Restaurant & Rum Bar and Ironwood American Kitchen – all of whom will bring their own themed menus to the table.

Or, head straight to the Princess’ onsite restaurant Bourbon Steakhouse for an a la carte-style, three-course menu with all the fixings.

This is just a taste of what you can expect at Scottsdale-area resorts this Thanksgiving.

Take a look at many other brunches, dinners and buffets offered this year on Thanksgiving Day. Fairmont Scottsdale Princess What: Thanksgiving brunch featuring seven Valley chefs at Palomino Ball-

Hotel Valley Ho offers two buffets on Thanksgiving Day, including the Valley Ho Thanksgiving Buffet at Sands with a carving station, seafood bar, and a variety of tasty entrées; and a dinner buffet at ZuZu with a special starter buffet, dessert buffet, and more. (Hotel Valley Ho/Special to the Progress)

room; A la carte-style three-course menu at Bourbon Steakhouse.

When: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Where: Palomino Ballroom or Bourbon Steakhouse, 7575 E. Princess Drive Price: $114 per adult, $54 per child (ages 6-12) Phone: 480-585-4848 Website: fairmont.com/scottsdale.

Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort What: Four-course, prix-fixe menu at elements; Thanksgiving buffet at The Views Ballroom The prix-fixe menu includes a traditional turkey dinner with chestnut stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry apple relish and gravy.

When: elements: 12 - 8 p.m., buffet: 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Where: 5700 E. McDonald Drive Price: elements: $115 per adult, buffet: $105 per adult; both: $35 per child (612), free for children 5 and under Phone: 855-421-3522 Website: sanctuaryoncamelback.com.

Voila French Bistro What: Three-course Thanksgiving Day brunch featuring mussels, Quiche Lorraine, Alsace Apple Tart, and more.

When: 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Where: 10135 E. Via Linda Price: $49 per adult, $20 per child (12 and under) Phone: 480-614-5600 Website: voilafrenchbistro.com.

Hotel Valley Ho What: Two buffets, including the Valley Ho Thanksgiving Buffet at Sands with a carving station, seafood bar and a variety of tasty entrées; and dinner buffet at ZuZu with a special starter buffet, dessert buffet and more.

When: Sands: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.; ZuZu: 4 - 9 p.m.

Where: 6850 E. Main Street Price: Sands: $69 per adult; ZuZu: $52$72 per adult; both: $22 per child (12 and under) Phone: 480-376-2600 Website: hotelvalleyho.com.

Royal Palms What: Holiday brunch buffet in the grand Palmera Ballroom featuring the Royal Palms Spanish paella, herb-crusted prime rib, California sea bass, traditional eggs Benedict, Roasted Steamship ham, an assortment of house-made pastries and more; three-course-prixfixe menu at T. Cook’s, including panroasted Branzino, butternut squash ravioli, apple brined turkey breast and more.

When: Palmera: 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., T. Cook’s: 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.

Where: 5200 E. Camelback Road Price: $95 per adult, $38 per child (ages 6-12) Phone: 602-283-1234 Website: royalpalmshotel.com.

Modern Oysterbar Chophouse What: Special Thanksgiving dinner featuring oven-roasted turkey with sweet potato souffle, sage and apple stuffing with sausage, green bean casserole, cranberry relish and natural pan gravy.

When: 1 - 8 p.m.

Where: 10050 N. Scottsdale Road, #127 Price: $49 per person Phone: 480-531-1400 Website: modernoysterbarchophouse. com.

Andaz Scottsdale Resort & Bungalows What: Thanksgiving brunch at Weft & Warp Art Bar + Kitchen featuring King crab legs, “Not Your Average Potato Salad, carving stations serving slow-

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What’s Cooking Talavera Restaurant at Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North offers a Thanksgiving dinner buffet with all the trimmings you can imagine. (Special to the Progress)

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roasted mesquite turkey and garlic rosemary-crusted tenderloin, sides, including blue cornbread stuffing and plenty of sweets, like chai cheesecake.

When: 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Where: 6114 N. Scottsdale Road Price: $85 per adult, $45 per child (ages 7-12) Phone: 480-368-1234 Website: andazscottsdale.com.

Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North What: Thanksgiving dinner buffet at Talavera Restaurant featuring a raw and seafood bar, a fall squash ravioli action station, a carving station with turkey, beef and salmon, all the Thanksgiving trimmings one could ever want, an array of Chef Lance Whipple’s desserts and more.

When: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.

Where: 10600 E. Crescent Moon Drive Price: $125 per adult, $48 per child (ages 5-12) Phone: 480-515-5700 Website: talaverarestaurant.com.

Hyatt Regency Scottsdale Resort & Spa What: Thanksgiving dinner with live music and a holiday buffet at SWB, a southwest bistro, including eggs benedict, Alaskan crab legs, smoked Scottish salmon and more.

When: 1 - 10 p.m.

Where: 7500 E. Doubletree Ranch Road Price: $99 per adult, $47 per child (ages 6-12) Phone: 480-444-1234 Website: hyatt.com.

The Scott Resort & Spa What: The Canal Club will serve a prixfixe, three-course Thanksgiving dinner that includes a Cuban-brined turkey, caramelized Brussels sprouts with candied bacon and sweet potato cheesecake with toasted marshmallow, drizzled with cranberry syrup.

When: 5 – 11 p.m.

Where: 4925 N. Scottsdale Road Price: $38 per person Phone: 480-424-6095 Website: thecanalclubaz.com.

The Scottsdale Resort & McCormick Ranch What: Thanksgiving buffet featuring seafood ice display with shrimp and shooters, a carving station with butterbasted turkey, prime rib, and baked ham with pineapple glaze and more.

When: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Where: 7700 E. McCormick Pkwy.

Price: $65 per adult, $30 per child (ages 5-12) Phone: 480-991-9000 Website: destinationhotels.com/scottsdale-resort.

The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa What: Thanksgiving buffet and dinner at Nellie Cashman’s Monday Club Cafe featuring golden cider-roasted heritage semi-boneless turkey.

When: Buffet: 12 - 4:45 p.m.; dinner: 4 - 9 p.m.

Where: 6902 E. Greenway Pkwy.

Price: Buffet: $89 per adult, $25 per child (ages 5-12); dinner: $50 per adult, $21 per child Phone: 480-624-1000 Website: marriott.com.

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These chewy pieces of Reese’s raise the bar on goodness

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hese chewy, chunky treats really raise the bar on goodness. In fact, I absolutely love these Reese’s to pieces.

It starts with delicious peanut butter oatmeal cookie dough that gets spread on a baking sheet.

Then the minute you pull it out of the oven, a layer of chocolate chips gets sprinkled over top which start to melt.

Then you’ll spoon a delicious smooth and creamy peanut butter topping over the melting chocolate and swirl the two to create a gorgeous marbleized coating.

The final touch is to dot the topping with Ingredients: 1 ½ sticks (12 tablespoons) unsalted butter softened 2 cups light brown sugar 1 cup creamy peanut butter 2 large eggs, room temperature 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 2 cups flour 1 ½ cup old fashioned oats 2 ½ teaspoons baking powder 1teaspoon salt 1 cup chocolate chips Peanut butter topping: ½ cup peanut butter 2 cups powdered sugar 1/3 cup milk 1 cup or more Mini Reese’s peanut butter cups, chopped Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease or line a 9x13 inch baking dish or cookie sheet with parchment paper.

chopped up chunks of mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Wow! When you bite into the chewy bar, you get the peanut butter, the oats, the chocolate and the Reese’s all in one scrumptious bite. These cookie bars are great for making ahead and they hold up well for a school lunchbox.

If you’re thinking about a dessert platter or cookie exchange this holiday season, I would not hesitate to add these to your line-up.

If you make them ahead, you can seal them well and store them in the freezer. I think you’ll love these Reese’s to pieces, too.

In a larger mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar together. Add peanut butter and continue mixing.

Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each egg. Add in vanilla and mix. Combine flour, oats, baking powder and salt in a small mixing bowl.

Add the flour mixture slowly stirring until well combined.

Spread dough on the sheet pan and pat firm.

Bake for about 25 minutes or until toothpick comes up clean and top is a light golden brown.

(Do not overbake.) Meanwhile, make peanut butter topping. In a bowl, blend peanut butter, powdered sugar and milk.

When cookie is done, remove from oven and immediately sprinkle top with chocolate chips.

Spoon peanut butter and powdered sugar mixture over chocolate chips and swirl with a knife or spoon.

Dot with Reese’s chopped peanut butter cups.

Refrigerate for several hours to harden. Cut into squares and enjoy!

Watch my how-to video: jandatri.com/recipe/ reeses-peanut-butter-oatmeal-bars.

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Purpose: Request by owner for a major General Plan amendment to the City of Scottsdale General Plan 2001 to change the land use designation from Urban Neighborhoods to Mixed-Use Neighborhoods on a +/- 41.5-acre site located at the southwest corner of North Hayden and East Camelback Roads.

Staff contact person: Adam Yaron, 480-312-2761 email: ayaron@scottsdaleaz.gov Applicant contact person: John Berry, 480-385-2727 email: mh@berryriddell.com A copy of the proposed amendments is available for review in Suite 105, 7447 East Indian School Road, Scottsdale, Arizona. *For more information enter case number at: https://eservices.scottsdaleaz.gov/bldgresources/Cases or to comment, e-mail projectinput@scottsdaleaz.gov. The entire case file may be viewed at Current Planning, 7447 E Indian School Road, Suite 105.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Scottsdale, Arizona, will hear public comment regarding these cases at the hearing listed below: Hearing Date: December 3, 2019 @ 5:00 P.M. Location: City Hall – 3939 N. Drinkwater Blvd. Scottsdale, AZ 85251 Attest Lorraine Castro Planning Specialist PERSONS WITH A DISABILITY MAY REQUEST A REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION BY CONTACTING THE CLERK'S OFFICE AT (480-312-7620). REQUESTS SHOULD BE MADE 24 HOURS IN ADVANCE, OR AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE TO ALLOW TIME TO ARRANGE ACCOMMODATION. FOR TTY USERS, THE ARIZONA RELAY SERVICE (1-800-367-8939) MAY CONTACT THE CLERK'S OFFICE AT (480-312-7620).

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14-BA-2019 (Ott Addition / Renovation) Request by owner for a variance to the City of Scottsdale Zoning Ordinance, Sections 5.404.E.1.a pertaining to the required front yard setback for a property with Single-family Residential (R1-10) zoning located at 5101 Woodmere Fairway.

A case file on the subject properties is on file at 7447 E. Indian School Road, Suite 105, where it may be viewed by any interested person.

A COPY OF A FULL AGENDA, INCLUDING ITEMS CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS MEETINGS IS AVAILABLE AT LEAST 24 HOURS PRIOR TO THE MEETING AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: Community Design Studio, 7506 East Indian School Road Online at: http://www.ScottsdaleAZ.gov/boards/board-of-adjustment ALL INTERESTED PARTIES ARE INVITED TO ATTEND. CHAIRMAN BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT Attest Melissa Berry Planning Specialist

3-GP-2019 (Gentry on the Green) Request by owner for a major General Plan amendment to the City of Scottsdale General Plan 2001 to change the land use designation from Urban Neighborhoods to Mixed-Use Neighborhoods on a +/- 41.5 acre site located at the southwest corner of North Hayden and East Camelback Roads. Staff contact person is Adam Yaron, 480-312-2761. Applicant contact person is John Berry, 480-385-2727.

11-ZN-2019 (Gentry on the Green) Request by owner for approval of a Zoning District Map amendment from Multiple-family Residential (R-5) district to Planned Unit Development Planned Shared Development (PUD PSD) district, including a Development Plan and Amended Development Standards, on a +/- 41.5 acre site located at the southwest corner of North Hayden and East Camelback Roads. Staff contact person is Bryan Cluff, 480-312-2258.

Applicant contact person is John Berry, (480) 385-2727.

A case file on the subject properties is on file at 7447 E. Indian School Road, Suite 105, where it may be viewed by any interested person.

A COPY OF A FULL AGENDA, INCLUDING ITEMS CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS MEETINGS IS AVAILABLE AT LEAST 24 HOURS PRIOR TO THE MEETING AT THE FOLLOWING City Hall, 3939 N. Drinkwater Boulevard ALL INTERESTED PARTIES ARE INVITED TO ATTEND. ALL NON-REMOTE SITE PUBLIC HEARINGS ARE HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, SCOTTSDALE CITY HALL, 3939 N. DRINKWATER BOULEVARD, SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA. CHAIRMAN Attest LORRAINE CASTRO For additional information visit our web site at www.scottsdaleaz.gov PERSONS WITH A DISABILITY MAY REQUEST A REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION BY CONTACTING THE CLERK'S OFFICE AT (480-312-7620). REQUESTS SHOULD BE MADE 24 HOURS IN ADVANCE, OR AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE TO ALLOW TIME TO ARRANGE ACCOMMODATION. FOR TTY USERS, THE ARIZONA RELAY SERVICE (1-800-367-8939) MAY CONTACT THE CLERK'S OFFICE AT (480-3127620).

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