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Welcome to Vista

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elcome to our 2012 spring/summer Vista magazine, our semi-annual guide to the West Valley.

To commemorate the state’s centennial — Arizona became a state Feb. 14, 1912, 100 years to the day of this Vista’s publication — we chose to look at our rich history out here in the West Valley and share some of the highlights with you as the state marks a very big birthday.

We like to think that 100 years is just the beginning; that this great patchwork of communities will grow and thrive for another hundred years, and even beyond that. But now that we’re at 100, it’s a good time to look back on the people, places and events that shaped

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Frank Luke Jr. Paul LitchÀeld

Billy Moore

In celebration of Arizona’s 100th anniversary: A century of West Valley history Walter Tolleson

what is now all around us. Our history is infused with pioneers, engineers, entrepreneurs, cowboys, ranchers, farmers and, most of all, dreamers. They came here, saw potential and planted roots.

The West Valley would be nothing without them.

One remarkable sidenote: this history is by no means complete. We were constrained to space limitations, so some major pieces of the West Valley’s past had to be left out. Please continue to read the Tuesday and Friday editions of the West Valley View as stories about the centennial and its various celebrations continue throughout the year.

Happy birthday, Arizona.

— Michael Clawson

About the Cover

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he cover of this Vista is a montage of historical photos gleaned from the West Valley View archives. Some of the area’s most influential pioneers — Walter Tolleson, Paul W. Litchfield and Billy Moore, as well as World War I Medal of Honor winner Frank Luke Jr., whose name lives on in Luke Air Force Base — are set against a backdrop of Buckeye’s Main Street in the 1930s, a farm worker in an irrigated field and a Buckeye-area resident riding a horseless carriage.

Table of Contents Arizona History ..................................................................V5 School History ...................................................................V8 Famous Faces ................................................................ V12 Historians ....................................................................... V15 Cotton Farming............................................................... V18 Statehood Connections .................................................. V20 Monument Hill ................................................................ V22 Life on the farm............................................................... V32 Health Care ....................V24 Businesses/Services ......V40 Golf ................................V33 Schools .........................V43 Dining .............................V34 Arizona ..........................V46 Worship ..........................V35 Cities .............................V47

Spring/Summer Vista 2012 was conceived and designed by Michael Clawson and Jonathan Barnes with cover artwork by Jim Painter.

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The path to statehood “Sun-drenched land” has reached history with Mexico, Native Americans

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rizona has plenty of history for people who like to think of the Southwest in terms of gun fights, cattle rustling, outlaws, cowboys and Indian warfare.

Those are the days, of course, before there was an Avondale, Buckeye, Goodyear, Litchfield Park or Tolleson.

History buffs quickly discover that the range of Arizona lore is extensive and that it can be sometimes difficult to find a satisfactory starting point.

Perhaps they may start with the history from the Spanish conquest of Mexico and the advance of priests and explorers into what would become the 48th state.

On the other hand, readers may trace the history from the pioneer prospectors, soldiers, cattlemen, tradesmen and farmers who ventured into the Arizona territory and recorded their adventures.

They also may start with the patchwork quilt of stories involving the earliest inhabitants, including the mysterious Hohokams, who were both agricultural and architectural, leaving behind a system of ruins and irrigation canals.

The focus on other Native Americans may include the Navajo, Apache, Hopi, Pima, Moqui, Tohono O’Odham, Yavapai, Yaqui, Quechan and Hualapai.

Eventually, Arizona was settled and achieved statehood on Feb. 14, 1912, thus becoming the 48th state and ending what historians describe as the end to the colonization of the contiguous states.

At the time of statehood, according to historians, Arizona was the epitome of the American West and was known as the home of the Five C’s — copper, cattle, cotton, citrus and climate.

What is Arizona today? Answers may vary among lifetime residents, new arrivals or the line of immigrants from Mexico and other foreign countries.

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A woman symbolizing Columbia holds an American flag and star as she faces three men representing New Mexico, left, Arizona, and Oklahoma, who are waiting for statehood, with the U.S. Capitol in the background. This cartoon ran in Puck Magazine July 1902.

Certainly, Arizona will continue to be known for its natural beauty.

To outsiders, Arizona may be a “sun-drenched land, bounded on the north by the Grand Canyon and on the south by Mexico,” according to one historical writer, John Walton Caughey.

It may be viewed as the home of blanket-weaving and silverworking Native Americans plying their trade on reservations between the New Mexico and California borders, Caughey wrote in a scholarly book review in 1951.

And it’s seen as a great destination for tourists, as portrayed

by Arizona Highways, or a Mecca for health seekers and winter visitors who quickly relish the state’s glorious sunsets, Caughey wrote in The American Historical Review.

In the final analysis, Arizonans may argue that the state becomes a wonderful place to settle down, get a job, buy a home, raise a family, gain an education and, perhaps, eventually retire.

People familiar with Arizona may discover that the state has a wealth of rich experiences to offer for those who have an eye to the past, an anchor on the present and a focus on the future.

In March 1893, 19 years before statehood, the debate already was raging whether the Arizona territory should be admitted as a full-fledged state.

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A Native American farmer works on a field near what is now the Gila River Indian Community southeast of Goodyear and Avondale. The photo was taken sometime between 1918 and 1928.

ARIZONA from V5 That year, John N. Irwin, a former territorial governor in Arizona, published a scholarly article in which he advanced his arguments for statehood.

“In intelligence and education the people of Arizona will compare favorably with those of any State in the Union,” Irwin wrote in “Claims to Statehood,” an essay in The North American Review.

Irwin also praised the territory’s government system and public schools, adding that Arizona “has a fine asylum for the insane and a penitentiary, both built and maintained by territorial funds.”

The former governor added, “Its superb winter climate has induced many northern and eastern people who are in search of mild winters to settle in its valleys, while the development of its mines and its adaptability for grazing, farming and fruit culture have been factors in bringing many people to make their homes within its borders.”

Today, 119 years later, many of the same arguments can be made about Arizona and the state’s future prospects.

For example, Coldwater, which later would become Avondale, served as a dusty stagecoach stop when it was founded in 1896 by people settling along the banks of the Agua Fria River.

The roots of Coldwater are traced to Billy Moore, a former blacksmith and reputed outlaw, who operated a freight station on the west side of the river.

As the agricultural and water resources of the region became known, more settlers arrived. The post office at Coldwater was twice discontinued before it was renamed Avondale in 1911, just a year before Arizona statehood.

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What was once a vast open desert is now one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States. Long before urban sprawl transformed the landscape, farmers tamed the land one field at a time. Back then, Arizona was very much in the Old West, with cowboys, stagecoaches and steam locomotives.

room with the arrival of more residents. In the 2010 census, the Avondale population was set at 76,238.

Now, Avondale and surrounding cities are thoroughly modern communities in the Phoenix metropolitan area and all with an eye to a very promising future.

— Brent Whiting

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You’ve come a long way, baby West Valley school districts see big changes over last decade

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he West Valley’s educational history is rife with stories about schools for sale and pioneering desegregation rulings.

Probably the most intriguing tale from the area is the stolen schoolhouse saga, which was a battle between the Arlington and Palo Verde elementary districts.

In 1896, a shared building called Powers Butte School sat on the west side of the Hassayampa River, even though more pupils lived on the east side.

In the middle of the night, Palo Verde farmers loaded the 14-foot-by-16-foot room onto a wagon and moved it five miles to the corner of Palo Verde Road and Highway 80, where the building stood for several years.

Verlyne Meck, 71, longtime instructor for the Buckeye Union High School District, wrote about the event and other historical highlights in her book, Buckeye.

“I heard that story and got information, and there are pictures of it and different things,” she said. “It’s the truth; it’s not a legend.”

Days of Little House on the Prairie one-room schoolhouses are long gone, but it wasn’t too many years ago that plenty of districts still had only one school.

The area’s 14 districts are all decades old, but many didn’t start to see major growth until the year 2000. In the last 12 years, the number of schools in the West Valley went from 24 to 67.

The Buckeye Elementary District had just one site for 113 years, from 1890 to 2003. Enrollment more than quadrupled in the last decade, causing it to need six campuses.

According to records, the Pendergast Elementary District was the first to be established in the West Valley in 1886. The original wood school building burned down in 1900, and the Pendergast family donated land for a new two-room brick building that still stands, Superintendent Ron Richards said.

The oldest school structure in Arizona still in use on its original site is in the Liberty Elementary District in Buckeye. The Cottonwood Log School was built in 1887 and later restored in 1993.

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Children of migratory laborers living at a labor camp board a school bus in Avondale in a 1940 photograph. Many things have changed in the 72 years since this photo was taken, namely all the labor camps have long-since disappeared.

Meck attended school in the historical building during first grade.

“I’m proud, but it does make me an antique. I like to use the word, ‘vintage,’” she said. “I really enjoyed my years at Liberty School. I felt like I got a very good education.”

In Litchfield Park, the first school was started in 1917 in an old cook shack with wooden floors and canvas side flaps.

Eleven pupils were enrolled in the beginning, but it increased daily and had 80 children by the following year. Mable Padgett was the district’s first teacher, and she was honored in 2010 when the district named a school after her.

To the southwest, the Tolleson Union High School District was organized on Jan. 24, 1914, but the first class of students didn’t start until 1920 in a small wooden building divided into two classrooms and a small office inside Pendergast Elementary.

Students could only attend the first two years of high school in the district and then had to transfer to either Glendale Union High School or Phoenix Union High School.

About 1972, Juan de Baustista DeAnza High School was built at the corner of 91st and Campbell avenues as a ninth- and 10th-grade high school, and Tolleson became the site for 11thand 12th-graders.

In 1981, DeAnza was sold to the Pendergast Elementary District, which took special legislation. It was the only time in the United States that a school was sold to another district, Tolleson spokeswoman Karyn Eubanks said.

The Tolleson Elementary District boasts the first desegregation case in the state. Before 1951, its white and Hispanic pupils attended class separately.

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EDUCATION from V8 The policy changed when a group of citizens determined segregation had no place in their community.

A preliminary injunction from the U.S. District Court in 1951 directed the school to integrate immediately. It was the first such lawsuit entered in Arizona — three years before the famous Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education.

One of the district’s elementary schools was named after Porfirio Gonzales, who was the lead plaintiff in the case. Now, a tribute panel sits in front of the campus to honor everyone involved.

Part of it reads: “This memorial is dedicated to all the brave individuals that fought with great courage and humility to bring an end to the segregation of the Tolleson Elementary Schools. They believed in the spirit of the United States Constitution, that all children will be afforded the right to a truly equal education. Their legacy is a firm reminder that the fight for social justice continues.”

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An undated photo from sometime between 1910 and 1920 shows Liberty schoolchildren outside the Liberty Elementary School. The photo is being held up in front of the 102-year-old building that still stands in Buckeye.

Students from the Palo Verde School stand in front of their school bus in an undated photo from sometime between 1910 and 1920.

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Litchfield Elementary School students, 1917

Then and now The following is a timeline of when each West Valley school district was established and how it looks today.

• 1886 — Pendergast Elementary District. Now has 14 schools and 9,300 pupils.

• 1889 — Buckeye Elementary District. Now has six schools and 4,500 pupils.

• 1894 — Arlington Elementary District. Now has one school and 284 pupils.

• 1894 — Avondale Elementary District. Now has eight schools and 5,710 pupils.

• 1899 — Union Elementary District. Now has two schools and 1,756 pupils.

• 1910 — Liberty Elementary District. Now has five schools and 3,302 pupils.

• 1910 — Palo Verde Elementary District. Now has one school and 440 pupils.

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• 1912 — Littleton Elementary District. Now has seven schools and 5,169 pupils.

• 1914 — Tolleson Union High School District.

Now has six schools and 9,621 students.

• 1917 — Litchfield Elementary District. Now has 14 schools and 10,233 pupils.

• 1920 — Buckeye Union High School District.

Now has three schools and 3,663 students.

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• 1929 — Tolleson Elementary District. Now has four schools and 2,720 pupils.

• 1930 — Saddle Mountain Unified District. Now has three schools and 1,390 pupils.

• 1955 — Agua Fria Union High School District.

Now has four schools and 6,750 students.

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Famous faces History-makers who have called the West Valley home

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otable people have had a connection to the Southwest Valley since before Arizona attained statehood in 1912; some of them through living or working here, and others through having landmarks named

for them.

Luminaries have been from all realms, including arts, education, politics and sports.

Entrepreneur Billy Moore was instrumental in the establishment of the community of Coldwater, which later became Avondale.

He settled the area in 1895 and established a stage coach stop and built a saloon and a general store. Moore was the initial Coldwater postmaster.

The city used to honor its founder with an annual Billy Moore Heritage Days celebration.

William “Buckey” O’Neill once owned the Buckeye Irrigation Co. and extended the canal to Arlington Valley.

O’Neill went on to gain fame as one of Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War. O’Neill was killed in battle during the charge up San Juan Hill in Cuba.

Since those pre-statehood days, numerous luminaries have been associated with the area.

Arts Famed author Upton Sinclair once lived in Buckeye.

It is not certain exactly when Sinclair moved to Buckeye.

Anthony Arthur’s biography Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair (2006, Random House) states that Sinclair “bought a tiny house in ... Buckeye” in 1950. He was still living there a decade later as certified by several letters to the editor published in 1959 and 1960 issues of Time magazine that were signed “Upton Sinclair, Buckeye, Ariz.”

Sinclair is best known for The Jungle, a book exposing unsanitary conditions in Chicago’s meatpacking plants.

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Lt. Frank Luke Jr., the first U.S. aviator to be awarded a Medal of Honor, stands next to his plane in an undated photo. Luke Air Force Base was named in his honor.

His exposé created a public outcry that paved the way for the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat inspection Act in 1906, which required the federal inspection of meat products.

The 2007 Academy Award-nominated motion picture There Will Be Blood was based on Sinclair’s 1927 novel Oil!

Aviation Astronaut Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, lived in Goodyear in the mid-1950s and was a flight instructor at Luke Air Force Base in nearby Glendale Luke Air Force Base is named for Frank Luke Jr., the first aviator to be awarded a Medal of Honor.

The Wigwam resort in Litchfield Park recently named the first hole of its Patriots Course in honor of Luke.

Education Lattie Coor was a graduate of Litchfield High School, which was replaced in 1955 by Agua Fria Union High School.

Coor was president of ASU from 1990 to 2002.

Lattie Coor Elementary School in Avondale is named for Coor’s father.

Cindy McCain, wife of Arizona senator and former presidential candidate John McCain, taught special education at Agua Fria High School in the late 1970s.

Michael Anderson School in Avondale is named for the NASA

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History keepers Historians focus on accuracy to create a picture of the past

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ncovering the West Valley’s rich heritage is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle.

A single jagged piece connects to a hundred others to tell a story bigger than the sum of its parts.

Much of the West Valley’s historical roots began in Litchfield Park, which was established in the early 1900s after William Kriegbaum of Riverside, Calif., claimed 640 acres.

In 1916, Akron, Ohio-based Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. sent Paul W. Litchfield, then a junior executive with the company, to purchase 16,000 acres, which included the land claims of the original settlers. They needed to grow Egyptian long-staple cotton for tire manufacturing.

Although the tire company provided detailed accounts of the area’s history, other sources such as a thesis by a second-grade teacher at Litchfield School, helped historians learn about the city’s past, said Celeste Crouch, an area historian.

“When I started the Litchfield Park Historical Society, I took that thesis and made copies of it. I handed it out to the City Council, the West Valley View, anyone who might connect back to us as a historical site,” she said. “That thesis was a real key on where to go to get history and how to find people.”

History in pieces Word soon traveled and history started to come to the historian, Crouch said.

“It’s surprisingly interesting to find people will find you once you start,” she said. “People will come to you if you let them know you’re available.”

For Tolleson historians Jimmy Ruiz and Jim Green, learning the stories of the past began with hundreds of photographs.

The two were approached by Arcadia Publishing to chronicle Tolleson’s history in a book, which featured mostly old photographs.

Ruiz had collected hundreds of photos over the years and they served as the book’s starting point.

“We began to look at his photos and support those … we began to make contacts with the citizens in the community who Spring/Summer 2012

Litchfield Park historian Judy Cook shows off artifacts in the archive room at the Litchfield Park Historical Society in Litchfield Park.

The Society is researching thousands of photos and documents in hopes they will eventually go on display to the public.

To Egypt and back again Judy Cook shows a 1920 photo of Kenneth McMicken, a cousin of Litchfield Park founder Paul Litchfield, as he sits in front of the Egyptian pyramids. McMicken traveled to Egypt in 1920 to learn how the Egyptians grew cotton and to bring farming tips back to West Valley cotton growers. A record of McMicken’s trip is preserved in a scrapbook he kept complete with illustrated farming diagrams and photographs he took at cotton facilities throughout Egypt. The scrapbook was donated to the Litchfield Park Historical Society.

would have some reason to have older photographs,” Green said. “We wanted a historical perspective on how things began

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HISTORIANS from V15 in Tolleson. We wanted to talk about the people and the families that built this part of the community.”

Listening to the peoples’ history meant deciphering memories, which weren’t always crystal clear, Green said.

“The difficulty for us was that once you began to talk to elderly people and people who remembered their great-grandparents, as we did, then each photo had an entire story behind it,” he said. “Some things we didn’t remember how it happened; the people would tell us what happened and how it came about.”

Memories and stories were then double or triple checked through other sources of information.

“Every small community always has some major historical controversies and conflicts. When we came to an area like that, we made sure we had historically verified material,” Green said.

“There are two sides to every story and when you take that approach and delve into one side, you’re going to alienate the other side and that wasn’t our intent.”

Crouch said being historically accurate has a lot to do with following a trail.

“I think it’s just a matter of putting people together, asking questions and going to the right situation,” she said, “finding a pattern and following it with people. You learn one thing and you go search it out. When you search it out, you find more. It’s a puzzle.”

History for the future Building that puzzle allows generations of people to discover their past, said Judy Cook, president of the Litchfield Park Historical Society.

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Historians Jim Green, left, and Jimmy Ruiz look through old photos in Ruiz’s Tolleson home in 2008. The two collaborated on a book of their collected photos called “Images of America: Tolleson.”

The society has collected numerous artifacts as well as oral histories of the area. Some items include old dictionaries, journals and postcards along with medical and dental equipment.

“I think the things that we have, probably give a really good picture of what life was like from 1916 until now in Litchfield Park because that was the hub of the development in the West Valley,” Cook said. “When you look through all those records and the things that happened, you can see how the West Valley grew from that hub.”

History also gives perspective on how society has advanced, she said.

“An awful lot can be shown from that time period that is different from our time today. Kids today often think everyone has a cell phone and a computer, but that’s really new. They don’t remember card catalogs, old medical equipment, old types of medications; they don’t understand how basic the healthcare was compared to what you can get today,” Cook said.

In general, it’s the older generations who appreciate the work of a historian, Green said.

“You have to grow old into it to realize the value of your history,” he said. “Youth and nostalgia don’t go back very far.

Part of the human psyche is to know where your heritage came from. We have to rely on the people who really value it to be the leaders.”

— Sara Clawson

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The cotton club The West Valley was forever changed by a now-obsolete type of tire

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ince statehood, cotton has been one of the state’s Five C’s — cattle, cotton, copper, citrus and climate, — the elements that help keep Arizona’s economy strong.

Residents living in Southwest Valley cities of Goodyear, Litchfield Park and Avondale can thank the soft, white fibrous substance for much of what they see today.

If it weren’t for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.’s need to grow strong-fiber cotton, who knows what the Southwest Valley would look like today?

Cotton was used to build cord truck tires. However, World War I interrupted the flow of the long-staple variety need for the tires that was being produced in Egypt’s Nile Valley. At the same time, the boll weevil insect was devastating the same variety of cotton being grown on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia and the Carolinas.

So, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. sent a young executive by the name of Paul Weeks Litchfield to Arizona in 1916 in hopes he could convince farmers to start growing cotton. Litchfield knew the U.S. Department of Agriculture had conducted successful experiments growing cotton in the Salt River Valley of Arizona.

Yet, he was unable to sway farmers in converting land to cotton fields, so the company decided to purchase its own land and formed the Southwest Cotton Co. The company bought about 8,000 acres of land near Chandler and another 30,000 where Litchfield Park, Goodyear, Avondale and Sun City now stand.

“Almost overnight an army of men started moving in, hundreds of Mexicans who threw up brushwood and adobe shelters, and still larger force of adventurers, drawn from all over the

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A farm worker picks cotton in a Goodyear field in this 1941 photograph. Before steel belting, tires were made with cotton belting. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. grew much of its cotton in the West Valley — including in the city it would help create — Goodyear.

One of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.’s blimps flies high over the West Valley in this 2006 West Valley View file photo.

Decades ago, the blimps were assembled in the West Valley.

Now they’re made and operated out of Orlando, Fla. The current fleet has three blimps. In any given year the blimps will make several trips to or over the Phoenix area.

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TIRES from V18 West by the lure of good pay, men who went from one big construction job to the next,” Litchfield wrote in his autobiography, Industrial Voyage. “We soon had 2,000 men on the job — and 1,200 mules at the peak, more than half the mule population of the state.

First, the land had to be cleared of cactuses, brush and trees.

“Big Caterpillar tractors rumbled in from the coast, were hooked up in tandem with a length of railroad steel between them, set off across the desert,” he said. “Other gangs were drilling wells, putting in pumps, building power lines, laying out a network of concrete canals and irrigation ditches, building highways, town sites, even a railroad. The property was so large and the roads so bad that we had to buy an airplane to get over it.”

Litchfield’s success in Arizona prompted Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.’s founder, Frank Seiberling, to proclaim that his men made the desert “blossom like a garden” in a December 1917 letter to stockholders.

More than 4,000 acres of cotton had been produced by the Southwest Cotton Co. in 1917, and from 1918 to 1919, more than 6.7 million pounds of cotton were picked on the company’s Arizona land.

Paul Litchfield eventually became president of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and was featured on the cover of Time magazine on Aug. 10, 1931.

— Rich Ott

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Statehood connections Litchfield Park woman’s ancestor helped create state Constitution

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or Litchfield Park resident Margaret Truman Baker, the 100th anniversary of Arizona’s statehood has special meaning — it also marks more than 100 years of her family’s history in the region.

Litchfield Park resident Margaret Truman Baker holds up photos of her grandfather, Rough Rider George Eggleston Truman, left, and his brother William Charles Truman, Margaret’s great uncle. Both men were present at the Arizona statehood ceremony Feb. 14, 1912, and both served afterward in state positions.

Deep roots in the Southwest Baker has traced her family tree all the way back to the early 1700s when her father’s grandmother’s family was living in Sonora, Mexico.

By the late 1800s, some of her relatives had moved north and become key figures in the history of Pinal County.

“My father’s maternal grandfather’s name was Collingwood, and he’s one of the founders of Pinal County and of Florence,” Baker said. “There’s documentation that he helped name Florence after his birthplace of Florence, Ohio.”

In 1910, her granduncle William Charles Truman was sergeant of arms at the 1910 Arizona Constitutional Convention.

He also served several terms as sheriff of Pinal County and was famous for his capture of Pearl Hart, Baker said.

Her grandfather, George Eggleston Truman, was the only individual from Pinal County to serve in the Spanish-American War and be part of Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. He also served as a Democrat senator for his county until his death in 1929.

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“My mother’s parents came to Phoenix before statehood also. Her family came all the the way from Alabama, so all my grandparents were here before statehood and most of my great-grandparents,” she said. “I enjoy knowing that my family was involved in the earliest development of the state during the really rough and tumble pioneer period.”

At home in the West Valley Baker’s family lineage started in the West Valley after her family moved to Waddell in 1947.

“My parents bought the Bard Ranch on the corner of Waddell Road and Cotton Lane,” she said. “It was a farming community named Waddell and there was a post office there, as well as

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Baker and her 11 siblings all attended school in the Dysart School District. She met her husband, Larry, at Litchfield High School in 1955 and they were married just a few years later.

After spending seven years in California for her husband’s banking job, the couple moved back to the West Valley.

They have lived in Litchfield Park since 1984. “We really enjoy living in the West Valley and Litchfield Park because we still see a lot of the families that we knew growing up,� Baker said. “It’s really just a pleasure to connect with other people who have lived in the West Valley for 50 years or so.�

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The Gila River snakes west through Avondale.

A recent effort to clean up and clear the banks of the river can be seen from Monument Hill.

A bridge crosses the mostly-dry riverbottom of the Gila River. Before the bridge was built, a road ran through the riverbottom that was susceptible to flooding.

X marks the spot Hill served as survey point for entire Valley in 1851 Monument Hill provides a birds-eye view of Phoenix International Raceway to the west. PIR has incorporated the hill into its seating arrangement.

A concrete monument marks the top of Monument Hill, the site of a survey that would lead to the grid layout of the entire Valley.

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onument Hill not only offers a spectacular view of the Southwest Valley, but also serves as a reminder of a past that continues to shape Arizona today.

Since 1851, 61 years before statehood on Feb. 14, 1912, the steep knoll just east of Phoenix International Raceway has remained as an important landmark.

The rugged and strategic high spot, which overlooks the confluence of the Gila and Salt rivers, has been the starting point for most Arizona surveys.

Today, hikers can enjoy the vista by inching their way to the top of the 150foot summit, about a 10-minute climb.

From there, they can catch a great panoramic view of the Valley and try to imagine the Arizona of yesteryear.

They might envision the Hokokams, who had a thriving Sonoran Desert agricultural society, complete with irrigation V22

canals, before abandoning their settlements by the late 1300s.

They might imagine what it was like for the first Europeans who began venturing into Arizona in the 1500s, including Coronado and Marcos de Niza.

Also, they may feel a kinship with the first territorial settlers, including outlaw Billy Moore, who established Coldwater in 1880, a freight station that later was renamed Avondale in 1911.

And, finally, hikers may contemplate other settlers who arrived, especially during World War II, laying the foundation for today’s diverse society.

On the other hand, hikers simply may gaze at the 360-degree view that includes much more than the two rivers.

The panorama also takes in Avondale Boulevard to the north, the racetrack to the west, the Estrella Mountains to the south and the tall buildings of downtown

Phoenix to the northeast.

However, some of those sites are a far cry from 1851 when John R. Bartlett, a government official, selected the hilltop for a reconnaissance survey of the United States-Mexico boundary.

In 1865, John A. Clark, a surveyor for Arizona and New Mexico, picked the site as the starting point for the initial survey of Arizona.

Today, two imaginary lines bisect a concrete monument atop the hill.

One is a north-south line, the Gila and Salt River Base Line and Meridian. It divides Arizona into east and west.

The other is an east-west line, called the base line, which divides Arizona into north and south. That is how Baseline Road of today got its name.

During territorial days, the lines were the point from which Arizona was surveyed, mapped and parceled out into the

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The original survey began with two streets: 115th Avenue (now Avondale Blvd.), pictured here, and Baseline Road to the east and west.

On a clear day, downtown Phoenix and its many tall buildings can be seen through the haze. It is framed by Four Peaks in the Tonto National Forest.

To the northeast, University of Phoenix Stadium and its surrounding shopping district Westgate can be seen.

Baseline Road, the second of two roads mapped during the original 1851 survey, can be seen stretching east into Phoenix and beyond.

The rugged and strategic high spot, which overlooks the confluence of the Gila and Salt rivers, has been the starting point for most Arizona surveys. first homesteads, railroads and schools for the state’s first settlers.

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Green, tan and orange tiles fill the north-south line on the monument representing the desert.

Tiles on the west line are blue and white to symbolize the Gila and Salt rivers that are near the marker.

The original survey marker has been lost for many years, but the restored monument serves as a vivid reminder of Arizona’s past and future.

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The above panoramic photo by Michael Clawson was taken on top of Monument Hill. At the extreme left is PIR to the west and to the extreme right is Baseline Road to the east. From the top, many landmarks in the Valley can be seen.

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NOTABLE from V12 astronaut, who perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart 230,000 feet above the Earth on Feb. 1, 2003.

Some of Anderson’s family members still live in Avondale.

Entertainment Jacque Mercer from Litchfield Park was Miss America in 1949.

Eric Hamelin, concert pianist and protégé of Liberace, is a graduate of Tolleson Union High School.

Politics Bob Stump, who served 26 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, was a graduate of Tolleson Union High School. He owned a cotton and grain farm in Tolleson for many years.

Sports Perhaps the field with the greatest representation among prominent local residents is sports.

Agua Fria High School in particular has produced a number of professional athletes, foremost among them being Randall McDaniel.

McDaniel, a three-sport star at Agua Fria, is among the few football players enshrined in High School, College and Pro Football halls of fame. He also has been inducted in the Arizona State University Ring of Fame. He was a two-time All-American at ASU. He went on to a 14-year career in the NFL with the Minnesota Vikings and Tampa Bay Buccaneers and made 12 Pro Bowl appearances.

In the early 1960s, Agua Fria had the distinction of having three players who would go on to professional football careers in brothers Bill and Bob Lueck and Rusty Tillman.

Bill Lueck, an offensive guard, played seven seasons with the Green Bay Packers and one with the Philadelphia Eagles.

Bob Lueck, also an offensive guard, played seven years in the Canadian Football League with the Calgary Stampeders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He also was a successful professional wrestler and is credited with getting ‘Superstar’ Billy Graham started in the ring. Graham was Lueck’s tag-team partner.

Tillman was a linebacker and special-team player in the NFL for eight years. After retiring as a player, Tillman served as an assistant coach with the Seattle Seahawks for 16 seasons.

Everson Griffen plays defensive end for the Minnesota Vikings. He was the Vikings’ fourth-round draft pick out of the University of Southern California in 2010.

On the diamond, among the former Owls to reach the major leagues are pitcher Cardell Camper, Cleveland Indians, and shortstop Shawn Gilbert, St. Louis Cardinals and New York Mets.

Two former Owls are currently working their way through the minor leagues.

Pitcher Sammy Solis was the second-round draft choice of the Washington Nationals in 2010 and he spent this season pitching at two levels of Class A. Westview has produced several professional football players.

Nick Harris is currently in his 11th season in the NFL, punting for the Jacksonville Jaguars. He also has played for the Detroit Lions and Cincinnati Bengals.

Shelley Smith was a sixth-round draft pick of the Houston Texans in 2010. He is currently on injured reserve.

Wide receiver Andrae Thurman has played for the Green Bay Packers and Tennessee Titans of the NFL, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the CFL, the Dallas Desperadoes of the Arena Football League and is currently on the roster of the Las Vegas Locomotive of the United Football League.

Another wide receiver, Dristan James, one of Boise State’s heroes in its dramatic win over Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, played two seasons with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the CFL. Tolleson Union High School also has produced several outSpring/Summer 2012

NASA photo

One-time Avondale resident and astronaut Michael P. Anderson, STS-107 payload commander, is pictured Jan. 18, 2003, on the aft flight deck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Columbia. This photo was taken less than two weeks before Columbia broke apart on re-entry, killing all on board.

Anderson's legacy of science and exploration lives on in the West Valley, especially at Michael Anderson Elementary School, which was renamed in his honor.

standing athletes.

Nick Hysong won the 2000 Olympic pole vaulting gold medal.

Running backs Mike Bell and Marcus Thomas have played in the NFL. Bell, currently a free agent, spent six years in the NFL with the Denver Broncos, New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles and Cleveland Browns. He was a member of the Saints’ 2010 Super Bowl champions.

Thomas, who held many of the state’s high school rushing and scoring records when he graduated from Tolleson, played with the Detroit Lions.

Clancy Pendergast, former defensive coordinator for the Arizona Cardinals and Kansas City Chiefs, is a Tolleson alumnus.

He is the grandson of Charles Pendergast, for whom the Pendergast Elementary School District is named.

Professional bowler Stephen Black is also a graduate of Tolleson.

Kole Calhoun, a graduate of Buckeye Union High School, was a seventh-round draft selection of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He spent the 2011 season with the Inland Empire 66ers of the Class A California League, where he was an all-star and was named the Angels’ Minor League Player of the Year Several other sports figures have called the Southwest Valley home.

Left-handed pitcher Larry Gura, who spent 16 seasons in the major leagues with the Chicago Cubs, New York Yankees and Kansas City Royals, lives in Litchfield Park.

Gura twice won 18 games in a season for the Royals and three times finished in the top 10 in Cy Young voting.

Litchfield Park resident Ray King spent 10 seasons in the major leagues with the Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Brewers, Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals, Colorado Rockies and Washington Nationals. He was a member of the Cardinals’ 2005 World Series champions.

A pair of off-road racers calls the area home.

Jesse Jones is a Litchfield Park resident and Nick Vanderway is from Buckeye.

Vince Tobin, former head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, lived in Goodyear.

There may be other notables with connections to the Southwest Valley, and the View is sorry for any oversights.

— Mike Russo

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True to her roots Avondale mayor recalls her time in fields

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vondale Mayor Marie Lopez Rogers was born in Southwest Cotton Co., also called Goodyear Farms, Camp No. 50, which was basically on the northeast corner of Indian School and Dysart roads, where the Albertson’s shopping center now stands.

Her parents worked the fields, harvesting cotton, melons, fruit, corn or beets.

“It was all agricultural,” Lopez Rogers said. “Wherever they needed the workers, that is where we’d go if we weren’t in school.”

Lopez Rogers, 63, grew up in the fields with her brother and sister from 1948 to 1957. She recalls helping her parents carry sacks that were 6 feet tall, as well as picking the crops. “[Cotton] was very scratchy,” Lopez Rogers said. “It scratched all of your hands. It was very hard work and it was hot.”

The cotton the family picked was used for making military aircraft tires, she said.

Life back then was “very simple but meaningful,” she said.

“We didn’t realize how poor we were.”

Lopez Rogers helped her family work the fields through her high school years at Agua Fria Union High School.

“It all went to the family; that is what it was about,” she said.

“We all helped each other out.”

The Avondale mayor recalls helping out her grandmothers, too — both of her grandfathers died before she was born; and both perished in accidents while working at Goodyear Farms.

One of her grandmothers did laundry for the Wigwam at her house, Lopez Rogers said.

Doing laundry back then consisted of big tubs filled with sheets, towels and such that were rotated over an open fire.

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Everyone who lived there took care of each other. You know the old adage, ‘It takes a village to raise a child?’ Well that was true there.”

Marie Lopez Rogers Avondale Mayor

“’Til this day, if I smell salt cedar burning, it reminds me of her doing the laundry,” she said.

All of the homes at the camps were very basic, either adobe or lumber, some even having dirt floors, she said.

All of the roads in the area were dirt, too. The biggest shopping hub for people was the roundabout — which today sits in Litchfield Park at Old Litchfield Road and Wigwam Boulevard — and a night out was going to the Wigwam for special events, she said.

One thing that has stuck with the mayor is how the residents of the camps looked after each other.

“We were a family,” she said of fellow campers. “Everyone who lived there took care of each other. You know the old adage, ‘It takes a village to raise a child?’ Well that was true there.”

— Rich Ott

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Abundant Harvest Church 919 N. Dysart Road, Suite N and O, Avondale 623-810-2355 www.ahconline.org

Avondale Apostolic Church — Truth Tabernacle 825 N. Central Ave., Avondale 623-932-0893 www.avondaleapostolic.com

Avondale Christian Assembly of God

541 E. Main St. (Monday, Wednesday, Sunday evenings) Avondale 623-932-1670 www.avondalechurch.com

Cashion Apostolic Church

11132 W. Joblanca, Avondale 623-936-4480

Christ Community United Methodist Church 104 W. Western Ave., Avondale 623-932-3480 www.myccumc.com

Christ Gospel Church 16 N. Fifth St., Avondale 623-932-5517

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Church of Zion

10907 W. Hopi St., Avondale 602-936-4637

Coldwater Church

15 N. Fifth St., Avondale 623-249-9694 www.coldwaterchurch.com

Cornerstone Christian Center

11301 W. Indian School Road Avondale 623-877-3220 www.cornerstoneaz.org

Faith Harvest

Corte Sierra Elementary 3300 N. Santa Fe Trail, Avondale 623-444-9762 www.faithharvest.com

First Baptist Church Garden Lakes

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10930 W. Garden Lakes Parkway, Avondale 623-772-9275

First Southern Baptist Church of Avondale 1001 N. Central Ave., Avondale 623-932-2723 www.fsbca.org

Gateway Baptist Church

12409 W. Indian School Road, Suite C312, Avondale 623-628-8885 www.gatewaybaptistavondale.com

Goodyear Friends Inc.

104 N. Dysart Road, Avondale 623-932-2292

Harvest Outreach Christian Center

19 N. Central Ave., Avondale 623-932-1009

The Sanctuary Community Church

Avondale Community Center 1007 S. Third St., Avondale 623-936-6793 www.thesanctuarycc.com

St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church

13720 W. Thomas Road, Avondale 623-935-2151 www.stacc.net

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St. William Catholic Church

Heritage Baptist Church

Temple of Faith

La Joya Community High School 11650 W. Whyman Ave., Avondale 623-882-2351 www.HeritageBaptistAZ.org

Iglesia Armonia

918 S. Litchfield Road, Goodyear 623-760-2025 www.iglesiaarmonia.com

Iglesia La Luz Del Mundo 7 E. Kinderman Drive, Avondale 623-882-8487

In Him Church

13048 W. Rancho Santa Fe Blvd., Avondale 623-930-0635 www.inhimchurch.org

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In His Presence Christian Center 10320 W. McDowell Road, Avondale 623-688-3447 www.ihpcconline.com

Litchfield Park First Baptist Church 901 E. Plaza Circle, Avondale 623-935-3163

La Misión Assembly of God 11147 W. Buckeye Road, Avondale 623-936-3703

Morning Star Baptist Church 500 S. Seventh St., Avondale 623-932-4320

11001 W. Third St., Avondale 623-936-6115 201 E. Main St., Avondale 623-680-6683

Trinity Lutheran Church 830 E. Plaza Circle, Avondale 623-935-4665

Western Avenue Baptist Church 522 E. Western Ave., Avondale 623-925-1246

Word of Life Christian Center 1425 N. Central Ave., Avondale 623-932-2055 www.wordoflifechristiancenter.net Buckeye

Arlington Baptist Church

32700 W. Arlington Road, Buckeye 623-386-1447

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

22487 W. Sundance Parkway, Buckeye 520-421-0322

Community Church of Buckeye 810 Eason Ave., Buckeye 623-386-2674

Crossroad Baptist Church Verrado Middle School cafeteria 20880 W. Main St., Buckeye 623-341-0490 www.crossroad-az.org

Desert Baptist Church

201 W. Baseline Road, Buckeye 602-386-7636

Desert Hills Baptist Church Jasinski Elementary School 4280 S. 246th Ave., Buckeye 623-202-2822 www.dhbcb.org

First Southern Baptist Church of Buckeye 405 N. Third St., Buckeye 623-386-5614 www.buckeyebaptist.org

Grace Fellowship Church 1300 N. Miller Road, Buckeye 623-393-8386 www.graceinbuckeye.com

Buckeye Christian Church Buckeye First Assembly

Liberty United Methodist Church

Buckeye Light & Life Church

Lifeway Church

304 E. Roosevelt Ave., Buckeye 623-386-4759

18926 W. Latham, Buckeye 623-853-0686 www.lifewaychurchaz.com

Buckeye Seventh Day Adventist

Living Water Lutheran Church

214 S. Fifth St., Buckeye 602-386-3513

23230 W. Highway 85, Buckeye 623-386-4783 www.buckeyefirstassembly.net

12610 W. Whyman St., Avondale 623-932-5723

501 N. Fourth St., Buckeye 623-386-4588 www.buckeyesda.org

Rivers of Living Water Ministries

Buckeye Worship Center

Littleton Elementary School 1252 S. Avondale Blvd., Avondale 623-205-6809

104 W. Corona St., Buckeye 623-340-4289

Rose of Sharon World Evangelistic Church

First Assembly of God Church 23230 W. Highway 85, Buckeye 623-386-1376 www.buckeyefirstassembly.net

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Jehovah’s Witnesses Buckeye Congregation

Primera Iglesia Bautista de Ant

2621 N. 110th Dr., Avondale 602-446-5790 www.wecintl.com

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23427 W. Pioneer St., Buckeye 623-386-2775 19900 W. Highway 85, Buckeye 623-386-4090 www.libertyunitedmethodist.com

The Odyssey Academy 6500 S. Apache Road, Buckeye 623-266-1835 www.livingwateraz.org

Mountain Vista Community Church

Youngker High School auditorium 3000 S. Apache Road, Buckeye 623-474-5757 www.mtvistaonline.org

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Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church 403 N. Fourth St., Buckeye 623-386-6365

New Jerusalem Ministries 508 Clanton, Buckeye 623-386-2714 www.njmonline.net

Our Saviour Lutheran Church 10 N. Apache Road, Buckeye 623-386-6708

Way of Grace Church

Citrus Road Community Church of the Nazarene

Youngker High School 3000 S. Apache Road, Buckeye 623-478-2130 www.wayofgracechurch.com

418 S. Citrus Road, Goodyear 623-932-2733 www.crccnazarene.com

West Valley Church of Christ

18604 W. Lower Buckeye Road, Buckeye 623-695-5623 www.wvcochrist.org

Compass Church

16060 W. Van Buren St., Goodyear 623-935-3060 www.compasschurch.info

Crossings Church

Palo Verde Baptist Church

West Valley Free Will Baptist Church

19956 W. McDowell Road, Buckeye 623-853-0570 www.wvfwbc.org

Desert Edge High School 15778 W. Yuma Road, Goodyear 623-239-1096 www.goodyearcrossings.org

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White Tanks Southern Baptist Church

Desert Springs Community Church West Campus

29600 W. Old Highway 80, Palo Verde 623-393-9628 www.paloverdebaptistchurch.org Verrado High School gymnasium 20050 W. Indian School Road, Buckeye 623-262-4969 www.theriverchurchaz.com

St. Henry Catholic Church

Sundance Elementary School (Sunday Mass) 23800 W. Hadley St., Buckeye 128 S. Third St. (All other Masses), Buckeye 623-386-6407 www.sthenrybuckeye.com

Summit Community Church

1420 N. 192nd Ave., Buckeye 623-853-0089 www.wtsbc.org Goodyear

Estrella Mountain Church

Avondale Christian Assembly of God

Desert Star Elementary (Sunday mornings) 2131 S. 157th Ave., Goodyear 623-932-1670 www.avondalechurch.com

Verrado High School auditorium 20050 W. Indian School Road, Buckeye 623-535-0251 www.summitcc.org

Calvary Chapel

Summit of Hope Assembly of God

Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, ELCA

Bales Elementary School 24500 W. Maricopa Road, Buckeye 623-695-0224

3673 S. Bullard Ave., Goodyear 623-925-2440 www.calvarygoodyear.org

10485 S. Estrella Parkway, Goodyear 623-386-0300 www.emcaz.org

Faith on Fire Church

13770 W. Van Buren St., Goodyear 602-690-1442 www.faithonfirechurch.com

Goodyear Church of Christ 807 N. La Jolla Blvd., Goodyear 623-932-1042 www.goodyearchurchofchrist.org

Jehovah’s Witnesses

918 S. Litchfield Road, Goodyear 623-932-2394 www.christevangelical.org

14038 W. Yuma Road, Goodyear 623-932-1708

King of Kings P.C.A.

Bales Elementary School 25400 W. Maricopa Road, Buckeye 623-505-6220 www.vcm1.ws

Christ Presbyterian Church 925 N. Sarival Ave., Goodyear 623-882-0721 www.cpcgoodyear.org

14130 W. McDowell Road, Suite 222 Goodyear 623-385-6607 www.kingofkingspca.org

Victory Baptist Church

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Palm Valley Church

Rainbow Valley Elementary School 19716 W. Narramore Road, Buckeye 623-386-3240 www.victorysbc.org

431 N. Litchfield Road, Goodyear 623-536-2106 www.palmvalley.org

425 S. Estrella Parkway, Goodyear 623-925-0106

St. Thomas Lutheran Church Bible Based — Christ Centered St. Thomas Lutheran Church cordially invites you to

HEARING THE HEART OF GOD

Santa Fe Trail

Impacting Kids’ & Youth Ministries | Annual Marriage & Parenting Conferences Christ-Centered Discipleship | Purpose-Driven Small Groups

Worship with us

Indian School Rd.

Dysart Rd.

Sundays 9:00 A.M. Study the Bible with us

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Valley Christian Ministries

14440 W. Indian School Road, Goodyear 623-435-2105 www.dscchurch.com

The Refinery Christian Church

Litchfield Park

600 N. Bullard Ave., Suite 10, Goodyear 623-925-2000 www.therefinerycc.com

River in the Desert Christian Fellowship

300 N. Old Litchfield Road, Litchfield Park 623-935-3411 www.churchatlitchfieldpark.org

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

918 S. Litchfield Road, Goodyear 602-628-4465

301 W. Wigwam Blvd., Litchfield Park 623-536-2098

St. John Vianney Catholic Church and School

Desert Joy Christian Fellowship

539 E. La Pasada Blvd., Goodyear 623-932-3313 www.sjvaz.net

Dreaming Summit Elementary School 13335 W. Missouri Ave., Litchfield Park 623-872-0721 www.desertjoy.org

St. Thomas Lutheran Church 16260 W. Van Buren St., Goodyear 602-375-7773 www.stthomaslutheranchurch.org

Desert Springs Community Church East Campus

Skyway Church of the West Valley 14900 W. Van Buren St., Goodyear 623-935-4858 www.skywaychurch.com

447 Old Litchfield Road, Litchfield Park 623-435-2105 www.dscchurch.com

Lighthouse Fellowship 3015 N. Jackrabbit Trail 623-853-1050

Vineyard Church

255 N. Litchfield Road, Goodyear 623-932-2500 www.azvineyard.org

Pathway Bible Church

Litchfield Elementary School 255 E. Wigwam Blvd.

Litchfield Park www.pathwaybibleaz.com

Vision Baptist Church

Desert Thunder Elementary 16750 W. Garfield St., Goodyear 623-687-7118 www.visionbaptistchurch.com

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church

400 S. Old Litchfield Road, Litchfield Park 623-935-3279 www.stpetersaz.com

West Valley Assembly of God 1781 N. Central Ave., Goodyear 623-932-5737 www.westvalleyassembly.com

WORSHIP

The Church at Litchfield Park

Westpointe Baptist Church

Wigwam Creek Middle School 4510 N. 127th Ave., Litchfield Park 623-521-3549 www.westpointebaptist.org

West Valley Fellowship

18503 W. Van Buren St., Goodyear 602-525-8467

Peoria

Lighthouse Church

West Valley United Pentecostal Church

14185 N. 83rd Ave., Peoria 623-979-4392 www.lighthouseaz.com

16277 W. Jackson St., Goodyear 623-692-6850

Pentecostal Deliverance COGIC 8668 W. Mountain View Road, Peoria 623-486-7782

South Peoria Baptist Church 9000 W. Olive Ave., Peoria 623-486-1556 www.spbch.com Tolleson

A Church of Grace

8 S. 92nd Drive, Tolleson 623-936-4629 www.achurchofgrace.com

Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church

512 N. 93rd Ave., Tolleson 623-936-7107

Wings As Eagles International Church

Country Place Elementary School 10207 W. Country Place Blvd., Tolleson 800-450-0966 www.waeic.com Tonopah

Valley Baptist Church of Tonopah/Wintersburg

37702 W. Indian School Road, Tonopah 623-393-0211 www.tonopahvalleybaptistchurch.org Waddell

Cotton Lane Community Church 6240 N. Cotton Lane, Waddell 623-935-1776

Wat Promkunaram Buddhist Temple of Arizona 17212 W. Maryland Ave., Waddell 623-935-2276

W. Phoenix, Glendale, Sun City, Surprise

Alleluia Lutheran Church

8444 W. Encanto Blvd., Phoenix 623-849-4327 www.AlleluiaChurch.com

COME GROW WITH US Uplifting Music/Inspiring Sermons 8:00am - Worship Service/Nursery 9:30am - Worship Service/Nursery/Church School 11:00am - Contemporary Worship Service/Nursery/Church School

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925 N. SARIVAL AVE. GOODYEAR, AZ 85338 623.882.0721

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Beth El Congregation

First Country Baptist Church

Streams Christian Church

Beth Emeth Congregation

Grace Walk Community Church

Temple Beth Shalom Jewish — Reform

1118 W. Glendale Ave., Phoenix 602-944-3359 www.bethelphoenix.com

12844 W. Santa Fe Drive, Surprise 623-583-9838 www.firstcountrybaptist.org

13702 W. Meeker Blvd., Sun City West 623-584-7210 www.bethemethaz.org

The Bridge Christian Worship Center

7840 W. Lower Buckeye Road, Phoenix 623-907-8991 www.gracewalkchurch.org

Hamblen Chapel Evangelical Methodist Church

Alleluia Church 8444 W. Encanto Blvd., Phoenix 623-399-8540 www.bridgeworshipcenter.com

1614 S. 111th Ave., Phoenix 623-936-9524

Calvary United Methodist Church 7949 W. Indian School Road, Phoenix 623-849-1676 www.calvaryumcphoenix.org

Camelback Community Church 7634 W. Camelback Road, Glendale 623-846-3497 www.camelbackcommunity.com

The Carpenter’s House of Worship Independence High School 6602 N. 75th Ave., Glendale 623-266-2469 www.thechowchurch.org

Kingdom in the Valley Christian Church

12202 N. 101st Ave., Sun City 623-977-3240 www.templebethshalomaz.org

Thomas Road Baptist Church 5735 W. Thomas Road, Phoenix 623-247-5735 www.trbcphx.org

West End Baptist Church

15002 N. 25th Drive, Phoenix 623-584-3113 www.kivcc.org

9101 W. Indian School Road, Phoenix 623-877-2815

Love Life Church

6115 N. 91st Ave., Glendale 623-872-1734

West Valley Family Church

8016 W. Camelback Road, No. 108, Glendale 623-872-4998 www.lovelifechurch.com

Our Lady of the Sun Catholic Church Inc. 12534 W. Peoria Ave., El Mirage 623-974-4133 www.ourladyofthesun.com

Central Christian Church

Real Life Ministries

8600 W. Glendale Ave., Glendale 623-937-2741 www.centralaz.com

Arizona Charter Academy 16011 N. Dysart Road, Surprise 623-933-4999 www.rlmdestiny.com

Davids 400

The Rock

Luke Elementary School 7300 N. Dysart Road, Glendale 623-932-1009 www.therockaz.com

The Door Christian Fellowship Church

7342 W. Indian School Road, Phoenix 623-848-0849

First Church of Christ, Scientist 8228 W. Orangewood Ave., Glendale 623-937-9258 www.christianscienceaz.com

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church 6300 W. Camelback Road, Glendale 623-846-8046 www.standrewsglendale.azdiocese.org

St. Paul Lutheran Church

6301 W. Indian School Road, Phoenix 623-846-2228 www.stpaullutheran-az.com

A non-denominational church teaching God’s word, verse by verse, from Genesis to Revelation and how the Bible’s teachings apply to our lives.

3015 N. Jackrabbit Trail (1 blk. N of Thomas Rd.) Litchfield Park

www.lighthousefellowshipaz.webs.com 623-853-1050

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SUNDAY SERVICES 9AM & 11AM Glendale Ave.

Luke Elementary School 1 block North of Glendale & Dysart

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Real God – – – Real People – – – Sunday Morning Real Church – – – Service Real Simple – – – 10:15 A.M.

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Spring/Summer 2012

6532 N. El Mirage Road, Glendale 623-363-7450 www.streamschurch.org

West Valley Business Directory The following businesses have paid to participate in this directory. To be listed in the Fall/Winter Vista, advertisers should call 535-VIEW.

Automobile Dealers

Beer Distributors Golden Eagle Distributors Inc. Budweiser 26815 W. Baseline Rd. Buckeye (623) 386-6312 www.gedaz.com

Tom Jones Ford 23454 W. Hwy 85 Buckeye (623) 386-4429 www.nocitysalestax.com

Chamber of Commerce

Automotive Avondale Service Center 722 E. Western Ave. www.avondaleserviceandparts.com (623) 932-1190

Batteries

289 N. LItchfield Rd. Goodyear (623) 932-2260 www.southwestvalleychamber.org

Salvation Army (800) 479-0210 www.sarmygift.org

Construction

Entertainment

CORE Construction

Webb Center for the Perf. Arts

Buckeye Valley Chamber of Commerce (623) 386-2727 www.buckeyevalleychamber.org

Equipment Rentals

First Credit Union

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1310 N. Litchfield Rd. Goodyear (480) 831-2645

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(928) 684-6624 www.delewebbcenter.org

Credit Union

P. O. Box 1104, Tonopah (623)393-8184 www.coctonopah.org

560 N. Bullard Ave., Ste E-50 Goodyear (623) 853-3321

Licensed • Bonded • Insured

Donations

3036 East Greenway Road Phoenix (602) 494-0800 www.COREConstruct.com

Chamber of Commerce of Tonopah

AZ Battery Store

Southwest Valley Chamber of Commerce

623 932 4168 623 810 6035

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Spring/Summer 2012

Farming Rousseau Farming Company www.farmfreshaz.com (623) 936-7100

Funeral Homes Avenidas Funeral Chapel 522 E. Western Ave. Avondale (623) 925-1525

Buckeye Funeral Home 104 E. Baseline Rd. Buckeye (623) 386-4812

Thompson’s Valley West Funeral Chapel 926 S. Litchfield Rd. Goodyear (623) 932-1780

Golf ACE Custom Golf Carts 600 N. Bullard Ave., A-12 Goodyear (623) 523-0263

PebbleCreek Golf Resort Eagle’s Nest Country Club 3645 Clubhouse Drive (1 mile W. of Litchfied Rd. on Indian School) Goodyear (623) 935-6750

Tres Rios Golf Course 15205 W. Vineyard Ave. Goodyear (623) 932-3714

Tuscany Falls at PebbleCreek I-10 W. Exit 126, 1-1/2 mile N. on Pebble Creek Parkway to Clubhouse Drive.

Goodyear (623) 536-2491

Gymnastics Estrella Gymnastics for Kids Goodyear (623) 932-1053 www.estrella-gymnastics.com

Litchfield Park founder Paul Weeks Litchfield, center, shows a couple of Boy Scouts a 1952 Scout calendar. Litchfield was instrumental in getting a Boy Scout troop started in Litchfield Park.

Home Improvement

Jewelers

Party Rentals

Ace Hardware

Osborne Jewelers

It’s a Celebration!

5110 N Dysart Rd Litchfield Park 85340 (623) 535-1303

Litchfield & Van Buren (Fry’s Shopping Center) Goodyear (623) 925-1815

Insurance

Landscaping

Farmers Insurance

All Brite Fencing and Landscape Materials

Event & Party Rentals Tables, chairs, linens, china, dance floors, patio heaters & more!

1457 N. Eliseo Felix Jr. Way #102 Avondale (623) 386-5491 www.itsacelebrationpartyrentals.com

Alice Dryer Serving Buckeye over 30 Years 423 E. Monroe Ave. Buckeye (623) 386-6102 adryer@farmersagent.com

Powers/Leavitt Insurance 111 E. Monroe #200 Buckeye (623) 386-4452 1650 N. Dysart #2 Goodyear (623) 932-4652 14301 N. 87th St. #209 Scottsdale (480) 348-1100

Spring/Summer 2012

18421 W. McDowell Rd. Goodyear (623) 853-9594

Newspapers West Valley View 1050 E. Riley Drive Avondale (623) 535-VIEW (535-8439) www.westvalleyview.com

Pool Services & Supply Accent Pool & Spa (623) 670-1498 accentpoolspa.com

Real Estate Home Smart The Yates Group 13166 W. McDowell, Suite B Goodyear (623) 764-2153

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Nextage Mary Westwood “Your Estrella Specialist” (623) 386-7272

Recreation Litchfield Park Recreation 100 S. Litchfield Rd. Litchfield Park (623) 935-9040

Recycling Saguaro Metals 201 W. Main (Hwy. 85) 1/4 mile E. of Litchfield Rd. Old Buckeye Road Avondale (623) 932-2060

Restaurants Pete’s Fish & Chips 9309 W. Van Buren Tolleson (623) 936-3111 V41

The original World War II memorial, circa 1942. Weather and age caused the memorial to deteriorate and it was torn down in the mid 1950s.

Schools Avondale Elementary School District 235 W. Western Ave. Avondale (623) 772-5000 www.avondale.k12.az.us

Bradley Academy of Excellence 16060 W Lower Buckeye Pkwy Goodyear (623) 932-9902

Trinity Lutheran School 830 E Plaza Circle Litchfield Park (623) 935-4690

Christian Schools Wagner Leadership Institute 14900 W. Van Buren Goodyear (623)935-4858

Colleges & Universities Communiversity@Surprise www.azcommuniversity.com (480) 384-9000 or (866) 330-6892 15950 N. Civic Center Drive Surprise, AZ 85374

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Estrella Mountain Community College www.estrellamountain.edu EMCC campus 3000 N. Dysart Rd. Avondale (623) 935-8000 EMCC Buckeye Educational Center 902 E. Eason Ave. Buckeye (623) 935-8755

Rio @ Avondale 420 N. Central Ave. Avondale, AZ 85323 (480) 377-4400

Rio Salado @ West Valley

Southwest Skill Center 3000 N. Dysart Avondale (623) 535-2700 www.estrellamountain.edu/swsc

Septic Septic Technologies “Pump Every 3 Years” West Valley (623) 932-3464

Shipping The UPS Store 14175 W. Indian School Rd., Ste. B4 Goodyear (623) 935-9720

Tutoring Sylvan Learning Center 13770 W. Van Buren #100 Goodyear (623) 932-5714

Veterinarians Agua Fria Animal Clinic 13330 W. Van Buren Goodyear (623) 932-3611 Rees Jackman W. Robert Doster

Durango Equine Veterinarian Clinic

Luke Air Force Base 56th Missions Support Center Rm 3138 7383 N. Litchfield Rd. Glendale, AZ 85309 (480) 377-4010

Solar

Rio Salado College Lifelong Learning Center

Tires

Estrella Animal Hospital

12535 W. Smokey Drive Surprise, AZ 85378 (480) 377-4250

S & S Tires

10865 W. Indian School Rd. Avondale (623) 877-1088

Rio Salado College Online

Tobacco Products

Wildlife World Zoo

Big K’s Discount Cigarette

165th Ave & Northern (623) 935-WILD

www.riosalado.edu 2323 W. 14th Street Tempe, AZ 85281 (480) 517-8000

Argent Solar Electric Inc. Goodyear (623) 444-5808 www.argentsolar.com

Dysart Rd. South of I-10 (623) 932-3511

101 E. Monroe Ave Buckeye (623) 386-5047

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Lloyd H. Kloppe, D.V.M. Traci Hill Hulse, D.V.M. Alana Hendrix, D.V.M. Talia Alexander D.V.M. 20908 W. Durango St. Buckeye (623) 386-2928

Zoo

Spring/Summer 2012

Directory of Schools High Schools

Agua Fria Union High School District Superintendent: Dennis Runyan District office: 1481 N. Eliseo Felix Jr. Way, Suite 110 Avondale, AZ 85323 623-932-7000 www.aguafria.org Board president: O.K. Fulton School board meets: 5 p.m. second Wednesday of each month Place: District office Agua Fria High School 530 E. Riley Drive Avondale, AZ 85323 623-932-7300 Principal: Mathew Bentz Coldwater Academy 750 E. Riley Drive Avondale, AZ 85323 623-932-7106 Desert Edge High School 15778 W. Yuma Roa Goodyear, AZ 85338 623-932-7500 Principal: Bob Grey Millennium High School 14802 W. Wigwam Blvd.

Goodyear, AZ 85395 623-932-7200 Principal: John Speer Verrado High School 20050 W. Indian School Road Buckeye, AZ 85396 623-932-7400 Principal: Tom Huffman

Buckeye Union High School District Superintendent: Beverly Hurley District office: 1000 E. Narramore, Buckeye, AZ 85326 623-386-9700, www.buhsd.org Board president: Brian Turner School board meets: 6:15 p.m. second Monday of each month Place: District office Buckeye Union High School 1000 E. Narramore Buckeye, AZ 85326 623-386-4423 Principal: Tawn Argeris Estrella Foothills High School 13033 S. Estrella Parkway Goodyear, AZ 85338 623-327-2400 Principal: Leslie Standerfer The Learning Center 751 N. 215th Ave. Buckeye, AZ 85326 623-474-0332 Principal: Karen Sanders

Spring/Summer 2012

Youngker High School 3000 S. Apache Road Buckeye, AZ 85326 623-474-0100 Principal: Randy Stillman

Tolleson Union High School District Superintendent: Lexi Cunningham District office: 9801 W. Van Buren St. Tolleson, AZ 85353 623-478-4000, www.tuhsd.org Board president: Mike Watson School board meets: 6 p.m. second and fourth Tuesday of each month Place: District office board room Copper Canyon High School 9126 W. Camelback Road Glendale, AZ 85305 623-478-4800 Principal: Alan Potts James A. Green Continuing Education Academy 9701 W. Van Buren St. Tolleson, AZ 85353 623-478-4120 Director: Travis Johnson La Joya Community High School 11650 W. Whyman Ave. Avondale, AZ 85323 623-478-4400 Principal: Cheryl Ingram Lighthouse Academy 9419 W. Van Buren St. Tolleson, AZ 85353 623-478-4377 Director: Travis Johnson Sierra Linda High School 3434 S. 67th Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85043 623-474-7700 Principal: Tim Madrid Tolleson Union High School 9419 W. Van Buren St. Tolleson, AZ 85353 623-478-4200 Principal: Ernie Molina University High School 9419 W. Van Buren St. Tolleson, AZ 85353 623-478-4380 Academic Dean: Courtney Stevens Westview High School 10850 W. Garden Lakes Parkway Avondale, AZ 85392 623-478-4600 Principal: Brandi Haskins

Elementary Schools

Arlington Elementary School District Superintendent: Chad Turner District office: 9410 S. 355th Ave. Arlington, AZ 85322 623-386-2031 www.arlingtonelem.org Board president: Joe Weathersby School board meets: 6 p.m. second Monday of each month Place: Arlington Elementary School Arlington Elementary School 9410 S. 355th Ave. Arlington, AZ 85322 623-386-2031 Principal: Kyle Hart

Avondale Elementary School District Superintendent: Cathy Stafford District office: 235 W. Western Ave. Avondale, AZ 85323 623-772-5000 www.avondale.k12.az.us Board president: Mark Gonzales School board meets: 6:30 p.m. one Tuesday a month Place: Meetings rotate among schools Centerra Mirage School 15151 W. Centerra Drive South Goodyear, AZ 85338 623-772-4800 Principal: Talmadge Tanks Copper Trails School 16875 W. Canyon Trails Blvd.

Goodyear, AZ 85338 623-772-4100 Principal: Tom Green Desert Star School 2131 S. 157th Ave. Goodyear, AZ 85338 623-772-4600 Principal: Patricia Scarpa Desert Thunder School 16750 W. Garfield St. Goodyear, AZ 85338 623-772-4700 Principal: Wayne Deffenbaugh Eliseo C. Felix School 540 E. La Pasada Blvd.

Goodyear, AZ 85338 623-772-4300 Principal: Evangeline Diaz Lattie Coor School 1406 N. Central Ave. Avondale, AZ 85323 623-772-4400 Principal: Lori Goslar Michael Anderson School 45 S. Third Ave. Avondale, AZ 85323 623-772-5100 Principal: Randy Watkins

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S.T.A.R. Academy 44 S. Third Ave. Avondale, AZ 85323 623-772-5195 Assistant principal: Bradly Knudson Wildflower School 325 S. Wildflower Drive Goodyear, AZ 85338 623-772-5200 Principal: Kyann McMillie

Buckeye Elementary School District Superintendent: Allen L. Steen District office: 25555 W. Durango.

Buckeye, AZ 85326 623-925-3400 besd.k12.az.us Board president: Marcus Eads School board meets: 6:30 p.m. first Monday of each month Place: District office Bales Elementary School 25400 W. Maricopa Road Buckeye, AZ 85326 623-847-8503 Principal: Fred Lugo Buckeye Preschool 640 Centre Ave. Buckeye, AZ 85326 623-925-3333 Preschool director: Sue Johnson Buckeye Elementary School 210 S. Sixth St. Buckeye, AZ 85326 623-386-4487 Principal: Lorrese Roer Inca Elementary School 23601 W. Durango Street Buckeye, AZ 85326 623-925-3500 Principal: Corey Christiaens Steven R. Jasinski Elementary School 4280 S. 246th Ave. Buckeye, AZ 85326 623-925-3100 Principal: Michael Bartlett Sundance Elementary School 23800 W. Hadley St. Buckeye, AZ 85326 623-847-8531 Principal: Tracy Casey West Park Elementary School 2700 S. 257th Drive Buckeye, AZ 85326 623-435-3282 Principal: Ruben Ruiz

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Liberty Elementary School District Superintendent: Andy Rogers District office: 19871 W. Fremont Road Buckeye, AZ 85326 623-474-6600 www.liberty.k12.az.us Board president: Lew Coleman School board meets: 6:30 p.m. second Monday of each month Place: District office Estrella Mountain Elementary School 10301 S. San Miguel Goodyear, AZ 85338 623-327-2820 Principal: Sharon Marine Freedom Elementary School 22150 W. Sundance Parkway South Buckeye, AZ 85326 623-327-2850 Principal: Cindy Robinson Liberty Elementary School 19818 W. Hwy. 85 Buckeye, AZ 85326 623-327-2810 Principal: Jennifer Gray Rainbow Valley School 19716 W. Narramore Road Buckeye, AZ 85326 623-327-2830 Principal: Mike Cagle Westar Elementary School 17777 W. Westar Drive Goodyear, AZ 85338 623-327-2840 Principal: Dave Bogart

Litchfield Elementary School District Superintendent: Julianne Lein District office: 272 E. Sagebrush St. Litchfield Park, AZ 85340 623-535-6000 www.lesd.k12.az.us Board president: Shawn Watt School board meets: 6:30 p.m. second Tuesday of each month Place: Western Sky Middle School Barbara B. Robey Elementary School 5340 N. Wigwam Creek Blvd.

Litchfield Park, AZ 85340 623-547-1400 Principal: Melissa Wisner Corte Sierra Elementary School 3300 N. Santa Fe Trail Avondale, AZ 85323 623-547-1000 Principal: Chris Barnes Dreaming Summit Elementary School 13335 W. Missouri Ave. Litchfield Park, AZ 85340 623-547-1200 Principal: Jodi Gunning L. Thomas Heck Middle School 12448 W. Bethany Home Road Litchfield Park, AZ 85340 623-547-1700 Principal: Ron Sterr V44

Litchfield Elementary School 255 E. Wigwam Blvd.

Litchfield Park, AZ 85340 623-535-6100 Principal: Mary Ann Hartwick Mabel Padgett Elementary School 15430 W. Turney Rd. Goodyear, AZ 85395 623-547-3200 Principal: Gina DeCoste Palm Valley Elementary School 2801 N. 135th Ave. Goodyear, AZ 85395 623-535-6400 Principal: Sarah Pearson Rancho Santa Fe Elementary 2150 Rancho Santa Fe Blvd.

Avondale, AZ 85323 623-535-6500 Principal: Caren Walker Scott Libby Elementary School 18701 W. Thomas Road Litchfield Park, AZ 85340 623-535-6200 Principal: Lee Nelson Verrado Elementary School 20873 W. Sunrise Lane Buckeye, AZ 85396 623-547-1600 Principal: Molly Evans Verrado Middle School 20880 W. Main St. Buckeye, AZ 85396 623-547-1300 Principal: Kimberly A. Franz Western Sky Middle School 4095 N. 144th Ave. Goodyear, AZ 85338 623-535-6300 Principal: Luke Jankee White Tanks Learning Center 18825 W. Thomas Road Litchfield Park, AZ 85340 623-535-6085 Director: Jennifer Benjamin Wigwam Creek Middle School 4510 N. 127th Ave. Litchfield Park, AZ 85340 623-547-1100 Principal: Dave Mayer

Littleton School District Superintendent: Roger Freeman District office: 1600 S. 107th Ave. Avondale, AZ 85323 623-478-5600 www.littletonaz.org Board president: Sandi Nielson School board meets: 6 p.m. second Tuesday of each month Place: Underdown Learning Center auditorium Collier Elementary School 350 S. 118th Ave. Avondale, AZ 85323 623-478-5900 Principal: Gioia Pitts Country Place Elementary School 10207 W. Country Place Blvd.

Tolleson, AZ 85353 623-478-6100 Principal: Lance Chebultz

Estrella Vista Elementary School 11905 W. Cocopah Circle Avondale, AZ 85323 623-478-6200 Principal: Michael Halley Littleton Elementary School 1252 S. Avondale Blvd.

Avondale, AZ 85323 623-478-5700 Principal: Juliet Mendez Quentin Elementary School 11050 W. Whyman Ave. Avondale, AZ 85323 623-478-6000 Principal: Laura Couret Tres Rios Elementary School 5025 S. 103rd Ave. Tolleson, AZ 85353 623-478-6300 Principal: Sarah Macdonald

Palo Verde Elementary School District Superintendent: Robin Berry District office: 10700 S. Palo Verde Road Palo Verde, AZ 85343 623-327-3690 www.paloverdeschools.org Board president: Todd Hall School board meets: 5:45 p.m. second Monday of each month Place: District office Palo Verde Elementary School 10700 S. Palo Verde Road Palo Verde, AZ 85343 623-327-3680 Principal: Robert Aldridge

Pendergast Elementary School District Superintendent: Ron Richards District office: 3802 N. 91st Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85037 623-772-2200 www.pesd92.org Board president: Zachary Thomason School board meets: 7 p.m. first and third Tuesday of each month Place: District office; periodically at schools on a rotating basis.

Amberlea Elementary School 8455 W. Virginia Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85037 623-772-2900 Principal: Brenda Martin Calderwood Elementary School 10730 W. Campbell Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85037 623-772-2356 Administrator: Jef Heredia Canyon Breeze Elementary School 11675 W. Encanto Blvd.

Avondale, AZ 85392 623-772-2610 Principal: Jeff Byrnes Copper King Elementary School 10730 W. Campbell Road Phoenix, AZ 85037 623-772-2580 Principal: Molly Watson

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Desert Horizon Elementary School 8525 W. Osborn Road Phoenix, AZ 85037 623-772-2430 Principal: Suzie Jaramillo Desert Mirage Elementary School 8605 W. Maryland Ave. Glendale, AZ 85307 623-772-2550 Principal: Susie Torrejos Garden Lakes Elementary School 10825 W. Garden Lakes Parkway Avondale, AZ 85392 623-772-2520 Principal: Harold Waltman Pendergast Elementary School 3800 N. 91st Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85037 623-772-2400 Principal: Mike Woolsey Rio Vista Elementary School 10237 W. Encanto Blvd.

Avondale, AZ 85392 623-772-2670 Principal: LeeAnn Lawlor Sonoran Sky Elementary School 10150 W. Missouri Ave. Glendale, AZ 85307 623-772-2640 Principal: Natasha Camp Sunset Ridge Elementary School 8490 W. Missouri Ave. Glendale, AZ 85305 623-772-2730 Principal: Carrie Prielipp Villa de Paz Elementary School 4940 N. 103rd Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85037 623-772-2490 Principal: Kathy Welsh Westwind Intermediate School 3802 N. 91st Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85037 623-772-2460 Principal: Brian Winefsky Westwind Primary School 9040 W. Campbell Road Phoenix, AZ 85037 623-772-2700 Principal: Danelia Portillo

Saddle Mountain Unified School District Superintendent: Mark Joraanstad District office: 38201 W. Indian School Road Tonopah, AZ 85354 623-474-5100 www.smusd90.org Board president: Paul Roetto School board meets: 6 p.m. second Wednesday of each month Place: District office Ruth Fisher Elementary School 38201 W. Indian School Road Tonopah, AZ 85354 623-474-5500 *To reopen for the 2012-13 school year

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Tartesso Elementary School 29677 W. Indianola Ave. Buckeye, AZ 85396 623-474-5400 Principal: James “JP” Ketcham Tonopah Valley High School 38201 W. Indian School Road Tonopah, AZ 85354 623-474-5201 Principal: Edgar Garcia Winters’ Well Elementary School 35220 W. Buckeye Road Tonopah, AZ 85354 623-474-5300 Principal: Jim Keith

Tolleson Elementary School District Superintendent: Lupita Hightower District office: 9261 W. Van Buren St. Tolleson, AZ 85353 623-936-9740 www.tollesonschools.com Board president: Elizabeth Hunsaker School board meets: 6 p.m. first Wednesday of each month Place: District office Arizona Desert Elementary School 8803 W. Van Buren St. Tolleson, AZ 85353 623-907-5260 Principal: Brenda Catlett Desert Oasis Elementary School 8802 W. McDowell Road Phoenix, AZ 85037 623-533-3901 Principal: Claudia Espinoza Porfirio H. Gonzales Elementary School 9401 W. Garfield Tolleson, AZ 85353 623-907-5181 Principal: Cindy Mills Sheely Farms Elementary School 9450 W. Encanto Blvd.

Phoenix, AZ 85037 623-907-5270 Principal: John Scudder

Union Elementary School District Superintendent: Pat Gillespie District office: 3834 S. 91st Ave. Tolleson, AZ 85353 623-478-5005 www.unionesd.org Board president: Joshua Hitt School board meets: 6 p.m. second Thursday of each month Place: District conference room Dos Rios Elementary School 2150 S. 87th Ave. Tolleson, AZ 85353 623-474-7000 Principal: Milton Collins Hurley Ranch Elementary School 8950 W. Illini Drive Tolleson, AZ 85353 623-478-5100 Principal: Melanie Block

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Others

Arizona Agribusiness and Equine Center High School 3400 N. Dysart Road Avondale, AZ 85392 623-535-0754 www.aaechighschools.com Principal: Mona Ramirez Arts Academy at Estrella Mountain 2504 S. 91st Ave. Tolleson, AZ 85353 623-474-2120 www.plcaaem.com Site director: Patricia Devito Bradley Academy of Excellence 16060 Lower Buckeye Parkway Goodyear, AZ 85338 623-932-9902 www.bradleyacademyaz.com Acting principal: Rick Nielson Crown Charter School 12450 W. Maryland Ave. Litchfield Park, AZ 85340 623-535-9300 www.crowncharter.com Director: James Shade E-Institute at Buckeye 6213 S. Miller Road Buckeye, AZ 85326 623-505-7118 www.e-institute.us Principal: Tisha Jones Estrella High School 510 N. Central Ave. Avondale, AZ 85323 623-932-6561 www.estrellahs.com School Leader: Casey Zordani Grace Fellowship Academy 1300 N. Miller Road Buckeye, AZ 85326 623-393-8883 www.gracefellowshipacademy.org Principal: Geri Parker Heritage Elementary School 6805 N. 125th Ave. Glendale, AZ 85307 623-742-3956 www.hesglendale.org Principal: Austin Thies Hope Montessori School 5348 N. 106th Ave. Glendale, AZ 85307 623-877-2985 www.hopemontessori.info Director: Kathy Selland Imagine Avondale 950 N. Eliseo C. Felix, Jr. Way Avondale, AZ 85323 623-344-1730 www.imagineavondale.com Principal: Kim Agnew Montessori in the Park 1832 N. Litchfield Road Goodyear, AZ 85395 623-535-4863 www.mipschool.org Director: Lisa King

Montessori West Preparatory School 13034 W. Solano Drive Litchfield Park, AZ 85340 623-935-2017 www.montessoriwest.com Director: Cora Gaabucayan North Star Charter School 10720 W. Indian School Road, No. 7, Phoenix, AZ 85037 623-907-2661 www.northstaraz.com Principal: Carolyn Birney The Odyssey Preparatory Academy - Buckeye 6500 S. Apache Road Buckeye, AZ 85327 623-327-3111 www.theodysseyacademy.com The Odyssey Preparatory Academy - Goodyear 17532 W. Harrison St. Goodyear, AZ 85338 623-882-1140 www.theodysseyacademy.com Phoenix Christian West Valley 14900 W. Van Buren St. Goodyear, AZ 85338 623-234-2100 www.pcwestvalley.com Principal: Robert L. Byrd PPEP Tec High School 725 N. Central Ave., Suite 113 Avondale, AZ 85323 623-925-2161 www.ppeptechs.org Principal: Carol Myers St. John Vianney Elementary School 539 E. La Pasada Blvd.

Goodyear, AZ 85338 623-932-2434 www.sjvaz.net Principal: Sister Cecilia Henry St. Thomas Aquinas School 13720 W. Thomas Road Avondale, AZ 85392 623-935-0945 www.stacc.net Principal: Patrick Reardon Trinity Lutheran School 830 E. Plaza Circle Litchfield Park, AZ 85340 623-935-4690 www.trinitylcs.org Principal: William Luedtke West Valley Christian School 14900 W. Van Buren St. Goodyear, AZ 85338 623-234-2100 Principal: Robert L. Byrd

Estrella Mountain Community College 3000 N. Dysart Road Avondale, AZ 85392 623-935-8000 www.emc.maricopa.edu Glendale Community College 6000 W. Olive Ave. Glendale, AZ 85302 623-845-3000 www.gc.maricopa.edu Park University 7383 N. Litchfield Road, Suite 3114 Glendale, AZ 85309 623-935-4424 www.park.edu/luke University of Phoenix 9520 W. Palm Lane Phoenix, AZ 85037 480-557-2000 www.phoenix.edu Universal Technical Institute 10695 W. Pierce St. Avondale, AZ 85323 623-245-4600 www.uti.edu

Colleges/Trade Schools/ Universities

Arizona State University West 4701 W. Thunderbird Road Phoenix, AZ 85306 602-543-5500 www.west.asu.edu

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U.S. Senate Sen. John McCain (R)

241 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510 202-224-2235; mccain.senate.gov Local office: 5353 N. 16th St., Suite 105, Phoenix, AZ 85016 602-952-2410

Sen. Jon Kyl (R)

730 Hart Senate Building Washington, D.C. 20510 202-224-4521; kyl.senate.gov Local office: 2200 E. Camelback Road, Suite 120, Phoenix, AZ 85016 602-840-1891

U.S. House of Representatives District 2 Rep. Trent Franks (R)

2435 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515 202-225-4576; franks.house.gov Local office: 7121 W. Bell Road, Suite 200 Glendale, AZ 85308 623-776-7911

District 7 Rep. Raul Grijalva (D)

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Rep. Judy Burges (R) Maricopa County W. Washington, Room 220 Board of Supervisors 1700 Phoenix, AZ 85007 Mary Rose Wilcox (D), Supervisor

District 5, which includes Goodyear, Tolleson, Avondale, south Buckeye 301 W. Jefferson Ave., 10th floor Phoenix, AZ 85003 602-506-7092 mrwilcox@mail.maricopa.gov maricopa.gov/dist5

Max Wilson (R), Supervisor

District 4, which includes Avondale, Litchfield Parvk, Goodyear, north Buckeye 301 W. Jefferson Ave., 10th floor Phoenix, AZ 85003 602-506-7642 mwwilson@mail.maricopa.gov maricopa.gov/dist4

State Legislature District 4 Sen. Judy Burges (R)

1700 W. Washington, Room 311 Phoenix, AZ 85007 (602) 926-5861; jburges@azleg.gov

Rep. Jack W. Harper (R)

1700 W. Washington, Room 113 Phoenix, AZ 85007 602-926-4178; jharper@azleg.gov

602-926-5861; jburges@azleg.gov

District 12 Sen. John Nelson (R)

1700 W. Washington, Room 301 Phoenix, AZ 85007 602-926-5872; jnelson@azleg.gov

Rep. Steven Montenegro (R)

The Arizona capitol building sits in an empty area of what is now a bustling area of downtown Phoenix in this 1908 photo.

District 23 Sen. Steve Smith (R)

1700 W. Washington, Room 311 Phoenix, AZ 85007 602-926-5685; stevesmith@azleg.gov

1700 W. Washington, Room 218 Phoenix, AZ 85007 602-926-5955; smontenegro@azleg.gov

Rep. John Fillmore (R)

Rep. Jerry Weiers (R)

Rep. Frank Pratt (R)

District 13 Sen. Steve Gallardo (D)

District 25 Sen. Gail Griffen

Rep. Richard Miranda

Rep. Peggy Judd

Rep. Anna Tovar (D)

Rep. David W. Stevens

1700 W. Washington, Room 131 Phoenix, AZ 85007 602-926-5894; jpweiers@azleg.gov

1700 W. Washington, Room 315 Phoenix, AZ 85007 602-926-5830; sgallardo@azleg.gov 1700 W. Washington, Room 332 Phoenix, AZ 85007 602-926-5911; rmiranda@azleg.gov 1700 W. Washington, Room 323 Phoenix, AZ 85007 602-926-3392; atovar@azleg.gov

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1700 W. Washington, Room 331 Phoenix, AZ 85007 602-926-3012; jfillmore@azleg.gov 1700 W. Washington, Room 223 Phoenix, AZ 85007 602-926-5761; fpratt@azleg.gov

1700 W. Washington, Room 302 Phoenix, AZ 85007 602-926-5895; ggriffen@azleg.gov 1700 W. Washington, Room 126 Phoenix, AZ 85007 602-926-5836; pjudd@azleg.gov 1700 W. Washington, Room 312 Phoenix, AZ 85007 602-926-4321; dstevens@azleg.gov Spring/Summer 2012

Cities at a Glance Year of Incorporation: 1946 Population: 76,238 Median age: 29.43 Median household annual income: $75,000 Land area: 54 square miles 2011-12 fiscal-year budget: approximately $163.2 million City Hall: 11465 W. Civic Center Drive (623-333-1000) www.ci.avondale.az.us

Mayor: Marie Lopez Rogers Vice Mayor: Jim McDonald Council Members: Jim Buster, Stephanie Karlin, Frank Scott, Charles Vierhout and Ken Weise City manager: Charlie McClendon Police Dept.: 11485 W. Civic Center Drive (623-333-7000) Police chief: Kevin Kotsur Fire Dept.: 11485 N. 107th Ave. (623-333-6000)

Fire chief: Paul Adams Libraries: Avondale Civic Center Library, 11350 W. Civic Center Drive (623-333-2602); Sam Garcia Western Avenue Library, 495 E. Western Ave. (623-333-2601) Post Offices: Avondale Post Office, 401 W. Western Ave. (623925-2924); Cashion Post Office, 1216 N. 111th Drive (623-9361362)

Year of Incorporation: 1929 Population: 50,876 Median age: 30 Median household annual income: $38,000 Land area: 375 square miles 2011-12 fiscal-year budget: $174.8 million City Hall: 530 E. Monroe Ave. (623-349-6000) www.buckeyeaz.gov

Mayor: Jackie Meck Vice Mayor: Brian McAchran Council Members: Robert Garza, Michelle Hess, Ray Strauss, Craig Heustis and Eric Orsborn Town manager: Stephen Cleveland Police Dept.: 100 N. Apache Road, Suite D (623-386-4421)

Police chief: Mark Mann Fire Dept.: 404 S. Miller Road (623-349-6000) Fire chief: Bob Costello Library: 310 N. Sixth St. (623349-6300) Post Office: 51 E. Monroe Ave. (623-386-3117)

Year of Incorporation: 1946 Population: 65,275 Median age: 33.6 Median household annual income: $76,523 Land area: 191 square miles 2011-12 fiscal-year budget: $213 million City Hall: 190 N. Litchfield Road (623-932-3910) www.goodyearaz.gov

Mayor: Georgia Lord Vice Mayor: Joanne Osborne Council Members: Gary Gelzer, Sheri Lauritano, Bill Stipp, Wally Campbell and Joe Pizzillo City manager: John Fischbach Police Dept.: Venida Business Center, Bldg. E, 175 N. 145th Ave. (623-932-1220) Police chief: Jerry Geier

Fire Dept.: 175 N. 145th Ave., Bldg. E (623-932-2300) Fire chief: Mark Gaillard Library: 250 N. Litchfield Road (602-652-3000) Post Office: 875 S. Estrella Parkway (623-882-9148)

Year of Incorporation: 1987 Population: 5,476 Median age: 45 Median household annual income: $86,726 Land area: 3.5 square miles 2011-12 fiscal-year budget: $7.1 million City Hall: 214 W. Wigwam Blvd.

(623-935-5033) www.litchfield-park.org

Mayor: Tom Schoaf Vice Mayor: Paul Faith Council Members: Diane Landis, Peter Mahoney, John Romack, Tom Schoaf and Paul Stucky City manager: Darryl Crossman Police Dept.: Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (602-876-1011)

Fire Dept.: Goodyear Fire Department (623-932-2300) Library: 101 W. Wigwam Blvd.

(602-652-3000) Post Office: 591 Plaza Circle (623-935-2089)

Year of Incorporation: 1929 Population: 7,083 Median age: 29.4 Median household annual income: $38,773 Land area: 6.6 square miles 2011-12 fiscal-year budget: $44.8 million City Hall: 9555 W. Van Buren St. (623-936-7111) www.tollesonaz.org

Mayor: Adolfo Gamez Vice Mayor: Kathie Farr Council Members: Clorinda Erives, Jose “Diego” Espinoza, Linda Laborin, Albert Mendoza and Juan Rodriguez City manager: Reyes Medrano Jr. Police Dept. : 8350 W. Van Buren St. (623-936-7186) Police chief: Larry Rodriguez

Fire Dept. : 9169 W. Monroe St. (623-936-8500) Fire chief: George Good Library: 9555 W. Van Buren St. (623-936-2746) Post Office: 8805 W. Van Buren St. (623-907-0206)

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