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Tempe Union hopes to name new chief soon Sunday, August 27, 2017
Mesa Council heading to historic decision on colleague's status
On their guard
BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer
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NEWS ............................. 8 Survey: Brain studies trigger decline in boys playing football
BUSINESS ................ 13 Customers can satisfy sweet tooth, nostalgia in Chandler
SPORTS ...................... 17 Tempe athlete eyes world Ironman championship
(Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer)
Marla Felix, Ann Harbin and Diana Perez (from left) went through crossing guard training at Dobson High recently. More than 150 people from all over the East Valley learned about protecting children, sun and water safety, traffic laws and the correct conduct of a crossing guard. Story, Page 3.
esa City Council member Ryan Winkle stands to make history in the wrong way this week by becoming the first councilman to face a disciplinary hearing under its code of conduct, barring a last-minute settlement. Winkle turned into a political lightning rod because of his May 7 arrest and subsequent conviction for extreme driving under the influence in Tempe after he and his wife drove home intoxicated from the Black and White ball sponsored by the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Winkle is hoping that his colleagues, who will act as a panel of judges in determining his punishment, will take his behavior after his arrest into account and censure him on Thursday, Aug. 31, rather than booting him off See
WINKLE on page 4
Gilbert’s 3 riparian preserves flourish with wildlife, visitors BY BJ ALDERMAN Tribune Contributor
PLACES .......................19 Rawhide cuts back public hours, turns to special events
BUSINESS.....................13 OPINION..................... 15 SPORTS........................ 16 FAITH............................ 18 CLASSIFIEDS............. 23
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ilbert Councilman Scott Anderson fondly gazed across a shallow pond encircled with mud flats fringed by lush vegetation coming into leaf. Hundreds of shorebirds strolled in the shallows or drilled beaks into the mud, looking for food. Anderson reminisced that “the schoolchildren who came here on field trips were always grossed out when I told them that the water in the pond came from their toilets.” Welcome to the Water Ranch Riparian Preserve at Greenfield and Guadalupe roads in Gilbert. It is the second of three riparian preserves built by the town, and the history of these wildlife magnets is unexpected, colorful and
(Special to the BJ Alderman/ Tribune Contributor)
Turtles, more than 100 species of birds and other wildlife abound at Gilbert's Water Ranch Riparian Preserve, thanks to town officials' foresight and imagination as well as the public's support of a strong environmental initiative in 1988.
not without problems that, fortunately, have found solutions. Anderson served as Gilbert’s planning director in the late 1980s, before the town grew
from a population of 20,000 to over 250,000 today. See
RIPARIAN on page 6