West Valley View Business - November 28, 2018

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Volume 30 Issue 08 Goodyear, AZ

November 28, 2018

Business Briefcase

By Connor Dziawura

IN THE BIZ

Hello, readers! I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving full of family, friends and – who can forget? – food.

But now that Thanksgiving and its subsequent holiday sales have passed, it’s time to prepare for the winter holidays.

In the meantime, let’s get back to our regular routine.

I’m back with several new businesses, and this week I’ll be sticking with Litchfield Park and Goodyear. From a handmade local company that has its own space to new chiropractic offerings and more, plenty is going on in the West Valley. Here’s the news!

First, Love You a Latte Shop is gearing up for its grand opening.

Though the business has been online since 2012, December 1 marks the debut of the business’ brick-and-mortar shop in Goodyear. It sells handmade items, ranging from coffee mugs to hand towels. “All Arizona made,” according to owner Melinda Tovar, the shop will also have other vendors selling items. Love You a Latte Shop will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. opening day. The first 100 customers will get free swag bags with a variety of items, which Tovar estimated at a $50 value.

It is located at 560 N. Bullard Avenue, Suite 60, Goodyear, at the northwest corner of Bullard Avenue and Van Buren Street, south of I-10. For all the business has to offer, visit loveyoualatteshop.com.

Keeping with Goodyear, Desert West Chiropractic, 3301 N. Litchfield

Love You a Latte Shop will complete the move away from online-only sales with the opening of its brick-and-mortar shop in Goodyear on Saturday, December 1. Love You a Latte Shop is located at 560 N. Bullard Avenue, Suite 60. (Photos courtesy Love You a Latte Shop)

Road, Suite 200, now does whole body cryotherapy. The practice, which uses cold temperatures to treat patients, helps with acute injuries, chronic pain, inflammation, workout and athletic recovery, post-surgical recovery, burning calories, skin tightening and even energy, according to Dr. Brett Pfeifle, who said patients previously had to travel to other parts of the Valley to seek this treatment method. Pfeifle described it as a chamber that, using liquid nitrogen to cool down air, can get anywhere from -100 to -180 degrees. Desert West Chiropractic is near the southeast corner of Litchfield and Indian School (USPS 004-616) is published weekly

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roads. For more information, visit desertwestchiropractic.com/cryotherapy or call 623-935-2929.

“Being in that intense cold, what it does is obviously it helps decrease inflammation in your whole body,” Pfeifle explained. “The other thing it does is it will basically get your body into a fight-or-flight mode where it gets your sympathetic nervous system going, so it will take all the blood from your extremities and it takes it up to the core where it then becomes oxygenated.

“It removes toxins; it puts in new

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Veteran finds photography, woodworking calming

By Christina Fuoco-Karasinski

When Nate Lawson left the military, he was plagued with separation anxiety and depression. Two things settled his mind: photography and woodworking.

“I found photography was an escape,” he said. “I got out prematurely, I guess. I was able to do my own thing and be alone. I could forget about everything.

“Woodworking is the same thing. I can go out in the garage, shut the garage door, turn on my music and be in my own little world. I refuse to take drugs for any of my problems.”

Still, it was challenging for another reason: Lawson, who moved from Wyoming to Buckeye, has had an essential tremor since he was a child. According to the International Essential Tremor Foundation, essential tremor is a neurological condition that causes a rhythmic trembling of the hands, head, voice, legs or trunk. Some people even feel an internal shake.

It is often confused with Parkinson’s, but it’s eight times more common, affecting an estimated 10 million Americans and millions more worldwide.

“Woodworking and photography helped my tremor,” he said. “Of course,

Briefcase...continued from page 1 nutrients; your body will also release encephalons and endorphins, which are your natural painkillers in your body,” he continued. “And then of course you get the adrenaline release, too. So when you come out of the machine, that blood flushes back out to the tissues where it’s now oxygenated, nutrientrich blood redelivering back to the tissues to promote healing.”

Over in Litchfield Park, Divas and Dudes Too has joined the Fringe Salon, Salon 405 and Beauty Box Salon family. The salons’ owners recently acquired Divas and Dudes Too, 501 E. Plaza Circle, as it was set to close.

The new owners kept Divas and Dudes

I had to choose two of the biggest things that require the most use of my hands and my hands shake. It’s forced me to find new and different ways to do things.”

Woodworking is a hobby/second job born out of necessity. His camera filters came in leather boxes so small that he couldn’t confidently remove and hold them.

“I thought I’d find a box that is a little bigger, with more room to get them out. That led me down the internet rabbit hole. I got on Google and Pinterest and I lost track for a few hours looking at little boxes.”

Lawson, who works as a security guard, created the boxes himself and has since founded Black Tooth Woodworking, which sells pieces at Screws and Sparkles, 425 E. Monroe Avenue, Buckeye, and through his website, blacktoothwoodworking.com. Previously, he relied on Instagram to spread the word. It was there that Screws and Sparkles’ Sophia Martinez saw his work.

“She invited local makers to email her,” he said. “I emailed her and didn’t think about it. She contacted me through Instagram and liked what I was doing.

“It made me feel good. She put them

up on a little shelf. I’m glad she reached out. This is a first for me. I’ve usually just done things for myself, my wife or my family. Ironically, I haven’t made that little box.”

He has built a patio set, coffee table and end tables for his family using homemade shop furniture.

“I made a lot of shop furniture to make my life easier,” he said. “I used photography as a therapy when I got out of the military. It was pretty rough for me quite a few years afterward.

Again, I got out prematurely, but it was my choice.”

Lawson didn’t see combat when he was in the military. A cavalry scout in the U.S. Army, Lawson was deployed to Bosnia in 1998, after its civil war, though.

“They called it a peacekeeping mission. Unfortunately, I went into recruiting right before the unit in Germany went to Iraq.

“People have a hard time with that one: ‘Unfortunately.’ They look at me sideways. The only way to explain it is like this: Go to college for eight years and train to do something and have someone tell you ‘nevermind.’ You’re going to do something you don’t want to do. Now I’ve found something I want to do.”

Too’s staff on board, while adding employees from the closing Salon De Cheveux. The renovation will give the salon a more modern look with new paint, lighting and stations and shampoo bowls for hair stylists, according to Randee Marafioti, one of the owners.

“That salon will have a whole new look for it. We wanted to really revamp it and make it a lot more modern looking in there,” Marafioti said. “That salon’s been around for so long, and so we kind of really wanted to go in there and update it.”

Several locations will be in the market for additional stylists come January, Marafioti noted. Divas and Dudes Too is located off Indian School Road, between Litchfield and Dysart roads.

Finally, Southwest Valley Chamber of Commerce members can stop by Liv Goodyear, 15361 W. Virginia Avenue, from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, December 6, for the Fa La La After Hours. Hosted by the chamber’s events committee, the event will feature pictures with Santa, local restaurant food, homemade treats, holiday “spirits” and stress relief activities. This event is for chamber members only, though family and friends are allowed, too. For more information, contact the chamber at 623-932-2260 or info@southwestvalleychamber.org That’s all the briefs for this week.

Thanks for reading!

Have an item for Business Briefcase? Email Connor Dziawura at cdziawura@timespublications.com.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

AVONDALE City of Avondale Public Notice CITY OF AVONDALE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS PLANNING COMMISSION December 20, 2018 6:00 PM CITY COUNCIL January 14, 2019 7:00 PM CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS 11465 W. CIVIC CENTER DRIVE AVONDALE, AZ 85323 PURSUANT TO ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES SECTIONS 9-462.04 et seq., NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Planning Commission and City Council will be holding separate public hearings at the dates and times set forth above, in the place specified above, at which times and place all interested persons will have an opportunity to appear and be heard in relation to the following: Conditional Use Permit This is a public hearing before the Planning Commission and the City Council to review and solicit public input on Application PL-18-0200 Vertical Bridge- E-Z Towing (T-Mobile), a request by Mr. Gary Cassel with Clearblue Services LLC/Vertical Bridge Landco LLC, for a Conditional Use Permit on approximately 3.72 gross acres located at the SEC of Dysart Rd. and Riley Dr.; the E-Z Towing & Recovery site. The request is for a 70-foot tall monopalm wireless service facility with associated ground equipment. The Avondale Zoning Ordinance requires a Conditional Use Permit for all new wireless facilities over 35 feet in height.

Information regarding this application may be obtained by contacting the City of Avondale Planning Division located at 11465 W. Civic Center Dr., Suite 110, Avondale, Arizona. Written comments on this request may be submitted to the Planning Division for consideration by the Planning Commission and City Council. If you have any questions concerning this request, please contact Byron Easton with the Avondale Planning Division at (623) 333-4020.

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GENERAL Public Notice

INVITATION TO BID Bids: Wednesday, December 19, 2018 Time to be determined Project: Highlands Park Trailhead CFD Landscape DMB White Tank, LLC seeks qualified General Contractors, with a minimum CR-21

Landscaping and Irrigation Systems, to submit sealed bids for the Landscape Installation along Highlands Park Trailhead CFD Landscape which consists of, but is not limited to, all work associated with installation of the landscape in accordance with the plans and specifications (the “Work”). The Successful Contractor shall be responsible for all coordination associated with the Work. Copies of the plans, specifications, bid documents and detailed information for this project will be available on Monday, November 26.

Contact Terri Kading tkading@dmbinc.com to make arrangements to receive the bid documents. Please reference “Highlands Park Trailhead CFD Landscape -Request for Bid Package” in your Email subject line. A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held in the DMB Associates Offices located at 7600 E Doubletree Ranch Road, Suite 300 – Monday, December 3, 2018 at 9:00 am.

All interested parties are invited to attend. It is recommended that interested parties RSVP prior to the meeting. Sealed bids will be received at the City of Buckeye, City Clerk’s Office, loc-ated at 530 E Monroe, Buckeye, AZ 85326, on Wednesday December 19, 2018, time will be listed in the bid documents. Bids submitted after specified closing time will not be accepted. Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud immediately after the specified closing time. Unless all bids are rejected, the Contract will be awarded within twenty one (21) days. The Contract will be awarded to the lowest qualified bidder that submits a complete and accurate bid. A complete and accurate bid will include all information requested in the bid documents. Every bid made by a Contractor pursuant to this Notice shall be accompanied by a surety bond for ten percent (10%) of the bid amount, listing DMB White Tank, LLC as the Obligee, as a guarantee that the Contractor will enter into a contract to perform the Work, or as liquidated damages in the event the Contractor refuses or fails to enter into the Contract with DMB White Tank, LLC upon award. Cashiers checks will not be accepted. The bonds will be returned to all Contractors whose bids are not awarded the Contract, and to the successful Con-tractor, upon execution of the Contr act, and receipt of Payment and Performance bonds for the Work. The cost for providing Payment and Performance bonds shall be included in the bid submittal.

A Payment and Performance bond will be required in the amount of 100% of the original Contract value for the duration of the Contract. All bidders shall be required to submit, with their bid proposal, a completed Certi-

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ficate of Insurance evidencing their ability to meet the insurance requirements for this project. The Contractor shall carry property dam-age and public liability insurance and shall hold and save harmless DMB White Tank, LLC, the City of Buckeye and the Verrado District 1 Community Facilities District from any employer’s liability and from any and all liens for materials or labor in connection with this Work as specified in the bid documents.

Any bids submitted without the bid bond certificate of insurance and any other items as required in the bid documents will be deemed incomplete, and will be rejected. DMB White Tank, LLC reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to withhold the award for any reason DMB White Tank, LLC determines necessary and appropriate. Award of the successful bid shall be subject to approval by DMB White Tank, LLC or its representatives.

Interested parties shall refer to the bid package and addendums for further information, or contact Terri Kading at tkading@dmbinc. com – reference Highlands Park Trailhead CFD Landscape.

No engineer’s estimate will be distributed.

Public Notice INVITATION TO BID Bids: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 Time to be determined Project: Highlands Mountain Trail CFD Landscape DMB White Tank, LLC seeks qualified General Contractors, with a minimum CR-21 Landscaping and Irrigation Systems, to submit sealed bids for the Landscape Installation along Highlands Mountain Trail CFD Landscape which consists of, but is not limited to, all work associated with installation of the landscape in accordance with the plans and specifications (the “Work”). The Successful Contractor shall be responsible for all coordination associated with the Work. Copies of the plans, specifications, bid documents and detailed information for this project will be available on Monday, December 3. Contact Terri Kading tkading@dmbinc. com to make arrangements to receive the bid documents. Please reference “Highlands Mountain Trail CFD Landscape -Request for Bid Package” in your Email subject line. A MANDATORY prebid meeting will be held in the DMB Associates Offices located at 7600 E Doubletree Ranch Road, Suite 300 – Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 1:00 pm.

All interested parties are invited to attend. It is recommended that interested parties RSVP prior to the meeting. Sealed bids will be received at the City of Buckeye, City Clerk’s Office, loc-ated at 530 E Monroe, Buckeye, AZ 85326, on

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Wednesday January 9, 2019, time will be listed in the bid documents.

Bids submitted after specified closing time will not be accepted.

Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud immediately after the specified closing time. Unless all bids are rejected, the Contract will be awarded within twenty one (21) days. The Contract will be awarded to the lowest qualified bidder that submits a complete and accurate bid. A complete and accurate bid will include all information requested in the bid documents. Every bid made by a Contractor pursuant to this Notice shall be accompanied by a surety bond for ten percent (10%) of the bid amount, listing DMB White Tank, LLC as the Obligee, as a guarantee that the Contractor will enter into a contract to perform the Work, or as liquidated damages in the event the Contractor refuses or fails to enter into the Contract with DMB White Tank, LLC upon award. Cashiers checks will not be accepted. The bonds will be returned to all Contractors whose bids are not awarded the Contract, and to the successful Con-tractor, upon execution of the Contract, and receipt of Payment and Performance bonds for the Work.

The cost for providing Payment and Performance bonds shall be included in the bid submittal. A Payment and Performance bond will be required in the amount of 100% of the original Contract value for the duration of the Contract. All bidders shall be required to submit, with their bid proposal, a completed Certificate of Insurance evidencing their ability to meet the insurance requirements for this project. The Contractor shall carry property dam-age and public liability insurance and shall hold and save harmless DMB White Tank, LLC, the City of Buckeye and the Verrado District 1 Community Facilities District from any employer’s liability and from any and all liens for materials or labor in connection with this Work as specified in the bid documents.

Any bids submitted without the bid bond, certificate of insurance and any other items as required in the bid documents will be deemed incomplete, and will be rejected. DMB White Tank, LLC reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to withhold the award for any reason DMB White Tank, LLC determines necessary and appropriate. Award of the successful bid shall be subject to approval by DMB White Tank, LLC or its representatives.

Interested parties shall refer to the bid package and addendums for further information, or contact Terri Kading at tkading@dmbinc. com – reference Highlands Mountain Trail CFD Landscape.

No engineer’s estimate will be distributed.

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

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