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Scottsdale due for super-sized partying Hotel prices skyrocket Super Bowl week promises in advance of crowds traffic headaches here BY TOM SCANLON Progress Managing Editor
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lendale, indisputably, has “the Big Game.” But Scottsdale, almost inarguably, has “the Big Fun.”
Gregory Hays, a Main Street mainstay for decades, took a break from hawking his books to visitors to answer a question: Why would people come here rather than Glendale for see
HOTELS page 11
BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer
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ith over a million visitors heading to the Valley for Super Bowl Week, dozens of Scottsdale bars, restaurants and night-
clubs – and police – have begun planning for the influx. Several establishments have added staff, applied for an extension of premises and partnered with big-name brands to see
CLUBS page 10
Donkey sanctuary feels pain of Rio Verde water struggle BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer
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s the owner of Hangry Donkey Sanctuary in Rio Verde Foothills, Rose Carroll can tell a visitor the name of each of her 25 animals and talk about the abuse and neglect they endured before she got them. Take Bill, for example, a donkey that came to her from Kentucky, where he had been “kept in a little stall in the back of a dark barn all his life. He was really thin and had sores all over him when I got him.” Many “are so depressed they’ve given
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up” before making it to the sanctuary, Carroll said, and “to see them come back, that makes it worth everything.” Everything like stretching her budget to cover the cost of hay, which has doubled over the past year. But now, the sanctuary and the donkeys share the same crisis. The 7-acre ranch depends on hauled water and its price of that water has alThe herd of 25 donkeys on the Hangry Donkey most tripled since Scottsdale terminatSanctuary in Rio Verde Foothills consumes 300 ed the use of its standpipe that served gallons of water a day just in cooler months and around 700 of the 2,200 homes in the the community’s water woes have nonprofit owner community northeast of the city. Rose Carroll worried about the lack of any immediate solution to the problem. (David Minton/Progress
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