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February 8, 2023
Pizzillo delivers State of the City to Goodyear BY JOE MCHUGH
West Valley View Staff Writer
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n Feb. 2, Goodyear Mayor Joe Pizzillo addressed the city of Goodyear in the annual State of the City address. Headlined by videos of Pizzillo riding his motorcycle across town, he wasted no time getting down to business about the well-being of the city. “I am happy to report, as the ninth-fastest growing city in the nation, the city of Goodyear experienced a year of tremendous growth in 2022, and 2023 promises to be another year in which our city thrives,” Pizzillo said. “We celebrated some incredible milestones last year, and we are looking forward to continuing that momentum in the coming year.” The growth period Goodyear has seen has come on the backs of some major projects. Some of the biggest of the year was the construction of the new city hall and the Civic Square Park. Having opened in August, the Civic Square Park has served as a mainstay of Goodyear, helping bring the community together at a location in the heart of the community.
Pizzillo said the city is also planning to upgrade the amenities and activities that it has to offer to accommodate for the massive influx in people coming to be a part of it. One of these projects is the construction of the new city center, which will bring new businesses that will offer dining, shopping and entertainment to the forefront of the city. “We are building a complete city, which means that we are focused on bringing the services and amenities that our residents need and want right here in Goodyear,” Pizzillo said. “Having a complete city also means that our residents won’t have to travel to other parts of the Valley to have their needs met.” Pizzillo was also very proud Goodyear Mayor Joe Pizzillo delivered his State of the City of other areas that the city found speech to the community on Feb. 2. (City of Goodyear/Submitted) success in. The primary point of pride was the fiscal responsibility and the plenty of things to do in it. affordability of Goodyear, in that sales tax “Our finances are stable and growing, collections and property tax in the city Goodyear...continued on page 3 present an affordable area to live with
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Buckeye woman found dead in Los Angeles
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West Valley View Staff Writer
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ormer Buckeye resident Destiny Sims was one of three women killed in an armed robbery in Beverly Crest, California, on Jan. 29. The LA Police Department responded to a disturbance call and also found Iyana Hutton from Chicago and Nenah Davis, another Illinois resident, dead in a vehicle. “Around 2:30 (Saturday) morning, West LA
officers received multiple 911 calls of a shooting with people down at a residence here in the 2700 block of Ellison Drive,” LAPD public information officer Bruce Borihanh said in a press conference at the residence. “When the officers arrived, they found five victims suffering from gunshot wounds.” Four other victims were transported to local hospitals, two of whom are in critical condition and the other two who were treated and released from medical care.
“The evidence at the scene, there are casings from guns, so we can confirm that this was a gun battle where victims were shot,” Borihanh said. Formerly of Chicago, Sims had three children. She was in a short-term rental home in the LA area for an album release party for one of her friends. Police had visited the area several times prior, but noth-
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