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Vol. 78 No. 42
Inside This Week
Sen. Kelly speaks on Mission for Arizona BY TALLULAH ANNE
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Glendale Star Staff Writer
Health & Wellness Guide
NEWS...............7 Celebrate spooky season with Halloween in Glendale
hree weeks before the general election, Sen. Mark Kelly is making his voice heard across Arizona — from the debate stage earlier this month and, more recently, Peoria, where he spoke at the Mission for Arizona office, an organization aimed at electing Democrats statewide. On Oct. 12, Kelly held an event at the office that serves the entire West Valley. With the election a matter of weeks away, he seems to be doing everything he can do to ensure he is elected over Republican
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Glendale Star Staff Writer
Haunted houses return to the Valley for Halloween
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candidate Blake Masters. Kelly, who has been a member of the U.S. Senate now for 21 months, did not originally plan on going into politics. “I was not the politician in our family,” he joked. “That was my wife, Gabby Giffords.” Despite that, Kelly saw the way things were going in American politics and decided to get involved. “In 2020, I was concerned that we were going on a bad trajectory,” Kelly said. “And I know a little bit about trajectories.” After serving 25 years in the U.S. Navy and another 15 years in NASA — which
included 54 days in space as a commander of a Space Mission — Kelly was elected to the Senate office in 2020 after a close election. In an attempt to rouse new and returning voters, Kelly founded Mission for Arizona earlier this year. The initiative has one goal: mobilizing key voters across Arizona in the hopes of electing and reelecting Democrats, such as Kelly himself. “This election is so important, and the choice is so obvious,” Kelly said. “We do elections well in this state. Our governor, Doug Ducey, I agree with him SEE KELLY PAGE 4
Glendale announces new interim director of water services BY SUMMER AGUIRRE
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October 20, 2022
he Glendale Water Services Department has appointed Ron Serio as its new interim director of water ser-
vices. The new director looks forward to the opportunity to lead the department of 200plus employees, and will oversee Glendale’s water and wastewater treatment facilities, water and sewer infrastructure, environmental services, administrative functions and annual operating budget. “The Water Services Department, we pride ourselves on providing really excellent customer service to the community that we serve, and this is an opportunity to keep that going, to continue to provide good customer service, to provide reliable
water services for our com“We’d been going munity,” Serio said. “We through our plants and we’d don’t want people to think done some really large capabout whether water is goital projects to basically iming to come out of the tap prove the infrastructure,” he or not when they turn on the said. “So we’d been in rehafaucet.” bilitation mode at our plants Serio, who has been with because during the downthe city since 2015 as its turn, we deferred maintewater services deputy dinance, and this was a good rector, is the successor to opportunity for us to catch Glendale’s water services up on things and have relidirector of nearly 30 years, able water and wastewater Ron Serio Craig Johnson. treatment plants.” As deputy, Serio gained Currently, the city of experience managing the water plants, Glendale treats and distributes 13 billion wastewater plants, centralized mainte- gallons of water annually. The water sernance and the capital improvement pro- vices department, under Serio’s leadergram. SEE SERIO PAGE 7
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