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With Oktoberfest, SanTan Intel volunteers Brewing Co. celebrates the season share expertise with worthy causes BY LYNETTE CARRINGTON

Oktoberfest has increasingly become a huge reason to celebrate across the Valley, but nobody does it quite like SanTan Brewing Co. This year’s sixth anniversary Oktoberfest will take place from 4 p.m. to midnight Sat., Oct. 5, at A.J. Chandler Park at 3 S. San Marcos Blvd. The festivities will celebrate everything German and usher in cooler temperatures with something for every member of the family. Anthony Canecchia, owner, founder and master brewer of SanTan Brewing Co., is looking forward to another fun year with big attendance numbers. “We started it very small six years ago and it’s grown and grown,” says Canecchia. “Last year, I believe our attendance was upward of 12,000 people.” They’re expecting about the same crowd this year. Learning from past Oktoberfests, Canecchia expects this year’s event to be exceptionally organized. “We figured out the perfect arrangement, as far as placement of where the food goes to keep the lines down to nothing, the right amount of vendors so there aren’t lines and so food will stay fresh,” he explains. “We’ve got the formula down now and we’re not going to mess with it.’’ Oktoberfest 2013 will be a departure

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FALL IS HERE: A festive SanTan Brewing Co. Oktoberfest couple dressed in lederhosen and a dirndl. Submitted photo

from years past in that instead of being held the last weekend in September, it’s now the first weekend in October. Hoping for a bit of cooler weather and the anticipation of attracting more families, this year’s event should be the best, he says. “We pushed the hours back to 4 p.m. We’ll have bounce houses and some slip slides and one of the mobile SEE OKTOBERFEST PAGE 6

Government agencies and nonprofit organizations are not known for being efficient, lean groups that tackle problems using business acumen and first-rate technology. However, with the help of people like Patrick Grogg at Intel in Chandler, they might soon be. Intel has long been a recognized leader in the technology industry. With Mentoring and Planning Services, a program founded by Rudy Hacker at Intel’s Chandler campus, they hope to be a leader in volunteering as well. And with thousands of employees willing to offer their unique expertise, they’re able to do more than hold car washes and blood drives to raise money. Intel’s MAPS is a skills-based volunteering program that tackles problems of inefficiency, technology and knowledge gaps by offering free mentoring to nonprofits, schools and other government agencies in a wide variety of areas; including information technology, management and a variety of other topics that utilize expertise employees develop working at Intel. A recent MAPS project teamed Patrick Grogg, a software engineer at Intel, with the Gilbert Fire Department.

Chandler native has Olympic goal in mind BY PAT MARRUJO

No Arizonan has played Olympic hockey, but that might just change in 2014. Chandler native Lyndsey Fry is in Boston training with the U.S. women’s hockey team with the hopes of playing in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. It is part of a journey that began when she was just 4 years old, when she saw “The Mighty Ducks” for the first time and fell in love. “My dad got me those kind of strap-on-your-shoes roller skates, and it went from me going up and down my driveway until he put a stick in my hands,” Fry says.

“I played roller (hockey) at Skateland and, when they built Polar Ice, I switched to ice and never looked back.” She says once she started to understand the sport and got better, she was hooked. Fry played in boys leagues throughout most of her childhood. Once she arrived in high school, she decided to take her game to a new level. “My freshman year in high school, I played on a boys’ team in Chandler,” she says. “But I also played on a girls’ team in Colorado. So my first two years at high school, I was still living at home and would drive to

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OLYMPIC ASPIRATIONS: Lyndsey Fry is in Boston attempting to make the U.S. women’s hockey team, which will play in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia. Submitted photo

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Grogg developed a mobile, tabletbased application, using skills honed at Intel, to help firefighters track calls and patients’ information in real time so they can get back to saving lives. The fire department was using an outdated paper-and-pencil system for recording patient data in the field while

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SHARING KNOWLEDGE: Patrick Grogg, a software engineer at Intel’s Chandler campus, was honored with a helmet bearing his name from the Gilbert Fire Department after he worked through the Intel MAPS program to create a mobile system for firefighters to process information in the field, greatly increasing accuracy and efficiency and helping first responders save lives. STSN photo by Kimberly Hosey

The SanTan Sun News staff took to the course to find the most fun foursome participating in the recent Chandler Chamber of Commerce golf outing. This group was reading the SanTan Sun News while driving their golf cart—Eric Linder, J.P Franco, Chris Koenig and Dunston Simpson of Cox Communications. Congratulations for having the best sense of humor on the course that day. Submitted photo

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