TU enrollment slide / P. 3
@AhwatukeeFN |
FREE SUBSCRIPTION
www.ahwatukee.com
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
@AhwatukeeFN
Inside This Week
COMMUNITY ..... 26 Ahwatukee cartoonist's comic books win fame.
BUSINESS ......... 34 Ahwatukee dentist's therapy dogs a hit with patients.
The vast 373-acre parcel of pristine desert along Chandler Boulevard between 19th and 27th avenues in Ahwatukee eventually will be home to 1,050 singlefamily homes and 479 apartments and townhouses. Although developer Blandford Homes told the city last year it expected to be selling homes by 2024, no construction has begun and a Blandford official said it doesn’t know when it will start. (Tom Sanfilippo/Inside Out Aerial)
Pace of Upper Canyon development has slowed BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
T
he massive Upper Canyon development in western Ahwatukee is taking shape far slower than originally project-
ed – partly because the site owner hasn’t paid most of the $175.1 million it owes Arizona for the site. While developer Blandford Homes told the city last year it expected to be selling homes by 2024, no construction activity has occurred on
the 373-acre parcel of former State Trust Land along Chandler Boulevard between 19th and 27th avenues. And no date has been set for D.R. Horton
see CANYON page 14
New coach changing culture of Thunder football.
An Ahwatukee pioneer reflects on his 100 years
COMMUNITY ............................ 26
BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
SPORTS ............. 39
BUSINESS ................................ 34 OPINION ................................. 37 SPORTS ................................... 39 CLASSIFIEDS ........................... 46
H
e’s had his shares of hard times and scares – cast from the family home with his parents and eight siblings in
Up to $4850 BEST BESTOF
480-725-7303
2022
in Rebates and Tax credits toward a New AC System
Call today!
the Great Depression, once told kidney cancer would take his life in five years, losing his wife of 71 years. But he’s also traveled around the world, played in the championship round of the 1944 NCAA basketball tournament and enjoyed an
SUMMER IS COMING BE PREPARED AND AVOID COSTLY REPAIRS AND UNTIMELY OUTAGES
MAINTENANCE PACKAGES Starting at $199/year
astonishing relationship with his brother that few siblings ever share. And last Sunday, Roy Wehde could look back with gratitude to God and his positive at-
see CENTENARIAN page 12 20 POINT precision TUNE UP
69
$
REG. $119. $49 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL UNIT. SRP CUSTOMERS ONLY, OTHERS PLEASE CALL FOR RATE.
TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE SUMMER READY!
SINCE 1982 • ROC #C39-312643