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This Week
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Ahwatukee Chamber, SRP and AFN holding a forum for City Council hopefuls
COMMUNITY.............19 Ahwatukee foundation helps youngster’s family.
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Ahwatukee tattoo artists mark Suicide Prevention Month
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Nature delays a historic moment in Ahwatukee BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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ilson Gee says he is ready to reopen what had been Ahwatukee’s longestrunning eyesore tomorrow, Sept. 1, but both he and a court-appointed expert say that historic moment should wait until midOctober. In papers filed last week, the lawyer for the homeowners who sued Gee in 2014 over the closure of the Ahwatukee Lakes Golf Course asked a Superior Court judge to postpone the 18-hole executive course’s full reopening until Oct. 26. Citing a report from award-winning golf course landscape expert Mark Woodward – the court-appointed special master assigned to determine if Gee complies with a court order to reopen the course Sept. 1 – attorney Tim Barnes told the court last week: “The Lakes Course can open on Sept. 1 but from an agronomic standpoint and turf coverage standpoint, it is much better to let the Bermuda grass and Paspalum grow until Sept. 25 to established a good base and then to start the
The Ahwatukee Lakes Golf Course is greening up, as shown in this drone photo shot last week, but both owner Wilson Gee and the special master in the suit against him say it needs to be closed until mid-October so Bermuda grass can take better hold and rye grass overseeding has taken root. (Tom Sanfilippo/Inside Out Aerial)
overseeding process with rye grass on Sept. 26 and to open the golf course to the public on Oct. 21, 2022. “Every golf course in Arizona that plants
rye grass generally closes the course for two to three weeks in late September or early Oc-
Department of Education related to her fivemonth ordeal. Nevertheless, the district’s efforts in the initial stages of the eighth grader’s torment were insufficient and the boys’ harassment impacted the youngster brutally, according to the department’s Aug. 23 announcement closing its two-year investigation of the case. The investigation ended with an agreement that federal authorities will monitor. That agreement requires the district to cover
the cost of the victim’s tutoring and counseling for the academic and psychological damage the boys inflicted on her. And it requires Kyrene to publicly state “the district does not tolerate acts of harassment, including acts of harassment based on a student’s actual or perceived race, color, or national origin national origin including shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics (e.g., anti-
Kyrene, feds address Jewish girl’s ordeal
BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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he wheels of the federal bureaucracy might seem to have rolled slowly, but Kyrene School District officials appear to have been taking measures to address nine boys’ disturbing anti-Semitic persecution of a SPORTS.......................... girl at Altadeña Middle School in 2018-2019 The Thunder and Pride are both even before last week’s announcement of an heading to out-of-state contests. agreement between the district and the U.S.
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