East Valley Tribune: Southeast Edition - Sept. 4, 2016

Flying high at Chandler’s Stellar Airpark

Homeowners just having plane fun

BY MIKE BUTLER TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Mike Lane and his wife, Sally, like to have breakfast some weekends at Crosswinds restaurant at the Payson Airport.

at’s just a 30-minute jaunt from Chandler in his 300 horsepower, single-engine Bonanza F33A, not including the 20-30 minutes he spends on a pre-flight inspection, and the three minutes or so it takes him to taxi to one of Stellar Airpark’s two runways.

Like thousands of other East Valley subdivisions, where life revolves around serene lakeside living or bustling golf courses and clubhouses, Stellar Airpark has a tie that binds its more than 100 homeowners.

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It just happens to be piloting magnificent flying machines into the wild blue yonder.

“ e common interest in aviation really draws people together,” Lane says. “It’s really a fantastic group of people.”

“I don’t think we have a bad apple in the bunch here,” says Larry Perkins, a retired commercial airline pilot. “Everyone speaks fluent aviation.”

The Lanes, who work in IT, moved to Stellar 10 years ago. Mike was visiting his sister in the

Valley and noticed bulldozers moving dirt around south of Chandler Boulevard and Galaxy Drive, west of Chandler Fashion Center. When he saw the well-maintained runways and distinctive homes sprouting up, he and Sally started charting a move from metropolitan Washington, D.C.

Distinctive Dwellings

Not all East Valley homes are stucco with red tile roofs. Beginning this week, and occasionally in the weeks to come, the Tribune will feature unusual houses and subdivisions with a story to tell. This week: Stellar Airpark in Chandler.

Attorney General seeks to consolidate, dismiss 1,300 ADA lawsuits

BY JIM WALSH TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

The Arizona Attorney’s Office filed a motion in Maricopa County Superior Court this week that might eventually result in the dismissal of nearly 1,300 lawsuits against businesses accused of violating the American With Disabilities Act. e motion seeks to consolidate 1,289 cases, mostly filed against Mesa businesses, into one case.

It alleges that the plaintiff lacks standing in court to seek attorney fees.

“If these cases are consolidated, and the state is permitted to intervene as a limited purpose defendant, the state intends to file a motion seeking dismissal of all consolidated cases,” according to the motion filed by Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s office.

e motion also requests an expedited ruling,

saying that many of the businesses are at risk of getting hit with default judgments that could cost them thousands of dollars and that the plaintiff’s attorney has made statements that he intends to sue 8,000 additional businesses.

Peter Strojnik, the attorney who has filed the suits in behalf of his client, Advocates For American

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When elderly drivers need to give up the car keys, home care provider offers help

BY PAUL MARYNIAK TRIBUNE MANAGING EDITOR

It may not be as uncomfortable as an end-of-life discussion, but it can be just as traumatic for all concerned.

But telling an elderly parent or loved one that it’s time to give up their car keys can be a life-saving necessity, says the owner of Home Instead Senior Care. The Mesa-based provider that has launched a program in the East Valley and Ahwatukee, called “Let’s Talk about Driving,” to help guide adult children and their aging parents in having that sitdown.

“The idea of giving up driving completely sparks a range of emotions in senior drivers—everything from anger, to anxiety and loneliness,” said Mahnaz Pourian, whose business provides a range of care for homebound seniors. “The emotions current senior drivers most often feel when asked to think about giving up driving are frustration, helplessness and depression.”

Home Instead has developed a website, LetsTalkAboutDriving.com, that presents scenarios depicting different senior driving situations as well as tips and suggestions on how to start the conversation. Additionally, its representatives help facilitate “the talk.”

Families can use the site to work with their aging loved ones to assess their driving and then find resources that will help them “have the talk.”

Age-related disabilities ranging from dementia to a deterioration in motor skills can make an elderly driver a menace on the road.

In the most recent study available, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that in 2012, there were almost 36 million licensed drivers ages 65 and older in the United States. An average of 586 were injured every day in crashes.

That worked out to 5,560 fatalities among older adults and more than 214,000 injuries.

Last year in Arizona, 167 motorists over 64 years of age were among the 895 killed in accidents, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation. Of the 53,554 insured, 2,637 were older than 64, ADOT said.

Statistics like that underscore the need for children to pay attention to signs that their aging parent may not be road-ready any longer.

“As adults, we don’t hesitate to talk to our teenage children about driving, but when

we need to address concerns with our own parents, we drop the ball,” said Elin Schold Davis, who coordinates an “older driver initiative” for the American Occupational Therapy Association.

“It’s not easy for seniors to ask for help from others, and the loss of various abilities that help them stay mobile usually happens gradually,” she said. “Often it’s not until a ‘close call’ event occurs before we get called in.”

Pourian cited studies showing that North Americans ages 70 and older “aren’t ready to give up the car keys.”

“A majority are still very active on the road,” she said. “Seniors overwhelmingly depend on having a car and driving. This gives them freedom to do what they want, when they want. More than 90 percent of seniors over 70 rely on the independence they get from driving.”

Independence is a primary goal of Home Instead Senior Care’s work with seniors and their families.

“For our clients, our primary goal is to help them stay as independent as possible as they age from the comfort of their home,” Pourian said. “And for many seniors, the ability to drive is a key component of their sense of independence. We have to respect that sense of independence that is associated with driving, while making sure families are safe on the road. That’s why we need to be proactively talking.”

It might be time to get the keys if …

Home Instead Senior Care cites 10 warning signs alerting people to the possibility that it might be time for their parent or other elderly loved one to stop driving:

• Mysterious dents. If an older adult can’t explain what happened to his or her car, or you notice multiple instances of damage, further investigation is needed.

• Trouble turning to see when backing up. Aging may compromise mobility and impact important movements needed to drive safely. Newer vehicles offer backup cameras and assistive technologies that can help.

• Confusing the gas and brake pedals. Dementia can lead to a senior being confused about how a car operates.

• Increased irritation and agitation when driving. Poor health or chronic pain can trigger increased agitation that may, in turn, lead to poor judgment on the road.

• Bad decisions on left-hand turns. Many accidents occur where there is an unprotected left turn (no turning arrow).

• Parking gone awry. Difficulty parking, including parallel parking, could cause damage to an older adult’s vehicle as well as to those around it.

Sally was nervous at first. She feared she might become isolated, hanging out with other spouses who had little interest in business or community. Neighbors she got to know disabused her of that notion, and the Lanes quickly settled into the community’s cruising speed.

Up and away

At Stellar, even the street names are out of this world. In the older north section, main streets such as Stellar Parkway and Galaxy Drive branch off into Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter Ways. In the newer south section, custom homes—mostly in the Mediterranean style—line Kitty Hawk, Lindbergh, Earhart and Rickenbacker Ways.

All but a few of the homes in the two gated communities have cleverly disguised hangers attached to the back. The hangers are served by short taxiways that lead to and from the runways.

Lane says the airport’s 3,900-foot asphalt runways are long enough to accommodate small jets, such as the Cessna Citation, which several residents own.

But many Stellar residents cling to the old ways. Larry Perkins’ personal plane is a 1946 Aeronca 7AC. He also flies an old Howard, a vintage Bell helicopter and a replica P-64/ NA-50, which was used as a fighter plane and trainer during World War II. Those aircraft are owned by the estate of a Stellar collector who died in February.

“If you don’t run these things,” explains Perkins, 72, “they’ll deteriorate.”

As a lad growing up in the ’50s, Perkins rode his bike to a local airport, where he plunked down the then-enormous sum of $5 to ride in an airplane. He loved it so much that he rode his bike back to the airport the next week and got a job with the fixed-base operator as a line boy.

By his late teens, Perkins was taking former flight teachers up in the air, serving the California National Guard and flying for hire.

Fixed-base operators are like marinas. They provide fuel, maintenance, aircraft rentals and rent tie-down lines to pilots who don’t have private hangers or just want to use the airport temporarily or seasonally.

Avgas, as pilots call it, is expensive: $4.69 per gallon, currently. Most of that is federal tax that goes into a fund to build new general-aviation airports. Lane says the tradeoff for skipping security lines and getting to San Diego in 100 minutes is a $240 avgas bill.

East of the runways, spanning to McClintock Drive, there’s a compact commercial section of the airpark that houses industrial-park-type businesses and large hangers for oversize or overflow aircraft. A small flight school fell victim to the 2008 recession.

But Stellar Airpark is looking like it will finally reach its own version of build-out soon. According to Lane, Stellar’s fixed base operator plans to use some of his space to

develop condominiums with hangers. Another developer is going through city channels to build 12-14 custom homes on a vacant strip of land in the north section of airpark, along Beechcraft Place just south of Chandler Boulevard.

A farmer plants a seed

In 1969, Harold Earley Jr., a cotton farmer, thought it would be a cool idea to be able to land a private plane in West Chandler and taxi it right into your home, according to Stellar’s resident historian, Joe Martin.

In those days, Chandler Boulevard was known as Williams Field Road.

He sketched out 40 homes with private taxiways and another 40 with access to a tiedown area. The forward-thinking farmer also envisioned building a motel and having a cafe above a fixed-base operator where residents and the public could dine and enjoy watching small

planes take off and land.

Earley developed the airport and got about 40 homes built in the north section of Stellar Airpark, but he died in a plane crash in 1975, before his dream could be fully realized.

Tom Van Sickle, a local developer, bought the property from Earley’s estate in 1976, and he started building the industrial park. In 1979, the airpark had achieved enough mass to be annexed by the City of Chandler. Unfortunately, Van Sickle borrowed against the undeveloped south half of Stellar Airpark, and he became ensnared in the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s. All of a sudden, a big chunk of Stellar was owned by the Resolution Trust Corp.

Then, in 1990, Maricopa County threw down a delinquent property tax bill to the tune of $200,000. The airport was perilously

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close to being transferred to a tax lien investor.

Residents dug deep in their pockets to legally defend themselves and hastily formed a nonprofit organization called the Stellar Runway Utilizers Association. Incredibly, according to Martin’s research, the SRUA managed to buy back the assets from Resolution Trust for $500, and persuaded Maricopa County to settle the delinquent tax bill for $1,000.

Residents who financed the fight with private loans and donations got reimbursed when the SRUA sold unused land south of the runways to ADOT to make way for the Loop 202 freeway.

In 1999, Jeff Mark—the Mark part of MarkTaylor, the high-end apartment developer— bought the south section and cleared the way to develop 65 new lots. As part of the deal, he renovated the runways and upgraded the lighting/navigation aids and taxiways.

A call to serve

Perhaps because pilots feel blessed to be able to fly, and thankful for every safe takeoff and landing, they have a keen sense of giving back.

Mike Lane, for example, is an honorary commander with the 62nd Fighter Squadron at Luke Air Force Base, and he uses that opportunity to arrange tours of the base for youth groups. Other residents volunteer for

“If you

Angel Flights, which ferry patients who can’t afford commercial flights to distant hospitals. Another resident fires up his helicopter whenever local law enforcement officials mount a searchand-rescue operation.

Larry Perkins also volunteers in a special way. And you don’t truly realize how much of a skilled pilot he is until you learn he’s one of the pilots who flies the B-17G Flying Fortress at Falcon Field to benefit the Commemorative

Air Force Base.

(Mike Butler/Tribune Staff)

Where the pilots eat

If you ever hear a pilot talking about getting a $100 hamburger, it means he or she is planning a short hop to a general aviation airport to have lunch. That cost is roughly what the pilot would end up spending on avgas and the meal itself. Pilots love their breakfasts and lunches and love to swap information about good fly-in cafes. Author John Purner even wrote a book about it— “The $100 Hamburger - A Pilot’s Guide”—and founded the subscription website 100dollarhamburger.com in 1996.

Here are some of the best $100 hamburger restaurants in Arizona, according to the site:

• Hanger Cafe, Chandler Municipal

• Bent Prop Saloon & Cookery, Eloy Municipal

• Steak and Stone of Mesa, Falcon Field

“It’s like driving a big truck with the power steering broken,” Perkins says. “It’s a real privilege to fly it, though, and to be able to share it with others.”

– Reach Mike Butler at 480-898-6581 or at mbutler@timespublications.com.

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• Deer Valley Airport Restaurant, Phoenix Deer Valley

• Kingman Airport Cafe, Kingman

• The Mesa Grill, Sedona

• Crosswinds Cafe, Payson

• Susie’s Skyway Restaurant, Ernest A. Love Field, Prescott

– Mike Butler, Tribune Staff Writer

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Two East Valley legislators lose primary election fights

BY PAUL MARYNIAK TRIBUNE MANAGING EDITOR

East Valley candidates emerged victorious in two Congressional districts while two incumbent legislators in East Valley races lost, according to unofficial results from Tuesday’s primary election.

In the 5th Congressional District Democratic primary, Tempe applied biologist Talia Fuentes handily defeated Scottsdale software engineer Kinsey Remaklus, with nearly 65 percent of the vote.

The battle royale in that district’s Republican primary remained too close to call Wednesday with former Republican gubernatorial primary candidate and former GoDaddy executive Christine Jones maintaining a slim lead over Andy Biggs, the former State Senate president.

In the 9th Congressional District Republican primary, Chandler engineering company founder Dave Giles captured nearly 60 percent of the vote to defeat attorney John Agra, a Phoenix attorney. Giles now will challenge incumbent U.S. Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, who ran unopposed.

In state legislative races, the incumbent losses came in Legislative District 18, which includes Ahwatukee and parts of Chandler, Mesa and Tempe, and LD 25, which covers parts of Tempe and Mesa.

In the Republican primary race for State Senate LD 18, one-term incumbent Jeff Dial, a real estate agent, lost to Frank Schmuck, a decorated Gulf War veteran and Southwest Airlines pilot. Schmuck, who unsuccessfully ran for State House in 2008, captured 53 percent of the vote against Dial’s 47 percent.

In the LD 25 Democratic primary for the State House, incumbent Celeste Plumlee pulled up short in a fourway race for two spots. She captured only about 20 percent of the vote while Arizona Student Association activists Isela Blanc and Athena Salman both won, with each getting over 30 percent of the vote.

Blanc and Salman will now face one Republican in the race for two House seats in District 25. The other seat had been held by Juan Mendez, who handily won the Democratic Senate primary by defeating David Lucier, a

telecommunications and finance specialist.

After capturing 75 percent of the vote, Mendez is virtually assured of being District 25’s next state senator since no Republican is running.

Dial had spent one term in the State House after his election in 2010, then won a four-year Senate term in 2012.

Schmuck will now face Ahwatukee resident and Democratic political newcomer Sean Bowie, who is an analyst for the Office of University Provost at Arizona State University.

There was no contest in the LD 18 Republican or Democratic primaries for state representative.

In other East Valley legislative races, former Gilbert Mayor John Lewis’ wife LaCinda Lewis lost in a threeway contest for two Republican spots for state representative in Legislative District 12. She came in behind incumbent state Rep. Eddie Farnsworth and Republican newcomer Travis Grantham, a major in the Arizona Air National Guard.

Lewis and Grantham were fighting

for a spot left vacant by incumbent Warren Peterson, who won the Republican nomination for District 18 state senator by defeating Jimmy Lindblom, an attorney and construction company president. The district covers mainly Gilbert and Queen Creek.

In District 16, which covers Apache Junction, and parts of Mesa and Gilbert, incumbent state Rep. Kelly Townsend and Apache Junction High School teacher and former mayor Doug Coleman won the Republican primary in a three-way race. They bested San Tan Valley businessman Adam Stevens.

In District 25, which covers a large part of Mesa, incumbent Republican GOP state Sen. Bob Worsley won after defeating write-in candidate and activist Itasca Small.

In that district’s Republican primary for state House, incumbent Rep. Russell “Rutsy” Bowers and Mesa mother of four Michelle Udall won over retired Marine Ross Groen.

Groen and Udall were

incumbent Justin Olsson, who was pulling last place in the four-way Republican contest for the Congressional District 5 nomination.

The East Valley also is figuring in prominently in the heated five-way race for three Republican nominations for state Corporation Commission as former Chandler Mayor Boyd Dunn was running third behind incumbents Bob Burns and Andy Tobin.

There were only two Democrats running for Corporation Commission for the three seats.

Election 2016 key dates

Sept. 29: Last day to file as a write-in candidate.

Oct. 10: Last day to register to vote. Oct. 12: Early voting begins.

Oct. 28: Last day to request an early ballot.

Nov. 8: Election Day.

To register/update your voter information: servicearizona.com.

Information: recorder.maricopa.gov/ elections.

THE WEEK IN REVIEW

ASU to get polling place on campus

For the first time in school history, ASU’s Tempe campus will house a polling place for the General Election on Nov. 8. Students will be able to vote at the Sun Devil Fitness Complex on Apache Boulevard.

The Commission for Election Accountability worked with ASU Undergraduate Student Government, ASU Young Democrats, College Republicans and ASU Graduate and Professional Students Association to bring the polling location to Tempe campus.

“We are thrilled that ASU will finally have a polling location on campus,” said Samantha Pstross, President of the Commission for Election Accountability.

– MATT TONIS, TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Tiny libraries get $300 reimbursement in Tempe

Tempe is offering $300 to residents who establish and maintain mini free libraries for the community. The libraries are shelving units for people to access books. They mainly operate on a “take a book, return a book” principle so reading material is always available.

The program was established by Todd Bol of Hudson, Wisconsin, in 2009 and now has over 40,000 libraries across the country.

Tempe has budgeted enough money for about 33 locations to operate in the city.

– MATT TONIS, TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

ASU welcomes its largest freshman class: 11,500

More than 11,500 students have started classes Arizona State University’s campuses, making it the schools’ largest freshman class ever.

It’s the second straight record for the school. Last year, more than 11,000 enrolled. The students come from 74 nations and all 50 states. Almost 7,000 students are from the Phoenix area.

About 2,000 freshmen are entering Barrett, the Honors College.

– TRIBUNE STAFF REPORT

Gilbert named among the happiest cities in U.S.

Gilbert is the seventhhappiest city in the nation, according to careers website Zippia.

Olathe, Kansas, was named the happiest of all.

Zippia factored in education, employment, commute, cost of living, families, home ownership and poverty in ranking the cities.

The full list includes Olathe; Overland Park, Kansas; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Bellevue, Washington; Cary, North Carolina; Gilbert; Virginia Beach, Virginia; Chesapeake, Virginia; and Frisco, Texas.

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RALPH ZUBIATE, TRIBUNE EDITOR

Illegal immigrant jailed, charged with abusing teen girl

A Honduran illegal immigrant has been jailed after allegedly having sex with an underage girl.

Mesa police say Gabriel Fernando Quinones-Garcia, 35, faces four felony counts of sexual abuse. He admitted that he had sex on multiple occasions with a 16-year-old girl.

Quinones-Garcia has been living in the U.S. illegally for 14 years.

He was arrested hiding out in a Mesa motel.

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Police: Man ran house of prostitution in Chandler

Chandler police say a man ran a massage studio that doubled as a house of prostitution in his home.

Robert A. Richardson, 70, employed a male masseuse, who performed sexual acts on clients, Chandler police say. An undercover operation was conducted at his home in the 700 block of North Hazelton Drive in Chandler.

In addition to splitting fees with the masseuse, Richardson watched the activity through a hidden camera, police say.

Richardson’s next court date is Sept. 13 in Mesa.

ADA SUITS

Disabled Individuals, has said his goal is to enforce the landmark civil rights law after government agencies, including the Attorney General’s Office, failed to do so.

Strojnik said a survey found that 95-97 percent of businesses in Maricopa County violate the ADA and that his organization sent out 42,000 letters to notify business owners that they were in violation.

“What the Attorney General’s Office is doing is to protect the lawbreakers,” he said, not protect the disabled. “I understand that this is now a political issue.”

He said the Attorney General’s Office intervened a few days after a private meeting that included a law firm, the Mesa Chamber of Commerce and state attorneys.

“We will meet with them to see if we can come to common ground,” Strojnik said. “The common ground is to help the disabled community.”

But businesses interpreted the serial suits as a shakedown scheme intended to pry thousands of dollars from them through virtually identical boilerplate suits. The plaintiff generally seeks an out-of-court settlement.

The businesses owners say they support the goals of the ADA to ensure access for the disabled to public accommodations, such as restaurants,

“ I have not talked to one person who is against making changes and following the rules,” she said. ”

—Sally Harrison

hotels and other facilities open to the public.

“This is not about the ADA. This is about them making money,” said Sally Harrison, president and CEO of the Mesa Chamber of Commerce.

She said the Attorney General’s intervention was necessary to protect businesses against predatory tactics.

“I think it’s wonderful. It makes the most sense. It’s the most time and cost effective way to do it,” Harrison said.

Harrison said it is not her role to dispense legal advice, but she has compiled resources to help businesses comply with the law, including consultants who will inspect properties for compliance.

“I have not talked to one person who is against making changes and following the rules,” she said.

The Attorney General’s motion said the suits lack standing for several reasons, including that the plaintiff failed to notify the businesses of purported ADA violations and did not give the businesses an opportunity to correct the

violations.

The suits also fail to allege that an actual disabled person was unable to access a business because of deficiencies in complying with the ADA. The civil rights law, passed in 1990, requires such measures as handicapped parking spaces, signs marking the spaces and ramps that would make it possible for a disabled person enter a building.

“In fact, the complaints fail to allege that a person with an identified disability ever visited, or expressed an intent to visit the pertinent location, prior to filing the complaint,” the motion said.

The suits filed against the businesses generally cite the same sorts of technical violations of the ADA. They include handicapped parking signs that are less than 60 inches from the ground; signs that do not say the space is “van accessible;” spaces that do not have the international symbol of accessibility; an insufficient number of handicapped spaces; and improper location of handicapped spaces.

In most cases, the suits seek attorney’s fees of “no less than $5,000.” The ADA does not allow a plaintiff to sue for actual damages resulting from a businesses’ failure to comply.

Defense attorney Lindsay Leavitt, who represents businesses owners, said the suits initially targeted Scottsdale businesses, but that Mesa businesses have been in the bull’s eye since February. The suits have alarmed East Valley

business owners, with hundreds attending educational sessions sponsored by the Mesa Chamber of Commerce.

Reacting to the fears of businesses, the Attorney General’s Office filed a motion last week to intervene in an ADA case involving a small Phoenix pool restoration company represented by Leavitt.

In a presentation to East Valley business owners, Leavitt outlined similar tactics now used by the Attorney General’s Office to combat the suits.

THE WEEK AHEAD

Teachers invited to dinner speech

Gilbert Mayor Jenn Daniels will speak at an event for teachers the Higley and Gilbert School Districts on Friday.

The gathering, 5-7 p.m, includes dinner and a raffle. It will be at DoubleTree by Hilton PhoenixGilbert. It is invitaton-only in the Elegante Conference Center.

– MATT TONIS, TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Classic cars to be shown at Falcon Field

Twenty-five classic, antique and muscle cars will be shown at a cocktail reception and preview Thursday at Falcon Field in Mesa.

“Hops & Horsepower” is the first of a few events scheduled by J. Levine Auction & Appraisal before the company begins monthly three-day auctions late this month.

Admission to the cocktail reception, which

will be from 6 to 9 p.m., is free. Reservations are requested by Wednesday.

For information and to RSVP, go to jlevines.com/hops or call 480-496-2212.

–

RALPH

ZUBIATE, TRIBUNE EDITOR

‘Nominations open for Community Excellence Awards

Nominations for the 21st Annual Gilbert Community Excellence Awards are being accepted by the Gilbert Chamber of Commerce.

Residents can submit nominations of people and businesses to Gilbert Chamber of Commerce, Gilbert, Gilbert Public Schools, Higley Unified School District or Chandler-Gilbert Community College.

The awards ceremony is Nov. 3 at the Falls Event Center in Gilbert.

– MATT TONIS, TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Tempe Chamber of Commerce raffling trip to Cuba

The Tempe Chamber of Commerce is hosting a trip to Cuba from Nov. 30 to Dec. 7.

The Chamber is holding a raffle for two tickets for the trip, and chances are $50 each. The drawing will take place on Sept. 20.

Tickets are available at Tempe Chamber events and the group’s office. For more information, go to cubarhythmandviews.com.

Tuesday Night Classics at Harkins Theaters

Harkins Theaters present Tuesday Night beginning this week

The theaters—Chandler Superstition Springs 25 and Tempe Marketplace 16— will present the films at 7 p.m. for only $5.

Other films on the schedule include “The Money Pit,” “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “My Fair Lady.”

For more information, go to harkinstheatres.com/TNC.

Hospital offers new baby prep classes for children

Mountain Vista Medical Center is offering a class to help children move from being an only child to being a big sibling.

The class is 8:30-10 a.m. Saturdays on Sept. 10, Oct. 8, Nov. 5 and Dec. 10 at the medical center, 1301 S. Crismon Road in Mesa.

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The cost is $12 per family, which includes take-home resources for the child and family. For more information and registration, call 877-924-9355 or go to mvmedicalcenter.com.

Heat stroke dangers don’t wane in Arizona after summer

BY SHELLEY RIDENOUR TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Many Arizona healthcare professionals are celebrating the fact that no children have died this year as a result of being left inside a hot car in the state.

The state ranked third in the nation for that statistic from 1998 to 2015. And the dangers of leaving a person or animal inside a car don’t lessen in Arizona once the triple-digit temperatures subside, a Cardon Children’s Medical Center official said.

Tracey Fejt, a registered nurse and the injury-prevention coordinator outreach manager at Cardon, said deaths of people inside cars have been recorded when the outside temperature was only in the 70s. The interior temperature of a car increases by 20 degrees in 10 minutes, she said. After an hour, the temperature difference between the inside and outside of an auto is 43 degrees; after two hours in the sun, it’s 55 degrees warmer inside the car than outside. A car's dash can reach 200 degrees.

Children are less tolerant of high temperatures than adults, Fejt said. Once a child’s core temperature reaches 104

degrees, technically the child experiences heat stroke. At 105 degrees, the child may lose consciousness. At 107 degrees, internal organs can begin to fail.

“They can reach that quickly,” she said. “Kids warm up three to five times faster than adults.”

In as little as 20 minutes inside a hot car, a child could die, Fejt said.

Rolling down a window doesn’t affect the interior temperature enough to save a life, she said. Plus, that introduces other risks, such as kidnapping.

“There’s no reason to leave your child in the car,” she said.

People who think they can run in and out of a store in a few minutes don’t know what could happen once inside that could keep them from leaving.

Throughout the U.S. this year, 27 children have died as a result of being left in cars, Fejt said. That’s up from last year, when total deaths reached 24. In the Phoenix metro area last year, two child deaths from heat stroke were reported.

Nationwide, 54 percent of the deaths for the period occurred because the adults forgot the child was in the car, Fejt said. An

additional 29 percent of the deaths occurred because a child got inside an unlocked car while playing and then couldn’t get out. Therefore, she said, it’s important to teach children to not play in cars.

There have been reports of people intentionally leaving a child in a hot car.

The 1998-2015 data show that 17 percent of the deaths were intentional.

But generally, heat stroke deaths are unintentional, Fejt said.

“Some are a result of bad judgment, some are by new parents who are exhausted,

out of their comfort zones, have lost their routine and just forget,” she said. So, she and other medical experts suggest that parents employ simple tricks to trigger their memory that a child is in the back seat. Those include putting “something you have to have when you get out of your car in the back seat, so you see the child,” she said. That could be a purse or bag or paperwork you need at your job. Another option is to set a reminder alarm on a cellphone.

Chandler ensures water future with deal

BY SHELLEY RIDENOUR TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Chandler officials took a big step to secure enough water to keep growing with a significant purchase from the Gila River Indian Community.

The city and the community struck a $43 million deal recently which will result in additional water deliveries beginning in 2019.

Chandler is paying the community $42,860,000 in the next four years for the water. The city will get 622,000 acre-feet of water a year for 100 years under the agreement. That equates to 5.5 million gallons of water a day for a century, Chandler Water Resources Manager Gregg Capps said.

Having a secure water source for future growth is required in Arizona. And, it’s important to Chandler leaders.

“This is a really important deal for Chandler because it solidifies our water position for 100 years,” Councilman Rick Heumann said.

While the water deal wasn’t cheap, the price wasn’t too much, Heumann said.

“My opinion is in five or 10 years this will seem like a bargain,” he said. “People will say ‘how did Chandler only pay that?’”

Capps said the search for the water was a 4-year process, with planning to reach this specific deal consuming three years.

The city currently supplies an average of 54 million gallons of drinking water a day to about 85,000 customers.

That water comes from the Salt and Verde rivers via Salt River Project and the Roosevelt Water Conservation

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If a child is left inside a hot car, people should immediately call 911, Fejt said. “Don’t try to find the parents or driver, just call,” she said.

If you’re the driver and realize you left a child in a hot car, get the car’s air conditioning running as soon as possible, she said, and move the child to a cool place. Cardon, in Mesa, has thermometer clings that can be attached to an interior car

District; the Colorado River via Central Arizona Project; groundwater wells; and reclaimed water. Reclaimed water is used only for irrigation. Water from the Gila community will be shipped through the CAP system, Capps said.

With the new acquisition, Chandler has sufficient water supplies to meet all build-out demands that are currently expected, Capps said. That’s based on projections of a slowdown in residential construction and an increase in water demands from commercial and industrial customers.

The city regularly finds sources of water to meet demand for build-out, Capps said.

This acquisition is expected to help fuel growth in the city’s designated business corridors, Capps said.

The city will ship most of the new water to treatment plants and on to customers, Capps said. It’s expected that 96 percent of the new water will be delivered via Central Arizona Project canals. Four percent is to be stored underground for later use, he said.

City leaders planned for the expense, adopted conservative budgets and reduced taxes on residents, all the while saving enough money to strike the water deal, Heumann said.

“We’re visionary and we had cash in the bank to do this,” Heumann said.

“Not all cities do. We’re proactive. We’ve been planning this for years and that’s important.”

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window. To get one, call Fejt at 480-4123306.

Cardon provides information on heat stroke to parents who attend parenting classes and at events such as car seat safety seminars. Banner Health, the parent company of Cardon, has tips about preventing heat stroke, an interactive quiz and other information available online at bannerhealth.com/health-library.

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Chandler voters select primary winners, other races up in the air

BY SHELLEY RIDENOUR TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Afew City Council races in three East Valley communities were decided Tuesday, but many of the races move on to the Nov. 8 general election ballot because candidates didn’t receive a threshold majority of the votes cast.

Provisional and mail-in ballots are counted after Election Day, so some numbers can change from those reported here. All numbers are unofficial until Maricopa County officials finalize the counts, likely next week, city clerks in the communities of Mesa, Chandler and Gilbert said.

Gilbert

No races were determined Tuesday in the Gilbert Town Council race, so the top four vote-getters advance to the general election, seeking two spots on the council.

However, Jenn Daniels was elected mayor in her unopposed bid for the spot which she now holds after being appointed to fill a vacancy last month. Daniels received 20,979 votes, Town Clerk Lisa Maxwell said.

Seven candidates filed for two open Gilbert Town Council spots. Incumbent Jared Taylor received the most votes—7,972—to advance to the Nov. 8 general election.

Also advancing to the general election are Scott Anderson with 7,952 votes, Jim Torgeson with 6,972 votes and Joel Anderson with 6,520 votes.

Other candidates in Gilbert were Seth

Banda, 3,819 votes; Bob Ferron, 3,358 votes; and Tim Rinesmith, 2,373 votes.

Gilbert voters handily approved two ballot questions related to the sale of city-owned land, Maxwell said.

Question 1 asked to sell 58 acres near the intersection of Greenfield and Germann roads. A total of 17,256 voters said “yes” to that sale, while 6,805 voted “no.”

Question 2 asked to sell 80 acres near the intersection of Greenfield and Chandler Heights roads. The number of “yes” votes cast totaled 17,068, with 6,791 voting “no.”

Chandler

In Chandler, one council race was decided. Incumbent Councilwoman Nora Ellen

tallied 14,508 votes, or 23.61 percent of the votes cast in the three-way race, to be reelected.

Eight candidates filed for the three at-large seats on the Chandler City Council.

Chandler City Clerk Marla Paddock said initial results make it appear Sam Huang was elected with 10,749 votes, or 17.49 percent of the votes cast for council candidates.

Two candidates will definitely advance to the general election, seeking that third seat, Paddock said. The next two highest votegetters were Matt Eberle with 8,665 votes and Mark Stewart with 7,739 votes.

Other Chandler candidates were Gregg Pekau with 7,100 votes, Seth Graham with 5,130 votes, Aaron Harris Sr. with 4,325 votes and John Repar with 3,243 votes.

Chandler voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 493, an update to the city’s general plan. That plan must be presented to voters for approval every 10 years. A total of 20,943 votes were cast in favor of the update, while 3,558 opposed it.

Mesa

Mesa voters still must decide the winner of one council race in November, City Clerk DeeAnn Mickelsen said.

The race for District 2, where three candidates were running for one spot, wasn’t determined because none of them received the required majority of votes, she said.

The top two vote-getters—Jeremy Whittaker with 3,403 votes and Shelly Allen with 2,342 votes—advance to the general election.

Kathleen Winn tallied 2,060 votes in the District 2 race.

In District 1, Mark Freeman received 4,646 votes, 53.1 percent, to win the election. He bested the 2,265 votes cast for Pat Gilbert and 1,805 votes for Courtney Guinn. Ryan Winkle captured a majority of the votes in District 3 to be elected. He garnered 3,520 votes to 2,849 for his opponent, Jerry Lewis.

Incumbent Mesa Mayor John Giles was unopposed and received 43,623 votes to be re-elected.

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More card skimmers turning up in East Valley, across state

BY HOWARD FISCHER

MEDIA SERVICES

Asudden spike in discovery of credit card “skimmers’’ hidden in gas pumps has state officials warning Arizona consumers how to avoid becoming victims.

Mark Killian, director of the state Department of Agriculture, said Wednesday his inspectors found 11 of the hidden devices all of last year. Last month alone, however, they detected 31 of them. One new device was found in Chandler. Killian, whose agency absorbed the old Department of Weights and Measures, conceded some of that may be because staffers have been more actively looking inside the gas pumps—where consumers

cannot see the skimmers—to try to stem the problem.

But he said that thieves are becoming increasingly more creative in ways to quietly part customers from their money.

More to the point, the agency has just 12 inspectors to check about 12,000 gas pumps statewide. And that, Killian said, means consumers cannot rely solely on the state to find and remove the devices but actively need to protect themselves.

The problem is not isolated. A list of where inspectors have found scanners includes not only the East Valley and the Phoenix metro area but Kingman, Yuma and Eloy.

And some places have more problems than other, with a gas station at West Ina Road and Interstate 10 on Tucson’s northwest side turning up eight of the devices.

To the naked eye, the skimmers are undetectable.

Killian said those who know what they’re doing can open a gas pump in seven seconds. Then it takes just a few more to piggy-back the scanner onto the pump’s regular card reader and close all the access doors.

He said some devices can store up to 5,000 card numbers and PINs while waiting for the thieves to return. Others are more high tech, using Bluetooth wireless technology that instantly transmits the stolen information to someone parked nearby.

Given the invisibility of the devices to consumers, Ephram Cordova, an inspector in the Division of Weights and Measures said there’s no sure-fire way for consumers to protect themselves.

“We have to be the ones out here checking on them,’’ he said. But given just 12 inspectors, that means they can check out only so many of the 12,000 gas pumps on a regular basis.

There are things customers can do.

Cordova said the first-line of defense is security tape over keyholes and other places where the machine can be opened up. A torn tape or a tape that shows signs of tampering—often with the word “void” popping up—is a sure sign to go elsewhere or pay cash.

But Arizona law does not require the use of such tape by retailers.

“The public is unsuspecting and really doesn’t have any good way whether the machine has been tampered with,’’ Cordova said.

Ballet performances outdoors are planned

Tempe is one of five Valley cities where an outdoor performance by Ballet Arizona is planned in September.

The Tempe performance is scheduled for 7 p.m., Sept. 29, at the Tempe Center for Arts Amphitheater, 700 W. Rio Salado Parkway.

The free performance is part of the ballet’s season kickoff.

The four other performances run Sept. 22 to 30 in Phoenix, Fountain Hills, Goodyear and Sun City West. A full schedule can be found at balletaz. org.

Feedback on updated math, English standards sought

Arizonans are being asked to share their feedback on draft versions of updated Arizona English Language Arts and Mathematics Standards.

The updated draft standards are on the Arizona State Board of Education website at k12standards.az.gov. The comment period will remain open for

45 days and will close on Oct. 3.

The State Board has also scheduled 17 public hearings from Sept. 12 to 21. For dates, times and locations, go to k12standards.az.gov/public-meetings2016-arizona-draft-standards.

St. Mary’s Food Bank plans promotions

September is hunger action month, and officials at St. Mary’s Food Bank have multiple events planned to encourage food donations.

In the East Valley, anyone who donates five canned food items or $5 can be entered in to a raffle to win front-seat tickets to the Monkees performance at the Mesa Arts Center on Sept. 15.

Other promotions are planned throughout the month. To see a full list of ways to participate, go to stmarysfoodbank.org.

Gateway gets $9M grant to replace concrete

A $9.1 million grant has been

awarded to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport to replace about a million square feet of concrete in the north apron area of the airport.

The grant, from the Federal Aviation Administration, is one of the largest the Mesa airport has ever received, according to airport spokesman Ryan Smith.

Replacing the concrete will occur in five phases and is expected to take about a year to complete, Smith said. The entire project cost is $10 million, with the other approximate $900,000 coming equally from the Arizona Department of Transportation and the airport authority. Each local entity is contributing $447,997, Smith said. The authority consists of representatives of the member cities of Mesa, Gilbert, Queen Creek, the Gila River Indian Community, Apache Junction and Phoenix.

Arizona voter database compromised by hacker

A suspected Russian hacker probed a voter registration database in Arizona, the FBI said, prompting the agency to

warn states election boards to conduct vulnerability scans. No actual voting election systems were seriously compromised, officials said.

Arizona election officials took voter registration databases offline briefly last month as a result.

There was no evidence that any information related to the 3.4 million voters in the database was compromised.

Community

ADOT says it has no plans to elevate South Mountain Freeway

BY PAUL MARYNIAK TRIBUNE MANAGING EDITOR

At $1.77 billion, it will be Arizona’s most expensive highway project ever. It will include Arizona’s first effort to build a modern interchange called a “divergent diamond.” And it will include Arizona’s first long-term maintenance contract for a highway builder.

But one thing the South Mountain Freeway won’t include is an elevated right-of-way. It will largely run at grade while at least two cross streets will be elevated over it.

Crews are expected to begin removing desert plants around the interchange of Interstate 10 and Loop 202 Santan Freeway in Chandler by next week in preparation for construction of the 22-mile freeway. The plants will be moved to a nursery ADOT is creating nearby and will be transplanted when the road is completed.

Although residents at the Aug. 22 Ahwatukee Foothills Village planning meeting expressed concern that the freeway would be elevated and block their mountain and desert views, the Arizona Department of Transportation long ago discarded that idea.

Also ditched was any plan for a depressed freeway, similar to stretches of the Loop 101 in the East Valley, because of costs and other considerations.

“We would have had to acquire far more houses and businesses to build a depressed highway,” ADOT spokesman Dustin Krugel said. He added that construction of a depressed freeway would have caused more disruption to nearby neighborhoods.

What will be elevated in Ahwatukee are Desert Foothills Parkway, 17th Avenue and 24th Street, according to preliminary designs that are still being fine-tuned. Those three thoroughfares will cross over the freeway at grades of 17 to 28 feet.

ADOT representatives are already meeting with Phoenix City Manager Ed Zuercher to discuss the overpasses.

He had expressed “serious concerns” about those plans.

Zuercher told ADOT in an Aug. 16 letter that “enhanced connectivity, mobility, accessibility and maximized land use and development in these areas would be negatively affected” by ADOT’s decision to keep the freeway at grade and elevate the crossover streets instead.

The elevated portions of Desert Foothills Parkway and 17th Avenue will merge with the freeway in an interchange built in a fashion that has never been tried in Arizona before, Krugel said.

Called a “divergent diamond,” the interchange was pioneered in Missouri and has now been built in more than 20 states.

Perfected by a University of Maryland engineering graduate student in 2000 and first used by Missouri in 2009, divergent diamonds are considered an unconventional but cost-effective approach to moving freeway traffic expeditiously through interchanges with cross streets, according to an organization of design consultants called Advanced Transportation Solutions/American.

In a divergent diamond, nonfreeway motorists cross over from the right side of the road to the left side as they cross over the freeway, in effect, driving as they would in England. Once they cross the freeway, motorists are switched back to the standard right side of the road.

Considered less accident-prone than other kinds of interchanges, the divergent diamond was listed by Popular Science magazine as one of the best innovations of 2009.

The two Ahwatukee intersections will have “half a divergent diamond,” Krugel said, because right now only desert and the reservation are on the south side of the freeway.

Although ADOT officials stressed last week that the South Mountain Freeway’s design has not yet been finalized, they expect to have a more

detailed explanation of their plans at a series of public hearings next month, including one at Desert Vista High School on Sept. 27.

The contract for the freeway’s construction, which accounts for $916 million of the total $1.77 billion project cost, also includes a 30-year maintenance requirement for the contractor. The balance of the total cost went for design, property acquisitions in the right of way, and administrative costs, Krugel explained.

Krugel said the maintenance requirement—the first for an Arizona highway-building project—makes it incumbent on the builder to “get it right” when the freeway is first built or risk having to pick up the tab for any problems that develop after it opens.

Learn more about the freeway

There are several ways residents and businesses can learn about the South Mountain Freeway and register their observations and concerns.

• azdot.gov/ SouthMountainFreeway: This site gives people the option of signing up for freeway updates. Contact information also is provided.

• thomas.remes@phoenix.gov: This is the email for Phoenix’s new freeway coordination manager.

• Ahwatukee.com: read past Ahwatukee Foothills News stories on the freeway.

ASU’s famous tree-lined thoroughfare gets a facelift

BY MADISON RUTHERFORD TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

The skyscraping Mexican fan palms that line ASU’s Palm Walk were planted 100 years ago. For its centennial birthday, the iconic pathway is getting a makeover.

The walkway extends more than 2,000 feet from the base of University Bridge to the Sun Devil Fitness Complex on ASU’s Tempe campus and is bordered by 111 aging palm trees.

According to ASU landscape architecture professor Ken Brooks, the 65-foot palms have reached the end of their useful, healthy lifespan and must be replaced.

The walkway is often referred to as the most photographed place on campus.

“It is an ASU icon, like Sparky the Sun Devil, and a significant part of the university’s history,” said Liz Allen, faculty advisor to the ASU Photographers’ Association.

The old trees will be replaced with date palms, which will provide two things their predecessors did not: more shade, and dates that will be harvested once the trees are mature.

“More shade and an edible fruit aligns with the 21st-century goal of not only contributing to a visual image but also a sustainable image,” said Brooks.

“They’re enhancing their image to set

ASU changing palms

Arizona State is switching out its old Mexican fan palms for date palms. Here’s the difference between the two:

• Mexican fan palm (Washingtonia robusta)

- One of the most common palm trees. It’s a southern California icon.

• Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) - Cultivated in dry tropical regions for its edible fruit, it’s native to North Africa.

themselves apart from others and help create an environment for staff, students and faculty that feels special and represents who they are and what they stand for.”

The replacement palms will be about 20 feet tall at the time they are planted. Once they are fully grown, they will stand at nearly 80 feet.

The project will be executed in three phases. Phase one, which replaced 35 trees on the southern edge of the walkway, was complete Aug. 18, just in time for the first day of classes.

The final phases of the project are estimated to be complete by summer 2018.

Brooks says contemporary landscape architects are looking toward “walkable urban environments,” which are aimed at creating “a vibrant image where people move and gather.”

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Prescription discount card saved residents $500,000, Chandler says

BY CONNOR DZIAWURA

TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Chandler’s Health Connect Initiative prescription card has saved residents $556,453 through its four years of availability, the city says.

It is no secret that prescription drug prices are high for many people. To combat this, Chandler Mayor Jay Tibshraeny created the initiative, which includes a free prescription drug card that gives residents discounts.

With the free, printable cards, Chandler residents save an average of 65 percent off each prescription, regardless of age, income or health.

The program also helps with pet prescriptions.

“With healthcare costs on the rise, prescription drug discounts can help ease

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With healthcare costs on the rise, prescription drug discounts can help ease some of the financial burdens our residents are facing at a time when they need it the most.

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–Jay Tibshraeny

some of the financial burdens our residents are facing at a time when they need it the most,” Tibshraeny said. “The cards have had sizeable impact on uninsured residents and residents facing high insurance deductibles, and also will allow savings for persons in need of prescriptions not covered by their current plans.”

After hearing about a free prescription

drug card program through Phoenix, Tibshraeny introduced this idea to Chandler. Formed as a partnership with Coast2CoastRx, the card is accepted by all major pharmacies and most independent pharmacies.

“When we were talking with the mayor about it, we decided that ‘Why not just expand it a little bit more and make it a broader initiative?’” Council Assistant Dave Bigos said.

The Health Connect Initiative promotes health in three areas: financial, physical and mental fitness.

The free prescription discount card addresses financial health. The physical fitness aspect of the health initiative is promoted with activities, recreational facilities and fitness programs in Chandler.

Chandler also hosts a health and wellness expo, now moved to coincide with the Chandler Mayor’s Day of Play on Oct. 22. This free event, at Tumbleweed Park, is designed to educate and promote strong health and fitness through a day of activities.

“Basically, it’s just a great way for families to learn how to take better advantage of some of the things that are out there in terms of health and wellness,” Bigos said.

Free prescription discount cards can be printed at chandleraz.gov/connect or picked up at Chandler city facilities. For weekly health and fitness tips, follow the Chandler mayor on Twitter at @jaytibshraeny.

The final part of Tibshraeny’s Health Connect Initiative is mental fitness. The mayor tweets out tips to deal with stress every Monday, whether workplace stress or home life.

Sunshine Acres Children’s Home receives award to help with renovations

BY CONNOR DZIAWURA TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

This is the miracle that Sunshine Acres Children’s Home has been waiting for.

Valley Partnership recently announced that Sunshine Acres has been selected as the recipient of its 27th annual Community Project.

The project, which selected the Florence Crittenton Services of Arizona’s Scottsdale Girls Ranch last year, aims to support and benefit organizations in need of renovations with the project.

“It’s a wonderful opportunity for members—and we actually allow nonmembers to engage in this as long as they’re connected with the real estate industry—to help us identify and weed through applicants that we select annually to give back,” said Cheryl Lombard, President and CEO of Valley Partnership. “Generally it means giving back by constructing or helping with an outdoor area.”

Sunshine Acres gives children who

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Vera, often referred to as Uncle Jim and Aunt Vera.

were separated from their parents a stable home. These children come to

Sunshine Acres for a number of reasons, ranging from parents in prison to drug use, and even failed adoptions.

“They can come here and stay as long as they need a home, even through college or trade school,” said Carol Whitworth, president and CEO of Sunshine Acres. “We have room for 70 children and then, besides that, I have

nine that are going to college or a trade school.”

Sunshine Acres, which is situated on 125 acres of land, opened its doors in 1954. While they accept donations, they do not perform any fundraising activities.

“We do not do any fundraising ourselves,” said Whitworth. “We tell our story of Sunshine Acres. That’s why we call it Miracle in the Desert, because we have operated all these years.”

For Sunshine Acres, a strong sense of community is important.

“We tell our children that we’re family forever, so we don’t turn them out at 18,” Whitworth said. “They can come back and visit and be part of our family.”

Valley Partnership, the organization behind the Community Project, aids with responsible real-estate development and provides networking opportunities and ways to give back, Lombard says.

While the full details of the plans are yet to be determined, Valley Partnership and Sunshine Acres have a basic idea for

what needs to be done.

“Generally, it’s outdoor areas,” she said. “This is a kids’ area, so we’re looking at play structures, cover structures, connectivity to their mission, whatever closely meets the needs of the charity. We try to match it to them.”

“They are going to finish the Drager Park,” Whitworth said. “It’s never been finished up there.”

Renovations to Drager Park would likely consist of installing a new gazebo, lighting, shrubs and possibly a new play area, said Jon Markwell, Facilities Director at Sunshine Acres.

This year, Valley Partnership received 22 applicants for their annual Community Project. They are expecting renovations to cost approximately $100,000-$150,000, which derives from donations.

“It’s quite a great opportunity for our members, non-members and really anyone with the real estate development industry to give back in a philanthropic way,” Lombard said.

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Blustering Trump misses the point with all the talk of a border wall

BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ TRIBUNE COLUMNIST

The Bluster King babbles into the windy desert night, his speech a jumble of contorted statistics, bloodthirsty killer immigrants and a grand dream: a “beautiful southern border wall” to separate Arizona from Mexico. The Phoenix throng cheers their man’s every insult. But for you, all the nasty chatter summons to mind two people, two images that perfectly frame this debate.

One young, one old, one a boy here illegally, the other a man dead for a dozen years, but still revered by the Bluster King’s fan club.

The child, now 22 years old, is named Elian Gonzalez. On Thanksgiving 1999, he was found floating alone, clinging to an inner tube off the Florida coast. The 90-mile raft trip from Cuba killed the

five-year-old’s mother and their fellow refugees. Only Elian found dry land— and a raging immigration controversy that made headlines for five months.

All winter and into the spring, America debated whether Elian should be allowed to remain with his Miami kin or be returned to his father and Castro’s Cuba. Deportation won, and on April 22, 2000, Border Patrol agents in fatigues and bearing machine guns staged a pre-dawn raid. The news photograph has remained etched in mind ever since: The little boy, face contorted in fear, at the business end of an assault weapon wielded by a goggled storm trooper.

And now the Bluster King says we should replicate that image a few million times over?

The thought makes you shake your head at your neighbors who see this as the rue American way—to shatter families and scapegoat children, to build a wall to the sky. And yet you get it: Our

nation’s immigration system is broken. There is a flow of drugs, there are cartels and terror bringers we are right to fear. We need to better vet those who enter. We need to eject and keep out those who commit serious crimes.

But illegal immigration is a 21st-century problem, one that requires a blend of compassion and intellect, a 21st-century solution—not a fantasy “great wall” that went out of style with the Ming Dynasty.

Trump’s wall rhetoric calls to mind the other face who frames this debate: Ronald Reagan, an idol to so many of the Bluster King’s acolytes. You think of President Reagan’s farewell speech, of 1989, of the “shining city upon a hill.”

The Great Communicator was never greater than in his last Oval Office address, never more eloquent in expressing his dream for this nation of ours. You can recite one key passage by heart, Reagan summing up his nation, his view on immigration:

His America? It was “a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That’s how I saw it, and see it still.”

Perfectly said. And the diametric opposite of Candidate Trump’s invective, his dark vision of this nation as woebegone Gotham City and himself as Batman, the Dark Knight appointed to rid us of evil.

The man is a cartoon. The young boy, Elian, and the late president Ronald Reagan, real humans both, frame a point the Bluster King misses entirely: We will never, ever live as a shining city upon a hill if we slam shut the doors at the point of a warm gun.

Arizona’s great for kids—but only if they’re the unborn

BY MIKE MCCLELLAN

TRIBUNE GUEST WRITER

Arizona’s made the news again. And again, for all the wrong reasons. No, not because Joe Arpaio has—possibly—finally been made accountable for his many illegal actions. Not because of Jan Brewer’s latest “slip of the tongue.”

Not because of John McCain’s craven and continued support of Donald Trump. No, we made news again because we once more have been exposed as the “Mississippi of the West.”

A label that’s been stuck on us before. This time? Wallet Hub has named us one of the Worst States for Underprivileged Children.

What an honor. Forty-sixth overall. On this list, though, Mississippi is worse. Phew.

Why so bad? Well, how about that we have the fifth-most kids in foster care? Third highest in children’s food insecurity? Sixth worst for early foundations and

economic well-being? Ninth worst in children’s health? Sixth worst for child care?

Our response? Let’s make it worse!

So the Legislature passed, and the governor signed into law, a bill that makes Arizona the toughest on welfare recipients, cutting off benefits after one year.

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make poor decisions and then we reward them.”

I imagine Ward and Co. would say the same to the underfed kid living in extreme poverty here.

So we can’t expect much from our state government. At least from the governor or legislature. The third branch, our courts,

The governor, the legislature and Ms. (Cathi) Herrod spend so much time protecting the unborn that they just can’t seem to get around to the born.”

Which means? According to an article, 2,700 Arizona kids face even harder lives. Even Texas keeps benefits for children after cutting some to adults.

But not Arizona, where Kelli Ward, now a defeated Senate candidate, had this to say: ““I tell my kids all the time that the decisions we make have rewards or consequences, and if I don’t ever let them face those consequences they can’t get back on the path to rewards. As a society, we are encouraging people at times to

have at least forced the state to actually fund schools according to the wishes of the voter.

But what about our fourth branch of government?

What, you didn’t know we have a fourth branch? Of course we do. It’s called the CAP. The Center for Arizona Policy. Run by a lady named Cathi Herrod.

Ms. Herrod apparently has as much influence as anyone on what our Legislature does, writing bills that often

become law. And most of those laws focus on children. Children in the womb, that is. When she says “Jump,” the legislature’s only response is “How high?”

Ms. Herrod has ensured that we have among the toughest abortion restrictions in the country. So it would be logical to assume that she is also concerned with those same kids once they are out of the womb, that she would rescue us from the low rankings.

So what’s her plan? Under a section on the website called “Life,” nothing. Not a peep.

OK, maybe under “Marriage and Families.” Nope. Not a thing. Which might just reveal a reason why Arizona is so dismal in its care of children. The governor, the Legislature and Ms. Herrod spend so much time protecting the unborn that they just can’t seem to get around to the born. And Arizona retains its “Mississippi of the West” honor.

President lied—does anyone care?

If a tree falls in the forest with nobody around to hear, does it make a sound? If the president is exposed in a huge lie and the liberal media refuses to report on it, is it still a lie?

President Obama, explaining why he paid Iran a $400 million ransom/leverage payment in cash—small, untraceable bills of various currencies—said that it was in keeping with our sanctions regime. Because of sanctions, he said, we have no banking relationship with Iran and cash was the only way to complete the transaction. Two days after the cash payment the U.S. wired 13 payments of $1 billion each to Iran through a central bank, plus an additional payment, unexplained, of over $10 million, clearly making his explanation of the cash payment a bald-faced lie.

Mr. Obama sees the Iran nuclear deal as central to his legacy as president. It’s clear the there is little he wouldn’t do to make sure Iran agreed to the deal—the end justifies the means. Therein lays the clue to the cash payment. The Iranians surely demanded the huge cash payment as part of the deal. Why? Because the untraceable cash can be easily transferred to the various terrorist organizations (who have no bank accounts) Iran supports. So, to insure his legacy, the president was willing to aid and abet a terrorist sponsor state no matter how many lives it costs.

Hillary Clinton says her presidency would be a continuation of Obama’s—a very low bar.

– Jim Barber – Mesa

‘Yes’ vote for Prop. 206

Vote yes to give Arizonans’ a raise because it is good for business.

Raising the minimum wage would lift people out of poverty and ensuring the profitable corporations like WalMart cannot skirt their responsibility of paying their workers a decent wage.

Raising the minimum wage will cut the size of government because those who are on social safety net programs will no longer need it to keep their heads above water.

It is a fact that if you put more money in the pockets of the average Joe they will go out and spend it in the economy. That will stimulate the economy and employers will have to hire more workers to meet the demands of the consumers.

Raising the minimum wage cuts government and is good for business. Vote yes on Prop. 206

– Kristopher Harlow – Mesa

Time for immigration reform

This Labor Day, let’s honor the hardworking men and women who keep America running. But let’s also remember the millions of aspiring Americans who are forced to work and live in the shadows due to our broken immigration system. Too many immigrant workers are afraid to speak up and assert their rights when their employer underpays or mistreats them on the job. Our broken immigration system is being used by big corporations and their political allies to

drive down wages and standards for all working people.

This year, let’s stand in solidarity with immigrant workers and communities by urging Congress to finally pass comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship and real job protections.

– M.M. – Phoenix

Your last warning!

The political novel “It Can’t Happen Here,” written by Sinclair Lewis, our first Nobel Prize winner for literature, was published in 1935. He wrote it after visiting Germany during Hitler’s rise to power.

The main character is a populist who promises economic and social reforms—that is, to restore the country to prosperity and greatness based on patriotism and traditional American values. After winning the election, he introduces authoritarian measures in order to reorganize the government, and diminish the influence of the U.S. Congress. In addition, he restricts the rights of both women and minorities. He suppresses dissent with his own paramilitary force.

A majority of citizens see the autocratic measures as necessary for restoring America’s power and greatness. Those more critical of his form of rule, called “corporatism,” remain complacent, convinced that no form of fascism can happen here in the United States of America.

– George Johnson – Chandler

Debates must include all

The presidential debates are the most important events in our election process. We can’t have real democracy without a free exchange of ideas and an informed public. In 2016, that would mean four candidates in the debates, including Clinton, Trump, Jill Stein and Libertarian Gary Johnson.

The Democrats and Republicans created the Commission on Presidential Debates to seize control of the debates from the nonpartisan League of Women Voters, which called the commission “a fraud on the American voter.”

The Commission on Presidential Debates, which is actually a corporation controlled by the Democratic and Republican parties, stifles democracy by locking out independent candidates from the debates. The right to vote means little unless we have the right to know who we can vote for.

Business Business

Legacy Business

Auto shop is Gilbert’s longest-running company, since 1934

BY DAWSON FEARNOW TRIBUNE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Despite the new crop of faux historic buildings sprouting up across downtown, Gilbert’s roots as a tiny farming village get farther and farther in the rearview mirror every day. Unless, of course, you drive down Gilbert Avenue, past all the trendy restaurants and chic boutiques, and spy a familiar name painted atop a well-worn garage.

Clement’s Automotive Repair, at 141 N. Gilbert Rd., doesn’t look all that historic, aside from a few midcentury hulks in various states of repair and disrepair parked around the yard or hoisted up in the garage bays. However, this anonymous auto shop is hiding one large secret—it’s Gilbert’s longestrunning business, operating out of the same location since 1934.

Even more impressive, it’s had exactly three owners, including current coowners, Paul and David Clement, who took over the business in 2005 from their father. Tom Clement founded the business and ran it until the ripe old age of 93.

Still it may surprise some to know that this longtime family-run business was originally part of a world-famous chain.

“The shop was actually built a year or so before my father took over in 1934,” says David Clement, who has worked at

the family auto shop his entire life and still lives nearby. “They also had a garage in Phoenix so they needed someone local to run it.”

“They” in this case referring to the Continental Oil Company, the pioneering petroleum company famed for building the first-ever filling stations across the western United States,

branded with its instantly recognizable red “Conoco” sign.

“My father was only 18 years old at the time, but he had mechanical experience so they offered him a job,” David says.

“He worked here all summer and his plan was to start at classes that fall at the Teacher’s College, which is now ASU. He’d already put down a $45 payment to become a woodworking teacher.

“But at the end of the summer, the owners offered the shop to my father so they could focus on the one in Phoenix. They said, ‘Don’t worry about the $45, we’ll get that back for you.’ They also said just give us the profits on the gasoline, which was 3 cents for every gallon sold at the time, and you can have the shop and the property.”

Tom Clement never did get that $45 back, his son David says, but his garage soon became a community mainstay. He even moonlighted as Gilbert’s mayor from 1949 to 1955, putting his mechanical background to good use by overseeing the construction of the town’s first sewer system, according to the Gilbert Historical Museum.

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Aside from his side gig as mayor, Tom Clement spent the next 70-plus years happily turning wrenches from dusk to dawn.

“Dad worked hard, often up to 18 hours a day,” David Clement says. “He’d be gone before us six kids were up in the morning, and sometimes came home after we went to bed, so the only way to spend time with him was down at the shop. That’s why I ended up working here, to spend time with dad. His dream was for all of us boys to work here.”

Today, two of Tom’s four sons still work in the shop; Paul, who’s been there since the 1960s, and David, the youngster of

the group, because he’s only been there since the 1970s.

“Since I’m the youngest, I’ve been the one to learn computers and new technology,” David said. “You have to keep up with the times, with computerized cars and all the digital stuff.”

One thing that hasn’t changed is how Clement’s finds customers, and vice-versa.

“Reputation is everything,” David says. “We have a website because you have to, but still get almost all our work from word of mouth and loyal repeat customers. We treat everyone the same: first come, first served.”

Although the Clement brothers have thought about selling the business and retiring, even briefly posting a “For Sale” sign a few years back, they seem to be in no hurry to ride off into the sunset.

“My father lived to age 99 because he didn’t want to retire,” David says. “He always said that all his old teaching buddies never woke up from their naps as soon as they retired, so he never really did. He worked full-time until he was 93, and then he was still around as much as he could be for the next few years.”

As for David’s own thoughts after decades of watching Chandler grow up outside his garage bay door, he says, “The town sure has changed drastically since then. And we’ve seen it all up close. Is it too late to go back?”

Talk will give tips for attracting investors

Tom Swann of Mesa Technology Group LLC will share techniques business owners can use to present their ideas to potential investors.

The seminar will be at Mesa’s THINKspot, 635 N. Power Road, this Tuesday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. It is free but registration is required as seating is limited. Go to mesalibrary.org and click on the “Events” tab or call 480644-3100.

Beech Medical named to Inc. Magazine list

Beech Medical Group has been named one of Inc. Magazine’s 5000 fastest-growing private corporations in America.

The Mesa-based integrated health solutions company was founded in 2001 in England and moved to Mesa in 2010.

This is the first year that Beech has been named to the list, which ranks companies based on a percentage of revenue growth over a three-year period. The firms must be based in the U.S., privately held and independent.

Over the past few years, Beech has grown 63 percent, resulting in revenues of $6 million for 2015.

Agency’s creative officer wins illustration award

Bob Case, chief creative officer of

Lavidge agency, has been recognized as one of the 200 best illustrators worldwide by “Lurzer’s Archive,” a trade publication. Case, from Chandler, was honored for his design of an engraved raven that was used for Rusty Wallace Brewing Company.

Since 2004, “Lurzer’s Archive” has been publishing the “200 Best Series.” This year, there were 3,300 submissions, which were narrowed down by the editors with a jury.

EV Business Expo registration opens

Registration has opened for the East Valley Business Expo on Oct. 5 in Mesa from 2 to 6 p.m.

The event is expected to draw more than 120 exhibitor booths to the Mesa Convention Center. Prizes and networking opportunities are featured. The Expo—produced by the Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert and Mesa Chambers of Commerce—is free with a business card. For more information or to register, go to eastvalleybusinessexpo.com.

Pizza and salad restaurant has expanded to Tempe

WisePies Pizza & Salad has opened in Tempe, with more expansion planned for Phoenix.

The restaurant is at 521 S. College Ave, Suite 110, across the street from Sun Devil Stadium.

WisePies features student discounts and delivery options through postmates. com and grubhub.com.

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Sports

Rising up to the challenge

Gilbert Christian makes transition to 11-man football

BY JASON P. SKODA PREP SPORTS DIRECTOR

Acouple of hours before the season opener, Gilbert Christian football coach Shawn Patterson was looking for a volunteer.

It would be one thing if it was for a ball boy, a chain gang worker or someone to step into the concession stand.

It’s another when the coach is in search for an offensive tackle.

“We had one of our offensive tackles that was supposed to come back from a concussion unable to play,” Patterson said. “He was cleared but his parents didn’t want him to play, so two hours before the game so we had to find one.

“So it’s ‘OK, who wants to audition for offensive tackle?’ We put Ben Tabot in there and he did a great job for never having played there before.

“It’s an intimidating situation. It just one of those challenges where you show your true heart.”

Welcome to Knights football as Gilbert Christian transitions from 8-man football to the standard 11-man with a roster listed at 22, but in reality it was more like 15 on game day when it played at San Tan Foothills on Friday.

Most of the starters were on the field for all 160 total plays in the season opener.

“It’s fun because you always want to get playing time,” senior wide receiver/ cornerback Caleb Young said. “Mentally it can be tough at times. The good part is being part of the family and staying mentally tough for your brothers.

“The main point is just to be ready an entire game because you are probably going to have to anyway.”

The school’s move up was the fulfillment of Patterson’s vision when he started the junior high program in 2009. He resigned when his son, Cole, wanted to play 11-man and transferred

to Williams Field, where he played through 2013.

Then when the head coach position came open this offseason, and the program was moving up to 11-man, it was only fitting that Patterson came back to the Knights.

“It’s been a very interesting transition,” the coach said. “We always wanted to go 11-man, but with us being a smaller school you are concerned about numbers. It’s always about having enough people to put on the field.”

The biggest difference between the two games—8-man and 11-man—is field dimension and, of course, the number of players on the field.

In eight-man, the width of the field is 40 yards compared to 53-1/3 of 11-man, while some states also play on an 80-yard length field instead of 100.

The offensive line is three players instead of five and the game is more wide open with fewer players to clog up the

running lanes.

The Knights had some success over the last few years, making the playoffs all four years and advancing to the semifinals in 2013 and 2014 under Jeff Cain.

The roster grew to 30 last year as the success started to get more players out for the team, but the move to 11-man may have slowed the growth as the team tries to gain footing in the 2A Conference.

The first game came against Pima, an eight-man power also transitioning to 11-man, and the Knights were within 28-24 before the Roughriders scored the three touchdowns to end the game for a 48-24 final.

It was a struggle down the stretch, some do to the fact that most of the players were in the game for every single play, but Patterson was happy with the effort.

He won’t let the expectations of winning become secondary behind a litany of excuses as the Knights make the transition and play in a difficult 2A

Metro West Region.

Gilbert Christian, which was denied an appeal to move the 2A Metro East Region, isn’t the only team making the transition to 11-man.

Chandler Prep is doing the same, but comes with an asterisk. The Titans were traditionally an 8-man team, played 11-man in 2013 and 2014 with a record of 3-17 before dropping back down to 8-man last year.

Now Chandler Prep is back up to 11-man and were off to a 2-0 start before facing Phoenix Christian on Friday.

“The seniors are happy to back playing 11-man because they only played 8-man one year,” second-year coach Chris Goodman said. “I think it brought more players out and we have 29 on the roster. We are right where we’re supposed to be.”

– Contact Jason Skoda at 480-898-7915 or jskoda@ evtrib.com. Follow him on Twitter @JasonPSkoda.

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Chandler girls won’t be a surprise in cross country

BY ZACH ALVIRA TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

The fall sports season in Arizona is revving up and a new season means a title defense for some. But other 2015 state champions are taking a humbler approach to the 2016 season.

“The expectation for them is to just take it day-by-day and to work hard,” said Matt Lincoln, head coach of the Chandler High girls cross country team. “Winning state isn’t going to be an emphasis for us.”

In just his second season as head coach at Chandler, Lincoln led his young team to the school’s first-ever championship in girls cross country, capturing the 2015 Division I title.

“I knew we were going to be good but I wasn’t expecting us to win. To go from last in the sectional to first in the state, it was pretty crazy,” Lincoln added. “It was great but definitely not expected.”

Among the returning runners for the Wolves title defense are junior Ava Hamilton and sophomore Morgan Foster. Foster, as just a freshman, finished sixth overall while Hamilton, as a sophomore, finished eighth in the final race. That helped boost the Wolves past Division I favorites Desert Vista and Xavier.

Now, Hamilton and Foster look to step into leadership roles for the young but talented Chandler squad.

“It is a goal this year for me to lead by more than just example,” Hamilton said. “I want to be a verbal leader and really try to physically motivate my teammates.”

Foster had similar thoughts on to replacing Alexis Nicholas, last year’s senior leader and top runner.

“It’s hard because last year we had such a great leader in Alexis and I really looked up to her,” Foster added.

The love both girls share for running came at a young age, competing in 5K races and on competitive track teams before moving on to Chandler. Being a part of competitive systems at young ages not only motivated both Hamilton and Foster, but allowed them to be more self-disciplined as well, factors Lincoln said led to the state title for the wolves in 2015.

There’s one other factor as well.

“We have a song that we listened to before we won the state championship last year,” Hamilton said, laughing. “But, we can’t say what it is because we don’t want other teams knowing our secret.”

The 2016 cross country season for

the Chandler Wolves began Sept. 3 in the Chandler Invitational at Tumbleweed Park.

The talent

Last season’s All-Tribune squads were full of underclassmen so this year’s frontof-the-pack runners have been out front before, making for some interesting finishes this year.

Coming back on the girls side of things are Desert Vista’s Emily Crall and Mountain View’s Kailey Welch, who were first team selections. Campo Verde’s Alaina Kautz, Desert Vista’s Maddi Bucci and Hailey Wolf, Alexis Navarro of Queen Creek and Valley Christian’s Haili Grossthal were second team picks.

The boys have just as much depth, returning as Corona del Sol’s Slade Sumners, Desert Vista’s Habtamu Chenney and Horizon Honors’ Trevor Tam, who were first team picks.

Also back are Perry’s Anthony Haren, Mesquite’s Omar Lucero and Desert Vista’s Chris DeAngelo after being named second-team All-Tribune.

The teams

The Desert Vista boys are the mainstay of the East Valley as the Thunder finish among the top just about every season.

ASU adds eight to Hall of Fame

The Arizona State University Sun Devil Athletics Hall of Fame will welcome eight Sun Devil greats to its ranks Oct. 8 at halftime of the ASU vs. UCLA football game.

Six student-athletes from five different varsity sports, along with two former Sun Devil coaches, comprise the 2016 induction class. Nick Brunelli (men’s swimming), Levi Jones (football), Zach Miller (football), Casey Myers (baseball), Thom Ortiz (wrestling) and Phelan Wright (softball), along with two former coaches, John Cooper (football) and Marty Pincus (men’s tennis), will be honored. Both Cooper and Pincus will be enshrined posthumously into the Hall of Distinction for coaches and administrators.

The Hall of Fame Luncheon and Induction Ceremony will take place Oct. 7 at the Phoenix Country Club from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The luncheon will include a formal induction ceremony into the SDA Hall of Fame by the ASU Athletic Heritage Committee. Tickets are $50 per person or $500 for a table of 10. To register for the luncheon, go to tiny.cc/asuluncheon.

They entered the year having won three of the last four big-school state titles.

Corona del Sol, Highland and Mountain View are annual top five contenders with hopes of pressing Desert Vista.

Some of the top teams in the lower divisions are Campo Verde, Mesquite and Queen Creek.

The Thunder girls are stacked as well and enter the year as the favorite before four runners, including senior Bailey Jones, from last year’s disappointing third-place finish with the addition of freshman Brooklyn Christofis.

Many of the same teams will be challenging for a top three trophy as Corona, Highland and Mountain View have quality runners.

The meets

The state meet is the first weekend of November as all of the qualifiers will be at Cave Creek Golf Course in Phoenix on Nov. 5.

While it is no longer the top meet of the year, the Doug Conley Invite (Sept. 24) is one in the early going, but the focus for many is the Desert Twilight (Sept. 30) in Casa Grande. The city meets are the focus of October before sectionals and state.

D-backs hosting another dog day

The Arizona Diamondbacks are encouraging fans to bring their dog to Chase Field on Sept. 18.

There are a limited number of tickets for “Bring Your Dog to the Ballpark” and each person will receive a PetSmart T-shirt and goodies from Avoderm & Nylabone Fans must purchase tickets and register their dog at dbacks.com/dogs. The event, in partnership with PetSmart and PetSmart Charities, was added in celebration of the millions of pet lives saved through adoption.

The Dog Days of Summer package is $160. It includes a private “doggie suite” for four humans and one dog at the PetSmart Patio with all-you-can-eat food options, a doggie goodie bag complete with a doggie bed, treats and toys and exclusive access to the PetSmart Park and doggie ice cream station.

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Sadie Robertson of ‘Duck Dynasty’ brings inspirational event to GCU

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI GETOUT/TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

With her dimples and engaging smile, Sadie Robertson just wants to make the world a better place.

A member of the “Duck Dynasty” clan, the 19-year-old Robertson is taking it one step at a time with her next chapter of “The Live Original Tour 2016,” which comes to Grand Canyon University on Sept. 27.

“It’s going to be one of those events where you say, ‘We laughed, we cried, we did a little of everything,’” Robertson said.

“It’s going to be so much fun. Kids, teens and young adults are going to have a good night. It’s going to be life-changing.”

She’s doing it with a little help from her “squad,” which includes her brother John Luke and his wife Mary Kate

Robertson, cousins Reed and Cole Robertson, Reed’s fiancée Brighton Thompson and filmmaker Max Zoghbi and his wife Bonnie Kate, who hold a unique and inspirational tale of their faith as victims of “The Dark Knight” shooting in Colorado in 2012.

The close-knit group will share their hearts, take attendees on a journey of inspirational messages, dramatic onstage performances, Q&As and a few surprises. Musical guests on the tour include Christian rockers Family Force 5, husband and wife duo Love and the Outcome and Reno.

Robertson created “The Live Original Tour” based on a vision she had a couple years ago.

“I had this vision from God about two years to go host my own event and call it ‘Live Original,’” she said. “That’s what my book was called. I told my mom I

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IF YOU GO

What: “The Live Original Tour” with Sadie Robertson

When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27

Where: Grand Canyon University Arena, 3300 W. Camelback Rd., Phoenix

Cost: $20 to $60

Information: 877-552-7362 or gcuarena.com

wanted to do it and she made me think about it. She waited a week and asked me again. I still wanted to do it.”

She did a test run of it in Nashville and sold 4,500 tickets, “which is great for Nashville,” she said. “I thought we could do this. This isn’t about me and more people knowing my name.

“There is just a definite need for this in the world right now. We need something that’s solid, positive and good.”

Robertson has carried her philosophy into multiple business ventures, including a prom dress line with Sherri Hill, school supplies for DaySpring, jewelry and home goods with Glory Haus, and a fashion line with Wild Blue Denim that can be found at Rue 21 stores nationwide.

“We have a lot going on,” she said. “I also have a devotional book coming out this fall. There are a lot of good things going on that’s helping the world.”

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Robertson recently returned from a mission trip to Uganda where the “Live Original” tour posse met and learned from Help One Now’s local leader, Pastor Edward Magumba, and his team who started His Mercy School to benefit orphans and children from extremely poor families in the Mayuge district in Uganda.

Robertson was inspired to give back by her family—grandfather Phil Robertson, founder of Duck Commander, and parents Korie Howard Robertson and Willie Robertson, the company’s current CEO. She said it would be difficult growing up in the spotlight if she didn’t have her parents and family for support.

“I think it would be hard to do it by myself,” Robertson said. “The whole family doing it with me. They keep me grounded.”

Slide out of summer with a splash at Slide Across America festival

BY KIMBERLY HOSEY GETOUT/TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Summer is coming to a close (even Arizona’s extended summer is starting to simmer down) and water parks are shutting for the school year. You might have thought you were out of opportunities to treat your kids—and yourself—to a day of slides and water play. If you were pining for one last splash, you’re in luck: Salt River Fields, together with AZ Bounce Pro, is bringing back the popular Slide Across America event Sept. 23-25.

Slide Across America is the largest inflatable water park in the country. The three-day bash this month will feature more than 25 water slides, including the highlight of the event, the Dropkick Slide—a 42-foot-high slide that launches riders into the air at the end of the slide, for a dramatic (but safe) landing in a giant stunt bag.

Other slides will include the 40-foothigh Hippo Slide, similar to the Dropkick but with more of a splashdown than a launch at the end; and 36-foot-high Tidal

Wave Slide, known for its steep incline.

Some of the larger rides, like the Dropkick Slide, are restricted to older guests, but there will be small inflatable slides specially for little ones as well.

If you tire of sliding, try the spin cycle ride. Also available will be a 25-foottall rock climbing wall, complete with climbing equipment, bungee

trampolines, a zipline and more.

(Special to the Tribune)

AZ Bounce Pro is providing the attractions, which it usually rents to events or individuals. Here, dozens of attractions will be available at once. It will be set up like a festival or carnival: No need to proceed through every slide or activity; just pick the ones you and your family like.

“This cool event literally was a hit last year for kids—and to our surprise adults, too. So this year we’re highlighting a night specifically aimed at the kids at heart and, of course, still welcome the whole family,” said Dave Dunne, the general manager of Salt River Fields.

Popular Arizona vendors and food trucks will be offering food starting at $4, including cheeseburgers, barbecue, fry bread, pretzels and more; as well as cold beers.

Make sure everyone who wants to slide is prepared: Swimwear or swimmingcompatible clothing is required to ride all slides, and no jeans or denim are allowed. And don’t forget sunblock—for yourself and the kiddos.

IF YOU GO

What: Slide Across America

When: Friday, Sept. 23 to Sunday, Sept. 25

Where: Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, 7555 N. Pima Road, Scottsdale

Cost: $25 ($20 in advance). Family four pack $80 ($60 in advance).

Free for kids 2 and under

Information: slideacrossamerica.com

Red Green’s ‘I’m Not Old - I’m Ripe’

Canadian “handyman” and star of a longrunning comedy TV show, Red Green (a.k.a. Steve Smith) brings his particular brand of DIY wisdom to Phoenix. Prepare for an evening of laughter and duct tape (“the handyman’s secret weapon”).

Details>> 7 p.m., Sept. 8. Celebrity Theatre, 440 N. 32nd St., Phoenix. Tickets: $53.50. 602-267-1600. celebritytheatre.ticketforce.com.

Yavapai County Fair 2016

County fairs hearken back to a more agricultural time in U.S. history, but city folks can still enjoy them just fine. If nothing else, it can get you out of the Valley heat. Head up to Prescott for live music, food, livestock shows and an auction, competitions, races and carnival rides.

Details>> 9 a.m.-10 p.m., Sept. 8-11. Prescott Rodeo Grounds, 840 Rodeo Dr., Prescott. Tickets: $28 (family fourday pass), $15 (family single-day), $5 adults. yavapaifair.com.

Highland Yard Vintage Market

Every month, Highland Yard Vintage hosts a four-day indoor—and air conditioned—market featuring antiques, interior decorations, vintage clothing, food and more from up to 50 local designers and vendors. This month, the theme of the market is “Hot Trends.” Details>> 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sept. 8-11. Behind Merchant Square, 1509 N. Arizona Ave., Chandler. Cost: Free. facebook.com/Highlandyardvintage.

‘Los Secretos de Santa Mónica’

Popular radio series “¡Qué Gente, Mi Gente!” comes to life with this live production. Follow the inhabitants of Santa Mónica de la Punta Gorda as they experience love, laughter, conflict and learn each other’s secrets. The characters speak Spanglish, so both English-speaking and Spanish-speaking audiences can enjoy it.

Details>> Times vary, Sept. 8-11. Orpheum Theater, 203 W. Adams St., Phoenix. Tickets: $20-$100. phoenix. ticketforce.com.

Music from Final Fantasy

Video game fans rejoice; you can hear the most popular character and battle themes from decades of Final Fantasy games in a single concert. The Distant Worlds Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus accompany video from developer Square Enix on the big screen. Details>> 8 p.m., Sept. 10. Symphony Hall, 75 N. Second St., Phoenix. Tickets: $40-$110. 877-840-0457. phoenix. ticketforce.com.

Learn your lizards

“Leapin’ lizards!” Get a pleasant dose of nature with the whole family on this early morning walk. Take a leisurely expertled tour that teaches you how to identify species of desert lizards. Bring your camera. Details>> 8 a.m., Sept. 10. Boyce Thompson Arboretum, 37615 U.S. 60, Superior. Tickets: $10 (adults), $5 (5-12). 520-689-2723. arboretum. ag.arizona.edu.

Crossroads of the West Gun Show

Gun collectors, hunters and those interested in self-defense, get ready for the one of the largest gun shows in the country. It features hundreds of tables with all kinds of guns, ammunition and gun accessories.

Details>> 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sept. 10-11. Arizona State Fairgrounds, 1826 W. McDowell Rd., Phoenix. Tickets: $16. crossroadsgunshows.com.

‘Whose Live Anyway?’

Fans of the TV show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” or just improv comedy in general, listen up. Join comedians Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, Jeff B. Davis and Joel Murray as they play many of the hilarious games you know from the TV show and some new ones.

Details>> 7:30 p.m.-9 p.m., Sept. 11. Mesa Arts Center, 1 E. Main St., Mesa. Tickets: $32-$52. 480-644-6500. mesaartscenter. com.

New Men’s Sex Pill Makes Viagra Obsolete

Soaring demand expected for new scientific advance made just for older men. Works on both men’s physical ability and their desire in bed.

By Harlan S. Waxman Health News Syndicate

New York – If you’re like the rest of us guys over 50; you probably already know the truth… “Viagra® doesn’t work! Simply getting an erection doesn’t fix the problem” says Dr. Bassam Damaj, chief scientific officer at the world famous Innovus Pharma Laboratories.

As we get older, we need more help in bed. Not only does our desire fade; but erections can be soft or feeble, one of the main complaints with Viagra®. Besides, Viagra® is expensive… costing as much as $50.00 a pill.

Plus, it does nothing to stimulate your brain to want sex. “I don’t care what you take, if you aren’t interested in sex, you can’t get or keep an erection. It’s physiologically impossible,” said Dr. Damaj.

MADE JUST FOR MEN OVER 50

But now, for the first time ever, there’s a pill made just for older men. It’s called Vesele®. A new pill that helps you get an erection by stimulating your body and your brainwaves. So Vesele® can work even when nothing else worked before.

The new men’s pill is not a drug. It’s something completely different

Because you don’t need a prescription for Vesele®, sales are exploding. The maker just can’t produce enough of it to keep up with demand. Even doctors are having a tough time getting their hands on it. So what’s all the fuss about?

WORKS ON YOUR HEAD AND YOUR BODY

The new formula takes on erectile problems with a whole new twist. It doesn’t just address the physical problems of getting older; it works on the mental part of sex too. Unlike Viagra®, the new pill stimulates your sexual brain chemistry as well. Actually helping you regain the passion and burning desire you had for your partner again. So you will want sex with the hunger and stamina of a 25-year-old.

THE BRAIN/ERECTION CONNECTION

Vesele takes off where Viagra® only begins. Thanks to a discovery made by 3 Nobel-Prize winning scientists; Vesele® has become the first ever patented supplement to harden you and your libido. So you regain your desire as well as the ability to act on it.

In a 16-week clinical study; scientists from the U.S.A. joined forces to prove Nitric Oxide’s effects on the cardio vascular system. They showed that Nitric Oxide could not only increase your ability to get an erection, it would also work on your brainwaves to stimulate your desire for sex. The results were remarkable and published in the world’s most respected medical journals.

THE SCIENCE OF SEX

The study asked men, 45 to 65 years old to take the main ingredient in Vesele ® once a day. Then they were instructed not to change the way they eat or exercise but to take Vesele ® twice a day. What happened next was remarkable. Virtually every man in the study who took Vesele® twice a day reported a huge difference in their desire for sex. In layman’s terms, they were horny again. They also experienced harder erections that lasted for almost 20 minutes. The placebo controlled group (who received sugar pills) mostly saw no difference.

JAW-DROPPING CLINICAL PROOF

3 Satisfaction—Increase from 41.4% to 88.1%

3 Frequency—Increase from 44.9% to 79.5%

3 Desire—Increase from 47.9% to 82%

3 Hardness—Increase from 36.2% to 85.7%

3 Duration—Increase from 35% to 79.5%

3 Hardness—Increase from 36.2% to 85.7%

3 Ability to Satisfy—Increase from 44.1% to 83.3%

AN UNEXPECTED BONUS: The study results even showed an impressive increase in the energy, brainpower and memory of the participants.

SUPPLY LIMITED BY OVERWHELMING DEMAND

“Once we saw the results we knew we had a game-changer said Dr. Damaj. We get hundreds of calls a day from people begging us for a bottle. It’s been crazy. We try to meet the crushing demand for Vesele ®.”

DOCTOR: “VESELE® PASSED THE TEST”

“As a doctor, I’ve studied the effectiveness of Nitric Oxide on the body and the brain. I’m impressed by the way it increases cerebral and penile blood flow. The result is evident in the creation of Vesele®. It’s sure-fire proof that the mind/body connection is unbeatable when achieving

and maintaining an erection and the results are remarkable” said Dr. Damaj. (His findings are illustrated in the charts below.)

HERE’S WHAT MEN ARE SAYING

• I’m ready to go sexually and mentally.

• More frequent erections in the night (while sleeping) and in the morning.

• I have seen a change in sexual desire.

• Typically take 1 each morning and 1 each night. Great stamina results!

• An increased intensity in orgasms.

• My focus (mental) has really improved… Huge improvement.

• Amazing orgasms!

• I really did notice a great improvement in my ability. HOW TO GET VESELE®

This is the first official public release of Vesele® since its news release. In order to get the word out about Vesele®, Innovus Pharma is offering special introductory discounts to all who call.

A special phone hotline has been set up for readers in your area; to take advantage of special discounts during this ordering opportunity. Special discounts will be available starting today at 6:00am. The discounts will automatically be applied to all callers. The Special TOLL-FREE Hotline number is 1-800-583-5033 and will be open 24-hours a day.

Only 300 bottles of Vesele® are currently available in your region. Consumers who miss out on our current product inventory will have to wait until more become available. But this could take weeks. The maker advises your best chance is to call 1-800-583-5033 early.

Struggles are temporary, no matter how long they seem to continue

BY LISA JISA TRIBUNE GUEST WRITER

Ihave been dealing with a mold problem in my current home. Although there is no visible mold, my doctor was able to detect it in my lungs with testing.

My body sure knows this mold is a reality, as I wake up with itchy red eyes and a stuffy nose every morning. Mold is making my Lyme recovery journey take a lot longer than expected because it puts an extra burden on my immune system. Just because I can’t see the mold doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

It’s a lot easier to focus on what we can actually see, especially when it is bad. People behave in horrible ways, and awful things happen. It can be effortless to experience discouragement on a daily basis. But what we can’t see is a lot more real than what we can see.

The Bible talks about a time when the prophet Elisha was surrounded by an evil king’s army. His servant panicked

SUNDAY SEPT. 11

BOOK SWAP AND ICE CREAM SOCIAL

Bring a book and/or take a book (all for free) and enjoy some ice cream.

DETAILS>> 4 p.m. at Desert Palm UCC in Tempe, 1230 E. Guadalupe Road. Information: 480-831-0065.

CHABAD HEBREW SCHOOL

Registration for Chabad Hebrew School is now open for the upcoming 2016-17 school year. Hebrew School takes place at the Pollack Chabad Center for Jewish Life, and will start September 11.

DETAILS>> Sunday mornings 9:30 a.m.-noon for children 5-13. Information: chabadcenter.com.

SUNDAY SEPT. 18

PSYCHOLOGY PRESENTATION

Senior Minister Rev. Tom Martinez will be presenting a lecture on the interface between Indigenous and Depth Psychology.

DETAILS>> 10:30 a.m. after church. Desert Palm UCC in Tempe, 1230 E. Guadalupe Road. Information: 480-831-0065.

MESA CHALLAH BAKE

Women from throughout the East Valley will gather to experience the making their own holiday challah. Participants will learn to mix, knead and shape the braided bread traditionally eaten at the Sabbath and holiday meal. The program is open to the public.

DETAILS>> 11:30 a.m. at the Chabad of Mesa, 941 S. Maple.

and wondered what they would do.

“‘Don’t be afraid,’ the prophet answered. ‘Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.’ And Elisha prayed, ‘O Lord, open his eyes so he may see.’ Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.” (2 Kings 6:16-17)

Elisha was a man of great faith. He believed God had a supernatural army ready to go, and it was true. Oh, that my faith would increase and I would remember this more often.

Daniel prayed for days and days with no answer. Finally, he was visited by an angel, who told him that his words had been heard, but a heavenly battle had detained his coming in response to Daniel’s prayers for 21 days. (Read Daniel 10 for the full story.)

We don’t always know why answers to prayers take a long time (and often much longer than 21 days). Who knows what might be happening in the spiritual realm? Keep on praying!

Ephesians 6:11-12 says, “Put on the

Cost: $7. Information or reservations: 480-659-7001 or email chabadmesa@gmail.com.

THURSDAY

SEPT. 22

MEGA CHALLAH BAKE

The Chabad Jewish Women’s Circle joins other Jewish women from the East Valley to learn the ancient art of challah baking. DETAILS>> - 7 p.m., Pollack Chabad Center for Jewish Life, 875 N. McClintock Drive, Chandler. Cost: $18 per person, $15 for students. Information: 480-855-4333 or email info@chabadcenter.com.

full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” Again, keep on praying!

Paul refers to our struggles on earth as “light and momentary.” That’s not how I would describe things often, but it’s necessary to keep this thought in the forefront of my mind.

In 2 Corinthians 4:18, we are reminded, “For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what it seen, but what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

The greatest unseen reality is that there is

indeed life beyond what we can see. Life on earth is temporary and it doesn’t end here. I find a great deal of encouragement in Jesus’ words: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in Me.

In My Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with Me that you also may be where I am.” (John 14:1-3)

Let’s fix our eyes on the invisible realities. “Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.” (1 Timothy 1:17)

– Lisa Jisa lived in Ahwatukee from 2000-15, spent the past year in Colorado, and is currently packing for an upcoming move to her homeland of Wisconsin.

Arizona Muslims say they live under cloud of terrorism

BY DAVID MARINO JR. CRONKITE NEWS

Muslims in America have been burdened with a label of terrorism that colors others’ perceptions of Islam, Arizona Muslims say.

“You can’t put Islam in a box,” said Johnny Martin, 23, a Mesa resident who converted to the faith two years ago.

Muslims in Arizona and across the nation are much like everyone else, say adherents. Brothers and sisters. The people who are in line at the grocery store and by the voting booth. Political conservatives and liberals, gay and straight, lifelong adherents to their religion and recent converts.

Arizona has seen its share of controversy over terrorism that has marked the world. In May 2015, Phoenix residents Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi traveled to Garland, Texas, with the intention of attacking an art exhibit featuring images of the Prophet Muhammad. They were killed by a SWAT team before carrying out their plan. Another man from Tucson is on trial, accused of attempting to plan a terrorist attack.

Several Arizona Muslims pointed out that acts of violence carried out by the terrorist group ISIS do not reflect the peaceful teachings in the Quran.

“They certainly have the window dressing of Islam,” said Phoenix resident Sumayyah Dawud. “But their acts are absolutely un-Islamic.”

Misunderstandings grow out of such terrorist acts, Arizona Muslims lament.

“Many Americans are afraid of the unknown, they don’t know what Islam is,” said Hani Rahal, a leader in the Shia Muslim Al-Mahdi Benevolent Foundation, a Tempe-based Islamic religious and educational center.

Martin said someone can’t simply fill in a blank with their own idea of who Muslims are and what they believe.

“No one decides what Islam is and who the real Muslims are other than Allah,” Martin said.

Martin, who is bisexual, became public about his sexual identity after the Orlando, Florida, nightclub shooting.

Many gay and Latino people, 49 in all, were shot to death.

“I mostly came out publicly just to be in solidarity with other folks within the LGBTQ community,” Martin said. “But also to bring an awareness to people who

inhabit intersectional identities, because that is often forgotten, and people want to put everyone in a box.”

An estimated 50,000 to 60,000 Muslims live in Arizona—exact numbers are hard to come by—with each person shaped by similar and different experiences.

The Pew Research Center estimates one percent of Arizona residents are Muslim. However, there is little to no data on other information, such as growth potential or other demographics about Muslims in Arizona.

Still, the 2015 Pew study provides a glimpse of the future. Pew estimates that

by 2050, American Muslims will double to about two percent of the population. That would make them the secondlargest religion in the United States, behind Christianity.

Imran Siddiqi, head of the Arizona branch of the Council on American Islamic Relations, believes that the main way to fight against discrimination against Muslims is to educate others about Islam.

“Islamophobia comes from lack of knowledge,” Siddiqi said. “It’s easy to hate a Muslim when you’ve never met one before.”

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grieving process. One-time book fee $15.

DETAILS>> 2-4 p.m. at Arizona Community Church, 9325 S. Rural Road, Room G3, Tempe. 480-491-2210.

UNITY OFFERS INSPIRATION

Inspirational messages and music are offered, along with classes and special events.

DETAILS>> 10 a.m. at Unity of Tempe, 1222 E. Baseline Road, Suite 103. 480-792-1800 or unityoftempe.com.

KIDS

Children can learn and experience Jewish life. Chabad

Hebrew School focuses on Jewish heritage, culture and holidays.

DETAILS>> 9:30 a.m. to noon, for children ages 5-13 at Pollack Chabad Center for Jewish Life, 875 N. McClintock Drive, Chandler. 480-855-4333, info@chabadcenter.com, or chabadcenter.com.

RABBINIC LIT COURSE OFFERED

Ongoing morning study of two classics of rabbinic literature by medieval philosopher Moses Maimonides (the “Rambam”). At 10 a.m., Prof. Norbert Samuelson, Grossman chair of Jewish Philosophy at ASU and TBS member, teaches “Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed: What Jews Ought to Believe.” At 11:15 a.m., TBS member Isaac Levy teaches “Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah: How Jews Ought to Behave.” Readings in both Hebrew and English.

DETAILS>> Community Room of the administration building at Temple Beth Sholom of the East Valley, 3400 N. Dobson Road, Chandler. 480-897-3636.

UNITY OFFERS A PATH

Unity of Mesa says its Sunday service offers “a positive path for spiritual living” through “transformational lessons, empowering music and various spiritual practices with an open-minded and welcoming community.”

DETAILS>> 9 a.m. Spiritual discussion group and meditation practices group. 10:15 a.m. service. 2700 E. Southern Ave., Mesa. Child care available at 9 a.m. Nursery for infants through kindergarten at 10:15 a.m. 480-8922700, unityofmesa.org, joanne@unityofmesa.org.

MONDAYS

JOIN CHRIST-CENTERED YOGA

This Flow 1-2 class (intermediate) is free and open to the community.

DETAILS>> 6-7 p.m., Mountain Park Community Church, 2408 E. Pecos Road. Greg Battle at 480-759-6200 or gbattle@moutainpark.org.

CLASS TARGETS THE GRIEVING

Classes for those grieving over death or divorce. DETAILS>> 6:30 p.m., Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 739 W. Erie St., Chandler. 480-963-4127.

STRUGGLING FIND SUPPORT

Support group for those struggling with how to deal with

a loss in life.

DETAILS>> 7 p.m., 1825 S. Alma School Road, Room C201, Chandler. Pastor Larry Daily, 480-963-3997, ext. 141, larrydaily@chandlercc.org or chandlercc.org.

TUESDAYS

DIVORCED CAN FIND COMFORT

People suffering through a divorce or separation can find understanding and caring support to face these challenges.

DETAILS>> 6:30-8 p.m., Mountain Park Community Church, 2408 E Pecos Road, Room 117, Ahwatukee, 480759-6200 or mountainpark.org.

FINDING HEALING FOR PAIN

HOPE, an acronym for “Help Overcome Painful Experiences,” offers support for men and women who seek God’s grace and healing.

DETAILS>> 6:30 to 8 p.m. Mountain Park Community Church, 2408 E. Pecos Road. mountainpark.org.

SENIORS ENJOY ‘TERRIFIC TUESDAYS’

The program is free and includes bagels and coffee and a different speaker or theme each week. Registration not needed.

DETAILS>> 10:30 a.m. to noon, Barness Family East Valley Jewish Community Center, 908 N. Alma School Road, Chandler. evjcc.org or 480-897-0588.

HOLY TRINITY HAS GRIEFSHARE

DETAILS>> 2 and 6:30 p.m., 739 W. Erie St., Chandler. 480963-4127.

READ BIBLE FOR PLEASURE

Bring a Bible, or Bibles are available at these free sessions.

DETAILS>> 7 to 8 p.m., Chandler Seventh-day Adventist Church, 1188 W. Galveston St. Lori, 480-917-3593.

BOOK CLUB

A discussion of Robert Jones’ “The End of White Christian America.” The group then will meet with the author on Oct. 21 at the Desert Palm UCC at 8 p.m.

DETAILS>> 7 p.m., Sept. 6, 20, 27 and Oct. 18. Desert Palm UCC in Tempe, 1230 E. Guadalupe Road. Information: 480831-0065.

WEDNESDAYS

CELEBRATE RECOVERY MEETS

Celebrate Recovery says it “brings your relationship with the Lord closer to your heart as it heals your hurts, habits and hang-ups.” Participants can discuss issues ranging from feeling left out to addictions. “Nothing is too small or too large.”

DETAILS>> 6:20 p.m. at Mountain View Lutheran Church, 11002 S. 48th St., Ahwatukee. mvlutheran.org/ celebraterecovery or email cr@alphamvlc.com.

WOMEN’S BIBLE STUDY OFFERED

Living Word Ahwatukee women’s Bible study and fellowship that offers “a short, low-key time of praise and worship in music and message.” It’s also an opportunity to meet other Christian women in Ahwatukee.

DETAILS>> 10 to 11:30 a.m., Living Word Ahwatukee, 14647 W. 50th St., Suite 165, Ahwatukee. Free child care.

TAKE A COFFEE BREAK

Corpus Christi offers a coffee break with scripture study, prayer and fellowship.

DETAILS>> 9:15 to 11:30 a.m. Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 3550 E. Knox Road, Ahwatukee. Loraine 480-8931160 or CoffeebreakMin@aol.com.

GET A ‘SPIRITUAL SHOWER’

A release calls this “a 15-minute energetic tune up each

week” and says the Twin Hearts Meditation “is like taking a spiritual shower: when your aura is clean, you experience a higher level of awareness. You see through things more clearly and good luck increases.”

DETAILS>> 7-9 p.m. at Unity of Tempe, 1222 E. Baseline Road, Suite 103, Tempe. 480-792-1800 or unityoftempe. com.

DIVORCED CAN FIND COMFORT

People suffering through a separation or divorce can find understanding and caring support to face these challenges and move forward.

DETAILS>> 6:30-8:15 p.m. Arizona Community Church, 9325 S. Rural Road, Room G5, Tempe. One-time book fee of $15. 480-491-2210. DivorceCare 4 Kids (DC4K) will also be offered in Room G7.

CHABAD HAS TORAH FOR TEENS

The Teens and Torah program offered by Chabad of the East Valley is for teens ages 13 to 17, and combines education and social interaction with videos followed by discussion, trips, games, community service projects and thought-provoking discussions.

DETAILS>> 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., Chabad Center for Jewish Life, 3855 W. Ray Road, Suite 6, Chandler. Shternie Deitsch, 480-753-5366 or chabadcenter.com.

THURSDAYS

MAN CHURCH IN CHANDLER

“Man Church offers coffee, doughnuts and straight talk for men in a language they understand in just 15 minutes. No women, no singing, no organ and no long sermons,” a release states.

DETAILS>> Doors open 6 a.m., message at 6:30 a.m. 1595 S. Alma School Road, Chandler. Bob, 480-726-8000 or cschandler.com/manchurch.

KIDS CAN FIND SUPPORT

Support group for children ages 6 to 12 coping with a separation or divorce in the family. One-time $10 fee includes snacks and workbook.

DETAILS>> 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., 1825 S. Alma School Road, Room C202, Chandler. Pastor Larry Daily, 480-963-3997, ext. 141, larrydaily@chandlercc.org or chandlercc.org.

ULPAN INSTRUCTION AVAILABLE

Class is based on Israel’s successful Ulpan instruction. Taught by Ilan Berko, born in Israel, schooled in the U.S. DETAILS>> 7 p.m. Chabad of the East Valley, 3875 W. Ray Road, Suite 6, Chandler. chabadcenter.com or 480-8554333.

LEARN ABOUT MIRACLES

Experience a spiritual transformation with Michelle Lee, who will teach like-minded people and spark lively discussions as participants explore daily applications of miracles.

DETAILS>> 7 p.m. at Unity of Tempe, 1222 E. Baseline Road, Suite 103. 480-792-1800 or unityoftempe.com.

FRIDAYS

NEFESHSOUL HOLDS SERVICES

Congregation NefeshSoul holds Shabbat services the second Friday of every month on the campus of the Valley Unitarian Universalist Congregation.

DETAILS>> 6:15 p.m., 6400 W. Del Rio St., Chandler. Information: nefeshsoul.org.

TODDLERS CAN MARK SHABBAT

Celebrate Shabbat with a service, music, and a craft project designed for children up to 5 years old and their parents or other adult.

DETAILS>> 9:30 a.m., Temple Emanuel, 5801 S. Rural Road. 480-838-1414 or emanueloftempe.org.

TOTS TAUGHT TORAH

Hosted by Chabad of the East Valley for children ages 2 to 5. Features hands-on activities about the Shabbat, songs, stories and crafts. Children will make and braid their own

challah.

DETAILS>> 10:15 to 11 a.m., members’ homes. 480-7855831.

YOU CAN NOSH BEFORE SERVICE

“Nosh” and then enjoy the Shir Shabbat service led by the Shabba-Tones, the Shabbat musical group.

DETAILS>> 6:30 p.m. first Friday of the month, Temple Emanuel, 5801 S. Rural Road, Tempe. 480-838-1414 or emanueloftempe.org.

DINNER FOLLOWS SERVICE

The service is followed by a congregational dinner (by reservation only). Optional Israeli dancing after dinner. DETAILS>> 6 p.m. on third Friday of the month, 5801 S. Rural Road, Tempe. 480-838-1414 or emanueloftempe.org.

YOUNG FAMILIES HOLD SHABBAT

DETAILS>> Regular services at 6 p.m. except on the third Friday of each month, when a 6 p.m. Young Family Shabbat Service is held for children and adults of all ages. Temple Beth Sholom of the East Valley, 3400 N. Dobson Road, Chandler. Shabbat Morning and Torah Service weekly at 9 a.m. 480-897-3636 or tbsev.org. or info@ tbsev.org.

SERVICE INCLUDES KIDS

Designed for children up to 5 years old and their parents or other adult. Following the service is an Oneg Shabbat, a time for a snack and to meet other families with young children.

DETAILS>> 6:30 p.m. second Fridays, Temple Emanuel, 5801 S. Rural Road. 480-838-1414 or emanueloftempe.org.

EITZ CHAIM INVITES NEWCOMERS

Congregation Eitz Chaim is traditional and egalitarian. Newcomers welcome.

DETAILS>> 7 p.m., services at 908 N. Alma School Road, Chandler. eitzchaimphoenix.org.

TEMPLE EMANUEL LISTS SERVICES

Traditional service followed by an Oneg Shabbat. DETAILS>> 7:30 p.m. second and fourth Fridays, 5801 S. Rural Road, Tempe. 480-838-1414 or emanueloftempe.org.

SATURDAYS

STUDY THE PRAYER BOOK

These special study sessions at the beginning of Shabbat morning services teach the structure of Shabbat services and how to follow in the Siddur (prayer book). Taught by Rabbi Leitner. Introduction to Judaism, Introductory Hebrew Reading for Adults, and Adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah Preparation are cumulative, so no new students can be accepted mid-year.

DETAILS>> 9-9:30 a.m. fourth Saturday each month, Pre-register for fall by contacting Amy Shevitz at vped@ tbsev.org.

WEEKLY SERVICES SCHEDULED

International, nondenominational church offers weekly Sabbath services. Congregational meeting in the morning and Bible study in the afternoon. DETAILS>> 10:30 a.m.-noon; 1:30-2:45 p.m. at True Jesus Church, 2640 N. Dobson Road, Chandler. 480-899-1488 or tjcphoenix@tjc.org.

JEWISH KIDS PROGRAM AVAILABLE

Shabbat Yeladim is a free Shabbat program for Jewish children ages 3-7 sponsored by Ahwatukee’s NefeshSoul Jewish Community. Shabbat Yeladim is on the second Saturday of the month. Songs, stories and art project each month.

DETAILS>> 10-11 a.m. on the Valley Unitarian Universalist Campus, 6400 W. Del Rio, Chandler. Contact Rabbi Susan Schanerman at rabbi@nefeshsoul.org or nefeshsoul.org.

STUDY AND WORSHIP IN TEMPE

ONGOING FILM SERIES

DETAILS>> Temple Emanuel, 5801 S. Rural Road, Tempe. Optional study session at 8:20 a.m., Shabbat morning service at 9:30 a.m., followed by a kiddush. 480-838-1414 or emanueloftempe.org.

“On Sacred Ground,” a powerful film series touching on environmental issues, will coincide with the United Church of Christ’s national effort to raise awareness re the plight of Indigenous people around the world.

DETAILS>> 5:30 p.m. Sept. 25, Oct. 2, 16 and 23. Desert Palm UCC in Tempe, 1230 E. Guadalupe Road. Information: 480-831-0065.

JEWISH CENTER SELLS GIFTS

The Pollack Chabad Center for Jewish Life Chai Judaica and Gifts offers a wide variety of gifts, from Mezuzot to books, religious items and jewelry.

DETAILS>> Pollack Chabad Center for Jewish Life, 875 N. McClintock Drive, Chandler. Gift shop hours are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesday by appointment only and Sundays 9:30-10 a.m. and noon12:30 p.m. info@chabadcenter.com or 480-855-4333.

TEMPLE PROVIDES KIDS ROOM

The full-time infant room for children ages 6 weeks to 12 months.

DETAILS>> Temple Emanuel of Tempe, 5801 S. Rural Road, Tempe. Rachel Wallach, 480-838-1414, or rachel@ emanueloftempe.org.

CHILD DEVELOPMENT AT CHABAD

Reggio-Inspired program where children can develop socially, physically, emotionally and intellectually in a Jewish setting. For preschoolers 12 months to 5 years old, with part-time and half-day options. Before- and aftercare hours available.

DETAILS>> Shternie Deitsch at info@chabadcenter.com or call 480-855-4333.

GET-ACQUAINTED COFFEE

East Valley Friends and Neighbors holds a monthly getacquainted coffee and short general meeting on the first Wednesday of each month. The group supports local charities and has special-interest groups, such as book discussions and card game groups, that meet throughout the month.

DETAILS>> 9:30 a.m. the first Wednesday of each month. Grace United Methodist Church, 2024 E. University Drive, Mesa. Information: 380-828-5146, evfanaz.org or email Tinytubes@cox.net. Submit your releases to rzubiate@timespublications.com

Carlos Lopez Alvarez you are hereby summoned to appear in Court on 9/28/16 at 10am at Pinal County Superior Ct 971 N Jason Lopez Circle Building A Florence AZ 85132 in regards to temporary legal decisions for a minor

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS#: 16-01301 Loan #: xxxxx Order #: 160069623-AZDMI The following legally described trust property will be s o

0316591, in the office of the County Recorder of Maricopa County, Ariz

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

Transport Funding, LLC, Overland Park, Kansas will offer the following property at public sale at Arrow Truck Sales, Inc 2201 W Buck-

e y e R o a d , P h o e n i x , A

2010 Freightliner Cascadia 1FUJGHDV9ALAU1002 T

TRUSTEE SALE OR IF YOU HAVE AN OBJECTION TO THE TRUSTEE SALE, YOU MUST FILE AN ACTION AND OBT AIN A COURT ORDER PURSUANT TO RULE 65, ARIZONA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, STOPPING THE SALE NO LATER THAN 5:00 P M MOUNTAIN

ANY DEFENSES OR OBJECTIONS TO THE SALE UNLESS YOU OBTAIN AN ORDER, THE SALE WILL BE FINAL AND WILL OCCUR at public auction to the highest bidder at In the Courtyard, by the main entrance of the Superior Court Building, 201 West Jefferson, Phoenix, AZ 85003, on 9/30/2016 at 10:00 AM of said day The street address of said trust- property is purported to be 11812 N 85TH STREET, SCOTTSDALE, AZ 85260 Legal Description: The land referred to herein is situated in Maricopa County, State of Arizona and described as follows LOT TWENTY-FIVE, (25), DESERT HILLS NORTH, ACCORDING TO THE POINT OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF MARICOPA COUNTY, ARIZONA, IN BOOK 154 OF MAPS, PAGE 14 Tax Parcel No: 175-13-068 1 Original Principal Balance: $229,200 00 Said sale will be made for cash (payable at time of sale), but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note secured by said Deed of Trust, which includes interest thereon as provided in said note, advances, if any under the terms of said Deed of Trust, interest on advances, if any, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS#: 16-16821 Order#: 02-16032211

The following legally described trust property will be sold, pursuant to the power of Sale under that certain Deed of Trust dated 5/26/2906 and recorded on 6/5/2006 as Instrument # 2006-0752583, Book Page in the office of the County Recorder of Maricopa County, Arizona, NOTICE! IF YOU BELIEVE THERE IS A DEFENSE TO THE TRUSTEE SALE OR IF Y

RULE 65, ARIZONA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, STOPPING THE SALE NO LATER THAN 5:00

MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME OF T

THE SALE, OR YOU MAY HAVE WAIVED ANY DEFENSES OR OBJECTIONS TO THE SALE UNLESS YOU OBTAIN AN ORDER, THE

highest bidder at In the Courtyard, by the main entrance of the Superior Court Building, 201 West Jefferson, Phoenix, AZ 85003, on 10/28/2016 at 10:00 AM of said day:LOT 518, CAVALIER ESTATES UNIT NINE, A C C

herein qualifies as trustee of the Trust Deed in the trustee’s capacity as a licensed insurance producer as required by ARS Section 33- 803, Subsection A Name of Trustee’s Regulator: Arizona Department of Insurance ACCORDING TO THE DEED OF TRUST OR UPON INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY THE BENEFICIARY, THE FOLLOWING INFORMA

808(C):Street address or identifiable location: 3950 E PARADISE DRIVE P

NOTICE OF THE PRELIMINARY DECISION TO ISSUE A SIGNIFICANT AMENDMENT TO AN AQUIFER PROTECTION PERMIT

Public Notice No 16-90

Published on: Sunday, September 4, 2016 Published in the: East Valley Tribune

Pursuant to Arizona Administrative Code, Title 18, Chapter 9, Article 1, the Director of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality intends to issue a SIGNIFICANT AMENDMENT to an Individual Aquifer Protection Permit (APP) to the following applicant(s):

Facility Name: City of Chandler Ocotillo Water Reclamation Facility

Individual APP No 100140

Permittee: City of Chandler 975 E Armstrong Way Chandler, AZ 85286

The draft permit and related documentation are available for public review, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a m to 4:30 p m , at ADEQ, 1110 West Washington Street, Records Management Center, Phoenix, Arizona, 85007 In Phoenix, please call (602) 771-4380 or email RecordsCenter@azdeq gov 24 hours in advance to schedule an appointment to review the file The permit and fact sheet may be viewed online at azdeq gov/cgi-bin/vertical pl by accessing the notice on the Events and Notices Calendar for the date of this public notice

Persons may submit comments or request a public hearing on the proposed action, in writing, to Marcy Mullins, Project Manager, ADEQ, Groundwater Section, 1110 West Washington Street, MC5415B-3, Phoenix, Arizona, 85007 within thirty (30) days from the date of this notice A public hearing request must include the reasons for such request

Publish: East Valley Tribune, Sept 4, 2016 / 2029

cashier’s check for reinstatement or price bid payment Rein- statement payment must be paid before five o’clock PM on the last day, other than a Saturday or legal hol- iday, before the date of sale The purchaser at the sale, other than the beneficiary to the extent of his credit bid, shall pay the price bid no later than five o’clock PM of the following day, other t

TRUST OR UP ON INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY THE BENEFICIARY, T

A R S SECTION 33-808(C): Name and address of original Trustor: J MICHAEL WELDY AND SHAELYN WELDY 11812 N 85TH STREET

INGS FUND SOCIETY FSB,D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST AS TRUSTEE FOR THE NORMANDY MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2015-1, C/O RUSHMORE LOAN MANAGEMENT SERVICES, LLC 15480 LAGUNA CANYON ROAD #100 IRVINE, CA 9 2618 (949) 341-0777 Name and address of Trustee:THE LAW OFFICES OF DIANE WEIFENBACH C/O ATTORNEY LENDER SERVICES, INC 5120 E LAPALMA AVENUE, SUITE 209 ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA 92807 (714) 695-6637 Dated: 6 / 1 6 / 2 0

Trustee’s capacity as a member of the Arizona State Bar, as required pursuant to ARS 33-803(A)(2) The Trustee’s Regulator is the State Bar of Arizona SALE INFORMATION: SALES LINE: 714-730-2727 SALES

WEBSITE: www servicelinkasap com Your lender and/or loan servicer is attempting to collect a debt Any information obtained will be used for

, 09/20/2016 Publish: Daily News Sun, August 30; September 6, 13, 20, 2016; East Valley Tribune September 11, 18, 2016 /135757

$288,750 00 Name and address of original trustor: (as shown on the Deed of Trust) TERESA T SHEILDS, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN 3950 E PARADISE DRIVE PHOENIX, AZ 85028 Name and address of beneficiary: (as of recording of Notice of Sale) Wells Fargo Bank N A , as Trustee, fo r Carrington Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2006-NC3 AssetB

LLC 1600 Douglass Road, Suite 200 A Anaheim, CA 92806 If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and ex- clusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have not further recourse The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designations, if any, shown herein Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the unpaid principal balance of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of said D e

Conveyance of the property shall be wi thout warranty, express or implied, and subject to all liens, claims or interest having a priority senior to the Deed of Trust The Trustee shall not express an opinion as to the c

TRUSTEE: (as of recording of Notice of Sale) Carrington Foreclosure Services, LLC P O Box 3309 Anaheim, Califor- nia 92803 (888) 313-

/

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE S SALE TS#: 16-16972 Order #: 02-16037975 The following legally described crust property will be sold, pursuant to the power of Sale under that certain Deed of Trust dated 11/20/2013 and recorded on 11/27/2013 as Instrument # 20131023057, Boole Page in the office of the County Recorder of Maricopa County Arizona, NOTICE! IF YOU BELIEVE THERE IS A DEFENSE TO THE TRUSTEE SALE OR IF YOU HAVE AN OBJECTION TO THE TRUSTEE SALE, YOU MUST FILE AN AC- TION AND OBTAIN A COURT ORDER PURSUANT TO RULE 65, ARIZONA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, STOPPING THE SALE NO LATER THAN 5:00 P M MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME OF THE LAST BUSINESS DAY BEFORE THE SCHEDULED DATE OF THE SALE, OR YOU MAY HAVE WAIVED ANY DEFENSES OR OBJECTIONS TO THE SALE UNLESS YOU OBTAIN AN ORDER, THE SALE WILL BE FINAL AND WILL OCCUR at public auction to the highest bidder at At the Main Entrance to the Superior Court Building, Maricopa County Courthouse, 201 W Jefferson Street, Phoenix, AZ 85003, on 10/11/2016 at 10:00 AM of said day: LOT 5, UTOPIA ESTATES, ACCORD- ING TO BOOK 265 OF MAPS, PAGE 32, RECORDS OF MARICOPA COUNTY, ARIZONA, The successor trustee appointed herein qualifies as trustee of the Trust Deed in the trustee’s capacity as a licensed Insurance producer as required by ARS Section 33- 803, Subsection A Name of Trustee’s Regulator: Arizona Department of Insurance ACCORDING TO THE DEED OF TRUST OR UPON INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY THE BENEFICIARY, THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS PROVIDED PURSUANT TO A R-S SECTION 33-808(C): Street address or identifiable location: 2844 E PIUTE AVE PHOENIX, AZ 85050 A P N : 213-17-094 Original Principal Balance: $74,246 00 Name and address of original trustor: (as shown on the Deed of Trust) SHERRILL ARVIN, A SINGLE WOMAN 2844 E PIUTE AVE PHOENIX, AZ 85050 Name and address of beneficiary: (as of recording of Notice of Sale) Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC c/o Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC 1600 Douglass Road, Suite 200 A Anaheim, CA 92806 If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidders sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have not further recourse The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designations, if any, shown herein Said sale will be made, but without covenant or wa rranty, expressed or implied regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the unpaid principal balance of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, including fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee Conveyance of the property shall be without warranty, express or implied, and subject to all liens, claims or interest having a priority senior to the Deed of Trust The Trustee shall not express an opinion as to the condition of title NAME, ADDRESS and TELEPHONE NUMBER OF TRUSTEE: (as of recording of Notice of Sale) Carrington Foreclosure Services, LLC P O Box 3309 Anaheim, California 92803 (888) 313-1969 Dated:

September 6; EVT August 28, September , 2016/ 132279

Classifieds

Employment General

KollaSoft has opening for Civil Engineer in Scottsdale, AZ

Candidates must have US Masters Eng in Trans or Civil Reqs Eng Cert Plan/organize/manage professional eng staff w/ skills in VISSIM/TSIS

5 0/C++/VC++/Synchro/Oracle Email resume to Sekhar at skolla@kollasoft com and place ref no 2016-22 directly on front of resume w/ ref to EVT ad

Metasofttech Solutions has openings for Software Engs (SE) Operations Research Analysts (ORA) and Computer Systems Engs (CSE) in Chandler, AZ SE/ORA candidates must have US Masters degree/foreign equiv or Bach +5 yrs exp; CSE candidates must have US Bachelor/foreign equiv SE/ORA skills in Net/ASP Net/SQL/ XML/WebServices/AngularJS: CSE skills in Java/Agile/Scrum/Iterative/Waterfall to analyze/design/develop/ implement/test software/systems Email resume to Thamiya at hr-us@mstsolutions com with ref no 2016-19 for SE; 2016-20 for ORA; 2016-21 for CSE on resume and ref EVT ad

CAREGIVERS

Starting Wage $9.50 per hour! Hiring for all East Valley cities Call us today for more information or stop by our Recruitment Event:

Date: Wed , Sept 28th

Time: 9:00am - 2:00pm Location: 1930 S. Alma School Road, Mesa AZ 85210 - (ResCare HomeCare Office)

Great Caregiver Candidates:

* Are Caring & Compassionate

* Looking for Rewarding Work

* Have LIFE Experience Caring for a Loved-One and/or Currently a PROFESSIONAL Caregiver

* Would like to Give Back to the Community While Earning Income

* Seeking Part-Time & Flexible Hours

Training is Provided for FREE! Open Caregiver Positions:

* Companions *

* Caregivers with Habilitation Experience

Develop software using Java7+, ANTLR4, Flex, AS3, MySql, JS, HTML, Python C, C++ MS in CS or related req 3 openings Mail to Job loc: Massively Parallel Tech, Inc 1475 N Scottsdale Rd #200, Scottsdale, AZ 85287

Janitor Position MonFri $8 05 7pm-2:30am 60th Freeway and Country Club Location (Mesa) Posicion de limpeza lunes-viernes 7pm - 2:30am Please call / llama (602) 437-8869

CAREGIVERS for Special Needs in East Valley COMPETITIVE WAGES

Positions in Day Programs, RSP, HAB, ATC Flex hrs PT/FT Fingerprint Clearance card & AZ Driver’s License REQ’D Hiring immediately Call Emily at 480-940-7915 or email resume hcbs@transitionsaz org

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FIRST TWO MONTHS FREE!

2 Hair Stations for rent in Mesa Main & Greenfield (Bring in old and new clientele) 602-999-4450

Drivers Needed P/T 2-3 days Mesa Area Professional Appearance Good driving record required Retirees welcome! 866-560-6245 Classifieds 480-898-6465

Employment General

Mountain Vista Medical Center is seeking EVS Attendants for immediate hire FT/ benefited Must be available weekends and holidays Please apply to: jobs mvmedicalcenter com

Immediate Openings for Qualified Concrete

Finishers for Curb & Gutter Street and Road Work

Three (3) years experience required Must be able to work behind Gomaco curb pouring machine in high volume work We are also looking for experienced curb and gutter formsetter/finishers for street and road work. Drivers license required. Must pass preemployment drug screen We E-Verify EOE Apply in person at Nesbitt Contracting Co , Inc 100 S Price Road, Tempe, Arizona 85281 Phone: 480-4237600 compensation: $20 00 to $22 00 per hour depending upon experience and qualifications

Database Administrator Specialist, Phoenix, AZ Du

bases Requires Bach in Comp Sci or Eng’g & 5 yrs of prog exp , or Master’s in Comp Sci or Eng’g & 3 yrs of exp , in a Database Admin role administering Oracle 10g, 11g & RAC databases on Sun Solaris & AIX platforms; 1

Goldengate & Grid Infrastructure Mgmt Repos-

If cond’l offer of employment is made, drug test & background check (incl crim rec check) will be required Applicants may apply w/ FIS Manage-

Meetings/Events

H O P E Help Overcoming Painful Experiences 7 p m Tuesdays Free weekly small-group sessions helping people overcome emotional pain caused by divorce, grief, addictions and more; free childcare for children ages 10 and younger Desert Springs Church, Room 106, 19620 S McQueen Rd , Chandler Info hope4all@comcast net, helpovercomingpainful experiences.org

Classifieds: Thursday 5pm for Sunday Life Events: Thursday 10am for Sunday

Meetings/Events

JumpStart 11:45 A-4:30P Saturdays

JumpStart is a sidewalk

Sunday school community outreach program serving “some of the poorest neighborhoods” in Chandler, offering snacks, games and teachings about Jesus to area children

Participants meet at Faith Family Church 11530 E Queen Creek Rd , Chandler Info: Joanne Sweeney 480-539-8933

Christian Business Networking, Chandler BiMonthly Chapter 7:30 a m second and fourth Tuesdays of the month Offers members the opportunity to share ideas, contacts and business referrals Chandler Christian Church, Room B202 1825 S Alma School Rd Chandler Info: Maia, 480-4250624, christianbusinessnetworking com

Marquez BC Cole Auctioneers 623-362-2904 602-618-4106 cell

Rob Wall

Nationally Known Hearing Aid Expert

By popular request, we have arranged for Rob Wall to visit our offices.

Mesa Location

Tuesday, September 13th

Wednesday, September 14th

Peoria Location

Thursday, September 15th

Mr. Wall is one of the most successful hearing experts in the country. He has helped people find the best solution for hearing difficulties for over 15 years. In addition, he has conducted educational workshops for hundreds of hearing instrument specialists all over the United States. He will be able to answer your hearing health questions as well as show you how today’s Invisible Hearing Solutions are the best we’ve ever seen!

Special Open House Event!

Featuring Nationally Known Hearing Aid Expert, Rob Wall

Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday

September 13, 14 & 15

ABC Hearing Center is proud to have served our community with care and compassion for many years. To extend our appreciation, we are having a special event September 13th & 14th at our Mesa location and September 15th at our Peoria location.

During this event, Hearing Exams and Consultations will be FREE! Come learn about our new hearing technology – NuEar NOW and iNOW™ Made for iPhone™ hearing aids.

Hearing Health Care Coupon! up to $1,000 OFF!

Discount taken off MSRP. Cannot be combined with any other offers. Expires 9/15/16 a Pair of NuEar NOW™ Wireless Hearing Instruments

Hearing Health Care Coupon!

Batteries for up to 5 Years!

With the purchase of a new hearing system. Limit one voucher per customer. Expires 9/15/16

ABC Hearing Center 7165 E. University Dr., Bldg. 17, Suite 167 Mesa, AZ • 480-498-2210

ABC Hearing Center 14155 N. 83rd Ave., Bldg. 7, Suite 147 Peoria, AZ • 623-565-9170