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Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Cave Creek is remodeling, expanding town’s fire station BY ALLISON BROWN Foothills Focus Staff Writer
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he Cave Creek town council unanimously approved a contract with Perlman Architects of Arizona for the redesign, engineering, remodel and renovation of the town’s existing Fire Station No. 1 at a recent town council meeting. Jim Ford, director of community risk reduction, explained at the meeting why this renovation is necessary. “When we started this up, one of the biggest issues that the town had was we didn’t have any resources at all. We didn’t
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Perlman Architects of Arizona has been contracted to remodel Cave Creek Fire Station No. 1, located at 37402 N. Cave Creek Road, to create a safer and more efficient facility. (Town of Cave Creek/Submitted)
Rusty’s Resale Boutique rescued by community volunteers BY ALLISON BROWN Foothills Focus Staff Writer
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usty’s Resale Boutique, a thrift store owned and operated by Rusty’s Angels Sanctuary for senior dogs, almost had to close its doors for good until community volunteers stepped up to help. Emilee Spear, founding president of Rusty’s Angels Sanctuary and owner of Rusty’s Resale Boutique, said the store was opened to help raise funds for the
sanctuary, located in New River. However, she was recently forced to temporarily close the store when the store manager abruptly resigned and no one was there to run it. Spear said she was unsure what to do with the Anthem store moving forward, but knew she didn’t want to close it down permanently. “There are many factors at play right now in trying to decide what to do with our little store that everyone loves so much,” she said in a message sent out to the community. “I would like to share
these with our community in hopes of getting the feedback I need that will allow me to make the appropriate decisions for the next chapter of the boutique.” One of those factors was that the boutique’s lease ends in October, and Spear said the landlord recently agreed to let her rent month-to-month. This was a relief to not be locked in a year-long contract.
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