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September 22, 2022
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State Farm Stadium debuts BetMGM Sportsbook BY DAVID MEDINA
Peoria Times Staff Writer
T NEWS..............3 Abrazo unveils cardiac suite, plans screenings
he Arizona Cardinals have made history by becoming the first NFL team to have a sportsbook at their stadium with the opening of the BetMGM Sportsbook at State Farm Stadium. Debuting just days prior to the Cardinals matchup against the Kansas City Chiefs, the BetMGM Sportsbook was celebrated with a ribbon-cutting event by Cardinals owner Michael Bidwill, BetMGM CEO Adam Greenblatt, MGM Resorts International CEO and President Bill Hornbuckle, and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey. While the event is groundbreaking in the NFL world, it’s nothing new to the world of Arizona sports venues. The Phoenix Suns debuted the FanDuel Sportsbook at Footprint Center in September 2021, and the Arizona Diamondbacks opened up the Caesars Sportsbook at Chase Field this past June. SEE SPORTSBOOK PAGE 5
Gov. Doug Ducey and Arizona Cardinals owner Michael Bidwill help cut the ribbon with the presidents and CEOs of BetMGM and MGM Resorts International. (Arizona Cardinals & BetMGM/ Submitted)
Peoria Fire looking forward to having Citizens Academy back BY JORDAN ROGERS
Peoria Times Staff Writer
FEATURES..... 17 Arizona towns, tribes rethink planned water cuts
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or the first time since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Peoria Fire-Medical Department Citizens Academy is back. Once a week over the course of five weeks, Peoria Fire will once again get the chance to show Peoria’s residents a behindthe-scenes look at what it handles daily. “It kind of gives them the opportunity just to see what we do on the fire department side, gives them our perspective on what we do on calls, what we do around the station and how we do training,” Capt.
David Arreguin said. “The best way to do that is to invite them and they come out and witness it firsthand.” The two-year break, Arreguin said, has made it so there will be a lot of new material for Peoria Fire’s instructors to teach to participants. He said the goal is to make the academy a yearly event from here on out. “Even just in the last two years, our perspective has changed,” he said. “Our goal is to be the up-and-coming department. So, in the last two years, we’ve gotten new training techniques. We have some new protocols that we want to share. “Fire tactics change daily, so we’re do-
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ing new things with deploying different types of hoses. We’re seeing research that is just taking our safety and the citizens’ safety to another level.” Each of the five nights runs about four hours long and participants will get the chance to be as hands-on as they would like. Arreguin said that is up to each individual participant, however. “It’s as hands-on as they (the participants) want it to be,” he said. “We’re going to offer all the tools, all the equipment. They can kind of go with it as they please as long as we’re chaperoning close by.” SEE FIRE PAGE 4