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NEWS .................................. 4 Newcomer to head SUSD board.

NEIGHBORS ...............20 An opera star is born.

BUSINESS .................... 30 New entertainment hits the bar scene.

NEIGHBORS ........................20 BUSINESS .............................30 OPINION .............................. 33 SPORTS ................................34 ARTS ....................................36 FOOD & DRINK.................. 40 CLASSIFIEDS .......................42

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Area schools earned $3.45 million in state bonuses BY PAUL MARYNIAK AND WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Staff

chool districts serving the Scottsdale area earned $3.45 million in bonuses from the state Education Department for their overall performance on last year’s AzMERIT tests. Paradise Valley Unified School District will receive $2.46 million, Scottsdale Unified School District will get $1.5 million and Cave Creek Unified School District is getting $380,690 – money derived from a 2016 law the legislature passed to encourage higher student performance. The SUSD schools that got bonuses this year are: Anasazi Elementary, $100,141.44; Cherokee Elementary, $133,065.53; Chey-

enne Traditional School, $200,511.73; Cochise Elementary, $119,711.85; Desert Canyon Elementary, $99,433.30; Hohokam Traditional School, $183,453.57; Hopi Elementary, $172,424.19; Kiva Elementary, $98,221.38; Laguna Elementary, $80,259.21; Pueblo Elementary, $102,705.80; Sequoya Elementary, $105,615.25; and Yavapai Elementary, $115,035.84. Fourteen Paradise Valley schools will receive bonuses, including six in Scottsdale: Copper Canyon Elementary, $134,637.25, Desert Shadows Elementary, $94,434.45; Grayhawk Elementary, $104,405.56; North Ranch Elementary, $109,271.19; Pinnacle Peak Elementary, $129,975.20; and Sonoran Sky Elementary, $147,887.54.

Three schools in CCUSD, all located in Cave Creek, will also receive bonuses. The law that authorized the bonuses gives districts a wide latitude in how they can use the money, from rewarding only teachers at the schools that earned the stipends to hiring staff to expand programs at any school in their system. Each district has developed its own plan. For instance, last year SUSD dedicated about two-thirds of its $1.625 million in bonuses to fund the creation of schoolspecific plans created with input from principals and adhering to state guidelines requiring monies be spent to sustain and replicate results.

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Fake jewelry scheme linked to Scottsdale gallery BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor

ative American jewelry is a ubiquitous part of the downtown Scottsdale experience. But the turquoise pendants, handcrafted silver necklaces and other wares populating stores and galleries here are not created equal. The pieces, which typically cost from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars, are difficult to authenticate for the average buyer and are the subject of a rampant counterfeit market – as a recent case in New Mexico with ties to Scottsdale highlights. Forged Native American jewelry, much of which is produced in Asia, is sold in the U.S. as Indian-made.

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SUSD board newcomer elected president BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor

he Scottsdale Unified School District Governing Board kicked off the New Year by electing Patty Beckman president. New Board Member Jann-Michael Greenburg said that “with the last election, the district is looking for new leadership to move in a new direction (and) put the past behind us.” The board’s unanimous vote Jan. 10 came on a nomination by Allyson Beckham, who was voted vice president. The move was somewhat unorthodox as boards typically select members with prior experience because they are more familiar with the panel’s processes. Beckman acknowledged the unique situation, saying she was prepared to vie for vice president. “I do feel that our community is looking to this current board for some positive change going forward and I also believe this community is fairly optimistic about the future of Scottsdale Unified School District,” Beckman said. Beckman’s lack of board experience did not concern other members. “I know that this recommendation may seem unusual as Patty is a new board member, but I believe Patty is qualified for the position,” Beckham said. She said Beckman was well suited to handle the duties of president, which include administrative tasks and working with the superintendent, because of her experience as a business owner and manager. “Her organizational skills, public speaking ability and your enthusiasm and commitment to SUSD and the board more than qualify you for this position,” Beckham said. Beckham initially turned down an opportunity to become the board’s president after member Sandy Kravetz nominated her. Respect Our Scottsdale Students, a group of parents and community members that has called for more transparency by the district and has often been at odds with the board in recent years, called it a “classy” move by Beckham in a post on its official Facebook page. The group had previously advocated for Beckman. The new board held its first regular meeting on Jan. 15 and interim Superintendent Dr. John Kriekard used the occasion to deliver a state of the dis-

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New SUSD Governing Board President Patty Beckman, left, speaks with former president and current member Barbara Perleberg.

trict address in which he noted progress since he stepped into his role last year. Kriekard took the reins at the district on May 14, 2018 as the district contended with lack of public trust and lawsuits stemming from procurement violations that occurred under the administration of former Superintendent Denise Birdwell. In the months since, Kriekard said, the district has made progress in several areas, including hiring new professionals to key leadership positions and providing salary raises to teachers and staff. He also said the district has completed a demographic study and reviews of the district’s procurement processes, human resources department and transportation inventory review. The superintendent also focused on SUSD’s ongoing efforts both districtwide and at the individual school level, including a slew of programs aimed at fostering and building student achievement. He also emphasized the district’s continued dedication to student emotional and social health. Kriekard said he instructed the district office “to focus on support of the schools… because the teaching and learning that occurs in schools is the only thing that we are about. What’s our business? We educate.” While Kriekard’s address focused on the future of the district, current

events have reminded the community of its past controversies. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Frank W. Moskowitz issued a ruling Jan. 14 granting a request by the defense to remand all 11 felony charges against former district CFO Laura Smith back to the grand jury. The Arizona Attorney General’s Office will have to seek indictments to continue the case accusing Smith of violating the state’s conflict of interest laws and approving purchase orders to Professional Group Public Consulting, Inc., or PGPC Inc., a company she had financial ties to. Smith had previously served as director at PGPC and her sister, Caroline Brackley, is still a partner with the company. Moskowitz found that prosecutors had failed to provide evidence to the panel that could have exonerated Smith of some charges and that the state also presented false or misleading evidence. Specifically, the judge cited the state’s failure to provide the jury with Smith’s employment application to the district, which cited Brackley as a reference and disclosed her current employer as The Professional Group Public Consulting Inc. The judge’s order also states that Smith filed a disclosure of outside employment with the district that stated she would have continued employment with PGPC outside of SUSD hours.

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Navajo parents canvass neighborhood for students BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor

s Scottsdale Unified School District continues to consider consolidation for schools struggling with enrollment, parents from Navajo Elementary have mobilized to keep the school open. The latest effort featured a collection of parents, community stakeholders and even a few governing board members going door to door in the neighborhood surrounding the Navajo campus recently to encourage families that don’t send their children there to reconsider. Approximately 70 people showed up at Chestnutt Park Jan. 12 to distribute 5,000 fliers provided by the school’s PTO that included information about the district’s plans to reopen the campus on Granite Reef and the school’s STEAM program. “We want to let people know we are coming back,” parent Elie Goodman said. Goodman is part of a subcommittee of the Navajo Elementary PTO that is focused on boosting the school’s enrollment. The group included Principal Matt Patzlaff, former Democratic state repre-

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Navajo parent Elie Goodman speaks to a group of parents and community stakeholders, including SUSD Governing Board President Patty Beckman and board member Jann-Michael Greenburg, to canvass the neighborhood and boost enrollment.

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cause is considered undetermined because there was no clear cause. In the meantime, Navajo students were relocated to a district campus three miles away at Miller Road and Oak Street. At a school board meeting in November, interim Superintendent John Kriekard said he expected Navajo students to be back at the original campus by the first semester of next year. Last November, the board approved a plan by Kriekard to address enrollment issues at four district schools, Navajo, Anasazi, Echo Canyon and Yavapai Elementary schools. The plan gave the schools two years to increase enrollment to 400 students and required them to identify a specialized program that can be developed by the school, with district support, to attract new students and families. Goodman said Navajo is at a disadvantage versus other schools considered for consolidation because of the closed campus. “We don’t have two years and it’s not a fair fight,” he said. “We are at a disadvan-

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Players charge racial bias Light up your Life in Juco football lawsuit BY ZACH ALVIRA Progress Sports Editor

group of 11 African-American student-athletes has �iled a federal suit against Maricopa County Community College District of�icials, claiming racial bias over the termination of football teams on campuses. The suit claims that terminating football violates the U.S. Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment and accuses the MCCCD Governing Board of racial discrimination, noting that the overwhelming percentage of football players on its campuses are black. “Sports is one of those industries that helps students achieve. Not only in the sport, but in academia and their professional life,” attorney Phillip A. Austin said during a press conference at his Mesa of�ice Thursday. “This decision has done two things: It’s created an obstacle for these students to achieve that goal, but it has also violated their civil rights.” Some of the 11 plaintiffs at the press conference described how eliminating football negatively impacts their education and life. Scottsdale CC sophomore receiver Devin Neal said the end to junior college football cast a pall over the Artichokes’ �inal season. “It de�initely didn’t sound good. It didn’t feel good,” he said. “(There are) a lot of guys missing opportunities like the ones we have.” The MCCCD issued a statement in response to the suit. “We understand the disappointment of these young men with our decision to eliminate our football programs,” the statement said. “We have great respect for the nearly 350 student athletes impacted by this decision, including these 11. “We believe our decision in this matter was necessary and in the best interest of our students and system. Once we

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are served, we will carefully review the lawsuit and will respond further at the appropriate time.” Signing to play at a community college gave each of the plaintiffs hope of continuing his education and eventually playing at a four-year university. They claim that terminating football programs diminishes those opportunities. “They didn’t consider the fact that many of the football players transfer out to four-year institutions to play,” Austin said. The MCCCD board announced termination of junior college football in February 2018. The announcement left players and coaching staffs at Scottsdale, Mesa and Glendale Community and Phoenix College questioning their future going into the �inal season of play, which ended in November. Rosters for the four teams this past season contained 306 total players. Austin said the board has not presented any adequate evidence to support that claim. Instead, he says emails from board members Jean McGrath and Johanna Haver, as well as other documentation in the lawsuit, show the decision was “prompted by political and racial animus.” “We have emails from McGrath and Haver where they have indicated a racial animus against Muslim, black and Latino student programs,” Austin said. “However, without a thought of the consequence, they decided to end these programs.” Austin explained the MCCCD Governing Board negatively affects other African-Americans within the district at a rate 10 times that of non-African-American students. “This kind of disparity cannot stand, and it’s illegal,” Austin added. “This lawsuit is demanding that the governing board of the Maricopa County Community College District reverse its decision and reinstate the football program”

Other schools had to identify and develop a new program from scratch. Goodman said the group’s message will focus on informing the community about the quality of Navajo’s STEAM program and that the school will reopen next year. He said the enrollment committee plans to host additional actions like the canvass in the future.

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PVUSD, on the other hand, developed a model in which it allocated its funds towards professional development. The law authorizing the bonuses has been criticized for the way the bonuses are given, with some education advocates saying charter schools tend to be favored. The bonuses are based on a complex formula that requires higher-income schools to have an overall passing rate of 67.5 percent on AzMERIT and lowincome schools to have 44.25 percent of their student body pass the performance test. High-performing schools in high-income areas get a bonus of $225 per student while $400 per student is awarded to high performing schools in lower-income areas. Only schools in the top 10 percent of AzMERIT scores qualify for the bonus. One controversy with the bonus program surrounds how districts allocate bonus funds. While some districts around the state choose to award the teachers and schools with high test scores that qualified for the bonuses under the state formula, others have chosen to spread the

wealth around the district to all schools. Kyrene School District Superintendent Jan Vesely said the money earned by 10 of its schools will be spread across all 25 district schools in Tempe, Phoenix and Chandler and used as bonuses for teachers who do extra work on their own time, such as develop a new program. Vesely conceded that some teachers at those schools that qualified for the bonuses feel they’ve already earned some

Districts throughout Scottsdale have taken a mixed approach that, in some cases, awards achieving schools but also spreads some of the bonus money around to the whole district.

extra pay. But Vesely said school superintendents felt a more equitable approach – and one that would encourage teacher development – would be to spread the money throughout the district. Districts throughout Scottsdale have

taken a mixed approach that, in some cases, awards achieving schools but also spreads some of the bonus money around to the whole district. In Cave Creek, Superintendent Debbi Burdick said that this year each school earning an A grade would receive an additional teacher and the remaining funds would be spent on personalized learning software and professional development. Burdick said that last year schools that earned A letter grades from the state received an additional teacher and teachers at those schools received a $1,200 bonus. The rest of the funds were used for district-wide professional development. SUSD – which saw its bonus total drop from $1.6 million to $1.5 million in the most recent allocation – has in the past dedicated 66 percent of funds towards creation of school-specific performance plans only at schools that qualified for bonuses under the state formula. Scottsdale also dedicated 17 percent of its funds last year to provide stipends for teachers to attend a training session over the summer. SUSD spokesperson Amy Bolton said that the budget allowed for 300 seats at the training that “were allocated by the

district to schools proportionally based on the number of staff they have. Who attended from each school was determined by each principal.” The district allocated its remaining bonus money last year towards training expenses and online professional development tools and also set aside five percent to allow schools that earned bonuses to add staff and reduce class sizes. Though SUSD has not decided how it will divvy up all of its funds this year, it does plan to again allocate 66 percent towards the creation of school specific plans. “Discussions among district leadership have indicated that the 66 percent allocated for the School Plans will likely remain near the same for FY 2019 fund distribution plans,” Bolton said. “The remaining 34 percent is still under active discussion and is pending the outcome and feedback from the plan we are currently executing.” Similarly, PVUSD has not finalized how it will distribute its current bonus money but will likely follow the same path as last year when it created a professional development model to replicate results at awarded schools.

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114 public and 77 charter schools of the highest performing schools located in areas where less than 60 percent of all students qualify for the free or reduced lunch program. And that’s where the broader controversy comes in. When Gov. Doug Ducey and the State Legislature adopted the $39-million bonus program in 2017, they said it would expand access to high-quality education for all students throughout Arizona. Ducey also said it would help lowerincome students to close the achievement gap. But critics say most of the money ends up going to schools in higher-income areas. The Children’s Action Alliance’s analysis showed that two-thirds of the pot of bonus money went to high-income schools and 24 percent went to charter schools – the latter more than twice the percent of public schools that qualified for the bonuses. For example, state records show that 18 BASIS public charter schools got a total of nearly $3 million – higher than most public school districts received. Looking at the combined charter and public school beneficiaries of the bonuses, the alliance found that 74 percent of all students attend schools in highincome neighborhoods. “Nothing in the initiative expanded access to high quality schools or required any expansion of the schools getting the bonus,” the alliance complained, adding: “The initiative leaves less funding available to strengthen education in all the other schools with AZMerit scores below the top 10 percent.”

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cottsdale state Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita has introduced several bills early in the legislative session that would change rules regulating voting in Arizona – including one that would require early voters to turn in ballots by mail. SB 1046 would amend existing state election law to prohibit those on the early voting list from turning in completed early ballots to physical polling sites. “That is the deal when you sign up for an early ballot,” said Ugenti-Rita, who

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Council decides to review mural honoring McCain BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor

omplaints by a local property owner have led the City Council to press pause on a mural dedicated to the late Sen. John McCain in downtown Scottsdale. City Council voted on Jan. 8 to review the Development Review Board’s Dec. 20 decision to approve the mural and will take up the issue at a later date. “We’re disappointed… trust is given to the Development Review Board that they can make the appropriate decision,” said Tommy Suchart of architecture firm Chen + Suchart Studio. Suchart is working on the mural with property owner Eric Marvin and artist Aaron Bass. A representative for local property owner Dewey Schade argued that the process of putting up the mural could violate Schade’s property rights. Bass disagreed. “It sounds like the property owner adjacent to the building is trying to make this a property rights issue,” Bass said. “It’s really about trying to commemorate and celebrate the late Senator McCain and other veterans who served.” Bass said the mural has the support of the McCain family and other local property owners. John Vatistas, who owns several properties in the area, expressed support for the mural at the DRB meeting, stating, “at the end of the day, this street is dead… This is something that needs to be done. It really speaks to what downtown Scottsdale is all about.” Another property owner, John Rao, spoke against the mural. He said he was working on a potential development with Schade on the lot and that they were concerned the mural would nega-

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The Maverick Mural set to go up on a building in downtown Scottsdale features an image of the late Senator John McCain and the Arizona State Flag comprised of 30,000 small images depicting the copper, cattle, citrus, cotton and climate.

tively affect their ability to get the project approved. Bass raised over $20,000 on Kickstarter to fund the mural, which depicts McCain’s face and the Arizona flag and is located on the northern wall of a building owned by Marvin located at 4235 N. Marshall Way in the gallery district. At closer glance, the mural is a collection of 30,000 small images depicting the five c’s that have historically represented Arizona’s economy – copper, cattle, citrus, cotton and climate – that come together to form a larger red, white and blue image of McCain and the flag from a distance. The building wall that will host the mural is effectively the property line and adjacent to a parking lot owned by Schade.

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At the DRB meeting, former Councilman David Ortega spoke on Schade’s behalf. “This parking lot is a vital part of his property,” Ortega said, noting that Schade has leases in place with parking tenants and that he is worried paint splatter from the mural installation could damage their vehicles. Ortega, who noted neither he nor Schade are against honoring McCain, said that the artists would have to cross onto Schade’s property to install the mural. “Their intent is to violate his property rights by crossing into his property,” Ortega said. Bass said the team planned to use an articulating boom from the public right of way to avoid entering Schade’s prop-

erty during installation. A portion of the mural has already been placed. Ortega spoke at a council meeting on Jan. 15 and showed photos from social media indicating work had begun on the mural on Dec. 27 and 28 and alleged that the artists had trespassed to perform the work. He asked that the City Attorney’s office take action, including issuing citations, against the parties. Deputy City Attorney Sherry Scott said that the attorney’s office does not issue citations but that it had been in contact with Scottsdale Police Department and “we are looking into it.” Ortega also voiced concerns about the

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Scottsdale to study possible texting motorist ban BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor

week after a Salt River police officer was struck and killed by a texting driver on the Loop 101, the Scottsdale City Council took steps to consider regulating cellphone use by motorists in the city. Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Police Officer Clayton Townsend was buried last week. He died Jan. 8 after being struck by a vehicle while conducting a routine traffic stop. On Jan. 15, council took up the issue of regulating cellphone use by drivers at the request of Councilwoman Suzanne Klapp. The council voted 6-1 to direct the City Manager’s office to prepare a presentation for a future meeting at which members will discuss and potentially take action. Klapp said her decision was partially prompted by Townsend’s death. She also pointed out that 17 cities and counties in the state have taken on the issue. “I think it’s a growing problem,” she said. “We are surrounded by cities that already have laws in place, including the (Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community). It is imperative that we do something that covers handheld devices or texting while driving.” Phoenix, Tempe and 15 other governmental entities have passed their own laws regulating distracted driving. Klapp added, “It is long overdue.” Councilwoman Linda Milhaven cast the one dissenting vote. “While I am supportive of having a Scottsdale conversation, I think a statewide solution is preferable,” Milhaven said. Mayor Jim Lane previously told the Progress that he did not want to see a regulatory environment in which every city or town had its own rules governing texting while driving. Lane said the City Council had looked into the issue four or five years ago but found at the time that similar texting while driving bans were ineffective because they are difficult to enforce. Still, Lane voted in support of Klapp’s motion because it simply allowed the council to advance the conversation. He indicated that he was still in favor of a statewide solution. Klapp said she too favors a statewide solution to the issue but that there is no guarantee that the State Legislature will. “My preference would be that the state takes care of this and that we don’t have to set an (ordinance) in Scottsdale,” Klapp

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The forged jewelry – often passed off as made by artists of Hopi, Zuni or Navajo ancestry – costs much less to produce than actual Native American art, giving the stores that sell it a tidy profit. In August 2018, U.S. District Judge Judith C. Herrera sentenced Nael Ali to six months in prison after Ali pled guilty to two felony charges that he violated the federal Indian Arts and Crafts Act. Ali also had to pay $9,048 in restitution. The law “prohibits the offer or display for sale, or the sale of any good in a manner that falsely suggests that it is Indian produced, an Indian product, or the product of a particular Indian or Indian tribe,” according to the United States Attorney for New Mexico. The law, first passed in 1935, covers any Indian or Indian-style arts and crafts produced since that year. It does not prohibit artists or stores from selling Native American-style or Southwestern jewelry, provided the country of origin is clearly identified. However, some wholesalers and retailers are willing to go to great lengths to obscure the origins of counterfeit jewelry. Bob Gallegos, a board member of ATADA, said some counterfeiters have gone so far as to rename a town in the Philippines “Zuni” so it could carry a “made in Zuni” label. ATADA is a national organization of tribal art dealers and collectors that establishes ethical and responsible trading practices. According to a federal indictment in the New Mexico case, Ali owned galleries in Albuquerque and Scottsdale and allegedly purchased $85,369 worth of Native American-style jewelry manufactured in the Philippines from a seller named Imad Manassara, who was also a defendant in the case. Ali allegedly purchased $10,165 worth of items using checks from Scottsdalebased Galleria Azul, which he operated in historic Old Town from November 2012 to June 2014, according to the indictment. Ali admitted that he mixed jewelry from the Philippines with jewelry created by Native American artists at one of his New Mexico stores and directed a staff member to display and sell it “as if it was Indian product, or the product of a particular Indian tribe," according to the plea deal. In a complaint filed in New Mexico in a separate ongoing case against an alleged counterfeit jewelry importer known as Sterling Islands, federal prosecutors alleged that Ali or his employees sold counterfeit jewelry to an undercover U.S. Fish and Wildlife agent at his stores, including

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Alston and Deborah Neal own Territorial Indian Arts & Antiques in downtown Scottsdale. Alston Neal’s mother started selling Native American wares in the 1930s and he has operated in several locations on Main Street since 1969. They help buyers know the real thing when they purchase Indian jewelry.

the Scottsdale location. The indictment was not a surprise to Alston Neal, who owns Territorial Indian Arts & Antiques with his wife. “Some of the people involved in that bust got their start on Fifth Avenue,” Neal said, referring to Scottsdale’s popular shopping district. Neal, whose mother started selling Native American wares in the 1930s, has operated on Main Street since 1969, starting in historic Old Town Scottsdale before moving into the Arts District. Neal’s store is one of 10 shops in Scottsdale that are listed in the ATADA membership directory. The full directory is at atada.org. He said the forgery issue is nothing new and retailers selling counterfeits can turn much larger profits than stores that sell genuine Indian jewelry because fakes often use cheaper raw materials, such as synthetic turquoise, and are manufac-

tured in bulk overseas with cheap labor. Authentic Native American jewelry is expensive because of the quality of materials and the time it takes an artist to craft a single piece. Schwan Khansarian, owner of Ideal Collection in historic Old Town, said that artists he employs can spend days, or even weeks, crafting a single piece of jewelry. Ideal Collection hires Native American artists from several different tribes to produce works sold in their store. Neal said counterfeit Navajo blankets made using the same techniques employed by Navajo craftspeople appeared in the market in the 1960s, followed by counterfeit Zuni jewelry in the late-1960s and early 1970s. Neal said that until the 1990s, woven baskets produced by Tohono O’odham, or Papago, craftspeople were popular until counterfeits from Pakistan flooded the market.

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full week two to four times a year because of ceremonies. “What the jewelry does is allow those artists to actually have the financial means to be able to do with what they need to do,” Talahongva said. Stopping the flow of forgeries is not simple. Overseas operations have become so proficient that many of the counterfeits are indistinguishable from the real thing. “We have people come into us every day,” said McGee. “We do not do appraisals, but we do tell people what they have, and we find a lot of Asian-made product.” Gallegos said that those unfamiliar with the intricacies of Zuni jewelry are unlikely to see the difference. “Casual or average Native American jewelry aficionados will not know,” he said, adding that the origins are “sometimes totally misrepresented and sometimes it is presented in showcases that have real jewelry and sellers don’t bother distinguishing between the two.” Gallegos said that Zuni artists typically sign or stamp their work, so buyers can look for an artist’s initials or signature to verify a piece’s legitimacy. However, the Ali case has shown that

even this is not a 100 percent guarantee of authenticity. According to a federal indictment, some of the counterfeit pieces that Ali’s employees allegedly sold included a “CK” stamp, passed off as jewelry created by a fictitious Navajo artist named Calvin Kee. “It’s really bad,” he said. “You can’t expect everyone to be able to tell the difference between real turquoise, stabilized turquoise or man-made turquoise.” Neal and McGee advise that consumers only work with dealers that they trust or have a reputable history. Gallegos said he wants to work with various tribes to create educational materials for buyers. “I would like to see more outreach with the different communities that show the examples of fakes to show at tradeshows,” he said. “We need to try to figure out how to pass along enough information to potential buyers.” He already plans to meet with Curtis Quam, a Zuni museum technician and cultural educator, to begin developing those efforts. All ATADA members have agreed to a seller’s guarantee, included in their bylaws, that includes a guarantee of return and refund if information provided about a sold piece is found to be inaccurate.

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mural’s maintenance if it is damaged or wears over time. Bass said that he will be using paint with a long lifespan that is designed to be in the sun. Marvin said he has allocated funds to maintain the mural as long as Schade provides access, noting during a previous renovation, Schade had provided access to the lot to allow him to repaint the building in exchange for payment. That payment covered the lot’s restoration, Bass said. No vehicles were damaged during that renovation, Marvin said. Councilwoman Kathy Littlefield, who requested the council review, said she was concerned about the property rights issues at play, adding that the board decision “did not give them the right to trespass.” “It is ironic to me that a man like John McCain spent his life defending the law and private property rights and his name is now being used to defy those rights,” she added. The council is not actually permitted to review the property rights issue when it reconsiders the DRB decision. Scottsdale City Attorney Bruce Wash-

burn said that the council would essentially act as the Development Review Board and would be charged with applying the same criteria for approval used by that board. “I don’t mean to minimize those (property rights) issues in any way, but they are not part of the criteria that (the DRB applies),” he said The DRB considers matters such as whether or not a project’s color palette conforms to the city’s design guidelines. Littlefield also expressed concerns about those DRB issues, particularly the mural’s color palette. The mural consists of red and blue images on a white background, but the city’s design guidelines for the area call for light earth tones and allows for vivid colors to be used as accents. The Development Review Board is allowed to approve other color palettes at its discretion. At the DRB meeting on the subject, Vice Chair said he did not have a problem with the red and blue color palette because the mural is a work of art. He likened the mural to the large “Love” sign that city recently relocated from Civic Center Mall. “I think that these color requirements are for buildings,” Young said. “This is a little bit of a different animal.”

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cottsdale native and ColombianAmerican soprano Vanessa Vasquez may just be opera’s latest rising star. After years of schooling – including graduating from the prestigious Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia last year – and competing in and winning countless competitions, Vasquez was signed to Columbia Artists Management, an international agency, in 2017. That same year, she made her professional opera debut as Liù in the opera “Turandot” with Des Moines Metro Opera. And this month, Vasquez will cross another “first” off her list: perform, professionally, in front of her family. From Jan. 27 through Jan. 29 at Arizona Opera in Phoenix, Vasquez will take center stage to perform the role of Violetta in one of the most popular – and tragic – operas, “La Traviata.” “Many friends and family have never seen me in an operatic role,” Vasquez said, adding that she plans to invite her former elementary and high school teachers and choir directors to the opera. “They’re

feeling an immense sense of excitement.” Vasquez grew up in Scottsdale and attended Xavier College Preparatory in Phoenix. Although she didn’t give much thought to singing professionally, her parents – her father, a Colombianborn civil engineer, and her mother, a Cu(Vanessa Vasquez, Columbia Artists/Special to the Progress) ban native – both saw Opera singer and Scottsdale native Vanessa Vasquez that their daughter plays the lead role of Violetta in “La Traviata.” was brimming with It wasn’t until vocal talent. “They never really imagined I would end her senior year up as an opera singer because I don’t really at Xavier when have a typical opera singer background,” she sang her way (Vanessa Vasquez, Columbia Artists/Special to the Progress) Vasquez said. “[My parents] didn’t know through the role of Vanessa Vasquez performing the role of Donna Anna in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” anything about opera. I didn’t really know Eliza Doolittle in While attending the Catholic University the musical “My Fair Lady” that she knew anything about opera.” of America, a private, nonprofit Catholic Her parents told her that she started she wanted to pursue singing professionuniversity located in Washington, D.C., singing before she even started talking, so ally – but not necessarily operatic singing. Vasquez’s voice teacher saw something in “That was the pivotal moment when I rethey enrolled her in private voice lessons at her. She approached Vasquez about classialized I have to do this for my life,” Vasquez 6 years old. see OPERA page 22 “And I haven’t stopped since,” she said. said.

Son’s suicide spurs his Scottsdale mom to action BY KRISTINE CANNON Progress Staff Writer

cottsdale resident Francine Sumner describes her son Zachary Sumner as kind, funny, smart, giving and thoughtful. If he wasn’t spending his own money stuffing a bag full of dog treats and toys to give to the local humane society, he was comforting distraught students at his school, Horizon High School. But underneath it all, Zach fought to conquer his mental illness. He often said he felt alone and that nobody cared, and in June 2017, after a two-week stint in the hospital, Zach took his own life. “He did not want to die. He was not suicidal, but the wrong medications with the wrong diagnosis increased suicidal ideation,” Francine said. “He was in a very

manic episode and made a very impulsive decision. He was sick.” In the months following Zach’s death, Francine and fellow family members and close friends started the nonprofit organization, Kid in the Corner, to drive home one message about suicide and mental illness. “Everybody thinks that people who are suicidal or (Francine Sumner/Special to the Progress) Zach Sumner, a Scottsdale teen who died of suicide in June 2017, is the inspiration depressed or have behind his mother Francine Sumner’s nonprofit organization, Kid in the Corner. mental illness are

sitting alone in a corner somewhere in their bedrooms, and they’re not,” Francine said. Through Kid in the Corner, Francine wants to shatter the stigma around suicide and let people know that it’s OK to not be OK and that, more importantly, it’s OK to talk about it. “We’re really trying to start those difficult conversations,” she said. “Little by little, it’s happening.” Kid in the Corner held its first fundraising event at Stagebrush Theatre in south Scottsdale on Dec. 30, 2018. It quickly sold out. “We are raising money to save kids’ lives,” said Producer Debra Rich Gettleman. “But this show is all about hope, empowerment and joy.”

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he couple that works together, retires together. Former City of Scottsdale employees Kim and Don Shrum hatched a plan about 10 years ago to retire on the same day – and that day finally arrived on Jan. 10. Kim worked as a police records specialist for the city for just over 10 years,

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and Don worked as the lead fleet technician for 25 1/2 years. Before working for the city, she worked with the Scottsdale Unified School District. When she found out her position at the school district was being dissolved, she knew she had to find another job. “Don saw this position open for the City of Scottsdale police records, and he said, ‘Well, apply for it,’” Kim said.

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cal singing. “She said, ‘I feel like you have such a great facility for singing operatically,’” Vasquez recalled. “I was, like, I have no idea how to do that.” Vasquez was hesitant at first, with images of curvy Viking women wearing a hornedhelmet singing loudly, their mouths gaping, immediately flooding her mind. But once her voice teacher sent her YouTube video after YouTube video of some of the greatest singers of the 20th century, Vasquez immediately fell in love with opera. Vasquez’s role in “La Traviata” is a demanding one, both emotionally and vocally. She calls the role of Violetta a stamina role and the most challenging role she’s ever learned. “You’re on the stage the entire time,” she said. “It’s definitely a skill to be able to figure out how to make it through three hours of an opera, so that’s definitely challenging. I’m learning something new every day about the role because it has so many aspects to it.”

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The cabaret fundraiser called You Are Not Alone raised about $7,000 in ticket sales, $4,000 from attendees through the event and $7,000 prior to the event via pledges – a total of about $18,000. “It was way beyond my expectations,” Francine said. “The message was clear and an important one. It really moved people to tears.” Throughout the night, attendees walked up to Francine to share their stories and how the event and the nonprofit’s message have impacted their lives. One young man told Francine that he felt alone for a long time, but after the fundraiser, he said he was moved and finally felt “a spark.” Later, a mother told Francine that the event spawned conversations between her and her daughter. “She said, ‘My daughter was telling me that she had anxiety and sometimes that anxiety tries to make her tell herself she’s suicidal,’ and they talked about a safe plan and what to do,” Francine said. That night, the entire audience of 200 people recited and took the Penny Pledge, too. It was a powerful moment Francine will never forget. Zach was an avid coin collector, but pennies were, no doubt, his specialty as he had thousands of pennies in his room, including a bag full of 50,000 wheat pennies. Two days before Zach’s funeral, Fran-

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In the opera, Violetta is a courtesan and socialite in Paris. During one of her many glamorous parties, she falls in love with Alfredo Germont. The conflict is: Will she leave the glittering life she built behind for love? The opera is brimming with heavy themes of family, life, love and death, and it’s an opera that Vasquez describes as real, relatable and depicts a deep portrayal of human emotion. “It’s a timeless piece and one of opera’s greatest masterpieces,” she said. “The music is so perfectly entwined with the words and the emotions of the characters that, as an audience, it literally just embeds itself in your soul.” Vasquez calls Violetta the heart of the story, and she admires the character greatly. “You assume these things about her and who she is, but then you discover how wrong you were about her, that a courtesan has the ability to show us what true love is and how she makes the ultimate sacrifice to prove it,” she said. “It’s impossible not to relate with her and empathize how painful it would be to do what she did.”

Considered one of the most popular opera among audiences, “La Traviata” is chock-full of famous melodies many wouldn’t realize originated from the opera, including “Brindisi” or “The Drinking Song.” (Google it and you’ll instantly recognize it.) Outside of Violetta in “La Traviata,” Vasquez admires fellow Latina opera singers Ailyn Pérez, Isabel Leonard and Eglise Gutiérrez, to name a few. These women have helped pave the way for aspiring Latino opera singers to take the opera stages of the world, Vasquez said. Because when Vasquez first started, she wasn’t confident she’d fit in, let alone have a future in opera. But when the Richard Tucker Music Foundation – a nonprofit organization that has given out over 250 grants to promising young singers, including Vasquez, since it was founded in 1988 – started bringing Latina singers to the forefront, it made Vasquez feel like she could do it, too. “It gave me that confidence,” she said. “I get excited when I see other Hispanics and Latin women on big stages.”

or on key chains, backpacks or however it’s carried – is a physical reminder to reach out, be kind and show people they are not alone. “The second pledge is to take care of your own mental health and to ask for help,” Francine said. “Make sure that you have some safe people in your life.” Lastly, pennies are worn to show other people you’re a safe person to talk to. “We will always listen. We will be a caring person,” Francine said. “It’s a simple concept, but it’s really eye-opening.” (Pablo Robles/Progress Staff Photographer) Francine always Gabrielle Sumner, Francine Sumner and Jacob Sumner hosted nonprofit orwears Zach’s penny. His ganization Kid in the Corner’s first fundraising event in December 2018 at name and a semicolon Stagebrush Theatre in Scottsdale. The sold-out event raised about $18,000. are inscribed on the cine’s son, Jacob, and a group of his and back. Zach’s friends sat around a table picking “Semicolon means your story’s not over,” out all of the pennies dated with the year she explained, clutching the penny. 2000 – the year Zach was born. Kid in the Corner was officially estab“One of his friends had a drill at home. lished as a nonprofit in September 2018, He drilled holes in them,” Francine said. but the idea of the organization came to “We decided to wear those pennies to re- Francine a month following Zach’s death. mind us to live our life like Zachary.” “While Zachary was the inspiration for And thus began the Penny Pledge, a re- Kid in the Corner, it’s not about Zachary. minder that every cent counts. It’s about the people still living. It’s about Wearing the penny around your neck – making sure that the next kid in the corner

Vasquez was humbled when it was suggested she, too, is a role model for young girls. Though, it is her goal to give back and make grander gestures to help encourage young singers. “I want to serve the music as much as I can, and once I can relax a little bit later on in my career, I really hope to turn around and look back where I came from and help young singers to bring them forward,” she said. “It’s very important to me, and I want to be able to do that one day, for sure.” For now, she’s focused on singing, and if that inspires others, she said that’d be very rewarding. “I just want to get paid to do what I love, but maybe I can inspire some people,” Vasquez said.

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“La Traviata” When: Jan. 27-29 Where: Arizona Opera, 1636 N. Central Ave. Tickets: $30-$155 Website: azopera.org feels like they have resources,” she said. Francine immediately took Kid in the Corner to Horizon High School to tell his story and share the nonprofit’s mission. “I really felt that the kids there needed to hear it firsthand because otherwise everybody’s whispering,” she said. “It didn’t want the stigma.” Her speech and presentation was so well-received, other Scottsdale-area schools, including Desert Springs Preparatory Elementary School and Chaparral High School, asked Francine to present at their schools. The Kid in the Corner curriculum is now part of many schools. Others include Horizon High School, Wildfire Elementary School and Bothell High School outside of Seattle. “We’re even working with the Girl Scouts to incorporate Kid in the Corner activities to help girls earn their kindness badge,” said board member Debbie Popeil. “We plan to build Kid in the Corner clubs at every high school, middle school and elementary school in Arizona.” Chaparral High plans to start a Kid in the Corner club this year, according to Francine. At Desert Springs Prep – which Zach, Jacob and their sister Gabrielle attended – Francine gave a presentation last month, and the sixth-graders all took the Penny Pledge. The students received a penny to wear

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around their necks – necklaces they continue to wear to this day. “It is amazing to see both boys and girls wearing their pennies daily,” said Randi Posner Cutler, gifted specialist at DSPES. “The students were very moved by Francine’s talk.” A parent of one of the sixth grade students even sent an email to her son’s teacher. She wrote that following her son taking the pledge, Kid in the Corner has fostered important conversations at their household. “The past 10 years in the ER, I have seen a huge increase in depression, thoughts of wanting to kill themselves and/or attempts in young kids, it’s heartbreaking,” the parent wrote. “I cannot thank you enough for supporting Zach’s mom and making a horrible situation an opportunity to educate others.” According to a 2018 report by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, suicide is the second leading cause of death for people between the ages of 15 and 34. The Arizona Department of Health Services reported in December 2018 that suicide was the eighth leading cause of death among males in 2017. For females, suicide

was the 11th leading cause of death. Closer to home, 31 East Valley teenagers have committed suicide since July 2017 – around the same time Zach took his own life. “We cannot sit idly by and watch this epidemic of teen suicide continue to grow,” Popeil said. “Not on our watch.” Through Kid in the Corner and its Penny Pledge, Francine hopes it’ll encourage children, teens and young adults to spread awareness and take action to change the culture around mental illness. “It’s, what can I, as a person, do to make this world a kinder place?” Francine said. “We’re not mental health professionals. We’re not out there telling you what the signs are to look for,” she said. “We’re saying, get out there and take care of yourself and others.” “The battle to save my kid was overwhelming, and his loss was insurmountable,” she said. “I never want another parent to have to go through this.” Information: kidinthecorner.org

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You’re fully vested with the city at 10 years. The plan was I’d work 10 years and get my 10 [points]. Don would hit his 80 points, and then we’d retire together. together,” Burkett said. “It’s a whole new chapter.” “It’s kind of scary, but exciting, to think about my parents not being here,” Tabi said. Shrum-Marquart nodded in agreement. “I live five blocks away from my parents, and I just can’t imagine them not being here.” Kim lived in Colorado before her family moved to Scottsdale in 1965. When her brother retired – he was a Mesa firefighter – he and his family moved back to Colorado, and Kim and Don visited frequently. “We bought land [in Colorado] seven years ago, and we thought, that’s where we’re going to retire,” Kim said. “So that’s been our plan for the last seven years: retire, sell our house and live there.” Kim and Don are excited for this new chapter in their lives, though it still hasn’t hit Kim that she doesn’t have to return to work. “I feel like it’s the last day of school and it’s just summer break,” she said. “It just hasn’t hit me yet. It’ll probably hit me six months from now.” They both stress that they’ll sorely miss their coworkers. “You couldn’t ask for a better job,” Kim said. “It’s literally a big family, and I’m going to be sad not seeing them every day because this was my other home.”

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Tiny tot time (Ages 0-24 months)

Develop babies’ literacy with songs, rhymes, movement and board books from 10 to 10:20 a.m. at Mustang Library, 10101 N. 90th St. Information: 480312-7323.

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Sunday

20 A Man Named Pearl

“A Man Named Pearl” is a film that chronicles Pearl Fryar’s life and artwork. Co-director Scott Galloway will participate in a Q&A Skype session after the showing at 1 p.m. at Virginia G. Piper Theater, 7380 E. Second St. Tickets are $12. Information: 480-499-8587.

Story stop (Ages 0-5)

Build children’s literacy with a free picture book program from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at the Scottsdale Civic Center Library, 3839 N. Drinkwater Blvd. Information: 480-312-7323.

Monday

21 James Rollins book launch

James Rollins will sign “Crucible” at 7 p.m. at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore, 4014 N. Goldwater Blvd. The book will be available for $28.99. Information: 480947-2974.

Crystal bridge at the J

Join others for duplicate bridge in a warm and friendly atmosphere between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. at Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road. Light refreshments will be served throughout the day. Attendance is $10. Information: 480-483-7121.

Fast play bridge

Enjoy a game of bridge at 1 p.m. at Via Linda Senior Center at 10440 E. Via Linda. Information: 480-312-5810.

Guitar club

Learn guitar basics including warm-up techniques, proper hand positions, note-reading

and more from 4 to 5 p.m. at Scottsdale Civic Center Library, 3839 N. Drinkwater Blvd. in a six-week series. No prior experience is required. Information: 480-312-7323.

Tuesday

22 Knitting circle at The J

Learn or practice knitting with others from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road. Free. Information: 480-481-7033.

Twos and threes together (Ages 2-3)

Young children can learn social and literacy skills from 10 to 10:30 a.m. with short stories, finger-plays and action rhymes at the Scottsdale Civic Center Library, 3839 N. Drinkwater Blvd. Information: 480-312-7323.

Homework help (Ages 8-18)

Stop by the Arabian Library at 10215 E. McDowell Mountain Ranch Road for help on any subject from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Information: 480-312-7323.

Books 2 boogie (Ages 0-5)

Children and their caregivers are invited to participate in music, movement and song from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at Palomino Library, 12575 E. Via Linda. Information: 480-312-7323.

Wednesday

23 Guided senior hike

Transportation will be provided to a guided hike at the McDowell Sonoran Preserve at 8 a.m. from Granite Reef Senior Center, 1700 N. Granite Reef Road, and 8:30 a.m. from Via Linda Senior Center, 10440 E. Via Linda. Reg-

Little libros (Ages 0-5)

istration is required. Information: 480-312-1700 or 480-312-5810.

A tribute to the soldiers of WWI

Guy Benoit, historical researcher and grandson of a WWI veteran, will pay tribute to the soldiers of his French hometown and the Lafayette Squadron and Doughboys from 11 a.m. to noon at Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road. Registration is required. Cost is $5 to $15. Information: vosjcc.org/soldiers.

Expert HR series: implicit bias in the workplace

This Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce and Employers Council seminar will uncover how to recognize and challenge implicit bias in the workplace from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at 7915 N. Hayden Road, Suite D-280. Admission is $20.

Hardboiled Crime book discussion club

Join others in discussing Alan Park’s “Bloody January” at 7 p.m. at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore, 4014 N. Goldwater Blvd. Information: 480-947-2974.

Tail waggin’ tales (Ages 6-10)

Children can practice their reading skills with a certified therapy dog from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Mustang Library, 10101 N. 90th St. Information: 480-312-7323.

Thursday

24 ArtWalks

Enjoy a free public art walk from 7 to 9 p.m. along Main Street from Scottsdale Road to Goldwater Boulevard and on Marshall Way north of Indian School Road to Fifth Avenue. Restaurants, museums and trolley and horse-drawn carriage rides are available during weekly art walks. Information: scottsdalegalleries.com.

Learn fun songs, stories and rhymes in English and Spanish from 10 to 10:30 a.m. at the Scottsdale Civic Center Library, 3839 N. Drinkwater Blvd. Information: 480-312-7323.

Drop-in e-reader help

Receive help with downloadables. Bring your device, library card and questions from 11 a.m. to noon at Appaloosa Library, 7377 E. Silverstone Drive. Information: 480-312-7323.

Friday

25 Adult children of alcoholics

This support group is open to women wishing to move forward from growing up in an alcoholic or dysfunctional home. The group meets from noon to 1 p.m. at North Scottsdale Fellowship Club, 10427 N. Scottsdale Road.

Human Nature: direct from Las Vegas

Enjoy a performance by pop vocal group Human Nature at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Church, 9050 E. Pinnacle Peak Road. Tickets are $34 to $76. Information: azmusicfest.org or 480-422-8449.

Parents’ night out at DreamTeam Academy

Parents can enjoy a relaxing night out while their children, ages 7 to 14, can enjoy basketball instruction, watch a movie and socialize in the Kids’ Club Social Lounge where they will find board games, arcade games, books and more from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. at DreamTeam Academy, 15955 N. Dial Blvd., Suite 3. Pizza, drinks and dessert are included. Cost is $35 per child and $20 per additional sibling. Registration is required. Information: www.dreamteamacademy.com or 480-800-8326.

Meet your neighbors for lunch

Network while enjoying great cuisine from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Benihana, 16403 N. Scottsdale Road Admission is $15 to $30.

Saturday

26 Farmers market

The Farmers Market North Scottsdale offers produce, eggs, meat, bread, baked goods, oils, honey, coffee, tea, clothing, jewelry and more weekly from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. through April 9 at The General Store, 8711 E. Pinnacle Peak Road. Information: 480-389-5117.

Old Town Scottsdale farmers market

This weekly market connects the community with local growers, food producers and community groups every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. until May 25 at Old Town Scottsdale Farmers Market, 3806 N. Brown Ave. Information: 623848-1234.

Waking up with butter�lies and reptiles

Adults are invited to a quiet hour of photographing butterflies as they awake from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. at Butterfly Wonderland, 9500 E. Via de Ventura. Tickets are $25 for the general public and free for members. Registration is required. Information: 480-800-3000, ext. 210.

An evening with Mentalist Brett Barry

Mingle with mind-reader Brett Barry at 6:30 p.m. before his performance from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road. Registration is required. Cost is $20 to $25. Information: vosjcc.org/mentalist.

Pig the Pug storytime and activities

Children can enjoy storytime activities and a reading of “Pig the Pug” at 11 a.m. at Barnes & Noble, 10500 N. 90th St. Attendance includes a coupon from the Barnes & Noble Café for a grilled cheese sandwich with milk or juice for $4. Information: 480-391-0048.

Sunday

27 North Scottsdale fellowship club New Faces AA meeting

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group at 7:45 a.m. at North Scottsdale Fellowship Club, 10427 N. Scottsdale Road. Club membership is not required to attend meetings.

Story stop (Ages 0-5)

Build children’s literacy with a free picture book program from 2 to 2:15 p.m. at the Scottsdale Civic Center Library, 3839 N. Drinkwater Blvd. Information: 480-312-7323.

Monday

28 Multiple myeloma support group

Find support and talk with others also affected by multiple myeloma from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at Ironwood Cancer and Research Centers, 8880 E. Desert Cove, Ave. Information: 480-3146660.

Herb Alpert and Lani Hall

Enjoy a performance by jazz trumpet legend Herb Alpert and Grammy Award-winning singer Lani Hall at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Church, 9050 E. Pinnacle Peak Road. Tickets are $34 to $76. Information: azmusicfest. org or 480-422-8449.

Sex, sexuality and older adults in the sacred encounter

Rabbi Richard Address will examine human sexuality from a Jewish perspective from 1 to 2 p.m. at Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road. Registration is required. Cost is $5 to $15. Information: vosjcc.org/ sacred.

Art all around us

The Phoenix Art Museum will present expert slide talks on art from 11 a.m. to noon at Mustang Library, 10101 N. 90th St. Information: 480-312-7323.

Film series: The Children Act

Enjoy the drama, “The Children Act,” from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Scottsdale Civic Center Library, 3839 N. Drinkwater Blvd. Information: 480-312-7323.

Advanced beginner bridge

Join others in playing a fun game of bridge from 3 to 5 p.m. at Appaloosa Library, 7377 E. Silverstone Drive. Information: 480312-7323.

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ongtime hockey fans Sco ttsdale know exactly who Mike Hobin is. In the 1970s, Hobin was a former professional ice hockey player who played in the World Hockey Association. An Ontario, Canada native, he started playing for the junior ice hockey team, the Hamilton Red Wings, in ‘72. And in ‘76, he played for the Phoenix Roadrunners. At the age of 46, however, now-northern Scottsdale resident Hobin traded in his ice hockey skates for road bike shoes. He hasn’t stopped riding since. “A lot of guys do that: When they get older, they play their sports and then all of a sudden, you say, ‘Well, can’t do that anymore,’” he said. “But I can ride a bike.” So far, Hobin has traveled a total of about 145,000 miles on his bike. His first long ride was a trek across the United States in 2009 to raise money for his son, who has (Mike Hobin/Special to the Progress) had type 1 diabetes since he was 12. Northern Scottsdale resident Mike Hobin biked for 121 days through Africa in 2016. Over the course of the 38-day crosscountry ride – a 3,300-mile journey that countries in Africa, from Cairo, started in Santa Barbara, California and Egypt to Cape Town, South Afended in Charleston, South Carolina – Ho- rica – a distance of 12,000 km bin raised $55,000. or roughly 7,500 miles. “It’s a pretty devastating disease, and it “It was a culture shock evhits very close to home,” he said. erywhere,” he said. “No matHobin just got back from his most re- ter where you were, you go by cent overseas excursion: a three-week ride and you see people with rings through southern India. He was in India in their noses and spears and for six weeks – the first three weeks with men wearing little dresses.” his wife Mary and the rest with a group of Hobin joined TDA Global Cyfellow Scottsdale residents. cling, a Toronto-based cycling He and his group rode from Goa to Ker- tour company that offers bike ala along the coast of western India. The tours and long-distance cycle two states are about 420 miles apart. expeditions. “We went through the mountains down Hobin calls the Africa trip there and the tea plantations. It was really, a phenomenal experience, culturally, a neat thing to do,” Hobin said. though a rough one. The country roads may have been scenic “At times, some riders and serene, but riding through the cities broke down into tears, others was a different story. screamed profanities and most “The cities are just chaos,” Hobin said. “It everyone asked themselves, was madness.” ‘Why am I doing this?" Hobin Hobin’s ride guide broke down the order wrote on this blog. of priority like this: Trucks come first, then Camping proved most difNorthern Scottsdale resident Mike Hobin stops to take a quick buses, then cars, then motorcycles. Cows ficult. selfie in front of Hindu elephant god Ganesha during his threecome next, then donkeys, and then cyclists. “We camped on the side of week bike ride through southern India at the end of last year. “We’re certainly lower than the cows,” busy highways. We camped on ment of his four-month ride. Hobin said with a laugh. “There are cows lava fields. We camped in the In Botswana in southern Africa, the everywhere.” Sahara Desert – the wind’s blowing and Each night, Hobin and his group stayed you’re just sicker than a dog from the dust group was caught between a mother elein hotels – a far cry from his experience and conditions. There was no luxury at all,” phant and her calf. They were on what the ride guide called “Elephant Highway.” biking through Africa in 2016 with a group Hobin said. “Sure enough, we’re right in between the of 17 riders hailing from all over the world. Lions came through the campsite one Hobin spent 121 days riding through 10 night, too; but that wasn’t the scariest mo- two of them, and his mother is not happy,”

Hobin said. “She’s flapping her ears, raising her trunk and screaming at us to get out of the way from her baby.” Initially stunned, they weren’t sure what to do, but eventually nudged themselves over to the side of the road and escaped harm. The months following this Africa ride were tough for Hobin. Living with just the bare necessities, including just one water bottle per day with which to wash, it took Hobin about six months to re-integrate back into his old life. “When you come back and all of a sudden you have everything and you say, ‘What do you need in life? What’s important in life?'" he said. “I look back on it and it is the best thing I ever did. I enjoyed every day,” he said. Hobin’s Africa ride was about much more than traveling, exploring other countries and exposing himself to other cultures, however. Much like he did for his ride across America, Hobin used the Africa trip as an opportunity to raise money for Living Room Ministries International, a hospice in Kenya that provides quality palliative care services to adults and children with lifethreatening illnesses, and Rancho Feliz, a nonprofit organization that provides food, clothing and shelter to abandoned children along the Mexican border. Rancho Feliz was founded by Hobin’s friends and fellow Desert Mountain community residents, Gil and Troy Gillenwater. “I’ve been down to see what Rancho Feliz does over on the Mexico border, and it’s been a phenomenal transformation,” he said. “It has affected a lot of people’s lives.” Hobin raised approximately $80,000 – $50,000 for Rancho Feliz and $30,000 for Living Room Ministries International. In addition to Africa, Hobin also spent 30 days in 2014 riding from St. Petersburg, Russia to Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2010, he spent one week riding around Florence, Italy. Hobin’s next overseas ride is in May, when he’ll ride from Budapest, Hungary, to Hamburg, Germany. Hobin rides with the Desperados, a nonprofit organization based out of Desert Mountain that organizes hikes and bike rides on and off the property. One of the other members of the Desperados, who was born in Budapest, is organizing the trip. Hobin is looking forward to it. “Riding has a sense of freedom and a sense of peace you get when you’re on the road,” he said.

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Joint church service reinforces King’s message BY KRISTINE CANNON Progress Staff Writer

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our churches in the Sc ottsdale southern Scottsdale area will join forces for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day worship service on Jan. 21. Six pastors will speak at the joint service, including Jim Coston from First Baptist Church of Scottsdale, Bruce R. Johnson of Scottsdale Presbyterian Church, Matt Rundio of Scottsdale First Church of the Nazarene and Brian McDaniel, Joseph Valenzuela and Luis Medrano of New Life Community Church. “The idea is to demonstrate to our community that even though our churches are unique in doctrine and expressions of faith, we can still model the Christian values of compassion, unity and concern for our neighbors that Rev. Martin Luther King preached about,” host pastor Medrano said. Each pastor was inspired by King’s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” a nearly 7,000-word response to local religious leaders’ criticisms of the Bir(Kimberly Carrillo/Progress Staff Photographer) mingham Campaign. (L to R) Pastors Bruce Johnson, Jim Coston, Matt Rundio, Brian McDaniel and Luis Medrano will speak at a special Martin Luther King Jr. Day worship service at New King wrote the letter from his prison Life Community Church of Scottsdale on Jan. 21. cell in Birmingham after he was incarcerated for violating Alabama’s law The ministerium of south Scottsdale ily identify systematic racism, sexism onciliation, where all people are welagainst mass public demonstrations. pastors began 16 months ago as a way and classism. come, no strings attached,” he said. “There is so much fear and animos- to build personal relationships, share “In learning to see these things, we “But we have a messy history of misity in our culture today,” said Johnson. news of their respective congregations need to, first, admit our own participa- takes, blunders and outright evil when “This is especially true for anyone we and offer one another support through tion in these broken systems,” Rundio it comes to many issues, including civil perceive to be different either in looks prayer and encouragement. said. “Second, we need to develop cour- rights.” or outlook. However, the love which The idea of the MLK service, however, age to stand against them, even to our “It will be good to reflect on that pale unites us is greater than whatever di- came about last November, when the pas- peril.” past and move forward into brighter fuvides us.” tors realized that they were not always Rundio, a fourth-generation Naza- ture.” Johnson admitted that he, too, has stellar examples of unity, Coston said. rene, said this particular service – a During the service, a joint choir combeen drawn into feelings of animosity. “MLK’s life was one of breaking down first for the churches in southern Scott- prising members of all four churches He said he and the rest of the pastors artificial barriers that separated peo- sdale for MLK Day – would make his will sing together. speaking at the service will tell one an- ple, calling Christians to live out their parents and grandparents proud. They Before and after the service, activities other how they will take ownership for confessions in Christ and loving others also attended the church. for children, information on communitheir actions and thoughts. even at a personal cost,” Coston said. “My denomination was founded out ty resource groups and food and drink “Each of the pastors will say, here’s “His words speak to us now.” of solidarity with marginalized people,” will be available. my part of how I contribute to the curRundio said that by coming together, he said. “They would be proud that we Johnson stresses everyone is welrent state of things and how I want to the congregations are making a “beau- are honoring and living into the legacy come to attend. be better and ask for God’s forgive- tiful statement that the church can rise of Dr. King.” “The day we celebrate [Dr. King]’s conness,” Johnson said. above differences and unify around Rundio said that he’s excited to ex- tributions seemed a perfect time for us By doing so, Coston hopes the wor- some of our central beliefs.” plore the idea of reconciliation with the to come together as congregations, with ship will be a catalyst for bringing He added that people in positions of other churches. invitations to anyone else who wants to south Scottsdale together. privilege and power need to more read“The church should be a place of rec- worship with us,” Coston said.

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hat started out as friends throwing axes at a target in Matt Wilson’s backyard in Toronto, Canada, to kill time has turned into a national sensation – and now Scottsdale is joining in on the axe-hurling fun. Over the past two years, axe-throwing bars have sprouted rapidly across the nation. Here in the Valley, Lumberjaxes brought the �irst indoor axe-throwing club to Tempe in early 2018, and now Scottsdale has BATL: The Backyard Axe Throwing League. BATL was founded by Wilson in 2006, although it wasn’t until 2011, before he opened up a second location, that Wilson decided to go full-time with it. “2011 was when we started doing private events and parties, and that’s when I was, like, ‘Wait a minute, this could be a thing. This is pretty great,’” he said. Since then, BATL has grown to 14 locations in the U.S. and Canada, and over 1.25 million people have thrown an axe at one of their facilities. “I am proud and excited to see BATL

people at a time. Axe throwing is for people of all ages and skill levels. BATL breaks down its demographic as 53 percent male and 47 percent female, and 44 percent between the ages of 25 and 34 years old. Nineteen percent are over 45. “We’ve had everyone from 18-year-olds walking by with their family to 70-, 80-year-old females, males – and everything in between,” said Straun Riley, BATL Scottsdale’s general manager. “There is no speci�ic market. We’re just trying to get everyone in here trying it.” Plenty of axe-throwing (BATL, The Backyard Axe Throwing League/Special to the Progress) expert coaches are around BATL Scottsdale, an axe-throwing facility, is now open in the Indian River Plaza off Thomas Road and Hayden Road. to show you how to propat such a pivotal time in our history,” month on the southwest corner of erly throw. And arguably the Wilson said. “I never imagined when Thomas Road and Hayden Road. best axe-throwing coach is located right It offers 16 axe-throwing targets with here in Scottsdale – Riley. we started throwing axes in 2006 that BATL could grow into what it has be- digital scoring, and its arenas are like a Riley, who moved from Toronto to come today.” cross between a batting cage and bowl�� AXE �� 31 BATL Scottsdale opened earlier this ing alley. The facility can host over 100

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cottsdale Community College showed off its new business school building on Jan. 10 with a job fair and open house that featured representatives from a host of industries, careerbuilding workshops and even a message from Google. Current and prospective students who attended the event had the chance to take part in scholarship and resume workshops and meet with local employers who are hiring. Over 25 businesses with a presence in the Valley attended the event’s job fair, including Intel, J.W. Marriott and State Farm. Representatives from Arizona State

University’s W.P. Carey School of Business and business programs at University of Arizona and Grand Canyon University also attended the event to provide information about transfer options to students planning to attend a university. The event also featured businesscentric presentations from local entrepreneurs and business professionals, including a roadmap to become a CPA presentation from Arizona Society of CPAs CEO Paul Kern and Cynthia Quinonez, the organization’s senior manager of membership. Google Product Services specialist Ashley Elleby was originally scheduled to attend the event to answer student questions but had to cancel for personal

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Wendy Fitzpatrick of A Caring Heart for Arizona, a caregiving service, met with students at the SCC Job Fair.

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take on the position, is a national axethrowing champion and winner of the 2018 Wilson Cup. He picked up the sport three years ago. “Outside of the competition in the sport of it, the community is unreal,” Riley said. “The amount of people and friends I’ve met is unreal. Everyone’s so friendly and welcoming.” BATL’s mission is to use the axe as a tool to build a community. “That’s kind of like our motto is just be good to each other and everyone’s welcome,” Riley said. Since the Scottsdale location opened about three weeks ago, Riley has seen a positive turnout. His No. 1 goal since moving to Scottsdale, though, was to start a couple of leagues early. “It was a little bit of a squeeze, but we managed to get two leagues put together. We have a Sunday league and a Tuesday league,” Riley said. “It’s great turnout; roughly, I would say 50 people per night every Friday and Saturday for the last three weekends in a row.” Wilson, who pioneered urban axe throwing, is the commissioner of the National Axe Throwing Federation, the preeminent governing body for competitive axe throwing. NATF grew exponentially since its inception in 2016. Currently, there are over 60 member locations on four continents with over 4,500 league members. “I believe we’re just scratching the surface of BATL’s potential and how far axe throwing can go as a mainstream sport,” Wilson said. Walk-ins and league members aside, Riley said BATL’s No. 1 clients are businesses booking arenas for team building events. “I would say that’s our company’s bread and butter. It’s what we’re constantly knocking out of the park, those corporate events,” he said. “We do fullfacility buyouts all the time with those corporate groups and the energy in here, it could be quite infectious when one of those is going on.” Guests come in to BATL to celebrate birthdays and bachelorette parties, too. According to Wilson, interest in axe throwing has grown through awareness. He said once people have gotten over the initial reaction of shock and understood the concept and how it works, it has become a much more accepted and mainstream form of entertainment. “It started in Canada probably in 2016 and really just the last 18 months to 24 months is it really taken off in the

US,” Wilson said. “Every time another location opens up, the awareness gets out there and more people hear about it and more people try it. And it’s just the time to see that growth take off right now.” Reactions of shock are common, especially considering many axe-throwing clubs, including BATL, mix sharp, pointy objects and alcohol. BATL Scottsdale doesn’t currently offer alcohol, but it will come February, as they’re currently waiting for their liquor license to be approved. “We wouldn’t be in business the way we are if we weren’t able to run a safe and organized facility that promotes awareness and safety and an entertainment in the right way,” Wilson said. “Our focus has always been about safety,” Wilson added. “Once people walk in the door, they see how things are organized and what our venues look like and the safety involved in the equipment, as well as the attention to detail from our staff.” BATL has had a handful of accidents, mostly minor injuries, since its inception. None, however, were injuries to walk-ins or one-off attendees. “We’ve seen small injuries to the �ingers and hands of our league membership,” Wilson said, adding that the hatches aren’t fully sharpened for the average guest. “They’re not in a position to cut themselves even if they do happen to make contact with the blade of the axe,” he said. “They’re not actually dangerous, so there are no injuries there.” It’s the league members – with their own, sharpened axe – who injure themselves. “Every once in a while they might nick their �inger a little bit while they’re sharpening their ax. That’s really when it happens, never during the throwing of the axe,” he said. In terms of pricing, one- to twoand-a-half-hour private axe-throwing events cost $40.99 plus tax per person, with discount pricing of $35.99 available on Tuesdays. Public walk-ins, which take place only on the weekends, are $22.22 plus tax per hour per person. To celebrate its opening, however, BATL Scottsdale offers free axe throwing from 6-10 p.m. every Friday and Saturday through Jan. 26. “We’re excited to be in Scottsdale and looking forward to having people come out and say hello and getting ourselves ingrained in that neighborhood,” Wilson said. Information: batlgrounds.com

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Prop 420 �ight cast aside Drinkwater’s philosophy BY RANDY NUSSBAUM Progress Guest Writer

n the past few years, I have been fortunate enough to present the annual Herb Drinkwater Award at the Scottsdale Leadership luncheon. The Drinkwater Award recognizes the lifetime achievements of a Scottsdale citizen who is not a graduate of the Leadership program. In introducing this year’s very much deserving honoree, Diane Cusack, I was unable to resist the temptation to remind the audience that Herb Drinkwater always treated others with honesty and respect and did not let his exchanges deteriorate to an unprofessional or demeaning level. Herb Drinkwater was magnanimous and humble when victorious and accepting and conciliatory when he was not. Sadly, Herb Drinkwater’s philosophy was cast aside in recent elections with regard

to Proposition 420. Both sides were not totally candid when they were advancing their positions on Proposition 420, and the fallout from that vote continues today. The citizens elected the City Council and the Mayor, and those of�icials decided that a discovery center was appropriate. When you utilize a representative system, which is a cornerstone of democracy, the citizens may be unhappy with that body’s decisions. The citizenry decided to resort to a proposition, but the supporters of 420 decided that pitching their message in an accurate and candid manner may not garner the support needed. So, they consciously decided to pitch the proposition as a desperate effort to avoid commercial construction of the McDowell Mountain Preserve. During the petition phase, I never talked to any proponent who willingly admitted the proposition was only for the purpose of stopping the discovery center. This prac-

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Scottsdale prep athletes gravitating to BenU from Chaparral High also is transferring in from community college to a baseball team that went 40-18 last season. hidden gem in downtown Mesa Haley Smith, a junior guard from Sais becoming a destination for for- guaro, was a bench player on the basmer Scottsdale high school ath- ketball team last year. In high school, letes who might not be NCAA Division she was a varsity starter as a junior and I candidates but who are eager to con- senior and a National Honor Society tinue playing at the collegiate level close member. to home. Ashley Lomavaya from Salt River High Benedictine University Mesa, which transferred in to the women’s basketball was accepted into the NAIA four years team after earning Division II District ago and plays in the 12-member Cali- L first-team selection as a sophomore fornia Pacific Conference, is aggressively at Black Hawk College in Illinois. She recruiting the East Valley – from Scotts- scored more than 1,000 points in high dale to Ahwatukee to Gilbert – to build school. its programs. This academic year, it is “When we started building this prohome to 90 student-athletes from the gram, we asked ourselves how we wantregion, including six from Scottsdale- ed to do it,” said Steven Schafer, BenU area schools, and they’re making their Mesa athletic director and men’s basmark. ketball coach. “We realized we wanted For example, Madison Ross, a senior to build our program by recruiting our midfielder from Saguaro High, played backyard. That was our goal from the on the BenU women’s soccer team that beginning.” made its first-ever trip to the Cal Pac Schafer’s 17-year history in basketball Tournament. Ross earned Daktronics- coaching and college-athletics adminisNAIA Scholar Athlete honor. tration jump-started sports at BenU, 225 Megan Block, a senior middle blocker E. Main St., in Mesa. Wanting to compete on the BenU women’s volleyball team and win right away in the NAIA, Schafer from Horizon High, also earned Dak- and all BenU coaches initially emphatronics NAIA Scholar Athlete honor. sized recruiting junior-college and fourTo qualify, the athlete must maintain a year college transfers. minimum 3.5 grade-point average on a Now that its sports programs are es4.0 scale. tablished, BenU’s focus has shifted to Brett Adams, an infielder from Sa- targeting Scottsdale and East Valley high guaro, hit .328 in 54 games at Scottsdale school seniors for scholarship offers. Community College before landing at BenU offers 13 intercollegiate sports BenU for the coming spring season. but does not yet have on-campus faciliRight handed pitcher Kaleb Young ties: Men’s and women’s cross-country run at Mesa’s Freestone Park; Scottsdale intercollegiate athletes at BenU Mesa men’s and womBaseball en’s soccer play Brett Adams SR INF Saguaro at Mesa RiverKaleb Young JR RHP Chaparral view Park; men’s Women’s Basketball and women’s Ashley Lomavaya SR G Salt River volleyball and Haley Smith JR G Saguaro men’s and women’s basketball Women’s Soccer all play at Mesa Madison Ross SR MF Saguaro Community College’s Heap GymWomen’s Volleyball nasium; men’s Megan Block SR MB/RS Horizon and women’s

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Former Saguaro High standout Madison Ross now is a senior midfielder for the Benedictine University Mesa women’s soccer team. Six former Scottsdale-area high school athletes are among 90 from the East Valley who populate Redhawks’ sports rosters.

golf play at Las Sendas Golf Club; men’s baseball plays at Mesa Gene Autry Park; women’s softball plays at Mesa Fiesta Park, and women’s beach volleyball plays at the Mesquite High sand-volleyball court. “We continue to look for growth opportunities in athletics and that definitely pertains to athletic facilities,” Schafer said regarding plans to build their own. “We have been fortunate to date to have strong partnerships with Mesa Parks and Recreation, Mesa Community College, the Mesa South Stake Center and Seton Catholic High School.” The obvious missing sport is football. Given that two other Valley small col-

leges, Ottawa University and Arizona Christian, field football teams and that the Maricopa Community College District has eliminated the sport at all Valley jucos, the Redhawks see opportunity and are eyeing the sport. “Football has definitely been a sport that we continue to examine closely, as we know there is more need for smallcollege opportunities in the sport in the state of Arizona with the elimination of football at the Maricopa Community Colleges,” Schafer said. He added that at present there are no plans to add football for the 2019 season.

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Among the multitude of BenU athletes from Scottsdale and the East Valley, 26 play baseball – most of any sport – and 17 play basketball on the men’s or women’s team. In addition to intercollegiate sports, BenU offers a multitude of club sports that are directed by the athletic department. The university offers “Competitive Club Grants,” which act as athletic scholarships, for club spirit squad, esports, bowling, badminton, ultimate Frisbee and a cappella choir. “Benedictine University Mesa continues to research and examine athletic programs that would fit our institution’s mission and vision and bring added enrollment growth and revenue to the university,” Schafer said. “We are launching an extensive club-sports program this fall, 2019, that we feel will help boost enrollment and enhance the on-campus student experience at BenU Mesa.” Not only are the Redhawks interested in East Valley high school and juniorcollege players, they’ve been successful taking East Valley transfers from fouryear schools. Athletes often initially go to another part of the country for college. According to BenU baseball coach

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Brian McCabe, many soon return home. He’s on the lookout for them. “Not every kid wants to stay home. They want to go out and see the bright lights,” McCabe said. “Having gone to school in the Midwest, I would see a handful of guys from Arizona come out there, but the second the first snowfall came they went home. “A lot of our guys went to other schools and then transferred back.” McCabe is in his third year at BenU and his first as head baseball coach. For two years he was pitching coach and recruiter, helping build the young program. McCabe and his staff have reached out

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to 15 area high school seniors for the 2020 season, he said. “There’s so much talent in Arizona,” McCabe said. “East Valley high school baseball is incredible. We know we can go five miles from BenU either way and we could find 25 guys that would fit our program.” Talent at East Valley high schools goes well beyond baseball and basketball. Tim Marchisotto, newly appointed BenU women’s soccer coach and associate head coach of the men’s team, makes recruiting East Valley athletes standard operating procedure. He credits the coaches at the high school and club levels for preparing ath-

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Experience Scottsdale uses art to tempt outsiders BY KRISTINE CANNON Progress Staff Writer

s cities like New York City and Toronto experience cold winters, warm, sunny Scottsdale’s there – not necessarily in spirit, but in the form of several massive art installations. Depicting bright, vivid hues of our picturesque sunset and the images of cacti and desert botanicals in bloom, Experience Scottsdale’s immersive marketing campaign has caught the attention of millions of commuters in New York and Canada – two of Scottsdale’s top feeder markets for visitation. The advertisements’ artwork invites commuters to “come see what blooms in the desert.” Scottsdale’s destination marketing organization, Experience Scottsdale, launched the high-impact, out-of-home advertising campaigns this month in two of North America’s busiest transportation hubs, Penn Station and Plaza in New York City and the PATH underground walkway in Toronto.

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Experience Scottsdale commissioned local artist Lauren Lee to hand-paint seven super-sized murals of desert cacti and botanicals for its out-of-state campaigns in New York City and Toronto.

are going to be affected by this campaign and how innovative it is to bring fine art on this kind of scale and level for this purpose is a huge honor for me as an Arizona resident and an Arizona artist,” Lee said.

What makes this campaign unique is Experience Scottsdale commissioned Lauren Lee to create the artwork. Lee is likely most recognized for her “Three Birds in Flight” mural located at iLuminate Apartments on Roosevelt Row in downtown Phoenix. This was Lee’s

first mural and the start of her public art journey. The Experience Scottsdale campaign is her largest project to date. “The fact that [this campaign] is international is hard to even wrap my mind around, so knowing that so many people

to work with,” said Golding, this year’s Birds Nest chairman. “The Birds Nest has a great reputation in Nashville. In my opinion, Old Dominion, Midland, Jake Owen, Lee Brice, Michael Ray and Brandon Lay represent the best of country music right now. We were lucky to get them signed. It’s a great start to the Birds Nest.” Old Dominion singer Matthew Ramsey vouches for Golding’s statement. Word has traveled to Nashville about the Birds Nest. His guitarist, Brad Tursi, and drummer, Whit Sellers, are big golfers and hoping to get in a few holes. Lay wants to give it a shot himself, even though he hasn’t hit the greens too often. “We talked to some friends out there and they had good spots to go for a beginner, like myself,” he said. “I have so

Brandon Lay will help kick off festivities Jan. 30 at the Coors Light Birds Nest during the Waste Management Phoenix Open with some country music.

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Nashville’s top acts fly high at the Birds Nest BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Progress Staff Writer

ountry music and the Coors Light Birds Nest are fast friends, and this year’s chairman, Michael Golding, wasn’t about to put a wedge in it. Nashville’s best takes the stage two of the four days at the Waste Management Phoenix Open concert series. Reigning ACM Vocal Group of the Year Old Dominion, Midland and Brandon Lay kick off the festivities on Jan. 30, followed by Jake Owen, Lee Brice and Michael Ray on Jan. 31. The last two days stretch outside of country’s boundaries with the Chainsmokers and Snoop Dogg playing a soldout show on Feb. 1, and Martin Garrix, DJ Vice and Justin Mylo Feb. 2. “Country music is a big hit in the Valley and country performers are a lot of fun

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Through Feb. 3, the organization predicts generating an estimated 40 million advertising impressions. For comparison, last year’s Toronto and New York City campaigns generated 38 million impressions. Experience Scottsdale President and CEO, Rachel Sacco, said that by incorporating artwork into their campaign, they are sharing a piece of Scottsdale’s flourishing arts scene with potential visitors. “We hope those who see this art installation feel inspired to further explore Scottsdale’s myriad arts and culture offerings among the destination’s many diverse amenities,” Sacco said. What Lee enjoys about the campaign is it doesn’t look or feel like a traditional advertisement. “It’s more of a gift,” Lee said. “That’s the power of art versus an advertisement is that I always feel it’s more of an experience than it is directly advertising to people.” This isn’t Lee’s first project with Experience Scottsdale. She partnered with the organization for its summer campaign last May called “It’s That Hot.” Lee painted three murals throughout Scottsdale. Experience Scottsdale Director of Community Affairs, Stephanie Pressler, said the local activation, in hindsight, was their test to determine if the concept could be super-sized and taken out-of-state. “Could we create an experience – an art installation, really – that captured the attention of potential visitors in our top markets for visitation? Based on the success of our local activation, we believed we could,” Pressler said. What makes Lee a fit for this campaign is twofold. To start, her designs, the way she leans into bold, vivid colors and her passion for painting botanicals fit Experience Scottsdale’s campaign and how they wanted to portray the city.

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many hobbies. I’m sure my wife would like me to have another one. I figured I’d give it a swing while we’re out there.” Lay and Ramsey, both of whom have new music ready for this year, are looking forward to sharing a stage again, as they spent the summer on Kenny Chesney’s Trip Around the Sun Tour. “We’ve done a lot of shows with Old Dominion and this is just the cherry on top,” Lay said. “They have a party crowd following them around, and we can make new fans based on their audience. At the

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Lauren Lee puts ﬁnishing touches on a mural aimed at reminding Northeasterners of warmer climes.

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With a foot of snow expected this weekend, New Yorkers likely might take to these ads at Penn Station.

And, Lee designs with the viewer in mind. “One of the differences between being a muralist and being a fine art painter is that you have to think design-wise, visually with a lot more space,” Lee said. “How is this going to look from 500 feet away, from 1,000 feet away? How will it look

Birds Nest, I’ll try to warm up the crowd right with some ‘Yada, Yada, Yada’ and ‘Speakers, Bleachers and Preachers’ and people will have a good time. “Arizona has been a good honey hole for us. Anytime we get out there, we appreciate the love. This time of year, the cold in Nashville makes it this much sweeter.” What’s making this year’s Birds Nest sweet for Golding is the inclusion of Snoop Dogg. “Growing up, Snoop Dogg was a favorite of mine, and a favorite of many people and a lot of Thunderbirds,” he said about

when you drive by it and you have three seconds for someone to get a glimpse? “It’s a very different experience than when you’re standing directly in front of the painting,” she said. With the murals, Lee wanted to create an experience for the commuters – and, hopefully, improve their day.

the nonprofit organization formed in 1986 to distribute monies raised through the Waste Management Phoenix Open golf tournament and the Birds Nest. The Thunderbirds host the tournament. “We worked with his team and it took some time, but we got him. He’s one of the best acts we’ve ever had. He resonates very well with the age range and for what the Valley is looking for in the Birds Nest acts.” The most important bit, though, is the money the concert series brings in for charity. “That’s our job and the best part of be-

“People will be seeing this every day for their commute. They don’t get a choice whether they see it or not, this is in their public sphere, and therefore I’m going to make it something that gets to be an experience where it’s a sense of wonder and a sense of joy, even,” she said. To gather inspiration for the seven paintings she created for Experience Scottsdale, she went on various hikes in Scottsdale and visited the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. Lee’s goal with the paintings is to give viewers the feeling that they’re walking through the desert with her. “A lot of people don’t even know that these blooms exist,” Lee said. “I’m excited for people to get to experience that outside of Arizona.” The campaign so far has received positive reviews. Lee has had people in Toronto reach out to her directly to thank her for the artwork. “Canadians have been reaching out to me through social media, and they say, ‘You’ve made my commute to work so different. We wish this was a permanent installation. We’ve never seen anything like this,’” Lee said. “So that’s been really great. It’s an incredible feeling.” Each mural has Lee’s name on it, which is how people have been able to find her on Instagram. “That was a really cool part that Scottsdale did, and is another unique part of the project, is attributing credit to the artist,” she said. “I almost feel like an ambassador of Arizona.” Lee predicts we’ll continue to see hired, in-house curation, like this campaign, moving forward. “I think it’s great because it brings the local artistry up,” Lee said. “The steps between artists and curators are narrowing.” Lee will visit New York City and her work up-close-and-personal later this month. Follow Lee’s NYC journey on her Instagram at mslaurenlee.

ing in the Thunderbirds organization,” he said. “We see where the dollars go.”

If you go

What: The Coors Light Birds Nest Where: Directly across from the main Waste Management Phoenix Open tournament entrance at 82nd Street and Bell Road, Scottsdale When: 3:30 to 10:30 p.m. Jan. 30-Feb. 2. Tickets: $65-$120 Info: coorslightbirdsnest.com

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he author of an Arizona Renaissance man considered the father of the GI Bill will be discussing his biography at a book signing in Scottsdale. Historian and law professor Gary L. Stuart recently published “Call Him Mac: Ernest W. McFarland, The Arizona Years,” and will be at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore, 4014 N. Goldwater Blvd., at 7 p.m. Jan. 28. Arizona Historian Marshall Trimble once said, “If Arizona had a Mount Rushmore, the men on it would be Carl Hayden, Ernest McFarland, Barry Goldwater and John McCain. “ McFarland, who died in 1984, was a U.S. Senator and the majority leader, Arizona governor, chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court and founder of KTVK in Phoenix. But perhaps his biggest achievement was the GI Bill, which enabled millions of World War II veterans to get a college education and buy a home. Less well known is his life as a family man, country lawyer, rural judge, visionary, and the story behind his unlikely rise from Oklahoma farm boy to winning the

triple crown of Arizona politics. Stuart explores that early life and McFarland’s impact on Arizona and the nation. Stuart’s book looks at McFarland as a loving husband, father and grandfather, even in times of great personal tragedy and how he dealt with threats to his own life in 1919; the loss of his first wife and three children to illness in the 1930s; and a political loss in 1952 that no one saw coming. One of McFarland’s grandsons, John D. Lewis, said “He was down to earth. When he served as Chief Justice, the other justices didn’t appreciate that everyone called him Mac. They thought it wasn’t dignified. Despite all of his achievements, he always considered himself just a civil servant.” As U.S. Senate Majority Leader during his second term, he relentlessly pushed for and drafted the educational and home loan provisions of the GI Bill. He had been haunted by his memories of returning vets after WWI who came home to rampant unemployment and long soup kitchen lines. His provisions in the bill ultimately gen-

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Historian Gary L. Stuart, left, worked closely with John D. Lewis, the grandson of Ernest McFarland, in researching his book.

erated in excess of 450,000 trained engineers, 91,000 scientists, 67,000 doctors, 22,000 dentists, 238,000 teachers, and other college educated professionals. McFarland is also credited for creating the Arizona Parks System and was a

staunch advocate for Arizona water rights. “Call Him Mac: Ernest W. McFarland, The Arizona Years,” published by the University of Arizona Press, is available in bookstores nationwide and will be available at the Poisoned Pen.

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ARTS & TO SUNDAY, JAN. 20 Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale Auction

Some of the world’s most desirable collectible trucks, SUVs and off-road vehicles will muscle their way across the block during this event. DETAILS>>Various times. WestWorld of Scottsdale, 16601 N. Pima Road, Scottsdale. $21-$195. 480-421-6694, barrett-jackson.com.

SUNDAY, JAN. 20

“The Anxiety Project”

A collaboration between ASU and the Phoenix Theatre, “The Anxiety Project” shares true stories of anxiety, loss, struggle, relationships and alienation. DETAILS>>6 p.m. ASU Kerr Cultural Center, 6110 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale. $12.75. 480-596-2660, bit. ly/2Sj3MnE.

the stage at Symphony Hall Feb. 14 to Feb. 17. DETAILS>>6:30 p.m. Phoenix Art Museum, 1625 N. Central Ave., Phoenix. Tickets start at $600. 602-343-6522, balletaz.org.

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OdySea Fine Art Exhibition: “Experience Art In The Marking”

“Experience Art In The Making” features live music and artists showcasing and creating their original art. Presented by the Scottsdale Artists League. DETAILS>>9 a.m. to 4 p.m. OdySea in the Desert, 9500 E. Via de Ventura, Scottsdale. Free admission. 480-9512100, odyseainthedesert.com.

THURSDAY, FEB. 14, TO SUNDAY, FEB. 17 “The Firebird” and “La Sylphide”

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Ballet Arizona’s Dance with Me Gala

The 11th annual gala will honor longtime supporters Judd and Billie Jo Herberger. This year’s gala is themed after Artistic Director Ib Andersen’s production “The Firebird,” which takes

The past and future collide in Ballet Arizona’s performances of “The Firebird,” a new production from Artistic Director Ib Andersen, and “La Sylphide,” one of the world’s oldest ballets. The Phoenix Symphony provides the music.

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DETAILS>>Various times. This juxtaposition of old and new comes to Symphony Hall Valentine’s Day weekend, February 14-17, with live music by The Phoenix Symphony. Symphony Hall, 75 N. Second St., Phoenix. Tickets start at $25. 602-381-1096, balletaz.org.

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Artists of Scottsdale Ranch: Art Show, Sale and Silent Auction

The Artists of Scottsdale Ranch work independently, but they come together annually to display and sell their artistic endeavors in their home community. The artists each donate a special work to the silent auction. Proceeds from the auction benefit local charities. DETAILS>>10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Scottsdale Ranch Community Center, 10585 N. 100th St., Scottsdale. Free admission. 480-200-4731, artistsofscottsdaleranch.com.

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Pianist Andrew O’Brien, an adjunct faculty instructor at Scottsdale Community College, performs the “Warsaw Concerto” with the Scottsdale Concert Band. The “Warsaw Concerto” is a short work for piano and orchestra by Richard Addinsell, written for the 1941 British film “Dangerous Moonlight,” which is about the Polish struggle against the 1939 invasion by Nazi Germany, DETAILS>>3:30 p.m. Coronado High School Auditorium, 7501 E. Virginia Ave., Scottsdale. Free. 602-327-3168, scottsdaleconcertband.org.

THURSDAY, MARCH 14, TO SATURDAY, MARCH 16 Peter Max: The Retrospective 1960-2019

A newly curated collection by legendary artist Peter Max runs in a limited engagement presentation at DeRubeis Fine Art of Metal. All artworks are on exhibition and available for acquisition. DETAILS>>Various times. DeRubeis Fine Art of Metal, 7171 E. Main St., Scottsdale. Free admission. 480-9416033, phillip@fineartofmetal.com, derubeisfineartscottsdale.com.

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More than 20 Arizona-based musical acts entertain throughout the winter/ spring. Other shows are: Jan. 20, Jan. 27, Feb. 17, Feb. 24, March 3, March 17, March 24, March 31 and April 7. DETAILS>>Noon to 4 p.m. Scottsdale Civic Center Mall, 3939 N. Drinkwater Blvd., Scottsdale. Free admission. 480499-8587, scottsdaleperformingarts. org. — Email calendar items to christina@ timespublications.com

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(“The Only Woman in the Room”), Matti Friedman (“Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel”), Ann Hood (“Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love and Food”), Tim Johnston (“The Current”) and Matthew Quirk (“The Night Agent”). The event’s moderator is Lindsey Reiser, CBS 5 News. DETAILS>>9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The Westin Kierland Resort and Spa, 6902 E. Greenway Parkway, Scottsdale. $135, with $5 credit toward book purchases the day of the event. 480-382-4494, bncphxba2019pr@ gmail.com.

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Modern Oysterbar menu a land and sea affair BY KRISTINE CANNON Progress Staff Writer

eafood and steak will take center stage on Scottsdale’s culinary scene this year. From Ocean 44 opening in late 2018 to the tentative opening of Chicago-based Maple & Ash in early spring, the demand for fresh seafood and luscious, juicy steaks is at an all-time high. Joining the roster of seafood and steakhouses is Modern Oysterbar Chophouse, slated to open at the end of January. Modern Oysterbar Chophouse’s three owners – Cat Frankel, Randy Frankel and Frank Schneider – are joining the trend. Opening up an oyster bar has been a collective dream of Cat, Randy and Schneider for years. Set to open the end of January to coincide with the �irst three days of the 2019 Waste Management Phoenix Open, which starts on Jan. 31, Modern Oysterbar Chophouse will offer fresh seafood and classic – yet elevated – steakhouse staples. The new restaurant’s pearl, however, is its oyster bar, which offers both hot and cold seafood towers. Seafood options include grilled chilled jumbo shrimp, whole lobsters, split king crab legs, steamed mussels, oysters Rockefeller, roasted clams casino, snow crabs and abalone, to name a few. “Abalone is very rare in restaurants,” Schneider said. “And we’ll have grilled seafood, as opposed to just getting a broiled lobster tail like any other steakhouse in town. We have a grill just to grill seafood; that’s unusual.” Modern Oysterbar Chophouse’s oyster bar is inspired by the Oyster Bar at the Roxy Hotel in New York City. “I’ve been dragging this picture [of the Oyster Bar] around for… I can’t even tell you how long,” Cat said. Schneider also held onto photos of the Oyster Bar. “I had a vision of mine, unbeknownst that they had the same vision,” Schneider said. “I actually had that photo in my phone what she had herself.” After a long talk with Frank, Schneider and Frank agreed they'd open up their own oyster bar.

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Randy Frankel, Cat Frankel and Frank Schneider are the owners of Modern Oysterbar Chophouse, slated to open at the end of January.

“We decided when we were going to put an oyster bar, it’s got to be drop-dead gorgeous,” Cat said. “It has to create interest; it has to create buzz.” The trio found the 6,000-square-foot space in July 2018 – the old Sonata’s Restaurant off Shea Boulevard and Scottsdale Road – but by the time they closed on the deal and were handed the keys, it was Nov. 1. They were already three months behind schedule. “We had to do six months of work in less than 90 days,” Randy said. “We wanted to open the restaurant for season. At that point, we didn’t have an option; we said, ‘We’re opening. That’s it.’” Luckily Cat, who, for the most part, oversaw the design and overall aesthetic of the restaurant, only needed to make small tweaks to Sonata’s space. Cat replaced the tables and bar stools, moved and added a few chandeliers, added curtains and the oyster bar, of course, but nothing too major or costly. “I got really lucky that a lot of the elements that were here I was able to use for our vision,” Cat said. One design element Schneider was hellbent on �inding were the seashell light sconces for the oyster bar, which he found after a long search. Schneider purchased them from a French

Etsy seller, and they’re the only two in the world, according to Cat. “Frank didn’t let anybody touch them until they went up on the wall,” she said. Randy said they want Modern Oysterbar Chophouse to be more of an entertainment venue space – a destination for a Friday night, not a stop along the way. “When you walk in here, this is your event for the evening, so we must stimulate you,” Randy said. “We entertain your senses; we entertain you visually, musically, smell, everything.” In addition to fresh seafood, patrons can expect elevated side dishes. “We’ve got a different spin on them,” Cat said. “They’re served on a nice serving vessel. They’re not the afterthought that they sometimes are – or what it seems to me – in a steakhouse.” For example, their creamed corn dish is spicier than most: It’s topped with cotija, chili and smoked mascarpone. And their roasted Brussel sprouts side? It’s served with agave, marcona almonds and bourbon jalapeño lardons. “We’re taking the classics, but bringing them to a whole new level,” Schneider said. “The story still remains true to the roots of that classic dish, but we’re prettying it up.” As far as meat goes, Modern Oysterbar Chophouse’s prime steaks include a 16-

oz. long bone Compart Farms pork ribeye, Colorado rack of lamb, bone-in �ilets and beef Wellington served with foie gras butter, mushroom duxelle, herb pesto and a red wine bordelaise sauce. Schneider is most excited about the desserts, particularly the bacon French toast bread pudding served with caramelized banana ice cream, maple bourbon caramel and candied bacon. The tiramisu, dulce de leche cheesecake is a close second. Big enough to share with four people, the cheesecake has lady �ingers and espresso mascarpone cream and is topped with white chocolate whipped ganache. “Frank has a huge sweet tooth,” Cat said. “And when Sam, our pastry chef, presented the dessert menu to him, he almost fell off his chair.” The pastry chef, Samantha Frankel, is Cat and Randy’s daughter-in-law who works with the couple at Zinc Bistro. The executive chef of Modern Oysterbar Chophouse is Mike Bouwens, also from Zinc Bistro where he spent two years as executive sous chef. The mixologist is Richie Moe, the current mixologist at Bourbon & Bones, where Schneider is general manager. Cat, Randy and Schneider bring nearly 99 years of combined restaurant experience from Steak 44, Zinc Bistro, Mastro’s Ocean Club and Bourbon & Bones. They call the opening of Modern Oysterbar Chophouse the return of the restaurateur. “We joke we’re the return of the restaurateur versus the focus being on the executive chef who’s opening his own restaurant,” Cat said. “This is all we do, this is what we know, and we want to take it to that level.” Modern Oysterbar Chophouse will also boast an expansive outside patio that can seat 30 and includes a �ire pit and a full bar. “This is not your average steakhouse,” said Cat. “Every detail is being considered to make this a true culinary experience.”

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Modern Oysterbar Chophouse Where: 10050 N. Scottsdale Road, #127 When: Opens end of January Website: modernoysterchophouse.com

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Kids, adults will dig (into) meatball sub casserole

eatballs, marinara, mounds of garlicky, crusty bread all bubbling away together in a hearty casserole pretty much describes this dish. It’s a simple and delicious casserole that I picture hungry kids, time-crunched parents and anyone who loves meatball sub sandwiches diving right into. It’ll take you just minutes to prepare, a few Ingredients: 1 (26 oz.) bag of frozen meatballs (yield, approx. 52 meatballs), amount can be doubled if desired 1 (24 oz.) jar of marinara or meat sauce (I used Rao’s Tomato Basil Sauce) 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese 1 cup shredded Italian Blend or Pizza Blend cheese 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese 1 fresh baguette, sliced 2 cloves fresh garlic, minced ½ cup extra virgin olive oil Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a medium to large saucepan, combine the pasta sauce and frozen meatballs. Cook over medium heat until warmed completely through, about 10-15 minutes, stirring so meatballs don’t stick to pan. While meatballs

more minutes to cook, and dinner is on the table before you know it. The casserole of meatballs is surrounded by slices of fresh bread that have been brushed with a garlic and olive oil combo, and that just completes the de-constructed meatball sub sandwich. Everyone needs dishes they can pull together in no time, and this one is just right for the meatball and cheese lovers in the family. are cooking, cut baguette into approximately 12 slices (enough to go around the edge of your baking dish). Combine garlic and olive oil and brush over slices of bread. Place meatballs in the center of a 9x12 baking dish. Sprinkle mozzarella, Italian blend cheese and parmesan over top of meatballs. Line the pan all the way around with bread slices (standing up). pressing them slightly into the meatball mixture. If desired, sprinkle the bread lightly with any remaining cheese. Bake for about 20 minutes or until cheese is melted and bubbly and bread has toasted to a golden brown. Serve as a side or as a main dish with vegetables or a salad. Casserole can be made ahead and heated in the oven when ready to serve. Watch my video: jandatri.com/recipe/meatball-sub-casserole/

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