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2 savor council wins, 2 others prepare for battle BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer
NEIGHBORS.............. 14 At 101, Scottsdale woman still a volunteer.
BUSINESS .................. 18 New gym pioneers enw way to stay fit.
FOOD ...............................25 Business is sweet for SugarJam founder
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Sunday, August 14, 2022
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ncumbents Kathy Little�ield and Solange Whitehead have both won another term on the Scottsdale City Council while the �inal seat up for grabs will be decided Nov. 8.
SUSD juggles nutrition, food price hikes
With 100 percent of the ballots counted, Little�ield �inished the Aug. 2 primary election with 37,036 votes and Whitehead came in second with 31,790 votes. The magic number to win outright was 28,452 votes. However, newcomers Barry Graham, 27,287 votes, and Pamela Carter, 22,831
votes, will face off in the General Election for the chair being vacated by Councilwoman Linda Milhaven, who is termed out. Council members are allowed three fouryear terms. Little�ield will be entering her third term while Whitehead is heading into
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illions of grocery shoppers across the country are feeling in�lation’s pinch and so are school districts across the Valley, including Scottsdale. “In�lation is real,” said Scottsdale Uni�ied Nutrition Director Patti Bilbery “Most people can relate it to the fact they go to the grocery store and they’ve probably seen their home grocery costs be close to double to what you used to pay. “We’re experiencing the same thing, but in school meals we can’t just double the price of a school lunch. Our mission is to feed healthy, low cost meals to kids.”
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Jane Kovatch and Doren Young make extra cucumber baggies in the kitchen at Pima Traditional School for the first day of school. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer)
Last year the cost to put out a meal was $4. Bilbery had no cost �igure yet on what it is going to cost to put out a meal this year because the new year is only a few days old. But she plans on it being well in excess of $4. “I fully expect our costs to go up more,”
she said. “We have manufacturers that have already told me prices are going to go up throughout the year,” Bilbery said. For instance, milk cost the district 20 cents
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