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New panel to boost town
Police blame deaths on murder-suicide
Eric Quade photoAm I rich? — Cave Creek Museum volunteer Brandon Summers analyzes 7-year-old Dylan Fincham’s find from the panning for gold exhibit Saturday. The event was one of many held in conjunction with the Arizona SciTech Festival.
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The Phoenix Police Depart-ment is reporting that two teenag-ers from Sandra Day O’Connor High School that died Friday in a shooting were part of a murder-suicide that unfolded within a few miles of the school along Happy Valley Road.
Authorities believe that one student, 15-year-old Matthew Bolton, gunned down his former girlfriend Anastasia Greer, 16, at the home of a friend before Bolton turned the gun on himself. Both students were sophomores.
The emergency call reporting the shooting had come in around noon March 7.
In addition to the apparent murder-suicide, AZfamily.com re-ported that police are investigating a claim that Bolton had previously choked another ex-girlfriend in a classroom. A request for further comment on the murder-suicide and related developments was not answered by Phoenix police in time for publication.
Following the incident, mul-tiple vigils have sprung up in the community. One was held Satur-day night at the high school. An-other tribute to Greer developed at Anthem Preparatory Academy where her mother works.
To help with funeral expenses, an account at Midfirst Bank has been established to benefit the Greer family. The public can also contribute to the cause by helping Hands Across Anthem collect online donations at handsacrossarizona.com.
ERIC QUADEEDITOR
Armed with color-coded maps and lots of knowledge about wire-less communications, a panel of experts from Coal Creek Con-sulting spoke in Anthem March 5 about the need for a new cell tower on the edge of the com-munity.
Declan Murphy, Jim Caciola and Ozgur Celik of the consulting firm, working on behalf of AT&T, led last week’s discussion about the cell tower.
Murphy said that AT&T has a coverage gap in the northeast-ern portion of Anthem, and the preferred remedy is to erect a new cell tower next to the Daisy Mountain Fire Station on the community’s east end.
Rather than putting up a bare pole, Murphy said that AT&T wanted to camouflage the tower as much as possible, so the cur-rent proposal calls for a tower resembling an elevated water
tank. Other options for disguise, such as making it appear like a saguaro, pine tree or palm tree, were considered less effective due to height and placement issues.
The proposed tower would stand 65 feet tall and be surround-ed by a 10-foot masonry wall. In addition to boosting signals for AT&T customers in the north-east part of Anthem, southeast Anthem and surrounding areas would also experience better service, according to the panel. If built, then the new structure could also accommodate other wireless carriers looking to im-prove their signals in the area.
Among the chief concerns raised by members of the public at last week’s meeting were ques-tions about tower placement and appearance.
Some commented that a water tank-style tower would be an eye-sore or otherwise make too large of an imprint on the desert hori-zon, and they suggested either
going with the slimmer profile of a regular pole or moving the tower’s location entirely.
Murphy said that zoning hurdles have basically pinned the tower proposal to its current suggested location at the Anthem Equestrian Trail site, which is also at the fire station.
As to the tower’s height and profile, Murphy said that the 65-foot height limit and water tank camouflage proposal were in re-sponse to community feedback.
Neal Shearer, community op-erations officer at Anthem, said that the cell tower project had come to the ACC board’s at-tention after receiving scrutiny from the New River/Desert Hills Community Association, and the board has honored those infor-mal agreements so far. The ACC board would have to formally ap-prove the proposal before it could move forward, and the soonest that could happen would be its next meeting later this month.
TARA AlATORREThe Carefree Town Coun-
cil unanimously agreed at its March 4 meeting to form a new public committee composed of town council members, business owners and residents. The formal committee was charged with the goal to bring the community to-gether to create a village-like at-mosphere in the downtown area.
The new “village committee” will be led by Mayor David Schwan and Vice Mayor Les Peterson, with councilmemebers Melissa Price, John Crane and Michael Farrar serving on it, as well.
“It’s moving the effort to bring cooperation, to bring the local business community together,” said Schwan during last week’s council meeting.
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ERIC QUADEEDITOR
Author Van Torrey of Anthem has had an affinity for the military industry for much of his life, which explains why his forays into creative writing thus far are steeped in in-ternational affairs and the machina-tions of might that shape them.
After graduat-ing from the Uni-versity of Arizona in 1965 with a de-gree in business, Torrey owned an industrial m a c h i n e r y business in the Phoenix area for almost 40 years, selling electronics and plas -tics to local manufac-turers. He then sold the busi-ness and worked for a short time in court services in Scottsdale before fully retiring. The change allowed him to pur-sue interests that he otherwise never had time for.
“I’d always had an interest in creative writing and photography, and I decided that was a wonderful opportunity for me to maybe spend some quality time doing
that,” he said.Torrey decided to draw upon his mili-
tary experience from when he was an infantry officer in the Army and try his hand at writing fiction. The result was his Chance Lyon series, adventure stories set
in the military genre.The Chance
Lyon series uses real-life, familiar scenarios, such as conflict between the West and countries of the Middle East, but gives the author li-cense to run with his imagination.
In Torrey’s first book, “Point of the Trident,” Navy SEAL Chance Lyon is de-ployed to Afghanistan and, coincidentally, ends up rescuing his Navy SEAL father who was being held in a POW camp in neighboring Pak-istan.
In his second book of the series, “Nuclear Denial,”
T o r - rey said that he decided to set Chance Lyon in the midst of Iran’s attempts to obtain a nuclear weapon and how the main character’s team of Navy SEALS and others foil a plot by the Ira-nians to secure such a device from a third party.
Before publishing, Torrey said that the
material for his two books had been com-bined in one manuscript. It was on the advice of an editor and a trusted friend that he decided to split the content into separate stories, and he said that he was grateful for their advice.
Is there more to come in the Chance Lyon series? Torrey said he is cur-rently working on a third installment, but it’s too soon to say when it might be released. That story will be set in the Korean Peninsula.
Eric Quade photoA penchant for patriotism — Van Torrey of Anthem uses patriotic—and sometimes idealistic—characters in his stories, which he self-published through Amazon.com.
Anthem author writes to his strengths in military genre
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The Anthem area’s own High Desert Little League was one of more than 30 youth baseball clubs to receive professional jerseys as a gift courtesy of the Arizona Diamondbacks. The local team received its gear Sunday afternoon at Boulder Creek High School.
The jerseys were part of the newly un-veiled “D-backs Give Back Jersey Pro-gram,” which provides uniforms and caps to more than 20,000 youth baseball and softball players and their coach-es throughout the state. The Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation will also do-
nate more than $500,000 to the program.There were more than 75 color combi-
nations, which included the traditional Sedona Red, white, black and gray, as well as throwback colors purple and teal and unique options like camouflage and gold.
In addition to receiving the jersey and cap, each player received a drawstring backpack, D-backs-branded necklace and bracelet and welcome kit with merchan-dise discounts for family members at the D-backs Team Shop.
Representatives for the professional team said that the charitable gestures are
aimed at aiding baseball programs for kids.“We are extremely proud to make a
donation like this, which allows many youth baseball and softball leagues to al-locate their resources to field improve-ments and other vital needs,” said D-backs president and CEO Derrick Hall. “In some cases, this donation is keeping leagues af loat and allowing more of the youth around the Valley the opportunity to play the game we all love, and we have seen significantly higher league regis-tration numbers since bringing this to our community.”
Since originally bringing the concept to these leagues, enrollment has increased by more than 4,000 kids, raising the total to more than 20,000.
Arizona Diamondbacks photoSport support — The D-backs’ team mascot Baxter the bobcat was on hand Sunday in Anthem to pass out gear to young ballplayers.
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cated in the budget to help with the costs of hiring experts like landscape architects and traffic engineers, including courting the Phoenix Art Museum to open a satel-lite location in Carefree’s town center.
Mayor Schwan said he and Vice May-or Peterson will be working closely with Phoenix Art Museum Director Jim Ball-inger, as well as people with the Heard Museum in creating a pedestrian-friendly and attractive town center that will foster local business and a sense of community.
For some examples, the village commit-tee will be taking a hard look at improving the town entry, signage in the town center, expanding event calendars and even con-sider rolling out a free concert program, Vice Mayor Peterson said.
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Members of Living Water Lutheran Church recently selected the Rev. Mark A. Rossman as their new senior pastor.
Rossman, who was serving as pastor of a fellow Evangelical Lutheran Church in America congregation in New Jersey, will be installed as LWLC’s senior pastor on Sunday.
He will succeed the Rev. John Cockram, a retired ELCA pastor who served as an interim pastor at LWLC for a year.
A seven-member committee at LWLC had unanimously voted for Rossman after conducting an extensive search. The committee reported that he was “an outstanding worship leader with mes-sages filled with energy, sincerity, humor and meaning.”
Committee members said they were par-ticularly impressed by his strong faith, passion for ministry and ability to con-nect with people on an individual level to identify their strengths and talents.
LWLC Council President Lance Jacobson aff irmed the committee’s recommendation.
“Pastor Rossman speaks without notes and weaves the scripture story into our world and lives,” Jacobson said. “I feel the presence of the Holy Spirit in this decision we as a church have made.”
The call to serve at LWLC came as a to-tal surprise, Rossman said. The 52-year-old New Jersey pastor, who was not seeking out a new call or considering a relocation, said that he saw “God’s fingerprints” all over the process that led him to accept the
call to a church more than 2,000 miles across the country.
“My very strong sense of God calling me to Living Water really gave me little choice but to go where God directed,” he said. “The enthusiasm and commitment that I have seen in its people help me understand the limitless possibilities of ministry that exist there. The kindness, warmth and gen-erosity that have been shared with me and my children are certainly a reflection of a rich and vibrant community of faith—one of which I am proud to be a part.”
Bishop Stephen Talmage of the ELCA’s Grand Canyon Synod will install the Rev. Rossman as LWLC’s senior pastor on March 16. The installation service, which begins at 4 p.m. and is open to all, will be held at Living Water Lutheran Church, 9201 E. Happy Valley Rd. in Scottsdale.
Rossman formerly served as pastor of Our Saviour in Pompton Plains, N.J., for nearly two decades (1995 to February 2014). Prior to that, he was pastor of Peace Lutheran Church in Greenock, Pa., (1988 to 1990) and then associate pastor and director of youth ministry at Saint Luke Lutheran Church in Silver Spring, Md. (1990 to 1995).
Born in Brady’s Bend, Pa., Rossman spent his childhood in western Pennsyl-vania. He earned a bachelor’s degree in communication from Clarion University of Pennsylvania in 1983 and his master of divinity from Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg in 1988. He was ordained as a minister of the ELCA, the
largest Lutheran denomination in the United States, on June 18, 1988.
Driven by his convictions, Rossman responded to a need for volunteer ambu-lance drivers in New Jersey in the mid-1990s. His subsequent 15 years of volunteer service as an EMT included assisting in 9/11 search-and-rescue efforts. In 2011, the Rev. Rossman was instrumental in his congregation’s partnership with Lutheran Disaster Response and another congrega-tion to meet short-term needs related to recurring local flooding. His congregation
then became involved in an initiative for longer-term needs: a collaborative effort of religious, governmental and business leaders to develop a countywide system to distribute financial assistance to people impacted by disasters such as Hurricane Irene and Superstorm Sandy.
In his free time, Rossman said that he enjoys reading, hiking and pursuing fun activities to enjoy with his children. His daughter Emma, 18, and son Mason, 14, live with him in Arizona. His son Logan, 21, resides in New Jersey.
Richard Wehr photoMark Rossman — The former volunteer EMT with decades of pastoral experience will be installed Sunday as the senior pastor at Living Water Lutheran Church.
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At the Arizona DECA Career Development state competition held March 3-4, 24 Cactus Shadows High School students competed and several came away with awards for their efforts.
Eight of these students will go on to compete in the International DECA Career Development Conference in Atlanta, Ga., May 2-7: Shanan Sypkens, Kyle Kuo, Sam Slack, Spencer Silberman, Dani Haboush, Logan Hecht, Alexis Burnette and Davis Levy.
At la s t week ’s DECA competition, individual and team awards went to the following students:
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• Alexis Burnette received a medal for role play and placed third overall in principles of hospitality and tourism
• Amber Burnette, Rose Capin and Alexis Burnette all medaled in their written exam for principles of hospitality and tourism
• Logan Hecht and Dani Haboush received medals for their role play and placed first overall for fashion merchandising promotion plan
• Kyle Kuo was named a finalist and placed fifth in hotel and lodging management
• Davis Levy was named a finalist and placed fourth overa l l i n pr i nc iples of business management
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Eric Quade photoOff the scent — The Jaguars baseball team recently endured a rough stretch of losses, including the March 6 4-0 loss pictured above against Mountain Pointe. Boulder Creek plays at San Luis March 12.
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James David Christie, a re-nowned Boston Symphony Or-chestra organist since 1978, will appear March 21 in recital at the Pinnacle Concert Series.
Christie has the distinction of being the first American to win the prestigious International Or-gan Competition in Bruges (Bel-gium) and the first competitor to win both First Prize and Prize of the Audience.
A sample of Christie’s music is available online at youtu.be/ipouZGIbdB0.
The Pinnacle Concert Series 2013-2014 is presented by Pin-nacle Presbyterian Church and its musical director, Brent Hylton. Performances take place at Pin-nacle Presbyterian Church, 25150 North Pima Rd. in Scottsdale at the northwest corner of Pima and Happy Valley roads.
Ticket prices range from $12 to $45. Student tickets are free.
For tickets, call the box office at 480-303-2474 or visit www.PinnacleConcerts.org online.
Other upcoming shows in the Pinnacle Concert Series include:
On April 4, there will be a “Trumpet Invasion” with Ger-shwin, Joplin, Piazolla, Heifitz, Bernstein, and Rossini by pia-nist Rich Ridenour and his son Brandon Ridenour. Brandon is a trumpeter who spent 7 years performing and recording with Canadian Brass.
Rich is a versatile performer who has built a career perform-ing piano favorites from classical masterworks to American rag-time, jazz and rock and roll.
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Then on April 25, “Jazz Under the Stars” with Cinco de Moio will commence with a blend of Cuban and Brazilian music.
Bandleader Dom Moio, who has performed and recorded with jazz greats on both East and West Coasts, will be on drums. Brother Bill Moio, who played
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The March 21-23 event will take place amidst the Carefree Desert Gardens and include not only art, but also musical performances and food. Admission is free, and hours run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each of the 3 days.
Discover the region’s f ine artists and craftsmen, exhibiting thousands of original works, including paintings, copper relief, bronze and stone sculptures, paper art, glass, ceramics, mixed media, photography, hand-crafted jewelry and more.
Candy Vermillion, the event’s organizer, said that this Sonoran Arts League-sponsored festival attracts friends and followers from across the country. It also holds high standards for accepting event participants and offers collector-quality art
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“We’re not just another art show”, Vermillion said. “Our venues are more intimate than most, allowing visitors the opportunity to relax and enjoy themselves without being overwhelmed. With over 25 years of producing many of Arizona’s finest art festivals, we are deeply committed to creating an enjoyable experience for our guests—and we have heard from artists and patrons alike just how much they do enjoy our events.”
Since 1976, the Sonoran Arts League has been bringing art and culture to the high Sonoran desert communities of Carefree, Cave Creek and North Scottsdale.
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A musical celebration of friend-ship and life’s simple pleasures—“Pump Boys and Dinettes,” presented by Starlight Commu-nity Theater—will run for three consecutive weekends beginning March 21 at Starlight’s new, stadium-style theater one block south of Happy Valley Road and 17th Avenue.
“Pump Boys and Dinettes” is about some good ol’ boys who work at a gas station and some outgoing waitresses from the neighboring Double Cupp Din-er located somewhere between Frog Level and Smyrna, N.C. The show, directed by Barbara L. Surloff, features tunes that are a mixture of country rock/pop and musical theater.
Show times are 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturdays March 22-April 5. Friday shows March 21-April 4 are at 7 p.m. The last show will be at 2 p.m. April 6, a Sunday.
Tickets are $15 each and may be purchased in advance online at StarlightCommunityTheater.com or at the door.
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The Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix wi l l celebrate Irish music, dance, crafts and storytelling during its “Experience Ireland” event St. Patrick’s Day weekend, March 15 and 16.
Hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday.
Tickets for the event cost $18 for
adults, $14 for teens and $10 for kids ages 4-12. Children under 4 get in for free.
“Experience Ireland” is one of a series of cultural celebrations in MIM’s “Unity Through Diversity” partnership with Phoenix-based PetSmart.
Celina Chiarel lo, public programs manager at MIM,
said that the initiative brings the largest specialty pet retailer and the world’s only global musical instrument museum together to highlight musical t rad it ions t hat celebrate c u lt u ra l d ivers it y, whi le reinforcing music as a unifying
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THURSDAYDementia caregivers seminar
“Navigating the Journey of De-mentia: Expert Advice for Fam-ily Caregivers” will be held from 9 a.m. to noon March 13 at the Mayo Education Center, 5777 E. Mayo Blvd. in Phoenix. Registra-tion starts at 8:30 a.m., and reser-vations for the free seminar can be made by calling 602-636-5392 or emailing [email protected]. Speakers will include Maribeth Gallagher, dementia program di-rector at Hospice of the Valley, and nationally renowned ethi-cist Carol Taylor, a professor at Georgetown University Medical Center. Gallagher and Taylor will discuss the impact care giving has on family caregivers and the ethical considerations involved in medical decision-making for loved ones with dementia.
SATURDAYSwimming championship
A swimming championship competition for ages 8 and un-der will take place March 15-16 at the ACC Community Center with warm ups starting at 10 a.m. each day and events starting at 11 a.m. The community center pool will reopen for Anthem residents on March 17.
TUESDAYChamber lunch
The Carefree Cave Creek Chamber of Commerce will hold a POWER lunch (Profitable Op-portunities With Empowering Results) from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 18 at Venues Café in downtown Carefree. Attend the lunch for $20 and learn how to grow your business. RSVP re-quired. Call 480-488-3381 or visit carefreecavecreek.org.Young Rembrandts
Two upcoming spring break workshops, March 18-19 and March 20-21, aim to give children ages 6-12 basic drawing instruc-tion. All materials are provided, and children will take home mul-tiple completed projects each day. The workshops take place at An-them Community Center, and interested parties are encouraged to stop by the front desk to sign up. Fees apply.
LATER IN THE MONTHSpur Cross Archaeology Expo
The fifth annual Spur Cross Archaeology Expo will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 22 at the Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area. The event will include a First Mesa hike at 9 a.m., a Jew-el of Creek hike at 10:30 a.m., a Metate Trail hike will take place at noon and then guest speaker Scott Wood will give a 1 p.m. talk on the foothills area’s prehistory. Hikers are encouraged to know their limits and to be adequately prepared for walking in the des-ert, including having enough bottled water. Booths from Desert
Foothills Chapter, Cave Creek Museum, Desert Awareness Group, Desert Foothills Land Trust, Verde Valley Archaeol-ogy Center and Liberty Wildlife will also be present.There is a $3 park entry fee for non-Cave Creek residents, excluding children un-der 16 and those with Maricopa County Park or Spur Cross pass-es. The original March 1 event was rescheduled due to weather.Xterra Black Canyon Run
The Xterra Black Canyon Run will be held at 8 a.m. March 23. The half-marathon will start off of Table Mesa Road and follow the Black Canyon Trail into Black Canyon City and to Rock Springs Café. Runners are strongly en-couraged to carry additional wa-ter. A 9K run, starting at Rock Springs Café, will start at 9 a.m. No headphones allowed. Call 602-363-7725 or visit aztrailrace.com for more info.Group shamanic experience
Guests are invited to the Wal-dorf Astoria Spa at the Boulders Resort on March 29 for a group shamanic experience “aligning with the worlds of grandmother earth.” This 90-minute workshop teaches guests about the mineral, plant, human and spirit world and how they relate to physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and life force aspects of everyday life. Cost is $30 per person not includ-ing tax and gratuity.Rabbi speaking at ACC
On March 30, Flagstaff Rabbi Nina Perlmutter will be at the Pioneer room of the Anthem Community Center from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. giving a presentation on the Museum of History of Polish Jews. Touring the United States, Perlmutter is promoting understanding between Polish and American Jewry and also acknowledging Polish Christians who saved Jewish families at their own peril during World War II. The event is sponsored by North Valley Jewish Community As-sociation. Light buffet and re-freshments will be provided at no charge after the presentation for those registered and in at-tendance. RSVP to [email protected] by March 26 with a name, email and phone number. Seating is limited, so early registration is encouraged.
WEEKLYScottsdale North Rotary
Local residents, visitors and “snowbirds” are invited to the Scottsdale North Rotary Club’s weekly dinner meetings, held Wednesdays at 5:45 p.m. at the Hacienda Mexican Grill, 32527 N. Scottsdale Rd. Rotary is a global humanitarian organiza-tion made up of men and women who are business, professional and community leaders. The club’s top priority is the eradica-tion of polio.
Read to Sioux PoohChildren, along with a favor-
ite adult, are invited to Desert Broom Library every Tuesday at 3 p.m. to read to Sioux Pooh the therapy dog. A 2010 study found that children in reading programs that used therapy dogs developed reading skills up to 20 percent faster than without.Stories in Cave Creek
From 9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. every Thursday, Desert Foothills Library in Cave Creek hosts “Lit-tle Ones Story Time.” The pro-gram is geared toward newborns and children up to 36 months in age. The library also has a story time program for toddlers, which is held every Tuesday from 9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.Toddler Time
Toddlers, accompanied by a favorite adult are invited to en-joy interactive stories, songs and games that encourage emerging language skills every Wednes-day at Desert Broom Library. The program starts at 11:30 a.m. and is aimed at children aged 24 to 36 months.Networking group
AmSpirit Business Connec-tions is national organization consisting of sales representa-tives, entrepreneurs, and profes-sionals which provides a forum for its members to exchange qual-ified referrals with others in the group. The Greater Scottsdale Chapter of AmSpirit meets every Wednesday 8 a.m.-9:15 a.m. at the offices of Homeowners Financial Group located at 16427 N. Scotts-dale Road, No. 280 in Scottsdale. Prospective new members and visitors are welcome to attend.Family Storytime
Children of all ages, with an adult in tow, are welcome Thurs-days at Desert Broom Library to share books, stories, songs and rhymes in a fun, interac-tive program that builds early literacy skills. The library is lo-cated at Cave Creek Road and Tatum Boulevard.Babytime Fridays
Babies up to 24 months in age, accompanied by an adult, can explore pre-literacy skills through songs and stories at Desert Broom Library. Programs start at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Each 20-minute program is followed by an un-structured 30-minute playtime.Crafting
Adults wishing to knit, crochet, tat, macramé or do just about anything that has to do with fi-ber are invited to North Valley Regional Library’s “Made by Hand” program every Thursday at 1 p.m. Bring projects, books and patterns, accomplishments and knowledge to share with oth-ers. Learn something new about your own craft, or pick up another
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“Irish culture holds an enduring place in American history and in the history of Phoenix,” Chiarello said. “We are excited to showcase the many ways Irish culture has endured and f lourished in the Valley.”
Dé Máirt Ceol, a Phoenix-based group of Irish musicians, will present a music session each day. In this informal, musical gathering, one musician starts a tune and the others join in.
The High Desert Harpers, a Celtic-harp ensemble also based in the Valley, will perform Irish airs, jigs, reels, hornpipes and ballads. Students of the Maguire Academy of Irish Dance will provide the footwork.
Liz Warren and Sean Buvala of the South Mountain Community College Storytelling Institute will bring the art of Irish storytelling to MIM, sharing tales of saints and wonders, gods and heroes, other world ly f r ights and fairy music.
Celtic-inspired face painting and a photo booth with costumes and props will be there, too.
Those who wish to participate in bringing Irish culture to life will be able to create and decorate their own bodhrán frame drum and compete in a pub quiz at MIM’s Café Allegro, which will be offering lots of Irish fare.
The Musical Instrument Museum is located at 4725 E. Mayo Blvd. in Phoenix (corner of Tatum and Mayo Boulevards, just south of Loop 101).
Fo r g e n e r a l m u s e u m information and a full schedule of events, visit MIM.org or call 480-478-6000.
Minerals play a primary role in the status of our overall health.
Consider first the primary sources that fuel our bodies: macronutrients. Macronutrients are protein, carbohydrates and fats. Next, consider within those the primary sources of micronutrients: vitamins and minerals.
Minera l s a re v ita l for nou r i sh i ng our bones and muscle tissue. W i t h o u t t h e m , many of the vitamins we consume will not get into the proper
places to do their jobs. We know that bananas give us potassium and citrus fruits and green vegetables provide calcium. However, there is one mineral that approximately 70 percent of Americans are deficient in. That is magnesium. How often do you consider magnesium in your diet?
If you are experiencing muscle stiffness, aches and pains, or if any muscle in your body is experiencing some difficulties, including your heart, you might
want to check with a naturopathic physician about your magnesium levels. An ongoing magnesium deficiency can contribute to many health problems. Without an adequate supply, the calcium we consume may not get into our bones but rather collect within the soft tissues of our bodies, including the endothelial lining of our arteries. Some outcomes might be clogged ar ter ies (atherosclerosis) leading to stroke or heart attack, brittle bones leading to osteoporosis or intracellular calcium in the neuronal brain cells leading to Alzheimer’s, as some studies have suggested.
Eating a balanced diet is crucial to our longevity and well-being. That can’t be said enough.
Make sure to include the following in your balanced diet to increase your mineral uptake.
• Chlorophyll foods: dried seaweeds, green leafy vegetables, wheat-grass, spirulina and barley grass
• Beans: mung, aduki, black, lima and soy
• Whole grains: buckwheat, millet, sprouted wheat or wheat berries, barley, rye and brown rice
• Nuts and seeds: almonds, cashews, filberts and sesame seeds
Foods that are poor sources of magnesium are animal foods—meat, dairy and eggs and fruit.
Refined foods contain very little magnesium.
For instance, only 8 percent of any magnesium is left in f lour after it is milled. Sprouted grain breads are a better choice if you are eating bread.
From the list above, do you recognize any foods that some popular fad diets today leave out? It is wise to do an inventory on your diet every month or so in order to make sure you are eating a well-balanced variety of nourishing foods. Remember, whole foods and mostly plants is the way to go—and that includes whole grains, like brown rice, for magnesium.
Bonnie Crutcher is board certified by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners as a holistic health coach. Find out more online at www.bonniecrutcher.com.
Disclaimer: The content of this column is not intended to be medical advice. Always seek the advice of your medical doctor before engaging in any diet program or exercise routine.
Submitted photoCeltic chords — Dé Máirt Ceol and The High Desert Harpers are just a few of the acts coming to the Musical Instrument Museum to get guests in the St. Patrick’s Day spirit this weekend.
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Sculptor Craig Bergsgaard tells stories with art
Bonnie Kline photoArt expo characters — Craig Bergsgaard, a sculptor and storyteller, is pictured with his book and a few of his characters.
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BONNIE KlINEAs an artist, Craig Bergsgaard
is a fine story teller, but his own story is constantly evolving.
Having made a name for him-self as a bronze sculptor, his larger-than-life public works are proudly featured in communities such as Fountain Hills and Castle Rock, Colo.
As his pieces at the Scottsdale Fine Art Expo demonstrate, he has become a skilled portrayer of Western life, from saloon girls to Native Americans.
His career started, appropri-ately, with a sculpture called “Quest,” a Viking that ref lects the heritage of his hometown of Spring Grove, Minn. The chair-person of the local art committee said it was such a great partner-ship that they didn’t want it to end, so they gathered funds for Bergsgaard to do another sculp-ture. Bergsgaard said that this one is of Ola and Per, characters in a cartoon strip by another local resident, Peter Rosendahl.
“It’s still the hardest piece I have ever done,” Bergsgaard said. “Ola and Per were drawn in two-dimen-sional drawings, and I had to create a three-dimensional sculpture.”
Being an artist is an ongoing journey of discovery, he said. Most recently, Bergsgaard finds himself storytelling through other media. Since some of his subjects are cowboys, he started imagining their life. Soon images, characters and a storyline took shape in his mind. He created a book to accompany sculptures, such as “With the Dawn.” The
name comes from the lyrics of one of Bergsgaard’s favorite songs, “Cool Water,” by Bob Nolan and Sons of the Pioneers. Another lyric became the book’s title, “Each Star’s a Pool of Water.”
The distinctive photography in the book was a collaboration between Bergsgaard and Atalanta Kirk, whose art is also on dis-play at Arizona Fine Art Expo. Kirk specializes in portraiture, revealing the real person behind their self-projected persona. She did the camera work and Bergs-gaard did the editing, colorization and layering, giving each photo a gritty feel apropos of the sub-ject. The photography was meant only for the book, but he has been getting requests for the images as artwork. Bergsgaard is now also toying with the idea of a video.
The characters have taken on a life of their own. Bergsgaard has created a lighthearted series of liquor decanters stoppered with pewter busts of Short Branch Ranch cowboys. There’s “El Ojo Uno,” a smooth operator with a knack for losing at cards; Barzell, the ranch enforcer you only cross once; Asa, the “focused” boss; and Noble, the taciturn ranch hand. The saloon girls have been another popular series.
The white tents of the art expo are located at 26540 N. Scottsdale Rd. It is open until March 30 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is free for children under 12, $8 for seniors and the military and $10 for all others.
For more information on the show, visit arizonafineartexpo.com online or call 480-837-7163.
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MONTE YAZZIEGerard Butler led the assault as
King Leonidas in director Zack Snyder’s adaptation of the graphic novel “300.” The sequel, which runs along the same timeline as the first film, introduces the Greek hero Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton) into the battle against the Persians.
“300: Rise of an Empire,” directed by Noam Murro, offers the same styled violence and blood drenched battle sequences as the first film, but it doesn’t offer anything more than another excuse to indulge in the adrenaline fueled chaos.
In Murro’s film, King Leonidas and his 300 Spartans have been defeated. Themistokles, a respected hero whose actions brought the wrath of the Persians, is trying to unite Greece in order lead a defense against Persia on the sea. However, the Persians have their own legendary hero, a beautiful warrior woman named Artemisia (Eva Green) who has a blood lust for Greeks. Themistokles and Artemisia meet on the water—the fate of Greece in the balance—as the two forces battle in a bloody, 3-D experience.
Murro began the film quickly
with a charge of violence, offering a nice introduction with some additional information about the shaping of the Persian forces and how their god-king Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) came to great power. The remainder of the story revolved around the war waged between the two forces and the plight for Greek unification. There wasn’t much else to it: one well-choreographed fight after another with a few inspiring battle speeches by Themistokles mixed in.
Style consumed most of the f i lm. Slow-motion camera movements were used to amplify the violence, gushing blood was spewed with every blade swipe and floating dust and ash particles made use of the 3-D technology. It was amusing at first but quickly became monotonous due, in part, to some overly similar sequences, most of which took place on ships in the water. About
halfway through, the film became a vehicle for gratuitous action over everything else.
To her credit, Eva Green’s s tandout per formance as Artemisia actually maintained attention on the film when the narrative began to waver in the second half. Her viciousness and changing motivations kept the character interesting.
Sullivan Stapleton knew how to deliver a speech as Themistokles but, apart from that, he wasn’t given much more to do except swing a sword and scream commands.
“300: Rise of an Empire” was not as good as its predecessor, but for viewers looking for the over-the-top CG action found in the original, this f i lm wi l l not disappoint. Unfortunately, aside from the style and the performance of Eva Green, there wasn’t much left to charge for.
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SHEA STANFIElDWe study past civilizations by
their art. Art is the window we gaze through to discover what inspires, what stories were told and what the people valued most in their life and culture. Art def ines our understanding of civilizations.
Cyndy Carstens, one of our lo-cal artists, is using her painting talent to define what we value in our lives. Cyndy is gathering our community together to celebrate art and help save the life of her son, Jonathan Yarnell.
Jonathan is 33 years old. He grew up in Phoenix and attend-ed North Canyon High School where he was the quarterback and team captain of the football team, the North Canyon Rattlers. Jonathan was also a member of the North Canyon cross-country running team. He earned aca-demic and running scholarships to attend Phoenix College.
Jonathan—who now lives in Temecula, California, with his young wife and 10-month old son—is fighting multiple my-eloma bone cancer, requiring a bone marrow transplant to save his life.
Art is the gift Cyndy Carstens is creating as a donation toward raising funds. Sponsoring an event for Jonathan, she will be creating a painting during the
3-hour event, which will be raf-fled off at the end of the evening. Funds raised will be used to help with the cost of Jonathan’s life-saving bone marrow transplant and medications.
The fundraising event to benef it Jonathan will take place March 20 from 6 p.m.
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Painting to raise funds for cancer patient
Submitted photolabor of love — Artist Cyndy Carstens will be raffling off a painting she creates the same day to benefit her son, Jonathan Yarnell.
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to 9 p.m. at Carstens Fine Art Stu-dio & Gallery, 7077 Main St. No. 5 in Scottsdale.
Raffle tickets will be sold for $10 each to win Cyndy’s painting. The link to pre-raffle ticket sales is Goo.gl/xhN69a.
Music for the event will be performed
by Grammy nominated f lautist Sherry Finzer and guitarist Darin Mahoney from their album “Transformations,” which won “Best Album 2013” from One World Music. Their performance is donated, as well as half of all CD sales.
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“Forever” by Cyndy Carstens
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craft (or stitch) that has piqued your interest. Or come and spend a couple of leisurely hours do-ing something you love to do or would like to learn and, in the process, make new friendships.Friday night meals
The Ladies Auxiliary VFW Post 1796 in Black Canyon City is serving up meals every Friday night. The public is welcome to attend.Homework help
Teen volunteers are available Wednesdays from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Desert Broom Library to help elementary school-aged children with homework assignments and study skills.
MONTHLYGrief support group
Hospice of the Valley offers a free, drop-in grief support group from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the first and third Tuesday of each month through June 3 at the An-them Civic Building. The support groups are open to adults 18 and older who have experienced a loss through death. Counselors address a range of topics, in-cluding dealing with loneliness, understanding the grieving pro-cess, adjusting to life without the loved one, taking next steps and finding meaning and reinvest-ing in life. For more information: 602-530-6970.Volunteer orientation
The Foothills Caring Corps, a volunteer-based nonprofit with the primary mission of assisting the elderly so they may live inde-pendently at their homes, holds a volunteer orientation session the second Thursday of each month starting at 9 a.m. at 7275 E. Easy St., Ste. B103 in Carefree. To RSVP or find out more, call 480-488-1105.Writing workshops
Desert Foothills Library has two monthly workshops catering
to writers. The first Friday of each month, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., author and publisher Patricia Brooks, founder of the Scottsdale Society of Women Writers, leads a workshop on how to write non-fiction books that position the author—you—as an expert on a particular topic. Then on the first Monday of each month, from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., a memoir writing group meets to establish goals, set personal writing schedules, share stories and receive constructive feedback. For memoir group guidelines, email Elena Pavlova at [email protected]. Both writing workshops have lim-ited seating. Call 480-488-2286 to register.NR/DHCA meeting
The New River/Desert Hills Community Association hosts two meetings each month. A community meeting is held ev-ery second Tuesday of the month, 7:30 p.m.-9 p.m., at the Daisy Mountain Fire Station. Then on the second Friday each month, the group convenes its town hall meeting from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Anthem Civic Building.Peaceful spiritwomen’s group
The last Friday of every month, Peaceful Spirit Enrichment Cen-ter in New River hosts its monthly women’s gathering. Members of the group share their journey with each other, gaining insight and inspiration. A $10-$15 donation is suggested, though no one is turned away for lack of funds. For more info, contact Melanie Dun-lap at 623-465-5875, [email protected] or visit the online calendar at Peaceful-SpriritCenter.com.New River Kiwanis
The first and third Wednesday of every month, New River Ki-wanis hold their regular meet-ings at the New River Kiwanis Community Park, 48606 N. 17th Ave. The civic organiza-tion is geared toward helping
children and is always looking for new members to get involved Desert Broom Knitters
Knitters of all ages and skill levels are invited to gather in the small conference room at Des-ert Broom Library the fourth Saturday each month from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. to work on exist-ing projects, start new ones and share tips and techniques. Gen-eral instruction given includes how to cast on, making the knit stitch, purling and binding off at the end of a finished piece. Spe-cific projects are also taught. The group’s leader is an experienced instructor, knitting guild mem-ber and established knitwear designer with published origi-nal patterns for hand knitters. Cards, boardgames social
The third Tuesday each month at Desert Foothills Library in Cave Creek is designated for a cards and board games social for adults from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The library has lots of games to
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What do Oreo cookies and cocaine have in common? Evidently they are both highly addictive. Ha!
I knew that some very serious group of scientists would one day be sitting around in their lab coats, breaking apart the little chocolate rounds and licking the
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that job! Nothing like getting a big fat grant (government perhaps) and a plate of cookies to make an earth shattering “find” that all of us already know.
OK, so a bunch of lab rats in a Connecticut College experiment were given the choice of eating rice cakes (c a r d b o a r d ) o r O r e o s ( h e a v e n ) , and we are supposed to be shocked t hat t hey a l l chose the Oreos. It was a lso determined that eating the cookies activated more neurons in the rat brain’s “pleasure centers” than drugs such as cocaine. Oh, and the rats liked to break open the chocolate biscuits and eat the delicious creamy center f irst. Smart little devils.
What those scientists failed to tell us is that the “addiction” to
Oreos doesn’t seem to matter. No marriages ruined, jobs lost, health diminished, laws broken and lives ravaged because folks like to eat cookies! Okay, so those pesky little “pleasure centers” in human (and rat) brains do seem to release a whole bunch of “feel good” neurons while we are eating sugar (or using drugs). But the use of the term “Oreo addict” seems a bit harsh. They are just cookies!
We love our Oreos. Can 100 countries be wrong? Could 400 billion cookies sold over the past 100 years give us all the “research” that we really need? People love to twist them, dunk them, lick them and eat them.
I do recall my grandson, Kevin, eating an entire package of Oreos when he was about 5 years old. He grabbed them out of the pantry, sat in a closet and happily ate 20 cookies and hid the other 16 from his brothers. When confronted
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to stick to his story. Which makes
me wonder, if a person, steals, hides, indulges and lies … isn’t that the hallmark of addictive behavior? Hmmm … can Oreos really be bad?
A man in Cave Creek emailed me to say that he was lost once
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while hiking in Colorado, getting off the trail and becoming disoriented. The only way he believed he survived was because he had a bunch of Oreos and was able to endure for 3 days. A forest ranger found him when the lost man stuck the empty bright blue cookie package to a tree limb and waited for help. He said he loves his Oreos. Well, why not? They saved his life!
Research seems to suggest that food addiction is a real and wide-spread problem for millions of Americans. We seem to like (and get hooked on) our sugar, fat and carbohydrates. One man in Phoenix claims he is truly addicted to potato chips and says he cannot go one day without eating three large bags of the “salty, crisp, chips of evil” that are killing him. Why not eat just one? No, this man is mounting a lawsuit against Lays Potato Chips because they have addicted him, causing weight gain, lethargy and low self-esteem. Oh yeah, I would love to get selected to sit on that jury.
But I digress.Getting back to Oreos, these
little darlings are celebrating 100 years of cookie bliss. Who knew that two little chocolate disks of biscuit sandwiching some vanilla cream filling would become the biggest selling treat in the world?
Addictive? Maybe. Bad for us? Never.
Oreos are part of 20th century culture and part of our collective memories of childhood. They are not just a cookie, they are the bits of our childhood sandwiched between memories of a simpler, purer time.
Even the historians at Nabisco, which introduced the Oreo in 1912, are not sure how the name came about. Some think it was taken from the French word for “gold” which was the main color of the package when they first came out. Others believe it was based on a test-version of the cookie that was “hill shaped,” instead of flat disks, and named after the Greek word for mountain, which is oreo. Others think it was a made up word that sounded snappy.
Yes, that’s it! Oreos are snappy, just break them apart and have a blast. Forget what those scientists say about “pleasure sensors” and brain neurons going bonkers. So they might have an “addictive quality” to them, and it could be hard to eat just one.
I am conducting my own “cookie research” at this very moment and will report back to you. In the meantime, dear readers, don’t be afraid to twist, lick, munch and dunk. Cookies are good.
Judy Bluhm is a writer and a local realtor who lives in the Anthem area. Have a comment or a story? Email Judy at [email protected].
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Russian military maneuver creating strategic facts
A financial transaction tax on high frequency traders
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Have you heard about High Frequency Trading? Get ready to be dazzled!
HFT is sweeping, purely specu-lative financial transactions that have been made possible by huge
leaps in tech-nology. Done by super-fast compute r s , using mathe-matical algo-rithms, HFT searches mil-lions of prices at lightning speeds and
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sured in milliseconds, as the global network of “trading ro-bots” never sleeps, and its sole function is to allow the wealthiest speculators to skim quick profits out of markets.
Guess how much in taxes folks pay on the sales in the HFT game? When I buy a $3 pack of toilet paper here in Austin, Texas, I pay an extra 8.25 percent in sales tax. But if a high roller in the HFT game buys $10 million worth of
corporate stock, he or she pays zero tax on the sale.
So maybe we need an FTT on HFT. A Financial Transaction Tax is not an idea whose time has come, but simply returned. From 1914 to 1966, our country taxed all sales and transfers of stock. The tax was doubled in the last year of Herbert Hoover’s presidency to help us recover from the Great Depression.
Today, 40 countries have FTT’s, including the seven with the fastest-growing stock exchanges in the world. Seven members of the European Union voted for an FTT (including France and Germany) to help blunt rising poverty, restore services and put people back to work.
This is no soak-the-rich idea. Rather than asking the Wall Street crowd to join us in paying a 6- to 12-percent sales tax, the major FTT proposal gaining support in the U.S. calls for a 0.5 percent assessment on stock transactions. That’s 50 cents on a $100 stock buy, versus the $8.25 I would pay for a $100 bicycle.
Even at this miniscule rate, the huge volume of high-speed trades means an FTT would net about $300-350 billion a year for our public treasury. Plus, it’s a very progressive tax. Half of our country’s stock is owned by the 1 percenters, and only a small number of them are in the HFT game.
Ordinary folks who have small stakes in the markets, including those in mutual and pension funds, are called buy-and-hold investors — they only do trades every few months or years, not daily or hourly or even by the second, and they’ll not be harmed. Rather, it’s the computerized churners of frothy speculation who will pony up the bulk of revenue from such a transaction tax.
An FTT is an uncomplicated way for us to get a substantial chunk of our money back from high finance thieves, and we should make a concerted effort to put the idea on the front burner and turn
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Whether delivered as a rock, rifle round or laser burst, lethal fire by a military force is one of the two most fundamental com-bat actions. It is certainly the action best understood by art-ists. From cave painters to Hol-lywood directors, their material weapons make the “fire” threat posed by the spearman and the sniper explicit.
The second combat funda-mental, ma-neuver, is a bit harder to depict as the combat threat it is. B o o t s o r tank treads can visually indicate two means of ma-neuver (by
foot, by vehicle) but neither has quite the visual impact of the sol-dier’s rifle or the tank’s main gun.
Maneuver, however, is fire’s dynamic battle buddy. Throw the rock, and run; odds are Homo erectus understood the combina-tion’s logic. Shoot and scoot was the U.S. Army Armor School’s clever formulation in 1974. The slow and agonizing struggle known as the Cold War was very real in 1974. One tank gunnery instructor joked that those of us headed for armor units in West Germany (remember West Ger-many?) might have to master the trick of shooting while scooting backward. When the Soviet tanks (remember the Soviets?) cross the intra-German border, just keep her in reverse all the way back to the Rhine, Lieutenant.
Military maneuver, whether tac-tical (my tank’s predicted retreat), operational (what the Russians have pulled off in Crimea) or stra-tegic (e.g., moving five divisions to Kuwait by sea and air), is about more than running and scooting. Maneuver has an objective: to secure a position of comparative advantage over an enemy.
The Russians have certainly done that in Crimea. They have seized several advantageous posi-tions without bloodshed. Adolf Hitler did the same when his forces re-militarized the Rhine-land on March 7, 1936. That ma-neuver violated the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. The French thought Versailles ended World War I. Hitler disagreed; he didn’t think the war was over. “Re-militariza-tion” created a new strategic fact on the ground: German forces in the Rhineland.
It also created a new political fact: Hitler paid no significant international political price for breaking the treaty. In histori-cal retrospect, “re-militarization” was a euphemism for invasion.
At the moment, the Pentagon prefers to call the aggressive em-ployment of “fire and maneuver” against an adversary “kinetic military action” or sometimes simply “kinetics.” Kinetics is a euphemism for war. Adversary is a euphemism for enemy. Several European Union political leaders and the Obama Administration have called Czar-Commissar Vladimir Putin’s decision to send Russian troops into the Crimean Peninsula a “terrible mistake” or grave error. Both strike me as euphemisms for terrible invasion.
Ukraine’s f ledgling govern-ment deserves credit for clarity. It has no trouble referring to Rus-sia’s latest despot, Czar-Commis-sar Vladimir and his army as their enemy. The Ukrainians know they have suffered an invasion.
As this column is written, there have been no reports of lethal gun battles (fire) between Russian invad-ers and Ukrainian units. Because of successful Russian operational maneuver, leveraging surprise, fire (so far) has been limited to a display of the Russian invaders’ capability to kill — fire demonstrations.
For example, the Wall Street Journal reported that Russian sol-diers “fired warning shots over the heads of unarmed Ukrainian soldiers” at the Balbek air base in Crimea. The Ukrainians were trying “to go to work” despite the fact that the Russians had captured the installation. The Russians agreed to let the Ukrai-nians enter the base as long as they remained unarmed.
Is this Twilight Zone warfare, a strange limbo between potential combat and “kinetic action”?
No, not really. Combat maneu-ver has occurred, folks. The Wall Street Journal report depicted a Russian operational victory won by maneuver. The Russians took the air base and did so without the political downside of videos of dead Ukrainians going viral on the Internet.
Balbek is a major Ukrainian Air Force base. Or it was. As a political and military fact on the ground, Balbek is now in Russian hands. For that matter, so is most of Crimea.
To find out more about Austin Bay and read features by other Creators writ-ers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at creators.com.
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PUBLIC NOTICEARTICLES OF
ORGANIZATION HAVE BEEN FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE
ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION FOR
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business is:6948 E. Cave Creek Rd., Cave Creek, AZ 85331
The name and street address of the Statutory Agent is:
D.David Perfect 6948 E. Cave Creek Rd., Cave Creek, AZ 85331
Management of the limited liability company is reserved to the mem-
bers. The names and addresses of each person who is a member are:
D.David Perfect 6948 E. Cave Creek Rd., Cave Creek, AZ 85331
Article VI is amended to read as follows: ... and the termination of the corpora-
tion shall be 75 years thereafter...
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PUBLIC NOTICEARTICLES OF
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ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION FOR
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the limited liability company are: Matt Ortiz, Jenna Ortiz 2464 W.Memorial Dr. Anthem, AZ 85086
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NOTICESLooking for ladies and gentlemen to play Mah Jongg Wednesdays in library at Boulder Creek HS, noon to 3 or later. Call Nancy after 6pm. 623-465-9317 Al-anon Meetings in Anthem. Mondays 10:45am. St Rose Parish. 2825 W Rose Canyon Circle. S/W corner of Daisy Mtn & Meridian.
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Independent Advertising Sales Executives! We are looking for experienced, hard-working Print Advertising sales executives to join our Professional Sales team in the North valley. A successful candidate will be an experienced outside sales professional , preferably in print media, an excellent communicator, verbally and in writing, passionate about details, honest and have the willingness to prospect and make cold calls. Please email resume to: [email protected] SOUTHWEST TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING. GI Bill accepted & EARN $35K your 1st year! Pre-hire letters before you even begin training! Phoenix: 602-904-6602 OR Tucson: 520-216-7609. www.swtdveterans.com. (AzCAN) GORDON TRUCKING: CDL-A Truck Drivers. Up to $5,000 Sign-on-bonus & .54 CPM. Solos & Teams. Fulltime. Consistent miles, benefits, 401k, EOE. Call 7 days/wk! 866-837-5997 GordonTrucking.com. (AzCAN) 15 DRIVERS TRAINEES NEEDED NOW IN PHOENIX! Become a driver for Werner Enterprises! Earn $750/week + benefits! NO CDL? NO PROBLEM! CDL training available! 1-888-512-7114. (AzCAN) WANTED: LIFE AGENTS; Earn $500 a day; great agent benefits; commissions paid daily; liberal underwriting. Leads, leads, leads. LIFE INSURANCE LICENSE REQUIRED. Call 1-888-713-6020. (AzCAN) CONSTRUCTION CAREERS US NAVY. Paid training, financial security, medical/dental, vacation, retirement. HS grads ages 17-34. Call Mon-Fri 800-354-9627. (AzCAN)NEED CLASS A CDL TRAINING? Start a CAREER in trucking today! Swift Academies offer PTDI certified courses and offer “Best-in-Class” training. New academy classes weekly; no money down or credit check; certified mentors ready and available; paid (while training with a mentor); regional and dedicated opportunities. Great career path. Excellent benefits package. Please call (520)226-8706. (AzCAN)
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lIVESTOCK & SUPPlIESSaddle & Tack Repairs. Western & English plus Racing saddle too. 30 years exp. Buy-Sell-Trade. 23yrs same location. Circle Mtn Rd & 18th St. 623-465-7286TRIPLE R HORSE RESCUE is a 501(c)3 non profit organization. We rehabilitate and adopt out local horses that have been abused, neglected or rescued from slaughter We are in need of donations and sponsors to help with feed and vet care. Volunteer opportunities are also available. For further info, please call 602-396-8726.
V O L U N T E E R - S P O N S O R -ADOPT! Dreamchaser Horse Rescue offers a myriad of volunteer opportunities. Please consider joining our Dreamchaser family! We need animal lovers who are willing to help with everything from ranch chores to fundraising! We have sanctuary horses who need sponsors, and horses available for adoption. Come see us: www.dreamchaserhorserescue.org or Susan at 623-910-6530Free delivery of shavings, cow & horse mixture great for arenas or fertilizer 480-595-0211
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For Sale: 1-Wheel Chair, $75. 2-Walkers, $10ea. 1-New Porta Potty, $20. Call Ed in Anthem 623-551-9753
Pool-Spa pump. Starite MaxE Pro P6eD-205l, 3/4HP. $300. 406-451-3059
For Sale: 40ft shipping container w/ 2 skylights, 2 whirrly birds, 4x4 sliding glass window, interior 3/8 OSB skinned, 60 amp electrical panel w/ 4 gang plugs every 8ft. Asking $6500. In excellent condition. A must See. Call Gary or Allie at 623-465-2801 for more info. NO calls after 7pm please!!Free delivery of shavings, cow & horse mixture-great for arenas or fertilizer 480-595-0211
MISC WANTEDWANTED: Ham Radio equipment, tubes, audio HiFi, test equipment. Large quantity preferred. Ethan @ 775-313-2823.Wanted: CASH PAID for guns, wagon wheels, wagons, anvils, wooden barrels, western antiques. 623-742-0369 / 602-214-5692Free Clean fill dirt wanted near New River and Circle Mtn. roads. Some rocks OK 847-738-1194
PETS & SUPPlIESREMEMBER TO ADOPT! Maricopa County Animal Care and Control 602-506-PETS www.pets.maricopa.govRattlesnake proof your dog now. Snake proofing for all breeds of dogs. New River location. 480-215-1776 www.vipervoidance.comSheltie & Collie rescue have beautiful dogs for adoption. 480-488-5711 SundustSDA @aol.com
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57 ACRES, $57,900. Prescott area, Ruger Ranch. Rugged mountain property bordering State Land. 1st come basis. Financing & ADWR report available. Call AZLR (866)632-0877. (AzCAN)
Black Canyon City home for rent. 3 bed/2 bath, 2 car garage, RV parking, fenced yard, Arizona room. $950mo 602-717-3641
4 ACRES with views of majestic Bradshaw Mountains. Situated at the end of road. Area of custom site built homes. Area of 30 gallon a minute wells. Property does have its own well and electric. Close proximity to Agua Fria river bed. Easy commute to Prescott, Flagstaff or Phoenix. Rural living yet close to shopping, hospital, schools, colleges and other amenities. Priced to sell quickly at $160,000. Call Kay 928-710-4193
New River land Sale. 360 degree views, 2200ft elevation, underground electric and water. 1 to 23 acres available. located at the base of Gavilan Peak. Call 623-680-1017
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Rate for classifieds are $20 for the first 20 words then $.50 per word after and must be prepaid. Deadline for classifieds is Wed. at 5pm for the following Wed. issue. Classifieds may also be faxed to 623-465-1363.
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up the heat. Not only do its benefits merit the fight, but the fight itself would be politically popular.
The FTT idea is blessed with broad support, ranging from Bill Gates to Occupy Wall Street to the Vatican, and it’s been embraced by dozens of major economists, including Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman. But this fight will be won at the ground level of good politics, and that’s well underway. Many grassroots groups and several progressives in Congress have already forged solid coalitions and are going to the countryside with a growing campaign to make Wall Street pay.
A major push is being made under the banner of the “Robin Hood Tax,” led by National Nurses United, Nat iona l People’s Action Health GAP and Progressive Democrats of
America. They and some 150 other organizations are backing the IPA. (This IPA is not a beer, though I suggest the organizers brew one to help popularize, cheer and lubricate the cause.) It’s the Inclusive Prosperity Act, a proposal by Rep. Keith Ellison and others for an FTT. Sen. Tom Harkin and Rep. Peter DeFazio have another version with a more modest tax rate.
A sales tax on speculators can deliver tangibles that people need but Wall Street says we can’t afford — infrastructure, Social Security, education, good jobs, etc. Just as important, it can deliver intangibles that our nation needs but Wall Street tries to ignore — fairness, social cohesion, equal opportunity, etc.
To find out more about Jim Hightower and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at creators.com.
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As local HAM radio opera-tors know, the topography in and around the Daisy Mountain Fire District can be a challenge for reliable communications.
HAM radio communications has become the only proven re-liable form of communications during major disasters, and a new HAM repeater recently came on-line in the Daisy Mountain area, which will add reliable coverage in an area that, up until now, has been severely lacking.
The repeater and most of the as-sociated equipment was awarded through a 2011 Homeland Securi-ty Grant Program Award project and was funded under the Urban Area Security Initiative. This is a portable repeater that is operating out of Daisy Mountain Fire Sta-tion 145 located in Desert Hills. The Daisy Mountain Fire Depart-
ment Citizen Corps program is responsible for the operation and has partnered with the Arizona Repeater Association to provide frequency coordination, installa-tion, maintenance and technical expertise.
This repeater adds coverage to Anthem, Desert Hills, parts of New River and other areas of the North Valley where the Shaw Butte repeater has lacked. This repeater is linked full-time to the Shaw Link system, which provides wide coverage around Maricopa County and includes:
Shaw Butte 147.24 MHz + off-set 162.2 Hz PL
Mt Ord 146.92 MHz – offset 162.2 Hz PL
Scottsdale Airpark 146.76 MHz – offset 162.2 Hz PL
Usery Mountain 146.86 MHz – offset 162.2 Hz PL
Daisy Mountain 448.375 MHz - offset 100.0 Hz PL
The Daisy Mountain repeater can be temporarily unlinked for exclusive use within the fire dis-trict for drills, special events and large incidents. DMFDCC vol-unteers recently participated in the Ragnar Del Sol, an overnight 203-mile running relay with com-munications support. Ninety-one HAM operators participated in it—the largest, most elaborate emergency communications event in the state.
When local HAM radio opera-tors use the repeater, DMFDCC is interested to know about their experience. Email comments to [email protected]
Paul SchickelDaisy Mountain Fire Department
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