Archive for: May, 2010

Online Edition – May 29, 2010

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Memories of wars’ injured still haunt Army nurse

“I think once you’ve been to something like Vietnam, and you’re a little bit older, you understand that you are not mortal.” The words capture the sometimes painful memories of south Tempe resident Patricia Little-Upah who, as an Army nurse, treated injured soldiers during Vietnam and Desert Storm, and saw the conflicts’ effects on those [...]

Chandler, Tempe police continuing ‘Click It or Ticket’ seatbelt campaign through June 6

Tapping funds from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, the Chandler and Tempe police departments will continue their emphasis on seatbelt enforcement during a national Click It or Ticket Campaign running through June 6.    Additional officers are patrolling streets in west Chandler and other portions of the city during the campaign designed to raise awareness [...]

Corona grad is Tempe’s 2010 Volunteer of the Year

It’s Halloween 2009, and a woman has just run into the middle of a Tempe street, stopped a Fire Department paramedic truck, and called out frantically for help for a friend who is about to have a baby in her car. Jesse Forbes, a volunteer EMT with the Tempe Fire Department, grabs an emergency kit [...]

Online Edition – May 15, 2010

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Harvest for Humanity

Denise Phillips has a lot of new ideas when it comes to gardening. But it is an old idea that she hopes will transform how people they put food on the table. “There is no reason that anyone in the Valley—anyone in our country, really—should not have access to healthy nutritional food,’’ says the west [...]

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