Online Edition – April 30, 2011
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Corona del Sol High School students are brightening up the Tempe Union High School District Office this month with artistic displays of students’ work from Carmelisa Castelli Wood’s photography classes. Among those featured is Corona junior Christine Beatty of Wood’s photography 3-4 class, who has two of her pieces on display through April. Beatty’s artwork [...]
The computer-animated kids’ movie Rio begins in the title city, where we see a baby parrot captured for the exotic bird trade. Somehow he ends up stranded in Minnesota, where he grows up (into the voice of Jesse Eisenberg) as the pet of Linda (Leslie Mann), a nice young woman who runs a bookstore. She’s [...]
Imagine going through a medical procedure without having a friend or family member by your side. Thanks to volunteers at Chandler Regional Medical Center, patients don’t have to worry about not having a hand to hold when they’re anxious or a blanket to warm them when they’re cold. With more than 650 volunteers at both [...]
Sometimes, Chandler resident Jonathan Davis thinks about where he would be if he were never introduced to ICAN. “I probably would have never graduated high school. I probably would have been in a gang and doing drugs,” he said. Improving Chandler Area Neighborhoods is an organization geared toward providing free, comprehensive out-of-school programs that help [...]
Prices on gas-station signs aren’t looking very attractive these days. And, by summer, they’re likely to reach $5 per gallon, a spokesman for Napa Auto Care said. There are, however, gas-saving strategies worth noting that can help drivers make the most out their trips to local gas pumps, according to Mathew Ireland, customer relations representative [...]
Long-time Corona head football coach Gary Venturo was recently selected to the Arizona High School Athletic Coaches Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony will be May 1 at the Phoenix Elks Lodge 335. Venturo ran Corona’s football program for 23 years before he announced his retirement at the end of the 2009 football season. He [...]
Sixth-grade students at Kyrene del Pueblo Middle School are putting aside paper and pencils to enter the digital landscape of today’s education. During parent conferences, the traditional teacher-led talks accompanied by binders of past assignments, tests and projects are gone. For this group of about 100 sixth graders, students now lead the conferences, assessing their [...]
In his past 20-some years as the reigning monarch of south Tempe’s small but solidly established community of family owned restaurants, Tony Romano has held court over an impressive domain of notables—sports figures, prominent business people, high-profile folks who represented a Who’s Who of the Valley’s most successful. And though his name wasn’t always the [...]
As an attorney who has worked in the areas of estate planning and trusts for more than 20 years, Lou Silverman is well aware that many people do not feel comfortable discussing anything with their families that has to do with growing older, becoming disabled or, ultimately, dying. Silverman also knows how complex these issues [...]
