Members of the Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness Coalition stand in front of a quilt representing children who were victims. Rob Bell, left, chair of the organization, and Sgt. Joe Favazzo, right, of the Chandler Police Department, joined leading members of First Things First to help spread awareness during a meeting at the Chandler Police [...]
Gerri Shaw, longtime principal at Aprende Middle School in west Chandler, has announced her plans to retire at the end of the current school year. Shaw has worked at the school 18 years, including 10 years as principal. She faced particular challenges only two weeks into the school year, dealing with the after-effects of one [...]
Last week, by a narrow margin, Kyrene voters reauthorized a Capital Override that will allow Kyrene to continue to fund technology based needs and programs without exerting further strain on the district’s Operating Budget which has experienced a decline of over 10.5% and $11.3 million since it peaked at $106.4 million in 2008-09. We thank [...]
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2006’s Happy Feet was a truly crazy movie, a blend of Pixar-style animation, Bollywood musical and a streak of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. Set in a world in which penguins sing to connect with their soulmates, the film focused on the unfortunate young Mumbles, unable to carry a tune but endowed with a natural [...]
South Tempe residents and their citywide neighbors who receive this year’s satisfaction survey are being asked to return the completed forms in the enclosed envelope no later than Dec. 31. Each year, the city of Tempe mails a survey to 2,400 randomly selected residents to ask their input on everything from parks and streets to [...]
Gail Dick loves to read, and she enjoys volunteering. About a dozen years ago, when the southTemperesident was looking for a new volunteer opportunity, Dick decided to join the Friends of the Tempe Public Library, a member-supported, non-profit organization that helps provide funding for some of the library programs and services. “I was initially on [...]
The next generation of Corona del Sol football players already has gotten plenty of experience on the field. Recently realigned withCorona’s Aztecs, players in the Junior Pee-Wee, or JPW, Wildcats have been competing for years in and around west Chandler. The team, which consists of athletes ages 10 and 11, has earned an impressive honor, [...]
For Chloe Hacker, the sky seems to be the only limit on her ability to win state diving championships. Hacker, a sophomore atCorona, took care of business as usual and won her second consecutive one-meter Arizona State High School Division I Diving Championship Nov. 4. “Chloe handled the pressure like there was none at all, [...]
On a slightly overcast Saturday morning, two dozen hearty members of Kyrene Corridor Rotary Club set out on a five-mile segment of the Arizona Trail, running through the Superstition Mountains on a hike designed not only to raise awareness of Rotary but to help fund polio research. Arizona Rotarians hike various parts of the renowned [...]
