Online Edition – December 17, 2011
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Editor’s note: Stephen Seall, father of one of Corona del Sol’s standout varsity football players, shares his observations about the season and what he sees as the way it helped shape the futures of those to whom the experience will always make them proud to have been Aztecs. My son recently completed his second season [...]
Corona’s wrestling team may be young, with possibly nine of the 14 weight classes being filled by freshman and sophomore wrestlers. Age and experience notwithstanding, though, head coach Jimmy Martinez expects his team to have a legitimate shot at a place in the state team championship tournament coming up in early February. Even though the [...]
A team can be defined as a gathering or joining together in a cooperative effort toward a common goal. Tempe Thunder is a 13-and-under team that was started four years ago, and the members have stuck together competing and supporting one another since then. Though they happen to play baseball together, in this case their [...]
Opening Dec. 23 at Harkins Valley Art theater in Tempeis Footprints, a mystery tale in which a woman wakes up with amnesia in front Grauman’s Chinese, and searches for her identity on Hollywood Boulevard. The independent film’s editor is a Kyrene Corridor native by the name of Travis Rust, who credits two experiences at Marcos [...]
Principal Brent Brown joined Corona del Sol students and teachers Dec. 3 when they rang bells at Fry’s Marketplace to benefit the Salvation Army. Katie Wilkinson, a junior at the high school, started a campus Red Kettle Club, believed to be the first official club of its type inAmerica. “I chose Salvation Army over other [...]
After more than three decades of turning the concept of workplace flexibility into a reality, Children’s Dental Village has been recognized as one of 26 Arizona recipients of the enviable Alfred P. Sloan Award. “Ironically, we’ve been employing these practices for 35 years, so it was overdue, but it was the first time we applied,” [...]
Just as members of the Kyrene Corridor Rotary Club are getting back to a normal, post-holiday pace, their plate will start to fill up once again. Club members say that on Jan. 21 they’ll undertake a project with Habitat for Humanity that involves building a house for a needy family at no cost to the [...]
Loud parties in southTempeand other city neighborhoods are being targeted for stepped-up police enforcement following approval of a new ordinance regulating “Nuisance Parties and Unlawful Gatherings.” The Tempe City Council approved a proposal drafted by the Tempe Coalition to amend the Tempe City Code relating to large parties, gatherings and events. The revised ordinance will [...]
Once upon a time there was a sleeping dragon… Sounds like the beginning of a fairy tale, but the time was just last weekend, and the place was no farther from the Kyrene Corridor than the Phoenix Zoo. I was there, in the company of my wife and nine-year-old, to tour Zoolights, the annual after-dark [...]
