The news is shocking for parents and students. A new survey by the American Association of University Women reports that 48 percent of students in grades 7-12 have experienced some form of sexual harassment. It’s especially relevant now, following revelations at Penn State, where the actual abuse of children appears to have gone on within [...]
Thomas Hickey, local attorney and Rotarian, is back from a family visit to Finland with a renewed sense of friendship, plus some rekindled memories of his first trip there while he was still a teenager. “My junior year of high school (in Anchorage, Alaska) I applied as a Rotary exchange student and was accepted,” Hickey [...]
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Phoenix Film Critics Society, of which I am a proud founding member, announced its 2011 Award winners shortly before New Year’s Day. Among those selected were The Artist for Best Picture; its director Michel Hazanavicius as Best Director; its star Jean Dujardin as Best Actress; and its sultry costar Berenice Bejo as Best Supporting Actress. [...]
Joy and Fred Morse — Photo courtesy Morse family One day in 1957, 17-year-old Fred Morse was attending a church youth group meeting in Tucson when he spotted a 14-year-old young woman named Joy across the room. For Fred, it was love at first sight. “I thought ‘That is the girl for me, and I [...]
Kyrene schools are among the benefactors of a $200,000 “green” classroom being developed by United Fibers, which specializes in municipal recycling and manufacturing. The company unveiled its new recycling education center in conjunction with the celebration of America Recycles Day. The classroom is designed to help students in the Chandler and Kyrene school districts, along [...]
Dr. Brian Paterick We’ve all heard the mostly joking conjecture that an earthquake in California someday could make Arizonaa beachfront state. That’s the last thing Dr. Brian Paterick thinks about. Using an evolving medical science to treat patients who, so far at least, remain safely landlocked is Paterick’s No. 1 motivation. A board certified emergency [...]
If you’re like me, you spent your entire childhood on the court, running the diamond, sprinting the field or in between the nets. The harsh reality is that a pure desire to succeed can take you only so far in the sports world, and you probably figured that out around the age of 16, just [...]
In the end, it came down to family for Avery Moss, the Corona defensive end, who announced in the fourth quarter of the Jan. 3 inaugural Semper Fidelis All-American Bowl football game at Chase Field that he was going to the University of Nebraska. “It was the way Nebraska came out and treated me and [...]
Corona’s girls basketball team went undefeated at the Lady Badger Winter Classic in Prescott to capture the championship trophy. From left, bottom row: Alexa Hogberg, Vicky Sanford and Sammi Moore. Hands on her knees: Justice Mosley. Top row: coach Andrew Strom, Jordynn Logston, Haley Langille, Kaelin Shaffer, Liann Kline, Lauren Lucky and Taylor Kalmer. — [...]
