Just as it was difficult to discuss 2008’s The Dark Knight out of the shadow of the heartbreaking loss of Heath Ledger, so it’s likely to be difficult, for a while at least, to discuss The Dark Knight Rises out of the context of the horror at the multiplex in Colorado. As it happened, I [...]
When Lucy Carrera arrives at Kyrene de los Niños Elementary for her regular tutoring session, the kids say, “It’s like grandma’s here.” But, adds Carrera, they also know that “this grandma’s focused on the task at hand,” and that’s to get them better at reading. Carrera is a member of the AARP Experience Corps, a [...]
Justin Decker and Dana Yanch are Mesa Community College graduates who have found that networking—on both the technical and personal sides—has resulted in lucrative career opportunities within east Valley companies. Both grads attended MCC’s Network Academy, an initiative that offers hands-on training classes in computer networking, system administration, security and communications—collectively rated by the experts [...]
Their careers may have only recently started, but three graduates of the Public Relations Lab at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications already have achieved a major milestone. The grads, Cassidy Olson, Rachel Steingard and Samantha Womer, comprise the creative team being credited with developing a community-wide, educational approach to curbing underage [...]
Members of Buena Vista Mavericks 4-H Club, based at the Buena Vista Ranchos neighborhood in south Tempe, are on the fundraising trail again for a cause they’ve long supported. The group is selling tickets to Macy’s seventh annual one-day Shop for a Cause charity shopping event, scheduled Aug. 25. BV members are selling passes for [...]
Tempe police say they’ve increased their watch for people who may be under the influence of bath salts, an easily ingestible designer drug that can lead to violent behavior. Bath salts were banned for sale in Arizona earlier this year after reports of severe reactions among users around the country, including a bizarre case of [...]
If you haven’t heard them before, there’s an abundance of spectacular stories about the practice regimen some professional athletes endured in their childhood to make it to where they are now. Michael Jordan would shoot for six hours every evening while in high school, waking up in the middle of the night to go outside [...]
Former Corona swimmer Adam Small participated in the finals of this year’s Olympic trials in Omaha, Neb., finishing seventh in the nation in the 50-meter freestyle.Many remember Small as an all-star of the Corona swim team from 2004 to 2007. He has since gone on to swim at the University of Arizona for the past [...]
As the owner of Lizard Thicket, a boutique-style clothing store in west Chandler, Caroline Jordan loves hearing from people that she’s made feel good about themselves.“I hear it time and again: ‘You and your staff made me feel beautiful,’” she says of the familiar refrain “A lot of times customers will say, ‘I don’t know [...]
What began as Chandler Community Hospital with 25 employees and 91 volunteers has evolved more than a half century later into a health care leader in the southeast Valley that continues to grow today.On July 17, Chandler Regional Medical Center celebrated its 51st year as the focal point of an expansive healthcare system that now [...]
