Ever felt that you’re the consummate queen of multi-tasking? Follow Kelly Herbst around for a couple of days. As president and founder of NAVITASMAX, a renewable energy storage company at Innovations Incubator in westChandler, Herbst spends her days learning all she can about sustainable and environmentally friendly ways to provide energy for the Earth. As [...]
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 [...]
Making the jump from independent entrepreneur to successful business owner means leveraging the talents of others. At the next Coffee & Connections workshop, sponsored by the Small Business Development Center, speaker Wayne Smith will help navigate the ins and outs of developing and managing a successful team. SBDC is funded by the U.S. Small Business [...]
2012 is only a few days old, however Tempe isn’t waiting for celebrants to put down their champagne glasses. The city has already launched its year-long observance of a colorful past, coinciding with events that celebrate the 100-year anniversary of Arizona statehood. On Saturday, Jan. 7, a fascinating pictorial chronology of the past 100 years [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Larry Horton, volunteer coordinator for the Tempe Police Department, is trying to rev up local Rotary Clubs through a pilot satellite project called Camelback Crossroads, a new type of Rotary involving young professionals committed to serving the community. Horton is a member of the Tempe Rio Salado Rotary Club and initially started the Camelback Crossroads [...]
