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December 6, 2003 issue

Beating the odds
Like most families, Steve and Patty Luttrell are all smiles as the holiday season approaches. But their joy transcends the usual excitement of exchanging gifts and goodwill; it celebrates the third year in which son Jeff can claim victory over the ravaging disease that nearly killed him.
By Don Kirkland

 

Work starts on program to ensure safe schools
Only a few months have passed since the Kyrene School District received a three-year grant worth approximately $8.5 million to create programs that would foster a safer school atmosphere.
By Tony Ku

 

Discerning Diner...with Elan Head
When it comes to holiday desserts, we mince no words
After a couple of years of thinking about it, I decided last month to make a mincemeat pie. A real mincemeat pie from scratch, with raisins, apples, sweet spices and brandy...but also, crucially, with meat.

 

Live & direct from Tempe City Hall: Santa Claus
Tempe's annual Santa Show, a call-in program giving children a chance to talk directly to Santa Claus, will air live at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10

 

Aztecs shock Mesa, secure role as early ‘Cinderella’
The makings of a Herculean upset for Corona del Sol High School’s boys varsity basketball team were evident from the beginning this past week in a non-region game at Mesa High.
By Brian Gomez

 

Connecting with Tempe...with Pam Goronkin
Town Lake: ‘Whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on’
A few weeks ago, I enjoyed myself at a “send-off” at Town Lake for our City of Tempe women’s rowing team. That’s right…Tempe’s ROWING team.

 

Sports Notebook...with Brian Gomez
Healthy Aztecs start fast at Coca-Cola Classic
In sharp contrast to last season, a lineup full of healthy bodies paid dividends for the Aztecs last week, as they finished fourth at the Coca-Cola Thanksgiving Classic, winning five of six games in the five-day tournament.

 

Kyrene Athletes of the Week
Patricia Chittenden, Emily Whitney - Aprende Middle School
Kyrene Athletes of the Week are selected by the coaching staff at their schools.

 

Film Fare...with Mark Moorehead
The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai should have been re-named Dances with Wolves Part Two: Captain Dunbar goes to Tokyo.

 

Best of DVDs...with M.V. Moorhead
8 Crazy Nights
In this animated tale, one more variation on the Scrooge theme, Sandler provides the voice of Davey Stone, sort of a dark version of his recent Mr. Deeds: a drunken, vandalistic 33-year-old ruffian in the small New England town of Dukesberry.

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