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Gavilan Peak School remembers Gary Johnstone and Trevor Crouse

ANTHEM – Gary Johnstone and Trevor Crouse may be gone, but they will not be forgotten. Gavilan Peak School staff , students, and families gath-ered together on the afternoon of Sept. 5 to honor Johnstone and Crouse, who lost their lives in a rappelling accident on Aug. 8. Johnstone was a Phoenix Fire Department fi refi ghter, and his sons have all attended Gavilan Peak. Crouse, 15, was currently a Boulder Creek High School student and had also attended Gavilan Peak before graduating to BCHS. Gavilan Peak sold red bal-loons to release at the Sept. 5 cere-mony. All proceeds raised will go to the Johnstone and Crouse families. At the sound of a siren from an on-site Phoenix Fire truck, thousands of red bal-loons were simultaneously let go into the sky. The gathered crowd watched as the balloons disappeared, signifying two lives who are gone but not forgotten.

Gavilan Peak School honored Gary Johnstone and Trevor Crouse with a ceremony on Sept. 5.

IRS warning Arizonans of impersonation phone scam

Pictured is Glendale Police Officer Jay O’Neill, who spoke at a conference on Sept. 3 regarding an IRS impersonation scam. If you or someone you know may have been a victim of this fraud, call the Treasury Inspector’s fraud hotline at 1(800) 366-4484.

NORTH VALLEY – Contact from the IRS saying you owe thousands of dollars is a nightmarish situation. Unfortunately, scammers prey on that fear, and IRS agent imperson-ators are working a new phone scam to try to steal money. The scam is simple, yet brutally effective: a scammer calls an unsus-pecting resident and tells them they owe money to the IRS. The caller might threaten imprisonment or loss of immigration status if the resident doesn’t pay that day. The resident is told to get a prepaid money card or set up a wire transfer to pay. The victim may be bullied

by repeated threats into paying this money. This isn’t a new idea; phone scams have been around for years. Howev-er, a new twist has grown this scam into a major is-sue for the United States. The scammers’ caller ID may show up as the IRS. The callers will identify themselves with fake badge numbers. If someone calls them back at the number or asks to speak to a manager, the scammers are prepared for it and will continue to masquerade as IRS agents. Some victims even reported hearing sirens in the back-ground of the call and be-ing told it was the police coming to arrest them.

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Record rainfall causes fl ooding, road closures PHOENIX – Hur-ricane Norbert and monsoon season triggered the wettest day ever recorded in Phoenix on Monday, Sept. 8. Parts of the I-17 and I-10 were closed due to fl ooding, and multiple surface streets had to be closed, as well. Governor Jan Brewer declared a state of emergency for badly fl ooded sections of the valley. The National Weather Service issued a fl ood warning for Phoenix on Monday. Mari-copa County Flood Control District’s rainfall charts reported almost fi ve inches of rain in the northwest valley, over two inches of rain in the northeast valley, and about two inches of rain in the New River/Anthem area. Multiple schools were closed on Monday. The Deer Valley Unifi ed School District schools remained open and on schedule, with buses operating on the rainy day schedule. The Cave Creek Unifi ed School District also kept schools open; buses were unable to run north of Cave Creek Road due to fl ooding. Since monsoon season doesn’t offi cially end until Sept. 30, more wet weather could be in store.

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TRAMONTO – Pruden-tial Arizona Properties, part of the third largest Prudential Real Es-tate franchise in North America, has officially joined the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices network and is now known as Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Arizona Properties. The firm and all of its nearly 700 local real estate sales executives have implemented the Berkshire Hathaway moniker in all of their corporate branding and identification. Prudential Real Es-tate became a Berkshire Hathaway company last year and Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices is already being called the most powerful real estate brand in the world. Headed by CEO Mark Stark and president Gordon Miles, the independently owned and oper-ated firm serves nearly 2,000 real estate sales executives in 20 offices throughout Arizona and Nevada. Stark’s Nevada franchise is now known as Berkshire Hathaway Ho-meServices Nevada Properties.

“We have been looking for-ward to this transition and the op-portunity to profoundly expand our global abilities,” said Stark. “We now have the power of one of the world’s brightest business minds-Warren Buffett-and his top international real estate leaders right here in Arizona.”

Berkshire Hathaway was named one of Fortune’s Most Ad-mired Companies in 2013. Its Glob-al Relocation Services network is the second largest relocation network in the world, moving nearly 85,000 families to and from more than 125 countries each year.

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Break-in in the Anthem Country Club

ANTHEM – A break-in occurred on Tuesday, Sept. 2 in a home on Congressional Drive in the Anthem Country Club. The break-in happened in the early hours of the morning. Maricopa County Sher-iff ’s office is investigating the case. MCSO Media Relations Office Christopher Hegstrom could not

provide many details of the case, due to the ongoing investigation. He reported that there were no injuries connected to the break-in. The Anthem Country Club is a guarded, gated facility. When driv-ing in, residents use transponders to open the gate. Visitors driving into the Country Club have to check in at the guarded gates to gain entry. The Country Club’s perimeter is open to the desert in some areas, and a walk-ing tunnel also provides access.

In an email to residents dated Friday, Sept. 5, the Anthem Country Club Community Association noted that they had received reports of two entries into Country Club homes. “The Board would like resi-dents to know they are in communi-cations with the Anthem Communi-ty Council, Anthem Neighborhood Watch and the Maricopa County Sheriff ’s Office (MCSO) regarding these events,” the email stated. The Board email further stated that suspicious activity needs to be reported to the sheriff ’s office, via 911 or the non-emergency line, (602) 876-1000. “Do not call the manned gate personnel,” the email noted. “They cannot leave their posts, and that call may only delay an appro-priate response by a trained secu-rity professional. If you are calling from a cell phone, please be sure you know your location and cross streets and tell the operator you are located in the Anthem Country Club, east of I-17, as your location affects the law en-forcement agency called to assist you.” The Board also advised resi-dents to take safety precautions and to consider becoming involved with the Anthem Neighborhood Watch. For more information on the neigh-borhood watch, see www.onlineatan-them.com/anthem-neighborhood-watch.

Last week, a break-in occurred in the pictured area of the Anthem Country Club.

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Anthem Country Club Community Association home security tips

To report any suspicious activity, contact MCSO immediately at 602-876-1000.Call 911 in an emergency.

• Maintainhome lighting–always leave an exterior light on. • Discourage access – keepwindows locked, use landscap-ing to deter burglars (i.e. cacti/granite under windows which make it unappealing to navi-gate, and loud!) • Lockyourdoors–of yourcar in the garage, of your house, and your garage door. This is a safe community, but we are not immune from incident. • Be neighborly – knowwho your neighbors are and be aware if something is wrong at their residence, notify them when the garage door is left up or you notice suspicious activity. • Join the Anthem Neigh-borhood Watch and become an ANW Block Captain.


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Support CERT through Shopping Extravaganza PHOENIX – The north valley Community Emergency Response Team supports the community, and now the community can sup-port them. CERT is selling tick-ets to the Outlets at Anthem’s Shopping Extravaganza on Oct. 4. Tickets for the event are $20. For each ticket sold, $15 goes directly to CERT. The ticket includes a free lunch, free wine tasting, free chocolate tasting, and free raf-fl e tickets for prizes. For tickets, contact Ann Hutchinson at (623) 293-8628 or Paul Schickel at (623) 695-1424.

Noodles & Notes, Sept. 22 CAVE CREEK – Join the young performers from Desert Foothills Youth Theater as they perform their favorite songs during a special dinner at Harold’s on Monday, Sept. 22. Noodles & Notes will of-fer a spaghetti dinner, with accompanying entertainment from the theater cast. In addition to group numbers from their current and upcoming shows, per-formers will also be sharing solo performances. Proceeds from the evening will ben-efi t the Desert Foothills Youth Theater and provide theater education scholarships for stu-dents in need. For more information, call (480) 488-1981 or go on-line to www.dftheater.org.

College planning presentation at BCHS ANTHEM – Randy Stoltz, founder of Campus Advisers, will be presenting at Boulder Creek High School on Oct. 7, 7-8:15 p.m. His presen-tation will include information on college costs, loans, fi nan-cial aid, tax deductions, schol-arships, and college creden-

tials. A question and answer period is also planned. This workshop is free to parents of high school stu-dents. For more information, call (602) 391-2007 or email [email protected].

Transfer options for big game hunt tags PHOENIX – Hunters who won’t be able to use their upcoming Arizona big game hunt permit-tag now have the option of transferring that tag to qualifi ed 501(c)(3) organi-zations that provide hunting opportunities to veterans with service-related disabilities. A tag transfer to a dis-abled veteran’s 501(c)(3) orga-nization requires a big game tag transfer affi davit of vol-untary donation and the tag. Contact the individual 501(c)(3) organization to obtain the transfer affi davit. A list of qualifi ed organizations can be found at www.azgfd.gov/h_f/hunting.shtml. The Arizona Game and Fish Department is unable to reimburse bonus points for transferred tags. Other tag transfer options include a transfer by a parent to his or her minor child, or by a grandparent to his or her minor grandchild, subject to provisions specifi ed in the Arizona Hunting Regu-lations and applicable rules, or (2) To a qualifi ed 501(c)(3) organization for use by a child with a life-threatening condi-tion or permanent disability. For more information about tag transfers, visit www.azgfd.gov/h_f/hunting.shtml.

Talent Show and Trivia Night at MTA ANTHEM – The Musical Theatre of Anthem is announcing its upcoming Tal-ent Show and Trivia Night to be held at MTA on Wednes-day, Sept. 17, 6 p.m., for ages 6-adult. Be a performer or a spectator – all proceeds from this event will go directly to the Lyle Kishbaugh Scholarship Fund, which enables MTA to provide scholarships for those

who might otherwise not be able to participate in MTA productions. The entry fee is $20 for solo acts, $30 for duets, and $40 for acts of three or more people. All entries are accept-ed, and no auditions are neces-sary. Prizes will be awarded for the top acts. Register online and purchase tickets at www.musi-caltheatreofanthem.org. Ad-vance spectator tickets are $10 each (general admission) and will be $15 at the door. Limited seating! The show will be held at Musical Theatre of An-them, 42323 N. Vision Way, in Anthem.

Spur Cross clay mine tours CAVE CREEK – Join the crew of the Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area in exploring the clay mine on Sept. 27. Once inside the mine, the rangers will discuss the history of the site and how the mine was used for health properties. The tours start at 7 p.m.; participants can drop in anytime between 7 and 8:30 p.m. All ages are welcome. No pets are allowed for this tour. Participants should bring wa-ter, a fl ashlight, and a camera. For more informa-tion, contact Ranger Mark at [email protected]. The Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area is located at 44000 N. Spur Cross Road, in Cave Creek.

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serve parking areas, but due to public opposition, the idea has been dropped. Parks and Recreation Department staff heard from hundreds of residents over the past several weeks, includ-ing more than 60 that spoke at the Aug. 28 Parks and Recre-ation Board meeting, on ways to manage crowding at heav-ily used hiking areas, espe-cially the Echo Canyon area of Camelback Mountain. Be-cause of public feedback op-posing the addition of park-ing meters, the department will continue to work with its contracted consultant and the Parks and Recreation Board over the coming months to identify other management tools to address crowding and trail and resource impacts and improve the visitor experience at Echo Canyon, Phoenix Moun-tains Park (Piestewa Peak Summit Trail access), and the Pima Can-yon area of South Mountain. Staff will continue to seek public input in the com-ing months on resource man-agement at these three heavily crowded hiking areas.

Soroptimist Spaghetti Dinner, Oct. 14 CAVE CREEK – The 37th annual spaghetti dinner to benefi t the Soroptimist In-ternational of Saguaro Foot-hills is set for Oct. 14 at Har-old’s in Cave Creek. For the past 12 years, Harold’s has provided pasta, garlic bread, and salad for the event. The dinner will run 5-8:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for children; kids 5 and under are free. Through-out the evening, raffl e items provided by our local business-es will be up for grabs, as well as a silent auction featuring golf foursomes and luxury items. Harold’s is located at 6895 E. Cave Creek Road. For more information or to purchase tickets, call Karen at (480) 221-8623.

Neighborhood Watch meeting, Sept. 18 ANTHEM – The An-them Neighborhood Watch will be discussing internet safety at the upcoming Sept. 18 meeting. Mike Cassity, an internet security professional, will address a number of se-curity issues at the meeting. He will share information on online threats, online safety practices, and resources for internet safety. The meeting will be-gin at 7 p.m. at the Anthem Civic Building, 3701 W. An-them Way. For more informa-tion, see www.OnlineAtAn-them.com/ANW.

Women’s shooting class, Sept. 24 PHOENIX – Ari-zona Women’s Shooting As-sociates is holding an NRA First Steps Course for women on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 6-10 p.m. The program pro-vides a hands-on introduc-tion to safe and proper han-dling of a pistol. It includes information on fi rearm safety, handling, and shooting skills. Students will receive an NRA First Steps certifi cate after completing the course. The class will be held at the Ben Avery Shooting Facility, located just off Care-free Highway, west of the I-17. Cost is $60 per person. For more details, call Carol at (602) 571-3886 or Toni at (623) 523-2289.

Parkside community-wide garage sale ANTHEM – The Parkside Board of Directors has approved dates for the next Parkside community-wide garage sale. The garage sale will be divided into three zones, each beginning at 7 a.m., with the end time at the resident’s discretion.Participating homeowners may choose to participate on Saturday and/or Sunday of applicable dates.

On Sept. 27 and 28, Zone 1’s sales will be held; Zone 1 includes all homes lo-cated west of Gavilan Peak Parkway. Zone 2’s sales will be on Oct. 4 and 5; Zone 2 in-cludes all homes located east of Gavilan Peak Parkway, up to Daisy Mountain Drive. Lastly, Zone 3’s sales will be Oct. 11 and 12; Zone 3 includes all homes located east of Daisy Mountain Drive. Parkside residents who would like to participate in the Parkside community-wide garage sale can register on-line at www.OnlineAtAnthem.com and select categories of items that they will be selling. This will allow buyers to view what types of items will be sold at each of the participat-ing homes. Maps of homes participating in the garage sale will be available online on the Parkside Web site, available at the Anthem Civic Building lo-cated at 3701 W. Anthem Way, and at the Anthem Communi-ty Park center pavilion located near Daisy Mountain Rail-road, on days of the garage sale. Residents may also place garage sale signs in their yards. For more details, con-tact the Parkside community manager at (623) 742-6004 or [email protected].

Personal safety class, Sept. 18 PHOENIX – Learn personal safety techniques through the NRA’s Refuse To Be A Victim program. Refuse To Be A Victim will be taught by the Arizona Women’s Shooting Associates on Thursday, Sept. 18. The seminar will be held at Sports-man’s Warehouse at 19205 N. 27th Ave. Topics covered in the seminar include home and per-sonal safety, including security in the workplace. Participants will receive a certifi cate upon completion of the course. Cost for AWSA mem-bers is $25; non-members’ fee is $25. For more information or to sign up, contact Carol at (602) 571-3886 or Toni at (623) 523-2289.

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I want to throw like a girl! And that girl would be Mo’ne Davis. One of two girls who played in the 2014 Little League, this 13-year-old from Pennsylvania is the first girl to earn a win and to pitch a shut-out in Little League World Se-ries history! We are witnessing greatness when we see a de-mure young lady throw at 70 miles per hour, when the aver-age velocity for her age group is 50 miles per hour. Her fast-ball is equivalent to a 93 mile per hour pitch on a full sized diamond. And her curve ball also gives hitters fits, causing them to go swinging and slic-

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love of this game. Mo’ne Da-vis is the most talked about baseball player on the planet. She is the person who your 10-year old daughter can look up to. Heck, she is the person who your 10-year old son can emulate. And maybe a few thirty-something millionaire Major Leaguers might even look up to the young girl with a ponytail! She has taken the world by storm! Gracing the cover of Sports Illustrated, it is pretty thrilling to see the fresh face of an authentic athlete. A breakthrough for girls in sports? Maybe the best part of watching Davis

pitch for her team, the Taney Dragons, is that the boys don’t seem bothered (much less care) that there is a girl on the mound! Yes, we have come a long way baby, when a girl can become one of the great-est Little League pitchers of all time. Based strictly on per-formance and talent, she was given the chance to play. No performance-enhancement drugs needed. Pure, beautiful baseball. I am just having a hot dog and a beer, watching the glory come back into our great American pastime. Baseball may be a team sport, but it always boils down to two people – a pitch-er and a batter and one ball, a rip-roaring blur of heat hurl-ing through the air at blind-ing speed. And according to the laws of physics, by the time the batter sees the ball, if the swing hasn’t started it is too late. In other words, it takes practice, courage, skill, accuracy, and power to make the magic happen. We may sometimes get bored watching a game, but when a little white ball sails high in the sky, it can still take our breath away. And if that pitcher has a ponytail . . . .well, it gets even better.

My favorite baseball movie is ‘The Sandlot.’ If you haven’t seen it, you’re missing out on one of the best, most uplifting movies about the game ever made. All right, so it appeals to mostly children, but it depicts the deep love of the sport that kids (and adults) share for a ball, bat and a field. It shows the innocence of baseball, the simple joy of catching a ball, the miracle of a home run and admiration for the “Babe” and all the oth-er heroes who set the standard for future players to chase. One line in the Sand-lot that might have to be re-written is when one of the young boys hurls the ultimate insult to the opposing team, by yelling for all the kids to hear, “You throw ball like a girl!” Horror of horrors! Such slan-der! A fistfight broke out. But now? There is a new player in town, leaving us to hope that maybe, one day, we can all throw like a girl. “Swing bat-ter batter,” never sounded so good. Judy Bluhm is a writer and a local realtor who lives in the Anthem area. Have a story or a comment? Contact Judy at [email protected].

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ANTHEM – The Ocotillo Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution will host Claudia Cucitro, Se-nior Director of Planned Gifts at St. Mary’s Food Bank Alli-ance as a guest speaker at their meeting on Saturday, Sept. 13. The world’s fi rst food bank was the St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance in Arizona, founded by John van Hengel, in 1967. Director Cucitro just celebrated her 19th year with the non-sectarian, non-profi t organ-ization and will speak at the DAR meeting on the early

history of the St Mary’s, how individuals and groups can volunteer to pack meal boxes, and how the organization has modernized the industry to ef-fi ciently gather and distribute food to more than 330 partners agencies at more than 430 lo-cations that serve the hungry. St. Mary’s has an array of pro-grams, and one of them is to provide approximately 5,000 meals at 99 private and pub-lic sites around the valley dur-ing their 2014 Summer Food Service Program for Children. The Food Bank distributed

enough food to provide 70 mil-lion meals to families and indi-viduals in 2013. The Ocotillo Chapter DAR meeting will discuss the food bank’s work, as well as other ways to serve the com-munity. Meetings are open to non-members. The meeting will begin at 9:30 a.m., at the Outlets at Anthem Commu-nity Room #435. For more details, call Willine at (623) 551-3764 or visit www. ocoti-llo.arizonadar.org.

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End-of-summer getaway: Sedona Wine Fest

SEDONA – Looking for a day trip destination? The Sedona Wine Fest is set for Sept. 27-28. Many people are still unaware of the local wines and vineyards in Arizona. The soil in the hills is so rich that it has even been compared

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“Here’s the bottom line: the IRS will never call saying give us money, and give it to us now,” stated Matt Richards, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administrations. Richards is part of the team investigating this fraud. “If you get a call from anybody claiming to be an IRS employee and using that threatening language, it is a fraud,” Richards said. “Immediately hang up and call the IRS.” Richards noted that this is the “largest scale IRS impersonation scam that we’ve seen with our agency,” with over 1,200 victims be-ing swindled out of $5 mil-lion total, $80,000 coming from Arizonans. Internal Revenue Service spokesperson Bill Brunson said the scam is “applying new technology to an old tool.” When people hang up on the scammers, they may get a follow-up fraudulent call spoofing the call-er ID of a police department. Glendale Police Of-ficer Sergeant Jay O’Neill noted that the police don’t generally get involved with tax debts and that anyone threatening immediate arrest for back taxes is a scammer. “We’ve had six calls in the last 60 days, and there may be more,” O’Neill said, noting that this is often an under-reported crime. “We believe that there are many, many more victims out there,” O’Neill added. He cautioned resi-dents to never to give out personal information to some-one calling with these threats. “Tell them you’ll call back, then hang up and use your local directory and call your local police depart-ment,” O’Neill emphasized. While some of the-threatening calls seem to be aimed at immigrants and re-tirees, these scammers may contact anyone. Some of the scammers have personal in-formation on their victims. In one case, howev-er, a scammer didn’t do their homework – they called an IRS agent and tried to scam her. IRS Criminal In-vestigation Division Special Agent Lisa Sukenic related how she was targeted by

the scammers, who called her husband and threatened Sukenic’s imminent arrest. Sukenic’s husband, who is a federal prosecutor, recognized the scam. He kept the caller on the line and tried to get further in-formation to identify the scammer to authorities. “My husband tried to get as much informa-tion as possible,” Sukenic said. “When he challenged her (the fraudulent caller), she became flustered and couldn’t provide an address. She became more and more aggressive.” Her family received a second scamming phone call hours later, saying Suke-nic was going to be put in handcuffs if they didn’t pay. “Everybody needs to be aware,” Sukenic said. “Challenge them, hang up, tell them this is a scam, and report it to the Treasury General. Do not provide them with any information. The IRS would never call you and demand personal information. Contact the Treasury Inspector General and the Federal Trade Com-mission.” The widespread na-ture of this scam has made it a priority for federal and state investigators. Reports of this particular fraud start-ed last year. The IRS is trying to get the word out so people know that these callers are not IRS agents, even if they sound legitimate. The IRS released a statement about the scam, identifying five fraudulent factors of the call, all things the IRS would not do.

Per the statement, the IRS will not:• Callyouabouttaxesyou owe without mailing you an official notice.• Demand that youpay taxes without giving you the opportunity to question or appeal the amount they say you owe. • Requireyoutouseaspecific payment method for your taxes, such as a prepaid debit card. • Ask for credit ordebit card numbers over the phone.• Threaten to bringin local police or other law-enforcement groups to have you arrested for not paying. Special Agent Rich-ards noted that he could not comment on the ongoing in-vestigation due to concerns of compromising it. He did say that the U.S. is not the only country targeted and noted that the scam does not appear to be connected to any corporate breaches. When the scammers are identified and arrested, charges will be brought; if the scammers are located outside the U.S., the charges will depend on the investiga-tive authority available. Richards said the scam is a “priority with our agency, federal agencies, and local and state authorities.” If you receive a phone call from someone claiming to be from the IRS, hang up and call the Trea-sury Inspector General Tax Administration fraud hot-line at 1(800) 366-4484. For more information, see www.FTC.gov.

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TEMPE – Students in Arizona State University residence halls arrived to see posters urging them to call 911 if they see someone who is un-conscious. Other posters ask, “Who is the designated driver tonight?” It’s just one way ASU is promoting safety when it comes to alcohol use as well as discouraging binge drinking. “We wanted to help the students be fully respon-sible for themselves and their community,” ASU Wellness Director Karen Moses said. According to the Cen-ters for Disease Control and Prevention, 90 percent of al-cohol consumed by those un-der age 21 is in the form of binge drinking, which is typi-cally considered consuming five or more drinks in about two hours for men and four or more drinks in about two hours for women. The dangers to binge drinkers, including alcohol poi-soning, intentional and unin-tentional injury, driving while intoxicated, sexual assault, and

more, have ASU and other state universities getting the message out as the school year begins. That’s welcome news just down the road from ASU at Tempe St. Luke’s Hospital, where Director of Emergency Services Janet Backers said about a quarter of those admit-ted are suffering from the effects of an alcohol-related illness. Half of those are stu-dents, most of them with acute alcohol poisoning, Backers said, something that’s read-ily apparent when they are blue from breathing problems caused by excessive drinking.The health problems, which can be life-threatening, also in-clude irregular heartbeat, stroke risk, and neurological damage. “They also are at higher risk for assaults and more psychiatric problems that go on with binge drinking,” Backers said. “It really does af-fect the brain in many ways.” At the University of Arizona, a health educa-tor from Campus Health and Wellness visits residence halls, Greek houses and elsewhere to offer The Buzz, a program weaving lessons about drink-

ing around games and quizzes. One activity has participants tossing a ball to each other as they propose ways to moderate their drinking. “Alcohol abuse is one of the top two issues university students face that impacts their academic performance and ca-reer choices,” said David Sala-fasky, UA’s director of Health Promotion and Preventative Services, which oversees the program. Northern Arizona University offers those in resi-dence halls a Red Cup Check-up, which includes each stu-dent pouring water that equals the amount of alcohol in a standard drink to see how much they would be consuming. On top of alcohol-education events throughout the school year, NAU holds Flannels and Flapjacks, a free pancake breakfast and celebra-tion on the morning of home-coming. That counters a tradi-tion known as Tequila Sunrise, in which some students mark homecoming by drinking throughout the day. More than 800 stu-dents opted for pancakes last year, said Kasondra McCrack-

en, an NAU health educator. “The event is a fun and funny way to keep stu-dents from spending a whole day of drinking,” she said.In addition to its posters, ASU recommends to all new stu-dents an online module called Alcohol-Wise, which includes a survey about drinking hab-its, feedback specific to those habits and lessons on prevent-ing sexual violence. It includes a second part that’s completed 30 days later. ASU requires Alco-hol-Wise for students who get in trouble for drinking, espe-cially underage drinking.UA requires all new students to complete ECHECKUP TO GO, an interactive Web survey about a person’s drinking hab-its that’s part of ASU’s Alco-hol-Wise program. At Tempe St. Luke’s Hospital, Backers said ASU’s message to call 911 when someone has passed out is vital because that’s a sign of alcohol poisoning or other health prob-lems requiring emergency care. “Don’t pass it, because it could help save someone’s life,” she said.

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the Scottsdale Artists’ School in Old Town Scottsdale. She credits her progress and in-sights in painting to her early painting instructors Jane Wingfield and Linda Glov-er Gooch. Each instructor brought special motivation to the school’s beginning paint-ers. Jane made painting fun and risk free. Linda focused her students on developing exciting and engaging floral still life paintings. Katie reflects that she had seen some of Linda Glover Gooch’s paintings in a gallery in Calistoga, Ca-lif. a number of years before and was thrilled with the opportunity to take lessons from her. Soon Katie was branching out into a variety of genres and working with a wide variety of instructors in their subject specialties. To-day, Katie enjoys painting a wide variety of subjects. Katie is an award-

winning artist. Her painting “The Sentinel-Gray Hawk” was recently on display in the Sky Harbor International Airport’s Museum as part of the “Arizona Birds, Bugs, and Blooms” exhibition. She is of-ten juried into fine art shows and now is the painting in-structor who is sought out by

local students to hone their painting skills. Katie has taught at the Via Linda Cen-ter in Scottsdale and at The Boulders Resort and Club in Carefree. In April 2010, Katie published her first art book, “Feel the Joy!-Joy In-spired Paintings and their Stories.”

Katie shows her work at On The Edge Gallery on 5th Avenue in Scottsdale. Nationally, she is a mem-ber of the Oil Painters of America and The Portrait Society of America; she is a board member of the Arizo-na chapter. In Arizona, she is a juried member of both the Sonoran Arts League and the Arizona Art Alliance. Katie works at her home studio in Carefree, Ariz. To view a selection of Katie Stearns’ work, visit On The Edge Gallery in Scotts-dale, www.ontheedgegallery.com or view her Web site at www.stearnsstudios.com. To contact Katie, e-mail [email protected].

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Ava Tyson (left) and Kaylie Stone (right) were the 2013-14 winners of the Upscale Scholarship Auditions. In addition to singing solos in last year’s Christmas concert, they performed in costume in the Les Miserables medley from the Upscale spring dinner show.

CAREFREE – Call-ing all youth singers! The Upscale Singers are holding their eighth annual Scholar-ship Auditions on Thursday, Oct. 23 and Saturday, Oct. 25, at the Desert Hills Presby-terian Church. Prizes range from $150 to $500, with the money paid directly to the voice teacher chosen by the winning student The auditions are open to junior and senior high students living in the Cave Creek and Anthem/New River school districts. Junior high is defined as 7th and 8th graders. Both public and private school students are welcome. Students need not currently be studying with a private instructor, but should have a desire to do so. At the auditions, they sing from memory one or two songs. An accompanist is provided, or they may use a CD or I-

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ous cavern in Iran that almost kills her. Following the clues from Iran, she is led to Paris and into the forbidden section of the catacombs below the city. Look-ing for a secret doorway, Scar-lett and her crew are trapped in the mazelike tomb leading them into the supernatural and face to face with their innermost fear. The story began as a treasure hunt in the vein of ‘Tomb Raider,’ though not as intelligent or action packed. The history mystery had Scar-lett investigating artifacts and piecing together a puzzle start-ed by her father. This ultimately served to accommodate the plot change, which brought a larger group of people to aid Scarlett into the catacombs of Paris. Once below, the group was haunted by apparitions that refl ected their own trau-mas and fears. The fi lm only touched the surface of char-acter development, though it could have off ered an interest-ing inquiry into the secrets of past civilizations and the per-sonal horror hidden inside the individual. The introduction was fairly sloppy, though, when the transition from adventure to horror happens, the atmo-sphere took control and things got interesting.

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NORTH VALLEY – Desert Foothills Land Trust is off ering ‘Focus on the Foothills,’ a program that works to share the natural history of the So-noran Desert with the community. The interactive four-week course be-gins on Sept. 20 and presents a wealth of natural, cultural, and historical knowledge which, if participants choose, prepares them for ongoing volunteer opportunities with DFLT.Led by conservation director Vicki Preston, each session will include both classroom and trail time on DFLT

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Build Better Teachers For the past half-century, and par-ticularly since the 1983 “Nation at Risk” report, Americans have been heaving great sacks of money at schools. Federal spending alone has tripled since the 1970s. The New York Times calculates that the federal government now spends $107.6 billion on education yearly, which is layered over an estimated $524.7 billion spent by states and localities (source: National Center for Education Statistics). Reformers have urged — depending upon where they stand ideologically — smaller class sizes, more accountability, merit pay for teachers and educational choice. Each year seems to bring a new fad: child-centered learn-ing, new math, cooperative learning and so forth. The No Child Left Behind reform focused on testing. There have been proposals to repeal teacher tenure and to provide every child with a laptop. And always there are fights over cur-riculum — the Common Core being the contro-versy du jour. But perhaps the most promising think-ing about education arises from the discovery from economist Eric Hanushek that the most important factor in student performance is the quality of the teacher. Not class size. Not spend-ing per pupil. Not even curriculum. Our system produces some great teachers, but only by luck. Each year, 400,000 new teachers enter American classrooms, many knowing little about the nuts and bolts of teach-ing. As Elizabeth Green argues in her new book, “Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach it to Everyone),” our education schools do not teach the mechanics of teaching: how to control a classroom, how to engage students’ imaginations, how to check for understanding. They’ve been sidetracked by educational psychology and fads at the expense of teaching how to teach. Green cites “education entrepreneurs” including Doug Lemov, author of “Teach Like a Champion,” and Deborah Loewenberg Ball, now dean of the University of Michigan’s school of education, who focus on helping ordinary teachers to become great. Lemov, an education reformer and consultant, was struck by something he found by poring over statistics from the state of New York. While the correlation between zip codes and educational success was notable, there were always outliers: schools or classrooms in which even kids from impoverished back-grounds were doing well. Lemov zeroed in on those schools and those particular teachers. The result is found in the subtitle of “Teach Like a Champion”: “49 Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College.” Some of the techniques are inspired; others are quotidian but still important (like how not to waste time pleading for responses). The point is that teaching is a performance every day, which is not easy. Teachers must engage the interest

and attention of their students (who bring all kinds of troubles from home), encourage the weak ones along with the strong, maintain discipline, and build a sense of team spirit. Lemov doesn’t believe that anyone can be a great teacher, but he does think that with coaching and mentoring, good teachers can become great. Some of Lemov’s proven tech-niques will not surprise educational tradi-tionalists. He believes in drill, though he calls it “muscle memory.” A great teacher will drill arithmetic skills, for example, un-til they are second nature, so that students needn’t stumble over the easy stuff when they get to algebra and geometry. (Educa-tion schools had disdained this as “drill and kill.”) Another technique Lemov suggests is “cold calls” — that is, having the teacher choose students randomly rather than just those who raise their hands. Each child, knowing he might be called upon, must be ready. (It works in law schools). A compan-ion technique is “no opt out.” If the child says he doesn’t know, the teacher asks a re-lated question to another student to narrow down the possible right answer and returns to the first child for a second chance. There are broad suggestions about classroom management and more subtle and difficult challenges like maintain-ing “emotional constancy,” that is refraining from showing anger when a child gets the wrong answer. Anger will teach a child to try to hide his ignorance rather than accept it as a normal part of the learning enterprise. Teaching is a craft. It may be among the hardest to master. Renewed at-tention to teaching teaching seems long overdue. Mona Charen is a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. To read fea-tures by other Creators Syndicate writers and car-toonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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A Billionaire’s sound advice to the Billionaire’s Club

I’ve noticed several CEO’s, politi-cal pundits and so-called economic experts saying they’re confused as to why Americans are so down. Consumers should be out buying stuff, they say, for the economy is humming again. Just look at the key indicators: GDP is grow-ing, corporate profits are high, the stock market is soaring, jobs are be-ing created, the unem-ployment rate is steadily dropping, and people’s disposable income is up. Yet, as the CEO of The Container Store recently grumped, consumers are in “a retail funk.” That’s so clue-lessly wrong, sir. Con-sumers (unlike you plat-inum-card members of the CEO Club) are in an income funk, mean-ing we have very little of the green stuff coming in. The bottom line is that Americans are down, because ... well, because most of us are down. Yearly income for the typ-ical household is $3,300 lower today than in 2007, when Wall Street barons crashed our economy. Or look at what’s happened to the typical American family’s net worth. It was nearly $88,000 10 years ago, but today it’s down to $56,000 — that’s more than a one-third drop, even though we’re told that America is enjoying “a strong recovery.” And the picture is not getting any brighter, because a new normal

has been imposed on America’s workforce. Se-nor CEO has been glee-fully slashing both jobs and pay, reducing the future of work to a low-wage, no-benefits, part-time, grind. One more number for you: 48. That’s the percentage of adults who now hold full-time jobs — leaving more than half of us trying to make ends meet on part-time work. The lesson for the Powers That Be is that there is no species called “consumers.” Rather, that creature is just a worker with a decent-paying job. Eliminate the job or shrivel the pay and — Poof ! — consumerism goes away. Here’s an uber-rich guy who actually gets that. What’s even better is he’s talking about it and saying something worth hearing — especially since he’s directing it at his fellow one-percent-of-the-one-percenters. Nick Hanauer has made billions as an Internet entrepreneur, yet his head has not bloated like a blimp fueled by his own ego. “The true job creators,” he recently wrote in an open letter to other uberrichies, “are middle-class consumers, not rich businesspeople like us.” Indeed, he adds, “The middle class cre-ates us rich people,” for their purchases power the economy. “I earn about 1,000 times the median American annually, but I don’t buy thousands of times more stuff,” he said, noting that his fam-ily has three cars — not 3,000. So rather than holding down the poor and knocking down middle-income families, Hanauer says it’s in the self-interest of America’s

corporate and financial elites to do all they can to lift wages — starting with a $15-an-hour minimum wage. Yet, we’re told that paying workers more will destroy small busi-nesses and job growth. No, he argues, it’ll only destroy the insidious myth that helping the rich get richer is good for the economy, but helping the poor get richer is bad for it. Hanauer points out that “The two cities in the nation with the high-est rate of job growth by small businesses are San Francisco and Seattle” — which also happen to have the highest mini-mum wage in the country. One final point: For the ideological Koch-headed billionaires who see the minimum wage as “Big Govmint In Action,” this member of the Bil-lionaire’s Club says that the soundest way to shrink government is to decrease the need for it by paying decent wages so people don’t need food stamps, rent assistance and other subsidies for life’s basics. Hanauer con-cludes with this sobering warning to obtuse, narcis-sistic billionaires: No soci-ety can survive the glaring inequities you are build-ing into the American economy — stop your feudal economic policies and bridge the widening divide, or “the pitch forks are going to come for us.”

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The Duke Ellington Orchestra Feb. 6, 7:30 p.m. Highlands Church, 9050 E.

Pinnacle Peak Road The Duke Ellington Orchestra follows Ellington’s rich legacy of jazz standards and continues to thrill as the band is discovered anew with each generation.

New York Polyphony Feb. 8, 3 p.m. Musical Instrument Museum, 4725 E. Mayo Blvd. New York Polyphony is regarded as one of the fi nest vocal chamber ensembles in the world. Geoff rey Williams, coun-tertenor; Steven Caldicott Wil-son, tenor; Christopher Dylan

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Mike Kocour Quintet Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m. Troon Country Club, 25000 North Windy Walk Drive Mike Kocour has per-formed around the world with artists and ensembles as varied as Dizzy Gillespie and the Chi-cago Symphony.

Steep Canyon Rangers Feb. 12, 7:30 p.m. Pinnacle Presbyterian Church, 25150 N. Pima Road Nimble instrumental agility, tight vocal harmonies, and inventive songwriting have made Steep Canyon Rangers an audience favorite. The band won a GRAMMY Award in 2013 for their album Nobody Knows You.

Pianist Orli Shaham Feb. 17, 7:30 p.m.Temple Chai, 4645 EastMarilyn Road Orli Shaham has es-tablished an impressive inter-national reputation as one of today’s most gifted pianists, with prodigious skills and interpre-tations of both standard and modern repertoire.

Bob Moody & Friends Featuring Simply Three Feb. 19, 5:30 p.m. & 8:30 p.m.Fairway House at Grayhawk, 8620 E. Thompson Peak Parkway Multi-talented Robert Moody, Arizona Musicfest Artis-tic Director, hosts and performs in this unique cabaret-style eve-ning featuring a variety of out-standing guest artists with a wide range of musical styles.

Rosanne CashFeb. 20, 7:30 p.m. Highlands Church, 9050 E. Pinnacle Peak Road GRAMMY - Award winner Rosanne Cash performs songs from her new hit record-ing, The River & The Thread, plus other favorites. Scheherazade and Mozart Arizona MusicfestOrchestra Conducted by Robert Moody Featuring Ricardo Morales, clarinetFeb. 24 at 7:30 p.m.Pinnacle Presbyterian Church, 25150 N. Pima Road Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade is a technicolor tour-de- force of intense orches-tral colors and a captivating story inspired by The Arabian Nights. Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto is a work of absolute genius that ex-quisitely displays the tone, range

and agility of the clarinet, espe-cially in the hands of featured soloist Ricardo Morales. Beethoven, Bach & The Blue DanubeArizona Musicfest Orchestra Conducted by Robert Moody Featuring Orion Weiss, pianoFeb. 26, 7:30 p.m. Pinnacle Presbyterian Church, 25150 N. Pima Road Beethoven’s Emperor Piano Concerto will be per-formed by one of the season’s most sought-after soloists, Orion Weiss. Bach’s Prelude & Fugue in E-fl at Major, also featured, is richly and imaginatively scored. Lastly, Johann Strauss’ Blue Danube Waltz is well-loved for its familiar signature melody.

Storm Large, Lead Singer of Pink Martini The Crazy Arc of Love Arizona Musicfest Orchestra Conducted by Robert MoodyFeb. 27, 7:30 p.m. Highlands Church, 9050 E. Pinnacle Peak Road Pink Martini’s lead singer Storm Large joins Rob-ert Moody and the full Arizona Musicfest Orchestra for an un-forgettable night. Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 & Janáek Glagolitic MassArizona Musicfest Orches-tra, Chorus, and Soloists Conducted by Robert Moody Dr. Rebecca Lord, Chorus Master March 1, 3 p.m. Pinnacle Presbyterian Church, 25150 N. Pima RoadOne of Tchaikovsky’s great-est works, the dramatic mas-terpiece Symphony No. 4 is the blockbuster anchor of this thrilling concert featuring the extraordinary talents of the Ari-zona Musicfest Orchestra. The Bronx WanderersMarch 5, 7:30 p.m. Highlands Church, 9050 E. Pinnacle Peak Road The Bronx Wanderers turn back time with heartfelt authentic and original rendi-tions of chart-topping songs of the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

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Teal It Up Golf Tournament, Sept. 20 PHOENIX – Golfi ng fans can head over to the east valley and tee off for a good cause on Saturday, Sept. 20. The Anne Rita Mona-han Foundation is partnering with The Teal It Up Founda-tion, a local nonprofi t dedicated to creating awareness about ovarian cancer and raising funds to fi ght ovarian cancer in Arizo-na. They’re hosting the Teal It Up Golf Tournament and Tee for Teal Luncheon. “With two strong foun-dations coming together, we can create greater momentum in the fi ght for fi nding an earlier means of detection and hopefully, a cure,” said Jan Coggins, ovar-ian cancer survivor and founder of The Teal It Up Foundation. “We are grateful for this won-derful opportunity to work with The Anne Rita Monahan Foun-

dation in our mutual eff orts to combat this dreadful disease.” The day’s events will include a morning of golf at Rio Verde Country Club, si-lent auction, lunch, and event programming. The program-ming for the event includes the presentation of two 2014 ARM Foundation Scholarships and the 5th Annual Anne Rita Mo-nahan Crusader Award. The Teal It Up Foundation will also present a variety of golf awards, including the prestigious Bar-bara Douglas Award for the fi rst place foursome. “The Anne Rita Mo-nahan Foundation is honored to partner with The Teal It Up Foundation for this event,” said Jennifer Graves, president of The Anne Rita Monahan Foundation. “Together we hope to empower those individuals

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GOODYEAR – Cy-clists from around Arizona will be gathering in Goodyear on Sept. 27 for the Second Annual Trails 4 Trials cycle and com-munity event to benefi t Gate-way for Cancer Research. Thanks to a partner-ship with Cancer Treatment Centers of America, $.99 of every dollar raised will go to fund cancer clinical trials. T4T is a sanctioned and timed USA cycling road race off ering four course distances: a 100, 50 and 25-mile race, as well as a three-mile Family Fun Ride. Race registration is open and avail-able now on the offi cial T4T Web site: www.trails4trials.org.

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