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GUEST ED: CONNERLY
JEREMIAH WRIGHT, THE BLACK
CHURCH AND SENATOR OBAMA
LETTERS
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DID I FALL ASLEEP AND WAKE UP IN BIZARRO WORLD?
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Cave Creek forced to pave past for dust-free future
Unrealistic county enforcement predates local ordinance
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By Linda Bentley
CAVE CREEK – While discussing an exceedingly unpopular, but statutorily mandated, dust ordinance to control PM-10 during a March town council meeting, Bill Vale, managing partner of Harold’s Cave Creek Corral, made a trip to the podium and asked, “Does this mean I’m going to have to pave my parking lot before Cave Creek paves its 90 miles of roads?”
The answer he received was a simple, “No.”
However, records reveal Maricopa County Environmental Services received a complaint regarding Harold’s on March 20, by a party, whose identity the county refuses to reveal, stating, “Dust is highly visible particularly at night; parking lots are throwing up dust due to bar traffic. This bar and the Buffalo Chip Saloon next door at 6811 share a large parking lot.”
Maricopa County Air Quality Department (MCAQD) Inspector David Cohen responded to the complaint and noted on the Inspection Report/Violation Notice for each, “Failure to implement control measures for...read the whole story... |
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Cave Creek to revisit fire protection options
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Rural/Metro District Fire Chief John Kraetz |
By Linda Bentley
CAVE CREEK – At the behest of Rancho Manana residents, Cave Creek held a workshop Monday evening to present the town’s current arrangement for fire protection and other available options.
Rural/Metro District Fire Chief John Kraetz explained the current subscription service arrangement, which has served the community for about 40 years, along with five other options available to the town.
Mayor Vincent Francia said there would be an agenda item on the May 19 council meeting, calling for a citizens’ fire committee to review the six options, the associated costs, and present their findings to the community during a subsequent meeting.
Basically, under the current subscription arrangement, property owners voluntarily enroll with Rural/Metro.
What some Rancho Manana residents wanted to know was whose responsibility it is to inform property owners about that need to enroll, although one resident stated his insurance company would not provide coverage until he did.
Ordinarily, real estate agents would be the ones to inform their clients about the need to enroll. However, Kraetz said it was ultimately Rural/Metro’s responsibility.
Because they get their information from the tax assessor’s records, which are not always current, Kraetz said Rural/Metro sometimes ends up...read the whole story... |
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Lewis in no hurry on Easy Street until market turns around
“Living in a world where you have to follow the markets”
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PHOTO BY CURTIS RIGGS
The two buildings of developer Ed Lewis’ Easy Street mixed-use project will include 80 condominiums and 64,000 square feet of retail space. |
By Curtis Riggs
CAREFREE – Already delayed a couple of times because of downturns in the real-estate market, Easy Street developer Ed Lewis is not planning on breaking ground on his large, costly downtown project any time soon.
“We’re putting it off because of the housing crisis,” Lewis said about his two-phase mixed-use project, planned for five acres south, and east, of the Carefree Town Hall/Post Office.
Shortly after the Carefree Town Council approved Lewis’ $90- million project a couple of years ago the housing market turned from bad to worse both locally and nationally. The town council approved 80 condominiums with 64,000 square-feet of retail space in two buildings.
“The president of Wells Fargo (bank) said this is the worst housing depression since the Great Depression,” said Lewis, who developed a condominium project at Kierland in Scottsdale and is now working on a housing project in Durango, Colo. “We are still looking for positive indicators that prices have stabilized, but there is still an excess of inventory.”
Lewis remains committed to...read the whole story... |
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Cave Creek welcomes its newest American
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PHOTO BY LINDA BENTLEY
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Gary Kiernan and his wife Shannon were all smiles on Friday as they celebrated Kiernan, who is originally from the United Kingdom, officially becoming a United States citizen that afternoon. Kiernan, who has lived in the United States (legally) for nearly half his life, is excited about being able to participate in the upcoming elections. |
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Abujbarah family celebrates
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PHOTO BY DON SORCHYCH
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The Abujbarah family celebrated son Nasser’s graduation from ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law last Saturday. Back l-r, Nasser Abujbarah and proud parents Dr. Juman Abujbarah and Cave Creek Town Manager Usama Abujbarah. Kinda, their lovely, but oh-so-liberal, daughter is in front. |
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Desert Hills parochial school meeting ends after threat
Now to communicate only by e-mail
By Curtis Riggs
DESERT HILLS – It is no surprise Christ Episcopal Church leaders faced an uphill battle when trying to get St. Augustine’s Academy built at Cave Creek and New River roads because of simmering resentment from over a decade ago.
What is surprising, tensions were running so high in such a short time in Desert Hills, as church officials try to build at the northwest corner of 15th Avenue and Irvine. A supporter of locating the school in this established equestrian neighborhood invited anyone opposed to the school to step out into the parking lot at the April 24 meeting. Several neighbors later learned the man who threatened the man opposed to the parochial school is involved with the group trying to sell the nine acres at the corner to school organizers.
Because of the April 24 altercation and the fear of another one occurring, St. Augustine’s Academy headmaster, Father Oliver Vietor, notified Desert Hills residents recently they will need to receive updates about the school and its progress from the school website as there will be no more community meetings.
Vietor accused people in the neighborhood of meeting before the April 24 meeting to make plans to disrupt it.
Charly Filipek, the homeowner who lives closest to the planned school site, tells a different story about what happened at the April 24 meeting. He said the threat of physical violence came from a man involved in the sale of the property.
“He threatened to...read the whole story... |
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 Freedom Fitness to showcase expanded facility
Natalie Romolt, Freedom Fitness’ Group Fitness Director, said the 5,000-square-foot expansion of the original 14,000-square-foot facility has received an excellent reaction from Freedom Fitness members.
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 Festival entries increase dramatically
The number of entries in this year’s Cave Creek Film & Arts Festival increased dramatically in many categories.
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 K. Short, B.Bremer Track Falcon stars at 4A-I State Meet
Junior Kyle Short (3rd, 3200; 5th, 1600) and Freshman Beau Bremer (three medal finishes) paced the Track Falcons at May 10 4A-I State Championships at Mesa CC. Junior Lacey Modzeleski (above) triple jumped 34’5.25” finishing 3rd and breaking (again!) her CSHS record for that event.
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