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We are going on VACATIONJuly 27th - August 27th& everything must go!
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“National Day of the Cowboy” is a day set aside by theU.S. Senate as a national day of recognition for the manycontributions of the American Cowboy. The largest
regional celebration in the nation will be held this year inthe East Valley – three days of fun and festivals inApache Junction, Gold Canyon, Superior and Florence!
Friday, July 25Gold Canyon’s New/Old WestFusion, 7:30 a.m.-midnightIncludes:
ACTIVITIES & EVENTS
• Golf tournament at Gold Canyon Golf Resort, 7:30 a.m.
• Western Art Show at GoldCanyon Golf Resort, 9 a.m.-10p.m. daily July 25-27 with specialappearance by Judy Larson onSun. July 27 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Western crafts show at Mountainbrook Village, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Evening fireworks, street dance, BBQ, 9 p.m.-1 p.m.
Call (480) 288-5982 or email [email protected] for information.
Saturday, July 26Goldfield Ghost Town’s 1890’s CowTown Festival, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.Free admission and parking
• Parade on Main Street, 10 a.m.• Earp/Holliday Mustache & Beard
Contest, 11 a.m.• Luke Short Poker Tournament,
noon• Cowgirl Revue by Historical
Foundation of Cowgirls, WesternStreet Theater performances,Longhorn cattle exhibit and more!
• Entertainment: Old Tyme Radio byRadiozona, Spirit of the FrontierCowboy Poets, Cowboy Comedyby the McNasty Brothers, Paydirt, Pioneer Pepper and more.Goldfield Ghost Town is locatedjust 4 miles north of ApacheJunction on Hwy 88
Superstition Mountain MuseumSat 9-2p.m. Special Event-livemusic, authors & artists.
Call (480) 982-3141 or email [email protected] forinformation.
Saturday, July 26LaNoches de Vaqueros in Superior, 6:30 p.m.-midnight
All events at Magma Club on KrumpkeCourt• Premium Tequila Tasting, 4-7 p.m.• Vaquero dinner and live entertainmentfrom 7-9 p.m.• Baile Estrella, “Dance Under the Stars”from 9 p.m.-1 a.m.
Call (520) 689-0200 or email [email protected]
Friday/Saturday, July 25-26Cowboy Cradle of the Great Southwest inFlorence• Bank robbery at National Bank of
Arizona, 5:30 p.m. July 25• Cowboy Casino Night and Steak Fry,
6 p.m. July 25• Cowboy breakfast at American Legion,
6:30 a.m. July 26• Cowboy Festival begins 8:30 a.m. July 26• Other events include Victorian Fashion
Show, Cowboy Movie Festival, DanceCall (520) 868-9433 or email [email protected]
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SponsorsApache Junction Chamber of Commerce, Gold Canyon Business Association, cities of Apache Junction, Florence and Superior, Pinal County Supervisors Office, NE Pinal Economic Partnership, office of State Sen. Rebecca Rios.
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information and times,
call the Apache Junction
Chamber of Commerce
at (480) 982-3141.
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will be thankful for that,” Gov. Napolitano said.
The governor envisions the state to have a variety of transpor-tation choices in the future.
“You will see ... rail and com-muter rail and transit and other ways of getting around the state of Arizona,” she said.
Commercial vendors, church-es, government agencies and departments had tables set up on the west/northbound side of the freeway, with parking on the east/southbound side. Free water, snow cones, hotdogs and other foodstuffs were available, as were freebies from a DVD of how to drive the roundabouts accessing the freeway to plastic
construction hats and colorful pencils. The Mesa Police Depart-ment SWAT team showed its vehicle and equipment, Valley Metro had a bus and a table of maps, and Razzle Dazzle Flowers & Gifts of Apache Junction hand-ed out thousands of fl owers and hundreds of helium balloons.
The Skyline High School Marching Band performed at the offi cial ceremony. The band’s drum major, Shannon Jewell, led the Pledge of Allegiance to the fl ag and band member Mary Sel-by led everyone in the National Anthem. The Mesa Police Depart-ment color guard had a bagpipe player and posted the fl ags.
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violation or face misdemeanor charges.
Private businesses and resi-dents came to her aid and by the end of that Saturday, her carport was no longer in violation and Neighbors Helping Neighbors was born.
According to Christa Rizzi of Apache Junction and confi rmed by Apache Junction Councilman Chip Wilson, after seeing what could be accomplished when community members join forces, talks began of creating a volun-teer troupe of sorts.
“For people that fall through the cracks,” is how Ms. Rizzi ex-plained why the organization is forming. “This is how you put unity back in the community.”
Ms. Rizzi says local gov-ernment did not work for Ms. Ulsheimer, but instead forced a fi nancial burden on a private resident who was a victim of her own honesty.
Having bought the home with the carport already standing, Ms. Ulsheimer claims the city issued
her a permit for an adjacent aw-ning that was listed as her carport in the submitted site plan.
The city claims the permit was issued in error.
“The government just com-pletely failed her,” Ms. Rizzi not-ed.
Ms. Rizzi plans on submit-ting a packet explaining the now forming Neighbors Helping Neighbors volunteer organization to city council at a future council meeting.
“It would be a group of citizens to be a constant point of contact outside of the city,” explained Councilman Wilson. “So many times we get caught up with the bureaucracy of the system.”
Mr. Wilson called the pro-posed volunteer group a way to overcome the problem, which he says he has been made more aware of since becoming a pub-lic servant.
“They are putting fi nes on people — that due to fi nancial times can’t pay for it,” he pointed out.
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ideas for the city’s “focal point” at www.newszap.com, which is a community public opinion
forum offered by Independent Newspapers Inc.
“There (would) be an enor-mous benefi t in encouraging local food production,” said “Py-thor Sehn,” whose online profi le states he/she is a 36-year-old teacher from Apache Junction.
“Even if it begins on a small scale, it will at least create a mod-el for future expansion,” said Py-thor Sehn on the online forum.
Councilman Serdy, who rou-tinely interacts with commu-nity members at www.newszap.com’s opinion forum, says cer-tain hurdles need to be overcome before ideas become realities.
“We don’t have the room, in the least we need a parking lot,” he said of developing anything in the vacant land behind the city’s “focal point.”
According to DebDietz, who
on the forum claims to be the wife of Apache Junction Council-man Richard Dietz and confi rmed by the councilman, says the councilman brought up the idea for a community garden/farmers’ market in recent months.
“His idea is to have anyone who is interested, including young children, volunteer to work, learn and benefi t from a community garden,” said DebDietz on the online forum. “The people who volunteer would receive free pro-duce and the rest would be sold at a farmers’ market.”
Councilman Dietz says ideas like a farmers’ market is a posi-tive one and it is such ideas that are needed for the community of Apache Junction to grow as a community.
“I really feel that we need to move forward,” he said in a phone interview. “It is something to bring the community togeth-er.”
Mr. Serdy says he hopes ideas for the vacant land in the heart of Apache Junction will continue to come in.
“There could be another fac-
tion out there that hasn’t chimed in yet, and maybe this story will bring that out,” he pointed out.
Councilman Serdy can be reached at 602-820-4429.
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Independent Newspapers/Richard H. DyerEast Mesa resident Bert Bertleson, right, stands by a map of the project with, from left, Shahir Safi , senior civil engi-neer with the city of Mesa; Jeff Riddle, Flood Control District of Maricopa County branch manager; Bobbie Ohler, project manager; and Mike Lopez, an engineer with Stanley Consult-ing.
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Offi cials at the open house could not provide a fi rm fi gure on the project’s cost. The minutes
for the Nov. 5, 2003, fl ood control district board of directors states that a project was approved and that an intergovernmental agree-ment was needed for an estimat-ed $16 million in Siphon Draw drainage improvements, includ-
ing rights-of-way acquisition, design and construction. It is at www.maricopa.gov/Clk_board/Minutes/2003/FCD/110503ff.pdf.
An intergovernmental agree-ment also allows the fl ood con-trol district and city of Mesa to cross the county line to do the work.
“Obviously, the water is run-ning toward Mesa, so it will ben-efi t residents,” Mr. Safi said of the basin.
Bobbie Ohler, fl ood control district project manager, said the open house was held to inform area residents of the plans to date – the completion of 30 percent of the design work.
“It’s been in planning fi ve to six years. This is the last piece of the puzzle. Flood water fl ows from the northeast. This is de-signed to mitigate the 100-year fl ood,” Ms. Ohler said of storm fl ows from extreme fl ooding events.
Water from a channel from the north in Apache Junction, from the northeast and across
the Central Arizona Project canal and from Siphon Draw Wash will enter the basin. The basin will be constructed on state land east of Meridian Road, just north of the Elliot Road alignment and south and adjacent to a Salt River Proj-ect easement. The water will be detained and released through “outlets to Siphon Draw Wash to existing storm drains – the El-liot Road storm drain – and Elliot Road, eventually to the Eastern Maricopa Floodway,” Ms. Ohler said.
Water entering the basin from the wash could be clocked at 1,000 cubic feet per second and from the north to the basin at 2,000 cfs, Cathy Regester, a hy-drologist with the Flood Control District of Maricopa County, said.
After being detained in the basin, the water would be “released at a less rate – 500 cfs,” she said.
The design should be com-pleted in late 2008, according to fl ood control district documents. A construction time line has not been set, but Ms. Ohler said con-struction could begin in March 2009.
Reggie Perugganan, with Envi-ronmental Planning Group land-scape architects, showed design graphics with a maintenance road ringing the basin, undulat-ing basin side slopes with native plants, low “island” land forms, buffer areas, perimeter berms and a concrete-lined channel. The project will preserve the natural Sonoran Desert character of the surrounding landscape,
according to fl ood control district documents.
East Mesa resident Bert Bertle-son studied the project plans shown at the open house held in the evening at Meridian Elemen-tary School, 3900 S. Mountain Road.
“They put all this work on a natural area. They did a good job,” he said. “It needs equestri-an trails to connect from Apache Junction to Queen Creek and be-yond. A lot of people have horses down here.”
A second phase, which is not designed, will construct a south half of a Meridian channel on the east side of Meridian approxi-mately one mile north of the El-liot alignment, according to fl ood control district documents.
For details on the Siphon Draw project, visit www.fcd.mar-icopa.gov.
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