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HOLIDAY:Anthem, Carefree

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THeATeR:Cactus Shadows students participate in marathon

drama production

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OTHeR :• Editorial Page 14

• Service Directory 15

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eVACUATION: Odor causes evacuation at

Boulder CreekHigh School

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Inside:

MARC BUCKHOUTMANAGING EDITOR

Joe Malinconico, the store manager at the Anthem Walmart simply calls him the community’s Secret Santa.

Late last month a man estimated to be in his 50s walked into the store, located at 4435 West Anthem Way, and made his way to the service desk. From there he asked to take care of some layaway bills.

“At first I didn’t know what he meant, but then he started asking us to read off the items on layaway,” Malinconico said. “He said he’d like to pick ones with nothing but toys. He mentioned his kids are older and he doesn’t get to have the fun of buying kids presents. He indicated it was his way of giving back to the community.”

After initially selecting three customers on Nov. 29 the man came back the following day and selected 17 more layaway bills to pay. All told he took care of payments for 20 different customers, totaling $1,624.84

When asked about his efforts the man told Malinconico he didn’t want to be identified, but simply felt, “it was the right thing to do.”

Marc Buckhout/The Foothills FocusStudents from Anthem School heard from Navy veterans Ron Tucker and John Ravita, a World War II veteran, on Friday at the Anthem Veterans Memorial in the Community Park. The veterans talked about Pearl Harbor on the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attack. Ravita also spoke of his military experienced during WWII.

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LESSONcontinued on page 7


In more than a quarter century of coaching high school wrestling Doug Crooks has had few teams that display the level of camarderie of his current squad at Boulder Creek High School

“I’ve been so impressed with how together they are, how united,” he said. “They care about each other. It’s been a long time since I’ve had a group this willing to work for each other. That really goes a long way in being successful.”

Without a returning state placer from a season ago and despite having a largely young roster with only three seniors, the Jaguars have opened the 2012-2013

season by getting off to a 13-2 start.

The team’s latest win came Dec. 5 at Centennial High School in Peoria. Despite being without several of their normal starters, who were nursing injuries, the Jaguars showed off the program’s depth of talent by being able to sweep the competition defeating Brophy 36-34, Alhambra 51-9 and the host Coyotes 42-39.

“We had five guys that are starters who were out,” Crooks said. “But the kids came through. We had a talk before the match and I said it was time for everybody to step up. It was a good night. I was very pleased.”

Young, talented Jaguars team out to prove skills

Marc Buckhout/The Foothills FocusBoulder Creek’s Branson Tibbs takes down his Brophy opponent during the team’s dual meet Dec. 5 at Centennial High School. The Jaguars are off to a 13-2 start this season. To view more photos from the Jaguars Dec. 5 match go to facebook.com/thefoothills.focus.

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The Anthem Veterans Memorial was built as a way to pay tribute to the country’s military veterans

Complete with five marble pillars, representing each of the military branches and surrounded by brick pavers inscribed with the name of military personnel that served the country, the memorial was dedicated on Nov. 11, 2011 in the Anthem Community Park.

Beyond its main function, the memorial serves as a teaching tool to educate future generations about

those that came before them.On Friday, the 71st anniversary

of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Liz Turner, a former high school teacher who volunteered her time in fundraising effort to build the Anthem Veterans Memorial, had the eighth grade students from Anthem School along with their teachers out to the memorial.

In talking to the students, Turner explained the importance of the veterans that came before them.

“These people fought for you to be where you are today,”

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An unidentified ammonia type smell, which caused burning of the eyes led to the evacuation of Boulder Creek High School on Dec. 5

At 5:40 p.m. Daisy Mountain Fire Department was called due to a smell initially coming from the school’s gym where a junior varsity girls basketball game was under way. Upon reporting to the high school crews upgraded the scene to a hazardous situation according to Dave Wilson, the Fire Department’s Public Information Officer. The entire campus was evacuated, including North Valley Regional Library. Although the Hazmat team searched the campus for a source of the odor Wilson, said nothing was found. Nobody on the campus required medical attention.

In a email sent to the student body, principal Lauren Sheahan thanked the teachers and staff who were on campus

who helped to evacuate the buildings and facilitated parent pick up of the students.

The basketball games as well as a dance concert were to be rescheduled. School went on as scheduled Thursday morning.

Marc Buckhout/The Foothills FocusBoulder Creek High School was evacuated on the evening of Dec. 5 due to an ammonia type smell that caused burning of the eyes. The smell was first noticed in the gym, during a junior varsity girls basketball game. Eventually the entire campus was evacuated. Hazmat found no source of the odor, which dissipated. No injuries were reported. School resumed as normal on Thursday.

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The Cactus Shadows Drama Club is stepping it up this year. Along with performances of Antigone and Legally Blonde, the school’s Drama Club has decided to do something called 24 Hour Theatre.

24 Hour Theatre is a unique event that, as the name describes, takes place over 24 hours. Students come together as writers, directors, actors, and technicians to create completely original one-act plays. The event is set for 7 p.m., Saturday in the Cactus Shadows Fine Arts Center.

The first four hours start off with all of the staff writers working on their plays. The next segment is composed of the directors choosing their cast, props, and set pieces. Lastly, the actors and technicians assemble to rehearse and work on lights and sound.

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“It’s a great way to celebrate theatre and give students a chance to do things that we usually don’t have time for them to do,” Cupo said.

Josh Akin, senior, has taken the reins of the newly formed 24 Hour Theatre Committee. “We at the committee have great expectations for the 24 Hour Theatre,” he said. “It’s not only going to be a great learning experience but also a ton of fun.”

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“The performances will include holiday themes and be totally family-friendly. Tickets are $5, a great deal for six original plays,” Cupo said.

“Last year, we presented the radio play, It’s a Wonderful Life, as a fundraiser for Desert Foothills Community Education,” Cupo said. “This year, we thought we’d change it up, keep it fresh and interesting with original student plays.”

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The presentation started with Ron Tucker, a retired Rear Admiral from the U.S. Navy, talking about the events that led up to the U.S. joining WWII, and the mistakes Japan made following the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

“Japan wanted to expand their reach in the Pacific because they lacked natural resources,” Tucker said.

After attacking Pearl Harbor, a battle that left 2,000 American dead, saw 21 ships sunk and 180 planes destroyed, Tucker explained to the students that the Japanese made a couple critical mistakes following the attack.

“Our carriers were all out at sea so those weren’t damaged in the attack,” he said. “They also didn’t follow up with the initial attack. Instead they gave the U.S. time to recover and mobilize. They woke a sleeping giant.”

Tucker, whose Naval career included being the last Commanding officer of the Battleship USS New Jersey as well as commanding the Naval Station at Pearl Harbor and the Guided Missile Destroyer, USS Cochrane served on the national Board of the Pearl Harbor Memorial Fund, helped raise $52 million to replace the USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center and Veterans Museum.

More recently he was the driving force behind the Anthem Veterans Memorial project. After showing the students pictures of various Naval ships and opening the floor for question he turned things over to fellow Anthem resident John Ravita, a WWII Navy veteran.

Ravita, now 87 years-old, explained to the students that he wasn’t much older than they are when the war started. In 1943, at the age of 17, he joined the Navy, first going to boot camp in New York before being sent to San Diego.

Assigned to be a gunner’s mate, Ravita acknowledged he had little idea what he was initially being commanded to do.

“They had us take a series of aptitude tests and that’s what they told me I’d be doing,” he said.

Serving on the USS Weaver, named after a soldier that was killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Ravita said the ship was still being finished when he arrived for his assignment.

Calling the ship home for two years, Ravita’s primary assignment was keeping the guns in working order. While he suffered partial hearing loss from his exposure to the firing of the guns, he managed to come away relatively injury free through his three years of service.

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Marc Buckhout/The Foothills FocusWorld War II veteran John Ravita, an 87-year-old retired Navy soldier, talked to eighth grade students about his military service in the Pacific.


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During the course of the season’s first two weeks the Jaguars only losses have come at the hands of Ironwood Ridge, the defending state championship at the Division-II level.

Individually Boulder Creek has had a number of standout performances in the season’s early going including three wrestlers who remain undefeated on the season.

Leading the way is senior captain Kyle Fantin, at 15-0 in the 126 pound weight class.

Freshman Cory Crooks, the coach’s son is 15-0 with 10 pins to his credit in the 106 pound weight class.

“He’s been wrestling since he was a little kid,” the coach said. “It’s a tough situation, but we’ve made a deal. He gets a hug from his dad before each match, but when I need to yell to get him to do the right thing on the mat that’s me being his coach. We do the best job we can to separate the two things. We’re dad and son when we leave the mat.”

Junior Jro Byrd also is 15-0. The 170 pounder has nine pins on the year and was dominant enough at the Southwest Showdown, a 24-team event Nov. 30 – Dec. 1 at Grand Canyon University, to earn the event’s outstanding wrestler, an honor voted on by the coaches.

Not only did Byrd stand out at the event, but the coach said the team opened a lot of eyes

with their fourth place showing.“I think it boosted our

confidence big time,” he said. “I think it was a realization that we’re going to be a real competitive team, one for others to be reckoned with.”

While not undefeated Branson Tibbs at 113 pounds with 12 wins and Jordan Erickson at 195 pounds with 13 wins also have been strong contributors. Tibbs narrowly missed placing at the state meet a year ago.

The rest of the Jaguars lineup includes Cody Hazelip at 120 pounds, Tanner Mattson (132), Matta Kautzman (138), Tyler Utter (152), Jack Warner (160), Jeffery Hicks (220) and Nathan Eldridge (285). Both Spencer Taranto and Adam Garcia have seen time competing in the 145 pound weight class.

The Jaguars close the 2012 portion of their schedule

with a home match at 5 p.m. tonight and then at the Moon Valley Invitational Dec. 21 – 22 in Phoenix.

Crooks said he simply wants the team to continue to grow as the season moves along.

“All we talk about is the end of the year,” he said. “We look at our goals which are winning sectionals and then going on to the state tournament. I told them before the year I thought a top five finish in the state tournament was possible. The kids looked at me a little funny at the start of the season, but I think they’re starting to believe. I think we realistically have four or five kids that can place at state.”

To follow the Jaguars wrestling team go to bouldercreekwrestling.weebly.com.

Marc Buckhout/The Foothills FocusBoulder Creek sophomore Kyle Fantin goes for a pin against a Brophy College Prep opponent. The Jaguars defeated Brophy, Alhambra and Centennial. To view more photos from the Jaguars Dec. 5 match go to facebook.com/thefoothills.focus.

Submitted photoGarrett Huston and Deborah O’Neil (center) are congratulated by Gerry Cook, (left) and Steven Stanger (right) of the VFW, after the two were honored for essays on democracy they put together.

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A pair of Black Canyon City teens were honored Sunday by the VFW District 4 Post 9400 in Phoenix for essay they created.

Garett Huston, age 16, won first place from Black Canyon City VFW Post 1796 and then fourth place in the District level for the Voice of Democracy Scholarship. He composed an audio essay titled “Is Our Constitution Still Relevant”.

In the K-8 division students had to write their essays. Deborah O’Neill, age 13, won first place on the Black Canyon City Post 1796 level and then also won first place at the District level at VFW Post 9400.

Her essay will go on to compete at the state level on Jan. 12 in Tucson. Both students won a flag, two certificates, a lapel

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THIS WEEKTOdAyCarefree Cave Creek Chamber host Christmas mixer

Carefree Cave Creek Chamber of Commerce is having a Christmas Mixer from 5:30 – 9 p.m., today at Cartwrights Sonoran Ranch House in Cave Creek.

Cost is $30 for members for a buffet dinner with live music. Call 480-488-3381 to reserve a spot. For information go to carefreecavecreek.org. Cartwrights Sonoran Ranch House is located at 6710 Cave Creek Road in Cave Creek.

THurSdAyLiterary enthusiast meet in Cave Creek

A literary discussion group will meet from 10 a.m. – noon on Thursday at Desert Foothills Library in Cave Creek.

Participants share literary references and insights from both fiction and non-fiction literature, with a different theme each month. December’s theme is functional and dysfunctional

families. The group meets the second Thursday of each month. For information email [email protected]. Desert Foothills Library is located at 38443 North Schoolhouse Road in Cave Creek.

Cave Creek regional Park offers fitness hike series

At 9 a.m. Thursday a group will leave from the Nature Center for a 2.5 to 3.5 mile hike in Cave Creek Regional Park. The Fitness Hike will offer a moderate, steady pace, based on the fitness level of participants in the group. Beginners are welcome. Each Thursday participants will explore a different part of the park. A friend, a hat, sturdy shoes and plenty of water are all recommended.

Cave Creek Regional Park is located at 37900 N. Cave Creek Pkwy. The park is located north on 32nd St. off the Carefree Highway.

Musical Instrument Museum touts new exhibit

At both 4:30 and 6 p.m.,

Thursday a short tour of the new Taylor Swift exhibit will be offered to those paying a museum admission. MIM staff will offer information and highlights of the objects on display. For information go to themim.org. The MIM is located at 4725 E. Mayo Boulevard in Phoenix.

SATurdAyProMusica Arizona celebrates holiday with performance

Candlelight processionals, a celebrity narrator, a stage brimming with musicians

performing carols, visual effects, chimes, harps and even gentle snowfall will be part of ProMusica Arizona’s performances of Joyous Noel at 7:30 p.m., Saturday and at 4 p.m., Sunday at the Boulder Creek High School Performing Arts Center.

Author Aprilynn Pike will narrate the traditional biblical Christmas story interspersed with musical renditions of beloved carols like, The First Noel, We Three Kings, Angels We Have Heard on High, March

of the Kings, Silent Night, O Come All Ye Faithful, Baby Born a King, John Rutter’s What Sweeter Music, Carol of the Bells, Ding Dong, Merrily on High and many more.

The Boulder Creek High School Performing Arts Center is located at 40404 N. Gavilan Peak Parkway in Anthem.

Tickets range in price from $5 – 20. For tickets and information about the concert or PMAZ, go to pmaz.org or call 623-889-7144. For information about Aprilynne Pike, go to aprilynnepike.com.

MIM offers workshopA Balinese Gamelan

Workshop led by assistant

curator Colin Pearson will give attendees a chance to experience Balinese culture and music at 10:30 a.m., Saturday at the Musical Instrument Museum. The class is $12, or $10 when purchased with a museum admission, also will give them a chance to play authentic Balinese instruments. Guests will be asked to sit cross-legged on the floor and remove their shoes during the workshop.

The class is designed for ages 8 and older. For information email [email protected]. For information on the MIM go to themim.org.


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A Winter Wine Tasting and Shopping is set for 2 – 5 p.m., Saturday event at el Pedregal Shops and Dining.

Guests will enjoy glasses of wine, $5 gift card giveaways every hour on the hour and a grand prize of $250 in gift cards to use throughout the center.

Customers will also receive 20 percent off to the Spotted Donkey Cantina, Bakery Café and Brugos Pizza Company with any purchase. Cost is $10 for two wine tasting tickets. For information about th event call 480-488-1072 or visit elpedregal.com.

Gingerbread decorating workshop offered at El Pedregal

The Gingerbread Decorating Workshop at the Bakery Café is set for 1 – 4 p.m. Saturday and

Dec. 27 at El Pedregal Shops and Dining at the Boulders.

Children and adults are invited to decorate festive gingerbread houses and learn informative techniques for making a festive holiday house.

The Bakery Café is located at El Pedregal Shops and Dining at the Boulders at 34505 North Scottsdale Road in Scottsdale. Cost for the class is $22 per person, which includes gingerbread house, frostings and decorating materials.

Reservations are required. For information or to register call 480-488-9009 or go to elpedregal.com.

Cave Creek Park offers archery class

Archery 101, offering participants a basic introduction to recreational and international style target archery will be offered at 9 a.m., Saturday at Cave Creek Regional Park.

The program is open to anyone ages 8 and older. Equipment is provided. Attendees are asked to bring water and closed-toe shoes.

Advanced registration is required. The classes are limited to 20 partcipants. For information or to register call 623-465-0431 ext. 202. Cave Creek Regional Park is located at 37900 N. Cave Creek Pkwy. The park is located north on 32nd St. off the Carefree Highway.

SundAyMIM hosts Creole Christmas shows

Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s Creole Christmas will perform at 6 p.m. and at 8 p.m., Sunday at the Musical Instrument Museum. The group plays New Orleans style music, a production designed for families.

Tickets for the 6 p.m. show

range from $42.50 – 47.50 while the 8 p.m. show ranges from $37.50 - $42.50. For information on the MIM go to themim.org. The MIM is located at 4725 E. Mayo Boulevard in Phoenix.

Cave Creek regional Park offers hike for newcomers

A hike for those new to the desert will start at 9 a.m., Sunday on the Go John Trailhead in Cave Creek Regional Park. A 1 mile hike on the Jasper Trail will include a talk about all the plants and animals living in the desert.

Cave Creek Regional Park is located at 37900 N. Cave Creek Pkwy. The park is located north on 32nd St. off the Carefree Highway.

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PErFOrMAnCESun Valley Baptist Church hosts youth musical

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North Valley Gymnastics will be conducting a Winter Camp with both full and half day sessions available for Dec. 27, Dec. 28 and Jan. 2 – 4.

The camp is open for ages 3 – 14. Campers must be potty trained. The half day camp runs from 9 a.m. – noon while the full day camp is from 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

The camp is offered to those of all levels, including beginners. Full day camp is $50 for those who reserve a spot ahead of time or $55 for those that simply drop in. Half day is $30 for those who register ahead of time and $35 for drop ins. Morning snack and drinks will be provided. Those interested in the full day camp need to bring a sack lunch.

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ArTTea room in Carefree hosts art show

A Small Works Show and Sale is continuing from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., through Dec. 31 at the English Rose Tea Room in Carefree.

Oil, watercolor, pastel, pencil, mixed media and photography are just a few of the mediums featured. Works are no larger

than 100 square inches. The English Tea Room is located at 201 Easy Street in Carefree.

GEOLOGyGroup readies for rock collection near Lake Pleasant

A geology group based out of Anthem will leave at 8 a.m., Dec. 20 from the Anthem Community Center for a trip near Lake Pleasant. Participants will be collecting at the legendary geode location and then at one or more calcite locations nearby.

The ground is littered with thunder eggs, beautiful chalcedony roses ranging from white to light pink, and a few crystal-lined geodes. The chalcedony roses are the best I’ve ever seen. Many are still attached to matrix and make excellent cabinet-size display pieces. If you have or have access to a good ultraviolet light, they fluoresce bright lime green due to the uranium impurities. After collecting at the geode spot (only 20 miles from Anthem), we will move 5 miles down the road to collect small chunks and crystals of calcite and possibly some travertine.

Those attending should bring water and a bag lunch. Four-wheel drive vehicles are not necessary, but reasonably high clearance vehicles will be needed.

The “geode”/chalcedony rose site is about a .25 mile hike from the parking area. The hike up the hill is not especially steep, but the trek is quite rocky and the footing can be a bit dangerous. Good boots are recommended. Backpacks or shoulder collecting bags are recommended over buckets in order to keep arms free for

balance. For information on the trip email [email protected].

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Kudalini Yoga classes combined with Gong Therapy from 7 – 9 p.m. every Thursday in New River. The class is offered to both men and women. The class offers an opportunity to explore, celebrate, heal, feel good, while ensuring a safe sacred environment. The class welcomes beginners and intermediate students. Those interested in attending are asked to wear comfy clothing and bring a yoga mat and blanket.

Cost for the class is $10. For information email [email protected], call 623-910-1096 or go to rajpalkaur.webs.com.

Additionally Kaur offers meditation breathing while being enveloped by the sounds of the Gong the first Tuesday of each month. The class offers participants a chance to feel refreshed, enlivened and at peace throughout their mind and body. Cost is $15 in advance or $20 at the door. Bring yoga mat and blanket. Wear comfy clothes. For info call 623-910-1096 or 855-538-5683 or go to lifecoachinaz.com.

Sen. Jim DeMint, the uncompromising South Carolina conservative whose average personal net worth of $40,501 made him, according to the respected Center for Public Integrity, the fourth-poorest member of the Senate, will resign his seat at the end of the year to become president of The Heritage Foundation.

Although no salary terms have been announced, the man whom DeMint will succeed has been paid more than a million dollars a year, and it’s a good bet that Jim DeMint, who is earning $174,000 a year as a senator, will get a raise to somewhere in seven figures.

The DeMint news came right on the heels of an exclusive report in Mother Jones magazine that former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas had resigned as chairman of FreedomWorks, one of the prominent political operations in the conservative movement with strong tea party ties. Reportedly, Armey’s severance package will leave him richer by $8 million.

Talk about striking gold. The financial windfalls visited upon these two conservative true-believers recalls the line about the c o n g r e g a t i o n a l i s t missionaries in Hawaii who seemed to find more personal prosperity than converts: “They came to

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the terribly sad state of today’s Republican Party, you just have to look at the treatment of Bob Dole, who was both the presidential and the vice presidential nominee of the GOP, in addition to being his party’s Senate leader as well as its national chairman.

But long before he was a national leader, he was 2nd Lt. Bob Dole on April 14, 1945, in the hills of Italy, when a German shell tore through his right shoulder and broke his neck and spine. He had been a 6-foot-2-inch, 194-pound athlete, and after losing 70 pounds and having his body temperature rise to 108.7 degrees, he forced himself through 39 months of painful rehabilitation to learn all over again how to use the toilet, how to eat, how to wash and dress himself, and how to walk.

His painfully thin right arm, some 2.5 inches shorter than his left, has been limp for 67 years.

In 1990, Bob Dole pushed the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) to Senate passage. President George H.W. Bush supported and signed into law the historic legislation, which has changed the face of

America and the fate of millions of Americans.

Twenty-two years later, we now take for granted the wheelchair ramps in and out of our buildings, the wider doorways for greater access, the curb-cuts that remove obstacles. The ADA welcomes citizens with disabilities fully into the nation’s academic, civic, social and economic life.

The Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities, inspired by and modeled after the ADA, was negotiated and signed by the administration of President George W. Bush in 2006. One hundred fifty-four countries have signed this treaty, and 126 countries have already ratified it. The treaty would require no change in U.S. law, but would provide the framework and incentive for other countries to recognize and guarantee, as the United States already does, the rights of all people with disabilities.

Twenty-one veterans organizations, including the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Wounded Warriors Project — along with 30 religious and interfaith groups — endorse ratification by the U.S. Senate.

But on Tuesday, Senate Republicans caved to baseless, irrational

fears about black helicopters parachuting blue-helmeted U.N. troops into American neighborhoods to punish homeschooling parents or shutter religious schools. With a wheelchair-bound Bob Dole on the Senate floor urging just 13 Republicans to join all the Democrats and provide the two-thirds Senate vote needed to ratify, all but eight of the Republican senators rejected the plea of their former leader and American hero.

Why? Because they’re scared of a primary challenge from the right. That’s why. America, Bob Dole, Abraham Lincoln’s party and 700 million of our fellow human beings with disabilities all deserve better.

To find out more about Mark Shields and read his past columns, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com.


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I see in your latest issue of The Foothills Focus that a new organization, Anthem Loves Dogs, wants the Anthem Community Council to give them park land for a dog park. Anthem Pets petitioned the Board for land to develop a dog park several years ago. I was a member of the Anthem Community Council Board of Directors when this issue was considered by the Council. I can’t tell you how much time and effort we spent analyzing the pros and cons of the impact such a park would have on the community. Resident input was very strong against approving the proposal. Now, here we go again. The council,

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Golf Course Lot (10th Tee) in Anthem CC. 3Bd, 2Ba. Views of Course, Lake and Mountains! Walk to Club House! $1495/mo, $1395 if paid early. 520-240-2615 Available 1.1.13 downtown CaveCreek,Az. Studio apt. $650/mo. Utilities included 602-509-2017Tired of searching for a Rental? Call Jo at Coldwell Banker Daisy Mtn 480-326-8825 at absolutely no cost to you!!

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