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Volume 16, Number 9 |
April 29, 2006
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By Don Kirkland |
Whether it's the
ear-shattering roar of bullets
ventilating a Mafia informer or the
comic improbability of a fire hydrant
running from a dog with a raised leg,
Cory Starr may be the guy making it
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• Real
estate retaining its value,
despite cooler market
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Making her debut as
the new Tempe Little
Theater Director, is
Tempe resident Janis
Webb, who has
enjoyed a
multi-faceted career
consisting of stage
managing, house
managing and acting. |
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“Bunnicula,” the hugely popular
children’s story about an ambiguously
vampire-ish bunny, has
made its way
to the Tempe Performing Arts Center
stage via Childsplay Theatre Company. |
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The Tempe
Chamber of Commerce has announced it is
endorsing incumbents Ben Arredondo and
Len Copple, along with newcomer Shana
Ellis, in the Tempe City Council
election, citing their record of
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Kerry
Fetherston isn't eligible to compete in
the Arizona Senior Olympics. Too young.
But the Kyrene Corridor resident,
businesswoman, marathoner and bicyclist
is piling up the hours and miles lately
as one of the organizers of the senior
fitness competition that draws elder
athletes from across the state to
qualify for the National Senior
Olympics.
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Corona del
Sol senior swimmer Nate Telep has
chosen to continue his collegiate career
at Louisiana State University. Telep
said he signed his letter of intent from
LSU after looking at other schools
including Pitt, Hawaii, Missouri,
Alabama and Louisville.
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Tempe
police are searching for a suspect
responsible for throwing two firebombs
at a Kyrene Corridor home on April 16.
Two
Molotov-cocktail styled bombs were
thrown over the back fence of 1939 E.
Diamond Drive in Tempe.
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Like a lot of people, I grew up on
bottled pasta sauces like Prego and
Ragu.
They were good, economical and
convenient, and helped my overworked mom
get dinner on the table night after
night.
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Just minutes prior to the screening of
United 93 there was a lot of
chitchat among the film critics
anticipating at best an awkward and
misguided attempt to present a very
personal and unpleasant American
tragedy.
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The Polish
novelist Stanislaw Lem, who died last
month at 84, was one of those
science-fiction writers for whom the
term “science-fiction writer” somehow
seems, fairly or unfairly, like an
insult.
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Zeshan
Dhanani says his face annoys him.
Shehran Islam still had “breakfast on my
face” when he went to class the other
day. Some of their friends say people
they don’t know are coming up to them to
ask questions. |
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If you
worry that the Kyrene Corridor housing
market may continue to cool down,
consider this: Phoenix remains among the
nation's top five metro areas in terms
of net in-migration, averaging 130,000
people, or up to 40,000 new families, a
year. |
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Time Capsule: This
Issue, Last Year |
April 30, 2005
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Cinco de Mayo. For some it’s a celebration of Mexico’s victory in 1862 over the French at Puebla. For others less historically inclined, May 5 is a day to celebrate all things Mexican.
For Kyrene Corridor resident Irene Trujillo, Cinco de Mayo is a day to reflect on her own heritage and remember with a smile her own victory of independence from a strict Mexican father in the changing world of Tempe in the 1950s and ’60s.
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For most Corona del Sol High School
students, the approach of May means the
approach of carefree freedom. But for
sophomore Clint Sorenson, the end of
school is bringing with it hospital
stays and chemotherapy treatments.
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