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San Tan Valley, a local progress was made,
but what does it
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of Changes How Have Our
Coming Local High
School Teams
For the next 4 weeks a Done?
major intersection will
be closed but what else San Tan Valley
is going on with San Tan Student Athlete were
Valley roads? hard at it last week.
How did they all do?

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Messages From Space
Circle Cross Ranch Students are Getting Messages From Outer Space

The students at Circle Cross from the space station as it Read some of the recent
Ranch Elementary are con- flies over. They also get to do messages and follow the
nected to the Internation- some interactive activities Space Station along with
al Space Station, and can with the Space Station. the students.
receive messages directly Continued on page 13

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March 19, 2018

Monday’s Word Search Puzzle



Lessons Learned

A Member of Our Community
Has Some Advice

By Richard Story
Continued from page 1
OK! So now is not the time to cry Boo
Hoo. Now is the time to start a second
try at incorporation. Just use the first
steering committee as an example. Do an
AAR get the lessons learned and move
forth from there.
A couple of lessons learned that I had,
as an opposing person for incorporation
are:
Branding, no matter what profession-
al politician tells you. This issue is not
about the “Right to Vote!” That issue
was decided by the bill that was signed.
We have that right. The issue on hand is
the “Right to Decide!”
Continued on page 15

March 19 - 21, 2018

San Tan Valley Weekday Weather

Monday Tuesday Wednesday

High 72° High 80° High 84°
Low 45° Low 52° Low 59°

Partly cloudy skies. High Sunny. High around 80F. Sunny, along with a few
72F. Winds NNW at 5 to Winds NE at 5 to 10 mph. afternoon clouds. High
10 mph. 84F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10
mph.
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ACC Open Meeting

It Was A Short Meeting,
But Productive

By San Tan Times
Continued from page 1

Friday’s 10:30 AM Open Meeting was far Max One, Cellgevity, Max ATP, MaxN-Fuse,
shorter than Tuesday’s marathon meeting Weight Management, & Skin Care
of over eight hours which played out like
a TV drama with a cliff hanger and every- Serving San Tan Valley
thing. and nearby areas.

At under an hour in length, this meeting Call Angie Fredrick
was short and to the point. With opening
remarks by Supervisor Goodman that gave (480) 744-2094
us a brief history of his involvement and
frustration in attempting to find solutions Johnson and share the same address.
to this ongoing problem with water quality The meeting then went on to a discussion
and hydrogen sulfide levels. between the Commissioners and Staff re-
Mr. Goodman also touched upon his mul- garding what needs to be done to prepare
tiple attempts to get Johnson Utilities rep- for the inevitable court case that will result if
resentatives to speak with the public and the ACC were to approve an Order to Show
receiving no response or results. He also ad- Cause to appoint an interim manager.
dressed his fear of the abuse of power that ACC Staff assured special prosecutor is not
appears to be taking place against citizens needed and the existing staff is more than
and developers. Mr. Goodman believes there needed.
is enough evidence to show that an interim With that, the Arizona Corporation Com-
manager must be put in place. mission voted and approved Agenda Item
Supervisor Goodman’s remarks were fol- 1: In the matter of the Commission’s In-
lowed by local residents expressing their vestigation of the Billing and Water Qual-
frustration towards Johnson Utilities and ity Issues of Johnson Utilities, LLC (WS-
the ACC’s lack of action up until this point. 02987A-18-0050): Commission consideration,
Local resident, Julie Phillips, spoke about discussion, and possible vote regarding Staff’s
the smell coming from Pecan Creek and the Application for an Order to Show Cause.
abuse of power that is taking place and also This allows for the process to move forward.
agreed that an interim manager must be But does not mean an Interim manger will
put in place. now take place. This is the first step in the di-
Resident John Dantico urged the ACC for rection of progress. But, there is a legal pro-
the selection process of an interim manager cess that must take place.
to be extremely transparent and requests This will take some time. This isn’t the ACC
that Hunt Management, LLC be excluded dragging their feet. They are moving for-
from consideration. Mr. Dantico went on to ward with the legal process. That process
say that his reason for this is that Johnson requires many steps to take place. San Tan
Utilities and Hunt Management appear to Valley as a community must balance pa-
be owned, controlled and operated by George tients and diligence during this time..STT

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March 19, 2018

Monday’s Sudoku Puzzle

The Flying Tiger

AKA Great Horned Owl /
Bubo virginianus

By Tom McDonald
Smiling Dog Landscapes

A few weeks ago, my wife walked out
the door just as a large predator swooped
down and perched on the fence around
our pool. The bird, a Great Horned Owl,
allowed himself to be admired then, with
a blink of an eye, silently launched itself
aloft.

Of the six species of owls in the Sonoran
Desert, the Great Horned Owl is the
largest. Standing at almost two feet tall
with a three and a half foot wingspan,
this fearless predator earns its nickname
‘flying tiger’ honestly. Anything smaller
than it is prey, including skunks, since
this owl has practically no sense of smell.
Rabbits and rodents comprise the bulk
of its diet; a fact appreciated by pretty
much everyone except maybe the rab-
bits and rodents. Possessing excellent
night vision and even better hearing, this
monster bird attacks silently thanks to
the soft edges of its larger wing feathers
that allow it to swoop down on its prey
noiselessly and without warning.

Great Horned Owls mate for life and
even though the female is the larger of
the two, the male has the deeper voice.
Their hoo, hoo,hoo call is distinctive and
the pair can often be heard answering
one another. Rather than build their own
nest, these owls take over an abandoned
hawk nest or lay their one to three eggs
on a rock ledge. Owls are very territorial,
defending their nesting site against all in-
truders, including humans.
Continued on page 16

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RoadWorkUpdate

There Are A Lot of
Changes Coming

By San Tan Times

Continued from page 1

Beginning on March 16 crews started work- signal is installed at the Hunt Highway and
ing at the intersection of Johnson Ranch Johnson Ranch Boulevard intersection.
Boulevard and hunt Highway to recon- The Gantzel Road extension is starting to
struct the west side of the intersection. take shape as the base layer of the road,
Johnson Ranch Boulevard will be closed at and the curbs have been poured. This ex-
Hunt Highway and will not have access to tension is slated to be completed by April,
Hunt Highway during the duration of the and seems to currently be ahead of sched-
work, which is expected to take 4 - 5 weeks ule.
to complete. Continued on page 11
Johnson Ranch Boulevard traffic has been
detoured to Desert Willow, Thistle Trail,
Golf Club Drive. Hunt Highway traffic has
been shifted away from the work zone and
will soon have access to the new Gantzel
Road extension once the permanent traffic

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Following the opening of Gantzel Road With this comes a decision to reroute
and scheduled for late May of 2018 Hunt highway away from the Gila In-
Hunt Highway will be closed between dian Community land. There are cur-
Johnson Ranch Boulevard and Red rently three different routes proposed,
Road for crews to reconstruct that seg- and all of them would cross into State
ment of Hunt Highway. Traffic will Trust Land instead of Gila Land.
be detoured to Gantzel Road for three .STT
months while this portion of Hunt
Highway is reconstructed.

It was also announced that Hunt
Highway will be going through a ma-
jor change. The county had wanted to
widen Hunt in the area of the Arizona
Farms intersection. That area of the
road crosses into the Gila River Indian
Community, so the county needed to
work with the Gila River Community.

The community was not willing to of-
fer any longer terms than 50 years.
The county decided that the only way
they would move forward was to have
a perpetual easement, which would al-
low the use of the land indefinitely for
Hunt Highway.

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Local Sports

How Have Our Local High
School Teams Done?

Continued from page 1

Combs Coyotes

Baseball then a 3-1 win at Sabino. They finished
The Baseball team only had two games up the week with a 15-3 dominant win
last week, and came out of it 1-1 with a over Vista Grande.
7-4 win over Dysart, and a 10-0 loss to
Estrella Foothills.

Softball San Tan Foothills Sabercats
The Combs Softball team was also 1-1
last week with a 11-6 loss to Casa Grande, Baseball
and a huge 14-1 win at Dysart. The Sabercats had three big wins last
week! 13-2 and 12-2 over Glendale Prep
Poston Butte Broncos in a double header, followed up with a
20-2 beating of Santa Cruz Valley.
Baseball
The Broncos had two games last week ALA Ironwood Warriors
and unfortunately came away with two
L’s for the week 12-7 against Queen ALA took last week off from sports as
Creek, and 5-4 at Vista Grande. they were on spring break. They will be
Softball back in action starting 3/22/18
The Girls had a 2-1 week last week start- .STT
ing with a 4-3 loss in Queen Creek, and

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Messages From Recently the Students at Circle Cross
Space have recieved this message.

Circle Cross Ranch Students are Greetings @Space_Station from Circle
Getting Messages From Outer Cross Ranch San Tan Valley, AZ/USA
Space 261.6 mi away @NASA_Johnson #issab-
ove
By San Tan Times
Richard Franco, & This message was created by an ISS-
The International Space Station Above.
Continued from page 1
Did you know that at Circle Cross Ranch, The mission of the ISS-Above is to inspire
they are connected with the internation- wonder for human spaceflight. To remind
al space station and get sent messages everyone we have the amazing $150B+
from it? They also get to do some pretty space station above us and how that is
awesome and interactive things with it. crewed by the only human beings who are
Amateur Radio on the ISS, or ARISS, in space.
lets students worldwide experience the
excitement of talking through amateur It also streams live video from the ISS High
radio directly with crew members of the Definition Earth Viewing Experiment
International Space Station. In-flight which gives live views of the earth from
Education Downlinks connect students space.
with astronauts aboard the space sta-
tion for a live question-and-answer ses- And.. as well as all that this little device
sion about living and working in space, lights up whenever The International
and Story Time From Space is a unique Space Station is overhead.
project where astronauts film themselves
reading books on the space station to How cool is that?!
students and then conduct related educa-
tional demonstrations. Cross-curricular If you would like to follow along with the
activities will also be designed to support conversation visit http://issabove.info
the Next Generation Science Standards. .STT

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Lessons Learned

Continued from page 5

Only include areas that want to be in- While it may be semantics to you all, we
cluded, be open with the map. Your se- the people of the area know the differ-
crecy with the map is one of the main ence. We understand our taxes; Sales,
items that sank your attempt. Fees, Property Taxes etc etc... Are all
The people on the steering committee going to go up after the city council is ac-
need to be selected by the people of the tually voted in and can makes city laws
communities selected for incorporation. themselves. We understand that any
If the people really want this effort to increase will have to be voted on by the
succeed then the people need to step up people.
and select members from their areas to BUT DON’T ANYONE OF YOU
be on the steering committee ON THE STEERING COMMITTEE
Your PR needs to ramp up and do the THINK that the voting public is going
job that they were selected to do by the to allow for incorporation and then un-
steering committee. They need to re- dercut the process by not allowing the
spond in a timely manner, they need to cost to be shared through these increases
have a spokesperson whose role it is to in taxes. You seem to forget that us home
respond for the steering committee, and owners out here have a lot of money in-
whoa onto anybody that acts like they vested in our homes and the worst thing
are speaking for the SC when in fact they that could happen to the value of our
are not. You need this role well defined homes is to have the newly voted mu-
and well publicized as to whom this per- nicipality fall into bankruptcy. We know
son is. our taxes will increase, just stop telling
us that they won’t.

Now on to everyone’s favorite topic, The It is hard to propose a budget that will
Budget. Don’t lie to the public and don’t make everyone happy, just do your best.
think that the public is so dumb. This is This is not about our right to vote, it is
the fault of each and every single profes- about “Our Right to Decide!”
sional politician and want to be politi- .STT
cian on the board.

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The Flying Tiger The Hopi, however, saw the owl in a
more favorable light, as a humorless
AKA Great Horned Owl / but wise lawgiver playing the straight
Bubo Virginianus man against the antics of their Kashari
clowns or kachinas.
Continued from page 19 .STT

The Great Horned Owl is mottled brown
and gray above with fine gray barring on
its chest. The tufts of feathers set wide
apart on its head coupled with pierc-
ing yellow eyes presents a frightening
appearance. Add that this owl’s eyelids
close from the top down, like human eyes
and it gets down right spooky.

Many Native American tribes saw the
owl as an omen of doom and its hoot
signaled death. The owl was used in
‘boogeyman’ stories to keep children qui-
et and in bed at night lest the owl carry
them away to the spirit land before their
time.

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