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San Tan Veterans
Valley Takes Nightat
First Step Foothills
Towards
Incorporation Supporting
Veterans,Plus
OurGrowing GreatLocal
Community Football
CouldBecomea
Municipality Athletics, fun and com-
munity support made a
A historic day for San great combination last
Tan Valley residents. night in San Tan Valley
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158,652 jobs in Programmable
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Governor Doug Ducey Customize your run
has proclaimed October cycles based on your
the fifth annual “Arizona busy schedule.
Manufacturers Month” Continued on page 2
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MeetYourIncorporatingCommittee
Local residents doing what they can to provide a better Future for San Tan Valley

Local volunteers from ipality San Tan Valley will and a complete lack of city
around our area are taking continue to lack representa- planning and basic amenities
part to help provide a bet- tion and a voice within Pinal for our area.
ter community for our area. County which results in less Continued on page 12
Without becoming a munic- control over our tax dollars

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Programmable But you don’t want to pay for that tempera-
Thermostats: ture in between when you are not home. At
the same time you do not want to wear out
TheWhen,HowandWhys your HVAC system trying to catch up when
you return. Try this, Wake 10:00 a.m. 80
By, Three Phase Mechanical degrees, leave 1:00 p.m. 82 degrees, return
3:00 p.m. 80 degrees and sleep 5:00 p.m. 78
Avoid bundling up in the morning degrees. This scheduling will keep you con-
and nights and keep your home at servative during peak hours allowing your
the temperature you want only at system to handle the heat load with ease and
certain hours of the day with a from sleep to wake your home should be a
programmable thermostat. comfortable 78 degrees. Saturday and Sun-
Unlike it’s little brother, the non-programma- day every timing schedule should be set to 78
ble thermostat, this gem gives you the free- degrees. This example is for a typical Mon-
dom to customize your run cycles based on day thru Friday 9-5 work week, being home
your busy schedule. Buyer beware though, if on the weekends. You can tweak these times
you are not a programmable type of person and temperatures based upon your work and
and don’t heed to the programming, this de- leisure schedules.
vice is not for you and may leave you frustrat-
ed as it takes on a life of its own. Most programmable thermostats will also of-
Let’s get down to the basics. Most program- fer options such as circulating fan and adap-
mable thermostats offer four set times; wake, tive intelligence. Both options are beneficial
leave, return and sleep, along with scheduling to your home.
blocks for the days of the week.
Wednesday’s San Tan Times will cover
“Wi-Fi Thermostats: Ultimate Control”
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Now for some programming. Even though
your timing schedule may read “wake” does
not mean that you have to set it between 6:00
and 8:00. For example, let’s say you like your
home at a comfortable 78 degrees when you
wake up and then return home from work.

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October 9, 2017

Monday’s Word Search Puzzle



VeteransNight
atFoothills

SupportingVeterans,PlusGreat
LocalFootball

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San Tan Foothills High School beat Arizona
College Prep 54-0 on Military/First Respond-
er Appreciation Night. Mr. Knutsen, FUSD
Superintendent, smoked 3 cases of pork for
all veterans and first responders to eat, free of
charge.
The game was highlighted by 3 touchdown
passes by #3 Zachary Herrera, who scored
a 4th touchdown on a Quarterback sneak in
the 3rd quarter.
Amahri Bailey (#7) rushed for over 100 yards
and 2 touchdowns of his own and Sebastian
Penaflor (#15) received 2 of the three touch-
down passes from Zachary Herrera.
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October 9-11, 2017

San Tan Valley Weekend Weather

Monday Tuesday Wednesday

High 87° High 90° High 93°
Low 60° Low 64° Low 62°

Cooler and in the 80s! Warmer, but not by much. Sunny. High 93F. ESE
Humidity peaking at Humidity in the upper teens winds shifting to SW at 10
about 32% in the morning. for most of the day. to 15 mph.

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San Tan Valley Takes the Pinal County Elections Department.
its First Step Towards Steering Committee member Rey Torres
Incorporation stated, “Our ability to file is built on the
consensus and efforts of multiple groups.
A historic day for San Tan Valley residents Now San Tan Valley residents will have the
as the incorporation steering committee takes opportunity and right to choose whether
their first step towards bringing the incorpo- to be recognized as one community or be
ration effort onto the ballot. This marks an absorbed into various others, which would
important period in San Tan Valley’s history mean the loss of our identity and autonomy.”
as this will have a direct effect on our commu- The petition language was accepted by the
nity’s future. From City planning, to econom- Pinal County Elections Department, which
ic development, to basic municipal amenities, signals the start of an effort to collect signa-
now is the time to take part in your commu- tures from 10% of registered voters within the
nity to develop a better future for yourself and proposed community.
your family.

Official Press Release from the In order to complete a map of proposed
San Tan Valley Right to Vote municipal boundaries, steering committee
Steering Committee members negotiated with Pinal County and
the Arizona State Land Department. Bob
SAN TAN VALLEY, Ariz. –Today the Phillips and his wife Julie, a steering commit-
Vote San Tan Valley Steering Committee tee member, volunteered the services of their
announced they have taken the first step to- company Survey Solutions to help draw the
wards putting the question of San Tan Valley map.
incorporation on the ballot. Late this (Friday) “It’s been challenging,” said Mrs. Phillips.
afternoon, the required documents of a “Despite the lines neighboring cities have
boundary map and petition were filed with drawn on their own maps, San Tan Valley
has always been defined as unincorporated
northern Pinal County. So that is the criteria
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October 9, 2017

Monday’s Sudoku Puzzle

San Tan Valley Takes its First Step
Towards Incorporation

Continued from page 6
we followed. We worked with the people
who live here to define boundaries.”
The Vote San Tan Valley Steering Com-
mittee stated they are grateful for the help of
various Pinal County agencies as well as Ari-
zona attorneys Bill Sims of the Sims-Murray
law group and Kay Bigelow of Bigelow Law
Offices, whose guidance contributed to de-
fining boundary lines and creating a petition.

According to state law, proposed munici-
pal maps cannot create county islands, but
changes can be made after the process be-
gins. The proposed San Tan Valley munic-
ipal boundaries are Germann on the north,
Meridian on the west, Phillips and various

In addition to Torres and Phillips, other
members of the Steering Committee are
Daren Schnepf, Jean Stockton, Bryan K.
McCoy, and Vickigene Howard. More
information can be found on the Vote San
Tan Valley website at votesantanvalley.com
Learn more about the Incorporation Effort:
http://votesantanvalley.com

Interested in helping? Volunteer and help
out: http://votesantanvalley.com/#takepart.
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smaller streets on the south, and CAP canal
and Attaway on the east.

Torres added, “The decisions we’re making
are not unlike those made by our founding
fathers, based on ideals of self determination
and local representation. That is absolutely
what is at stake in this effort. Whether it’s
better to have representatives closer to our
community or rely on distant representation.”

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Meet Your Jeanne Stockton
Incorporating
Committee A San Tan
Valley resident
Local residents doing what they since 2010 and
can to provide a better Future for retired in 2016
San Tan Valley from a career
in information
Continued from page 1 technology.
Her career at
Learn about the local residents that are volun- Peoples Nat-
teering to help our community develop ural Gas and
IBM included
Rey Torres implementation
of new technol-
An Arizona ogies, managing technical professionals world-
native residing in wide, and managing the services delivered
San Tan Valley to numerous fortune 500 companies across
since 2008. the globe. Jeanne has always taken an interest
He graduated in her community, serving on the Board for
from Gilbert her son’s high school Booster Club. She was
High School on the fundraising committee for Nebraska
later earning an Public Television, a high school cheerleading
A.A. in History sponsor for two years, volunteered for nu-
from MCC as merous fundraising events, and was Ambas-
well as a B.A. in sador for Shape Up Omaha YMCA. Jeanne
Political Science is volunteering to help incorporate San Tan
from ASU. Rey Valley because, “It’s time for the best interests
is a longtime parishioner of St. Mary’s Basilica of our community to be considered and act-
(Phoenix) where he performs as a bass vocal- ed on instead of sitting back and watching sur-
ist in the Basilica choir. He is also a classical rounding communities grow at our expense.
string bassist in the Chandler Symphony There is no ‘value add’ when our tax dollars
Orchestra. Rey has served as a Field Staffer to are not channeled back into our community
U.S. Congressman J.D. Hayworth, going on or even our county. Future growth is clear,
to serve as Director of Communications for and we need to capitalize on that momentum
the Majority Caucus of the Arizona House now to set our own course instead of having it
of Representatives. He has been a board dictated to us.”
member of the East Valley Hispanic Cham-
ber of Commerce as well as for the Chandler Bryan K. McCoy Born in Arizo-
Symphony. Rey currently serves on the Pinal na. As an Air
County Citizens Advisory Committee and as Force brat, he
Chairman of the San Tan Valley Advisory lived in many
Committee. He has also worked for various places grow-
fortune 500 companies and currently works ing up. After
as a human resources contractor. Regarding graduating from
the incorporation effort, Rey stated, “There’s high school in
no more basic element of a strong communi- Illinois his dad
ty than that of self-determination. To that end, got orders and
I’m committed to work towards the incorpo- they moved
ration of a municipality of San Tan Valley.” to California.
Bryan ended

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Meet Your worked for a Scottsdale accounting firm and
Incorporating Committee later worked for a large car dealership here
in the Valley, handling all their payables and
Continued from page 12 receivables. She has been active in the com-
up finishing his Bachelor’s degree in Produc- munity with the Boys Scouts of America, 5 of
tion & Operations Management from San her 13 years were as District Commissioner
Diego State University. He spent the next 10 over a large area of San Tan Valley. She
years working for Belkin Corporation out was also President of her church children’s
of Compton, California where he finished organization, which served approximately
as a Systems Analyst. In 2005, he and his 1,100 children. Volunteering to help with the
wife, Jenna, decided to move to Arizona to incorporation effort came naturally because
raise a family. In March 2006 Bryan got his as a parent, she wants to make this a great
Real Estate license while Jenna went back to community that her "children wish to
school for Interior Architecture and Design live in when they become adults. I want to
while together raising their three children right give San Tan Valley its own purpose and
here in San Tan Valley. identity.”

While Bryan started in residential real estate, Daren Schnepf
he does more commercial these days. He
joined the Board of Directors for the San Another native
Tan Valley Chamber of Commerce in early of Arizona and
2014 and became the Chairman in May of a resident of
2016. In addition to running his own real San Tan Valley.
estate business and giving back to the com- He and his
munity through the Chamber, Bryan enjoys wife Tiffani are
watching his son play soccer and spending the parents of
time with his wife and daughters. He also five children.
chairs a committee that runs a reading contest Daren’s family
at an inner city school in Chandler, sits on has strong roots
the San Tan Valley Advisory Committee and in the com-
has volunteered for a teen program with the munity both in
YMCA since 1992. He wanted to take on the farming and in
challenge of joining the incorporation effort business. The Schnepf family started farming
because, “It’s important for the community to in Pinal and Maricopa Counties in 1941,
take this step, to decide our own destiny, and and raised generations of their family in the
I wanted to help.” area. Understanding the interest in the valued
farm land and the desire of people wanting to
Vickigene Howard An Arizona move out to the Valley, Daren’s father Don
native, moved recognized the need for water service and
to San Tan co-founded the water utility company H2O,
Valley with Inc., in 1972. Daren helped manage H2O,
her husband Inc. for 11 years, serving residents in the San
and 3 children Tan Valley and Queen Creek areas. Daren
in 2008. Her received a Bachelor of Science in Computer
background Information Systems at DeVry University
includes book- and a Master’s in Business Administration,
keeping, taxes, with Distinction, at Keller Graduate School of
and accounting. Management, DeVry University.
Previously she

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Arizona global marketplace.
ManufacturersMonth “This month of events is dedicated to high-
lighting the success of Arizona’s manufac-
Manufacturing accounts for turers,” said Sandra Watson, President &
158,652 jobs in Arizona CEO of the Arizona Commerce Authori-
ty. “Arizona’s top talent and commitment
Continued from page1 to embracing innovation have allowed our
Governor Doug Ducey has proclaimed manufacturers to thrive in a wide range of
October the fifth annual “Arizona Man- fields, including aerospace and defense,
ufacturers Month” to celebrate the more semiconductors, bioscience, and medical
than 4,600 Arizona manufacturers whose equipment and supplies.”
success has made Arizona into a leading There are many opportunities throughout
hub in the U.S. the month to celebrate our state’s manu-
In 2016, manufacturing accounted for facturers, including workshops designed to
158,652 jobs in Arizona and an output of help manufacturers scale their businesses
$24.4 billion. Manufacturing in Arizona and open houses of manufacturing facil-
creates high-quality, high-wage jobs, with ities, as well as other public events. Here
an average annual salary of $72,419. The are a few highlights:
vast majority of the 4,600 manufacturing
establishments in Arizona are small-to me- The fifth annual Southern
dium-sized businesses. These companies Arizona Tech + Business Expo
are advancing new technologies and prod-
ucts that are improving lives and enhancing Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Arizona’s economic prosperity. Tucson Convention Center.
“Arizona has a great diversity of manu-
facturing talent,” said Governor Ducey. Nerdtoberfest
“These businesses contribute significantly
to our economy, and also play a vital role 7755 S Research Dr, Tempe, AZ 85284
in supporting the supply chain for large Thursday, October 26th 2017
manufacturers. Arizona Manufacturers 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM MST
Month is an opportunity to celebrate the CopperState Fly In
impact these businesses have in our state Falcon Field Airport
and the men and women working to make 4626 E. Fighter Aces Drive
them successful.” Mesa, Arizona 85215
October 27 8:00 AM through
October 28 4:00 PM

Arizona is home to RevAZ, a program of For more information and a complete list
the Arizona Commerce Authority that is of events about Arizona Manufacturers
specifically designed to support the growth Month, visit:
and success of manufacturers in the state. www.manufacturingrevolution.com.
Arizona also is part of the Manufacturing .STT
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that helps manufacturers compete in the

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Meet Your Valley since 2010. She and husband Robert
Incorporating Committee own a land surveying company. There are
four generations of her family now in the
Continued from page 13 Valley. She feels that, “It’s important for San
Tan Valley citizens to take control of their
Daren currently serves on the Pinal Coun- future and plan a community that will serve
ty Citizens Advisory Committee and the future generations.” Her vision includes a
San Tan Valley Advisory Committee. He safe community with parks, libraries, cultural
believes that incorporation will provide San activities and great citizen involvement. As
Tan Valley with a better sense of community, a volunteer, Julie has been a Site Council
ability to serve the local population more member for four different schools, High
responsively and effectively, have a voice over School Grad Night committee member
the growth and future of the area, and be and chair (4 years), Phoenix Boys Choir
more sensitive to the needs and ideas of the fundraising committee member (3 years),
community. “Progress and growth is happen- Phoenix Girls Chorus fundraising committee
ing now in this area, which emphasizes the member ( 5 years), Phoenix Girls Chorus
need for a unified and cohesive process that member, Board of Directors (2 years), var-
promotes the values and lifestyles that make ious church leadership in positions helping
children and youth. She and her husband
San Tan Valley have served two missions for their church in
highly desirable.” the Philippines and Hawaii.

Julie Phillips .STT

Julie Phillips is
a wife, mother,
grandmother
and small busi-
ness owner, has
lived in San Tan

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Wildlife Of San Tan Valley

Rod Small’s visual journey

By, Rod Small
A few shots of an osprey I got the other day

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