Missing bicycles and lost dog spark Mesa appeals
Fran Rolph appeals for help finding three purple Roadmaster bicycles with pink handlebars stolen from near her Rio Vista home on April 15 and her Austrian shepherd Muffin missing since Valentine’s Day. Call 964-1278 to report sightings. contact Elizabeth Jordan at the Mesa Family YMCA, 969-8166, to get involved. A Mesa Care Center immunization clinic runs today through Friday at Fitch Park, 610 N Center St, for ages 2 to 5 and 13 to 18 with hours 9 am to 5 pm. Call 962-9181 for details.
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Ralph
Muffin
Elizabeth Jordan
Mesa Family
Mesa Care Center
East Valley
Fitch Park
N. Center St
Mesa
Board rejects industrial rezoning near Baseline and Ellsworth
The city board rejects a proposed industrial rezoning between Superstition and Baseline Road about a quarter mile east of Ellsworth Road. The land has sat zoned for homes for 20 years and the annexation occurred in 1987 with a 1988 amendment. Board members urged timely planner input and cautioned that residential development must be sensitively designed to provide buffers and amenities to offset freeway exposure.
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Baseline Road
Ellsworth Road
Larry Board Test
Reson
Joe S
Shipley
Peggy Lynch
Donald Fuller
Gilbert Days Fire Muster and Barrel Squirt Challenge
Gilbert’s fi will host a Saturday muster from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Albertsons lot on 750 N Gilbert Rd. Admission is free as teams from across the state compete in a barrel squirt contest begun at 1:30 p.m. The Gilbert Fire Department boasts a top state team and references decades of muster tradition and make-and-break hose tasks.
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Gilbert
Eoerce Ae SS
Albertsons
Gilbert Road
Gilbert Days
Dave Rodriguez
Master Times
Special ed Students learn real life skills program shows value
Mesa Unified School District special education students gain real world insight through the Transition of Productive Students program. Mayor Willie Wong explains city government functions while students ask about transportation and recycling. Teachers Iris Backer and Iris Drower launched TOPS to help mentally and developmentally disabled students transition to community life beyond graduation.
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Mesa Unified School District
Willie Wong
Mesa High School
Mesa
Wong
Iris Backer
Iris Drower
Backer
Andy
Fromestwood High School
State
General Motors
Andrea Christ
Westwood
Death prompts Nixon foes to reconsider views
The article recalls Nixon’s presidency as seen through The Final Days and a Washington Post critique. It argues his downfall lay in a petty, profane, overly personal nature exposed by tapes, not only coverups. It frames Nixon as too human to govern.
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Vietnam
Young Willie
Michael Fay
Hillary
Woodward
Oval Office
John Dean
United States
Washington Post Star
Kissinger
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Tribune Reed
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