Head Start thanks float volunteers for festival wins
Head Start expresses gratitude to volunteers who built and walked a parade float for the Mesa Da and ch Festival. The Chandler Ostrich Festival float won first place for best overall float and second for best civic and business entry. Enrollment for 1994 95 is open with East Valley centers listed and contact 464 9669.
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Mesa Arts Center Wins 1994 Governor’s Arts Award
The Mesa Arts Center earned the Governor’s Arts Award in the Community category from 25 nominees. Administrator Gerry Hutcher and advisory board member Don Strauch accepted the honor before about 1,100 Valley arts supporters at the 13th Governor’s Arts Awards Dinner hosted by the Radisson Resort in Scottsdale. Gov. Fife Symington lauded the center’s arts commitment. Hutcher thanked staff and the center’s 300 volunteers.
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Mesa Museum and Cultural Advisory Board
Don Strauch
Valley Arts
Radisson Resort
Scottsdale
Fife Symington
Hutcher
Night Away fundraiser aids Child Crisis Center expansion
The Mahwah Club backs a fundraising event at Mesa Country Club to support the Child Crisis Center in expanding from 26 to 38 beds and to aid the Save the Family Foundation of Arizona. The Nostalgic Night Away will benefit housing, case and support services for homeless families with children in the East Valley. Reservations can be made by call.
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Child Crisis Center
Save the F Foundation
Mesa Country
Hospital expands labor delivery units to postpartum setup
Mesa Lutheran completes a 1.4 million conversion of its labor delivery recovery wards into integrated units to stay with mothers from admission to discharge. The redesign increases capacity from four to 16 labor rooms plus four Caesarean post-op rooms, boosting annual deliveries from 1,800 in 1992 to 2,000 in 1993.
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Elizabeth Reich
Center For Women’s Health
Reich
Mesa Lutheran
Tempe closes McClintock in Papago Freeway work
The Papago Freeway project advances as McClintock Avenue was closed over the weekend between First Street and Curry Road for ongoing construction efforts.
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McClintock
First Street
Curry Road
AIDS education in schools faces quality concerns and restrictions
Arizona AIDS Project director Jim Green criticizes slow district adoption and limited teacher discussion of HIV AIDS curricula. Lawmakers mandated HIV AIDS instruction from kindergarten through 12th grade in 1991, but districts design pace and content. Green calls curricula bland and failing to engage teens amid ongoing revisions.
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Jim Green
Arizona
East Valley
Green
Payne Ships Views as Nonthreatening for Mesa Council
Mesa candidates race tight with seven vying for three seats in the March 29 primary. Joan Payne, president of the Arizona Eagle Forum and mother of five, emphasizes she will not be swayed by partisan politics and aims to be a role model for conservative women. Her main rival is Joan Newth, former Mesa Woman of the Year, drawing strong support from Republican district leaders.
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Joan Payne
Arizona Eagle Forum
Phyllis Schlafly
Payne
Joan Newth
Cardinals Name Sparks Debate and Awards Season Buzz
The piece questions the Cardinals name while noting Oscar contenders from The Piano including Jane Campion for Best Director and Holly Hunter for Best Actress. It critiques American West Airlines board pay as excessive, contrasting with Southwest, and references political banter and a cluttered artistic scene.
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Jane Campion
Holly Hunter
Nyaa Vanaieal
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