Bar ad spat sparks racial drop from Phoenix shoot
The director of a KKFR TV spot filmed at Dan Majerie’s Sports Grill excluded three Black and two Hispanic extras, saying dress and capacity mattered. The cast, mostly White, faced mixed responses from producers, bar staff, and the NAACP.
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Library marks volunteer's 90th birthday in surprise party
C R and Dora Fredericks joined Mesa Public Library volunteers for a morning birthday surprise honoring Charles Robert Fredericks who turns 90 Friday. The couple began volunteering seven years ago, attaching security beepers bar codes and spine labels to new books each Wednesday, as library staff praise their dedication and long service amid a 218-volunteer program with about 20 000 hours annually.
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Symington Signs Eight Bills Into State Law
Gov. Fife Symington signed eight bills into law in the first session vote, mainly noncontroversial measures. The statutes set education property tax at 47 cents per $100 of assessed value, cut mobile home certificate fee to seven dollars, refine private employment agent scope, extend a commuter rail study through 1996, allow private firms to run prisons with revised contract review, extend Desert Storm Memorial board to 1995, keep the registrar of contractors office through July 1, 2004, and allocate 250000 dollars for Tucson area trichloroethylene cleanup.
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