VOL. 20  ISSUE NO. 49   |    DECEMBER 3 – 9, 2014

ballot boxBY LINDA BENTLEY  |  DECEMBER 3, 2014

Candidate packets available for March 10 recall election

CAVE CREEK – Now that the four councilmen subject to recall: Adam Trenk (vice mayor), Mike Durkin, Reg Monachino and Charles Spitzer, are heading to a March 10, 2015 election, citizens interested in running against any one of the four recalled councilmen may pick up a candidate packet at town hall.

BY LINDA BENTLEY  | DECEMBER 3, 2014

Outsiders push to impose new rules for Cave Creek’s trails

Council gets tongue lashing during Call to the Public

CAVE CREEK – Monday night’s council meeting began with Diane Vasily of the Desert Awareness Park Committee taking to the podium for Call to the Public.

BY LINDA BENTLEY  | DECEMBER 3, 2014

ADF educates school districts on constitutionality of Christmas

School districts tread on dangerous legal ground if they stifle religious expression of students with regard to Christmas

SCOTTSDALE – Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), an alliance-building, Scottsdale-based, nonprofit legal organization that advocates for the right of people to live out their faith, sent a legal memo and myth/fact sheet to over 13,000 public school districts nationwide to explain the constitutionality of recognizing Christmas, participating in Christmas-related events and allowing various forms of Christmas expression.

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Scottsdale woman in need of life-saving transplant

SCOTTSDALE – With the cost of a transplant often exceeding $500,000, many transplant families are unable to shoulder the financial burden of such a procedure.

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