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Northeast Phoenix Deer Valley Moon Valley North Mountain Village Northeast Phoenix Paradise Valley Scottsdale Gazette THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC Friday, December 31, 1993 OMMUN oemx JVC till Ul VllJLllt 1U1 11U1 UvlfV drugs. Both issues will be decided next year in court. Here's a rundown of the Community staffs picks for the top 10 stories of the year. jn Frances Emma Barwood was re-elected to her District 2 il seat on the Phoenix City Council, collecting 5,598 of the 9,767 votes cast by north Phoenix voters in October. She needed a majority to prevent a runoff election, and she got transportation and pushing for an interim Outer Loop roadway from Interstate 17 to 56th Street.

The CrackerJax Family Fun Center Sports Park, despite persistent opposi tion from two northeast Phoenix homeowners groups, was built on 27 acres at the northeast corner of Scottsdale Road and Tierra Buena Lane in north Scottsdale. It is scheduled to open in mid-January. See TOP 10, Page 4 1 1 that the facility will disrupt their lives. Two high school students also got into the act: One is challenging the legalities of a city curfew, and the other is challenging a school district's policy of randomly testing athletes for REVIEW rw.f- SSPl', -vv A year to remember Peter Schwepker Staff photographer for Cactus Road near 40th Street in October. She had been on stuck at the location for two hours.

it with about 57 percent of the votes. Paul Hendricks, an environmental consultant and former waste-management director for the city, was second with 2,015 votes. Next were Tina Geiser, Art Moyer, 627; and Michael Bradford, 467. 1 Barwood stressed that she had kept promises she made in her 1991 campaign, including building a teen center, increasing bus Scottsdale tries to make a call which is trapped In floodwaters A i i 1 1 iWi Chuck Hawley Special to Community Above, a water Peak Parkway third-grade palsy and needs jewelry they Controversies highlight '93 This was a year of conflict in north Phoenix, including dismissals in two school districts and an effort to recall a City Council member that fizzled in January. In addition, a family fun park was built in north Scottsdale, much to the chagrin of some Phoenix residents who are worried TOP 10 STORIES 1.

BARWOOD WINS Frances Emma- Barwood is re-elected to her second term on the Phoenix City Council with about 57 percent of the votes in District 2. 2. FUN PARK BUILT -The CrackerJax Family Fun Center Sports Park is built in north Scottsdale, despite protests from Phoenix homeowners. 3. SCHOOLS SEEK $135 MILLION The Paradise Valley, Unified School District calls for a $135 million bond election to be held in March.

4. TEEN SUES CITY An honor student at Horizon High School takes Phoenix to court over its teen curfew program. 5. VOTERS SAY 'YES' -Phoenix voters approve Proposition 301, which means an increase in the number of police and firefighters. 6.

RECALL FALTERS A Phoenix businessman fails to collect enough voter signatures to force a recall election involving Councilwoman Frances Emma Barwood. 7. LAB DIRECTOR DISMISSED Gail Battistella, volunteer science laboratory director at Echo Mountain Elementary, is ousted by the Paradise Valley Unified District board. 8. HILL VOTED OUT Voters in the Washington Elementary School District dismiss board member Robert Hill.

9. PARK APPROVED The city's Parks and Recreation Board unanimously supports Buffalo Ridge Park as planned, ending opposition by some who wanted part of it preserved as an outdoor nature laboratory. 10. HEADED FOR COURT A cross-country runner at Horizon High School challenges the Paradise Valley School District's drug testing of high school athletes. Quotes that bear repeating By the Community Staff The hundreds of stories that Scottsdale Community reporters have written over the past year have produced some quotes that bear repeating.

Some are profound and some are witty, and they all leave us with a thoughtful reminder of 1993. Here are some examples: "It hasn't rained on graduation in 30 years. It's forbidden." Carol Kendrick, an assistant principal at Paradise Valley High School, a few days before graduation last spring. "I'm not opposed to development. But I believe any development should be like sex safe and by mutual consent." Tom Roxborough, a northeast Phoenix resident who unsuccessfully opposed a new Montgomery Ward store at Tatum Boulevard and Cactus Road.

"The good kids are really being punished more than the bad kids." Phoenix attorney Gary Peter Klahr, talking about the city's teen curfew program, which isbeing challenged in court. "An honor student can get shot as easily as a kid in a gang. I'd much rather face parents in a courtroom than in a funeral parlor." Mayor Paul Johnson, See QUOTES, Page 4 Allison Underhill of help from her car, 7: i 0 'At A truck operates under the 32nd Street bridge under the Squaw extension. At left, Luis Silva, Is surrounded by his classmates at Palomino Elementary School. Silva has cerebral a computer to communicate better.

His classmates sold made to help pay for the computer. 0 lifl hm. 7 1 mm Tom Tingle Staff photographer David Mclntvre Staff photographer Off the wall Pigeons, pigs make list of wacky news that occurred in '93 By Alfredo Azula Staff writer Whoever said there's nothing new under the sun couldn't have read the newspaper in 1993. The Valley provided readers with several stories that defied the routine. The following were voted by the Community staff as the most off-the-wall stories of the year.

Recently, a suggestion to rid the Madison Street Jail of pigeons by putting out poisoned perches drew poor marks from Maricopa County supervisors who don't want to kill the downtown-dwelling birds. But Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Assistant County Manager Jack Shomento say the birds must go. "They're a health hazard and a mess," Shomento said. He said the pigeons carry parasites and dis- i ft eases. The controversy is expected to rage into 1994.

Phoenix Mayor Paul Johnson helped send one suspected criminal to the pigeon-infested jail when he aided police searching for a robber who held up several fast-food restaurants. The mayor was buvir kvd tea at the drive-through of a McDonald's on Central Avenue while someone was alUvsc robbing a cashier inside Johnson and his rvcoe chauffeur spotted the robber en a bicycle. They followed the cr.til he eluded them in a bank parkin lot Police later the sus- $0 WACKY. 4 Showers' flower power After two winter seasons of record rain, wlldflowers were In their full glory last spring. These were at the Desert Botanical Garden, although the foothills around the northeast Valley sported their own blankets of color..