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11 Monday, April 3, 1 995 The Arizona RcpublicTHE PHOENIX GAZETTE 3 Super Bowl program slated Key Red Mountain segment amoved up, by eight years By Anthony Sommer Staff writer The Maricopa Association of 'Governments has approved accelerating a critical portion of the Red Mountain Freeway but de-t laved a vote on a controversial committee's minoritywomen business enterprise, will speak. Information will be given on how to become a vendor with the Super Bowl host committee and the NFL, how to become an NFL licensee, and how to subcontract with NFL contractors. Reservations are $20 and may be made by credit card by calling 967-7891 or by faxing credit-card information to 966-5365. TEMPE The Tempe Chamber of Commerce will host "How Do You Do Business with Super Bowl XXX?" on Wednesday at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel, 60 E. Fifth St.

Registration begins at 7 a.m., followed by a continental breakfast, the program and a ques-tion-and-answer period. Martin Samaniego, chairman of the Super Bowl XXX host A A A A A A ojnterchange in Tempe. of Engineers study on the effect of the freeway on the Salt River. "I'd rather have it pushed back from the 1998 timetable than the 2006 timetable," Mesa Vice Mayor Jerry Boyd said. The Regional Council which is made up of the Valley's mayors delayed action on a proposal to replace two tunnels on the Price-Superstition freeway interchange in Tempe with two loop ramps.

The proposal would cut $11.5 million from the cost of the interchange. But the interchange is in a residential area and members of the community are up in arms about the possible increase in noise if the tunnels are removed. The Tempe City Council is expected to endorse keeping the tunnels. Tempe Mayor Neil Giuliano asked for a delay until the Regional Council's April 26 meeting so that a noise study can be completed. 11212 Wisconsin 13576 Camlno del Sol 20 W.Broadway Youngtown, Arizona Sun City West Mesa 977-7131 584-8461 835-6033 COMPARE 1995 NEWSTREET LEGAL ine mau regional uouncii -agreed to include a quarter-mile of the Red Mountain from Road to Country Club Drive in the portion to be opened in 1998.

The segment originally was scheduled to be part of the next stretch of the freeway that would reach Gilbert Road by 2006. The request came from Mesa officials who said the recently widened roadway on Country Club would be far more capable of the traffic at the end of 'the freeway than McKellips. However, even though MAG approved the change, construction fmay be delayed by an Army Corps HEARING IS A PRICELESS GIFT Don't Take Yours For Granted 3RD ANNIVERSARY ANNIVERSARY SALE APRIL 3RD TO APRIL 8TH 20 OFF EVERYTHING IN STORE! II -w n. 1 Lj (J'V DAUGHTER From Page 1 Tympanette Micro Canal Hearing Investment Now Available Do you have questions about your hearing, but don't know to whom you can turn for good advice? At Sound Investment Hearing Center, we have the answers to your questions. It can be a source of great comfort to know help is available.

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"When he comes back, he'll go to prison, that's for sure, and what's going to happen to Heather?" she said. "I think my granddaughter's better off with him (her father) until she comes of age." secretarial work and writes magazine articles and fiction. She has built a healthy relationship with her older daughter from a first marriage, Tammy Hughes, who is now 22 and lives in Mesa. 'She'd be perfect' "There was a time when I would say there was absolutely no way Heather should go live with my mother," said Hughes, who was raised primarily by her paternal grandparents. "But, honestly, now I think she'd be perfect.

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