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un Cities July 25. 2001 TllKAlUZOXAlUTl'BIJC Siivjh fen. butedu duet. (602) 444 6915 luun (til a com suncities.azcentral.com El Miraw Yickenln.rtf-Youiitftow mm urraise 1 sltudv Manistee rataire In your neighborhood Scruggs: Strong demands may create new Los Arcos FULLY ACCREDITED Midwestern University's College of Pharmacy-Glen-dale recently was granted full accreditation from the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education. The College of Phar-macy-Glendale was founded in 1998 to address the need for pharmacists in Arizona and the Southwest.

The college is one of only a handful in the nation to offer a three-year doctor of pharmacy degree. The school graduated its inaugural class of 93 students May 27 in a ceremony at the Glendale Civic Center. UNDER REPAIR in the development community is becoming aware of the Manistee project and the desire we have to see something happen. We'll just have to stay tuned as far as where it goes." Jim Colson, Glondale's economic development director, said a Manistee feasibility study is under way. "Their (Ellman Cos.) preference is to develop a unique retail site," Colson said.

"If they can accomplish that, they will. Until they get a better feci for the actual facts and the potential tenants, it's premature to talk about what will or won't be on that site." Colson also reaffirmed that the Manistee development is firmly connected to the arena deal with Ellman. Glendale owns the Manistee site. It paid $11 million for the property in anticipation of the redevelopment. Colson said the Manistee buildings will be demolished this fall.

owner of the Coyotes, shocked Scottsdale in April with an announcement that he would build the arena in west Glendale. I le also is to develop more than 200 acres at the Iop 101 and Glendale Avenue site. In addition, he agreed to revitalize Manistee Town Center, a defunct mall at 59th and Northern avenues. Meanwhile, Los Arcos is in rubble. Ellman has said he will redevelop the Scottsdale site, but no plans have been announced.

Ellman said he is reviewing possibilities for the Manistee site. He said the property will not house the Coyotes new practice facility, which instead will be built near the new arena. "All options for the highest and best use are being explored." Ellman attorney Grant Woods said. "Everybody By Dennis Godfrey The Arizona Republic Manistee Town Center could be another IjOs Arcos Mall if Glendale citizens ore too demanding about what goes there, Mayor Elaine Scruggs warned last week. Final decisions on the mall's redevelopment rest with the Kllman Scruggs and city staff members affirmed at a workshop meeting.

"Our citizens come forward with ideas (and) very strong demands about what they want to see there. I don't know what to answer them because I think those decisions are going to be made somewhere in east Phoenix (at the Ellman headquarters)," Scruggs said. Her comments came after Councilman David Goulet said he wanted a sports-oriented operation or a convention cen- Glendale Mayor Elaine Scruggs warns that too many demands could keep the parking lot empty at Manistee Town Center. ter at Manistee. The goal, he said, is to bring people to the site.

Scruggs warned that specific requirements could tie Ell-man's hands to the point that the redevelopment would not be profitable. Fast track to classroom f- itj, rw it i 1 University of Arizona graduate student Kathy Powell takes readings with a transponder at Russian Molokan Cemetery. High-tech search fails to uncover cemetery's secrets Rio Salado offers 1st certification of teachers online By Elizabeth Mouse The Arizona Republic Cyber certification will soon become a reality for those wanting to teach. Colleges are racing to catch up with the ever-expanding teacher shortage by offering faster fast-track programs designed to get working adults into the classroom. One program starting this fall offers certification courses on the Internet.

Beginning Aug. 27, Rio Salado Community College will launch the first known online teacher certification program in the nation. Nearly 100 people have signed up for the Internet courses, according to Janet Johnson, Rio Salado faculty chairwoman. Many of the fast-track programs deviate from tried-and-true traditional certification. For example, a student acquiring elementary and secondary certification through the College of Education at Arizona State University will spend at least three semesters taking education courses and a fourth semester student teaching.

This method takes two years or more to complete. With fast-track programs, students can get certified in less than a year. Johnson said Rio Salado's program gives working adults flexibility and convenience but maintains the Ci'f J. I A am Kai. V- M.

i MichjH GtfigThe Anroni Republic "Then we are talking about IjOS Arcos Mall," she said. Los Arcos in Scottsdale, which is owned by Ellman, was once to be the site of a Phoenix Coyotes hockey arena and surrounding development. Steve Ellman, the principal Chris ViolaThe Arizona Republic that's just not the case," she said. For instance, if students take an online course for teaching special-needs children, they must observe a special-needs student in the classroom, tutor the student one-on-one and eventually give a supervised lesson to See ONLINE Page 6 on blueprint potential shopping centers, office buildings and a hockey arena. The hockey arena is to be built for the Phoenix Coyotes at Loop 101 and Glendale Avenue.

The city sees it and the planned development around it as the chance to make Glendale a place of attraction for people from throughout the Valley. With its work on the western area plan, the Planning Commission is mapping what kind of development can take place. Jim Mahoney, who works for the commercial developer Trammell Crow, said Glendale The Recreation Centers at Sun City West are undergoing renovations, cleijning and repair in the coming weeks that will result in some temporary closures. Among them are: The Beardsley Park card rooms 1-4 will be closed for carpet cleaning starting Tuesday. The rooms are expected to reopen Aug.

4. The Palm Ridge outdoor pool will be closed Aug. 6-7. The Village Store in the R.H. Johnson Arts Crafts Village will close Aug.

1 for major renovation and reopen Sept. 4. A reopening gala will be held Sept. 28-29. The sports Johnson Lanes will close for cleaning and maintenance Aug.

13 and will reopen Aug. 25. JUNIOR LINKS The city of Peoria and Country Meadows Golf Club are joining forces to host the annual Peoria Junior Golf Championship Tournament on Aug. 10. Boys and girls ages 7-17 are eligible.

The tournament will be held at Country Meadows Golf Club, 841 IN. 107th Ave. The entry fee is $15 for children age 10 and younger, who will play nine holes. The fee is $20 for children age 11 and up, who will play 18 holes. Lunch will be provided, and awards will be presented to the top finishers in each age group.

Parent volunteer scorekeepers are needed in the 10 and younger division. Entry forms must be in by Aug. 8. Information and registration: (623) 773-7129. The Country Meadows Golf Course number is (623) 972-1364.

RANCH HONORED The Arizona Humanities Council selected the Sa-huaro Ranch Foundation to receive the 11th Distinguished Organization Award. The award is given to an institution that has worked with the council to bring the humanities to the public. Work with council funding and involvement in the cultural-heritage economic-development initiative "History on the Mall" contributed to the Sahuaro Ranch Foundation winning the award. The award presentation will be in October at the Heard Museum in Phoenix. Have an unsung hero, interesting meeting or other bit of news? Let us know and we'll put it In Your Neighborhood.

Call Adam Kress at (602) 444-6929. fax us at (623) 412-9577 or e-mail us at adam.kressarizonarepublic.cpm or drop a note to In Your Neighborhood, 17235 N. 75th Suite A-100, Glendale, AZ 85308. Anna Gutierrez enjoys a comment made about teaching kids during the orientation at Rio Salado College in Tempe. By Connie Cone Sexton The Arizona Republic They had hoped to unlock some of the mysteries of what lies beneath the dirt in the narrow lot of the Russian Molokan Cemetery.

Two University of Arizona graduate students spent Friday morning sweeping the dirt with their ground-penetrating radar equipment, trying to survey the land. The equipment operates above ground and produces cross-sectional images on a screen showing objects below that are not soil. The mining and geo-engi-neering students had been hired by the Glendale Arizona Molokan Church to find graves at the 2-acre cemetery, which is across from Independence High School on 75th Avenue just south of Glendale Avenue. Michael GingThe Arizona Republic Dozens of people are buried in the cemetery, but church records are incomplete. The cemetery dates to 1911.

Fires over the years have destroyed some of the wooden grave markers, according to church member Andrew Conovaloff. Unfortunately, the students' radar equipment couldn't penetrate the high clay content soil, and Conovaloff isn't sure what the church members will do next in their efforts to have a historic record of the cemetery. One of the goals of the survey was to find where the graves were of children who had died during the 1918 flu epidemic. Conovaloff said the church also would like to discover where a row of tamarisk trees had been planted. had too much information to absorb and needed more time.

In particular, they cited new proposals from the city staff to include land designations for sportsentertainment mixed use and employmentbusiness mixed use. The former category would cover the hockey arena and the land around it. The commission is to consider the western area plan again at its Aug. 19 meeting. Reach the reporter at dennis.godfreyarizonarepublic.com or (602) 444-6921.

Planners delay decision for west Glendale azfaentralcom Read more about Arizona school issues at education.azcentral.com. requirements of traditional programs. "Many times people think that because it's convenient, it's going to be easy. But quencing of development and the heights allowed for office buildings. Those are not matters of interest for the average person, but to the planners and developers, they represent how the area will look and whether money can be made.

Glendale defines its western area as 10 square miles in an area west from 83rd Avenue. It is in this area where most of Glendale's open land awaits development. It is also where Loop 101, the recently completed freeway, cuts through the city, giving easy access to may be too ambitious in its plans for commercial office space. "We are concerned about density being too high," Mahoney said. Tentative plans would allow 9 million square feet in office space in the area along Glendale Avenue from 91st Avenue west to the freeway, he said.

In contrast, downtown Phoenix has only 6 million square feet of office space, he said. The commissioners were to accept the proposed plan Thursday and forward it to the City Council, but they said they By Dennis Godfrey The Arizona Republic After months of work on devising a plan for the development of west Glendale, the Planning Commission says it needs more time, The commissioners listened for more than an hour Thursday during a public meeting on the proposed general plan update for the western area. Most of those speaking were developers or professional planners representing landowners. Among their concerns were floor-area ratios, se 4 Lines. 2 Doys.

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