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Sports B1 Full NAU football coaching staff returning Local News A2 Geothermal exploration backed Sneak Peaks C7 Dont let Date Night juin the evening A I Serving Flagstaff and 50 cents azdailysun.com Friday, April 9, 2010 New campus, new middle school Construction on FALAs new grades 7-12 campus will start next week, with completion set for this August. New Flag cleanup law backed Enacting and enforcing a property maintenance ordinance in Flagstaff draws support from a majority of council candidates. Ih FERGUSON Sun Staff Reporter Local residents who have been lobbying for a law to force landlords to clean up their property got some good news Wednesday night. CAMPAIGN Candidates for mayor 9 Ain and more than half of 4.U1U those running for council signaled during a debate Wednesday that they would support laws that would make property owners and landlords accountable for dilapidated and abandoned buildings, junked vehicles and potential public health problems, like raw sewage. Residents in the Southside, Sunnyside and Plaza Vieja neighborhoods have been trying for the last 15 years to get the Flagstaff City Council to adopt what is known as a property maintenance ordinance.

Community leaders from the three neighborhoods as well as downtown merchants hosted the forum Wednesday night at the Murdoch Center. One of the strongest statements of support during the hour-long forum came from Council candidate and FMC trauma nurse Dave Arendt. He told the two dozen people in the audience that any law would need to have consequences for those who refuse to comply. We need to have a PMO with teeth, Ar- endt said. By HILLARY DAVIS Sun Staff Reporter Flagstaff Arts Leadership Academy, currently housing just grades 9 through 12, is officially ready to grow.

A $4 million bond needed to begin construction of the charter school's new campus on Fort Valley Road has come through. Construction workers will begin prepping the site next week. And the recently approved middle school is ready to take applications, with space for 100 seventh- and eighth-graders. FALA executive director Becky Daggett confirmed that the bond was funded on Tuesday and building permits had already been submitted to the city of Flagstaff. Although the permits were still under review, Daggett said the school and city have been working together smoothly and the construction company can begin preparing the 3-acre site, starting with surveying and compacting soil where the buildings will stand.

She said the builders are confident in an August 2010 opening for all grades. The new campus has been a project in the making for about a year and a half. FALA now owns the land at the corner of Fort Valley and Fremont outright. Daggett said she has encouraged the builders, Magnus Construction from the Phoenix area, to hire local subcontractors. The new campus, at just under 10,000 square feet, will feature a dance (Courtesy renderings) See CAMPAIGN, A6 the campus with students.

The modular trailers that have been a part of FALA since its 1996 debut will be brought over for administrative offices, more classrooms and storage. See FALA, A6 room that opens to an outdoor amphi-theaterperformance space, a music room with several practice rooms, a science lab and three classrooms. The parking lot will be bigger for both staff and students, and the school gardening teacher will plant native flora around Obama, Medvedev ink nuclear treaty By CHRIST! PARSONS Tribune Washington Bureau (MCT) PRAGUE, Czech Republic With an agreement to scale back the weaponry of the worlds two greatest nuclear powers, President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a long-sought treaty that still will require the ratification of both governments. One year after unveiling his vision here for a world without nuclear weapons, Obama returned Thursday morning to sign a treaty with the Russian president that both sides call a major step forward on worldwide arms control. In a ceremony at the medieval Prague Castle, Obama and Medvedev signed a New START treaty that administration officials say will bring U.S.

and Russian nuclear arsenals to their lowest levels since the early 1960s. See NUCLEAR, A6 Democrats attempt to pivot to climate change to lose seats in Novembers midterm elections, qnd the White House and environmentalists are pushing for action while the numbers are on their side. It is our hope that the Senate will act this year, and were going to do everything in our power to support that and make it happen, Carol Browner, director of the White Houses Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy, told U.S. News dr World Report this week. See CLIMATE.

A6 By ROBERT SCHROEDER MarketWatch (MCT) WASHINGTON Hot on the heels of the health care reform bill, lawmakers will soon begin considering major climate-change legislation that the White House wants to get passed this year. But with a little more than seven months to go until Election Day, some are asking: Can the Democrats do it? The Democratic members, especially newly elected members, are going to be pretty reluctant to pursue an aggressive agenda, said pollster Scott Rasmussen. Even more especially those Democrats, he says, in districts carried by Republican presidential candidate John McCain in 2008. With unemployment still soaring at nearly 10 percent and with voters still digesting the new health care law, global warming doesnt rank as Americans highest concern, Rasmussen says. But congressional Democrats are expected Marchers take back the night musical accompaniment provided by the band Sambatuque, people shouted that they had the power and the right to take back the night.

We're hoping for more community awareness and to show all survivors of sexual violence were here and we support them, Cannon said. She regularly speaks about her experience as a survivor of sexual assault. Its not an easy thing to admit, to yourself or to anybody else, Cannon said. "Telling my story gives other survivors women, children, men a soft space to tell their own stories." 60 FORENSIC EXAMS AYEAR Kara Ransom-Wright, coordinator for the Northern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault, said about 60 forensic exams are conducted each year on victims of sexual assault in northern Arizona. See NIGHT, A6 By LARRY HENDRICKS Assistant City Editor Drums and whistles announced their arrival downtown amid chants of Join together.

Free our lives. We will not be victimized. Many carried signs. Equality. Love gives us a voice." "The night is mine." Not silent, not scared.

More than 120 people gathered in Heritage Square on Wednesday night to "Take Back the Night; an annual effort to bring awareness to the plight of victims of sexual assault. "Im a survivor," said Lucy Cannon, a Northern Arizona University student who joined the rally. "Take Back the Night shows the community that we believe in a safe Flagstaff from sexual violence. Prior to the rally, supporters gathered at Flagstaff Medical Center and NAU and marched through the streets of the city to Heritage Square. Along the way, with DEMONSTRATORS MARCH from the Northern Arizona University Student Union to Heritage Square holding signs on Wednesday during the Take Back the Night rally to spread the word about sexual assault.

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