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  • Girl Scouts celebrate 100th anniversary with tree-planting ceremony

    The Girl Scouts–Arizona Cactus-Pine Council (GSACPC) celebrated its 100th anniversary with a tree-planting ceremony in honor of Arbor Day on April 27. This planting was part of the Girl Scouts’ Centennial tree planting project: Celebrating the Past, Planting for our Future, a partnership between GSACPC and the Arizona Community Tree Council (ACTC). Through this partnership, 100 trees have been donated to local Girl Scouts to plant in their communities. To culminate this project, the ACTC joined the U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Arizona Nursery Association to donate 10 trees to the Girl Scouts organization: one tree for every decade of Girl Scouting in the United States. The trees will be planted at the Arizona State Capitol. At the Arbor Day ceremony, Girl Scouts from Troop 2143 helped plant one tree with Secretary of State Ken Bennett, and Bennett read an Arbor Day proclamation written by Gov. Jan Brewer.

  • Stand AZ welcomes new executive director

    After celebrating the passage of two monumental education bills this legislative session, Stand for Children Arizona welcomes John Fisher as its new executive director. Fisher comes to Stand AZ with many years of experience in the education field and has a demonstrated commitment to improving children’s lives through education. After being an Arizona math and civics teacher and instructional leader for more than five years, Fisher joined Teach for America’s Arizona office, most recently serving as the interim executive director. Prior to becoming the interim executive director, he was managing director for public partnerships, where he managed relationships with district superintendents, the Arizona Department of Education, state legislators, and other stakeholders in the public sector. As an undergraduate, Fisher attended Marquette University and received a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering. He then graduated from Arizona State University with masters of education in curriculum and instruction. Also new to the Stand AZ team is Kelly McManus, the new policy director, and Maria Luisa Ramos, the new parent engagement manager. McManus is also a former teacher and joins Stand after serving as Teach for America’s public partnership manager. Maria Luisa comes to Stand AZ after many years of service as the director of ASU’s American Dream Academy, which trains low-income parents to become education advocates for their children.

  • Carrying on a son’s legacy

    It was March last year when Margie Abril received the call that would change her life forever. Her only son, Chris, had been killed in a car accident. A graduate from Brophy College Preparatory, Chris was a senior at Arizona State University and studying to be a veterinarian. The trip to Colorado was to visit the vet school where he had earned a scholarship and where he would be heading in the fall. But Chris, 22, would never make it back home as the injuries he received in the accident were just too severe. As for his love of animals? Margie says that love began at a very early age when at just 2 years old he started telling people to stop cutting down trees because it would hurt the panda bears. From that point on, Chris proceeded to have every kind of pet possible and often had a magic touch with each and every one of them. That path eventually led him to the Arizona Humane Society where he became a volunteer as he prepared for his future as a veterinarian. Since the accident, Margie holds dear the belief that Chris lives in her and that wherever he is he is living for her as well and with that she became a volunteer at the Arizona Humane Society and picked up right where Chris left off. As a foster volunteer, Margie became an immediate “foster failure” and adopted her foster cat, Eduardo. And over the past year as a shelter volunteer, Margie has had nearly every volunteer position at AHS from assisting with the cats, the dogs, the critters to attending events to hosting bilingual humane education story time. This past November, on Chris’s birthday, eight of his friends and family members came to the Arizona Humane Society and each one adopted a pet in his name. To this day, the Abril’s are still receiving letters and donations from people whose lives Chris touched. In addition, Christopher Edward Abril scholarships will be handed out in May at Independence High School in Glendale where Chris’s cousins go to school. • Beverly Stidham, (480) 898-7924 or bstidham@ahwatukee.com

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‘Dark Shadows’ is a bloody good time

Vampires and Tim Burton seem like such as natural fit. It’s curious that it has taken this long for him to direct a movie in which a bloodsucker is given center stage. Now’s as good a time as any though, since the current vampire craze is apparently here to stay. Burton derives his latest theatrical outing from “Dark Shadows,” the Gothic soap opera that aired on ABC from 1966 to 1971. Where that show was essentially a drama, Burton’s take on the material is in the comedic vein of “Beetlejuice.” How interesting that between “21 Jump Street” and now “Dark Shadows” there have been two humorous re-imaginings of old television dramas in just a couple months. The fact that Johnny Depp stars in both films is further coincidental.

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