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www.InMaricopa.com March 2017 PEOPLE GOVERNMENT Marshall Trimble Relocation tickles Maricopa becoming funny bone reality in path of overpass Sassy Salsa STACY LEONARD'S PRIZE-WINNING RECIPE A CUT ABOVE Local +business directory Health Happenings in Maricopa Authorized Dealer of Summer Classes It’s that time of the Month! Pediatrician Meet & Greet Brighten Up Your Home With Free Light Registration begins March 27 Free Education Series! Starting March 7th, every Tuesday! • No heat, No UV @ CAC 8:30-9:30am and 5:30-6:30pm • Tax Credits Available Join the conversation First Summer Session Classes Start - May 30 with Danielle Jennings, If you are looking 25 Year s WHNP-BC the second for a new pediatrician in Business Monday of every come in for a free (480) 968-1777 Second Summer Session Classes Start - July 5 ROC#229001 month from 6-7pm! meet and greet! 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MARICOPA 36 FITNESS: Aaron Gilbert 21 RELOCATION REALITY 37 ASK THE EXPERT: Sheriolyn Curry PEOPLE 23 MOVING MFD 5 HISTORY PHOTO YOUTH LAWN MOWERS 6 PHOTO GALLERY HOME 40 PHOTO GALLERY 41 EDUCATION: Murray Siegel 8 PROFILE: Marshall Trimble 24 HOME BUILDING PERMITS a Toro Joe Stanton Craftsman 10 MARICOPA PETROGLYPHS 25 GARDENING: Betty Beeman a Lawn Mowers/Outdoor a Stihl 12 JUAN BAUTISTA DE ANZA TRAIL 26 MOST EXPENSIVE HOMES Power Equipment 14 MUSIC: Combust 26 LEAST EXPENSIVE HOMES a Black & Decker 16 SURVIVOR: Joe Baca OUTDOOR POWER EQUIPMENT Joined Ace: 2011 18 SALSA CHEF STACY LEONARD BUSINESS Resident of: Rancho El Dorado 28 PROFILE: Maricopa Welcome Service 47 a String Trimmers 29 CEO CORNER: Steve Chestnut a Hedge Trimmers Hometown: Ithaca, NY Submitted 30 BRIEFS THINGS TO DO a Edgers Background: Construction/ 31 HEALTH INSPECTIONS flooring/sales 42 CALENDAR a Chain Saws 32 DIRECTORY Joe’s Favorite: The People 42 SUN LIFE RUN/WALK a Blower/Vacs 35 TAX TIPS 44 OUTDOORS: Misty Newman a Oil Question Most Often Asked: 10 46 SALSA FESTIVAL a Accessories What do you recommend? Michelle Chance 47 SPRINGTIME SERENADE a Gas Cans a Wheel Barrows ON THE COVER: Stacy Leonard has become an award-winning salsa chef at Salsa Festival with Crazy Cranberry. Photo by Jake Johnson 2 InMaricopa.com | March 2017 21542 N. John Wayne Parkway • (520) 494-7805 • www.MaricopaAce.com History Letter FROM THE EDITOR Publisher Blaze a trail through March issue SCOTT BARTLE uccessful people often choose the writing. The testimony of Baca and other Editor PEOPLE path less traveled to find unexpected former parishioners there helped change the RAQUEL HENDRICKSON rewards. Our March issue highlights workings of that diocese, and he continues to some of them – some you can meet share his story as a warning for others and to Writers S BETTY BEEMAN today and some, well, you’ll have to read up on. protect children as his long road of recovery For a woman who does not like cranberries, has brought him to Maricopa. MASON CALLEJAS MICHELLE CHANCE the choice of cranberry sauce as central On a brighter, much louder note, three SHERIOLYN CURRY ingredient in a salsa recipe was definitely young rockers are using Maricopa as a starting AARON GILBERT off the beaten path. However, Stacy Leonard point on their highway of musical adventure. RAQUEL HENDRICKSON has turned that idea into a prize- The members of Combust are having MISTY NEWMAN winner at Maricopa’s Salsa Fest. fun and doing their best to promote MURRAY SIEGEL In this issue, Stacy tells the story other Arizona bands, helping others CHRIS SWORDS BETTS behind Crazy Cranberry. on a rough road. Photographers Besides a salsa celebration March may, indeed, be a DICK BARKLEY locally, March also means rough road for some Maricopans MASON CALLEJAS Archaeology and Heritage with property in the path of the MICHELLE CHANCE Courtesy Maricopa Historical Society awareness months in Arizona. upcoming overpass on State Route DEAN CRANDALL Nothing Stops the Maricopa Mail RAQUEL HENDRICKSON Maricopa Historical Society is 347. Deadlines are here for most of Fred Cole served as the Maricopa postmaster from 1955 to 1982. The post office was located in the JAKE JOHNSON marking that with its annual history those who have not already sold and Honeycutt Shopping Center until it was destroyed by fire in 1972. That did not stop mail delivery. Cole conference. The keynote presenter moved out of the strip of the Heritage WILLIAM LANGE REECE THOMPSON sorted the mail on his front porch with his staff, and it was delivered the same day. Lost in the fire, will be Marshall Trimble, who took a circuitous District that will be directly impacted. Learn how however, were historic photos and artifacts that had been given to the postmaster for preservation. route to renown as the official state historian and some are handling the shift at the crossroads. Designer Arizona humorist. His own story is as unlikely Also in this issue, Master Gardener Betty CARL BEZUIDENHOUT as those he tells, and he shares some of it here. Beeman offers tips on growing tomatoes in Speaking of history, another man who beat Maricopa (in case you have future salsa plans of Advertising his own path – 242 years ago – was Juan Bautista your own), fitness expert Aaron Gilbert explains DICK BARKLEY de Anza, and the trail he cut played an important de-stressing and Misty Newman sends you SCOTT BARTLE VINCENT MANFREDI part in Maricopa’s history. In these pages, learn outside for some urban gardening. MICHELLE SORENSEN a little about the explorer and how the local trail Enjoy, was put to use. Even before de Anza came upon Volume 12, Issue 3 the scene, the Hohokam were marking their InMaricopa ANY TOPPINGS paths around Maricopa. We dug into the history 44400 W. Honeycutt Road, Suite 101 and mystery of a particular set of petroglyphs Maricopa, AZ 85138 that is not so hidden in Hidden Valley. RAQUEL HENDRICKSON ANY TIME 520-568-0040 Tel Joe Baca stopped hiding years ago, opting Editor 520-568-0050 Fax to tell his experience of abuse at the hands [email protected] of clergy in Winslow, both in court and in 520-568-0040 ext. 3 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Mission Inform readers/viewers. Enrich advertisers. Core Values FEATURING OUR FAMOUS ORIGINAL PAN™ PIZZA 1. Integrity 2. Accountability 3. Open, honest and real-time communication TWO OR MORE 4. 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