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Council To Look At
Easing Cargo Container Law
 Plan to allow containers in back yards
fails by 3-3 vote— Draft of new law to
include only business
areas
By Sarah Owen
The News
APACHE JUNCTION – In an apparent
attempt to compromise,
members of the city council unanimously
voted last week to approve
the drafting of a new ordinance
regarding
the use of cargo storage
containers inside the city limits.
Once the new ordinance is written,
the council will study the measure
and vote on whether or not to
adopt the proposal.
The existing ordinance regulates
the use of large steel storage
containers,
sometimes referred to as
cargo or shipping containers. Currently,
it is illegal for anyone other
than a licensed contractor to put
up one of the containers.
While fewer than ten residents
have been cited for illegally using
the shipping containers, more than
50 businesses throughout the city
are violating city code by using
them.
Residents have expressed concern
at past council meetings, saying
they have been targeted with
enforcement of the code while businesses
have been ignored.
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Gold Canyon Teen
Invited To D.C.
 Young Leaders Conference offers
extraordinary opportunity
By Meghan McCoy
The News
GOLD CANYON- A local sixth
grade resident of Gold Canyon has
been invited to be a part of the Junior
National Young Leaders Conference
to be held on June 30, 2007
in Washington D.C.
Christian Harris was nominated,
along with three other 6th grade
students
from Noah Webster Basic
Charter School, for outstanding academic
achievement and leadership.
This summer over 250 outstanding
middle school students from
across the United States will take part
in an extraordinary leadership
conference. The conference’s
theme will be Voices of Leadership:
Reflecting on the Past to Create the
Future, which introduces young
people to the rich tradition of
leadership
through American history
while helping each individual develop
their own leadership skills.
Christian’s parents, Tom and Lisa,
are very proud of their son for being
invited to the conference.
“He wants to show people that even
though he is an athlete he can still
excell in academics,” his parents
said.
They said it is very hard to stay
focused when balancing sports and
academics, which Christian accomplished
with great leadership.
“We are very proud to see Christian
rise above the challenges,” they
added.
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and see G.C. Youth
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Gold Canyon Faces 74%
Sewer Hike
Judge fines company $15K but recommends
big rate increase
By Jill Jones
The News
GOLD CANYON- Residential customers
of the Gold Canyon Sewer
Company (GCS) will be paying
$60.89 a month for sewer service,
up 74 percent from the current
monthly rate of $35, if the Arizona
Corporation Commission (ACC)
agrees with the recommendation of
Administrative Law Judge Dwight
Nodes.
Although the judge sided with
GCS and against testimony from
Residential Utility Consumers Office
(RUCO), he did agree that
former GCS official Trevor Hill made
misleading statements in his promise
of no rate hikes related to an
expanded facility back in 2002 and
2003, and he imposed a penalty of
$15,000. The penalty is based on
$5,000 per year for the three-year
period when the misleading statements
were made, up to the time of
GCS’s rate application in January
2006.
GCS is an affiliate of Algonquin
Water Resources of America
(AWRA), a wholly owned subsidiary
of Algonquin Power Income
Fund. AWRA, GCS’s sole shareholder,
has no employees, so operational
services are provided by
the affiliate Algonquin Water Services
(AWS). The confusing business
model, according to Judge Nodes, is
unique in Arizona with
one exception: Global Water Resources,
run by former AWRA officer
Trevor Hill.
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A-1
and see Sewer Hike,
A-3
Passing League
Continues At AJHS
 By Chuck Baker
The News
When Florence High School
was a no-show for last
Thursday’s continuation of the
Summer Passing League at
Davis Field, Apache Junction
football players decided to
scrimmage each other in the
first of six scheduled twentyminute
scrimmages with half of
the AJHS players going on offense
and the other half playing
defense. That meant quarterback
versus quarterback during
one stretch of the scrimmage
as two underclassmen battling
for the backup role, junior-tobe
Jeff Wyman and sophomoreto-
be Nate Scola, faced off
against one another.
Scola, who quarterbacked last
season’s 9-0 Prospector freshmen
team, went to the offense
while Wyman, who was the
quarterback for last season’s 8-
1 junior varsity team, went to
play safety on defense.
After starter and senior-to-be
Daniel Ambrosio took his turn
at quarterback and completed 6-
of-11 passes for 127 yards and
a 40-yard scoring toss to tight
end Rusty Fernando, Scola
stepped into the huddle for his
turn with the offense and completed
8-of-11 throws for 106
yards. But Scola also threw two
interceptions during his stint,
each one going to – you guessed
it – Wyman.
See
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and see Football,
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