Officials say AJ’s Lost Dutchman Heights project will not be affected

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Fisher Loses Challenge To City Recall Election
Cites ‘advanced age’ of poll workers & ‘misconduct’
Elliott Fisher entered Judge William O’Neil’s Florence courtroom Tuesday, March 31, with an arsenal of complaints about the March 2009 recall and regular elections. He didn’t get the judgment he wanted, but he did get an earful.
   First the judge chastised Fisher for being late (10 minutes). Fisher was a recall candidate, along with Noel Benoist, against incumbent Mayor John Insalaco. Fisher and Benoist both lost the election in a landslide, polling less than 30% of the vote combined.
   “When the judge came out, he said, ‘I don’t see Mr. Fisher,’” recalled City Attorney Joel Stern. Benoist yelled out to the judge that he arrived with Fisher so he must be in the building. O’Neil ignored Benoist.
   The judge began making the ruling shortly before Fisher entered the courtroom. The judge asked if there was a good reason why Fisher was late.
   Initially Fisher said he was filing paperwork on the first floor. Then amended his statement to say he received bad directions, to which the judge replied, “Which is it? Are you lying?”
   Judge O’Neil advised Fisher that the requirements for an election contest are as follows: 1. The name of the person whose right to the office is contested 2. The name of the office that is being contested 3. The name of the party contesting the election 4. The particular grounds of the contest.

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NJROTC 2nd In Regionals
‘Super Brain Brawl’ in California
The Academic Team from
Apache Junction High School’s NJROTC (Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps) made big waves in San Diego, Calif., recently when it took on some of the top schools in California and beat them all in the preliminary rounds of the Western Region Championships, earning the top seed in the final top four competition.
   Going head to head in the finals with the powerhouse Troy (a California magnet school for gifted students), the AJHS team ended up taking second place among the 16 schools competing in the “Super Brain Brawl” for the Western Championship.
   The AJHS team, composed of student cadets Chance Carlson, Austin Kennedy, Logan McClincy and Taylor Meason, was the only team from Arizona that had qualified in earlier competition to participate in the Western Championships.
   But they represented Arizona proudly and successfully by finishing in the No. 2 spot, and were referred to by organizers as one of the “powerhouses” in the competition.
   Questions concern current events, history, oceanography, astronomy, leadership and government. The academic team had gone on the annual spring NJROTC trip to Hawaii and were coached and quizzed by fellow cadets during the days preceding the event. The entire group stayed over for the competition on the way back to Arizona.

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Lady Prospectors Split One-Run Region Games
Beat Cactus Shadows, 5-4, but fall at home, 1-0
By Chuck Baker
The News
So much for home field advantage. The Lady Prospector varsity softball team opened Desert Sky Region play last week, pulling out a come-from-behind 5-4 victory at Cave Creek Cactus Shadows on Monday but then dropped a 1-0 decision to the same team at home on Thursday. The split gives the AJHS girls an 11-10 overall record, not bad for a team that has played nineteen of their twenty-one games thus far on the road, although home advantage didn’t help them last week.
   On Monday at Cactus Shadows, Apache Junction was trailing the Lady Falcons 4-3 batting in the top half of the fifth inning when Marissa Munoz led off with a single. Ashley Nordstrom followed that up with a single of her own, Chelsey Streibich then added a third straight single but Munoz was thrown out at home plate trying to score.
   Following a strikeout for the second out in the inning, Lindsey Skinner singled to score Nordstrom with the tying run, and Autumn Rhodes followed with a single to score Streibich with the go-ahead run and what eventually proved to be the winning run.

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