CenPhoTV for the week of 05/15/2009
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Urban chickens the latest healthful living trend
[Source: John Faherty, Arizona Republic] — When Kate Wells needs eggs, she does not go to the store or even the refrigerator. She just sends her daughters out to the backyard. The family keeps a coop with four chickens behind its two-story Spanish Revival home in Phoenix’s Coronado neighborhood. The Wellses are among many families … Read more
Ambitious dining projects headed for downtown Phoenix
[Source: Howard Seftel, Arizona Republic] — Call them the ’09ers: The downtown Phoenix restaurant gold rush is not only picking up steam, it’s turning into a stampede. Despite the dismal economy, pioneering restaurant owners believe there’s a mother lode waiting to be tapped in this mostly unexploited territory. Two ambitious, multirestaurant projects are … Read more
Arizona women’s softball teams topic of June 11 Carnegie Lunchtime Speaker Series
From the 1930s to the 1950s, in the days before television, people turned out in the thousands to watch women’s softball teams play in Arizona. The Ramblers and the Queens, two Phoenix teams, won five national championships between them in the 1940s, garnering Phoenix the title of Softball Capitol of the World. These women … Read more
Farmers markets in metro Phoenix keep cool
[Source: Diana Balazs, Arizona Republic] – Valley farmers markets have come up with cool ways to keep their ventures open during the long hot summer. They start early, drape shade cloth over aisles, and [some] set up misting systems… The 4-year-old downtown Phoenix Public Market run by Community Food Connections operates throughout the year, rain … Read more
Phoenix’s Washington Garden Club celebrates 80th anniversary
[Source: Ray Stern, Phoenix New Times] – The Washington Garden Club, the oldest garden club in the Valley, [celebrated] its 80th anniversary with an Anniversary Tea at 11 a.m. Friday, May 8, at the Valley Garden Center, 1809 N.15th Ave. The Washington Garden Club has provided Phoenix with desert blooms for decades. ”As we ‘go … Read more
Newly-created downtown Phoenix K-8 charter school to hire 97
[Source: Angela Gonzales, Phoenix Business Journal] — The Phoenix Elementary School District voted unanimously Thursday to partner with a charter institution to open a K-8 school on the district’s Phoenix Preparatory Academy campus downtown. The new school, on Seventh Street north of Van Buren Street, will start hiring 97 employees next week. The Phoenix Elementary … Read more
Phoenix Convention Center bookings off ’08 pace
[Source: Jahna Berry, Arizona Republic] — The Phoenix Convention Center will host many blockbuster events this year, but the recession may hurt its ability to attract events in 2010 and beyond. Future convention bookings aren’t rolling in as fast as they did last year, and it appears that meeting planners are booking fewer events … Read more
