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FROM THE FROM PAGE Arizona Daily Sun A8 Wednesday, March 14, 2007 www.azdailysun.com Brown likely to lose mayorship PAGE from Page A1 services to local students. Some examples the committee listed are as follows: Music, art, physical education and computer programs. Discipline intervention. Gifted services. Staff development.

A 4:30 p.m. bus route that enables students to participate in after-school programs. High school and middle school athletics and extracurricular activities. Summer school. Student counseling services.

School grant-writing services. Lake View Elementary School third-grade teacher Michelle Jackson-Keisling, a member of the override committee, said the budget override is vital to continuing existing programs otherwise theyll go away. Added Jackson-Keisling: All of these programs, I think, are really important to the kids. Likewise, PUSD Governing Board members and Superintendent Jim Walker filed arguments in favor of the override with the Coconino County School Superintendents Office. PUSD consists of two elementary schools, a middle school and a high school serving a total of approximately 3,100 students.

Puckett led with 832 votes, with Kocjan obtaining 827 and Cook 750. Write-ins totaled 55. If results hold. Brown would become the first incumbent mayor to be defeated since appointee Bob Bowling lost to Dean Slavens in 2001. Page, incorporated in 1975, did not open mayoral voting to the public until 1989.

Congratulations to Mr. Justice and his supporters," Brown said. "Im sure in June they can take the city in a different direction. Brown, president of Lake Powell Communications, licencee of KPGE and KXAZ radio in Page, said he is now free to concentrate on my business and other endeavors. Youre a winner no matter what.

The job of mayor is a tough one, he said, adding, You get the blame and sometimes the credit, After losing to the incumbent mayor two years ago, Bill Justice leads in unofficial results. BY TODD GLASENAPP Sun Correspondent PAGE The second time appears to be the charm for Bill Justice in his bid to become mayor of Page. Justice, who was defeated by incumbent Dan Brown for mayor two years ago, leads Brown 640 to 525 in unofficial results Tuesday. Still to be counted are an undetermined number of provisional and1 write-in votes and last Friday's early ballots. Official results should be determined this afternoon, according to Byron Browning," fleet services manager for Coconino County.

The current total includes only 22 percent of Pages 6,820 registered voters. Brown would. become the first elected PAGE ELECTION incumbent mayor to be defeated in Pages 18-year history of direct vote for mayor, if results stand. He was elected to council in 2001. He conceded defeat in an interview Tuesday night.

Thats enough of a lead for him, he said. I just needed the positive people to show up. I guess I didnt get enough of those to show up. Justice, 57, is a former supervisor for Peabody Coal at Black Mesa. He concern trated his campaign on door-to-door visits and most of his available money on signs.

He was unavailable for comment Tuesday night. Earlier he said he spent less than $500 on his campaign because he wanted to avoid feeling beholden to anyone financially. In other voting, incumbents Tom Puckett, John Kocjan and John Cook were unopposed for re-election to their council seats. Daily Sun correspondent Todd Glasenapp can be contacted at dtglasenappRoute89.com. Chelsea DeWeese can be reached at cdeweeseazdailysun.

com or 556-2250. The newer program, however, has been operated wholly by archives officials, and its scope apparently dwarfs the removal of CIA and Pentagon records. In a memo to employees, then-Archivist of the United States John Carlin said the records of concern program would reduce the risk of providing access to materials that might support terrorists. A later memo explained that relatively current, accurate and detailed information on a structure, organization or facility that is crucial to protecting national defense, the countrys infrastructure, symbolic monuments and personal identity are records of concern. The archives initially targeted six categories of documents for review, but the list was expanded to include 10 categories in early 2002: Flans, photos or maps of government facilities or other sensitive infrastructure.

Emergency action, civil defense and continuity of government Nuclear technology materials. Weapons technology information, including biological and chemical agents. Presidential protection records. Materials relating to intelligence gathering and studies, Studies on terrorism and counterterrorism. Information on natural resources, such as oil, uranium and water.

Material that could be potentially useful to terrorists. Materials relating to the Middle East with information on potentially current topics. The director of an online coalition for freedom of information issues, Patrice McDermott of OpenTheGovemment. org, urged officials to create a public registry of withdrawn documents. She said officials should work toward releasing more than 400 million pages of backlogged files rather than removing smaller numbers of papers.

This is a questionable use of tax dollars, McDermott said. Other researchers said the project, A 1960 map of the Melton Hill Reservoir in east Tennessee now perhaps best-known as a spring training site for collegiate rowing teams around the eastern United States was removed from view, as were 1967 architectural drawings for the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. In e-mails and memos obtained by the AP, archives employees made.it clear they were trying to minimize the number and scope of removals. In an internal e-mail, the No.

2 Archives official expressed satisfaction at finding fewer and fewer papers that should be removed. All quiet on records of concern front, wrote Lewis Bellardo. Just the way we like it. Archives officials generally have received passing marks from secrecy experts who have been aware of the program, said Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, a George Washington University-based research institute. But Blanton also said the effort appears to be a case of misplaced priorities.

while well-intentioned, reinforces a culture of secrecy that became more pronounced after the September 2001 terror attacks. You want government to be vigilant when it comes to security, but you also want them to behave responsibly, said Steven Aftergood, who runs the government secrecy project for the Washington-based Federation of American Scientists. You cant have a situation where secrecy becomes the default mode. Many of the removed records might be useful to terrorists, according to the APs review. Archivists removed records from the U.S.

Surgeon Generals Preventive Medicine Division, which studied biological weapons created between 1941 and 1947. Other records withdrawn dont appear to be useful to terrorists. Archivists removed information from a 1960 Bureau of Indian Affairs report on enrollments in the Aaskas Tlingit and Haida tribes because it included Social Security numbers, which could be used for identity theft. RECORDS from Page A1 moved. The archives program comes less than one year after the records administration came under fire for allowing public documents to be reclassified as secret under a separate program.

After the September 2001 attacks, the records administration signed a secret deal with the Pentagon and CIA to review and permit the removal of tens of thousands of pages from public view that intelligence officials believed had been declassified too hastily. In the aftermath of disclosures about that program, archives officials promised they would not enter into any more secret agreements with federal agencies, would publicize withdrawals and would establish procedures for reclassifying documents. A subsequent audit of the disputed program found one of every three sampled documents should not have been reclassified. The women admitted involvement in the transport plan, and said they were being paid $2,000 each to deliver the drugs to Nebraska, Wigman said. Martha Vallejo, 41, and Jail Padilla, 28, both of Phoenix, were booked into the Coconino According to the Arizona Attorney Generals Office, 65 percent of child abuse and neglect statewide involve meth.

And according to DPS statistics, last year, the DPS Flagstaff office reported seizures of about 55 pounds of meth. the mother. Its just another one of those sort of sad stories involving little kids, and they cant do anything about it. And heres a grandma putting her grandchild in harms way like that for 2,000 bucks, he said. County jail on charges of possession and transportation of dangerous drugs for sale, and child abuse.

The child was returned to her mother, who also lives in Phoenix. Wigman said no charges have been filed against been put in the car to mask the womens criminal behavior. Most officers, a lot of officers, when they stop and see a or a small child, they probably arent going to key up on criminal things going on, Wigman said. METH 4 from Page A1 weighed 23 pounds. Wigman said that police believe the toddler may have would still be here 30 years later, he said.

took a lot of hard work. Spining has a unique perspective on the artistic evolution of Flagstaff. At first, there were few venues for live music downtown, he said. In the early years of Charlys, people avoided going downtown. Everything shut down at night and was turned over to the drunks and the winos, Spining said.

We were some of the first people downtown doing anything, he added. It was pretty dismal downtown. With the development of the square and the Orpheum, its come a million miles since we started back in 1975, not only the look of the town, but just the feel. teacher. His grandmother, Elsie Willson, lived with the family.

She also played the piano and encouraged her grandson to practice. When she died, she left a note Keep practicing, it said, Spining remembered. Spining did keep practicing, and he later studied with his high school principal, a graduate of the Julliard School of Music. His keyboard studies continued while pursuing bachelors and masters degrees in music at Occidental College and Boston University, respectively. Spining moved to Flagstaff after teaching elementary-school music and directing Broadway shows at the Dine Little Theatre in Window Rock.

named after him in 1977. He was also the Weatherford accountant for 20 years. We just had a little coffee shop, and it grew into a restaurant and bar over the 80s, Spining said. It was named sort of in honor of Henrys youngest brother, Charles, who died very young. We sort of share the honor.

During lunch hour at Charlys, he played what he calls salon music. I played a lot of light classical, small Beethoven pieces, movements from various sonatas, things that were not too bombastic for lunch, so people could talk, he explained. No one predicted the long-lasting success of the Weatherford and Charlys. At that time, we didnt think we He still practices at least a half-hour a day to keep up with multiple music gigs he plays in Flagstaff and Sedona. I sort of picked it up from her, he said.

I started out with classical, but my mother always played by ear. She liked Gershwin, all the musical comedies. I do a little bit of everything. Ive even taught myself to do light jazz. PIANO AT CHARLYS Spining came to Flagstaff with a family connection: His sister is married to Lloyd Taylor, the brother of Henry Taylor, the owner of the historic Weatherford Hotel since 1975.

For about 20 years, Spining was the resident pianist at Charlys Restaurant and Pub, the venue that was SPINING from Page A1 music than some. GOT HIS START IN GANADO Spining, now 65, was bom in Ganado on the Navajo Nation, where his father served as a medical missionary for 30 years at Sage Memorial Hospital. He was just 5 when his mother, Eleanor, introduced him to music and his feet couldnt touch the pedals, but his small hands managed to reach the keys of the brown Gulbransen studio upright piano with real ivory keys. He got an individual lesson once a week with his mother, a popular piano Betsey Bruner can be reached at 556-2255 or bbruneiazdailysun.com. Ptace oman Woman (oonytdete SfeaM (oasojeedb Please join us in welcoming Michael L.

Nowak, DO to our practice and community. nizable by the unusually bright colors, representing the six local species of bark, berries, and leaves. The Arbors recently announced it was repainting the outside of the buildings, promising softer versions of the existing colors. Caro conceded that once the homeowners association is in place, the residents will control the color of the complex, with the option of repainting the entire complex. cent of the area median income.

For a single person, the current AMI is $37,940. DUE FOR NEW PAINT Caro contends that although only 40 individuals and families will be served by the fund, she believes the prices for the condo project are attractive when compared to the median price of a single-family home in Flagstaff, currently hovering around $400,000. I think that in itself is a great workforce house component, said Caro. The Arbors are easily recog J. Ferguson can be reached at 556-2253 orjfergusonazdailysun.com.

ect has sold approximately 32 units and has contracts with buyers to sell approximately 32 more. Caro estimates the $500,000 fund will go to roughly 40 borrowers. She said at least one family has waited for five months for the incentive to become available, living in a motorhome until they could get down payment assistance from the fund. Caro estimates a third of the sales to date have gone to workforce housing buyers, and several have gone to NAU students, who work part-time. A handful of condos were sold to second-home buyers, Caro said.

Prices range from $120,000 to $225,000 at the former Biltmore Pines Apartments at 1385 West University. In an effort to dissuade flipping the property, the loan is waived if a borrower lives on the property for three years and one month. If the borrower moves out prior to the time frame, they must pay back the loan at the time of the sale of the property, albeit interest-free. To qualify for the incentive, borrowers must be pre-qualified for ajmortgage loan, the individual must be living or working in Flagstaff and their gross annual income cannot exceed 200 per CONDOS from Page A1 the down payment assistance, and prices start at $120,000. Last fall, the citys new Community Housing Manager George Rodriguez offered to administer the fund at no cost.

But city officials later said the forgivable loans might have violated the states gift ban law if administered by the city. When it became apparent the city could not administer the fund, Valerie Caro, a local real estate broker who is handling the Arbors condo conversion, said she approached two local nonprofits. Caro eventually chose the Northern Arizona Council of Governments, which already administers a homebuyer sistance program. Caro said that although NACOG could not administer the loans for free, her company, Common Goal Reality, will absorb the $300 in administrative costs NACOG charges per loan. We want to make sure every penny of the fund is used toward the loans, Caro said.

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3100 West St. 300 Flagstaff, Az 86004 Coconino County has been awarded $74,790.00 under the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program. This funding has been allocated for the purpose of supplementing emergency food and shelter programs in the county. Local agencies chosen to receive funds must 1) be a non-profit agency, 2) have an accounting system, 3) practice nondiscrimination, 4) have capability to deliver emergency food andor shelter programs, and 5) have a board of directors. Agencies interested in applying may attend a meeting being held 03142007 at at United Way of Northern Arizona, 1515 E.

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