MaricopaBiz announces second winner of advertising contest
MaricopaBiz.com announces the second winner of the 2009 Rock the Recession Advertising Contest. The February winner is Paul Long of DVD Game Depot on Honeycutt Rd, Maricopa, Arizona. (http://www.dvdgamedepot.com). Please feel free to stop by DVD and Game Depot and congratulate Paul.
Paul has won our EXCLUSIVE ADVERTISING PACKAGE created just for this contest. His business will be live for 12 months FREE! This package includes the following: (1) 180×540 Vertical Banner, (1) Deluxe Listing in our business directory, and (1) 468X90 Category Banner.
Submit your business now to be our March winner. Each month, in 2009, MaricopaBiz will randomly select a business to win this coveted one-year advertising package.
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Maricopa Police Department to begin Victim Assistance program
For the first time in Maricopa history a Victim Assistance program is being organized within the walls of law enforcement. The Maricopa Police Department has a vision, believing that the most effective response form of law enforcement should include a response from a victim’s advocate. The Department proposes a program that we deliver on scene crisis intervention and provide support to victims, regardless of the category of crime.
Victim’s advocates will provide victims of crime information and referrals to local and county agencies, hospital and court accompaniments, safety planning and case collaboration and crisis and traumatic incident management. Once the Victim Assistance program is in place, trained police volunteers will be dispatched to scenes involving, crimes involving children, sexual assault, fatalities, sever domestic violence and other scene that may warrant Victim Assistance Provider’s help.
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Pinal County Assessor’s Office representatives accepting applications for exemptions
FLORENCE – Representatives from the Assessor’s Office will be visiting satellite locations to accept applications for property exemptions from Pinal County residents.
The applications the Assessor’s Office representative will accept are for Widow and Widowers or Disabled Person Property Exemptions. The filing deadline for the exemptions is the last day in February.
The Assessor’s Office will have a representative at the following locations:
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Arizona unemployment rate rises in December
Arizona’s unemployment rate for December reflected a weakening economy and continued job losses as the average rose six-tenths of a percent from November (6.3%) to 6.9%. Because of holiday season hires, December usually shows job gains, but this time around posted a net loss of 12,400 jobs. The positive news is that Arizona’s numbers are still below the national unemployment average, which was 7.2% last month (6.8% in November).
Eight major sectors showed job losses, with three still posting gains. Goods-producing industries shed 6,700 and service-providing industries lost 5,700. As expected, construction lost jobs for the 16th consecutive month (-5,800); over the year, construction has shrunk nearly 21%.
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Fire evacuates Maricopa Wells Middle School
Around noon today, smoke alarms went off in the multi-purpose room at Maricopa Wells Middle School, 45725 West Honeycutt Avenue. School personnel quickly evacuated students and staff, and called 911. Fire units from the Maricopa, Goodyear, Gila River, and Sun Lakes Fire Departments responded.
Fire units entered the ground floor of the building, and could smell smoke, but could not initially locate the fire. Thermal imaging revealed a “hot area” in the crawl space above the ceiling, so firefighters climbed to the roof of the building. A quick cut-through revealed smoldering insulation in the attic area. Fire crews were then able to quickly suppress the fire.
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Human skeletal remains discovered in desert area near Casa Grande
On Wednesday evening, the Casa Grande Police Department advised the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office of a reported human skull located in an un-incorporated area northwest of the Casa Grande City limits, within Pinal County.
Sheriff’s detectives responded, located, and recovered the complete skeletal remains of a human. The amount of time the person has been deceased, their sex, race, age, manner and cause of death are all unknown at this time.
The remains were recovered from both the surface and from a shallow grave located in the undeveloped desert area northwest of Colonia Del Sol in Pinal County, outside the Casa Grande City Limits.
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Quick-thinking homeowner prevents fire from destroying home
A Maricopa homeowner’s quick thinking, along with some “professional help” from a neighbor, prevented a small fire from becoming a huge blaze.
The fire started around 4:00 pm in a home at 18937 North Dallas Smith Lane, near Maricopa High School. Something caught fire next to a water heater in the home’s laundry room. The homeowner smelled smoke and was able to extinguish the flames before they spread to the main part of the house.
A neighbor across the street saw the smoke and came over to assist. The neighbor, Mike Garza, is an Ak-Chin Firefighter who was off-duty at the time.
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City Council gets back to work tonight
After taking some time off for the holidays, the Maricopa City Council will hold their first meeting of 2009 tonight at the Global Water Center.
On the agenda is a requested variance on the City parking code for ACTS Christian Center’s new location in The Shops at Maricopa Village, near John Wayne and Hathaway.
The City’s Parks and Recreation Department will be requesting funds for land acquistion and construction of a restroom and maintenance building for the new expansion of Pacana Park.
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Maricopa HS announces upcoming musical and drama events
Maricopa High School will be presenting the following musical and drama events in January and February.
The After Christmas Carol will be presented on Friday and Saturday January 23rd and 24th in the Maricopa High School Lecture Hall at 7:00 pm. The show still includes Scrooge and all of the ghosts, but is a new adaptation of an old story and will help get your new year off to a great start. Tickets are $5 for students and $7 for adults and will be sold at the door. To reserve tickets contact Mrs. VanScyoc in room 295.
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Third local family in two weeks loses home to fire
Around 4:15, Saturday afternoon, another fire broke out in a manufactured home in the Hidden Valley area, southwest of Maricopa. This is the third mobile home fire, in two weeks’ time, to strike Maricopa’s neighboring rural communities.
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