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March 22: Silverleaf Luxury Home Tour
The luxury community of Silverleaf in Scottsdale hosts a public home tour on Sunday, March 22. Silverleaf will open its gates to a limited number of visitors for a self-guided luxury home tour featuring exquisite custom estates in the Upper Canyon of the McDowell Mountains.
Visitors will be welcomed at the Windgate Pass Guard Gate...
Phoenix Suns Dancer Gets the Surprise of Her Life
Suns Dancer Tasha received the surprise of a lifetime when her boyfriend, Trevor Cruz, popped the question during the Dancers’ performance at Friday's Suns-Hawks game. Her now fiance' planned this surprise with the help of the entire dance team and staff who were able to keep this little secret from Tasha. During the dancer's half-time performance, the music stopped and quickly transitioned to Ed Sheeran's love ballod, "Thinking Out Loud." To watch the behind the scenes surprise video of what happened next, click here.
ABC15 Announces News Director
Congrats to Chris Kline who has been named news director at ABC15. He will oversee all cross-platform story gathering. In his new position, Kline will lead the newsroom to distribute stories across both television and digital channels to better serve Arizona communities and meet changing audience habits.
“Chris is a passionate, innovative leader with the vision to help us reinvent local journalism in this digital age,” says Anita Helt, vice president and general manager at ABC15. “His proven track record of success as a digital journalist, combined with an entrepreneur’s drive to innovate, make him an ideal...
W Empower Series Featuring NOH8 Co-Founders at W Scottsdale March 19
Join W Scottsdale for this month’s W Empower Series, featuring the NOH8 Campaign co-founders Adam Bouska and Jeff Parshley, on Thursday, March 19. On November 4, 2008 Proposition 8 passed in California, amending the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. The defeat provoked a groundswell of initiative within the GLBT community at a grassroots level, with many new political and protest organizations...
Allison Mertz Named Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale Youth of the Year
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale recently announced Allison Mertz, a junior at Pinnacle High School and seven-year member at the Thunderbirds Branch, as the organization’s 2015 Youth of the Year. The award was presented to Mertz at the non-profit’s Blue Door Ball which took place at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess raising over $500,000 for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale.
Presented by Tiffany & Bosco and Great American Title, the event celebrated the top teenage Club members with more than 800 attendees including community leaders, supporters and esteemed guests. The evening boasted a silent and live auction, dinner and live entertainment while the teen finalists shared their personal stories of...