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From Me To You...
I sat down to write this editorial and my brain took a solid minute just to find first gear. That “wait, how do I even start this?” moment. It feels almost novel to think for myself, mostly because there is an easier way sitting right there on my computer, tempting me, and it’s just one tap away. The all knowing, all seeing, “helpful” AI. Here’s the thing nobody tells you about handing over your everyday thinking to a machine: your brain needs exercise just like your other muscles, and muscles that do not work get soft. I used to know all my friends and family’s phone numbers by heart. Not anymore. And don’t get me started on asking for information about, well, everything. “Ask Chat” has become the norm around here. How can we fix this problem? Exercise. Repetition. Doing the math in your head at the grocery store when you are trying to decide if that 3 for $10 deal on cereal is a good buy. Working out the tip at dinner in your head instead of letting your phone do it for you. None of this means AI is the enemy. It is a genuinely useful tool, and pretending otherwise is like refusing to use a calculator out of loyalty to your abacus. If you want to keep up with the pace of the world, especially
nowadays where new technology shows up every day, you have to learn how to use the new tools. Just do not let the old world, and your brain, slip away too. Case in point: this very editorial. I wrote it, wrote it again, argued with whether “abacus” was too obscure, and rewrote it a third time out of sheer stubbornness. Nobody made me do those reps. I did them because somewhere between draft two and draft three, my brain remembered it still knows how to lift things without a spotter. Call it my mental gym membership, minus the sweaty machines and the guy who never re- racks his weights. So here is my proposal. Use the AI. Love the AI. Just do a few reps on your own now and then, mental push ups if you will, so your brain stays limber. Because it’s always better to have the ability and not need it than need it and not have it. Having said that, spellcheck is the one crutch I’m keeping, right next to my reading glasses and my GPS. Catherine Uretsky Editor, Main Street Magazine info@estrellapublishing.com
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The Bug Guy Halloween in the Valley: Where Scorpions Don’t Need a Costume
under-blacklight treatment before a single candy bag gets extended. Parents aren’t just checking candy wrappers anymore, they’re checking corners. Then there’s the pest control trucks, doing their best business of the year right alongside the costume shops. Nothing says “October in the Valley” like a technician in a full Halloween-adjacent hazmat getup, treating a baseboard while a giant inflatable Frankenstein wobbles ominously in the yard next door. Sometimes it’s hard to tell which visitor is scarier: the trick-or- treater in the werewolf mask, or the actual javelina rustling through the cactus out back looking for candy of its own. So this year, when you’re setting up your fake tombstones and cotton-web spiders, maybe give a little nod to the real MVPs of Phoenix Halloween: the pest control folks quietly making sure the only things haunting your house are the decorations you put there on purpose. Stay spooky, Keep your shoes shaken and your door screens intact.
Let’s be honest, West Valley: we didn’t need Halloween to have things skittering around that make people scream. We’ve had that covered since roughly March. While the rest of the country is out here decorating with plastic spiders, we’re just... looking down before we put our shoes on. Nothing says “spooky season” quite like shaking out a boot and hoping today isn’t the day a bark scorpion decides to make a statement. Our neighbors to the north hang fake cobwebs from their porches for atmosphere. Ours are load-bearing. And don’t even get me started on the pack rats. Every October, some poor soul in Arcadia hangs up a cute little skeleton decoration, only to discover a week later that something has been using it as a chew toy. Nothing ruins the illusion of a haunted house quite like realizing the “ghost” in your attic pays rent in droppings and has excellent taste in insulation. Trick-or-treaters here have developed a sixth sense the rest of the country doesn’t need: the pre-doorbell scorpion scan. Every porch light gets the flashlight-
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Ask The Dentist Dear Dentist - I was diagnosed with sleep apnea but I don’t want to wear a CPAP machine. Are there any other options?
case of central sleep apnea, which is occurring due to a nuerological issue, ONLY a CPAP is effective.) Alternatively, dentist can offer two types of appliances that are easy to wear consistently.The first is a mandibular advancement appliance that gently keeps the lower jaw postured forward keeping the airway open. Two examples of these appliances are made by Prosomnus and Somnomed. Next is a specialized orthodontic appliance designed to encourage remodeling of the upper jaw and face, thus permanently treating sleep apnea. These can be successfully used in adults and children as well. Two examples of these appliances are made by Homeoblock and Vivos. Training in treating sleep and airway is not commonly offered in dental schools, so please look for a dentist with experience in these areas.
Dear Sleepless in Verrado - Sleep apnea is a potentially serious sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts, which decreases the quality of restful sleep and REM sleep. Sleep apnea is commonly thought to be related to mostly overweight men, but it affects both men and women of all body types and even children. This is due to the fact that our craniofacial growth is crucial to keeping our airway the proper size and shape. The short term effects are daytime sleepiness, headaches, decreased libido and problems focusing. Long term effects are increased rates of hypertension, stroke, heart disease, and even death. The average person that fails to treat sleep apnea can expect to live 10-15 years less on average. CPAP machines create a positive air pressure while sleeping to stop sleep apnea and are extremely effective, however the compliance is very low. (In the
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2. Smart tools help staff track water use and find leaks. 3. Irrigation systems measure soil moisture and water plants only when needed. 4. Cooling towers use technology that lowers water use and reduces chemical needs. 5. Inside the terminals, low‑flow fixtures that use 20% less water than standard fixtures help reduce water use even more. 6. Drainage improvements and stormwater management also play an important role in the airport’s water conservation efforts and help mitigate flooding risks to keep facilities and travelers safe during extreme weather events. 7. Colorful watercolor posters featuring Arizona landscape scenes, created to support the citywide water conservation education campaign, are displayed throughout the terminals and help create a bright and welcoming atmosphere for travelers. From conserving water in the desert environment to reducing emissions and strengthening infrastructure, Phoenix Sky Harbor is creating a more sustainable and resilient airport system that serves passengers, protects resources and supports the community for generations to come. Learn more about Phoenix Sky Harbor’s water conservation program at skyharbor.com/about-phx/ sustainability/water.
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Pre-Holiday Stress
The Holidays Haven’t Started Yet - So Why Are You Already Exhausted? The mental load of the holiday season starts in October. Here’s how to get ahead of it before it gets ahead of you. It happens every year around this time. The stores start putting up Christmas decorations before Halloween is even over. Group chats start filling up with plans. Someone in your family asks if you’re hosting this year. The invisible mental calendar — the one that only you can see, tracking what needs to happen, for who, by when, and at what cost — begins to spin up in the back of your mind. And it’s only October. This is what psychologists sometimes call anticipatory stress, and it’s one of the most underappreciated forms of burnout. The holiday season doesn’t just stress people out when it arrives — it starts depleting people
weeks before anything has actually happened. The planning, the logistics, the gift calculations, the travel coordination, the family dynamics management — all of it runs as background processing, quietly draining the mental battery long before the decorations go up. Research consistently shows that women absorb a disproportionate share of this invisible labor, though it affects anyone who carries primary responsibility for household or family logistics. The problem isn’t the holidays themselves — it’s the gap between the idealized version of the season and the reality of executing it largely alone while maintaining everything else life requires. The good news is that October is actually the ideal time to intervene, precisely because nothing has started yet. A few practical moves: Decide early what you’re actually willing to do this year and what you’re letting go of — and write it down, because it’s easy to drift back into defaults. Have a direct conversation with your household about who is doing what before the crunch arrives. Set a real budget for gifts and experiences now, before the pressure to spend kicks in. And build in intentional rest between events — recovery time that you actually protect, not just time that disappears into more tasks. The holidays can be genuinely good. They just rarely are when you arrive at them already running on empty. October is the moment to change that.
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The Doctor Is In
Managing Your Mental Bandwidth
• The 90-Second Rule: Scientific research suggests that the chemical surge of an emotion lasts about 90 seconds. If you can breathe through those 90 seconds without reacting, the fire usually begins to cool on its own. In my 20+ years of clinical experience, I’ve seen that the most resilient people aren’t those who never feel “off.” They’re the ones who recognize the “glitch” early and have the tools to reset their system. Submitted by Jennifer Paweleck-Bellingrodt, Psy.D. Licensed Clinical Psychologist DISCLAIMER: Material is for informational purposes and not intended to be a substitute for evaluation or treatment by a licensed professional. Material is copyrighted and may only be reproduced with written permission of Dr. Bellingrodt.
As we navigate the demands of a busy Fall, I wanted to share a concept I often discuss with my patients: the difference between your mental hardware and your mental software. Sometimes, we feel “glitched”— anxious, overwhelmed or stuck in a loop. When this happens, we tend to blame ourselves. But often, the issue is that our Internal CEO is trying to run too many high-energy programs on an exhausted battery. Here is a quick audit to help you optimize your mental operating system this week. 1. Identify the Background Apps Just like a smartphone slows down when too many apps are open, our brains lose efficiency when we carry “open loops”—those small, unfinished tasks or unspoken worries. The Fix: Do a Brain Dump. Write down every tiny thing nagging at you. Once it’s on paper, your Internal CEO can stop using active RAM to remember it, lowering your baseline anxiety. 2. Check Your Hardware Basics We often try to solve psychological problems with logic, but if the hardware is glitching, the logic won’t stick. Before you over-analyze your mood, check your physical inputs: • Sleep Hygiene: Is your recharge cycle consistent? • Movement: Are you clearing out cortisol through physical activity? • Fuel: Are you giving your brain the nutrients it needs to maintain focus? 3. Strengthening the Prefrontal Cortex The prefrontal cortex is the part of the brain responsible for emotional regulation and impulse control. It is essentially the CEO of your mind. You can strengthen this “muscle” daily through: • Labeling: When a big emotion hits, name it. “I am feeling overlooked” or “I am feeling overstimulated.” This simple act moves the energy from the emotional center (the amygdala) back to the logical CEO.
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Spooky History
The desert keeps its secrets differently than other places. Here’s what’s lurking in the history of the land we call home. The West Valley has a way of looking brand new. Fresh stucco, new roads, subdivision names that sound invented by algorithm. But underneath all of that — not very far underneath, actually — is a history that goes back centuries. Indigenous settlements, Spanish missionaries, Civil War supply routes, gold rush boom towns and the violence that follows money into empty places. October is a good time to remember that the land we’re living on has stories most residents have never heard. The most visitable piece of that history sits about 65 miles northwest of Phoenix in Wickenburg: Vulture City, the preserved ruins of one of Arizona Territory’s most productive gold mining operations. Henry Wickenburg struck gold in the Vulture Mountains in 1863, and the resulting mine eventually yielded over 340,000 ounces of gold — worth roughly $200 million — before shutting down in 1942. At its peak, Vulture City housed thousands of residents, and all the lawlessness that comes with remote wealth. The mine’s most notorious landmark is its hanging tree, where
legend holds that 18 miners were executed for stealing gold, their bodies left on display as a warning. It has been featured on multiple paranormal investigation programs, and visitors today still report cold spots, shadow figures, and the faint sounds of voices in the otherwise silent desert. Closer to home, the West Valley’s own ground carries weight. The area around present-day Glendale and Peoria sits near ancient Hohokam canal routes — one of the most sophisticated pre-Columbian irrigation systems in North America — and the Salt River Valley was home to thriving agricultural communities for over a thousand years before European contact. That history doesn’t always make it into neighborhood welcome packets. Arizona’s spooky reputation tends to get all the headline attention from Tombstone and Jerome. But the West Valley’s haunted history — less theatrical, more quietly layered — is all around us. It just takes a little looking. Vulture City offers guided tours and paranormal investigation nights throughout October. If you haven’t made the drive, it’s worth it.
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It’s October and that means pumpkins! This delicious pumpkin bread is packed with pumpkin flavor and fragrant autumn spices and your house will smell amazing all day. Ingredients • 2 cups all-purpose flour • 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice (or 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp ginger, 1/2 tsp nutmeg) • 1 tsp baking soda • 1/2 tsp salt • 1 & 1/2 cups canned pumpkin puree • 1/2 cup vegetable oil • 1 & 1/2 cups granulated sugar • 2 large eggs
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Voting 411 Political signs will line major streets, campaign messages will fill mailboxes and social media feeds, and conversations about Arizona’s Nov. 3 general election will become increasingly common. But for residents, the most important part of election season isn’t the advertising. It’s knowing what’s actually on the ballot. Arizona voters will decide races for statewide and legislative offices, along with ballot propositions that could affect policies across the state. Depending on where they live, Goodyear voters may also encounter contests and issues involving other jurisdictions that provide services to their neighborhoods. That makes October an important month for doing some homework. Arizona’s voter registration deadline is Oct. 5, followed closely by the beginning of early voting Oct. 7. Those dates give residents a relatively short window to confirm their registration, learn about candidates and measures, and decide whether to vote early or wait until Election Day. For a fast-growing community such as Goodyear, elections can have particularly visible consequences. Transportation, housing, public safety, water, economic development and infrastructure are more than campaign talking points here. They’re everyday concerns in a city where new neighborhoods and businesses continue to reshape how residents live, work and travel.
Growth also means some newer residents may be voting in Goodyear for the first time. They may be unfamiliar with local districts, polling locations or which government agencies are responsible for the services they use.
Before casting a ballot, residents should review their official sample ballot and voter information from Maricopa County and the Arizona Secretary of State rather than relying solely on campaign advertisements or social media posts. And don’t overlook the propositions. Ballot measures often receive less attention than candidate races, yet their effects can last for years. Election season may bring plenty of political noise to Goodyear this October. Cutting through that noise starts with a simpler task: knowing what’s on your ballot, what it would change and when it’s time to vote.
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Día De Los Muertos More Than a the same time, which is perhaps the most honest thing a tradition can do.
Holiday: How Día de los Muertos Lives in the West Valley What outsiders sometimes mistake for a Mexican Halloween is actually something much older, much deeper, and much more beautiful than that.
The Phoenix metro, including the West Valley’s significant Hispanic communities in Avondale, Glendale, and Goodyear, has embraced the holiday publicly and joyfully in recent years. This month, the 15th Annual MIKIZTLI: Día de los Muertos PHX Festival returns on October 24th at the Arizona Center in downtown Phoenix. The free, family-friendly event features mariachi, ballet folklórico, 8-foot animated skeleton puppets, a community ofrenda, food trucks, and a closing procession and dance. It draws thousands of attendees each year. For West Valley residents who may be encountering the holiday for the first time through their neighbors or coworkers, it’s worth understanding what it actually is before assuming you already know. This is not Halloween with a cultural spin. It is a genuine, ancient act of love, the idea that remembering the people we’ve lost keeps them, in some real way, present. That’s a beautiful thing to have in a community. The West Valley is lucky to have it.
As October turns to November, something shifts in the neighborhoods of the West Valley. Marigold petals (cempasúchil) begin appearing on doorsteps and windowsills. Sugar skulls and family photographs are arranged with quiet care on home altars. The smell of pan de muerto drifts from bakeries. For families with deep roots in Mexican and Mexican-American culture, this isn’t decoration. It’s devotion. Día de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead, is observed on November 1st and 2nd. It aligns with the Catholic holidays of All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day but is rooted in indigenous Aztec traditions stretching back thousands of years. The central belief is simple and profound: on these days, the boundary between the living and the dead grows thin, and the spirits of loved ones return to visit. Families build ofrendas (altars) with photographs, favorite foods, marigolds (whose strong scent is said to guide the spirits home), and objects meaningful to the deceased. It is not a somber occasion. It is a celebration. Grief and joy are held at
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Green Thumb Summer Is Over: Time to Plant Something
quick and impossible to disappoint. Carrots take their sweet time and test your character. Respect the dirt. Much of our soil is closer to concrete than earth, and caliche has ended more gardening careers than any heat wave. Mix compost into your beds, dig wide holes, and do not take it personally when your shovel bounces off something rude. Water like a nervous parent. New plants are needy. Water them often at first, then ease off as roots settle in. Plant in the morning, and give seedlings a little shade if a hot afternoon sneaks back for an encore. Keep a bedsheet handy. Our first frost usually holds off until late fall or winter, but tender plants like petunias appreciate a blanket on chilly nights. Yes, your old sheets finally have a purpose. Check your guidelines. Before turning the front yard into a cabbage farm, review Verrado’s landscape rules. Nobody wants a strongly worded letter about their kale. Plant now and by spring you will have color, salad and serious bragging rights. Your tomatoes will return in a few months. They are not dead. They are resting.
Congratulations, Verrado. You survived another summer in which the sidewalk could fry an egg and your patio furniture developed opinions. Now October has arrived with temperatures a human can stand in, and your yard finally gets to be more than a very expensive collection of gravel. This is planting season in the low desert. While the rest of the country rakes leaves and sighs, we get to put things in the ground on purpose. Start with color, because you’ve earned it. Pansies, violas, snapdragons, petunias, alyssum and dianthus love cool weather and will bloom until spring. Tuck them into pots by the front door and your house will look like it has its life together, even if the garage says otherwise. Vegetables that actually cooperate. Set the tomato dreams aside for now. Fall belongs to leafy greens and root crops. Sow lettuce, spinach, carrots, beets and radishes from seed, and set out transplants of broccoli, cauliflower, kale and cabbage. Radishes sprout in days, making them the golden retriever of vegetables: eager,
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New homes, businesses and industrial projects continue to transform Buckeye, but beneath the city’s rapid expansion lies a question with long-term consequences: Is there enough water to support all that growth? For Buckeye residents, the issue is especially significant because much of the city’s future depends on securing water supplies beyond the groundwater traditionally used to support development in the West Valley. One major piece of Buckeye’s strategy is water from the Harquahala Valley, west of the city. Buckeye has acquired rights to a substantial groundwater supply there and is working toward the infrastructure and approvals necessary to transport that water into the community. City officials have described Harquahala water as an important part of diversifying Buckeye’s portfolio and supporting its future. But moving water across the desert requires pipelines, treatment facilities, pumping systems, regulatory approvals and considerable investment. Meanwhile, development isn’t standing still. New subdivisions continue expanding Buckeye’s residential footprint, while commercial and industrial
projects promise jobs and economic activity. Large water and electricity users, including potential data centers and advanced manufacturing facilities, can also intensify public scrutiny over how limited resources are allocated. That makes water more than an environmental issue. It’s a growth issue, an economic- development issue and, ultimately, a household issue. Residents have reason to ask how infrastructure will be financed, whether new development will pay its share and how the city will protect existing customers as demand increases. Buckeye faces a challenge shared across the fast- growing West Valley: Growth can bring new employers, stores, restaurants, housing and public investment, but those benefits depend on infrastructure keeping pace. The question isn’t simply whether Buckeye has water today. It’s whether decisions being made today will provide a reliable and affordable supply decades from now. As thousands more residents are expected to call Buckeye home, that may become one of the most important measures of whether the city’s remarkable growth is sustainable.
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