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Published by Estrella Publishing LLC, PO Box 6962, Goodyear AZ 85338. Catherine Uretsky, Publisher and Editor Talia Ebert, Assistant Editor Al Uretsky, Publisher and Sales Executive 623.398.5541 info@EstrellaPublishing.com All contents © 2010-present Estrella Publishing LLC. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in any form, in whole or part, without written permission from Estrella Publishing LLC is prohibited. Estrella Publishing accepts freelance contributions, there is no guarantee that materials will be used or returned. Estrella Publishing is not responsible for the content of contributing writers and advertisers and assumes no responsibility for errors appearing within. Opinions expressed are those of the writers and not necessarily those of the Publisher or Advertisers. Estrella Publishing reserves the right to restrict all advertisement to their proper classification and to edit or reject any copy at its sole discretion. Neither this publication nor Estrella Publishing is an agent of or in any way affiliated with the associated Developer nor Homeowners Association, or any of their respective affiliates. This publication has not been approved by, sponsored by, or endorsed by the associated Developer nor Homeowners Association in any way.

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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.

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, CB Living Magazine info@estrellapublishing.com

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

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Día de los Muertos As October turns to November, marigold petals (cempasúchil) appear on West Valley doorsteps and windowsills. Sugar skulls and family photographs fill home altars, and 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. The Phoenix metro, including the West Valley’s significant Hispanic communities in Avondale, Glendale and Goodyear, has embraced the holiday publicly and joyfully. This month, the 15th Annual MIKIZTLI: Día de los Muertos PHX Festival returns 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. For residents encountering the holiday for the first time through neighbors or coworkers, it’s worth understanding what it is before assuming you already know. It is a genuine, ancient act of love, the idea that remembering the people we’ve lost keeps them, in some real way, present.

Día de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead, is observed 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. 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 and marigolds, whose strong scent is said to guide spirits home. It is a celebration, holding grief and joy at the same time.

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spice, baking soda and salt. Set aside 2 cups all-purpose flour, 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice, 1 tsp baking soda, 1/2 tsp salt 3. In a medium bowl, whisk together the remaining ingredients. 1 & 1/2 cups canned pumpkin puree, 1/2 cup vegetable oil, 1 & 1/2 cups granulated sugar, 2 large eggs 4. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and stir until just combined. 5. Spoon into prepared baking pan and bake for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out with just a few moist crumbs and the top springs back when lightly touched. 6. Enjoy!

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Hi Neighbor!

My friends love the tribute concerts in Corte Bella, which always sell out. Often they can’t tell the tribute from the original, maybe because it’s been over 40 years since they heard the original. Attending a performance in CB, Sun City West or Surprise also keeps them off the highways at night. The Presbyterian church around the corner often has concerts, and the West Valley Symphony plays nearby in Surprise. Music isn’t your only choice. One couple takes the visiting sister to anything horse-related: rodeos, horse shows and races in Buckeye, Morristown and the AZ State Fairground. Guys might enjoy auto museums (one in Glendale) or local car shows in Corte Bella and Sun City West. The west valley also has the wildlife zoo at the 303 and Northern, Lake Pleasant for boating, dining and fishing, and a Peoria theater company for Broadway fans. Spring training games are in Surprise, Peoria and Glendale, and the Westgate Entertainment District is near the Cardinals’ stadium. Further west, Wickenburg has cowboy museums and a performing arts venue.

Downtown, reached via Grand Avenue to avoid the freeways, offers the Phoenix Art Museum, Heard Museum, Japanese Friendship Garden, Arizona Science Center and Victorian architecture at The Square PHX, all in daylight. The Diamondbacks (some day games), Mercury and Suns also play downtown. Blues and jazz abound too; check the KJZZ jazz calendar. One highfalutin couple attends every opera and ballet performance possible, mostly downtown, some as matinees. The valley has nearly 20 symphony orchestras, but they fall asleep to the music. Like the lady down the street says, you make better choices when you plan ahead. One man gives the grandchildren the car keys and a couple hundred bucks and suggests where they can disappear. He’s talked out after two days, so he schedules three days in the middle for them to explore alone. Smart thinking. (Hey! Send them to Tlaquepaque’s Día de los Muertos in Sedona.)

Submitted by G. G. Wosi, Corte Bella resident

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Number 11

On October 25th, State Farm Stadium will give Larry Fitzgerald the sendoff he never officially asked for. It’s long overdue, and it should be perfect. There’s a version of Larry Fitzgerald that will always exist in the memory of this state, frozen somewhere between that Super Bowl catch in Tampa and the last quiet fade of his final season. On October 25th, that version finally gets its moment, with Fitzgerald at midfield and his No. 11 jersey rising toward the rafters. If you’re in the building, or watching from your couch in Glendale or Goodyear, it will be something worth remembering. The halftime ceremony against the Denver Broncos will fold two honors into one night: Fitzgerald’s induction into the Cardinals Ring of Honor as its 20th member, and the official retirement of No. 11, only the sixth number in the history of the franchise to receive that distinction. He will join Larry Wilson, Pat Tillman, Stan Mauldin, J.V. Cain and Marshall

Goldberg in that small, permanent group. Fitzgerald has still never formally announced his retirement. He simply stepped away after the 2020 season, which makes the evening feel perfectly in character for a man who was never interested in spectacle for its own sake. The ceremony will also be a reminder of just how rare his story was. Seventeen seasons. One team. Two hundred and sixty-three games. No rumors of leaving, no contract holdout, no tearful press conference announcing a move to a contender. In a league built on transactions and leverage, Fitzgerald played all of it in cardinal red and never made a fuss about it. Owner Michael Bidwill put it cleanly when the team announced the honors: his excellence on the field was only surpassed by the way he represented the team and the community off it. That tracks. His charitable work in the Valley has been as consistent and low-key as everything else about him.

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The Doctor Is In

Managing Your Mental Bandwidth 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. • 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

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Your Patio Is Calling

After months of planning errands around triple- digit temperatures, October brings one of the most welcome changes of the year to Sun City: the return of outdoor season. Cooler mornings and increasingly comfortable evenings make it easier to trade air conditioning for walking shoes, golf clubs, bicycles and patio chairs. For residents who spent much of the summer limiting outdoor activity to the earliest hours of the day, fall can feel like getting part of the community back. Golf is an obvious place to start. Sun City’s courses become considerably more inviting as temperatures retreat, giving residents more opportunities to play without racing the afternoon heat. The same goes for walking and cycling. Neighborhood streets and paths offer opportunities to get moving, while nearby parks and recreation areas can provide a change of scenery. October is also a good time to gradually rebuild an outdoor exercise routine that may have slowed during summer. For gardeners, fall brings another reason to head outside. Arizona’s cooler season allows residents to refresh containers, tend landscaping and plant varieties

suited to the months ahead. Even simple projects can make patios and yards more enjoyable as outdoor entertaining returns. Residents willing to venture beyond Sun City have even more choices. West Valley trails and desert recreation areas become increasingly appealing as temperatures moderate, opening the door to hiking, birdwatching and picnics. Closer to home, sometimes the best fall activity requires no itinerary at all. Morning coffee on the patio, an evening walk with a neighbor or dinner outdoors can feel like luxuries after another intense Arizona summer. Some caution is still warranted. October can produce surprisingly hot afternoons, and residents should continue carrying water, using sun protection and choosing activities appropriate for their fitness level. But the seasonal shift has finally begun. In Sun City, fall isn’t about watching leaves change color. It’s about watching sidewalks, golf courses, patios and outdoor gathering spaces come alive again — and remembering why so many residents look forward to this time of year.

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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.

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. 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 brings plenty of political noise 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.

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, 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.

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Green Thumb Summer Is Over: Time to Plant Something

lettuce, spinach, carrots, beets and radishes, and set out broccoli, cauliflower, kale and cabbage transplants. Radishes sprout in days, making them the golden retriever of vegetables. Carrots take their sweet time and test your character. Short on space? Patios and courtyards suit containers and raised beds, which also dodge caliche, the cement- like mineral layer beneath much of our soil that has ended more gardening careers than any heat wave. Water like a nervous parent. New plants are needy. Water often at first, then ease off. Keep a bedsheet handy. First frost usually holds off until late fall or winter, but tender plants like petunias appreciate a blanket on chilly nights. Check the guidelines. Before turning the front yard into a cabbage farm, review the community’s landscape rules. Nobody wants a strongly worded letter about kale. Plant now, and by spring you’ll have color, salad and serious bragging rights. Your tomatoes will return in a few months. They are resting.

Congratulations, Corte Bella. You survived another summer in which the sidewalk could fry an egg and your golf cart seat could leave a brand. October has arrived with temperatures a human can stand in, and it’s time to plant! This is prime 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 bloom until spring. Pots on the patio or by the front door will welcome returning winter residents better than any casserole. Vegetables that cooperate. Leave tomato dreams for later. Fall belongs to leafy greens and root crops. Sow

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This Fall, Corte Bella shines — and so do our newest listings. Each home we bring to market reflects the beauty, pride, and lifestyle of our community. Whether you’re searching for a golf ‑ course retreat, a lock ‑ and ‑ leave seasonal home, or a beautifully updated residence, our October listings offer something special. This season brings something extra to celebrate: the awaited reopening of the Corte Bella restaurant. With its return, our community feels complete again: neighbors gathering, familiar faces returning, and the heart of Corte Bella’s social life beating stronger than ever. As longtime Corte Bella residents and specialists, we understand what makes this neighborhood extraordinary. We live here. We work here. We love it here.

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