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Friend of the Week: Handsome Harvey loves to be brushed

Friend of the Week: Handsome Harvey loves to be brushed

Harvey's adoption fee is $175. At Friends for Life Animal Rescue, animals are altered, vaccinated, microchipped and dewormed. Cats are tested for FELV/FIV.
Pet Behavior Solutions: Helping your shelter dog adapt to your home

Pet Behavior Solutions: Helping your shelter dog adapt to your home

It is important that you decide on the house rules as a family and begin teaching them immediately. Don’t wait for your new dog to settle in before introducing the rules. Predetermine eating and sleeping areas, access to furniture and other rooms of the house as well as things like manners around the kitchen table. Being taught the house rules consistently from each family member, right from the start, will help make a confidant, well-mannered pet in the future. 
Last Queen Creek Family Market of the season April 22

Last Queen Creek Family Market of the season April 22

This will be the last market behind the town's library, as the Town of Queen Creek has sold the land to developers. Founder Kelly Crandall said the market will be moved to Schnepf Farms when they resume in November. Fall dates at the new location will be Nov. 11, Nov. 25, Dec. 2 and Dec. 16.
FBPE community learns about QCUSD’s AVID program

FBPE community learns about QCUSD’s AVID program

AVID Night incorporated science, technology and art to help spark interest in students and showcase to their parents what programs are available in the Queen Creek Unified School District.
Mom, Interrupted: IYKYK; OK, Boomer edition

Mom, Interrupted: IYKYK; OK, Boomer edition

Fear not. I’m not shaking my walker at the younger folk today, so all you junior Gens are safe from my cranky, nostalgic wrath. 
Free music for a good cause: 15th Annual Feeney/Winthrop Concert returns April 22

Free music for a good cause: 15th Annual Feeney/Winthrop Concert returns April 22

Matt Feeney, founding St. Joseph the Worker (SJW) board member and chair of Snell & Wilmer, and Arizona Court of Appeals Judge Larry Winthrop, formed the Feeney/Winthrop band in the early '90s and have been making music together ever since.
STEAM & Dream tech educational event for students coming to ASU April 21

STEAM & Dream tech educational event for students coming to ASU April 21

Students who participate will take part in a variety of STEM Labs with topics such as virtual reality, creating the future of tech education, money management and entrepreneurship. Environmental sustainability will also be a STEM Lab topic, to coincide with Earth Day on April 22.
Batch Cookie Shop coming to Queen Creek this summer as Queen Creek Crossing takes shape

Batch Cookie Shop coming to Queen Creek this summer as Queen Creek Crossing takes shape

This family-owned establishment opened its first location in Gilbert and is expanding to include a second location this summer in front of the new Costco in Queen Creek at the intersection of Ellsworth and Queen Creek roads. Six other businesses will join them in the second phase of Queen Creek Crossing.
Autism Life & Living to host fundraiser April 23 to support adults with autism

Autism Life & Living to host fundraiser April 23 to support adults with autism

Event open to the public.
American Lung Association: Phoenix ranks 5th in nation for ozone pollution in new report

American Lung Association: Phoenix ranks 5th in nation for ozone pollution in new report

American Lung Association's 2023 "State of the Air" report highlights air quality in Phoenix and across the nation.