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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Posts Tagged ‘Tesseract School’

The restorative power of painting poppies

The months from November through February are always a long slog for our small staff. As if the challenges of publishing monthly magazine and daily online content are not enough, we add two huge projects to the mix: our annual Schools, etc. education guide and our annual Camp Fair AZ, held the end of each [...]

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Two fairs, three festivals

Explore a trio of festivals taking place in the Valley this weekend — celebrating Black History Month, Japanese culture and more. Then, head out to the 2012 RAK Camp Fair taking place this weekend only.

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Inspiration from a former co-worker

Nancie Schauder’s name first appeared on our staff roster 20 years ago, in October 1991. She was, as I later wrote, “one of those gifts that popped out of nowhere in the early days of our magazine’s history.” Nancie was a vital member of our advertising sales staff for nearly 10 years, before she left the [...]

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Set-up? Check.

The signs are posted. The pipe-and-draping is up. The tables are covered in Cub Scout colors of navy, gold and white, with two chairs neatly placed behind each one. Some yummy-looking breakfast pastries are waiting for exhibitors and staff who will begin showing up as early as 7:30am. We got the gymnasium at Tesseract School [...]

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Ready for Camp Fair, with thanks to the Emmas

We have two wonderful interns from Chaparral High School: Emma Zang-Schwartz (left), who is the editor of the school newspaper and typically helps in our editorial department, and Emma Nyren, who assists our advertising and circulation departments. When they’re not around, we call them “the Emmas,” or “Emma squared.” It’s done quite affectionately, and gratefully. I [...]

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A history of Camp Fair

In February 2004, our magazine was about to enter its 15th year of publication. Our cover mom that month was Yen-Li Chen-Zhang, a former Ballet Arizona principal dancer who was operating her own ballet school in Chandler. (It recently celebrated its 10th year.) My son Andy was a freshman in college; my son David a junior [...]

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Watching the clock for Camp Fair 2011

I went to bed Monday night feeling both relieved and guilty. Relieved because it wouldn’t be me sleeping fitfully, waking up every hour to glance in panic at the alarm clock, fearful that I’d slept through the alarm. Guilty because I foisted responsibility for an early morning obligation onto Calendar & Directories Editor Mala Blomquist. [...]

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