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HONORABLE DADDY: SAL DICICCIOThe twin five-year-old girls wake up grudgingly after a couple of persistent nudges from their daddy. They try to turn over to ignore him for a few more snoozy moments.

“C’mon, girls. Let’s get up and eat,” he coaxes them. “Remember, we’re doing pictures today.”

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FEATURED ARTISTJoe Ray is a Latino painter and printmaker living in the Valley Of The Sun...

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HOLIDAY STYLE: YOU AND YOUR HOMEStyle~Personality~Flair…we all have a unique way of announcing our own.

08LAW AND ORDER Area44 Avoiding Identity Theft during the Holidays

12A TASTE OF NEW YORK Finding “That One Thing”

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WORKING MY WAY BACK TO “YOU”We are inundated with buzz words regarding our health...

30DESIGNER’S CORNERFeaturing Denise Teichert

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MODELSAnna and Emilia Diccicio (Along with their mother Deb Diccicio)

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WRITERSHal Dekeyser Bruce WarnerGarrison Howard Marlie E.Laura Slama Denise TeichertKevin Ham

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We would like to thank our family and some dear friends that gave us the inspiration, strength and a large dose of “consturctive criticism” (you know which friends you are) we needed to put our brain cells in print and deliver a magazine the community can be proud of.

One of the most amazing aspects of publishing is the myriad of options and avenues available to enhance our lives and our loves. TukeeAZ is quite simply a magazine with a “welcome to my world” approach. We will strive to deliver interesting content, some fact and some fiction, a well bred mixture of boldness and courtesy contained in witty and informative articles. We’ll present “behind the curtain” opinions with style, passion and an uncanny air of familiarity. We will generate excitement for our advertisers through events you’ll want to be a part of and beautifully structured ads that you’ll want to cut out and frame! We place a premium on journalism that is delivered with cultivated zeal from established writers, to those who are writing for their next meal. We will always keep you coming back for more.

Our passion for the community and its residents comes from over 20 years of living, playing and working in this cul de sac. TukeeAZ is a culmination of those experiences. In choosing a name for the magazine, we wanted to deliver a product that sets itself apart but still gives you the elements a community looks for and needs.

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Style~Personality~Flair…we all have a unique way of announcing our own. And during the Holiday season our “personalities” seem to shine a little brighter, perhaps a bit bolder. That is reflected in our fashion choices and also our home décor selections. Our personal style is often carried directly from our closet’s fabrics and accessories into our home’s fabrics and accessories. Holiday party fashions and Holiday home decorating are no exception.

Having started my career in Fashion Design, I understand that like fashion our home design and decorating reflects our personalities and individual style. That is especially prevalent during this time of year, when festive gatherings, entertaining and celebrations are taking place. We certainly know how to bring out the bling, accessorizing ourselves, our homes, our children, dogs and sometimes even our vehicles, announcing to the world our personal tastes (some good, some not so good) and flair. There are a few rules that apply when it comes to Holiday accessorizing, whether it’s you or your home that’s being transformed. Party fashions and home entertaining have similar design dilemmas. Here are a few seasonably fashionable tips to help ensure you AND your home will shine bright, yet tasteful, bold and beautiful throughout this joyous time of year.

By Denise Teichert

• Don’toverdressyourselfORyour home. More is not always merrier! Simple and elegant almost always is a good rule to follow. Absolutely introduce those dynamic accessories, just don’t overdo it. Let them shine, stand out, get the attention they deserve. Too many clashing accessories on your body or your walls can take you from classy to cluttered. Tis the season I know, however there’s no reason to adorn yourself like a Christmas tree. There’s also no need to carry it massively throughout the rest of your home. We want a peaceful season.

• Allthatglittersisnotalwaysgold. Actually, this showy color is making a big comeback so go ahead; feel free to use it with pride. Whatever colors you choose bring the bling-bling on. Beads, crystals, metals and feathers can be used together to bring a sophisticated balance of shimmer and matte. Keep in mind however, bling lightly…classy not cluttered. Personally, I am thinking this is the year I’ll get that black feather Christmas tree!

• Onerulethatalwaysapplies,even during the flamboyancy of the Holiday season, size does matter! The size of the accessory should always be in proportion to where it’s being displayed. If you decide you’d like to showcase

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a larger item, that’s ok! It’s just best to have that one large item you love presented alone rather than creating visual chaos by grouping many items together in order to fill a space. That holds true whether you are coving your body or your walls.

• NontraditionalHolidaycolors are sure to make you and your décor style look as hot as our winter temperatures. Let’s face it; red and green aren’t always the most flattering on us or in our living spaces. The shades are tough to work around and they are powerfully strong colors. Some new festive colors you may want to introduce to your wardrobe and décor…blue, pink, silver, gold, black and white.

Whatever your style, enjoy sharing it with your family and friends. Let your personality shine through beautifully this Holiday Season! Be peacefully creative and courageous with your accessory choices. Carry your personality out of your closet and throughout your living space. Or…vice versa…which is another article we’ll save for the New Year…New You! ☺

A Very Happy Holiday and Wish of a Wonderful New Year to All of You!

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Area 44 is the Phoenix Police Department’s patrol area within the community of Ahwatukee Foothills.

Unlike Area 51, outside of las vegas, Area 44 has had no UFO sightings, so far. Commander Crokett has directed its officers with a vision to provide the citizens of Ahwatukee the highest qulaity of service from it’s Police officers. The objective of the organization is to identify the problems and suppress crime. For which no area is immune.

Under the departments leadership, Public Safety Manager Jack Harris, will continue to support the Ahwatukee area with a full compliment of Patrol officers, detectives,NeighborhoodEnforcementTeam, and Community Action officers that operate out of the Pecos Community Center where it houses a Substation to support Area 44.

TukeeAZ Magazine and Area 44 will provide regular editorials keeping you informed and aware.

by Lt. Mark Tallman

What’s Behind the Curtain?Law &

Order

The Internet is a large venue for

information gathering. I’m sure you are

just like Tens of millions of others that

surf the web, and are asked to provide

your personal information, just to get

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really cool web site. How many times

have you logged into a web site that

requires your name and email address

in order to obtain access for a trial use?

Some will even go as far as providing

their Credit Card information. We have

become too accepting of these web

predators. When should security

conscious consumers be leary? And how

should you be selective with both retail-

ers and ecommerce sales transactions?

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of Identity Theft or Fraud. Immediately

contact your bank and/or credit card

company. Then call your local police

agency and have a report initiated.

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Theft During The

Holidays


The twin five-year-old girls wake up

grudgingly after a couple of persistent

nudges from their daddy. They try to

turn over to ignore him for a few more

snoozy moments.

“C’mon, girls. Let’s get up and eat,” he

coaxesthem.“Remember,we’redoing

pictures today.”

After a few minutes of groggy resistance,

the girls are wide awake and giggling,

jumping on Daddy as if he were a

tolerant old golden retriever. An

insistentEmiliademandstowearher

Buzz Lightyear Halloween costume.

Meanwhile, Anna impishly pitches her

rolled-up socks from the upstairs landing

onto the window sill above the front

door, making Daddy haul out the ladder

to fish them down. He finally herds them

to the kitchen for the morning feeding

before kindergarten.

That’s morning in the life of the guy

most of us know as Phoenix City

Councilman Sal DiCiccio. At home, he’s

just Honorable Daddy.

DiCiccio, who has lived in Ahwatukee

24 years, has been elected three times

and appointed once to the job. While

much of the day finds him battling fiscal

and other burning concerns for the city

of Phoenix, mornings and evenings he

transforms into a version of Mr. Mom.

His wife Debbie’s career as a medical

software sales executive requires travel,

leaving the councilman on some days to

wake, dress, feed and transport the girls

to school.

Kids came to the DiCiccios later in life,

adopted from China. Five years ago on

Debbie’s birthday, the couple decided

to request twins. The next day the

girls were born in Nanchang. The two

uninitiated parents flew to China, where

the twin babies were handed to them.

Neither had ever changed a diaper.

“One of the girls wet herself, and I

handed the baby to Debbie and said she

needs her diaper changed,” DiCiccio

said. “She gave me a look. I had just

assumed she knew how to do it,”

DiCiccio said.

“So in August, in a hot, humid room

with no air-conditioning, and with seven

or eight Chinese nannies staring at

Honorable Daddy

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by Hal DeKeyser

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everything she was doing, looking over

her shoulder, she had to change her first

diaper. After that, it was easy.”

The babies had not been handled much

in their foster home prior to adoption,

and they were unfamiliar and anxious

with their new family. They didn’t crawl

until a year old. Now, DiCiccio said, they

“tear it up.”

That was demonstrated at the

councilman’s swearing in last January

atCityHall.Rightinthemiddleof

DiCiccio’s oath, with cameras rolling

and Sal’s hand on the Bible held by Deb,

Anna jumped up and landed solidly on

the raised wooden stage with a booming

THUMP! The laugh that antic extracted

fromtheaudienceencouragedEmilia

to join in, then Anna again. It was

distracting, mildly embarrassing…and

outrageously cute. Deb and Sal could do

little more than the eye roll understood

by all parents.

“They give me energy,” DiCiccio said of

the girls. “And they take it away.”

“Ifanything,it’salevelofpersistence:

Make sure they brush their teeth, get

their lunches ready, and it’s constantly

pushing to get them out the door,” he

said. “If they’re not moving fast enough,

you’re putting their socks on for them;

you’re getting them dressed as they’re

barely awake.”

Fatherhood has also taught him the

value of focus.

“When you have one child alone, you

can manage one child. But when you

put two together, they’re like a pack of

wolves,” he said, laughing. “You have to

stay focused on getting one thing done

at one time with one of them or you’ll

get nothing done, and they’ll run all

over you.”

During breakfast, Deb and Sal make

lunch and bargain parental assignments,

thenshoeupAnnaandEmiliaforschool.

A few minutes remain before takeoff,

so the girls help “sweep” the pool,

dropping the kitchen broom in the deep

end. While Sal is fishing it out, the girls

make a discovery.

“Daddy! Daddy! Look at this spider

web,” one shouts. All four peer at the

marvel of Nature in the yucca cactus,

with a brief lesson and a caution about

insects thrown in. Then it’s off to school

– a bit late and rushed – before Daddy

morphs into Councilman DiCiccio at

the first of many meetings that day. His

firstiswithanArizonaRepublicreporter,

then a neighborhood group, then a staff

briefing, followed by helping sign off

on documentation for a local business

owner to get his sandwich shop up and

running. DiCiccio expresses frustration

with how slow government often works

and the lack of appreciation for the

importance of small business.

“One day’s delay getting that guy’s

business open is one day’s delay in

ending the recession, for him and the

people he hires,” he said.

He rolls his eyes. This time he doesn’t

think it’s cute.

DiCiccio’s conservativism, especially on

budget issues, springs from seeing his

parents at the kitchen table, his father’s

shirt pocked with burn holes from the

steel mill, his folks worrying about

feeding seven mouths after another lay-

off at the plant.

“People are hurting out there,” he said

in a recent interview. “Ahwatukee is a

relatively affluent area with a great sense

of community, yet we see foreclosed

houses, shuttered businesses and

neighbors out of work. This just isn’t the

time to be piling more fees and taxes

on families that are a paycheck away

from losing their homes…We just can’t

keep piling it on working families while

the government refuses to make hard

choices.”

Sal was provoked to run for the Phoenix

City Council in 1993 after two women

were killed in separate wrecks at 48th

Street and Chandler Boulevard, where

the city had yet to put in a light. He

won in an upset, a rare ousting of an

incumbent, and was re-elected four

years later. He later ran for Secretary

of State, falling in the primary to Jan

Brewer. Had he won that last primary,

he likely would have been Governor

DiCiccio.

But he has no complaints about how

things turned out.

“Had I won that election, I wouldn’t

have been married; I wouldn’t have my

kids,” he said. “I’d still be on the track of

doing things that were important, but

not as important for me as what I have

in my life today.”

AnnaandEmiliakeeptheirfather

grounded, Debbie DiCiccio agrees,

even though most what they know is

that “he works in a big building near

where the Diamondbacks play,” and

has contests that involve signs with his

name on them all over town. While he

used to run from one event to another,

now he races home to see the kids in

the evening, even if it’s only for a few

minutes between events.

Sal moved to Ahwatukee back in 1987

after a former classmate invited him to

check out the burgeoning development

in the area where they used to chase

around on motorcycles. DiCiccio once

rolled a Jeep in the open desert about a

half mile from where he and Deb now

live.

The family remains in Ahwatukee,

DiCiccio says, in part for that comfort

level of familiar friends and the outdoor

lifestyle. Its greatest strength, he thinks,

is that it has such a clear sense of what

community is and how it feels, and that

people are willing to stand up and fight

to keep it. That’s partially because of

its physical separation from the rest of

the Valley by Interstate 10 and South

Mountain, and partially because so many

people move there specifically to raise a

family.

“It’s very safe, very community-oriented.

It is literally a community. It is a great

place to have kids because it’s very

isolated,” DiCiccio said.

“If you live in Ahwatukee, everyone

knows what that means.”

Hal DeKeyser is a longtime Valley journalist. He now serves as DiCiccio’s Chief of Staff

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Sometimes you just don’t want to leave

the “bubble” that comprises Ahwatukee.

But if you want to find a great meal,

reasonably priced, with a menu that

boasts something for everyone, and you

aren’t interested in a chain, then that can

become a challenge.

Lucky for us, Vincent’s, a New York

pizzeria and full service restaurant, opted

to open in August of 2009, smack in the

middle of a terrible economy – and is

thriving. I took the time to dine there

this evening to learn what makes our

“bubble” pop.

At first glance, it looks like any NY

pizzeria – order a slice at the counter

when you first enter (choose from over

20 during the weekend), grab a soda,

seat yourself, and enjoy …. Or, be

seated, order from the extensive menu,

have a glass of Chianti and be served. Of

course, I went for option two.

The service was attentive, informative,

and most importantly, accommodating.

Dressing on the side? No problem. Get

your self-serve soda for you? Happy to

do so. Change the menu to please my

palate? Bring it. As a professional chef

that lives to cook and cooks to please,

that makes me very happy.

So what pops? The lasagna, a

combination of house made pasta,

meat, a killer sauce, and no ricotta,

was a definite standout … My dining

partner loved the balsamic grilled

chicken – simple, healthy, flavorful. The

vegetables served with it were perfectly

cooked (and I am a vegetable snob) – I

couldn’t stop eating the cauliflower that

had obviously been roasted. My angel

hair with broccoli, garlic and olive oil

was perfectly prepared – and the (not

breaded) calamari I asked them to add

was the perfect compliment – even

though off the menu. Sure there were

a few things I would have changed, but

after extensive conversation with Jerry,

the owner (and soon to be voted Mr.

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can understand why they do the things

they do.

So if you find yourself looking for a

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Local Writers RevueWriter’s Strokepre-Atari times mind you! We were high spirited and had to find ingenious ways of entertaining ourselves since living in a small farming community located on “TheRez”providedlittleinentertain-ment. Most of us would pile into one car, a hand me down 1961 Cadillac that could only be started with a butter knife, the keys having disappeared long before into some unknown pocket. Of course, anybutter knife would work but we neverworried about it being stolen since it was the only one of its kind, and would even leave the “ignition key” on the front seat, besides, you never knew when you needed to butter some bread. One hot November evening, We were gathered around the “batmobile” with a full case of double ply toilet paper. At least we were doing it with class! Not far away was an unassuming house. The case of toilet paper was ripped open and everyone grabbed a two-pack out of it. We looked over our shoulders, laughed softly, and headed for the house. We had just started to apply the “decora-tions” when the headlights of the car in thedrivewaycameon.Quick,toTHEBATMOBILEandthechasewason! We drove for miles trying to shake the VW beetle that pursued us. Now I think you’ll agree with me , that a bat should defeat a beetle! We drove down desert back roads, through recently harvested cantaloupe fields, and as the driver (known only as “Wheels”) headed

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place with quite a bit of dust, rocks and great sunsets. He is at home in the

Southwest, having been born in Sonora, Mexico and growing up on the

ColoradoRiverIndianReservationinArizona.Hisworkhasbeenfeaturedatthe

Phoenix Museum of Art.

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Chicano perspective. The work speaks to the Mexicano, the Chicano, the

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Working My Way Back To “You”Garrison Howard

Where do I begin?

I’m young, I won’t tell you how young, I”ll just say, I’m younger than YOU! But,

(there’sthateverpresentproverbialword),Ihavelearnedhowto“PAYATTENTION”

to my health. Being in the Fitness Arena and graduating from Yale, I’m often asked

“what do you pay attention to first” and my smart ass (age appropriate) reply is “I’m

too broke to PAY attention” which, before I lose their respect, I quickly follow with

anun-smartassstatementandsay,“PayattentiontoyourBODY’SVOICE.Thisismy

terminology for Symptoms.

We are inundated with buzz words regarding our health and it simply comes to this,

if your body is sending you symptoms, listen to the sound of its voice. Is it whispering

or screaming? Now, with that said, and half of you turning the page and the smarter

half still reading, I’ll share my knowledge (on a monthly basis since this is the only

magazineI’llwritefor,OPRAHcanwait,plusmyhomeandfamily(withareallycool

Mom) live in Ahwatukee.

It doesn’t matter what you’re battling, if you’re sick or simply run down, you need

toFIRST:PUTTHE_____DOWN,andstepawaytolistentoyourbodiesvoice.Now,

since most of you reading this are educated, I don’t have to tell you to seek the advice

of your doctor, and tell you that after doing so, beginning a regimen of vitamins is an

excellent silencer to your body screaming.

The right vitamins are essential as long as they have the right mixture. A good

compounding pharmacy can help, or a reputable health store. In so doing, make

CERTAINtocheckthatyourvitaminsaretrulyorganicanddonotcontainunwanted

“extras”. That’s right, most vitamins are filled with... well, fillers. Take your glasses

with you (I’m not saying you’re old, I’d never do that because I wear them too)

andREADthelabels.Ififitcontainsingredientsthataren’tfromaknownorganic

ingredient, put them back. During the flu season, you want to increase your intake of

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