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Ho, Ho, Ho-liday happenings
The spirit of the season is in full swing in the SanTan downtown area will also be closed or restricted during the
Sun area, so grab your family, friends and sweetheart and festivities. A map showing street closures and parking options
experience the joy of the holidays at these events. is available at
www.chandleraz.gov/special-events.
In addition, construction on the new Chandler City Hall
Tree lighting, parade has changed the staging area for the parade entries. In recent
More than 12,000 people are expected to visit downtown years, the groups formed up on the east side of Arizona
Chandler on Sat., Dec. 5 to celebrate the holiday season Avenue, along Chicago Street near the police and court
during the 53rd annual Tumbleweed Tree Lighting and buildings. This year, the staging area is in the Site 6 parking
Parade of Lights at Dr. A.J. Chandler Park. lot on the west side of Arizona Avenue, north of Chicago
The festivities begin at 4:30 p.m. with entertainment, Street.
music and fun for children, and the parade follows at 7 p.m., The parade route begins at the corner of Arizona Avenue
featuring 51 entries including 23 fl oats. Immediately after the and Chicago Street, then moves north on Arizona Avenue
parade, the City lights the grand Tumbleweed Tree. through the downtown park. The procession then turns right
“Our City Parks crews are putting the fi nishing touches on at Buffalo Street, followed by another right turn onto Arizona
the Tumbleweed Tree and it is ready to be illuminated right Place. After moving along the east side of Dr. A.J. Chandler
after the Parade of Lights,” says Chandler Special Events Park, the parade ends at the corner of Boston Street and
Coordinator Hermelinda Llamas. “It is a great night that Arizona Place.
STSN photo
brings the community together.”
FAUX TREE: Not a pine tree? Who cares!
The City reminds residents that Arizona Avenue will be
Chandler’s Tumbleweed Tree at A.J. Chandler
closed for the event between Chandler Boulevard and Frye
Park has been a tradition for decades. See the
Road from 4 to 10 p.m. Several other smaller streets in the
tree’s offi cial lighting on Dec. 5.
See Ho, Ho, Ho-liday Page 48
V’s shaves prices
EEC offers green seasonal fun
for the holidays
Add a bit more green to the season with a touch
of nature, the outdoors and the environment at
by Joan Westlake
the City of Chandler’s Environmental Education
A gift card for a shave and a
Center.
haircut is just one of the great
For parents who need a little time away to
guys’ gifts V’s Barbershops are
get caught up on holiday chores and errands,
offering for the holidays.
the EEC offers Parents Afternoon Out. From
To help you really hit a
1 to 4 p.m. on Wed., Dec. 9 and Wed., Dec.
homerun on presents for your
16, children ages 3 to 6 are invited to spend
super man, through Dec. 31,
the afternoon with EEC staff while parents get
the barbershop is taking half
caught up on holiday preparations. The staff
off the popular and pricey
leads the children in fun, hands-on, nature-
($150) Oster hand-massager
based activities including games, crafts, fi lm-
and reducing its shave
shorts and mini-hikes. The cost is $12 for
Submitted photo
products and collectable
Chandler residents and $15 for nonresidents.
sports memorabilia artwork
COWBOY CROONER: Ted Newman is
But preregistration is required and space is
the featured performer for the Wed.,
by 25 percent. Jan. 6, 2010 Sonoran Sunset Series, a
limited, so call to reserve a spot.
Among the framed sports STSN photo
new monthly outdoor entertainment
program that takes place beside the
photographs at the Ocotillo/ NOSTALGIA: Stella DeWolfe cuts Dave Woodward’s hair at lake at Veterans Oasis Park.
See EEC Page 54
Fulton Ranch shop are: Coach
V’s Barbershop in Southern Chandler.
Mike Ditka of the Bears ($229), Muhammad Ali over Sonny Liston ($229), and Larry
Bird choking Dr. J ($129), Amar’e Stoudemire ($129), Derek Jeter throwing a pitch
($129) and Dick Butkis ($329). Burger battle won by local chef
Jim Valenzuela, V’s Barbershop founder and CEO, says the concept for V’s came
from his sense of nostalgia for the old fashioned barbershops he went to with his
The Crab and Whitefi sh Burger made by
father in Tucson. It was more than a haircut. It was a rite of passage to go to the
Executive Chef Kevin Glowacki from Seville Golf &
bastions of masculinity.
Country Club was the “hands-down winner” of a
“I grew up and found myself going to these quick-cutting places where a different
recent Burger Battle on NBC’s “Today” show with
person cut your hair each time. It was like haircut roulette as to what you’d walk
Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb.
out with. And, I’d try going with my wife to her beauty parlor but reading Cosmo
Using a tilapia and jumbo lump crab meat
and Seventeen just was not my style.”
patty and served with Chipotle aioli sauce, lettuce
Valenzuela says he wanted a place where he could be proud to take his son, just
and onions on a bun, Glowacki aced out Ingrid
as his father did. A barbershop that was upscale but affordable, with barbers who
Hoffman, host of “Simply Delicioso” on the Food
know your name and style.
Network and Mike Carrino, owner and chef of
In November 1999, the fi rst V’s Barbershop opened in Arcadia in Phoenix. The
Restaurant Passionne in Montclair, NJ.
neighborhood embraced it and it received media attention across the country.
Glowacki’s creation is currently featured on the
“The national news said we were like something transported out of the
menu at Bolero’s Restaurant at Seville, a residential
Godfather,” says Valenzuela. “We’ve stayed true and authentic. There are no
community at the base of the San Tan Mountains.
To view a video of the contest and Glowacki’s
STSN photo by Gordon Murray
pedicures or back waxing here.”
win, visit
www.today.msnbc.msn.com/
CRABBY PATTY: Executive Chef Kevin
Glowacki with his winning “burger.”
See V’s Page 54
id/26184891/vp/34062859.
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