Your MesaZona blogger just cannot let go of this as one of the outstanding photo opps from the year gone-bye.
On 06 December 2018 the EVP at its annual Thought Forum honored Mayor John Giles with the Dwight Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award/
“He is truly one of a kind,” Barney said of Giles.
"I am the luckiest guy that any of you guys know,” Giles said.
“I get to work for Mesa, Arizona, which is such a wonderful opportunity.
It’s a group of talented, motivated, dedicated people that make me look really, really good and as of a result of that I get to come and pick up awards.
So, I can’t thank them enough for making this possible.”
