Super Foods Hit Mesa > Lost Incan Treasure @ Friday Farmers Market

Introducing to The New Urban DTMesa:
The Pichuberry - those sexy French call it "amour in cage" or "love in a cage"
Bringing the world to your table - at least once a week
Physalis peruviana is a plant species of the genus Physalis.
It is originally from Peru - and it's about time all you foodies, super-food fanatics and Sancti-mommies taste, buy and eat these at your table.
The plant and its fruit is known as uchuva (Colombia), Cape gooseberry (South Africa, UK, Australia, New Zealand), Inca berry, Aztec berry, golden berry, giant ground cherry, African ground cherry, Peruvian groundcherry, Peruvian cherry, and sometimes simply Physalis (United Kingdom).^[2][3][4]

It is indigenous to South America, but has been cultivated in England since the late 18th century and in South Africa in the region of the Cape of Good Hope since at least the start of the 19th century.

[description and image from Wikipedia]



Find it on Main Street at Mojo Tree Farm every Friday 9-1.
If food is your medicine, you don't need a prescription for these.

https://youtu.be/CHh_7mRPHf8

Find Out more > http://www.pichuberry.com/

Hey! Have You Heard of This Movie?



The Force Awakens?
Apparently, it’s some sort of science-fiction story.
Spaceships, people in funny white suits, that sort of stuff.
Anyway, there’s a new international TV spot for it, which means that we get approximately 3.6 seconds of new footage and some pretty snazzy Simplified Chinese subtitles.

New lines of dialogue to consider:
Rey (to BB-8, after it answers her question “where are you from?” with a series of beeps): “Classified? Really. Me, too.”
Han (to the Millennium Falcon, ostensibly): “Come on, baby, don’t let me down!”
The Falcon (after crashing into snow): “SMMMMMSHHHHHFFFFFFFFF”
http://www.wired.com/2015/12/force-awakens-international-trailer/

68,871,910 people have already watched this official 2:24 You Tube trailer
https://youtu.be/sGbxmsDFVnE









PLAYING LOCAL IN MESA STARTING ON THU 17 DEC:
Cinemark 16 @ 7:00, 10:35 and 1:50
3D @ 8:00 p.m. and 1:55

AMC Mesa Grand 24

East Valley Partnership Names Gilbert Mayor John Lewis President and CEO

PHOENIX (Dec. 9, 2015) After conducting a thorough search over the last four months that drew candidates from across the country, East Valley Partnership has named Gilbert Mayor John Lewis President and CEO.
Lewis succeeds Roc Arnett, who served as President and CEO of East Valley Partnership for the past 13 years.

Formed in 1982, East Valley Partnership is a regional nonpartisan coalition that actively advocates in areas such as economic development, education, transportation and infrastructure, healthcare and others to improve the business climate and overall quality of life in the East Valley. Phoenix East Valley communities are leaders in Arizona economic development that is driving advanced business expansion, specialized job growth, higher wages, and innovation.
http://www.evp-az.org/

Lewis has served as Mayor of Gilbert for nearly seven years and has 28 years of private sector business experience. He spent 19 years with Apollo Group (parent company of University of Phoenix) and nine years with Ernst & Young in various roles including information technology management, leadership development and management consulting.
Lewis and his family have lived in Gilbert for 30 years. He serves on regional boards and committees for the Arizona League of Cities Executive Committee, Maricopa Association of Government (MAG) Regional Council and Economic Development Committee, Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport Board, Greater Phoenix Economic Council and Arizona BrainFood. He earned his MBA from the University of Houston and a bachelor of science degree from Brigham Young University.

East Valley Partnership’s leadership is currently working closely with the Town of Gilbert on a transition plan for Mayor Lewis to assume his new role as the President/CEO during the summer of 2016. East Valley Partnership’s Project Manager, Mike Hutchinson, will serve as interim President and CEO until Lewis assumes his new role.

Hutchinson was a long time senior executive for the City of Mesa serving as the City Manager from March of 2000 until his retirement in 2005. He has worked at the East Valley Partnership managing a variety of projects since May of 2008.
He helped shape and develop Mesa into a place of great neighborhoods, outstanding cultural institutions, vibrant and bustling businesses and a place where civic leaders from both the private and non-profit sector pulled together in times of need. In 2012 he was named Mesa Man of The Year

This Just In From The Governor > Need A Ride?

Hi,
I’ve talked a lot about 21st-century innovation in 2015, and the need to transform Arizona into a 21st-century economy. 
We've let rideshare drivers operate freely in our state. That's allowed Arizonans to make an honest living, and thousands to utilize this convenient service. 
And microbreweries that faced caps on their production, can now expand, serve more customers and hire more workers. 
Take a look at our latest videos below highlighting the work we’ve done for Arizona this year – and stay tuned – we’re just getting started!

Thanks!

Doug

https://twitter.com/dougducey/status/674982872533499908

Q2 Data from Bureau of Economic Analysis

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has issued the following news release today:
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 46 states and the District of Columbia in the second quarter of 2015. Overall, U.S. real GDP by state grew at an annual rate of 3.8 percent in the second quarter of 2015 after increasing 0.7 percent in the first quarter of 2015. Finance and insurance; professional, scientific, and technical services; and wholesale trade were the leading contributors to real U.S. economic growth in the second quarter.Finance and insurance; professional, scientific, and technical services; and wholesale trade were the leading contributors to real U.S. economic growth in the second quarter.

Mining decreased 17.9 percent and subtracted from growth in 49 states in the second quarter of 2015.
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/gdp_state/qgsp_newsrelease.htm

Mesa Now #35 - Merry Main Street > Chris Brady Reporting

Now doing on-air reporting from the Winter Wonderland Skating Rink next to City Hall Plaza - 
Here's television reporter Chris Brady who's now anchored three shows on Channel 11
just two guys playing sportscaster-bros on the sidelines??
What could they be up to?
Mayor John Giles -all dressed-up in a suit-and-tie - on City-owned Channel 11 . . . can you tell there's a re-election campaign?
Gotta wonder if these two bros will continue to use taxpayer-funded publicly-owned media to promote individual election campaigns

COMPASS > Who Points The Way To Go??

This could get embarrassing . . .maybe the title of this publication, put out by the Mesa Chamber of Commerce and published by Republic Media, gets it all wrong.
3 people who want to make themselves the center of attention on the front cover of
COMPASS
Mesa, Arizona Resource Guide 2016
It's out now for all next year . . . in what direction are we headed with this bald-faced self-promotion of three certain individual??? [one is now out of the picture due to a recent scandal]
Transparency + Accountability = WhatWorksMesa