Life Coach in Apache Junction, AZ

PHOENIX — With another round of rain expected this week, officials are warning about the increased risk of flooding in metro Phoenix.

A flood watch will go into effect at 11 a.m. Tuesday across a swath of central Arizona, the National Weather Service said.

Areas to the north and east of Phoenix, including Apache Junction, Gold Canyon, Cave Creek, New River, Fountain Hills and east Mesa, are included in the watch, which is scheduled to expire at 11 p.m. Wednesday.

That’s on top of an ongoing flood warning that runs until Saturday for flooding along the Salt and Gila rivers caused by water releases from upstream dams. A watch is issued when flooding is possible, while a warning is for when flooding is imminent or occurring.

With snowmelt & more rain chances starting tomorrow, take a moment to refresh yourself on the difference between a Watch & Warning. Flood Warnings are in effect along the Salt River, Verde River & Tonto Creek. Flood Watches are in effect in high terrain areas N & E of PHX. #azwx pic.twitter.com/8tvgpZpVL0

— NWS Phoenix (@NWSPhoenix) March 20, 2023

There’s a slight chance for overnight showers in the Phoenix area, with activity expected to pick up late Tuesday morning and last into Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. The rain could be accompanied by wind gusts in the range of 20-30 mph as the system moves through.

RELATED STORIES

Jared Heil, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Phoenix, said the heaviest activity will be in the higher terrain to the north and northwest of Phoenix.

“So for Phoenix itself, this is not going to be a huge rain event,” Heil said Monday in a video forecast. “Periods of clouds, some breezy weather, and perhaps a tenth to a third of an inch of rain in the Valley, less off to the south and southwest.”

The upcoming activity has the potential to cause more flooding in washes and other low-lying areas. Motorists who come across standing or running water are advised to “turn around, don’t drown.”

Elevated flow in Tonto Creek, Salt River, and Verde River is ongoing. With rainfall expected beginning tomorrow, this may cause other washes to also begin flooding. Remember to never drive around barricades… Turn Around, Don't Drown. #azwx pic.twitter.com/hEbvXYH99W

— NWS Phoenix (@NWSPhoenix) March 20, 2023

Storms dumped around half an inch of rain on the Valley last Wednesday.

The Phoenix area has seen 1.2 inches so far this month, making it the second-wettest March since 2006. The March average for the last 10 years is .59 inches.

Brevan Branscum is an ASU Cronkite School of Journalism student assigned to cover ALA Gilbert North for AZPreps365.com

In the seventh and final inning, down 3-2 and the bases loaded, junior Hayden Clegg walked to the plate with a chance to be the hero and to give American Leadership Academy Gilbert North its first win of the season.

There was no player the Eagles would rather have at the plate than Clegg, who led the Eagles with a 0.416 batting average the previous season.

However, in fitting fashion for the sloppy game, a pitch went into the dirt and two Eagles rounded the bases to give the team its first win of the season.

The 4-3 win over Apache Junction moved ALA Gilbert to 1-3-1 on the season. The team went 0-3-1 in the invitational opening tournament to kick off their year.

Both ALA Gilbert and Apache Junction averaged several errors per game coming into the matchup, and the mistakes continued in a sloppy game from both sides.

The Eagles took a 1-0 lead in the first inning off a Prospectors’ fielding error, and scored the final two on the wild pitch. Apache Junction scored all three runs in the fourth inning, one of which came off a fielding error from ALA Gilbert.

The mistakes by Apache Junction allowed ALA Gilbert to rally and score three runs in the final two innings. It also allowed the Eagles to do what they’re best at: get out and run.

“The key to our success is our speed,” head coach David Webster said. “We got some speed at the top of the lineup and the middle of the lineup so that’s what we’re going to live on.”

Whenever they got on base, Eagles players were always looking for opportunities to steal bases and outrun throws from the infield. Webster used this speed to the team’s advantage to mount the final inning comeback.

“I said, ‘Hey, we need to get the ball down, get the ball in play,’” Webster added. “We decided to do a little small ball in the last inning, and it worked out for us.”

After sophomore Tommy Crupi’s leadoff single, Colton Beardall and Boston Morris hit back-to-back bunts, beating the throw to first and loading the bases for Clegg before the wild pitch. Crupi and Beardall scored the go-ahead runs.

In his first three plate appearances, Clegg had one hit, drew a walk and struckout. It was his work on the mound, however, that kept the Eagles in the game.

“I was just trying to keep the team alive,” Clegg said of his pitching performance. “My mindset was to come in and give it my best effort and give it my all so that we could get the win.”

In 2 ⅓ innings pitched, Clegg unofficially allowed one hit and zero runs along with four strikeouts.

In the invitational tournament, every pitcher for ALA Gilbert struggled, including Clegg and starting pitcher Colton Jones. However, both had strong bounce back performances.

“I just kind of slowed things down,” the senior Jones said. “I just calmed myself down and pitched. That win was very opening for us.”

Jones finished with 2 earned runs allowed on four hits and added four strikeouts in 4 ⅔ innings pitched.

It was also Webster’s first win as the head coach of the team, but to him and the program, the win meant a lot more.

It was ALA Gilbert baseball’s first win since the passing of former head coach Brett Brewer earlier in the year.

The Eagles will look to honor Brewer and his legacy for the rest of the season in their first year in 4A.

Boxing Schedule: David Benavidez vs Caleb Plant- Press conference: Boxing News: On March 25, two heavy-hitting adversaries will settle their differences in the ring. In what might be a bruising super-middleweight classic, former world champions David Benavidez and Caleb Plant square off against each other. Follow Boxing News Updates with InsideSport.IN.

The bout will be held at Las Vegas’s MGM Grand Garden Arena. The winner is likely to face Canelo Alvarez, the current undisputed super middleweight champion.

Also Read: Logan Paul: Watch the WWE star digs out a blueprint of how to gain 50 million Instagram followers

The championship fight, set to last the full twelve rounds, will air live on pay-per-view. There are still a number of tickets available for the show right now.

In the United Kingdom, the fights are planned to start at midnight on Saturday, with the main event ring walk happening at 3 a.m. on Sunday.

Although the bout will be televised on Showtime PPV, no UK stations have yet purchased the rights to air it. The timings of the show will be 9 p.m. ET/ 6 p.m. PT.

The Weigh-ins will be held on the 23rd of March.

Boxing Schedule: David Benavidez vs Caleb Plant- Press conference, Weigh-ins date, Fight date and more

The co-main event features a ten-round super welterweight bout between undefeated boxers Jesus Alejandro Ramos (19-0, 15 KOs) of Casa Grande, Arizona and Joey Spencer (16-0, 10 KOs) of Grand Blanc, Michigan. A ten-round lightweight bout between Brooklyn’s Chris Colber (16-1, 6 KOs) and Renton, Washington’s Jose Valenzuela (12-1, 8 KOs), who was born in Los Mochis, Mexico. The action begins with a ten-round welterweight bout between Abel Ramos (27-5-2, 21 KOs) of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and Cody Crowley (21-0, 9 KOs) of Ontario, Canada.

Super bantamweight Kevin Gonzalez (25-0-1, 13 KOs) of Culiacan, Mexico faces off against Colombia’s Jose Sanmartin (34-6-1, 21 KOs) of Barranquilla in a ten-round bout on the undercard of Benavidez vs Plant. Furthermore, in a ten-round bout at super lightweight, Cuba’s Orestes Velazquez (6-0, 6 KOs) from Miami, FL faces Argentina’s Marcelino Nicolas Lopez (37-2-1, 22 KOs) from Arribenos, Buenos Aires. At super featherweight, Las Vegas’ Demler Zamora (10-0, 8 KOs) faces Apache Junction, Arizona’s Jesus Abel Ibarra (15-0, 7 KOs) in a battle that will go eight rounds. Below is the complete list of upcoming bouts.

To celebrate Women’s History Month, Philanthropy Roundtable is highlighting four organizations that support women and their families in a variety of ways from family preservation and trauma restoration to policy education and civic leadership training. Organizations that help vulnerable women overcome challenges as well as those that provide resources on civic engagement and how policymaking affects our daily lives are critical to creating strong communities where everyone has the opportunity to reach their full potential.

Charities that empower women and their families

• Every Mother’s Advocate (EMA) envisions a world where mothers are no longer separated from their children due to preventable causes but are equipped and empowered to raise their children in stable and nurturing homes. EMA values prevention – they believe family separation that stems from poverty can be prevented by working closely with community partners, businesses and individuals in their areas of expertise to provide mothers with people of influence. They facilitate trauma-informed, evidence-based curricula along with crafting individual plans for each mother in the program.

EMA facilitates a court-approved prevention program designed to advocate for moms in crisis and help them preserve their families. The program starts by pairing moms at risk of losing their children to foster care with a professional team of EMA Care Coordinators and a volunteer ĒMA Advocate. This care team builds a meaningful relationship and provides holistic support to ensure that every mother has an opportunity to thrive and families stay together. Read more about EMA’s outcome-based model in Philanthropy Roundtable’s Opportunity Playbook.

• Hope Women’s Center (HWC) is a trauma-informed, faith-based nonprofit that helps over 1,200 vulnerable women and teen girls each year. It provides holistic support, including mentorship and education, for women in a variety of challenging life situations. HWC is on a mission to encourage, equip and engage these women while simultaneously providing for their needs – emotional, physical and spiritual.

Almost four decades ago, HWC was founded in Apache Junction, Arizona, as a crisis pregnancy center. Since then, it has expanded into six locations. HWC assists women and teen girls struggling with unplanned pregnancies, substance abuse, poverty, family conflict, emotional distress, human trafficking and other forms of abuse. It also intervenes on a girl’s behalf when Arizona’s Department of Children’s Services is involved. Each program at HWC is trauma-informed and addresses the spiritual, emotional and physical needs of not only each woman in the organization’s care, but their families, too. In these ways, it provides care at every stage of life. Learn more about HWC by visiting the Opportunity Playbook.

Organizations that educate women on civic engagement

• Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing and advancing policies that improve people’s freedom, opportunity and well-being by alerting women on how policy issues impact them and their loved ones. IWF has several policy centers including the Center for Energy & Conservation, Center for Progress and Innovation, Education Freedom Center, Independent Women’s Law Center and Center for Economic Opportunity.

Through the work of these centers, IWF educates Americans on a wide range of policy issues related to government spending, health care costs and accessibility, energy, education, law, environment, national security, the workplace and more.

To inform and engage its audience, IWF frequently appears on media programs, gives congressional testimony, publishes op-eds and connects community leaders through events and other opportunities. IWF’s storytelling efforts, like their Champion Women Profile Series, highlight women leaders across the country with diverse experience and expertise who have shown courage and poise as they have stood firm in their beliefs. Learn more about IWF’s efforts here.

• The Policy Circle (TPC) is a nonprofit organization that provides a variety of programs and tools to equip women to be impactful and innovative civic leaders in their communities.

In 2015, Angela Braly, Kathryn Hubbard and Sylvie Légère attended a public policy forum and were surprised by the lack of women in the conversation. They responded by creating TPC’s grassroots framework that is strategically built to develop confidence so women can voice their informed opinions and “go beyond the headlines” when discussing ideas. One way TPC fosters confidence is through its Civic Leadership Engagement Roadmap (CLER), which is a three-month program that provides women with one-on-one coaching, networking, peer groups and direct contact with local policy leaders, exposing them to a diverse range of community involvement.

By building TPC around fact-based civil discourse, it has grown into a thriving women’s network of more than 3,500 women in 42 different states and four countries. To learn more or join the conversation, check out The Policy Circle Briefs, which are designed to “drive conversation, ignite personal responsibility, question the role of government and increase civic engagement.”

To find more organizations that are strengthening our communities, visit Philanthropy Roundtable’s Opportunity Playbook.

APACHE JUNCTION, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) -- If you’ve been to Walmart recently, you might have noticed one of the employees by the entrance greeting customers and checking receipts. It’s a job that Apache Junction employee Carman Kelly has done for a little over two years now, and she absolutely loves it.

But earlier this week, Kelly’s experience working at Walmart was unlike any previous one, thanks to one customer named Liz Rizzo, who filmed her on TikTok. “May I ask how old you are?” Rizzo asked in her video. “82,” Kelly replied.

At first, when Rizzo told Kelly about the TikTok and trying to help the 82-year-old financially, Carman thought Liz was a fraud. “I thought no, it’s not for real,” Kelly said. So Rizzo set out to change that, one TikTok video at a time. “I started filming; I wasn’t even thinking,” Rizzo said. “I just felt moved.”

TRENDING: Store neighbors knew alleged killer of beloved Mesa shoe repair store owner

The views immediately started to pile up, over 11 million for that first video alone. When asked about Kelly’s situation, Walmart said in a statement to Arizona’s Family that “we honor reasonable accommodations and have a long history of working with associates with disabilities.”

Even standing for hours at a time, there’s no place Kelly would rather be. “The customers, they hug me,” Kelly said. “And they make me feel like I’m so special to them.”

Kelly says she never wants to stop working at Walmart. But in the last year, bills for hospital visits have started to grow. “Baywood Banner hospital, I owe over three thousand,” Kelly said. “I owe Mountain Vista over three thousand.”

TRENDING: Man in Phoenix sets world record for Nordic curls in 1 minute

So four days ago, Rizzo created a GoFundMe. The goal? Wipe out that debt. “The amount she said was ten thousand,” Rizzo said. “And I said perfect; I think we can do that.” By the end of the first day, that goal was met. By the end of the fourth day? Over $105,000. “Are you serious?!” Kelly asked. “Oh my lord! I can’t believe this. I’m like a millionaire!”

With Kelly’s medical debt soon to be a thing of the past, she no longer has to live alone. She no longer has to worry about falling and not being able to get back up. “Thank you to the people that have done this for me,” Kelly said. “I mean, it couldn’t have come at a better time.”

Copyright 2022 KTVK/KPHO. All rights reserved.