Arcadia Christmas lights display to return
Revival follows dispute with city and neighbors
An Arcadia homeowner is reviving his elaborate Christmas light display after taking a year off amid a dispute with the City of Phoenix and some of his neighbors.
For more than 30 years, Lee and Patricia Sepanek attracted many to their home with a display of 250,000 Christmas lights. That all stopped last year when the city intervened after neighbors complained. However, this year’s holiday season is back on track after the Goldwater Institute, a public policy research and litigation organization based in Phoenix, got involved.
“We are definitely putting up the lights this year,” Lee Sepanek said.
The city spoke with the couple last October about complaints over the display, suggesting changes that could be made. Multiple complaints had been filed regarding the selling of food and drinks, noise level and increased
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The fact that these Republican women, or any women, or any men, would defend such behavior is — or should be — unbelievable.
And before President Donald Trump, Republican senators and these Republican women condemn Kavanaugh’s accuser for not coming forward sooner, perhaps they should have asked Republican senatorial candidate Martha McSally, who told the
of being sexually abused by a high-school track coach when she was 17. She didn’t talk about it for years.
She said in part, “It took a while for me to come to a place where I understood what the hell I had been through. At the time, I was so afraid. I now understand — like many girls and boys who are abused by people in authority over them — there’s a lot of fear and manipulation and shame.”
One of the Republican women, Lourdes Castillo de la Peña, said of Ford, “How can we believe the word of a woman, something that happened 36 years ago? This guy has an impeccable reputation.”
I guess that depends on how back we’d care to look.
If a high-school boy commits what amounts to a sexual assault, should it haunt him for the rest of his life? Yes.
If that’s the lesson other young men will learn from all this.
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