When my neighbor suggested we go one afternoon to the store at Sunshine Acres Children’s Home, I imagined a makeshift space filled with crocheted afghans and God’s eyes made of yarn and popsicle sticks.

Run-of-the-mill lunch trucks they are not.

Run-of-the-mill lunch trucks they are not.

Run-of-the-mill lunch trucks they are not.

SALT LAKE CITY — Want some solar energy with your geothermal?

NEW YORK - Mark Ruffalo and his wife, Sunrise Coigney, will add another little one to their brood this fall. It will be their third child, publicist Marla Farrell said Friday. They have a 5-year-old son, Keen, and a 1-year-old daughter, Bella.

Trying to lure new real estate investment and keep pace with the times, Mesa is taking its first step toward wholesale changes in a zoning code that has remained unchanged for 18 years.

Arizona living is undergoing a transformation with the emergence of the urban condominium, which is becoming the principal feature in the revitalization of several East Valley downtowns and other older areas. Either proposed, planned or under construction are several condo complexes from low- to mid- to high-rise in downtown Scottsdale and Tempe as well as in west Mesa.

Seattle’s Best Coffee is brewing plans to move into 10 Arizona Borders Books & Music stores. Cafes in Borders stores at 1316 S. Alma School Road, Mesa, 870 N. 54th St., Chandler and 699 S. Mill Ave., Tempe, will reopen Saturday as Seattle’s Best Coffee hot spots.

December 26, 2004

There’s something for the entire family at the third annual Las Sendas Christmas Boutique, and it’s all for a good cause.

When a Mesa millionaire donated the contents of his Red Mountain Ranch estate to Sunshine Acres Children’s Home, executive director Carol Whitworth practically fainted.

It was a gala spring event, with attendees decked out in pastel Easter apparel that included flowered bonnets, Easter-egg print bandanas and bunny slippers.