Good morning, Chandler. It's a summer-reading kind of week at the libraries, with movie matinees, LEGO clubs, and a county mosquito-fogging run scheduled overnight Tuesday.
- 🚌 EVIT busing dispute leaves Chandler families organizing carpools. The career-tech school's superintendent says EVIT will help arrange rides.
- 📚 Summer reading is in full swing at the city libraries. Movie matinees, LEGO clubs, and storytimes all week.
- 🦟 County mosquito fogging runs overnight in Chandler. Midnight to 5 AM Tuesday, Warner to Ray.
- 🐾 Adoptable dogs at the Germann Road PetSmart on Friday.
- 🎸 Around the Valley: Rod Stewart and a metal show in Phoenix tonight.
The EVIT busing problem
A transportation dispute has left some East Valley Institute of Technology students without bus service, and Chandler families are filling the gap with carpools.
Key facts:
- What EVIT is: the regional career and technical education school where Chandler Unified and other East Valley districts send students for hands-on programs (welding, nursing, culinary, automotive, and more).
- The problem: a dispute over who provides busing has cut bus service to EVIT for affected students, leaving families to figure out rides to and from a campus across town.
- The response: parents have started organizing carpools to keep kids in their programs.
- EVIT's move: Superintendent Dr. Chad Wilson says the school will step in to help arrange transportation for students who need it.
The practical stakes are real for Chandler households. EVIT programs run on a different bell schedule and sit miles from the home high school, so a student who loses the bus loses easy access to the program. The carpool push is a stopgap while the districts sort out who is responsible for the buses.
What to watch: whether EVIT's transportation offer covers Chandler-area students before fall, and how Chandler Unified responds. Details on the carpool effort, and Wilson's own account of EVIT's offer to help.
The week
Summer reading programming dominates the library calendar. A few worth circling:
- 💼 Job Center at Downtown Library. Free resume and job-search help, Mondays 10 AM to noon, Citrus Room. Some weeks include a session with the city's Workforce Development officer. Details.
- 🎬 Monday movie matinees with free popcorn. Treasure Planet at Downtown Library, 1 PM. The Good Dinosaur at Hamilton Library, 2 PM. Details.
- 🧱 LEGO Club: Brick-o-saurus. Build dinosaurs, ages 6 to 12, Sunset Library, Monday 4 PM. Details.
- 🦕 STEAM and storytime all week. Bridge-building for tweens at Hamilton, an interactive dinosaur music show at Sunset, plus baby, toddler, and preschool storytimes across the branches. Details.
- 🦟 Mosquito fogging overnight Tuesday. The county is scheduled to fog parts of Chandler from midnight to 5 AM June 9, in the area between Warner and Ray. Weather can push it. Details.
- 🐾 PetSmart adoption event, Friday. Maricopa County Animal Care brings adoptable dogs to 2861 E Germann Rd, 3 to 7 PM June 12. Details.
Around the Valley
A couple of picks worth leaving Chandler for tonight, both in Phoenix: