Page 42 October 2011 Eight weeks of taste tests led me all throughout the city and no place lighted my fi re like the truly one-of-a-kind bakery Ollie Cake and Urban Cookies. Two names, one shop: The owners of this heavenly escape from reality are dishing up all-natural, 75 percent organic treats with ingredients that come almost completely from local companies. This husband and wife team has made their dream a reality, making simplicity and quality the cornerstone of their business, and keeping social responsibility one of their strongest beliefs and motivations. Owners Brady and Shaun Breese are simply awesome, and their baking is totally top-notch perfection. Once the Ollie Cake Brown Velvet cupcake entered my life, it has not left. Its chocolate-y, cream-cheese-frosting goodness was sent from above. The moist, chocolate cake is not red like its red-velvet counterpart because Ollie Cake creates all-natural desserts and red- food coloring would go against their core beliefs. I’m with them; their way is so much better. Their cream-cheese frosting is just as alluring, sweet but not overly so, with just the right amount of cream cheese goodness to have your taste buds begging for more. Each and every dessert at Ollie Cake and Urban Cookies is a fl awless creation. Their recent win on “Cupcake Wars” on the Food Network has their more unusual recipes such as the Orange Olive Oil and Rosewater Cupcake and Peach-Berry Shortcake Cupcake in high demand. I recommend absolutely everything. In my recent excursions I’ve tried everything from the previously mentioned to the lemon, coconut and vanilla. The bakers have a way with the basics as well as their playful experiments with your pallet. Take a trip to 4711 N. 7th Street and try it for yourself. These people are masters at their craft. Amanda Goossen is the stay-at-home mom of a 3 and 5 year old, and created the Lit, Music and Food website www. litfestmagazine.com. She’s searching the Valley for the best sweets to share with Arcadia News readers. Sweets Continued from page 41 Cell: () - • Office: () -  E. Camelback Road, Suite , Scottsdale cionne.mccarthy@russlyon.com www.CionneMcCarthy.com Cionne Cionne McCarthy McCarthy for those who expect excellence Put Cionne’s knowledge of Arcadia, Paradise Valley, and Scottsdale to work for you! With over 29 years of Luxury Real Estate experience in the Valley, Cionne can help you navigate your way to a timely and successful close. A proud Arcadia resident for 27+ years A top RLSIR real estate sales producer for over 25 years Ranked by The Business Journal as one of the Top 25 Realtors in the Valley Member, Who’s Who in Luxury Real Estate Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors for Luxury Home Tour Listing Agent for the sold Arcadia Home designed/built by Frank Lloyd Wright for son, David 4711 E. M A R S T O N D R. ~ P A R A D I S E V A L L E Y, AZ Stunning Views Stunning Views N ew to the market! If you are looking for a more manageable home in Paradise Valley that still has all the custom details one would expect, you will be proud to call this property home. Just under 3,600 sq. ft., incredible views of Praying Monk, entertainer’s backyard, 3 bedrooms plus office/den, living room, formal dining room, family room with a beautiful kitchen, and an air conditioned 3 car garage. Call for more information. Offered at: $1,050,000 IMPECCABLE HOME N E V E R B E F O R E O N T H E M A R K E T St. Francis Fes Ɵ val Blessing of the Animals and PACC911 Pet Adopt-A-Thon Invites you to visit over 60 local animal rescue organiza Ɵ ons with purebred/mixed breed dogs, cats and other furry cri Ʃ ers. SAT, OCT 22nd and SUN, OCT 23rd SAT, OCT 22nd and SUN, OCT 23rd 10am - 3pm FREE ADMISSION 10am - 3pm FREE ADMISSION Franciscan Renewal Center Franciscan Renewal Center 5802 East Lincoln Drive, Sco Ʃ sdale 5802 East Lincoln Drive, Sco Ʃ sdale • Dog Wash 10am - 3pm • Ra ŋ e (bring a new bag of pet food, towels or blankets and get a free ra ŋ e Ɵ cket) • Mobile Shot Clinic providing microchipping & shots for dogs and cats • Grilled Food for Sale • Animal Blessings Noon & 2pm each day P Ùʑ››—Ý ›Ä›¥®ã PACC911’ Ý E Û٦›Ä‘ù M ›—®‘ƒ½ F çė , «›½Ö®Ä¦ ®Ä¹çٛ— ƒÄ®Ãƒ½Ý . Bring the en Ɵ re family (including any 4-legged ones) out to this great event. Lots of wonderful animals will be on site looking to get adopted... Save a life and Adopt an Animal! Event Sponsored by: For more info: Visit PACC911.org or call 602.992.4779

Page 43 October 2011 Leighton and Schechlterle have remained friends and still go gol fi ng once a week. “I like being able to make someone feel like a burn survivor instead of a burn victim,” Leighton said. The physician travels to Nicaragua once a year to repair cleft lips. He retired once, but it didn’t take. “I decided to come back and do it differently,” he said. So he made sure that he formed partnerships with such groups as Scottsdale Healthcare and Valley Anesthesia that allow him to continue his pro bono work. He continues to teach. “People have no idea what plastic surgery is,” Leighton said. “They think it’s all nip, tuck, stitch and suck.” He said he focuses on showing medical students that plastic surgery is more than that, and keys in on bedside manner. “I try to teach them to talk to the patient on their level, not to be arrogant … to become their friend,” he said. He emphasizes the need for humor, and has been known to tell his own patients that he uses Miracle-Gro instead of saline in their expanders. More information about Leighton is available at www.leightonmd.com. To learn more about the Arizona Institute for Breast Health, go to www.aibh.org or call (480) 860-4200. Breast cancer includes tough task of telling children Leighton Continued from page 34 By Christina Sampson When Arcadia resident Margaret Ann Lippincott was diagnosed with breast cancer in January, she planned to tell her children using guidelines outlined in Breast Cancer for Dummies , a resource she recommends. “We didn’t tell them right away because, you know, you want to be sure,” Lippincott said. “You want all the biopsies to have come back and everything.” Lippincott thought that she, her husband Larry and her 7- and 9-year-old sons would all sit down at the table together and discuss it. Instead, Larry ended up telling the children in the car on the way to school one day. “In retrospect, I think he did the perfect thing,” Margaret Ann said. “Because we gave it to them in bits and pieces. They really were eased into it.” At the time, she had not undergone any surgery, “so I didn’t look any different to them. I didn’t look sick.” Dr. Coral Quiet, a radiation oncologist with Arizona Breast Cancer Specialists and co-founder of the Arizona Institute for Breast Health, said it is best to be honest with children and use age-appropriate vocabulary to explain the disease and its treatment. “Children are amazingly attuned to changes in the family,” Quiet said. “There’s just no way parents can keep something that big from them.” She suggested using dolls for very young children to help explain what exactly would occur during treatment. Quiet offered this advice to single mothers who have to tell children about a diagnosis: “If a patient is having a dif fi cult time telling their children, it’s best done with another family member that’s a strong presence in the child’s life there, too,” she said. “Sometimes it’s just too overwhelming to do it by yourself.” Margaret Ann said overall her children handled the news well. The 7-year-old talked about it at school and ended up befriending a little girl whose mother also is fi ghting the disease. Mary and Ed Perkins found themselves in a similar situation when Mary was diagnosed with breast cancer in January 2000. At the time, the couple’s sons and daughter were 5, 7 and 9. “I would love to say that we planned it and we all sat down together, but life kind of got in the way and we ended up telling each child individually,” Mary said. Mary is a former board president of the Arizona Institute of Breast Health. Ed Purkiss described their 5-year-old as having a “more wide-eyed reaction” to the news, while the 7- year-old was “more inquisitive, and had more questions.” “It really became a continual discussion with the kids,” he said. “There were questions four hours later and there were questions four days later.” The couple followed some general rules of thumb. “We tried to explain to them what cancer is, but in a way that doesn’t scare them,” Mary said. And honesty, Ed said, is crucial. “The more you hide from children, the more they’ll build up the monster in their head.” Knowing that seeing Mary’s hair fall out from chemo therapy could be traumatic for the kids, the parents told them early on that this was a sign that the medicine was working. And both parents made sure the kids were involved in Mary’s recovery, allowing them to carry groceries or help open jars when Mary was recovering from surgery and couldn’t do these things herself. Dr. Quiet said when parents are divorced, both need to be in on the telling of the kids, and the message needs to be uniform. Also, children’s teachers should be told. “We often see children begin to act out more when mom starts to undergo treatment because they want to make sure those boundaries are still in place,” Quiet said. “Often times, the child may be feeling fears that they can’t even express.” Remember, Quiet said, “Children rarely ask questions when you think they’re going to” so to be prepared for a random questions while riding in the car or at the grocery store. 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