46 JUNE 2018 Publisher’s Note: In May, more than 100 community newspapers from around the country gathered in Baltimore for our annual AFCP (Association of Free Community Publications) industry conference. For the seventh year in a row, the Arcadia News took home multiple awards for our editorial content, graphic design and innovative concepts. We were honored to also receive 2nd Place for the ultimate award of “General Excellence” in our category. We were up against some serious papers who have staffs that are four to ve times larger than ours, so I’m very proud of our team. — Greg A. Bruns, Publisher Arcadia News takes home 12 national awards 2018 AFCP “BEST OF THE BEST” AWARDS  SECOND PLACE - General Excellence Overall  (Monthly newspaper with minimum 26% editorial) HONORABLE MENTION Community Service (Teachers We Love Campaign) THIRD PLACE Best Original Editorial Photo (cover photo by Michelle Sasanov) HONORABLE MENTION Best Original Writing Feature Article (Golf in the Desert by Nick Smith) FIRST PLACE Best Single Ad up to 6” (Art One by Greg Bruns) FIRST PLACE Best Agency Ad over 12” (Re*Thinc Advertising) HONORABLE MENTION Self-Promotion Ad (CVC audit by Gabe Turner) THIRD PLACE Best Single Ad over 12” (Home Grown by Gabe Turner) FIRST PLACE Best Original Writing Feature Article (Katie Mayer for “Healing Hate”) SECOND PLACE Best Special Section (Ultimate Summer Camp Guide) Designer: Gabe Turner SECOND PLACE Best Web Site (arcadianews.com) SECOND PLACE Best E-edition (arcadianewsonline.com) Representing students of Arizona universities, community colleges and high schools, as well as other emerging Arizona artists since 1993. 480.946.5076 . artonegalleryinc.com . 4130 n marshall way . scottsdale milestone • herb schultz • 36 x 36 x 1.5 • acrylic on canvas  
 
  
  
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You need to get to know people in order to tolerate and respect one another.” Knoblauch’s gait is quick and his frequent gestures convey the energy of a much younger man. If you didn’t know better, you might assume his vitality is the result of an easy life. But this couldn’t be further from the truth. Knoblauch is a Holocaust survivor. From 1933, when the Nazi regime came into power in Germany, to beyond his liberation in 1945, Knoblauch endured the horrors of one of the darkest chapters of our world’s history. And today, out of that darkness, the Arcadia resident is shining light by sharing his story. To date, he has spoken to hundreds of thousands of youth and adults in schools, companies, nonprofit orga n i zat ions a nd government agencies. This year alone, he has given more than 150 presentations, and he is on track to exceed 250. Knoblauch has received more than 20 awards around the Valley including the Architects of Change award from Arizona State University and the Characters Unite award from the USA Television Network. He has also written a book called A Boy’s Story A Man’s Memory. “The way I present to the students is I involve them,” Knoblauch said. “Would you like to see something like this repeat itself? Can you imagine their children and your children living in something like this?” Often, Knoblauch talks about what he calls “upstanders,” or those who are willing to stand up while others r e m a i n o n l y bystanders. “Survival depends not only on you, but on others next to you,” Knoblauch said, “This is why I also tell students, ‘You have to learn to work together and disregard the skin color and religion.’” He added, “I could not imagine I would’ve survived only because I wanted to survive.” Knoblauch credits his survival, in part, to a handful of Polish and German “upstanders,” who helped his family and him along the way. Another was a German SS officer who gave him a job to keep him from being transported to a death camp. And still another assisted his family in visiting and sneaking food in to their mother at Camp Plaszow (a Nazi labor and concentration camp in Krakow, Poland). “The people who did this for me were people who supposedly hated me – were taught to hate me – but yet after we started working together and getting to know one another, we change,” said Knoblauch. Knoblauch was born in Leipzig, Germany to parents Ruzia and Leopold. He and his older sister Ilse and older brother Siegmund had a wonderful and happy life before the Nazi regime came to power in 1933. At first, it was rampant anti-Semitism and discrimination that threatened the community, and the family was stripped of its German citizenship. The Knoblauchs moved to Poland, but by 1939, the Nazis occupied the country and the family was forced into unbearable life in a ghetto. “It was hunger, cold and a lot of work,” Knoblauch said. “You have a 480-calorie diet for a day. You’re weak and supposed to pick up garbage cans.” He added, “Then the ghetto began being Healing hate: Holocaust survivor shares story with youth Left: The Knoblauch Family (from left): Oskar, his sister Ilse, his mother, father and brother Siegmund. Leipzig, Germany 1932. Center: Oskar and his mother. Right: (from left) Friends Leo, Oskar, Szymek and Jerry at the Infiltree Center – Munich, Germany 1946. When I stepped foot out to freedom on January 18, 1945, I kicked hate out of my vocabulary and I replaced it with tolerance, respect and love.” 24 AUGUST 2017 ARCAD A NEWS By Nick Smith I magine pulling out your putter and stepping toward your golf ball, which sits on the green, 10 feet from the flag. You pull the club back and tap the ball, which rolls across the sand and into the hole. Wait a minute? Sand? If you were playing golf over a century ago in Arizona, this scenario wasn’t imaginary. Instead of rolling hills of grass, a golf course was as pure desert as it could be, with fairways of rocky dirt and “greens” doubling as sand traps. “We think we have desert golf now, but this was really desert golf,” said Joan Fudala, author of Golf in Scottsdale. “Players would rake the green after your ball was hit and make a kind of path to get to the hole. It sounds like cheating today, but it was perfectly fine back then!” Golf in the early days of Phoenix and Scottsdale can seem like a completely different sport than the one played today. But the game and the local courses that were built became influential in introducing the Valley to Americans living thousands of miles away. The man most responsible for founding the first golf course in Scottsdale was a larger than life character named William John Murphy. Born in 1839, Murphy joined the Union Army during the Civil War and fought under General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Battle of Atlanta. After the war, he moved to the Arizona territory, more than 30 years before it became a state. Murphy became an influential figure in the state’s early history, helping to build the 40-mile-long Arizona Canal. He founded the Arizona Improvement Company, which sold land and water rights, and is credited with founding the town of Glendale. He was always looking for ways to attract investors and potential landowners to the Valley. “One of the reasons that W.J. Murphy and his son Ralph put a golf course in what is now Scottsdale was to try and attract people from back east,” Fudala said. “Well-to-do people from the east coast and Midwest would take long seasonal vacations, and the hope was that they would be drawn out for golf, and possibly build a home or become regular seasonal visitors.” “Murphy was pretty instrumental in the canal business during those years,” said Dr. Paul Rowe, a 49-year member of the Arizona Country Club, the current incarnation of the Ingleside Club. “The course started on the north side of the Arizona Canal.” The Ingleside Club, and its nine-hole, desert-style golf course, officially opened in 1909. The course was located GOLF DESERT IN THE Sandy greens and suits dominate early golf in Phoenix “We think we have desert golf now, but this was really desert golf.” PHOTO: ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES PHOTO: SCOTTSDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY arcadianews.com JUNE 2017 VOL. 25 NO. 3 Summer is here and we have five ways to help beat the heat in June. PAGE 51 Katie Reed and the rest of the Arcadia High Girls Tennis team celebrate a state championship. A 91-year-old Arcadia resident is using his life story to share a message of survival and hope. PAGE 42 PAGE 46 We Can’t Wait for Summer Camp! 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