You don't have to know Linda Lantin Droz very long before she starts talking about her family.
"My husband teases me, because whenever I meet someone I say, 'I'm a third-generation Arizonan!' I really am extremely proud of that."
Droz and her sisters, Maxine "Mickey" Freedman and Lois Scheiner, are three of the many descendants of one of the most influential Jewish families in Arizona history: the Solomons of Solomonville.
Construction has started for Kivel Campus of Care's new 15-bed memory-care unit, which will be part of the Phoenix senior-living community's assisted-living facility.
Funding comes from a $3.9 million grant that Kivel received from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2010.
"It's time to adjourn the federation annual meeting for the last time," Bob Silver told an audience of about 230 gathered at the Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus in Scottsdale on Feb. 1 for the 70th annual meeting of the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix.
Silver, the federation's 2011 board chairman, acknowledged that there was a feeling of melancholy about the announcement.
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