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By Glenn Swain Tuesday morning, Marla Ray of Phoenix was tearing up in front of the KTVK-3TV camera while workers from Ironman Pool Fence set up tan-colored gating around her pool. Marla was thankful she had won a new pool fence from Fulton Homes. Then, she spoke softly about her niece’s 2-year-old boy, Kaeden, who [...]

Early Tuesday morning, Ironman Pool Fence crew members were busy installing a new pool fence at the home of Frances Hernandez near 35th Avenue and Bethany Home. Frances is the latest winner of the Fulton Homes Fence Patrol program. During the summer Fulton Homes is giving away 15 free pool fences to families who need [...]

It’s hard to argue with “amazing” and “exceptional.”  As luck would have it, that’s the language being used to describe the new spring menu at Distrito, an Iron Chef Jose Garces restaurant at The Saguaro Scottsdale. The new menu allows guests to explore a variety of flavors and textures from snacks to small plates to [...]

Margaritas taste good.  When it’s hot.  When it’s cold.  Blended.  On the rocks.  With salt. Without. They taste even better when they help someone else. And just how often does your margarita habit benefit someone in need?  We’d argue, not often enough. This past weekend, it did.  And, we couldn’t be happier. We popped over [...]

Who said fast food is bad for the heart? Every year on Valentine’s Day more than 30 couples who live at Dolce Vita, a 55-plus retirement living community in Apache Junction, Ariz., converge on the fast food restaurant Wendy’s on Ellsworth and Baseline roads for the annual 4 p.m. “Cheapskate” dinner. A romantic touch is [...]

Remember when the mailbox was such a romantic place?  Not romantic like sexy, but romantic like full of possibilities.  Maybe you don’t remember.  Because that was a long time ago.  When you were young. At one time, it was fun to get mail.  It meant something special happened.  A birthday card from grandma held a few [...]

At the risk of sounding like a weatherman, it’s going to be warm this week.  Like, 80.  We are just as surprised as you are. Weren’t we all just shivering, hoarding soup and racing around to cover our ficus from the frost? We were. This spring-like weather means a few things:  A welcome hiatus from [...]

When you think of the Super Bowl, you think of the commercials.  Admit it.  You do.  Football is secondary.  Really. Commercials own the airwaves during the Super Bowl. When you think of Super Bowl commercials, you think of the big dogs.  Anheuser-Busch.  Pepsi.  Toyota.  GoDaddy.  And, locally, you think Fulton Homes. The Tempe-based homebuilder will [...]

A covert operation is underway and few companies know about it.  For the past six months or so, cyber tweet authorities have been working the beat looking for logo offenders. Here’s the deal.  Twitter wants everyone to stop messing with its logo.  Don’t tip it.  Don’t animate it.  Don’t duplicate it.  Don’t put it on [...]

We, at knoodle, are thinking about changing our voice mail.  Since it’s 2013 and all.  And, since we just signed a bunch of new clients. It might go something like this: “Thanks for using your knoodle.  We are working today, but we’re not in the office.  We’re poolside.  Yep.  You heard that right.  Poolside.  Call our [...]