Chandler Unified School District’s Career and Technical Education Program is hosting tours for current junior high school students at the four high schools within the district Jan. 11-13.  Junior high students will tour all the career and technical education classes that their feeder high school has to offer. For more information about career and technical education and what is has to offer visit the district website at mychandlerschools.org.

Students were awarded $10,000 recently as part of Arizona Fire Service Educational Award. The Greenspan Co./Adjusters International created and sponsored the award to say “thank you” to the service. Chandler’s Brittany Kominska won the $7,500 grand prize.

A 222-unit apartment complex in Mesa has sold for $17.4 million. Cortona at Dana Park was sold by an institutional seller to Virtu Investments LLC of Larkspur, Calif. The gated community at 1440 S. Val Vista Drive was built in 1986 and was 95 percent occupied at the time of the sale. The seller was represented by CBRE’s Phoenix office.

The Grammy Award-winning jazz guirtarist, along with his band, orchestra and chorus, honors the music of Nat King Cole.

Sky Masterson takes the stage at Mesa Arts Center in this 1930s musical, featuring classics like “Fugue for Tinhorns” and “Guys and Dolls.”

This casual 5K walk-run at Freestone Park celebrates the fourth anniversary of Gilbert’s Funktional Fitness. There are optional challenges along the course. All participants get a t-shirt and raffle ticket.

Target Corp. has awarded $4,000 in grants to Learning Center Public Schools, which operates San Tan Learning Center in Gilbert and Fulton Ranch Learning Center in Chandler.

A 341-unit apartment complex in Gilbert’s Val Vista Lakes has sold for $28 million. Vista Montana, 3225 E. Baseline Road, was built in 1990 and was 90 percent occupied at the time of the sale.

Flipside 45 pays tribute to the greatest rock and roll stars of the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s, including the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons and the Everly Brothers, among others.

Meet the zebras, flamingoes, otters and elephants, get wet in the Leapin’ Lagoon or the Squirt Gun Water Wars, or have fun playing the drums at the Music Mayhem during an after hours adventure at the Zoo.

A 164,000-square foot industrial building in Chandler has been sold for $7.6 million.

Pet owners can have better peace of mind when it comes to missing animals.

Accompanied by Prokofiev’s musical score, Ballet Etudes performs the rags to riches fairy tale ‘Cinderella’.

Nearly 1,000 participants joined together Saturday at Mesa’s Red Mountain High School for the annual Relay for Life event to defeat cancer.

Goodwill of Central Arizona will host a large job fair March 15 in Tempe - an event expected to include hundreds of job-seekers. The fair is scheduled from noon to 4 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 4400 South Rural Road.

Gilbert’s Friends for Life Animal Rescue will host its annual fundraising dinner and silent auction March 2 at The Buttes resort in Tempe.

Planners for this year’s Mesa Rocks, to be held March 9 in downtown, have created a VIP package with a meet ‘n’ greet scheduled with all the bands. The VIP package also includes prime seating, five beer tickets, dinner from Longhorn Steakhouse, Jamba Juice, and a chance to win a free night’s stay at The Phoenix Marriott Mesa.

Students at Arizona’s state universities won’t automatically have to pay a $2 fee per semester to support the Arizona Students’ Association.

Enjoy free buttermilk pancakes Feb. 5 at IHOP restaurants around the East Valley in celebration of National Pancake Day. During the event, guests will be encouraged to make a voluntary contribution. Proceeds from Valley IHOP locations will benefit Phoenix Children’s Hospital, which has a clinic and after-hours care center in Mesa.

This stage adaptation of Doreen Cronin’s picture book recounts a humorous barnyard protest against the working conditions at Farmer Brown’s.

TUCSON — Tucson police say the final tally on guns turned in at a buyback event was 206.

The Pinal County Genealogists will have their 10th annual workshop Jan. 26 at the LDS church, 1555 N. Colorado, Casa Grande.