The Fountain Hills Democratic Club (FHDC) resumes regular monthly meetings at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12, at the Fountain Hills Community Center.
FHDC will host two candidates for Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) Ylenia Aguilar and Joshua Polacheck and one candidate for Fountain Hills Unified School District (FHUSD) School Board, Dr. Anne Evans.
ACC Candidate Aguilar is currently a member of the Central Arizona Water Conservation District. Born in Mexico and raised in Arizona and rural Illinois, Aguilar earned a B.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Arizona.
Aguilar works with rural, tribal and school communities to provide vulnerable populations with access to clean drinking water through renewable water technology that creates water from sunlight and air, a press release read. Aguilar learned the importance of conservation and sustainability through her father, a retired civil engineer.
ACC Candidate Polacheck grew up across the rural West, the son of an immigrant doctor in the Indian Health Service (IHS).
Polacheck saw firsthand the value of public service and attended public schools on the reservations, the release read.
In 2003, Polacheck was commissioned into the Foreign Service and spent nearly two decades overseas where he was the elected union representative in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
His diplomatic tours included Mosul, Beirut and Islamabad. In 2018, he graduated with a master’s in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. In 2020, as executive director, he led the Pima County Democratic Party to its most successful presidential election year ever, according to the press release.
He is a Girl Scouts co-troop leader and active member of the League of Women Voters.
Evans is a retired clinical psychologist who is running for the FHUSD School Board.
She has lived in Fountain Hills for 29 years, worked as a substitute teacher for FHUSD and is dedicated to volunteer work, including 12 years in the FHUSD Mentor Program. She has led weekly church services for MorningStar Senior Living for eight years. She also is a member of the Fountain Hills Chorus. Evans also helped begin the Fountain Hills Mystery Book Club.
As a school board member, Evans’ goals would be to communicate productively and effectively through listening to solve problems as a unified and civil team, increase students’ accessibility to qualified staff to reduce the alarming rates of youth depression and support and encourage music, art, theater and sports programs, the press release read.
The FHDC meeting officially begins at 6 p.m., but members and friends are welcome to arrive at 5:30 p.m. for socializing and snacks.
For more information visit fhdemclub.org.
