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Help maintain and enhance Scottsdale’s Scenic Drive. We conduct four or five, two-hours-long  litter pickup events on Saturday mornings from September through May. We maintain the Scenic Drive’s plant exhibits and monuments. We advocate for the preservation of the Scenic Drive as an historic landmark. We need volunteers to help in these efforts.

Help with an event. We organize and run several events during the year. These have included our Summer Fun Photography and Write Stuff Contests (11 years), Cookout at the Ranch (16 years), Mystery Car Rally (2 years), and Scottsdale City Council Candidate Forums. New idea? We need volunteers to help with these events.

Help with A Peek at the Peak. We produce this publication and A Peek at the Peak Newsletter as complimentary community services. This involves writing, photographic, web, and graphic skills, sales and marketing help, and distribution support via email, and social media. We need volunteers to help us get the word out.

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Author: Les Conklin

Les Conklin is a resident of north Scottsdale He founded Friends of the Scenic Drive, the Monte de Paz HOA and is the president of the Greater Pinnacle Peak Association. He was named to Scottsdale's History Maker Hall of Fame in 2014. Les is a past editor of A Peek at the Peak and the author of Images of America: Pinnacle Peak. He served on the Scottsdale's Pride Commission, McDowell Sonoran Preserve Commission, the boards of several local nonprofits and was a founding organizer of the city's Adopt-A-Road Program.. Les is a volunteer guide at the Musical Instrument Museum.

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4 Comments

  1. Why so many clean ups? Fines for littering is the answer

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    • Good to hear from you. We have fines, but also very high environmental standards and many folks interested in community service. If we depended on fines, we would need more signs, a form of roadside pollution, and more police for enforcement. Our roadsides are very clean compared to other parts of the country, but cleanups by volunteers and public education makes them look great. Can you ever have enough community service volunteers? How about you?

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  2. I would like to help control invasive plants along the Scenic Drive.

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    • Sounds like a great project for Friends of the Scenic Drive. I will contact you directly so that we can discuss furthe. We will also have to get approval and coordinate any effort with the city. As you might know, the vegetative line along the Scenic Drive was just strengthened as a result of Bond 2000, so this might be an excellent time to start a program. I’ll be in touch. Les Conklin

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