Sneak Peeks: How Soon Unique Places Forget!
By Les Conklin “If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge In 1968, Maricopa County erected two Desert Foothills Scenic Drive entry parks, each marked with identical Desert Foothills Scenic Drive monument signs. Each sign designated a...
Remove Controversial Zoning Switch from State Land Plan
By Les Conklin for Friends of the Scenic Drive/GPPA The current proposal from the state takes advantage of a note in the 2002 Scottsdale General Plan and “moves” the commercial and resort/tourism zoning from east of Pima Road to east of Scottsdale Road, between Happy Valley and Jomax Roads. The proposed zoning shift is a mistake. It creates more problems than it solves and that is why Friends of the Scenic Drive and the...
GIFTS FROM THE PEAK
Happy holidays! WE, the Greater Pinnacle Peak Association and Friends of the Scenic Drive, have gifts for YOU: our members, residents, prospective visitors, businesses, organizations, and readers. The gifts are 1) a new, enriched online magazine, and 2) exciting sponsorship opportunities. Gift 1. Enriched A Peek at the Peak (The Peak) Magazine In 1983, using a typewriter and carbon paper and hand-written articles provided by her...
3 Month Campaign Attracts Attention to The Peak’s New Online Magazine, Scenic Drive
October 21, 2014 A Peek at the Peak (The Peak) magazine, will soon be running the two online display advertisements shown here. The advertisements will target Scottsdale residents and draw attention to The Peak’s new online magazine website. The campaign is designed to benefit the magazine’s advertising and editorial sponsors and the causes supported by the nonprofit 501 c (3) Greater Pinnacle Peak Association, publisher...
The Peak Editorial & Advertising Sponsorship Programs
The Peak’s Editorial and Advertising Sponsorship Programs provide an opportunity for you to draw attention to your event, cause, business, or organization, AND support a good cause. For more than 30 years, A Peek at the Peak (The Peak) magazine has been a respected part of the north Scottsdale community. It’s a community service provided by the nonprofit 501 c (3) Greater Pinnacle Peak Association (GPPA), founded in 1977. The...
Sandie McCune, Providing Power to The Peak
By Les Conklin Many things have changed since Sandie McCune began working on The Peak magazine in the 1990s. One thing has remained constant; come rain or shine, The Peak has counted on her talent and reliability. Sandie’s had different titles over the years and worked with a variety editors, but she’s always done an outstanding job designing and laying out the magazine, no matter where she lived or what personal...
“Baby Javelina” Wins Summer Fun Award
September 9, 2014 Summer Fun was on display and ENJOYED on Saturday, Sep. 6th at the Summit Diner. Paricipants in the 2014 Summer Fun photography and wrPiting contests, friends, family, and members of GPPA-Friends of the Scenic Drive, gathered to select the winner of the 2014 Diners’ Choice Award. Diners watched a Power Point presentation that included more than 80 photographs entered in the photography contest and then voted....
A New Day at The Peak!
By Les Conklin What better way to celebrate the arrival of our new online A Peek at the Peak magazine, apeekatthepeak.org., than by presenting photographs of Pinnacle Peak sunrises enriched by a few words of wisdom. We thank Kathy Mascaro, Yvonne Massman, and Friends of Pinnacle Peak Park for rising to the occasion and providing brilliant sunrise photographs. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”...
Announcing A Peek at the Peak Magazine Online
By Les Conklin “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” C.S. Lewis In today’s magazine publishing world, A Peek at the Peak is beyond mature. It was first published in 1983; that’s more than 30 years ago. Its founding editor, Liz Stapleton-Ogden, formatted and typed the six page newsletter using a typewriter and carbon paper at her kitchen table, copies were made at the...
Sneak Peeks
By Bob Cappel All Things Must Change! As much as many of us do not like a lot of change, it has become a necessity in our rapidly changing culture. While I still want my morning newspaper and to have magazines and books in hand, my children do everything online with their computers, tablets, pads, pods, and phones. I can’t read the small print on those little screens, can’t type on those little keys, and I don’t...
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