The Peak Receives 2019 Best of Scottsdale Award
A Peek at the Peak (The Peak) Receives Best of Scottsdale Award for Third Consecutive Year Serving the Community for 35 Years What better way to celebrate The Peak’s 35th birthday than to announce a special honor. The Greater Pinnacle Peak Association’s A Peek at the Peak magazine (The Peak) has recieved a Best of Scottsdale Award for the third consutive year. The annual award is made by the Scottsdale Award Program. Each...
Scottsdale: Fire Capt. Tim Cooper Retires
June 20. 2019 Courtesy Scottsdale Fire Department SCOTTSDALE FIRE CAPTAIN HANGS UP HELMET AFTER 45 YEARS OF SERVICE, LEADERSHIP Media Contact: firepio@scottsdaleaz.gov Scottsdale Fire Department is celebrating the retirement of Captain Tim Cooper after 45 years of service at 9 am, June 24, at Scottsdale Fire Station 608, 9598 E. Cactus Rd. “Captain Cooper has selflessly served the citizens and visitors of Scottsdale for more than...
Game & Fish News: Confirmed Young Condor at Vermillion Cliffs
June 19, 2019 Courtesy Arizona Game & Fish Department California condor nestling is first confirmed young of 2019 at Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. Click below for more information. AZ Game and Fish News The Peak Welcomes Your Comment The Peak invites you to share your thoughts about this article by using the “Submit a Comment” box at the bottom of this page. All comments are reviewed based on The...
Peak Photos: 12 Great Critter Covers
May 30, 2019 It took a team. I think I heard the word “critter” for the first time when I was nine years old. A parent would drop my friends and I off at the movie theater in Westwood, New Jersey. On Sunday, there was a matinee showing of two feature movies, at least one of which was usually a Western. “Critter” was a favorite word those film cowboys used out there in the distant Wild West. We did not have...
Happy Father’s Day: Ted Talk – The birth of a word
June 15, 2019 Happy Father’s Day from The Peak, GPPA, and Friends of the Scenic Drive. Take a break and enjoy this thought-provoking video. Take How did we actually learn words to speak from our fathers and mothers. Would you be pleased if your father left a video that captured every moment of your early life? Deb Roy, a researcher at MIT, actually wired his house to capture activities and sound as they occurred. The results...
Poop Bag Payoff by Rick Smith
May 28, 2019 Poop Bag Payoff By Rick Smith Brody recognized at once what was dangling from Grampy’s clenched right hand. “Why are you carrying that poop bag around, Grampy?” he asked. Brody was a veteran dog poop picker-upper, faithfully fulfilling the duty at home as one of his family chores. Strolling by at the same moment a man and a woman were walking their dog on main street at Goldfield Ghost Town located just...
Vineyard Views Blog: How composed are you?
April 30, 2019 A third way to go. At least in Washington state. The legislature approved this on May 21 As many of you already know, there is much more to Vineyard Views Blog. If you would like to review the blog in its entirety, use the link below and then complete the blog sign-up form to the right. Vineyard Views Blog The Peak Welcomes Your Comment The Peak invites you to share your thoughts about this article by...
CCUSD: CSHS Announces National Merit Scholarship Finalist
May 14, 2019 Cactus Shadows’ Sarah Weiss named National Merit Scholarship Finalist Cactus Shadows High School is pleased to announce that Sarah Weiss has been named a National Merit Scholarship Finalist. Sarah will receive the New American University Scholarship for National Scholars from her top-choice university, Arizona State! The New American University Scholarship from ASU is $16K per year, renewable for 4 years. Principal,...
You Won’t Find It Online – 1890s Mother’s Day Gift
May 10, 2019 Contributed by Les Conklin Poem by Mrs. Mattie E. Gammons Preface Looking for something really special for Mom? I just searched online for gift ideas and found a pendant necklace, leather cord keeper, a personalized cuff bracelet, Costa Farms Live Fiddle-Leaf Fig, a Fitbit and a Kindle Paperwhite and many more. All nice but not as special as the gift I’m suggesting. I’m not sure that my grandchildren will relate to...
Sneak Peek: May 1994 – Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd. Opens
May 2019 Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard Completed Celebration Marks Project And New Entrance to Taliesin West As published in A Peek at the Peak, May 1994 Issue Courtesy City of Scottsdale The City of Scottsdale and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation celebrated the completion of Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard at a public dedication Thursday, April 14, at 5:30 p.m., at Taliesin West, Scottsdale. Mayor Herbert R. Drinkwater and Richard...
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