Photos: 2019 Ride to Bartlett, Spring Flowers by Howard Myers
May 15, 2019 Photographs Contributed ty Howard Myers The first resevoir created on the Verde River is named Bartlett Lake. It is located at approximately 1,600 feet above sea level. It’s approximately 31 miles from Pinnacle Peak Park and it takes about 51 minutes to drive there. The closest town is Carefree, a few miles north of Pinnacle Peak Park. The drive is scenic from start to finish, especially in the spring. This year the...
The Rodeo Bull Named Wacko by J. Douglas Hinds
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Horses and Cows, Come on in and grab a seat by the campfire. It’s a stressful world out there filled with traffic, pollution, and concerns about everything the human mind can imagine. So take a few minutes and relax, smell the smoke, ride the range, and enjoy the work (or more accurately “the play”) of cowboy poet J. Douglas Hinds and professional photographer Dennis Liddell. Editor, A Peek at the...
Voice of Scottsdale: The Price of Free Speech
June 2022 Newsletter Want More? Check The Peak’s View Points Category for additional newsletters and articles related to City of Scottsdale issues, activities, and leaders. Here are two easy ways: #1. Click Here #2. Click on the “Community” tab in the top navigation bar of any page, scroll down and then click on the “Review View Points Articles” link. Note: A Peek at the Peak is a community magazine thakt is published...
SCOTT Newsletter: May 25: Jim Bruner’s Leadership Legacy
May 25: Jim Bruner’s leadership legacy has a permanent place in Scottsdale’s heritage Newsletter Want More? Check The Peak’s View Points Category additional newsletters and articles related to City of Scottsdale issues, activities, and leaders. #1. Click Here #2. Click on the “Community” tab in the top navigation bar of any page, scroll down and then click on the “Review View Points...
Vineyard Views Blog: Stay Home 6 Pack, May 1
Here are some posts to help you relax and pass the time. An d while you are at it, you’ll find posts that show how people around the globe are working to enhance our environment. 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 any of the links below and then complete the blog sign-up form to the right. #1 How much truth in your media? ...
Trouble in the Alphabet by Rick Smith
The rest of the alphabet reacted with mild concern when Z declared to them that it had decided to leave them all. Z claimed it was fed-up with the lack of respect it felt from the rest of the letters. “I may not be valued as highly as some of you,” Z had expressed, “but when I’m needed, I’m as valuable as any of you.” “We’ll be fine,” suggested the duo of O and K. “X can...
Scottsdale Water directors win Person of the Year Award
August 2, 2021 Scottsdale Water directors win Person of the Year Award Direct Potable Reuse treatment system and permit exemplify innovation Scottsdale, Ariz. (August 2, 2021) – Scottsdale Water is proud to announce that WateReuse Arizona has awarded Water Quality Director Suzanne Grendahl and Water Reclamation Services Director David Walby co-winners of Person of the Year for 2021. Grendahl and Walby received recognition for...
Scottsdale Adopt-A-Road: Sat., April 23 Cleanup, GOOD NEWS!
April 19, 2022 Friends of the Scenic Drive, one of the two founding organizers of Scottsdale’s Adopt-A-Road Program, is participating in this Saturday’s city-wide cleanup. As an organizer, Friends just received the enthusiastic e-mail update below from the City of Scottsdale’s overall program cooridinator Bruce Wall. Sounds like groups from all over the city are joining this Saturday’s effort. Friends of the...
The Scenic Drive & the Four Henchmen of Urban Sprawl
Published July 14, 2018 By Les Conklin Will anyone notice when the last rural and residential space along Scottsdale’s Landmark Scenic Drive is replaced by urban commercial development? There won’t be a breathless 9-1-1 call, a fear-stricken cry for help, a blood curdling scream, or a loud thud. When the time comes, people might not even notice that their quality of life and the natural environment has been brutally...
They Protected Pinnacle Peak and More! – Introduction
They Protected Pinnacle Peak and More! An Introduction By Les Conklin This article was originally published in the September 2006 issue of A Peek at the Peak magazine. I wrote the article as a tribute to the founders of the Greater Pinnacle Peak Association – I had never met the Knights – and to summarize the interesting history of the Pinnacle Peak area that preceded the founding of the group. I introduced the article in...
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