Scenic Drive Alert: December 6, 2014
City Announces Re-Zoning Open House Meeting Dates Updated July 11, 2014. The City of Scottsdale and the State Land Department are conducting joint open houses. We encourage residents to attend the final meeting and learn about important and far-reaching zoning change proposals that will have a major impact on north Scottsdale; especially neighborhoods that border Scottsdale Road, Pima Road, Happy Valley Road, Jomax Road, and...
Heart of India Photo Journal Two: 12 Sadhus, Ect.
By Judy and Les Conklin, To Hindus, a sadhu is a religious ascetic or holy person who is solely dedicated to achieving liberation from the world through meditation and contemplation. They often wear saffron-colored clothing, symbolising their renunciation of material attachments. They live in caves, forests, and temples all over Nepal and India. There are naked sadhus who wear their hair in thick dreadlocks. Aghora sadhus may claim to...
Company Coming to Scottsdale? Get Free Guide.
Company coming for the holidays? Looking for things to see and do. Do what prospective visitors do. Get a free, complete visitor’s guide from the Scottsdale Convention and Visitors Bureau. Visit their website to request the guide and check things to do, places to stay, and where to eat in Scottsdale. Get Scottsdale Visitor’s Guide ...
Former Campo Bello Student Restored Scenic Drive in 1975
The article, “Rising from the Ashes,” published in the November-Decelember issue of A Peek at the Peak (The Peak) magazine, tells the story of Tracy Armstrong’s quest to become an Eagle Scout. His report, which he submitted upon completing the project, describes the work done and includes some 1975 photographs. In 1975, Armstrong and his family were living in Maricopa County (today’s, northeast Phoenix). Tracy...
Local Kindergarten Students Skype with Sister School in China
Courtesay of Cave Creek Unified School District One Skype camera, two countries, over one hundred attendees! Horseshoe Trails Elementary School (HTES), Cave Creek, AZ and Chengdu Jiaxiang Foreign Languages School (Sichuan Province, China) launched their new sister school relationship on December 8 (it was December 9th in China) through a Skype Night. Students from China performed martial arts, a tea ceremony, songs and dances while...
7th Annual Carefree Christmas Festival
A Weekend Long Holiday Celebration in Downtown Carefree, Arizona By Kim Prince “The festival has become one of the most well-attended holiday events in the Valley,” said event director and founder, Jo Gemmill of Carefree. A three-day, two-night celebration with real snow, an electric light parade and a fireworks extravaganza, welcome in the holidays at the 7th annual Carefree Christmas Festival, December 12 – December 14. The tiny...
Carefree Artist Dabbles in New Medium
By Maxine Rosenberg When not working as an Exterior Designer for Paddy-O Furniture in Scottsdale, Claudia Cattell can be found in her Carefree studio doing what she loves best-fine art. Scattered about her studio, the many Reining Horse trophies, ribbons and other memorabilia tell the story of her accomplished past. Autographed photos of Cattell with Kenny Rogers and Roy Rogers are just two of many celeb snapshots you will also find...
The Artists’ Loft by Natalie Keller
I wanted to know about the Scottsdale Artists’ School so I sent an email to them and Carly Jarvis answered. She is the marketing director and was kind enough to give me a tour and some information about the school. I was very impressed that the school has been active for 30 years! Why didn’t I know about them? It looks like a great place to study and progress in your art and it had something for everyone! In 1983 a group of dedicated...
Scenic Drive Alert, December 1, 2014
Courtesy of Friends of the Scenic Drive Live in a neighborhood near Happy Valley Road, Jomax Road & Scottsdale Road? Is protecting north Scottsdale’s heritage important to you? Are you concerned about the spread of urban sprawl? When land acquisition for the preserve is concluded, do you want present and future generations to receive the maximum return from the people’s investment? For the first time in the 50-year...
GPPA Board Gives Mixed Review of Scottsdale’s 4,000-Acre State Land Rezoning Proposal
At its September 30th meeting, the Greater Pinnacle Peak Association Board of Directors discussed a City of Scottsdale rezoning proposal of 4,000 acres of state trust land in north Scottsdale. All the acreage is part of the city’s recommended study boundary for the planned preserve and is land the city hopes to eventually acquire to complete the McDowell Sonoran Preserve. If the proposal is approved, the rezoning would add...
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