2014 Scottsdale City Council Candidate David N. Smith
Name: David N. Smith Education: BA, Accounting-Northwestern University MBA, Finance -Northwestern University CPA, American Institute and Illinois Society Website: www.electdavidnsmith.com Visit Site E-mail: elect_davidnsmith@aol.com Scottsdale is a beautiful place for us to live, for tourists to visit and for businesses to prosper. This didn’t happen by accident; Scottsdale enjoys the same sunshine as neighboring cities, but...
2014 Scottsdale City Council Candidate Kathy Littlefield
Name: Kathy Littlefield Age: 65 Education: B.A. in Business Education from Arizona State University Occupation: Part Owner and Treasurer of NetXpert Systems, Inc. Website: www.kathylittlefield.com Visit Site E-mail: kathy@kathylittlefield.com I am a Scottsdale native and have been a resident activist in Scottsdale for many years. My goals for Council will be: approving conservative fiscal policies promoting tourism and small...
2014 N. Scottsdale Voter’s Nov. Election Ballot Questions, Propositions, Judges, City Council
By Bob Cappel and Les Conklin Cave Creek Unified School District-Two Questions Question 1. Bond Repurposing More Information Question 1 asks the voters to vote “Yes” or “No” to allow the District to use Bond Funds authorized in 2000 for Specific Projects to now be used for other projects and purposes. The 2000 District School Bond was approved for $41 million to build new schools or new additions to existing...
The Best of Don Schoenau: An Afternoon with Doc Cavalliere
From A Peek at the Peak, March, 1998 Issue An Afternoon with Doc Cavalliere by Don Schoenau My parents first came to Scottsdale in 1908 from California. My uncle was already settled in the valley, coming here in the late 1890’s. What brought us here? Arizona was starting to boom and my father worked for the U.S. Reclamation Service, which was digging the Arizona Canal. He was a welder by trade and repaired the machinery...
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...
Dog Daze
By Tootsie or some reason I’m thinking about Spring during the Fall. Perhaps it was the smell of Mom cooking eggplant parmesan. Let me explain. Spring is the time of year when Mom does her veggie plantings in the backyard. She works up the soil in these stock tanks, plants interesting things, and then we all get to watch them grow, which can be a little boring. Each year she has planted one of my favorites, eggplant. I...
Don’t Knock It Until You Nuke It
Marilyn Schletzer When you cook, you probably spend almost as much time cleaning up, so here are a couple of dandy cleaning tips I just learned that you may have known for years, and if you have, why didn’t you tell me? 1) Fill a cereal-sized bowl with half water and half white vinegar and microwave it on high for 10 minutes. The vinegary steam created will make it so easy to clean your microwave that you can simply wipe it...
The Artists’ Loft
by Natalie Keller I remember reading about the artist, Norman Rockwell, who created wonderful illustrated paintings for the Saturday Evening Post Magazine. Scenes with freckled faced children and adults, everyday people going about their lives, all having expressions of joy, astonishment or fear depending on the circumstance. Character actors with costumes were used so he could paint a story that everyone would immediately understand...
Arizona Cowboy: He Had a Lovely Finish
By J. Douglas Hinds The day you go they say is good Dressed up in brand new jeans They play the blues and bourbon flows Along your street of dreams And so it was for my good friend As they carried him down the street There wasn’t a finer human being You’d ever want to meet So sad that day the day he died I cried and shed a tear We were cowboys side by side Friends for many years But when those Saints go marching...
Greasewood, Patio, El Regalo, Cavalliere Flat Planning Commission Meeting Changed to Oct. 22nd
Major General Plan Amendment Planning Commission Recommendation Hearing UPDATE At the request of the applicant, this year’s major General Plan amendment cases that were scheduled for recommendation on Wednesday, October 8, 2014 by the Planning Commission will be continued to the October 22, 2014 Regular Planning Commission meeting in the City Hall Kiva located at 3939 North Drinkwater Boulevard, beginning at 5:00 p.m. This request has...










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