The Carefree Cave Creek Chamber partners with the Apache Junction Area Chamber, Gilbert Chamber, Mesa Chamber, Queen Creek Chamber, Scottsdale Chamber, and the Tempe Chamber to form The East Valley Chamber of Commerce Alliance. Together we advocate for 5000+ businesses at the state and federal levels since 1999. The EVCCA is the voice of business in the east valley.
The priorities of the East Valley Chamber of Commerce Alliance are protecting employer’s workplace policies, election reform, education, and transportation.
To learn more about the legislative agenda and our priority list of bills we support or oppose visit our website the EVCCA Legislative Session Priority Bill Update by clicking HERE.
Patty Villeneuve
President/CEO
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Every month we will feature a Membership feature that you can take advantage of just by being a Chamber Member!
Your business center stage for 25 days through powerful Chamber Marketing Tools* which include the following:
- Logo and links in weekly E-blast* delivered to 2000 subscribers
- Logo and links on Website* calendar of events with 62,500+ monthly visitors
- Social Media* promotion to 3200 Facebook followers and 1100 Twitter followers
- Premium placement of brochures at Business Breakfast
- Welcome Address to breakfast attendees (3-5minutes)
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28 Years
Spirit in the Desert Retreat Center
23 Years
Desert Foothills library
14 Years
Petlin Vision (formally Custom Eyes)
13 Years
Hired Hands Graphic Design
12 Years
Desert Foothills Family YMCA
11 Years
Cave Creek Candles and Gifts
Grace Capitol Investment
10 years
Confluence
8 Years
Key Wealth Management
7 Years
Wild at Heart
6 Years
Country Financial - The Bennett Agency
5 Years
JW Plumbing
3 Years
Assured Benefit Consulting
2 Years
Integrity Moving and Packing
Quail Run Behavior Health
Ventana Fine Properties
Welcome to the Chamber of Commerce community! We look forward to seeing you and getting to know you at our events.
Grind and Gears
Jessica Clark, Realtor-Berkshire Hathaway Home Services AZ Properties
Summit Aesthetics
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Join your fellow Chamber Members for an in person opportunity to network on the second Wednesday of every month! Mo RSVP needed!
PROGRESSIVE JACKPOT DRAWINGTHIS MONTH! Must be Present to Win!!
Bring a wish list item: Jelly, Rice (Small Sizes), Beans (Small Sizes), Flour (Small Sizes), Sugar (Small Sizes), Pasta Sides, Cup of Soup/Ramen, Toothbrushes (Individual), Ensure & Glucerna, Paper Towels, Toilet Paper, Shampoo, Conditioner
Interested in donating a raffle prize item, gift card or basket and receiving a month of promotion on Chamber Website, Eblast and Social Media? Please email Colleen@carefreecavecreek.org
Member: $10
Guest: $20
Additional Progressive Jackpot Entry: $10
Entry includes Networking, food& drink, a sleeve of raffle tickets
and entry into Progressive Jackpot!
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748 Easy Street, Carefree
Whether you are a brand new member of the Chamber or you have been a Chamber member for years…this event is for you! Please join Chamber staff and Ambassadors on the second Friday of every month from 8-9:30AM at the Chamber office to receive information about how to get the most out of your Chamber benefits.
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Business Breakfast Topic:TBD
Come join your fellow Business Members for an opportunity for monthly business breakfast networking!
At Harold's Cave Creek Corral, 6895 E Cave Creek Rd, Cave Creek, AZ 85331
7:30 AM- 9:30 AM
$12.00 Members $15.00 - General Admission
No refunds given after 5pm the Monday prior to meeting.
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Cave Creek Mayor Ernie Bunch
Is it really March already? March is a great Month to explore all of the things Cave Creek has to offer.
Cave Creek Rodeo Days is the big event of the Month. Saturday the 19th is the Rodeo Days Parade, Monday the 21st is The Golf Tournament, and the Rodeo Performances are on the 25th, 26th, and 27th. This is the ONLY PRCA (Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association) sanctioned Rodeo in Cave Creek.
I remember back to my first term as Mayor and only 6 weeks into it when the group that had been
putting it on for years decided to move the Rodeo to Buckeye. They lost their main sponsorship
and I was notified by David Kimmerle of Sanderson Ford about this change. I immediately called Danny Piacquadio and drove to Harold's Cave Creek Corral. That afternoon we brainstormed and put together a new Rodeo committee from scratch and in 9 1/2 weeks saved a traditional Cave Creek events 40th year. This year marks the 45th year of the Rodeo in Cave Creek. It has had several different names in that time but it is still ours, but it was a very stressful period. Luckily for me they let me out of the Cardiac Unit at Thompson Peak in time to see the performances that first year. Danny aged off of the Board after last years event and after a one year hiatus I'm now back on. Beth Cornell has been there the whole time and without her dedication we likely wouldn't have pulled it off. The first year we were able to write checks totaling about 10 thousand dollars to other local nonprofits in need. Cave Creek Rodeo Days is a 501 c3 non profit and everyone involved on the Board are volunteers. Interestingly enough after that first year of working ourselves into the Ground an effort was initiated to take the Rodeo away from the group who had saved it and find some other group to take it over. These folks had very little understanding of how a Rodeo works and were unsuccessful. Thankfully Eileen Wright did not get her way in that endeavor. Your guess is as good as mine as to why someone would do that.
Two years ago the Rodeo took place on Memorial Day Weekend without fans present but was Televised on The Cowboy Channel. It cost the Committee financially to do this but this was due to Covid and we felt we had to show the rest of the Country what Cave Creek is made of.
That weekend Cave Creek had the only Professional Rodeo in the entire Country!
So don your Hats and Boots and come on out. It's the Best Show in Town!
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Kraig Nelson, Cave Creek Museum Historian
In the mid-1880s, Arizona became a convalescence destination for thousands of afflicted tuberculosis (TB) patients due to favorable weather and clean air. Starting in 1907, in an area we know today as Rancho Manana Golf Resort (then, the Howard Ranch), Cave Creek became populated with TB camps or sanitariums (sanitaria); the spartan (no electricity, gas, water, or sewer), 10’ x 12’ wooden-cabins shared a common cooking area and a central “restroom” facility. The Cave Creek Museum has the last remaining tuberculosis cabin in Arizona. In 1984, the circa 1920 one-room cabin was donated to the Museum by the fascinating Santos Rubira. In 2001, the cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Cave Creek historian and author, Gene K. Garrison, interviewed Santos (Sandy) Rubira in 1992 when Sandy was ninety years old. Mrs. Garrison described Sandy as having a steel-trap mind. Sandy, in his charming southern accent, reminisced about his short career as an Alabama lawyer, becoming a sheep and goat herder in Cave Creek, a four-year stint in the Army Air Force, and his long-term career as a Phoenix social-worker.
After almost eight years at the University of Alabama, law degree in hand, an unfulfilling law career ensued until Sandy received a letter from an old college friend, Mrs. Evangeline Kartus, inviting him to Cave Creek for a new life on her Grapevine Road homestead. In 1932, the Alabama lawyer became a Cave Creek ranch-hand.
In the late 1930s, after the Kartus ranch sold, Sandy moved to Phoenix and started a thirty-year career with the Maricopa County Welfare Office. He continued to visit Cave Creek on weekends assisting his TB-afflicted friend, Miss Dixie Nissan. Dixie acquired the future Museum tuberculosis cabin and associated land around 1945. Originally, the cabin came from the Desmount Sanitarium, a cluster of fourteen TB cabins. Some historians say the spelling is Desmont; in any event, it’s a portmanteau from the words desert and mountain. The camp was originally located near today’s Le Sans Souci Restaurant. The rustic cabin was later moved behind what was called The Mustache Cup Restaurant which was the predecessor to the Horny Toad Restaurant. The cabin was purportedly used as an environment for “entertaining” the Horseshoe and Bartlett dam workers by Cave Creek’s illustrious “soiled doves.”
Dixie willed her cabin and land to Sandy for his dedicated service and friendship. Eventually, Santos Rubira sold the land and made sure the historic cabin would be protected in perpetuity at the Cave Creek Museum.
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748 Easy St., P.O. Box 734
Carefree, AZ 85377
480-488-3381
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