I am excited to be included in the inaugural class beginning on January 14. We have a couple of spots left. Will you join me?
OUR MISSION
The Desert Foothills Leadership (DFL) ACADEMY is driven by a strong community desire to be a part of the creation of our future leaders. The partnerships mission is to educate, energize, and engage emerging leaders with a goal of enriching community life while responsibly mapping our future and sustaining our natural resources for generations to come. All of this is done through a focus on strengthening participants understanding of the Past, Current, and Future potential of the Sonoran Desert Foothills.
WHO WE ARE
The Desert Foothills Leadership (DFL) Academy was founded in 2018 through an exclusive partnership between The Carefree-Cave Creek Chamber of Commerce and The Holland Center.
“The Academy was created after an unmet need was identified through focus groups and discussions with our members and community stakeholders,” said Patty Villeneuve, President/CEO of the Carefree – Cave Creek Chamber of Commerce. “Our hope is to fill this need and become an important component in the development of future leaders.”
“There is so much to know about the Desert Foothills Community and our partnership with the Chamber will allow us to tap the necessary resources and knowledge base. Our graduates will gain the insight needed to best serve our community,” said Jennifer Roswell, Executive Director of the Holland Center.”
WHAT THE ACADEMY WILL DO FOR YOU
· Enhance your personal leadership and professional skills
· Build the confidence and skills required to take on leadership roles in the Desert Foothills Region
· Broaden your breadth and scope of knowledge about the Desert Foothills Region
· Create relationships with region
· Develop valuable professional networks
· Gain insight as to where your talents and goals will best serve the Desert Foothills Region
The Academy will take place over an 8 month period and include both on-site and “classroom” training incorporating subject matter experts presentations, on-site tours, panel discussions, and hands-on training. Areas to be covered include Health Care, Tourism, Technology, Sustainability, Innovation, Education, Land Usage/Growth, Social Services, Arts, Local Issues, Transportation, Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG), Leadership Training/Styles, and Public Safety. The Inaugural Academy is scheduled to begin January 2021 and include up to 20 participants. For additional information or to apply for the Academy, please visit us at: www.desertfoothillsleaders.org
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The Desert Foothills Leadership (DFL) Academy is driven by a strong community desire to be a part of the creation of our future leaders. The partnerships mission is to educate, energize, and engage emerging leaders with a goal of enriching community life while responsibly mapping our future and sustaining our natural resources for generations to come. All of this is done through a focus on strengthening participants understanding of the Past, Current, and Future potential of the Sonoran Desert Foothills.
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25 Years
Earth Care
18 Years
Desert Foothills AC & Heating
11 Years
Andreas Schmaltz- Liberty Property
10 Years
Hospice of the Valley
8 Years
AZ Territorial Antiques
Tierra Madre Horse and Human Sanctuary
7 Years
Bearnson & Caldwell
5 Years
ProSkill Services
4 Years
partner's Dog Training School
2 Years
Covenant Home Loans
Dunn Edwards Paint
Tatum Insurance
The Sonoran Concierge
1 Year
Time to Ride
Welcome to the Chamber of Commerce community! We look forward to seeing you and getting to know you at our events.
Carefree Coffee Roastery
Hunt Distinctive Properties-Phillip Henn
Liv Generations at Pinnacle Peak
Madison Wetter, PLLC - REALTOR - My Home Group
ACOYA Scottsdale at Troon
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Cave Creek Mayor Ernie Bunch
Cave Creek 2020, Goodbye and Good Riddance! We all have our "special stories and memories" of 2020, and the bad news?
It's not over! Covid 19 will linger on as complete disruption of our lives into the near future. Who would have ever believed we'd be required to wear a mask into a Bank?
As I write this on the 30th of December I have 2 Family members who are fighting this scourge. I just read the news yesterday about the Congressman Elect from Louisiana who succumbed to this disease at the age of 41. Congressman elect Letlow had no comorbidities but experienced a fatal heart attack while in the hospital getting the new standard of treatment. I see and hear people still saying this is nothing more than a Flu and quoting fatalities of less than 1%. That number is correct for all cases
but if you do the math on the breakdown of age groups it is frightening if you're older. In early November the over 65 group had a 15% mortality rate. That is no longer the current case as the huge influx of new cases testing positive has brought that number down to around 10%. The problem with seeing this trend as hopeful is that people don't test positive and immediately keel over. If the historic numbers hold that 10% will inch upward in the weeks to come. Now, many of the newest cases are in the 20 to 44 year age group and their mortality rate is very low which averages the overall mortality number down.
After the Council was sworn in on December 7th I signed yet another Proclamation making all meetings Zoom until further notice. Covid should not be a political issue but has somehow become one and that is
a shame because it costs lives.
I have almost always been a "Half Full glass" type of person but am growing extremely weary.
Lost jobs, lost businesses, lost learning, lost vacations, lost security, lost freedoms, lost family and friends.
I don't know what 2021 will bring but I certainly hope it gets better. Plans are in the making for future events as usual but a tiny unseen virus still has the capability of blowing us out of the water.
Cave Creek will survive and thrive and eventually the core will get back to normal if it can hang on.
I'm terribly sorry for being such a downer but I'm tired of waking up daily with a "what next" question.
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Kraig Nelson, Cave Creek Museum Historian
Getting to the iconic “Cave” abutting the Cave Creek stream is a rewarding hike (only available through the Desert Foothills Land Trust) for those who appreciate enchanting history, geology, and flora. The Cave is approximately sixty-feet wide, fifty-feet high, and fifty-feet deep. Steven Jones, local naturalist, has identified fifty-six types of plants one may observe hiking to the Cave.
The Cave is located about a mile northwest from the heart of Cave Creek (the town) on private land and is the namesake for the historic town of Cave Creek. In 1912, the band-shell-shaped Cave was the final home for an eighty-two year old, claim-staking miner, and engaging raconteur known locally as “Old Rackensack.” He was buried in or near the Cave in an unmarked grave. Old Rackensack, whose given name was Edward G. Cave, is sometimes credited with being the source of the name of the Creek; however, the U. S. Army created local maps in 1866 naming the life sustaining, two million year-old Creek. We know Edward G. Cave first arrived in Tucson in 1870 and moved to Cave Creek later, thereby precluding his naming the Creek.
Interestingly, the Cave was the location of an 1873 Christmas-day battle between the threatening Tonto Apaches and the U. S. 5th Cavalry based at Fort McDowell. After a fierce early morning battle, nine Apaches lay dead including their Chief, tons of winter-sustaining food smoldered with their eleven destroyed wickiups. The U. S. Cavalry’s relentless enforcement of “surrender or starve” was accomplished.
The namesake Cave and other smaller caves along the stream were created as a result of wind and water erosion from settled volcanic debris called tuff. One finds smoke-besmirched ceilings, 1860s Cavalry graffiti, deeply worn floor-mortars for grinding mesquite pods and corn for flour, and ancient rock-wall-art called petroglyphs and pictographs indicating the Cave has been a place of refuge and protection for humans over many millennia.
A permanent sign found just inside the Cave states: “…inhabited for 11,000 years, this cave has been home to Hohokam and Apache tribes, as well as other early settlers of the area. The paintings you see on the walls date back over 2,000 years and are remarkable in their continued color and symbolism…the cave remains an important and unusual piece of American and regional history.”
Local Avocational Archaeologist and historian, the late Grace Schoonover, verified the 11,000 years-ago initial period of habitation with credentialed archaeologists. Dr. Stephan Plog, author of the Ancient Peoples of the Southwest tells us, “…the oldest accepted settlement of the Southwest… belongs to the period 9500 B.C., about 11,500 years ago. Archaeologists identify this early group of people as Paleoindians who were adept hunters and gatherers. They entered North America at the end of the last Ice Age (there have been five) called the Pleistocene Epoch when ocean levels were about four hundred feet lower as water was captured and contained in the glaciers.
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748 Easy St., P.O. Box 734
Carefree, AZ 85377
480-488-3381
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