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.
I am happy to let you know that HB2787 Maricopa County; division; new counties is a dead bill. Imagine the craziness of Maricopa County divided into four separate counties. The bill had a little steam in the beginning, but common sense prevailed!
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!
10% Discount if paid in full by May 4, 2022
Space is limited! 33,500 copies debuting in October! Distributed at Town Halls and information centers in Carefree and Cave Creek, Chamber Events and Shows, and mailed to 85331,85327,85262,85377,85266
Deadline is June 17, 2022
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35 Years
Desert Treasures
28 Years
Allstate Insurance – Debra Atkinson
Desert Foothills Plumbing
26 Years
CIVANA Carefree
15 Years
VI at Silverstone
13 Years
The UPS Store
12 Years
First Church of Christ, Scientist
11 Years
Farmers Insurance
9 years
Arizona Musicfest
8 Years
Hundman Law Offices, PLLC
7 Years
Arizona Animal Hospital
6 Years
LeaderOne Financial
Proskill Services
5 Years
Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation
Morris Hall, PLLC
4 Years
Carefree Cave Creek Italian American Club
Cave Creek Timeshares
R. Morales, PLLC
3 Years
Lisa Stine – Coldwell Banker
Macho Contracting
1 Year
AC by J
Carefree Coffee Roastery
Pay It Forward Processing
Welcome to the Chamber of Commerce community! We look forward to seeing you and getting to know you at our events.
Real Broker, LLC
Snooze Mattress Company of Phoenix
Unbridle It, LLC
Mindfulness First
Energy One Water
Sundial Pilates
Pure Rejuvenation Wellness Lounge
JDog Junk Removal & Hauling
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Desert Foothills Family YMCA invites you to cut the ribbon their newly renovated wellness space! An open house with food and beverages to follow. Please stay and enjoy the open house! 34250 N 60th St, Bldg C, Scottsdale
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Help us welcome Sundial Pilates to the neighborhood and the Chamber. An open house with food and beverages to follow. Please stay and enjoy the open house!- 36800 Sidewinder Rd b12, Carefree
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No RSVP Required! Pay at the door
Join your fellow Chamber Members for an in person opportunity to network on the second Wednesday of every month!
Interested in donating a raffle prize item, gift card or basket and receiving a month of promotion in eblast and website? 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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Business Owner Forums are informal support groups of business owners providing peer to peer learning and support. These forums create synergy for every member to try out ideas addressing the challenges you face alone. Get feedback from people who have "been there and done that." Each business owner has a platform to talk through moves and receive valuable feedback and guidance in a safe confidential environment.
The old adage, "you get what you pay for," does not apply to these forums. They are FREE yet your participation yields timely and effective results for you AND your fellow forum members. These types of forums (outside boards) typically cost thousands of dollars to participate in but since it is presented by Greater Phoenix SCORE, there is no cost. Forums will be formed at various locations around the Phoenix Valley.
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Cave Creek Mayor Ernie Bunch
Remember the saying April Showers Bring May Flowers?
Well, we're in Arizona and I can tell you after living in Maricopa County for the last 46 years that is seldom true here.
Our rains are typically about done until the Monsoon begins in July.
Why is this important? Because the hot, dry weather removes all of the moisture from the weeds that have sprouted from our earlier rains. So like a broken record I'm warning about the Brush Fire danger again. I've admittedly been lax this year but am starting to clear mine this week (March 21st).
April brings the both dreaded and highly anticipated Bike Week to the State and to Cave Creek. As I have stated over and over again Upwards of 75,000 Motorcycle enthusiasts show up at WestWorld in Scottsdale for what I am told has become the 5th largest Motorcycle Rally in the Country. When the Recession hit in 2008 and Town Revenues hit the skids our then Town Manager Usama, asked the owner of the Hideaway if he could get the WestWorld attendees to come to Cave Creek to increase the sales tax revenues. Well, he did and now Cave Creek is yet again a victim of our own success. With the Special Event Permit, Traffic Control and Security are paid for by the Businesses that benefit from the event. Were we not to approve the Special Event permit these folks would still come and we would not be prepared for the influx. What I'm saying here is if you don't like Bike Week and think we should stop allowing it, just tell me how you do that! I'll likely find your thoughts quite entertaining.
Outside of Bike Week there is still a lot of things going on in Town and the pleasant evenings in the Month of April need to be enjoyed! Get out, stroll through Town, Hike, Bike, Eat, and remember why we live in this Blessed Place we call Cave Creek!
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Manifest Destiny was a widely held belief in the 19th century expressing the United States was to expand, and had the right to expand coast to coast, because of divine Providence. “Go west young man, go west, and grow up with the country.” These famous words were written and published by Horace Greely in an editorial in the New York Tribune on July 13, 1865. The immortal words captured the spirit of returning Civil War veterans who headed west and took advantage of the 1862 Homestead Act. Horace Greely was the founder and editor of the New York Tribune which was considered one of the great newspapers of the time.
When did Manifest Destiny end; that is, when did the frontier come to a close in the lower forty-eight states?
Arizona state historian, Marshall Trimble, feels the frontier ended March 13, 1895, when Phoenix was connected to the Santa Fe Railroad (officially, the (Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe) from the north. Phoenix had been connected from the south with the Southern Pacific Railroad since July 4, 1887. The Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific railroads were considered transcontinental mainlines. The Southern Pacific Railroad closely followed the Butterfield Overland Mail Route across southern Arizona using established pioneer and Native American trails. The Butterfield stagecoach and mail-service lasted from 1857 to 1861.
Congress was aware a northern railroad route was needed in Arizona somewhere along the 35th parallel; monies were allocated and expeditions were funded. Lieutenant Lorenzo Sitgreaves commanded the first expedition along the 35th parallel starting in September 1851. Lieutenant Amiel Weeks Whipple started his expedition July 1853. His expedition included about 70 men, 240 mules, a flock of sheep for food, and a scientific staff of 17, including geologists, naturalists, botanists, and surveyors. In 1857, Edward Fitzgerald Beale was appointed to survey a wagon-road near the 35th parallel. Beale used Egyptian camels to transport supplies. These three expeditions (and there were others) were instrumental in establishing the future routes for the Santa Fe Railroad, Route 66, and Interstate 40 in northern Arizona.
After the Santa Fe route across northern Arizona was completed in August 1883, the final route was to bring a spur-line to Prescott and finally to Phoenix. This was a job for Frank Murphy. Historian Trimble says in his book, Arizona, A Cavalcade Of History, ”…Murphy was one of the most energetic and resourceful…entrepreneurial giants. Murphy, more than any other was responsible for attracting eastern capital….”
The first leg of this southern journey to Prescott, from Ash Fork (a small town on the Santa Fe line), was a fifty-seven-mile line called the Peavine because of all the twists and turns. This line was finished April 24, 1892. The final leg of this challenging journey, into Phoenix, was completed March 13, 1895. The American frontier came to a close per historian Marshall Trimble.
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748 Easy St., P.O. Box 734
Carefree, AZ 85377
480-488-3381
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