DEADLINE! December 3!
Join us for our Holiday Celebration combined with our annual awards event night!
Discover the winners of the Chamber Choice Awards, Business of the Year and Mick Ennis Service Award
Music by: Phoenix based singer-songwriter, Laura Joy is a nationally touring artist who impresses audiences with her warmth, ability to connect emotionally, and her songs that touch the soul. www.laurajoymusic.com
Opportunity to win at CTE Scholarship Silent Auction! Items from:
Cave Creek Olive Oil, HarumiYoga+Holistic Healing House, Look at Me Now, Horny Toad, Sue Bickerdyke Interiors, Gallery Michele, Carefree Floors, Cimarron River, R H Crossland Foundation, Carefree Spirits Distillery, Bryans BBQ, Pet Supplies Plus & AZ Animal Hospital, FIORRA Life & Indulge, Elements Massage Cave Creek, El Encanto, MacDonald’s Ranch, E’Clips Salon, It’s a Divine Bakery, Twist Bistro, Tonto Bar & Grill, Lil Miss Butcher, CIVANA Wellness Resort & Spa, Hampton Inn Carefree, Dunn Edwards Paint, The UPS Store Carefree, Stefan Mann, Finn’s Finest Cookies, The City Creamery, E'Clips Salon and more!
Thank you Sponsors:
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"My participation in the leadership class taught me a ton about my community, how to be a better citizen and how to be proactively involved in my community. The bonus for me was making new friends. On the first day of class I noticed quite a few people I knew well and those I didn’t know at all. The journey through the Leadership Academy helped my form tighter bonds with those people I knew and create new bonds with people I was meeting for the first time. We all had a common bond…A deep love for our community." Patty Villeneuve, President/CEO Carefree Cave Creek Chamber of Commerce
Mention Carefree Cave Creek Chamber as the referral on your application and receive a 10% discount!
For more information 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!
Member Only Advertising/ Sponsorships: Did you know that as Members you have access to Chamber Marketing tools? The Chamber Marketing tools are like no other! Chamber Website has 750,000 annual visitors with each visitor viewing 10 pages per visit equaling 663,000 pages per month. Chamber Facebook page has over 3000 followers, Twitter 1,049 followers, Instagram 613 followers. Weekly E-blast and Monthly E-Newsletter sent to 2100 subscribers.
Investing your advertising in Chamber Sponsorships can really pay off! We offer advertising/ sponsorship advertising weekly, monthly or yearly. Call, email or Click HERE to find out more!
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11 Years
First American Title
Foothills Granite
9 Years
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church
Tierra Madre Horse Sanctuary
8 Years
Quality Interactive Montessori
7 Years
Cave Creek Financial Associates
Institute for Healing of Memories
5 Years
Stick’s Golf & Cigar Lounge
4 Years
A 360 View
Carefree Christian Academy
E’Clips Salon
3 Years
Covenant Home Loans
2 Years
Keeler’s Neighborhood Steakhouse
1 Year
LivGenerations Pinnacle Peak
Windwalker Expeditions
Welcome to the Chamber of Commerce community! We look forward to seeing you and getting to know you at our events.
Cactus Foothills Little League
Vermillion Promotions
ASC Insurance LLC
Destination Balloon Rides
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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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Here we are again in yet another December. With everything going on in our world today I feel compelled
to do something I haven't done in slightly less than 60 years so here I go.
Dear Santa, I really don't know how much you know about conditions South of the North Pole what with you being busy spending the whole year getting ready for Christmas. Things are pretty bad down here with a polarized society. Having said that I really don't want anything for myself this year but, I do have some requests. People need to be reminded that in order to form valid opinions they should have all of the facts and to not stop listening once they have their confirmation bias. The Media needs to be reminded that real news stories are comprised of Who, What, When, Where, Why, and sometimes How. They should be reminded that Why explained from their viewpoint is nothing more than an Editorial. They should be reminded that figuratively throwing a grenade into a story and then reporting the results is not News, it is Activism. Please remind the people formulating their opinions from information gathered from a single point of view doesn't really make their opinions valid, only opinions. Please remind the people that in order to really understand a situation they must figuratively "Walk a Mile in Anothers' Shoes".
Please remind them that we have Laws. Please remind the People that those wishing to gain Power don't always have their best interest at heart and those reporting the News from only one viewpoint sure don't. Please remind the people that their legal interests have no right to limit someone elses legal interests. Santa, Thanks for considering this. I know it's a tall wish list and there is much more we need, but we need help.
For everyone else I hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
See you next Month!
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Kraig Nelson, Cave Creek Museum Historian
In 1851, Congress passed the Indian Appropriation Act creating the reservation system. In 1870s Arizona Territory, the Army’s concept of Surrender or Starve was part of the evolution of this punitive Act. Defiant Native Americans who escaped the reservations setup rancherias (small hidden camps) to store food for the winter months. From these camps, Tonto Apaches and their allies, the Yavapai, would inflict serious damage upon the Anglo settlers and miners. The purpose of the military camps and forts in the Arizona territory was to capture or kill the Native Americans and destroy their stored food. This was the enforced-policy shared by Arizona territory Commander General George Crook and territory Governor A. P.K. Safford.
Regular patrols left Camp McDowell (Fort McDowell in 1879) to find hidden rancherias and enforce the Army’s policy. One such patrol left Camp McDowell December 1, 1873. It was going to be a lengthy patrol so the military column was substantial and well equipped. Twenty-four year old Lieutenant Walter S. Schuyler, of the 5th Cavalry, was in charge. He was ambitious; Schuyler would spend forty-three years in the Army and finish his career as Brigadier General. Also in the group was Al Sieber, proclaimed to be “Chief of Scouts” by General Crook. Respected historian Dan L. Thrapp wrote Al Sieber deserves to be ranked alongside Kit Carson. There were thirteen enlisted men, sixteen Native American scouts, twenty-five mules packed with ammunition and supplies, and several civilians hired to manage the mules.
The patrol traveled in a circuitous pattern from Camp McDowell (near today’s Fountain Hills) across the nearby mesas and mountains, through the future town of Cave Creek, and back to Camp McDowell with reconnaissance scouts surreptitiously searching for Apaches and Yavapai during the mission.
During this cold December, the reconnaissance scouts (informally known as Pima and Maricopa) were successful. In a large cavern we know today as the Cave on Cave Creek, eleven temporary huts called wickiups and tons of food were observed. The Apaches or the Yavapai or both (historians don’t know) were there. It was now up to the military acumen of West Point graduate Lieutenant Schuyler. He knew the fierce adversary was probably watching his troop’s every move; he had to outthink them.
Schuyler sent most of his troops back to Camp McDowell giving the appearance his troops did not notice the rancheria. A smaller group, including himself, Al Sieber, and his best sharpshooters crept up the creek during the night to the targeted cavern. That night, the guerilla unit would position themselves on the east side of the creek directly across from the cavern on the west side. It was Christmas Eve.
When the Sun rose on Christmas morning and the defiant Native Americans were blinded by the morning sunshine, deadly shots rang out. The ambush didn’t last long. Nine Native Americans were killed including their feared leader Nanotz, a few escaped, and tons of winter food was burned. Mission accomplished.
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748 Easy St., P.O. Box 734
Carefree, AZ 85377
480-488-3381
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