I am proud to advocate for our business community and wanted to share with you some of the accomplishments we earned on your behalf this year and the past couple of years.
Over the past three years, the EVCCA has accomplished much. From unemployment insurance modifications to Arizonans with Disabilities lawsuit reforms, the EVCCA has been a leader at the State Capitol thanks to the work of its member chambers of commerce. Other recent accomplishments include:
• • COVID Liability
• • Same Day/Next Day Corporate Commission Business Creation
• • Proposition 105 Disclosure
• • Qualified Facilities
• • Angel Investment Tax Credit Extension
• • Quality Jobs Tax Credit
• • Unemployment Insurance Reforms
• • Prohibiting Gas Prohibitions in Buildings
• • Conformity Legislation
• • Initiative Reforms
If you have questions or concerns please reach out. I would love to hear from you.
Patty Villeneuve, President/CEO
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Progressive Jackpot Drawing!!! Must be present to win!!
Mixers are back in person! Always the second Wednesday every month.
Join your fellow Chamber Members for a monthly opportunity to network!
Member: $10
Guest: $20
Additional Progressive Jackpot Entry: $10
Entry includes Networking, food& drink, a sleeve of raffle tickets
and entry into Progressive Jackpot!
Progressive Jackpot cash drawings will occur every three Chamber Mixers. The cash pot amount will grow until a winner is drawn. Additional entries into the Jackpot $10.
Must be present to win.
(Excludes Signature Chamber Events)
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Join us for POWER HOUR (Profitable Opportunities With Empowering Results)!
This informal gathering is created to be an additional opportunity to network with fellow Chamber Members and guests while giving our local Chamber Member Restaurant a boost in sales! Stay for a few minutes or the whole hour
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Come join your fellow Business Members for an informational monthly business breakfast presentation and early morning networking!
Deadline to Register; August 23, 2021
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 for cancelations after 5pm on Monday, August 23.
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34 Years
Soroptimist Intl / Saguaro Foothills
26 Years
Paradise Valley Community College
19 Years
Cox Business
14 Years
Glory Bees
Russ Lyon Sotheby's Int Realty
13 Years
Arizona Ace
Sue Bickerdyke Interiors
12 Years
Maximum Exterminating
Southface Solar Electric
11 Years
Cave Creek Car Wash
9 Years
American Federal
8 Years
Carefree Outdoor Living
Dotted & Crossed Marketing
7 Years
Sesame Inn
6 Years
Brugo’s Pizza of Cave Creek
5 Years
Finance of America
Merrill Gardens at Anthem
Northwestern Mutual
Carefree Smile
4 Years
Home Instead Senior Care
3 Years
Extra Mile Painting
Finn’s Finest Cookies
2 Years
Desert Foothills Theater
Everett Allen Group, LLC
Humani Tours & Travel
North Valley Locksmith
Rotary Club of Scottsdale North
1 Year
American Family Insurance- Lori Laswick Agency
Camp Bow Wow Scottsdale North
Desert Foothills Handyman Service
Desert State Air
Pristine Sales and Marketing
Morrissey & Associates
Nvent Marketing
Scott Foundation
Welcome to the Chamber of Commerce community! We look forward to seeing you and getting to know you at our events.
Enriched Solar
AZ College Planning
Dr. Burton N Shapiro, PLLC
Educatius Group
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Cave Creek’s first hospital to open Monday near Carefree Highway and Cave Creek Road
CAVE CREEK (July 23, 2021) – Abrazo Cave Creek Hospital, the first hospital in the Town of Cave Creek, will open Monday, July 26 at 7 a.m. The hospital offers a 13-bed emergency department, an operating room and eight inpatient rooms located near the intersection of Carefree Highway and Cave Creek Road at 5227 E. Carefree Highway.
The single-story neighborhood hospital will provide medical care beyond what’s available at an urgent care or freestanding emergency center, according to Administrative Director Sarah Bird, RN.
“Abrazo Cave Creek Hospital is in an ideal location for ease of access and was planned with an emphasis on quality medical care and efficiency,” said Bird. “We are able to provide a higher level of care than an urgent care and shorter ER wait times. Our general surgery capability means if you come to the ER with gall bladder symptoms or appendicitis, for example, you won’t need to be transferred elsewhere. We will have 24/7 emergency and general surgery coverage.”
The diversity of the Cave Creek community means the hospital is prepared to serve patients of all ages.
“We’ve been developing strong relationships with local EMS providers and will be proud to serve the community side-by-side with our EMS crews,” said Bird.
“Patients with abdominal pain, sprains and broken bones, lacerations, pneumonia and flu are typical of the types of conditions we expect to see in the emergency department,” noted Dr. Sarah Beckett, medical director of Emergency Services at Abrazo Cave Creek Hospital.
“As an Emergency Medicine physician, it is an honor to be involved with this new hospital. The Town of Cave Creek and its residents will surely benefit from having medical care nearby. Minutes matter in an emergency, and our Emergency Department will accommodate all ages. We will strive to keep ER wait times short, and to provide safe, high quality care. It’s about providing the right care in the right place,” said Dr. Beckett.
At approximately 35,000 square feet, Abrazo Cave Creek Hospital is smaller in scale than a typical general hospital, but still offers surgical services, a full emergency department, inpatient rooms, ultrasound, x-ray and CT scan, laboratory, pharmacy and other services, explained Bird.
“We are very excited to announce that we will be opening the doors at our Cave Creek Hospital on Monday morning, July 26 at 7 a.m. The ribbon cutting ceremony that we hosted July 15 was very well received and attended by the Cave Creek community and first responders,” said Naman Mahajan, CEO of Abrazo Cave Creek Hospital and Abrazo Scottsdale Campus.
“Many of our leaders and team members have dedicated a significant part of the last year making Cave Creek a reality. I could not be prouder of the team who over the course of the last month has worked diligently around the clock to ensure a successful opening.”
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"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain". This line from the Wizard Of Oz could not be better information for the times we are living in than anything I can personally think of.
It is a time of strife, conflict, disinformation, misdirection, and outright lies.
There are copious opinions based on the above and our society is not in a healthy position.
To Vaccinate or not to Vaccinate, that is the question.
In Washington we have one side pushing legislation they're calling the "For The People Act". Part of it has to do with who exactly is allowed to vote and when. This Country has made tremendous strides in voting rights over the years. There was a time when Polls were open only on Election Day and ballots had to be cast in person. You had to prove who you were and your eligibility. Some States even had tests to see if one was informed enough about the Country to even be allowed to vote. Today we have Early Voting, Mail in Ballots, Special Days for those who can't do any of the other methods. I for one certainly don't believe it is too much to ask to show identification. With all of the advertising and money spent on elections it is turning out to be not unlike the voting for High School Prom Queen and King.
Campaign Promises? Mailers and 30 second advertising spots promising anything and everything that I hope the Candidate knows is not possible or in many cases even legal!
Then on a Societal Level everyone appears to be a victim and things must be made "right". People need to take responsibility for their own actions and decisions and look inward before they blame everyone else.
I'm going to step down from my Soapbox now and hope everyone stays safe during this Month of Normally highest Monsoon activity. Don't venture into running water in the washes and just think about what is going on around you.
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Kraig Nelson, Cave Creek Museum Historian
Cave Creek on Rampage! This was the headline in the Arizona Republican August 20, 1921, addressing the massive flood created by the “unruly stream…which came down from the area of the actual town….” The wall of unstoppable water had grown to a half-mile wide and three feet deep; it was two-feet deep at the State Capitol. About two years prior, on Thanksgiving Day, 1919, the Capitol building flooded for the first time. Earlier, in 1905, a Cave Creek flood extended from Grand Avenue to the Salt River, the Arizona Republican (became the Arizona Republic in 1930) noted the flood was reminiscent of the “Cave Creek Flood of 1891,” the most ferocious and devastating flood since Anglo habitation. During the 1891 Cave Creek flood, a lake in the West Valley was created approximately eight miles wide. However, it was the 1921 Cave Creek “rampaging” flood that was the catalyst to build a dam to stop this continual historic destruction.
About ten miles south of Cave Creek, easily observed from Cave Creek road, most of us have observed the Cave Buttes Dam and monument. This earthen dam, which is about eighty-five feet high and about two thousand feet long, was built to stop the potential Cave Creek flood destruction in Phoenix. This dam was built by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. Was this dam built as a result of the 1921 devastating flood? The Cave Buttes Dam was built in 1979, so it was not built directly in response to the 1921 flood. The dam that was built in response to the 1921 flood was the Cave Creek Dam, built in 1923.
The Cave Creek Dam was built nearby, just north of the future Cave Buttes Dam, in a now City of Phoenix restricted area. The Cave Creek Dam still stands for historic reasons, although inaccessible. The 1923 dam was in use for fifty-six years and saved the Valley from significant additional destruction during the flood of 1978 because the dam held and was full. The 1978 flood did cause twelve deaths and about fifty-two million dollars in damage. This historic, initial dam is forty-five feet high and approximately 1,665 feet long.
The Cave Creek Dam was designed by John Samuel Eastwood (1857-1924) who is considered an important and historic dam engineer. When we think of a traditional dam (Hoover Dam for example), we think of a large horizontal arch (creating strength) with the projecting side (convex side) facing incoming water. What Mr. Eastwood invented in 1909 and used with the construction of the Cave Creek Dam, was a plethora of small, contiguous, mini-arched-dams instead of one large arch; this is called the multiple-arch dam. One of the largest examples of this type of construction is the 703-foot-high Daniel-Johnson Dam in Quebec, Canada which opened in 1968.
John Samuel Eastwood spent his life controlling water, ironically he drowned while swimming in 1924 at the age of sixty-seven, in the King’s River east of Fresno, California.
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748 Easy St., P.O. Box 734
Carefree, AZ 85377
480-488-3381
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