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Body found near Cave Creek Road and Carefree Highway
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Guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani returns to the stage
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Cave Creek - Carefree Area Edition
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Cave Creek hosts first hometown car show BY SUMMER AGUIRRE AND ALLISON BROWN Foothills Focus Staff Writers
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ave Creek’s first “Octoberfest” car show started as an idea to bring a couple small town car enthusiasts together and, while that mission remains true, it has evolved into a miniature town fair. Hosted by company Nancy Perry Productions, The Cave Creek Car Show “Octoberfest” will feature more than 500 cars, live music, local food and an array of door prizes for entrants and spectators alike. Both Creekers and visitors are invited to enjoy a good, old-fashioned
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The first Cave Creek Octoberfest Car Show is scheduled to take place throughout Downtown Cave Creek Saturday, Oct. 1. (Kent Schweiss/Submitted)
Maricopa County parks 2030 plan to ‘continue the legacy’ BY ALLISON BROWN Foothills Focus Staff Writer
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t a Daisy River community town hall meeting, R.J. Cardin, director of the Maricopa County’s Parks and Recreation Department, discussed work on the 2030 regional park system plan, “Continuing the Legacy,” along with its five key findings and recommendations. “We think we’ve done a pretty good job of addressing most of these pressing issues that we saw in 2019 or 2020 when we started this
process and what we will be looking to do now is actually write all this out,” Cardin said. “Hopefully, in October we’ll be putting that out for public review so you can give us your feedback and comment on the document. We’re very excited about where we’re going with this.” Maricopa County’s regional park system is one of the largest in the nation. It is made up of over 120,000 acres of Sonoran desert landscape which houses hundreds of miles of trails, campgrounds, nature centers, nature and recreation programs.
With the county’s exponential growth, the Parks and Recreation Department continues to plan for open space and preservation of the Sonoran Desert. In fact, Cardin said that’s been the mission all along, which is where the name for the 2030 park plan came from. “When we talk about ‘continuing the legacy,’ this county park system goes back to 1953 when the county purchased roughly 400 acres of park land — and that was at Estrella Mountain Regional Park — but even then they real-
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