(Lyn's note: Please feel free to send us any pictures you'd like included. If your photos are for sale, let us know and we will put them under that category. We have a special section for that purpose. If anyone would like to buy a print of any of Herbert's photos, all profits will be donated to one of the local non-profit organizations. Here are the links to this week's Pictures of the Week. Enjoy!)
http://carefreeazbusinesses.com/pictures-of-the-week-112816.html
http://carefreeazbusinesses.com/pictures-of-the-week-112816.html
Photo by Jill Anderson
The 2017 Carefree Desert Garden calendars will soon be available at Carefree Town Hall, 8 Sundial Circle, Carefree, and they are gorgeous! If you like to take pictures, visit the Gardens. Our entry period for the Carefree Desert Gardens Photo Contest is January. Your picture could be in the 2018 calendar.
Town of Carefree Tourism Newsletter link:
http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=4b736631f153ae846e0670316&id=ec1774bfe3
In The News-Town of Carefree link
http://www.carefree.org/DocumentCenter/View/1250
Desert Foothills Chronicle link:
http://www.desertfoothillschronicle.org/
City Sun Times link:
http://news.citysuntimes.com/
Hi Lyn,
I would appreciate you posting this in tonight’s Carefree news.
Chloe the golden doodle is still missing. If you see her, please call me with the location. Do not chase, as she runs away. A photo is attached.
Thank you,
Gail
gailmp@cox.net
(480) 352-4948
The 2017 Carefree Desert Garden calendars will soon be available at Carefree Town Hall, 8 Sundial Circle, Carefree, and they are gorgeous! If you like to take pictures, visit the Gardens. Our entry period for the Carefree Desert Gardens Photo Contest is January. Your picture could be in the 2018 calendar.
Town of Carefree Tourism Newsletter link:
http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=4b736631f153ae846e0670316&id=ec1774bfe3
In The News-Town of Carefree link
http://www.carefree.org/DocumentCenter/View/1250
Desert Foothills Chronicle link:
http://www.desertfoothillschronicle.org/
City Sun Times link:
http://news.citysuntimes.com/
Hi Lyn,
I would appreciate you posting this in tonight’s Carefree news.
Chloe the golden doodle is still missing. If you see her, please call me with the location. Do not chase, as she runs away. A photo is attached.
Thank you,
Gail
gailmp@cox.net
(480) 352-4948
Lyn,
Thank you for sending out my letter on the Bridging the Gap Retreat. I know that the there will be major healing at the Spirit in the Desert Retreat Center during this retreat. Veterans and their spouses/significant others/caregivers experience a lot of tension in their relationships and this retreat will really help them. Thank you for all your great support for the veteran workshops and retreats.
Mike Wold
Inviting all friends and neighbors to come down to the Carefree Desert Gardens and get into the holiday spirit with a free Christmas Concert to preview the upcoming 9th Annual Carefree Christmas Festival.
Listen to choirs and soloists from our local school district, performing holiday classics at the Sanderson Lincoln Pavilion. Visit with Santa, take a carriage ride along Easy Street, take a sneak peak at Parade entries, Foothills Animal Rescue adoptions and stroll the beautifully lighted winter wonderland of the 4-acre botanical gardens.
Our thanks to Kevin Glenn for coordinating the entertainment for the evening, it will be a wonderful night and a chance to get us all in the mood for Christmas!
Come and enjoy Christmas in Carefree before the thousands arrive for the festival weekend!
Sponsored by the Carefree Kiwanis, Magic Bird Festivals and the Town of Carefree.
Watch out for our Carefree Christmas Festival ad on PBS from Thanksgiving until the Festival!
For more information visit www.carefreechristmasfestival.com
Parade night is Saturday December 10th so if you haven't yet entered your float, call the Chamber of Commerce 480-488-2051 and thank you to everyone that continues to support the festival via your generous donations.
See you at the Festival!
Jo Gemmill
Director, Carefree Christmas Festival
NOTICE:
The Town of Carefree is seeking high-energy, Christmas lovers to help volunteer and help with the Parade and Kids Zone at the Carefree Christmas Festival Dec. 9-11. Two hour shift minimums and we promise to offer a lot of FUN!
Email Gina@Carefree.org for kids zone volunteers. This requires working with the snow slide, bounce houses and Santa’s elves.480-488-3686
Email Colleen@carefreecavecreek.org for parade volunteers. The requires parade pre-staging, de-staging, parade route crowd control. 480-488-3363
More information on this event go to CarefreeChristmasFestival.com
Thanks!
Gina Kaegi
Director of Marketing and Communications
Town of Carefree
As usual, a great job on documenting the Veterans Day Event! Thank you for doing this.
Ted Dimon
Was a very Moving day. Thanks for the re-cap.
Joe DeVito
Love the respect for Vets.
Jill Anderson
November 29, 2016
Dear Friends of Easy Street,
You have all noticed our delays in getting construction started on the Easy Street Ultra Luxury Condos. Since spring, we have been talking to construction lending sources for this type of project. They required we have architectural and engineering plans completed, marketing and sales programs in place, costs tied down, utilities organized and committed, Town, County and State approvals, and market studies completed. We had completed all of these tasks last spring.
But, we have been unable to secure construction financing. I retained two substantial capital brokers to seek out well over 100 banks, venture capital sources, foreign and regional large developers, large homebuilders, private wealth sources, etc., all with no success.
When I built commercial and multifamily projects over the past 25 years, I always had several banks who wanted to provide construction financing for each project. But, the world has changed. Our federal government approved a 2200-page bill 6 or 7 years ago (Dodd-Frank) along with a subsequent 26,000 pages of rules and regulations that have caused most banks to increase their staffing to assure compliance with banking regulation by tenfold. It’s the collection of these banking regulations that has prevented our securing construction financing. Specifically, we did not meet 5 requirements for condo lending, so the Washington Bureaucrats see our project as not acceptable. If the current federal banking regulations were in place in the past, I could not have completed my two condo towers in Kierland.
After 10 years of work on this project, and millions of dollars spent, I have no choice but to abandon the development of Easy Street, an ultra-luxury condominium. I have spent 10 years trying to help energize the Town of Carefree; 10 years of the great recession, the financial crisis, the housing depression and now am unable to overcome excessive federal control of local banking.
I am sure most of you are disappointed, as I am, with this loss. The land is now being offered for sale.
Thanks to each of you for your support and encouragement. I still believe the Town of Carefree is a great place now, and that it has a very special future.
Sincerely,
Ed Lewis
President, Butte Companies
Arthur, Katya is a beautiful Animal.
Joe Corpora
(Lyn's note: Katya was adopted from Foothills Animal Rescue. Rescue, don't shop!)
The trail sounds amazing.
Laurie Palace
(Lyn's note: The trail referenced is the one Bob Jenkins was going to hike.)
Thank you for sending out my letter on the Bridging the Gap Retreat. I know that the there will be major healing at the Spirit in the Desert Retreat Center during this retreat. Veterans and their spouses/significant others/caregivers experience a lot of tension in their relationships and this retreat will really help them. Thank you for all your great support for the veteran workshops and retreats.
Mike Wold
Inviting all friends and neighbors to come down to the Carefree Desert Gardens and get into the holiday spirit with a free Christmas Concert to preview the upcoming 9th Annual Carefree Christmas Festival.
Listen to choirs and soloists from our local school district, performing holiday classics at the Sanderson Lincoln Pavilion. Visit with Santa, take a carriage ride along Easy Street, take a sneak peak at Parade entries, Foothills Animal Rescue adoptions and stroll the beautifully lighted winter wonderland of the 4-acre botanical gardens.
Our thanks to Kevin Glenn for coordinating the entertainment for the evening, it will be a wonderful night and a chance to get us all in the mood for Christmas!
Come and enjoy Christmas in Carefree before the thousands arrive for the festival weekend!
Sponsored by the Carefree Kiwanis, Magic Bird Festivals and the Town of Carefree.
Watch out for our Carefree Christmas Festival ad on PBS from Thanksgiving until the Festival!
For more information visit www.carefreechristmasfestival.com
Parade night is Saturday December 10th so if you haven't yet entered your float, call the Chamber of Commerce 480-488-2051 and thank you to everyone that continues to support the festival via your generous donations.
See you at the Festival!
Jo Gemmill
Director, Carefree Christmas Festival
NOTICE:
The Town of Carefree is seeking high-energy, Christmas lovers to help volunteer and help with the Parade and Kids Zone at the Carefree Christmas Festival Dec. 9-11. Two hour shift minimums and we promise to offer a lot of FUN!
Email Gina@Carefree.org for kids zone volunteers. This requires working with the snow slide, bounce houses and Santa’s elves.480-488-3686
Email Colleen@carefreecavecreek.org for parade volunteers. The requires parade pre-staging, de-staging, parade route crowd control. 480-488-3363
More information on this event go to CarefreeChristmasFestival.com
Thanks!
Gina Kaegi
Director of Marketing and Communications
Town of Carefree
As usual, a great job on documenting the Veterans Day Event! Thank you for doing this.
Ted Dimon
Was a very Moving day. Thanks for the re-cap.
Joe DeVito
Love the respect for Vets.
Jill Anderson
November 29, 2016
Dear Friends of Easy Street,
You have all noticed our delays in getting construction started on the Easy Street Ultra Luxury Condos. Since spring, we have been talking to construction lending sources for this type of project. They required we have architectural and engineering plans completed, marketing and sales programs in place, costs tied down, utilities organized and committed, Town, County and State approvals, and market studies completed. We had completed all of these tasks last spring.
But, we have been unable to secure construction financing. I retained two substantial capital brokers to seek out well over 100 banks, venture capital sources, foreign and regional large developers, large homebuilders, private wealth sources, etc., all with no success.
When I built commercial and multifamily projects over the past 25 years, I always had several banks who wanted to provide construction financing for each project. But, the world has changed. Our federal government approved a 2200-page bill 6 or 7 years ago (Dodd-Frank) along with a subsequent 26,000 pages of rules and regulations that have caused most banks to increase their staffing to assure compliance with banking regulation by tenfold. It’s the collection of these banking regulations that has prevented our securing construction financing. Specifically, we did not meet 5 requirements for condo lending, so the Washington Bureaucrats see our project as not acceptable. If the current federal banking regulations were in place in the past, I could not have completed my two condo towers in Kierland.
After 10 years of work on this project, and millions of dollars spent, I have no choice but to abandon the development of Easy Street, an ultra-luxury condominium. I have spent 10 years trying to help energize the Town of Carefree; 10 years of the great recession, the financial crisis, the housing depression and now am unable to overcome excessive federal control of local banking.
I am sure most of you are disappointed, as I am, with this loss. The land is now being offered for sale.
Thanks to each of you for your support and encouragement. I still believe the Town of Carefree is a great place now, and that it has a very special future.
Sincerely,
Ed Lewis
President, Butte Companies
Arthur, Katya is a beautiful Animal.
Joe Corpora
(Lyn's note: Katya was adopted from Foothills Animal Rescue. Rescue, don't shop!)
The trail sounds amazing.
Laurie Palace
(Lyn's note: The trail referenced is the one Bob Jenkins was going to hike.)