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Activities and
Accomplishments
A Peek at the Peak Magazine
A Peek at the Peak magazine (The Peak)
is published as a community service by GPPA and supported by local business
advertising and Friends of GPPA. In North Scottsdale, Carefree, Cave Creek,
and Rio Verde Arizona, The Peak provides a voice for local
writers and nonprofit organizations. By writing and donating magazine features and news
articles that appear in the magazine, amateur and professional writers provide the
public with valuable community information that is not available elsewhere. Published
articles, often written by members of the Scottsdale group, cover a variety of community-oriented subjects such as desert preservation, wildlife,
local organizations, travel, the arts, restaurants and City of Scottsdale planning,
Desert Foothills Scenic Drive
Friends of the Scenic Drive, a division of GPPA, is
dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of the Desert Foothills Scenic
Drive, an area landmark since 1963. Friends organizes and funds projects to maintain the Scenic
Drive, including maintaining plant identification signs and plant exhibits,
painting utility boxes, posts and the backs of traffic signs using an
environmentally-sensitive color, completing re-vegetation efforts and conducting
roadside cleanups.
Cookout at the Ranch
Every year since 1996, the hay wagons and good times
have rolled at this benefit for desert preservation, wildlife
conservation, and the Desert Foothills Scenic Drive. Co-sponsored by Outback
Steakhouse, MacDonald's Ranch, Desert Foothills Cookouts, and A Peek at the
Peak magazine, the event is organized by Friends of the
Scenic Drive, GPPA, McDowell Sonoran Conservancy, Friends of Pinnacle Peak Park,
and Rotary Club of Pinnacle Peak.
GPPA's accomplishments include:
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Achieving positive impact on the development and
preservation of our unique environment and quality of life since 1977
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Publishing A Peek at the Peak magazine as a community
service since 1983
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Supporting the Desert Foothills Scenic Drive, established
in 1963< through
improvement projects, donations, roadside cleanups, public education, and
Cookout at the Ranch
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Using our publications to support other nonprofit community
causes including the theater, museums, local artists, desert and wildlife
conservationists, and Scottsdale's Shop with a Cop program
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Organizing annual Write Stuff and photography contests to
promote preservation and encourage local creativity
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Making an annual college grant to a graduating senior in
the Cave Creek Unified School District
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Making annual donations to local nonprofits that are working to
preserve, save, and rehabilitate native birds and animals
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Sponsoring Southwest Wildlife's "Wild About Wildlife"
wildlife rehabilitation benefit
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Organizing Cookout at the Ranch with the assistance of the
McDowell Sonoran Conservancy, Friends of Pinnacle Peak Park, and Pinnacle Peak
Rotary Club
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Donating of more than $50,000 to Scottsdale's McDowell Sonoran Preserve and recognition as a "Lifetime Friend of the Preserve"
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Organizing the 2005 Inaugural Preservation Golf Tournament that
raised more than $11,000 for Scottsdale's McDowell Sonoran Preserve
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