Beaver Creek’s 8th Grade Promotion is tonight for 40 students. Despite the current pandemic hardships, this may be one of the most memorable events for these honored community members. School staff and parents have worked hard and creatively to make the promotion events heartwarming for the students, families and the community.

The events tonight may establish some new traditions which may be integrated with the older well-loved events of the past in the future. Some new, some old, which may be what’s in the future for all of us.

This week the school has sponsored a photographic set up on the stage for families to utilize and video to be taken for the ceremonies. Yesterday the school had a Zoom awards ceremony for the 8th Grade. Tonight promotion vehicles will line up at the school where students will receive their certificates. The community parade starts at 6 PM. The route is below and everyone is invited to come out and wave at the Class of 2020 going on to high school in the fall.

And there is more! Parents have arranged to continue honoring the Class of 2020 at the new drive-in on Hwy 260 at the Coury roundabout exit next to Jones Ford. Parents have arranged a slide show including each student who will be called up to receive two roses.

All the details and maps are below. Don’t miss a special parade if you are available at that time.

Finding something to wave at the kids & their families

. . the calendar crew

CLASS OF 2020 Parade Directions & Route

CLASS OF 2020 Parent Sponsored After Promotion at The new Drive-In

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Webmaster November 21, 2019

Dear Neighbors

The Calendar Crew hopes that everyone has enjoyed receiving 2+ inches of rain in about 40 hours. Quite unusual for this time of year and much needed. Thank you to Yavapai County Area Roads for arranging and delivering sand and bags to our two pick up locations so promptly which helped residents who had to prepare for any water runoff onto their properties. Looks like more rain today but clearing for Friday afternoon and the weekend.

This afternoon is the annual meeting for Friends of Beaver Creek Library. If you have suggestions or just want to come say thank you to those who work so hard on your behalf, please come to the Beaver Creek School Board Room. Also, this evening is another fine opportunity to visit merchants on Beaver Creek Rd for the Third Thursday Merchant Walk. On Friday afternoon there is a fundraiser Afternoon Tea held for the projects of the Beaver Creek Preservation & Historical Society at the former home of Verna Shafer. Verna is the “godmother” of Sycamore Park and many other quality of life improvements for our community. Please help out by purchasing a ticket even if you can’t come to see her beautiful home.

Also upcoming is Toddler Story Time, Smart Devices Help and a Free Yoga class. All the details are below. This weekend the National Park Service continues its celebration of Native American Heritage at Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot.

The tremendously good news from Yavapai Apache Transit is that their Beaver Creek and Verde Lakes service routes will formally open for our business on December 9. The shuttle bus driver will have schedules which are being printed at this time. Our three Yavapai Apache Transit heroes and their intern are in the photo. This project began with a gleam and a wish from their hearts six years ago. Most of us will never know the hard work and effort from them that has achieved this benefit for so many!!!!

On another note, Rimrock LLC, has submitted a change to their proposed rezoning for the Rimrock Peaks Estate. The significant change is putting the entrance opposite Brockett Ranch Rd and omitting the entrance at Bice Rd. BCCA is sponsoring the public participation (for the change only) on Monday, December 9, at 6 PM in the BC Adult Center. More information will follow in a Beaver Creek Bulletin.

Wishing all a pleasant time through the weekend,

. . . . . the calendar crew

Special Events & Regularly Scheduled for Thurs Thru Sunday

Thursday, 11/21-The Rockin’ Art in Rimrock: Third Thursday Merchant Walk has most of our local Beaver Creek Rd merchants open from 4 to 6:30 PM offering specials and friendly interaction. Please come visit and enjoy the food, sales, and art.

Thursday, 11/21-Friends of Beaver Creek Library’s Annual Meeting is today at 4:30 PM in the BC School Board Room. We’re always looking for new members and board members willing to spend some of their time supporting our local public library. (See flyer below)

Friday, 11/22-Toddler Story Time is held from 10:15 AM to 11 AM every Friday at the Beaver Creek Library.

Friday, 11/22– BCPHS presents “Remembering Verna”, Afternoon Tea from 1 to 4 PM in Verna’s Garden, 3890 E Sycamore Ln in Lake Montezuma, (accessed via Meadow Ln from Montezuma Ave). Tea and light refreshments, Verna’s painting to be raffled. $20 at per ticket which may be purchased at Candy’s, BC Adult Center or board members. (See flyer below)

Saturday, 11/23-Free Smart Devices Help is available from 9 AM to Noon in the Beaver Creek Adult Center. Bring your tablet, smartphone and/or laptop and get the help you need.

Saturday/Sunday, 11/23&24– Hopi basket weaver Jessica Lomatewama and contemporary artist Justin Lomatewama will be at Montezuma Castle on Saturday and Tuzigoot on Sunday. Apache fiddle maker Anthony Belvado will be at Tuzigoot on Saturday and Montezuma Castle on Sunday. Phone: 928-567-3322 ext 0 for more information. (See flyer below)

Saturday, 11/23-Free Yoga Classes are held at Montezuma Well at 2:45 PM every 2^nd and 4^th Saturday, October through December. More information is available at 928-567-3322 ext 0.

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BCCA Public Meetings this Week 7/18 – 7/20/2019

Webmaster July 12, 2019

Dear Neighbors

This is an important week for you to speak up if you have an opinion or information to share. The Beaver Creek Community Association has scheduled public participation meetings on Thursday evening for a requested 8-acre zoning change from residential to C2 and on Saturday afternoon at 3 PM in the Montezuma Rimrock Fire Station for a potential 300-unit apartment complex east of I-17. The Friday morning meeting in Cottonwood at 9 AM in the Recreation Center is vitally important if you wish to see safety improvements at the McGuireville Interchange on I-17. Everyone is invited to attend these meetings.

The parcels for the requested C-2 zoning are 405-07-14-036 & 037 located south of Beaver Creek Rd, next to Beaver Creek Self Storage and north of Valley Vista Rd. Robbie’s is across the street to north of these parcels. The agent held a very limited public meeting in Camp Verde which few residents knew of and attended. A Clark’s Market was offered at that time. The zoning request asks for hard zoning only without a specific plan or grocery store. (See letter of invitation from BCCA and letter of intent from the agent below.)

The public meeting for the potential apartments will include a presentation with traffic study information. The owners appear to be open to suggestions. The access would be through an extension of Bice Rd before it goes under the tunnel. Parcel 405-23-180 is 47 acres of which the western boundary abuts I-17. The construction would be in a valley not generally visible. The project would be designed as a PAD which means that what the Board of Supervisors agrees to is what can be built.

BCCA will collect comment sheets at these meetings. If you can’t make the meeting please help us by sending an email comment to contact@BeaverCreekAZ.us. Individuals may also comment directly to Yavapai County Planning & Zoning,

If you can only make one meeting, please attend the Friday 9 AM State Transportation Board meeting at the Cottonwood Recreation Center, 150 S 6^th St. The public gets to speak first, so you don’t have to stay for the whole meeting. This is our once a year chance to tell ADOT about how dangerous it is to exit McGuireville south to Camp Verde and how scary it is to enter McGuireville from Camp Verde, etc. The board members do listen. An easy way to get there is to take Cornville Rd to 89A. Go straight on 89A and cross the bridge onto Mingus. Take Mingus to the stop sign on 6^th St. Turn left and find the rec center next to the library on the left- hand side of the street.

See you at some meetings,

. . . . . the calendar crew

Special Meetings This Week

Thursday, 7/18–Public participation meeting sponsored by BCCA about 8-acre requested zoning change to C2 (potential shopping plaza) in the Beaver Creek Adult Center, 6 PM.

Friday, 7/19—Speak up for safety improvements to our I-17 interchange at McGuireville at the State Transportation Board meeting in the Cottonwood Recreation Center at 9 AM.

Saturday, 7/20–Public participation meeting sponsored by BCCA about proposed Primrose 300 apartment complex rezoning request at 3 PM at Montezuma Rimrock Fire Station.

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Parade Grand Marshals by Bill Helm 7/8/2019

Webmaster July 12, 2019

Dear Neighbors

Bill Helm, staff reporter/photographer of the Camp Verde Bugle & Verde Independent, has shared with us the complete article that he authored for those publications about our Beaver Creek 4th of July Parade Grand Marshal Betty Hart and Junior Grand Marshal Emily Worden. It’s an honor to email his report on two wonderful, special local residents in the eNews.

Saluting Betty & Emily,

. . . . . the calendar crew

2019 Beaver Creek Parade Marshals

Emily Worden recently graduated high school. Betty Hart is on the Beaver Creek School Board.

Both have been active in their communities as long as anyone can remember. Now both will represent Beaver Creek at this year’s Independence Day parade. Betty Hart has been selected as Grand Marshal and Emily Worden as Junior Grand Marshal of the Beaver Creek 4^th of July Parade.


	eNews file photo

For Hart, the Beaver Creek community she’s been a part of since 1996 “pulls out of you what you can do best.” “I think that’s wonderful that this community does that,” Hart said. It was at age “4 or 5” when Hart first thought of becoming a teacher. “My mother was school nurse, and I had some great teachers,” she said. Hart has been an educator for much of her life, 15 years in the classroom and another 14 as an administrator. Though she retired in 1996 and moved to the Verde Valley that year with her mother, she’s more than busy enough with her duties on the Beaver Creek School Board. With three of her own children, as well as six grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, being asked to serve as the parade’s grand marshal is “important to me.” She’s even picked out a red, white and blue outfit to wear in the parade.


	Photo by Scott Worden

This year, Worden received both the BC Kiwanis Scholarship and the LM Civic Club Scholarship for her citizenship and scholastic achievements. She also volunteered last year with Habitat for Humanity’s Christmas parade. As she prepares to enter Whitworth University, a Christian school in Spokane, Washington, Worden is an artist if there ever was one. She describes her tastes and abilities in art as “super widespread,” and includes pen and ink, as well as watercolors, India inks and oils as her preferred mediums. “When I was younger, I was slightly better than the other kids at bubble letters,” Worden said. “So I kept at it.” Two things Worden knows she wants for her adult life. One, to work as an artist. The other, to serve her community. “I think community matters a lot, especially the one I grew up in,” she said. “I’m not sure anything is more important than connecting with your community.”

Bill Helm

Staff Reporter/Staff Photographer

Verde Valley Newspapers

Camp Verde Bugle

Verde Independent

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Lots of Summer Events 6/11/2019

Webmaster June 12, 2019

Dear Neighbors

With the arrival of mid June, the annual preparations for the Fourth of July Parade, Pancake breakfast, Celebration and Duck Race are in progress. There is always interest in watching the parade, however we would like to see more participants in it. Walkers are welcomed as well as motor vehicles and horses. It’s a different experience doing the short route and doesn’t have to be anything fancy, though decorations and creativity are always appreciated. Signing up can be done at the Montezuma Rimrock Fire Station or at the Beaver Creek Adult Center.

The potential Verde Connect road and bridge project is a hot topic around here. The Beaver Creek Community Association has heard presentations from both Connect and Disconnect. BCCA will meet from 3 to 4 PM on Monday, 6/24, in the Beaver Creek Adult Center to finalize the association comment. BCCA would appreciate further comments from local residents directed to contact@BeaverCreekAZ.us or at the meeting. Yavapai County is holding public meetings tonight in Cottonwood and tomorrow night in Camp Verde to present the alternatives and to take public comments. Further information on these is below.

There have been questions about when the fog sealing will take place on Montezuma Avenue and Lake Montezuma Rd. It has been cancelled due to the product specified with the Asphalt Paving and Supply contract would not work on these roads. Yavapai County will reschedule treatment of these roads in the future, probably using chip seal.

Duck Race tickets are for sale at many locations through out Beaver Creek. Good prizes as usual and the profit supports local Beaver Creek Kiwanis projects throughout the year. The fine summer activities are continuing at our local library. This afternoon, Ancestry.com training is featured from 1 to 3 PM.

On the road again

. . . . . the calendar crew

Special Events for second half of June 2019

Tuesday, 6/11-A Verde Connect Public Open House will be held at 6 PM in the Cottonwood Recreation Center located at 150 S 6^th St next to the Cottonwood Library.

Wednesday, 6/12-A Verde Connect Public Open House will be held at 6 PM in the Camp Verde Schools Multi-Use Complex located at 280 Camp Lincoln Rd.

Thursday, 6/20-The Monthly Speaker at Beaver Creek Adult Center is Tammy Lambert from Abrio Care who will be speaking about fall prevention and safety for older adults. Please call 928-567-4556 for further information.

Sunday, 6/23-A Pizza Dinner followed by Bingo will be happening at the Beaver Creek Adult Center. Please call 928-567-4556 for further information.

Beaver Creek Library Summer Programs for

Adults, Teens, Children & Toddlers

Don’t miss out on special activities for all ages at the Beaver Creek Library this summer. The library is located at 4810 E Beaver Creek Rd and the phone number is 928-567-4034 to reach the librarians. The Adult series programs are on Tuesdays and start on June 11.

Tuesdays, 6/11-7/16-The Adult Library Program offers special activities at various times on Tuesdays. (See flyer below)

Ancestry.com Training, 6/11 from 1 PM to 3 PM

Reference USA Demographic Statistics Training, 6/18 from 1 PM to 3 PM

Universal Classes & OverDrive, 6/25 from 9 AM to 10:30 AM

South Africa Presentation, 6/25 from 1 PM to 3 PM

Wednesdays, 6/12-7/17-Pre-School Story Time is every Wednesday from 11 AM to Noon at BC Library. (See flyer below)

Wednesdays, 6/12-7/17-Teens Only Movies are every Wednesday from 1 PM to 3 PM at BC Library. (See flyer below)

Thursdays, 6/13-6/18-Summer Reading Program “A Universe of Stories” is every Thursday (except 7/4) from 1 PM to 3 PM at BC Library. (See flyer below)

Regularly Scheduled Meetings, Activities & Classes thru 6/17

Tuesday, 6/11–The BC Kiwanis meet at 7:30 AM in the BC Adult Center Main Room. Please call Carol Keeton at 928-606-4050 for more information. www.BCKiwanis.org

Tuesday, 6/11-A 4^th of July planning meeting will be held at 9 AM in the Montezuma Rimrock Fire Station. We hope everyone who wants a great event will attend, will only last one hour or less. Please contact Carol Keeton at 928-606-4050 for the details.

Monday, 6/17–The Beaver Creek Trails Coalition Board will meet at 1 PM in the BC Adult Center. The meeting dates have been changed to the third Monday at 1 PM. Contact Stanmish@beavercreektrails.org for further information.

Wednesdays, All-The Al-Anon Family Group meets every Wednesday from 6 PM to 7 PM at the Beaver Creek Baptist Church (entrance is the same as to the Rimrock Post Office). Are you troubled by someone else’s drinking? This is a fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength and hope in order to solve their common problem.

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