September 14, 2011 • Vol. 09, No. 40
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Team W.I.S.H. to honor fallen leader at annual event MARC BUCKHOUT MANAGING EDITOR
For the seventh straight year Ironwood Golf Course and Team W.I.S.H. Arizona will partner for a 5K-breast cancer walk/run. The event, which will take place at 8 a.m. Oct. 1, was spearheaded by Team W.I.S.H. founder and captain Linda Kacmarsky, who died in December following a 10-year long battle with breast cancer. “In years past we’ve called it the Ironwood Walk, but now we’re calling it Linda’s W.I.S.H.,” co-captain Dy Mogan said. “In her honor we will continue to
Walk in Spirit and Hope until this dreaded disease is no more.” Last year’s event was marked by the group reaching $1 million in funds raised since starting out in 2004. “The amazing thing is we don’t have any large sponsors,” Mogan said. “This started with Linda. She had breast cancer and she decided she wanted to help other women and men suffering with cancer too. We do a lot of events throughout the year involving our 55 members, many of which will fly in from across the country for this event. It’s a series of small donations through a lot of fundraising activities. Linda fostered a feeling
of family with this team. We’re close as a bunch, and we’ve also become very well known as a group for the charitable work we do.” Last year’s walk raised more than $7,500 with more than 500 participants attending. “We’d like to have upwards of 700 people and see if we can’t exceed $7,500,” Mogan said. The day’s events begin with registration at 7 a.m. Registration, which is available as late as the morning of the event, costs $20 for adults, $10 for children 11-18, while kids 10
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The Ironwood Golf Course will be the site of Linda’s W.I.S.H., an event in memory of the late Linda Kacmarsky. In previous years, the event which helps raise funds toward breast cancer research, has been called the Ironwood Walk. Last year Team W.I.S.H. reached the $1 million fundraising mark in the group’s sixth year of existence.
Cave Creek Museum to unveil documentary on town MARC BUCKHOUT MANAGING EDITOR
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Cave Creek Museum’s Evelyn Johnson and Cave Creek resident and film maker Suzanne D. Johnson were the guiding forces behind the making of “Cave Creek Uncovered”, a 40 minute documentary on the town’s history. Two showings of the documentary are scheduled for 7 - 9 p.m. Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 at Good Shepherd of the Hills Episcopal Church in Cave Creek.
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As Arizona prepares to celebrate the state’s centennial the town of Cave Creek will celebrate its history, when they unveil a 40 minute documentary at 7 p.m., Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 at Good Shepherd of the Hills Episcopal Church. The piece, “Cave Creek Uncovered” was a six-plus month long project put together by Cave Creek resident and film maker Suzanne D. Johnson with the help of Evelyn Johnson, the executive director of Cave Creek Museum. “I’ve been here for 23 or 24 years and thought I knew Cave Creek pretty well, but I was blown away by the richness of
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our history,” she said. “We’re much more than cowboys. Cave Creek is the backbone of the true West. I hope this piece speaks of Cave Creek the way we think it does. Like the town the piece is not polished, a little rough, but truly Cave Creek.” The idea for the documentary came when the Cave Creek Films and Arts Festival dissolved. The non-profit, which had put on the festival, found itself with funds to disperse. The group’s treasurer, Ralph Mozilo, said the board had to find non-profits to give its funds to. “It hit me,” he said. “Why don’t we put together a film on the history of Cave Creek, being that it’s the 25th anniversary of the town’s incorporation,
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so we gave the Cave Creek Museum $12,000 initially and then subsequently two more $1,000 gifts for the project.” When she first was approached about the assignment Suzanne D. Johnson was told the idea was to come up with a 10 minute piece. But after interviewing more than 30 old-time “Creekers” who shared their stories detailing their experience in Cave Creek, Suzanne, knew she had more to share than 10 minutes. “Everyone was so supportive of this project,” she said. “I asked very broad questions and then let them tell their stories. The story of Cave Creek kind
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