Chandler Centennial

12/17/2012

Chandler Centennial merchandise ... great holiday gifts!

10/03/2012

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07/26/2012

A great book about the history of the Chandler Fire Department!

06/21/2012

Have you read the Centennial Cookbook, Southside Neighborhood: 100 Years of Recipes and Stories? If so, please click on the link below and take a brief, anonymous survey to let us know what you thought about it! Thanks!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2YM3VWQ

06/15/2012

Chandler Centennial CGCC Scholarship winners were awarded on June 11, 2012. Congrats to our 12 winners! Thanks to Whole Foods, Chandler Alumni Association, Senior Quilting Guild, Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs for their generous support.

06/13/2012

LaVon Woods, great-granddaughter of popular BBQ cafe owner N.J. Harris, talks about her time growing up in Chandler's Southside Neighborhood during the presentation for Chandler's Centennial Cookbook, "Southisde Neighborhood: 100 Years of Recipes and Stories."

06/13/2012

Mayor Tibshraeny and Council dedicate Chandler's new time capsule on Chandler's 100th Birthday.

06/13/2012

One of the coolest color guard presentations ever on May 17 at our Happy 100th Brithday Chandler celebration at City Hall.

06/12/2012

The members of the Chandler Centennial Steering Committee and the winners of the CGCC Centennial Scholarships were recognized by Mayor Tibshraeny at last night's Council Study Session. Watch it here: http://chandleraz.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=12&clip_id=437&meta_id=1097

06/04/2012

Check out pictures of our Centennial celebrations! https://picasaweb.google.com/cityofchandleraz/CentennialCelebrationWeekend?authuser=0&feat=directlink

05/29/2012

May 1942: Many Chandler residents were guests at Williams Field for the graduation of its first class of fliers who received their commissions as second lieutenants in the Army Air Corps. Field Commander Lt. Col. B.A. Bridget expressed the appreciation of the officers to the people of Chandler, Gilbert and Mesa. He noted that a large portion of the officers from the Field made their homes in Chandler and the other towns, and expressed a desire on the part of the officers to repay the people of those communities for the acts of cooperation and hospitality they had extended to the army personnel and their families. He said they expressed pleasure at being considered part of those communities. He reminded the graduating cadets that the people of Arizona were behind them in their efforts. The exercises were culminated by a wild “cowboy” yell by the graduates, which seemed to typify the spirit of the class, and “bodes no good for their enemies in any of the four corners of the world.”
(Photo taken at Williams Field in 1945).

05/24/2012

Sheep have been a big part of Chandler’s history since the 1910s, when they were first brought to the area to eat the weeds out of the irrigation and drainage ditches lining Chandler’s streets. By the 1920s, farmers were raising herds of sheep for their wool. At one point, there were more than 100,000 sheep in Chandler!
But Chandler’s summers are too hot for sheep, so every spring farmers walked their sheep on various trails winding through the mountains to pasture in places like Heber and Overgaard. The mountain winters are too cold for the sheep, so every fall they walked back down to their winter pastures in Chandler. The trails offered ample food and water for the sheep, and because it was spread out over two months, the walk was not too strenuous on the sheep. The last of the Chandler families to use the trail was the Dobson Family which only recently discontinued the trek up and down the mountains every spring and fall.
Learn more about the sheep ranching lifestyle on Saturday, May 26, at 10 a.m., when the Chandler Centennial Speaker Series continues at the Environmental Education Center, 4050 E. Chandler Heights Road. “A Chandler Tradition: The Dobson Sheep Trail Story,” will feature Dwayne Dobson, whose family has been in the Chandler area for 100 years and ran a sheep ranching operation for over 70 years. Joining him is Cindy Shanks, children’s book author, who has photographed and written stories about the animals that traveled the old sheep trails annually.
http://www.chandleraz.gov/default.aspx?pageid=1048
This photo shows a sheep roundup near Elliott Road in Chandler during the 1960s.