Raising Canes Fundraiser

 HUGE thanks to the students, teachers, and parents who helped made this fundraiser possible with @raisingcanes

This idea was brought to NHDAZ by 2 middle school students and their father. Their teacher was also instrumental in making this a success.

NHDAZ coordinator Leonard Moody met with these students and their outstanding supporting cast and he says, “it’s incredible to see students so heavily supporting an organization whose purpose is to strive for better education.”

Thank you for your support!

Dia de los Muertos Reception

 

Sharon Harper 2025 AZ Historymaker receives "Trails to Leadership" award

 Governor Doug Ducey writes, "Great to join Scouting Arizona’s Luncheon to introduce my friend Sharon Harper as she was honored with the Trail to Leadership award. Sharon's love of AZ, dedication to her community, and strong servant leadership make her the perfect person to represent the values of scouting."

Historymaker Bob Boze Bell featured at Scottsdale Spirit of the West

The Historical League's 2025 Arizona Historymaker Bob Boze Bell, Executive Editor of True West Magazine is featured as one of three artists in the newly opened "The Resurrection of Billy the Kid" exhibit at Scottsdale's Spirit of the West.

Between Oct. 15 and Dec. 14 at the museum, ten movies of Billy with post-screening discussions will be featured. 

Bob Boze Bell: Writer, Humorist, Artist, Old West Historian

 Bob Boze Bell: Writer, Humorist, Artist, Old West Historian, is being honored as 2025 Arizona Historymaker! Event is October 25.

For more information, visit https://historicalleague.org/2025-arizona-historymakerstm%20-turquoise-treasures-celebration/.

Historical League member Lincoln Ragsdale on The Republic Community Advisory Board

Opinion section is adding community advisory board

Greg Burton

Executive editor Arizona Republic
USA TODAY NETWORK September 28, 2025

(Charlie) Kirk championed the First Amendment. So do we. The Republic’s Community Advisory Board will encourage civil discourse and civic participation. The stakes are greater today than they’ve been in a long time.

(Congrats to Historical League member and one of the new members of) 

The Republic Community Advisory Board:
 Lincoln Ragsdale Jr., a small-business owner. Ragsdale is a longtime resident and community leader in metro Phoenix and son of pioneering civil rights heroes Lincoln Ragsdale Sr. and Eleanor Ragsdale.

2025 Arizona Historymaker Sharon Harper - Business and Civic Leader

Sharon Harper, Business/Civic Leader is being honored as 2025 Arizona Historymaker October 25, 2025. 

Arizona Republic 9/21/2025 by Corina Vanek            USA TODAY NETWORK

The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com are moving their offices to the redeveloped Park Central Mall in midtown Phoenix, leaving downtown for the first time in the news organization’s 135-year history. 

The newspaper’s new office at Park Central will be 17,000 square feet, Andrew Cheney, a broker with Lee and Associates who represented Park Central in the lease, said.

“We have one of the most exciting atmospheres on Central Avenue right now,” Cheney said of the activity at Park Central, listing Creighton University, the new hotel, EOS Fitness, restaurants and apartments, as benefits for Park Central. “There is something for everyone there right now.”

Phoenix recently designated the area around Park Central as a bioscience core, known as “Phoenix Medical Quarter, Global Advancement of Health and Education.”

Sharon Harper, chairperson and CEO of Plaza Cos., one of the co-developers of Park Central, said the success of the redeveloped mall is “such a tribute to Phoenix for sure.” 

“Park Central has risen as the epitome of the history and the future of the city,” she said.

Along with The Republic, Dress for Success Phoenix, a non-profit organization that provides unemployed people with professional clothing and job training to help them reenter the work- force, recently moved its office to Park Central.

Harper said new development projects are in the works for the former mall as well. Plaza Cos. is in escrow with the Dinerstein Cos., the developer of an apartment complex already at the former mall, on another site to build an additional apartment building.

Barrow Neurological Institute is also in the early stages of planning a new bioscience building at the site.

Artlink, an arts organization, is planning a new set of programs for performing arts at Park Central.

“We wanted to be a leader in the mix of biosciences, commercial office and arts and culture,” Harper said of the curation of tenants at Park Central.