Scottsdale salutes those who served on Veterans Day

Paula Pedene gets a float ready for the big Veterans Day parade. (Spenser Lee/Staff Photographer) An annual Veterans Day event that entertains thousands around Phoenix really begins in Scottsdale. While the parade route kick off is 11 a.m. at Third Street and McDowell Road, it actually starts long before, near 59th Place and Sweetwater. Here, in the driveway of a double-veteran home, volunteers help an energetic Scottsdale woman who pretty much lives Veterans Day year-round. Paula Pedene is the executive director of Honoring America’s Veterans.To say she has an interesting back story is like saying Gen. George S. Patton had a bit of a temper.First, Pedene served as a journalist in the U.S.

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