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PRE SCOT TLIVINGMAG .COM PUBLISHER Elaine Earle, CPA EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Bea Lueck STAFF WRITER & EDITOR Blake Herzog PRESCOTT PIONEER WRITER Ray Newton DIRECTOR OF SALES & MARKETING Laurie Fisher CREATIVE DIRECTOR/GRAPHIC DESIGNER Tim Clarke

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Findlay Subaru of Prescott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Findlay Toyota Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Findlay Toyota Prescott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Framers Market & Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Guaranteed Door Service, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Haley Construction Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Hassayampa Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Highlands Center for Natural History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Horse Camp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Joe’s Furniture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

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Museum of Indigenous People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Northern Arizona Social LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Northern Arizona Wranglers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Northpoint Expeditionary Learning Academy . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Olsen’s for Healthy Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 THE HERO EDITION • NEW YEAR 2021

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Yavapai Humane Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96, 99 Yavapai Landscaping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Yavapai Regional Medical Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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VOICES At Prescott LIVING Magazine, our slogan is “The Voice of the Community” because we believe the stories in our local region are best told by the people, companies, nonprofits and governments that comprise our community. Here are the “voices” who helped make this issue possible!

Dr. Hojat Askari

Owner, Helken & Horn Advertising Agency Tracey has been helping Northern Arizona businesses prosper, creating professional marketing and advertising materials and negotiating media and digital marketing buys since 1995. She assists with all marketing for the Whiskey Row New Year’s Eve Boot Drop she helped create in 2011.

Martha Baden

Leslie Horton, MA, MCHES

Manager, Public Services, Prescott Public Library Martha is Library Manager, public services at Prescott Public Library. Still enjoying a lifelong love of connecting people with information they need and books they’ll love, she has worked in school or public libraries in four states over the last 20 years.

Dennis Gallagher

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Director of Yavapai County Community Health Services, County Health Officer With 15 years of public health experience, Horton currently works to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of public health services throughout Yavapai County. She is a member of the MATFORCE and Northland Cares boards of directors.

Lori Kennedy

Founder and CEO, Prescott Western Heritage Foundation The Prescott Western Heritage Foundation, Inc., is a charitable nonprofit 501(c)(3) all-volunteer corporation, whose mission is to preserve and promote our western heritage. In 2019, Dennis’ vision for a Western Heritage Center on historic Whiskey Row in downtown Prescott became a reality. He and his wife MaryAnn have been married 53 years.

Communications Coordinator, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Lori has worked in the hospitality industry for 30 years and has been an active participant in the explosive growth of the health and wellness industry.

Sandy Griffis

Ken Lain

Executive Director, Yavapai County Contractors Association Sandy is Executive Director of Yavapai County Contractors Association, and has lived in the Prescott area for 21 years.

Sandy has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and an MBA in business with a minor in music from San Diego State.

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Tracey Horn

Founder & Medical Director, Thumb Butte Medical Center Dr. Hojat Askari, or “Dr. A,” is founder and medical director of Thumb Butte Medical Center at 3124 Willow Creek Road, Prescott, with over 20 medical professionals specializing in family medicine, internal medicine, cardiology, allergy treatment, and foot and ankle surgery. For over 11 years he has serviced the Quad City community and emphasized that Thumb Butte Medical Center treats all patients like family at all their locations.

Owner, Watters Garden Center Ken grew up in Prescott, attended Yavapai College and obtained his degrees from ASU. He married his college sweetheart Lisa Watters-Lain and has four children. His garden advice can be heard each week on the radio. Throughout the week, Ken can be found at Watters Garden Center.

Sheri L. Heiney

Greg Mengarelli

President/CEO, Prescott Chamber of Commerce Sheri was hired as the President/CEO of the Prescott Chamber of Commerce in January 2017. She moved to Arizona from Michigan, and has over 23 years of chamber professional experience.

Mayor, City of Prescott Greg has lived in Prescott since 1995, and has been the Executive Director for United Christian Youth Camp for the past 23 years. He grew up in small, rural communities in Kansas, and graduated from Kansas State University. He is active in community affairs, and is currently the President of the Prescott Unified School District Board.

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Ray Newton

Journalist and Professor-Administrator Emeritus, Northern Arizona University A veteran of weekly and daily newspapers and book editing and writing — Ray has been there. He is a Professor-Administrator Emeritus from Northern Arizona University, now retired and residing in Prescott with his wife, Patty.

Dr. Billie Orr Prescott Mayor Pro Tem & Councilwoman Billie has served as a teacher, principal and Associate Superintendent for Arizona K-12 public schools, and also at the national level while promoting high standards and accountability. She is a member of Frontier Rotary and serves on the boards of Arizona Townhall, Western Heritage Center, CYMPO, Republican Women of Prescott, the Phippen Museum, and the Read On Prescott Steering Committee.

Kell Palguta

Marnie Uhl

President & CEO Prescott Valley Chamber of Commerce Marnie has been the President/CEO since 2006 and successfully led the Chamber to a national accreditation through the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Federation. She was selected as Prescott Area Leadership’s Woman of the Year 2017 and serves on many professional and nonprofit boards. Marnie has been in the Chamber industry for 20 years.

Fred Veil Executive Director, Sharlot Hall Museum Fred is the Executive Director of the Sharlot Hall Museum.

He is a Marine Corps veteran and former Sheriff of the Prescott Corral of Westerners International, he conceived and organized the Western History Symposium. He is a board member of the Arizona History Convention and member of the Tourism Advisory Committee for the City of Prescott.

Loree Walden

Mayor, Town of Prescott Valley Kell moved to Prescott Valley in 1996 from a small town in Maine. In 1998 he began his career in public service as a police officer. He takes great pride in being elected the youngest mayor in Yavapai County, and his goals are to ensure that every citizen’s voice is heard.

Marketing Manager, Yavapai Humane Society Loree is originally from Hawaii and moved to Prescott in 2010.

Her background spans a variety of careers, including 20 years of taxes, 8 years of radio traffic and now as marketing manager for Yavapai Humane Society, where she gets to advocate for and help animals find furever homes.

Sheila Polk

Donna Werking

Yavapai County Attorney Sheila is a native Arizonan, who has served as the Yavapai Attorney for 17 years. A career prosecutor, Sheila chairs MATFORCE, the substance abuse coalition, and is the driving stimulus behind the law enforcement course “What You Do Matters: Lessons from the Holocaust.”

Owner, Marketing Agency, Northern Arizona Social, LLC Donna is the owner of Northern Arizona’s premier marketing firm. She specializes in the latest digital and traditional marketing strategies for businesses across the region. She dedicates her time on committees and boards to support local non-profits and organizations in her community.

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Heroes for All Times

A Elaine Earle

s this issue hits the streets, December is in full swing in Arizona’s Christmas City.

Courthouse Plaza shimmers in all of its holiday finery at the heart of Prescott, Prescott Valley’s drive-thru Valley of Lights in Fain Park beckons to visitors with that giant toy soldier pointing the way, and businesses and homes across Greater Prescott are giving our region that special radiance of no other place.

It’s a time to celebrate the things and people that bring magic to our lives and to our community — family, friends, nature, culture, commerce, but most of all compassion and collaboration.

These are the forces that knit communities together and also the qualities that define the local heroes we celebrate in this issue and throughout the year.

They’re the people who have the vision and commitment to transform lives, but as a rule they wouldn’t be able to have that reach without working with a team to refine and deliver that mission. Whether they find their team or the team finds them, this is the alchemy that turns their potential into heroism.

We find this again and again in the

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people and organizations we honor in these pages. Our ROX Interview this month is with Brad Newman, executive director for almost all the 47 years Yavapai Exceptional Industries (YEI!) has been creating employment, social and independent living opportunities for thousands of disabled adults in the county.

One of the many things he takes pride in at YEI! is staff retention, with an average tenure of 17 years among its 48 employees. One of them recently won a statewide award as Direct Care Professional of the Year.

Other heroes you will learn about in these pages include nurses, teachers, first responders, military officers, advocates for veterans, animal rescuers and the reigning Miss Yavapai County. All of them have led teams or worked with residents and community members to coordinate efforts and resources to help those in need.

We also recognize organizations that have, through teamwork, brought improvements large and small to Greater Prescott. The James Family YMCA, Arizona Community Foundation-Prescott, McCarthy Construction and multiple Eagle Scouts all came together to refurbish a playground for

5- to 12-year-olds in the Y’s afterschool program.

And we highlight The Launch Pad, the community’s successful teen center to provide youth with afterschool and weekend clubs, academic help, outdoor activities, workforce training and community service opportunities.

The secret to The Launch Pad’s success has been bringing teens into key leadership roles from the beginning and searching out opportunities for them to take on positions of authority while serving others.

Now, these teens are collaborating with the City of Prescott, local school districts and media outlets on a “Better Together” campaign aiming to heal the rifts caused by our divisive political climate and to promote more civil discussions about differences of opinion throughout the community.

We’ve got a lot more heroes in the making, and we couldn’t be happier to be giving them a platform in this issue of Prescott LIVING! Elaine Earle Publisher, Prescott LIVING Magazine

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Embry-Riddle Keeps Pulling in Exceptional Rankings

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YRMC completing an $80M expansion

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fter months of discussion and negotiation, leaders at Yavapai Regional Medical Center and Dignity Health in Arizona have completed an affiliation that will benefit those needing medical services throughout Yavapai County and central Arizona.

The announcement was made jointly by YRMC president and CEO John Amos and Dignity Health’s Arizona division president and CEO Linda Hunt on Nov. 2.

Amos said the affiliation was as an important milestone in the 77-year history of YRMC serving the county. He said the affiliation will permit

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expansion of current health care services and resources for the benefit of all the people being served.

The affiliation will perhaps eliminate the need for people to have to travel to the greater Phoenix area for specialty medical services, he said.

Hunt said Dignity Health is looking forward to helping enhance health care services for the residents of Yavapai County: “This partnership is a reflection of our shared vision and values with YRMC.” Regional residents now will have access to world-class specialty services, she said.

As a part of a national affiliation with Common Spirit

Health, the affiliation now becomes part of a health network of 137 hospitals and 700 medical care facilities in 21 states.

YRMC will be the seventh hospital in Arizona affiliated with Dignity Health. Other hospitals include Chandler Regional Medical Center and Mercy Gilbert Medical Center. Also involved is St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, which includes Barrow Neurological Institute, Norton Thoracic Institute, and Dignity Health Cancer institute; St. Joseph’s Westgate Medical Center; Arizona General Hospital Laveen; and Arizona General Hospital Mesa.

YRMC will remain as a notfor-profit community hospital.

top university in the nation aerospace-aeronautical engineering.

A great university to work for.

Named by Boeing Corporation to educate top high school graduates in aeronautical science and aircraft maintenance.

The honors keep rolling in.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s (ERAU) Prescott campus has been cited again as having the best programs of its type in the United States.

For example, it’s the fourth consecutive year that ERAU-Prescott has been named “Best Undergraduate Aerospace/Aeronautical /Astronautical Engineering program” — the nation’s No. 1 institution by U.S. News and World Report’s 2021 Best College Guidebook.

The Prescott campus was named as the best one among the top undergraduate programs at schools where a doctoral degree is not offered.

The Guidebook also rated ERAU-Prescott as the “Best Undergraduate Engineering Program” in Arizona and tied for 13th place nationally at institutions where doctorates are not offered.

ERAU president Barry Butler said, “We take great pride in preparing tomorrow’s leaders in aviation, aerospace, business, engineering and STEM fields.”

Recognition for excellence doesn’t stop there.

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n idea that began more than 16 years ago about constructing a YMCA in Prescott Valley is coming to fruition.

Leadership from the Fain Signature Group has advanced plans for a three-story building that will include a gymnasium, large indoor swimming pool, weight room, men and women’s locker room, kitchen, public plaza, classrooms and rooftop track.

The proposed site for the YMCA has been increased from 4 to 5 acres, said Prescott Valley Town Mayor Kell Palguta because of the generosity of the Fain family.

Palguta said he was especially pleased because the YMCA site is near a park, which will permit children to have access to outdoor activities such as soccer and other sports.

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Natatorium

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He also said a lot of work remained but it was gratifying to have the reality of a YMCA so near in the future.

The YMCA will be constructed southwest of Bob Edwards Park and adjacent to the Parke Place Apartment complex. Viewpoint Drive will be on the east and Civic Drive to the south.

Prescott Valley is now the largest incorporated community in Yavapai County. After 42 years, it has a population approaching 47,000. It is considered one of Arizona’s fastest-growing communities, partly because of aggressive leadership by the Fain Signature Group. The Fain family, among the original settlers in the region, has provided support for almost 150 years.

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PROOF CONCEPT MASSING Town of PrescottOF Valley has been board of the Prescott YMCA. We er Larry Tarkowski said, “The

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working with the YMCA for a number of years. It appears we are making great progress in many respects due to the far-

are excited about the participation of the Fain family and their eagerness to donate those acres for the YMCA.“

Fred Veil Honored by Sharlot Hall

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aving guided Sharlot Hall Museum for more than seven years — from 2013 until his retirement at the end of December 2020 — Fred Veil has been honored by his friends and associates at the popular 93-year old historical museum.

During well-attended ceremonies on Oct. 28, Sharlot Hall Board of Trustees President Kim Finston led activities dedicated the recently completed education center to Veil, the retiring executive director.

Finston and other community leaders and county officials applauded Veil for his leadership during expansion of the prestigious museum.

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Yavapai County Board of Supervisors Chairman Craig Brown praised Veil and the facilities he had supervised for the many learning experiences they provided the greater community.

Likewise, Prescott Mayor Craig Mengarelli called the fouracre open-air museum an asset to not just the City but also the greater region.

Particular focus was given to the new $3.15 million, 10,350 square-foot, three-story brick building which recently was constructed at the corner of McCormick Street and Beech Avenue. To be known as the Fred W. Veil Education Center, it will add

an auditorium, catering kitchen, office space and classroom facilities to the museum.

Finston said the Education Center would not have happened if it hadn’t been for the vision, dedication and perseverance of Veil.

Veil was a law school graduate of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

He had been a senior legal executive with several global corporations before retiring to Prescott in 2000. He initiated the popular Western History Symposium in 2004. During his years as director, membership and attendance at had grown to the point the museum was one of the most popular visitor destinations in central Arizona.

Fred Veil, executive director, Sharlot Hall Museum, announced his retirement at the end of 2020. (Courtesy image)

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The ROX Interview

Brad Newman Executive Director of YEI!

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or almost 45 years, Prescott resident Brad Newman has been leading Yavapai Exceptional Industries (YEI!) in its mission of serving hundreds of adults with disabilities. He promises there will be no slowdown.

Newman, Executive Director of YEI!, over the years has created a productive network of jobs and career opportunities for hundreds — in fact, thousands — of adults with disabilities.

Laughing heartily when the word “retirement” popped up, Newman, now 68, says he can’t even spell the word.

“If I use that word around the YEI! offices, I’ll probably get laughed off the grounds,” Newman said with a smile.

Since that first January day in 1976 when Newman accepted a position with YEI! until this winter, the deeply suntanned and always grinning Newman takes pride in being directly involved in virtually every activity sponsored

by YEI!.

He says the primary focus of what he does is to lead an organization that provides meaningful opportunities for work for persons with disabilities to help them earn a paycheck and give them multiple opportunities to participate in their families and households, their friendship circles and their place in the community.

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if you’ll tag along with me and listen to our story, you’ll begin to understand why I believe that,” Newman says.

Newman initially attended Brophy College Preparatory High School, a private all-male Catholic institution. He later attended the University of Arizona in Tucson.

“I was getting close to graduating and didn’t have a job, and I removed the faded job announcement at YEI! from a bulletin board when I was walking down a hall at U of A,” he says. He had just completed a degree in disabilities learning, and he knew he wanted to work in in Prescott. He had worked at a summer camp and ranch on Mingus Mountain and fell in love with the area. Newman was 22.

Newman was offered the job and took it. He said he was told many years later, “The only reason they offered me the job was I was the only guy that didn’t have a beard — because I was too young to grow one. They also told me nobody else wanted it because it really didn’t pay anything. But I took it gratefully! I have no regrets!”

YEI! has evolved from a small, unknown group of 14 people into what is now considered the outstanding organization of its type in Arizona — and in much of the United States. YEI! has almost 200 people attending daily in any given year from throughout the county involved in its several programs.

It wasn’t always that way.

When Newman began his job,

those 14 people were participating in what then was called Yavapai Rehabilitation Center.

It kept that name until its 25th anniversary, when the board of directors decided to “get with the 1990s.”

Newman explains that then-dean of Yavapai College’s manufacturing technology college, Larry Strom, served as the board president. He urged them to change the name. Newman said the first choice was Yavapai Center for Exceptional Industries, but Strom said it needed to be a memorable acronym, so “Center” was taken out.

They agreed that name was perfect: It captured the nature of

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those it served being industrious people, being enterprising and being exceptional in multiple ways. Beyond that, YEI! is also the name of the Navajo spirit of healing and protection, also carrying the meaning from the Hopi and Yavapai.

Following that, Newman wrote the various tribes and explained that YEI! was proud to be associated with Native American tribes and people throughout Northern Arizona. He and his colleagues laugh about it: “We are the “YEI!-hoos,” and other people out there are “yaa-hoos.”

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The ROX Interview (continued) PRESCOTT LIVING: The past several years have seen YEI! grow far beyond expectations, number of people served and kinds of training and employment provided.

Please explain those for the readers.

BRAD NEWMAN: In 1974, they were working out of a converted warehouse in downtown Prescott. Now, we’re a far cry from those early primitive settings. The changes in the training and the kinds of opportunities we’re providing are even more pronounced. Then we had the one facility.

Now, our downtown office here at 436 Washington is just one of three main facilities. This is our major headquarters, and it’s practically an adobe building we made ourselves.

We pick up our gang with vans going way out to Spring Valley, Paulden, Chino Valley, Prescott Valley, Coyote Springs, and of course, Prescott.

Another major building we occupy, one we just celebrated being in for the past 10 years, is Ruger Airpark Industries in the Prescott Industrial Airpark.

Ten years ago that was where we had only 12 or 14 guys and gals working. For years it’s where we’ve hosted our annual Christmas party. Santa arrives in a helicopter from Guidance Aviation!

That’s a tremendous facility, the one where we construct all our quality redwood outdoor furniture. Now, we have 45 YEI!-hoos building our award-winning patio furniture there. Ruger Park is where we’ve been partnering with M & I Doors and Windows since the day it opened.

That’s an interesting story. MI Doors and Windows is where we first got wood to start making patio furniture using the wood pallets MI received shipments on. That was cheap pine wood. It didn’t take us long to figure out that the wood warped and didn’t hold up. Before long, we decided to switch to quality redwood lumber, and we’ve used it ever since.

PRESCOTT LIVING: Is the redwood furniture that popular?

BRAD NEWMAN: We didn’t understand back in the ‘80s how much people wanted qual-

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ity picnic tables. When we first started, the tables we built were out of wood from the crates we got at MI. As we later found out, people wanted really well-built tables.

We shifted totally to quality, clear redwood. We designed a carefully created table that a really skilled craftsman planned.

It’s all dimensional redwood, all bolts and vertical screws, no horizontal screws. It’s made to last. Carefully sanded and finished, every stick of that furniture is carefully checked before it goes out the door.

And this past year, even more people want the picnic tables — 4-, 6- or 8-foot ones.

PRESCOTT LIVING: How do you market your furniture? What strategies do you use?

BRAD NEWMAN: Honestly, our furniture markets itself. It is so well made that once people see it, they want to buy it.

Here’s what’s surprising. This past year, when everything got shut down, we had the biggest year ever for selling picnic tables. I figure people just wanted to get out.

Eating meals in the backyard with the family was a great and economical way to play pioneer. It was something they could do on the spur of the moment, it took ‘em outside — and (laughing) they didn’t have to tip as much.

Seriously, after the first of the year, the YEI!-hoos built and sold more than 40 tables, and that doesn’t count the ones we donate to organizations and communities all over the county. Our tables are scattered all over the Courthouse Square and other places here in town. We’ve also got them in parks in Ash Fork, Seligman, Chino Valley — heck, name about any place where people have a need for a public picnic table.

We’ve probably put it there.

I need to credit Cody Clark and his team. Cody is the woodshop supervisor.

Been with YEI! for 15 years! Absolute tyrant when it comes to stressing safety standards for the workers. Cody also supervises several employees we have doing the birdseed mixing we do at Ruger. More about that later.

Let me tell you what’s the most gratifying element for me — the putting of our YEI!s to work in meaningful and purposeful work. In fact, I really want to bear down on that. What our workers do at the furniture shop — or any of the other places they work — is significant and dignified.

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Nov. 12 groundbreaking on the first residential project in Prescott Valley.

These are not “make work” assignments.

Anyone I know would be proud to have one of these jobs.

Likewise, great work and thoroughly engaging activities go on every day at Antelope Point @ EastRidge, our 9,000-squarefoot training, employment, activity and warehouse in Prescott Valley.

PRESCOTT LIVING: I keep hearing about the birdseed you mix for Eric and Gayla Moore and their family at the Bird Barn stores they own in Prescott and Flagstaff.

BRAD NEWMAN: Yep, people are always telling me we’ve gone to the birds. And we have. Almost nine years ago we jumped at the chance to build a working relationship with Eric. That’s been one of the best partnerships we’ve ever done for our YEI! family.

Eric and the Bird Barn made it possible for us to have huge flexibility of workspace as well as provide an unusual job opportunity that keeps bringing dividends. We get double duty out of the space, for our furniture manufacturing and for our birdseed blending. I’ll have Eric tell you.

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Even the Birds Win with Brad Newman and YEI! by Eric Moore My wife and family and I have been in the bird seed business 17 years this past October. At that time we had a small retail store on Willow Creek Road near the anchor Safeway store.

We were hand mixing several blends of custom birdseed in the store’s small backroom.

About eight years ago, we entered into a relationship with YEI!. That has really been a positive step forward in many ways.

Since then, we added another store in Flagstaff, and there is a pet store in the Village of Oak Creek that sells our birdseed blends in the greater Verde Valley.

But that’s beside the point.

I am responsible for ordering all the supplies, bags, thread, needles for stitching. I order all the raw ingredients. I work directly every Monday with Cody Clark, the woodshop supervisor for YEI! at Ruger Airpark Industries. I email him every Monday with the seed order for the week for all our stores. Cody organizes men and women into shifts and has them blend the seed. Every emphasis is upon precision measuring — and

on personal safety.

We pick up the measured seed blends on Friday, so the seed is always freshly mixed and packaged. With precision and pride.

We’re proud of Cody and the YEI! team. They blend and package eight different blends now, all specific for the birds of our area. We don’t used “filler” ingredients like the big-box store seed. Our birdseed is unique.

We sell a lot of birdseed — about 500,000 pounds annually. I feel our business is going up each year as our business continues to grow in the markets we serve.

Most important, we consider our relationship with YEI! to be an essential element in our business. Our customers know about it and love to support us. They know when they buy bird seed at Jay’s Bird Barn, they also are supporting adults with disabilities.

PRESCOTT LIVING: We wonder how many readers know that YEI! is involved in a game-meat/ground beef seasoning business. What’s the background on that?

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REFLECTING ON BRIGHT SIDE OF 2020

by Greg Mengarelli, Mayor, City of Prescott

T No one needs to be reminded of the havoc and sorrow created by COVID-19, but we should not lose sight of the positives in our lives and community.

he approach of the holiday season provides us an opportunity to reflect back as well as to look forward. By any measure, 2020 has been a difficult year. No one needs to be reminded of the havoc and sorrow created by COVID-19, but we should not lose sight of the positives in our lives and community.

From a personal standpoint, I understand this dichotomy of emotions — of sadness and joy. When our daughter, Brooklyn, died tragically this past Easter, we were heartbroken. However, the outpouring of love and support we received filled our hearts with warmth that we live in such a caring community.

Similarly, our community can find happiness in the many positives that have occurred in Prescott the past year. These accomplishments will enhance our lives in the coming years. For me, the top three are: Preservation of the Dells: After three years of hard work, the City of Prescott has a Letter of Intent with Arizona Eco Development to acquire approximately 475 prime acres of land that will include the iconic Point of Rocks. Once details are finalized, this land will be owned by the City and belong to our community — securing forever our most valuable natural landmark.

Enhancement of Prescott Regional Airport: Named Arizona’s Airport of the Year by the Arizona Department of Transportation Aeronautics Group, Prescott Regional Airport broke ground on a new $15-million terminal that will be completed in the

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Mayor Mengarelli speaking at the Airport Terminal Topping Out Ceremony on July 20

spring of 2021. In addition, the land to expand the current runway will be deeded to the City of Prescott

by Arizona Eco Development as part of the Letter of Intent to preserve the Dells. This will provide the flexibility to expand the facilities at the airport as needed.

The modernization of the airport is a vital component of a vibrant community.

Granite Creek Corridor Master Plan: This historic district in downtown is getting the attention it justly deserves. In January 2021, the new Hilton Garden Inn will open and the improvements to the Granite Creek Corridor will begin in the first quarter. What was once an eyesore, will become another Prescott “jewel.”

Whether you take a stroll along the creek or enjoy a meal at one of the nearby restaurants, this revitalized area will become one of your favorites!

As Arizona’s Christmas City, Prescott will provide you and your family with the sights, sounds and events to celebrate the positives in all of our lives. From all of us at the City, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a healthy and happy holiday season.

Council members and other dignitaries signed the ceiling rafters before they were installed at the Topping Out Ceremony

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by Kell Palguta, Mayor, Town of Prescott Valley

H For those of you always looking for something to do after the holidays, Prescott Valley has that covered.

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ello everyone, I hope you all are doing well, enjoying the holidays and getting ready for a new year.

I would like to thank all of those who live in our great community or who have been able to visit our community in the past. The year 2020 has certainly been one we will never forget in one way or the other. On the bright side, Prescott Valley is already looking into the future and will be doing everything possible to continue to provide top-notch services to our community.

Considering the COVID-19 climate, Prescott Valley still has some great outdoor family opportunities.

Don’t miss the beautiful light display that encompasses the entire Prescott Valley Civic Center until January. Crews began working in October to put up these lights, and it’s a sight not to be missed!

Another great Prescott Valley holiday event you won’t want to miss is the Valley of Lights, which opened the day after Thanksgiving and runs through Dec. 30. This is an opportunity for you to drive a milelong trail through Fain Park and check out all of the various lighted and animated displays along the way.

You get to stay inside of your climate-controlled vehicle surrounded by your own family and friends. Look for the Toy Soldier on Highway 69 pointing the way.

Valley of Lights is free, but donations are welcome to keep the display going each year.

Another unique opportunity for a great time with the family is to go ice skating at the Findlay Toyota Center. There are numerous skating times throughout

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the week you can take advantage of. Whether you are a first-timer or a veteran pro, everyone is welcome, and there is plenty of room to enjoy your time on the ice. Check out www.findlaytoyotacenter.com for information and times.

Bring in the New Year 2021 with us in the Findlay Toyota Center parking lot. We’ll have a huge bonfire, outdoor games for the kids, hot cocoa served by the Prescott Valley Police, and s’mores prepared by the Central Arizona Fire & Medical firefighters. Two fireworks displays, one at 8:30 p.m. and one at midnight, will light up the sky. Stay tuned to the Town of Prescott Valley Facebook page for more information, or call Community Services at 928-759-3090.

For those of you always looking for something to do after the holidays, Prescott Valley has that covered.

Recently Prescott Valley has become home to the Northern Arizona Wrangler’s Professional Indoor Football team. The Wranglers play in the same division as the Arizona Rattlers and Tucson Sugar Skulls.

This fast-paced sport will start March 20th and run through July so please check the Findlay Toyota Center website for schedules.

Remember that our weather year-round encourages outdoor activities, and we invite you to enjoy our many parks and trails.

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

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5 Reasons to Shop Local this Holiday Season

by Sheri Heiney, President & CEO, Prescott Chamber of Commerce

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ith the holidays all around us, now is the perfect time to determine where you will shop.

Where you choose affects the economy, the environment, and ultimately quality of life for the City of Prescott.

The Shop Prescott — Start Here has been created for just this reason.

Benefits of Shopping Locally: 1. Creates more jobs. Brick and mortar businesses are among the largest employers in the country and offer a multitude of jobs, particularly to those in the local community. Not only do these businesses employ more individuals, but they also are the

customers of local accountants, wholesalers, farmers, printers, etc. Support your locally based businesses, and you will create jobs for your friends, your loved ones, and even yourself.

2. Keeps t he com mun it y unique; lets it thrive. There is nothing more fulfilling than watching a community develop and thrive. Where you shop, eat, and have fun is what helps make your community a home, and adds a unique sense of character to the area. Plus, studies show that entrepreneurs and skilled workers are more likely to settle in communities that recognize, support, and preserve their one-of-akind businesses, helping the community to continue to grow and be successful.

3. Local businesses give back.

Locally based businesses are owned, operated and managed by people who live in this community, are less likely to leave, and are more invested in the community’s future. In other words, local businesses, no matter what, are more likely to “do good” for the community and support local causes within the community.

4. Achieves and receives more diversity. Typically, smaller businesses have a far greater diversity in products and services.

Local businesses often add an element of surprise in their inventory because of their ability to be more diverse!

5. Supports you. Let’s face it, you’re not just supporting the

local businesses, but you’re also in turn supporting yourself. Multiple studies have shown that when you buy from locally based brick and mortar business, a much greater chunk of your money is used to make purchases from other local businesses, service providers, and farms, which helps to strengthen the economic base of the community. What else does this mean? A greater percentage of local businesses help keep your taxes lower and provide high-quality municipal infrastructure and services.

Fall in love with Prescott all over again, take advantage of everything the town has to offer, support the local businesses and just enjoy your hometown, Prescott!

For more information about the Prescott Chamber of Comm e r c e, pl e a s e v i sit w w w. prescott.org or call us at 928-4452000 or 1-800-266-7534, or stop by the Visitor Information Center located at 117 W. Goodwin St., Prescott, AZ 86303.

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Light Your Way to Good Cheer

by Marnie Uhl, President/CEO, Prescott Valley Chamber of Commerce

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he spirit of the season is alive and glowing in Prescott Valley. Its premier holiday destination, the Valley of Lights, anchors a community that celebrates the Christmas and holiday season with lights, music and art.

Valley of Lights is a 1-mile drive through animated and lighted displays in Fain Park.

Each of the 60 displays consists of multiple parts decorated with thousands of lights that cover areas on both sides of the roadway. Everywhere you turn there is something magical to be seen, including overhead as you drive through each of the three beautiful tunnels.

Valley of Lights is open Sunday through Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m. and Friday, Saturday and holidays from 6 to 10 p.m. through Dec. 30. There is no admission, however a suggested donation is $5 per vehicle and you may go through as many times as you wish.

For many this is a family tradition looked forward to every year.

Valley of Lights is sponsored by local businesses and organizations and is presented by the Prescott Valley Chamber of Commerce.

The Town of Prescott Valley makes a huge investment for the holidays with lights around the Civic Center. The official lighting

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is done at the Holiday Festival of Lights, which this year was Dec. 4. This great evening included music from our local school choirs and college band, a special holiday message from Mayor Kell Palguta, a reading of the “Night before Christmas” by me — Chamber CEO Marnie Uhl — and the Night Light Parade.

Each of the three buildings comprising the campus, along with trees, walls and shrubbery, is covered in thousands of lights. It is believed there are so many lights the Civic Center can be seen from space! (Although this has not been confirmed). These lights are on every night until New Year’s Day. New this year is Santa’s North Pole Village opening right after the Night Light parade around 6:30. Be transported to the North Pole and visit the Gumdrop Forest, Gingerbread Workshop and end the trip with a special sneak peek of Santa in his house. This will be held in the Prescott Valley Library Crystal Room. It is a new fun and free event.

More lights fill the Prescott Valley Entertainment District with displays and a Singing Christmas Tree. This downtown treasure opens Thanksgiving night and can be seen each night until the New Year.

Art plays a huge part of the holiday celebra-

tion with the Prescott Valley Arts and Culture Commission’s Create-a-Tree display. Trees are decorated by individuals, businesses, organizations and groups and then put on display in the library. These trees are truly works of art as each one has a special identity and the creativity displayed is remarkable. Each year one tree is voted the “People’s Choice.”

Added this year is the Create-a-Wreath display patterned after the successful Createa-Tree and wreaths are decorated and put on display. The trees and wreaths can be seen during library hours from the night of Holiday Festival of Lights through the New Year.

Our schools, churches and performing arts groups are working to be able to offer, in some way, the sounds of the season. Follow the news or your local school or church for information on holiday shows and musical events.

Prescott Valley is a Christmas and holiday destination. Its variety of activities, displays and lights make it the perfect place to enjoy the beauty of the season.

For more information on Prescott Valley and the surrounding community holiday activities contact the Prescott Valley Chamber of Commerce at 928772-8857 for visit www.pvchamber.org

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Yielding pages of results upon hitting “enter,” there is almost always a perfectly placed ad or two at the top of the list. These ads are made possible by the paid auctioning process of Google AdWords where advertisers engage in a pay-per-click bid to have their business ad in the eyes of potential customers.

Profitable and results-driven, Google AdWords is a fantastic pay-per-click platform to invest in for your digital marketing initiative.

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YEI! Breaks Ground on PV Residential Project

by Blake Herzog The groundbreaking ceremony included participation from construction industry figures, Town of Prescott Valley officials, Prescott Charities board members, YEI! employees and future residents of the homes.

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“This is the biggest undertaking YEI! has ever gone through. It’s a big deal,” Executive Director Brad Newman says.

Sterling Ranches is located within the Eastridge development within walking distance of YEI!’s Antelope Point Industries plant, where many of its clients work. It will consist of two homes, each with about 4,800 square feet, one for women and the other for men.

They will have living quarters for up to six single adults each. Residents will have access to “Jack and Jill” bathrooms, a kitchen, large family room, and rec room also will be included with equipment such as pool

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tables and Stairmasters inside. There will be a barbecue and horseshoe pit in the yard. A host family suite will be between the homes.

Like the two group homes YEI! already owns in Prescott, these residences will allow developmentally disabled adults the chance to live in a

home of their own, gaining a measure of independence from their families.

There will be no staff, but the host and their family will provide some guidance to the residents.

YEI! is working with Prescott Charities Inc., a collaboration of construction industry leaders and other donors, to bring together the substantial financial resources and materials needed for the homes, which are projected to be completed in about six to eight months.

The groundbreaking ceremony included participation from construction industry figures, Town of Prescott Valley officials, Prescott Charities board members, YEI! employees and future residents of the homes.

Antelope Point Industries is one of three YEI! locations where its clients build wooden furniture and fulfill contracts for numerous companies through assembly and packaging of birdseed mixes, spice blends and print publications, to name a few jobs.

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by Blake Herzog There are so many key steps that can be taken on your own to put your present and future on solid financial footing, which will improve your mental as well as financial stability.

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But it is something everyone should play an active role in and consider a self-care ritual; one of the most important they to take on.

There are so many key steps that can be taken on your own to put your present and future on solid financial footing, which will improve your mental as well as financial stability.

• Pursue peace of mind: Keep an emergency fund in a savings account or short-term CDs that can cover three to 12 months of expenses. Try to save even more if you’re working in a field where new jobs are scarce. This is critical for protecting yourself against unexpected job loss or medical bills and lets you not panic when something threatening comes up on the horizon.

• Set your intention: Know how much you want to save for retirement. Many experts suggest saving 10 times your annual income. The number really depends on what kind of lifestyle you want to enjoy once you are finished working.

• Assess your options: Look into every type of retirement savings account available to you, whether it’s a 401(k) plan at work, an IRA (either traditional or Roth) or whichever other product works best for your future.

• Embrace the unknown: Don’t shy away from investing some of your savings in the stock market where it’s likely to multiply much faster and farther than most savings accounts. But do keep an eye on the effect current economic and political conditions are having on the market.

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Consider your legacy: Do some basic estate planning — draft a will, power of attorney, advanced medical directive, living will and other essential documents.

Calling a Professional You may need an attorney to help ensure your estate documents are binding, and there are certainly other situations where bringing in either a wealth manager or financial adviser would be a wise move. For instance: • If you’re experiencing or planning a major family life change such as parenthood or divorce. Even couples seriously dating may want to drop into an office to get a sense of where they stand on financial issues, which have doomed many a relationship.

• You’re seeing a rapid increase in your wealth through a job change, inheritance or other means. An adviser or manager can make sure the influx of cash isn’t being overspent and is being invested wisely and managed for tax purposes.

• If retirement is on your horizon, or already here. A specialized planner can help you figure out what your goals for that phase of your life are and what steps you need to take to achieve them. Some of the planners you consider may boast a retirement-specific credential after their name, but make sure it’s one with teeth that isn’t that easy to earn.

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Wealth managers and financial planners take different approaches to the responsibility of managing your finances, though both generally set a minimum net worth for clients before beginning.

Besides generally working with higher net-worth clients, most wealth managers provide holistic services addressing all areas of their clients’ financial lives from tax work to legal and estate planning. Many financial planners, on the other hand, have a specialty such as investing, accounting, life insurance/estate planning or others often based on the kind of certification they have.

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types of investments, including real assets, hedge funds and commodities.

Most charges are assessed as a percentage of the total amount of wealth being managed, while some advice is available on a flat-fee basis. “Fee-only” advisers earn their income solely from fees paid by their customers and not from commissions for selling certain financial products. This model can eliminate most conflict-of-interest issues but tends to be more expensive than some customers can afford.

Financial self-care is really about the same concepts as the more traditional understanding of the term — getting to really know yourself and your desires for now and in the future, as well as having the resources to remain calm in a crisis so you don’t make ill-advised decisions or suffer needless amounts of damaging stress.

Greater Prescott is home to many wealth managers and financial planners who can help you reach that place.

Working with a planner who lives and works in your community means you’re more likely to be talking to someone familiar with the costs of living there and how to maximize your potential to live your best life.

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Holiday Hope and Reflections

Front row from left: Katherine Augustine, Susan Johnson; Second row from left: Ken Caplin, Dean Charlton, Ted Gambogi, Noel DeSousa, Billie Orr, Devon Richardson, Henry Hash; Third row from left: Ennis Ogorsolka, Chuck Abbott, Mike Payson; Fourth row from left: Wendi Lancy, Ken Lain.

by Billie Orr, Councilwoman, City of Prescott, and Lori Kennedy, ERAU Communications Coordinator Prescott is a very fortunate community with many resources and organizations that can assist those who are searching to improve their lives and the lives of those around them.

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or many people, December and January are their favorite months. The holiday season and the new year offer an opportunity for giving, receiving, reflection and resolve. Most importantly, it is a season of hope. Hope for health and happiness. Hope for financial security. Hope for a sense of purpose, community and fulfillment.

Prescott is a very fortunate community with many resources and organizations that can assist those who are searching to improve their lives and the lives of those around them.

One such organization is the City of Prescott’s Commission on Well-Being whose purpose is to assist Prescottonians improve their quality of life through five pillars of Well-being — Purpose, Community, Social, Financial and Physical.

In honor of the holiday season and the coming new year, the commissioners were asked to reflect on how to make this holiday season special. Here are some of the responses: What do you do during December and January to offset any “over

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indulging” you might have given in to during the holidays?

This year most of us won’t have the multitude of holiday parties that we’ve had in the past if we are social distancing. Even so, there may be excess consumption. I consider exercise as essential to our well-being.

I ask my clients if they would consider not brushing their teeth on a daily basis and of course, the answer is an emphatic “No.” The same goes with exercise. To jump start the new year, I do a New Year’s Day hike before dawn, stopping often to observe the beauty of the sunrise, the fresh air, the forest, the rocks and the vistas looking forward; it isn’t where we have been that matters, but where we are at that precise moment and where we are heading. — Bonnie McMinn To avoid all the extra calories at the holidays, I eat a small breakfast and an earlier dinner, giving me time to digest all of the rich food. One silver lining this year may be fewer parties and social commitments. We will just have to make up for it next year.

— Rita Kavanaugh

The holidays are always an easy time to gain weight and over eat. I consciously try to walk a little more and hike to offset the culinary treats of the season. The best advice I can offer about how to minimize weight gain during the holidays is a simple one. Portion control. Enjoy tasty food and desserts, but plan to eat half a portion. That’s the best of both worlds. Happy Holidays.

— John Murphy My husband and I have three dogs and during the holidays they need to go for a walk. About 4 miles every single day! They keep us in good shape during the holidays if we do eat a few more sweets than normal.

— Cecelia Jernegan Do you have ideas to share for exercising financial responsibility during the holiday season when one may be tempted to overspend?

I set a budget limit per person and ask for a wish list within that price range. It gives me some options, and they still have a surprise under the tree. — Rita Kavanaugh

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Always a lot to learn about longevity.

(John Murphy)

A pre-dawn photo from the edge Prescott National Forest. San Francisco Peaks in the distance. Tranquility and the promise of a new day. (Bonnie McMinn)

We save money all year long to set aside for Christmas. That way we do not go over our budget for gifts/ decorations or drive up our credit card balance. After 48 years of marriage, we seem to have a system that works for our family. We buy ‘deals’ throughout the year and put them away for Christmas. Often, we forget about what we stashed away and it’s a double surprise on Christmas Day! — Billie Orr In our family, we have eliminated gifts to each other. Instead we donate to a charity.

It is much more rewarding to give to people in need. — Peg Travers Community. What thoughts or suggestions do you have for those who might be feeling a little lonely or down at this time of year?

I am finding that people are having trouble coping with the many challenges we are all facing this year and am optimistic for a hopefully more “normal” 2021. Many of us are hurting. I call or text people, send a funny photo or story, or ask for their thoughts on a subject of mutual interest about which we can have a conversation. My purpose is not to solve the problems, but rather have them feel that we are all connected and that they are valued human beings. — Bonnie McMinn Holiday time in Arizona’s Christmas City is filled with opportunities to give back to our communities. There are over 2,200 nonprofits in Yavapai County needing support and volunteers. My focus this season and the new year will be researching ways to create greater “Unity in our Community.” — Billie Orr The best thing to do during the holidays is volunteer to help others less fortunate. There are so many nonprof-

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its in the Prescott area. Volunteering to help others keeps the holiday blues away. — Cecelia Jernegan Social. How are you adjusting your holiday plans to manage your social activities during the holiday season to stay safe and keep your loved ones safe?

We have a tradition of having an open home to all Christmas Eve. We spend two days cooking Italian food and have a pot of spaghetti, chicken cutlets and much more. If we find someone who doesn’t have family in our neighborhood, they are invited.

This year we will make take out and deliver to anyone who would like a meal. — Peg Travers

Sharing Christmas gifts with grandma and grandpa from afar! (Lori Kennedy)

My parents won’t be able to visit this Christmas, so we are doing a virtual celebration on Christmas Eve where our girls will open the gifts they sent so grandma and grandpa can share in that fun. We are all going to have egg nog and toast the holidays.

— Lori Kennedy If you are looking for a purpose this holiday season, here are some suggested resources to donate time and/ or items to those in need.

• Yavapai Food Neighbors, www. yavapaifoodneighbors.com • Yavapai Big Brothers Big Sisters, www.azbigs.org • Meals on Wheels, www. prescottmealsonwheels.com • People Who Care, www.peoplewhocareaz.com • Hope Hall, www.hopehall.org • Boys & Girls Club of Central Arizona, www.bgccaz.org On behalf of the Commission on Well-Being, we wish all of those fortunate enough to call Prescott home a healthful and happy holiday and new year season!

We’re spreading the word about well-being with a presentation by the Commission to Frontier Rotary.

From left: Rotary District Governor Elizabeth Mahoney, Karon Larson, John Murphy, Billie Orr.

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Dignity Health, YRMC Complete Affiliation

by Ken Boush, Director of Marketing and Communications, Dignity Health, Yavapai Regional Medical Center

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avapai Regional Medical Center (YRMC) and Dignity Health have completed an affiliation, uniting two strong healthcare systems that are committed to creating healthier communities by providing accessible, affordable and innovative health services.

The affiliation will scale best-in-class clinical services, recruit and retain primary care providers and top medical specialists, and align clinical operations to improve delivery of care.

It will also bring to Yavapai County innovative medical technologies and treatments, as well as collaborative initiatives with existing community resources, which will expand YRMC’s ability to effectively serve and advocate for all people.

“This partnership is a reflection of our shared vision and values with YRMC, and we look forward to helping enhance health-care services for the residents of Yavapai County,” says Linda Hunt, president and CEO of Dignity Health’s Arizona division. “Yavapai County residents will continue to receive exceptional medical care, and now they will also have access to world-class specialty services.”

In addition to providing leading acute-care services and expanding access to health care, the affiliation is focused on reinvesting in the community through grants and the creation of additional clinical programs to better serve Yavapai County residents.

“This is an important milestone in our 77year journey of serving Yavapai County,” says John Amos, president and CEO of YRMC. “This affiliation will expand our current

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health-care services and resources to benefit the people and communities we serve.”

Dignity Health and the Prescott community share a special historical significance dating back to 1890 when the Sisters of Mercy, who founded Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, opened Prescott’s first hospital.

“We have a long-standing shared legacy with Yavapai County and we are excited to come home to provide a strong future of health-care services within the Quad Cities,” Hunt says.

Leadership from both organizations

are working closely to ensure consistent, thoughtful alignment. No assets were exchanged under the affiliation, and any transitions will be phased in over the next year. YRMC will be part of Dignity Health’s Arizona division and will remain a not-forprofit, community hospital.

The affiliation is not anticipated to cause any disruption in service or access to health care, but rather increase access and availability to health services. The organizations’ leaders will continue to communicate developments with staff and community stakeholders as they occur.

The Yavapai Regional Medical Center (YRMC) health-care network includes YRMC West in Prescott, YRMC East in Prescott Valley, 25 primary and specialty clinics located throughout the community, and more exceptional health-care facilities and programs.

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Change needs inspiration.You’re it.

The benefits of Yavapai Regional Medical Center together with Dignity Health.

We’re changing. Yavapai Regional Medical Center is entering into a new affiliation with Dignity Health. It’s a relationship that’s allowing us to expand clinical services, improve access to care providers, impact community health and wellness, and more over time.

This is an amazing change you can feel good about. Because the inspiration is you.

What would you say to more humanity in healthcare?

Visit DignityHealthYRMC.org to learn more.

Staying Healthy Over the Holidays

by Leslie Horton, MA, MCHES, Director Yavapai County Community Health Services

To close a very challenging year, we all need things to look forward to, often including our beloved annual traditions with family members.

Together, we can all decide to celebrate responsibly while keeping cautious protocols in place that will result in everyone experiencing the joy of the season while feeling healthy and connected.

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ith the holiday season upon us, many people are hoping to take a break from social distancing for some much-needed family time. There are no easy ways to make plans right now — especially if you or someone in your family is at high risk for serious illness or complications from COVID-19.

To close a very challenging year, we all need things to look forward to, often including our beloved annual traditions with family members. Together, we can all decide to celebrate responsibly while keeping cautious protocols in place that will result in everyone experiencing the joy of the season while feeling healthy and connected.

Here are some ways to enjoy the holidays keeping health and safety in mind: Plan ahead. If you can manage outdoor gatherings for the majority of your guests, this would be the ideal scenario. For those coming from outside your household or family circle, request when possible, that they wear masks, especially when not able to distance from others.

Protect your older and more vulnerable family members. Older adults and individuals with pre-existing health conditions are far more likely to experience severe COVID-19 symptoms and complications. If possible, avoid close quarters interaction with these individuals. If the decision is made to visit older adults in person, practice social distancing, and mask wearing is extremely important.

If hosting or participating in any in-person festivities, be sure you and your household are not currently sick, have not been diagnosed with COVID-19, and are not under a quarantine or isolation period. Limit hugging those most vulnerable to illness,

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and consider allowing some people to attend virtually.

If planning a sit-down meal, limit the number of attendees. Try to seat people in a well-ventilated or outdoor area that is not enclosed, especially when hosting people not from your immediate household. Consider going on a hike together following the meal or a neighborhood walk to enjoy the beautiful outdoors, rather than sitting together for a prolonged period of time in close proximity.

Take care of yourself and do things you enjoy with people you enjoy, while helping to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Read your favorite story, share favorite memories, reach out to friends and family who live at a distance, go for a walk, be active, and stay connected through healthy activities, laughter and creating new memories.

Holiday travel tips: • Stay local if at all possible.

• Wear masks, social distance, use sanitizer, and follow airline guidelines if traveling by airplane.

• If traveling by car with people outside of the household, take precautions.

• If inside a vehicle with people outside your household, wear masks and increase ventilation.

Food safety tips: • Limit contact with commonly touched surfaces. Ask guests to use their clean silverware to serve.

• Wash hands before and after food prep, serving and eating food.

• Instead of potluck styles gatherings, encourage guests to bring wrapped food containers.

• If serving food, consider having one person serve food to all in attendance to limit multiple people handling the food.

• Wear a mask if serving or preparing food.

• If you choose to use reusable items, wash and disinfect them after the event.

Safe activities: • Consider having a virtual dinner and sharing recipes with friends and family.

• Shop online instead of in-person the day after Thanksgiving.

• Watch sports events, parades and movies from home.

• Stay in touch by text, virtual meetings, phone calls, letters.

Yavapai County Resources: • COVID-19 Resources — 928-4425103, www.yavapai.us/chs • Flu shot at YCCHS — 928-771-3122 • For employment/financial assistance, homeowner, renter/homeless support, food/meals, health care, and more, call 2-1-1 or visit www.arizonatogether.org • For community resources in Yavapai County: #Yavapai Stronger Together, or https://justicementalhealth. com/resources-support/#covid19

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Primary Care Physicians Key to Good Outcomes

by Dr. Hojat Askari

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nyone trying to navigate their health and the health care system without a primary care physician in their corner is working at a serious disadvantage, and I’m not just saying that because I am one.

A study of more than 60,000 patients published by JAMA Internal Medicine in January 2019 found those who went to a primary care physician or provider (PCP) were 3.4 % more likely to fill more prescriptions and 14.7% more likely to have had at least one regular, preventive care-focused medical appointment per year.

Those with primary care physicians were 10.8% more likely to have received “high-value” cancer screenings. For those with diabetes, patients getting primary care received an average of 7.8% more high-value care than those who did not.

Another study, published around the same time in the same journal, reported every 10 additional primary care physicians per 100,000 people in the United States was associated with a 51.5-day increase in life expectancy from 2005 to 2015, while a similar increase in specialists led to only a 19.2-day increase.

The benefits are well-known, but unfortunately we have a shortage of PCPs that’s only going to get worse. Still, it’s worth seeking one out for everyone in

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your family, for many reasons.

These physicians are generalists who treat minor infections and illnesses and are experienced at managing multiple conditions and continuing care for diabetes and other diseases. They know how and when to get feedback from specialists and are in a position to get to know the whole patient, including their lifestyle and personal goals.

Some patients believe going to a specialist for their particular conditions is what’s necessary and a primary care physician is superfluous. But along with the better health outcomes, primary care has been shown to reduce patient costs by 33 percent overall, and by more than 300 percent over seeking the same treatment in an emergency room setting. This is why many insurance plans have patients get a referral to a specialist from their primary care physician.

These plans may require you to choose a primary care physician, but it’s a good idea whatever your health situation is. Even if you currently don’t have any conditions or medications that need to be managed, you should have one to turn to for annual checkups and treatment for cold, flus and other infections you run across in the course of life.

So how do you choose a primary care provider? Here are some tips.

• Decide what you want and

need in a provider — Do you want an MD, or would you be comfortable with another professional with training to treat primary care patients under the supervision of a doctor, such as a physician assistant or nurse practitioner? Do you have a preference for talking to a man or woman about your health?

Would you like to have a PCP with a particular focus?

Most family practice or internal medicine specialists are generalists who treat people from a wide age range, but other choices include a pediatrician for children and a geriatrician for seniors.

• Networking — Most coverage plans have some form of a provider network, where patients receive less or sometimes no coverage if they go to someone outside of it. If you’re not familiar with any providers in your area who are in-network, consider doing your own kind of networking and see if any of your friends or associates can

recommend someone who is.

• Make a list — Once you’ve gathered a few names, write them down with all the information you’ve been able to gather, including their location and anything you’ve been able to get from Arizona Medical Board records (www.azmd.gov).

Go over what you’ve found and see if there are any you would rule out, based on what you know.

• Set up an informational meeting with your top one or two choices, if possible.

We’re always accepting new patients at Thumb Butte Medical Center’s three locations, and welcome phone calls and walk-in visits from prospective patients.

We will answer all questions and arrange a meeting with one of our providers as quickly as possible. And we will always treat you like family!

For more information call 928445-7085 or visit www.thumbbuttemedicalcenter.com.

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Meet the Dogs Fighting Fentanyl

by Sheila Polk, Yavapai County Attorney

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eet Haddie. She’s a German Shepherd, an awesome dog, and best friend of her partner Deputy Travis Hartman. Most importantly to the safety of residents in Yavapai County, she can detect illegal fentanyl, the deadly drug that can kill with just one pill.

Haddie is one of three certified canines (K9s) assigned to PANT, Yavapai County’s drug task force.

Haddie comes from Canada and was trained by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. When Canada legalized marijuana, their drug dogs were replaced by the government.

“Their loss, our gain,” says PANT Sgt. Jarrod Winfrey, a narcotics detective for over 10 years.

Haddie joins Vader, a Belgian Malinois acquired from Waddell Kennels, and Maximus, a

Haddie is a German Shepherd trained by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to detect the deadly fentanyl. Her partner is YCSO Deputy Travis Hartman.

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Dutch Shepherd acquired from the Goodyear Police Department. These three K-9s and their handlers (we call them partners) make up the phenomenal PANT K-9 unit. They can detect marijuana, meth, cocaine, heroin and now fentanyl.

Fentanyl is quickly becoming America’s deadliest drug. According to Sgt. Winfrey, “If not for naloxone (an antidote), fentanyl would be the No. 1 drug killing our kids.”

Judge Anna Young, Presiding Judge of the Yavapai County Juvenile Court, concurs: “We’ve had an explosion of fentanyl use by our youth in the last six months.”

Fentanyl is the deadly drug that snuffed out the lives of four local youth, Gunner Bundrick, Jake Morales, Hannah Cupp, and most recently, a 14-year old girl. Eighty to one hundred times more potent than morphine, fentanyl is so deadly that our K-9s train only with fake fentanyl so they won’t be exposed to a lethal amount. Illicit fentanyl is packaged primarily as fake prescription pills. One recent bust in Yavapai County even found fentanyl in fake baby aspirin.

Haddie, Vader and Maximus are working hard to get this deadly poison off the streets of Yavapai County. These K-9s and their partners, Yavapai County Sheriff Deputies Travis Hartman, Trevor Hearl and Nate Camacho, train at least 1-2 hours every day. Some units train once a week for several hours.

“But,” says Sgt. Winfrey, “these dogs are smart. When you set aside one day a week for training, they quickly learn the difference between a training day and a day on the job.

We found that training every day keeps them sharp and at their best.”

So sharp, in fact, that several are award-winning dogs. Winfrey’s dog Gemma, a Belgian Malinois now retired, won the Detection Case of the Year for 2016 by the National Police Association. Miley, also a Belgian Malinois, and her partner Sgt. Eric Lopez of the Sheriff’s Office, won the K9 Officer of the Year in 2017 from the Arizona Narcotics

Gemma, now retired, is a Belgian Malinois and lifetime partner of YCSO Sgt. Jarrod Winfrey.

Gemma has national fame having won the Detection Case of the Year for 2016 by the National Police Association.

Officers’ Association. Vader, along with Deputy Hearl, were very recently awarded the K9 Officer of the Year for 2019.

What happens to these hard-working, fiercely loyal, eager-to-please K-9s when their law enforcement partner is reassigned duties or promoted to another position? As you can imagine, the bond between dog and officer is deep; after all, they spend almost every hour of every day together in work, training and play.

Yavapai County Sheriff Scott Mascher knows how strong the bonds are and that these furry working partners become best friends with their handlers. The happy ending to this story is that the dogs are officially retired and allowed to live with the officers and their families forever more.

Sgt. Winfrey worked with his dog Gemma for over seven years. Now retired, Gemma revels in her role as family pet, best friend — and protector — of Winfrey, his wife and their two children.

And Haddie? She hits the streets every day with her partner doing what she can to remove fentanyl from our communities.

Sheila Polk is the Yavapai County Attorney and serves as member of PANT, the Yavapai County narcotics taskforce.

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From left: Madison Link, Brandon White, Jennifer Warren, Ellen Snyder, Abby Ruby, Dallas Willoughby, Annie Warner, Eric Welsh

Environmental Dream Guides Local Students

by Kelly Tolbert, Recreation Coordinator, City of Prescott • Photos by Kelly Tolbert

Prescott Unified School District was challenged during pandemic conditions to find a safe, healthy way to begin the school year...

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he City of Prescott Recreation Services Department owes much of its success to its vital community partnerships.

The life cycle of these partnerships can be ongoing, one-time, or cyclical in nature. A recently revived partnership (partially due to COVID-19) between the Recreation Services Department and Prescott Unified School District at the Prescott Community Nature Center has fostered new partnerships with Prescott College, Arizona Serve and G.E.M. Environmental.

G.E.M. Environmental is a Prescottbased scientific charity bringing educational resources to underrepresented students through scholarships, paid internships and field experience within the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields.

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Northern Arizona State University, Eric formed a consulting agency and began working as a geologic consultant with individuals and small companies looking to claim mineral rights or expand operations on existing claims by completing basic survey, mapping and safety assessments on a contrac-

tual basis.

After earning a GeoCorps Internship with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which led to his being contracted as a liaison with the BLM in the Abandoned Mines Land (AML) Program in New Mexico assisting in their inventory and remediation project work as a geologic consultant, Eric decided to convert his consulting business into a nonprofit.

His dream is to support geoscience students in applying the knowledge they have acquired in school to practical industry applications to give them a better chance at landing a job in their area of study.

Prescott Unified School District was challenged during pandemic conditions to find a safe, healthy way to begin the school year, and one solution was to begin using the Community Nature Center (CNC) for outdoor

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classroom space. A former Prescott student himself, Eric recalled learning experiences at the same space as a young science student dissecting owl scat. Having such a memorable experience inspired G.E.M. to continue the teaching legacy to students in the natural environment of the Community Nature Center.

During this same time, Arizona Serve — a program of Prescott College — partnered with the Recreation Services Department by filling a state AmeriCorps position to provide support to educators and students using the Community Nature Center. According to its website, Arizona Serve connects passionate people with transformative community projects to fight poverty.

This happened to be an ideal partnership, with adjacent Title IX schools Abia Judd and Granite Mountain primarily served daily. By providing support to PUSD, the CNC, and fulfilling Arizona Serve’s goal of having their members develop the skills and experience to become the next generation of leaders working for a more

Some rules created by PUSD students for the CNC property

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The CNC cabin

just society, this partnership creates an ideal balance.

During initial collaboration between G.E.M. Environmental staff and the Community Nature staff, G.E.M. recognized the potential to incorporate use of a National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) work crew, part of the AmeriCorps program, to help with projects at the CNC. Stemming from President Roosevelt’s New Deal post Great Depression era recovery programs, the CCC experienced many changes but never went away completely. During the mid-1970s, Dr. Henry Dahlberg — a former PUSD educator and long-time caretaker at the CNC — used a NCCC crew to help maintain many of the features still found at the Community Nature Center today.

Starting mid-November, the Center once again will benefit from a NCCC work crew. Focusing on trail maintenance, improvements, invasive weed species removal, and various other nature based projects, the crew of 10 young males is scheduled to work for approximately four weeks Monday through Fridays. G.E.M. Environmental staff applied for the work crew and is facilitating this partnership for the City of Prescott.

While looking at more ways to fulfill the G.E.M. Environmental founder and Executive Director’s vision of preparing students for the industry applications relevant to their education,

the local nonprofit is hoping to build a work crew of their own starting in March 2021. At its inception, the crew would consist of Prescott-based high school students working through the remainder of the calendar year to gain experience while working with local agencies.

Although recent times have proved difficult — challenging at best — it is crucial to lean on partnerships for the success of the organization. Pandemic uncertainty has left many people feeling anxious, uncomfortable in their solitude and coping with general grief for activities deemed unsafe.

These partnerships between the Prescott Unified School District, the Community Nature Center, Arizona Serve via Prescott College, G.E.M. Environmental, and the City of Prescott Recreation Services Department provide a real-life example of how organizations working together can more easily achieve their missions, reach more individuals, and benefit the community as a whole.

Although recent times have proved difficult — challenging at best — it is crucial to lean on partnerships for the success of the organization.

For more information on Prescott’s Community Nature Center, visit www. prescottcommunitynaturecenter.org. For more information on G.E.M Environmental and their various generous contributions they are providing to our community, visit their website at www. gemenvironmental.org. They are always looking for volunteers.

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These Dogs Love to Solve Mysteries

From left: Mark Richardson with dog Scout, Patty Richardson, Jodie Smith with dog Jersey Lilly, Corinne Harmon, Ann Schmidt with dog Dillon, Kathy Blanco with dog Sadie, Heather Lum with dog Google, Blair Burtan with dog Tippy, Janelle Hinesley with dog Koda; Missing from The Photo: Jim Harrison with dog Goose, Tammi Harrison with dog Maverick, Mary Kay with dog Cosmo and Ralph Blanco, Photo by Artemis Studios Photography

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t’s been said that search and rescue is a lifestyle. Working with search dogs is no different.

Effective search personnel aren’t glory-seekers, and being a member of Yavapai County Search and Rescue Team’s Search Dog Unit is about as far from a dog park as you can get.

Search work isn’t glamorous and often involves rolling to a call out at 3 a.m. ready to deploy. Search dog teams are often trudging through brush and scrambling over rough terrain in all kinds of weather for many hours in service of their mission.

Yavapai County Search and Rescue Team’s Search Dog Unit is quite literally a different breed of search and rescue. While search and rescue in most places tends to be multitasking teams, Yavapai County often differentiates skill sets to get the most out of the available resources. The search dog unit focuses on the search side of missions.

A search mission is a classic mystery. All searchers in every search and rescue unit use their talents, skills, training and tools to solve that mystery.

The search dog unit’s primary tool is a dog, but not just any dog. These dogs love

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the pursuit and the game of finding a human subject. They work hard and get paid in treats, special toys and lots of praise from the handlers.

Some dogs specialize in area search, also known as air-scent search, looking for live human subjects. Other dogs are trained in trailing when a scent article belonging to the subject is used by the dog to follow the path the subject walked while ignoring scents of different humans. Still other dogs are trained to locate the scent of human remains that may be buried and many years old.

There isn’t one specific breed of dog that’s best for search work, and quite often the dogs are mixed breed and even rescues themselves. There are desirable physical characteristics of a search dog. Good candidates are athletic, agile, want to work, and get excited when their handler laces up their hiking boots.

Some search dogs begin their career as puppies while others start out at a year or two old. Prospective dogs are evaluated before beginning training, but there is no guarantee of success. The handler and the canine are a team, and they must learn to work together as one.

Search dog unit members train many times every month to hone their skills not just with their dogs but on general search and rescue skills such as land navigation, wilderness survival, first aid, clue awareness, and search tactics. They do this because a necessary element for deploying a K-9 team into the field is what’s known as backing or flanking.

A handler has one or more backers helping the handler on their search assignment. These are integral members of the team who take care of navigation, communications, looking for clues, and safety of the team while also observing the handler’s dog. So, if you don’t have a dog, you can still be a member.

In recent months, a number of unit members and their dogs have achieved national certification in the three disciplines, with several more getting ready to test. It can take a year or more to train a search dog for national certification.

Team members never think twice about meeting that challenge and putting in the long hours of training because they know one day the rewards will be reuniting a missing person with their family and the wet nose of their four-legged teammate. For more information please visit www.ycsrt.org

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State’s Oldest Continuous Spelling Bee Set for Feb.

by Blake Herzog

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he 75th annual Yavapai County Spelling Bee is scheduled for Feb. 13 at Yavapai College’s Prescott campus, carrying forward a tradition that’s brought generations of students and families from both sides of Mingus Mountain together for some friendly orthographical (spelling) competition.

The event, Arizona’s oldest continuous spelling bee, will be held in the college’s community room at 1100 E. Sheldon Road, with the contestant check-in beginning 11 a.m. and the competition starting at 1 p.m.

Such an event takes a considerable amount of time and planning to put together, especially considering the number of bees that must be held

along the way. School bees are being held throughout the fall and winter, and the 25 school districts within Yavapai County hold theirs in January.

Jenn Nelson, the county spelling bee coordinator and an administrative assistant for Yavapai County Education Service Agency, says 30 to 50 students enter the competition each year, and the word lists for all school, district and the county bees are sent to the county by the Scripps National Spelling Bee headquarters.

Students can use the lists at www.spellingbee.com to study for their school, district and county competitions.

2020’s winner of the Yavapai County competition was fourth-grader Aliyah Alpert, 9,

who won $300 and a ceremonial plaque but was unable to advance to the state level when that competition was canceled due to the pandemic. She also won in 2019 and took second place in 2018, when she was just a second-grader.

These events tend to be known for briefly elevating seldom-used, difficult words from obscurity, but there’s also the matter of the tiny word at the

center of it all — why are they called “bees?”

Originally thought to be inspired by the industrious insect, it turns out the word is most likely rooted in the Middle English word “bene,” used to describe “voluntary help given by neighbors toward the accomplishment of a particular task,” according to www.merriam-webster.com. This definition also survives in terms like “quilting bee” and others.

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by Blake Herzog

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eroes make the world go around.

They put in the work to make it a better place for everyone else who lives here, often sacrificing large amounts of their own time, comfort and even safety.

Sometimes it happens through short, intense actions to pull someone from a burning vehicle or a raging wash.

Many more times it’s the commitment to an ideal that pushes an individual to plug away at one or multiple goals day after day. They know those goals are worthwhile and achievable.

Heroes come through with solutions

to seemingly intractable problems, then put in the effort to form partnerships and tap the resources necessary to put them into practice. Communities can’t exist without heroes.

Heroes recognize the value of neighbors working together to create a sense of place and a sense of trust that binds them together in the face of adversity.

The Greater Prescott community has its legions of heroes beginning with the ancient peoples who settled the area from approximately 300 to 1300 AD. Today known as the “Prescott Culture,” these Hohokam- and Yavapai-related

tribes persevered against the rugged landscape, summer heat and winter cold to build intricate houses, forts and walls for protection and to house early forms of commerce.

The 1860s brought the United States’ first serious investment in the area as the Arizona Territory was carved out of New Mexico, gold was discovered in the Bradshaw Mountains, the Army built Fort Whipple and the town of Prescott was not only founded, but named the first territorial capital.

The miners who first discovered the Prescott area’s riches were followed by homesteading farmers and ranchers, all

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proving heroic as they built their town and put their land into production, persevering through devastating fires to five blocks of the downtown area. They created a frontier community that spawned the “World’s Oldest Rodeo” in 1888.

Modern heroes Present-day Greater Prescott has many more kinds of heroes. They’re found in firehouses and police stations, businesses small and large, our excellent schools, nonprofits and homes.

They save lives at accident scenes and in medical settings, create jobs that help keep our families fed and community stable, educate the children who will one day fill our leadership roles and improve the lives of disadvantaged people and homeless pets.

Their local acts of heroism are delivered through paid or volunteer service and reverberate many degrees further than those directly affected.

Improved conditions lift all spirits within a community.

Join us here as we celebrate our local heroes and their contributions.

Thank the ones you know for everything they’ve done, and maybe think about how you can help. Your contribution will be forever appreciated.

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Yoga Studio Owner Launches Homeless Nonprofit

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n the year she’s lived in Prescott, Christine Streveler has opened a yoga studio that led her to launch a nonprofit benefiting women in recovery from homelessness, domestic violence or substance abuse.

“I’m very excited, very happy. I feel a smile every day. I’m so proud that I get to offer this to the community and be of service,” she says.

Streveler moved here in 2019 from Chicago, where she’d managed yoga studios for a decade.

“I noticed a little bit of a void from what I was used to,” she says, so she decided to open one of her own, Your Soul Shine at 843 Miller Valley Road.

She was getting ready to open last spring when COVID-19 intervened and delayed her opening to August. Once opened, her class size was capped at seven students, limiting her reach.

Then, she got a voicemail from a staff member at a local recovery center that expanded her mission in ways she’d never imagined — she created a nonprofit arm of her studio to serve women in recovery.

“My first week of being open, I had 21 women in recovery wanting to come to my studio for class and we can only accommodate seven because of COVID,” she says.

“About two weeks later, I decided no one’s

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going to get turned away.”

All these women have experienced hardships in the recent past and are in the process of getting back on their feet. Yoga can be part of that journey, Streveler says.

“Yoga is such a wonderful healing modality to add to something when you’re going through a tough transition. Having a space of community and peace and acceptance is so critically important. I started the nonprofit off of that and just wanting to help women in recovery,” she says.

Many of the 21 women are already taking yoga classes at Your Soul Shine, and all have their own yoga mat, paid for with a donor’s check. Many other community members have come forward with offers of gift bags, massages, haircuts and other goods and services.

Streveler is busy with the administrative work involved with forming Peace-Full Oasis, the 501(c)3 she’s created to manage all the assistance that’s coming in. Her son Chris Streveler, who plays for the Arizona Cardinals, is the president of the newly formed board.

She hasn’t been formally promoting PeaceFull Oasis to the public yet, but says, “Everybody that I seem to mention it to wants to be involved, either a ‘Can I help you’ sort of way, or ‘I’d like to donate this sort of way.’”

She’s not sure exactly where her efforts to

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help these women through the power of yoga and its discipline will develop over time, but Streveler says she is excited to see where it leads.

“I think it’s going to be really big, and I’m very proud of this,” she says. “It’s definitely a sweet spot in my heart, giving back is always key in my mind. And holding everyone to their highest selves.

“And that’s sort of what yoga is all about, right? It’s not about if you can touch your toes, it’s about just being your best self, finding the peace and calm and clarity within yourself. And within that, there are a lot of healing properties.”

For information on how to contribute to PeaceFull Oasis, email peacefulloasis@gmail.com or visit its new website at www.peace-fulloasis.org For information about Your Soul Shine visit www.yoursoulshine.com or call 815-900-0369.

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Kelly Cordes Nominated by Cheryl Lough

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elly and his family have lived in the Prescott area for generations.

For many years Kelly has served this community by being a schoolteacher. Three of our children were lucky to have him as their middle-school history teacher. Not only was he able to get their interest and able to actually teach them about our country, but every year he would

organize and lead history trips with students. They would travel to D.C., Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania where he would hands-on teach them about the history of our great nation! Never once were our children taught in his classroom which political side to lean toward, he taught both sides equally. He is a true TEACHER HERO and strong Arizona native!

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eah Sussman is a local teacher of biology and physics at Northpoint Academy in Prescott, Arizona. During her six years at Northpoint Academy, Leah Sussman has co-led an all-girls multiple day backpacking expedition through Northern Arizona, taught marine biology in Mexico, collaborated with the NAZCCA (Northern Arizona Climate Change Alliance) shoe-drive protests, and won the 2019 Sustainable Economic Development Initiative Award for her curriculum on climate change and sustainability. Leah Sussman is an Arizona-born woman who lives to inspire young women and men by educating them on relevant and pressing issues that inspire prosperity for Prescott and the world.

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Building Community One Leader at a Time

by Blake Herzog • Photos courtesy of The Launch Pad Teen Center When they’re ready for the next step, she says, “We’re going to help you make the next step.”

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he Launch Pad, a Prescott teen center providing social and academic support for students in seventh through 12th grade, sees a leader in every youth who walks through its doors.

That vision originates with Founder and Director Courtney Osterfelt, who’s been organizing annual Women’s Empowerment Breakthrough (WEB) conferences for up to 70 teen girls at a time on Mingus Mountain since 2003.

“We believe everybody is a leader, and we tell all of our teens that from the moment they walk in,” she says.

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can still lead by example.

When they’re ready for the next step, she says, “We’re going to help you make the next step.”

Osterfelt was convinced Prescott teenagers were looking for more leadership opportunities in part by feedback from girls who attended the WEB conferences.

“I kept hearing from our teenage girls that we needed a teen center or we need more, like my brothers need something, my cousins need something. Can you offer the WEB conference for them? Every weekend? They just wanted more and were constantly asking for more,” Osterfelt says.

This spurred her to lead a grassroots group to open a teen center in 2013, funded by a $13,000 inheritance from her grandmother and $300 the group had raised selling tickets to a Lumineers concert.

The Launch Pad quickly expanded and so did its leadership opportunities for youth. Teens make up half the governing board, serve on a teen advisory board, lead daily circle discussions, take charge of making sure chores get done and lead new programs.

All this is done while The Launch Pad serves the typical functions of a

teen center with clubs and programs mostly held from 3 to 6 p.m. — between the end of the school day and the time when most working parents get home for the evening. The teen center usually serves about 40 students per day.

Teens can drop in to get homework help through academic mentorship from other teens, do art projects, play with a band, learn “life hacks” and workforce skills and take part in adventure-based programming.

All of this activity combines with a laid-back atmosphere to make it easier for many kids to make social connections, Osterfelt says.

“The Launch Pad is this kind of neutral space. It’s not as overwhelming or daunting as school when the hallways are really busy and there’s definitely a pecking order of who’s popular and who’s not,” she says.

“At The Launch Pad when teens walk in, they are all starting on the same playing field, making it much easier for them to make friends. We have some teens who attend that are on the spectrum and because The Launch Pad is such a welcoming space it is much easier for them to learn important social skills.”

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Better Together

The center does charge activity fees, but scholarships are available for students in need. The majority of participating teens come from lower-income families who wouldn’t normally have access to these kinds of resources. Some students do come from higher-income families and are looking for a place more conducive to making friends, or to have different leadership opportunities than they can get at their school.

Members participate in community-based initiatives, many of them formed and led by youth. The latest example is “Better Together,” on which The Launch Pad is collaborating with the City of Prescott, local schools in Prescott and Prescott Valley and others on a campaign to encourage more civility and discussion in a community dealing with ideological tensions like those seen in the rest of the country.

“It’s a program to address some of the adversity in town, some of which has been directed at teens and a lot of it about lack of respect for differences.

And the teens really felt like we need to do something to help everybody feel like they have a seat at the table,” she says.

Some 60 teens have volunteered to participate in “Better Together.”

During October and November they received online training in such areas as how to de-escalate conflict, how to hold difficult conversations and how to react when people are getting too defensive.

At the end of November the teenagers began leading those conversations with their peers as part of a hybrid online, in-person campaign expected to reach up to 1,500 students.

The Better Together event took place on 11/23 and served several hundred teens, follow up programs continuing the learning from Better Together will be happening throughout the school year, involving all area high schools, and reaching over 1,000 youth.

The Launch Pad also offers weekend programming on everything from workforce skills to outdoor camping adventures, including the WEB conferences that originated as Osterfelt’s

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senior project at Prescott College.

These programs expand its reach to well over 1,000 students.

Higher Orbit

The Launch Pad’s official home is in the former Prescott College admissions building at 302 Grove St., which crams a welcome room, computer lab, game room, art room, kitchen and offices into a 1,100-square-foot space.

But since the COVID-19 pandemic began, most activities have been shifted to a warehouse it owns at 464 Sixth St., which will be remodeled into a new home (hopefully within two years) for The Launch Pad. It was brought into service early to make social distancing possible, and has been dubbed “Houston,” after NASA’s home city.

Daily participation levels have dropped some since the pandemic, with only about 10 students taking advantage of the distance learning space available during school hours for those who can’t stay alone at home during the day or need help with online learning concepts.

The warehouse ultimately will be expanded to 5,600 square feet with the addition of a mezzanine level. It will house a full-size art studio, academic mentorship space for one-on-

one and small group meetings, game and music rooms, a stage for music performance and a nonprofit coffeehouse where teens can earn money and develop work experience.

The Launch Pad’s success is building upon itself as the organization gets enough experience and results to its name to qualify for grants, the annual budget blossoming to $300,000 this year. It has three full-time staffers, including Osterfelt, and six part-timers.

It’s laid the groundwork for hundreds of teens to launch their adult lives, some of whom have come back to volunteer on their spring breaks.

The warehouse has provided practice and performance space for several student bands, most notably Telluride Folk Festival winners Sugar and the Mint.

“I would argue every teen could benefit from something at The Launch Pad, whether it’s our workforce development program, our teen advisory council, being on the board of directors, or coming in for a drop-in or learning to play an instrument or going on a hike with us. There’s something here for every teen,” Osterfelt says.

“The Launch Pad is this kind of neutral space. It’s not as overwhelming or daunting as school when the hallways are really busy and there’s definitely a pecking order of who’s popular and who’s not,” she says.

For more information on The Launch Pad, including enrollment and how to donate or volunteer, visit www.thelaunchpadteencenter.org or call 928-227-0785.

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Rim-to-Rim Hike Supports Launch Pad Adventures

by Blake Herzog

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he Launch Pad’s third annual Rimto-Rim fundraising hike was its most successful, raising $47,500 for the nonprofit teen center’s outdoor adventure programs.

Molly Auman, a real estate broker for Russ Lyon Sotheby’s and a member of the committee overseeing the fundraiser, says the 32 participants were the most they’d had since the fundraiser started, and they far outgrossed the projected $35,000 goal.

“The first year we did it was almost a fluke, we put it together so quickly we didn’t have much time to raise money,” she says.

For the 2019 event the committee instituted a $500 fundraising minimum for participation and the hike ended up raising $29,000, cementing its role in The Launch Pad’s portfolio of fundraisers.

Auman says the spirit of competition started to kick in this year among the participants, all of them local businesspeople who each had their own webpage to collect pledges from family, friends and the public.

It turns out that Auman and her husband Jeff came out around the top of that competition, raising more than $6,000 together to become the highest-earning duo.

Ryan Glennan, a Launch Pad board member and vice president of Foothills Bank, was the highest-grossing individual hiker at more than $4,100 and was also a member of the highest-grossing team, along with local business owners Evan Simpson, Ben Wojciak and Erik Contreras. Together they netted almost $12,000.

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Laurie Fisher, director of marketing and advertising for ROX Media, also participated in the hike and raised $1,122.

All proceeds go to The Launch Pad’s WILD, an outdoor adventure program that takes teens on weekend exploratory trips along with extended trips over fall and spring break. Just a few weeks after the Trek for Teens, a dozen Launch Pad teens spent their fall break touring Lake Powell, Horseshoe Bend and the Grand Canyon’s North Rim. The Launch Pad is an all-inclusive center for teens in downtown Prescott that offers afterschool activities, weekday clubs, community education, academic mentorship, summer camps and the outdoor adventure activities, along with mental health guidance and low-income support.

Auman says this year’s Trek for Teens began on the North Rim at 2 a.m. Oct. 3 in 28-degree weather. By the time they reached Indian Garden, about 5 miles down from the South Rim, a thermometer was reading just over 100 degrees hotter, at 130 degrees.

“I don’t think people really understand how extreme this hike can be and really prepare for it,” Auman says. “Don’t hike up Thumb Butte a couple of times and think you’re done training.”

All the hikers were on the buddy system and kept close track of each other; on one

Temperature gauge at Indian Garden, about 5 miles down from the south rim. Photos by Molly Auman.

got lost. Most finished the 24.5-mile trip in about 12 hours, but a few needed a few extra hours to complete the grueling journey.

Corporate sponsors for this year’s Trek for Teens included Findlay Subaru Prescott, El Gato Azul, Grand Canyon Adventures, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, BloomTree Realty Prescott, Goods From the Garden and Hike Shack.

Top photo: Ben Wojciak, Ryan Glennan, Evan Simonson, Erik Contreras, Lisa Hall, Bonnie Parsell, Lindsay Quinn, Sean Manske, Emilie Wilson, Cate Wilson, Mickey Sarkett, Courtney Osterfelt, Cooper Carr, Cathy Stonecipher, John Stonecipher, Laurie Fisher, Brad Fisher, Kirk Newmiller, Will Ratz, Heidi Popp, Angelika Garcia, Marco Garcia, Breeanya Hinkel, Trisha Schaffer, Julie Borovik, Catherine Page, Ron Horn, Barbara Roberts-Hartman, Kelly Thrush, Jeffrey Auman, Molly Auman, Cindy Rollins, Gabby McMillan, Danny Davis, Rob, KP Preziosi

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Alexes Niekamp LESSONS BY LEXE DANCE STUDIO Nominated by Tamee Niekamp

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exe has been safely working within the COVID guidelines and has been able to have students resume in-person dance classes. Parents affected by job loss have been and continue to receive scholarships.

Lexe has also been collecting and donating school supplies to students in her role as Miss Yavapai County. The arts is her platform and she has donated to many organizations. Lexe is a hero to many children and families for going above and beyond and creating a safe place and also helping children stay busy and creative during this time.

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Casino’s ‘Month of Giving’ Donates $25,000

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liff Castle Casino Hotel in Camp Verde declared October its “Month of Giving” to further its dedication to supporting the community and organizations of northern Arizona. It donated money to local nonprofits whose missions and goals are to create a more equitable and thriving community.

Cliff Castle pronounced the Month of Giving a success, with more than $25,000 in donations given to six organizations throughout October: • Verde Valley Sanctuary — $10,000 • Verde Valley Senior Center — $5,000

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Verde Valley First Books — $500 Coalition Against Human Trafficking — $3,000 The Shadows Foundation — $5,000 Verde Valley Humane Society — $3,000

“The need to support local nonprofit organizations is greater than ever,” says Aaron Moss, general manager of Cliff Castle Casino Hotel. “That’s why the Month of Giving was so important to us. It is part of our responsibility as a member of the community to become involved with these caring organizations across northern

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Arizona. A thriving community is a successful community.”

Cliff Castle Casino Hotel, which opened its first phase in

From the left are Cliff Castle Director of Marketing James Perry, Cliff Castle Director of Finance Kimberly Miranda, Verde Valley Sanctuary Executive Director Nicole Florisi and Cliff Castle General Manager Aaron Moss. Courtesy photo.

1995 and is owned and operated by the Yavapai Apache Nation, is located at 555 Middle Verde Road in Camp Verde. For more information call 928-567-7900 or 800-524-6343 or visit www. cliffcastlecasinohotel.com.

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‘Adopted Hometown’ Hero Completes Basic Training

by Blake Herzog as submitted by CDR Dave Hecht, Public Affairs Officer, Chief of Naval Personnel

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teve Duhamel, 22, grew up in Northern California but considers Prescott his hometown after attending Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University for four years.

“Honestly the Dells was that place” which secured that feeling for him, he said, along with the friendly populace he grew to love in “Everybody’s Hometown.”

The Navy officer candidate’s career arc is bending toward nuclear submarines, but he sees himself returning to Prescott at some point. “It seems to be a good place to be going after the Navy.”

Duhamel said he had no particular interest in the military until his ERAU roommate suggested the Navy might be a good fit for his interests and talents. This clicked with the mechanical engineering major, who’d also become interested in nuclear power.

“The two sort of collided, and it became the best thing for me to do,” he says. “I decided I didn’t want an engineering job behind

a desk, I wanted to be out and be active, doing something for the U.S.” After graduating from ERAU last spring, he headed to the Navy’s Officer Candidate School in Newport, R.I., to-be-commissioned officers’ equivalent of basic training for enlisted recruits.

“Boot camp for OCS focuses more on leadership and business and learning the skills to be able to do well as an officer,” he says. “When you get toward the end of the 13 weeks you begin to mentor and command the squadrons coming up behind you in training.”

After finishing OCS at the end of September, Duhamel headed to Naval Nuclear Power Training Command in Goose Creek, S.C., for a year of schooling in the power and maintenance of naval nuclear vessels, primarily aircraft carriers and submarines.

By fall 2021 he’s expected to serve as a junior officer on a nuclear submarine cruising underwater around the globe. His initial

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assignment will be handling communications between senior officers and the crew while learning about the inner workings of the ship.

He thinks he’ll be OK with the uniquely claustrophobic environment he’ll be existing in.

He admits it’ll be “pretty cramped,” but added, “As part of the application process they took some of us on a tour of the submarine and look around. Some of the people couldn’t wait to get off. It was really a good opportunity, and I saw a great place to work.”

Vietnam War Photographer Uses Camera to Record Veterans Nominated by Corinne Harmon

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ietnam War veteran Bruce Roscoe received his first camera on his 8th birthday.

Ten years later, he found himself behind a camera for most of the time he served in the U.S. Army as a combat photographer (1967-68).

He eventually took those skills and founded a nonprofit organization, Vision of Vets, to honor combat veterans by preserving their stories in portraits, videos and written formats.

The idea came about in 2013 when Roscoe learned his childhood friend Joe Rowe had terminal lung cancer caused by exposure to Agent Orange when he served in Vietnam.

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ning professional portrait photographer, offered to fly to Rhode Island and photograph his friend as a gift to the Rowe family. On his return flight, he got the idea to photograph other veterans and give them a large, framed image in recognition of their service. The idea expanded to include an hourlong video of an interview and a written narrative in the veteran’s words.

He has filmed and photographed a Navajo Code Talker, World War II prisoner of war, a real-life Rosie the Riveter, an Air Force technical sergeant with her K9 patrol partner from Iraq and Afghanistan, a Navy SEAL and an Army Green Beret.

He also has interviewed reenactors who appear as historic figures, complete with authentic clothing and equipment, as military personnel from earlier wars.

In 2016, Roscoe learned about a piece of technology that took his project from honoring veterans to also educating students through their stories.

Augmented reality takes a viewer from looking at a still picture to watching it turn into

a video.

From the veteran’s interview, Vision of Vets staff produce a two-anda-half minute video that comes alive — perfect for capturing students’ attention.

Anyone with a smartphone or tablet can download a free app through Live Portrait, point their device at the veteran’s image and it begins to move and speak. Roscoe uses background images from historical archives or from the veteran’s own belongings to illustrate his or her wartime experience.

To learn more about Vision of Vets and Bruce Roscoe visit www.visionofvets.org

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Scott Luedeman CITY OF PRESCOTT Nominated by Dennis Light

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cott distinguished himself as the division chief with oversight for the Prescott Fire Department Professional Services Division. He’s a seasoned professional who’s responsible for the department training regimen for “all-risk” response to include fire suppression, emergency medical services, hazardous material, technical rescue and aircraft rescue firefighting. During the recent visit by President Trump he was responsible for incident command in conjunction with the Prescott Police Department. He led the response to a

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multiple-casualty incident there involving 60 patients, almost all suffering heat-related illness and some in life-threatening condition. Scott was instrumental in ensuring all patients were provided with a medical assessment and in turn triaged for the possibility of transport.

He worked with resources not only from the Prescott Fire Department but also Lifeline Ambulance, all the local police agencies, the United States Secret Service, and President Trump’s campaign team. This was the largest “mass-casualty” event ever experienced in Prescott.

Brad Newman YAVAPAI EXCEPTION INDUSTRIES Nominated by Jon Ballard

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rad Newman has played an astronomical part in my life.

After receiving an employment opportunity to work for Yavapai Exceptional Industries out of high school in 1999 through NACOG, I was able to witness Brad Newman over the years, being a hero.

With his constant enthusiastic attitude to the function of YEI and the mission statement (rendering a person with disabilities to become as independent as their condition will allow) Brad has been a hero in this over his 40-something years of service here at YEI. He was he guiding light to two grand group

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homes for independence and on a mission for two more in Prescott Valley. He expanded the mission as our community grew into both Prescott Valley and Prescott Regional Airport.

Our members we serve come daily to have a productive filled life with quality and excellence in what they do. With Brad Newman’s guiding light over the years this has been possible.

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Safer Playground Equipment Creates Joy

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he October installation of brand-new, safer equipment in a playground at the James Family Prescott YMCA was the result of the heroic efforts of several community groups and businesses determined to make a difference for 5- to 12-year-old kids who’d been climbing on deteriorating 20-plus, year-old structures.

Marsha Holloway, funds de-

velopment coordinator for the Y, said the commitment of everyone involved with installing the equipment allowed the project to continue through the pandemic when much of the campus was closed and there was almost no staff or money available.

A swing set, Fit Stop jungle gym and shade cover were purchased with a $15,000 grant from the Arizona Community Foundation-Prescott, as first reported in the Late Summer edition of Prescott LIVING. McCartney Construction, the contractor for the expansion of Yuma Regional Medical Center going up next door to the YMCA, did the site work and installation

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through its McCartney Heart Hats community outreach program.

Anderson Asphalt contributed 45 tons of sand, plus the use of equipment. A squad of Eagle Scouts have or will donate time and resources to related projects, including a retaining wall and stairs and a mural.

“I called the troop and said, ‘Hey…’ and the next thing I knew I had six Eagle Scouts doing projects,” Holloway says.

Through much of the pandemic nearly all the YMCA’s services were shut down, but its preschool remained open for the children of essential workers.

Holloway said she’s very grateful to everyone who helped give the playground its much-needed renovation.

“We were helping the community, and when we needed them they came to help us,” she said.

She said the swing set, the most requested item by kids during the planning process, is turning out to be the most-used in practice, with lines forming behind each of the four swings.

The quality of the installation by McCartney should ensure it’ll withstand regular use, she adds.

“That thing’s not coming out for another 20 years.”

Daniel Bunton DANIEL BUNTON /GROOM CREEK FIRE DISTRICT Nominated by Laura Flood

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ince building my cabin in Groom Creek, I have had to add 3 feet of no-climb fence on top of a 5-foot yard wall to keep my wandering kangaroo “Roo,” home. Fire Chief Ernesto Manzanedo calls my mystery breed of possibly Aussie/Catahoula/French Brittany “Roodini.” Several of the firefighters have captured “Roo” as he darts in and out to say hello

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when I was at work or errands.

Truly firefighters like Daniel Bunton, carrying Roo to safety, in the photo, have saved him from a wilderness attack from a javelina or darting in front of a large delivery truck. His yard is pretty escape-proof as well as fire resistant now, and he gets lots of exercise and frequent visits with the friendly firefighters. You can see the trust as he stands with Daniel Bunton who took the time to bring him home. True community heroes in so many ways!

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Michelle Mayhan PRESCOTT OUTPATIENT SURGICAL CENTER Nominated by Jim Pavetto

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rs. Mayhan is the director of nursing at Prescott Outpatient Surgical Center. She always puts her patients and employees first before herself. She works long hours to make POSC the best surgical center in Prescott.

Katrina Karr

KATRINA KARR/ YAVAPAI HUMANE TRAPPERS ANIMAL SEARCH AND RESCUE

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atrina Karr travels to some of the saddest parts of our state to get animals the help, medical care and homes that they need. My mother met her in person to give a donation to Yavapai Humane Trappers and said she was the kindest

of women and was so grateful for even the smallest amount to help the animals she so dearly loves. I have not met her personally but will say that whenever an animal is in need she is one of the first to jump and go to help. She is truly deserving of this recognition.

Katee Norris KATEE NORRIS/PRESCOTT AREA SHELTER SERVICES Nominated by Carmen Frederic

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atee Norris has been working at Prescott Area Shelter Services, a homeless shelter for women and children, since 2012. She’s one of the most compassionate and caring individuals I have ever seen at the shelter. She stepped into this role through the AmeriCorps Program as a VISTA, and after two years of service she was offered the job of Director of Programs. Katee makes sure the shelter runs smoothly, that the guests have a clean and safe environment, feel cared for, and are treated with kindness.

She ensures we have volunteers to support the guests

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through meals, advocacy and empowerment as the volunteer coordinator, and she dedicates endless amounts of time writing grants, planning fundraisers, and creating new programs and expansions to better support our guests. Katee also became a Registered Nurse, and works a second job at Flagstaff Medical Center on the labor and delivery unit. Katee takes her experiences at both the shelter and the hospital, and learns from them to better serve and help people in need, no matter what situation they are in.

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Enchanted Christmas Indoor Tour of Lights Returns T

his year’s Enchanted Christmas Indoor Tour of Lights, which runs through Dec. 30, offers more than a 500,000 lights, invites you to honor a local family, and provides a last-minute Christmas shopping opportunity.

Presented by M&M Entertainment & Productions, the tour is open for the seventh year at 3250 Gateway Blvd, Ste 302. There are 18-themed rooms, a large Department 56 Christmas Village and a model railroad display

by Point of Rocks Model Rail Road Club. The attraction is suitable for all ages and is wheelchair accessible.

New this year, people can nominate a family for the Deck the Hearts program. To nominate a family, provide a 500- to 750word nomination letter that can be droppedoff at Enchanted Christmas Tour of Lights by 5 p.m. Dec. 18.

The letter should include the circumstances that makes this family so special and deserving this holiday season, the first name and ages of each family member, their town of residency and the nominating person’s name and phone number. The chosen family will be treated to a very special Christmas, courtesy of M & M Entertainment.

Matt Brassard of M&M Entertainment and Productions says, “We’re pleased to be able

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to offer Enchanted Christmas to the public — especially this year. This is one of the largest displays of its kind in the Southwest, and we know people want to have something special to do this holiday season. People can socially distance in our walk-thru displays and we ask that you to be personally responsible and safe when you come in.

“We are honored to bring it to the Prescott area for all to enjoy.”

Co-founder of M&M Entertainment & Productions Marco Espitia adds, “We also have a wonderful gift store at the end of the tour, so for those last minute shoppers or for those hard to find gifts, you can choose from a variety of unique items and holiday décor.”

Cost is $6 and kids 5 and younger are free. The attraction will also help the Yavapai County Food Bank — bring a can of food and receive $1 off the entry fee. Collections of canned food and toys will be distributed and donated locally in Yavapai County. Last year, more than 19 tons of canned food was collected for the food bank and thousands of toys.

Please visit www.enchantedchristmasAZ. com for times and other details. Enchanted Christmas is presented by M&M Entertainment & Productions. Other sponsors include Prescott Outpatient Surgery Center, Helken

& Horn Advertising Agency, Prescott Pro Sounds and Matt’s Saloon. For more information or to schedule a tour, call M&M Entertainment and Productions info line at 800-651-8006.

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...continued from page 27 BRAD NEWMAN: YEI! has owned “Spice ‘n Slice” since 2006. That’s operated out of our Antelope Point @ EastRidge facility in Prescott Valley. It has its origins when Grandma LaMure’s was a small local business that became popular. The first product was produced in 1978, and over time, it grew from being food seasonings produced locally into now what is a nationally marketed product. Usually, the seasonings are used with wild game meat.

Now we send our variety of different food seasonings around the country to people who enjoy the flavorful cooking that Grandma made possible. We don’t blend the splices in PV. But we do receive the spices from a blending facility in California and then we print the boxes and package the various flavors and send them out. You can find out all about Spice ‘n Slice by researching it at www.spiceandslice.com ‘My Own Job and My Own Place’ PRESCOTT LIVING: understand that you not

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only give jobs to the YEI!-hoos, but you also provide housing for many of them.

BRAD NEWMAN: That’s right. We currently have two residences, one at Washington Hills and one at Rusing Hills here in Prescott. These homes were cleverly designed. We’ve got six residents in each home. We call them “Hosted Family Homes.” The host family lives in the home and are the supervisors. Each room has its own entrance. All have access to a kitchen, recreation room and private spaces. We’ve got “Jack-and-Jill”-type bathrooms. We’ve got 24/7 supervision and shared shifts. It is home: “My own place”.

I’ve encouraged the idea of living in these homes. If you look at our website, you’ll see some of the YEI!-hoos echoing the phrase “My own job and my own place.” We think it’s important that our workers have a sense of independence and dignity. Our board and community supporters and partners are now supporting some more homes.

PRESCOTT LIVING:TELL the readers more about that. Can they help?

BRAD NEWMAN: You bet. We just started to construct two new family homes within walking distance of our 9,000-squarefoot Antelope Point facility on Eastridge in Prescott Valley. We’ve acquired the land.

Thanks to the planning of Sterling Ranches Hosted Family Homes in PV, we’ll have two 4,850-square-foot homes for our YEI!-hoos and a host family. We’ve just had a public groundbreaking attended by the mayor and council and our team of trades and suppliers! We have YEI!-hoos whose bags are packed! They’re ready to move!

PRESCOTT LIVING: We understand you have some new partners.

BRAD NEWMAN: That’s right. Our Antelope Point facility in PV is going to serve as a distribution point in our new agreement with Prescott Woman magazine that Prescottonian Bree Hinkel owns. We also have an agreement to pack boxes for Cinnabar Specialty Foods at their shop, and YEI!-hoos will be measuring and packing seeds for Terroir Seeds.

We’re also assembling Acculine Golf

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Overture, Curtain, Lights!

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reater Prescott is a wonderland of outdoor delights, but also has a wide selection of indoor entertainment venues. From intimate “black box” shows to big-budget spectacles, there’s a stage here for every scene or song.

Local performers and touring stars, movies, tribute bands and hometown traditions all find their footing at these and other live performance venues set here within nature’s grandeur.

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Elks Theatre and Performing Arts Center The classically designed Elks Theatre (originally the Elks Opera House) opened in 1905 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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The center is always working to bring new entertainment to the area and work with local businesses. It is home to a brand-new Indoor Football League team, the Northern Arizona Wranglers.

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Prescott Center for the Arts Housed for more than 50 years in the 126-year-old Sacred Heart Catholic

Church building, PCA’s mission is to create opportunities for the greater community to engage in and experience all facets of the arts. It presents family and readers’ theater productions, a summer series and youth programming.

Facilities include the 194-seat Main Stage and the 40-seat Stage TOO. Underneath the Main Stage is an art gallery and gift shop.

208 N. Marina St., Prescott, AZ 86301 928-445-3286 www.pca-az.net Facebook: @prescottcenterfor the arts; Instagram: @officialpcatheater Yavapai College Performing Arts Center Yavapai College Performing Arts Center (YCPAC) is Northern Arizona’s premier entertainment venue, featuring the best in live performances, movies and satellite broadcasts. YCPAC hosts and produces more than 80 events each season, reaching audiences that top over 75,000 annually.

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New Museum Director Focuses on Engagement

by Ken Leja, Media & Marketing Manager, Sharlot Hall Museum

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isa Hayes grew up in Montana and Wyoming; big sky and cowboy country. Relocating to Prescott, Arizona, for her was a no-brainer.

“The area reminds me so much of my youth — the outdoors, nature and historical heritage of the area. It’s why I’m thrilled to become the next executive director at Sharlot Hall Museum, the centerpiece of history and heritage in the Central Highlands of Arizona. And, to follow in the path of the dynamic Ms. Sharlot Hall,” she says.

With a doctorate in American Studies, Hayes brings a love of history to the museum with particular interest in living-history and museum-theater programs.

“My dissertation was on ‘theatricalizing’ oral history,” she explains. “Bringing history alive helps cultivate emotional

connections with visitors making the museum experience more meaningful and memorable.”

“One of the biggest competitors for museums is the wealth of entertainment that people can access from the comfort of their own home,” she points out. So, “Museum living history programs provide an entertaining way to discover our history and heritage, and can be a prime tool for attracting a wider audience and providing an engaging experience that can also help cultivate repeat visitation.”

Hayes says with the museum’s focus on history, “We have both the opportunity and responsibility to connect the people, events, places, stories, and ideas of the past with the people of today — to provide context to the events, places, stories, and ideas of today that are meaningful to the people who live in and visit Prescott, the quad-cities, and the Central Highlands.”

A Role Out West

Her fascination with the past also shows in her love of old movies, including screwball comedies, film noir and classical Westerns.

“I helped fulfill one of my husband’s bucket list items a few years ago — riding horseback through Monument Valley,” she says. “Later we watched She Wore a Yellow Ribbon while enjoying the scenery and cinematic backdrop of the film.”

Hayes says she loves to read mystery novels, biographies and histories about women — “When I have spare time, which there isn’t a lot of when leading a nonprofit.”

Hayes takes over the Museum reins from Fred Veil, who retires at the end of 2020, after seven

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years as the director. She will become the eighth director since the Museum’s founding in 1928.

Previously, she had been 10 years with the Accokeek Foundation, stewards of a 200-acre site in Piscataway Park (Maryland) that included a living-history museum (colonial farm), nature trails and visitor services area.

“As director of education and public programs, and then foundation president/CEO, I oversaw programs and operations at a national park created to preserve an historic watershed,” she says.

“I used to tell people that, if you ever stood on George Washington’s porch at Mount Vernon, looked across the Potomac River and admired the view, we were the view.”

While there, she used her collaborative leadership and management skills to guide the organization through major changes, orchestrating the development of innovative new programs, “while managing a public/private partnership much like that of Sharlot Hall Museum.”

In addition, she worked closely with the Piscataway Indian tribes in developing interpretations

of traditional homelands and a traveling exhibit, a Smithsonian field trip program, and creating a heritage tourism alliance among businesses, historic sites and cultural organizations in the Washington, D.C., region.

“I firmly believe that museums thrive when they are active participants in the community,” she says. “Museums must be creative if they want to attract a wider audience.”

There are many opportunities for program enhancements to bring about additional community engagement and appreciation for the heritage and history embodied in the historic buildings and exhibits at Sharlot Hall Museum, she says.

“The more participatory and engaging, the more we can make this museum an even more popular and frequented destination for visitors and community members alike.”

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Prescott Regional Airport—Honors Keep Coming

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ven with the diminished air travel across the United States, the Prescott Regional Airport (PRC) remains highly visible and garners recognition from several sources.

In October: • PRC was selected as the Arizona Airport of the Year 2020 • PRC received a $1.525 million grant from the Arizona State Transportation Board to be used to upgrade the security around the airport’s perimeter.

• PRC exceeded the 10,000th passenger enplanement number for passengers taking commercial flights from Prescott.

Any one of these accomplishments was gratifying to airport manager Robin Sobotta and her staff. For three of them to occur in October put her team over the top.

The announcement about the 2020 Airport of the Year came from ADOT-Aeronautics Group Director Don Kriz. He told those attending the virtual Arizona Airports Association Fall Conference that PRC was selected based upon several criteria including aviation advocacy, special events, community outreach, new programs, processes implemented, and a commitment to aviation advancement.

Kriz praised the City and PRC personnel for the many achievements that occurred during the year. This included additional funding to support construction of the new $15 million airport terminal and for achieving the status of the fastest growing commercial service airport in Arizona in 2019.

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Kriz: “PRC is a well-deserved recipient of the award.”

It’s the second time in the past decade PRC has earned that honor.

Grant Will Help Upgrade Security The $1.525 million grant from the Arizona State Transportation Board is “coordinated with ADOT to upgrade the fencing along the perimeter of the airport, to modify the access control systems at the gates, and to install CCTV cameras,” said Kristi Miller, airport management analyst.

Money will be used to fund a total $1.75 million project, with ADOT covering 90% of the cost and the city 10%.

Bids will be requested for the security projects early in 2021, and construction will begin in the spring.

A new multimillion dollar, 18,000 square-foot terminal is scheduled to be opened in late March or early April 2021 if no delays occur.

Exceeding 10,000 Passengers Benefits Future FAA Funding When the 10,000th passenger boarded a plane from Ernest A. Love Field Oct. 19, it marked the point when the airport received Non-Hub Primary Commercial Service airport status with the Federal Aviation Administration. In turn, that makes the airport eligible for $1 million a year in federal funding for future airport capital improvements.

The enplanement number refers to departing, not arriving passengers. The real number

of total commercial passengers arriving and leaving to date is somewhere around 26,000 to 28,000.

If departing passenger trends continue along a similar track, it is possible that enplanements could reach 13,000 to 14,000 before the year ends, Miller estimated.

Since August 2018, PRC has been served commercially by SkyWest Airlines, operating as United Express.

In 2019, cumulative enplanements following a full year of service from SkyWest, PRC recorded 27,730 enplanements.

Currently, commercial flights are scheduled daily through double hub service from Prescott to Los Angeles or to Denver.

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Everyone Can Be Pet Rescue Heroes

by Blake Herzog

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e salute everyone who puts their heart, muscle and soul into rescuing homeless or abused pets, giving them the love they so desperately need while helping them find their forever homes. There’s hardly any calling higher.

But it’s tough work.

These heroes need all the support they can get, and we can play our own part through adopting, fostering, volunteering or donating to these Greater Prescott rescue organizations, plus the many others that exist in our area. Every step you take will make life easier for the rescue groups and organizations and especially the sweet companions they’re so devoted to.

AARF Animal Rescue and Sanctuary A small rescue based in Poland Junction dedicated to saving dogs. It is a 10-acre ranch with Western-style bunkhouses for the dogs and large yards where they can run and play.

6639 S. Country Road, Mayer, AZ 86333 928-925-7219 www.aarfrescue.org aarfanimalrescue@gmail.com Facebook: AARF Animal Rescue and Sanctuary Blue Moon Rescue & Sanctuary Blue Moon Rescue & Sanctuary cares for abused and neglected horses. Some may be rideable, but most are older horses no one wants but are adoptable as great companions. Others are sanctuary animals who finally have a safe place to live out their years in love and comfort with full bellies.

Blue Moon sells Bermuda hay, with 100% of proceeds going to caring for horses.

1851 E Perkinsville Road, Chino Valley, AZ 86323 928-925-7724 www.bluemoonrescue.org info@bluemoonrescue.org Facebook: @bluemoonrescueandsanctuary

Catty Shack Rescue Catty Shack, Sweetpea’s Haven for Abandoned Cats & Kittens, focuses on nonferal cats and kittens already on the street and in crisis because of it. Rescues feral moms along with their kittens, trapping/neutering/ returning the moms while socializing the kittens to make wonderful pets.

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609 S Granite St., Prescott, AZ 86303 928-778-6951 www.cattyshackrescue.org Facebook: @communitycatsinc Chino Valley Animal Shelter A small, nonprofit, no-kill animal shelter.

Keeps all animals until they find their forever homes. It is important to find adopters as soon as possible to open up space to save more animals. All available animals are current on vaccines, altered, and microchipped. The animals are typically abandoned strays from the Chino Valley area.

1950 Voss Drive, Chino Valley, AZ 86323 928-636-4223, ext. 7 www.adoptapet.com/chino-valley-animalshelter cvas@chinoaz.net Facebook: @cvanimalshelter Circle L Ranch Animal Rescue and Sanctuary Located on 30 acres in Prescott Valley, this rescue provides a loving home and promotes adoptions for dogs, cats, horses, goats, sheep, geese and chickens.

8550 E. Smitty’s Place, Prescott Valley, AZ 86315 928-273-7005 www.Circlel.org Amy@circlel.org Facebook: @circlelranchanimalrescue Instagram: Circle L Ranch Animal Rescue Miss Kitty’s Cat House Miss Kitty’s is located in a small house where approximately 20 adult cats live and play until they are adopted. The cats roam free in the house and are cared for by a variety of dedicated volunteers who come in daily and get to interact with potential adopters in a neutral space.

302 N. Alarcon, Prescott, AZ 86301 928-445-5411 www.petfinder.com/member/us/az/prescott/ miss-kittys-cat-house-az89 misskittyscathouse@gmail.com Facebook: Miss Kitty’s Cat House Instagram: Miss Kitty’s Cat House Now That I’m Safe Equine Rescue Dedicated to saving, rehabbing and finding great homes for horses, donkeys and mules that have been starved, abused or whose owners can no longer care for them. Many are brought from “kill pens” where they

would be destined for slaughter.

2303 N. Road 1E, Chino Valley, AZ, 86323 951-233-1318 www.nowthatimsafe.org nowthatimsafe@outlook.co Facebook: @nowthatimsafeequinerescue Pearl’s Piggy Rescue We rescue homeless mini-pigs or pigs in need. We spay/neuter them, love them and find them forever homes.

West Road 2 South, Chino Valley, AZ 86323 928-308-4543 sapababy@yahoo.com Facebook: Pearl’s Piggy Rescue United Animal Friends United Animal Friends does not have a shelter facility. It rescues a large number of its animals from euthanasia at high-kill shelters.

Most live in volunteer foster homes until they are adopted, which allows caregivers to get to know each animal and helps in finding the perfect match for their personality.

P.O. Box 11133. Prescott AZ 86304 928-778-2924 www.unitedanimalfriends.org helpinganimals@unitedanimalfriends.org Facebook: @unitedanimalfriends Twitter: @UAFaz Yavapai Humane Society Serving Yavapai County since 1972, Yavapai Humane Society is an independent nonprofit that shelters, rehabilitates and adopts out cats, dogs and horses.

1625 Sundog Ranch Road, Prescott, AZ 86301 928-445-2666 www.yavapaihumane.org info@yavapaihumane.org Facebook: @YavapaiHumaneSociety Twitter: @YavapaiHumane Yavapai Humane Trappers Animal Search and Rescue Yavapai Humane Trappers specializes in humanely trapping corralling and tracking pets not easily caught, bringing in sick, injured and high-risk animals. Rescue seeks medical attention to all that brought in when no owners have been found.

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Baby, it’s Cold Outside… for Your Pets

by Loree Walden, Marketing Manager, Yavapai Humane Society

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f it’s too cold for you outside, it’s probably too cold for your pet. Here are a few tidbits of information on how to keep your furkids safe during the cold weather season.

• Depending on the type of dog you have, it’s important to shorten their outdoor time when the temperature drops. Repeatedly coming in and out of the cold into the dry heat of your home can cause itchy, flaking skin and aggravation. Use a humidifier in your home and towel dry your pet when you bring them inside, paying special attention to their feet and in between the toes. Take time to remove any snowballs or ice from between their foot pads.

• Never shave your dog down to the skin in the winter as a longer coat will provide more warmth. If your dog is long haired, just trim them to minimize the clinging ice balls, salt crystals and de-icing chemicals that can dry and irritate their skin. If your dog is short haired, consider getting them

a coat or sweater with a high collar or turtleneck with coverage to the base of the tail.

• Antifreeze can be lethal. It tastes sweet to pets but it contains a toxic agent, so always clean up any antifreeze if it spills. Be aware if your dog starts sniffing around in a driveway or parking lot, because it’s possible that someone may have spilled antifreeze and your dog could consume it. If you think your pet has consumed antifreeze, contact your veterinarian immediately.

• Pets burn extra energy trying to stay warm in wintertime, so check with your vet on if you should add a little more food to their diet during the colder months to provide extra calories.

• Don’t leave your dogs alone in a car during cold weather as cars can act as refrigerators that hold in the cold and can cause serious injury or even cause them to freeze to death.

Taking a few extra minutes and precautions can help prevent discomfort and injuries to your precious pet during this colder time of year.

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Northern Arizona Wranglers To Kick Off in March

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ootball fans in Greater Prescott have a chance to see pro football when the Northern Arizona Wranglers kick off in late March.

The NAZ Wranglers are the third Indoor Football League (IFL) franchise in Arizona. The others are the Arizona Rattlers in Phoenix and the Sugar Skulls in Tucson. They all are part of the 16-team IFL founded in 2008. The original eight-team league has now grown to 16 teams, with the addition of the NAZ Wranglers.

The Wranglers will play in the Findlay Toyota Center in downtown Prescott Valley. Earlier, the arena had been home court for the NAZ Suns, a farm basketball team of the Arizona Suns from the NBA League. The NAZ Suns were later sold and relocated to the Phoenix area.

The owner of the Wranglers is Trey Medlock, president of S & P Sports LLC. Coaching for the Wranglers is Dominic Bramante. He is the former head coach of the Duke City (Albuquerque, N.M.) Gladiators.

During a recent press conference Medlock, Findlay Toyota Center General Manager Shane

Caldwell and Town of Prescott Valley Mayor Kell Palguta all expressed pleasure at having the Wranglers choosing Prescott Valley at the team’s home communit y. IFL Commissioner Todd Tyron told the crowd the IFL was a “premier indoor arena football league.”

Palguta said it was a good opportunity for Prescot Valley to bring another professional sport to the region and provide an opportunity for citizens to get behind a professional team.

Season Begins in Mid-March 2021 Barring complications, the probable kickoff date will be in mid-March. The Wranglers will play a 16-game season. Eight games will be at home, and eight away.

Team colors are Columbia blue, red and granite (dark gray).

The logo is a tough-looking cowboy sitting on a horse.

Games will be played in the Findlay Toyota Center, to be configured to seat from 4,500 to 5,000 fans.

Season tickets for eight home games already are on sale. They range from $132 in the end zone

to $364 on first rows circling the field. Balcony seats and suites are not included in those figures. Prices include all fees.

Coach Bramante held tryouts on Oct. 10. More than 60 play-

ers showed up in Prescott Valley, some coming from Missouri and one all the way from Delaware.

More information is available at nazwranglers@gmail.com or at 928-379-5531.

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a survey administered to faculty, administrators, and professional support staff.

The national study was conducted by “Modern Think,” a strategic human capital consulting firm that conducted independent studies and then analyzed and rated results.

Still another national program targeting exceptional students was that offered through the Boeing Company. It selected outstanding high school graduates who represented women, underrepresented minorities, military

veterans or their dependents.

They were offered scholarships ranging from $5,000 to $7,500 to cover costs of the first two years of undergraduate study at ERAU. Three students were chosen for ERAU-Prescott: Somaralyz Grullon of Laveen; Isabella Martinez of Aurora, Colorado; and Bella Memeo of Spokane, Washington—were chosen for the ERAUPrescott institution.

Students chosen for this program are offered other benefits, including trips to Boeing facilities, group projects, “meet-and-greet”

with Boeing employees and onthe-spot job interviews that can lead to internships and later jobs.

Cheri Carter, vice president of Boeing Global Engagement, remarked that Boeing is proud to once again to partner with ERAU in developing students for future careers in aviation.

ER AU Chancel lor A net te Karlsson said she was proud of the administration, faculty staff and students who brought such distinction to the university.

tion through a press release in September said ERAU Prescott was named one of the “Great Colleges to Work For” in the U.S. It was one of only 79 universities out of the thousands in the nation to receive that accolade.

It’s the 10th consecutive year ERAU has earned that distinction. The final decision is based upon a two-part assessment process: an institution questionnaire that analyzes employment data and workplace policies and

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abinets can dominate your kitchen to the point of making or breaking it, both in terms of appearance and functionality.

So when it’s time to replace them, think about configuration to take advantage of all the space your floor plan allows, as well as durability of materials and finishes. Consider different options and how they’ll work for you now and down the line.

Once you’ve decided on what combination of fronts, backs and hardware will work for you, now might be a good time to take the plunge. Since the pace of remodeling tends to slow down in winter and around the holidays, you may be able to get your materials at a better price and have an easier time fitting into your chosen contractor’s schedule.

Configurations

Base cabinets usually end up doing most of the heavy holding in terms of storage, while their wall-hanging counterparts are considered more as design elements, and as such are often sacrificed for other showpieces like windows and backsplashes. But there are designs and sizes that can make both more functional.

Drawers have become bigger and more important for the base cabinets, sometimes replacing all doors below the counter because they’re more accessible to more people and eliminate the need to get down on the floor to go digging around in the back.

Use fewer, larger drawers so they can hold bigger items, and dividers or containers can organize dishes, pots and pans, spices or anything else that might need a little more

structure. This does mean they will require heavier-duty gliders and rollers, but these components are relatively easy to secure at a reasonable price.

Frameless cabinets, used above or below the counter, can give you a little more space along with a more contemporary look. On these, the door is attached directly to the side wall of the cabinet rather than a front-facing frame, allowing complete access to the interior space without having to scooch plates through the front. They tend to be a little more expensive because of the materials used, and may not have as many style choices.

Another option remodelers are turning to is having an entire wall of cabinets, unbroken by counter space. Think about it: how much of the counter do you really use? If there’s a large stretch that is generally ignored or covered by underused gadgets, this could work out. It opens up the kitchen space. And you might be able to eliminate some of the cabinets on another wall.

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to its popularity. It’s easily sanded down to eliminate dings and scratches, and its natural beauty shows through in slight variations that still add up to a cohesive whole.

But “softer” hardwoods such as pine can scratch and show wear more easily than oak and other sturdier wood species. Solid wood can expand and contract with humidity, which leads to warping, and is quite heavy so you need to make sure the structure around it will be able to hold it in place.

Plywood is lighter, moisture-resistant and also easy to repair, and its layering of thin slices of wood gives it the best strength-toweight ratio of any material. It’s much less expensive than hardwood, but the process of making it can lead to spaces and gaps in the product that render it less consistent and dependable than hardwood.

Particleboard (aka chipboard or low-density fiberboard) is recycled wood material, pressed between layers of laminate or wood veneer. It’s quite affordable and relatively environmentally friendly, but most types do not stand up well to long-term use, especially when overloaded.

The most common non-wood options are laminate, composed of resin-soaked sheets to create a durable front surface for cabinets, and thermofoil, which is made from a similar process, but many believe it looks more like actual wood.

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As we discussed, traditional doors are becoming more of an option than a requirement. Drawers are being deployed below the counters more frequently, and abovethe-belt trends include cabinets with glass fronts, without doors or simply shelves attached to the wall.

But regular doors are a good thing, unless you’ve got the time and energy to make sure your dishes are stacked attractively and aren’t under a layer of dust. Glass doors can be a lovely way to show off your most attractive dishware. When used sparingly, they can be a great accent to your space without putting everything out in the open.

Similarly, door and drawer pulls have become matters of choice and taste, depending on your cabinets’ construction.

Most can be opened from any angle and a flat surface may be easier to keep clean, but knobs and handles can be the jewelry of your kitchen, lending a traditional, trendy or arty touch to your décor.

Touchless cabinets are a luxury item for now but can be convenient, especially for garbage or compactor drawers. Pedal-operated base cabinets can be a more affordable alternative, and nearly as effortless.

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This is where your personality really gets to show, and also where you need to be sure you can live with your decision because the style and color will set the tone for the rest of your kitchen.

Whether to use paint versus wood finish depends on the material you have chosen. If you’ve chosen wood with a heavy grain, knotty patterns and a lot of variance in the appearance, you’ll probably want to highlight those with a wood finish. If they’re relatively uniform and don’t have a lot of “woodiness” to their appearance, you’re more likely to be in the market for a solid color or a multitoned scheme.

As far as the color goes, you can let your preference be your guide over trying to stay abreast with the trends of the moment, but there are some good rules of thumb to go by: darker colors tend to work better in larger kitchens than they do in cramped spaces, and if you’re going with a two-toned look it’s better to use the darker shade on your base cabinets to ground the room.

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COVID-19 Forced People to Take a Deeper Look at their Housing Needs

by Sandy Griffis, Executive Director, Yavapai County Contractors Association

As a result of COVID-19 shutdowns that closed offices, businesses, schools and more, selfisolation forced Americans to take a much closer look at their homes.

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ne thing COVID-19 has taught us is … there is no playbook. We are in an unpredictable, shifting, liquefied way of life. The COVID-19 economy certainly has presented us with winners and losers with the housing/ construction industry a clear winner.

The housing market stumbled early on when COVID-19 came into our lives, and we all attempted to understand what was happening. We saw consumer spending, a critical component of the economy, virtually disappear and evaporate in the blink of an eye. There was talk the housing industry could be hit as hard as it was during our last major recession.

Guess what? The housing market increased dramatically. As a result of COVID-19 shutdowns that closed offices, businesses, schools and more, self-isolation forced Americans to take a much closer look at their homes.

The quarantined and enforced stay at home orders had families discovering unfavorable blemishes in living situations. Kitchens were discovered to be too small, yards were too small and not conducive for play times, there were not enough electrical outlets and work station spaces. And, what about the lack of privacy when the entire family is home 24/7?

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the cause of remodeling — with the cameras on, homeowners wanted the background to look nice.

Where families lived and how they lived was changed by COVID-19. As the home became a school classroom, gym, day care and restaurant, it suddenly was transformed into the focal point of life. As more homebuyers were stuck at home, more realized they needed space to fit their needs.

In Yavapai County, many families moved forward with new builds and/ or projects at more than twice the rate of those cutting back or canceling planned projects. Yes, our local industry did experience homeowners cutting back or canceling their 2020 projects. The initial fear of COVID-19 created a reprioritization of discretionary spending. However those initial canceled or delayed projects are back on the schedule.

COVID-19 created a pent-up demand for home renovations and new larger homes, and the market has not decelerated. First-time buyers are

now entering the market because of COVID-19. The apartments were not working for families. Low mortgage rates were an incentive; proof of the positive purchasing power of the lowest mortgage rates on record.

One of the downfalls with COVID-19 is the lack of labor force and how hard it was hit. COVID-19 has shot an arrow directly at profitability. It is said that millions of Americans will continue to be out of work for the foreseeable future, and it will take years until the labor market is fully recovered.

We do not have a crystal ball. With the high unemployment rate, is there going to be a potential foreclosure crisis? Are we going to have a second round of lockdowns? Will there be a lack of housing inventory? Will there be a pullback in government stimulus?

Will remodeling and new home construction continue, I say yes.

COVID-19 certainly has brought on many many questions. Let’s hope for the best.

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T The popularity of succulent plants has exploded this year.

Their easycare, love of the sun, and diversity make for fascinating plants.

he popularity of succulent plants has exploded this year.

Their easy-care, love of the sun, and diversity make for fascinating plants. So unique are many of the anatomical adaptations they often appear to be from another planet.

Here are 10 unusual succulents that add personality and distinction to any garden, houseplant collection, a desk at work, or “on the road” in a motor home.

Pebbled Tiger Jaws (Faucaria felina) is the kind of plant that attracts and repels the temptation to touch its strangely serrated leaves. In addition to the exciting form, this plant produces golden flowers that nearly obscure the plant in fall and winter. Pebbled tiger jaw fills a niche for those who want to grow a succulent in a shady spot. If the plant becomes too dry and the leaves separate from the stems, you can use them to start new plants by placing them in potting soil.

Crinkle Leaf Plant (Adromischus cristatus) is a South African relative of the kalanchoe. Crinkle leaf plants feature

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triangular leaves with lightly ruffled tips. They tolerate light frost and grow best in a cool sunny spot with infrequent watering. On mature plants, red and white flowers peek out from between the 2-inch leaves.

Plover Eggs (Adromischus cooperi) sport pudgy leaves dotted with purple specks. The plants are perfect to use indoors through winter. The speckles on plover egg plants become more pronounced in brighter rooms. Plants are easy to propagate by leaf cuttings; simply twist a leaf off and insert it into a moist cactus soil. Roots form in four to six weeks.

Mexican Hens and Chicks “Topsy Turvy” encompasses hundreds of rosette-forming succulents native to Central America and South America.

The squared-off leaf tips of “Topsy Turvy” give it a sea urchin appearance, and it looks handsome when planted in groups or combined with other succulents in a dish garden. Plant in a chartreuse pot to show off its pale blue-green leaves.

Baseball Plant (Euphorbia obesa) has a plumpness to it that beefs up any container garden. Its spherical shape adds heft and texture to plantings but doesn’t bear the spines expected on a cactus-type succulent. Weekly water keeps a baseball plant more than happy. Petite flowers let you know the plant is thriving.

Graptoveria “Topsy Debbie” forms rosettes of leaves spread by offsets, which

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readily form new plants for propagating pleasure. Plants grow best in a bright room that cultivates robust health and vigor.

Prevent water from accumulating within the rosette and remove dead leaves from the base to keep pests from interfering with its vigor.

Echeveria Gibbiflora “Barbillion” feels like the wattle of a turkey, and you instantly picture this ugly beauty. They both are carunculated, a term that refers to a bumpy, fleshy growth that is beautifully hideous! Give plenty of light, yet water sparingly. This unusual succulent piques your interest, appreciation and loyalty.

Echeveria “Blue Curls” has frilly leaves in shades of pink and aqua. A single specimen of this succulent makes an exquisite statement in a container.

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Aloe Hawthoroides is the commonplace aloe updated with dozens of feathery bristles on each leaf. This highly touchable plant has a moderate growth habit that grows in any room of your home.

Kalanchoe Rhombopilosa is often called “pies from heaven.” This kalanchoe is but one of the many strange and beautiful living things you’ll find at Watters Garden Center.

The leaves are fuzzy, gray and covered with brown streaking. Golden flowers appear on the stalks in spring. Kalanchoes prefer growing in rooms with lots of light.

So unique are many of the anatomical adaptations they often appear to be from another planet.

2020 Succulents and indoor design ideas are on WattersGardenCenter on Pinterest.

Until next issue, I’ll be helping locals grow better succulents here at Watters Garden Center.

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ou’ve had an accident and your vehicle is in bad shape. After you report your claim, the insurance company sends out an adjuster to determine if it is worth paying out for the required repairs or instead of paying you for the value of the vehicle at the time of the accident.

If the cost of repairs exceeds the value, the insurer may tell you the car is “totaled,” even if it doesn’t look that way. Before an accident occurs, it is wise for you to learn how insurance companies determine the value of your vehicle, which will mean one less thing to worry about if it is ever totaled in a crash.

When a vehicle is damaged in an accident, the insurance company is more interested in the cost to repair, rather than the overall amount of damage to it. If the repair costs exceed what the insurer considers the vehicle to be worth, it deems the vehicle to be totaled and the policyholder is paid the current value.

While most car owners are familiar with value guides like the “Kelley Blue Book” and the “NADA Official Used Car Guide,” insurance companies generally have private databases that they use to estimate the value of a vehicle.

After assessing the damage to your vehicle, the insurer will make an offer which it feels is fair. The offer is meant to provide you the means to purchase a vehicle of the same style and condition as the one that was totaled.

Insurance companies call this “making whole.”

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For example, if you were driving a fouryear-old pickup with 82,000 miles on it before the accident, your offer should provide you the money to purchase a similar truck with similar mileage.

What constitutes a fair payout?

As a policyholder, it is your right to make sure that the insurance company’s offer is fair and that you feel you have been made whole by the offer, like having been paid the right amount of funds to purchase a comparable vehicle.

Sometimes, the insurer and policyholder will disagree on what constitutes a fair payout and drivers must turn to outside sources to help their case. Car owners can hire an independent appraisal service or take their case before an arbitrator.

If you are considering having your car appraised, factor the cost of the service into the equation and see if it is still a cost-effective option. If you seek arbitration, keep in mind that there are binding and non-binding cases when arbitrating, and non-binding arbitration decisions can be appealed in court if you still consider the offer to be unfair.

In the majority of cases, offers are easily agreed upon and your vehicle heads off to a salvage operator.

You do have another option: to keep the vehicle and pay for all the repairs out of pocket, but that is usually a costly route to take.

Car owners who decide to keep their vehicle after it has been totaled will typically receive a smaller payout from their insurance company. The offer is reduced by the amount of your deductible and the estimated amount of profit that would have been made from the salvage process.

After it’s fixed, you may also have trouble finding an insurance company to cover the vehicle as it may not be deemed roadworthy.

Most insurers will only extend liability coverage to previously totaled vehicles as long as they pass an inspection by the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Whether you choose to make the repairs yourself or have your vehicle salvaged, it is crucial that you understand how auto insurance companies operate before you are ever involved in an accident.

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As Haass explains it, “Our center will form the nucleus for growing a number of quality jobs in the Prescott region through incubation, acceleration and attraction of companies to the area. With our initial focus on cybersecurity and aerospace — two key sectors that are strongly supported across Arizona and the U.S. — the vision is already drawing attention from Silicon Valley and the Phoenix area to Northern Arizona.”

Haass helped found the Department of Cyber Intelligence and Security (CIS) serving as a faculty member and professor.

He later was department chair and then interim dean of the department. He conceived the CIS vision four years ago during the annual OctoberWest home-

coming activities.

The proposed site for the multistory center is on the east side of the Deep Well Ranch/ Crystal Lane and SR 89 intersection near the Prescott Regional Airport. Haass and his colleagues currently are working with architects and a builder in defining the needs and designing the concept. Construction is expected to begin this coming year, thanks to support from local individuals and groups, Haass said.

In a statement following the Prescott City Council’s unanimous approval to set aside up to $3.7 million in existing city funds to support the project, Mayor Greg Mengarelli wrote: “We recognize the vital role the center will play in the current and future economy of Prescott.

We have invaluable partnerships with many stakeholders, including our local universities and colleges. We seek to retain a

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Travel South to Small Towns, Big Worlds

by Blake Herzog

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f you’re looking for a respite from Greater Prescott’s winter chill, Phoenix is far from the only option. If you’re looking for some small-town warmth without the big-city traffic and noise, Southeastern Arizona is packed with smaller towns worth a road trip on their own or combined with their neighbors. They come with enough history and charm to create a world of their own.

With the exception of Bisbee, these towns are at a lower elevation than Prescott but higher than the low desert, affording them a more moderate climate. Still, they enjoy all four seasons.

Sonoita (approximate population 800), Elgin (150) and Patagonia (1,000) About four hours southeast of Prescott at the junction of state Routes 82 and 83, Sonoita and Elgin form Arizona’s original Wine Country in wide-open, breathtaking grass-covered hills. Vineyards and tasting rooms continue to proliferate around these tiny communities, drawing visitors with vintag-

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es to suit everyone’s palate and pocketbook.

Spending an afternoon exploring some of the wineries is time well spent, and as of press time Callaghan Vineyards, Flying Leap, Sonoita Vineyards and Elgin Winery and Distillery are all open to the public. Vineyards here tend to be larger than those found in the Verde Valley, giving Northern Arizonans a peek at how bigger wine businesses operate.

Patagonia, just 15 minutes down the road, has tons of outdoorsy options in Patagonia Lake State Park and the surrounding Sonoita Creek State Park Natural Area, but it’s perhaps best known as a migratory bird haven and a birdwatcher’s dream throughout the year. It’s also got plenty of local shops, eateries and galleries to keep you entertained.

This region is nestled between the Santa Rita and Patagonia mountains at an elevation around 5,000 feet, so its cooler-than-desert temperatures offer four seasons of fun. Fall colors are great in and around the vineyards and there’s maybe a dusting or two of snow per year; nothing we can’t handle!

Willcox (3,600) If you haven’t gotten enough wine country in your system, drive east from Tucson on Interstate 10 for about an hour until you reach this town with a low-key scene just now gaining more recognition. Nine vineyards and wineries have formed the Willcox Wine Country consortium to promote the area, which it says grows 74% of Arizona’s wine grapes. It became the state’s second federally recognized American Viticultural Area, or wine region, in 2017, while Sonoita’s recognition was awarded in 1984. The Verde Valley may soon become the third.

Other points of interest include the Rex Allen Arizona Cowboy Museum mostly dedicated to the legacy of the hometown hero and Western movie star it honors; he is known as the “last of the singing cowboys.”

You can also find the Willcox Cowboy Hall of Fame here.

About 35 miles away, but well worth the trip, is Chiricahua National Monument, home to spectacular volcanic rock formations,

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Bisbee

Tombstone

cultural sites and endless hiking options for people of all fitness levels.

Tombstone (1,300) and Bisbee (5,200) Just 25 miles apart, these towns got their start at about the same time as mining camps but quickly took on their own identities.

First you reach Tombstone, about 70 minutes southeast from Tucson and the older by five years, formed in 1875. The riches of the silver mines led to an intense 10-year boom during which it grew to 14,000 residents, had dozens of churches and businesses and the lawlessness that included the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. By 1890 the community was shrinking fast, after two fires consumed much of the town and the mines began to run dry.

After World War II the community decided its future was in frontier-themed tourism, and today draws some 500,000 tourists a year to the O.K. Corral, Bird Cage Saloon and the original Cochise County courthouse, now a state park.

Bisbee’s mining trajectory was tied to

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copper and lasted considerably longer than Tombstone’s, peaking in the early 1900s and again around 1960. It started to decline again, but reinforcements from the counterculture of the late 1960s replaced some of the mine employees, eventually leading to restoration of many of its buildings. Today’s attractions include the Copper Queen Mine tours, the Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum, the stuck-in-the-‘50s shops and cars of Erie Street and Belleza Fine Art Gallery, one of several in town.

Tubac (1,230) and Tumácacori (400) Established in 1752 as a Spanish Presidio, Tubac is a short drive from Tucson south on Interstate 19, and offers an astonishing array of premium galleries, unique shopping, fine art and dining. Here, one can find world-renowned birding, hiking (or strolling), biking, holistic health and spa treatments, wine tastings and art classes. Tubac is also home to 27 gorgeous holes of golf at the Tubac Golf Resort. Its top two attractions, Tubac Presidio State Historic Park and the K Newby Gallery and Sculpture Garden, highlight its dualistic appeal.

Tubac is about 50 minutes south of Tucson, and in another 6 minutes you reach Tumácacori National Historic Park in the town of the same name. Here you find the remains of three missions built at an O’Odham settlement of the same name. Structures were built in 1691, 1752 and 1800, though the third, modeled on the already-famous San

Xavier del Bac, was never completed. Their architectural beauty is obvious through their weathered appearance.

A 4-mile section of the Anza National Historic Trail following the Santa Cruz River connects the Tubac and Tumácacori historic parks.

Sierra Vista (45,000) Found on state Route 90, Cochise County’s largest city and commercial hub is about the same size as Prescott Valley and lies about halfway between Bisbee and Elgin. The city limits include the Army’s Fort Huachuca, and the military installation’s diversity has drawn a variety of ethnic restaurants to the area while maintaining its small-town bona fides.

Surrounded by mountain peaks reaching up to 10,000 feet, Sierra Vista’s location and climate also puts it at the crossroads of numerous migratory bird routes and has branded itself the “Hummingbird Capital of the U.S.” Audubon’s annual Christmas Bird Count regularly records one of the highest numbers of inland species here.

Stellar attractions in and near Sierra Vista include the fort itself, the Nature Conservancy’s 280-acre Ramsey Canyon Preserve, the San Pedro Riparian Area along the Southwest’s last undammed river, the panoramic views and architecture of the Our Lady of the Sierras shrine and, on the way into town, the iconic Kartchner Caverns.

You can learn much more about these and other Arizona destinations via www.visitarizona.com

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10th Annual

Boot Drop to Ring in 2021 Ready to Give 2020 the Boot?

by Tracey Horn (Owner, Helken & Horn Agency) Photos by Blushing Cactus Photography

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ew Year’s revelers — safely social distancing — can say goodbye to 2020 during the 10th annual Boot Drop celebration Dec.31 from 8 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. on Montezuma Street in downtown Prescott.

The event, which will feature boot drops at 10 p.m. and midnight, is free, and event promoters will encourage safe celebrating through social distancing and face coverings.

“We have expanded the footprint to incorporate the whole street to allow for more physical distancing, and people can also see the boot drop from the Courthouse Plaza, so we are confident in providing a fun, yet safe outdoor event,” says Matt Brassard, co-owner of M & M Entertainment & Production.

“This is a favorite holiday event in Arizona’s Christmas City.”

At each boot drop, the 6-foot illuminated cowboy boot will be lowered from a 40-foot flagpole, with fireworks lighting up the night sky. The 10 p.m. drop occurs at the same time as New York City’s traditional Times Square ball drop and is popular with young families and those who wish to retire early.

Scandalous Hands, a popular local band covering hits of the ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s and today, will perform. Entertainment also will be provided by DJ Eddie (who has been at every boot drop for

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the past 10 years) and on-air personality Leza from Magic 99.1 FM. There will be food and drink from street vendors, Ferris wheel rides (weather permitting), and prizes will be given away throughout the night.

The event is presented by Prescott Outpatient Surgical Center. It is co-sponsored by the City of Prescott, Blind Brothers Arizona and Barrett Propane.

Other sponsors include: Jersey Lilly Saloon, SpringHill Suites, Gurley St. Grill, Prescott Woman Magazine, The Office Cantina, Murphy’s Restaurant, Magic 99.1 KTMG FM, 92.9 KAFF FM, 97.9 KZGL FM, 93.9 KMGN FM, Arizona Shine 103.9 FM & 1450 AM, Center for Physical Excellence, Prescott Trading Company, Northern Arizona Social, Hair Station 105, The Palace Restaurant & Saloon, Helken & Horn Advertising Agency, AZ Super Plumber, Motion Candy Media, EMI Print Works, CopperState News, Matt’s Saloon, FooteWork Auto License & Title Service, Pepsi, Hotel St. Michael, Northern Arizona Pain Institutes, Sparklight, Prescott Pro Sound, Action Automotive, Rosa’s Pizzeria, The Bird Cage, The Daily Courier, El Gato Azul, Prescott Living Magazine, Prescott NOW!, and SignalsAZ.com.

More information is available by calling Matt Brassard at 1-800975-0013 or going to www. bootdrop.com.

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How Arizona Got On The Map

‘Cañon Grande’ Used To Really Get Around

by Dave Lewis

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he Grand Canyon used to be in New Mexico.

Much of New Mexico used to be in Texas.

Texas used to be in Mexico. All of the above used to be part of Spain. And Arizona didn’t even exist until the 1860s.

Before all the geopolitical change (going back 10,000 or 12,000 years, possibly more), it was home to some of the first Native people in the Americas who managed to get by just fine without boundaries on a map, and without maps at all!

Before that it was home to snakes and sloths, mice and mammoths with no cares ’cept eating and not being eaten.

Amidst the geopolitical change, Spanish explorations (both conquistadors and missionaries) traversed the region in search of riches and souls to save... mountain men, fur trappers and Indian traders who were among the first to traverse the land that became Arizona... emigrants who followed a long and arduous southern route to California... U.S. Army surveyors who labored to find the best route across this vast terrain and, for better or worse (usually worse) interacted with the Native peoples... visionaries who saw what others might have missed... and prospectors, settlers and politicians

who influenced their future and our present.

From 1540 to the late 1700s, Spanish explorers, priests, European adventurers, fortune hunters and explorers crisscrossed the area and generally found little of interest. The name “Arizona” did not exist.

Despite a few permanent settlements south of the Gila River, the Spanish had relatively little involvement with this part of its claimed lands.

Exploration of “New Spain” included Coronado’s trek of 1540.

San Xavier Mission founded in 1692 in what is now Tucson.

A Spanish Connection The role of the Church remained significant in the creation of missions or “visitas” (sites visited occasionally by priests) in Pimeria Alta - a province bordered by the San Pedro River on the east, the Colorado on the west, and the Gila River to the north. Of note, Basque-speaking Spanish ranchers stumbled on slabs of silver in 1735, not far south of today’s Nogales - one weighing some 2,500 pounds - in the province known to the locals as “Arizona.”

While American colonists waged war for independence from English rule, Spain colonized what is now New Mexico and established a firm presence in Arizona and California. A line of presidios (or forts) from Texas to Pimeria

Alta was created to maintain a modest military presence.

In 1810, Mexicans began fighting for independence. A skirmish here, a proclamation there, a battle or two, and Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821. What is now Arizona became a part of an independent Mexico.

Independent, yes; stable, not so much. Mexico had difficulty setting up a functioning government - to where three men held the office of president during one 24-hour period - one for only 45 minutes.

Eventually, the area south of the Gila River became part of the Mexican state of Sonora.

By the 1840s, Mexico had population and governmental centers at Santa Fe and in Southern California; settlements at Tubac and Tucson were the only Mexican presence in Arizona, with the rest of the area left to the Indians.

That would change in May 1846. President James K. Polk had tried unsuccessfully to persuade Mexico to sell the United States a huge swath of land from Texas to the Pacific - akin to Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase from France several decades earlier. Prepared to Colorado River and the Explorer river boat by H.B. Möelhausen

take it by force and citing unprovoked Mexican aggression along the Texas border, Polk asked Congress to declare war.

When the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 formally ended that war, land north of the Gila River was ceded to the United States and incorporated in the official Territory of New Mexico, with no Mexican (or American) settlements. An American flag flew over Tucson, which was still in Mexico.

It didn’t take long for the government in Washington to realize the mistake in setting the international boundary too far north. The Gadsden purchase set the present-day boundary in 1854, adding nearly 30,000 square miles to the United States at a cost of $10 million.

The Territory of New Mexico was nominally governed from Santa Fe; residents of the settlements west (Tubac and Tucson) began to chafe at the rule (or general lack thereof) from the capital. Gradually and by the mid-1850s, they began referring to their landscape by the local identifier: “Arizona” - hence, the area gained it’s name, but not its identity until February 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Organic Act establishing the separate Territory of Arizona.

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YAVPÉ ETHNOBOTANY GARDEN For centuries, local indigenous Peoples have relied on the land to provide basic needs. This garden, sponsored by the Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe, has been years in the making... intended to show how local plants supplied one or more of the People’s needs, from food and clothing, to housing and bedding, traditional medicines and artistic inspiration for generations.

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ake a walk in the park and discover this outdoor exhibit that details the ethnobotany of a cultural heritage based on survival “off the land” and the passing season-by-season of time.

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Special Section:

Outside–Delights Surround (But Think Layering)

by Blake Herzog

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reater Prescott has a unique position as a winter destination.

It gets enough snow a few times a year to draw hordes from the desert floor to sled and build snowmen in our relatively mild temperatures where the powder often melts away by midday, but in most years doesn’t get the kind of deep freezes that create reliably skiable surfaces to build an industry.

Skating on a solid layer of ice over Watson Lake while the Dells are caked with snow would be an absolutely stunning experience — but it isn’t going to happen. Don’t forget that Findlay Toyota Center in Prescott Valley has open skate and pickup hockey throughout the winter, albeit indoors.

We can also go up to Flagstaff for skiing and other winter sports. Or we can stay close to our beautiful homes and do pretty much what we always do outside, with a few more layers of clothing and extra precautions.

Hiking

Trails are less crowded with tourists this time of year, but local traffic keeps them hopping on all but the snowiest and stormiest days of the year. Still, everyone should try to stay off the wettest paths shortly after it rains or snows.

All of those “exposed” trails you may shy away from in the summer are now your happy places; Constellation, the Storm Trails, anything around Watson or Willow lakes, the Peavine and the Pioneer Park trails turn their lack of shade trees into their biggest winter asset.

Higher-elevation trails do offer more opportunities for breaking out your snowshoes and finding more Arendelle-esque (think the movie “Frozen” or Norway) scenery.

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The Aspen Creek Trail in the Prescott National Forest is easily transformed into a wintry wonderland with pines and oaks shimmering under snow and ice. The loop around Thumb Butte and the Miller Creek Trail also can be good options for finding the crystalized beauty you crave.

Of course, severe weather can close off trails and recreation areas, so be aware of any that might interfere with your plans. There’s no generally accepted cutoff for when it’s “too cold” to go hiking, so go with your comfort level with cold temperatures and amount of clothing needed.

Most experts recommend wearing at least three layers (top and bottom) while hiking in temperatures under 45 degrees or so. The base layer should be a nylon or wool wicking fabric to keep perspiration away from your skin, topped by a middle layer of wicking fabric, thicker than the base. Denim or other cotton fabrics retain moisture and aren’t a good choice for exercising.

On top, put on a shell layer that protects you from moisture and cold. Be prepared to take off and put back on the middle layer as your movement heats you up and the cold air chills you back down again. And don’t forget a hat, gloves and at least one good sock on each foot, preferably two.

Kayaking

Yes, even summery water adventures like kayaking don’t die off completely in the winter, though you will probably have the lake pretty much to yourself, an appealing concept for many.

Most lake-based watercraft rentals shut down for the season in September or October but Born to be Wild Adventures, which meets you at the lake with your kayak or canoe, is open year-round, weather permitting.

For more information or to reserve a kayak call 928-499-5621 or visit www.b2bwild.com.

Gliding over Watson Lake in a canoe is a good substitute for that dream of skating across the lake, giving you intimate views of the boulders and wildlife along the shore.

Since Willow and Watson lakes are designated as an “important bird area” by Audubon, they are fantastic places to watch migratory waterfowl and other species. Water levels are often higher in winter, allowing you to explore

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coves not accessible during the summer.

You do have to give serious consideration to the weather when kayaking in winter given the risk of hypothermia if you should fall into the water. Experts advise “dressing for immersion” no matter what the season, so in the winter many suggest wearing a wetsuit or dry suit (designed specifically for paddle sports) to keep you dry.

Many sources advise paddlers to wear one of these suits when the combined temperature of the air and water is 120 degrees or below. Wetsuits should be worn next to the skin and covered by layers of nylon or neoprene, topped by a waterproof shell. And always, always wear a lifejacket to keep yourself from going under the cold water.

Mountain biking

Wet and icy conditions that follow snow or rain showers create particular problems for cycling, and everyone who hasn’t had a lot of experience in these should probably stay off the road in these conditions. Once things dry out a little more, you can venture out while taking a few extra preventive measures.

The same trails recommended for winter hiking are also good for mountain biking. You should also check out the new Spence Basin trails off Iron Springs Drive just east of the Alto Pit OHV Area, developed by the City of Prescott with the Prescott Mountain Biking Alliance. Given its newness, however, winter conditions may be hard to predict.

As you should know by now, the key to dressing is layer, layer, layer. You should expect to feel cold for the first 15-20 minutes

of the ride, while layering allows you to shed clothing as you warm up without overheating.

Winter riding can be hard on bikes, so be sure you’re treating yours well. A thicker tire with better tread should help you stay upright, and lowering your tire pressure a bit can improve your bike’s grip on snowy surfaces. Be sure to clean and lubricate all mechanical parts after each ride and consider installing a mud guard if you don’t already have one.

Wearing a backpack for longer winter expeditions is a good idea for adding protection for your back as well as carrying the additional gear you may need: gloves, hat and other layers to take on and off as needed, along with food, water and a fully charged front lamp to prepare for those days when the dark sneaks up on you a little bit faster than you expected.

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GPOF: An Outdoor Fund by and for the People of Prescott

by Ellen Bashor, Community Nature Center Education Directory, City of Prescott • Photos by Ellen Bashor

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id you know that many of the trail signs, kiosks, benches, bridges, and more that you see and use along Prescott’s trails are created and funded by local donors just like yourself?

That’s right. Our City’s Recreation Services Department cannot build and maintain this extensive outdoor recreation paradise on its own. Many outdoor amendments and events exist because people like you care and donate to make this little mountain town the thriving outdoor recreation community it is today.

This process happens through a local collaborative fund of the Arizona Community Foundation of Yavapai County called the Greater Prescott Outdoors Fund.

Established through joint efforts from several nonprofits and local organizations such as Yavapai Trails Association, Prescott Mountain Bike Alliance, and the

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late Open Space Alliance, the Greater Prescott Outdoors Fund (GPOF) was created to enable planned giving toward stated outdoor and nature-based projects in our community.

Through annual donations and endowments, GPOF touches tens of thousands of residents and visitors through numerous funded projects of city and nonprofit initiatives across the greater Prescott area. These include widespread trail and infrastructure projects; amenity and informative installations; student, family and community education projects; courthouse and downtown events; search and rescue teams; easement and open-space purchases; and much more.

Donation categories within the fund include: open space, natural parklands, education, bicycles and pedestrians, trails, donor directed, open funds and more.

Every year, tens of millions of

Americans participate in outdoor activities across the nation each year and 3-4 million visit public lands, just here in Arizona. For the millions of Americans, like our Prescott residents, exploring the great outdoors is not just an enjoyable pastime. New research shows that time outdoors is actually correlated to living healthier and happier lives and that outdoor recreation is a big boost for local economies.

In Arizona alone, our great outdoors generates $21.2 billion dollars and contributes to the well-being of at least 4 million Arizonans, according to the Outdoor Industry Association. As new evidence regarding the benefits of the outdoors emerges, including reduced stress and depression levels or healthier lungs and hearts, the Prescott Recreation Services Department would like to see the number of people receiving these benefits grow as well.

However, as outdoor-user numbers grow, it is vital we have the infrastructure in place to protect and preserve the natural areas we are enjoying. It’s also important that we ensure everyone can access the benefits of the outdoors as well.

These two issues are of utmost importance to the City of Prescott, the Greater Prescott Outdoors Fund, and our local philanthropic community. It is important to protect and improve our outdoor spaces and ensure those spaces are accessible to everyone no matter age, ability

or economic opportunity.

Despite large visitation numbers, the Outdoor Industry Association’s research still shows that over 40% of Arizonans don’t receive the benefits of outdoor recreation. Excessive screen time among children, youth, and even adults is contributing to this phenomena.

This is one of the reasons the GPOF actively supports community and school-based learning opportunities that encourage young people to get outdoors. This collaborative fund works to not only preserve the public lands we have today, but build the generation of outdoor enthusiasts and public lands stewards of tomorrow.

Through the Arizona Community Foundation of Yavapai County, the Greater Prescott Outdoors Fund is expertly managed, and a committee of local outdoor representatives oversees the donor contributions, processes the grant requests, and ensures 100% of donor directed fund distributions are used for community outdoor improvement and engagement initiatives.

You can learn more or begin your planned giving process by visiting the website www.greaterprescottoutdoorsfund.org or by contacting the Arizona Community Foundation of Yavapai County’s philanthropic adviser Lisa Sahady at 928-583-7815 or lsahady@azfoundation.org.

Thank you for joining Prescott’s legacy of a thriving outdoor community for all!

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Success Drives Wine Center Expansion

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he Southwest Wine Center, owned and operated by Yavapai College in Clarksdale, has in just 10 years grown from a 1-acre field to a 13-acre productive vineyard that offers students hands-on educational experiences in all aspects of the winemaking business.

That growth has positioned the wine center as a premier fully functioning and profitable business within the college.

Growth has been so dramati-

cally successful that the college administration has authorized program expansion.

During 2020, the center has produced 2,400 gallons of wine — 1,000 cases of quality and award-winning wine in 13 different varieties and 27 distinct styles.

That resulted in $175,000 in wine sales revenue for the college. Those funds are used to support and expand the program.

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more than 10,000 deployments.

It is being rapidly adopted by national chains and multi-location businesses. It caters to small and mid-sized businesses and their need to secure employee home office connectivity.

Other innovative companies that have expressed interest are GSIS, an international global security firm with headquarters in Washington, D.C.; Cybercore International from Silicon Valley, California; GOPADZ, from southern California; among others.

As defined by Haass, the mission for the center includes becoming a hub for incubation and innovation, accelerating growth of companies, creating local jobs for local residents, and attracting companies to locate in the Quad City area and to provide employees and their families with opportunities for a high quality of life in the greater Prescott region.

When Haass first proposed the center, it was supported by ERAU Chancellor Frank Ayers, now retired, and several city and community leaders. Current Chancellor Anette Karlsson has enthusiastically endorsed the objectives of the center.

Haass also praised people and organizations who have sup-

much greater proportion of the talented graduates who are educated and trained in Prescott but who unfortunately have to leave to pursue their careers.”

City of Prescott economic development consultant Jim Robb said of the center, “This opportunity will serve as an incubator for major high-tech companies.

It will be the start of creating organically high paying jobs for our local graduates and citizens.

The proposed location near the new regional airport terminal is perfect.”

Tenants Signing On Several anchor tenants for the center already have signed on.

One is Katalyst Space Technologies. It was created by ERAU grads Ghonhee Lee and Kaleb Beebout. It will focus on lower cost and more sustainable approaches to satellite operations.

Another tenant is SimpleWAN from Phoenix, launched by Eric Knight in 2014. SimpleWAN announced it will move its corporate headquarters from Phoenix to Prescott and the center. The company’s multi-award-winning, all-in-one solution boasts

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ported the creation of the center.

He cited the local governments of Prescott, Prescott Valley and Chino Valley. “It takes a village to make something like this happen. We see this as a regional resource because the employees will be living throughout the Quad City area.”

The advisory group that originally helped define and propel the center has filed paperwork to create separate a 501(c)3 corporation. Those legal documents, when approved by the state, will allow donations, gifts and other philanthropic opportunities to have tax advantages and eligibility for grants restricted to the nonprofit sector.

Haass praised central and northern Arizona as ideal locations to retain talent and to avoid the churn of employees that some larger tech hubs are experiencing. “Faculty, students and technology at Embry Riddle-Prescott, as well as other institutions of higher education, have a unique opportunity to fuel the development of companies — both existing and to-beformed — in a variety of exciting fields.” He specifically mentioned ERAU, Yavapai College and Northern Arizona University

as being academically involved.

Haass said he anticipates it will take five to seven years to see the center grow to the potential that has occurred in other rural communities. He believes over time, more than 100 jobs will be created through local incubation and 485 jobs indirectly through attraction. He also suggested the creation of more than $111 million in additional taxable income over time because of the new job creation.

Haass said emerging job fields include cyber security, global security, autonomous and robotic systems, data science, simulation science, block chain, supply chain, and software.

“I believe these will be among the top areas for private and public investment in coming decades,” he said. “We’re also borrowing ideas from other technology centers such as SkySong in Scottsdale, Plug and Play in Sunnyvale, California, and the Southwestern Colorado Accelerator Program for Entrepreneurs.”

Haass earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. He also earned two bachelor’s degrees from the University of Wyoming, Laramie.

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Birdseye postcard of 1920 Prescott / Courtesy Tim Gronek

Looking Back to Christmas a Century Ago

by Drew Desmond, Secretary, Prescott Western Heritage Foundation

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he Christmas of 1920 was one of goodwill with special attention given to the children of the city and the still recuperating World War 1 veterans at Whipple. It was both old-fashioned and heartwarming.

The municipal Christmas tree program on the Plaza began at 7:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve “replete with Christmas carols and a short religious service,” the newspaper reported. The Courthouse was “appropriately decorated and lighted.”

Since 1917, charity baskets were provided to the needy families the city. In 1920, 42 families had their Christmas brightened “by the distribution of large baskets of goodies and supplies,” according to the paper. It was the Chamber of Commerce who made sure that “no family in the city lacked for a Christmas din-

ner and other good things.”

The holiday was also celebrated with many parties and celebrations. The Mile Hi Club held a Christmas tree party at the Blue Triangle Center on North Marina Street.

“Each Mile Hi member (was a) hostess to a brother or sister adopted for the day to share in the pleasures and excitements of the tree,” the paper described. Candy, apples, dolls and toys were distributed to needy children.

Santa’s “first official visit” to the city was to the Red Cross community home. There he met over 100 guests from Whipple Barracks and the city. The large room was “tastefully decorated in red and green with streamers, pine branches and dainty red candles,” the paper reported. The Christmas tree was “loaded with gifts” as Santa and Mrs. Claus called the recipient of each gift

forward. A luncheon that included “many varieties of cakes and candies” was served followed by an informal music program.

Those who performed at the Red Cross hall then went to the Whipple hospital to repeat their performances to each of the bedridden — much to their joy.

The Forest Service also made sure the veterans at Whipple were not forgotten, providing a free Christmas tree for each ward and each occupied room.

On Christmas Day the American Legion arrived at Whipple with four young female “fairy spirits” who brought a tree, Christmas cards, and a promise from the Legion of future transit to anywhere in town patients wished. In the afternoon, a comfort bag that contained a box of candy, a writing tablet with envelopes, a bonbon snapper and a pack of cigarettes was distributed to each patient.

The benevolence did not stop there, however. One desperate “letter to Santa” was written by an adult and addressed to Judge John J. Sweeney of the Superior Court. Sweeney was the Exalted Ruler of the local Elks “who dispensed a great deal of cheer in the community in a quiet and tactful way,” the paper said.

This “Santa Claus answered the letter promptly with a goodly supply of Christmas dainties” as well as a “crisp $5 bill (nearly $70 today), with which to

purchase whatever it was that Santa might have overlooked.”

One poignant story involved an octogenarian who was caught stealing potatoes from a sack stored in the garage of the Courthouse Christmas Day. “Hearing suspicious noises coming from that part of the building,” the paper reported, “Deputy Sheriff Payne pussy-footed down the stairs and into the basement just in time to see the would-be burglar filling his pockets with choice spuds from the sack.

“What’s the idea?” asked the deputy.

“I’m hungry!” the old man replied.

“After a conference in the sheriff’s office it was decided that the old man was indeed hungry. “‘Your discharged,’ the sheriff said, ‘Take the potatoes as a gift and beat it. Merry Christmas!’”

SOURCES: Weekly Journal Miner and Prescott Evening Courier, Dec. 22-29, 1920

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SOUTHWEST WINE..cont. from page 136 Michael Pierce, director of viticulture and enology at the college since 2014, said not only has wine acreage and production facilities grown, so have enrollments. When the Southwest Wine Center first started, just a few students enrolled.

“They had no idea what the future could be in the wine industry in this area. Now, we have more than 100 students enrolled in all phases of viticulture and enology. Some students seek just certificates. Others seek associate degrees, which require at least 63 credit hours.”

The age for those enrolled this fall does not parallel that of more traditional students.

Instead, Pierce said the average age is 48.5. Students are involved in all phases of the wine industry. Many have become vineyard managers, winemakers, tasting-room associates, wholesale distributors and marketers.

Some have even started their own wine businesses, Pierce said.

Expansion a Natural Consequence Because enrollment growth and interest in the program has been so intense, Yavapai College President Lisa Rhine, the governing board and the administrative staff have given the go-ahead to add a second fermentation track in brewing technology in the near future.

Rhine said, “The viticulture and enology programs at SWC on the Verde Valley campus are two of our signature programs.

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To be able to provide such unique programs to our community that has embraced the wine industry is outstanding.”

Presently, 10 part-time and two full-time employees work at the wine center. More likely will be hired.

Before joining the staff at Yavapai College, Pierce and his father earned degrees from the Washington State University viticulture and enology program.

Pierce’s family currently operates a vineyard in southern Arizona, and he remains partially involved in that business.

Pierce said the wine industry throughout the Verde Valley is thriving and gaining both national and international recognition. He said the Southwest Wine Center vineyard, positioned as it is on the north foothills of Mingus Mountain, is perfect for the wine industry.

The land altitude — some 3,000 undulating feet — and year-round weather conditions and fertile soil are ideal to grow grapes, he said, and he anticipates major expansion of the industry.

Recently, the college received two major grants to support the program. One was from the National Science Foundation to

help buy equipment and the other from the Arizona Department of Agriculture. They will be used for an analytical study of wine grapes and what is required for soil, water, climate, and other agrarian factors.

“I’m especially gratified that Arizona and, in fact, the western region of the nation, has finally discovered us,” Pierce said He emphasized the larger Verde Valley community has cooperated in helping plant vines and pick grapes. He praised financial contributions from residents and the wine industry that supported program growth.

Pierce said the area has become a destination for thousands of people who come to Verde Valley and Red Rock country. They help create visibility and appreciation for the many wineries in the area, he said.

The Southwest Wine Center started with the donation of 1 acre from Merkin Vineyards a bit over a decade ago, Pierce said. He praised The Verde Valley Wine Consortium and Tom Schumacher for initiating the concept from the beginning.

Dr. Tina Redd, Verde Valley YC campus dean, talked about the differences between wine from

Arizona and wine from the Willamette Valley area of Oregon.

Redd, who lived in the Northwest, described wine from that region as “soft, calm, mellow.”

In contrast, she said Verde Valley wine is “bright, crisp, spicier.”

Pierce said the growing season in the Verde Valley is shorter in Arizona than in Oregon and Washington. However, not as much sunlight bastes the Pacific Northwest, he said.

Several wines created at the Southwest Wine Center have won state and regional accolades for excellence. This year, students created a barbera in a tawny port style. Two years earlier, they developed some distinctive port styles such as tempranillo, petite sirah, and a fortified malvasia blanca. A Sept. 2 article in The Arizona Republic cited Pierce and his students for creating a distinctive port.

The center, at 601 Black Hills Drive, Clarkdale, is a fully accredited and licensed facility.

The Tasting Room offers options from many of the award-winning crafted wines. It is open Thursdays to Sundays from noon to 6 p.m., reservation only. More information is available at www. www.southwestwinecenter.com THE HERO EDITION • NEW YEAR 2021

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Please call the library at 928-7771500 for up-to-date information about library services in response to the COVID-19 situation.

PRESCOTT PUBLIC LIBRARY’S VIRTUAL MEETING ROOMS For individuals, nonprofits or government groups in need of using a Zoom account with no time limit, the Prescott Public Library now has a Zoom® Business account available.

Thanks to a CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security) Act grant from the Arizona State Library, Prescott Public Library is pleased to offer a Zoom® Business account available for use by the community for free virtual meetings. This grant provides for a one-year subscription to Zoom-based virtual meetings.

For more information, please contact the meeting coordinator at library.reserve@ prescott-az.gov, call 928-777-1521, or visit prescottlibrary.info/virtual-meeting-rooms.

If you need technology for your virtual meetings the library has iPads and Wi-Fi hotspots to borrow.

This project is supported by the Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records, a division of the Secretary of State, with federal funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

ADULT WINTER READING PROGRAM Play BINGO and track your reading to win weekly prizes and be entered in a grand prize drawing! Starting Dec. 21, you can pick up a BINGO card from the Ask a Librarian desk on the second floor of the library, or download one from our website at prescottlibrary.info/ adult-winter-reading. Challenge yourself to stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres!

If you need some suggestions on what to read next, a librarian would be happy to point you in the right direction. The program runs through March 20, 2021. Contact the Ask a Librarian Desk at 928-777-1526 for more information. Happy reading!

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Bundle up and visit the StoryWalk at Granite Creek Park to read a new story on display just for this winter! Find out what happens when a farmer plants a potato seed when you visit the StoryWalk at Granite Creek Park and read: The Enormous Potato retold by Aubrey Davis.

The StoryWalk is an opportunity to have a healthy and interactive storybook experience with your children. Share your photos and experiences with us on Facebook or Instagram using #storywalkprescott.

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A CUP OF COCOA AND A CRAFT TO-GO Enjoy the holidays making crafts and sipping cocoa. Throughout December, drop by the Youth Desk at the library to collect a special bag for the makings of a nice cup of cocoa and a holiday craft.

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rom birthdays, graduations and anniversaries to mom babysitting the kids so you and your main squeeze can have your first actual date night in months, there are occasions to celebrate.

Here are a few of the locally owned restaurants you can go for a meal that measures up to the memories you’re creating!

Please check for current hours of operation, levels of service and protocols with each establishment.

BIGA BiGA offers farm-to-table, locally sourced cuisine in a small, intimate atmosphere just off the beaten path of downtown Prescott. BiGA is the local hot spot for health-minded eaters and local foodies, offering seasonal menu items as well ever-changing weekly specials. The chef wanders the Prescott Farmers Market every weekend collecting new and exciting ingredients to accompany his one-of-a-kind, upscale creations. The staff’s warm, knowledgeable service complements the flavorful, artistic food and craft cocktails in a relaxed, down-to-earth environment.

BiGA is open Monday through Saturday; the hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays and 9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Whether date nights, birthday celebrations, engagements, girls’ night out or special holiday events, BiGA offers something for everyone.

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EL GATO AZUL Celebrating its Sweet 16, El Gato Azul continues to be Prescott’s “Quirky, Cozy Place to Meet” just steps from Whiskey Row in beautiful downtown Prescott.

With an abundance of choices from Spanish and Mediterranean tapas to lunch salads and sandwiches, as well as a wide range of dinner entrees, El Gato Azul is the perfect place for a happy hour drop-in after work or for any special occasion.

Featuring fresh local produce, seafood and pasta entrees as well as 60 different tapas, El Gato Azul can be as intimate or laid-back as you like. With patio seating under the cottonwoods along Granite Creek and an enclosed patio in the winter, El Gato Azul is the perfect year-round dining experience.

Begin with one of the select house specialty cocktails, such as the Sage Advice, Barry’s Margarita or the Signature Sangria. Paella, beef and blue tacos, green chile mac, or one of the daily features is sure to make for a romantic evening.

Live jazz on Sundays, as well as local artists, completes the vibe unique to Prescott, with a level of service to match.

316 W. Goodwin St., Prescott, AZ 86301 928-445-1070 www.elgatoazulprescott.com Facebook: @elgatoazul.az; Instagram @elgatoazul.az

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Its slogan “simple food elevated” is instilled in the seasonally changing menus using local farmers’, ranchers’ and other Arizona purveyors’ freshest seasonal products available, as well as supporting the local community in Prescott.

Husband and wife team Ryan and Brittany Peters are a dynamic duo, with Chef Ryan executing the kitchen operation and Brittany running the front of house. They invite you into FARM Provisions for exquisite dining and unparalleled service where you are not just a guest, but you are family.

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MURPHY’S Murphy’s historic landmark building was a mercantile and general store in the 1890s.

Back then, owner J.L. Gardner promised: “All goods guaranteed to be first class.”

Today, Murphy’s restaurant continues this legacy of quality, serving only the finest, chef-prepared dishes. Enjoy sophisticated lunches, delectable dinners and relaxing Sunday champagne brunches in an elegant, historic setting. In keeping with the original structure’s purpose, charming antiques have been displayed throughout the space. Take a seat in the gorgeous, century-old mahogany bar for daily happy hour.

Murphy’s is also the place for your special occasions, from anniversaries to birthday gatherings. Reserve one of two private meeting rooms for your private party. Or celebrate with your guests in our special mezzanine area that overlooks the restaurant. With impeccable food, gracious service and the ambiance of yesteryear, life’s moments are more memorable at Murphy’s.

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TRIPLE CREEK KITCHEN & SPIRITS Prescott’s newest locally operated venue brings a bit of uptown to downtown. It is scheduled to open Jan. 4 inside the Hilton Garden Inn Prescott.

Craft cocktails and a menu designed by Chef Barry Barbe of El Gato Azul complement the incredible and sumptuous environment.

Start with cocktails or wine at the 24-seat bar or lounge on the outdoor seating in front of a large open fireplace.

Menu selections include some of Barry’s favorite dishes with freshly made pasta, Arizona-raised beef rib eyes, cioppino, and a bit of the Southwest with chicken poblano and a twisted shrimp jambalaya.

Open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner, Triple Creek and Sam’s Bar and Lounge at Triple Creek make for a great evening away just steps from Granite Creek and the Granite Creek Parkway.

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...continued from page 73 Pucks, a golf-training aid that Ken Christopherson developed.

These are all new employment opportunities for our employees.

PRESCOTT LIVING: Since YEI! was founded more than four decades ago, have you any idea of how many people have gone through the program?

BRAD NEWMAN: Thousands. Probably in the five thousands. Before COVID-19, we were working with 140 or 170 people a day, regularly. Now, maybe 75. But take that times 45 years. Thousands have benefitted.

PRESCOTT LIVING: What’s the youngest employee? The oldest? The longest?

BRAD NEWMAN: Because our program is centered around working, we start at 16 or 17. The oldest? That’s Roy, and he’s 80. He’s been here more than 40 years. One woman, Susan, was here when I came to work, and that’s almost 45 years ago. We’re proud that just this year five staff members celebrated being employed at YEI! for 20 years.

That’s a big number no matter where you

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work and another distinguishing feature of YEI!.

PRESCOTT LIVING: Has COVID-19 impacted your budget?

BRAD NEWMAN: Seriously. I’ve said we’re in a period of parenthesis. By that I mean we are between two things, and the rules change day by day. But we still try to celebrate things we should celebrate — birthdays and such. But because of COVID-19, we can’t send the same number of people out in vans to work. We can’t take field trips the way we used to with the same number of people. We’ve got to be flexible.

The protocols adopted throughout society, social distancing, sanitizing surfaces, face covering … have been adopted at YEI! with our usual vigor. The hardest adaptation is elbow-greeting, as we’re a high-fivin’, huggin’ kinda crowd.

PRESCOTT LIVING: I’ve heard it said that YEI! is unique in Arizona.

BRAD NEWMAN: (laughing) We’ve been described more harshly than that. That’s a nice way of putting it. But yes, we are unique in the state and the Southwest.

No other community has anything quite like what we’ve been able to structure. It’s because of the community we live in and the kind of support we get from all over Yavapai County. People really do care here.

They feel for those who are disabled and yet still want to contribute to the economy and community, and they step up big time to support them.

But what I see even bigger — people really do care for each other in Prescott.

There’s a lot of folks out there, and God loves them all. And here in Yavapai County, they’re willing to step up and help when they can.

I’ve been lucky. Nobody’s making wealth here. But we’re making wages. These guys and their families keep us going. We’re having fun. I’m addicted. I get to go to work with my best friends. I can’t imagine a better place to work.

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