Vision of the Best HOLD ONTO YOUR

Welcome to our Early Summer issue! We’re heading into possibly the best season of the four glorious seasons we get to enjoy in Greater Prescott and all the events that come with it.

The World’s Oldest Rodeo® and 4th of July festivities will draw the community and visitors together, while locals and tourists explore the parks, trails and forests that surround us.

It’s a great time to support your favorite local businesses and discover new ones with our Best of Yavapai winners. Our readers and social media followers came through again this year, supporting longtime favorites and recent arrivals alike.

In this issue we also recognize Men of Vision, those who have recognized a community need and found a sustainable way to fill that need, bringing their ingenuity and ability to work with like-minded people to accomplish a goal they knew would benefit their family, neighbors, customers and many others.

They are public officials, businessmen and developers who have made Prescott brighter, more convenient and easier to live in — and that’s saying a lot!

We tapped Jamaal McCoy, general manager of Findlay Toyota, co-owner of five Prescott restaurants and owner of a recently opened gym as the ROX Interview for our Men of Vision issue. The motivational speaker shares the story of his success in the auto industry and how that has fueled his community involvement and passion for creating more jobs and helping people achieve their dreams.

We’re sad to have to say goodbye in this issue to another man with vision who was instrumental to our launching this magazine. Ray Newton drew us further into this market after supplying his great writing to a Prescott visitor’s guide we published, encouraging us to start the publication Prescott LIVING and connecting us with many of the people who helped us along the way.

Once we started the magazine six years ago, he wrote every Prescott Pioneer news section and many more wonderful feature articles until he no longer could earlier this year after his cancer diagnosis.

We’re dedicating this issue to his memory.

Elaine Earle Publisher, Prescott LIVING Magazine