When planning your retirement, you work with many moving pieces. A beneficial component to retirement planning is implementing strategies that can help you avoid potential mistakes when dealing with individual retirement accounts, known as IRAs, and your legacy. An IRA is an account set up at a financial institution that allows you to save for retirement with tax-free growth or on a tax-deferred basis. There are many types of IRAs: traditional IRAs, Roth IRAs and SIMPLE IRAs – some are more … [Read more...] about Strategies to Help Avoid IRA and Legacy Mistakes
Understanding Prescott Ordinances for Sober Living Homes
Now that the Structured Sober Living Homes bill has become law, the City of Prescott has authority to establish an ordinance(s) for regulating some aspects within the group homes. Instituting ordinances that deal with the supervisor requirements and operational plan within these homes will enhance the health, safety and welfare of clients and improve treatment outcomes which, in turn, will reduce neighborhood issues and complaints. The city is developing an ordinance and will explore … [Read more...] about Understanding Prescott Ordinances for Sober Living Homes
July Recognizes Healthy Benefit of Blueberries
July is National Blueberry Month. It's a great time to celebrate this super fruit! Plant blueberries in your garden and you can pick fresh blueberries for all your summer entertaining. Nothing impresses friends, grandkids and relatives more than the ability to pick fruit fresh off the bush, and they are oh-so-easy to grow outside in the garden. Benefits of Growing Blueberries Blueberries have many benefits. First, let’s cover their simple beauty as a landscape shrub. The … [Read more...] about July Recognizes Healthy Benefit of Blueberries
The Collective: Signaling a Rebirth
Blending with the dramatic red color palette of Bell Rock and Courthouse Butte that grace the background, The Collective in the Village of Oak Creek is a revitalized multi-use gathering space where residents and visitors can shop, eat, celebrate and just enjoy the natural beauty. Thomas MacPherson and his Fenix Private Capital Group purchased the property last year after selling another project in Phoenix. "It's a nice center, I love Sedona, and it's a great place to spend time and money to … [Read more...] about The Collective: Signaling a Rebirth
Women Pilots Take to the Air
“One of the biggest thrills of my life – being able to hold the American flag to start this 40th annual Air Race Classic for women.” The sun was bright and warm in the early morning sky. So was Penny Carruthers’s smile as she waved the Stars and Stripes and the first plane roared down the runway. The petite 94-year-old waved that same flag for 53 more women pilot teams. They had arrived in Prescott on June 17, for the nation’s premier transcontinental speed competition for women pilots. … [Read more...] about Women Pilots Take to the Air
Raising Awareness of Western Heritage, Culture
Many residents of and visitors to the Prescott area probably have no idea that Prescott and Yavapai County is home to hundreds of individuals who consider themselves to be “heritage keepers,” a person that in a unique way helps to preserve and promote our western heritage. Ranchers, western artists and musicians, preservationists, historians, authors, re-enactors, photographers, craft-persons and others who live in Yavapai County possess an incredible passion and spirit to preserve the legacy of … [Read more...] about Raising Awareness of Western Heritage, Culture
Focusing on Wellness
It is only natural that John Amos was chosen to head Yavapai Regional Medical Center. He has been locally grown right along with the community and the hospital for the past 21 years. Amos was chosen three years ago as president and CEO of the medical center, replacing a retiring Tim Barnett who oversaw the beginnings of the explosive growth of the area and the hospital. Amos is no stranger to the medical center. He started there in the occupational therapy department and worked his way up in … [Read more...] about Focusing on Wellness
Hatcher Shares Baseball’s Life Lessons
As America’s self-proclaimed national pastime, baseball is more than a game. It is a tradition, one born of history and folklore, impassioned devotion and eternal hope. Wistful old timers recall legends of the past while wide-eyed schoolboys dream of making it to “the show,” assuming the persona of those very legends and leading their team to the summit of the baseball mountain, a World Series championship. For Williams native Billy Hatcher, the dream not only became a reality, sprinkled with … [Read more...] about Hatcher Shares Baseball’s Life Lessons
XCopter Training Pilots
Flying in a helicopter may well be an experience most of us will never forget. But piloting a helicopter is like trying to rub your head in a circular motion while patting your stomach and dancing the Macarena – all at the same time, according to a local pilot. Every part of the body is moving – just like the parts of the helicopter. And all parts – human or helicopter – must be under absolute control. Complicating the process are factors like weather conditions or system failures. Above … [Read more...] about XCopter Training Pilots
Cultivating a Multi-Million Dollar Boutique Wine Industry
As clouds wash over the Verde Valley on a drizzly spring day, Nikki Bagley shakes the dirt from her gloves and offers a smile of satisfaction. “We’re planting tannat today, which is a minor Bordeaux blending varietal,” she said above the sounds of raking and shoveling. “It’s very dark and tannic so it can be a good stand alone wine – it is age-able and sturdy – or it can be used to beef up a lighter-bodied wine.” Bagley is the director of Yavapai College’s viticulture program. Joining her … [Read more...] about Cultivating a Multi-Million Dollar Boutique Wine Industry