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First some of my reflections of Prescott, Arizona.
Some of my Arizona days memorabilia
Plaque of appreciation for ten years of volunteer service with the Yavapai County Sheriff Office SAR, with the Sheriff's Jeep Posse.
I also coordinated and installed the first dedicated SAR "search and rescue" communications repeater for the county for use by all SAR teams of that county.
I hold an extra class license and have owned several UHF communications repeaters with remote bases while living in Northern Arizona . I also supported and worked with the ARES/RACES group through Yavapai county emergency management who facilitated the repeater site on Mt Union for the dedicated SAR repeater. I had served as the project coordinator for that particular SAR repeater. Our SAR group is called the Yavapai County Sheriff Jeep Posse which is an all volunteer org with over 50's in operation for the Yavapai County Sheriff Office. I worked with Sheriff "Buck" Buchanan, who is great leader and big supporter of the Jeep Posse SAR. Thanks so much Buck for all your support. Also thanks to Don Franklin who has passed away now and thanks to Jimmy Grimm, a past captain of the Jeep Posse and a retired captain with the US Army. Also big thanks to former captain and friend Mel Oliverson, a great blessing a big help and supporter. Also thanks to Michael Pagent from Great Britain for all his help with COMM and with training. Hey Mike, I need another motorcycle want to sell me back my old motorcycle:) Also to Chuck Gardiner, Jeep Posse now living near Cordes Jct, AZ. Also thanks to Dick Myers (retired FBI)
I would like to thank a good friend Steve Crumley WB7BYV who helped out much with that particular SAR repeater project and Steve is also the one who sponsored me to join up with CRC, Cactus Radio Club, which is a very large armature radio club here on the west coast. (am looking for a donation for my So Cal dues) The Prescott area SAR repeater located on the highest peak located Yavapai county at over 8000 ft. has been a great blessing for SAR use even to this day.
I also trained with our local ARES/RACES while living in Prescott, Arizona. Thanks Lloyd Halgunseth WA6ZZJ for all your help and support over the years.
Also at times I served as Chaplin for the Jeep Posse.
The Yavapai Sheriff Jeep Posse is a highly trained SAR unit. We would also have various seasonal duties through out the year to go along with our regular SAR duties.
In the Spring time we would practice fire evacuation drills for the summer fire season. There are numerous kids camps in the area plus various communities back in the woods.
I only encountered one real fire evacuation during my
tenure with Sheriff Jeep Posse. That was the "Indian Fire" of May 15th 2002. The winds had been howling for weeks on end till
this particular day of a fire deep in the woods south of town. The howling
winds had stopped for no apparent reason. If the winds had
continued blowing that day it was feared that a good part of the town of Prescott would have burned up. God's favor was upon us that day and spared the
mile high city of Prescott.
During my teams part of the evacuation of homes for the Indian fire. The fire had
jumped hwy 89 and we were cut off from our mobile command station and our
primary escape route. This was a shocker to our team and showed us how fast that
fire was really moving along. Forest Service Hot Shot crews from all over
the Southwest came to Prescott to help contain the Indian fire. I would also
like to thank a friend Ed Hollenshed of the Prescott National Forest Service for
his brilliant fore thought in the forming of PAWUIC, Prescott
Area Wild land Urban Interface Commission. I got to know Ed Hollenshead through
the Bible College we attended at and also worked with Ed on occasion as a Forest
Service resource through the Sheriff's office. Last heard Ed
Hollenshead, is the director, Fire and Aviation Management, USDA Forest
Service, Pacific Southwest Region. The various business owners of Prescott
pulled together and had pitch in greatly by supporting all fire crews, Hot Shot
fire crews from all over the South West, law enforcement, National Guards and
other various volunteers by providing all with free sandwiches, free pizza, free
bottled water and anything else we needed. The people of Prescott are a
very friendly and supportive community that live there, everyone waves to one
another, wheather you know them or not, that is just a norm for the
Prescott area and for much of Arizona. Try waving at someone there and see for
yourself.
This is a short video about the Indian Creek fire of May 15th 2002 that almost destroyed Prescott, AZ. The winds had been howling for weeks on end till that day! God spared Prescott. We are greatly for all Yeshua's mercies!
During the winter months with a heavy snow going on we would often drive nurses and other health care professionals as a Jeep Posse courtesy service to and from the local hospital which I also happen to work at the Yavapai Regional Medical Center, mostly in the ER dept dealing with combative patients and related situations. I give thanks to all the great night shift nursing supervisors that I have enjoyed working with over the years. Having been part of SAR for ten years there I now know most all of the back roads and forest roads there like the back of my hand. Lots of great camping back there in the woods of Northern Arizona too. I have been to a lot of very remote locations in Northern Arizona.
Below is a pix where I made the front page of the local newspaper "Preparing for disaster" when I lived in Northern Arizona for ten years before moving back to my original home town of Newport Beach, California where now I am a "law man" of Torah for Adonai Yeshua.
Yavapai County Sheriff Jeep Posse promo video
Prescott is also home to world's oldest rodeo. There are many many ranches in the area. Also most of your early westerns, westerns with Tom Mix and many other movies have been filmed right there in Prescott. There is a lot of history there in Prescott which is pounced Press-kit. Several celebrities, noted actors and other people of notoriety have homes there in the area or have lived or have retired there in Prescott. The air is so pristine in Northern Arizona that many with respiratory problems often move there for a breath of real fresh air. The Sharlot Hall museum has lots of insights about Prescott. The Western life style was very agreeable with me when I lived there. Ye ha! And most everyone there is packing "carrying a fire arm" as a norm! Stats show that an armed society is also a polite society. You will also see most everyone there wave to one another as a norm as well. Try it next time when your in the area. Here's to waving at all my friends there in Northern Arizona and best blessings of Yeshua! Prescott is an old Yavapai Indian word which means "we don't have it here, you have to go to Phoenix" for those who have lived in Prescott you know what I am talking about. 3/4 of the population of Arizona lives in the Phoenix area. Developers please stay away from N AZ, lets keep N AZ a nice place for what it is!
Live Work Play in Prescott (voice over by Toni Tennille, Prescott resident with her husband Daryl, of Captain and Tennille fame )
Noted people who have lived in and around the Prescott area, Richard Nixon, Billy the kid, Clint Eastwood, Buckey O'Neill of the Rough Riders, Sean Connery, Denzel Washington, Tom Mix, James Arness of Gun Smoke fame and founder of Prescott college a liberal arts school which I call and others do too "tree hugger central" and other note worthy people as well. An article in the AZ Republic newspaper stated that Prescott, AZ had more Millionaires per capita than most big cities. A lot of movies, mostly westerns have been shot in and around the Prescott area including Junior Bonner with Steve McQueen and also Billy Jack, here is a clip with classic footage of the Court House Square, Prescott also is home to the Worlds Oldest Rodeo (video), still held each year. I have yet to win the calf roping event, though I do enjoy smart quarter horse. Watching the cowgirls barrel race is such a hoot. Everyone needs to come and see the Worlds Oldest Rodeo, held over the 4th of July, make your reservations early for a room and there is always lots of great camping in the area. Prescott is so festive during this time, also lots of things to see and do in the area like visit the Grand Canyon and more.
New York City Mayor Richard Fiorello La Guardia. 99th Mayor of New York City He moved to Arizona with his family, where his father had a bandmaster position at Fort Whipple in the U.S. Army. LaGuardia attended public schools and high school in Prescott, Arizona. His father was discharged from his bandmaster position in 1898. There is a bridge in town named La Guardia Bridge which is very near a nice park there. There is still a classic band standing there at the Court House downtown square at Prescott.
Weather
there is great at 5000 ft and why Prescott is called "the
mile high city" It has best pristine air quality to be found
anywhere, all of N-AZ has pristine air quality. Winters are mild. It may snow
but melts off pretty fast in a day or two. The Monsoon "rainy" season
runs from 4th of July till the first or second week of September and this why
you see the very high curbs at downtown Prescott. Spectacular lightning shows
occur during the monsoon season. I was living in Prescott at the time it
received over 8 inches of rain in one night and it washed out the city water
main to the city, power was out for a day. Phone services stayed up and running.
The Arizona National Guard had to truck in water for a week before normal water
services was restored. That was an educational experience. Not being able to
flush your toilet or wash dishes etc for a week. On my return to Prescott to
live in in 1996, I had prepped the home there for as an end time cabin
hide away, yet the location was very close to town, I had a home at 6000ft
and sat on hill top property, on "P" mountain, also called Badger Mtn
at 214
N. Chisholm Trail, Prescott, It has the best views in Prescott ever. And
I have lived in several places there in Prescott. The property had an acre of
land and its own well that pumped 30gallons per minute, that is a nearly a
commercial grade well. Water was hard at 10 grains but easily treatable with a
soft water gear. The property backed up to the Prescott National forest and in
essence was my back yard. There is an official hiking trail nearby called the Turley
Trail and is very nearby the home at the end of Wells Fargo Rd
and is popular day hiking trail, has a large parking area and gate,
just open the gate and park. (It is reported that the Poland brothers, Michael
and Patrick who robbed
an armored van of $288000 in May of 1977, hide part of their loot somewhere
along the Turley Trail area and is yet to be discovered, true story)
There are some nearby abandon mines up along some
of the trails. As walk along the Turley Trail you can explore
inside one of the abandoned mines if you have a flash light. Inside the mine it
splits in two directions,. I often wanted to place a geocaching inside that
mine, perhaps someday or someone else can do that. Prescott was working on the
great circle trail around the entire town, most of it is now completed. Here is
list of trails in the Prescott area. I often enjoyed hiking the trail
around Thumb Butte. There was a local Yavapai Indian who use to train along the
Turley Trail, he use to practice up for the Man
vs. Horse Race that takes place each year along Mingus Mt going out on
highway 89A. Its a 22 mile race. I have worked as a check point radio operator
and water and food station a top Mingus Mtn for that Man vs. Horse race event
many times, The runners craved water and Tylenol. I enjoyed my race
station a top Mingus Mountain which was very near the Mingus
Mtn Camp grounds some sites have full hook ups, there is a nice picnic table
overlooking the entire Verde Valley from up there. There is also a huge BBQ for
all after the Man vs. Horse event at Fain Ranch, this where the race begins and
ends, with live country music, its a hoot! The famous mining and ghost town and
tourist attraction of Jerome sits on the North Side of Mingus. Mingus Mountain
is basically hollow, they took a lot of copper out of it. There is natural
cave at the top of Mingus Mountain if your into spelunking and know where to go
to. You can cow trail, take your vehicle along dirt Forest Service roads, all
the way from Williams to Jerome and to all sorts of places, even to Cleator
(just a bar now in the middle of nowhere, a ghost town). I enjoy cow trailing
and enjoy taking the back roads up to Crown King for
lunch, a neat old general
store is there and to Palace Station (just a watering station for the stagecoach
days) and back down to Prescott along Senator Hwy. Also going out to Childs
Power Station is fun and there is also nearby is natural “small and very dirty
(bring your own chlorine bleach)” hot
spring there along the Verde River there (Cicada
bugs can be heard buzzing loudly in background of that video, we also know its summer time). I know all the Forest Service roads,
ranch roads and other dirt roads in the area like the back of my hand from days
of being a part of SAR with the Yavapai County Sheriff volunteer SAR for 10
years. I often still enjoy going camping out near the Williams area, lots
of cool pine trees there and various camp sites to go to and just relax and
often I go to Coleman Lake south of town, take 4th street which becomes Count Rd
73 (Perkinsville Rd) a fun drive which can take you to Jerome"video"
(A lot of bikers go there on the weekend. I enjoy playing pool there and also
enjoy having dinner there with incredible views of Sedona, and a great place to
watch the Arizona Monsoons
roll through) , its cow trailing via
Perkinsville (video) or turn and head west to Drake at Hwy 89 (They
mine a lot of Flagstone near Drake.) At the woods and campgrounds around
Williams during the breeding season male elk emit bugle calls all
night long (Wonder what they are saying to the females?) Dogtown
Reservoir(video) and White Horse Lake are popular camp grounds there as well. Williams is a neat
little town, various events are going on there all the time and Williams is
the gateway to the Grand Canyon and offers the
historic train ride to the Grand Canyon from downtown Williams. I often I
enjoy a meal at the Pine
Country restaurant when I am in the area. I have a put together a things
to see and do when at Williams page Also get yourself a
subscription to Arizona
Highways Magazine, (has impressive photos and Arizona stories) there is no
place on earth like Arizona. I have been entertaining offering Arizona Territory
Guide Services, it can get very remote at times, western wear is a must,
possibly wild critters to contend with and more stars at a night than you can
ever count and ya gotta have a practical pocket knife, this learned from
all my SAR and camping days in AZ. I use the (Gerber EZ out Skelton plain,
model: GE06701) Go & visit my friend "big" Steve Morgan and
his wife Shelly at their knife store the Knife Factory in Prescott Valley, they
enjoy doing ministry outreach as well. Also please send
me an email, click here, if you’re interested or if just want to share any
comments or reflect on any part of my Arizona days stories. Please simply come
to Arizona, to visit, to play, to live and to create your own Arizona days
stories. Did I mention I was part of Arizona
Near Space Research and participated in a recovery mission out near Winslow
at Chevron Butte, the team used a rubber chicken as its mascot, the team leader
and friend, Jack W7JLC (Satellite builder) who appreciated my APRS packet radio
skills. I have made many APRS radio contacts with the International Space Station
ISS when flying over, this from my home in Prescott and now from Newport Beach,
CA, that's another Arizona story I can share at some other time. See
my ISS reflections on FB. Also when I lived there in Prescott, I had
hosted several UHF remote bases (repeaters) and belong to many ham clubs in the
area, including SARBA, ARA, Motorola ARC of Scottsdale, the Yavapai, the
Verde Valley and the Williams radio clubs and was part of ARES/RACES of Yavapai
and still stay in RF contact (that is to say via radio) with many friends
there from where I now live along the coast of Southern California, mostly
on UHF and 900 MHz and enjoy text messaging via APRS packet radio. Give me a
radio call at KB6TWC if you have your license, its so easy to get
your ham license these days. Kids and adults too, get your ham
license its a ton of fun and great practical knowledge. One requirement, you
have to be FRIENDLY! J
At my home there up a top "P" Mtn, I had also built a detached brick garage with full bath, on the east end of it held the well house with a 2000 gallon water storage tank. I built it for the purpose of housing various homeless people and did so over the years. I had housed a homeless people when living in So Cal and wanted to continue doing the same in Northern AZ. I just need a detached garage with a full bath. Here are pixs of "homeless Bob" Pix 1 as I had first met him and Pix 2 Bob eating his favorite food, hot dogs and ketchup, this in the detached garage that I had fixed up. Homeless Bob stayed a winter, about 6 month of time in the detached garage. Bob wanted to work and tried, because there is s no normal public bus transpiration there like we enjoy in So Cal and other urban areas. This had put a huge damper on Bob easily finding steady work and opted to seek a life in Reno where he had some family ties. I was able to get an optometrist friend of mine there, Dr. Steven M. Meyers, O.D. of Rummel Eye Care of Prescott to do free eye exam for Bob and the Lions club there donated for the cost of the glasses. Homeless Bob freaked out! He constantly kept exclaiming. “I can see again!” Yeshua is good to everyone! Matthew 11:5 "The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Sense I also hold a commercial pilots license I really get a kick out watching of that old 1950's show "Sky King" on YT, fun drama and dialog, very western flavor of Arizona, good guys, bad guys, the Sheriff, horses, jeeps, guns (packing guns is an Arizona norm for its citizens, everyone packs there, mostly concealed) The Sky King show has the makings of classic western drama.
Prescott, AZ "My Arizona days" TV pilot project, timeless, affordable, great location, close to the So Cal coast and more!
I
could write a book of my Arizona days if some top respected publisher wanted to
get in touch with me. If you are, then see my contact info provided towards the
bottom of the directory
page. Maybe a TV pilot ? I use to work for GMT Studios, Culver
City, CA, for a short bit and enjoy the production process, that's another
story, see my Hotel
California ministry page. A lot of movies and westerns have been filmed in
the Prescott area over many years. Greatest backdrop, friendliest, kindest, caring
people, in a very western venue. Lots of smart constructive stories to
be to told. Possibly a counter part to "The OC", with SAR, the
Sheriff, the Forest Service, big ranches (Historic
and famous West Fork of Peepless Valley (which is actually a counterpart of
the "Dallas" television series, Southfork Ranch) and hosts its annual
Yavapai Cattle Grower’s Association Calf
Sale & BBQ
The Hassayampa
GATED community with security staff, located in Prescott is also
home to Sean Connery,
Denzel Washington and other noted people with a private
golf course and incredible club house for entertaining. Driving distance is approximately
385 miles from the So Cal coast. Prescott is reported and researched to be
one of the top safest places to live in the US in the advent of a nuclear
attack, the world is now poised and gearing up for WWIII (listen do Dr. Paul Craig
Roberts former editor of the Wall Street Journal and Regan ear economic advisor
speak on this WM
audio
or MP3
audio 2
minutes that will change your life
) So having a second home and production operations going on there in Prescott,
AZ could provide additional personal justifications for moving there, also tax
write offs etc for the need of having a second home and operations there in
Prescott. I have a WWIII
- Economics Trends page on this site, the world is quickly moving towards
WWIII, a proven fact. FYI: I have copyright protected my concepts and related
things here
.
Am just looking for the right people to work with. Those
sincerely interested please contact
me. I don’t have any spare time to waste on entertaining posers or want a
be types. I
am from "the OC", I also have been around, know the scams. And mostly
I enjoy maintaining my genuine concern and love for the people of Prescott and
its surrounding communities. I might have been born at night but it wasn’t last
night. Bring your own funding. Also send
me an email if interesting in the need for expert local Prescott
area guide services, bar none! Tailored made just for your needs, concerns and
time constraints.
My Prescott areas resources list, Printable : motels, rent car, private jet services, public airline service, my personal RE agent there and more!
Strong word of warning, leave the West Hollywood types behind. Lots great nice people and nice families there in the Prescott areas who need work, who love God know what God designed as an ”exit only." They are not tolerant there at all and the cowboys there et al often enjoy educating those types, that they are at wrong location and to better move along on quickly. The Bible refers to the Sodom and Gomorrah types as dogs. Dogs is a term for people without souls. Dogs have no "discernment", they lick their own balls, sniff another dog's butt and eats its own vomit. No dogs allowed! The Lord Yeshua taught that areas that are gay tolerant will be judged beyond measure during the days of judgments that we are now in. (Matthew 10:15"Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!) President Obama recently announced publicly that he is pro gay. Is Obama and his Obama supporters trying to bring God's judgments upon our nation? By the statistics everyone knows who voted in Obama as president, so it is easy to spot an Obama supporter (do your own homework) Some cowboys there have a saying "Vengeance is Mine says the Lord, and I am just doing the Lord's will, by keeping all His laws and commandments." Quoting from (Deuteronomy 32:35 Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; Their foot shall slip in due time; For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things to come hasten upon them.') Deuteronomy 7:9 "Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;
One more clip, circa 1929, "things you ought to know about Prescott", by Hollywood director F. M. Tisdale
Clint Eastwood is reported to have a second home, ranch acreage out east of Chino Valley, AZ, along Williams Valley Rd going towards Hootenanny Holler (love that name) an area very west Chino Valley. There is a street out that way called " W Clint Eastwood Ln" he might have developed it and is reported to have been scene shopping at the Chino Valley True Value hardware store. ( I much prefer living in Prescott, its much cooler in the summer time and not so windy like Chino Valley is year round.)
Tom Selleck is reported to own property out near Chino? Why? He was reported too have been scene having breakfast at the Green Frog Restaurant in Chino, lets just hope that he was just attending gun training classes out there at Gunsite. I lived in Prescott and enjoy teasing my friends of Chino Valley with various Chino Valley jokes.
The
Chino Valley area is very windy year round, great for getting off the
electrical grid with wind generators. Chino Valley is also major horse
property and people there have to dig deep for a well water. Chino Valley is
sort of like an affordable Norco, CA which is also a horse property community.
Chino Valley is bit of commute from Prescott. Guess having all them windy days
at Chino Valley is a good thing if your own horse property there. J
Northern Arizona almost became Hollywood, this before Hollywood was invented.
Few are as famous and successful as Hollywood's first motion picture businessmen, Cecil B. DeMille, Samuel Goldwyn and Louis Mayer
The
three men started making motion pictures. They
loved working in the movie business. They were deeply interested in its creative
and financial possibilities. DeMille, Lasky and Goldfish began working on a
movie version of the popular American western play, "Squaw Man."
DeMille urged that the movie be made in the real American West so he chose
Northern, Arizona as a possible venue location. DeMille and the company traveled
east by train to Northern Arizona. When they arrived, it was raining extremely
hard and DeMille got back on the train and keep going until they reached the end
of the line which was a quiet little town in southern California. The town was
called Hollywood. DeMille decided this was the perfect place to film the movie
“Squaw Man" was one of the first full-length movies produced in
Hollywood. It was released in nineteen thirteen and was an immediate success.
DeMille is considered the man who helped Hollywood become the center of the
motion picture business
"Prescott, Everybody's Hometown" I had at one time worked as armed security for the County Court House, a center piece and icon for Prescott. I am a Gunsite trained back in the days when Jeff Cooper had own it.. By employment, I had at one time, all the keys for two of the most sensitive areas of the city Prescott, the county court house and YRMC hospital. I have more finger print cards on file with the FBI then most people do, this for security clearance purposes.
Regarding
Sheriff Joe Arpaio who I appreciate the all guts
that he has for a tough job. When I worked as a special deputy "a
volunteer” for 10 years with the Yavapai County Sheriff’s office with their Sheriffs
Jeep Posse we sometimes would work with Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his deputies. Recalling a particular search we did near Sheep
Bridge Crossing, along the Verde River, that location is in the middle
of fringing nowhere and that particular situation turned into a possible
homicide, lots news copters were above in the sky that day, mostly because
it is such a remote location. I was also asked set up a LZ (Landing Zone using
orange flagging tape) near the search site, mostly for DPS Ranger helicopter
use but lots of news copters landed on that LZ that I had taped out as
well.
Would also like to mention and say hello to Carol
Springer, famous Phoenix DJ and Arizona personality bar none. I knew Carol
as very small town girl and DJ before God blessed her life with much success.
Carol shared with me long ago that “Prescott” the small town she is from, is
an old Indian word that means, “We don’t have it here, you have to go to
Phoenix to get it.” Carol is a
friend and shared with me on FB she now lives in Queen Creek
area, which is South East Phoenix with her girls. Here is a clip of Carol doing
what she enjoys doing best, just being herself.
YT
clip of Carol Springer
FYI:
Carol's mother also named Carol Springer served as state treasurer of Arizona
from January 1999 until January 2003. A Republican, she was elected in November
1998. Carol Springer Sr. served as an Arizona State Senator for District 1
between 1990 and 1998. She ran in the 2002 gubernatorial primary election as a
Republican. In 2005 she assumed the position of Yavapai County Supervisor. Also
known for her RE business in Prescott. Carol Springer Sr. had also dated Sam
Steiger for a long while. Sam Steiger is another colorful character of Prescott.
Sam, former mayor is known for things and a popular story of him is for
re-painting the cross walk between the Court House Square and Whiskey Row. As a
result of the May 2, 1986 incident, Sam Steiger was arrested and charged with
criminal damage and disorderly conduct. He
was acquitted by the jury after they had deliberated for 25 minutes. There are lots of Prescott stories to be
told.
Blessings
Pastor Douglas Nicholson / Torah Only/ Newport Beach, CA Last Trumpet Org Ministries
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