Fund provides scholarships for student veterans and their families pursuing life-lifting education and career training at Yavapai Community College
The Prescott Regulators & Their Shady Ladies nonprofit organization recently donated $10,000 to the Yavapai Community College Foundation in support of the Foundation’s Veterans, Military and Family Fund. This is a scholarship fund created for student veterans and their families pursuing life-lifting education and career training at Yavapai Community College. The contribution is the largest to date deposited in the Veterans, Military and Family Fund.
The Prescott Regulators & Their Shady Ladies established the scholarship for veteran students in 2016. “Several of the members of our group themselves are veterans. That’s why we chose to support veterans at Yavapai College,” said Monty Packard, the group’s sergeant of arms.
Scholarship recipient thank-you letters and success stories, which are shared at meetings and functions, are all the reward and inspiration members need, said Paige Phares, the organization’s president. “I know that helps our fundraising.”
The Prescott Regulators & Their Shady Ladies, Inc. are an award winning 501(c)(3) re-enactment group. They are the “Official Old West Ambassadors of Prescott” and for over 12 years have represented Prescott in parades, re-enactments and events around the State of Arizona.
They were chosen by the State of Arizona as one of only three Western re-enactment groups to perform at the State’s Centennial Celebration “BestFest,” both in Prescott and in Phoenix. The organization has been honored by “True West Magazine” as the “Best In The West” re-enactment group twice in the last five years and hosted the “Western Area” of the City’s Sesquicentennial Celebration.