928.910.2307
Visit Western Heritage Center
  • Home
  • The Center
    • Exhibits
    • Mercantile
    • Volunteer
    • Press
    • Endorsements
    • Photo Gallery >
      • Events
      • Exhibits
      • Members
      • Pre-Opening
      • Mercantile
      • Tours
      • Volunteers
  • Foundation
    • Board
    • Annual Banquet >
      • Banquet & Scholarship Sponsorship
    • Casino Night
    • Education Outreach
    • Accomplishments
    • Scholarship >
      • Scholarship Application
    • Advisors
  • Scholarship
  • Heritage Keepers
    • Places to Go
    • People to See
    • Organizations
    • Did you Know?
    • Awardees
    • Website Application
  • Calendar
  • Support
    • Donations >
      • Donors
    • Mercantile
    • Volunteer
  • YouTube
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Home
  • The Center
    • Exhibits
    • Mercantile
    • Volunteer
    • Press
    • Endorsements
    • Photo Gallery >
      • Events
      • Exhibits
      • Members
      • Pre-Opening
      • Mercantile
      • Tours
      • Volunteers
  • Foundation
    • Board
    • Annual Banquet >
      • Banquet & Scholarship Sponsorship
    • Casino Night
    • Education Outreach
    • Accomplishments
    • Scholarship >
      • Scholarship Application
    • Advisors
  • Scholarship
  • Heritage Keepers
    • Places to Go
    • People to See
    • Organizations
    • Did you Know?
    • Awardees
    • Website Application
  • Calendar
  • Support
    • Donations >
      • Donors
    • Mercantile
    • Volunteer
  • YouTube
  • Blog
  • Contact

Annual Banquet
​November 5, 2022

Picture
Since 2013, the Prescott Western Heritage Foundation has hosted an annual banquet to entertain guests and recognize outstanding western "heritage keepers", and award scholarships to youth who are pursing education in preserving and supporting our western heritage.  We greatly appreciate the generous banquet sponsors who help make this event happen, and raise funds to support our mission.  Please join us in celebrating these individuals and organizations!  

This year, our Foundation’s fundraising event will be open to everyone interested in preserving & promoting our western heritage. This event has become the largest formal sit down banquet in Northern and Central Arizona for the western and historical community, and for those who support our Foundation’s mission.

Please join our fine sponsors for the next annual banquet. 

Review Sponsorship Opportunities

2021

November 6, 2021 at the Prescott Resort


2020

November 7, 2020 REGRETFULLY CANCELLED


2019

November 2, 2019 at the Prescott Resort

Banquet Sponsors

Residence Inn by Marriott
Springhill Suites Marriott

​Barrett Propane
Lori & Ed Gaucher
​Diane & Bob Greninger
Black Arrow
Victor R Perebom, CPA
Hotel St. Michael
Tour Prescott
Back Alley Wine Bar
Broken Horn D Ranch
Allegra
Diamond D Ranchwear
​Guidance Aviation

​The Club at Prescott Lakes
USA Real Estate & Property Management LLC
Augie's
APS
Prescott Frontier Days World's Oldest Rodeo
Karen Clarkson
El Gato Azul World Bistro
Raskin's Jewelers
Fancy That!
​Vera and Ed Williams
Rox Media Group
Prescott Living Magazine
​Prescott Now!

Banquet Highlights

WESTERN "HERITAGE KEEPER" AWARDEES
  • Desert Caballeros Western Museum
  • Kathy McCraine
"HERITAGE KEEPER" SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS, sponsored by Roxie Webb Securities Management, Inc. AND Sandi and Craig Brown
  • Rocky Rodriguez​
  • Shayla Murdock
Read More about Awardees

2018

September 29, 2018 at the Prescott Resort

Picture

Banquet Highlights

WESTERN "HERITAGE KEEPER" AWARDEE
  • Bill Otwell
"HERITAGE KEEPER" SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
  • Logan Arnold Bates​
  • Kendyll Mae Tucker
Read More about Awardees

2018 Banquet Photo Gallery

Click any image to view it full size.

2017

$1000+ Presenting Sponsors

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture

USA Real Estate & Property Management

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture

SCHOLARSHIP SPONSORS

OneAZ Credit Union
Dr. Ted & Margarita Wickstrom

OTHER SPONSORS

​SpringHill Suites by Marriott (Prescott)
Hamada Wealth Management Group, LLC
Realty Executives, Northern Arizona
Marty & Jerry Borgelt
Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering
Black Arrow
Guild Mortgage, The Riggs Team
Broken Horn D Ranch
Barrett Propane
National Bank Of Arizona
Lori & Ed Gaucher
Karen Clarkson
Diane & Bob Greninger
Vic Pereboom
Hotel St. Michael

Banquet Highlights

October 28, 2017 at the Prescott Resort
​
WESTERN "HERITAGE KEEPER" AWARDEES
  • Melissa Ruffner
  • Smoki Museum
"HERITAGE KEEPER" SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
  • J.C. Mortensen, sponsored by Dr. Ted & Margarita Wickstrom
  • Kiva Keith, sponsored by OneAZ Credit Union
SPECIAL APPRECIATION AWARD presented to Ann Atkinson for her enthusiastic, professional and tireless efforts
in the creation of the Foundation’s acclaimed, new website.

ENTERTAINMENT
Sugar and the Mint, featuring THREE current and past scholarship recipients.
Read More about Awardees

2017 Banquet Photo Gallery

Click any image to view it full size.
2017 Heritage Keeper Awardee Melissa Ruffner
2017 Heritage Keeper Awardee Melissa Ruffner
2017 Heritage Keeper Awardee: Smoki Museum, accepted by Cindy Gresser, Executive Director
2017 Heritage Keeper Scholarship Recipient J.C. Mortensen
2017 Heritage Keeper Scholarship Recipient J.C. Mortensen, at his best in bull riding
2017 Heritage Keeper Scholarship Recipient Kiva Keith
2017 Heritage Keeper Scholarship Recipient Kiva Keith on the violin/fiddle
Ann Atkinson, Dennis Gallagher, Robert Greninger and Jim Buchanan with the website appreciation award
Award verbiage: IN APPRECIATION The Prescott Western Heritage Foundation offers its sincerest appreciation to ANN ATKINSON for her enthusiastic, professional and tireless efforts in the creation of the Foundation’s acclaimed, new website. Ann’s creativity, guidance, good humor and wonderful baked goods helped make the task a productive and pleasant experience for all those involved. We couldn’t have done it without her. Thank you, Ann. The Board of Directors, Prescott Western Heritage Foundation, Inc. October 28, 2017
Entertainment by the local band "Sugar and the Mint", featuring 3 current and past scholarship recipients
Entertainment by the local band "Sugar and the Mint", featuring 3 current and past scholarship recipients
Banquet guests at the Prescott Resort
Banquet guests at the Prescott Resort
Banquet guests at the Prescott Resort
Melissa Ruffner shares tales from Prescott's past
2017 "Heritage Keeper" scholarship recipient J.C. Mortensen with his family
Board member Karen Clarkson greets Suzanne Robb
Banquet Chair Amoré Cianciola with Foundation Founder and President Dennis Gallagher
Board member Marty Borgelt with her husband Jerry
David and Melissa
Dr and Mrs Wickstrom, sponsors of a 2017 "Heritage Keeper" Scholarship
Betsy Deibel visits with a friend
Manuel Lucero IV, Assistant Director for the Smoki Musem, with his wife
Tommy and Joan Meredith
Jim and Barb Buchanan
Rodeo Royalty with "Heritage Keeper" Melissa Ruffner
Suzanne and James Robb
The Baades
Jim and Joy Whiting
Lori Gaucher with her husband
Billie Orr, Board Member and Prescott City Council Member
Brent and Jeanne
Mayor and Mrs Oberg
John and Margitta
Dave Pawel and Kim McElroy

2016

The 4th annual banquet was held at the Hotel St. Michael in downtown Prescott.

2016 Banquet Photo Gallery

Please click on any photo to view full size.
Vertical Divider

Banquet Highlights

WESTERN "HERITAGE KEEPER" AWARDEES
  • Bruce Fee
  • Sharlot Hall Museum
SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
  • Laramie Mahan, sponsored by Harold James Family Trust
  • Glory Glidden, sponsored by OneAZ Credit Union

ENTERTAINMENT
Doug Figgs, ​Western Music Association 2015 Songwriter and Song of the Year, along with past scholarship recipient "Bix" Glidden.
Read More about Awardees
Picture
Grateful for the generosity that made 2016 a great success! The Daily Courier 12/3/16
Vertical Divider

2015

The 3rd annual Western Heritage Foundation Recognition Dinner and Concert was held in the Plaza View Ballroom.
Read More

Western "Heritage Keeper" Awardees

Picture
Picture
Mona Lange-McCroskey
Prescott Corral of Westerners
Vertical Divider

Western "Heritage Keeper" Scholarship Awardees

Picture
Johan "Bix" Glidden
Picture
Danya Weir
Vertical Divider

2014

The second annual Western Heritage Recognition Dinner and Concert was another sold out affair at the Hotel St. Michael Ballroom.  
​The 2014 "Heritage Keeper" Awardees were:
  ★ Prescott Frontier Days World's Oldest Rodeo®​ ~ the organization and all of the volunteers who have kept this great tradition alive for over 127 years... website
  ★ Elisabeth Ruffner ~ spirit of volunteerism and advocacy for historic preservation
  ★ Bill Nebeker ~ lifelong contribution to western art through his bronze sculptures... website

Some of the folks and fun at the 2014 Award Dinner | Click any photo to view full size.

2013

The Prescott Western Heritage Foundation's Inaugural Western Heritage Recognition Dinner and Concert was sold out due to the support of western business owners, ranchers, western artists, the rodeo, and many other organizations that help preserve and promote our western heritage. This invitation only event was held in the Hotel St. Michael's Ballroom on Historic Whiskey Row.
Picture
Jim Buchanan, Vice President of the Prescott Western Heritage Foundation recognizing Gail Steiger
Those recognized this year include Gail Steiger, for entertaining and educating the public, locally and internationally, about cowboy and ranch life in the American West. Nancy Burgess, was recognized for the preservation of Prescott's historic buildings and our western heritage through her research, writing, and publications. The Yavapai Cowbelles were recognized for the organization's preservation of ranch life, and for their student scholarship program funded by their Quilt raffle ticket sales each year. Those recognized have made, and continue to make, significant contributions to the preservation of our history.
 
Entertainment included Gail Steiger, past recipient of the Gail Gardner award, and Mike Dunn, past recipient of the Gail Gardner and Will Rogers awards. Belinda Gail, the Western Music Association's Female Performer of the Year in 2012 was the headliner for the evening. ​
Picture
Another highlight of the evening was the unveiling of local western artist Steve Atkinson's painting of Tom Mix driving through the Granite Dells in his '37 Cord Phaeton Convertible. Bob White, of Cave Creek, Arizona purchased the painting of the beautifully restored automobile. The car and it's history was a big hit when displayed in Prescott in mid-September. Proceeds from the signed "art poster" go to the Prescott Western Heritage Foundation.

EDUCATE  ★  CELEBRATE  ★  PRESERVE  ★  PROMOTE

Visit the Western Heritage Center

156 C South Montezuma | Prescott, Arizona
​(Historic Whiskey Row)
Wednesday - Saturday 10:30 - 4:30
​Sunday 12 noon - 4
928.910.2307 
​Contact Us
Plan your Visit
Picture
Picture
Please click to donate. Thank you!
Copyright 2017 - 2023 Prescott Western Heritage Foundation, Inc.
Site by Atkinson Studios