Y1 a Special Publication Of

Y1 A special publication of the Y2 Y3 2 • Yuma’s Best 2018 Yuma’s Best 2018 • 3 Six Years In A Row! Thank you Yuma for Voting us Yuma’s Best for 2018 This year, we’re celebrating our 21st anniversary and Voting closed at the end of December, and this year’s the art of being the best of Yuma. list of over 160 winners reflects just how unique and We’re asking readers to help us celebrate the vibrant amazing our community is. businesses that make this community so amazing! This year, four businesses are celebrating their 21st win in a row: Goldsboro Bakery (Best Bakery), Stan’s Every year, readers of the Yuma Sun cast their vote Grocery (Best Breakfast Burrito), Julieanna’s Patio for Yuma’s Best. Cafe (Best Romantic Dining), and Fry’s Food Store This year, there were 12 categories: Entertainment, (Best Grocery Store). What a remarkable achieve- Professional Services, Food & Restaurants, Healthy ment! Living, Home Services, Real Estate Services, Fashion It’s amazing to see the passion people have for their & Style, Shopping, Vehicles, Business Services, Spirits favorite businesses and organizations, as well as the & Nightlife, and Sports & Recreation. pride the winning establishments have as they exhibit It’s a contest that we take seriously, monitoring the their honors. ballot box to ensure no one is stuffing the box, which To each winner:, whether it’s their first victory or in turn helps the results become an accurate reflection their 21st, congratulations! These winners exemplify of our community. Yuma’s Best in 2018! Table of Contents 31 51 67 79 Entertainment Healthy Living Fashion & Style Business Services 35 57 69 81 Professional Services Home Services Shopping Sports & Recreation 41 65 75 83 165889 Food & Restaurants Real Estate Services Vehicles Spirits & Nightlife Y4 Y5 4 • Yuma’s Best 2018 Yuma’s Best 2018 • 5 PAID ADVERTISING the appearance of the building. outlet for my extension cord, he [Paul] “That was a really busy day for wasn’t coming to the door and finally us. We had half of our team scraping showed up and I saw that his ankle was and painting, and the other half was squirting blood,” said Cox. collecting coats for the coat drive “He started to faint, I caught him and on the other side of town,” Gilmore sat him down in the chair,” said Cox. said. “We believe in strengthening our Thinking quickly, Cox grabbed his first community through volunteering.” aid kit from the Quick van, wrapped During the Crossroads Mission his ankle, and applied pressure while annual coat drive, the company calling 911. donated a truck and trailer for the day Those actions saved De Lintt’s life. to help store and deliver the collected Cox’s previous years serving in the coats and blankets. Marine Corps for four years could have One of the highlights for the been a major factor in Paul’s survival. company this year was a thank you After the incident, De Lintt fully lunch from a customer, Paul De recovered and wanted to personally Lintt. De Lintt, a military veteran, For Quick Refrigeration, 2018 was a the company volunteered to collect injured himself while one of Quick thank the man responsible for saving year for giving back to the community. coats for Crossroads Mission’s annual Refrigeration technicians was making his life. From helping local schools to their coat drive and painted the Head Start repairs on his AC system. “I am here to say thank you, literally, involvement with many local charities, Helping Hands Center as part of a this air conditioning company believes company wide day of service. great communities are built from “Before our company Christmas volunteering and giving back. party we wanted to come together “Our company has deep roots in as a team and participate in several the Yuma community,” said Jimmy community service projects,” Gilmore Gilmore, Marketing Manager for said. Quick Refrigeration. “When we find a The Head Start school had several group or organization that needs help, areas of their building with faded we spring into action.” and chipped paint. The Quick team This spirit of giving flows from the members spent the day scraping and ownership of the company and is a painting which drastically improved major part of the company’s culture. About seven years ago, Frank Gilmore, Owner of Quick Refrigeration, took it upon himself to lend a hand, when I.C. School began having frequent cooling issues in several of its facilities. Since then the company has always made itself It was a routine call for technician for saving my life,” De Lintt said. available to help keep the school and Kyle Cox before De Lintt needed his Thankful for the actions taken that day, church cool. help. De Lintt was suffering from an Paul had Olive Garden catered for the “My father (Frank) realized they accidental puncture wound. Cox’s entire Quick Refrigeration team. needed help and he did not hesitate to quick thinking and previous experience It was a small token of gratitude De volunteer,” said Jimmy Gilmore. “Even in the military saved the life of this Lintt could do for the man that was to this day he makes himself available customer and fellow veteran. able to step in when he was nearly to keep them cooling.” “I was up on the roof and I came unconscious, a move that saved his In addition to helping the school, down to look for a power supply life. Y6 Y7 6 • Yuma’s Best 2018 Yuma’s Best 2018 • 7 PAID ADVERTISING Academy Mortgage places value on military, client relationships While Academy Mortgage is Brain Injury, Post Traumatic Stress the local branch which includes nine one of the nation’s largest mortgage Disorder, chronic pain as well as loan officers as well as support staff. lenders, what sets the company apart addiction and insomnia, according A vital part of service at the Yuma is the emphasis the business places to the organization’s website. branch, he noted, is that every step on certain values. While Academy Mortgage places of the mortgage loan transaction, Thus, Yuma’s Academy Mortgage great value on the military, Egeberg which includes processing, Derek Egeberg Rosa Castillo branch manager Derek Egeberg noted that the company is the largest underwriting, closing and funding, Branch Manager Loan Officer NMLS 180899 NMLS 799138 notes that the local branch greatly privately held lender conducting is handled locally. appreciates the nation’s armed mortgages for the Federal Housing “One of the things I am proudest forces. Administration (FHA) in the of is we are the only company in “Yuma is a military town but country. town that has our own underwriter this isn’t why we do it,” Egeberg “Most first time buyers put little on staff in the building,” Egeberg said. “We are hyperfocused on the to no money down,” he said. “FHA said. “I’d rather have local people Thank You For Choosing Us! military men and women-both is a three and a half percent down, active duty and those who have government insured loan program. making local decisions.” Along with keeping decisions retired. I believe everybody should It’s the normal, basic loan most first Ray Ochoa Bryan Summers local, Egeberg said the team at Sr. Loan Officer Loan Officer get a great deal and be treated time home buyers use.” NMLS 214114 NMLS 1652359 honestly and ethically. However, In 2017 alone, Egeberg said Academy Mortgage creates long- there is a group that I think deserves Academy Mortgage completed lasting relationships with their even more care and compassion and $9.9 billion worth of mortgages clients. Yuma’s Best 2018 that is the military men and women. nationwide. “For us, it’s really about the Proudly Supports “We do a lot of VA loans,” he Additionally, Academy Mortgage continued relationship,” he said. added. “Most of these men and strives to bring sustainable home “Most lenders are transaction- women get horrible advice with ownerships to clients. based where you go to a lender to other lenders. They are told the “Every client asks ‘Hey, how get a service and you are done. We Tory Valencia Amber Guzman wrong thing. For Academy here, it’s much can I qualify for?’” Egeberg want to befriend and continue that Loan Officer Loan Officer one of our kind of mantras, if you said. “Everyone wants to know relationship long after.” NMLS 1785487 NMLS 1339326 will, that these men and women what’s the maximum they can buy. Egeberg continued to say that are willing to take a bullet for what One of the things that we’ve done is this past November, for instance, really could be $30,000 a year and we’ve kind of taught our staff here the Yuma branch held a client we better go out of our way to do that the question isn’t how much can appreciation party with 558 in THANK YOU TO OUR MILITARY MEN & WOMEN right by them.” you qualify for, it’s how much you attendance. He also reminisced Being recognized as Yuma’s Best, can afford. We want to make sure how he is now servicing the sons Egeberg said, is an honor for the clients can still pay their bills and and daughters of clients whom he local branch that strives to place buy groceries.” conducted loans for when he first Eli Romero Shelbie Harris high value on men and women of As with all Academy Mortgage Loan Officer Loan Officer started at Academy Mortgage. NMLS 1455034 NMLS 1769650 the armed forces.

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