BULLHEAD CITY – Catholic Charities Community Services, BHHS Legacy Foundation, and Food for Families recently partnered to distribute 600 Thanksgiving meal baskets for families in need in Bullhead City. The baskets provided families with a complete Thanksgiving dinner, including turkey, gravy, canned corn, green beans, cranberries, potatoes, stuffing, rolls and pie.  On Monday, November 13 from 9 a.m. to noon, staff and volunteers assembled the baskets, with families receiving the baskets on Nov. 16.   For those facing food insecurity, a Thanksgiving Day meal was also served at the BHHS Legacy Foundation Christine Stamper Center for Help & Hope, operated by…

LAKE HAVASU CITY – The London Bridge Resort got everyone in the holiday spirit as they lit up Lake Havasu for the 24th Annual Festival of Lights. Festivities began with an annual swim race across the Bridgewater Channel. The race was open to all ages who could compete at flipping the switch for the Festival of Lights.  Third place swimmer won $50 and second place won $100. First place got $250 and was won by 19-year-old Joshua Brandenburg.   One of Santa’s reindeer announced Brandenburg’s win on the London Bridge stage where he flipped the switch and lit up the town, transforming…

Kingman Route 66 Rotary Club and Mohave Community College’s Kingman campus held  joint events November 17. The college’s Pond was reopened and a bench by the pond was dedicated to the late Dan Messersmith. Messersmith was a previous Dean at the college and a long-time member of the Rotary club, as well as having served as Rotary District Governor. Shown with the bench are Rotary Past District Governors Charlie Tegarden and Art Harrington.