Military honored
Dear Editor, To those who have fought and those who are fighting, we admire your courage and appreciate your sacrifices. We salute you, honor you and thank you. Kim R. Gaines Valle Vista
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Your house and building financial security
Dear Editor, As we approach Memorial Day, give thanks for our soldiers who gave and are giving sacrificially for our freedom. One of the freedoms we enjoy is the freedom to own a house. The greatest asset of most people is the roof over their heads. Your house may be worth more than all of your cash, savings accounts and in some cases retirement funds combined. If your house is paid for then congratulations to you. You have achieved a beautiful piece of the American dream. When I was 26 years old, I bought a house on a land contract….
KRMC’s Joshua Tree Pediatrics recognized for childhood vaccination rate
KINGMAN –The Arizona Partnership for Immunization (TAPI) has honored KRMC’s Joshua Tree Pediatrics with two awards in recognition of the practice’s immunization success. On April 28, Joshua Tree Pediatrics was presented with a Daniel T. Cloud award for their toddler vaccination rate – 87% of toddler patients completed their vaccination series with the practice in the previous year. Included in the toddler vaccine series are immunizations against hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis (DTaP), haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), polio, rotavirus, pneumococcal, measles, mumps, rubella (MMR), varicella (chickenpox), and hepatitis A. “Joshua Tree has received this award in years past…
SONIC Drive-In donates $2,957 to Kingman teachers
To honor the creative efforts teachers have made to maneuver their ever-shifting learning environments and keep students engaged this past year, SONIC® Drive-In donated $1.5 million to teacher requests on national education nonprofit site DonorsChoose on Teacher Appreciation Day, May 4. As part of SONIC’s ongoing Limeades for Learning initiative, the $1.5 million donation helped fund more than 7,000 teacher requests across the country in need of critical resources, including two teachers in Kingman, Ariz., who received a combined donation of $2,957.00. On Teacher Appreciation Day, the brand matched 50 percent of each donation made to all teacher requests on DonorsChoose. In Kingman, the following teachers at…
Valley View Wound Care Unit opens
The Bullhead Area Chamber of Commerce helped celebrate the grand opening of Valley View’s Wound Care Unit in Fort Mohave last week. Valley View Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center provides specialized treatment for chronic or non-healing wounds, which can lead to lower quality of life and sometimes amputation. Among those attending and pictured are Wound Care Market Program Director Joely Fish, Chamber Ambassadors, Board Members, and staff including Ellen Brown, Terri Sponder, Juan Lizarraga, Nicole Diaz, Patty Stewlow, Melody DuMouchel, Tristan Johnson, Yvette Pursley, Todd Levitt, John Hassett, Katrina Faulks, and Mary Schramm. Also pictured are Andrea Head, Jill Adison,…
Typical GOP politicians are like used car salesman
Dear Editor, GOP politicians today are like fast talking used car salesmen, or crybabies who sensationalize stories and throw tantrums waving their hands around to get their audience pumped up. They believe that by parroting hackneyed talking points, this somehow makes them attractive to GOP voters. It doesn’t, as can be seen with the case of Liz Cheney and countless other GOP politicians that have opposed Trump and his American agenda. With basic GOP parrots, we see a lack of critical thinking, a lazy work ethic, and a complete lack of awareness, as far as what Republican voters want. They…
