Category: Community News

(Editor’s Note: This is a second in the two-part series about lifesaving hiking and desert driving/exploring preparedness presented by Butch Meriwether, a Mohave County resident and photojournalist.) Ninety year-old “snowbird” Jack Bower, from Auburn, Calif., who has a winter home in Golden Valley, knows the need to be prepared. Bower has been exploring and treasure hunting in various areas of the western United States and throughout the world since he was about 17 years old. He recently ventured to Alaska in search for gold. “Besides food and emergency equipment, I always have a couple bottles of water and granola bars…

LAKE HAVASU CITY – A Sunday fire prompted the precautionary evacuation of the VFW Hall and nearby businesses in Lake Havasu City. Fire department personnel responded at 3:20 p.m. to the incident in the 200 block of London Bridge Road. City Manager Jess Knudson said, in a news release, that the fire apparently started in the interior of a vehicle outside the buildings. Flames spread to another vehicle and were threatening the structures, so the buildings were cleared. Crews quickly extinguished the fire and no injuries were reported.

Video of a mustang spinning donuts and performing rolling burnouts on blacktop at the Mohave County Fairgrounds in Kingman was played during Monday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. Some ninety seconds of video showed billowing smoke from burned rubber and sparks flying from the pavement as at least one tire apparently burned off its wheel rim. A second, shorter video showed two vehicles linked by chain engaged in a tug of war inside a fairgrounds building. Board member Buster Johnson said the videos were brought to his attention by another party, triggering concerns about possible liability, public safety and county property…

KINGMAN – Dr. Mangelsdorf’s office is having a car wash fundraiser Saturday, August 10, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. They are using the facility located at 3113 Airway Ave. to wash cars for donations. All donations go towards the Kingman Cancer Care Unit to help cancer victims in Kingman.