Category: Community News

Are vaping products and e-cigs risk-free? Do they all contain highly addictive nicotine? Is vaping a proven method for quitting tobacco? Does nicotine affect the development and functioning of a young brain? Can you feel assured that the contents of a vaping device are safe? What’s the bottom line? These are just a few of the many questions one should be asking before flirting with just another potentially, highly dangerous and addictive device. Get the facts! Come hear Dean Wenrich, a Community Health Educator from the Mohave County Health Department’s Tobacco Use Prevention Program, talk about this relatively new phenomenon….

A Lake Havasu City woman fell to her death while hiking at Yosemite National Park last Thursday, Sept. 5. The victim is identified as Danielle Burnett, 29. Yosemite National Park public affairs officer Scott Gediman said the incident occurred just before noon when Burnett fell from cables at a popular climbing spot known as the Half Dome. “She fell over 500 feet down steep, rocky terrain and was deceased when Park Rangers arrived on scene,” Gediman said. The rock formation rises to an elevation of 8,844 feet. Visitors use cables fixed to bolts in the sheer rock face to reach…