Category: Community News

At its September 13 meeting, Kingman Route 66 Rotary Club was honored to have 5495 Rotary District Governor, David Simmer, speak to the club (shown with club president Karen Brown). Simmer noted The Rotary Foundation is among the top-rated service organizations. Charity Navigator, the largest independent evaluator of U.S. charities ranked The Rotary Foundation eighth out of 8,000 charities evaluated in 2019, while Charity Watch gave it an A-plus rating Nov. 2018 and CNBC ranked it as third in its Top 10 Charities Changing the World in 2016. According to Simmer, 785,000,000 world-wide don’t have access to clean water and…

KINGMAN – The Kingman Police Department (KPD) has been awarded accreditation status by the Arizona Association of Chief of Police (AACOP) through its Arizona Law Enforcement Accreditation Program (ALEAP). The award was made on Thursday, September 12, during the AACOP annual conference in Laughlin, Nev. KPD had an on-site assessment on August 5 and 6. The assessors were Deputy Chief Reuben Nuñez from the Marana Police Department and Assistant Chief Bruce Walls from the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. Together, the assessment team verified that the Kingman Police Department was in compliance with all applicable standards. During the accreditation ceremony in…

The Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona has created a $50,000 endowment at Northern Arizona University (NAU) for the preservation and promotion of Arizona Route 66 history. The Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona’s mission is to preserve, promote, and protect Route 66 in Arizona, so it was a natural fit for the Association to create an endowment at NAU’s Cline Library to help preserve Route 66 history. Working together with archivists from the Cline Library, the association donated their historical records to be archived in 2017. As the first Route 66 Association in the country, they wanted the documents,…