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If you are or have been a victim of domestic violence, you have to the opportunity to attend a free self defense seminar sponsored by Kingman Force on Force on Sunday, June 16 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This seminar will cover mental and physical self-defense techniques, how to fight back using your body as a weapon, how to ask for help and to survive physically and mentally violent attacks. Seating is limited and reserved to domestic violence victims and survivors only. To reserve seating email info@kingmanforceonforce.com or call 928-263-0071.

The Luv of Paws Domestic Animal Rescue & Sanctuary will be hosting a Father’s Day Adoption Event on Sunday, June 16 from noon to 4 p.m. at the Kingman Petco. All of the dogs and cats are spayed or neutered and vaccinated. An adoption application, including a home check and an adoption fee apply. For information contact Cherie DaLynn at 928-897-7304.

Quagga mussels have infested the southwestern United States after being first identified in Lake Mead in 2007. Since then the species has spread throughout the Colorado River, from Lake Powell to Imperial Dam. To help inform control and management strategies, Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently published a scientific paper “Patterns of Genetic Structure Among Invasive Southwestern United States Quagga Mussel (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) Populations” in The Southwestern Naturalist.  “The intended results of control measures may be impacted by the information learned from this study on population genetic structure,” co-author Sherri Pucherelli said. “While we learned a…