Category: Community News

LAKE HAVASU CITY – ASU at Lake Havasu had something unique to share last week at their Bridge to the World celebration. Opening night of the event took place on Wednesday, March 13 and continued on Thursday, March 14 at ASU’s Learning Resource Center. In 2012, ASU at Lake Havasu opened its doors adding educational value to the mini beach town. The university offers a wide range of degrees in science, business, health, and a variety of many other in demand fields. The Bridge to the World celebration was an exhibit that illustrated the school’s diverse students from all over the world….

KINGMAN – The Kingman Police Department, in conjunction with the Western AZ DUI Task Force, will be out providing extra patrol for the St. Patrick’s Day Weekend. St. Patrick’s Day is one of our nation’s most popular holidays, celebrated with festivals, parades, and parties which frequently features themed cocktails and green pints. The amount of alcohol consumed on this holiday is higher than average. St. Patrick’s Day falls on a Sunday this year, and it is anticipated that alcohol consumption will increase both on that day and throughout the weekend. Before you go out to celebrate, decide and designate a…

GOLDEN VALLEY – Join the movement towards sustainable living at the Second Annual Mesquite Weekend in the tri-state area. Come for the speakers, vendors, native food lunch, seed exchange, hula hooping, children’s area, photography contest, and food trucks. The tri-state area is invited to the Second Annual Mesquite Weekend, taking place in Golden Valley on Saturday, March 23 at the Fire Safety Training Station and Sunday, March 24 at Veteran’s Park.  This year’s speakers include Ethnobotanist Carrie Cannon talking about native plants, environmental specialist, water matriarch; permaculture designer Carmen Gonzales talking about water conservation, and Peggy Sue Sorensen of The…

LAKE HAVASU CITY – Believe it or not, there used to be a time when parents of children suffering with mental health had few to no resources at all. The early 1980s was when a loving parent of a child struggling with a mental illness decided to change some of this. That individual was Sue Gilbertson when her son was medically diagnosed for having mental illness.  Gilbertson sought answers with the medical community.  But her investigations fell flat, as the conventional medical community of the era did not have the necessary tools needed to provide assistance.   Soon Gilbertson would come to realize…

It has been some time since I last read the Declaration of Independence. In fact, it has been over 45 years. And even then, it was in the context of my civics courses in high school. So recently, I thought it wise to revisit the text for a refresher. Sure, I am generally familiar with the most iconic lines of the document about certain truths being self-evident, that all people are created equal, that we hold life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as hallmarks of the human experience divinely ordained by a benevolent God, but I had forgotten some…

LAUGHLIN, NEV. –  There was no shortage of winners last month at Laughlin’s Aquarius Casino Resort and Edgewater Casino Resort. The two casinos combined to pay out over $5.8 million to jackpot winners throughout the month of February.  Aquarius paid out $4,458,077 in winnings in February while Edgewater delivered $1,373,610. The grand total of $5,831,687 went to winners across a variety of casino games with the month’s biggest jackpot going to Jeffrery M., a visitor from Wisconsin who struck a whopping $216,040 jackpot while playing a 1 cent Lighting Buffalo Link machine. Since the beginning of the year the two casino resorts have paid out a total of …