Category: Community News

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 …

LAKE HAVASU CITY – The London Bridge Republican Women’s dinner will be held Monday, April 1, Shugrues Bridgeview Room. Check in is at 5 p.m. with dinner and the meeting at 6 p.m. Cost is $25 cash or check at the door. This month’s guest speaker is Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, who is running for U.S. Senate. RSVP to Marilou at 928-453-0956 by noon on Friday, March 29. Reservations are required for attendance