Category: Community News

LAKE HAVASU CITY – The Annual River Riders Toy Run is hitting the road this Sunday, December 1, from Parker to Lake Havasu City at approximately 12:30 p.m. This charitable ride, which brings thousands of toys to children in need in Lake Havasu City, follows the same route as previous years – traveling on residential streets throughout the city. The ride, expected to bring more than 2,000 toy-toting bikers to the area, means various streets within the city are closed to normal traffic during the procession, including McCulloch Boulevard South, Acoma Boulevard, Mesquite Avenue, Swanson Avenue, as well as Jamaica…

Dear Editor, On Thursday, November 21, City of Kingman Mayor Jen Miles and the Kingman Clean City Commission Chairperson Clarence C. Russell awarded certificates and prizes to the winning students of the 2019 American Recycles Day Poster and Poem/Essay Contest at the Kingman Council Chamber. The Kingman Clean City Commission thanks the nine local schools and clubs participating from 29 teachers, with 672 entries for judging from pre-schoolers to sixth graders. The commission also recognized these teachers who encouraged their students to learn about recycling by submitting a poster or an essay/poem entry: From KAOL Primary: Andrade, Brann, Delgado, Frisby,…

BULLHEAD CITY – Local residents and visitors alike will enjoy enhanced recreational opportunities when the Arizona section of the Colorado River Heritage Trail opens next fall in Bullhead City. A groundbreaking ceremony was held Friday, November 22 for initial construction of the Trail that will stretch some five miles south from Davis Dam to Davis Camp, operated by Mohave County, and further south to the Colorado River Bridge on SR 95. The portion of the trail that loops north from the Bridge back to Davis Dam along the Nevada side of the River opened in July, 2012. Ceremony speakers said…

Speaking at Kingman Route 66 Rotary Club’s November 22 meeting was Mohave County Community Health Educator Specialist Senior Supervisor and Rotarian Susan Williams (shown with club president Karen Brown). Williams presented a power point presentation on tobacco use. Between 1965 and 2018 tobacco use in the U.S. dropped from 42% to 13.7% while in Mohave County it dropped from 29% in 2011 to 20% in 2018. E-cigarette use among high school students surged from 11.7% in 2017 to 20.8% in 2018. According to the Center for Disease Control as of 11-20-19: nationwide 2,290 cases of e-cigarette or vaping products use…