Category: Community News

KINGMAN – The Mohave County Animal Shelter will be at First Friday this October 4 with Dogs for adoption. Large dogs one year and over and over 30 pounds are $50. Smaller dogs and dogs under one year are $125. Each dog is spayed or neutered, microchipped, up to date on vaccines and comes with a free vet visit at adopter’s choice of any veterinarian in Kingman. The animal shelter staff will also be at Rt 66 Rotary’s Octoberfest at Metcalfe Park on from 3 to 7 p.m. selling pet related items and raffle tickets for pet related prizes and…

The topic of Kingman Route 66 Rotary Club’s September 27 meeting was Route 66 Street Drags, presented by Brian Devincenzi/COO/Executive Producer of the event (shown with club president Karen Brown). Three hundred cars will vie for the title in nine classes over this three-day event October 25 through 27. This will be the first-ever legal street drag race of this size to be run on Route 66 anywhere in the country. For details, log on to www.RT66streetdrags.com or call 530-521-4016.

BULLHEAD CITY – When Mohave High School opened its doors in September 1969, the Billboard number one songs were the Rolling Stones’ “Honky Tonk Women” and the Archies’ “Sugar, Sugar.”  The graduates in the first Class of 1970 nine months later were listening to the Guess Who’s “American Woman” and Ray Stevens’ “Everything is Beautiful.” The diversity in music during the 1960s and 1970s will be performed Wednesday night, October 2, at 7:00 p.m. when Mohave’s choirs present “Fever,” an eclectic collection of well-known songs and hidden gems as part of the high school’s ongoing 50th anniversary celebration. “Our vision…