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Several years ago, while camping in the Kaibab Forest, my wife Lynda and I, tried our hand at panning for gold with dirt we had brought with us. With all the necessary tools at hand, we sat for hours swishing the water carefully revealing tiny flakes of gold. To our delight we also found several tiny nuggets. We picked up each nugget and flake with tweezers and put them in a small glass bottle. The next time we were near the gold prospector’s store we stopped and had the gold weighed and it was valued at $9.60. Hardly a treasure…

BULLHEAD CITY – The Bullhead City Fire Department (BHCFD) recently implemented a Fire Safety coloring contest with the local school district. All fifth and sixth grade students from the Bullhead Middle School and Mohave Accelerated Learning Center (MALC) were encouraged to design a safety picture and message. Each year the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) creates a theme for Fire Prevention Week. The 2019 theme “Not Every Hero Wears a Cape. Plan and Practice Your Escape!”, giving students a foundation to create their safety messages. Members from the Community Risk Reduction Division collected the entries and selected two winners. Their…

KINGMAN – Kingman Center For The Arts is pleased to announce the two new schools that have been selected to participate in the 2020 Disney Musicals in Schools program. The program is an initiative developed by Disney Theatrical Productions to create sustainable theater programs in under-resourced elementary schools. The two schools are a part of Kingman Unified school district and the Arizona Interscholastic Association. The two schools include: Black Mountain Elementary School in Golden Valley and Kingman Academy Of Learning Intermediate in Kingman. The selected schools began a 17-week musical theater residency in September 2019. Each school will receive performance…