Teen Challenge of Arizona Dinner

May 2, 2008 was a banner day for Teen Challenge of Arizona at the Nautical Inn Convention Center hosted the final fundraiser of the season for the program.

It is a faith-based solution to the drug epidemic in Az. and the US.

 

  

 

There were many dignitaries in attendance from the State and local government, showing their support for this organization and it goals to help people become mentally sound, emotionally balanced, socially adjusted, physically well and spiritually alive through the power of Jesus Christ.

 

  

 

As the quest dined, the State Teen Challenge Choir sang songs and gave testimony as to their deliverance and freedom drug, alcohol, and cigarette addiction in their lives.

 

  

John P. Walters, the White House Drug Czar, said, "We can't just talk about drug abuse prevention and rehabilitation. Teen Challenge is doing the job that others only talk about. Talk is good but more action is required. It is local people, not government that will change our communities. Teen Challenge is a reputable institution that needs to be highlighted as communities try to overcome drug abuse and related violence in their area".

  














One of the ladies from Home of Hope in Casa Grande gives testimony of her deliverance from drugs. The lady on the left is the Director of the Home.

  

You may donated a fully tax deductible gift to them or as part of a sponsorship for someone in the program. We do have local people in the program needing funding.

Call for the names to sponsor at (928) 855-3637.

State Corporate Office for Teen Challenge of Az. is in Tucson. Phone (800) 346-7859.
Web: www.azteenchallenge.org

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  NIGHTTIME STREET RESURFACING

    PROGRAM SCHEDULED TO BEGIN

The Lake Havasu City Public Works Department has announced the Asphalt Pavement Rehabilitation Program will begin the evening of May 12.  This project consists of milling and asphalt resurfacing segments of McCulloch Boulevard on each side of the London Bridge.  There will also be repairs to concrete driveways and sections of curbs and sidewalks within the construction area.  This project will be conducted during nighttime hours to minimize disruption to the local business and to avoid heavy daytime traffic in this area and on the bridge.  The construction work will take place between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.  Traffic controls will be in place; however, traffic flow will be maintained at all times and McCulloch Boulevard will be open to two-way traffic during the daytime hours with no restrictions.  The milling and resurfacing work is expected to be completed over three nights and the concrete work will be completed by the end of the week during regular daytime hours.  Businesses located along these streets will receive a detailed notice in advance of the construction.  Motorists traveling through the construction zone during the nighttime activity can expect temporary delays and possible flagging to direct traffic flows in and around the work zone.  As always, the public is requested to use caution and obey all traffic signs when traveling through construction zones. 

Citizens interested in learning more about this project are invited to an informational open house presented by the Public Works Department in the City Council chambers May 8 at 5:30 p.m.

Contact: Harry Brown, (928) 855-3377

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  Andy Rooney About Women Over 40
In case you missed it on 60 Minutes, this is what Andy Rooney thinks about women over 40: 

  













    60 Minutes Correspondent Andy Rooney (CBS)

As I grow in age, I value women over 40 most of all. Here are just a few reasons why:

A woman over 40 will never wake you in the middle of the night and ask, 'What are you thinking?'  She doesn't care what you think.  If a woman over 40 doesn't want to watch the game, she doesn't sit around whining about it.  She does something she wants to do, and it's usually more interesting.  Women over 40 are dignified. They seldom have a screaming match with you at the opera or in the middle of an expensive restaurant.  Of course, if you deserve it, they won't hesitate to shoot you if they think they can get away with it.  Older women are generous with praise, often undeserved.  They know what it's like to be unappreciated.  Women get psychic as they age.  You never have to confess your sins to a woman over 40. Once you get past a wrinkle or two, a woman over 40 is far sexier than her younger counterpart. Older women are forthright and honest.  They'll tell you right off if you are a jerk if you are acting like one.  You don't ever have to wonder where you stand with her. Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons.  Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal.  For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress.  Ladies, I apologize.

For all those men who say, 'Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?,' here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

Andy Rooney is a really smart guy! 

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            In This Issue
                  Football Camp Sign-up
               New Deputy Sheriff Recuits
                  Missing Persons Search
           News From Around the Country
             Night time Street Resurfacing
          Sara Crabtree Assistance Account
               Search and Rescue Activity
                       Telephone Scam
      Andy Rooney About Women oOver 40
                   Remembering the 60's
          Water Study Legislation-Sen Kyl
             Teen Challenge of Az. Dinner
                 Sheriff Joe Is At It Again
       Police Investigate Weekend Accidents

 Football Camp Signup for Grades 6, 7 & 8

The Lake Havasu City Parks and Recreation Department is offering football camp for athletes in grades 6, 7 & 8.  The camp utilizes non-contact coaching techniques conducted by the Lake Havasu High School Fighting Knights football coaching staff.  Camp is held at the high school football field from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, May 12 through Friday, May 16.  Register now at the Aquatic Center or on site Monday, May 12 (A parent or legal guardian must be present to register).  $20 fee includes LHHS Football T-shirt.  Proceeds benefit the Lake Havasu High School football program.

Contact Janice at Parks and Recreation office 453-8686.

  

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     SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!

You remember Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona, who painted the jail cells pink and made the inmates wear pink prison garb. Well......Oh, there's MUCH more to know about Sheriff Joe!
Maricopa County was spending approx. $18 million dollars a year on stray animals, like cats and dogs. Sheriff Joe offered to take the department over, and the County Supervisors said okay.
The animal shelters are now all staffed and operated by prisoners. They feed and care for the strays. Every animal in his care is taken out and walked twice daily. He now has prisoners who are experts in animal nutrition and behavior. They give great classes for anyone who'd like to adopt an animal. He has literally taken stray dogs off the street, given them to the care of prisoners, and had them place in dog shows.
                           Now for the best part!
His budget for the entire department is now under $3 million. Teresa and I adopted a Weimaraner from a Maricopa County shelter two years ago. He was neutered, and current on all shots, in great health, and even had a microchip inserted the day we got him. Cost us $78.
The prisoners get the benefit of about $0.28 an hour for working, but most would work for free, just to be out of their cells for the day. Most of his budget is for utilities, building maintenance, etc. He pays the prisoners out of the fees collected for adopted animals.

 

I have long wondered when the rest of the country would take a look at the way he runs the jail system, and copy some of his ideas. He has a huge farm, donated to the county years ago, where inmates can work, and they grow most of their own fresh vegetables and food, doing all the work and harvesting by hand. He has a pretty good sized hog farm, which provides meat, and fertilizer. It fertilizes the Christmas tree nursery, where prisoners work, and you can buy a living Christmas tree for $6-$8 for the Holidays, and plant it later. We have six trees in our yard from the Prison.

 

Yup, he was re-elected last year with 83% of the vote.
Now he's in trouble with the ACLU again. He painted all his buses and vehicles with a mural that has a special hotline phone number painted on it, where you can call and report suspected illegal aliens. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement wasn't doing enough in his eyes, so he had 40 deputies trained specifically for enforcing immigration laws, started up his hotline, and bought 4 new buses just for hauling folks back to the border. He's kind of a 'Git-R Dun' kind of Sheriff.
To those of you not familiar with Joe Arpaio, he is the Maricopa County Sheriff in Phoenix, Arizona. And he keeps getting elected over and over, and this is one of the reasons why!
Sheriff Joe Arpaio (In Arizona) who created the ' Tent City Jail'. He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights and cut off all but 'G' movies.

He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects.

Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.

He took away cable TV Until he found out there was A Federal Court Order that required cable TV for jails so he hooked up the cable TV again only let in the Disney channel and the weather channel.

When asked why the weather channel he replied, so they will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.

He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value.

When the inmates complained, he told them, 'This isn't the Ritz/Carlton.....If you don't like it, don't come back.'

He bought Newt Gingrich's lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails.  When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place. 

                     More On The Arizona Sheriff:

With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a Nnew record), the Associated Press Reports:
About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their Government-issued Pink Boxer Shorts.

On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before.

Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks.

'It feels like we are in a furnace,' said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 year. 'It's inhumane.'
Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: 'It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths!'   Way to Go, Sheriff!

Maybe if all prisons were like this one there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should be punished for their crimes, not live in luxury until it's time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves.

 

                    Sheriff Joe for PRESIDENT!

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    Sara Crabtree Assistance Account
I am informed that County Supervisor Buster Johnson and City Manager Richard Kaffenberger have initiated an account at Mohave State Bank to assist the Crabtree family with travel and other expenses related to the illness of 14-year old Sarah Crabtree.  As you may know, Sarah was airlifted to Phoenix suffering complications from Leukemia.  Sarah's father, Bob Crabtree, is a former Lake Havasu City Council member.  Anyone wishing to help should contact any branch of Mohave State Bank.

Thank you, Charlie Cassens

Communications & Intergovernmental Affairs Office
Lake Havasu City, Arizona  928-854-4212

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Remembering the 1960's
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 Search & Rescue West of Lake Havasu
Mohave County Sheriff's Search and Rescue Units were deployed Sunday (5/4) evening due to three subjects lost in the desert.  The reporting party said that they were between two dirt roads and they were lost.
The reporting party further advised that the Ford F150 truck they are traveling in is almost out of gasoline.  Approximately 11:00 p.m., Lake Havasu City Search and Rescue were deployed to conduct a ground search.
At about 3:18 a.m., SAR units located the three subjects approximately 9 miles west of Lake Havasu City.  All subjects were in good health.

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NEWS From Around the Country

Oh say, is that banner made in the U.S.A.?
By Kim Mendelsohn, Special to Stateline.org
Lawmakers in 10 states have taken steps to require that American flags bought with state funds be manufactured in this country. While not all the legislation has passed, one state’s new law even bans the sale of foreign-made American flags in that state.  Read More

 

NV: A divorce is sought by governor of Nevada
By Steve Friess, The New York Times
LAS VEGAS -Gov. Jim Gibbons of Nevada, whose marital problems have been a titillating sideshow to the state's more serious budget problems, filed for divorce on Friday, starting a legal battle to force his wife of 24 years to vacate the governor's mansion.  Read More

 

California may run out of cash by August
By Judy Lin, The Sacramento Bee (registration)
California is facing a cash crisis this summer, putting pressure on elected officials to submit an on-time state budget or risk asking taxpayers to pay a premium on loans.  Read More

 

Silver Alert helps rescue lost seniors
By Christine Vestal, Stateline.org Staff Writer
When an elderly person with dementia is lost, seven states can trigger a Silver Alert to let the community know. Proposals in Congress would expand the successful missing persons program to all 50 states.  Read More

 

Oil prices help Texas rake in $10.7 billion surplus
By Clay Robison, The Houston Chronicle (registration)
The nation may be on the verge of a recession, but the Texas economy is doing well enough for Comptroller Susan Combs to predict Tuesday that the Legislature will have a $10.7 billion surplus when it convenes in January.  Read More

 

AZ: Legislator wants eased rules on using teen labor
By Howard Fischer, Arizona Daily Star (Tucson) (registration)
State lawmakers are weighing whether to let teens perform jobs now considered too hazardous for them under state law as one answer to the complaints of a labor shortage. Read More

 

MD: Islamic divorce ruled not valid in Maryland
By Ruben Castaneda, The Washington Post (registration)
After his wife of more than two decades filed for divorce in Montgomery County Circuit Court, Irfan Aleem responded in writing in 2003, and not just in court.  Read More

 

NM: N.M. governor says border security is improving
By The Associated Press, USA Today
CHIHUAHUA, Mexico -New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said Wednesday that he has seen an improvement in security along the U.S.-Mexico border.  Read More

 

MI: No benefits for gay partners, court says
By Dawson Bell, Detroit Free Press
Public employers are barred from providing health care benefits to the partners of gay and lesbian employees, a divided Michigan Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday.  Read More

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       TELEPHONE SCAM WARNING 
Mohave County Sheriff's Office is warning the public regarding a telephone scam where senior citizens may be the target.  Utilizing caller ID, the company is identified as International Gateway.  The caller is offering seniors free medical cards.  At some point during the conversation, the caller asks the senior person for personal and bank account information. 
This incident is believed to be an attempted scam and the Sheriff's Office would like to caution residents.  Always be cautious when it comes to giving personal information.   If you suspect fraud, contact your local law enforcement office.

 

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    Police Investigate Weekend Accidents

Lake Havasu City Police continue to investigate two accidents which occurred Sat. May 3 and Sunday May 4.

On Saturday May 3, at approximately 1:10 a.m., 16-year old Sean May was driving a 2001 Dodge pickup truck westbound on Avalon Avenue at approximately 55 miles per hour when he failed to negotiate a left hand curve in the road, lost control of the vehicle and slid sideways into a private driveway in the 1600 block of Avalon.  The suspect vehicle struck two vehicles parked in the driveway, pushing them into the occupied residence causing substantial damage to the structure and both vehicles.

May and his passenger, 20-year old Jason Alegre, sustained minor injuries and were treated and released from Havasu Regional Medical Center.  No one inside the residence was injured. Alcohol and speed are believed to be factors in this accident.

Then on Sunday May 4, at approximately 6:50 p.m., 37-year old Eric Norton was driving his 2003 GMC pickup truck northbound in the 2800 block of South Jamaica Blvd when he drove left of the centerline and over the west curb onto the sidewalk.  The vehicle continued northbound, crossing the intersection of S. Jamaica and Via Del Lago before striking a block wall in the 2800 block of Jamaica.  Norton suffered internal injuries when he was partially ejected as the vehicle rolled onto its side.

Norton was air-lifted directly from the scene to Sunrise Medical Center in Las Vegas where he currently listed in critical but stable condition.  Alcohol may have been a factor in this accident and the investigation is continuing.

Contact: Lieutenant Richie Sloma 928-680-5420

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       New Deputy Sheriff Recruits

Mohave County Sheriff's Personnel have selected four Deputy Sheriff Recruits to send through the Central Arizona Regional Law Officer Training Academy in Casa Grande beginning May 18, 2008.  These recruits were required to participate in a 2 day testing process, which included a written examination, a physical agility test and an interview before a three-member panel.
The selected recruits will undergo 17 weeks of military structure law enforcement training that includes academics, physical agility exercises, and other various training. 
The next Deputy Sheriff Recruit testing process is scheduled for June 2-3, 2008; anyone interested should contact the MCSO at (928) 753-0753 or (800) 522-4312. 

  

Deputy Sheriff Recruits (pictured left to right):
Daniel Cashman, William Poe, Steve Portillo and Lee Ross.

Trish Carter; Public Information Specialist
Mohave County Sheriff's Office (928) 753-0755
600 W. Beale Street, Kingman, AZ. 86401
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   Search and Rescue in Arizona Strip
Mohave County Sheriff's Search and Rescue Units were deployed Sunday (5/4) evening due to a missing hiker in the desert.  The reporting party said that he was hiking with a female friend and they had become separated.  The reporting party further said that he returned to their camp site at Poverty Mountain, approximately 70 miles south of St. George in the Arizona Strip.  The missing hiker is identified as Lynette Young, 48, of St. George, Utah.  At about 9:08 p.m., Search and Rescue Units responded from Kingman and searched throughout the night and into the following day.  Monday (5/5) at about 11:45 a.m., Young returned to her campsite after she hitched a ride from a passerby.  Young was in good health other than being dehydrated.

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Missing Person from Golden Shores

Mohave County Sheriff's Office needs the public's assistance in locating Keith Raymond Leavitt, 49, of Golden Shores.  Leavitt left his residence walking in the 4600 block of Linden Drive Friday (5/2) morning around 9:00 a.m.  He was wearing shorts and flip flops.  Leavitt is a white male, 5'09 at 160 lbs, with green eyes and brown hair.   Leavitt was last seen Friday (5/2) evening walking in the area as reported by witnesses.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Leavitt is asked to contact Mohave County Sheriff's Office at (800) 522-4312 or (928) 753-0753.

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