With its 1900-foot span, 900 feet above the mighty Colorado River, this $160 million bridge at Hoover Dam slowly takes shape. The bridge will carry a new section of US Route 93 past the bottleneck of the old road which twists and winds around and across the dam itself.
Later this year it will provide a [...]

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Representatives from Parker including La Paz County School Superintendent Janice Shelton, and Duce Minor, Zuky Hernandez and Tamara Kunkle from the Parker Area Alliance for Community Empowerment attended the 20th Annual National Leadership Forum in Washington D.C. last week. A large winter storm brought snow to the DC area before the delegates got there, so [...]

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A new carnival company is set to bring some fresh new rides to the La Paz County Fair in March 2010. ‘City of Fun Shows Inc.’ will be supplying plenty of fun during the Fair for its second year at the fairgrounds at Parker Annex. Here’s a sneak peek for Parker Live. (Photographs courtesy Digital [...]

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From Karen & Clyde:
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More race photos HERE.
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About eight jeeps stacked in Downtown Parker yesterday!
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Last week’s extensive flooding across the desert has been photographed for Parker Live by Melissa Wright, who accompanied pilot Ted Sutton. Thanks to both. See Melissa’s website here.

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Parker finally got a peek of sunshine after 5pm yesterday evening, when the brunt of the storm had passed and a rainbow set itself against the darkened sky. Tourism Mary’s photos can be found here. If you have photographs, please send them to studio@klpz1380.com. These came from Wheeler at River Dave’s Place:

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The first picture is during what I would call a “microburst” not a tornado. I was standing on my back patio.
The next picture is the rainbow. (Sorry about the fencing and power lines. These are raw photos.)

Then, I really started to look and realized that it was a double rainbow and needed a better shot. [...]

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A contact we have in Afghanistan has taken these photographs of the troop digs there. Care packages sent from residents in the Parker area as Christmas For The Troops were split between this camp in Afghanistan and Camp Anaconda in Iraq. Click to see larger.
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This photograph was taken by Flickr Pro user Shirley Buxtom and is available under the Creative Commons License. Click for large version.

“Between Lake Havasu and Parker, AZ on Highway 95 the Bill Williams and the Colorado Rivers merge. A bridge spans this spot, where I rode in my car today, and from which I snapped this [...]

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“Sorry, this is not a high-quality pic, but it gives an idea of how many people were at BlueWater for New Year’s Eve… great time!”

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Just before Christmas, KLPZ’s Elder Tree gifts were delivered to 97 elderly people around La Paz County, with help from the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the Parker Senior Center, Helping Hands and other volunteers. Gifts were donated by people who came in and chose names from the Tree at KLPZ studios, and went out [...]

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