SPAM BILL PASSED
 Phoenix - Joining the growing crusade against the scourge of e-mail messages like "$2,000,000 Instant Win Game!," "Hot, Horny Sex Videos!," and "Feel and Look Younger Again!," the Arizona Legislature approved a bill to impose new restrictions on e-mail spam, sending it to Gov. Janet Napolitano for her promised signature. Napolitano said she would sign the bill, which would prohibit senders of unsolicited commercial electronic advertisements from falsifying the origin of bulk transmissions or misrepresenting their contents. The bill would make it easier to identify unwanted advertisements by requiring that "ADV" be added to the subject line of all unsolicited e-mail advertisements. Also, advertisers would have to offer a free way for recipients to remove themselves from bulk lists while barring resale of those e-mail addresses, and senders would have three business days to comply with removal requests. Under the bill, recipients and damaged e-mail service providers could collect damages, while violations would be misdemeanors punishable by up to four months in jail and fines of up to $750 per person and $10,000 for companies

FIRE CALLS  
G.S. - The fire department only had 2 calls in the past week. One was on Concho on Saturday where a grass fire got out of control and got to a wood pile. The fire was quickly extenguished.
The second was on Wednesday which started out as a brush fire east of town and turned into a trailer fire. There was no one living in the trailer. It was determined to be in the Desert Hills fire district, but our firefighters remained there and helped as a courtesy.

Doesn't the new fire department building look nice?

ROUTE 66 FUN RUN FUN
 Route 66 - The Route 66 Fun Run ended up in Golden Shores at the Civic Center Sunday. All the old cars came and put on quite a show. The organization's award ceremony was held at the Civic Center and MC'd by Bob Ericson. A new Miss Route 66 was present, but no one seems to know her name. It was reported that the other girls were upset because the winner really didn't want to be there, but then she won. It was a nice day for the event.

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KICKIN BUTT IN G.S.
G.S. - On Wednesday morning groups of kids from the school were walking around picking up something which no one could tell from a distance. With my handy-dandy camera I took some pictures, then started asking questions. "They are picking up cigarette butts," said Kathy McDonald, leader of the group. "This is the 7th grade class from Topock and they are in 3 groups," she continued. "This is the first group. There will be another later this morning and then one this afternoon. This is a part of the annual "Kick Butt Program." The group that turns in the most weight in cigarette butts wins a swim and pizza party at the Acquatic in Lake Havasu City."
On calling the school, we found out the 3rd thru 7th grades are participating in the Kick Butt Program. Let us congratulate our school staff for their ingenuity in helping to keep our community clean and teach the kids a great lesson at the same time. We'll try to announce the winning class next week.
Thanks to you, kids, for doing this.

SMART VITAMINS
Coming Soon... - Smart Vitamins! The Vitamins That Other Vitamin Companies Hope You Never... Ever Find Out About. Watch this column for the best news in the Vitamin industry.

NEW SHERIFF CARS

Mohave County - Deputies will be patrolling Mohave County in new Ford Expeditions by the first week of May. The vehicles are a departure from the standard Crown Victoria units that many agencies used to rely upon. However, recent safety questions have changed that standard. "I didn’t feel comfortable putting my deputies in vehicles that possibly aren’t safe. I felt it was only responsible to have the safest vehicle we can patrolling our streets," said Sheriff Tom Sheahan.
"Part of the upgrade costs were covered by money received from the Sheriff’s Office involvement in a drug investigation with the United States Customs," Sheriff Sheahan said.
"When you look at the areas we patrol, much of it is rural areas with sometimes primitive roads. A vehicle with four wheel drive capability and extra ground clearance is more practical then a sedan," Sheriff Sheahan said.

A BIG SUCCESS!!!  
G.S. - As most of you know, I am the owner and publisher of this weekly E-News as well as the Editor of The Civic for the past 3 years. The GSeXtra is the result of an attempt to start a weekly paper in G.S. about 18 months ago. That attempt failed because of the enormous cost of having it printed by NewsWest (Mohave Daily). I checked numerous other printing facilities and finally decided on email for now since most people now have email.
This has been a huge success! I have people subscribing from all over and, as best I can tell, readership is becoming greater than The Civic. The problem I have is there is a need for someone to contact businesses for advertising. Businesses are contacting me to run ads, but I have no one to go see them.
The Civic also has no one to contact businesses. The Civic Association does not pay, as it is a volunteer organization. But this publication can pay someone. So perhaps you would like to make some extra cash by helping this publication and help the Civic Association at the same time. If so, please contact me at 768-1400 or email ys@goldenshores.net.

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