MISS GOLDEN SHORES 2004

 G.S. - Golden Shores Community Center was filled to capacity for the Golden Shores Chamber of Commerce contest to announce the winner of Miss Golden Shores 2004 Pageant. The program began with the National Anthem sung by Tess Berryman. The contestants performed three Western dances. An appearance by Jessica Stanley, former resident of Golden Shores.
The winner is Shaylyn Berryman who is an eighteen year old student attending River Valley High School. The First Runner-Up is Coran Haymes who will step up if, for some reason, Shaylyn is unable to attend events in the community. Coran is a seventeen year old student also attending River Valley High School. Shaylyn, as Miss Golden Shores 2004, will also enter the Miss Route 66 Contest in Seligman.
As Miss Golden Shores 2004, Shaylyn was awarded a tiara, a $75 U.S. Savings Bond, trophy, flowers, a sash and was given a gift bag. As First Runner-Up, Coran received a $50 bond, trophy, flowers, sash and a gift bag. Britney Berryman, Christine Marhoun, Brittinay Lenhart and Tyra Daniels each received a $50 bond.
Congratulations to Shaylyn and to the other girls for doing such a fine job and putting on a great show for the evening.

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ELECTION DAY FEB 3RD
G.S. - DON'T FORGET TO VOTE! The polls will be open normal hours on Tuesday, February 3rd at the Civic Center. Don't miss the opportunity to make your opinion count.

VIRUSES BLAST EMAIL
National - A fast-moving Windows worm known as MyDoom on Monday began spreading at a furious rate on the Internet. Two other worms, Mimail.Q and Dumaru.Y, also gained traction on the Web over the last few days. Some people are reporting receiving up to 100 virus infected emails per hour.
MyDoom arrives via e-mail and has a randomized sender's address and subject line. The body of the message varies, but purports to be an error message, such as: "The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII and has been sent as a binary attachment." The file attachment is often in a ZIP archive format and can have any one of a number of file extensions, including .exe, .pif and .scr. The icon for the attachment looks like the one used for text messages in Windows.
MyDoom also copies itself to the registry in Windows so that it executes at startup, according to a preliminary analysis by Network Associates Inc.'s McAfee Security unit. The worm also opens Port 3127 and begins listening for instructions from a remote host.
BE SURE you keep your antivirus programs up-to-date and don't open anything you are not sure about. It can be a matter of life or death for your computer.

SPRING BREAK APPROACHING
Colorado River Area - Spring Break is coming soon. That means the Colorado River area’s beaches and waterways will soon be flooded with college students looking for fun in their off time. All of the schools in Arizona and the University of Utah are off March 13- 21. UNLV is off April 3-11. New Mexico Sate, USC San Diego, UC Riverside are all celebrating their holiday March 20-28. UCLA and UC Irvine will be taking the week of March 24-29 off while UC Fresno and Long Beach take April 3 off. UC Berkley will be out April 22-26, and finally UC Davis on April 24-29.

PAYPAL / EBAY SCAM
If you use Paypal to pay for items you buy from Ebay or other online auctions, then you will be interested to know that scam email that looks like it is coming from Paypal is trying to get your personal information from you, like credit card numbers, bank account numbers and names. The email warns you that if you don't respond, your Paypal account will be closed. They then use your Paypal account information to buy whatever they want to buy and get money from your account!
If you receive an email from Paypal (or looks like it is coming from Paypal), make sure it is legitimate by forwarding the scam email that you received to Paypal at spoof@paypal.com. I received this information back from Paypal when I forwarded a scam email to them.
"do NOT open the attachment that comes with the original email. We can confirm that the email you received was not sent by PayPal. The attachment contained within this email is a virus that has circulated around the internet. If you have opened the attachment, your computer may have been infected. Do not surrender any personal or financial information that may be requested. If you have previously submitted this information, we suggest you contact your issuing financial institution to report the incident."
Also, look out for any email that has "Microsoft" as the sender. It also contains a virus.

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