Category Archives: Amusement

Williams City Council votes to donate to the Senior Graduation party

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WILLIAMS – At the Williams City Council meeting on January 22, the Williams City Council voted to donate $1500 to the Senior Graduation Night party to be held at the Williams Recreation Center. A presentation was made by Senior Miranda Velasco in which she reminded the council of the death of five graduates due to alcohol in 2007. Since then the organization Parents Who Care started the alternate party to keep graduating seniors safe.

The council then voted unanimously to build a new substation with APS.

Mayor John Moore gave a report on the new lights being installed in the city. So far 50 have been installed on east Route 66. The plan is to install them on west Route 66 and Grand Canyon Boulevard.

Grand Canyon National Park Opens 2016 Noncommercial River Trip Permit Lottery

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lellouch_3767GRAND CANYON – Grand Canyon National Park will open the permit lottery for 2016 Noncommerical River Trip launch dates. Applications will be accepted online through noon Mountain Standard Time on February 24, 2015. A nonrefundable fee of $25 is required to enter the permit lottery. A total of 472 permits will be available for 12- to 25-day river trips launching on specific dates in 2016. Eligible individuals may apply online at the lottery web site located at http://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/whitewater-rafting.htm.

The Noncommercial River Trip lottery is held in February to assign launch dates for river trips occurring the following calendar year. Due to the high demand for Noncommerical River Trip permits in Grand Canyon the lottery is weighted in favor of individuals who have not been on a trip in recent years. Public notifications regarding main lotteries are made by both email and news release. In addition to the annual main lottery, follow-up lotteries are held as needed throughout the remainder of the year to reassign canceled and/or left-over river trips. Public notifications for these follow-up lotteries are made through email, an RSS feed, and Twitter (twitter.com/GCRiverPermits).

The Noncommercial River Trip lottery web site can be accessed year-round to create or modify an account and to sign-up to receive email notifications. Individuals who are interested in a future Noncommercial River Trip permits are strongly encouraged to create an account. Lottery applications are accepted through the Noncommercial River Trip lottery web site only when lotteries are open.

Individuals must be 18 years or older to apply for a river trip permit. Noncommercial river trips must be self-guided, and technical whitewater experience is mandatory on each trip. Individuals may participate on a maximum of one recreational river trip per calendar year (commercial or noncommercial).

Individuals interested in professionally-guided river trips should not apply through the lottery, but instead request space on a commercial trip. A list of commercial companies offering guided trips can be found by visiting www.nps.gov/grca, selecting “River Trips/Permits”, then “3 to 18 Day Commercial Trips”.

For more information about the 2016 weighted lottery, please visit the Grand Canyon National Park web site at http://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/whitewater-rafting.htm, contact the River Permits Office at 1-800-959-9164 or 928-638-7884, or email us at grca_riv@nps.gov

 

 

Missing Man at South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park

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sm-02-03-15-KramerGRAND CANYON – On Monday, February 2, 2015 the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a phone call reporting a missing individual last known to be at the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.

Drake L. Kramer of San Antonio, Texas was reported missing by a family member. Kramer was a guest at Bright Angel Lodge on the evening of Saturday, January 31 and checked out on Sunday, February 1. Kramer is described as 21 years old, 5’7, 140 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.

The National Park Service is currently conducting a Search and Rescue operation. A missing persons investigation is on-going. No further information is available at this time.Any individual with information on the location of Drake Kramer should contact the National Park Service Silent Witness Line at 928-638-7840.

Grand Canyon Coffee and Cafe move complete.

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10885171_1523760897912641_5241229188847287756_nWILLIAMS – Grand Canyon Coffee and Cafe has completed their move to 137 W. Railroad Avenue in the Red Garter. The new location has more room and more parking across the street at the visitor parking lot.

Owner Anna Pena-Dick, on her Facebook page, thanked everyone who assisted her in the move. The veterans of the Williams VFW and American Legion assisted in moving much of the heavy equipment and boxes. A brilliant technician, who wishes to remain anonymous, got the Wi-Fi up and running yesterday.

Employees of the Cafe have been busy cleaning, installing and getting things in order for the grand opening. The restaurant will open tomorrow from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. closing in plenty of time to get home to watch television in the event there is something to watch.

The Cafe will continue to feature the same award-winning menu, gifts and souvenirs along with those of the Red Garter.
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Lights are on.

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lites-0121-42WILLIAMS – The new light posts along Route 66 from First Street east are installed and on. At least on the Bill Williams Avenue side.

The lights were installed yesterday and now light up at night.

Other lights are being installed on Railroad avenue. They are also being installed from Third Avenue west toward Safeway.
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Apparently, not everyone remembers the dream

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Today is Martin Luther King day. Today is meant to celebrate the civil rights leader of the sixties who made the following speech on August 28th, 1963.

Almost 52-years later, Mark Dice, a political activist in San Diego, asked people about King. The trick is that he asks in the same way that he does many historic topics. His claim to the people is that Martin Luther King just passed away and he wanted to know if they people were going to attend the memorial services.

Bear in mind that he edits the videos showing the goofiest answers he received. He did show one person who knew who the civil rights leader actually was and there were probably other examples.

What is sad is that even when he went off the deep end, as he often does in his videos, some people followed simply because they had a camera in their face.

The ray of sunshine in Osprey Bay

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AUSTRALIA – A man in Western Australia seemed to be having a bad day with his radio controlled plane. Around December of 2014, he was flying his R/C plane equipped with a GoPro 3+.

He was flying over Osprey Bay in the Cape Range National Park and getting some amazing aerial footage. A few minutes into the flight, however, he lost control of the makeshift drone which crashed into the saltwater of the bay.

He was, apparently, able to recover the wreckage. Probably thinking it was the end to a bad day, he was surprised to learn that his camera kept recording and recorded images he never expected. The edited video is picking up a lot of views around the world.

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Williams adding to Route 66

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sl150116-01WILLIAMS – You might have noticed the construction along the east end of Historic Route 66 in Williams. Williams has been repairing roads and sidewalks and generally trying to make the city more attractive to visitors.

We become somewhat concerned, however, when we saw the following:
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Innovations can be exciting, but some could be a bit much. We were trying to envision where they would put the Roman baths next.

Mayor John Moore explained that the construction are bases for new street lights shown below. The lights are being installed from 1st Street east all the way to the Mustang station.
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Oxford University Press sure to please McCain

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domestic-pigJohn McCain has long opposed returning tax dollars to Arizona in the guise of fighting pork. He prefers to let others in Congress return tax dollars to their States.

According to Fox News a report out of England should please the Senator. The Oxford University Press warned its authors not to write about bacon and pork in order to avoid offending Muslims. The move by the largest university book publisher was revealed on a BBC Radio 4 program discussing free speech in light of the terrorist attack on Charle Hebdo magazine in Paris.

Sun News reported that a spokesperson to RT.com said:

the books needed to be “acceptable in other cultures” for them to be exported. The books, which are sold in over 150 countries, need to “consider a range of cultural differences and sensitivities.”

Oddly enough the idea has been attacked by both Jews and Muslims. Both Judaism and Islam abhor eating pork. Muslim labour MP Khalid Mamood is quoted as saying it is absolute and utter nonsense.

Pork is, of course, the product of pigs and made into a variety of products. Ham and bacon is the most popular.

Bacon is made out of other meats, such as turkey and chicken. Pork bacon is still the most popular. Pork bacon is used at breakfast and on a number of fast foods such as bacon cheeseburgers. Bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches are a popular fare in many parts of the United States and United Kingdom. Ham is another product of pork which is a popular addition to meals. The ham is a popular addition to the Christmas holiday in the form of the Christmas ham. Pork is also used as a supplement to beans.

There are a number of pork recipes which call for pork as a main dish. Pulled pork, pork stir-fry and pork tenderloin. Pork chops have always been a popular Sunday dish.

Apparently Oxford University Press will no longer publish books on farming.