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Laughlin Straw Poll Results Yield Few Surprises
LAUGHLIN, NV - Hundreds of Laughlin residents turned out Tuesday to choose between a record 16 non-partisan candidates vying for five seats on the Laughlin Town Advisory Board (LTAB). The Clark County Commission is scheduled to officially appoint the five-member panel the first week in January.
In the past, commissioners considered straw poll results as just one of many factors before appointing Town Board members countywide. The town manager's office said community service, volunteerism and length of residency in Laughlin have weighed in the contemplation by Clark County Commissioner Bruce Woodbury.
However, University Regent Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, will succeed Woodbury after a 28-year run as commissioner -- the longest-serving in Nevada’s history. Woodbury couldn't seek re-election because of 12-year term limits approved by voters in 1996.
Therefore, this year it will be Sisolak's decision to appoint LTAB members before they are sworn in by Laughlin Justice of the Peace Tim Atkins at January's regularly scheduled meeting.
Laughlin Town Manager Jackie Brady said, “State law requires that everyone that applied be considered."
Of the 16 candidates who applied for consideration, longtime resident and LTAB Chairwoman Cheryl Crow garnered the most votes with 320. She will likely be confirmed by commissioners along with returning members Kathy Ochs, Novelt Mack, Jr., Ed Cooper and newcomer Jennifer Ursini.
Here are the vote totals from Tuesday's Straw Poll in Laughlin, with the top five vote getters in bold:

Ed Cooper 204
Christopher Crawford 92
Cheryl Crow 320
Frederick Doten 53
Doris Kean 56
Pamela Lo Bue 42
Novelt Mack, Jr. 239
C.W. Marvin 80
Kathy Ochs 277
Ted Pamperin 46
Eugene Shaub 31
Ronald Smith 48
William Sweeny, Jr. 49
Jennifer Ursini 134
James Vincent 112
Phyllis Wong 59.

MCC GED Signups This Week
LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ - Mohave Community College will be holding GED sign ups this Friday Nov. 7th from 4-6PM. Testing will be Saturday in room 203C at the college starting at 8AM. They will need to bring a picture id, and one oher form of id along with $65.00 in the form of cash or money order to the sign up. If they are not yet 18 they will need to have a parent permission slip filled out and notorized. If they've withdrawn from school they'll need their withdraw slip. For more information, contact Tim Keith at the college.

ADOT Workshops Set For LHC And BHC
LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ - To stay current of the transportation needs of Arizona's cities, the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) is inviting communities to participate in community workshops between November 10 and November 20th. ADOT officials say the workshops will provide communities the
opportunity to review and comment on possible future transportation ideas. The meetings will be held in Lake Havasu City and Bullhead City as well as eleven other communities stretching from Show Low to Yuma.
ADOT began its Statewide Transportation Planning Study earlier this year to focus on a long-range vision of those needs in Arizona. The study is composed of four Regional Framework Studies: Northern, Western, Central and Eastern. Each Regional Framework Study looks at ways to plan for growth, understand community development and how those communities can be prepared for future transportation.
Locally, the meeting schedule is as follows:

Lake Havasu City
Tuesday, November 18
1:30pm to 4pm or
6pm to 8:30pm
Mohave Community College Room 600
1977 Acoma Boulevard West

Bullhead City
Monday, November 17
1:30pm to 4pm or
6pm to 8:30pm
Mohave Community College
Room 210
3400 Highway 95

For more information regarding the community workshops or to find general information about the study, go to www.bqaz.gov.

Needles Drivers Beware: New Speed Limits In Place
NEEDLES, CA - The Needles City Council recently adopted a resolution to impose speed limits on two streets at the north end of town and one of those streets has never had signs posted.
No known speed restrictions have ever been in place on Park Road, from the freeway exit to Needles Highway, or on Route 66 from Park Road to Needles Highway. However, due to new paving projects, the council says the speed limit will soon be 45 mph to the midpoint of Park Road, originating at Interstate 40. A 35 mph limit will soon be in place from the midpoint of Park Road to Needles Highway.
Finally, the new speed linit covering Historic Route 66 from Park Road to Needles Highway will be 45 mph.

TODAY'S GOOD NEWS STORY --

This is great news for the treatment of cancer. American Scientists have decoded the complete DNA of a cancer patient and traced her disease to its genetic roots. The team from Washington University has identified ten gene mutations which appeared key to the development of the woman's acute myeloid leukemia. Just two of these had been linked to the disease before.
The results are published this week in the journal, Nature. The researchers studied the cells from a woman who had died and became successful with their sequencing technique. It could now be applied to other cancers and aid the design of targeted drugs. Like most cancers, acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) - a cancer of blood-forming cells in the bone marrow - grows from mutations that accumulate in people's DNA over the course of their lives.
Dr. Steven Nimer, a leukemia expert at Memorial-Sloan Kettering called the study a “tour de force,” and told the “New York Times” it’s a reminder that “you can’t just go after the things you know about.” He added "In the past, cancer researchers have been 'looking under the lamp-post' to find the causes of malignancy - but now the team from Washington University has lit up the whole street.”