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Marvelous Marv’s Private Grand Canyon Tour receives high rating.

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WILLIAMS—Marvelous Marv’s Private Grand Canyon Tour received a high rating from TripAdvisor®, a travel advisory web site. TripAdvisor® features reviews and advice on hotels, resorts, flights, vacation rentals, vacation packages, and travel guides. The site takes ratings and comments from people who actually took the tour.

One commentator wrote, “I have been on a number of tours with so called guides, but Marv is the best. Picked us up at our hotel, and the entire day was completely enjoyable. He knows more about the Grand Canyon and surrounding area than anyone.”

“Marvelous Marv’s Grand Canyon Tour was a great first day orientation to the Grand Canyon. He picks you up at your hotel in Williams around 9a for a 45 min drive over,” another wrote. “My husband, 9 yr old son, and I enjoyed his extra info shared about the area employees and other facts. He also shows a DVD on the Mule Train during the ride back. I do think this is a great option for folks who do not want to walk as much as he moves you around in his van more than most.”

Marvelous Marv has given tours to the Grand Canyon for years and has been called the “Indiana Jones of the Grand Canyon” by Foder’s®. Marv will not be taking any tours in July due to his honeymoon. Marv was awarded a certificate from TripAdvisor®.

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WILLIAMS—The elegant Winchester Ranch restaurant is open for the season beginning at 5 p.m. For reservations you can call 602-759-5772.

The $44 meal includes the entrée and a glass of wine or beer. The meal consists of your choice of top sirloin, chicken breast or salmon with Portabello mushrooms, garden salad, corn on the cob and more. It includes a homemade apple desert.

The Winchester Ranch Dinner Theater was originally the Pine Crest Dairy and Farm in 1952 and provided milk products for Williams and the surrounding area. Western Destinations turned the barn into a beautiful restaurant with a stage upstairs for entertainment.

Future plans for the property include an indoor shooting range.

New email scam aimed at domain name owners

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Internet–A new email scam is running around the web targeting owners of domain names. The email comes from “John” whose email address was john4873587806@gmail.com, but the Reply to is john4873587@gmail.com.

The initial email is in broken English informing the person that someone is interested in purchasing your domain name, but it does not specify which domain name. Subsequent emails offer you $9000 for your domain name and instruct you to go to ToSellDomains.com.

The first email reads:

Hi
We have a customer interested to buy your domain. If you are interested to sell it let me know your asking price
We dont know how to contact with you, if you got this email please contact us ASAP
Thanks

John Sean

A follow-up email reads:

Sorry for delayed, i lost your email in bulk folder.
my customer offer is $9000 for your domain
i want buy though www.ToSellDomains.com its secure for both

A Whois search reveals no information about the owner of the site and only reveals that it is registered in Colorado. The site was registered in February of this year.

The purpose of the scam remains a mystery.

Source: Williams TEA Party

2012 Coconino County Fair Vendor Applications Available

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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — While snow still fills parts of Coconino County’s Ft. Tuthill Park, the Parks & Recreation Department is already gearing up for the 2012 County Fair, held Aug. 31 to Sept. 3.

Parks & Recreation officials hope the upcoming fair will surpass the 2011 event, which saw more than 45,500 attendees over four days. To prepare for the upcoming 63rd Annual Coconino County Fair, the County is now accepting vendor applications for food, commercial business and non-profit organizations.

In an effort to promote local products and services, an early bird rate is being extended to County‐based businesses only. Interested business owners and operators are encouraged to submit a vendor application by May 1 to take advantage of a 50-percent early bird discount for midway and outdoor booth locations.

Vendor applications are available on the Coconino County Parks & Recreation’s website at: www.coconino.az.gov/parks.

The following links will take interested vendors directly to the application packet:

• Early Bird Fair Vendor Application: (PDF) http://tiny.cc/xsrrl

• Vendor Application: (PDF) http://goo.gl/qn3bY

Toll proposal puts the brakes on economic recovery

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By BUSTER JOHNSON
Chairman
Mohave County Board of Supervisors

During the January 10 meeting of the Mohave County Board of Supervisors, we unanimously voted to oppose the state’s proposal to turn a 30-mile segment of Interstate 15 into a toll road. Now, Arizona State Rep. Karen Fann (R-District 1, kfann@azleg.gov, co-sponsored by Republican Russ Jones rjones@azleg.gov) has launched legislation that would open the gates to toll roads throughout the state.

Fann’s House Bill 2358, titled Public-Private Partnership; Toll Facilities, creates regulations for collection of tolls and a variety of punishments for those who do not pay them. Specifically, it allows the suspending or revoking of vehicle registrations and driver’s licenses.

This long-winded bill sets up procedures for toll agencies to track and nail anyone who has “liability for toll nonpayment” throughout the state. HB 2358 is the legal foundation that will be used for the furtherance of toll roads, toll bridges and other toll transportation facilities (read rest stops) in Arizona.

I understand the traditional toll facility proposals. A major bridge or road is built through bonded indebtedness and, when it opens for use, customers pay a toll that eventually pays off the cost of construction. But to establish a precedent of charging tolls to use pre-existing roads and bridges is a terrible wrong turn that Arizona does not need to make.

If our State Legislature passes HB 2358, the gates will be opened for many toll proposals leading to costly trips. Driving Arizona highways will no longer be enjoying the open road. It will be more like traversing a board game with costly detours and, if you avoid a toll booth, an expensive Get Out Of Jail fee. The state slogan will become, “You can’t get there from here.”

Okay, that was a bit facetious, but in an age where we are trying to get business back to health and America back to work, HB 2358 sets up roadblocks to prosperity. Truckers who have to take the highways and interstates will be hit the hardest with new fees. At the end of the line, those costs will be passed on to retail customers. Those same customers will have to pay tolls on the roads bringing their more-expensive purchases home.

We will bring more prosperity and transportation funds to Arizona by removing roadblocks to economic development; not by adding them. This Board of Supervisors opposed the state’s proposal of putting a toll on I-15 and I oppose HB 2358, which would drive more toll proposals and bring economic recovery to a screeching halt.

Arizona entrepreneur creates the “ultimate” survival tool

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CROVEL0Scottsdale, AZ — Shortly after launching its Gear Up Center online store, Recon LLC has announced the arrival of its newest innovation, The Crovel Folding Shovel. After purchasing countless shovels, creator Tim Ralston conceived the idea and followed through with extensive research. The ex-military expert decided to move forward and develop the e-tool by combining several tools into one with its base serving as a crowbar and a shovel. The Crovel (shovel + crowbar) was unveiled at an outdoor camping gear show and introduced as the next evolution of the e-tool to the show’s attendees. The Crovel shovel offers multiple functions such as a hammer, ax, pick, pry bar, hoe, and machete. During the audience demonstrations, the Crovel’s sheer strength and solid construction proved the tool to be virtually indestructible and highly versatile compared to other folding shovels.

Made of 10 gauge-hardened steel, the Crovel claims to outlast and outdo its fellow competitors who offer stamped steel shovelheads with wooden handles. When put through a rigid test, competing folding shovels frequently bent and broke while the Croval remained in tact. By combining several tools into one, the Crovel can reduce excess weight of unneeded gear by approximately 45 pounds. Made for durability, multiple functionality and handling ease, the sharpness and strength of the Crovel’s edge gives the user the options for cutting, chopping, and sawing while keeping its edge. The shovel’s handle is a 19” hardened gooseneck crowbar with a hammer face on the end to add additional strength and function. Further distinguishing it from its competitors, the Crovel has 550 para cord wrapped around the handle for additional grip strength while giving the user 15-20’ of life-saving material that can be used thousands of different ways.

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