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GOOD MORNING! MOHAVE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS County may hire public info officer By AGATA POPEDA media efforts, including Facebook payer-funded spin-doctor.” The Supervisor Jean Bishop will SPECIAL TO TODAY’S NEWS-HERALD and Twitter, as well as act as a county has been without a spokes- propose Becky Fawson to repre- TODAY’S media liason. man for about seven years. sent District 4. Fawson works as A public information officer is If today’s agenda item is Also on today’s agenda, three an office supervisor at the Mohave 98 FORECAST: back on the agenda for the Mohave approved, staff willbe asked to supervisors will propose their County Legal Defender’s Office. Plenty of sun County Board of Supervisors. finalize a job description and work candidates for the 2020 Census Supervisor Gary Watson will Based on discussions that out other job details. Complete Count Committee. suggest Nicole Bratley to represent 75 occurred at the county’s May 17 Supervisors last considered hir- Supervisor Buster Johnson will District 1. Bratley currently serves SEE PAGE 12 budget workshop, supervisors ing a public information officer in suggest Gaynell Crews as a rep- as Appraiser II & Auditor at the will consider creating a position August. They voted against pro- resentative for District 3. Crews is Mohave County Assessor’s Office. of communications director. The ceeding with the position a month a retired process server (a person Also at today’s meeting, TO READ position would be responsible for later, with Supervisor Ron Gould who supports legal and court activ- the Mohave County Board of coordinating the county’s social referring to the last PIO as a “tax- ities). 4 INSIDE See SUPERVISORS, Page 5 TODAY

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Editor’s note: This story originally in “The Abyss” and Johnny Ringo in appeared in the spring edition of “Havasu ... “Tombstone.” Even a cursory review of his Arizona’s Coastal Life” magazine. In addi- extensive filmography reveals solid proof tion to this story, the magazine also includes that the actor is a workhorse. Biehn (pro- a full question-and-answer interview with nounced bean) is a man comfortable in his A man of Lake Havasu City native Michael Biehn. own skin. Even at 62, ARIZONA: Court orders new Pick up a copy at the Today’s News-Herald his skin is looking pretty good. He takes hearing for groups trying to office or in stores around Lake Havasu City, his work seriously, but not himself. He’s ban lead ammo in Kaibab. and watch for the summer edition hitting candid, but not unkind. For a man who has SEE PAGE 3 shelves over the next few weeks. achieved such success in an ocean of huge egos, he’s an island of humility. In con- character ichael Connell Biehn is remem- versation, it won’t take him long to make OBITUARIES bered as just one of the guys in the you laugh out loud. He downplays his own ‘Terminator’ and ‘Aliens’ were Mclass of ’74 at Lake Havasu High accomplishments, preferring instead to let School. Yet, a bit part in “Grease” launched his work speak for itself. There are no obitu- only the beginning of an him on a 41-year acting career in movies And his work speaks volumes. In 1970, ary listings in today’s and television, that morphed into writing, Michael’s father moved the family of paper. See recent impressive Hollywood career for directing, producing, promoting and doing five—he has two brothers and a sister— listings at www.lega- voices in video games. from Lincoln, Nebraska to a tract home on cy.com/havasunews Along the way, Biehn created many Cliffrose Drive in Havasu to practice law. Havasu native Michael Biehn iconic characters well-known to mov- Don Biehn was Havasu’s first city attorney, iegoers, such as Douglas Breen in “The served on the school board, chamber of ONLINE ONLY Fan,” Sgt. Kyle Reese in “The Terminator,” commerce board and as president of the By BUCK DOPP | SPECIAL TO TODAY’S NEWS-HERALD Cpl. Dwayne Hicks in “Aliens,” Lt. Coffey Know all the movies See BIEHN, Page 5 filmed in Lake Havasu City? Find out at HavasuNews.com. TOURISM @havasunews Today’s News-Herald Upgrading Lake Havasu

INDEX City’s welcome mat Classifieds: 8-10 GO LAKE HAVASU STAFF tified in autism and special needs care. Comics: 11 BECOMES CERTIFIED AUTISM Terence Concannon, presi- Opinion: 4 TRAVEL PROFESSIONALS dent and CEO of Go Lake Havasu, Orchids & Onions: 11 discovered that several Mesa Shortcuts: 7 By PAM ASHLEY officials earned the autism cer- TODAY’S NEWS-HERALD tification and believed the train- Sports: 6, 7 ing would be a good fit for Lake Nation: 10, 12, 13 In an effort to accommodate a Havasu City. Planner: 2 $262 billion underserved market, “The training was profound seven full-time employees of Go for me,” he said. “I learned that Volume 54, No. 154 Lake Havasu have earned their loud noises and flashing lights certification as autism travel pro- can be upsetting to those with fessionals in early May. autism. In Havasu, particularly It means that Go Lake around the lake, we have loud Pam Ashley/Today’s News-Herald Havasu will soon be listed on boats and loud music.” The Visitor Information Center in the English Village has renovation AutismTravel.com. The site pro- While taming the party atmo- plans that include creating quiet zones. The zones will be peaceful vides families easy access to des- sphere is an impossibility, the places where caregivers of autistic people can calm their overstimu- lated loved ones. WEEKDAY tinations that are trained and cer- See CERTIFIED, Page 5 HAVASU & MOHAVE COUNTY TODAY’S NEWS-HERALD Monday, June 3, 2019 • 5 SUPERVISORS: SET TO OK INCREASE IN GRANT FUND FOR STD PROGRAM CERTIFIED CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Supervisors is set to ping time frames. Services, and outreach Burley said rates heightened awareness ences. Being in water approve an increase of The program provides to medical providers to for all STDs continue that the autism com- often gives a sense of $7,746 to grant fund the surveillance, disease pre- provide the most current to rise in Arizona, and munity has very specific calm to children on the Sexually Transmitted vention and prevention screening and treatment while Mohave County needs when they travel spectrum. Disease Control program activities like screening guidelines. Department of Public led the Go Lake Havasu That makes Lake provided by the Mohave and treatment, linkage According to the Health is an integral part- staff to plan for quiet Havasu an ideal sum- County Department of to care, partner services Community Health ner in the effort to reduce spaces where families mer travel destina- Public Health. The rea- and education/outreach Needs Assessment STDs, more federal and can take a break. The tion for many families. son for the change is in the county. released by Kingman state resources are need- spaces allow their chil- Secluded coves and due to the difference in The objective of the Regional Medical Center ed to comprehensively dren recover from the nearly-deserted stretch- fiscal periods between program is to reduce the and MCDPH, the inci- address the problem. hubbub. es of beach offer less the program, which is number of chlamydia, dence of gonorrhea in If the board approves “My employees and I anxiety-producing stim- Jan. 2019-Dec. 2019 and gonorrhea and syphilis 2012 in the county was this increase, it won’t will be creating a quiet uli. the County’s fiscal year, cases, increase access to 17.3 per 100,000, which is impact the general fund space in our Visitors Jackie Leatherman which runs July 2018- STD services for those better compared to other and the program will Center adjacent to the of Go Lake Havasu said June 2019. populations most at risk, peer counties. receive the funds by June London Bridge, and that for her, the autism The adjustment will and reduce the threats of For chlamydia, in 2013 30. I’ll work with the city to certification training allow the program to emerging STDs and con- the incidence was 260.6 Supervisors will gath- locate and designate increased her aware- receive the full grant genital syphilis. per 100,000 in the county, er for their bimonth- areas and parks where ness and established award within the first To prevent STDs, the which is better compared ly meeting at 9:30 a.m. people with autism and her resolve to remove six months of the grant county provides con- to the state of Arizona. Monday in the County their caregivers can find obstacles faced by trav- year, which requires an sultations in conjunc- According to Arizona Administration Building, solace during challenging eling families. increase in the county tion with the Arizona Health Matters, the state 700 W. Beale St., in times,” Concannon said. “As a tourism desti- budget due to overlap- Department of Health rate is 466.6 per 100,000. Kingman. Autism is a develop- nation, it’s important mental disability that that we make everyone affects an ever-increas- welcome and comfort- ing number of children. able,” she said. BIEHN: FIRST MOVIE ROLE WAS A 2-SCENE BIT-PART IN ‘GREASE’ Some autistic children Colleen McShea CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 have sensory problems applauded Go Lake and crowds can cause Havasu’s height- London Bridge Rotary Club. ly. I was like the sixth man.” over again. My parents recognized an overload. Throngs ened interest in mak- Michael’s mother Marcia was a Despite his passion for sports, He that he did have a gift and was a good of people bewilder them ing Havasu a sen- nurse. liked the drama department, too and actor. They had confidence that if and boisterous noises sory-friendly envi- “I was 14 when we moved to acted in a few plays, catching the anyone could make it, he could.” can startle, sparking an ronment for families Havasu. Only 5,000 people lived attention of the head of the drama Biehn worked at various jobs to there at the time. There was a movie department at the University of support himself while auditioning emotional meltdown. affected by autism. theater and a bowling alley—no Arizona who offered him a scholar- and searching for an agent. Removing a child to a McShea is co-owner of police department, no stop lights, ship for books and tuition. He got a job in an import/ cool, quiet and dark Milemarkers Therapy, and only a few tract homes,” he Biehn left college after only one export business collecting past-due place is highly effec- which assists the devel- explained. “There were no restric- semester. accounts, and he assembled boxes tive in helping the child opmentally disabled. tions. Everyone wore bathing suits “I’m fond of telling people I went in the warehouse. “I worked at regroup. “We have chill zones all the time. There were only a few to the University of Arizona from McDonald’s. I lasted about a week Jan Kassies at the here at Milemarkers, so boats on the lake. Looking back, it 1974 to 1974,” he said. “I was in a or so,” he noted. “It seems I couldn’t Visitor Information I look forward to helping was a paradise, a great place to grow fraternity (Sigma Nu) and wasn’t mop the floor properly.” Biehn took Center – which is a part Go Lake Havasu design up.” studying. I didn’t want to come acting classes and got noticed quick- of Go Lake Havasu – said the quiet spaces for our Biehn was among the first stu- back with my tail between my legs ly, landing modeling jobs and acting a planned renovation visitors who battle sen- dents to attend classes at LHHS as a college dropout, so I called my in commercials. at the 2,000 square-foot sory deficits,” she said. the first year it opened. Before that, parents and said I wanted to go to His first movie role was a two- center will include quiet McShea also offered high school students were bussed to Hollywood and be an actor.” scene, bit-part in Grease. John zones where families can some advice for those Kingman. His classmates called him Biehn returned home to earn Travolta punched him in the stom- recuperate. He views it who witness an autis- Mike. money to go to Los Angeles. He ach while they were practicing bas- as a simple accommoda- tic child experiencing a Steve Biehn called his younger worked two jobs, as a handyman ketball. tion for those coping with meltdown. brother a “smart, but a mediocre at the Nautical Inn, and a laundry He was also in a scene when the autism. Ignoring the situation student. Girls were enamored with worker at the Sandman Hotel, now camera swept across a group of stu- “We are already ADA- is best because a parent him. He’s had girls hanging all over called the Day’s Inn. Retired LHHS dents. The young actor didn’t get a compliant, so the quiet doesn’t need an audi- him from the time he was a little Principal Pat Rooney was Biehn’s movie credit, however, he got paid zones are an extension of ence while calming the boy.” Civics teacher. union scale. Playing a psychotic At LHHS, Michael showed more “The last time I saw Mike, I was admirer stalking Lauren Bacall in that. Really, it’s not much child. interest in sports than acting. At one standing outside the gymnasium “The Fan” was Biehn’s first significant different than people in “But if you are going time he considered being a football at the high school. He was either role. His boyish good looks, a chilling a wheelchair. Autism is to look at the child, talk coach. coming in or out of the gym,” contrast to the evil that lurked inside just a different kind of to them quietly or smile He earned varsity letters in foot- Rooney said. “He told me he was his character. This part launched his disability,” Kassies said. at them,” she said. “And ball and basketball in his junior and leaving college and said, ‘I’m going career into higher profile acting jobs. It has also been sug- remember that the senior years—playing guard and to Hollywood and try to get into act- People noticed that this good-looking gested that when trav- parent is having tough linebacker in football and guard ing. Maybe someday you’ll see me guy could act. Among them, direc- eling with a child who time, too.” and forward in basketball. On the on Johnny Carson.’ I replied, ‘Good tor James Cameron. “Meeting Jim is on the spectrum, it Pam Ashley can be JV football team, Biehn blocked luck! I hope you do.’” Cameron was my big break. is a good idea to con- reached at 928-453- for fullback Dave Ade who said, After saving up $2,000, Biehn He directed me in The sider destinations that 4237, ext. 230 or pash- “Everybody liked Mike. He was a pointed his Volkswagen bug toward Terminator, Aliens and The Abyss. provide water experi- [email protected]. nice guy, one of the gang. He didn’t Hollywood and never looked back. He’s never made a movie that lost stand out as someone you think His mother later told him it was the money,” Biehn said. “After that, it would be a movie star. I liked all of “saddest day” of her life. was off to the races.” his movies he’s been in.” Biehn’s brother Steve followed in According to Steve, everyone Football coach Lee Barnes said, their father’s footsteps and has prac- in the family has a good relation- “Mike was a good football player ticed law in Havasu for the last 39 ship with their famous brother. and a good student, well rounded. years. Michael’s sister Brooks and broth- The type of student-athlete you’d “I don’t think anybody in our ers Steve and Jon have achieved always like to have.” “I had a lot of family, or circle of friends, looked at success in their fields as well, and fun playing basketball,” Biehn said. Mick (his family nickname) as some- they all support each other. I couldn’t shoot, and I couldn’t one who was going to be a star. The “There is one thing I’m jealous jump—I’m 6-feet tall and once or remarkable thing about my brother is of,” joked Steve. “Mick’s always had twice jumped and touched the rim, that he’s a risk-taker. He was willing girls hanging on him all the time. I but I hustled and played aggressive- to fail, pick himself up and start all never had that problem.”

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