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LEFT: Quartzsite Town Council
Member Starr BearCat helped
"Humpy the Quartzsite Camel"
fi nd a new home with
Ted Geisler, president of Arizona
Public Service Company (APS)
after the APS sponsored
dinner held Tuesday night!
September 12th, the League of AZ Cities and Towns announced to their
6,000 X (Twitter) followers the winners of their Social Media Scavenger
Hunt contest held during the annual conference in Tucson.
1st place (the most points) went to "Quartzsite Rain" Shanana Rain Gold-
en-Bear of Quartzsite, AZ.
Superior Mayor Mila Besich won 2nd place, the Most++ city/town pride
(which Golden-Bear won last year)
And 3rd place (most creative) went to Bryon Seppala, Senior Advisor for
Economic and Workforce Development at Resolution Copper in Superior,
Arizona.
The League posted, "Big thanks to all participants for highlighting the
uniqueness of Arizona's cities and towns! You can still access the vir-
tual mosaic to see conference attendee photos at VirtualMosaic.com/
LACT23."
The contest was open to all registered 1,400+ attendees at the League of
Cities & Towns Annual Conference.
ABOVE: Sparky, ASU Sun Devils
Mascot, having fun with "Humpy
the Quartzsite Camel" at
Opening Session at League of
AZ Cities and Towns
Annual Conference in Tucson!
Quartzsite resident wins
League's Social media contest
"It was an honor to Share Humpy
the Quartzsite Camel's adventures
during that time. "I participated as
a private citizen, not from the Des-
ert Messenger accounts," said Gold-
en-Bear.
Be sure to check out all the pho-
tos of Humpy and friends on the
League Social Media feed on their
app, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
and TicToc.
"A huge thank you to Kathy
Piva who painted the rock with
lettering 'Quartzsite Rocks.'
Some offi fi cials loved it so much
they wanted to keep it!
Great job, Kathy!"
BELOW: Great discussions at WACOG table at 1st session at
#LACT23. The Center for Future of AZ hosted a VERY informative
session. "Ground water is our nest egg!" said Kathryn Sorensen,
Director of Research Kyl Center for Water Policy
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