Lake Havasu City revisits 25-year time capsules buried at entrance monuments

The host of Lake Havasu City’s "Coffee with the Mayor and City Manager" program said the city community and groups including the Keep Havasu Beautiful Committee and the Chamber of Commerce collaborated in 2000 to install and landscape Welcome To Lake Havasu City monuments at the north and south entrances to the city.

"25 years ago, the community led by the Keep Havasu Beautiful Committee, got together with a variety of different organizations, the Chamber of Commerce, Keep Havasu Beautiful, and local citizens and organizations, to beautify the entrances into Lake Havasu City," the host said.

The host said time capsules were buried at each monument; the north-end capsule was a 25-year time capsule placed as part of the year-2000 project. Participants in the program described an interest in "learning about it and taking ourselves back to the year 2000, and also discover what you all had in store for us to discover," the host said.

The remarks were presented as part of the special edition program; no formal city action, vote, opening date, or additional logistical details about recovering the capsules were stated in the transcript. The organizations specifically named in the discussion were the Keep Havasu Beautiful Committee and the Chamber of Commerce. The remarks locate the capsules at the north and south city entrances adjacent to the Welcome To Lake Havasu City monuments.

Further details — including whether and when the time capsules will be exhumed, who will oversee any opening, and any records of the capsules’ contents — were not specified in the transcript.