September 26, 2026 Issue, Page 12 of 12

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12• SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2026 The Elk City News NEWS ROUTE 66 — I custodi della Mother Road ROUTE 66 — I custodi del- la Mother Road (“Route 66: The Keepers of the Mother Road”), a 70-minute travel documentary by Italian journalist Corrado Parlati, was released Saturday, September 12 on YouTube. Produced by the independent cultural Italian pub- lication MentiSommerse.it, the film is free to watch and arrives two months to the day before the centennial of Route 66, designat- ed on November 11, 1926. The film follows Parlati’s sum- Air Evac Lifeteam 21 mer 2026 drive of all 2,448 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica. But the road trip is a pretext for Keeps Rotarians Updated something else: collecting the voices of the people who live and work along the highway. Watch the film: https://www. on Services youtube.com/watch?v=oHh- GEm28taA The title comes from historian Jim Ross, who calls the people By Sheryl Ponce record. area. This is why more than 90 keeping Route 66 alive the keep- They further stated, “Air percent of the aircraft are based in ers of the highway — despite the Last Thursday, the Air Evac Evac Lifeteam is the leading air rural areas. realignments, the arrival of the Lifeteam 21, program director medical service in the United The company was established Interstates, and the passing of Tammie James and Christy Love- States, conducting its operations in 1985 by some citizens in West time. lace met with the Elk City Rotary through more than 150 mutual- Plains, Missouri, with a goal to Twelve Americans appear in Club to explain their benefits, as ly supporting air medical bases provide medical transportation the film. They include the owners well as the services provided by across 15 states. The company has and ensure access to emergency of historic motels — the Wagon Black Sunday, April 14, 1935, door and share a piece of history the company. According to the established itself as the preemi- health care for remote commu- Wheel in Cuba, Missouri, and when 300,000 tons of topsoil with you.” — Corrado Parlati Air Evac website, the Lifeteam’s nent provider of air ambulance nities. Today it is part of Global the Boots Court in Carthage — lifted off the Texas Panhandle in “The most important thing fleet is comprised of more than services to communities in need Medical Response (GMR), which alongside figures central to the a single afternoon. The Green about Route 66 is don’t worry. 150 medically equipped helicop- of advanced emergency health- leads the medical transportation corridor: Mirna Delgadillo in Book, the guide that from 1936 to You can’t see it all. Travel it, meet ters with advanced safety systems. care and rapid medical transport. company in both air and ground Seligman, Arizona, daughter of 1966 told Black motorists where the people, experience Route 66, The helicopters are equipped with They are part of the Global Med- resources. There are more than Angel Delgadillo, the barber who they could safely stop — a sub- be transformed by Route 66, and Cobham HeliSAS/Two-Axis Au- ical Response family of solutions. 2.7 million members who pay founded the Historic Route 66 ject Jim Ross addressed at length enjoy the adventure.” — Jim topilot System and Glass Cockpit, Global Medical Response, Inc., is an annual fee and are able to be Association of Arizona in 1987; in a written response to a ques- Hinckley Garmin 650 GPS, Garmin 500H the largest air and ground emer- transported free of charge for and Harley Russell, who has kept tion from Parlati. The political “Route 66 to me is Americana. display, Garmin 1000 (Bell 407/ gency medical service provider in life or limb-threatening medical a shop where nothing is for sale grudge that erased Santa Fe from It means the America of yester- GX/GXP), Garmin Helicopter the United States.” emergencies. open in Erick, Oklahoma, for the alignment in December 1926. day. It means freedom. And it rep- Terrain Awareness and Warning The company is committed Membership is $99 per year, three decades. Historians Jim And the roadblock of February resents to me what America was System (HTAWS), Automatic to providing increased access to which covers the entire house- Ross, co-author of Route 66: The 1936, when the Los Angeles Po- built on.” — Mirna Delgadillo Dependent Surveillance-Broad- emergency trauma care to ru- hold. There are discounts for in- First 100 Years, and Jim Hinck- lice Department posted 136 of- cast (ADS-B) In/Out, Flight Data ral Americans. When there is a dividuals over the age of 60. New ley, author and host of the Cof- ficers at California’s state lines to ABOUT MENTISOMMERSE.IT Monitoring System (FDMS), threatening medical emergency, membership begins 15 days after fee With Jim podcast, contribute turn back poor migrants. MentiSommerse.it is an inde- Becker Mode S Transponder, Sk- patient recovery often depends the application is completed, and original interviews. “Route 66 is an inward journey. pendent Italian news publication, yTrac® satellite tracking, Intellis- on the amount of time it takes to payment is made. Alongside the expected icons It’s in the beauty behind a sunset registered with the Court of Na- tart® and ANVS 9 Night Vision deliver that patient to the trauma For more information about — the neon signs, the Muffler seen from a gas station, in the poli Nord (reg. no. 652/2024), Goggles. The company has flown center or advanced health care Air Evac Lifeteam, contact Love- Men, Cadillac Ranch, the re- miles you drive to look at a 1930s founded and edited by Corrado the Bell 206 since its founding in medical center. Approximately lace or James in Elk City or see al-world locations behind Cars gas pump with a car hulk lying be- Parlati. Rock or Dust is its format 1985 because of its reliability, effi- 85 percent of Air Evac’s patient their website at lifeteam.net/ and Breaking Bad — the docu- side it, in the conversations with covering American music and ciency, agility, and excellent safety transport originates from a rural membership. mentary carries material rarely locals who decide to open their culture. covered in Italy.