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	Carl Phillips, a member of the Red Tail Singers and Dancers, performs Saturday during events at the Clark County Heritage Museum on Boulder Highway. The museum is hosting the Native American Festival this weekend. The festival continues from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today with American Indian food, dance and music programs, educational lectures and an outdoor craft market Ñ featuring traditional basketry, rugs, beads, leather, silver jewelry, kachina carvings, pottery, clothing, ceremonial pipes and paintings. Related photo:Lula P. Joshongeva prepares Hopi bread. (40k) Photos by Clint Karlsen.	FIGHTING CRIME: Violent-crime crusade gets tougher CARSON CITY -- When he took his two children and their friends to a showing of "101 Dalmatians" at a Las Vegas theater in December, Sen. Mark James expected an afternoon of innocent family entertainment.       But the senator and his wife, Lori, sitting in the rear of the theater, watched in astonishment as an older man wandered up the aisle during the middle of the movie and took a seat near their children. FULL TEXT FIGHTING CRIME: Sex-offender law now being used CARSON CITY -- In an effort to keep paroled sexual predators from preying on women and children, the Legislature and Gov. Bob Miller enacted into law their version of Megan's Law on June 16, 1995.       Megan's Law -- now adopted throughout the country -- creates community notification programs that compel local police to tell residents when a serial rapist or pedophile is paroled into their neighborhoods. FULL TEXT
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      Susan Parker is devastated by the news and said she has been hard-pressed in recent weeks to find an alternative for her 5-year-old daughter, September. Parker pays $60 per week, which allows September to be at the center all day and ensures her two hot meals and a snack. In addition, the little girl learns to read, write, identify colors, shapes and do simple math.
      With the closure, Parker, a Clark County School District teacher, said she will be forced to pay more for less.
      Joseph has asked almost every local politician for help.
      Assemblyman Morse Arberry Jr., who is a neighborhood services manager for the city, has been working to help the center since learning of its plight late last week.
      "It is something that is needed and it has been performing at a top level for many many years. I am surprised that the group who made the commitment has not done something," said Arberry, who added his intention was not to "point the finger, but to assess what is going on so that we can do something."
      Others are asking a simple question: How can HUD, a federal conglomerate, sell a property and fail to make provisions for a federally supported program operating on the property?
      "HUD has just sort of washed its hands and dumped it on us," Orme said. "When I talked to HUD, to my recollection, they said they did not have any relocation responsibility to the day care center, they had some responsibility to the residents."

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