O2 On the Go, a support group for people who have pulmonary disease, meets at 10 a.m. the third Friday of each month at the H2U Office, 8524 Del Webb Blvd. (363-8329, 872-5395).
Nevada State Contractors Board investigators conducted a sting operation in the eastern area of Henderson recently for unlicensed contracting activity.
The season’s warmer months herald the beginning of summer entertaining for people who live in small homes. Now is the time to think about ways to maximize outdoor space and do more expansive entertaining than you’re able to do inside. Fire up the barbecue grill and pull out the umbrella tables and chairs. If you’re lucky enough to have a little bit of yard, start now to get the lawn and flower beds in shape.
Indoor pollution causes its share of problems — among them, exacerbating asthma.
: We recently bought a resale home. When we moved in, the front door took a beating. We were clumsy movers and we dented the door in several places. The door is metal and has been faded by the sun. Can we get rid of the dents or do we have to replace the door?
No one wants to come home at the end of the day to find several thousand ants crawling around the kitchen sink or discover half a dozen roaches gathered near the refrigerator celebrating their discovery of a three-day old piece of French toast. But household pests are a familiar site and they’re not going away.
Don’t you just love TV makeover shows where they completely transform a plain Jane into a beauty queen? The pros see her potential and bring it out using a few tricks of the trade. Now you can do the same thing in what, for many, is the most plain-Jane spot in the house: the front stairway.
: We have just harvested a huge crop of fruit from our seven-year-old apricot tree. However, I noticed sap blisters on some of the branches. The tree looks green and certainly healthy, but I’m worried that it may have some disease. I was told I might have borers, but I can’t see any. I bought something systemic to put around the tree and am wondering if that will be enough. It’s supposed to be good for getting rid of insects and borers.
For nine years, Louis Almaraz and his wife, Debra, watered their front lawn in Fresno, Calif., like other homeowners. For most of those years, the couple often talked about changing their landscape — to something along the lines of a desert theme.
“It’s not stress that kills us, it’s our reaction to it.” Hans Selye (1907-1982), Canadian endocrinologist.
First it was the Clippers’ Eric Gordon. Now it’s the New York Knicks’ Danilo Gallinari who is sidelined from the NBA Summer League with an injury.
Blue skies blanket the racetrack on almost every summer afternoon. The surrounding hills are covered in green, and right around the corner is the Pacific Ocean to help set a near-perfect scene.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — 51s catcher A.J. Ellis hit a two-run double to cap a ninth-inning rally, and the Pacific Coast League held off the International League in the bottom of the inning for a 6-5 win in the Triple-A All-Star Game on Wednesday night.
Roger Goodell is making sure the Bloods and the Crips have no place on an NFL football field.
• LAKE MEAD — The beach area has been slow for shore anglers. Some fishermen are using a jigging technique to take striped bass.
Two members of the 51s — third baseman Terry Tiffee and right-handed pitcher Mike Koplove — were among 23 players announced Wednesday to the U.S. baseball team that will participate in the Beijing Olympics.
Shortly before he drafted Marreese Speights with the 16th overall pick in last month’s NBA Draft, Philadelphia 76ers president and general manager Ed Stefanski decided it was time to make a pact with the 6-foot-10-inch forward from the University of Florida.
Preliminary results of the 2008 Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey were just released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and waterfowl hunters can expect to see fewer ducks when they go afield this fall. Preliminary estimates place the overall duck population at just more than 37 million birds, a 9 percent decline from the 2007 estimate of 41.2 million birds.
O.J. Mayo and Rodney Stuckey won’t be finished playing basketball in Las Vegas when the NBA Summer League ends this weekend.
CARSON CITY — The Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out a child support case involving an American Indian on the grounds the state cannot interfere in a tribal legal matter.
Clark County School Board members said Wednesday they plan to pull a $7 billion bond question for new construction off the November ballot, citing sluggish enrollment growth, the economic downturn and reductions in state funding.
CARSON CITY — An initiative petition pushed by state Senate candidate Sharron Angle to cap property taxes was given new life Wednesday by the Nevada Supreme Court.
CARSON CITY — A letter from the Nevada attorney general’s office stating that a new law regarding sex offenders will apply only to future cases and not to those who have already paid for their crimes was greeted cautiously Wednesday by a Las Vegas attorney.