Identify insets correctly to get proper pesticide

: I just read your column about spraying Thuricide early to prevent hornworm damage. Where do you spray, the ground or the actual plant? My problem is that these are in my very large ash trees. I have only actually seen one in the tree because they are so hard to spot up there, but their droppings tell me there are a lot of them.

Local events

August 13

Act now for better energy efficiency

I recently attended a series of seminars designed to inform Realtors, lenders, appraisers and builders about the importance of energy efficiency and green building. The program, hosted by the Green Alliance/Nevada Energy Star Partners, featured Sam Rashkin, the national director of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star for Homes program. The seminars were very informative and those in attendance definitely gained a leg up on the future of our housing market.

Brief

Cooperative Extension offers free gardening classes

Choices abound for pampering pooches

Angel and Nicole aren’t young any more, but to my wife and I they’ll always be our babies. I needn’t concern myself with what college they’ll be going to or who’ll pay for the wedding.

Double Your Pleasure

To keep your home’s décor fresh and exciting, many design experts recommend altering the look of a room. Among the ways this can be done are rearranging the layout of the furniture and by changing accessories seasonally.

Anthony’s potential high on, off field

Take the negative stereotypes you have heard or read or witnessed about a college athlete, put them in a coffee grinder and turn it on. UNLV Rebel Rodelin Anthony doesn’t fit any, right down to the classical music he meditates to minutes before kickoff.

51s drop three games below .500 with loss

Chris Robinson went 4-for-4, including his second home run of the season, to lead the Iowa Cubs to a 5-4 win over the 51s on Wednesday in a Pacific Coast League game at Des Moines, Iowa.

Investors rush to shooting club’s rescue

What was once the Desert Lake Shooting Club in Boulder City is about to be saved from extinction and given a new name. In June, Desert Lake members were notified the facility would close by the end of the month. The reason was never given, only a vague allusion to an unsuccessful lease negotiation.

FISHING REPORT

• LAKE MEAD — High winds made conditions difficult last week, but cooler weather provided good fishing last weekend. Anglers jigging or using top-water baits reported fair success for stripers in the Vegas Wash area. Cut anchovies are catching some stripers and cats on the bottom. Hemenway and the beach area have been slow. One boating angler reported success with anchovies near the tires at Hemenway in the evening.

Rebels’ Ely getaway is no vacation

Each day from the practice field at Broadbent Park, if UNLV’s football players have a moment, they can look up and see the steam-engine train roll by in the distance. Riding the train is one of the attractions, but the players know they will never have time to jump on board. They practice each day, going twice every other day. The rest of the time is spent in meetings studying previous practices and planning for the next one.

IN BRIEF

TENNIS

USFL attempts comeback

Attention: The following is an actual sports news item. It is not intended to be funny, though you might find it laughable.

ON TV/RADIO

BASEBALL

HORSE RACING

TODAY AT DEL MAR

Victim called innocent bystander in shooting that killed two, wounded one

Paul Rodelo’s family remembered him as an affectionate son and a gregarious man who liked to wear a cowboy hat and boots when he listened to traditional Mexican music. Rodelo died Tuesday night at University Medical Center, the second fatality resulting from a Monday shooting on a residential street near Decatur Boulevard and Sahara Avenue.

Police helicopter makes emergency landing

A Las Vegas police helicopter with two crew members on board made an emergency landing near Spring Mountain and Lindell roads Wednesday after the engine failed, a police lieutenant at the scene said.

Jury gets income tax case

Jurors start deliberating today whether business owner Robert Kahre and several others willfully broke federal law by taking their pay in gold and silver coins, but reporting only the coins’ modest face value on their income tax returns.

Physicians urged to speak out on health-care reform

If a Las Vegas physician’s idea continues to spread, doctors from around the country will march on Washington Oct. 1 to draw attention to their views on health care reform. “It is time that we stand up for ourselves,” obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Richard Chudacoff wrote in a June letter to a medical Web site that has become the catalyzing manifesto for an event now being planned as the Million Med March.

Waits double at DMV

RENO — Wait times have just about doubled at the Department of Motor Vehicles office in Reno since budget cuts forced the closure of three satellite offices in the region.

Search continues for teen

An 18-year-old Henderson teenager who went missing a week ago in northern Utah’s Green Canyon has not yet been found, authorities said Wednesday.

Onetime family friend chastised

Days after Giovanna Simmons, a mother of two, died from a gunshot wound suffered during the 2006 robbery of her apartment, Abell Dieudonne attended her funeral in Los Angeles.

CORRECTION

A story in Wednesday’s Review-Journal incorrectly reported how Gov. Jim Gibbons voted on an issue before the sate Board of Examiners on Tuesday. Gibbons voted to pay $10 million to a Washington, D.C., law firm to fight federal attempts to place nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain, despite questioning the need for the expenditure during the meeting.

Another one bites dust: A-list challengers to Reid keep bowing out

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid resembles a sharpshooter at the carnival, the guy who swaggers up and rat-a-tat-tat, he fires, and a line of ducks falls over. His girl is impressed and receives yet another stuffed teddy bear.

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