Middle school students in North Las Vegas recently met at Mojave High School for workshops meant to keep them focused on succeeding in high school and preparing for college.
Southwest area artist, dancer and yoga instructor Jamie Tam, known to many in the entertainment and yoga communities as Jada Fire, started her journey as a performer in Las Vegas on Sept. 11, 2001, when she left her home state of New York bound for Las Vegas just three hours before the World Trade Center towers fell.
Animals deserve 24-hour access to emergency care when it’s desperately needed.
That’s why doctors, nurses and specialists from the Las Vegas Veterinary Clinic are thrilled to see a sister center, Veterinary Emergency + Critical Care open as an around-the-clock emergency clinic for animals.
The facility was scheduled to open today at 8650 W. Tropicana Ave.
Whether it’s vagrants leaving trash or robbers out to make a score, crime comes with owning or operating a business, and the Metropolitan Police Department is out to help stamp it out. It offers three-hour seminars outlining ways local businesses can be safer.
At 24 years old, insurance agent and amateur athlete Bruce Balch was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Balch, now 48, has been an avid cyclist since graduating from Western High School in 1980. He said he always ate right and competed in triathlons and continued to do so even after being diagnosed with and surviving cancer at age 24.
Candidates Wade Wagner and Richard Cherchio square off for City Council Ward 4 on issues such as balancing the budget and the future of North Las Vegas.
Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers locations in the Las Vegas Valley will be collecting gently used mobile phones and donations for Cell Phones for Soldiers and local military members during May.
The Las Vegas Central Rotary Club is scheduled to host a fundraiser for local charities and youth groups starring comedian Don Barnhart and magicians Kyle Knight and Mistie at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Clarion Hotel, 305 Convention Center Drive. Tickets cost $29.95 and are available for purchase at the door or by visiting brownpapertickets.com. For more information, call 466-4121.
Nearly 400 volunteers constructed a new playground in six hours May 4 at the 100 Academy of Excellence, 2341 Comstock Drive. The state-of-the-art playground came as a result of the school teaming with nonprofit group KaBOOM! and Surgical Care Associates, which sent 300 volunteers to help.
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North Las Vegas native Lance Mazmanian moved to Los Angeles years ago to pursue a career in the film industry’s epicenter.
At 12, he made his first Super 8 millimeter film movies using a camera he purchased from a store on East Flamingo Road and South Maryland Parkway. The money he used was earned from selling subscriptions to the Las Vegas Review-Journal door-to-door.
The Dog House announces its grand opening celebration from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Tivoli Village at Queensridge at Rampart Boulevard and Alta Drive.
The good news for Highland Falls Golf Course is the Sun City Summerlin course was chosen this year as the Best of Las Vegas by readers of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The bad news for Angel Park Golf Club is the 36-hole course, which sits just outside the boundary of Summerlin, has fallen to second place after being No. 1 in the hearts of readers for each of the previous 13 years.
Sun City Dance Company Las Vegas plans to present “Showtime 2011” at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Starbright Theatre, 2215 Thomas W. Ryan Blvd. Tickets are $11. For ticket information, contact Joelene Carter at 341-9813.
NEW YORK — Playing dress up or running around the park, kids can be so darn cute. Until it’s 3 a.m. and they won’t go the (bleep) to sleep.
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