Learn about First Friday’s hiatus, city meetings, plans for the historic Las Vegas Grammar School Branch No. 1 campus and Variety Early Learning Center sites, downtown events, gallery exhibits and more.
Decades ago, the local chapter of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Rebekahs was located in downtown’s booming Glitter Gulch.
At that time, there were more than 300 members ready and willing “to improve and elevate the character of man.” Las Vegan Helen Leonard has watched the local membership at the Oasis Rebekah and Artesia Odd Fellow lodges dwindle down to a few dozen members.
In an effort to improve test scores at underperforming schools in the downtown and North Las Vegas areas, the Clark County School District is recommending a dozen reform initiatives for the coming school year. A public input session regarding the district’s plan is scheduled from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. today at Nevada Partners, 710 W. Lake Mead Blvd.
North Las Vegas is locked in several legal battles while attempting to bridge a $30.3 million budget shortfall in fiscal year 2012. The financially strapped city, which is losing $165,000 every week budget cuts are delayed, has retained outside counsel for a handful of separate lawsuits.
A new area McDonald’s steps things up a notch with live jazz music.
When Lizzie Reyes starts her freshman year at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the fall, she will boldly tell her professors about her visual impairment. But her confidence in asking for what she needs to learn hasn’t always been so fearless. “I used to just try and play it off,” the 18-year-old said. “I could get away with it until it came to reading anything.”
Welcome to the Music 4 Life Drum Circle, a Meet-up that is slated for 6 p.m. the third Thursday of every month at 6029 W. Charleston Blvd., on the southeast corner of Jones Boulevard, using the entrance facing west. Facilitator Judith Pinkerton named it Happy Hour Drum Circle as it’s only for adults.
Produce, crafts and entertainment are planned as part of the new fresh52 Farmers & Artisan Market on Saturdays at Tivoli Village at Queensridge. Shoppers looking for relief from summertime heat can shop in the market’s indoor portion, The Walk In.
Even though a bill allowing tastings and firsthand sales failed to get through the Legislature, Las Vegas Distillery owner George Racz is determined to think outside the box to get his business off the ground.
Parents will have a few more choices when they decide where to enroll their kids in school next month. Two new charter schools are scheduled to open in North Las Vegas and Whitney with a capacity of more than 1,000 students.
International nonprofit program Dress for Success has launched a Southern Nevada affiliate to provide women in job transition with professional attire for interviews. The Las Vegas chapter is working with clients referred by groups such as HELP of Southern Nevada and the Shade Tree Shelter.
Parents at some preschools have more of a reason to stick around after dropping off their kids. The United Way of Southern Nevada has sponsored seven Success By 6 Family Engagement Resource Centers within Las Vegas Valley preschools to engage parents to interact more with their children and each other.
The city of Henderson decided to bring best sustainability practices to the community by launching a new website, ourhenderson.com, at the end of June.
In his two-piece black power suit, Lucas Shaw approached the Henderson City Council like any other official, dignitary or member of the community to accept recognition for his sustainability practices, which dramatically increased recycling in his neighborhood. However, unlike most who step to the podium, Lucas is 12.
While watching “Project Green” on the Disney Channel and seeing children her age around the country make a difference, 10-year-old Lexi Lopez thought, “Why can’t I make a change?” The change that Lexi, then a fourth-grader, saw for her community was to start a community garden that would help feed people while making Henderson green.
Learn more about what’s going on in the Sunrise area from senior center, library and skateboard park events to town advisory board meetings.
A one-time after-school special program now has a brick-and-mortar building for budding engineers to stack on their skill sets. Bricks 4 Kidz Creativity Center, 7910 W. Tropical Parkway, Suite 150, opened in May to host classes, field trips, camps and birthday parties for Lego-savvy kids 18 months to high school age.
Plans for more than $650,000 in additions to the visitor experience on Mount Charleston are inching toward completion while some residents question the idea of a new neighbor.
For Chantall Everett to describe herself through her 43-year life, some unsavory identifiers would pop up with some triumphant ones. The Louisiana native spent about 18 months in a community of about a dozen people who called the mouth of the Flamingo Road-Swenson Street wash home. She met her fiance among them, a fellow addict but no less a comfort and protector.
This summer the superheroes aren’t just in the summer blockbusters and being featured at your friendly neighborhood comic shop. They’re at the Winchester Cultural Center in the original Winchester Players Production “ASAP Superhero Academy.” “ASAP stands for all super, all powerful, and it’s about all these superheroes on a floating island,” said Susan Swanson, who directs the Winchester Players with her brother, Chris Swanson. “It’s a place like ‘Brigadoon.’ All the superheroes wait there until they’re needed.”
Nevada Child Seekers plans to educate kids on how to resist aggression defensively during radKids classes set through mid-August.
Nevadans know unemployment better than anyone else. Youngsters here are getting used to it, too. The unemployment rate of Nevadans ages 16 to 19 is 34.5 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, second behind Georgia. Charles Nguyen, Jaime Estepa and Shane Haddad, 17-year-old valley residents, are finding out firsthand how tough it is.
From a pet cockroach to sickly and abandoned lions, Stefanatos’ philosophy of holistic veterinary medicine has ushered good health to thousands of Las Vegas animals in the last 39 years.
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