Whitney and Sunrise Neighborhood News

Learn more about upcoming events, Clark County Town Advisory Board meetings and more in this week’s Whitney and Sunrise Neighborhood News.

Area briefing

Justice court to head program requiring mediation for small claims

DEBORAH WALL: Grand Canyon’s North Rim a step above

If a visit to the Grand Canyon National Park is on your summer schedule, I recommend heading to the canyon’s North Rim rather than the better-known and thus more crowded South Rim. The North Rim affords classic views just as stunning as those visible from the South Rim but you get to enjoy them in cooler weather. Summer daytime high temperatures on the North Rim average in the 70s. And nighttime lows drop to the 40s, making good sleeping weather for campers.

BOB MORRIS: Pick hibiscus at its peak for herb tea

Question: I have a roselle hibiscus plant. I’m trying to make the Mexican agua de jamaica. It has grown well and has many flowers, but I am afraid I will lose it if I don’t harvest and dry it correctly. When do I harvest it, and how do I dry it?

Favorite sons & daughters

Melissa K. Riddels has graduated from the College of Southern Nevada with an associate degree as a certified occupational therapist assistant.

Las Vegas resident and Army veteran shares his story of World War II

Still in his pajamas, he scaled an outer wall of the barracks as a plane slowly flew by — it was so low the 25-year-old Army soldier could see the pilot’s face. Beneath the wings, smoke spewed out of the machine guns’ barrels aimed straight at him. Aside from the tattered discharge certificate he keeps folded away, he has no pictures, no mementos from his decades-old Army days. He doesn’t need anything to recall the details of that scene — Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Letter to the editor

Trail is beautiful, inviting, but access problems keep residents from using it

A la carte

LAS VEGAS RESTAURANT WEEK
TO KICK OFF MONDAY

Things to do

Super Summer Theatre continues
with ‘Fiddler on the Roof’

Voter districts approved for Clark County School Board

After a contentious summer and 22 versions of electoral maps, the Clark County School Board and minority group representatives came to a consensus on the dividing lines Monday.

July passenger count rises at McCarran

In line with the trend this year, the July passenger count at McCarran International Airport rose 4.9 percent compared to one year ago.

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