Seniors are invited to participate in the Celebrating Life! fine arts competition, Clark County town advisory boards announce meeting times and the Las Vegas Motor Speedway plans racing events.
Running for a cure is the idea behind participants for Team Challenge, a program under the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation designed to encourage fitness and awareness for the disease.
Question: We want to plant a pecan tree. Would you please recommend one for Las Vegas? If we plant one, can we cut it way back and keep it small like we did our other fruit trees?
Pizza is taken seriously here as fresh dough is made daily with the finest flour and olive oil, while the homemade sauce has a tasty blend of Italian herbs and spices.
It may be packed with more than 200 pages of photos of Las Vegas from the Strip to the surrounding desert, but Linda Chase’s “Picturing Las Vegas” is more than just a picture book. Chase, an author who grew up in Las Vegas, fills her pages with history, stories and trivia spanning from the city’s early history to today.
Visitors to Jean-Marie Auboine’s business are greeted by the overpowering fragrance of chocolate and perfectly preserved chocolate statues. A dragon, eagle, monkey and goblin occupy a desk that would usually belong to a receptionist.
The Las Vegas Area Council Boy Scouts of America invites the community to learn about scouting during the 2012 Mega Scout Expo scheduled for this weekend at Floyd Lamb Park at Tule Springs, 9200 Tule Springs Road.
Bryan Biernat thinks he has all the ingredients for success. The Centennial Hills resident plans to open the first Mr. Jim’s Pizza franchise in Nevada next month .
The Jenny Valdez Gallery inside The Arts Factory, 107 E. Charleston Blvd., plans to host an ArtisTea Garden Party from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday featuring treats and tea by brewed Ashanti McGee and tea cup and flower works from local and regional artists, from left, Lynne Adamson, Charmaine Gurule and Jenny Valdez. Other participating artists include Barbara Gomez, Theresa Lucero, Jana Lynch, Jaye and Nicholas Walsh . The event is free and open to the public. Visit jennyvaldez.com for more information.
For Centennial Hills resident Sue Gaines, it was the hospital social worker she met after her daughter’s suicide attempt who changed her family’s life. She gave Gaines the phone number for the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
Las Vegas building and safety officials are trying to piece together how their predecessors failed to see that the Southern Nevada Health District headquarters was on the brink of collapse.
Survivors of domestic violence, including a woman whose hands were severed in a machete attack, make a united stand Monday against the culture of silence and shame that can prevent victims from seeking life-saving help. The third annual Walk Against Domestic Violence Homicide, sponsored by Safe Faith United, drew about 50 people. It began at the Doolittle Community Center on J Street and ended on Stella Street, near Lake Mead and Martin Luther King boulevards.