Tucked away alongside a stretch of the 125-mile Amargosa River, west of Pahrump and east of Death Valley National Park, is the quaint, tiny town of Shoshone, Calif.
Bryan Vellinga was on a path to become an accountant when he took a horticulture class and discovered his green thumb. Vellinga owns North Las Vegas-based Garden Farms, a company that not only plants personal gardens in people’s backyards, but teaches them to care for the plants, too.
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—“Miss Nelson is Missing” is scheduled for 10 a.m. today in the Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway. Tickets are $8.75 in advance. Visit ctcinc.ort or call 800-606-0424.