In recognition of Friday as National Donut Day, the chain is offering a free doughnut with the purchase of a beverage.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 25 percent of U.S. adults have a mental illness and 54 million experience some form of a mental disorder in a given year. Patrick Bozarth, executive director of the Community Counseling Center of Southern Nevada, said that, particularly in a city such as Las Vegas, that disorder often leads to substance abuse of some kind.
The band at Foothill High School will sell fireworks, organize fundraisers and use any other method needed to get the money to travel to Pasadena, Calif., for the Tournament of Roses Parade on Jan. 2, 2017, at which the band recently found out it will be performing.
The city of Henderson was recently awarded a $60,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Reinvestment Fund that will help it invest in healthy lifestyles for its residents.
The U.S. Department of State estimates that 80 percent of the 600,000 to 800,000 people trafficked across international borders every year are trafficked for sex. Of those, approximately 80 percent are females and up to 50 percent are children. The questions for many sex trafficking and prostitution researchers are who are the buyers and why do they do it? After all, these are the drivers of this billion-dollar industry.
Jon Burpee likes to say he has a mammoth of an undertaking. As the first permanent superintendent of the Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument in Las Vegas, he is in charge of leading the establishment of one of the nation’s newest parks. The monument was established in December to conserve a collection of fossils that are up to 200,000 years old.
The First Friday arts festival is scheduled from 5 to 11 p.m. June 3 at venues throughout the 18b Arts District in downtown Las Vegas.
Core The Pilates Studio owner Jessica Rabbo said she’s seen plenty of success stories come out of her studio at 6115 S. Fort Apache Road, Suite 104, with inches and pounds shaved away. But the successes that are most significant to her come from clients seeking rehabilitation from injury, illness and disease.
In honor of its semicentennial anniversary on the Las Vegas Strip, Caesars Palace announced a series of events and promotions as part of its “Summer of Caesars.”