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Veteran Las Vegas sportswriter Rob Miech was given behind-the-scenes access to the College of Southern Nevada’s baseball team to follow the rise of Bryce Harper, a local high school sports star who got his GED after his sophomore year and joined the CSN team to hone his skills with the wooden bat and to be eligible for the Major League Baseball draft a year early.
Both the Black Mountain Aquatic Complex, 599 Greenway Road, and the Desert Breeze Aquatic Center, 8275 Spring Mountain Road, will play host to nearly 600 dogs during the pools’ annual end-of-season events.
If Carrie Walters wanted to play football growing up, she had to do so with the boys. And so she did. Since she was 6, she was in the huddle with boys. She made tackles and got knocked down just like the rest of them. She played in Las Vegas up until high school when she was not allowed on the boys team.
For the international Hispanic community, Sept. 15 marks the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month, as well as Independence Day for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. For the valley’s Hispanic community, it marks the annual Fiesta Las Vegas Latino Parade & Festival downtown.
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Nevada chapter plans a Rock the Walk fundraiser with dinner, cocktails, entertainment and areas where children can play from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd. Tickets start at $50. Call 732-4795 or visit jdrflv.org.
Batteries are ubiquitous in modern society, from the tiniest button-sized lithium-ion variety to the lead-acid vehicle batteries. If they wind up in a landfill, they break down and leach heavy metals into the ground that can then end up in the groundwater, experts say.
Downtown Las Vegas is home to major casinos, small businesses and – come later this year – retail giant Zappos Inc. What residents may not know, however, is that downtown is also the center for companies that focus on the valley but have national and international ties.
Genocide in various countries has resulted in millions of deaths during the last few decades. These events, however, are not often covered in the mainstream media, and a few people downtown are looking to change that.
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