Las Vegas resident Simone Salen remembered her father, Israel “Sol” Goldhirsch, reading from his diary when she was a child. He had carefully recorded his arrest by the Gestapo and his family’s escape from Vienna to the Netherlands in 1938 and then to England in 1939. Salen’s mother was four months pregnant with Salen when the Nazis began taking over Austria. Her father talked about one day finishing the book, but he died at 39, and soon after, the diary was taken by an intruder along with many personal family treasures. In 2012, the diary resurfaced, and Salen was finally able to read her family’s story. She shares the tale in the book “My Father’s Lost Diary: A Personal Account of the Jewish Holocaust in Europe (1937–1942).” Salen is scheduled to sign copies of the book at 7 p.m. Saturday at the 2191 N. Rainbow Blvd. Barnes & Noble. For more on the book, visit simonesalen.com.
Several local organizations are offering kids a safe place to be during spring break, March 25-29. The city of Las Vegas, Clark County, the YMCA of Southern Nevada, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Las Vegas and Henderson and J.R. Pony Parties have options.
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With the 2013 city of Henderson elections under way, residents have the chance to vote on candidates running for mayor, City Council seat Ward 3 and Municipal Court judge Department 1.
Four candidates are vying to become the City Council member to serve Henderson’s Ward 3.
Tacos headline here with soft or hard shells filled with beef, chicken, cabeza (beef cheek), fried pork, beef tongue, chorizo or beef tripe.
A deli, no matter what kind it is, is at the heart of everything we love about food. And when the deli serves pizza, the love is even greater.
Pho is a popular Vietnamese street dish consisting of a broth made with rice noodles, herbs and meat. The two main varieties are chicken pho and beef pho.
In the upcoming election, Henderson offers four choices for Municipal Court Judge Department 1.
Since 2004, Richard Steele has offered after-school programs at his boxing club, 2475 W. Cheyenne Ave., that have kept kids off the streets and out of trouble. The nine programs were funded by the state’s Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Agency, but on Aug. 1, the gym lost its funding.
Village Square, 9400 W. Sahara Ave., kick-starts the first quarter of 2013 with the arrival of three more businesses: computer repair shop NVpcfix, Chinita Mexican Bar & Grill and investment consulting firm NEPC LLC.
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Between magic tricks and jokes, Mac King had some solid advice for McCall Elementary School students. “The more books you read, the happier you’ll be,” King told the crowd of second-graders at a March 1 assembly.
A new 33,000-square-foot Advanced Health Care Corp. skilled nursing facility is scheduled to bring more than 90 jobs to the area in early 2014. Nearby, CareMeridian Las Vegas has purchased and remodeled an 11,500-square-foot facility for post-acute care services.
Read about news and events happening in the Summerlin and Summerlin South areas.
If you want to be hip and edgy, you’ve got to have the beat. The Beat Dance Academy has opened at the Las Vegas Sports Park, 1400 N. Rampart Blvd., and offers classes for children 2 or older.
For many bars and an assortment of other venues in the valley, St. Patrick’s Day is one of the busiest days of the year. Most spots that have even the slimmest connection to the Emerald Isle will have drink specials, and many will be selling corned beef and cabbage and green beer.
A new exhibit featuring photography by Steven Dansky is scheduled to open March 19 and continue through May 19 at the Sunrise Library, 5400 Harris Ave. The show not only explores the artistic and cultural nature of graffiti, it uses graffiti as the starting point for unique art.
The Clark County School District recently opened the new John F. Miller School at 3840 Pecos-McLeod Interconnect, replacing the old school at 1905 Atlantic St. Miller serves about 125 of the district’s most severely disabled and medically fragile students from ages 3 to 21.
Residents can soon perfect their green thumbs when land plots become available at Floyd Lamb at Tule Springs, 9200 Tule Springs Road, as part of a community garden.
ViaWest, a large data center, cloud computing and managed services provider, opened its third location in the Las Vegas Valley on East Lone Mountain Road in North Las Vegas.
Adam Kozlowski wants to change the way movies are made. The North Las Vegas filmmaker came to the area four years ago to join the cast of “The Lion King” at Mandalay Bay.
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