It’s the culmination of physical effort. All the running, arm pumping and gasping for breath comes down to this moment. Sixteen members of the Las Vegas Heat Youth Track Club are competing in the Junior Olympics through Sunday at Cessna Stadium in Wichita, Kan.
Dozens of people pleaded with the North Las Vegas City Council at its July 20 meeting not to close the community’s recreational centers to make up for the city’s budget shortfalls. The young and the gray-haired spent more than two hours discussing what would happen if the centers closed their doors, painting a bleak picture of unhappy, unhealthy seniors who might go hungry and teenagers who might resort to criminal activity when their time isn’t filled by arts, sports and music classes.
In the northernmost point of North Las Vegas, immersed in the dry desert climate 300 miles from the nearest ocean, saltwater shrimp are thriving. The 30,000-square-foot Blue Oasis Pure Shrimp Farm opened at the beginning of the month in the Kapex area of the city, 30 miles north of the Strip. The $5 million farm aims to produce fresh, sustainable, white shrimp from pond to plate to a majority of the west coast.
Lida Kilchenko starts her freshman year at UNLV this fall, but she’s already completed her first major commission, a mural at Teri Lyn Vander Heiden’s Senior Smart House in the foothills of Frenchman Mountain.
Months after an unsuccessful run for the mayor’s job, city of Las Vegas Ward 6 Councilman Steve Ross could lose his current position if a local group gets its way.
Not every historic casino in Las Vegas is imploded. Railroad Pass Hotel & Casino, the oldest operating casino in Nevada, plans to celebrate its 80th anniversary Monday.
It was a good birthday for 16-year-old Julian Glasser, who was selected from about 200 applicants to participate in the Nature Valley First Tee Open at Pebble Beach, Calif.
Welcome to the Music 4 Life Drum Circle, a Meet-up that is slated for 6 p.m. the third Thursday of every month at 6029 W. Charleston Blvd., on the southeast corner of Jones Boulevard, using the entrance facing west. Facilitator Judith Pinkerton named it Happy Hour Drum Circle as it’s only for adults.
The Clark County Shooting Range now has a $50,000 grant to take aim at promotional and marketing measures to draw more visitors to the park, 11357 N. Decatur Blvd.
