A 6 -foot rocket hangs from the ceiling. Skateboard decks are next to upscale coloring books. The back wall is stacked from floor to ceiling with models ranging from tanks to the Titanic. Dansey’s Hobbies at 4252 E. Charleston Blvd. has everything but the kitchen sink. Actually, in a case near the front of the store, it has that, too. In fact, there’s a whole selection of tiny kitchen sinks and other household items.
No matter how well we have cared for ourselves, chances are that sooner or later, many of us will be faced with a serious injury, surgery or illness,” Prime View Health columnist Marie McDonald wrote in her March 1 column. At the time, she was in recovery from treatment for a brain aneurysm. McDonald died June 27.
With climbing temperatures, back yard cookouts and bathing suits hitting the racks of local retailers, summer in Las Vegas has arrived. On its heels came the reopening of the West Flamingo Pool Indoor Pool, 6255 W. Flamingo Road, June 6.
Ballroom dancing classes for ages 50 or older are scheduled from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays and 2 to 4 p.m. Fridays at the Las Vegas Senior Center, 451 E. Bonanza Road. Live music is provided by Boyd Coulter and his band. There is a $4 fee each day. Call 229-6454 for more information.
It has been only two months since the state made things official for Silver Sky at Deer Springs Assisted Living Center, but its seven current residents already have made themselves a family unit.
Would you like to swing on a star, carry moonbeams home in a jar, and be better off than you are, or would you rather be a mule, pig, etc.? I think that’s the definitive song of the ’50s. We all loved Bing Crosby.
Southwest Las Vegas resident Lily Adamczyk, 63, has been painting for more than 40 years.
It was her love affair with art that pushed her to self-expression with oil painting, almost accidentally.
“I discovered in an odd way that I had talent for this,” she said.
Tony Bennett is one of a handful of artists to have had hit albums in the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s and into the millennium. There’s no one like this 85-year-old American icon, who is performing at the Palms on July 24.
There are at least three major things in life that impress Las Vegas resident Victoria Beimfohr — a man in uniform, medical knowledge and books. During her 88 years of living, she was married to two Army officers, served as a nurse in the Army and volunteered at two local public libraries.
At an age when most people are retired, Linda Lange is busy with her own talent agency and having a great time.
