The Darling Tennis Center has hired a new coach, Henner Nehles, for its high-performance youth program. Nehles was one of the most decorated tennis players at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, earning Mountain West Region Most Valuable Student Athlete of the Year and National Intercollegiate Tennis Association Mountain Region Senior Athlete of the Year.
With the temperatures warming up, it’s almost time to wrap up the spring hiking season in Lake Mead National Recreation Area. With that in mind, you might want to sneak in one more low-elevation trail before it becomes unbearably hot and unsafe to do so.
Question: Inspired by you, I have planted a tree from your recommended tree list and another that I don’t think is in there, a Meyer lemon. I planted a lemon after seeing other people in the valley having success with it. I would like to know what precautions I should take growing a lemon tree here.
Hospice volunteers usually expect to lose patients within six months. Betsy Burnett, a veteran volunteer, was used to this. Her current patient, Elizabeth “Betty” Twohey, who is 104, did not follow the trend. She has been in hospice care for five years.
Las Vegas surgeon Kevin Petersen often hears that good hard-working people fall through the government’s health care safety net. That is why he continues Helping Hands Surgical Care, a nonprofit that has a half-dozen doctors performing surgeries at no cost to the uninsured.
Every time I hear sports talk show host Paul Howard selling LASIK eye surgery – it only took him a few painless minutes to acquire 20-15 vision – I think of a woman I wrote about in Texas who lost her sight from a laser procedure. Her emotional appeal to me to let people know that such surgery is not without risk has stayed with me.
A line of dumbbells at the gym start out harmlessly enough, at 5 pounds. A few steps down the line, you’ll spot the 20s and 30s, then the 60s, and before you know it you’re at the 140-pounders thinking, why bother?
I’ll show you why gyms provide a variety of dumbbells.
