The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation’s highest civilian honor. Teachers have changed the country for the better for years and yet not one K-12 teacher has been honored with the medal.
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Jeffrey Klein, CEO of Nevada Senior Services, says Las Vegas already needs more than the two nonprofit adult day-care facilities where baby boomers drop off older loved ones or are dropped off themselves.
With a growing giraffe at his Lion Habitat Ranch, Keith Evans needed to build a taller barn. He did. Now he’s working to get it insulated and wired for heat to ensure Ozzie the giraffe stays cozy and warm throughout the winter.
When Patti Novak’s marriage crumbled, she decided to be a matchmaker. Her kind of in your face advice — “Don’t eat with your mouth open” — has helped her become a TV star, a book author, and the holder of a lucrative career. She shows that unmitigated gall can make the American Dream possible.
Sam Kaufman,now the CEO of the new Henderson Hospital, said he originally went public with his weight loss surgery to help others gain the courage to take care of their weight problems. He now says that going public helped him as well, by putting a positive pressure on himself to succeed.
When Mason VanHouweling was in the Air Force Reserves — he was stationed in Afghanistan after 9/11 —, he fell in love with his future wife largely through emails and telephone calls. He credits her support for helping him turn around the financial affairs of UMC.
Lisa Harun is one of 8000 entrepreneurs in Las Vegas this week for a marijuana business convention. She believes she has made a watertight vaping device that allows one to inhale weed while showering.
The recent election has show a great class, cultural and racial divide. Some people say the draft should be restored because it helps Americans realize that we’re all human. Does it take the threat of war for Americans to understand this?
Michael O’Dowd has been honored both statewide and nationally for his direction of schools. Now he’s taken on a new challenge, the principalship of Pinecrest Academy Inspirada K-8 charter school in Henderson. Parents appreciate the way he tries to make his school competitive nationally and teachers appreciate that he leads by example, working long hours every day.
Guy Lashlee was a Marine Corps navigator who was shot down and lived to tell about it. Today, he says that you don’t have to live on the edge, to stare death in the face, to feel really alive.