The second annual Slam the Dam event, an open water swim zone championship, is planned for this weekend at Lake Mead’s Boulder Beach.
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It takes an assembly line approach to feed the Clark County School District’s 175,000 students who eat school lunches, and it’s a big to-do to feed students in the nation’s fifth-largest school district a healthy meal for $3 or less.
Question: My biggest question is how to rid my raised vegetable beds of the abundance of bugs of all sorts who have made their home there over the past couple years. I love the little “roly poly” bugs but have a thousand of them in my gardens causing problems.
With steely eyes, the two, two-person teams stare at each other across the parquet floor. In the moments before the serve, they size each other up and adjust the grip on their paddles. With a distinctive “pa-thwock,” the ball is in play, and the modern-day gladiators move into the challenge, for this is pickleball.
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New York Post television writer Michael Starr plans to sign copies of his new book “Black and Blue: The Redd Foxx Story” at 1 p.m. Saturday at the 2191 N. Rainbow Blvd. Barnes & Noble.
Festival season is well underway, but there is one that Las Vegas hasn’t seen the likes of yet. The Asian Food Festival and Trade Show will debut on Saturday and Sunday at The Orleans, 4500 W. Tropicana Ave.
Daniel DiRisio, 19, received the Biola University Academic and Service Scholarship for the 2011-12 school year. The school is in La Mirada, Calif.
After years of revving up law enforcement and lawmakers’ tempers and fatality statistics, cellphone use while driving is on a direct collision course with unlawfulness.
Loaded with hundreds of full-color pictures and thousands of cool factlets, “Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Strikingly True” is one of those books you can rest assured kids will love to read because of the subject matter inside it.
What they’ll find in here will satisfy their curiosity and appeal to their sense of odd. Because this book is so browseable, it fits any attention span and several reading levels (although — beware — some of what’s in here might be too scary for smaller kids). And because it’s the same Ripley’s you grew up with, this is one of those books you can get caught reading, too.
SuperRun Classic Car Show, the largest classic car show in Southern Nevada featuring more than 1,000 muscle, classic and model cars, is returning to Henderson Thursday through Sunday. Art Kam, the director of the Las Vegas Crusin Association, said people from across the Las Vegas Valley and from California, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah come out to show off their cars.