Book review: “Year of the Jungle” by Suzanne Collins
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Tourists stared and pointed, phones were fished out of pockets and purses and drivers laid on their horns as several dozen boats rolled along the Strip early Sunday evening.
A federally funded program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, assists low-income pregnant women, mothers and children under age 5. WIC programs across the nation face uncertainty in the wake of the federal government shutdown.
Opportunity Village is hosting its inaugural HallOVeen event at the Magical Forest, 6300 W. Oakey Blvd. The event will be open every Friday-Sunday in October.
One Drop, established by Cirque du Soleil’s Guy Lalibert, is a global initiative to develop innovative water access and management projects in rural regions of the world. Several hundred participants began their 5.6 mile walk at the South Point hotel-casino and ended at the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino.
More than 1,300 open container violations have been tossed from the Municipal Court system after Las Vegas city officials decided the citations didn’t contain enough information to support prosecution.
Firefighters had to extract passengers who were trapped in a vehicle near Summerlin after a head-on collision Saturday evening.
The cannon at the Flutter Fetti booth near the front of the gambling trade show in Las Vegas last week delivered regular bursts of metallic and crepe paper cutouts, shooting them to the ceiling in big booms and carpeting the floor with shimmering hearts, stars and circles. The glittery mess outshone the slot machines and online poker touchscreens in more ways than one.
Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services on Friday afternoon held an open house at its new Drop-In Center near Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas. Gov. Brian Sandoval and Sen. Joe Hardy, R-Boulder City, attended the event.
The Phoenix Zoo announced it had acquired two Patagonian cavies, two red-rumped agoutis and two Chinese alligators from the Southern Nevada Zoological Park.
Rosie Chavez left her war-ridden country of El Salvador in 1986 after gunfire broke out in front of her during a shift at a retail store. Under a different circumstance, Javier Chavez arrived in the United States in 1988 with the simple intention of working hard and buying his father a truck. Their search for a better future landed the couple the opportunity to start a business, La Flor de Michoacan, which has since grown into a franchise and four shops.
More than 150 people recently got together at the DavidBartonGym in Suite 200 at Tivoli Village, 410 S. Rampart Blvd., and performed 108 sun salutation yoga positions. Their goal was to raise money for and awareness of Yoga Gangsters, a charitable organization with branches across the country that bring yoga to at-risk youths.
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