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On Monday, gathering with the family to stamp out smoking, drinking and drug use will be part of a balanced meal.
The second annual “Family Day A Day to Eat with Your Children” is to be observed Monday. The occasion is intended to encourage families to remove distractions such as televisions and video games and have dinner together.
n The UNLV Chamber Orchestra plans a free public concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Doc Rando Recital Hall at UNLV, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway.
With its kempt Scotch ’80s homes on one end and its aging infrastructure on the other, Ward 1 seems to be a tale of two cities.
About 100,000 people live in one of the city’s oldest areas, battling graffiti, drug houses, decaying sidewalks and abandoned homes. Squatters have taken over on some properties, at times, pirating electricity and other utilities.
Question: Help! My Italian cypress are drying out and dying mostly from the top down. They have their own bubblers for water.
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If you have ever aspired to hike the world-famous Zion Narrows, over the next month or so is an ideal time to do so. Water and air temperatures remain as pleasant as they’ll ever be, and the threat of flash flooding is lower than the last couple of months.
Children with disabilities face an uphill battle in school as it is. For those without parents or guardians to look out for their best interests, it’s even tougher.
The Educational Surrogate Parent Program provides these children with an advocate whose sole purpose is to ensure their academic needs are being met.
Clark County School District administrators, counselors and teachers visited about 300 homes across the Las Vegas Valley on a recent Saturday morning as part of the Reclaim Your Future initiative to encourage students who have not enrolled this year to come back to class.
Joi A. Goynes, a 2011 graduate of Faith Lutheran Jr/Sr High School, maintained the level of Merit Scholar throughout high school.
Major faults run up the entire Las Vegas Valley, and it’s only a matter of time until a big earthquake hits, flattening nearly every building here. The Strip is built on sandy soil that will be subject to soil liquefaction, which would result in all the casinos sinking straight down into the earth. Well, actually, the truth is quite a bit better than that, but that doesn’t stop the doomsday scenario from being a popular local urban myth.
