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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.
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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.
For three days only, discovering Greece won’t require a costly trip around the globe. The annual Las Vegas Greek Festival is scheduled Friday through Sunday at the St. John Greek Orthodox Church, 5300 S. El Camino Road.
Over the decades, fields of grass at Buena Vista Springs became fields of glass. Broken bottles now litter the grounds of the once parklike apartment complex, where mothers are hesitant to let their children play.
For the second time in recent decades Las Vegas pawn shop owners Howard and Caryl Bock find themselves in the path of a major downtown casino expansion. Only this time they might not be able to get out of the way.
