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Fort Haven Thrift Store owner Michael Huff is a firm believer in second chances. He sells used furniture and other goods at his store. He gives war veterans opportunities to work when no one else will hire them. He even offers food to those who are homeless and hungry.
In the early days of the United States’ involvement in World War II, when many Japanese Americans were being sent to internment camps, Clark County Sheriff Gene Ward brought the newly appointed local FBI agent down to meet Yonema “Bill” Tomiyasu, who had lived in the valley a quarter century by then.
The Teach For America program offers recent graduates of all degrees a chance to become educators, placing them at schools in at-risk communities. TFA is a national nonprofit organization that recruits college students for two-year teaching commitments.
Las Vegas Boulevard is unusual for many reasons, but among them is the presence of two major airports on the valley’s best-known and busiest roads. In any major disaster, the airports would be involved.
The Rainbow Company Youth Theatre plans to present “Charlotte’s Web” Friday through Oct. 16 at the Charleston Heights Arts Center. The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, 3800 Las Vegas Blvd. South, is offering free admission to visitors from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday. The Atomic Testing Museum, 755 E. Flamingo Road, is hosting “Area 51: Special Projects.” Learn more about these and other events in this week’s Things to Do.
It’s time to strap on that corset, kilt or suit of chain mail that’s been hiding in your closet and head to the Age of Chivalry Renaissance Festival. But if you head to the festival’s longtime home at Sunset Park you’ll be there alone. The annual event is set to fill Silver Bowl Park while Sunset Park undergoes renovations.
Question: I hope you can help with a small problem with our dwarf peach tree. Something is shredding the leaves, and I cannot see anything after a close inspection. Could this be a nocturnal pest?
With the temperatures in our region finally cooling off, now is a good time to head out to Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. There are many canyons to explore in the park but Pine Creek Canyon should be tops on your short list.
Whether she’s writing Silver Sister Mysteries under her own name or penning romantic suspense novels under the pen name Arliss Adams, Las Vegas author Morgan St. James is the picture of prolific. In addition to her fiction, St. James recently released “Writers’ Tricks of the Trade: 39 Things You Need to Know About the ABCs of Writing Fiction,” a how-to book designed to help others pursue the dream she realized at age 68 when her first novel, “A Corpse in the Soup,” was published. For more on the author, visit morganstjames-author.com.
Edward Gonzalez of Las Vegas and Ajit Kundanani of North Las Vegas received the Agency Hands in the Community Award from The Allstate Foundation for their commitment to helping others in their area.
Check out this week’s Book Briefs for information about Readings in the Pumpkin Patch, a children’s book event tied to the Vegas Valley Book Festival, and signings for Imani True’s “Strawberries, Stilettos and Steam” and Deborah Wall’s “Base Camp Las Vegas: Hiking the Western States.”
Clark High School ninth-grader Sara Dula hadn’t seen a dentist in years. Her family couldn’t afford it. Her lack of regular check-ups would have continued had the dentist not come to her. Future Smiles, a nonprofit group that provides oral health care to at-risk students, opened a clinic last month in a modular building at Clark, 4291 W. Pennwood Ave.
POLICE RECORDS BUREAU TO REOPEN SATURDAY AFTER ONE-WEEK CLOSURE
The Metropolitan Police Department’s records bureau is set to reopen at 7 a.m. Saturday at the department’s new headquarters in Building C at 400 S. Martin Luther King Blvd.
Happy New Year! A new year brings new beginnings and new opportunities to enrich our lives. This year, I encourage you to find that enrichment in the garden. Although the winter chill is still here, now is the time to start preparing your garden for a bountiful harvest of warm-season crops. Whether you are a seasoned gardener or a first-time newbie, proper preparation is the secret to a thriving desert garden.
Police are investigating the deaths of two people found inside a residence Wednesday morning in the southwest Las Vegas Valley.
The decision to raise fees and tuition for non-resident students by up to 12 percent over the next three years is aimed at addressing a budget shortfall.
The crash happened at 12:50 a.m. Tuesday in the eastbound lanes of the I-215 at Jones Boulevard in the southern Las Vegas Valley, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
The supermarket chain bought 11 acres but hasn’t started construction yet.
