WEEK IN REVIEW: Reporters’ notebook

Here at the Review-Journal, we don't just write about the ravages of the recession; we do what we can to help, especially when it comes to our neighbors in some of Nevada's cash-strapped rural counties.

One R-J reporter was so generous that he got himself caught for speeding twice in three days on the same lonely stretch of highway. By the same state trooper both times. And at the exact same speed, an extremely charitable 83 mph.

Don't spend it all in one place, Lincoln County.

HENRY BREAN

The newest Las Vegas City Council member is a veteran of the legislature and no stranger to public speaking. But even Bob Coffin got turned around at last week's swearing-in ceremony for him and the new mayor, Carolyn Goodman.

"Thank you, your honor," he said to outgoing Mayor Oscar Goodman. "It'll be a pleasure to serve with the other Mrs. Goodman."

"There's more than one?" asked Oscar Goodman as the audience laughed.

"I don't keep track," Coffin replied. "I hope you do."

ALAN CHOATE

On Thursday, the Review-Journal told you about Khanh Pham, a local pharmacist who decided to begin collecting unused cancer drugs for those in need when no one else was participating in the program.

In a follow-up email to the paper, Pham said she got her first vial of donated drugs at 9:10 a.m. Thursday from a man who lost a friend to cancer.

"This nice gentleman drove from Henderson to the pharmacy today to give me the med," Pham wrote. "He told me that he read the newspaper at breakfast, and decided to drive here to drop it off."

Pham's business, Diabetes and Obesity Lifestyle Consultants Pharmacy, is at Rancho Drive and Charleston Avenue.

PAUL HARASIM

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