In the Sunrise and Whitney areas, the loss of Borders may not have been felt as strongly as other parts of the valley. The big chain bookstore movement never made it there in the first place. Even without mega bookstores, eastsiders have a number of ways to get their read on. Area independent stores, authors and libraries are hard at work keeping the written word alive.
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The idea that Las Vegas residents don’t read isn’t true, according to some literary figures in the downtown and Paradise areas.
“Sweeney Todd” is scheduled for 8 p.m. today at Ovation at Green Valley Ranch Resort, 2300 Paseo Verde Parkway. Tickets are $15. Visit hendersonlive.com.
n LeAnn Rimes is scheduled to perform a benefit concert for StandUp for Kids at 7 p.m. Thursday at Ovation at Green Valley Ranch Resort, 2300 Paseo Verde Parkway. Guests must be 21 or older. Tickets are $9.55 and are available by calling 800-745-3000 or visiting stationcasinos.com/concerts.
Denise Tatum once spent nine weeks at Vermont’s Middlebury College speaking only in Mandarin Chinese. After spending four summers in China and earning a bachelor’s degree in Asian studies from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, she now teaches Chinese and English at Liberty High School.
(It has been more than) eight years since we have moved here to help our (other) daughter and husband with their son. We have had to balance that joy with the daily grief of watching our other once beautiful daughter fight off the horrible effects of anorexia/bulimia. We have begged her husband to get her help. Her other siblings have come to Las Vegas and have called her to try to keep some relationship if at all possible.
The Henderson Professional Fire Fighters and the Henderson Police Officers’ Association are preparing to compete in the upcoming S.A.F.E. House benefit by having a little bit of fun and slinging a little bit of trash talk.
Veterans triangle in the Desert Views subdivision was named for three Henderson men killed in the Korean War.
Bookstores may close. Libraries might cut back services. Readers might grow scarce. But the need to have stories survives. “There was a headline I read that said books are dead,” said Jarrett Krosoczka, author of children’s books “Punk Farm” and the “Lunch Lady” series. “I think that is very short-sighted because stories will never be dead.”