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Former referee opens boxing gym

How would you like to get in the boxing ring for 12 rounds with the greats at their peak — Mike Tyson, Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvin Hagler? Richard Steele has done it time and again. Not as an opponent but as the fight’s referee, something he did for roughly 30 years.

Create your own experience as you age

I’m excited to share my expertise as well as my journey with you in this column as I begin the evolution into my prime years. Although I bring an enthusiastic attitude, a strong will and a youthful mind-set, with many years of competitive sports and active living, I also suffer from the physical aches and pains from old sports injuries and arthritis.

Las Vegas resident and Army veteran shares his story of World War II

Still in his pajamas, he scaled an outer wall of the barracks as a plane slowly flew by — it was so low the 25-year-old Army soldier could see the pilot’s face. Beneath the wings, smoke spewed out of the machine guns’ barrels aimed straight at him. Aside from the tattered discharge certificate he keeps folded away, he has no pictures, no mementos from his decades-old Army days. He doesn’t need anything to recall the details of that scene — Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Prime View Briefs

Learn more about upcoming events such as the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open and the Family History Jamboree in this month’s Prime View Briefs.

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