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Dick Worthen and his wife, LaRue, have not one street named after them, but two. Both are near Westcliff and Buffalo drives. There’s Worthen Circle to the south and LaRue Court immediately north. In 1983, the Worthens bought 10 acres of barren desert land in the Las Vegas Valley for about $150,000. Don Worthen, a general contractor, planned to use lots on five of those acres for all seven of his children.
Nobody knew longtime Clark County School District educator Thomas J. O’Roarke better than his wife, Shirley. The couple had a love affair that spanned more than three decades until Thomas O’Roarke’s death in 2003. It was then that Shirley learned things about her husband that she perhaps never would have known.
Learn more about Vegas PBS’s annual Keeping Kids Fit 5K Run & 1-Mile Walk, Town Advisory Board meetings, an Special Olympics Nevada’s Over the Edge leap off the Rio in this week’s Sunrise/Whitney Neighborhood News.
Wayne Newton’s former music director Scotty Alexander is scheduled to perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday in Roxy’s inside Sam’s Town. The Celebrity City Chorus, part of Sweet Adelines International, is scheduled to perform a free barbershop concert at 7:30 p.m. today at the Community Lutheran Church. Learn about these and other community events in this week’s Things to Do.
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 Cora Coleman Senior Center was named for a remarkable woman who might have gone unsung but for her daughters political office.