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Favorite Sons & Daughters

Jordan Doctors, a freshman at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was among 44 students worldwide chosen to conduct scientific research at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.

Book Briefs

This week’s book event highlights include signings with H. Lee Barnes, Erin Lale, JoAnn Oppenheimer, Judy McFadden and information on the The Jewish Community Center of Southern Nevada’s fourth annual Jewish Book & Arts Festival.

Literary Las Vegas: ‘Tales From Fremont Street’

“Tales From Fremont Street,” a collection of six interconnected graphic stories edited by Pop! Goes the Icon publisher Pj Perez, taps the talents of Ed Hawkins, The Fillbach Brothers (Matt and Shawn), Jarret Keene, Victor Moya, Deryl Skelton, F. Andrew Taylor, Evan Dent, Warren Wucinich, Dylan Todd and Jska Priebe.

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Things to do in Paradise/Downtown

City of Las Vegas staffers are set to say goodbye to the Bridge Gallery on the second floor of Las Vegas City Hall with “A Walk on the Wild Side.” The Musical Arts Chorus plans to perform Felix Mendelssohn’s St. Paul Oratorio and Las Vegas Academy is putting on “Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”

Area briefing

SEMINAR TO FOCUS ON WORKPLACE VIOLENCE PREVENTION

Neon Museum facility taking shape to preserve local history

A decade-long vision is scheduled to come to fruition next year when construction of the La Concha Visitor Center at the Neon Museum, 821 Las Vegas Blvd. North, is complete.

Club encourages students to advocate for animals

The Las Vegas Academy Paws for Change club plans to host a Puppy Pow Wow fundraiser Saturday to raise funds to help spay and neuter cats and dogs for families at Canyon Springs High School in North Las Vegas, which recently started its own Paws for Change club.

Ready for dialogue, regardless of the forum

A few weeks ago, I disappeared from your copy of View, sitting weekly in your mailbox or in your driveway. Poof! I was gone. I was relocated to the View online. From hence, this is where I’ll be answering reader questions. From here I hope you will continue to write, to risk your questions, so that together we can talk, think, reach, struggle and find.

Dining pick of the week: U.S.S Fish n Chips

There are times when you really don’t know what you want for lunch or dinner. Here’s a place with such a varied menu that you’re bound to find something to satisfy your hunger pains.

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