Local Las Vegas
With an untrained eye, it’s easy to miss the western burrowing owl. If the northwest dwellers suffer another low reproduction year, the owls could doubly be missed, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said.
With school out for the summer, Clark County School District trustees are spending a little quality time with students outside the classroom through the district’s new initiative, Trustees Teach: Education Through Exploration, a series of student events that trustees will participate in before school starts Aug. 27. The first event, the Self Esteem and Etiquette Workshop, was July 17 at Nehemiah Ministries.
The building that housed Las Vegas’ first high school in 1931 received some new additions to its courtyard July 14, thanks to more than 125 volunteers, as part of the Downtown Cares initiative.
Since its inception in 2011, the Southern Nevada Child Drowning Prevention Coalition has helped to reduce drowning incidents by about half.
Local libraries and museums are looking for help from the community to document local black history. They will take memories, photos, artifacts and anything else to help tell the story of black people in Southern Nevada.
The expected three- to five-year project is a collaboration among University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries, the Nevada State Museum, Henderson Libraries, the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, the city of Las Vegas and Vegas PBS.
The weather outside may be frightful, but inside one downtown store, customers can get a feel for the winter season any time of year. Ralph Jones Display, 2576 E. Charleston Blvd., offers Christmas and other holiday decorations year-round.
When looking for places to relocate pets, people may typically think of dogs and cats. However, there are other animals, such as exotic birds, that are affected by such situations. The Southern Nevada Parrot Education, Rescue and Rehoming Society aims to tackle the issues involving rehoming these birds.
NV Energy is offering a $50 rebate for customers to recycle their second refrigerators, which often waste energy in hot garages to maintain their temperature. In addition to the rebate, NV Energy is to retrieve the extra fridge or freeze for free.
A year after a heart attack took Tess Mathews’ husband, she set out for Bora Bora to scatter his ashes among the sharks.
