DAVE MUNK • Special to the SunThe "Where's the Beef" dinner and concert on April 12 was a great success. The fundraiser included raffle ticket sales for prizes including 100, 50, or 25 pounds of beef, a cowhide, a quilt, and many other prizes. It is the main fundraiser of the year for the Lowry Music Boosters Club, and money raised is used for music scholarships, travel expenses, and additional instruments and equipment for the band and choirs at the high school. This photo features performers Kelton Robbins on trumpet, Khyra Cooley on trumpet and Samantha Yates on trumpet (behind Khyra's hand), Coleen Dunlap on tenor saxophone and Corina Ruiz on percussion.
HEATHER HILL • The Humboldt SunLeland (left) and Ann Miller, both of Winnemucca, buy raffle tickets from Dee Helming (right), office secretary for the Austin Chamber of Commerce, at the Lincoln Highway Car Show held in Austin April 13. Raffle prizes included gift certificates, wine, car cleaning items and restaurant certificates. The event attracted 53 cars and more than 200 people.
RENO - University of Nevada Cooperative Extension has partnered with the United States Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency to offer an Impact of Future Growth in Nevada Dairies workshop. The half-day workshop will be held in Lovelock on April 29 from 8 a.m. to noon. 
MICHAEL MICHAELSEN • Special to the SunElizabeth Peterson, a Winnemucca third-grader, listens to a puppy's heart during Agriculture in the Classroom events last week at the fairgrounds. From left to right, Peterson, Katelyn Rose, with FFA, Sarah Smith, FFA chapter reporter, and Dr. Bonnie Dory, a veterinarian in Winnemucca. Many educational exhibits were set up at the Events Center last Thursday to teach Humboldt County third-graders about the importance of agriculture.
WINNEMUCCA - As a follow-up to the Community Health Fair held at the Convention Center a few weeks ago, radio station KKTT 97.9 and the Winnemucca Seventh-day Adventist Church are offering a four-week series focused on community health: "Live Well Winnemucca!"
WINNEMUCCA - Winnemucca will celebrate 2013 National Crime Victims' Rights Week (April 21-27) with a series of events. This year's theme - New Challenges, New Solutions - celebrates the spirit that will advance the progress that has been achieved.
WINNEMUCCA - Winnemucca Domestic Violence Services and AmeriCorps members of northern Nevada have teamed up to have a "Party in the Park" on Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Vesco Park in celebration of National Crime Victims Rights Week and Global Youth Service Day.
It probably doesn't show up on your calendar, but May is Disability Insurance Awareness Month. And you might agree that such a month is useful, when you consider the following:
Rebecca Gray, the new owner of Winnemucca Kaia F.I.T., feels very blessed to be a part of such a great team of inspired, driven women, working together to help each other achieve their common goals, while building strong bodies and powerful minds.
WINNEMUCCA - Monday, April 22, is Earth Day, where more than a billion people across the world will be active participants in this annual day of environmental action.  
RENO - State Farm Service Agency (FSA) State Executive Director Clint Koble announced his support for Earth Day.
CARSON CITY - The Nevada Department of Transportation and Nevada Highway Patrol are reminding motorists to drive safely in road work zones.
CARSON CITY - The Bureau of Land Management campground adjacent to Indian Creek Reservoir in Alpine County, Calif., will open April 26 at 10 a.m.
CARSON CITY - Nearly 80,000 new and returning unique visitors each month access ndow.org, the Nevada Department of Wildlife's official website, seeking information on hunting, boating and fishing as well as educational materials about Nevada's wildlife.
RENO - Ken Gray, Eastern Region supervising biologist in Elko, reported his field biologists completed elk surveys and classified 10,384 elk this winter. This was a record elk survey for the region surpassing the 2010 sample by 1,005 elk.