WINNEMUCCA - The Northern Nevada Alzheimer's Association sponsored its annual conference at the Nugget in Sparks. Amazingly, it was even better this year. I marvel at the array of guest speakers and topics. During the next few months I will be sharing some of that information with you.
WINNEMUCCA - The Winnemucca Grammar School is selling cookbooks that include recipes from past and present teachers, administrators, staff members and parents.
WINNEMUCCA - Winnemucca's Pleasant Senior Center is known as a social gathering place for members, but it also serves as a resource for several other services. Everyone is welcome at the center, but services are geared toward those aged 60 and above.
WINNEMUCCA - This photo, taken in 1924, is of August D. Ramel, one of the first prospectors at the Red Butte mining district in the Jackson Mountains.
CARSON CITY - The Bureau of Land Management, the Nevada Department of Agriculture and the Nevada Department of Corrections are hosting the second of three annual saddle-trained horse adoption events in Carson City on Saturday, May 18, at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City.
RENO -The University of Nevada Cooperative Extension and the Nevada Department of Agriculture will be hosting the Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) Training for food safety June 5-7 at the Nevada Department of Agriculture in Sparks. The free, three-day program, sponsored by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service Farm-to-School Grant Program, will focus on on-farm food-safety practices related to fruit and vegetable production. Participants will learn principles of good agricultural and handling practices.
WINNEMUCCA - Local emergency personnel will host a community celebration this weekend in honor of National EMS Week.Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week, which is scheduled for May 19-26, honors the lifesaving care that EMS providers offer nationwide, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
WINNEMUCCA - The Winnemucca Community Garden's kicks off the season with "An Afternoon of Live Music" in the Garden on Saturday, May 18.
WINNEMUCCA - Winnemucca Grammar School's (WGS) Reading Week committee decided to use social media to get the word out on their idea to gather students and others into groups throughout the community to read in a "flash mob" Tuesday for a reading week activity.
WINNEMUCCA - Nevada Outdoor School (NOS) has been in Winnemucca for a decade, and director Andy Hart gave Humboldt County commissioners a report on the organization's activities and progress in the county. When NOS started in Winnemucca staff worked with a single classroom, teaching science and exploring the environment in outdoor settings.
WINNEMUCCA - Lowry High School's future business leaders made an impressive showing at their state conference.
RENO - The Nevada Geriatric Education Consortium, a partnership of the University of Nevada School of Medicine, Touro University Nevada and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, presents the next free Geriatric Lecture Series on Friday, May 24, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at multiple locations throughout Nevada.
WINNEMUCCA - The Nevada State Legislature has considered jettisoning the Nevada Proficiency Examination. They reason that since it is created by individuals who have little or no knowledge of Nevada academic standards (not true) and that many seniors cannot score high enough to pass the exam and thus graduate (true), something must be inherently wrong.
WINNEMUCCA - Rattlesnakes are a well known reality of the desert environment. Not only is there a wide variety of species of rattlesnakes, but there are also large numbers inhabiting different habitats, making human encounters even more likely.
WASHINGTON - The Social Security Administration recently announced the most popular baby names in Nevada for 2012. Sophia and Alexander topped the list.