COURTESY PHOTOLyle and LaPriel Clark, Clark Land & Livestock from Corinne, Utah, with Gill Awalt, who donates a heifer every year for the Humboldt County CattleWomen Scholarship Fund. So far, $18,500 has been collected and we have paid out $14,000 to eligible seniors and continuing education students. Scholarships are available to any graduating senior. For information, contact the career and scholarship center at your high school or Debbie Hummel at (775) 859-0344.
Representatives of the Retired Public Employees of Nevada will hold a meeting in Winnemucca on Wednesday, March 12 at 5:30 p.m. in the West Hall of the convention center. All area retired and working public employees who participate in the Nevada Public Employees' Retirement System are invited to attend.
Jan Young's second novel, "Starting the Colt," continues the saga of 12-year-old Ben Lucas and the Nevada ranch where Ben's dad cowboys.
RENO - The University of Nevada, Reno's Sontag Entrepreneurship Competition winner, Irrigo, is the recipient of $50,000, which will help further develop water efficiency services for flood irrigated agriculture. Using flood gate automation, field surveys and water and soil sensors all connected to the cloud, Irrigo is developing a more efficient way to irrigate agricultural fields.
NV Energy and its charitable foundation gave approximately $5.4 million last year to support nearly 500 nonprofit organizations statewide. These contributions were funded by the company, not its customers.
"Nationally, today's veterans face numerous obstacles in their path of attaining a college degree. These challenges range from a missing sense of camaraderie, to feeling like an outsider amongst 18 year old traditional students, to a perceived lack of understanding by university faculty. When coupled with the visible and invisible wounds of war, a college degree can be an elusive goal for men and women returning from military service." (studentveterans.org)
LAS VEGAS - Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto announced today that consumers can now file claims to recover money due to court preliminary approval of multi-state settlements worth $310 million with all the major manufacturers of Dynamic Random Access Memory computer chips ("DRAM") for conspiring to fix their prices. Consumers who can submit claims include those who paid more for DRAM or for the many electronic devices that contain DRAM.
LAS VEGAS - Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto urges consumers to be proactive in safeguarding their personal information in all transactions as they go about their daily business.
A wonderful study is taking place at Northwestern University in Chicago. Called the "buddy" program, retired physician and educator Dan Winship is working with first-year medical student Jared Worthington. Together they are creating a friendship as well as expanding medical studies. Winship is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, a recent diagnosis. His wife had noticed a decline but then his occasional forgetfulness and difficulty learning worsened. The identification of the problem as Alzheimer's devastated the couple. They decided to research methods for using this disease as a learning tool for other doctors. Online they discovered this NU special program.
Northern Nevada saw some gains in snowpack and precipitation during February but a cold, stormy March would be necessary to hit average conditions for the water year.
RENO - With the 2014 drought looming, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension is offering workshops across the state this month and next to give Nevada agricultural producers, particularly alfalfa and grass hay producers, information to help them prepare for the drought. Topics will include water availability, recommended irrigation practices, insurance options and an outlook on prices. The first workshop will be March 20.
WASHINGTON - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) will make $6 million in grants available this year, and up to $30 million total over the next five years as part of a new initiative to provide solutions to agricultural water challenges. The grants will be used to develop management practices, technologies and tools for farmers, ranchers, forest owners and citizens to improve water resource quantity and quality.
The community has been talking about the lackluster appearance of the Melarkey Street/Winnemucca Boulevard intersection for the last 20 years, according to City Manager/Engineer Steve West.
