Volunteers helped sort food and package the equivalent of a holiday meal for nearly 300 area families last week at the Winnemucca Events Complex Exhibit Hall. Lowry High School sophomore Dain Maher was overseeing this year's Christmas Food Basket project under the direction of the Winnemucca Ministerial Association as part of his Eagle Scout project.
The Wild Bunch Motorcycle Club raised $8,287.11, along with food and toys during its seventh-annual Toys for Kids Poker Run and coloring contest.
Warren Woods, vice president and general manager with Hycroft Resources & Development, Inc., is pictured with Imlay Elementary School students and teachers Tashia Spradley and Robert Meldrum on Dec. 20. Woods presented the school with $500 to assist them with the purchase of chairs.
WINNEMUCCA - This year the Humboldt Sun's Giving Tree project produced 70 angels, all of whom were adopted and received gifts.
WINNEMUCCA - A few members of the local TOPS #149 group (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) met with Raley's Assistant Store Director Greg Bermeosolo at the store on Dec. 19 to present him with a check for $770 as a donation to the Food for Families Drive.
WINNEMUCCA - The Winnemucca Rural and Winnemucca City fire departments responded to a controlled burn that jumped the state fence toward Interstate 80 and exit 176 on the afternoon of Dec. 20.
WINNEMUCCA - Cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and other street drugs are frightening. They're illegal, so anyone who gets caught with them risks severe legal consequences. They are processed by people who care only about the money they are going to make, with no thought to what could happen to the person who is going to use them. One never knows how strong the substance might be or what else might be mixed into it until they've used it.
WINNEMUCCA - This is to inform the voters of Humboldt County that per NRS 293.205 the County Clerk has altered the boundaries of voting precincts within the County of Humboldt.
WINNEMUCCA - The Stalking Resource Center of the National Center for Victims of Crime has issued a series of awareness materials featuring the theme "Name It. Stop It" for this year's observance of January as "Stalking Awareness Month."
COURTESY PHOTOS Two-and-a-half-year-old Korbin Workman got a special treat Dec. 20 when grandpa Allan Workman took him ice fishing. First, he was dressed in a "Minnesota" style fishing cap and his warmest clothes, then they traveled to a secret fishing hole near Winnemucca. Korbin brought in his first fish that day - a 2.25-pound rainbow trout! It's sure to be a very special memory with grandpa.
WINNEMUCCA - While many folks have Christmas and New Year's day off from work or school, there are those who must work those holidays regardless. One of those people is Michael Cogsdill, who is a paramedic with Humboldt General Hospital Emergency Medical Services.
CARSON CITY - Gov. Brian Sandoval issued a proclamation earlier this month declaring Dec. 1, 2011, as Nevada Wing of the Civil Air Patrol Day.
WINNEMUCCA - According to the website proactivechange.com, 40 percent to 45 percent of American adults make one or more New Year's resolutions each year. The Humboldt Sun queried a few community members about their own resolutions or lack thereof.
WINNEMUCCA - Glenda Haley got her violin students as well as a few adult violinists together for a concert at the Humboldt County Library on Dec. 23.
WINNEMUCCA - The Humboldt County Board of Commissioners will hold their regular meeting on Tuesday beginning at 9:30 a.m. in courthouse meeting room #201.