WINNEMUCCA - This photo is one of the few in the Humboldt Museum collection where at least most of the people are identified. This is the Lightning Battery Services. The business was owned by Frank Saunders. He is the gentleman in the light shirt in the middle. Two of the others are also identified. Bob Henderson is on the left, Mr. Wagner is second from right. The others, unless a reader can identify them, are lost to history.
Sonoma Heights Elementary School receives a check for $1,000 for a school math program from Barrick Turquoise Ridge Joint Venture. From left, Dale Lunen, training coordinator for Turquoise Ridge; Liz Sanchez, security safety and administration coordinator for Turquoise Ridge; Rory Upshaw, engineering tech for Turquoise Ridge; Noel Morton, Sonoma Heights principal, and Lisa Weber, Sonoma Heights first grade teacher. In front are first graders Christian Dorame, Jack Olson and Kelly Zhelayer.
RENO - A loud blast of enemy fire met Staff Sgt. Anderson Muñoz on Nov. 18, 2011, at Forward Operating Base Shank in eastern Afghanistan. Muñoz, a Nevada Army National Guardsmen with Lima Troop, 1/221st Cavalry, was clearing a shooting range at the end of a day of marksmanship training with fellow soldiers.
WINNEMUCCA - AT&T experienced a "software-related issue" at their central Reno offices Monday night that shut down internet and phone service for parts of Nevada, including Winnemucca, according to regional representative John Britton.
WINNEMUCCA - Tony John Dehart, who pleaded guilty to luring a minor after having inappropriate online conversations with young girls, was sentenced Monday in Sixth Judicial District Court to 48 to 120 months in prison.
WINNEMUCCA - Sandoval Ezequiel Jacobo, who pleaded guilty to battery upon an officer causing substantial bodily harm, a category B felony, was sentenced Monday by Judge Michael Montero in Sixth Judicial District Court to 43 to 108 months in prison.
WINNEMUCCA - Do you enjoy recreating outdoors? Have you been out to the Santa Rosa Ranger District in Paradise Valley? Are you interested in making a difference? Friends of Nevada Wilderness is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving all qualified Nevada public lands as wilderness, protecting all present and potential wilderness from ongoing threats, educating the public about the values of, and need for wilderness, and improving the management and restoration of wild lands.
MICHAEL MICHAELSEN • Special to the SunCouples put their best foot forward Monday night during the dance competition at the Valentine's dance at the Pleasant Senior Center in Winnemucca. The Winnemucca Inn puts on the annual Valentine's event at the senior center, and about 80 people attended the fun evening. Winnemucca Inn employees also helped serve a spaghetti dinner and dessert. "It's a huge hit with the seniors," senior center director Patricia Tindall said of the Valentine's festivities.
ELKO - The second outing for the annual Bureau of Land Management's "Take It Outside" moonlight snowshoe hikes will take place Feb. 23 at the Angel Creek Campground located near Wells beginning at 5:30 p.m.
This WCVA meeting will be held in the East Hall convention center lounge. On the agenda:
Washington, D.C. - Nevada Sens. Harry Reid and Dean Heller re-introduced the Pine Forest Recreation Enhancement Act today - the product of a comprehensive multi-year local process. Local landowners, sportsmen, conservationists, and other stakeholders in Humboldt County came together to develop this proposal through a series of public meetings and presented it to the delegation with broad community support. The Nevada State Legislature and the Secretary of the Interior have praised the robust and inclusive local process used to produce this bill as the gold standard for community-based wilderness proposals.
MCDERMITT - Representatives from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be in McDermitt on Feb. 19-21 to meet with individual property owners to discuss the cleanup work to be performed on their property.
WINNEMUCCA - This photo is one of a series in the Humboldt Museum photo archive. The false front on the left is Quong On Lung. This picture was taken just before China Town's demolition in 1952. By this time it had been abandoned. Families had moved to larger cities, mostly in California, with greater concentrations of ethnic Chinese people. The older people had died leaving several blocks of decaying buildings in a growing small town, Winnemucca.
WINNEMUCCA - Actually the testing season has been here for quite some time. Many believe that testing to prepare for the test accompanied by more testing for the just-in-case, is a wise, academic choice. While I firmly believe in knowledge-based testing, especially state and/or national examinations to assure Nevada students are being taught what they need to know and be able to do, an overload of tests is counter-productive. A tsunami of data is impossible to shuffle and sort and exam time limits minutes of in-class instruction. I prefer engaged, interactive classroom learning and exploration.
WINNEMUCCA - The Humboldt Sun and CB Brown Furniture have teamed up to bring the first-ever Operation Easter Coloring Contest to Winnemucca.