LOVELOCK - The 78th I.D.E.S. Portuguese Festa will be held on Sunday, May 27.
LOVELOCK - Twenty seven 4-H members have raised livestock animals and will be showing them at the Pershing County Junior Livestock Show on Sunday, May 13, starting at 9 a.m. at the 4-H Building.
LOVELOCK - The local chapter of the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life held its second annual "Run for Love" last Sunday morning. The event drew fewer participants compared to last year's, yet still raised $350.
LOVELOCK - Pershing County High School junior Rosario Torres has been recognized by the United States Achievement Academy (USAA) as a student of excellence in Social Studies.
LOVELOCK - Low attendance at the Weed it Out 419 event was discouraging to Pershing County Frontier Community Coalition (PCFCC) members. FCC Director Jeff Munk cited conflicts with the high school's prom decorating day as one reason for the few students that attended.
RENO - Angie Herrera and Brandon Eastman of Lowry High School are among the 13 northern Nevada high school athletes to earn a college scholarship from the Joshua L. Anderson Memorial Foundation.
LOVELOCK - Last weekend Pershing County held its 69th annual 4-H and FFA Livestock Show and Sale. As I sat and watched the young people exhibiting their livestock projects that they have worked with throughout the year, with the help of their parents, advisors and fellow participants, it brought back many enjoyable memories for me.
WINNEMUCCA - Friends of Nevada Wilderness is a local organization that is 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.
LOVELOCK - Marisalena Perez, a 15-year-old member of the Up Cripple Creek without a Paddle Relay for Life team, has organized a fundraiser that not only generates money for the Lovelock Relay for Life but also gives Sparks Middle School students a "Free Dress Day."
IMLAY - Five students, one from each grade level in Imlay Elementary School, traveled to Lovelock for the annual Pershing County Spelling Bee on May 8.
Brilliant sun angled into Lovelock's 4-H building last Sunday for the 69th annual Pershing County 4-H & FFA Livestock Show & Sale. A herd of youngsters adroitly showed goats, pigs, a sheep and a steer throughout the morning, while, in the early afternoon, the venerable Earl Malay called an auction of the animals. To top off the event, a seemingly endless array of desserts went to auction as well.
COURTESY PHOTOThe Lovelock Country Quilters presented Pershing General Hospital with handmade quilts and bears/animals for the hospital's pediatric patients on May 3. Judy White, Virginia Rose, Carol Schneider, Ida May Mori, Sharon Montrose, Jeanne Munk and Bobbie Jean Aufdermaur of County Quilters were on hand for the donation, along with Deanna Davis and Patty Goldsworthy of PGH.
MARY ELLEN NELSON • Special to Winnemucca Publishing, Inc.Seth Montes was crowned king and Samantha Dennler queen during the Pershing County High School 2012 Junior Prom, held on April 21.
LOVELOCK - The Pershing County 4-H Livestock members appreciate the businesses, ranchers, farmers, 4-H Leaders and many others who gave freely of their services, financial support and time to make the 69th Annual Livestock Show and Sale a success. The Show and Sale was held on May 13 at the 4-H Building. Swine, sheep, beef and goat animals were exhibited during the show. Twelve swine, one sheep and one beef were sold during the sale.
LOVELOCK - Many ranchers have already, or are beginning to move their livestock from winter grazing to summer grazing areas. This is a common grazing strategy of Nevada ranchers in order to match the needs of the cattle with the nutritional qualities of the plants.