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Marcus Woods and Chidi Okonkwo, right, were among the entertainers performing at a celebration of Juneteenth in Wingfield Park last weekend. Juneteenth marks the freeing of Texas slaves by the Union Army in 1865.

Oh, happy day

by Staff June 17, 2009

Sparks city workers have been preparing the former Pacific Pawnbrokers building, left, for demolition. Asbestos removal has already been completed. The city government pressured Pacific to move out of the downtown and bought both this property and two nearby properties, one of which also had active businesses on it. The city is uncertain what it will do with the parcels.

Movin’ on out

by Staff June 10, 2009

“Grass will grow in the streets” is a traditional political warning—“a threat of financial ruin if the opposition is elected,” according to Safire’s Political Dictionary. Well, grass has started to grow between the cobblestones in front of the shuttered Silver Club casino in Sparks. The club closed in January, throwing 200 employees out of work.

Another sign of the times

by Staff May 27, 2009

The Heart o’ Town and Golden West motels across Virginia Street from Circus Circus have been closed off with chain-linked fences. On Center Street, the Chalet and another motel bearing no name have been given the same treatment. A sign on one of them calls the closure permanent.

Signs of the times

by Staff May 20, 2009

Luca and Finnegan Kornze Bobzien, preemies who spent several post-birth weeks in the hospital, made a public appearance at a Progressive Leadership Alliance fundraiser last weekend. They are the children of UNR worker Lisa Kornze and state legislator David Bobzien.

Social butterflies

by Staff May 13, 2009

Aiden Steininger of Sparks waits anxiously while balloon artist Don McQuarrie creates his balloon animal at a Cinco de Mayo celebration in downtown Sparks. Residents of the neighborhoods who normally must put chairs or traffic cones in their curbside parking places during the festival were relieved that such precautions were less needed this year. The crowd was smaller and more manageable than usual.

I’m ready now, sir

by Staff May 6, 2009

At the Nevada Legislature last week, domestic abuse agency directors Sue Meuschke, right, and Joni Kaiser along with Sen. Bernice Mathews, center, faced an Assembly committee to seek funding for shelter programs. Those programs are normally funded by a portion of the marriage license fee, but marriages have declined during the recession. Abuse, unfortunately, has seen no such decline.

Somber hearing

by Staff April 29, 2009

Several loads of some of the younger students at the University of Nevada, Reno spent some time on a field trip in downtown Reno. The toddlers are enrolled in UNR’s Early Head Start program.

Precious cargo

by Staff April 15, 2009

The shuttered Silver Club casino and hotel buildings in Sparks are still serving a purpose in their retirement. They’re being used as a site for drills for firefighters who here are sending a cherry picker to the casino roof. The Bender family— Ron, Jody, and April— stopped by on a Sunday afternoon to watch.

Drilling for the Benders

by Staff April 8, 2009

Renoites jammed into the Hannah Humanitarian Awards dinner last week. The event, held by the Committee to Aid Abused Women, recognized Nevada Network Against Domestic Violence director Sue Meuschke, Washoe Sheriff Mike Haley and his deputies Kerry Saulnier and John Medina.

Big crowd

by Staff April 1, 2009

Fifty-five peace advocates gathered in downtown Reno on the sixth anniversary of the Iraq war to call for an end to that conflict and shifting to negotiations in the Afghanistan war.

Perseverance

by Staff March 25, 2009

Mourners lined up Sunday at the memorial service for community leader Phyllis Kaiser as Sparks United Methodist Church. Kaiser, daughter of a Las Vegas mayor and mother of the director of a Reno domestic abuse agency, was director of Vietnam refugee resettlement in Nevada and director of the Community Welfare Agency. As a peace activist, she traveled to places like Nicaragua and Vietnam. Once when U.S. Sen. Paul Laxalt of Nevada warned of a “danger” that the state, by opposing the MX missile system and nuclear waste storage, was risking becoming known as a “peacenik state,” Kaiser responded, “Sounds good to me.”

Saying goodbye

by Staff March 11, 2009

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