The namesake of the Howard Lieburn Senior Center, 6230 Garwood Ave., was not a local celebrity or well-known politician. Lieburn, who was a Las Vegas resident for nine years, spent his time in the valley transforming his community in numerous ways.
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Martians will take over Christmas — or at least the Onyx Theatre, 953 E. Sahara Ave. — Friday for its latest string of midnight productions, “Santa Claus vs. The Martians,” a parody based on the 1964 movie “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.”
Downtown Las Vegas has numerous activities available to the community, especially in the 18b Arts District. There is one group of people, however, that some believe has been overlooked.
At this eatery, hot and cold deli-style sandwiches are made with sourdough or, if you prefer, wheat or rye.
Dozens of kindergarten and first-grade children from Williams Elementary School, 1030 J St ., walked through Opportunity Village’s Magical Forest, eyes wide with fascination at the various trees adorned with elaborate decorations and light displays on the morning of Nov. 23.
It takes a village to raise a child. At Booker Elementary School, the Gents and Lads dinner is a great example, bringing together male role models from surrounding churches and community organizations to spend an evening with the school’s male students and talk to them about life.
As the number of homeless youths in Las Vegas increases, so does their need for food. Kathleen Vermillion, founder of the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth, hopes to tackle this issue with the organization’s fifth annual Plastic Food Drive.
Douglas Baker, theater professor at the College of Southern Nevada, adapted Charles Dickens’ book “A Christmas Carol” into the one man, three-unmatched-chair production “One Christmas Carol.” For 13 years, Douglas portrayed 32 voices on a simple set and found success and returning audiences in Las Vegas.
Kids sometimes need reminding of the parental adage about strangers. Gary Alu, an information technology security expert, reminds them over and over again.
Downtown Las Vegas resident Joyce Vought-Klopp Gilbert, who writes under the pen name C.J. Comstock, was inspired to write during the decades she spent in prison. The author wasn’t an inmate; she was a corrections officer in Pennsylvania, first at a women’s prison and then at Graterford Prison, the fourth-largest men’s prison in the country, where she worked as a training sergeant. One inmate inspired her to take up poetry, and a second encouraged her efforts in fiction.
