A few weeks ago, I disappeared from your copy of View, sitting weekly in your mailbox or in your driveway. Poof! I was gone. I was relocated to the View online. From hence, this is where I’ll be answering reader questions. From here I hope you will continue to write, to risk your questions, so that together we can talk, think, reach, struggle and find.
Downtown
There are times when you really don’t know what you want for lunch or dinner. Here’s a place with such a varied menu that you’re bound to find something to satisfy your hunger pains.
Officials from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, are doing what they can to increase interest in post-secondary education in at-risk schools. The Clark County School District’s 34th annual college fair at Cashman Center Oct. 25 was preceded by pep rallies at Canyon Springs, Desert Pines and Rancho high schools.
Question: I recently moved into a home in Henderson, and I have a large back yard with about seven pine trees lining the property. The trees are spaced approximately 8 feet apart. I am contemplating planting fruit trees between the pines, and once they reach maturity, I would remove the pine trees. What do you think about this approach?
Oenophiles, please take note. There’s a new trend popping up in the golf world and in Las Vegas in particular, which I find very cheering. I’m all for it, and I believe you will find it to your liking as well.
Stefani Lindenberg, 12, participated in the 2011 Miss Pre-Teen Las Vegas pageant on Oct. 23.
I read your Nevada Wild Fest article in the Anthem View (“Nevada Wild Fest to feature concerts, carnival,” Oct. 11). I think you should know that not everyone is happy to have that monstrosity in their backyard.
Visitors to Spring Mountain Ranch this weekend might think they’ve stepped into the “Twilight Zone.” The Spring Mountain Free Trappers are holding their annual Mountain Man Rendezvous from Friday through Sunday, and visitors should expect the air to be filled with the crack of black powder firearms, the steady thunk of tomahawks and the smell of gun smoke and Dutch oven cooking.
Many assume that Arizona Charlie, of local casino fame, was a character created for corporate marketing purposes like Ronald McDonald or Bob’s Big Boy.
What started as a small-business networking group almost 10 years ago has evolved into Southern Nevada’s Chamber of Commerce for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
“I write books, chase kids and eat cookies. Sometimes exclusively, sometimes simultaneously,” Las Vegas resident Lindsey Leavitt writes on her website lindseyleavitt.com. The former elementary school teacher is the author of the Princess for Hire series and “Sean Griswold’s Head.” Unlike many authors who write for young adults, Leavitt said she loved being a teen, and growing up in Las Vegas she got involved in “sports, theater, student council, honor society… yeah, I was that hyper girl you wanted to dial down. Or punch.”
The idea that Las Vegas residents don’t read isn’t true, according to some literary figures in the downtown and Paradise areas.