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D.A.R.E. PROGRAM ENDS AFTER 25 YEARS
IN VALLEY’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Dining Pick of the Week: Lefty’s Pizza

Football season is under way at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Lefty’s is a good place to gather before or after the game.

The right person at the right time can save a troubled youth

Review-Journal sportswriter Ed Graney makes me think, which is the highest compliment I have to pay any writer, not to mention the highest compliment I can receive as a fellow pounder of the keyboard. His commentary last week on Notre Dame suspending radio analyst Allen Pinkett was … well, it made me think.

Youth-led PB&J camp puts peers on the path to leadership

Sitting in a circle, PB&J youth staff members practiced an experience-sharing exercise with Starburst candies. They later did the exercise with their campers at the nonprofit PB&J Leadership Training Inc.’s Leadership Camp 2012, at Camp Lee Canyon, on Mount Charleston, in late July and August.

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Valley may see more storms, flash floods for Monday

The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch from 9 a.m. Monday until 5 a.m. Tuesday for Southern Nevada. Other areas included in the watch are eastern California and northwest Arizona.

Some blocks missing downtown Las Vegas revival

It’s a hot summer afternoon, and the tourists are swarming around downtown. The Fremont Street Experience garage is packed, and visitors are lined up 20 deep to soar high above the crowds on a zip line.

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