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Hoggard Elementary students turn classroom into museum

Gifted and Talented Education students at Hoggard Elementary School spent the past two years creating a museum in an unused classroom. It is home to nine exhibits featuring rocks, fossils, the Las Vegas Wash, Mark Twain, antiques, Native Americans, Hoover Dam, mining and the Nevada Test Site.

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Public Invited to attend, offer input
at Prime Six schools meeting

Book briefs

Learn more about book signings, author visits and literary events in Las Vegas.

Bedtime book is for Mom and Dad, not the kids

“Go the F**k to Sleep” certainly looks like a children’s book with lush illustrations. The soft cadence of the poem brings to mind the most beloved of bedtime storybooks. But look again, check your eyes, and you’ll see why you want to keep this book on the highest shelf in your home. Yep, it’s really about as far from a children’s book as any book can be.

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Eddie D’s Famous Italian Sandwiches moves to Rainbow Boulevard location

Dining Pick of the Week: El Chamizal

There are some unique dishes served at El Chamizal that you don’t find at many Mexican restaurants, including conejo (rabbit), codorniz (quail), barbecue veal and dry deer meat.

Summon bees to assist with summer squash

A lack of squash development may be due to poor pollination, which is most likely because of cool weather and poor bee activity.

Anthem Country Club a treat for those partial to par-3

Opened in 1999, the Anthem Country Club offers challenges to every level of player. Played from the championship tees, Anthem achieves a ranking of 72.9 and a slope of 133 and plays to 7,373 yards.

Thousands expected to attend Las Vegas Film Festival

The 2011 Las Vegas Film Festival is planned for July 15-17 at the Las Vegas Hilton, 3000 Paradise Road. It’s the fourth year for the festival and second as one of the only events to screen independent works and honor masters of their craft on a Las Vegas stage.

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