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'Have a Heart' celebration fundraiser at Glen Eagles generates $31,000 for FISH
Submitted by editor on Tue, 04/01/2014 - 2:18pm
Friends in Service Helping, also known as FISH, raised nearly $31,000 with 37 celebrity waiters and nearly 400 in attendance Saturday night at Glen Eagles in Carson City.
This fundraiser will allow FISH to continue renovations on their 50 year old buildings in Carson City and will help in replacing their aging homeless shelter van. Special thanks to Dick Campagni Capitol Ford/Hyundai, and Carson City Toyota/Scion for donating a $1,000 gas card for our drawing and the Glen Eagle’s staff for a flawless and delicious dinner event.
Prestige and Carson Tahoe Health to provide senior care services to Carson City region
Submitted by editor on Tue, 02/18/2014 - 5:31pmPrestige Care and Prestige Senior Living, leaders in skilled nursing and rehabilitation care, announced plans Tuesday to join with Carson Tahoe Health to expand senior care services and offer comprehensive memory care to Carson City residents and their families.
As a first step in the relationship, the organizations will develop a community with 40 units for memory care services on the Carson Tahoe Specialty Medical Center campus. Construction will begin in 2014.
Text of Carson City Mayor's State of the City speech
Submitted by admin on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 12:31pmRead the full text of Carson City Mayor Bob Crowell's State of the City speech, after the jump.
Mike Reynolds named RSVP'S Mobility Manager in Carson City
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Tue, 01/28/2014 - 11:29am
The Nevada Rural Counties Retired Senior Volunteer Program, Inc. (RSVP) has appointed Mike Reynolds as the Carson City and Regional Mobility Manager. Lack of transportation has been identified as the greatest deterrent to accessing lifesaving goods and services for homebound, low income, frail seniors and disabled persons.
UNR’s Dr. Peter Reed to address aging issues at Carson City Chamber luncheon
Submitted by Jeff Munson on Wed, 01/22/2014 - 12:39pmEvent Date:
January 28, 2014 - 11:30am
Dr. Peter Reed, PhD, will be the featured speaker at the Carson City Chamber of Commerce Soup’s On! Luncheon on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 11:30 a.m. at Gold Dust West. Reed joined the University of Nevada Sanford Center for Aging as Director and Professor of Community Health Services in September 2013.
Literacy: The Digital Kind
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Tue, 01/14/2014 - 12:44pm
Event Date:
January 15, 2014 - 2:00pm The @ Two Digital Learning Center, on the second-floor of the Carson City Library, has launched learning opportunities by scheduling a new-round of basic computer classes.
Located on the second floor of the library annex, above the current Youth Department, @Two has been a busy community resource for patrons over the last year. Unfortunately access to the second-floor has been unreliable thanks to an aging and highly temperamental elevator.
Carson Tahoe Wound Healing Center expands, adds hyperbaric oxygen chamber
Submitted by Jeff Munson on Thu, 01/02/2014 - 10:11am
More than 8 million people in the U.S. suffer from non-healing wounds, which are often impeded by such diseases and conditions as diabetes, obesity, aging and the late effects of radiation therapy.
The newly expanded Carson Tahoe Center for Wound Healing is located on the second floor of the Carson Tahoe Specialty Medical Center at 775 Fleischmann Dr. in Carson City. The center now provides the latest advanced treatments to help these patients heal and with a faster recovery times.
Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health to use settlement money for immunization efforts
Submitted by Jeff Munson on Tue, 11/05/2013 - 4:37pmCarson City – A settlement reached with pharmaceutical GlaxoSmithKline and the Nevada Attorney General's Office will give the state's Division of Public and Behavioral Health more than $1 million as part of the agreement with the money going toward immunization initiatives.
Opinion: Yay and Nay votes require study
Submitted by editor on Tue, 10/22/2013 - 8:08amThe city’s website does not recap how the board voted after each meeting. To learn how I vote on an item, you must watch or attend the meeting. I try to explain and ask questions before each vote so the public can better understand the process for my decision.
Since I took office, I have pulled many Consent Agenda items that will cost tax payers money for discussion prior to any approval. I believe not asking questions and not having public discussion about spending taxpayer money is wrong.
Partnership: Remarkable progress continues at Lake Tahoe
Submitted by Jeff Munson on Sat, 08/17/2013 - 10:47amIt has been 17 years since President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore stood on the shores of Lake Tahoe and issued a challenge. They urged the frequently fractious perspectives in the region to come together in support of the restoration of Lake Tahoe.
Service today for Nevada advocate for elderly, former Carson City Supervisor Janice Ayres
Submitted by Jeff Munson on Mon, 06/03/2013 - 3:40pm
UPDATE: A funeral service for Janice R. Ayres, a longtime Carson City resident and champion for the elderly and disabled in Nevada, will be held today, Friday, in Carson City at the First Presbyterian Church on the corner of Musser and Division streets.
A gathering for family and friends of Ayres will follow at Cafe at Adele's, 1112 North Carson Street.
Ayres was 92 when she died May 27, 2013.
Washoe School Tax Bill Heads to Sandoval
Submitted by Nevada Media Alliance on Mon, 06/03/2013 - 1:19pmby JERI CHADWELL
UPDATE: A bill that would give Washoe County Commissioners a one-time opportunity to raise sales and property taxes to fund capital improvements at many of the district’s aging public schools passed out of the Senate on Monday in a vote of 16-4. AB46 will now head to Gov. Brian Sandoval’s desk for a final signature.
The measure has been the topic of heated debate on Twitter throughout the session. Today’s final vote sparked the following conversation and several more.
Nevada advocate for elderly, former Carson City Supervisor Janice Ayres dies
Submitted by Jeff Munson on Mon, 05/27/2013 - 11:38pm
Janice R. Ayres, a tireless advocate for the elderly and the disabled, an unshakable Democrat and former member of the Carson City Board of Supervisors died Monday morning at Carson Tahoe Hospital after battling cancer. She was 92.
Ayres was the executive director of the Nevada Rural Counties RSVP Program, a position she held since 1979. RSVP Board member Charlie Abowd confirmed her passing and said directors will meet Tuesday afternoon to discuss arrangements.
Washoe School Tax Bill Proceeds Without Amendment
Submitted by Nevada Media Alliance on Mon, 05/13/2013 - 10:51am
A show of hands in support of AB46 at the Assembly Ways and Means Committee on May 13, 2013. Photo by David Bobzien / Instagram
Forest Service awards ‘next gen’ airtanker contract to Minden Air
Submitted by Jeff Munson on Tue, 05/07/2013 - 2:06pmA federal contract was awarded Tuesday to Douglas County-based Minden Air Corporation to supply the U.S. Forest Service with "next generation" air tankers that will replace the aging fleet.
AUDITIONS FOR 16TH ANNUAL SENIOR CENTER FUNDRAISER MARCH 27
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Thu, 03/21/2013 - 1:41pm
Event Date:
March 27, 2013 (All day) The Carson City Senior Citizens Center will be holding open auditions for the 16th Annual Senior Follies production on Wednesday, March 27th from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Carson City Senior Citizens Center Main Dining Room, 911 Beverly Dr., Carson City. Performance dates are Sept. 13, 14 and 15 at the Carson City Community Center’s Bob Boldrick Theater. This year’s theme is “Around the World in 80 Minutes” and is directed by Carla Wilson.
Carson leaders talk strategy about city's aging population, quality of life
Submitted by editor on Fri, 03/01/2013 - 9:36amDemographics as destiny or as a signpost for new pathways kept Carson City's Board of Supervisors and top staffers batting about ideas for change Thursday.
After concessions and collaboration, Lake Tahoe Regional Plan approved
Submitted by Jeff Munson on Wed, 12/12/2012 - 6:55pm
For the first time since 1987, Lake Tahoe has a new regional plan for development and land use.
Twelve of the 14 voting members of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency's governing board voted in favor of the new plan, with one member voting against it and another abstaining, according to TRPA spokesman Jeff Cowan.
Business interests say the plan is an overdue overhaul of regulations that will jump-start Tahoe's tourism economy while also protecting its environment.
Getting a Tune-Up
Submitted by BikeCarson.com on Tue, 12/11/2012 - 7:22pmRegular readers of BikeCarson.com may have noticed that there have been far fewer postings lately. I suppose an explanation is warranted, because I don’t want you to think that I have lost interest in cycling, as this is not the case. I haven’t been riding my bike though, and it’s awfully hard to write about something I’m not actively engaged in. After years of tuning-up my bike, it was time to tune-up my body.
Carson City students to apply research and robotics during LEGO League challenge
Submitted by Jeff Munson on Mon, 12/03/2012 - 1:30am
Teams of school children from Carson City with a knack for building and design will join students throughout Northern Nevada in the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) challenge, Saturday, Dec. 8 at Sparks High School.
FIRST is founded by inventor Dean Kamen as a way to inspire young people’s interest and participation in science and technology. The competition brings its biggest-ever annual FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL®) season to Northern Nevada with the 2012 “Senior Solutions℠” Challenge.
Nevada Agencies Request $6.46 Billion In New Budget, Up $279 Million From Current Spending Plan
Submitted by Nevada News Bureau on Mon, 10/15/2012 - 1:02pmCARSON CITY – Nevada’s next two-year general fund budget would grow by $279 million to $6.46 billion based on the initial spending requests submitted by state agencies, information released today by the Budget Division shows.
Three Blonde Moms comedy show takes Carson Nugget stage Sept. 21
Submitted by editor on Thu, 09/13/2012 - 1:16pm
Carson Nugget Casino and Kat Simmons presents an evening of laughter when the nationally touring comedy show “3 Blonde Moms … See How They Run,” takes the stage in the newly-remodeled Carson City showroom, Friday, Sept. 21.
Learn and Even Laugh about Dementia
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Tue, 09/11/2012 - 5:08pm
Event Date:
September 18, 2012 (All day) The Dementia Resource Center of Northern Nevada will host a workshop designed to educate and help people caring for a loved one with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. Caring for a loved one with dementia is daunting, creating new challenges and situations at every turn. This workshop is designed to give caregivers, family members and loved ones the skills and knowledge needed to cope with the situation, and even find some humor in it. It will also help ease the anxiety and fear that goes along with the care giving.
NNDA breakfast: The Leadership Deficit
Submitted by admin on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 1:57pm
Event Date:
March 28, 2012 - 7:00pm The Northern Nevada Development Authority's monthly breakfast on May 28 at the Gold Dust West features a program on "Recruiting and Retaining the Multi-Generational Workforce."
Authors Lance Richards and Jason Morga will speak about how, in today's dynamic business environment, workforce diversity has emerged as a key to unlocking competitive advantage. The aging and declining workforce is a global phenomenon presenting unprecedented workforce shifts - across traditional boundaries.
How do organizations prepare for these colliding simultaneous trends? What are the keys to success?
Movie Review: Aniston and Rudd catch 'Wanderlust'
Submitted by admin on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 1:35am
The romantic comedy "Wanderlust," now playing at the Fandango Galaxy cineplex in Carson City, is an R-rated outing that has plenty of the dirty words, touch of nudity and Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston as a married couple in New York City. He loses his job and her film idea for HBO is rejected.
They have to move out of their 'micro loft" to fall on the hospitality of his brother, a super yuppie in Atlanta with a business of supplying toilets to events.
Movie Review: 'J. Edgar' a solid biopic about the late creator of the FBI, starring Leonard DiCaprio
Submitted by admin on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 1:57pm
Director Clint Eastwood's film about J. Edgar Hoover, currently showing at the Fandango Galaxy cineplex in Carson City, shows the real creator of the Federal Bureau of Investigation with all of the faults and strengths clearly shown.The movie, "J. Edgar," follows the man from his early days with the U.S. attorney general's office to his days as ruler of a giant bureaucracy of lawyers and police.
21st Annual Women's Wellness Week at Tahoe's Granlibakken
Submitted by admin on Thu, 10/13/2011 - 2:24pmAs part of Granlibakken’s commitment to health & wellness, the annual Lake Tahoe Women’s Wellness Weekend – a long standing community event previously coordinated by the Tahoe Forest Hospital - will now be hosted by Granlibakken, Nov. 12-13, 2011. The event fuses Eastern tradition with Western practices to offer a balanced weekend interactive clinics on skin screenings, body/muscle testing; inspirational and informative seminars on health, nutrition, aging; recreational activities along with food and wine.
Plan in the works to rebuild aged shelter
Submitted by admin on Sun, 07/17/2011 - 4:01amBy approving about $85,000 last week for professional design services, officials have set in motion plans to build a new animal shelter in Carson City to replace the aging 50-year-old facility.T...
Nevada Office Of Consumer Health Assistance Gets New Director
Submitted by Nevada News Bureau on Thu, 06/30/2011 - 4:25pmCARSON CITY –The state office created to help guide Nevadans through the complex maze of health care billing and access to care has a new director starting tomorrow.
Marilyn Wills has been named director of the Office of Consumer Health Assistance by Mike Willden, director of the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Tahoe agency approves Boulder Bay project
Submitted by editor on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 9:50pmNEWS RELEASE — In a board room still crowded following a 12-hour hearing, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board voted to approve the Boulder Bay Community Enhancement Project. Four years in the planning, the project will replace the aging Tahoe Biltmore Casino in Crystal Bay, NV with an eco-friendly, mixed-use resort that will significantly reduce stormwater pollution and vehicle emissions associated with the site.
