Event in Carson City

New Western Nevada College President Dr. Vince Solis began work July 2 and has been busy meeting Carson City area community groups and leaders as well as faculty, staff and leaders at its Carson Valley and Fallon campuses.

Sassabration, an annual celebration of diversity, is returning this Saturday to Carson City in the parking lot of Carson Hot Springs Resort, 1500 Old Hot Springs Road.

Sassabration, an annual celebration of diversity, is returning to Carson City July 14 in the parking lot of Carson Hot Springs Resort, 1500 Old Hot Springs Road.

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada held its annual Kick-Off to Summer and Camp Color Me Great Event in Carson City Saturday.

CARSON CITY — Hello, Northern Nevada. It’s time to break out your favorite aloha wear. A celebration of Hawaiian culture is coming to the Nevada State Museum on Saturday, April 28.

The Last Response Memorial Fund, organized locally to help first-responders and their families, will hold its first meeting of the year on Tuesday, March 27 to plan a second annual fundraiser, organizer Don Alexander said.

There will be a "March For Our Lives" in Carson City on Saturday, March 24th at 11 a.m. at Mills Park across from the high school. The march will begin at Mills Park, proceed down N. Roop St., west on E. 2nd street, across Stewart onto the State Legislature grounds.

The Nevada Department of Public Safety (DPS) is holding a hiring event on Saturday, March 24 for candidates seeking a career in law enforcement and public safety.

Project Management Institute (PMI) ‘s last networking event of 2017!! Chapter Networking & Happy Hour Mixer at Bella Fiore. Let us hear what exciting projects you have been leading. Share your success, your passion, your experience with your fellow Project Managers. Come relax, network, and have a good time! Bring your friends and colleagues, and meet our vibrant community of Project Managers.

Date: Thursday, Oct 19, 2017
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Location:
Bella Fiore Wines
224 S Carson St #8
Carson City, NV 89701

Registration: http://www.pmi-nnv.org

Cost for the event:

The Carson City Parks, Recreation and Open Space Department is seeking support from businesses, organizations and individuals in the community to bring an all-new community Halloween celebration this year to the Nevada state capital, Recreation Superintendent Dan Earp said.

At the end of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Ebenezer Scrooge surprises the humble Cratchit family with a prize turkey for Christmas dinner. Although that story is fiction, the Northern Nevada Dream Center's (NNDC) annual Dream Christmas dinner event in Carson City is not.

Three years of change and rebranding efforts by the Carson City Visitors Bureau (CCVB) are turning the Nevada state capital into a tourist destination, said CCVB Executive Director Joel Dunn, and no longer a point on the road map to pass through.

Hawaiian music, its melody as gentle as a swaying tropical breeze, floated off the stage and around the Marv Teixeira Pavilion at Mills Park Saturday afternoon to the delight of visitors at the first-ever Polynesian Festival in Carson City.

Back to back weekends filled with events at Mills Park in Carson City culminates this weekend with the annual RSVP 4th of July Carnival and Celebration, which launches Friday.

This will be the 24th year that RSVP has sponsored the holiday weekend carnival, complete with fireworks on Monday, July 4, plus plenty of rides, music, food booths, arts and crafts vendors and demonstrations throughout the weekend.

While the inaugural Epic Rides Carson City Off-Road mountain bike race series may have been a boon to the local economy, some downtown businesses struggled to stay out of the red last weekend because of what they felt were excessive road closures for the first-time event.

With more than 50 booths featuring artists from across the West Coast, Rockabilly Riot’s Tattoo Expo this weekend in Carson City will highlight some of the region’s best ink.

“You’ll get a chance to be tattooed by someone you otherwise may not even know,” said Jeffery Williford, co-owner of the Ruby Lantern, which is sponsoring the expo. “Some of these guys have a waiting list of two to three weeks out. You have a better chance of actually seeing them here.”

The Nevada state capital has seen its share of natural disasters and citywide emergencies.

From wildfires to flooding and all-too-common high wind events, Carson City Manager Nick Marano says local government is ready to respond at a moment's notice.

"The city has an emergency operations plan," Marano said. "We've gone through several rounds of modifications to it."

There is an emergency operations center, he said, that enhances communication between public safety and public works departments during local emergencies.

More than 550 rat rod cars are expected for Rockabilly Riot’s debut event in Carson City this June, tourism officials confirmed Tuesday.

“This is a four-day party wrapped around a car show and celebrating a culture,” said Joel Dunn, executive director of the Carson City Visitors Bureau.

Dr. Heather Parsons of Valley Pediatric Dentistry to volunteer at the upcoming Remote Area Medical (RAM) event in Carson City. RAM is a non-profit organization providing free medical, dental and vision services to patients. The upcoming Carson City event will run October 16th, 2015 thru October 18th, 2015.

A nationally recognized mountain bike race, expected to bring a $15 million boost to the local economy over five years, will be hosting an event in Carson City in June.

During Interbike in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Epic Rides announced Carson City Off-Road — the third event in the Epic Rides Off-Road Series.

Nevada Fair pre-sale tickets are on sale at the Carson City Visitors and Convention Bureau for $20.00. The pre-sale tickets are redeemed at the carnival for a wristband that allows you to ride all day on the day you choose to use it. Wristbands purchased at the fair are also $20. Pre-sale ticket sales will end Thursday.

Presidential candidate Jeb Bush has returned to Northern Nevada, this time to hold a town hall event in Carson City. Covering topics from tax and education reform to foreign policy, Jeb Bush spoke about his record as governor of Florida as well as what he believes needs to be done in the future.

Party goers toast the New Year during the New York's New Year’s Eve Celebration event in Carson City, Nev., on Wed., Dec. 31, 2014. The event, which is hosted by the Friends of the Carson City Library and the Carson City Library Foundation, featured a live auction, 50/50 raffle and a balloon drop.

Several local churches will be uniting together tonight to worship and pray for Carson City. The event, called "Engage" begins at 7 p.m. tonight, Friday, August 29, at the Carson City Community Center.

Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and several local ministries will be on hand to share the work that is being done in our community. This is the third Engage event in Carson City and momentum has continued to grow with each event.

Many celebrations are scheduled statewide in the month of July. These Nevada 150 events help celebrate all things Nevada and bring awareness to the state’s 150th Anniversary of Statehood. The following events are held July 1 through July 12.

Grab your clubs and spend a day hitting the links to raise money for cancer research. Behavioral Health Services will host the first Carson City Relay for Life Golf Tournament at Empire Ranch Golf Course on June 21, 2014. Entry fee is $65 and it gets you the round of golf, cart, barbecue lunch, awards ceremony. Prizes for closest to the pin and longest drives.

The tournament is scramble format, with 8 a.m. registration and 9 a.m. shotgun start. To enter call (775) 445-7352 or go to Behavior Health Services at 1080 Minnesota Street.

The Carson City Historical Society presents a free "walking lecture" on the "History of Trees in Carson City" on Thurday, July 18.

The presentation begins at the Carson City Library Auditorium, 900 N. Roop St., at 6:00 p.m. with a 20-30 minute slide show presentation about trees of our area by Kyle Horvath. Then, participants will drive over to the Capitol Ground for the rest of the lecture.

A research group will use Carson City volunteers to help measure Pluto early Saturday morning at the Jack C. Davis Observatory.

The Research and Education Cooperative Occultation Network, a citizen science research project exploring the outer solar system, is conducing a campaign to measure Pluto just before 1:30 a.m.

This morning, Governor Brian Sandoval joined the Battle Born Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the first grade class from St. Teresa School in laying a wreath as part of the Wreaths Across America Project.

More than 50 Carson City and nearby residents are planning to gather on Monday, April 9, to take part in an unprecedented week-long nationwide progressive mobilization, called 99% Spring, to take back the country for the 99%. Reno area residents will also be meeting on Saturday and Sunday, April 14 and 15.