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Good morning Carson City! It's finally starting to feel like Spring around here. The weather today is going to be another gorgeous day, sunny with highs of 56, a low of 28, and 52 percent humidity. On the schedule today we have a ton of wonderful events, from a live music benefit for the homeless, to pollinator workshops, a Roller Derby match, a Veteran's Remembrance Day celebration at Mills Park, and much more. Scroll below to see everything happening today in our capital city.

Pollinators, like honey bees, bumble bees, and monarch butterflies, are in serious need of quality habitat in northern Nevada. If you’d like to be a part of this awesome community garden that will be a haven for these important species, we’d love your help!

Carson City Parks, Recreation and Open Space will be raking and picking out the shrubbery to make room for spring planting, so make sure to bring water, sunscreen, and comfy clothes. Gloves and snacks will be provided. The event is from 9 a.m. to noon. Click on flier for more details.

I’m ready for spring and suddenly, after multiple snow and rain events, it’s here. However, the weather forecast is for more showers the remainder of the week. We've had more than six inches of rain at our house in February and March.

Come watch a doubleheader March 30 as your local Carson Victory Rollers battle it out with the Lockeford Liberators and the Carson Junior Victory Rollers take on the Little Rascals. The event takes place at the Carson Community Center gym.

The next meeting of the Board of Supervisors will be held Thursday, March 21, beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the Sierra Room of the community center located at 851 E. William Street.

Items on the docket include runaway youths, the Ross Gold Park Playground Replacement and ADA Access Project among others.

UPDATE 4:25PM: Carson City Parks, Recreation and Open Space is currently working on its master plan for Ross Gold Park. Replacement of the aging picnic shelter will be addressed in the master plan.
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CARSON CITY — The Parks, Recreation and Open Space Department will begin demolition on the existing playground and picnic shelter at Ross Gold Park beginning March 25. The playground is over 25 years old and does not meet current playground safety guidelines.

What the heck is hugelkultur? That’s what I asked my friend Will after he said he was going to try it. He had just finished cutting down a tree and had a load of branches and bark to get rid of. According to centuries’ old Eastern European and German tradition, it starts with no-dig raised beds made out of logs, branches, leaves, grass clippings, straw, cardboard, petroleum-free newspaper, manure, compost and/or other organic matter. Top this raised mound with soil and then it’s ready to plant.

There's a new Mr. Carson High in town.

Cameron Rudy was crowned Mr. Carson High 2019 Friday at the Carson City Community Center in Carson City.

This past Saturday, a group of passionate hikers braced the wind at Riverview Park for the Parks, Recreation & Open Space Department’s second annual Watershed Walk.

Fluvial Geomorphologist Lynn Zonge and CWSD Watershed Program Specialist Shane Fryer shared their extensive knowledge of the Carson River Watershed with the group.

Pollinators, like honey bees, bumble bees, and monarch butterflies, are in serious need of quality habitat in northern Nevada. If you’d like to be a part of this awesome community garden that will be a haven for these important species, we’d love your help! We’ll be raking and picking out the shrubbery to make room for spring planting, so make sure to bring water, sunscreen, and comfy clothes. Gloves and snacks will be provided. Hope to see you there!

Location: At 1535 Medical Way (same place as Gardening Workshop)

Supposedly, spring is less than two weeks away. As I sit here looking at the snow on the mountains and in the yard, I’m finding it hard to gear up my brain to think spring gardening thoughts. In some years, daffodils and forsythias would already be blooming. Instead, these cheery harbingers of spring have been delayed by lingering snow.

Carson City 4-H programs, brought to you through the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, have new and on-going project clubs open to area youth ages 5–18.

Nevada is a recreational wonder, abounding with one-of-a-kind State Parks, vibrant trail systems, historic treasures, native wildlife, abundant hunting and fishing, and memorable adventures of all kinds waiting to be discovered.

Now, outdoor enthusiasts will have even greater opportunities to connect with nature and enjoy Nevada’s vast recreational splendor.

Join gardening experts for a morning of planting demonstrations, gardening advice, how gardening affects Nevada’s pollinators, and more! Booths will include The Greenhouse Project, The Greenhouse Garden Center and The Great Basin Beekeepers of Nevada. This event will take place at the Greenhouse Project's Foothill Garden (1535 Medical Pkwy - at the hoophouse near the Foothill Trailhead). All ages are welcome! The event is Saturday, April 6, 9 a.m. to noon.

Please register here: https://apm.activecommunities.com/ccpr/Activity_Search/5223

Summit Estates Senior Living and Memory Care, a Mission Senior Living community, is expanding its memory care neighborhood with a 3,200 square-foot addition that includes accommodations for eight additional residents. The $900,000 construction project began on Feb. 28 and is expected to take about six months to complete.

Although I have never tried Epsom salts, named for a town in England, in my landscape or garden, I have heard many gardeners rave about what they call a miracle cure for plants. Whenever I wonder about whether something is a horticulture myth, I turn to Linda Chalker-Scott, Ph.D., a well-respected horticulture researcher at Washington State University.

For those weary from all the snow around Carson City so far this month, about the only good news to share is that your weekend is here and there's plenty to do indoors if winter recreation isn't your thing.

From workshops to live music, a skate demo at The WheelHouse and even a special "Caturday Night Out" at the Carson Nugget to help homeless felines in the area, there are places to go around Carson City where you can keep warm, stay dry and have fun!

The weekend is here and your Saturday around Carson City is chockfull of activities.

Despite snow on the ground, a Chinese New Year celebration will take place in downtown Carson City between the Nevada State Museum and the Children's Museum of Northern Nevada.

The ninth annual Carson High School Safe Grad Safe and Sober Run/Walk occurs at the CHS track.

And the 20th annual Feast of Chocolate, a scholarship fundraiser for the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Capital Branch, is being held at the Plaza Hotel Event Center.

Members of the Carson City Chamber of Commerce 2019 Leadership Institute are buzzing about their class project to construct a bee hotel in honor of the Nevada state capital being named as a Bee City USA.

Good morning, Carson City, on this first day of February. Our area has been enjoying Spring-like weather and temperatures all week long. Today will be no different, so enjoy the pleasant conditions while they last.

A series of storms is forecast to move into our region Saturday, dropping temperatures as well as rain and snow. As the photo suggests, rain in the morning is a sailor's warning, so batten down those hatches.

A collaboration between Carson Tahoe Health and The Greenhouse Project, The Foothill Garden in Carson City is home to sustainable growing classes year round. Classes provide a variety of local experts who specialize in teaching people how to grow their own food.

Wow, Carson City! Is it Friday already?! Indeed, we have reached the end of another work week.

Go for a swim during lunch or after work at the newly reopened Carson Aquatic Center before catching some live entertainment this evening at Living the Good Life Nightclub-Bistro-Lounge, Bella Vita Bistro and A to Zen, featuring its weekly Open Mic Night.

Carson City School District is pleased to announce Educator Kristina Britt, speech language pathologist at Bordewich Bray Elementary School, as a winner of GreenNevada’s Growing Resources for Environmental Education in Nevada 2019 Golden Pinecone Sustainability Award.

CARSON CITY — A collaboration between Carson Tahoe Health and The Greenhouse Project, The Foothill Garden is home to sustainable growing classes year round. Join a variety of local experts and learn to grow your own food with a presentation: Seed selection, seed starting and seed saving this Friday.

CARSON CITY — Since 2001, more than 350,000 trees have been recycled throughout Nevada thanks to the help of several Christmas tree recycling programs, thousands of volunteers, and many community sponsors.

CARSON CITY — 2018 was an exciting year for the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. As we put 2018 in the rear-view mirror, we’d like to celebrate some of our more notable highlights from the past year, and share a glimpse into what’s in store for 2019.

A 21-year-old transient man was charged with 19 counts of violating conditions of bail release after calling a victim he was ordered to have no contact with a total of 19 times while in custody at the Carson City Jail.

There are only two more Saturdays until Christmas, and Santa Claus is back in Carson City again this weekend ahead of the big holiday.

Four Carson High School students were named candidates for the Presidential Scholar at Tuesday's meeting of the Carson City School District Board.

The Northern Nevada Dream Center, a Carson City based volunteer run, nonprofit organization, is holding its fourth annual Dream Christmas event, a mobile caravan of holiday joy and goodies for those in need.