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Love working with children? Want to be a voice for a child in the child welfare system? Do you want to stand up and make a difference in a child's life? Then this volunteer opportunity is for you — become a CASA team member.

Carson City's Grocery Outlet is holding a food drive to benefit Friends in Service Helping, also known as FISH, now through July 31 as part of the companywide Independence from Hunger campaign.

Reno resident Russell Lehmann, speaker, author, poet and advocate for autism, spoke at the Association for People Supporting Employment First’s 2018 national conference in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, June 26-28. This is one of 30 nationwide engagements Lehmann has booked this year.

Carson City Toyota has generously funded $5,000 in scholarships for students attending Western Nevada College this fall. This donation is dedicated to helping students who are pursuing careers in automotive mechanics as well as students pursuing their associate degrees in other academic areas.

YERINGTON — In its commitment to improve the enforcement of current firearm laws, the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office has launched its Denied Firearm Transaction Initiative aimed to investigate anyone who attempts to buy or possess a firearm as a prohibited person per Nevada Revised Statute 202.360.

CARSON CITY — One couple is taking the meaning of "sharing a life together" to another level. Jessie and Katia Perez’s career choices line up perfectly.

Local organizers for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's Great Strides fundraising event are urging community members to come out and walk Sunday at Mills Park in Carson City.

Volunteers with the Carson City Sheriff's Office DARE program were busy Saturday assembling between 400 and 500 prize bags to be handed out to children at next weekend's annual Cops and Kids Safe Streets party.

Interested in volunteering? Want to make a difference in a child's life who has been removed from their home due to abuse or neglect? Do you want to be a voice for a child who is getting lost in the child welfare system? Then CASA is for you.

CARSON CITY — Third and fourth graders from the Empire X-Factor Enrichment class at Empire Elementary School learned the technical side of filmmaking this past semester while producing a 2-minute public service announcement on how students and teachers can further ‘Green’ efforts at their schools.

Around the world, many women are working to improve the lives of women and girls. Some women work to improve conditions for women and girls through their personal or volunteer efforts; others do so through professional avenues.

The projects are piling high like the snow on the summit of the Sierra Mountains. You are suffocated. You can’t breathe. The air is thin. There’s too much to do and no time to do it. You’ve hit overwhelm and you shut down. You Netflix and chill or find some way to forget about it, just making the matter worse. The pile gets bigger the more time you don’t tend to it, which just makes the overwhelm worse.

The Blue Thunder Marching Band placed 2nd out of 10 participating bands in the 2018 Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco, Calif.

Carson City isn't particularly known for its night or dance clubs. But one local non-profit group caters to the needs of some residents who like to cut a rug or bust a groove for a good time.

A comprehensive housing study released Wednesday by the Nevada Rural Housing Authority breaks down Carson City's housing shortage as it stands today, but several new developments either underway or being planned in Carson City should put a dent into the demand, said NRHA Deputy Director Bill Brewer.

Nevada residents are urged to get ready to “give where they live” during Nevada’s Big Give 2018, a 24-hour online crowdfunding event created to rally community support for Nevada’s charitable causes.

The state of Nevada Department of Corrections is hosting a Law Enforcement-Correctional Officer Job Fair April 7 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Stewart Facility gym at 5500 Snyder Avenue in Carson City.

Join Carson City Republican Women at their upcoming meeting to hear several candidates vying for U.S. and Nevada state positions in the upcoming primary election.

On Tuesday, March 20th at 11:00 a.m. at Casino Fandango we are pleased to hear from Sharron Angle for U.S. Congress, Adam Laxalt for Governor, Jared Fisher for Governor, Bob Beers for Treasurer, Craig Mueller for Attorney General, Ben Kieckhefer for NV State Senate and Carol del Carlo for Board of Regents.

U.S. Senate Candidate Danny Tarkanian will be our keynote speaker Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at the Carson City Republican Women's luncheon meeting. He is running against incumbent U.S. Senator Dean Heller. Danny ran his first political race in 2004 for a seat in the Nevada State Senate.

It is not unusual for Lupe Ramirez, Western Nevada College’s Latino outreach coordinator, to see her students out and about on the weekends at quinceañeras and other events.

Residents of Carson City’s Richards Crossing, a housing, on-the-job training and resource facility for veterans, homeless and extremely low-income individuals, were delighted and surprised by the generous holiday gifts given to them by a number of organizations.

Senior Projects, a Carson High School graduation requirement, are in full swing, and every year a host of new topics are set into motion by students who take it very seriously, students who take it upon themselves to make a difference in the lives of others. One such senior, Sarah Sever, is motivated to create awareness about a wide-ranging and ever growing atrocity affecting young women in America.

Carson City School District becomes the latest participant in an energy-awareness and savings program called powerED. McKinstry, an energy and facility services expert, will administer the two-year educational-focused program.

Throughout October’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month the Mary Kay Foundation is awarding 150, $20,000 grants to domestic violence shelters nationwide including Carson City-based Advocates to End Domestic Violence.

Now is your chance to get involved, have some fun and make a difference. The Nevada Department of Veterans Services is hosting a free, two day workshop to help you become certified as a Nevada Veterans Advocate or NVA.

SILVER SPRINGS, Nev. – Saturday, October 28, is Make a Difference Day, one of the largest national community service days. Fort Churchill State Historic Park is looking for volunteers who would like to lend a helping hand with projects around the park. Registration for this volunteer event is required.

In a way, Hannah McDonald is claiming her legacy when she takes over at the end of this month as director of Partnership Carson City.

“As a kid, I grew up in prevention work,” she said. “I naturally kind of fell into the effort.”

Today, my usual chipper column seems out of place. Senseless violence in our state, perpetrated at a country music festival in Las Vegas, is horrific. And you know what? It’s just fine to feel the horror of it. It’s just fine to be numb. It’s just fine to cry. It’s just fine to process national or world events exactly the way we need to. Giving each other time, space, and open hearts to express is good medicine. In fact, it’s the medicine we need.

A local charity is doing its part to help displaced victims of hurricanes Harvey and Irma in storm-ravaged parts of the southeast.

Help make a difference in your community, become an active volunteer for the Carson City Sheriff’s Office. Volunteers are the backbone of our organization and assist with a number of law enforcement duties so that sheriff’s deputies have more time to effectively spend in law enforcement duties.