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As winter weather arrives in the Silver State, the Nevada Department of Transportation and Nevada Highway Patrol remind motorists to stay focused, slow down, prepare for rapidly changing conditions and leave plenty of room between your vehicle and others.

Unleash your kid’s inner foodie; Find out how carrying a medication card could save your life; Tips & tricks for writing your own memior. This and so much more in the latest issue of “Here’s To Your Health.” Click here to explore the magazine.

Editor’s Note: This is one in a series of articles, Partners for Success, highlighting the agencies that make up Partnership Carson City, an alliance of resources dedicated to creating a healthy community.

Between working two jobs and caring for her pets, Trudi Gaye doesn’t have much free time. “When I do have time, I want to spend it with my animals,” she said.

Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey Counties’ November breakfast meeting includes a discussion and request for input on the Coalition’s updated Comprehensive Community Prevention Plan, plus a free training on Naloxone and harm reduction. The public meeting is on Thursday, November 8, 2018 at 9am at the Silver Springs Community Center, 2945 Fort Churchill Street.

In collaboration with Emergency Management, EMS, Fire, Public Works, and the Sheriff’s Office, Carson City Health and Human Services will host a drive-thru flu clinic on Saturday, Oct. 6 from 9 a.m. to noon in the Carson City DMV parking lot.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office Special Enforcement Team arrested two Friday at a North Carson Street motel after finding drugs, needles and paraphernalia within reach of a small child who lived in the room with his mother, a Carson City sheriff's deputy said.

Carson City resident Brad Bartlett, who earlier this summer had been placed on the wait list for a heart transplant while hospitalized at the University of Utah Cardiovascular Center in Salt Lake City, received his new heart on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 3, 2018, his father Rick Bartlett said Friday.

Last month the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office visited a senior citizen for a Caring Neighbors referral. Caring Neighbors is a new program administered by DCSO, where qualified and uniformed volunteers call and visit the seniors in our community.

Carson City-based Mission Senior Living broke ground on Mesa Valley Estates Assisted Living and Memory Care, an $8 million, 78-unit senior living community that will serve seniors and families in the Mesquite and Moapa Valleys, Arizona Strip and southern Utah areas.

A 47-year-old Carson City Detention Center inmate was booked Thursday for gross misdemeanor damage to jail property after throwing screws and a washer at a window causing it to crack, a sheriff’s deputy said.

A 46-year-old Carson City man was arrested for suspicion of felony possession of a controlled substance after allegedly dropping a pen full of methamphetamine at a casino Sunday night, a sheriff's deputy said.

Free training opportunities for the public will be offered this July in Silver Springs, Yerington, Fernley, and Dayton regarding how to reduce risks of accidental overdose using Naloxone treatment resources.

A 56-year-old Carson City woman was arrested Wednesday for a felony warrant alleging exploitation of an elderly person of more than $5,000, a Carson City sheriff’s deputy said.

The Carson City Fire Department reminds residents that personal use of fireworks is illegal in Carson City. Use of fireworks endangers those involved and can unwillingly impact those not involved.

SILVER SPRINGS — For more than a decade, Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey counties has hosted monthly breakfast meetings on the second Thursday of each month at 9 a.m. Diverse local, state, federal and tribal groups and community volunteers share news and collaborate on system changes that improve access to affordable, local food and to health care, and that support community-based, sustainable economic development.

Hurl Mahurin lost his wife, Linda, to breast cancer in 2014. She was diagnosed at stage 4 three years prior, and the cancer eventually ate away at bone and tissue in her back and leg.

Carson City health advocates urge residents to help protect the community and its water supply this Saturday by properly disposing of unused or expired prescription drugs, over-the-counter products, prescription liquids, pet medications and syringes.

A 61-year-old Carson City woman was arrested Wednesday in the 3100 block of Douglas Drive for misdemeanor suspicion of DUI, and failure to maintain a single lane of traffic, a Carson City sheriff’s deputy said.

A Carson City woman was arrested Friday at 5:58 a.m. in the 2100 block of East William Street on suspicion of felony third-offense driving under the influence, a Carson City Sheriff's deputy said.

Following a serious car accident in 2008 and two years later the discovery of a genetic predisposition for young onset Parkinson’s Disease, a career Carson High School teacher may have had to retire from the school district, but he has never stopped gaining and offering knowledge through his lifelong passion as an educator.

The Life Change Center in Carson City and Sparks are among three community provider organizations picked to receive the Opioid State Targeted Response Treatment and Recover Center grant, the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services announced this week.

Two skiers who became lost Thursday after skiing out of bounds were rescued, one Thursday night and the other plucked Friday morning by a Blackhawk helicopter from NAS Fallon, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office. Both skiers were wet and cold but otherwise escaped injuries.

A kiosk system for medical requests by Nevada Department of Corrections inmates has been installed recently to heighten efficiencies for prisoners and staff handling medication refills, as well as dental and eye doctor requests, with no added cost to the state.

A man was arrested early Tuesday for trespassing after he was found on the runway at Carson City Airport, a sheriff's deputy said. It was the second such time the man has been trespassed for being on the runway.

There’s a chronic pain patient with a rare condition, scared because his primary care doctor of 21 years told him suddenly one day that he will no longer write him prescriptions for the medication that keeps him functioning every day.

Carson City Health and Human Services is reporting a significant increase of positive flu cases in the region. Overall, Carson City, Douglas and Lyon counties have experienced many more cases of influenza this year than the same time last year.

CARSON CITY — Gov. Brian Sandoval and the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services announced an important reminder Friday that the provisions of Assembly Bill 474, the Controlled Substance Abuse Prevention Act, will go into effect January 1, 2018.

When Carlos Iribarren — a longtime Carson Valley resident and former co-owner of the Carson Valley Country Club — passed away at the age of 71 last spring, his family made a special request of friends and loved ones.

Instead of flowers, the family asked that memorial donations be made to the Infusion Center at Carson Valley Medical Center, where Carlos had been a longtime patient.

The family expressed thanks to the entire staff of the Infusion Center in Iribarren’s published obituary, noting the care of registered nurse Lori Salvador in particular.

Two 21-year-old men and a 19-year-old were arrested early Saturday, 2:10 a.m. in the area of Viking and Sherman streets and face various misdemeanor charges, a Carson City sheriff’s deputy said.

A traffic stop for failing to use a turn signal on North Carson Street early Monday morning resulted in the arrest of a man wanted in Montana for suspicion of three counts sexual assault, a Carson City sheriff’s deputy said.