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Streets and sidewalks around Carson City will be busier starting Monday morning as children throughout the district head back to school.

The Carson City School Board appointed its new member Tuesday night. Susan Rosseter Hart was voted as the new School Board trustee for District 6. The seat has been vacant since the end of March when the former trustee Deonne Contine resigned from the position.

Officials say they've filled about 85 percent of the new school social worker jobs approved as part of an effort to curb bullying in Nevada.

(Editor’s Note: The following story will appear in the spring edition of The Senator News, CHS’s newspaper. The story was written by staff writer Dominick DeLise, a sophomore at CHS.)

This August, two 2016 CHS graduates, and a student who finished her sophomore year, will begin another year of high school in a new country, learning a new language, and living with a different family.

Seniors MacKenzie Gilliam and Delaney Fine, and sophomore Alexa Conrad, were chosen for the Rotary exchange program. Gilliam will be going to Italy, Fine to Belgium and Conrad to Leon, France.

The Sierra Lutheran basketball program is firing up. This year, both the varsity and JV girls set new school records, along with the JV boys. The Falcons were successful in the classroom, too, because both the girls and boys varsity teams were honored as Nevada Division IV State Academic champions on Feb. 27 at Lawlor Events Center in Reno. The girls team compiled a combined 3.87 grade point average, and the boys a 3.72 grade point average.

Caroline Gabica slid activated hand warmers into her boots, picked up a bag of footballs and followed the coach out onto the field during the playoff game between Carson and Reed high schools in November. Soon Gabica, manager for the Carson High School Senators football team, was back on the sidelines, taping up the injured fingers of a player who got tangled up with another player’s face mask.

On Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, the Nevada Justice Association (NJA) – a statewide non-profit organization of trial lawyers – teamed up with Assemblywoman Amber Joiner to deliver backpacks and other school supplies to the students at Glenn Duncan STEM Academy.

Throughout the month of August, NJA members collected various items, including backpacks, notebooks, writing utensils and cleaning supplies, to help students be as prepared as possible for the new school year. The drive was led by “Trial Lawyers Care,” the community outreach arm for the Nevada Justice Association.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hosts its seventh annual clothing drive to help families in Carson City, Minden, Gardnerville, and Dayton, Nevada communities get ready for school.

The event is open to the public on Saturday, August 8, from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m. at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel located at 411 N. Saliman Road, Carson City, Nevada.

Linda Danaher recently joined the Reno Philharmonic Association as marketing director. Danaher is an experienced marketing professional, owning her own successful company, Danaher Design, LLC, since 2003.

A graduate of Parsons, The New School for Design, Danaher has worked in high-profile positions such as Senior Art Director at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in New York, as well working with organizations such as Avis, American Parkinson Disease Assoc., and Snug Harbor Cultural Center.

In launching the new school year, Carson City 4-H will participate in the annual 4-H National Science Experiment. This year’s national experiment revolves around the popular rockets program. Titled “Rockets to the Rescue” youth will be tasked with one mission.

To kick off the new school year, Carson City 4-H will participate in the annual 4-H National Science Experiment. This year’s project revolves around the popular program, “Rockets to the Rescue” where youth will be tasked with one mission.

Beat the back to school run and bring your child in to the Carson City Health and Human Services office this week for their immunization.

Today through Aug. 15, immunizations are being held, with back to school walk-in hours from 1 to 4:30 p.m, no appointment necessary. All required school vaccines are available. After this week, Health and Human Services will offer immunizations on Thursdays only.

The agency is located at 900 East Long Street in Carson City. The number is (775) 887-2190.

Smith Valley Library, 22 Day Lane, Smith NV, announces NEW SCHOOL YEAR HOURS effective Monday, August 11, 2014. We will be open four days a week: Tuesday 3pm– 6pm, Thursday 3pm - 6pm, Friday 9am - 5pm, and Saturday 11am – 5pm.
Visit our Used Book Corner “Second Hand Prose” in the library- all proceeds go to support the library and your donations are always welcome. Half-price Back-to-School sale beginning August 18th through September. $1 hardback books, $.50 for large .25 for small paperbacks, .10 for children’s books.
Activities at the library:

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hosts its sixth annual clothing drive to help families in Carson City, Minden, Gardnerville, and Dayton, Nevada communities get ready for school.

The event is open to the public on Saturday, Aug. 9, from 9 a.m. to noon at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel located at 411 N. Saliman Road, Carson City.

David Haws, President of the church’s local organization, says families are invited to pick up needed clothing in preparation for the new school year.

The Carson City Library has joined the Salvation Army’s Carson City Corps Community Center in preparing students for the upcoming school year. The Back-To-School supply drive will run through August 11. A collection barrel and Apple Tree Poster is located at the library’s main Help Desk.

The Carson City School District offers online updates for existing students an online enrollment for new students August 11-29.

Through InfoSnap, our secure and green online enrollment system, parents are able to verify all student demographic, emergency and medical information for their child prior to the start of the new school year.

Returning Students: An instructional mailer will be sent home to all existing students in August. This mailer will contain instructions on how to access online enrollment to update their student’s information.

The Simon family in Moundhouse has adopted 21 special needs children over the last 30-plus years, and they have finally reached a point where they are able to add on much needed bedrooms and fully handicapped equipped bathrooms to their existing home.

The family is looking for donations of labor, materials, etc so they can get this completed before the new school year starts.

"We finally got to a point where needed to expand and do an addition. We are adding on four bedrooms and two handicap bathrooms," said Merrill Simon.

Carson City Sheriff’s Sgt. Daniel Gonzales announced today that he filed to run for Sheriff of Carson City with the Carson City Elections Department.

Gonzales is running for Sheriff with the goal of increasing integrity, transparency, and accountability in the Sheriff’s Office, as well as restructuring the department to put more deputies in positions to better serve Carson City. “I understand today’s issues and have the vision to meet tomorrow’s challenges.”

Carson City Sheriff’s Sgt. Daniel Gonzales announced Wednesday his candidacy for sheriff of Carson City.

Gonzales says he is running for sheriff with the goal of increasing integrity, transparency and accountability in the Sheriff’s Office, as well as restructuring the department to put more officers on patrol and use monies to better protect and serve Carson City and its residents.

A food drive that brings federal employees together to collect food for those hungry in Carson City will be held Saturday following a successful event last weekend that netted more than 700 pounds in donations. Also underway Saturday is a clothing drive for families in need at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The “Feds Feed Families” drive will have a booth and food drop-off area at Grocery Outlet, 1831 North Carson Street this Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hosts its fifth annual clothing drive to help families in Carson City, Minden, Gardnerville, and Dayton, Nevada communities get ready for school.

The event is open to the public on Saturday, August 10, from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel located at 411 N. Saliman Road, Carson City, Nevada.

A team of middle school Mathletes® from Davidson Academy of Nevada won the Northern Nevada MATHCOUNTS Chapter competition recently while the Best New School award went to Carson Valley Middle School.

The top individual was Dylan Hildebrand from Davidson Academy of Nevada. Members of the winning team are: Dylan Hildebrand, Ian Oh, Sarah MacHarg, Rinik Kumar and Coach James Marshall.

Second place team is Pine Middle School with team members; Aron Chan, Jay Babu, Evan Liu, Jonathan Baker and Coach Pam Calhoun.

With the big Labor Day weekend, the last outdoor trips of the summer, the start of many different big game and bird hunting seasons, the beginning of a new school year, etc., all coming up around the corner, here are some suggestions that just might save your life, if you are planning to venture into the Great Outdoors, all alone, on a photographing, hiking, biking, horseback riding, backpacking, camping, fishing, hunting, climbing, trip:

CARSON CITY – Nevada retailers and their online counterparts expect to see $245 million in spending on back-to-school merchandise for public school children this year, a 15.4 percent increase over spending levels in 2011, the Retail Association of Nevada (RAN) reported today.

Fremont Elementary School grounds are currently under construction for a project to create a new and safer traffic pattern, making it easier for parents to drop off their children at school.

The new installations for the school consist of newly reconfigured parking areas to better cope with congestion on nearby roads. A pick-up area specifically designed for the kindergartners is also being installed on the east side of the school.

CARSON CITY – The September jobs report released today contained some hints of economic life in recession-battered Nevada, even though the unemployment rate held steady at a double-digit 13.4 percent rate from August.
While still tops in the nation in unemployment, Nevada saw a decline in the jobless rate in the Las Vegas area, to 13.6 percent from 14.3 percent in August. The Reno-Sparks and Carson City areas also saw declines.

Silver Springs children have a new school garden, thanks to a grant received by Healthy Communities Coalition through the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). In a unique partnership, Community Roots, a nonprofit part of The Healthy Communities Coalition, is partnering with SSES and SS Boys and Girls Club to develop and maintain the new garden this spring and summer.

The Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey hosts special speakers during public meetings held on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 9am at the Silver Springs Community Center at 2945 Ft. Churchill Road. Each meeting also includes resource sharing, updates and discussion on issues of regional importance such as health and wellness, substance abuse prevention and recovery, education, workforce development, etc. On May 12, the featured speakers will be from the Tobacco Cessation Helpline.

By Wendy Madson, Healthy Communities Coalition liaison for school garden implementation

Nearly 2,000 students are getting their hands dirty in school gardens, thanks to a USDA grant received by Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey, a private nonprofit. This season school gardens are being created in Dayton and Silver Springs, and next season they'll be created in Yerington and Fernley schools.

Dayton Intermediate School’s newly developing school garden will boast two large sculptures by internationally known sculptor Mischell Riley.

Riley, who is well known for work such as the 3-story high bronze lion at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, has donated two of her pieces to enhance the school’s garden landscape.