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More than 100 Soldiers, friends, and family were at the Army Aviation Support Facility were witness history as Col. Joanne Farris rcently become the first female brigade commander in Nevada Gua...

“These soldiers were all children once…they stood in that first pair of shoes, released supports, leaned into the wind of unknowing, wobbled that first step toward war” (from “Listen” by Teresa Breeden).

Literary work by Breeden and other Nevada writers accompany photographs of the nearly 7,000 U.S military Iraq and Afghanistan war dead since Sept.11, 2001, part of the nationally touring arts and humanities exhibition “Always Lost: A Meditation on War.”

Nevada Assemblyman PK O’Neill, District 40, has partnered with Western Nevada College Foundation in an effort to raise funds to continue the Always Lost: A Meditation on War exhibit’s national tour and ongoing maintenance.

Created in 2008 by Western Nevada College faculty and students as a class project to memorialize the costs of war, the exhibit most notably includes the Wall of the Dead comprised of photos and names of the U.S. service members that have fallen during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars since Sept. 11, 2001.

More than $2.2 million in grant money from the Veterans Affairs Support Housing program has been earmarked for veteran housing in Nevada, Sen. Harry Reid announced Friday.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs awarded
$168,512 to the Reno Housing Authority and the Sierra Nevada VA Health Care System, and $55,874 to the Nevada Rural Housing Authority with the Sierra Nevada VA Health Care System also receiving a share.

The sun is shining, the flowers blooming, the birds chirping, the wind gusting, and Carson City is hopping! Easter fun can be found this weekend at the annual EGGstravaganza at Carson Tahoe Medical Center, the Children’s Museum, the Carson Mall, and the Brewery Arts Center.

Head over to Mills Park for the Vietnam Veterans Day Celebration, complete with military vehicles, exhibits, and more. For demonstrations from soldiers with an even older history, the Nevada Civil War Volunteers will be in Dayton Saturday.

In 2009, Carson City poet Teresa Breeden wrote: “Listen. These soldiers were all children once…they stood in that first pair of shoes, released supports, leaned into the wind of unknowing, wobbled that first step toward war.” Literary work by Breeden and other Nevada writers accompany photographs of the nearly 7,000 U.S military Iraq and Afghanistan war dead since Sept.11, 2001, all part of the nationally touring arts and humanities exhibition “Always Lost: A Meditation on War.”

In honor of WWII veterans, the Wings of Freedom Tour will make a return stop the first three days in June at the Minden-Tahoe Airport as part of their 110-day U.S. tour, airport officials announced Friday. The World War II aviation museum visited the airport last year.

Author David Kotzebue will be at the Browsers Corner Book Store on Thursday, March 5th at 6:00 pm. He will be talking about his latest book, “Married to the Army” and selling and signing copies. This is a biography of a woman who testifies in front of Congress about her service as support to the soldiers in her family. Her testimony lead to the laws that give support to the families of fallen soldiers. This book will touch your heart and deepen your respect for our military families.

Sgt. Daniel Leverne Ackerman was from Carson City, Nev. He served in Vietnam, where he made the ultimate sacrifice in combat service to the United States of America a few weeks after his 21st birthday.

Sgt. Ackerman was born on March 13, 1947, and was killed in action on April 10, 1968. On the Vietnam Memorial Wall his name is located at Panel 49E, Line 7. Sgt. Ackerman was buried at Empire Cemetery, which is just east of Carson City.

When the Sierra-Tahoe Unit-137 of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Fleet Reserve Association asked for donations in an inaugural “drive by” collection Saturday for homeless veterans recently placed in housing, Carson City residents answered the call.

Hundreds of slightly used and new household items filling more than a hundred boxes were collected Saturday at the Veterans Memorial Hall on 2nd and Curry Street. The “Drive by Car Hop” exceeded all expectations, organizers say.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval joined more than two dozen soldiers and airman, sheriff’s deputies, firefighters and families Saturday to pay respects by jogging in a memorial run in Carson City to commemorate the four victims who died at the International House of Pancakes shooting on Sept. 6, 2011.

Shooting survivor Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy Mock and Gen. Michael Hanifan, commander of the Nevada Guard, led the pack of runners and walkers on the 5K route from the restaurant to the Guard complex on Fairview Drive in Carson City.

Soldiers and Airmen of the Nevada Guard will participate in an informal memorial run/walk Saturday to commemorate the victims of the International House of Pancakes shooting on Sept. 6, 2011. The run/walk will start at the Carson City IHOP, 3883 S. Carson St., at 6 a.m.

Shooting survivor Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy Mock will lead a pack of Guard runners and walkers on a five-kilometer route from the restaurant to the Office of the Adjutant General complex at 2460 Fairview Drive in Carson City. Tracy Kelly, widow of Lt. Col. Heath Kelly, is set to greet the runners at the finish of the route.

The deadline to submit applications for Official and Signature Nevada 150 events will be 5:00 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12. Over 400 events have been held across the Silver State since Nevada Day 2013, in celebration of Nevada’s Sesquicentennial, with many more ahead. To submit an event application please visit www.Nevada150.org. For questions or additional information please contact Scott Carey, events and community relations manager, at 775-687-0645 or shcarey@nevada150.org.

The following events will be held Sept. 1 through Sept. 14.

Students of Stephanie Fitch, of Dayton, Nev., a teacher at Dayton High School in Dayton, will be getting some valuable lessons this coming school year in learning the Holocaust as a result of their teacher having completed top-notch training this summer from educators of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Fitch was one of more than 200 participants who attended the 18th annual Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference for Educators, an invitation-only three-day workshop for teachers hosted by the Museum in mid-July.

Many celebrations are scheduled throughout the Silver State in the month of August. These Nevada 150 events celebrate all things Nevada and help bring awareness to the 150th Anniversary of Statehood. The following events are held Aug. 15 through Aug. 31.

The Carson City Chamber of Commerce Travel Club meets Wednesday at 5 p.m. at Red's Old 395 Grill to discuss their 2015 Trade Mission to China.

This will be the club's fifth year offering this incredible tour to China. New this year is the opportunity to join Kirk Caraway, publisher of CarsonNow.org, as he chronicles the tour for his readers.

CARSON CITY — The Nevada Army National Guard is set to team up with the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association and become one of the association's partners for the 2014-2015 academic year, Nevada Guard and
NIAA officials said Thursday. The NIAA is the non-profit organization of secondary schools in Nevada that acts as the governing body of high school athletics and activities.

This week's Capital Crossfire is a discussion of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Hosts Karl Neathammer and Shelly Aldean interview two people familiar with the affliction.

Guests are Former Nevada Army Guard Capt. Liz Hansen, a nurse who served in Afghanistan and advocate for returning veterans with combat related PTSD, and Boone Cutler, an author and Veterans' Rights leader that has become the first nationally recognized on-air personality. He hosts "Tipping Point with Boone Cutler" that airs Saturday mornings on Fox News Radio.

The public is invited to join the Nevada National Guard as it recognizes and pays homage to the United States' flag and celebrates the U.S. Army's birthday during the annual Nevada National Guard Flag Day Ceremony on Friday, June 13, at 10 a.m., in the Nevada Capitol Assembly Chambers in Carson City.

Pinkerton Ballet Theatre
Nutcracker Ballet Auditions

Wednesday June 4, 2014
Boys: 7-10 years old 12:00-12:30 p.m.
Girls: 7-10 years old 12:30-2:00 p.m.

Thursday June 5, 2014
Girls & Boys: 11 yrs. & older 11:30-1:00 p.m.
*** Mice & Soldiers Girls & Boys 1:00-1:30 p.m.
***Arabian auditions Girls & Boys 1:30-2:00 p.m.

Auditions will be held at: Ayako’s Dance Studio
2045 California St.
Carson City, NV 89701

The Historical Society of Dayton Valley hosts “Discover Gold in Dayton, Again,” as part of the Nevada 150th celebration, Saturday, May 17 in Old Town Dayton. Everyone is invited to come celebrate the community’s “firsts."

It is the location of Nevada’s first gold discovery which took place in 1849. It was the Silver State’s first permanent settlement, founded in 1851 and is the site of Lyon County’s first courthouse, opened in 1864. It is also the site of Nevada’s first marriage and ironically, the first divorce, as well, Docent Lauri Emerich, said. “We have a lot to celebrate.”

In honor of Armed Forces Day, the Capital City Arts Initiative invites you to attend a reading by Iraq veteran and writer Caleb Cage at the BRIC, 108 E Proctor Street, Carson City.

The reading will take place Saturday, May 17 at 5pm. The free event is part of CCAI’s Books & Writers series co-sponsored with the Carson City Library. CCAI and the Library enthusiastically invite everyone to attend the reading.

Ten Carson High School sophomores took home first place awards Saturday at the regional competition for National History Day at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Of the 15 entries from Nicole Fagundes’ Honors World History class, 12 received honors, including six first place entries that advance to the national competition at the University of Maryland at College Park in June.

“Four thousand faces of American military who had perished in Iraq stared at me,” said former Western Nevada College professor Don Carlson. “I realized that this war has been perhaps one of the most impersonal wars the U.S. ever fought.”

In 2008, the army veteran saw a Roster of the Dead, then totaling 4,000. He explains that with the all-volunteer military, more than in any previous war, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have been remote to the vast majority of Americans. Impersonal.

Wild Horse Children’s Theater is looking for actors, singers and dancers, ages 5-16 to audition for Disney’s “Mulan, Jr.” Auditions will be held Thursday, January 9 from 4-7 pm and Saturday, January 11 from 1-4 pm at the Performance Hall of the Brewery Arts Center , 511 W. King Street in Carson City. Auditions are by appointment only. You must call for an audition slot.

More than 500 Nevada National Guard federal technicians statewide will return to work Tuesday after being furloughed last week due to a partial government shutdown.

Normal operations and support activities will resume with no impact on the Guard’s ability to respond to federal contingencies or state and local emergencies, according to a news release posted to Facebook. The shutdown’s effect on the Guard has been largely transparent to the majority of Nevada’s citizens.

About 50 Nevada Guardsmen arrived at the IHOP restaurant in Carson City while it was still dark this morning and hugged, prayed and mapped out their route for a 5 kilometer run back to their base in memory of the three soldiers and one civilian gunned down two years ago today.

Soldiers and Airmen of the Nevada Guard are set to participate in an informal memorial run/walk to commemorate the victims of the International House of Pancakes shooting on Sept. 6, 2011 in Carson City.

The Iron Nation Annual 911 Memorial Run will be held at the Carson City Harley-Davidson on Sept. 14 beginning at noon.

There will be 1,500 to 1,800 riders doing a loop through downtown Carson City for the event as part of their Memorial Run. Carson City Harley-Davidson will have activities throughout the morning and afternoon.