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According to the National Hole-in-One Registry, the average person’s odds of making a hole-in-one is 12,500 to 1. Even more rare of an occurrence is making a hole-in-one during a golf tournament with a grand prize of a brand-new car, sponsored by Carson City Toyota!

Students from all four classes recently nominated Carson High School Winterfest candidates for 2021 Winterfest week, Feb. 1-5, where both a King and Queen will be crowned. The theme, Destination Unknown, was decided upon; since students are not allowed to experience the vacations they love, they are bringing their vacation destinations to CHS.

According to Teen Health and Wellness, Rosen Publishing, “Sharing stories is a powerful way to connect with other people. By sharing your own story, you can connect with other teens who are dealing with similar experiences. Your words can provide hope and comfort, or empower them to face their own challenges.”

They wore pajamas, were wrapped in blankets, and carried cups of Dutch Bros and Starbucks as they gathered to celebrate the beginning of their senior year and the almost end of the soothing summer weather. The Class of 2020-2021, while practicing social distancing and wearing the latest fashion in face masks, gathered together at 6:00 a.m. Sept. 4 on the bleachers of the CHS football field to watch their sun rise.

Each year, the community gathers along the banks of the Truckee River to watch as hundreds of tiny yellow rubber ducks float across the water, and viewers cheer them on.

Adopt a Duck is one of the Nevada Humane Society’s biggest fundraising events of the year, and this year despite COVID-19, it will continue! However, instead of participants gathering on the banks, this year’s event will be live streamed from the Reno Shelter on August 29 at 12 p.m. and will consist of adorable shelter dogs and cats doing adorable activities.

The book award in Creative Nonfiction for the WILLA Literary Award goes to Mary Lee Fulkerson and her book, Women Artists of the Great Basin. The book is replete with 120 stunning color photographs of the artists and their works by master photographer Susan E. Mantle.

Carson City's very own Celtic music series continues Saturday when The Valerie Rose Band takes center stage at the Brewery Arts Center in the Maizie Harris Jesse Black Box Theater.

Flexibility and versatility are two distinguishable qualities that Western Nevada College’s new library and learning resource director brings to the college. Denise Frohlich has worked in a public branch library, as well as at a private university and a K-12 school district.

Where else in the world can you traverse a forest composed entirely of dilapidated and half-buried cars, photograph a plaster ghost riding a bicycle next to a giant metal penguin and miner, admire eloquent murals depicting history, and watch 30-foot flames shoot from the antennae of a giant metal praying mantis? Nevada, of course. And the 2017 Nevada Magazine Silver State Scavenger Hunt is the perfect way to do it.

The Carson High School winners of the Shark Tank competition are in with amazing new ideas for start-up companies and new inventions of products, not to mention the monetary winnings that allow these aspiring entrepreneur-contestants to take the next step in the process of starting their own businesses or inventing and marketing their new products.

Nine youth scholarship winners were named Saturday at the Fleet Reserve Association (FRA), Sierra Tahoe Branch 137, annual Scholarship Luncheon held inside Veterans Hall in downtown Carson City.

Bringing an American reality television series to CHS Business Students is another reason why Carson High School is a cutting edge high school. Thanks to teachers Billy McHenry and Angila Golik as well as Carson City community professionals, students are offered real life experiences.

“Don’t ever play cards with a man named Doc." — Jim Hunter, Teacher

I remember when girls were gross. They seemed to be unnecessary extras casted in my adventurous boyhood.

Halloween Scary-oke with Millers Entertainment! We're going to have a spooktacular event to get you ready for Halloween. Everyone who shows up in costume gets a chance to win a free drink every hour, and if you are brave enough to sing, you get another entry per song!

We'll also have a costume contest. Grand prize winner gets $50 cash + a free 3 hour karaoke party at a venue of your choice (distance limitations apply). Runner up gets a $25 bar tab, and everyone who shows up in costume gets a chance to win great raffle prizes all night long.

Tanya Crew, owner of Motorcycle Works in Carson City, has been selected as a finalist for eBay’s new SHINE Awards for Small Business in the woman-owned business category.

The newly created award celebrates the entrepreneurial spirit of eBay’s community of small business owners throughout the U.S. in five categories. eBay selected 15 nominees from over 1500 entries, but the public chooses which business owners win ‘Best in Class’ through online voting.

Nevada Magazine’s 2016 Great Nevada Picture Hunt is now open for submissions. For 39 years, Nevada Magazine has highlighted the most beautiful images from around the Silver State, captured by local photographers.

From a visit by Ellen Hopkins, New York Times bestselling author of adult and young adult fiction, to Carson High’s own bestselling author, senior Alec Belle, CHS teachers bring national and local professionals together to share their knowledge with tomorrow’s professionals in order to equip them for the road ahead.

Everyone is on a metaphorical road to another destination every single moment of every single day from sunup to sunup again, and what is done along the way leaves a lasting imprint on both the doer and the receiver.

Like Karsen Law, an unexpected winner in the SkillsUSA photo competition, the students of Carson High School are continuously coming up with the unexpected and creating memorable opportunities for not only students to participate but the Carson City community as well.

Carson City, NV–The national small business movement, Independent We Stand, announced the quarterfinalists of the 2015 Independent We Stand Independent Small Business of the Year Award. Nearly 22,000 votes were cast for 315 nominees during the nominations phase. For the second year in a row, Artsy Fartsy Art Gallery has been nominated for this award and made it to the quarter-final stage of voting.

Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information.

Carson City Library will host a “Virtual Read-Out” during Banned Books Week, bringing together our community in shared support of the freedom to seek and express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.

Nevada Magazine’s 2015 Great Nevada Picture Hunt is now complete. The Grand Prize winner of this year’s hunt is Scott William Warner of Carson City, who astounded judges with his shot “Inside Barn.” His shot, along with all winners in the 2015 hunt, can be viewed in the September/October issue of Nevada Magazine and at nevadamagazine.com.

Nevada Humane Society is issuing a big public thanks to Dick Campagni’s Carson City Toyota Scion for generously donating a 2015 Toyota Corolla as the grand prize for the annual Duck Race and Festival set for Sunday, August 23 in Reno.

On race day, 30,000 bright yellow rubber ducks will race down the Truckee River to raise money and awareness for homeless pets. The first duck — not necessarily the fastest duck — to reach the finish line and enter the official duck trap will be the grand prize winner and can walk away with the Toyota Corolla that night.

Nevada Magazine’s 2015 Great Nevada Picture Hunt is now open for submissions. For 38 years, Nevada Magazine has highlighted the most beautiful images from around the Silver State, captured by local photographers. Amateur and professional photographers are encouraged to submit photos of Nevada’s wonderful scenery and people.

Nevada Magazine’s 18th annual Best of Nevada readers’ poll is underway, and votes are continuing to pour in. The survey allows Nevada lovers to vote for their favorite restaurant, hotel, museum, bar, and more. This year, family-friendly categories have been added.

Guest conductor Maestro Tomasz Golka leads the Reno Chamber Orchestra in Nightingale Concert Hall on Saturday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 15 at 2 p.m. in a program starting with Haydn’s No. 39 and Schubert’s “Tragic” minor key symphonies. Next enjoy a modern composition by composer Witold Lutoslawski, as well as Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations performed by cellist Xiao Lai Zhou, the first prize winner of the Reno Chamber Orchestra’s 2015 College Concerto Competition. Tickets can be purchased on the website and range from $5 – $45.

Whether measuring the Earth, watching the Sierra Nevada mountain range creep slowly upward or inventing GPS-based tsunami warning systems that track sudden movements of the earth’s surface, Geoff Blewitt, director of the Nevada Geodetic Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno conducts imaginative and interesting research in the field of geodesy. His fellow scientists around the world have taken notice.

Seventy-five budding artists from kindergarten through grade 12 entered their art work into an annual contest recently as part of Carson City's annual Silver and Snowflake Festival of Lights.

Each year, the teen board of the Carson City Library chooses a theme to coincide with the Christmas holidays. This year’s theme was “A Novel Christmas,” asking children to draw what Christmas would look like in their favorite novels.

The Friends of the Library announce the Grand Prize winner of the “Name the Beast” contest at the Browsers Corner Book Store.

Pictured here is the winner, Kyra Fields, a fifth grader at Fritsch Elementary School. Her winning entry is “The Beast of Knowledge…Keeper of the Words.”

Kyra is holding her prize, a stack of books, a certificate for one free book of her choice each month for a year at the book store and a coupon donated by Round Table Pizza. Other second and third place winners will also receive books and more for their imaginative entries.

Maestro Theodore Kuchar leads the RCO in a program that begins with a little-known Russian masterpiece by a contemporary of Tchaikovsky, the Symphony No. 1 by Vasily Kalinnikov. Then virtuoso pianist Martina Filjak, first prize winner in the 2009 Cleveland International Piano Competition, performs Schumann’s beloved Piano Concerto. Concluding the program is another installment in the RCO’s ongoing series of collaborations with the University of Nevada, Reno Chamber Singers in Dvorák’s stirring Te Deum. Nightingale Concert Hall 1664 N Virginia St, Reno, NV 89557. $5-$45.

Maestro Theodore Kuchar leads the RCO in a program that begins with a little-known Russian masterpiece by a contemporary of Tchaikovsky, the Symphony No. 1 by Vasily Kalinnikov. Then virtuoso pianist Martina Filjak, first prize winner in the 2009 Cleveland International Piano Competition, performs Schumann’s beloved Piano Concerto. Concluding the program is another installment in the RCO’s ongoing series of collaborations with the University of Nevada, Reno Chamber Singers in Dvorák’s stirring Te Deum. Nightingale Concert Hall Reno, NV. $5-$45.