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Dear Editor: A story titled, “Hunger Warriors” in Reno-Tahoe Edibles’ recent issue, stated The Greenhouse Project was built by Karen and Charlie Abowd. While this was a wonderful piece, this statement is incorrect. It is true TGP grew from a vision Karen had for a community that better served its food insecure.

Happy Saturday, Carson City! There are a ton of wonderful events happening in our region today, including the first Indigenous Peoples Heritage Day at the Children's Museum, a Turkey Shoot, Lego Club, Polar Express and more! Take a gander below to find out what we have going through the weekend.

Saturday, November 16

Heading into the weekend, there’s a bevy of activities around the Carson City region over the next three days. Events include Polar Express train rides, Touched By Angels hosts a garden craft show on Saturday, a night photo shoot at the Nevada State museum, Rob Sherwood headlines the Carson Comedy Club at the Carson Nugget, 'Matilda the Musical' and more!

CARSON CITY — The opportunity to take a great photograph at the Nevada State Railroad Museum doesn’t have to end when the sun goes down.

Well seekers, the game is no longer afoot. It's time to put down our maps and binoculars and wish each other a good game. At least we had fun, right? Congratulations to the winner of the 2019 Nevada Day Treasure Hunt: Chris Peternell! Great job, Chris!

Here are the 2019 Nevada Day Treasure Hunt Clues & Explanations:

Clue #1
Four distinct spaces
Within the division
Examine each one
Looking for your vision

The Northridge subdivision of Carson City has four distinct parks or recreation areas. They are

Good morning seekers! Have you guessed it yet? Today we've got the 13th clue, could it be the lucky one that cracks the case?

This year, the fan-favorite Cecil the Serpent of Walker Lake will be returning to Carson City for the first time in decades to participate in the Nevada Day parade this Saturday.

Heading into the first day fall, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019 we are looking at cool temperatures as a cold front passes through before a warming trend starts up Tuesday. Events include an estate planning seminar at the Carson City Senior Center, a guest presentation by the executive editor of the Reno Gazette-Journal at Round Table Pizza in Carson City, art showings, West Coast swing dancing, and more. Enjoy your day.

Featured speaker at Monday's Democratic luncheon will be Brian Duggan, Executive Editor of the Reno Gazette-Journal, the only daily newspaper still published in Northern Nevada. He will describe the challenges of putting out a new edition every 24 hours in the brave new world of online competition, private equity acquisitions and print journalism consolidation, even while plans unfold to build a new police headquarters right where the RGJ's newsroom now stands.

Dear Editor,

As the owners of Mom and Pop’s Diner for the past twenty years, we have had our ups and downs, as any business does. We have been very lucky to have such a great customer base, and friends. We want to tell all the individuals who have given their moral support that it means so much to Jamesa and myself.

Because the Judge’s verdict has created so much of a stir, it has been better then any kind of advertising money could buy. Everywhere we go, somebody says that this is just wrong, and tells us that it is obvious that it is personally against us.

Carson City native-born author Teri Case has recently won two Gold Awards at the International Readers' Favorite Awards for her books "Tiger Drive" and "In the Doghouse."

Teri's first book, "Tiger Drive," named for the Carson City street she had lived growing up, is about a fictionalized family coping with many different personalities. It received the Reader' Favorite Gold Award in the "fiction, drama" category.

Longtime Nevada journalist Dennis Myers suffered a massive stroke last week. He was admitted to Renown Regional Medical Center on Thursday, Aug. 22, and declared brain dead on Saturday, Aug 24. A registered organ donor, he was kept on life support until Monday, Aug. 26, when he was taken in for surgical recovery of his organs for donation.

New York-based playwright, opera librettist, theatre critic, and arts journalist David Cote is the current visiting artist with the Resident Artist Program in historic Silver City, Nev.

While he's here in August and September, he hopes to draft a 70-minute, spoken, dramatic monologue for a male performer about carpentry, family, and faith. You can learn more about his creative process during a free, public talk at the Brick at 108 E Proctor Street in Carson City this Thursday August 22, 2019 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in an event that also includes a talk by Chicago-based sculptor Nicole Beck.

August closes with a Chautauqua presentation “Sisters of the Sage” which will highlight the lives of Annie H. Martin, Lillian V. Finnegan and Anna N. Harris at the Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park on Wednesday, August 28, at 6:30 p.m.

SILVER CITY, Nev. — Acclaimed Nevada author Shaun Griffin will read from his new book of essays, "Because the Light Will Not Forgive Me," at the Silver City Schoolhouse on Sunday, July 28, 2 p.m. during a free, public event.

CARSON CITY — The story of Frank Sinatra and his Nevada gaming license has all the makings of a Hollywood classic, with fame, fortune, the Mob, shady characters and straight shooters all in the mix. It is also the subject of this month’s American Gaming Archives Fireside Chat at the Nevada Historical Society in Reno.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. Mark Twain was born in Carson City, Nevada on February 3, 1863.

Though most know this is one and the same person, the name Mark Twain and his writings, tall tales and witticisms are known throughout the world while Samuel Clemens has been reduced to a trivia question.

Carson City residents Don and Elaine Quilici returned recently from vacationing in Alaska, where they were treated to an airplane ride of a lifetime, touring Denali, the highest point in North America at 20,320 feet and then landing the tour aircraft on Ruth Glacier, which is 3,000 feet thick.

Earlier this month, the State Bar of Nevada announced the recipients of the 2019 Membership Awards. Among those selected was local Carson City attorney, Amber J. Handy.

Attorney Amber Handy received the 2019 Young Lawyer of the Year Award, which recognizes the professional and public service achievements of Nevada attorneys either under the age of 36 or those engaged in the practice of law for fewer than five years.

Junior Giants is a free, non-competitive and coed baseball program for youth ages 5-13.

In addition to playing baseball, participants learn the Junior Giants Four Bases of Character Development: confidence, integrity, leadership and teamwork, as well as the importance of health, education and bullying prevention.

Good day Carson City and welcome to Wednesday, May 8, 2019. We're looking at another day of sunshine and afternoon highs in the low 70s. We have activities throughout the region today, including a history presentation in Dayton, a Holocaust memorial service at the Governor's Mansion, art classes, live jazz and more. We want to send a big birthday "shoutout" to our outdoor editor emeritus Don Quilici, who turns 85 today. Don and his wife, Elaine, remain active, maintain healthy walks and hikes around the region and have plans for yet another Alaska outback trip this summer. Happy Birthday Q!

As the school year comes to an end, the 2018-2019 Carneta yearbook staff can finally slow down and take a breath. At the end of the week before Spring Break, at 8:30 p.m., the final pages were submitted, and the book was officially finished. After months of interviewing, photographing, and editing, the book is currently being printed by Walsworth Publishing Co., in Marceline, Kansas.

Check out the latest edition of Here's To Your Health, a quarterly magazine produced by Carson Tahoe Health. Inside this issue: Concussion Conundrum, Break Free from the Obesity Epidemic, Food Safety 101, Know Your Coffee, Gardening in Northern Nevada.

Well the weekend sure went fast as we say goodbye to March. Now we're heading into Monday, April 1, 2019 where pranks, larks and tom foolery are orders of the day. No fooling when it comes to the weather though. We may see a slight chance of showers in the afternoon and evening with more of a chance of rain on Tuesday. Stay tuned.

Dennis Myers, News Editor at the Reno News & Review, will be the featured speaker at Monday's Carson City Democratic luncheon. Myers has covered the Nevada political scene on television and in print for decades, and that depth of experience is evidenced by the historical context he brings to his reporting of contemporary politics.

Good morning, Carson City. Today is Thursday, March 21, 2019. If there's something we can always count on the last 10 days of March, besides the NCAA basketball championships, is unsettled weather. We can expect showers this morning with some clearing this afternoon. Speaking of NCAA basketball, the 7th ranked Nevada Wolf Pack Men's basketball team will face 10th ranked Florida Gators today, 3:50 p.m.

American ISIS bride Hoda Muthana wants to return from Syria. Guy Farmer agrees with Trump that she shouldn’t be allowed to come home because on the day of her birth her father was a UN diplomat exempt from US citizenship laws. Farmer believes “we should slam our golden door right in Ms. Muthana’s photogenic face.”

Hello Carson City as we arrive upon Tuesday, March 5, 2019. For those keeping score, we're 15 days away from the first day of spring, 108 days from summer, 232 days until Nevada Day and 296 days until we celebrate Christmas. Read on for what's happening today.

Cary Grant stars as a newspaper editor who uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife, Rosalind Russell, from remarrying in this text-book screwball comedy "His Girl Friday" presented Tuesday, March 5 by the Carson City Classic Cinema Club.

Solutions is in full swing, and Carson High School is the only high school in Nevada with this amazing grant. The grant money provides out-of-school-time supports for at-risk students. At risk, a broad term in this grant, includes students who are at risk of not passing a class, at risk of becoming truant, or just in need of a safe-place after school.