holiday with a hero

Tis the season for visits with Santa, holiday twinkle lights, and craft fairs and festivals. In order to make your December planning a little easier, take a look at what is coming up in the Carson City, Carson Valley, Dayton, and Virginia City area. Go deck the halls, get some jingle bells, and wassail away.

Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of Nov. 27 through Dec. 4, 2017. Road closures are expected at the following locations due to road/utility work. Please follow detours. Special events include Friday night's Silver and SnowFlakes Festival of Lights celebration and Saturday's Holiday Crawl to benefit Holiday with a hero.

Tim Milligan, general manager of Capital Ford, left, presents a check for $3,500 to representatives of Holiday With a Hero in Carson City, Nev., on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017. Holiday With a Hero, a partnership between the Carson City Sheriff's Office, Carson City Fire Department, Carson City School District and the Department of Corrections, provides Christmas shopping for 300 underprivileged children each year. For more information, go to holidaywithahero.com.

The Clear Creek Bowman Holiday with a Hero 3D shoot is happening December 3rd!
15 to 25 3D targets will be out. Unmarked yardage, but binoculars and rangefinders are ok.
What is the cost, you ask? A $10.00 donation, that will go to "Holiday with a Hero" through the Carson City Sheriff's Department.
This is a fun shoot for a great cause, so dust off your bow one last time and come on out and have some fun.

The shoot is being held at the Centennial Park Archery Range in Carson City.
Registration starts at 9:30am and the shoot starts a 10:00am.

Hope to see you there.

DeBug Computer’s annual Pictures With Santa is almost here! In collaboration with the Carson City Holiday With a Hero fundraiser, we will be offering photos with Santa Claus and your child or well-behaved pet. The event is Dec. 2, 2 to 4 p.m.

Bring your child to the DeBug Carson City store located at 1817 N. Stewart St., #30 to tell Santa their holiday wishes and receive a professional quality photo for $5 or multiple digital images can be purchased on CD for $25.

The 14th annual Holiday With a Hero campaign is officially underway. The goal is to give at least 200 homeless children in Carson City a holiday gift to remember by presenting them with a $100 gift card to spend during a special shopping spree at Walmart.

You’ll see some pretty interesting vehicles on the road these next few days, as travelers from all over head to Burning Man. If you aren’t off to the Playa yourself, there will be plenty of fun around town to keep you and your family occupied. The second annual Family Fun Day in Mills Park is your best bet for kids of all ages. This week’s free concert at Brewery Arts Center features the Dusty Green Bones. Don’t forget your dancing shoes; they’re sure to keep you on your feet.

SATURDAY:

Precision means to be exact, on point.

Bows and arrows, though made for this, are only as accurate as the person drawing them back.

Investigators continue to unravel the bizarre circumstances surrounding a Carson City woman who was arrested Friday after she allegedly faked her 10-year-old son's death in order to generate money through community donations and a GoFundMe account, said Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong.

Ten weeks after the 2016 campaign began, Holiday with a Hero culminated Wednesday morning in the Wal-Mart parking lot off Retail Drive in North Carson City.

Hundreds of homeless children and their families braved the wet conditions for a chance to see Santa Claus arrive by fire engine and to go shopping with their community hero.

Organizers of the annual Holiday Crawl estimate they made about $10,000 for the Holiday with a Hero shopping spree that benefits children in need in the community.

Don’t think that Sundays are just for rest, there is plenty to coax you out of your pajamas today. Take a trip with Santa at the Nevada Railroad Museum. Search for treasures and do your Christmas shopping at Fuji Park today, one of the multiple craft shows in town. Enjoy a free concert at the Community Center courtesy of the Capital City Community Band. Dayton is celebrating a small town Christmas tonight; bust out your best ugly sweater and join the fun. Keep reading and have a great day.

SUNDAY:

I hope you got your fill of naps last weekend because this weekend is chock full of fun to be had for all. You can Wine Walk until you Holiday Crawl downtown. Take your pick of craft shows in town. Kids won’t want to miss the Santa Train at the State Railroad Museum or one of the two performances of ‘The Peanutcracker’ at the Community Center. Whether you’d like to spend the days indoors or out, there is something for all ages in the Carson City area this weekend.

SATURDAY:

• Nevada Artists Association Art Exhibit at the Carson Visitor Center (8am-6pm)

Downtown Carson City businesses will be offering special signature food and drink items during the second annual Holiday Crawl this Saturday.

“We’re going to have bands at Telegraph Square and McFadden Plaza, and DJs and karaoke all around,” said Meliah Gonzales. “There really is going to be something for everyone.”

This week's It's Your City with Cortney Bloomer features Ronni Hannaman, executive director of the Carson City Chamber of Commerce to discuss the Silver and Snowflake Festival of Lights this Friday, Dec. 2 and several other events planned for the holidays.

Community fundraising efforts continue throughout town to meet the $25,000 goal for the 12th annual Holiday with a Hero campaign to benefit Carson City school children who may not otherwise have a nice Christmas this year.

Kaia F.I.T, a women’s fitness program, is inviting all women to work off the Thanksgiving Feast in a heroic way to help the community’s children in need.

Organizers say it will be a downtown holiday crawl and street party to remember; a community event designed for adults to benefit Carson City school children who may not otherwise have a nice Christmas this year.

The Clear Creek Bowmen Holiday with a Hero 3-D Archery Shoot is happening Sunday, December 4th.
There will be 15 to 25 3-D targets-unmarked yardage (binoculars and rangefinders ok)

Your $10.00 donation will go to Holiday with a Hero thru the Carson City Sheriff's department and will be accepted as your entry/registration fee.

Registration starts at 9:30am
Shooting begins at 10:00am

Location: The Centennial Park Archery Range

Come on out and help a great cause.

A collaboration of agencies and organizations officially kicked off the 2016 Holiday with a Hero campaign on Wednesday with a goal of giving at least 200 homeless children in Carson City a Christmas experience by providing them gift cards to spend on themselves prior to the holiday.

Santa Claus will be visiting DeBug Computer in Carson City on Saturday from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. to help bring Christmas cheer to those less fortunate. You'll find Debug in their new location at 1817 N. Stewart St, #30.

This is DeBug’s fourth year putting on an event to help the sheriff’s office with its Holiday with a Hero event, which pairs up Carson City sheriff's deputies, firefighters and public officials with dozens of pre-selected local students, many of whom don't have permanent homes and live in poverty.

Here's the speech made Wednesday by Carson City Mayor Bob Crowell at the 2016 Chamber of Commerce State of the City address held at Gold Dust West:

Nearly 240 Carson City school children were treated Wednesday to an early Christmas that was made possible from Santa’s capital city connection of volunteers, contributors and a community that continues to give of itself in cash and time to those who would have otherwise gone without.

Carson City residents flocked to last night's Holiday Crawl to benefit the Holiday with a Hero program.

Businesses participating in the event were packed as revelers wandered from one stop to the next. Live bands braved the cold to play music at different outdoor venues.

Money raised goes to students identified by the Carson City School District and the McKinney-Vento Students in Transition program. Children receive a $100 gift card and are escorted though Walmart by a local emergency responder to shop for gifts for their families.

Downtown Carson City will be crawling with holiday revelers as the first-ever Holiday Crawl benefiting the Holiday with a Hero program takes place tonight.

Tickets for the Holiday Crawl are available at local businesses, including Fingerprinting Express, Caterpillar’s Hookah Lounge, Westside Pour House, and Carson City Visitors Bureau; as well as Carson Fire Station 51, the Carson City Sheriff’s Office and Juvenile Probation. Attendees must be 21 and over.

Have you been naughty or nice this year? You’ll have no problem finding Jolly Old St. Nick this weekend. At Debug Computers where, in exchange for a donation to Holiday with a Hero, you can get a photo with the man in red. The Santa Train at the Nevada State Railroad Museum is a good place to grab a candy cane, some hot cocoa, and tell him what you’d like to find under the tree. Photographs with Santa are available at the Carson Mall Wednesday through Sunday. Genoa’s annual Breakfast with Santa has three seatings beginning at 8:30 a.m.

SATURDAY:

Santa Claus will be visiting DeBug Computers in Carson City on Saturday to help bring Christmas cheer to those less fortunate.

This is DeBug’s third year putting on an event to help the sheriff’s office with its Holiday with a Hero event, which pairs up Carson City sheriff's deputies, firefighters and public officials with dozens of pre-selected local students, many of who don't have permanent homes and live in poverty.

Wassail: (noun) a festivity or revel with drinking of healths; liquor for drinking and wishing health to others on festive occasions (Verb) to revel with drinking. Tis the season for wassailing all over downtown Carson City. Start Saturday, Dec. 5 off with the Downtown Business Association’s monthly wine walk, and stick around for the first ‘Holiday with a Hero’ Holiday Crawl.

What a weekend in store for us: the Silver and Snowflakes Tree Lighting, the wine walk, Holiday with a Hero crawl, and more. First things first, though, Thursday fun stuff. Bundle up and head to Gardnerville for the Christmas Kick-off at Heritage Park with Santa, a tree lighting, and fireworks if the weather cooperates. Empty Bowls is hosting a preview night at the First Presbyterian Church; for a donation of $25 or more you get first pick of the handmade bowls that members of the community have made and decorated over the past year, and that includes admission to the soup fest tomorrow.

More than 20 downtown Carson City businesses will be offering drink and food specials during the Holiday Crawl 6-11 p.m. Saturday to benefit local children in need.

“I’m excited,” said organizer Carson City Sheriff’s Sgt. Daniel Gonzales. “People have been talking about doing something like this for the past 10 years.”