by MOLLY MOSER

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The Committee on Health and Human services discussed Assembly Bill 183 on Wed., which could allow 16-year-olds to donate blood with parental consent and to help increase the blood supply throughout Nevada.

Please join us in visiting some of our area's loveliest gardens! The tour runs from 12 – 4:30 pm, followed by an After Garden Party with wine and hors d’oeuvres at the historic Olcovich-Meyers House. Tickets are $10 for non-members, $8 for members. For more info, contact Paula at 887-8865.

UPDATE: Tonight is your night, Carson City. Free admission for all, plenty of chili and refreshments and an opportunity to win some pretty impressive prizes are in store at Carson Middle School beginning at 6 p.m. during its huge Family Bingo and Chili Night party.

With well over $7,000 in total prizes to be won in 15 exciting bingo games, the Carson City community will see the mother of all bingo parties, organizers promise. Recently added to the prize list are:

City government financial support for public art and a bid to preserve the Nevada State Prison both won backing from Carson City’s Cultural Commission Tuesday.

HAWTHORNE, Nev. — A mortar shell explosion killed at least seven Marines and injured several more during mountain warfare training in Nevada's high desert, prompting the Pentagon to immediately halt the use of the weapons until an investigation can determine their safety, officials said Tuesday.

Reno artist Lara Alberti is the latest to be featured at the Nevada Legislature in the Legislative Exhibition Series gallery in Carson City. Open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. adjacent to the Caucus Deli, the LXS space displays Alberti’s series “Time Frame” March 18 through April 5. Managed by the Artist Services Program of the Nevada Arts Council, the Legislative eXhibition Series has provided a spotlight on the Silver State's breadth of contemporary and folk artists during the biennial session since 1985.

Gusty winds are expected tonight into Wednesday as a cold front moves into the region. Light rain is expected by Wednesday for Carson City, with snow in the higher elevations above Lake Tahoe, according to the National Weather Service in Reno.

The “Vagina Monologues” will be performed March 30 in The Bob Boldrick Theater at Carson City Community Center in a benefit for Advocates to End Domestic Violence.

Created by author Eve Ensler, “The Vagina Monologues” is an ever-changing stage production that encapsulates real women’s stories of hardship and triumph.

President Reagan once said - "tear down this wall."

This Board needs to say: "remove these curtains."

As they are preventing Department Managers from being present at budget hearings. Establishing a system of transparency is our responsibility, while accomplishing this we cannot exclude the right of the public to participate and collaborate in the budget process. Any level of openness that is interfered with only ensures that the public trust will be damaged.

A celebration of life will be in Dayton on Saturday, March 23, 2013 for Delpha Irene Schmitt Wilkison, who passed away March 15, 2013 in Carson City, Nev. She was 81.

Delpha, known as "Del" by those who loved her, was born October 7, 1931 in Stone County, Arkansas. She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Houston Wilkison Jr. She leaves behind two sons, Ronald Lee Wilkison of Portland, Oregon and Charles Houston Wilkison, of Dayton, Nev., 3 brothers, 2 sisters, 5 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.

A Carson City man was arrested and faces a felony firearms charge related to an incident Saturday night in which a vehicle was shot at, with one bullet lodging into a funeral home.

Gregory John Lara, 21, was arrested in the 200 block of Carson Meadows Drive on Sunday, 8:30 p.m.

Retired Nevada Supreme Court Justice Bob Rose, who now serves as a senior judge, was injured this morning in a car accident and is hospitalized in Fallon. He is listed in “good condition” according to Sara Quale, spokeswoman for Banner Churchill Community Hospital in Fallon.

Rose, who lives in Carson City, was on his way to oversee Drug Court in the Fallon, Yerington and Hawthorne court, when he crashed near Highway 50 at about 7:30 a.m.

A Carson City woman will receive a service dog thanks to the The Milk-Bone brand and Sam’s Club.
The two companies joined forces to provide Carrie Henrichsen, a staff attorney with Nevada Legal Services, the service dog through the nonprofit organization Canine Assistants.

UPDATE 10:38AM: A 48-year-old Dayton woman was arrested and faces a felony charge of leaving the scene of a hit and run causing death following the Sunday night fatality of a woman on Highway 50 in Carson City.

Cynthia Ann Munroe is free on $10,000 bail following the incident in which she is the suspected driver in the pedestrian hit and run, authorities said. She was driving a black 1999 Ford Explorer, authorities said. The fatal was reported shortly before 11 p.m. Sunday night. The name of the woman killed has not been released.

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Carson High School officials are considering a standard dress code — similar to those being enforced at other schools in the district — for students next year, and are hosting two public workshops to gauge community interest.

Does anyone out there actually believe that Congressional sequestration results in budget cuts? The federal spending under sequestration goes up every year without congress even passing a budget. If the automatic baseline budget grows less than is required by law then Washington, our media, and the New-speak columnists misinform the people of our nation that there has been a cut when in fact spending is increasing. There are no cuts which is why spending goes up each year.

The Reno Gazette-Journal's Mark Robison, who authors the "Fact Checker" blog, looks into the claim that the Bureau of Land Management was justified in removing a family of wild horses off Deer Run Road near Carson City.

Earlier this year, Leon Thomas — the BLM’s new Sierra Front field manager — ordered the removal of 11 horses near Deer Run Road. Some were sent to a Colorado ranch; eight are up for auction Saturday. That much is agreed upon, nearly everything else is in dispute.

High Sierra Swing Dance Club invites the public to its sixth-annual anniversary Spring Ball dinner-dance on April 27 at the Carson Nugget, 507 N. Carson St., Carson City.

Dust off your evening gowns and neckties for an evening of great food and even-better dancing. The semi formal/formal-attire evening begins with no-host cocktails at 6 p.m.

A rollover on Friday night five miles east of Dayton has left one dead and two hospitalized, the Lyon County Sheriff's Office reports.
George Lawrence Ambrose, 21, of Dayton died at the scene of the accident, officers said. The crash, happened around 11:15 p.m. on Ft. Churchill Road.

Nevada’s unemployment rate fell to seasonally adjusted 9.7 percent in January, which is the 18th straight month the state has seen a decline in the number of people unemployed. Now below Rhode Island, the Silver State is no longer considered the state with the highest unemployment rate in the country, a position it had held since February 2010.

The unemployment rate in Carson City is down 1.8 percentage points since last year and stood at 11.2 percent in January 2013.

Carson City fire and rescue were at the scene of a two-vehicle injury accident early Friday night near the intersection of Spooner Drive and Carriage Crest. At least one person had reported injuries that will require them to be airlifted by Care Flight.

The accident was reported shortly before 6 p.m. When Carson City fire crews arrived, occupants in both vehicles were outside and appeared injured. It is unknown at this time how many were injured in the accident.

Have a fun time learning to play your fiddle, mandolin,
bass and/or guitar from Cindy Gray, faculty member of the
“Steve Kaufman Acoustic Camp” in Maryville, Tennessee.
Learn to play “mountain music” on your instrument, so that
you can join-in on the many bluegrass and/or old time jam
sessions that take place in our area. All students will receive
individualized training.

Tuition: $150 ($120 BAC Members)
Saturdays 11:00am-1:00pm
April 20–June 1 (6 weeks, no class May 25th for Memorial Day)
Instructor: Cindy Gray
Location: Ballroom

Two-hour workshop. Participants will discuss and share techniques and thoughts about song writing. Leader Chris Bayer has written songs for 40 years and has twice won Sierra Arts awards for his efforts. He performs his original material regularly in our area. Participants should plan to bring a guitar or keyboard--whatever they use when writing a song. (Some basic instrument ability is required.)

Tuition: $25
Sunday 1:00pm-3:00pm
March 24
Instructor: Chris Bayer
Location: Brewery Arts Center - Media Center

Enjoy a traditional St. Patrick’s Day celebration, Saturday, March 16, with a hearty helping of live music by Cíana and corned beef and cabbage dinner served at Café at Adele’s.

The fun is planned for 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. and includes a variety of songs and tunes, two very different things according to Joe Blye (vocals, whistles and guitar), who, with his wife Kathy Blye (guitar and octave mandolin) and Tina Carlsen (fiddle and backing vocals), are Cíana.