Capital City Circles Initiative

Good morning Carson City and happy Saturday! Today we’ve got a ton of great events, including three separate music festivals at Shoe Tree Brewing Co., Bowers Mansion, and the Brewery Arts Center!

Check out below to see what’s going on this weekend.

Heading into the weekend, there’s a bevy of activities around the Carson City region over the next three days, including the Jazz and Beyond Carson City Music Festival, a bluegrass festival at Bowers Mansion, Celtic favorites at the BAC, tours at the Nevada State Museum, train rides, standup comedy at the Carson Nugget, a block party at Silver Oak Golf Course, a Boy Scouts car show at Fuji Park, "'Kutz for Kids' and more.

On Saturday, 10 children from low-income Carson City families will receive back-to-school makeovers as part of the "Cool School Renewal" event put on by Capital City CIRCLES Initiative.

The Capital City C.I.R.C.L.E.S. Initiative, a cooperative community effort to elevate people out of poverty, invites members of the community to participate in a colloquy on the topic of preventing substance abuse. The event will take place on Wednesday, June 26 at 6:45 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church’s Family Life Center located at 115 N Division St.

UPDATE: The Subaru, Leave No Trace Traveling Trainers will be leading an Awareness Workshop at the Carson City Community Center in the Bonanza Room tonight. Leave No Trace teaches outdoor skills and ethics, minimizing our impacts and enjoying the outdoors responsibly. The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. Go here to register.

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Here we are Carson City, heading into the first day of the work week with St. Patrick teasing us for the next 6 days. From guest talks, dance and art activities, here's what's ahead for Monday, March 11, 2019.

Tom Blake, NETworX Program Manager at the Capital City CIRCLES Initiative will be the featured speaker at Monday's Democratic luncheon. An Anglican priest, Blake came to Carson City from Muncie, Indiana, where he served for 13 years as pastor of Grace Episcopal Church.

At its Feb. 20 meeting, the Carson City Leisure Hour Club recognized the outstanding work of the Capitol City C.I.R.C.L.E.S. Initiative with a $500 donation. Accepting the check for the organization were Shelly Aldean, co-founder and past president, and Program Manager Thomas Blake, Jr.

In the tradition of TED, a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, comes TEDxCarsonCity, a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.

Nevada Day and the big parade are just one week away, but first is the annual Carson City Ghost Walk this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in downtown Carson City.

Nevada Rural Counties RSVP Program and multiple agencies from around Carson City will hold a Veterans Resource Fair on Saturday, Sept. 8 at the Carson Nugget.

Veterans and their caregivers will be provided with information on services and programs provided by area non-profits, advisory groups, government agencies, and the private sector. The event will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Around the world, many women are working to improve the lives of women and girls. Some women work to improve conditions for women and girls through their personal or volunteer efforts; others do so through professional avenues.

About a decade ago, a group of community members organized a sustainable horticulture program targeting food insecurity in Carson City. They called it the Greenhouse Project, a not-for-profit effort to improve the quality of food available to the area’s most hungry.

CARSON CITY — Brenda Silis, Program Manager at the Capital City C.I.R.C.L.E.S. Initiative announced Tuesday that Dr. Wirt Twitchell has joined CCCI as its coach.

Volunteerism was the focus of November's Sierra Nevada Forums held Nov. 15 at the Brewery Arts Center. The program featured in this video was emcee'd by Kathy Bartosz, executive director of Partnership Carson City. Guest speakers are:

With the second part of storm wave expected to arrive Saturday, the annual Light After Dark Walk/Run for Advocates to End Domestic Violence has been postponed until Friday, Oct. 28 pending park approval.

There is a lot of help in Carson City for those struggling with poverty — including military veterans — but the Capital City C.I.R.C.L.E.S. Initiative stands out as an organization that empowers people to change their lives.

Maybe you know a teen that’s looking for a first time car?

The car was donated to the Mighty Rushing Winds Biker Ministries to help us raise money for some much needed repairs at our Ministry.

Maybe you know a teen that’s looking for a first time car?

The car was donated to the Mighty Rushing Winds Biker Ministries to help us raise money for some much needed repairs at our Ministry.

Compared to the last few weekends, Carson City is downright sleepy. That just makes it much easier to get around town and explore. Head to Mills Park for the First Annual Polynesian Festival in the Marv Teixeira Pavillion. Glen Eagles welcomes back the Regional Chili Cook-off this weekend; get your fill of some amazing grub and help raise funds for Honor Flight Nevada. Catch one of last few performances of Wild Horse Children’s Theater’s Aladdin, Jr. Continue reading for other great ways to spend your time.

SATURDAY:

Recently, an article was posted to Carson Now by University of Nevada Cooperative Extension promoting a spring plant sale fundraiser for The Greenhouse Project, located behind Carson High School.

Although the article itself seemed very non-controversial, the comments posted to it were anything but.

... Club of Western Nevada, Capital City CIRCLES Initiative, Muscle Powered: Citizens for a walkable bike-able Carson City, Nevada Builders Alliance, ...

The Captial City CIRCLES Intiative is a community based program in Carson City that assists families living in poverty achieve the goal of self sufficiency through education and supportive friendships with "community allies', middle class members of the community who help them work on their dreams, plans and goals towards self sufficiency.

The second in the Carson City Chamber’s Meet the Artist series will take place this Saturday, Feb. 28, at the Artisan Showcase located at 1900 S. Carson Street between 2-4 pm.

Featured artist will be Linda Ritter, owner of Pinyon Pottery, who will be using her portable potter’s wheel to demonstrate how she turns a lump of clay into a functional art piece. She will reveal how she came to love working with clay over the past year, embarking on her second career after retiring from government after 30 years of service.

Members of The Capital City Circles Initiative pose with Recycled Rides Award recipient Miriam Silis and her restored 2009 Chevrolet Cobalt after a celebration event in Western Nevada College’s E.L. Cord Automotive Technology Center on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014.

The restoration work was done by Western Nevada College automotive instructor Dennis Marshall, his students, and several other contributors. The charitable project was created through a partnership between the National Auto Body Council’s Recycled Rides program, the Capital City Circles Initiative and WNC.

UPDATE: Help out a Carson City area nonprofit built on giving families a hand up and find some great bargains on fine jewelry and stones, clothing, art and more at a fundraiser this Saturday, June 14, at Thunder Canyon Country Club in Washoe Valley.

The Capital City Circles Initiatives will host "Gem of a Fundraiser" from 5:30 to 9 p.m. The Capital City Circles Initiative is a nonprofit community-based program that assists families living in poverty to achieve their goal of self-sufficiency through education, support networking and friendships with members in the community.

This week's Women to Women Nevada guests are Sally Zola and Brenda Silis. Both are involved in the Capital City Circles Initiative in Carson City.

This community effort is maintained to help elevate people out of poverty by creating healthy relationships that cross economic and social barriers to help establish self-reliance.

Carson City Library is an officially designated place in Carson City to drop-off holiday cheer, in the form of giving, to so many of our area residents in need of a little festive spirit and warmth.

This week's Carson City Capital Crossfire with Karl Neathammer and Shelly Aldean features guests Heather Cunningham, national training director for the National Circles Campaign, and Brenda Silis, coordinator of the Capital City Circles Initiative.

A national workshop that trains people to assist families living in poverty in becoming self-supporting will be hosted by Capital City Circles Tuesday-Friday, Oct. 22-25 at Western Nevada College in Carson City.

The National Circles Campaign Hands-On Training workshop will include education for coordinators and coaches from around the country. They will meet in small training groups, and there will be a poverty simulation workshop on Wednesday, Oct. 23.

Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong will run for a fourth term as the capital city's top law enforcement officer, announcing his 2014 re-election intentions Tuesday.

In what Furlong described as three "politically quiet but challenging years," crime statistics have trended downward since the 2010 election, which is remarkable given Carson City's economic climate as it continues to deal with the effects of a deep, prolonged recession.