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JOIN, Inc. provides FREE Workshops monthly. The first day is on Lifeskills, Job Search and Networking; the second day is on prefecting your 60 Second Me; the third day is Resume building; and the last day is on Interviewing Skills. Update your skills with these workshops which are held monthly and are free to anyone interested. They are from 8:30a.m. to 11:30a.m. Contact the Carson City JOIN office at 283-0125 ext 18 to sign up.

Employers and job seekers have been connecting this winter and spring through a number of initiatives including job fairs in Carson City, Lake Tahoe, an April 4 event planned in Douglas County and most recently through Nevada JobConnect.

A weeklong job quest campaign in Carson City received 1,047 job openings in a variety of industries from entry level to executive level jobs, well above the goal of 500 job openings set by the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, said DETR Director Frank Woodbeck.

Chanwoo Park, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, joins a growing group of researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno who have received prestigious and highly competitive National Science Foundation CAREER awards.

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award is given to junior faculty at the beginning of their academic careers who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars, placing focus on high-quality research and education activities.

Nevada Health Centers' traveling Mammovan will provide mammogram screenings Saturday and Sunday, March 22-23, in Carson City.

The Mammovan will be parked at Smith's, 599 East William Street, both days from 7:45 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. The service is a program of Nevada Health Centers, Inc.

The Mammovan is a mobile mammography van that travels to underserved areas of the Silver State state to provide mammograms to women 40 and over and uninsured women who probably would not seek out mammography services on their own. The Mammovan provides screening and diagnostic tests.

Come and join us at the third Artist Fair at Evergreen Gene’s Inc. 1811 N. Carson St. 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Included in the vendor list are Artists, Authors, Crafters, Painters, Photographers, Potters, Jewelers, Readers, Herbalists, Artisans, Metaphysicians, etc, etc, etc.

Belly Dancers will be performing as well as Musicians throughout the event.

Others who would like to hand out business cards and/or business pamphlets will join us.

Don't forgot to shop inside Evergreen Gene's Inc. Unique items. Made in America items. Specialty foods. Year 'Round Christmas Shoppe.

Prestige Care and Prestige Senior Living, leaders in skilled nursing and rehabilitation care, announced plans Tuesday to join with Carson Tahoe Health to expand senior care services and offer comprehensive memory care to Carson City residents and their families.

As a first step in the relationship, the organizations will develop a community with 40 units for memory care services on the Carson Tahoe Specialty Medical Center campus. Construction will begin in 2014.

CARSON CITY — Ticket sales have begun for the custom Nevada 150 commemorative state themed motorcycle celebrating the state’s Sesquicentennial anniversary. The Harley-Davidson bike was revealed as part of the Las Vegas Harley-Davidson® groundbreaking, where the winner will be announced at the store’s grand opening event on or about Nevada Day, Oct. 31, 2014.

The Carson City run of Proscenium Players, Inc., murder mystery production of “The Wedding from Hell!” is being extended for two additional weekends at the Brewery Arts Center as a murder mystery dessert buffet show.

Performance dates are Fridays, Feb. 21, and Feb. 28 and Saturdays, Feb. 22 and March 1 at 6:30 p.m. There will also be a Saturday, March 1 matinee performance at 2 p.m. This will be a fundraiser performance for the Carson City Senior Citizen’s Center with all the proceeds going to the Senior Meals Programs. All performance will be held in the Maizie Harris Jesse Theater at the Brewery Arts Center located at 409 W. King Street, Carson City.

WASHINGTON, DC — Richard L. Riley, a certified practitioner of prosthetics at Prosthetic Consulting Technologies LLC in Washoe Valley, will be inducted into the 2014 class of Fellows by the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists (the Academy) during the organization’s 40th Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium on Friday, February 28 in Chicago. Riley is one of just 10 people in the nation to receive the distinction this year.

Carson City area job seekers will have a chance to meet with at least 50 employers Feb. 21 at an employment fair at the community center.

The fair runs from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. inside the gym area of the Carson City Community Center, 851 East William Street. It is being sponsored by Carson City Health and Human Services, JOIN, Inc. and the Carson City Chamber of Commerce.

At the Lyon County Commission meeting January 2, the commissioners voted 4-1 to grant a request from Comstock Mining Inc., to modify the county Master Plan and change the zoning, which would allow pit mining in and adjacent to Silver City.

Four of the Commissioners ignored the recommendation of the Planning Commission and the express wishes of the citizens of Silver City and voted without explanation to abandon precedent and acquiesce to the company's desires.

Dana Uken, a local Edward Jones financial advisor, will be hosting a coffee club at 10 a.m. Thursday February 20, 2014 at 604 W. Washington St, Ste F Carson City NV 89703.

Edward Jones provides financial services for individual investors in the United States and, through its affiliate, in Canada. Every aspect of the firm's business, from the types of investment options offered to the location of branch offices, is designed to cater to individual investors in the communities in which they live and work.

Carson Canine Adventures (CCA) will be holding our annual Open House this coming Sunday, Feb. 16, from Noon until 4pm. We have added a new photographer that will be here to takes pictures.

Dogs are welcome (on leash) and people will have a chance to meet the trainers and find out more information on how they can get involved in the many fun things to do with our “best friends.”

Lone Mountain Veterinary will be there to answer health and nutrition questions. Information on Therapy Dogs Inc, Dog Scouts of America, First Aid for your pet, and local rescue agencies too.

Approval for almost $173,500 to purchase a NextGen911 Logging Solution from NICE Systems Inc. was given Thursday by Carson City's Board of Supervisors.

Hyacinth Preservation Society, Inc. a Carson City-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the rehabilitation and re-homing of rescued birds currently has two that need homes.

We have a 19 year old female, military macaw Micha, and a 30 year old sulfur crested cockatoo, Belle, available.

The Nevada Business Group on Health, a non-profit organization dedicated to representing more than 70 Northern Nevada employers and their employees in matter related to cost-effective health, health care and health insurance products and services, has appointed Denise Darling, director of finance at Carson Nugget Casino in Carson City, to its board of directors.

The Nevada Rural Counties Retired Senior Volunteer Program, Inc. (RSVP) has appointed Mike Reynolds as the Carson City and Regional Mobility Manager. Lack of transportation has been identified as the greatest deterrent to accessing lifesaving goods and services for homebound, low income, frail seniors and disabled persons.

Businesses already confirmed to participate: UNR Mobile Education Engineering Lab, Sierra Veterinary Hospital, Carson Fly Fishing Club, NC Lab from UNR, Dee Frewert - Robotics, Avionics and Airplanes, Carson City Library, CHS Physics - Jim Bean, WNC Physics - Thomas Herring, CCSD 1:1 Pilot Information, Resource Concepts, Inc., CMS Wetlands, CASI, NDOT, CCSD Sustainability Rep., TLC Integrations and more! Please join us in celebrating how our students and businesses use science, technology, engineering and math!

Proscenium Players, Inc. and the Gold Dust West Hotel and Casino in Carson City invite you to “The Wedding from Hell!” a murder mystery dinner theater show.

Performance dates are Friday, Jan. 31, Feb. 1, 8, 14, and Saturday, February 1, 8, 15 at 6 p.m. and a Sunday Brunch matinee on Feb. 9 at 1 p.m.

UPDATE: With extended federal jobless benefits in peril, Carson City workforce employee counselors say hundreds of new jobseekers have begun to hit the streets, resumes in hand, looking for work.

If you are currently receiving unemployment benefits or have recently exhausted your benefits, you may be eligilble to receive workforce training services at no cost.

If interested, please stop by or call the Carson City JOIN, Inc office. Orientation for JOIN services will be held on January 10,2014 at 10:AM.

Location is 1925 N. Carson Street; 775-283-0125.

In a 4 to 1 decision the Lyon County Board of Commissioners on Thursday approved a Master Plan Amendment and zone change sought by Comstock Mining.

Commissioners took testimony 4.5 hours of testimony in regards to Comstock Mining’s application for a Master Plan Amendment and Zone Change. The chambers and hallways filled with about 250 residents.

More than 8 million people in the U.S. suffer from non-healing wounds, which are often impeded by such diseases and conditions as diabetes, obesity, aging and the late effects of radiation therapy.

The newly expanded Carson Tahoe Center for Wound Healing is located on the second floor of the Carson Tahoe Specialty Medical Center at 775 Fleischmann Dr. in Carson City. The center now provides the latest advanced treatments to help these patients heal and with a faster recovery times.

Carson City will provide Christmas tree recycling in cooperation with public works and Capital Sanitation and Waste Management Inc.

As in previous years, Christmas trees can be placed curbside on your regular trash collection day or taken to one of the dropoff locations. Trees will be chipped in the springtime and used as mulch. The program continues to be a success. Last year the effort redirected 59 tons of wood waste from the city's landfill.

Carson Mall will be getting a new Bealls department store to fill part of the space left by the departure of Gottschalks four years ago.

Joanna Holmes, property manager for the Carrington Company that owns the mall, confirmed that Bealls will be occupying 24,268 square feet of the mall, and that demolition work is already underway to ready the space for the new store.

Bealls is owned by Stage Stores, Inc., of Houston, Texas.

Work is already underway for the new Sportsman's Warehouse store announced in August.

Carson City-based Ametherm, a manufacturer of thermistors and other electronic components for circuit protection, announced Thursday that it has doubled the size of its manufacturing plant with a newly purchased 36,000-square-foot facility on Carson City's east side.

In an industry where Asia-sourced components dominate, Ametherm manufactures all its products in the U.S.A., at its new facility and at a smaller Carson City plant that was its headquarters from 1994 until recently.

Before the Internet, before television, there was radio, and before radio was Vaudeville. The small orchestras of the radio shows and vaudeville stage performed varied repertoire from short snappy commercials to full-length works by major composers arranged for their size. Trinkle Brass Works presents Portable Masterpieces, a salon/theater orchestra that will bring this music to life at Piper’s Opera House on Saturday, January 11, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. Light classical, ragtime and plenty of melodrama. Just like it was in the late 1800's and early 20th century.

The Carson Baseball Boosters Club, Inc. is kicking off our biggest fundraiser of the year! The 6th Annual Charity Poker Night Fundraiser is scheduled for Saturday, January 25, 2014 at Fuji Park. Doors will open at 5:00pm and Poker will start at 7:00pm. We need you, family, friends, business partners, etc.

Tickets are $25.00 for dinner and drinks or $60.00 for dinner, drinks, and poker. Dinner includes chicken, tri-tip, BBQ ribs, beer and wine. Just contact us at the information listed below and we'll get you your tickets. We will also have a Raffle and a Silent Auction.

For the 15th year Friends To All volunteers will dress up in Santa suits and helper costumes to bring joy and cheer to senior citizens throughout Carson City.

On Saturday, Dec. 7, these festive groups will log between 150 and 200 stops as they make their rounds visiting and delivering gifts. Friends to All is seeking names and addresses of seniors who would enjoy a Santa visit this year.

Lynn Palma Barbagallo Phalan, 71 years old, wife of James Phalan, died Tuesday, November 12, 2013 in Carson City, Nev.

Lynn was born Sept. 28, 1942 in Pittsburg, Calif. Among her survivors are her husband James Michael Phalan, her brother William (Lisa) Barbagallo, sister Noreen Byrd, daughter Michelle (Tim) Cleveland, sons Jeff Phalan, and Jim (Gabriela); step children Dave (Debbie) Phalan, Janine Phalan, and Greg (Dora) Phalan, grandchildren Nathan and Ashley Edwards, Zoey Cleveland, Emily Lawrence, Sofia, Jimmy, Jamie, Sara, Holly and Tierra Phalan.