Public Service

Muscle Powered, Citizens for a Walkable and Bikable Carson City, will be showcasing videos and presenting awards for the “No Zombie Texting” Video Competition on May 16 at 7:30 p.m. at Brewery Arts Center Black Box Theatre. The public is invited to attend and enjoy the creative endeavors of young video artists from the community.

In 1973, Joseph Beuys said, “Every man is an artist.”

Beuys explained that only art is capable of building an effective social system, and “This most modern art discipline — Social Sculpture/Social Architecture — will only reach fruition when every living person becomes a creator, a sculptor, or architect of the social organism.”

The Nevada State Library and Archives may soon have a new look — and a more focused purpose — if a proposal explained during National Library week is approved.

Author Milton Chen makes a presentation at the Adams Hub in Carson City, Nev., on Thursday, April 12, 2018. The session is part of the Carson City Library’s celebration of National Library Week, which also includes a free forum about workforce development tonight (Thursday) led by Chen from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Brewery Arts Center Black Box Theater.

National cable and satellite television network C-SPAN is returning to the Nevada state capital this Wednesday and Thursday, April 11-12 to engage the community through interactive demonstrations of its public service resources, a C-SPAN press release said.

Carson High School Theatre Arts teacher Andie Wilkerson and her students earned multiple awards from the Nevada State Thespian Festival last weekend.

The Carson City Library is one of 29 finalists for the 2018 National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the Institute of Museum and Library Services announced Monday.

Classic rock-n-roll singer Roy Orbison and the band Nazareth expressed it best when they sang, "Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and marks."

The University of Nevada, Reno’s Seismological Laboratory reports an ongoing swarm of earthquakes near south Reno, in the area of the Mt. Rose highway and I-580.

CARSON CITY — Gov. Brian Sandoval announced Friday the appointment of Becky Harris as chairwoman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Harris will serve as the first female chair of the regulatory board which serves the state’s largest economic industry, gaming.

Kristin Luis, the Assistant District Attorney for Carson City, has formally announced that she will run for Carson City Justice of the Peace, Department Two.

The 14th annual Holiday With a Hero campaign culminated Wednesday in Carson City at Walmart after months of fundraising. At least 240 homeless children from across the Carson City School District met with Santa Claus before being paired with first responder heroes for a Christmas shopping spree.

Muscle Powered, Citizens for a Walkable and Bikeable Carson City, recently received a $2000 grant from Nevada Department of Transportation Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board to facilitate a video competition to create public service announcements about the dangers of texting and driving.

The owner of Slot World in Carson City, Mike Pegram, has made a $10,000 contribution to Holiday with a Hero after serving more than 700 plates of food Saturday to patrons of Betsy's Big Kitchen restaurant inside the casino.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval announced the resignation Monday of Gaming Control Board Chairman A.G. Burnett, effective Dec. 22, 2017. Chairman Burnett has announced plans to join law firm McDonald Carano. A replacement for Chairman Burnett will be named at a later date.

The Nevada Seismological Laboratory reports a series of 32 very small earthquakes since Nov. 28 in the vicinity of North McCarran and Highway 395. The largest of the earthquake cluster was felt early Saturday, 2:02 a.m. with a magnitude of 1.9.

Betsy’s Big Kitchen in the Slot World Casino has been taken over by Holiday With a Hero. All day Saturday Slot World is donating 100% of the proceeds from the cafe to the Holiday with a Hero program which provides a proper Christmas to nearly 300 local underprivileged students. The event runs until 8 p.m.

The Carson City community held its third annual Holiday Crawl Benefit 2017 on Saturday to raise money for the Holiday with a Hero campaign that gives local homeless children a chance to shop for themselves and family for Christmas. The downtown Carson City event was attended by more than 400 people, up about 100 from last year, organizers say.

Bring your hats, gloves and wear your favorite Christmas sweater for an evening walk Saturday through downtown Carson City meant to warm your heart and spread holiday cheer.

The third annual Holiday with a Hero Pub Crawl is the event, with all proceeds from ticket sales going to a community wide effort to give homeless children in Carson City a Christmas shopping spree at Walmart.

The Carson City Library is in the running for the National Medal for Museum and Library Service, which “honors outstanding libraries and museums that contribute significantly to the wellbeing of their communities.”

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.

The 79th Nevada Day Parade is now under way in downtown Carson City with thousands of people lining North Carson Street between William and Stewart streets, cheering on the more than 200 entries celebrating this year's "Arts and Entertainment" theme.

Ten divisions of entries, including floats, marching bands, public service contingents, and horse groups, are now making their way past the Nevada State Capitol.

At least four people have contacted the Carson City Sheriff's Office Saturday morning to report telephone calls threatening to arrest them if they did not pay money, a Carson City Volunteer In Public Service officer said.

After serving 7 years and approaching the completion of 2 terms in office as Ward 1 Carson City Supervisor, Karen Abowd announced Friday that she will not seek another term.

Gov. Brian Sandoval on Friday announced the appointment of Sandra Douglass Morgan to the Nevada Athletic Commission and also named Brian Krolicki and Bob Cashell to the Nevada Commission on Tourism.

The Nevada Seismological Laboratory reports two local magnitude 4.0 and 4.1 earthquakes in a swarm of 40 events Tuesday centered 13 miles northwest of Truckee, Calif. The two largest events were separated by seven minutes.

Join us for our monthly membership meeting for the Carson City Republican Party. Our membership meetings are where we attend to this business of the party as well as educate our members on the politics of current events and the business of local, state and national governments.

It will be held at 788 Fairview Dr, Carson City, NV 89701 on Thursday, June 22nd. We have a social time from 6:30PM until 7:00PM and our meeting begins at 7PM.

We will be having a couple guest speakers representing a great program for Republican Women who are seeking a life of public service.

All are welcome!!

Several leading residents of Carson City pooled their resources Sunday to treat local public service workers to a barbecue at Fuji Park.

A video public service announcement commissioned by the Nevada Department of Wildlife and produced by local marketing firm, the NEON Agency, took top awards from the Reno chapter of the American Advertising Federation at the 2017 “ADDY” Awards, March 10, at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center. The public service announcement took a gold award as well as the coveted “Judges Choice” award.

Two women escaped what could have been a tragic accident after their vehicle plunged into the fast-moving Carson River early Friday morning.