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Carson City School District teacher expertise will be on display at the National Science Teacher Association area conference on science education Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 22- 24, at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center.

This week is the official Nevada Week of Respect. The purpose of this week is to promote respect as an antidote to bullying and cyberbullying. Here is what is going on at CHS to celebrate the Week of Respect:

• The American Sign Language club is going to be signing songs at lunch on Thursday.
• The Gay-Straight Alliance is going to be putting up a respect wall - a giant poster for people to write what they respect about someone else.
• There will be a daily announcement with a tip on being an upstanding young adult.

Classic car enthusiasts from Carson City to Virginia City will rev up their engines this weekend for two annual events: The Silver Dollar Car Classic and the Virginia City kickoff to Hot August Nights.

Festivities in Carson City begin Friday at Max Casino, formerly Carson Station, with a street dance, show and shine beginning at 6 p.m. The car show then moves to Mills Park for the weekend.

The Spring 2015 Spiritual Wellness Expo is March 28-29 at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center. Twice a year, the Reno Psychic Institute (RPI) brings speakers, healers and vendors from around the region to present information to Northern Nevadans interested in spiritual wellness, natural skin care, local organic food sources, and psychic phenomenon.

The focus of the Spring 2015 Expo is the "Path to Creativity."

The Nevada Landscape Association Annual Conference and Trade Show, co-sponsored by the Nevada Department of Agriculture, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension and City of Reno Urban Forestry Commission, will be held on Wednesday February 4, 2015 at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center.

The region's premiere women’s event, The 11th Annual Nevada Women's Expo, will take place on March 23-24 at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center. Local ownership and production by Kristy Hawke and Destinations West, LLC has created an event people can count on year after year. For less than the price of a movie ticket, women throughout our region and beyond make this event an annual tradition to get together with their girlfriends, moms, daughters, aunts, grandmas and grandchildren.

RENO – Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney went on the attack against President Obama today in a speech to attendees of the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention here, criticizing him for national security leaks, weak foreign policy and a failure to seize on political opportunities in such countries as Iran.

Romney, speaking to the same group that Obama addressed on Monday, spent his 27-minute talk focusing on his foreign policy views and the need to maintain a strong military presence.