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This week's guest on It's Your City with Cortney Bloomer is with Hannah McDonald from Partnership Carson City.
Partnership Carson City is a coalition of agencies and organizations that help out the children and parents in the Carson City area. Its mission is to foster a healthy community by building strong families and successful youth, through education, collaboration and engagement of our citizens.

Wow, time sure flies when you are having fun.

So fast that I almost forgot about our birthday. I first turned the Carson Now website on back in November 2009, but our official public launch was in March 2010.

The Lyon County Republican Central Committee (LCRCC) will hold its next meeting on Saturday, April 11, 2015 at the Lyon County Building, 27 S. Main Street, Yerington. The meeting will begin promptly at 10:00am. Our speaker this month will be Jeffery A. Page, Lyon County Manager who will speak on Title 15. The public is invited to attend to hear his comments, learn more about grassroots politics and meet with Republican officials.

For more information about the LCRCC, call Richard at 775-409-7076 or check their website www.lyoncountynvgop.org.

Carson City Library will present “Explore Malaysia and Indonesia @ Your Library” on Wednesday, April 1 at 6:30 p.m. in the Library Digitorium.

Here is this week's fishing report for rivers, lakes and streams in Nevada and Northern California. This report is for the week of March 25, 2015 and beyond.

Morgan Rubenacker has joined The Builders Alliance as Marketing Director. In this role, Rubenacker is in charge of the website content and blog, social media management, public relations, and event planning.

Start-Up! is weekly column on entrepreneurship, start-ups, technology and innovation, powered by the Adams Hub for Innovation.

If you’re interested in hunting big game in Nevada this year, the Nevada Department of Wildlife wants to remind everyone that the big game tag application process is now open as of Monday, March 23.

The Capital City Arts Initiative announces its exhibition, The Driest State: Nevada Watersheds, by artist Nolan Preece at the CCAI Courthouse Gallery now through May 28, 2015. The Courthouse is located at 885 E Musser Street, Carson City. The exhibition is free and the public is cordially invited. The gallery is open to the public Monday – Friday, 8am – 5pm.

The Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI] announces its exhibition, Tuscarora, by artist Ron Arthaud at the Carson City Community Center's Sierra Room from February 26 – June 30, 2015. Community Center is located at 851 E. William Street, Carson City.

On Tuesday, March 31, 2015, the Capital City Arts Initiative will present a talk by curator JoAnne Northrup. Her illustrated talk, Bringing the World to Northern Nevada is the next in CCAI’s Nevada Neighbors series. The talk will take place at 7pm at the BRIC, 108 E Proctor St, Carson City.

There will be an informal reception for Ms. Northrup preceding the event; the doors open at 6:15pm. The presentation and reception are free, and the public is cordially invited.

It’s that time of year at Carson High School when many of our organizations and clubs are participating in state competitions. Over the next month, I will be reporting on the results of these competitions.

State History Day results: The Northern Nevada National History Day contest was held on March 14 at the University of Nevada, Reno and Carson High School sophomores produced fantastic results. All first place entries qualify to move on to the national contest.

At 100 years old, Hilman Tobey fashions stone into American Indian art in a form he learned late in life. In a quietly reflective video, Tobey shows an apprentice how his pieces take shape and inspiration for use in traditional ceremonies. A Nevada Arts Council grant helped create “Pipe Makers of the Great Basin.” The film premiered in February and is now online at nac.nevadaculture.org under Nevada Stories.

Distributed exclusively through Reno-based Sapphire Family of Wines, Speak Wines is now available at Aloha Discount Wine & Liquors located at 4555 South Carson Street at the south end of Carson City.

A bright spot on the second floor brings life and color to the Nevada Legislative Building in celebration of Youth Art Month. Created by children of all ages during the Arts for All Nevada workshops earlier this year, the works show how, students, some with special needs, express creativity and talents with multi-media on paper.

Although the year-long celebration is over there are still opportunities to show your Nevada pride including a limited-edition Nevada 150 license plate. The commemorative plates were designed to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Nevada statehood and will be available for purchase through 2016.

The Carson City Board of Supervisors is seeking community input as it revisits the City’s Strategic Plan, a blueprint to help guide future investments and priorities. The plan includes goals, objectives, and strategies that will help us to achieve our vision and mission.

The community is encouraged to participate by completing a brief online survey and/or by attending one of the community open houses. The survey is available online at the City’s website, www.carson.org. The community open houses are scheduled as follows:

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."

A Carson City man broke a world record Saturday morning for continuous public speaking and raised $25,000 for a youth soccer program.

Ian Hill finished at 8 a.m., some 50 hours from the time he began speaking Thursday morning at the Brewery Arts Center. With his voice raspy, and obviously showing signs of exhaustion, Hill was grateful for the contributions made from Carson City and across the country.

This is my annual reminder that if you are a trout fisherman and are new to our area, you may not be aware that some of our best Lahontan Cutthroat Trout fishing is at Pyramid Lake in the month of March.
Pyramid Lake, which is roughly the same surface size as Lake Tahoe, is about 30 miles north of Reno-Sparks, and it contains Lahontan Cutthroat Trout that can weigh more than 20 pounds.

Gardnerville artist Sonia Carlson hosts a free Chinese Calligraphy workshop at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 19 as part of the Nevada Arts Council’s “Work of Artists” series at the Nevada Legislative Building in Carson City.

The event runs until 5 p.m. in Room 3100. All “Work of Artists” presentations are free and open to the public.
Growing up in Zhangzhou, China, Carlson learned calligraphy in school and folk dances from her family.

Guest conductor Maestro Tomasz Golka leads the Reno Chamber Orchestra in Nightingale Concert Hall on Saturday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 15 at 2 p.m. in a program starting with Haydn’s No. 39 and Schubert’s “Tragic” minor key symphonies. Next enjoy a modern composition by composer Witold Lutoslawski, as well as Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations performed by cellist Xiao Lai Zhou, the first prize winner of the Reno Chamber Orchestra’s 2015 College Concerto Competition. Tickets can be purchased on the website and range from $5 – $45.

Here is this week's fishing report for rivers, lakes and streams in Nevada and Northern California. This report is for the week of March 11, 2015 and beyond.

Carson City, Nev. – Only 35 sets remain of the silver Sesquicentennial commemorative medallions sets, according to the Nevada 150 Commission. As part of the Sesquicentennial celebration, the Commission authorized a limited, numbered edition of 150 sets of Sesquicentennial medallions made out of pure Nevada silver. Each medallion was individually pressed on the Historic Coin Press No. 1 at the former U.S. Mint located in the Nevada State Museum in Carson City.

All Carson High School seniors will be visiting the Nevada State Legislature during one of their government classes these next two weeks. This is a memorable and relevant experience for our senior class and a key component of their civics education. The field trip will be contained within the government class period.

Attention musicians! The Carson City Symphony will begin rehearsals for the April 26 "Spring Celebration" concert on Wednesday, March 11, 7 to 9:15 p.m., at the First Baptist Church, 1750 Mountain Street, Carson City. Most subsequent Wednesday rehearsals will be at the Carson High band room.

The 7th annual Concert Under the Stars, a benefit for the Greenhouse Project, will feature a July 8 double billing with 70's and 80's smooth classic rock powerhouses Ambrosia and Pablo Cruise.

The concert was announced by Cafe at Adele’s owner Charlie Abowd on his Facebook page Saturday. Ticket sales will be announced soon. The show is produced by John Procaccini of Chili Bop Entertainment and will be in the back outside area of Adele's Restaurant and Lounge.


The Nevada Department of Wildlife Fisheries Division has released a proposed plan to restore the sport fisheries in Comins and Bassett Lakes near Ely in White Pine County by removing northern pike. The plan is available for public comment for 30 days beginning March 5, 2015.

Until the mid-2000s Comins Lake was a premier sport fishery for rainbow and brown trout, supporting up to 35,000 angler days per year. The illegal introduction of northern pike in the early 2000s decimated the trout fishery and angler use is now less than 2,000 days per year.

Carson City Library will be a busy place for youth and teens all month-long during the green month of March. Storytime will continue on Thursdays, March 5, 12, 19, and 26. Two storytimes are available at 10:15 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. in the library’s Digitorium.

We're seeing spots! Wild Horse Children's Theater presents Disney's 101 Dalmatians, Kids! Catch a performance March 13-15 or 20-22 at Carson City's Brewery Arts Center Performance Hall: shows are Fridays at 7 p.m., Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m.