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A two-day snorkel survey of the Moapa dace, tiny endangered fish that live only in the waters in and around Warm Springs, counted an estimated 654 fish last week. This was only a slight decrease from the August 2011 assessment.

Permit Issued For Road Access To St. Thomas Event

The National Park Service (NPS) last week issued the first of three permits that organizers need in order to hold two Moapa Valley-related events next month involving Lake Mead. Although the two events, the Logandale LDS Stake Handcart Trek and St. Thomas Alive, in which the public is invited to participate in bringing the city back to life for a day, are separate activities, they are related in that the conclusion of the first is the beginning of the second, according to Lindsey Dalley, who has been working on both since last fall.

County Addresses Downtown Complaint

Moapa Valley Town Advisory Board (MVTAB) members were presented with a problem at a meeting on Wednesday February 15 and were asked to consider two options for resolving the problem.

MV Art Guild To Paint A Multi-media Canvas For 2012

An ambitious calendar is underway for the MV Art Guild through the guidance of the 2012 Officers: President: Jackie Worthen; Vice-President – Scott Simper; Secretary – Aimee Potts (taking over for Bonnie Koopman who stepped down after 10 years of dedicated service); and Treasurer: Jerry Howe. The Hospitality Chairperson is Shanalee Simper.

Hometown Servicemen Chosen As Ceremonial Marchers

PFC Jacob Ham and PFC James Martin, both of Moapa Valley, were recently chosen to participate with the Ceremonial Marchers of the Alpha Company of Marines in Washington, DC as a Drill and Ceremony Marcher.

M.V. Residents Run For A Wish

The 11th Annual Run For a Wish was held on February 4 in Las Vegas. Funds were raised to support Make A Wish of Southern Nevada, a non profit organization that benefits kids with life threatening illnesses.

Moapa Valley Justice of the Peace Speaks To Chamber of Commerce

Justice of the Peace Lanny Waite was the guest speaker at the Moapa Valley Chamber of Commerce membership luncheon on Wednesday, February 15. The long-time Moapa Valley Justice Court judge is running for re-election this year and said that he wanted to report on the status of the local court.

Regional Transit Service Finds Way To Continue Moapa Valley Service

Silver Rider Transit company will begin providing a once a month transportation opportunity to the residents of Moapa Valley next month. Beginning on Monday, March 5, and then continuing on the first Monday of every month, the regional Southern Nevada Transit Coalition member company will provide transportation from the Overton Senior Center to Glendale. From there, riders can either connect with the company’s Las Vegas Express bus or be transported to Mesquite.

The Delights Of “A Midsummer Night”

Once again the Utah Shakespeare Festival has taken the immortal words of The Bard and woven them into a stunning tapestry at the Ron Dalley Theatre on Monday night, February 13.

Reservation Hosts Mountain Man Rendezvous

The sights and sounds of the American frontier were reborn for a day or two on the Moapa Band of Paiutes Indian Reservation last weekend. The Las Vegas Area Council of the Boys Scouts of America held its 29th annual Mountain Man Rendezvous on Friday and Saturday.

Sandoval Unveils Economic Development Plan, Cuts Regulations

Gov. Brian Sandoval unveiled his economic development plan last week and challenged the business community to work to create 50,000 new jobs by the end of 2014. The 63-page report, released at a press conference on Tuesday, February 7, calls for creating a cohesive system to move forward with economic development, expand “global engagement” and increase opportunity through education and workforce development, among other objectives.

Local Dance Groups Perform In Invitational

Moapa Valley dancers of many different ages and styles were featured on Monday, February 6, at a Community Dance Invitational held at the Moapa Valley High School Ron Dalley Auditorium.

“Evening Of Music” To Feature Local Organists

The next in the series of community Evening of Music programs will be held Tuesday, February 21 at 7:00 pm. at the LDS Logandale Stake Center on St. Joseph St. across from Moapa Valley High School.

Moapa Restaurant Building Damaged By Motorist

Customers of the Muddy River Bar and Grill in Moapa had an unusual dining experience on Thursday evening when a motorist drove his vehicle into the southeast wall of the restaurant. At about 4:30 in the afternoon, the restaurant staff was gearing up for its popular Mexican Food night when a Ford F-150 pickup hit the building from the parking lot breaking a hole in the southeast dining room wall. “It looked like he accidentally hit the gas

Local Group Circulating Petition To Re-Open Overton Beach Road

A group of local residents have begun circulating a petition in favor of re-opening the boat launch at Overton Beach on Lake Mead. Forming an ad-hoc committee, the group, led by Martha McManus of Overton, has placed copies of the petition in local businesses for community members to sign to show their support.

Retiring the Colors With Dignity

More than 50 American flags were retired at a Moapa Valley home last week in a solemn ceremony conducted by members of local Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 8336 and Logandale 1st Ward Scout Troop 26. Each flag was burned to ashes and then buried in the desert as proscribed by various veterans’ groups.

MV Justice Court Now Accepting Online Payments

Moapa Valley Justice Court has begun accepting traffic fines and court payments online. The program, which was started at the first of this year, should streamline payments processed from the court and provide those who need to make payments to the court with a faster and more convenient option, according to Justice of the Peace Lanny Waite. Previously those payments had to be made in person or by U.S. mail. The Court is open Monday through Thursday, 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Waite said that the program makes the court available for payments 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. “The court staff and I are committed to making the court as user friendly as possible,” Waite said. “This, together with the state of the art computers and technological advances,

Sports and Recreation

Pirate Wrestlers Compete At State

The Moapa Valley Pirates ended the season by participating in the NIAA State Tournament held in the Cox Pavilion last weekend. Sponsored in part by the UFCthe event concluded the 2011/2012 wrestling season for 1A through 4A schools throughout the state of Nevada.

State 3A Basketball Roundup

The championship game at Durango last Saturday will go down as a classic. Boulder City almost let slip a 19 point lead in the final minute, then held off Virgin Valley for the only southern berth in the state tournament next week in Reno.

Fishing The Overton Arm of Lake Mead

Everyone has been looking for a break in the weather. Saturday February 18, was a perfect day for those who got out on the lake. Unfortunately, I was landlocked. Walking pneumonia puts the kibosh on fishing. Thanks to Doctor Penick, Julianna will be out of the woods soon and I’ll be back out on the lake.

Pirates End Season With Loss To Virgin Valley

It wasn’t a game that Pirate fans will want to remember for very long. It is even questionable whether Virgin Valley fans will want to remember this one, except for the fact it was a win. A very ugly win.

Boulder City Shuts Down Lady Pirate Team

The Lady Pirate Basketball team got blown out by Boulder City with a score of 53-30 in their final game of the season on Thursday February 16. Moapa started off the game with 5 points. But they trailed by twenty with a score of 25-5 after only the first 8 minutes of the game.

Eleven MVHS Wrestlers Advance To State

The Pirates traveled to Boulder City on Saturday to compete in the 3A Southern Division Tournament. Going into the tournament the local wrestlers had high hopes of doing very well. The Pirates had only two

State 3A Basketball Roundup (February 15, 2012)

Southern Boys 3A Boulder City won the league regular season title with their win in Moapa last week. So when they travelled to Virgin Valley Friday night and lost 64-55, the results didn’t change on who would play Thursday against the Pirates. It will be Virgin Valley in round 3: where the winner will get another shot at The Eagles for a trip to the state tournament.

Pirates Take Losses From Boulder City, Cheyenne

The Moapa Valley High School Boys Basketball team finished its regular season play with two losses last week. To start the week the Pirates hosted the Boulder City Eagles. The Eagles came only needing a win against the Pirates to clinch a first round playoff ‘bye’ tomorrow night.

Lady Pirates Take A Beating From Boulder City

The Boulder City Eagles came to town on Tuesday, February 7 and went home victorious with a 21 point win over the Pirates. The final score was 60-39, Eagles.

Fishing The Overton Arm

The weather and the full moon, has made for good fishing at Lake Mead last week. Don’t always depend on the Las Vegas weather report when deciding if you and your friends are going fishing at Lake Mead. My brother Roy, and cousin Pat arrived Wednesday night for a three day fishing trip.

Valley Life

RURAL RANTS: Showing Respect For The Emblem Of Our Country

The U.S. flag, the good old Stars and Stripes, is a symbol of just about everything we hold dear in America. For more than 200 years it has been a representation of our strength, our freedom and our unity as a nation.

A Story Worth Telling

For 13 hours, the sailors formed a circle and clung together for support, treading water in the Pacific Ocean off Savo Island near Guadalcanal. They huddled together, waiting to be rescued.

HEALTHLINE: CANCER - Low Or No Cost Treatment Starters

Overcoming cancer is a process of reversing the conditions that allowed the cancer to develop, and going after and killing cancerous cells. What you need to do is to strongly and dramatically interrupt and reverse the cancer-causing conditions in your body so that it becomes healthier, and stops breeding cancer.

Farm Foundation Holds 2nd Food Swap

The Educational Farm Foundation (EFF) Food Swap was held on Saturday, February 11, at the Old Overton Gym. The number of registered participants was more than double the number attending the last EFF food swap last November. Among the food items that were swapped were

Moapa Valley Garden Spot: Getting Into The Zone For Gardening

We Southern Nevada gardeners are often overwhelmed with all the nitpicking details to which we’re required to pay attention in order to successfully produce healthy plants whether for eating, smelling, sitting under or what have you. (Most often it’s a combination, but who’s counting?)

Opinion

No One Asked Me But... (February 22, 2012)

No one asked me but… The issue in Syria has become toxic as multitudes of citizens have rebelled against the government. The Syrian government is a dictatorship and the American people find that offensive. However, a vast majority of the people of the world are living under dictatorships. Those dictatorships are the legal governments of those countries. We are highly offended by the Syrian dictatorship but are not so by the dictatorship of Saudi Arabia. We go to war when the dictator of Iraq invades the country run by the dictator of Kuwait. We condemn the President of Syria because he turns troops loose on citizens who are in open rebellion against his government. We are calling for Assad to step down and turn the government over to the rebels.

OPEN FORUM: Are We Up to the Challenge?

In the Declaration of Independence, it is noted that King George was establishing an “absolute tyranny” over the people in the colonies, from the fact that “He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”

LETTER: Thanks For The Help In A Pinch

We would like to thank Mike Otero (the only one we knew by name) and the rest of the EMTs who offered their services to Ralph on the afternoon of Friday, February 10, when he suddenly blacked out and fainted. After their initial first response service, their care in the ambulance that took him to the hospital, and again at the hospital, it turned out to be just too high of a dosage of blood pressure medicine combined with being dehydrated. One lesson that came out of this experience was that even if it is winter, it is still important to drink lots of water.

EDITORIAL: Still Tied Down In The Dark Ages

Last week, Governor Brian Sandoval revealed an aggressive new plan for economic development in the State of Nevada. The plan sets a high goal of bringing no less than 50,000 new jobs to the State by the end of 2014. To accomplish that goal, the plan focuses on a number of business sectors which had been especially identified as opportunity areas for Nevada.

No One Asked Me But... (February 15, 2012)

No one asked me but… The Clark County School District (CCSD) has purchased a $3 million computer game to improve the math scores of some low performing elementary schools. About twenty percent of math instruction time in these schools is spent with students on computers playing a math game featuring a friendly little penguin. The Sewell Elementary Principal has been quoted as saying, “This generation is very visual and reward-based. Students love that cute little penguin character that helps them with math concepts.”

Announcements

ENGAGEMENT: (February 22, 2012)

Tony and Dorothy Brinkoetter of Winnemucca/Logandale, Nevada along with Jack and Chyrel Harris of Ontario, Oregon are proud to announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their respective children; Ann Brinkoetter to Cody Harris, both currently of Winnemucca, Nevada.

MISSIONARY (February 15, 2012)

Elder Jayce Benjamin Chalfant has been called to the Anchorage Alaska Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

NEW ARRIVAL (February 15, 2012)

James and Charity Hardy of Minot, North Dakota are excited to announce the birth of their beautiful baby boy, James Stryker Dale Hardy.

WEDDING (February 15, 2012)

Greg and Mary Lee Winzenried of Logandale are pleased to announce the marriage of their son Spencer, to Baylee Hansen, daughter of Jeff and Anna Hansen of Stockton, California. They will be sealed in the Las Vegas Temple on Saturday, February 18, 2012.

Obituaries

OBITUARY: Elizabeth Sozzoni

Elizabeth Louise Sozzoni - Sullivan, age 36, died Thursday, February 9, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was born January 26, 1976 in Las Vegas, Nevada to Lance Sylvester and Diane Jo Beckwith.

OBITUARY: Francis Black

Francis J. Black returned to his Father in Heaven Thursday, February 9, 2012. He was born July 30, 1929 in Kirtland, NM to Wm. Morley Black and Elda Jane Brown. He grew up in Kirtland and Blanding, UT

Upcoming Events

Local Team Seeks Members For Children’s Heartwalk Fundraiser

Mikheala lost her life in 2001 at the age of five years old. The youngest daughter of Overton residents Scott and Carrie Beckstrand, Mikheala was born with a significant heart disease requiring her to undergo a total of nine open heart surgeries during her short life; the first one coming when she was only six weeks old.

Local Actors Prepare For “St. Thomas Alive”

Some 50 actors -- kids, teens and adults -- have been rehearsing for weeks to give voice next month to former residents of St. Thomas, the once bustling town drowned beneath Lake Mead in the 1930s.


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