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Your Hometown Newspaper Since 1987 Wednesday, August 19, 2020 www.mvprogress.com PRSRT STD US POSTAGE PAID OVERTON, NV PERMIT NO. 11 Find Us Online www.mvprogress.com Classified 5B | Opinion 4A | Real Estate Listings 2B-3B | Service Directory 4B | Society 5B Sudoku Puzzle 2B | Valley Life 1B © 2020, JZR Communications, LLC | Vol. 34, No. 1 Follow us on Facebook It was back to school as usual for the 25 students who attend the Mesquite Christian Academy on Monday, August 17. Normally an annual routine, this year’s first day of school at Mesquite Christian stood in stark contrast to the all-online ap- proach being adopted by public schools in Virgin Valley. The pri- vate academy is the only school in the Mesquite area offering face to face classes for the full 5-day Back to School the old-fashioned way By AMY DAVIS The Progress AMY DAVIS The Progress Ray Floerke (right) who is in charges of security and maintenance at Mesquite Christian Academy greets each student with a smile and a tem- perature check on the first day of school. school week. Students began arriving at 7:30 am for classes that began at 8:00. All students and staff had their temperatures taken upon arrival. In addition, hand sanitizer sta- tions were set up throughout the school. Masks for students were optional. “As a parent myself, I am tick- led,” says Ray Floerke. “It is awe- some. I think the kids should be in school. Online is ok, but there is structure in school and I like See Back to School on page 5A The College of Southern Neva- da (CSN) has developed a strate- gic plan to expand its workforce training services at the Mesquite campus. These services will aim to help build a more robust work- force in the Virgin Valley and Moapa Valley communities. The plans were presented by CSN President Frederico Zara- goza at a meeting with Mesquite City officials and local business leaders held at the Eureka Resort on Tuesday, Aug. 11. The expanded offerings aren’t just being aimed at high school students and college-age young adults, according to Mesquite City Councilman George Gault who introduced Zaragoza at the meeting. “Given the current environ- ment, things are changing fast,” Gault said. “We have seen all of these jobs that are going to be lost in the region – maybe lost for good – and all the displaced workers that need to find new ca- reers and new ways to go to work quickly. (CSN) is really trying to address the uncertainty of the fu- ture and help people figure out the future of work.” During his presentation, Zara- goza explained that CSN is uniquely positioned to meet a variety of workforce needs in the community. Through its dual enrollment program, local high school stu- dents who were interested in pur- suing a university degree can earn college credit while still in high school. “Through our early college model (in Las Vegas), about 80 students per year graduate high school with an associates degree in college,” Zaragoza said. “That is the potential that you have when working with a Community College.” Zaragoza added that this dual enrollment program was a target- ed area of planned expansion in Mesquite. “But CSN also has a large menu of resources to help with workforce training,” Zaragoza said. This would set up the college as a pathway back to the work- force for people who have seen Mesquite CSN to expand workforce training programs By VERNON ROBISON The Progress See CSN on page 2A All of the turmoil of 2020 has seemed to have no effect on the endangered Moapa dace. The little finger-length fish that lives only in the Warm Springs head- waters of the Muddy River has actually had an outstanding year. According to a scientific study earlier this month, the dace has multiplied its numbers signifi- cantly and also expanded its range into areas where the little fish hasn’t been seen in a long time. Biologists conducting the an- nual summer snorkel survey of the entire spring system counted a total of 2,342 dace this month. That represents an increase of nearly 78 percent over the num- ber of 1,317 fish counted in Aug. 2019. This was the highest dace population observed since the August count was begun in 2008. It was also the first time since August 2015 that the dace pop- ulation has topped 2,000 fish. In the years since 2015, the annual summer count has seen a small decline. “The recent population count is very encouraging,” said Glen Knowles, field supervisor for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southern Nevada office. “We are especially happy about the in- Biologists log a healthy jump in Moapa dace numbers Dr. David Stone of the US Fish and Wildlife Service snorkels through the South Fork area of the Warm Springs Natural Area looking for the endangered Moapa dace. Photo courtesy David Syzdek. By VERNON ROBISON The Progress See Dace on page 5A Things will be very different when school begins on Monday, August 24. The administrators, teachers, and staff at schools in Moapa Valley and Virgin Valley have been hard at work, figuring the logistics of public education in a COVID-19 restricted world. Moapa Valley schools will be returning to some form of live classroom learning next week. Three of the four schools will be dividing their student bodies into two cohorts. Cohort A will go to class on Monday and Tuesday and engage in distance education the rest of the week. Cohort B will attend classes on Thursday and Friday. Wednesdays will be spent in a deep cleaning of the building between the two cohorts. In Virgin Valley, all schools are beginning the year with an all-on- line distance education model. Here is a quick look at some of the logistics as they will be faced by students and parents next week as school starts. Ute Perkins Elementary The only school in region that will begin school with a full five- day, face-to-face attendance is Ute V. Perkins Elementary school in Moapa. Assistant Principal Kelby Robison is excited to wel- come his small student body back to classes. “Since our population is so small, we submitted a request that our students could return to school five days a week,” Ro- bison explained. “The district granted that request.” Of course, the school is also offering the all-online education option for students of families not What’s the Plan? Local schools prep for the first day of classes By CHARLENE PAUL The Progress comfortable sending kids back to school, Robison added. The classes at Perkins are small enough that there won’t be a problem in meeting the social distancing mandate. And since it will be the same students in the- classrooms each day, there is no need for a deep-cleaning day mid week. “We will deep clean every day,” Robison said. Different from previous years, the students will remain in their main classroom for the entire day. Instead of the students going to a different room for specials like S.T.E.A.M., P.E., and art, the spe- cialists will come to them. But there will be breaks for the kids. “There will be times for the students to go outside to the play areas or walk the track,” Robison said. “We have three play yards, so we can have three classes outside at one time while still monitoring social distancing. The playground is closed, though. While students are outside for their lunch break, our custodians will wipe down the desks inside and clean the rooms.” The Cohort C (all online) program allows students to join classroom instruction one to two hours each day via an online plat- form. “It really gives these students the opportunity to participate as if they were there,” said Robison. “They will have the same expec- tations as face-to-face students.” “This is a difficult time,” Ro- bison said. “But the staff at Per- kins would like the community to know how much we appreciate the support and kindness that has been shown. They have been so good to us. We know there are concerns, but we are committed to providing a good, solid educa- tion for all of our students.” Grant Bowler Elementary Shawna Jesson, principal of Grant Bowler in Logandale, is upbeat about the upcoming school year. “Since our first CEAB meet- ing in June, we have seen a lot of changes,” Jessen said. “We have had to be flexible and look at things through a different lens.” The students at Bowler will also remain in their classrooms for the time they are in face-to- face instruction. “Our specialists will come to the classes this year rather than having the students go back and forth,” Jessen said. “We will have structured P.E. with the lunch break so our students can move See The Plan on page 3A
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It was back to school as usual for the 25 students who attend the Mesquite Christian Academy on Monday, August 17.
Normally an annual routine,
this year’s first day of school at Mesquite Christian stood in stark contrast to the all-online ap-proach being adopted by public schools in Virgin Valley. The pri-vate academy is the only school in the Mesquite area offering face to face classes for the full 5-day
Back to School the old-fashioned way
By AMY DAVIS
The Progress
AMY DAVIS The ProgressRay Floerke (right) who is in charges of security and maintenance at Mesquite Christian Academy greets each student with a smile and a tem-perature check on the first day of school.
school week. Students began arriving at 7:30
am for classes that began at 8:00. All students and staff had their temperatures taken upon arrival. In addition, hand sanitizer sta-tions were set up throughout the school. Masks for students were
optional.“As a parent myself, I am tick-
led,” says Ray Floerke. “It is awe-some. I think the kids should be in school. Online is ok, but there is structure in school and I like
See Back to School on page 5A
The College of Southern Neva-da (CSN) has developed a strate-gic plan to expand its workforce training services at the Mesquite campus. These services will aim to help build a more robust work-force in the Virgin Valley and Moapa Valley communities.
The plans were presented by CSN President Frederico Zara-goza at a meeting with Mesquite City officials and local business leaders held at the Eureka Resort on Tuesday, Aug. 11.
The expanded offerings aren’t just being aimed at high school students and college-age young adults, according to Mesquite City Councilman George Gault who introduced Zaragoza at the meeting.
“Given the current environ-ment, things are changing fast,” Gault said. “We have seen all of these jobs that are going to be lost in the region – maybe lost for good – and all the displaced workers that need to find new ca-reers and new ways to go to work quickly. (CSN) is really trying to address the uncertainty of the fu-ture and help people figure out the future of work.”
During his presentation, Zara-goza explained that CSN is uniquely positioned to meet a variety of workforce needs in the community.
Through its dual enrollment program, local high school stu-dents who were interested in pur-suing a university degree can earn college credit while still in high school.
“Through our early college model (in Las Vegas), about 80 students per year graduate high school with an associates degree in college,” Zaragoza said. “That is the potential that you have when working with a Community College.”
Zaragoza added that this dual enrollment program was a target-ed area of planned expansion in Mesquite.
“But CSN also has a large menu of resources to help with workforce training,” Zaragoza said.
This would set up the college as a pathway back to the work-force for people who have seen
Mesquite CSN to expand workforce training programsBy VERNON ROBISON
The Progress
See CSN on page 2A
All of the turmoil of 2020 has seemed to have no effect on the endangered Moapa dace. The little finger-length fish that lives only in the Warm Springs head-waters of the Muddy River has actually had an outstanding year. According to a scientific study earlier this month, the dace has multiplied its numbers signifi-cantly and also expanded its range into areas where the little fish hasn’t been seen in a long time.
Biologists conducting the an-nual summer snorkel survey of the entire spring system counted
a total of 2,342 dace this month. That represents an increase of nearly 78 percent over the num-ber of 1,317 fish counted in Aug. 2019. This was the highest dace population observed since the August count was begun in 2008.
It was also the first time since August 2015 that the dace pop-ulation has topped 2,000 fish. In the years since 2015, the annual summer count has seen a small decline.
“The recent population count is very encouraging,” said Glen Knowles, field supervisor for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southern Nevada office. “We are especially happy about the in-
Biologists log a healthy jump in Moapa dace numbers
Dr. David Stone of the US Fish and Wildlife Service snorkels through the South Fork area of the Warm Springs Natural Area looking for the endangered Moapa dace. Photo courtesy David Syzdek.
By VERNON ROBISON
The Progress
See Dace on page 5A
Things will be very different when school begins on Monday, August 24. The administrators, teachers, and staff at schools in Moapa Valley and Virgin Valley have been hard at work, figuring the logistics of public education in a COVID-19 restricted world.
Moapa Valley schools will be returning to some form of live classroom learning next week. Three of the four schools will be dividing their student bodies into two cohorts. Cohort A will go to class on Monday and Tuesday and engage in distance education the rest of the week. Cohort B will attend classes on Thursday and Friday. Wednesdays will be spent in a deep cleaning of the building between the two cohorts.
In Virgin Valley, all schools are
beginning the year with an all-on-line distance education model.
Here is a quick look at some of the logistics as they will be faced by students and parents next week as school starts.
Ute Perkins ElementaryThe only school in region that
will begin school with a full five-day, face-to-face attendance is Ute V. Perkins Elementary school in Moapa. Assistant Principal Kelby Robison is excited to wel-come his small student body back to classes.
“Since our population is so small, we submitted a request that our students could return to school five days a week,” Ro-bison explained. “The district granted that request.”
Of course, the school is also offering the all-online education option for students of families not
What’s the Plan? Local schools prep for the first day of classesBy CHARLENE PAUL
The Progress
comfortable sending kids back to school, Robison added.
The classes at Perkins are small enough that there won’t be a problem in meeting the social distancing mandate. And since it will be the same students in the-classrooms each day, there is no need for a deep-cleaning day mid week.
“We will deep clean every day,” Robison said.
Different from previous years, the students will remain in their main classroom for the entire day. Instead of the students going to a different room for specials like S.T.E.A.M., P.E., and art, the spe-cialists will come to them.
But there will be breaks for the kids. “There will be times for the students to go outside to the play areas or walk the track,” Robison said. “We have three play yards, so we can have three
classes outside at one time while still monitoring social distancing. The playground is closed, though. While students are outside for their lunch break, our custodians will wipe down the desks inside and clean the rooms.”
The Cohort C (all online) program allows students to join classroom instruction one to two hours each day via an online plat-form.
“It really gives these students the opportunity to participate as if they were there,” said Robison. “They will have the same expec-tations as face-to-face students.”
“This is a difficult time,” Ro-bison said. “But the staff at Per-kins would like the community to know how much we appreciate the support and kindness that has been shown. They have been so good to us. We know there are concerns, but we are committed
to providing a good, solid educa-tion for all of our students.”
Grant Bowler ElementaryShawna Jesson, principal of
Grant Bowler in Logandale, is upbeat about the upcoming school year.
“Since our first CEAB meet-ing in June, we have seen a lot of changes,” Jessen said. “We have had to be flexible and look at things through a different lens.”
The students at Bowler will also remain in their classrooms for the time they are in face-to-face instruction.
“Our specialists will come to the classes this year rather than having the students go back and forth,” Jessen said. “We will have structured P.E. with the lunch break so our students can move
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their former jobs disappear in the current econonmy, he said. But it could also provide a path for young high school students who
College of Southern Nevada President Frederico Zaragoza gives a presentation to City leaders and local business-people at a meeting held at the Eureka on Tuesday last week.
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may want to enter the workforce directly after graduation.
“We are the number one pro-vider of Workforce Education in the state bar none,” Zaragoza said speaking of CSN. “We can help people and communities prepare
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for, not only jobs that currently exist, but also occupations that are targeted to emerge in our communities the future.”
Zaragoza said that these ser-vices are most effective when CSN resources are aligned well to the vision of the community.
Along these lines, CSN Exec-utive Director of Workforce & Economic Development, Ricardo Villalobos continued the presen-tation with areas that CSN had al-ready interfaced with the commu-nity in aligning its plans. He said that he had reviewed the City’s Strategic Workforce Plan.
“In talking to local leaders we have identified the current career pathways that already are in de-mand for training programs,” Vil-lalobos said. “But we have also set some targets for industries of the future.”
Current industries needing training program included the health care sector and the skills trades, Villalobos explained. Fu-ture targeted industries included the autonomous aircraft indus-try (drones), manufacturing and warehouse distribution careers.
The plan would have CSN offer industry-accepted certifi-cate programs. These programs woulld be accelerated 6-9 month courses focused on getting peo-ple into existing and new skilled positions quickly, Villalobos said.
“These programs could be used by existing workforce that need either continuing education or education for re-employment in a new field,” Villalobos said. “But it also could be a pathway for kids, while still in high school, to earn workplace skills certifi-cations and prepare to enter the workforce with good jobs imme-diately after graduation.”
CSN North Las Vegas Cam-pus Vice President Clarissa Cota said that a foundation for such a program is already in place. Cur-rently the Mesquite campus offers career certification classes like the accelerated Nurses Assistant program as well as an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) program which is beginning this fall. Such career certification programs are planned to be expanded to other content areas, Cota said.
This would especially be valu-able to high school kids who don’t envision themselves on the college track, she said.
“We want high school students
to be able to graduate with an industry-recognized credential,” Cota said. “And we can do it. We can be delivering these tools and offering the classes either at the high school or at our site.”
In addition, dual credit offer-ings for high-schoolers on the college credit track are also being expanded, she said.
Principals at both MVHS and VVHS have been working to-gether on plans to share dual credit classes between them and thus offer more college and ca-reer classes to their students, Cota said.
“I think it is tremendous that these two high schools have part-nered with each other to double the amount of dual enrollment that is now able to be offered to their students by sharing instruc-tors and using teleconferencing technology,” Cota said.
To wrap up the meeting, Gault expressed appreciation to the event sponsors which included the Mesquite Opportunities Re-gional Fund (MORF) and the Eu-reka Resort.
“This is just terrific for the community!” Gault concluded. “We are really looking forward to developing this partnership.”
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around and stretch their legs.”Jessen said that it has been a
major task in preparing for the start of school this year.
“Our teachers have been work-ing their hearts out to make this year a success for our valley’s children,” she said. “From the be-ginning, they were all in, 100%.”
“We know that this has affect-ed each and every family in our valley,” said Jesson. “A few of the families chose to homeschool this year, and we are completely supportive of that decision. But we want them to know that if cir-cumstances change, their students will be welcomed back with open hearts and open arms.”
Jessen said that she was grate-ful for the way the community has come together in this unique situation for the good of the stu-dents.
“Please try to look past our weaknesses because we are put-ting our hearts and souls into this,” Jessen added.
Mack Lyon Middle SchoolLyon Middle School (LMS)
will offer four classes for their students in the two Cohorts. Those four weekly periods will include English, Math, Science or Social Studies and Music, Health, or P.E.
Special needs students will be able to attend four days per week, according to Lyon principal Ken Paul.
“That is because they don’t change classes or teachers throughout the day,” said Paul.
Paul said that he is pleased that the kids will be able to come back to the school building next week.
“I am so grateful that our com-munity and school teams came together to make this happen,” said Paul. “Although this isn’t all we had hoped for, our teachers believe strongly in face-to-face instruction. So this gives us some of that. We are lucky to be able to do this.”
Moapa Valley High SchoolMVHS will offer a total of six
classes meeting once each week. Cohort A students will attend school for face-to-face instruction for periods one, two, and three on Monday, and periods four, five, and six on Tuesday. Cohort B students will attend in-person instruction for periods one, two, and three on Thursday, and peri-ods four, five, and six on Friday.
“While they are at school, their classes will be eighty-minute periods with two passing peri-ods,” said MVHS Principal Hal Mortensen. “They will be fin-ished before noon. That gives the teachers time for their preps and lunch, and to do online instruc-tion.”
Mortensen said that the school is able to keep all of its elective classes, except for ceramics.
“Each student should be able
to have one to two electives,” Mortensen said. “We are offering Band, Choir, Orchestra, P.E., Ag, Welding, and Construction on-line.”
Mortensen said that his staff is glad to be able to come back face-to-face with students, as well as work online. “Our community and parents reached out to CCSD Board Member Chris Garvey, and she was able to facilitate allowing us to do that,” he said.
MVHS sent out a survey to stu-dents to find out which ones may need assistance with Internet and technology, Mortensen said.
“We want our students to get the best education possible,” he siad. “We are asking everyone to be patient as we navigate these unchartered waters.”
With online education, the question of special needs students arises.
“We will address these stu-dents on a case-by-case basis with their Individual Education Plans (IEPs),” Mortensen said. “We will do all we can to make sure they can come to school either two or four days. We will also provide assistance and answer questions for their families.”
Virgin Valley ElementaryVVES will begin each morning
at 9:00 a.m. Even though it is an all-distance learning program.
“We are starting on the hour for our morning rotation,” said Prin-cipal Matt Bennett. “Lunch will be at noon for all of our students so that parents with more than one child in school will only have to put the food out once.”
The afternoon rotation begins at 12:30 p.m. and involves all of the specialist classes, such as music and art. Those classes will be staggered throughout the after-noon. School will dismiss at 3:11 p.m. as usual.
“Our teachers have been work-ing diligently, putting in enor-mous amounts of time in new trainings and curriculum devel-opment,” said Bennett. “We want to give our students as many ed-ucational opportunities as we can during this time. Of course, we want our students back in their classrooms as soon as that can be safely done.”
As with other schools, special needs students are a great con-cern. “Unfortunately, at this time, there is no provision for bringing them on campus,” Bennett said. “But we will do our best to help parents and families with the dis-tance learning model.”
“We appreciate the communi-ty’s support and ask for continued patience as we pivot to make this work for our students,” he said.
J. L. Bowler ElementaryJoseph L. Bowler Elementa-
ry in Bunkerville will follow the same schedule as VVES.
“We are following the CCSD guidelines,” said J.L. Bowler principal Chris Jenkins. “Our numbers are down a bit, so we are
keeping an eye on that. We hope our students can safely return to their classrooms as soon as pos-sible.”
“Please continue to be patient as we move forward,” Jenkins added. “We want to provide the best education for our students. There has been a lot of planning and training for our teachers, and they are working hard.”
As with VVES, there is no pro-vision for special needs students to return to the classroom at this time. “We will work with parents to make sure the needs of these students are met as well as they can be until we can bring them back to school,” Jenkins said.
Hughes Middle SchoolHughes Middle School Princi-
pal Maury Perkins explained that all of their students are encour-aged to log on at the same time each day.
“Of course, we understand things don’t always go as planned, and there may be times when stu-dents are unable to log on because of Internet issues or family situa-tions,” Perkins said. “The teach-ers will have office hours to allow them to give added assistance their students may require.”
Perkins said that his school has streamlined as much as possible to fit the district’s model. “We are offering four classes at a time, with synchronous instruction,” he said. “There will be instruction in each class every day. We had already double-blocked English and Math every day, so it will be easy to pick up with that schedule once regular school can resume.”
Students will take Math and English both semesters. Health and P.E. will each be taught for one quarter. Band, Social Studies, and Science will take the place of elective classes.
“We took an internal survey to find out the needs of our stu-
dents, and found that all but about 5% of our students have internet access,” Perkins said. “With the help of the statewide initiative, local providers, Rotary, and oth-ers, we are confident that all stu-dents will have access to what they need.”
As with other schools, the plight of special needs students is a genuine concern.
“There is no provision at this time to bring these students on campus,” Perkins said. “This will require a lot of effort, patience, and understanding from the teachers and families. Our special ed teachers will work one-on-one with parents. These teachers are working with CCSD for spe-cialized training to best meet the needs of these students.”
Perkins appreciated how the community had stepped up with support in difficult times. “We en-courage families to be positive as we head into this school year so that the students will have posi-tive attitudes,” he said.
Virgin Valley High SchoolVVHS will continue its block
schedule, offering students eight classes.
“We decided to offer all of the core classes as well as all of the electives,” said VVHS Principal Riley Frei. “That way, when we go back to regular school, nothing changes.”
On Monday, the students will attend all eight of their classes online. Tuesday through Friday will be a standard block sched-ule. Class periods will be sixty minutes each in the morning. The afternoon is dedicated support time. There is also the option of additional thirty-minute classes for each for the four classes as needed for individual or group instruction.
VVHS special ed teachers will work with the families of their students with special needs. “Of
course, the best place for these students is at school,” Frei said. “But right now, that is not an op-tion. Our teachers will continue to work with the families of these students to help them in meeting the needs of their children.”
Frei asked that parents trust and work with the school as the year begins. “Our teachers will provide assistance to their stu-dents,” he said. “They want to provide the best education pos-sible. We have worked hard to make this work. We haven’t lost any teachers, so we are grateful for that.”
Providing connectivityInternet access for students has
become imperative for kids’ edu-cation. That has created problems for those families who can’t af-ford it or have no way to access it.
To help solve this problem, several groups have teamed up to launch a new initiative aimed at giving students access to the In-ternet and the devices they need.
The Nevada COVID-19 Task Force announced the launch of “Connecting Kids.” This initia-tive hopes to ensure that all stu-dents have equal access to virtual learning by the beginning of the school year.
The Family Support Center also partnered with Cox Commu-nications and CCSD to connect every qualified student with In-ternet access.
In Mesquite, Reliance Con-nects and TDS are offering re-duced rates for those who qualify.
On Friday, Moapa Valley Tele-phone (MVT) sent letters to the administrators and counselors at the Moapa Valley schools to con-tact MVT for any assistance they may require.
InfoWest reached out to the schools in the spring and contin-ues to support efforts to connect students with their teachers.
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I must admit that I never thought the ultra-liberal 9th Cir-cuit would agree to drop charges against a Nevada rancher who was opposed to a federal govern-ment land grab.
Judge Jay Bybee wrote a 54 page decision pointing out that Judge Navarro had conducted nu-merous hearings about the federal prosecutor’s
evidence violations. Nevada’s U.S. Attorney Nicholas Trutanich tried his best to wipe the mustard off the face of the prosecuting at-torney with the statement: “...this in no way cast aspersions on the professionalism of members of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.”
However, one must wonder what it does cast on a group of federal lawyers who according to the Bybee decision made a conscious choice to withhold documents. This decisions states “…it was not a matter of simple oversight. …it sought to handicap the defendants by withholding evidence.”
If this is not a lack of profes-sionalism, I am not sure what is.
The government’s attempt to rustle Mr. Bundy’s cattle was a vi-olation of the federal Taylor graz-ing act as codified in the Nevada Revised Statues. I will not rehash the explanation I spelled out in a number of columns while the action was actually taking place. However, one may want to re-ex-plore the alleged fact the federal official in charge of the govern-ment action, whose alleged pur-pose was in part to protect Indian artifacts, collected many of those artifacts and passed them out to his friends as souvenirs. A study of the issues might lead one to deduce that the only laws broken during the Bunkerville standoff were those violated by federal agents.
A nationally known lawyer, Larry Klayman, who represented Cliven Bundy, explained the un-warranted and illegal oppression of the federal government better
than I can: “My client Cliven Bundy, having been forced to en-dure the emotional distress and physical harm of being arrested and denied bail, being thrown in solitary confinement for no valid reason, denied right of counsel and a speedy trial and then, after two years of illegal incarceration, had to endure a sham and fraud-ulent trial where exculpatory ev-idence was hidden, prosecutors lied to the presiding judge, and where a whistleblower came for-ward to disclose that there had been a ‘kill list’ by some agents of the Bureau of Land Management on the heads of the Bundy’s,…”
Dan Hill, an attorney for one of the Bundy boys, stated: “Judge Navarro’s order dismissing the case was righteous, and the 9th Circuit agreed.”
In a separate decision in the Bunkerville case Todd Engel, who was serving a 14 year term for his role in the Bunkerville in-cident, had his conviction over-turned and he will be awarded a new trial. Judge Navarro had sen-tenced him to 14 years in prison charges of obstruction of justice and interstate travel in aid of ex-tortion. Actually, one might say, if Mr. Engel was guilty of anything, it would be of obstructing an in-justice.
Was the Bundy issue a case of citizens protesting the oppres-sive and illegal activities of the federal government? Absolutely! However, in the face of a number of incidents of violence incited by the government officials these citizens never struck back. There was not a single store burned, no Ronald McDonald House with sick children inside attacked, and no one looted the local Walmart. They did make their indignation known and they did cause the BLM to back off and they did al-low the law to be upheld.
No one asked me but…Dem-ocrat Presidential candidate Joe Biden has picked his Vice-Pres-idential running mate. This may be the most important V.P. selec-tion of our life-times.
Senator Kamala Harris met the only qualifications Joe Biden and the Democrat party set for the Vice President. She is a “woman and a woman of color.”
However, as a bonus she has a great deal of diversity in her genes. She was born to a legal Jamaican immigrant mother. Her
father, at the time of her birth, was a legal immigrant student from India.
Harris is a natural born citizen of the United States. She is mar-ried to a Caucasian which adds even more diversity to her re-sume.
As a child she was involved in busing to desegregate schools in Oakland, California. After her parent’s divorce, she moved to Canada with her mother, where she graduated from High School. She has had a distinguished le-gal career and has served in the Senate since 2017. She is highly articulate even though she has shown a tendency to slip into gut-ter language when excited.
As much as anyone can be, she is qualified to be President. This is a very important point for there is a good chance that if a Biden/Harris ticket is successful, she will be the President before their terms in office are over.
No one asked me but…There has been an uproar over the mail-in balloting for the Presidency in 2020, in the State of Nevada.
While President Trump has filed a law-suit based on the fact that mail-in ballots would over-load the U.S. Postal Service, he is wrong. The Post Office will han-dle it with little or no issue. His allegation that the bill was passed in special session in the middle of night is ridiculous. Of course, it was passed late in the session, but that is true of most legislation.
The real danger of this bill is the provision that allows for vote harvesting. This will allow for ei-ther party to send out collectors who then have control of ballots for a period of time. What is to keep Republicans or Democrats from canvasing areas where they know a predominance of their opponents reside, picking up the ballots and destroying them. With the lack of signature verification, what is to keep an individual from following the mail truck and re-moving ballots of people they know will vote in opposition to their candidate and filling them out as they please?
If people can go to the grocery store, to the casino, to the beach, etc., why can they not stand in line to vote?
This is the kind of nonsense that makes it hard for the Ameri-can people to take the wearing of masks and social distancing seri-ously.
Thought of the week… “So-ciety is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.”
- Emerson
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In an article entitled Relief from sewer odor coming soon for Lo-gandale neighborhood published in The Progress July 15, 2020 edition, Paul Bledsoe, manager of the package sewage treatment plant for the Valley Heights Sub-division, gave a technical ex-planation of the problems they are facing in running the plant. Then he assured us that after a couple of weeks of work the bad odor would be taken care of and “things should be looking up for the neighbors very soon”.
The (Southern Nevada Health Department) inspector was also assured, in April, that in a couple of weeks, the problem would be solved by replacing a few parts, informing the home owners about proper use of a septic system and a landscape clean-up.
In June as I was leaving my home to escape the overpower-ing odor, I sent a picture of the green slime discharge that had only grown bigger and smellier since the promised April repair and clean-up.
I would like those, who are so ready to excuse themselves from all responsibility to quickly re-solve this issue, to consider the Human Cost.
First, the “bad odor” is actually a sign of the presence of hydro-gen sulfide, a sewer gas produced in wastewater treatment. It is not to be taken lightly!
The following warning is tak-en from the OSHA Fact Sheet on Hydrogen Sulfide (known as rot-ten egg gas):
• Hydrogen sulfide is heavier than air and may travel along the ground and collects in low-lying and enclosed spaces” (like base-ments or our home across the street on Whipple Ave).
• “Hydrogen sulfide is rapidly absorbed by the lungs. The rotten egg smell indicates a relatively low level in the air. However even low level exposure can have seri-ous health effects if it is on- going or repeated. Repeated exposure can result in health effects occur-ring at levels that were previously tolerated.” (In other words, the health effects increase over time.)
• “Health effects at low concen-tration include: eye, nose, throat and respiratory system irritation (eg. burning/tearing of eyes, cough and shortness of breath). Asthmatics can experience breathing difficulties. Repeated or prolonged exposure may cause eye inflammation, headache, fa-
tigue, irritability, insomnia, di-gestive disturbance and loss of appetite. Dizziness and nausea also occur at moderate concentra-tion.”
The full OSHA Fact Sheet from which this material was taken is available online. Another good online source of information is the Health Risk Evaluation for Sewer Gas Tech by Air Filtration Systems, Corp. in Las Vegas.
Both I and my disabled broth-er have both suffered all of the above effects.
But let me share with you the effects of these sewer gases spe-cifically on a person with cerebral palsy, like my brother, Tracy. Be-sides not wanting to eat and throw-ing up at night (he already weighs less than a hundred pounds), he suffered from red inflamed eyes, increased use of rescue inhal-er from once a day after a wind storm or in pollen season to 4-5 times daily. (He couldn’t laugh or cheer for his sports teams with-out wheezing and being unable to catch his breath). Worst of all, his joints and muscles locked and he ground his teeth so constantly, I couldn’t even get him to take his medicine.
The day after we went to live out of state, all his symptoms showed immediate signs of im-provement. His red eyes cleared up, he smiled and wanted to eat and go for rides and walks again. He stopped requesting Tylenol for pain. Most importantly, his mus-cles relaxed.
Only his asthma has been slow to improve and there may be per-manent damage to his lungs. We have been unable to follow up on necessary medical care as our doctors are all five hours away.
My parents, Ivan and Lennie Jones, worked hard and lived frugally in order to pay for a cus-tom-built, handicapped-acces-sible home that would serve my brother for his life. But because of exposure to sewer gas, we have been forced to camp out, for months, in my sister’s living room, in a home that is anything but handicapped-accessible.
We also haven’t been able to maintain our home well, since we can’t sit or work outside because of the gas, with resulting loss of property value.
We are grateful to those who have tried to help us get the atten-tion of the HOA across the street,
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All we ask is to be able to re-turn to live safely in our home of 45 years among good neighbors and friends.
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structure.” Floerke works Security and
Maintenance for the Christian school that his four children at-tend.
Greg Page, the principal of the Mesquite Christian Academy is new to the Mesquite area.
“I feel great about having the kids in school.” Page said. “I also know that when you are a small school, it allows for things that sometimes large schools can’t do. As a private school we are not al-ways under the mandates of pub-lic school.”
The Christian Academy has seen a boost in enrollment from last year. “Most Christian schools that I am aware of are having a big jump in their numbers be-cause of the public schools being closed,” Page said.
Melinda Winslow has a third grade daughter with special needs. “I am celebrating,” says Winslow referring to being back in school. “My daughter needs in-teraction. She wants to be around the other kids. She is not one for
learning at home and I am not a teacher.”
Winslow also noted that her kids were starting to get addicted to technology with all the time at home. “They had to be on tech-nology all the time for school,” she said. “There is a study how screen time actually affects be-havior and I saw that in my chil-dren.”
Mesquite Christian Academy does not currently offer a kin-dergarten class. But if they have enough interest, a class could be created.
“We would just love to have a kindergarten,” said office man-ager Melissa Floerke. “We just need three or more kids to create a class. The interaction and so-cialization is so good for kids that
creases in the population in the system outside the boundary of the Moapa Valley National Wild-life Refuge.”
That included population growth in streams lying within the Warm Springs Natural Area, owned and managed by South-ern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA).
The SNWA began restoring dace habitat on its 1,179-acre Natural Area shortly after it was acquired for that purpose in 2008. At that time there were fewer than 500 dace in the whole system.
SNWA biologist David Syzdek, who helps oversee the annual count, said that it was ex-citing to see the expanded range of the fish.
“Not only were the fish num-bers very high in all the reaches that typically have Moapa dace,” Syzdek said. “But it was also very exciting to finally see groups of dace in areas of the Main Stem where I have never seen any Moapa dace before.”
Syzdek explained that last year scientists had translocated 88 dace into a segment of the stream
called the South Fork, where pre-vious counts had always found no fish. This month’s count observed 201 fish in that segment of the river.
“It is fantastic to see this popu-lation successfully reproducing in a stream that had zero dace for so many years,” Syzdek said.
Record numbers of dace were also counted in several other streams in the area. The Lower Apcar Stream had 227 dace; the Lower Refuge Stream, 175; Low-er Muddy River, 15 dace; Middle Muddy River, 9 dace; Muddy Creek (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Warm Springs Recreation Camp) 133 dace; and South Fork, 201 dace.
Another landmark with this year’s count was a dramatic in-
crease in the number of adult fish observed. This year a total of 1,521 adults were found. That compared to the 2019 count of 1,085 adults.
“This indi-cates that more larvae and ju-
veniles are reaching adulthood,” Syzdek said. “These adults will hopefully produce more eggs and young in the future.”
While these numbers are prom-ising, full recovery of the species is still a long way off. The dace will not be considered fully re-covered until the fish’s sustained population reaches a minimum of 6,000 fish over a period of five consecutive years. In addition, 75 percent of its historical habi-tat in the upper Muddy ecosystem must provide spawning, nursery, cover and foraging habitat for the species.
“We still have a long way to go,” Syzdek said. “But this was great news. It was good to see the numbers high across all the plac-es we saw fish.”
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age.” Tuition at the school is $5,800
per year or $2,500 for Kindergar-ten since it is only half day. There are monthly payment plans as well as scholarships available.
“We try to help everyone we can, so if that amount of money is something a parent can abso-lutely not do, then we can have other conversations,” said Flo-erke. “We are a Christian school, though some of our students are new to Christianity. We don’t re-quire that you go to church, but we do recommend it.”
The Mesquite Christian Acade-my is located at 70 N. Yucca St. in Mesquite. For more information, interested parties can call Melissa Floerke at 702-613-5863.
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Valley LifeValley Life
The music teachers at Lyon Middle School (LMS), Moapa Valley High School (MVHS), Hughes Middle School (HMS), and Virgin Valley High School (VVHS) are an enthusiastic and creative bunch. With online dis-tance learning as the norm this year, and with class sizes of more than about 15 students being for-bidden, teaching large classes like band, orchestra, guitar, and choir has presented some interesting challenges.
But local school music teach-ers and administrators have been hard at work to find a way.
“I will meet face-to-face with students only once a week,” said LMS Orchestra and Guitar Teach-er Walter White. “So the chal-
Teaching music in COVID-19 worldBy CHARLENE PAUL
The Progress
Last year’s MVHS Marching Band performs during half-time at the Homecoming game. Music instruction at schools will be looking quite different this year than ever before.See School Music on page 3B
Mesquite mayoral candidate Bob Sweetin hosted an ice cream social event at the Falcon Ridge Clubhouse from 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, August 13.
Inviting all community mem-bers to the event, Sweetin billed it as an opportunity to talk about is-sues most important to the future of the community.
Sweetin told the roughly 35 people in attendance last week that the most important items on his list for the City would include: economic development, afford-able housing for the workforce and Mesquite schools becoming independent of Clark County
School District.Sweetin visited each item in
detail with the crowd, noting that economic development and af-fordable housing are interrelated.
“I believe our primary issue is property tax dollars,” said Swee-tin in reference to spurring eco-nomic development. “Mesquite has the lowest property taxes in Clark County. As mayor, I am committed to keeping it that way. I know what Mesquite’s budget looks like from year to year and we don’t need a property tax in-crease to do what we want to do in Mesquite.”
Sweetin added that the city’s redevelopment fund (RDA) could be better used to develop commu-
Sweetin gives focus points at campaign eventBy AMY DAVIS
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AMY DAVIS The Progress
Mesquite mayoral candidate Bob Sweetin discusses important issues for the future of Mesquite during an Ice Cream Social campaign event held last week. See Sweetin on page 6B
The Mesquite to Moapa Dem-ocrats hosted a virtual Meet the Candidate event with Nevada Congressman Steven Horsford (D-Las Vegas) on Wednesday, Aug.12.
The meeting, which was held over an online platform brought together around 40 Democratic voters from both valleys to both hear what Horsford had to say and ask him questions.
Horsford is in a race for re-elec-tion against Republican candidate Jim Marchant of Las Vegas.
The Q&A session started off with Horsford sharing his thoughts on the newly-selected Vice Presidential running-mate Kamala Harris. Horsford was en-thusiastic about the choice.
“She is a great choice and a strong running-mate for Joe Biden,” Horsford said. “But keep in mind that Nevada is still very much a battleground state. So we have to work hard to get out the vote.”
Horsford took more than an hour with the group thoughtfully answering each question that was posed to him.
One question asked Horsford’s opinion on the lawsuit filed by Donald Trump and the nation and state Republican party against Nevada Secretary of State Barba-ra Cegavske over the all mail-in ballot proposed for the upcoming election.
“I think we are in a good posi-tion as the Nevada Attorney Gen-eral has made a motion to dismiss the lawsuit,” Horsford said.
But Horsford said that that the nation has more important mat-ters to deal with than that.
“For example, the HEROES Act that will help with loss of revenue during this pandemic,” Horsford said.
The Health and Econonmic Recovery Omnibus Emergen-cy Solutions Act (HEROES) is a proposed $3 trillion stimulus package intended to supplement the CARES Act passed earlier this spring.
“It is needed to help the fam-ilies, workers, small businesses and school districts as well as oth-er organizations or people who need the help,” Horsford said. “It has not passed yet but we are working on it.”
Attendee Martha Hammond asked about the current status of the U.S. Census.
“The census will continue until the federal law and requirements of 90 percent counted are met,” Horsford said. “We have three groups of people who are usually undercounted: 1) rural citizens, 2) those of color, and 3) children. We have to make sure we count as many of them as possible.”
Overton resident Trinity Tan-ner asked about the Battle Born Solar project being proposed to cover the top of the Mormon Mesa between the two valleys.
Tanner pointed out the histori-cal significance of the area as well as many environmental concerns. He also talked about how it would impact the members of the com-munities. Mesquite resident Mi-chael McGreer, who is also a can-didate for the Virgin Valley Water District Board of Directors in the upcoming election, talked about a study that there was not enough water under the mesa to support such a project
The project has not actually entered the federal environmen-tal permitting process yet. So Horsford admitted that he did not know much about it at this time.
Local Dems group hosts
meeting with Rep. Horsford
By NICK YAMASHITA
The Progress
See Horsford on page 3B
An enthusiastic crowd of more than 70 people attended the grand opening of the Mesquite Repub-lican Women (MRW) campaign office in Mesquite on Wednesday, Aug. 12.
Several Republican candidates for the upcoming election were in attendance at the event. Each can-didate gave a five minute speech to the crowd and then spent one-on-one time with the guests.
Root beer floats were offered as refreshments.
Most of the event took place outside in front of the building. However, the office was also
open for patrons to cool off or have their picture taken with a life-size cardboard image of Pres-ident Donald Trump.
Mesquite residents who attend-ed the event were excited to see the office have its formal opening.
“I am happy to support the Re-publican Women,” said attend-ee and Mesquite resident Laurie Bronowicz said. “It is awesome they have their own office.”
Headlining the event was U.S. Congressional candidate Jim Marchant who is running for the Nevada District 4 seat.
Both Mesquite mayoral can-didates, Mayor Al Litman and
Ribbon cutting opens MRW campaign officeBy BOBBIE GREEN
The Progress
BOBBIE GREEN / The Progress
A whole slate of candidates helped to cut the ribbon last week for the campaign office of the Mesquite Republican Womens organization. See Ribbon-cutting on page 3B
The annual series of music, drama and entertainment that usually brightens the stage of Moapa Valley will go dark for the coming season.
Last week, board members of the Moapa Valley Performing Arts Council (MVPAC) made the difficult decision to cancel the 2020-21 season. The local group is best known for bringing per-forming artists of all sorts to the community including concerts, magicians, plays and also the Moapa Valley Talent Showcase.
“It was a hard decision and it even made me sick to my stom-ach,” said MVPAC President Charlie Cooper. “But the fact re-mains that we don’t know when we will have access to the facil-ities, when we can host bigger groups and more.”
Cooper explained that one un-
certainty has led to another. “We usually are advertising by now with a full lineup,” he said. “But it would have been a fruitless ef-fort to do anything right now with the COVID pandemic restrictions and social distancing required.”
MV Arts Council cancels 2020-21 seasonBy NICK YAMASHITA
The Progress
Some MVPAC highlights from the past include (left) singer Nathan Pa-checo (2019 season), (center) local dancer Annie Leavitt (2017 MV Talent Show) and (right) Kim Roden (2020 MVCT production). The MPAC made the decision last week to cancel its 2020-21 season.
The group has been meeting on a regular basis in smaller groups or by phone while they focused on the decisions of Governor Sisolak.
“When August rolled around and we had our meeting, we knew
we were still in Phase 2 and even some places are still in Phase 1,” Cooper said. “We just knew we had to cancel the season. There is some hope but it is extremely dim.”
The dim hope he referred to was that if the county were up-graded into Phase 3 the MVPAC could have a last minute perform-er come in. But Cooper’s wife Al-isha feels that will probably not happen.
“It is really dim and almost nonexistent,” Alisha said. “Even if we end up in Phase 3, most of the performers will probably have a high demand for them and some may not be performing yet. We just do not know and that is the fact right now is that no one knows exactly what will hap-pen.”.
And so, rather than fret about this season, the MVPAC has put all of its focus forward to the
See MVPAC on page 2B
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2021-2022 season.“As soon as we can, we will be going
forward with a `Gung Ho’, ‘all in it’ type effort for the planning of the new season,” Charlie Cooper said. “We look forward to bringing back good entertainment to the valley such as we have done in the past with all types of performing arts, espe-cially our Moapa Valley Talent Showcase which really highlights the local talent.”
During the summer months, MVPAC board member Jamie Burt works to sched-ule the various performances. The MVPAC season usually begins in September and runs through April.
Even though the MVPAC cancelled its season, the Moapa Valley Community Theater (MVCT) has adapted its focus on how to put on plays and performances in a new way. MVCT President Kenna Higgins gave a glimpse of some of the upcoming plans.
“Where under normal circumstances we could seat 250, right now we can only fill 50 percent of the seats,” Higgins said. “That makes it so that live performances would not be beneficial. But we are work-ing on creating a Youtube Channel and doing live-streaming performances instead right now.”
The community theater group will run short on funds as they usually do work-shops along with shows and they usually sell out the house on their plays.
“We have no source of revenue right now since we cannot perform with an au-dience,” Higgins said. “We think we can
keep going with some use of technology to do performances. They won’t be full blown plays but still fun performances.”
Higgins plans to make these perfor-mances available online and through local access television. The Moapa Valley Tele-vision District has offered the use of one of its channels. So that may be a possibility.
“But we are still in planning phases,” Higgins said.
Part of the planning phases is a “call-out” for locally-written scripts which they are offering starting this week. The MVCT is looking for scripts or short stories that could be turned into scripts with less char-acters in the story. This way the group can perform short performances and not vio-late current social distancing guidelines.
“We can help anyone who would like to submit scripts and write scripts for this call-out,” Higgins said.
“We hope by doing this and still doing performances through technology, we can keep the enthusiasm for theater amongst the community, friends and neighbors of the local performers of the group,” Higgins added. “This offers a gradual flexibility to continue regardless of the circumstances we are in.”
Both groups are still taking donations that can be sent for both groups to their mailing address at PO Box 1617 in Over-ton, NV 89040. Please note which group the donation is intended for.
“Thank you everyone for always sup-porting us and weathering this storm with us,” Cooper said. “As soon as we can we will get right back to providing you with the talent and entertainment you deserve.”
Additional information is found online at www.moapavalleyarts.org.
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Mesquite photographer, Kris Zurbas, was invited to be a part of this year’s Hot and Dusty Art Show at the Lost City Mu-seum. Zurbas is exhibiting his photograph entitled “A sunset through a tree” as part of the show which runs through August.
Zurbas moved to Mesquite about three years ago, not ex-pecting a life-changing event to occur.
“It was shortly after we moved here that my family and I were involved in a car acci-dent with a drunk driver on the interstate,” Zurbas said. “Everyone thought I was dead! I was unresponsive.”
The accident left him in a coma for sev-en days with a broken nose, broken right cheekbone, broken right eye orbit, frac-tured jaw, severe concussion, inability to walk, loss of vision in right eye and more.
“It was at this time my focus in life changed,” he said.
Zurbas always had a love for photog-raphy. But after the accident that passion really grew. He formed MVP Productions
and began doing photography as a career rather than just a hobby.
“Eureka really helped me as the casino started to hire me to do different projects for them and I really appreciate that,” he said.
It was during this time Zurbas started to really enjoy the beauty of the local land-
scape of Mesquite and Southern Nevada.
“Kind of found my specialty in photography at that time,” Zurbas said. “I love landscape!”
Zurbas also gathered a big following during the quaran-tine providing front porch por-traits for residents of Mesquite and Moapa Valley for free to lift the spirits of the communi-
ty. He was also able to provide services to local law enforcement for a funeral and procession, local organizations for events and even providing fly-over photo-shoots using his drone for various projects and events.
“Photography for me helps me forget the stresses and worries of the world that I might have,” he said.
Zurbas recognized the fact that this is
Hot and Dusty Art Show spotlight on Kris Zurbas
By NICK YAMASHITA
The Progress
Kris Zurbas
See Hot & Dusty on page 4B
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lenge is to figure out how to make that one experience positive for the students. I have been working with a group of about thirty other music teachers online, and we have come up with some really good ideas.”
Most of the music teachers are utiliz-ing a software program called SmartMu-sic. This program offers access to 10,000 books and musical pieces for the students, as well as web-based practice analysis that gives the teacher the ability to track stu-dents’ progress and help them reach indi-vidual goals.
LMS Band Teacher A.J. Burgess is ex-cited about the opportunity to try some new things with his band students.
“There are music teachers who have been teaching virtually for years,” Bur-gess said. “It makes sense, especially now, because we won’t have to worry about masks, and my students can see my face as I give them direction.”
MVHS Band Teacher Ted Biggs is fo-cused on helping his students enjoy mak-ing music despite the mandates.
“I plan to work one-on-one for thir-ty minutes each week with each of my students,” Biggs said. “At the end of the semester, if the mandates have been lift-ed, we are going to present a community Christmas concert. If the mandates are still in place, the students will each submit a click-track that I will then cut and edit so we can make a streaming video of all the kids playing their instruments.”
Another resource the music teachers have is a program called FlipGrid. This program helps with collaboration so that students can record video clips of what they’ve practiced and send those snippets to the teacher. These clips can then be used to help the class stay connected.
VVHS Band Director Brittany Wagner
will also be offering private lessons for her band students who are interested in direct one-on-one feedback.
“This is not the ideal way to teach band, but we can still help develop some great musicians,” Wagner said. “I have shared some motivational videos with them to keep them excited about the coming year. We will use break-out rooms, and we will practice marching band music. We will also have pieces for the jazz band and oth-er groups.”
MVHS Choir and Orchestra Teacher Jill Laub is excited about implementing more music theory and composition into her teaching.
“In every single music class I attended at CSN and Dixie State, they had the CAN-VAS online learning platform attached,” Lau said. “By working with CANVAS on-line, it will make the transition from high school music to college music easier for my students. The trick is to keep it simple, so no one gets overwhelmed.”
“I look forward to more one-on-one time with my students,” said HMS Band Direc-tor Conrad Allen. “There are exciting apps that offer opportunities for the students to hear if they are playing their pieces cor-rectly. They record themselves while they are playing and listen back to hear their accuracy.”
HMS Orchestra teacher William Rho-den said that he had found something that works in helping students to learn.
“People have taught private lessons for years, so we can take what they do and scale it to a classroom,” Rhoden said. “It is a good opportunity to try new things.”
VVHS Orchestra and Choir Teacher Marie Palmer is part of an online commu-nity of thousands of music teachers who are sharing ideas about teaching music in the current climate.
“I’ve been teaching for thirty-three years, and this has been, by far, the most
difficult year to prepare for,” Palmer said. “But now that we aren’t as focused on pre-paring for concerts, we have an opportuni-ty to teach some of those things that end up on the back burner. Things like tone quality and being a responsible ensemble player.”
Making distance learning work for a large music class is a challenge. But these local music teachers are meeting that chal-
lenge. They are positive and upbeat about the programs and apps that are available, and they are anxious to get started.
“It’s not as horrible as parents think,” said Laub. “This is a pretty amazing time, and once we get past the learning curve, we will really be able to utilize our tech-nology to teach our students.”
School Musicfrom page 1B
Bob Sweetin were also in attendance at the event.
City Councilwoman Annie Black who will be representing Assembly District 19 in the 2021 Legislative session was also there. Black won the seat earlier this year in a primary run against incument Repub-lican Chris Edwards. There was no Demo-cratic contender for the district.
Both of the Mesquite City Council can-didates for Seat 5 were in attendance in-cluding Wes Boger and Karen Fielding.
Finally, a number of judicial candidates who will appear on the November ballot were there for the grand opening event. These included Judge Veronica Barishich
for District Court 5, Jacob Reynolds for District Court 21, Charles Hoskins for Family Court Dept. E, and Marry Perry for Family Court Dept. P.
“I am a proud Republican woman,” said Judge Veronica Barishich during her five minute speech. “I want to support other women. Mesquite is part of Clark County and it is good Mesquite gets to hear from me as well.”
All candidates expressed a desire to re-turn on September 12 for a fiesta hosted by MRW at Hafen Park in celebration of His-panic Heritage Month.
“The Club is grateful for the community support and our candidates’ support,” said MRW Acting President Lourdes Flores Marshall. “We have a good relationship with both, and we want to nurture that.”
Ribbon Cuttingfrom page 1B
He committed to do some research into it, though.
“I am totally in favor of renewable ener-gy but at same time we have to make sure that conservation of the environment is not affected,” Horsford siad. “This will be something I will be looking into further.”
Horsford was generous with hi time. The meeting ran long with Horsford staying about 10 minutes longer than scheduled to
answer as many questions as possible. Attendees expressed gratitude to Hors-
ford for spending the time to discuss the issues important to them.
Horsford concluded by expressing a fondness for the rural communities of northeastern Clark County. “I love Moapa Valley and Mesquite!” he said. “They are some of my most favorite people and I thoroughly thank them for their support of my campaign and all they do to help bring about a better Nevada for all of us.”
Horsfordfrom page 1B
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why he offered his services, at most times free, during the coro-navirus pandemic and quarantine. The services were able to bring joy to most of the community during the time and it was greatly appreciated.
“I am sincerely blessed and ap-preciate all of the support I have gotten in my life and my photog-raphy,” he said.
Zurbas’ photograph will be on display at the Lost City Museum
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To see all entries into the show visit the Hot & Dusty Art Show at the museum. Individuals can also vote for their favorite entry at the museum.
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Hot & Dustyfrom page 2B
American Gypsy, a little bou-tique shop at 123 E Thomas Ave. in downtown Overton, opened earlier this summer with a suc-cessful start, but then hit on some unforeseen hard times.
“We ran into health prob-lems,” said store owner Jessica Whisenand. “We had friends come cover the store but we were closed a lot.”
The health problems Whisenand was referring to was that of her husband, and business partner, John. John suddenly fell ill on July 13 and it landed him in the hospital. The illness was initially listed as heat exhaustion. But doctors suspected that there may have been a problem related to his cardiovascular system.
This event kind of threw the new business onto a back burner for a time, and it disrupted the
couples’ plans.By the end of July, he was feel-
ing better and got back to focus-ing on the store.
“It was a slow process getting back feeling good,” John said. “And it was slow getting back into the swing of things at the
New store forced to take break...now going againBy NICK YAMASHITA
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NICK YAMASHITA/ The ProgressLocal residents and store owners Jessica and John Whisenand have a lot to offer in their new downtown Overton shop American Gypsy.
store. But it’s all picking up again and we are finding success.”
The couple have big plans. Jes-sica was excited to be announcing an extension of the store front.
“We are expanding the store-front into the workspace area more, so we will be having some
work and setting up going on,” Jessica said. “But it will double the store front, giving room for more inventory.”
The store also has more brands and products coming in soon. The little boutique is expanding and what was geared more towards women and girls is including the men and boys into the mix of pro-vided products and services.
“We are extremely excited for more of the men’s apparel and products coming in,” Jessica said.
Jessica and John are now also busy getting products made and ready for Halloween.
“We are Halloween freaks, es-pecially me!” John said with ex-citement.
He shows photos of past Hal-loweens and decorations with
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AQUATIC (formerly Lasco Bathware) in Moapa, is now hiring: We are accepting applications from 8AM to 3PM Monday through Thursday. Aquatic has a competitive wage starting at $13.00/hr and benefit package, including medical, dental, vision insurance and 401k. We also offer ten paid holidays per year. (702) 864-2100 ext. 4182.
Certified Horticulturist: I will provide successful plant sug-gestions, plant identification, landscape concepts, and answer plant and landscape questions. Problems with your plants? Call Andrea Meckley @702.300.4148 “Let’s Talk Plants”
Legacy Rock is now accept-ing job applications and resumes for Equipment Oper-ator, CDL drivers, Double and Triples, Cement Mixer Drivers. Full time and part time. Need experience. Phone 702-398-7625, fax 702-398-7635 or email [email protected].
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Western Elite is seeking a Mechanic to maintain equipment op-eration by completing inspections and preventive maintenance requirements; correcting vehicle deficiencies; making adjust-ments and alignments, and keeping records.Essential Job Functions Include:• Diesel engine repair and maintenance.• Heavy machinery (loaders, scrapers, dozers, etc.) repair and maintenance.• Air brake repair and maintenance.• Electrical system repair and maintenance.• Hydraulic equipment repair and maintenance.Minimum Qualifications• 18 years of age.• Proof of eligibility to work in the United States.• Ability to communicate effectively in English required.Position Specific Requirements• 4+ years of commercial diesel mechanic experience required.• Must own and use own toolsThe position is located 50 miles north of Las Vegas near Coyote Springs and offers competitive pay, paid time-off, paid holidays, and an excellent benefits package. Interested candidates should contact Kyle Taylor at 702-206-0034 or [email protected].
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For Sale/HmsFor Sale/HmsTwo homes FOR SALE on nearly 1 acre: 1st home is 1800 s.f., 3 bdrm, 2 1/2 bath, 2 car garage: 2nd home is 1100 s.f. mother-in-law/guest house, 2 bdrm, 1 1/2 bath. Property in-cludes indoor climate controlled RV garage 15Wx50Lx18H (750 s.f.), full bath w/washer & dry-er, 400 s.f. A/C shop, 400 s.f. A/C multi-purpose room: Total of 3732 liveable s.f., 1150 s.f. of garage space, 6 full bdrms, 5 baths, 2.5 kitchens, 3 sets of w/d. Rental income & many more extras. Low $400k’s. Please call Tim, 702-353-2555.
Housekeeping and Front Desk: Please apply in person at North Shore Inn, 520 N. Moapa Valley Blvd., Overton. Mon-Fri 9am-12pm.
Western Elite is hiring for the following position:Entry-Level Landfill LaborerContact InformationKyle TaylorPhone: 702-206-0034More InformationLandfill Laborer:Western Elite is seeking an entry-level Landfill Laborer. Job du-ties include, but are not limited to: manual labor (including or-ganizing, cleaning, and shoveling waste materials), picking up trash, pulling weeds, trimming and irrigating trees. Position located 50 miles north of Las Vegas near Coyote Springs. Competitive pay, paid time-off, paid holidays, and ex-cellent benefits package. Contact Kyle at 702-206-0034 & send resumes to [email protected]
Kitchen Help needed at Sug-ar’s Home Plate: Please call Judy, 702-397-8084.
1995 Holiday Rambler Alu-ma-Lite 5th wheel: 32 ft., one owner, always stored inside, excellent condition. $9,900. 702-397-2801.
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Are you interested in starting a small takeout restaurant business? Drive-through lo-cation available across from McDonalds in Overton. $700/month. Landlord will assist with commercial kitchen. Call 702-777-3303 for more information.
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Join Today! A Short Sto-ry Club of Lady Friends and Vicarious Thrills. Meeting is Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 11:00 A.M. for One Hour, Using Zoom.com. Free to join but you must register. Email your first and last names, email address and cell phone number to Nan-cy Grimes at [email protected]. I will send you info to get started and the upcom-ing story. For questions, call me at (702) 439-2835. “Read-ing gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are.”
Mobile/Manufactured Home: Killer deal. 1963 CasaLoma, 40x16. Needs some work. $2,500 OBO. 702-232-4498.
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2014 Heartland Big Country 5th wheel: Model 3596RE. 2 A/C, king bed, w/d, double door fridge, stove never used, fire-place, 2 TV’s. $35K. 360-936-1930.
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Family looking for 4-5 Bed-room Home to lease or lease to own. Lease to own with sig-nificant down payment possible if owner financing. Please call or text Nate at 863-521-5352.
Patricia Ann Medina, age 60, passed away on August 13, 2020 in Las Vegas, NV. She was born on January 8, 1960 in Las Vegas, NV to Leonard Henry Sr. and Adelaide Florence Lemos.
She was raised in Sloan, NV, and af-ter attending Basic and Rancho High Schools, her family moved to Moapa Valley Indian Reservation where she attended Moapa Valley High School.
She worked as a court clerk and lat-er as an office manager for the Travel Plaza. After leaving high school, she met Jose Luis Medina, and they were later married and had three children together.
Patricia loved having fun and was always laughing and joking. She was always working on her word search
Sonja Neilsen Anderton passed away on August 8, 2020 in Vernal, Utah after a long battle with Par-kinson’s Disease. She was born on June 22, 1940 in Bridgeland, Utah, to Clyde and Na-turitch Neilsen.
She was the 3rd of eight siblings, and spent her early years in rural farm country.
The family didn’t have a lot of mon-ey, but through the trials and tribula-tions, she and her siblings developed close-knit relationships that remained strong throughout their lives. They also had the benefit of living close to their grandparents, Donal and Ethel Kolb.
Sonja was always a straight-A stu-dent, and excelled in school. She de-veloped skills as an artist and seam-stress. She also learned how to cook, which she would enjoy and perfect throughout her lifetime.
Sonja attended Union High School. She was very popular, and was the drummer for the drill team, as well as the editor for the yearbook. She had a very infectious smile, and was soon loved by all who met her. She was very kind and considerate, and could al-ways make you feel at ease.
In her high school years, Sonja met and began dating Garth Levi Ander-ton, of Neola, Utah. The couple was married in Roosevelt on September 13, 1957. The newlyweds moved to Dugway Proving Grounds in western Utah, where Garth was employed as a Military Policeman. They initially lived on base with Garth’s parents and Sonja was able to get her high school diploma at the local high school.
Prior to the birth of their 1st son, the couple purchased and moved into a small mobile home at the military base trailer park. Along with raising their 3 sons, Sonja also honed her artistic talents. She learned and perfected the art of hand-painted ceramics at the Base craft shop, where she created numerous works of art, which are still held precious by her family. She also loved embroidery and quilting.
Sonja and Garth were excellent parents, and provided everything their family needed. When the kids’ sched-
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ules would allow, Sonja began work-ing at the Base PX, and later at the Post Commissary.
In 1969, they purchased a small farm in Terra, Utah, where the family continued to flourish, raising every farm animal and plant one can imagine.
Sonja’s love for cooking really took off at this point, with all the access to fresh produce and livestock raised on the farm. With her on-base friends from various places around the world, she learned and became adept at cooking dishes from many cultures.
Sonja was an excellent mother, and saw to her boys’ every need. She loved to teach them about their heri-tage and instilled a great sense of fam-ily in them.
In 1975, Garth retired and the family moved back to the Uintah Basin, set-tling in Neola, where they built their dream home.
Sonja worked for a time at First Security Bank in Roosevelt, and then spent many years working for the Ute Tribe, at Bottle Hollow and the Ute Tribe Cattle Enterprises, where she was loved and appreciated. Her youngest, son, Jubal, also appreciated her bookkeeping skills, as she worked for him for several years as he estab-lished his automotive repair business.
She loved to play games with her children, and with visiting family mem-bers. She loved to play Probe, Scrab-ble and Rummy Cube. She was even known, on occasion, to participate in a game of Sardines with her sons and nephews.
Sonja loved her grandchildren, and spent a lot of time with them, making each one feel as though they were the favorite.
In their later years, Sonja and Garth became snow birds, and purchased a 2nd home in Overton, Nevada, where they loved to spend the winters. They enjoyed the warmer weather. She had a wonderful sense of humor, and loved to tell jokes, even though she often messed up the punch line, which was part of her charm. She was always so thoughtful and generous, always there to help anyone in need.
Due to health concerns, in 2007 Garth and Sonja purchased a one-lev-el townhouse in Roosevelt where they would reside until they could no longer live alone. They were soon joined by their granddaughters who lived with them and took care of them until they
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puzzles and watching forensic pro-grams. She had a big heart, and would give everything she could to help another person. She loved being with her grand-babies.
Patricia is survived by her children: Ashlei Henry of Moapa, NV, Miles Medina of Moapa, NV, and Santana (Margarita) Medina of Logandale, NV; grandchildren: Lucian and Penelope; siblings: Leonard (Sherri) Henry Jr., Lisa (Ural) Begay, and Toni Louise (Jose) Henry; and a large extended family. She is preceded in death by her parents and her siblings, Carl Mi-chael Henry and Lynnaire Henry.
Funeral services will be held at the Moapa Valley Mortuary on Friday, Au-gust 21, 2020 at 5:00 pm, with viewing services held prior, at 4:00 pm.
The family invites you to leave a message or memory in their guest book at www.moapavalleymortuary.com.
moved an assisted living facility. After 57 years of marriage, Sonja
said good-bye to Garth, the love of her life, when he passed away on Septem-ber 23, 2014. Due to the acceleration of her Parkinson’s Disease she was moved to the Uintah Care Center in Vernal, where she remained until her passing. Sonja will rest next to her husband, Garth, in the Neola Ceme-tery.
Sonja is survived by her 3 sons: Tag-gart, Kit (Mary Lee) and Jubal (Cindy); 7 grandchildren; 4 great-grandchil-dren; siblings: LaJean (Sandy) Rich-man, Janice Hall, Gwen Reynolds, Manfred (Pat) Neilsen, Lloyd (Lee) Neilsen and Becky Devener. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Garth Levi Anderton, and her brother Lonny Neilsen.
Graveside services were held at the Neola Cemetery at 10:00 a.m. on Friday,August 14, 2020 with buri-al following under the direction of the Hullinger Mortuary. Condolences may be shared at www.hullingermotuary.com
6B • Wednesday, August 19, 2020 The PROGRESS
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Technician – experience is preferred but is not required as we will train for the position; this is a long term employment opportunity; all tools and truck for work will be furnished; compensation DOE ($15.00 - $28.00 pr hr with commission).
Apprentice – assist the technicians as assigned; become familiar with proce-dures while assisting; long term employment opportunity for advancement to technician; compensation starting pay $10.00 - $15.00 pr hr DOE.
Applicants must be well groomed, honest and dependable with good com-munications skills; willing and able to perform manual labor; willing to work after hours and weekends when required for emergency calls (we average 1 per week); have a high school diploma or equivalent; work well with the public; have and maintain a valid Nevada driver’s license with a good driving record. Background checks and drug testing will be completed before and after hiring.
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nities to bring more workforce housing to the community.
“We have money sitting in an RDA fund that we have never had a good plan for,” Sweetin said. “If we had a clear-cut plan, we could use that money to beautify exist-ing motels and develop areas on the Boulevard to create affordable housing. What I am proposing if elected, is to hold Nevada Ru-ral Housing Authority (NRHA) accountable to build workforce housing in Mesquite.”
Sweetin said that despite giv-ing the NRHA millions of dollars in bond caps, the state organiza-tion has consistently chosen to build in other communities, de-spite making promises to build large units of homes in Mesquite.
“If elected mayor, I am going to work alongside people like Brian Wurston, to make sure that NRHA keeps their word to break ground on housing projects,” Sweetin said. “Building afford-able housing on some of the va-cant lots on the Boulevard would increase all of the property values and business on the Mesquite cor-ridor.”
On the topic of education, Sweetin said that the time has
come for Mesquite to break off from Clark County School Dis-trict create its own school district.
Sweetin said that he is cur-rently drafting a bill and talking to legislators about this proposal. The bill would allow municipal-ities to break off and form their own school district. It would be roughly a one-year process.
Sweetin said that he is confi-dent that there is enough money to support a Mesquite school dis-trict.
“Forty seven percent of our property tax dollars go towards schools in CCSD,” Sweetin said. “We are also charged an `oppor-tunity fee` by CCSD, for school programs that we are completely ineligible to hold or participate in because of our rural location. I would submit that we would have way more money for our schools if we were our own district. This would be the most impactful thing we could do for our future.”
Sweetin pointed out that the state of Nevada is ranked 51st in the US for education.
“By breaking away from CCSD, we could immediately be-come one of the best districts in the state,” Sweetin said “Granted, that isn’t saying much consider-ing our status as number 51. But
it would give us a lot of power to do what we need to do for our stu-dents.”
Sweetin also talked about uti-lizing the College of Southern Nevada Mesquite center to pro-vide college credit for high school students as well as locals who might choose to stay in Mesquite for college.
“We could turn (Mesquite) CSN into a true community col-lege,” he said.
Within the next five years Sweetin said he would love for CSN in Mesquite to offer pro-grams for associate’s and bache-lor’s degrees as well as vocational graduate programs.
“We need to unite our com-munity,” Sweetin said. “There are a lot of families who provide a workforce and so many retirees who are excited to be engaged in the community. These retir-ees want to work in our schools and teach classes at CSN based on their lifetime of expertise. By having every segment of our community work together to solve problems, we will finally be able to solve issues that haven’t been solvable in the last decade.”
Sweetin said that he is a third generation Nevadan and is proud to live in Mesquite.
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Haunted Houses he had put to-gether.
“We will be definitely imple-menting a Halloween theme into our products and services here shortly,” he said.
Both John and Jessica were very grateful for everyone in the
valley.“We sincerely live in the best
place!” Jessica said. “Everyone was so helpful and supportive during our short time of being down. We look forward to provid-ing business here for many years to come.”
The American Gypsy Boutique Store is open 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday-Saturday.
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It was a big shock for an Over-ton couple last week. On Monday, August 10 at approximately 3:15 pm, Town and Country Estates residents John and Pat Norling had their carport lifted up and destroyed by a sudden burst of wind.
“We were inside the house,” said Pat Norling in an interview. “I just had barely pulled in about 1-2 minutes before and had sat down inside when all of a sudden a huge noise, a big bang, whipped over us outside.”
Her husband, John, added “It sounded like an airplane was just barely passing over our house.”
When the Norlings went outside to see what had happened, their carport was gone.
“We found it in the neighbor’s yard,” Pat said. “The carport was torn off the side of the house and was taken over the house knocking out the TV antennae and landing in the driveway of our
Sudden heavy wind destroys Overton carportBy NICK YAMASHITA
The Progress
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John and Pat Norling stand in front of the remains of their carport structure after it was ripped off and carried over their house during a sudden heavy wind last week.
neighbor.”The weird part was
there was generally very little wind on Monday. The neigh-bor, Sherry Daggett was present to give a tour of the broken up remains of the carport which had just missed her house and only hit the corner of her ga-rage.
“The only thing we can think is we were hit by a microburst or a dust devil or some-thing,” said Pat.
Either way, it scared
the Norlings and tore the carport awning completely off the west side of the house, tossing it over the house into the Daggett’s yard to the east.
The destroyed remains stayed in Sherry Daggett’s driveway for part of last week waiting for an insurance adjuster to come and investigate the claim.
“They sure take their time,” said John of the insurance compa-ny. “But it will be worth it to have a carport again.”
The Norlings are snowbirds and usually spend the summers in their hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. But they have re-mained here this year due to the COVID pandemic.
