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The 2013 Ford Edge almost Car fire causes damage at FIT By NICK YAMASHITA The Progress Photo courtesy of Lois Hall A vehicle burst into flames on a hot afternoon Sunday, July 12 in front of Fit Physical Therapy in Overton. Vehicle occupants escaped from the flames and no one was injured in the blaze. See Car Fire on page 3A The Virgin Valley Water Dis- trict (VVWD) could fall nearly $25 million short in capital im- provement funding over the next ten years if it continues on its present course with System De- velopment Charge (SDC) rates. That was the message received by the VVWD board of directors in an engeineering report given at a board meeting held on Tuesday, July 7. Board members engaged in a lengthy discussion at the meeting about the possible need for a sig- nificant increase to the district’s SDC, a one time charge made on new development meant to fund the capital improvements need- ed to meet demands of growth. These capital improvements in- clude the construction of new wells, water treatment plants, water storage tanks, transmission lines and more. Typically the SDC is paid by the developer and recouped in the sale price of the newly-developed property. “The district instituted the SDC in order to place the cost of future infrastructure on those that will benefit from it,” said Aaron Anderson of Bowen Collins & Associates who gave the presen- tation. “The concept has been that growth should pay for growth.” Through a complex calcula- tion, the report divided the total projected cost of capital im- provements for the next ten years across the number of new users expected to be brought on the system during that time. The re- sult was the recommended SDC. The result of the current calcu- lation was an SDC adding up to $6,629.78 per Equivalent Dwell- ing Unit (EDU). An EDU is cal- culated as roughly the impact of an average single family home. A similar study, done in 2017, determined that the SDC should be set at $3,513 per EDU at that time. At that time, the board set the SDC at only $2,500 with a 3 percent annual escalator. The cur- rent rate is $2,730 per EDU. During public comment, rep- resentatives from developers in attendance expressed concern at the sudden escalation of the pro- posed SDC. “When you do a study three years ago that shows an SDC of $3,500 and then three years lat- er it is suddenly $6,600; in only a three year period it has dou- bled; that’s pretty substantial,” said Brennan Anderson of Pulte Homes. “I know that it is easy to say that we will just pass it on to the consumer. But, you know, everything is going up and pretty soon your affordability is affected dramatically.” Aaron Anderson explained that the dramatic increase was partly due to increase in costs. “Our main capital costs at this point are involved with developing new water sources: drilling wells and building treatment plants,” he said. Anderson explained that the study done three years ago fac- tored in several well development projects that were relatively in- expensive and easy to do. These were more accessible, closer to existing treatment plants and transmission lines, he said. VVWD discusses increase to development charges By VERNON ROBISON The Progress See VVWD on page 2A Nevada Governor Steve Siso- lak announced the reclosing of bars in Nevada that do not serve food on Thursday, evening, July 9. The subjects of the mandate were bars and taverns within counties having the highest num- bers in COVID-19 cases. These included both Clark and Washoe counties. Additional limitations were put on restaurants, which are still able to operate, but with less peo- ple at each table. The new limits crunches down the numbers peo- ple table from 10 people to only 6. Sisolak also put in a rec- ommendation to restaurants… “strongly encouraging” food es- tablishments to promote outdoor dining. As for restaurant/sports bars which serve food, they could still be open but all bar areas within the establishment would have to remain closed. Of course, this affected local bars because of their location within Clark County. Kent Slight, owner of The Sportsman and The Red Rooster in Overton was frustrated by the order. “This is irritating!” Slight said. “I just opened on July 1 since it Local bars close with Governor’s mandate By NICK YAMASHITA The Progress Photo courtesy of Lois Hall The Red Rooster Bar, without the iconic rooster, sits closed again due to the COVID-19 pandemic. See Bars on page 5A The Moapa Paiute Travel Plaza at the Interstate 15 Valley of Fire exit, was abruptly closed on Mon- day, July 6. A sign posted on the door of the building stated that the facility was closed to allow for a deep cleaning following the busy July 4th weekend. But an internal statement, released late last week by Moapa Band Tribal leaders and signed by Tribal Chairwom- an Laura Parry, informed Tribal members that there was more to the closure than just sanitizing. The statement, which was sent out to all tribal members on the reservation on Friday night, in- dicated that the Plaza was closed due to a COVID-19 outbreak among employees over the past couple of weeks. According to the statement, a Plaza employee who works in the restaurant, reported to work feeling sick on June 29. The em- ployee was sent to the Reserva- tion Clinic for testing where her results came back positive within an hour, the statement said. The restaurant was immediate- ly closed and restaurant employ- ees, as well as other employees in contact with the infected em- ployee that day, were also sent for testing, according to the state- ment. “The restaurant was disinfect- ed and cleaned, and the manage- ment decided that (it) would re- main closed until after the 4th of July holiday,” the statement read. Two more restaurant employ- ees came up positive in their tests for COVID-19 in the days fol- lowing, the Tribal statement said. Amid all of these measures, the Plaza facility, with the exception of the restaurant area, remained open for business, the statement said. “The Moapa Band of Paiutes celebrated the 4th of July with thousands of people from the Las Vegas valley and surrounding ar- eas attending our outdoor venue to watch the fireworks display,” the statement read. “The Tribe and our employees worked hard to maintain a clean and safe envi- ronment for customers...” On Monday, July 6, the Tribe learned that two more Plaza em- ployees had tested positive for COVID-19, the tribal statement said. At that time, “...the Tribal Council requested that the Trav- el Plaza be completely shut down until several steps were complet- ed to protect our customers as well as our employees,” the state- ment said. According to the statement, a professional cleaning compa- ny was contracted to do a deep cleaning of the entire facility. On Wednesday, July 8, a Na- Travel Plaza closed due to COVID-19 outbreak tional Guard detachment was present at the Plaza to perform COVID-19 testing for all Plaza employees. “All employees will be test- ed for the COVID-19 before the Tribe resumes operations at the Travel Plaza,” the statement reads. “The safety of our cus- tomers and our employees is the Moapa Travel Plaza Manage- ment’s number one priority.” The statement from Tribal leaders outlined a long list of ad- ditional measures that had been taken by the tribe in recent weeks to protect employees and custom- ers throughout the outbreak. But a number of employees and tribal members who inde- pendently contacted The Prog- ress over the past two weeks, all stated that they were dissatisfied with the way that the incident had been handled. All of these sourc- es spoke only on condition that they remain anonymous, stating that they feared losing their jobs if they were exposed. Perhaps the most consistent complaint among these anony- mous sources was a lack of reli- able communication from man- agement. The Tribal statement had claimed that a memo had been posted in all Plaza depart- ments to inform employees of what the conditions were. But many of the sources said that they had not seen the memo and no special attention was called to it. That “isn’t justifiable when you are dealing with people and the By VERNON ROBISON & NICK YAMASHITA The Progress Editor’s Note: On Wednes- day night, July 8, The Progress published a story on our website about the closure of the Paiute Travel Plaza due to a COVID-19 outbreak among employees. Though we gave opportunity for Plaza management and tribal leaders to comment on that story, they were unavailable for imme- diate comment. But due to, what we felt was, an urgency regarding public health of our community, we published the story anyway to keep our readership informed of the possible health risks. The following day, The Prog- ress was contacted by Tribal rep- resentatives insisting that they had wanted their side to be heard. Wishing only to get to the truth, we were eager to facilitate that. We agreed, at that time, to pull the story from our website for a time to allow for a telephone meeting where tribal leaders could make a statement that would tell their side of the story. But in that meet- ing, held Thursday night, tribal leaders made the firm decision that they would refuse to release any statement or clarifying expla- nation to the newspaper about the matter. Tribal leaders subsequently released a lengthy statement to tribal members only, explaining many of the points that had ap- peared in our earlier story. This written statement from the Tribe was forwarded to The Progress over the following day by multi- ple tribal members acting inde- pendently. With a desire to fairly tell both sides of this story, The Progress has used that extensive statement to revise the previously published article. The following is the result which we feel is a more balanced news story that better serves our readership. See Plaza on page 6A
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Moapa Valley Fire District (MVFD) firefighters responded to a car fire in downtown Overton in the midst of 117 degree heat on the afternoon of Sunday, July 12.
Las Vegas residents Cory Ekin and Janessa Weishaar, along with Weishaar’s two-year-old son had been spending the day in Moapa Valley and were getting ready to return home when they noticed the air conditioning in their ve-hicle suddenly went out and the smell of smoke arose.
They pulled over under the shade cover in front of Fit Phys-ical Therapy in Overton.
“I checked under the hood while Janessa got her boy and ev-eryone out,” Ekin said.
The 2013 Ford Edge almost
Car fire causes damage at FITBy NICK YAMASHITA
The Progress
Photo courtesy of Lois Hall
A vehicle burst into flames on a hot afternoon Sunday, July 12 in front of Fit Physical Therapy in Overton. Vehicle occupants escaped from the flames and no one was injured in the blaze.See Car Fire on page 3A
The Virgin Valley Water Dis-trict (VVWD) could fall nearly $25 million short in capital im-provement funding over the next ten years if it continues on its present course with System De-velopment Charge (SDC) rates.
That was the message received by the VVWD board of directors in an engeineering report given at a board meeting held on Tuesday, July 7.
Board members engaged in a lengthy discussion at the meeting about the possible need for a sig-nificant increase to the district’s SDC, a one time charge made on new development meant to fund the capital improvements need-ed to meet demands of growth. These capital improvements in-clude the construction of new wells, water treatment plants, water storage tanks, transmission lines and more.
Typically the SDC is paid by the developer and recouped in the sale price of the newly-developed property.
“The district instituted the SDC in order to place the cost of future infrastructure on those that will benefit from it,” said Aaron Anderson of Bowen Collins & Associates who gave the presen-tation. “The concept has been that growth should pay for growth.”
Through a complex calcula-tion, the report divided the total projected cost of capital im-provements for the next ten years across the number of new users expected to be brought on the system during that time. The re-sult was the recommended SDC.
The result of the current calcu-lation was an SDC adding up to $6,629.78 per Equivalent Dwell-ing Unit (EDU). An EDU is cal-culated as roughly the impact of an average single family home.
A similar study, done in 2017, determined that the SDC should be set at $3,513 per EDU at that time. At that time, the board set the SDC at only $2,500 with a 3 percent annual escalator. The cur-rent rate is $2,730 per EDU.
During public comment, rep-resentatives from developers in attendance expressed concern at the sudden escalation of the pro-posed SDC.
“When you do a study three years ago that shows an SDC of $3,500 and then three years lat-er it is suddenly $6,600; in only a three year period it has dou-bled; that’s pretty substantial,” said Brennan Anderson of Pulte Homes. “I know that it is easy to say that we will just pass it on to the consumer. But, you know, everything is going up and pretty soon your affordability is affected dramatically.”
Aaron Anderson explained that the dramatic increase was partly due to increase in costs. “Our main capital costs at this point are involved with developing new water sources: drilling wells and building treatment plants,” he said.
Anderson explained that the study done three years ago fac-tored in several well development projects that were relatively in-expensive and easy to do. These were more accessible, closer to existing treatment plants and transmission lines, he said.
VVWD discusses increase to
development charges
By VERNON ROBISON
The Progress
See VVWD on page 2A
Nevada Governor Steve Siso-lak announced the reclosing of bars in Nevada that do not serve food on Thursday, evening, July 9. The subjects of the mandate were bars and taverns within counties having the highest num-bers in COVID-19 cases. These included both Clark and Washoe counties.
Additional limitations were put on restaurants, which are still able to operate, but with less peo-ple at each table. The new limits crunches down the numbers peo-ple table from 10 people to only 6.
Sisolak also put in a rec-ommendation to restaurants… “strongly encouraging” food es-tablishments to promote outdoor dining. As for restaurant/sports bars which serve food, they could still be open but all bar areas within the establishment would have to remain closed.
Of course, this affected local bars because of their location within Clark County.
Kent Slight, owner of The Sportsman and The Red Rooster in Overton was frustrated by the order.
“This is irritating!” Slight said. “I just opened on July 1 since it
Local bars close with Governor’s mandateBy NICK YAMASHITA
The Progress
Photo courtesy of Lois Hall
The Red Rooster Bar, without the iconic rooster, sits closed again due to the COVID-19 pandemic. See Bars on page 5A
The Moapa Paiute Travel Plaza at the Interstate 15 Valley of Fire exit, was abruptly closed on Mon-day, July 6. A sign posted on the door of the building stated that the facility was closed to allow for a deep cleaning following the busy July 4th weekend. But an internal statement, released late last week by Moapa Band Tribal leaders and signed by Tribal Chairwom-an Laura Parry, informed Tribal members that there was more to the closure than just sanitizing.
The statement, which was sent out to all tribal members on the reservation on Friday night, in-dicated that the Plaza was closed due to a COVID-19 outbreak among employees over the past couple of weeks.
According to the statement, a Plaza employee who works in the restaurant, reported to work feeling sick on June 29. The em-ployee was sent to the Reserva-tion Clinic for testing where her results came back positive within an hour, the statement said.
The restaurant was immediate-ly closed and restaurant employ-ees, as well as other employees
in contact with the infected em-ployee that day, were also sent for testing, according to the state-ment.
“The restaurant was disinfect-ed and cleaned, and the manage-ment decided that (it) would re-main closed until after the 4th of July holiday,” the statement read.
Two more restaurant employ-ees came up positive in their tests for COVID-19 in the days fol-lowing, the Tribal statement said.
Amid all of these measures, the Plaza facility, with the exception of the restaurant area, remained open for business, the statement said.
“The Moapa Band of Paiutes celebrated the 4th of July with thousands of people from the Las Vegas valley and surrounding ar-eas attending our outdoor venue to watch the fireworks display,” the statement read. “The Tribe and our employees worked hard to maintain a clean and safe envi-ronment for customers...”
On Monday, July 6, the Tribe learned that two more Plaza em-ployees had tested positive for COVID-19, the tribal statement said.
At that time, “...the Tribal Council requested that the Trav-el Plaza be completely shut down until several steps were complet-ed to protect our customers as well as our employees,” the state-ment said.
According to the statement, a professional cleaning compa-ny was contracted to do a deep cleaning of the entire facility.
On Wednesday, July 8, a Na-
Travel Plaza closed due to COVID-19 outbreaktional Guard detachment was present at the Plaza to perform COVID-19 testing for all Plaza employees.
“All employees will be test-ed for the COVID-19 before the Tribe resumes operations at the Travel Plaza,” the statement reads. “The safety of our cus-tomers and our employees is the Moapa Travel Plaza Manage-ment’s number one priority.”
The statement from Tribal leaders outlined a long list of ad-ditional measures that had been taken by the tribe in recent weeks to protect employees and custom-ers throughout the outbreak.
But a number of employees and tribal members who inde-pendently contacted The Prog-ress over the past two weeks, all stated that they were dissatisfied with the way that the incident had been handled. All of these sourc-es spoke only on condition that they remain anonymous, stating that they feared losing their jobs if they were exposed.
Perhaps the most consistent complaint among these anony-mous sources was a lack of reli-able communication from man-agement. The Tribal statement had claimed that a memo had been posted in all Plaza depart-ments to inform employees of what the conditions were. But many of the sources said that they had not seen the memo and no special attention was called to it.
That “isn’t justifiable when you are dealing with people and the
By VERNON ROBISON & NICK YAMASHITAThe Progress
Editor’s Note: On Wednes-day night, July 8, The Progress published a story on our website about the closure of the Paiute Travel Plaza due to a COVID-19 outbreak among employees. Though we gave opportunity for Plaza management and tribal leaders to comment on that story, they were unavailable for imme-diate comment. But due to, what we felt was, an urgency regarding public health of our community, we published the story anyway to keep our readership informed of the possible health risks.
The following day, The Prog-ress was contacted by Tribal rep-resentatives insisting that they had wanted their side to be heard. Wishing only to get to the truth, we were eager to facilitate that. We agreed, at that time, to pull the story from our website for a time to allow for a telephone meeting where tribal leaders could make a statement that would tell their side of the story. But in that meet-ing, held Thursday night, tribal leaders made the firm decision that they would refuse to release any statement or clarifying expla-nation to the newspaper about the matter.
Tribal leaders subsequently released a lengthy statement to tribal members only, explaining many of the points that had ap-peared in our earlier story. This written statement from the Tribe was forwarded to The Progress over the following day by multi-ple tribal members acting inde-pendently.
With a desire to fairly tell both
sides of this story, The Progress has used that extensive statement to revise the previously published article. The following is the result which we feel is a more balanced news story that better serves our readership.
See Plaza on page 6A
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This “low hanging fruit” has all been played out and the dis-trict is left with the more difficult and costly resources to develop, Anderson added.
“If the growth was happening on the south side of the freeway, out towards Bunkerville, then we could drill wells cheaper out there and get water to them easi-er,” said VVWD Board Chairman Nephi Julien. “But the growth is all happening to the north, and there is all the booster stations and the transmission lines and treatment plants that are needed. And that’s what is driving a lot of these costs.”
Mesquite City Councilman Brian Wursten, who said he was speaking only as a citizen, said that he feared the drastic SDC in-crease would slow development for a housing segment that is most desperately needed in Mesquite.
“The biggest problem that we have right now in Mesquite is workforce housing,” Wursten said. “We are really struggling to get people here that are going
to work because there is just no housing for them.”
Wursten said that the City has reached a point where any future economic development is depen-dent upon solving the workforce housing problem.
“We are at a point where we just can’t bring in another busi-ness,” he said. “There is nowhere for the workforce to live. I just think that basically we won’t have to worry about these growth studies at all, because we are not going to see any growth.”
Board member Rich Bowler pointed out that part of the reason the proposed increase is so high is because of similar arguments made three years ago.
“Back then they recommend-ed we raise it to $3600,” Bowler said. “We said no, we don’t want to do that because we don’t want to stymie growth. But in doing that we really put ourselves be-hind the 8-ball.”
Board member Ben Davis agreed. “I know this is not going to be fun,” he said. “But the fast-est way to really stifle growth is to allow ourselves to get to a point where we don’t have any water. If we don’t address it now, we will get to that point pretty quick and this conversation all becomes null and void.”
Bowler also pointed out that the SDC in Mesquite is much lower than many of the neighbor-ing water entities in the region. He said read a list of such rates including Moapa Valley which is paying over $9,000, Las Vegas at $10,000, Henderson at $8,600, Boulder City at $12,000 and St. George at $11,000.
“I know that it can be apples and oranges a little bit, but we are by far the cheapest,” Bowler said.
Bowler pointed out that the reason the board had decided not to act on the matter that evening was to take public input to get other ideas. “If people think that the study is flawed, they can defi-nitely come back to us with data that shows that and we will wel-come it,” Bowler said.
A suggestion was made that a workgroup be formed involving developers and city officials to meet with VVWD staff and take a deeper look at the numbers to see if there were any other alter-natives.
Board member John Burrows made a motion to accept the re-port as input for a future decision on the SDC. The vote was unani-mous to approve the motion.
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To give back to the community, internet service provider InfoW-est is holding its annual “School is Cool” giveaway on Thursday, July 16.
Backpacks filled with school supplies such as paper, pencils, binders, and calculators will be set up in the InfoWest parking lot. Beginning at noon and ending at 2:00 pm, local children and their parents are encouraged to come by and choose their own back-pack prepped for the beginning of the school year.
Also within the colorful back-packs will be a coupon from The Stitch Company, so children can have their names embroidered on their new backpack for a dis-
counted price. Kids can also enter to win
a drawing to win a Nintendo Switch Lite, the newest version of the popular video game console.
Catherine Corpus with InfoW-est headquarters in St. George, has put together the giveaway while local residents Janice and Adam Hardy coordinate the event in Overton. The Hardys will be overseeing the giveaway that day, and Corpus is expected to attend as well.
Janice Hardy expressed confi-dence that this year’s event would have similar showings to the pre-vious two years. In 2018, InfoW-est gave away 50 backpacks in total. Hardy said that they all dis-appeared within the first fifteen minutes. In 2019, 100 backpacks were given away with similar re-
Infowest’s annual ‘School is Cool’ giveaway to be heldBy ANNA BUSH
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sults. This year InfoWest has pre-
pared 200 backpacks for students in the valley. Any leftovers will be sent to the InfoWest office in Richfield.
“It is really fun just seeing that the kids are excited, and parents are really blown away,” Janice Hardy said of the event.
When asked about the origins of the event, Hardy said, “We were just spit-balling on what we could do to give back to the com-munity.”
The Hardys and Infowest wanted to have an event specif-ically for Moapa Valley kids. Backpacks for school children was their answer.
“We recognize that there’s more of a need this year than in the past,” Hardy said.
With many parents out of work or unable to work, the Hardys hope that the opportunity too pick up school supplies free of price will lessen the load on parents’ shoulders. Whether students are homeschooled or attend public school, Hardy expressed, “You
always need school supplies!”The “School is Cool” give-
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A number of local businesses have been sent letters from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of Ne-vada stating that the agency had received notice of health hazards at their locations.
The alleged hazard was stated in the letter as not requiring cus-tomers to wear face coverings in compliance with the Governor’s directive.
“We have not determined whether the hazards, as alleged, exist at your workplace; and we do not intend to investigate to conduct an inspection at this time,” the letter stated. “Howev-er, since allegations of violations have been made, you are request-ed to investigate the alleged con-ditions and make any necessary corrections or modifications.”
Business owners were in-structed that they must submit a response to the allegation. These included written procedures and policies on file. Also required were training records signed by employees verifying that they had been trained in the policies. Pho-tographs supporting all claims made in the response were also required.
The local business owners who reported being sent the warning all said that they had posted signs at the entries of their buildings informing the public that face coverings are mandated and stat-ing the social distancing require-ments that were in place at the store. Most also reported having masks available on site for cus-tomers who did not have one.
The business owners said that they had complied with the OSHA request, going through a lengthy process of compiling the required documentation.
“I sent over page after page and picture after picture of everything we had done and every procedure in place to abide by the social dis-tancing and mask requirements
and I was still told I was in vi-olation of the mask and social distancing mandate,” said one of the affected business owners who asked to remain anonymous. “It was very confusing and frustrat-ing as I knew we had not done anything wrong, but here we are being implicated by an allegation from one person.”
Moapa Valley resident Kent Slight, who owns several busi-nesses in the community, said that he had received a letter for two of his businesses: The Red Rooster and The Sportsman’s in Overton.Slight said that his businesses had been careful to follow the gov-ernor’s directive in encouraging customers to wear face coverings.
“I see a problem here with the word ‘encourage’,” Slight said. “Of course, we have encouraged customers but some still took them off while in our business. It is illegal in my opinion to force people to wear masks, but appar-ently I have to ‘enforce’ instead of ‘encourage’, so that I do not get a fine for health hazard violation.”
According to the OSHA web-site, in January of 2020 the fines for serious violations of the work-place were ranged from $9,639 to $134, 937.
The local business owners ex-pressed a fervent wish that cus-tomers would have patience and be sympathetic to their plight as they start more stringently en-forcing wearing masks and social distancing in their businesses.
“If we don’t, we will get hit with these fines and/or even have our business licenses stripped,” Slight said. “We are all irritated and frustrated! We do hope this passes soon.”
The pressure on businesses to enforce the mask-wearing order has been county-wide. On Friday, Clark County released a list of nearly 40 businesses in unincor-porated Clark County which had received Notices of Violation in relation to the governor’s man-dates on COVID-19.
A press release that went along
OSHA sends warning letters to Overton businesses
By NICK YAMASHITA
The Progress
with the list said that County business license agents had vis-ited more than 1,600 businesses in unincorporated Clark County since June 26, when face cover-ings were required.
“The visits are designed to pro-vide education and guidance for following the new regulations re-quired during the pandemic,” the release said.
“We all must do our part to limit the spread of the coronavi-rus and decrease the number of new cases we are seeing,“ said County Commission Chairwom-an Marilyn Kirkpatrick in the release, “and this is particularly important for those who own and operate businesses. Our business community must be vigilant. If we fail to limit the spread of the virus our cases and hospitaliza-tions will continue to rise, which could force us to roll back some of the openings and overwhelm our healthcare system.”
Moapa Valley Chamber of Commerce President Vanette Christensen made a statement last week directed to the local busi-nesses after being notified of the OSHA letters issued.
“Whether we agree or disagree with the state of Nevada and OSHA, we must make the best de-cisions for our businesses, fami-lies and community,” Christensen said. “It would be devastating for our community if any local busi-ness had its license taken. We are facing many challenges and dif-ficulties now as these protocols are constantly changing, so keep updated. If anyone needs help in getting information on current mandates and protocols, please get a hold of the Chamber and we will help in any way we possibly can.”
immediately caught fire and was fully involved within seconds, Ekin said.
Ekin called 911 at approxi-mately 3:18 p.m. Local Metro officers and MVFD crews arrived within minutes, quickly working on extinguishing the flames.
Firefighter Sadie Drollinger worked her way inside, drenching the fully engulfed car. The fire was extinguished but not before the shade structure above the car had received damage. Property owner Kay Leavitt was present and working with insurance con-cerning the matter.
“It is unfortunate, but we
are just glad no one was hurt,” Drollinger said.
MVFD Chief Steve Neel went over the cause and summary of the fire as he toured around the vehicle showing how the car was a total loss.
“It is a wiring issue within the car,” Neel said. “The family were lucky they reacted and got out of the vehicle. We are extremely happy no one was hurt.”
Weishaar expressed frustration over the incident.
“This is so infuriating,” she said. “We just bought this car less than 30 days ago.”
Ekin and Weishaar said they had just finished looking at hous-ing in Moapa Valley and they in-tended to move to the community.
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From the Editor’s DeskSmall business forced to do the dirty work
Small business owners have tremendous demands placed upon them. They are busy being hardware store owners, grocery store managers, florists, stylists, barbers, bakers, graphic artists, auto
parts suppliers, mechanics, barkeeps and more.The business owners’ time is spent providing these essential services to their communities. And under the current business conditions, all odds are stacked against them. These folks work long hours and, for the most part, are just hop-ing to stay afloat. They are all stretched pretty thin. Yet over the last couple of weeks, small business in Nevada has been forced to shoulder an added burden that it should have never had to bear.
Three weeks ago, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak issued a new emergency order related to the COVID-19 pandemic. All citizens are required to wear face coverings whenever they are in public places, he said.
Now, I will not be making any argument here, one way or another, on whether face coverings should be required. It seems that everyone has a different opinion on that divisive subject and there is no convinc-ing one side or the other. Besides, it is off the topic of this column.
The important point here is that the Governor’s order, grave though it sounded, did not have the authority of law. To make it law would, of course, require a vote of the Legislature. No, the governor’s man-date was merely an emergency order. And history has often shown that leaders, given emergency powers, often run wild with them.
Mr. Sisolak knew, when he issued his order that it would not be binding as law upon the general citizenry. We haven’t, and we proba-bly won’t, see police or code enforcement authorities issuing citations against individual maskless members of the public. That is because, if challenged in court, those citations simply wouldn’t hold up. The fact is, the Governor’s face covering mandate is unenforceable.
But Sisolak and his bureaucrat minions are intent that it will be en-forced all the same. They can’t go directly after the individual offend-ers. But they can tighten the screws on Nevada’s businesses. After all, both mask-wearers and non-mask-wearers alike must go to the store eventually. Much of the time that folks are out in public nowadays is spent frequenting businesses of some kind. Knowing this, Sisolak and his bureaucrats have forcefully conscripted the private business sector into serving as enforcement officers of this legally-sketchy order.
How have they done this? Over the past few weeks, the bureaucrats have been out on patrol in force; especially, it seems, in unincorporated Clark County. And small business has taken the brunt. Notices have gone out to several businesses in downtown Overton warning of alle-gations of “Possible Health Hazards”.
These businesses may very well have bold and clear notices posted at their entries reminding customers of the mask requirement. They may have all their employees wearing masks and standing behind plexiglass screens (newly installed at significant expense no doubt). They may have marked up the floors at 6 feet apart and instituted one-way shopping aisles to remind customers of social distancing (more expense). They may have adopted detailed enhanced cleaning routines, bringing in crews of employees during off hours (once again, at no small cost to the struggling businesses).
But in many cases, doing all of this and more, is not good enough for the bureaucrats. If any member of the public can get through the door while exercising his/her right to NOT wear a face covering, a threaten-ing notice is issued to the business owner. The business is labeled as a health hazard. And a long list of busy work is assigned to the already over-worked business owner to atone for his wrong-doing (also com-ing at significant cost in time and money).
What if the business owner refuses to bow the knee and do the point-less busy work? Well, the state has an answer for this too: fines starting at $10,000 and/or suspension of the business license.
Is this legal? Probably not. But the business owner knows he/she would have to put out at least that much in legal fees to contest it. Of course, the business can’t afford that. So the business owners comply. And thus, the strong-arming of Governor-run-amok Sisolak reaches the general public.
These tactics from the state’s executive branch are both cowardly
By VERNON ROBISON
See Editor’s Desk on page 5A
No One Asked Me But...By DR. LARRY MOSES
No One Asked Me But…The Supreme Court of the Unit-ed States has made a number of interesting rulings in this session. They determined, in a political-ly motivated 5-4 decision, that an abortionist does not have to have hospital privileges to kill a baby in the womb of an American mother. Apparently, a garage will do just fine since the Supreme Court see this as merely a birth control method and not a medical procedure.
The Supreme Court in their usual 5-4 politically motivated rulings also extended the 1964 Civil Rights Act to protect LBGT employees from on the job dis-crimination. This should have been an easy 9-0 decision favor-ing this protection. No matter how much one may dislike the lifestyle, it is not grounds for dis-crimination against any individu-al in the work place or anywhere else.
In another politically motivated 5-4 decision the Court blocked President’s Trump’s repeal of the Obama-era program that protects the so-called Dreamers, the young immigrants who were brought to this country as children. The Republican appointed Chief Jus-tice Roberts voted with the four liberals in both cases, triggering dismay and dissent among his colleagues on the right. The Rob-erts vote is not what you should be concerned with. The thing that should concern the American people is the political knee jerk reaction of the other eight jus-tices.
I truly believe that those young-ster who have been brought into this country illegally and have grown up knowing only America, and have displayed good behav-ior should be given citizenship. I also believe both President Obama’s and President Trump’s executive orders are un-Consti-tutional. This is one of the finest examples of the fact that America has turned to the rule of the king rather than the rule of the people. When the Congress turned over its legislative powers to the coun-try’s executive after 9/11, we truly became a nation run by executive degree rather than a country run by a balance of power between three branches of government.
The Supreme Court in a very unusual act of solidarity ruled “that a state may require pres-idential electors to support the winner of its popular vote and may punish or replace those who
don’t.” This action settled a dis-puted issue in advance of this fall’s election.
One of the greatest myths in America is that American citizens vote for the President of the Unit-ed States. No American citizen has ever voted for a president and unless the Constitution is amend-ed, no American citizen, will ever vote for a president. In Novem-ber when you go to the election booth, or if the Democrat Party gets it wishes, when you mail in your ballot, you will write down who you would prefer to be Pres-ident. You are not voting for a President, you are voting for elec-tors who will vote for a President.
How these electors are se-lected varies from state to state. Most states are “a winner take all states”, as is Nevada. Two states split their electoral votes on a percentage basis. In Nevada the two major political parties each select six electors who will cast Nevada’s Electoral College votes if their party’s candidate wins. As the total state electoral vote is based on the number of Congress-men and Senators, Nevada has six votes for president. California has 55 votes and Texas has 38votes. My California friends lament the fact that their vote is not as valu-able as mine. Each elector in the State of California represents ap-proximately 720,000 American citizens. In the State of Nevada, each elector represents 500,000 American citizens. Therefore, Californians believe they are un-der-represented. I would point out that my vote is represented by only six electors while their vote is represented by 55 electors. I believe they are over-represented.
There is nothing in the Con-stitution requiring the elector to vote with the majority of the peo-ple of his state. It has rarely hap-pened in the past that an elector would go rogue, but it has hap-pened. However, this action has never swayed an election. When an elector jumped ship in the last election, the State of Washington passed a law stating their electors must vote as the majority of the people of the state voted. The le-gal challenge to this law ended up in the Supreme Court. The Court ruled that a state may, the opera-tive word here is may, require the electors to vote as the majority of
the people of the state voted. This ruling concerning the
electoral college, should not be confused with sanctioning the movement to force state electors to wait to see what the nation-al popular vote is and then vote with the national majority. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is an agreement among states to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the national popu-lar vote. The compact is designed to ensure that the candidate who receives the most votes nation-wide is elected president, and has been adopted by fifteen states and the District of Columbia. Present-ly the movement has control over 196 electoral votes; it takes 270 to elect the President. Under this agreement, the electors of those states will vote with the nation-al majority no matter what their state voters want. While the legis-lature of Nevada voted to join this compact, in a rare moment of lu-cidness, Governor Sisolak vetoed the bill, so the electors of Nevada are still free to vote as the people of Nevada vote.
It will take a Constitutional Amendment to move to a one-man-one vote system of electing the President of the United States. I am not sure that this would not be a fair way to conduct the national election. In the past the average American had little knowledge as to who the candidates for Presi-dent were; therefore, the selection of citizens who knew being given a proxy vote made some sense. I would equate this with the current Nevada voting for judges that no one knows. However, with the sophisticated communications in America today, the average cit-izens could have the knowledge necessary to make a decision on who should be president. (I know that is assuming that there is an unbiased source of such infor-mation.) However, if this were to take place, keep in mind that Los Angeles County and New York City will run the country. These two metropolitan areas have a population that totals more than the entire population of nearly half of the states combined.
Thought of the week… Be careful what you asked for you, you may just get it.
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I am proud to announce that Rich Gutierrez has chosen to join my small, close knit Real Estate sales team!
Rich and I last worked at the same other Real Estate office in Mesquite. In different depart-ments. Rich was the property manager and I was quite happily a broker salesperson there and NOT in Property Management. Having been a property manager myself for over 20 years, I know the difficult proving ground that it can be for a new agent.
I observed him daily coming in to work and displaying an in-credible work ethic. In difficult situations with both owners and tenants, Rich constantly displayed skillful and tactful in-teractions with his clients, and sincere empathy balanced with caution and diligence. Also, prop-erty management requires a high degree of skill and attention to detail in dealing with owners and tenants trust funds. This is the single largest liability and pitfall to offices that handle property management. More offices lose their licenses and are subject to civil and criminal penalties by mis-management of client trust accounts than any other violation in the Real Estate industry. So, that proved to me Rich’s impec-cable level of integrity.
Our office is and will remain a small, very close knit one, where we are truly a team. Currently, we have Rich, myself and two admin-istrative assistants: Michele Jes-ky, our transaction coordinator and my wife Linda, who handles
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who would have all the qualities that Rich embodies: Full-time, hard working, impeccable ethics, sincere, empathetic and conta-gious warmth in dealing with people. He has taken to his sales training with a zest! As a bonus to our office, Rich is FLUENT IN SPANISH!
In his first weekend of open house training, he wrote his first offer with someone we met at that open house. Less than 2 weeks later, he met some clients at an open house, took them and showed them a property, wrote their offer and now has his first escrow! Off to an incredible start on his new Real Estate SALES ca-reer! Hopefully, Rich will remain a part of Prime Properties Mes-quite for MANY YEARS TO COME!
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Rich is an active member in the Mesquite Chamber of Com-merce since September, 2016. He served on the Chamber Board of Directors from January 2017 thru December 2019.
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Rich loves to golf, spend time with his family, and serve his community through the Cham-ber, Rotary and various related functions.
Rich also loves Real Estate! And it is a good thing, because it takes a lot of work to do it fully and completely. As an office and individually, we utilize every tool available to its fullest extent! Never less than the full amount of pictures, full amount of ver-biage used to SELL your home, multiple kinds of virtual tours, aerial photos & MUCH MORE. We are fully cooperating members of BOTH the Mesquite MLS and Las Vegas Realtor’s MLS (formerly GLVAR). And if you haven’t ever been to one of our open houses, you should come see how OPEN HOUSES are done RIGHT! Buy-ers and Sellers will get the most thorough Real Estate experience ever! It’s a lot of work, but the re-wards are spectacular.
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and manipulative. Mr. Sisolak has pronounced an unenforceable mandate and then he expects the struggling small business owners of the state to enforce it for him...and to foot the whole bill for it as well. In a word, it is despicable!
Given all of this, I would just beseech local readers of both val-leys to not lash out at our local business owners, or their employ-ees, for getting tough on custom-ers who don’t wear a mask. And for heaven’s sake, don’t boycott them for it! That would be entire-ly self-defeating.
The blame here clearly doesn’t lie with the local businesses. Small business owners real-ly don’t have much of a choice.
They are just trying to stay alive right now; with no help whatso-ever from our Governor.
So, if you have frustrations to express, or rage to vent, funnel it all right over to Mr. Sisolak’s office. That is where the blame belongs.
And don’t just complain to him about being forced to wear a mask when you don’t want to. That is an argument that will nev-er end, and it will never convince. Instead, lodge your complaint to the Governor about his inexcus-able and unfair victimization of small business owners throughout the state.
Remind Mr. Sisolak that it is HIS job to enforce the law in Ne-vada, not the business sector’s. If he wants dirty work done, he should do it himself!
Editor’s Deskfrom page 4A
was the beginning of the fiscal year, paid all of my licensing fees including gaming and then they shut us down again!”
“It is so irrational! It is a to-tal copycat of Newsom,” Slight said referring to California Gov-ernor Gavin Newsom. “I am so disappointed in Sisolak. He has affected so many lives and now unemployment is lost by so many employees including my employ-ees.”
Slight said that this action hurts his small, rural town busi-ness tremendously. “I own a few businesses and even though the government shuts us down, our insurance policies, trash service, and other contracted services are still needing payment for their services,” he said. “I don’t know how Nevada will ever recover from this.”
Despite the bad news, Slight was still able to laugh about the recent loss of the famous Rooster statue which sits atop the iconic Overton bar. The nine foot tall
statue was blown of its roost by high winds on June 28. It was ripped off by the ankles, leaving its feet up on the pedestal and the rest of the bird on the ground next to the building.
“It just doesn’t look right with chicken feet on top of the bar and nothing else,” Slight said.
Slight said he was determined to get the rooster fixed and re-turned to its roosting spot on top of the bar. But it would have to wait until the bar can return to op-eration, he said.
Slight also expressed gratitude for the local community. “I know it has been a pain lately, but I do appreciate everyone who sup-ports my businesses and contin-ues to give me hope during this irrational time,” Slight said.
The Red Rooster Bar is located at 329 S Moapa Valley Blvd and the Sportsman’s Bar is located at 247 S Moapa Valley Blvd.
Also affected by the state-wide bar closure was Wild Country Tavern owned by Chet Pulsipher and located at 2300 Glendale Blvd at the back of the AMPM Gas Station in Moapa.
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public health,” one source said. “It is just laziness and non-com-munication with employees. I have a right as a person to know whether or not somebody that I work with, or somebody that I have been around, has been ex-posed to the virus. That is my right. And I was not notified (until much later). That is what I mean about communication: there isn’t
any.”Many of the anonymous sourc-
es also said they did not feel safe while working the busy weekend. Some cashier areas at the Plaza had been equipped with plexi-glass screens. But many others had nothing, they said. Employ-ees working in those areas were assigned to work long shifts, in-teracting directly with the public, with no real protection, the sourc-es added.
In addition, the huge crowd that showed up during the holiday weekend was not observing safe social distancing and face-cover-ing protocols, the sources said.
The sources who worked the weekend confirmed that the large tent where fireworks were being sold was usually being restricted to only 50 customers at a time. But a long line of customers snaked around the building wait-ing to get in.
Space markers had been placed on the ground along the queue to encourage people to social dis-tance while in line, sources said. But the markers were not being observed by the crowd.
“No one was following social distancing!” one source said. “It was shoulder to shoulder. Peo-ple were without masks. It was a mess!”
Some of the sources confirmed that the Plaza had, for quite a while, been conducting regular temperature checks on employ-ees as they began their shifts. They also confirmed that employ-ees were being required to wear masks while at work.
The Tribal statement said that,
as rumors of the outbreak had cir-culated among employees, Travel Plaza Management had instituted a Pre-Shift Daily Questionaire for employees asking about each em-ployee’s health conditions before each shift.
In order to address any em-ployee fears of losing their jobs if they tested positive, the question-aire stated: “Any employee who is asked to submit to COVID-19 testing and is required to stay home for quarantine or due to sickness from COVID-19 will keep their job and will be paid for their time off.”
Unfortunately this did not pro-vide any comfort to employees who had not tested positive but were still fearful for their own safety, and that of their family members at home, one source said. Everyone was required to come in to work during the holi-day weekend or lose their job, the source said.
Many of the anonymous sourc-es expressed disappointment in how they felt their health and safety was disregarded.
“I’m ashamed of my council,” one of them said. “They put mon-ey over lives here. It breaks my heart because so many people have been exposed, especially the employees and temporary em-ployees – like the kids who were working out there just for the fire-work sales. The Council needs to be held responsible.”
Tribal Council members and Plaza Management refused to make any statement last week in response to the complaints from the anonymous sources.
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The Lost City Museum at the south end of Overton reopened its doors with reduced operating hours on Friday, July 11. The mu-seum had been closed due to the quarantine beginning March 13.
The facility saw very light at-tendance on Friday, but more and more visitors came through the weekend. By the end of Saturday, a total of 45 people visited the museum, according to museum staff.
“This is so wonderful to be open again!” said Museum Direc-tor Mary Beth Timms. “We have been missing this for some time and we thoroughly enjoy seeing visitors again.”
Though not much was allowed for celebration or events, the mu-
seum had an art showing of Neva-da’s own famed artist Jim Calla-way who is best known locally for his portrait of long-time Moapa Valley resident Topsi Swain.
Callaway was born and raised in Las Vegas and graduated from the University of Nevada Reno. He planned on being an art teach-er, but then attended dental school in 1969 and became the team den-tist for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He was named to the UNLV Hall of Fame in 2008.
Callaway practiced dentistry for 41 years. He is currently re-tired and enjoys painting. He is best known for Native American portraits.
“It is an honor to have the art of Jim Callaway at the museum for July,” said Museum Program Director Jesse Davie. “He is one of the most amazing artists! We are truly blessed to have his work
Lost City Museum reopens with new scheduleBy NICK YAMASHITA
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Neill Wyatt and family members look through the exhibits at the Lost City Museum on its opening weekend. Wyatt came from West Jordan, Utah.
available for show as well as to buy.”
One group of visitors thor-oughly enjoyed their visit. Logan-dale resident, Ron Kunz and his stepson, Neil Wyatt, along with family members, found the muse-um a grand spectacle.
“This is great!” Wyatt said who brought his family from West Jor-dan, Utah to visit. “I try to visit any place like this since my LDS mission to the Navajo Nation
when I was younger. It brings back the love I have for the Na-tive culture and history.”
Wyatt served an LDS Mission to the Navajo Nation Reservation from 1998 to 2000.
“It was one of the best times in my life and such places as this helps me remember it,” he said.
The Wyatt family found the place amazing and Kunz pointed out the art of Jim Callaway. Many other visitors spent time walking
through the displays and taking advantage of purchasing a souve-nir from the gift shop.
“It has been a great weekend and definitely a success,” Davie said. “Anytime we have the op-portunity to educate people about the local Native American histo-ry, it is a success.”
Next month at the museum will be the Hot and Dusty Art Show which features the work of local artists. This year will feature the work of locla photographers.
“We are excited for the talent we will get to see,” Davie said. “Unfortunately, we will not be doing any “in-person” activi-ties due to the social distancing guidelines, but we will still offer some virtual activities.”
Due to the budget cuts by the state in response to the loss from the COVID-19 shutdown, the Lost City Museum will be open on weekends only, Friday-Sun-day, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For more information visit the Lost City Museum in Overton during visiting hours at 721 S. Moapa Valley Blvd or call (702) 397-2193.
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It has been a long, unpleasant process for one Logandale neigh-borhood. But relief may be on the horizon for residents living in the area of the Valley Heights devel-opment near Whipple Ave. and Lyman Street.
Since the beginning of the year, residents within a quarter mile ra-dius of Valley Heights have suf-fered from a strong odor lingering over the neighborhood. And it is no mystery to any of them where it is coming from. The smell is is-suing from a small package sew-age treatment plant located near the main entrance of the develop-
ment. The plant was built to service
the wastewater needs of Valley Heights which has seen signif-icant growth over the past 18 months as many new homes have been built and occupied. The fa-cility was designed with plenty of capacity to service the needs of the entire development; even at full build-out. But something has apparently gone wrong at the plant, just as higher demands have begun to be placed upon it.
“There has been a little bit of neglect over some time now,” said Plant Manager Paul Bledsoe, a Moapa Valley resident. “A few things have gotten a little behind.
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The likely cause of the smell. A series of four Rapid Infiltration Basins at the Valley Heights sewage treatment facility are not draining prop-erly allowing standing water to remain in the basins for long periods of time. Plans are in the works to do needed maintenance on the basins. See Odor on page 2B
Members of the Virgin Valley Community Education Advisory Board (VVCEAB) were put in an awkward situation last week when they were publicly asked to intervene in a conflict between two board members.
The issue, on the agenda at a meeting held Thursday, June 9, involved a text message alleged-ly sent by City Councilwoman Annie Black. The message called board member Steven Lisk an expletive term. The text message was sent to Lisk, apparently in error and intended for someone else.
Black was appointed by Mes-quite Mayor Alan Litman to serve as Council advisor to the VVCE-AB.
Lisk brought the agenda item to the board last week, asking that board members resolve to write a letter to Litman asking that Black be removed from VVCEAB and another be appointed in her place.
Black, who was recently elect-ed to a seat in the Nevada State Assembly, would be vacating the VVCEAB appointment in Janu-ary anyway. She was not in atten-dance at last week’s meeting.
A screenshot of the text, which was submitted by Lisk in the backup material for the meeting, appears to have been intended for a local businessman. It states, “If Steven Lisk calls you for dona-tions for schools...I would prefer to have that (conversation) with you. He is an (a**hole).”
The text was sent in reference to an assignment taken on by Lisk at the board’s June meeting. At that time, Lisk volunteered to approach the business owner to try and get financial support for a specific educational program needed in local school kids. The business owner had previously expressed an interest in helping schools in this way.
Shortly after that, Black had sent out the text, apparently seek-ing to meet with the business owner first before Lisk had the chance to do so.
According to the screenshot, Lisk had responded with, “It is amazing what you can accom-plish if you do not care who gets the credit. Harry S. Truman.”
Since that time, Lisk said he had gotten no further communi-cation from Black.
Lisk told the board that the per-
VVCEAB deals with conflict
among membersBy VERNON ROBISON
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See VVCEAB on page 2B
The parking lot of the Mesquite Police Department unexpectedly filled up with cars in a surprise move by local citizens on Friday, afternoon, July 10.
A Mesquite conservative group known as “The Trumpsters” joined by the Mesquite Republi-can Women club and other local conservatives came to the police station to show their support for the local police.
Lieutenant Tracy Fails was the first one out of the station to see what was happening.
The group brought chocolate cake and cool lemonade along with a large poster showing ap-preciation which had been signed by all.
“We are here to show our sup-port and to say thank you for serving and protecting us,” said Trumpster member, Denise Mc-Mahon who lives in Mesquite.
After the presentation and a photo op with the whole group, Lieutenant Fails expressed appre-ciation for the support shown.
“We enjoy a great communi-ty and their support,” Fails said. “We are lucky to have such sup-port. And who doesn’t love choc-olate?”
Mesquite citizens show support for policeBy BOBBIE GREEN
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BOBBIE GREEN / The ProgressConservative group The Trumpsters, along with members of the Mes-quite Republican Women expressed support to local police at a sur-prise presentation held at the Mesquite Police station last week.
Amid the triple-digit summer heat and COVID-19 restrictions the Mesquite Chamber of Com-merce is persisting in holding its annual Christmas in July event. The holiday-themed event, which aims each year to give a boost to local businesses during the dol-drums of summer, is almost upon us. On Friday July 24 and Satur-day July 25, there will be plenty of merriment in Mesquite.
Chamber Director, Carol Kol-son, urged area residents and business-owners to check out the Chamber’s website at mesquiten-vchamber.com, or the Chamber Facebook page, to stay updated on the many fun and supportive activities being planned.
“Even more surprises are in
the works, so everyone should stay definitely tuned,” Kolson said.
There is still time for more businesses to join in the festiv-ities for this year, Kolson said. Non-profits are welcome as well.
“Call our office for ideas on how to be involved and benefit,” Kolson said. “There are many ways for both businesses and non-profits to join in with us. Support the community that sup-ports you.”
For example, businesses and non-profits are encouraged to
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help the Chamber to fill a giant Christmas stocking which will be raffled off on Saturday, July 25.
“We are accepting a variety of donations,” Kolson said. “It is a great way to highlight your busi-ness to the public.”
Raffle tickets will be sold during the event on July 24-25 at The Front Porch Flowers & Gifts at 12 W. Mesquite Blvd. #111.
There will also be a 2-day Christmas in July Food Drive with drop off location at local hosting churches. The food or gift cards go to the benefit of the
Salvation Army Mesquite. Peo-ple are asked to give donations of holiday food items. The unperish-able food items collected will be stored and used for the upcoming holidays in November and De-cember. Items like canned pump-kin, gravy, stuffing mix, muffin mix and more.
Of course, Christmas time must include Santa. Mr. and Mrs. Clause will be transported by fire engine to the local churches to receive visits from the children, all done social distance-style, of course. This will take place on July 24, from 10:30 am until noon. Watch the Chamber’s Face-book page for visiting times and locations.
In connection with Christmas in July, the Women’s History and
Logandale resident Bev Qual-heim is one-of-a-kind. Since the premature birth of her first son, she has been knitting and crochet-ing hats, mitten, scarves, blankets, toys, dolls, and lots of other warm cuddly stuff for people who need them. She has put together a yarn army of people who answer the call for preemie hats and booties, hats and scarves for the homeless, and toys and dolls for kids.
Since the onset of the COVID-19 quarantine, Bev has been sharing her talent and good-will with neighborhood children and others who find themselves in need of a cuddle.
“The past few months have been tough for many people,” Qualheim explained. “I wanted to do something to bring a little comfort to others.”
Qualheim found the Cuddles Box on an Australian social me-dia group. She decided to set up something similar in Logandale to help kids of all ages get a lit-
tle handmade cuddle toy of their own.
“I started knitting and cro-cheting little dolls from my own pattern,” Qualheim said. “Then I created some more toys like mon-ster cuddles, snowman cuddles, and chick cuddles.”
Bev puts her Cuddles in a box on her front porch with a sign that says “Free Cuddle Toys, If you can give one a good home, please take one.”
“They have been so popular,”
Cuddle box for kids in need of comfortBy CHARLENE PAUL
The Progress
CHARLENE PAUL / The ProgressLogandale resident Bev Qualheim needs help making these crocheted toys that she offers free to local chil-dren who need a cuddle.
Qualheim said. “I am work-ing hard to keep the box full, but I could use some help.”
Community members in-terested in crocheting Cud-dles for Bev’s Cuddle Box can go to www.bevscountry-cottage.com to find lots of patterns.
Qualheim is also crochet-ing little pocket bears for former Logandale resident, Eric Paul to take to Jordan on a medical mission next sum-mer. She put the word out to her yarn army, and they start-ed sending her the bears they
had crocheted.“When I heard about the med-
ical missions Eric has been on, I thought that those kids need-ed something they can call their own,” Qualheim said.
Due to COVID-19, this year’s medical mission was canceled. But Eric plans to return next year with a bag full of crocheted bears to hand out to the kids.
Bev’s love for helping others by crocheting warmth, cuddles, and kindness is evident in every-thing she makes.
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But we are working on getting things back into balance and things should be better very soon.”
Bledsoe is retired from a waste water management career. He worked in the op-eration of similar plants, only on a much larger scale, in Las Vegas, Henderson, and the last three years of his career at the Overton sewage treatment plant.
Bledsoe has been managing the Valley Heights plant for about a year now, since his retirement. His role at the facility is to monitor the operations inside of the small treatment building on site. He spends his time monitoring readings inside the vari-ous settling tanks and managing the many steps of water treatment.
But the real problems stem from outside of the building. During a tour of the facili-ty for The Progress on Wednesday, June 8, Bledsoe pointed to an outdoor area behind the plant building which is surrounded by a high block wall. This yard area contains four large, deep basins. The whole area is overgrown with weeds, tall grass and other vegetation.
“It really shouldn’t be in this condition,” Bledsoe said. “It does need to be cleaned up and cleared away.”
Bledsoe said that a landscape mainte-nance company had once been contract-ed by the Valley Heights Home Owners Association to regularly take care of the outdoor area. But several months ago, the contract apparently expired and the land-scapers stopped coming. With the wet win-ter months earlier this year, the vegetation has grown in thick.
But the growth of vegetation isn’t what is causing the odor problem in the neigh-borhood. The chief factor for that is the condition of the four basins in the yard, Bledsoe said.
The basins are called Rapid Infiltration Basins or RIBs. Their function is to pro-vide a place for the clarified effluent from the plant to go. This carefully processed wastewater, now made clean enough to be put back into the ground, is directed from the plant through a series of pipes into one of the four basins. There it is supposed to percolate “rapidly” into the ground and re-turn back to the water table.
The problem at the Valley Heights plant is that the water isn’t percolating rapidly enough. The soil at the bottom of those RIBs has become a hard, solid mass over time. Muddy clay soil, dried and baked by the sun over time, is not ideal for percola-tion of the water, Bledsoe said. So newly added water is pooling up in the RIB for a
time before percolating into the soil. On Wednesday, three of the four RIBS at
Valley Heights hadstanding pools of green-ish water in them.
“If things are working properly there should be no standing water for very long,” Bledsoe said. “Any of the water that goes into the RIBs should take, at most, maybe a day and a half to dry out. But here it has been taking more than a week.”
Bledsoe explained what maintenance should be done to keep that from happen-ing.
“When I worked at the Overton waste-water plant we had to come in once a year
with excavation equipment and rip up the ground at the bottom of the RIBs,” Bled-soe said. “Just softening the ground makes a big difference in getting things percolat-ing again.”
Bledsoe said that he didn’t know when was the last time that kind of work had been done at Valley Heights, if ever. But the Valley Heights HOA has scheduled that work to be done within the next couple of weeks, Bledsoe said.
“That should take care of the standing water problem, which should take care of the strong smell,” Bledsoe said. “So things should be looking up for the neighbors very soon.”
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sonal insult was immaterial to the situa-tion. “Believe me, I’ve been called worse,” Lisk said. “I work at the Public Defender’s office and I have developed a very thick skin. It is not a problem to me that Annie Black does not personally like me.”
The greater issue was that Black had ap-parently been acting to subvert a VVCE-AB objective with the mistaken text, Lisk said.
“That is absolutely inappropiate, un-professional and should not be conduct-ed,” Lisk said. “I don’t know how we go forward with Ms. Black on this board as a representative.”
Board members agreed that the text had been highly inappropriate. But they stopped short of wanting to taking official action to censure Black.
“I just want to go on record to say that sucks, that that was sent to you,” VVCE-AB member Wes Boger told Lisk in the meeting. “I am sorry it happened to you. But setting up a motion to remove some-one who is going to be off the board in six months: I wouldn’t vote for it.”
Boger pointed out that the board is ex-pecting to be facing significant challeng-es in providing for local education in the coming months.
“I just don’t know if we need one less voice on this board, especially someone who is going to be in the State Assembly,” Boger added. “I would just think we want more voices and more influence.”
“We absolutely need more voices,” Lisk responded. “We need voices that we can count on. We need to have a voice from City Council. I just don’t think we need to have that voice.”
VVCEAB member Doug Hall didn’t feel that the evidence was clear that Black was actually trying to frustrate the objec-tives of the board. “I think that she prob-ably was not happy about who was going there and maybe she wanted more of the credit,” Hall said.
Hall suggested that a first step might be to facilitate a meeting between Lisk and Black to try to iron out differences.
“The board needs to be cohesive and work together,” Hall said. “If the two of them can meet and find out if they can re-solve this on a personal level. Then if we need to bring it back to the board we can review it at our next meeting and move for-ward at that point.”
Lisk said that he would be willing to par-ticipate in such a meeting. But he insisted that the issue was more than just patching a personal relationship between the two peo-ple. Rather it was whether the board could have confidence in Black representing it for the City going forward.
Boger suggested that a meeting also in-clude Mayor Litman as well as VVCEAB chairwoman Jodi Thornley.
VVCEAB member Nick Montoya made a motion that the meeting be facilitated. The motion was accepted with a unani-mous vote.
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Four local athletes participated at the Juab Xtremes Race in Nephi, Utah during the weekend of June 26-27. Austin Monk, Dalton Jones, Will Sheldon and Rhett Shel-don traveled up to Juab County in Utah for the much anticipated and welcomed mo-torcycle race.
Blake Monk, Moapa Valley’s racing guru, said that the weather was a challenge for the racers. “We had wind and the lights went out a few times on the racetrack,” Monk said. “They came close to stopping the event and closing it up. Luckily, we were able to finish the race.”
Rhett Sheldon, at the age of 5, did the best of all the local riders at the event. In the Category of Pee Wee B, Rhett finished 3rd place and took home some hardware. He took 4th in Moto 1 and then 3rd in Moto 2 to finish 3rd overall.
All her fellow Moapa Valley competi-tive were proud of him.
“The little guy outdid everyone else!” Monk said. “He is really improving.”
Rhett’s father, Will, ended up taking 9th in Amateur division with placements of 5th in Moto 1, and 9th in Moto 2.
Will was edged out by Dalton Jones who took 6th in the Amateur with his finishes of 3rd and 6th in the Motos 1 and 2.
“Those two were neck-and-neck with each other through most of the race and were definitely pushing each other through it all,” Monk said. “Dylan just kicked it in at the end to beat out Will.”
As for Blake’s son, Austin, he had a great race. Unfortunately he got caught up in some pileups caused by other racers. Still he finished great in 22nd for Novice with a blazing 5th in Moto 1 and 22nd in Moto 2. That was among about 40 racers in his division.
“This was a great opportunity for these
guys to keep up the racing while the rac-ing in Nevada is at the moment still not running,” Monk said. “We are grateful for Utah being open for competition.”
The Motorcycle Racing Association of Nevada (MRAN), in which these rid-ers compete, has been closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic ever since mid-March. All four of these athletes look for-ward to MRAN and racing in Nevada to get going again. MRAN is looking at doing a night race in August which is to be an-nounced later.
Austin Monk also competed in the Mint 400 back in March 3-8, right before the quarantine was put into place. The race was reshown on ESPN 2 last week and it even showed Austin up close during the race.
“It has been a new and unique experi-ence racing during this pandemic,” Blake Monk said. “But the attitude still remains the same. Race and be competitive but dis-play good sportsmanship. We are all family in this sport.”
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Local dirt bike racers travelled to Utah last month to compete. Pictured l to r in back are Will Sheldon, Dalton Jones and Austin Monk; with young Rhett Sheldon in front.
Cultural Center is hosting a Saxon the Suf-frage Cat Essay/Art contest. The contest is open to all kids up to 18 years old. There will be a “Surprise Grand Prize” along with other gifts and cash awards in three age groups.
Kids can pick-up their entry form and a wooden Cat-to-be-decorated at the Cul-tural Center on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays between 11AM and 3PM. The center is located at 225 N Willow St. Room 23. Donations for the Saxon Cats are wel-come, but not required. All Cats will be re-turned to the Artist.
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The Moapa Valley Fire Dis-trict (MVFD) Board of Directors voted last week to recommend
a change to Clark County Fire Code that would allow for the tradition of small community fireworks displays to continue in outlying rural towns.
At a meeting held Tuesday,
A vote to revise county codes regulating fireworks showsBy VERNON ROBISON
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June 30, the board asked that a recent change requiring all fire-works displays in Clark County to have $5 million in insurance be reversed. The code would revert to its previous requirement which required a $2 million policy.
MVFD Chief Stephen Neel explained that the increase in in-surance limits had been incorpo-rated into the code last year at the behest of a large professional py-rotechnic company. But that one change had priced out small town fireworks displays from happen-ing in rural areas, he said.
“When it was a $2 million poli-cy, the insurance was customarily offered by the fireworks vendors and it was priced into the cost of the fireworks,” Neel said. “But when it went to $5 million, the vendor didn’t have an insurance plan to allow for that. And getting a private insurance policy was ei-ther not possible or cost prohib-
itive.”Neel explained that the 2019
revised policy did, in fact, include an allowance for the fire marshall to grant a waiver to the $5 mil-lion insurance requirement. But confusion about the code, caused a misunderstanding when permit applications were filed this year for the Moapa Valley show. The licensed pyrotechnic for the local show was thus told that no waiv-ers could be granted this year.
This had caused members of the Moapa Valley 4th of July committee to reluctantly assume that the show could not go on this year. So on June 15, the commit-tee announced regretfully that the fireworks show for this year would have to be cancelled.
Hearing about this the next day, Neel quickly went into action. He contacted County Commissioner Marilyn Kirkpatrick to help him advocate for a waiver. Within two
days, the waiver was granted and the show was back on.
“We don’t want to have this confusion again where we have to go and ask for waivers,” Neel said. “So we are asking for a change to the code. Everyone is comfortable with returning the insurance limits to $2 million. So we are just asking for a vote from this board to encourage that action.”
A motion was made to approve this measure. The vote to accept the motion was unanimous.
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AQUATIC (formerly Lasco Bathware) in Moapa, is now hiring: We are accepting appli-cations from 8AM to 3PM Mon-day through Thursday. Aquatic has a competitive wage starting at $13.00/hr and benefit pack-age, including medical, dental, vision insurance and 401k. We also offer ten paid holidays per year. (702) 864-2100 ext. 4182.
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Frank Albert Wiegel II passed away on July 10, 2020 in St. George, Utah. He was born at Tooele, Utah Army Depot on October 5, 1945 and was the
only child of Frank Albert Wiegel and Roma Mathis Wiegel.
After his dad was discharged from the army, the family moved to Chi-cago, IL. Growing up, he also lived in Akron, Ohio and Aurora, IL. He attended his last two years of high school in Orem, UT and was very involved in school activities. He was the school mascot and enjoyed par-ticipating in band and theatre. He re-ceived a full ride music scholarship to Utah State where he attended until he was called on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to the South German Mission. He spent time serving in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy.
Frank married Linda Flashman, and during their union they were blessed with six children: Kristin, Kelly, Blaine, Kendell, Ashley and Timothy, and eighteen grandchildren.
Alberta May Jappert, age 89, passed away on July 5, 2020 in Overton, NV. She was born on May 20, 1931 in Sterling, CO to Johann LaVerne Behrend and Rosella Amanda
Steffen. She married Edward Jappert on December 5, 1966 in Las Vegas, NV, and they celebrated forty-three years of marriage together.
Alberta was a determined and lov-ing woman. She was always busy: cleaning the house, tidying her yard, gardening, or crocheting, Alberta needed to be doing something. She loved talking with her many friends and family. She would often talk to
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her children for hours over the phone. Alberta is survived by her children:
Duane Edward Fitts and Patsy Col-leen (Harvey) Bethel; six grandchil-dren; eleven great-grandchildren; two great-great grandchildren; her sib-lings, Rosemary and Henry “Zook”, and numerous nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her hus-band, Edward Jappert; her son, Don-ald Edward Jappert; her brother, Ver-non, and her parents.
The family expresses their grati-tude for the friendship of the Moapa Valley community, and the loving care provided by the care-givers, to their mother.
The family invites you to leave a message or memory in their Guest Book at www.moapavalleymortuary.com.
Phyllis Lawrence Biederman, age 90, of Overton, Nevada passed away on Friday, July 10, 2020. She was born to Benjamin Earl and Rena Jones Lawrence on March 9, 1930 in Cedar City, Utah. She was the oldest of four children. On September 13, 1958 she married Albert Carl Bie-derman Jr. in Las Vegas, Nevada. They were married 56 years when he passed away on July 16, 2015.
Phyllis was a loving mother to all of her children and a true friend to ev-eryone she met. She was a commit-ted servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. She was truly an angel on earth. She was called to serve in many capac-ities in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but one of her favorite callings was serving in the nursery. She truly loved the little chil-dren.
Phyllis is survived by two daugh-ters: Susan (Lindsey) Merrill of St. George, UT and Sandra Petitt (Val Nicoles) of Overton, NV; son John C. Biederman of Overton, NV; step daughter Kathy (Larry) Biedermann of Snowflake, AZ; two sisters: Lila (Lyn) Prestwich of Cedar City, UT and Toni (Verl) Frehner of Scenic, AZ; 9 grandchildren; 18 great grandchildren and 4 great great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her hus-band Albert; her parents; her brother Robert J. Lawrence and stepson Lar-ry C. Biederman.
A visitation will be held Friday, July 17, 2020 from 6-8 p.m. at the Moapa Valley Mortuary, 5090 N. Moapa Val-ley Blvd., Logandale, Nevada. Grave-side services will be held Saturday, July 18, 2020 at 10 a.m. at the Cedar City Cemetery where she will be in-terred next to her husband and near other family members in the shadow of the Cedar City Temple.
The family would like to extend special thanks to Bishop Andrew Meeks and the sisters of the Overton St. Thomas Ward Relief Society for their compassionate service.
Friends and family are invited to sign an online guest book at www.moapavalleymortuary.com.
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Frank married Caron Cooley Wiegel in 2004 in Oregon and this marriage brought into his life six more children: Scott, Jill, Gena, Heidi, Creg, and Bri-an; sixteen grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Frank and Caron lived in Overton, Nevada for 8 years and then moved to St. George, Utah for Franks health.
Frank supported his family by working in sales. He loved to play golf and enjoyed running. When his fam-ily was living in Alpine, Utah, Frank was called to be a tour guide in the visitor’s center at Salt Lake Temple Square which he loved. He was pres-ident of the Roseville High School boosters club to help support his children in their athletics. Frank loved animals and having a garden. He also was fascinated with researching his genealogy. Frank had a beauti-ful singing voice and would perform at private events and at church. He served actively in the Las Vegas and St. George Temples and enjoyed Pink Panther movies.
The family would like to thank the doctors and nurses at the St. George IHC hospital and IHC hospice, and all of our friends and neighbors who have been so kind.
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The Mesquite Republican Women organization held a Meet & Greet event in the campaign office at Sun Valley Plaza on Wednesday evening, July 8.
Attending the event were a variety of candidates that will appear on the November ballot. These included city council can-didates Karen Fielding, Wes Bo-ger and Brian Wursten. Mayoral Candidate Bob Sweetin was in at-tendance. And Jim Marchant, Re-publican candidate for U.S. Con-gressional District 4 also travelled from Las Vegas to be there.
In addition, the event featured surprise visitors. All of these were judge candidates. They included Family Court Dept P candidate Mary Perry, Family court Dept. M candidate Lynn Hughes and Family Court Dept. T candidate Jason Stoffel.
Each candidate was given five
minutes to speak. Wursten who has already won in the primary to keep his seat on city council graciously gave up his speak-ing time, allowing more time for the surprise visitors to say a few words.
Marchant said he was happy to visit the Mesquite community. “I
Mesquite GOP group holds candidate meet and greet
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BOBBIE GREEN / The ProgressU.S. Congressional District 2 Jim Marchant addresses a small crowd at Mesquite Republican Women Meet and Greet on Wednesday, July 8.
expect to spend a lot more time in this area,” he said. “I want you to vote for me, for what I offer, not just a vote against my opponent.”
The audience was generally pleased to hear the speakers and have the opportunity to ask their questions in a one-on-one atmo-sphere.
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