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September - October 2017 pg 4
From The Staff
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Hiking with Branch Witney
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Add Intensity to Your Walking Routine
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Helping Nevada's Veterans by Sen. Dean Heller
pg 16
Great Basin National Park
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Grape Expectations provides the education of wine making in a fun environment
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LVCVA Celebrates 100th Birthday of Bill Darwin by Oscar Goodman
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The Best of Times; the Worst of Times By Branch Witney
Auto Travel
September is a unique month for hiking. The good news is toward the end of September On one hand you still have to be careful of the temperature has cooled down enough to thunderstorms up in Mt. Charleston. The hike in Red Rock Canyon. Since the daylight Monsoon season, which is the time for severe hours are still fairly long, you can attempt the thunderstorms, normally lasts through the longer hikes in Red Rock without worrying Home Improvement & Lifestyle second week in September. The main rule about running out of daylight. With the milder Simply Savers during the Monsoon season is to be off the temperatures near the end of September you peaks and ridgelines by noon. This is the mostFeedback can hike in either Mt. Charleston or Red Rock. likely time thunderstorms occur. It doesn’t get any better than that!
If Caught In A Lightning Storm: Calendar Of Events
If you have been hiking in Mt. Charleston all summer, you should be in great shape. The Get off peaks and ridgelines. – TheyCalendar are very Of Events hikes in Red Rock will seem easy to you. exposed and susceptible to lightning strikes. They are shorter and have normally have less elevation gain than in Mt. Charleston. Stay out of shallow caves. – Ground lightning Red Rock hikes at are a much lower elevation Remembering Nevada runs through caves. than Mt. Charleston hikes, which makes them easier. With all this going for you, here are the Stay away from water. If a trail turns into a advanced hikes I recommend during the last Happy Holidays stream, stay off. – Water is a good conduit for half of September. lightning. Mt. Wilson is the highest peak in Red Rock If you're hiking with a group, spread out. Canyon. Soaring 7,070 feet it's also one of the – Lightning can travel from one person to hardest hikes in Red Rock. There are several another. routes to the top of Mt. Wilson. One route Stay away from tall objects (trees). – They are starts at First Creek trailhead, which is along frequently struck by lightning. State Route 159. You do not drive on the
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Scenic Loop, hence there’s no entrance fee. You boulder through First Creek Canyon for hours before a long scramble to the peak. Allow about nine hours to return to your car). A favorite route of advanced hikers is the Cleaver Crack route to Mt. Wilson. It starts at Oak Creek Canyon and follows the trail into the canyon. This route has lots of scrambling and some exposure. Allow about eight hours to complete the hike. Bridge Mountain is a very popular peak to hike. You gain about 700 feet in six miles if starting from the trailhead on the Rocky Cap Road. You will need a Jeep to drive all the way to the trailhead. You can park along the Scenic Loop Road in various spots and walk to the trailhead, if needed. Give yourself at least seven hours to complete the hike. This route has exposure. There is an advanced route to Bridge Mountain that starts at the Pine Creek Parking Area about 10 miles along the Scenic Loop. This route has more elevation gain (3,200 feet) and scrambling. However, you do not need a Jeep to drive to the trailhead. The trailhead is just off the paved Scenic Loop Road. This route has exposure.
no matter which route you follow. You should be very comfortable on class 4. rock. The elevation gain is around 3,000 feet These routes are advanced routes and hard to follow. I highly recommend you have a route description before trying any of these hikes. All of these hikes are in my book: Hiking Las Vegas 2011 edition. Another option is to go with someone or group that knows these routes very well. The 52 Peak Club, created by me in 2011, has done these routes dozens of times and leads not only these hikes, but hikes to all the other peaks in Red Rock Canyon and Mt. Charleston. Join The 52 Peak Club and take your hiking to the next level: http://www.52peakclub.com/ Branch’s bio here: http://www.hikinglasvegas. com/about.html Branch’s Facebook Hiking Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ HikingLasVegas/ +
Note: Pine Creek Parking Area might still be closed as you read this. It is scheduled to reopen in September. Another advance peak in Red Rock Canyon is Rainbow Peak, it’s a triangular shaped, multicolor peak. Again, there are several routes to the summit. All route starts at Oak Creek Canyon parking area, however not from the same trailhead. These routes have exposure. Allow seven to nine hours to complete the hike Not That Old And Loving It!
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Add Entertainment & FoodIntensity To Your Walking Financial Routine Auto Travel If you already walk regularly for exercise, Find A Walking Buddy. you’re doing something that is good for If you find it tough to increase the speed on both your body and mind. Walking just 150& Lifestyle your own, a little competition may help. Find Home Improvement minutes a week can help you reduce your a friend, co-worker or family member who’s Simply Savers risk of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and looking to get in shape, and then tell them some cancers -- as well as helping you feel Feedback about your goal of increasing your speed. If better and sleep better, suggests the U.S. you can’t walk Department of Health and Human Services. together every
time, share you’re not ready to start running but you your times or CalendarIf Of Events want to get more out of your daily walks, try your speed with Calendar Of Events any of these easy tasks. one another. Some fitness Start Keeping A Log Of Your Speed. apps will even There’s no real secret to burning more let you share Remembering Nevada calories. To accomplish that task, you have that information to increase the frequency, intensity, time or instantly to type of exercises you’re doing, suggests the friends that you Happy Holidays American Council on Exercise. Download an designate. app for your smartphone that uses GPS to gauge your speed -- or use any number of Set Your fitness devices that do the same thing. Note Sights On The your overall speed at the end of your walks, Stairs. and then try to beat that speed the next Walking or time you go out. Even shaving a few seconds running up stairs can burn roughly 448 off your time will, over time, result in more calories per hour for a 155-pound person, calories burned overall.
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according to Harvard Medical School, so even doing it for a few minutes is going to help you add intensity. Find a set of stairs at a local park -- or even the ones at your home -- and run up them a few times at the start of your walk and then a few times at the end.
Don’t Go On The Same Route Every Time. The human body is incredibly efficient at adapting to the stress you put upon it. If you walk the same route for the same distance every time, your body is going to adapt to that stress, and you’ll find that eventually you won’t have to work as hard. Of course, adding more time to your walks is one way to add more intensity, but if you don’t have the time or inclination for that, you can get a similar effect by simply choosing different routes. Choose a hilly course one day a week, walk in the opposite direction as you normally walk, or find a new hike you can explore every weekend.
Run Just A Little Bit. If you’re walking because you don’t like running, that’s OK -- you’re not the only one. Instead of running for a long period of time, try really short bouts of sprinting. Sprint for one block and then resuming walking until you feel composed enough to sprint again. If you manage to do six to eight sprints, you’ve added a high-intensity interval workout to your walk. HIIT, as it’s called, can help increase your metabolism for the rest of the day and help you burn abdominal and subcutaneous fat.
If You Don’t Want To Run, Try Skips, Lunges Or Hops. Try any of these alternatives to running to help you increase your heart rate and get that HIIT feeling. With a little creativity, you may find you’re having more fun and getting in better shape while you do it. +
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Helping Nevada's Veterans Auto Travel
By U.S. Senator Dean Heller
There’s a lot to be said in Reno, the VA Southern Nevada Healthcare Home Improvement & Lifestyle about the Department System in Las Vegas, and the VA Salt Lake City of Veterans AffairsSimply Savers Health Care System in Salt Lake City, Utah (VA). It’s one of the proudly serve the 300,000 Nevada veterans Feedback largest government who sacrificed to serve this great country. It’s agencies, and it’s Congress’s job to provide these hospitals and the charged with the care VA with the tools to do just that. Over the past Calendar Of Events of our country’s finest few months, Republicans and Democrats were men and women. able to come together to deliver results for our Calendar Of Events Veterans who selflessly veterans. risked so much to defend our values and our way of life. It’s why Congress’s role overseeing First off, we successfully funded the Veterans Remembering Nevada the VA is so important, and that is something I Choice Program. This legislation was recently do not take lightly. signed into law and will ensure veterans can receive life-saving treatments such as Happy Holidays As a senior member of the Senate Veterans’ chemotherapy. The funding also ensures Affairs Committee, I know that we need to veterans in rural communities can receive care do more to ensure veterans are properly closer to home and not have to drive hundreds compensated for injuries sustained on and off of miles for something they have earned. the battlefield. I can also be the first to say that the VA is not perfect, but it is filled with many We also passed the Harry W. Colmery Veterans dedicated public servants - like Lisa Howard, Educational Assistance Act, which greatly the director of the VA Sierra Nevada Health expanded the G.I. Bill to even more veterans. Care System in Reno. I had the pleasure of Our legislation bolsters G.I. Bill benefits touring her facility last month and hearing about for reservists, Purple Heart recipients, and “Project Nevada’s Heroes,” a plan to add an eliminates the arbitrary 15-year limit, giving additional 155,000 square feet to the hospital our nation’s warriors and their dependents the and build new outpatient services, including flexibility to further their education when the primary care, an eye clinic, and a laboratory. I time is right for them. want to make sure that they're taken care of at the federal level, and I use my role on the As a champion of both of these pieces of Committee to make sure of it. legislation, I've worked with my colleagues to ensure they passed Congress and be signed into The VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System law.
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While I believe our efforts to reform the VA have been largely successful this year, they mean little if Nevada veterans do not have the information they need to benefit from the VA. I have provided some important information on these VA programs below: • For information regarding the VA Choice Act, go to: https://www.va.gov/opa/choiceact/. • To learn more about G.I. Bill benefits, go to: http://benefits.va.gov/gibill/. There is also a page highlighting the specific legislation we passed at: http://benefits.va.gov/GIBILL/ForeverGIBill.asp. Listed below are the three major VA hospitals for the state of Nevada and how they can be reached: Not That Old And Loving It!
• The VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System can be reached at (775) 786-7200. • The VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System can be reached at (702) 791-9024. • The VA Salt Lake City Health Care System can be reached at (801) 582-1565. Having access to this information is critical, it’s why this summer, my office has been giving out a comprehensive veteran’s resourcebooklet highlighting various aspects of assistance available. To receive one of these or for help with other issues, you can contact my office in Reno at (775) 686-5770 or my office in Las Vegas at (702) 388-6605. +
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Guardianship Auto Travel Update By Kim Boyer The 2017 Legislative session came to an end penalties. and there were several bills that passed as part The initial citation to establish a guardianship and the Home Improvement & Lifestyle of guardianship reform. Guardianship is a legal petition must be personally served on the proposed proceeding where someone petitions the court to protected person regardless of whether they would Simply Savers have legal authority to make decisions for a person understand it or not. who is incapacitated. Guardianship should be the lastFeedback The guardian must file a preliminary care plan and resort. Ideally, people arrange their estate planning budget. documents to provide for what they want and don’t want should they become incapacitated. This usually The inventory must be served on the protected includes a power of attorney for assets and a power Calendar Of Events person. of attorney for health care. It can include a trust. Calendar Of Events A proposed protected persons is to be given counsel. We don’t like to think about what might happen if The creation of State Guardianship Compliance we become ill. But if you did, who would you want to Officer to hire accountants and auditors and make your life decisions about housing, health care, investigators has been authorized. and social matters? Who would you trust to handle
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your finances? Also, who would you not want to be Additional provisions before selling real or personal involved? Planning ahead can mean you make these property are added. choices for your life and get the support of those you There can be no sale of personal property, except Happy Holidays trust. It can also mean that you avoid guardianship. in certain extreme situations, until 30 days after If guardianship does become necessary, many an inventory is filed and served and an affidavit of changes were made to the existing law. Some of mailing is filed with court. these changes are as follows: Family members and any interested persons must A person in a guardianship is no longer called a be offered the right of first refusal to acquire the “ward” but is called a “protected person.” The term property at fair market value. “incompetent” is no longer used and is replaced with The goal is to maximize independence and dignity, “incapacitated.” while providing improved oversight. The best way A guardian shall not restrict the right of a protected to avoid guardianship is to plan ahead. You should person to communicate, visit or interact with a review your estate planning documents to ensure relative or person of natural affection, without they still reflect your wishes, or take steps to get following strict statutory guidelines. your plan in place. + Every protected person has the right to have his or her preferences followed, if possible. Every protected person has the right, if possible, to age in his or her own surroundings or, if not possible, in the least restrictive environment suitable to his or her unique needs and abilities. Every protected person has a bill of rights, and if these are violated the guardian is subject to
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For a weekend break from Las Vegas, head to and 50, roads running through some of the Great Basin National Park on the Utah border. most austere and remote desert areas in the A 300-mile drive north, this diverse and starkly United States. Ninety miles north of Vegas Happy Holidays beautiful natural area is everything Vegas isn’t. on U.S. 93 are the lakes and wetlands of While Vegas is saturated with flashing neon Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge. Explore lights, Great Basin has one of the darkest night the rich history of the area, a traditional home skies in the United States, and is a mecca of the Paiute tribe, with extensive remains for star-gazers. Unlike Las Vegas, with its 40 of petroglyphs, pictographs, and religious million annual tourists, Great Basin gets an structures, as well as a early pioneer dwellings. average of 80,000 tourists a year, mainly in The two main lakes are open to fishing and the summer months. Also unlike Vegas, with non-motorized boats, and there are several its 24/7 shows, traffic, and nightlife, Great hiking trails. Spring is prime bird-watching Basin gives visitors the opportunity to unwind season, with common visitors and inhabitants in the deep silence and stillness of a natural including sandhill cranes, bald eagles, herons, environment. filled with dramatic scenery and and egrets. wildlife, ranging from the windswept summit For even more exotic flora and fauna check out of Wheeler Peak, second highest mountain in Area 51 a few miles north. The town of Alamo the state, to the underground wonderland of and nearby Extraterrestrial Highway offer all Lehman Caves, and from 4,000-year old trees the alien-themed memorabilia, decor, and UFO to fresh, vivid wildflowers each spring. sightings a traveler could want. Caliente, a town Getting There Is Half the Fun with full services 93 miles north of Alamo on Great Basin is approximately 300 miles U.S. 93, has an imposing mission-style railroad north of Las Vegas on U. S. Highway 93 station and other historic buildings. Continue
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23 miles north on U.S. 93 through Cathedral Gorge State Park with its dramatic eroded clay spires to the county seat of Pioche. Once a classic wild west mining town, where 75 gunshot victims were buried in the cemetery before the internment of the first person to die a natural death, Pioche now preserves its mining ghost town as a tourist attraction along with an historic main street and modern amenities including a museum, golf, and opera house. Ely, 107 miles north of Pioche, and just an hour west of Great Basin, is the tourist hub of the area, with rides on restored steam locomotive trains, a local history museum, and the restored six-story Hotel Nevada and Gambling Hall, with rooms themed after the celebrity movie stars who once visited. One hour east on U.S. 50 from Ely is the town of Baker, the gateway to Great Basin National Park, with accommodations, food, local crafts, and a casino.
Geography, Flora, and Fauna Great Basin Nation Park, established in 1986, takes its name from the unusual hydrological nature of the Great Basin of Nevada and western Utah. The Great Basin is what is called an endorheic area, meaning that rather than flowing to the sea, rivers, streams, and rain drain internally, either sinking into the ground or flowing into salty lakes, the most famous of which is the Great Salt Lake. This austerely arid area looks from the air like a crumpled piece of paper in a camouflage design of pale Continued on pg. 18
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greens and browns, with a hard-packed desert for day hikes and a sleeping bag that can floor covered with pale gray-green sagebrush, handle freezing temperatures. Practically, to Home Improvement & Lifestyle hills carpeted with dark green pinyon and deal with the arid and quickly-changing climate juniper trees, giving way to hardy pines, Simply Savers conditions, you should layer quick-drying aspens, and spruces on mountain slopes. The wicking fabrics and fleece and remember to Feedback iconic gnarled bristlecone pines, the world’s drink plenty of water, even when you don’t feel oldest living trees, some of which have survived thirsty. for over 4,900 years, grow between 9,000 and Outdoor and Underground Scenery 11,500 feet, often on exposed, rocky slopes. endar Of Events Your outdoor adventures at the park can be as active or as sedentary and you wish. The During the day, at lower elevations you will Calendar Of Events 12-mile paved Wheeler Peak Scenic Drive see lizards and the birds that prey on them. takes you up to 10,000 feet above sea level, As dusk brings with it the pure blackness passing from the high desert through pinyonand profusion of stars blanketing the sky juniper forest to Alpine ecosystems, and ending that can only be seen remote from the bright Remembering Nevada above treeline with a panoramic view of the lights of big cities, the larger fauna wake up. surrounding area. The summer-only gravel Twilight and dawn bring out herds of mule Baker Creek Road leads to a trailhead with deer, bighorn sheep, and pronghorn antelope, Happy Holidays and in their wake, packs of coyotes singing in eerie choruses as they hunt, and an occasional rare mountain lion. Lucky visitors in remote campgrounds may catch a glimpse of the more elusive bobcats and ringtail cats (a smaller and more delicate species of raccoon, rather than a true cat).
Climate Great Basin has four true seasons, with hot summers and cold, snowy winters. The 8,000foot altitude difference between the lowest and highest points in the park means that you can, to a degree, choose your weather by varying your elevation. A general rule of thumb is that every thousand foot increase in elevation corresponds to a three to five degree decrease in temperature. On a July day, when it is 85 degrees at the visitor center, the top of Wheeler peak might be a balmy 65 degrees. Deserts cool off rapidly at night, meaning that even in the summer you need a warm jacket
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access to wildflower meadows. If you want to get out of your car and explore on foot, you can choose among 14 designated trails, ranging from several short (.25 to 1.5 mile) nature trails to long day or short overnight hikes. If you are an experienced backpacker, free permits allow you to explore the backcountry at your leisure. Some of the best choices are the one-mile Lexington Arch Trail leading to a six-story limestone arch and the two 3-mile trails through the bristlecone pine forest. The strenuous Wheeler Peak Summit Trail, at 5 miles long with a 3,000-foot elevation gain, is quite steep and rugged, but rewards the experienced hiker with panoramic views from a summit 13,063 feet above sea level. In winter, consult with park staff concerning safety and access before exploring snow-covered trails on snow shoes or cross-country skis. You can escape inclement weather with a 1.5 hour guided tour of Lehman Caves, with their dramatic limestone flowstone, popcorn, stalactite, stalagmite, helictite, and shield formations. Check with the park staff for ranger-guided activities from nature walks to star-gazing.
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Grape Expectations provides the education of wine making in a fun environment By Mike Henle www.mikehenle.com It’s August and a busy time at Grape Expectations. Some 5,000 winemakers are planning their scheduled stops at Grape Expectations ordering grapes, which are harvested in the North Coast American Vitircultural area for processing at Grape Expectations in September. The facility situated at 7360 Eastgate Rd., Suite 125, in Henderson has become the hotspot for people who want to have fun while learning about what makes the wine business so enjoyable. In a world rife with issues and setbacks nowadays, a sign saying “Don’t whine; drink
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wine” is sure to be on the wall somewhere at Grape Expectations. For thousands of enthusiasts each year, making wine has become a ritual in a facility that might be better known as the “Disneyland of Grapes”. Grape Expectations opened in 2005 after the Nevada Legislature approved the bill that would allow a wine making school in Nevada. “It took us some time to convince people that we were legitimate,” recalls Patty Peters, who joined her husband, Charlie, a well- known mixologist and bar manager. “We opened the doors in February of 2007 with Not That Old And Loving It!
70 barrels,” recalled Patty, who Charlie named “Chief Wine Wench.” “We were serious about what we were doing, although we had no idea the economy was about to collapse. We would have gone ahead with the idea even if we had known the pending disaster was imminent.” In what may be the perfect example that every dream is met with a challenge, Charlie and Patty decided to move their operations to its current location, an 11,000 square-foot facility that measures about four times the size of the original building. “There were multiple reasons why we survived,” Patty recalled, adding that the science of wine making is fascinating. “Charlie died right after we moved into the new building. Between his death and the economy crashing, we had our hands full, but we survived because of our winemakers who believed in us. “In addition, after Charlie died, we were either going to make it or break it. Without Charlie, we were in no-man’s land. The move was not without a leap and a prayer.” Meanwhile, Grape Expectations is going fullspeed ahead setting the pace and attracting
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huge followings that range in age from 21 to 91. Grape Expectations consists of several key employees including veteran PR guy and wine aficionado KJ Howe, the former head of the Mint 400 off-road race and a U.S. Army veteran who did tours in Vietnam, Germany, Korea, and the Republic of China; along with Production Guy Chad Evans, and co-owner general manager Mike Schoenbaechler. “Grape Expectations is a very fun educational experience,” said Howe, now 78. “It’s cool because of the unique way we present the curriculum. We keep the snobbishness out by teaching the wine making process in a lighthearted manner capitalizing on the essential elements of the process. “Our customers are the students and they
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do everything including crushing the grapes, fermenting, pressing, barreling, racking and bottling nine months later. That way, they all understand fully the process and the nine-month period required to create 240 bottles of wine.” The gang at Grape Expectations is opening the Vegas Valley Winery that is adjacent to the wine making school. The winery will afford customers a wine lounge and tasting bar that is due to open around the end of September. From front to back, Grape Expectations and Vegas Valley Winery has it all covered. Evidence that Grape Expectations has reached the pinnacle of wine making is the customers who frequent the facility including former Metro Lieutenant Chris Carroll and former off-road racer Kenny Cox.
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Grape Expectations Professor of Yeastologist KJ Howe, center, is seen with wine makers Kenny Cox, left, and Chris Carroll.
“I had taken some wine classes when I was a cop,” Carroll said. “I knew Patty for 20 years because we both worked at Metro. I heard that her husband was opening Grape Expectations and I was immediately intrigued. I ended up joining Grape Expectations as a customer and wanted to learn more about wine so I enrolled at Sommelier wine school.”
Cox, whose family has been in the plumbing business since 1965, loves the experience.
Carroll, 52, discovered the fun of wine school in 2011 and he’s been hooked ever since.
“I enjoy a good glass of wine, but I also appreciate the technical side of making wine. We have been making wine since 2009.”
“We’re all close friends at Grape Expectations,” said Carroll. “There is no such thing as a bad day at Grape Expectations, which adopted Regan as the junior professor. “I come-and-go and we’re all kind of at the geek level. “Being a cop can be very stressful, and I found that Grape Expectations is the ideal therapy.”
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“They are great people and it’s nice to get a group of people together and have some fun,” said the 61 year-old Cox, who moved to Las Vegas in 1961. “You cannot have a bad time when hanging out at Grape Expectations.
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LVCVA Celebrates Happy Holidays 100th Birthday of Bill Darwin By Oscar B. Goodman, LVCVA Host Committee Chairman
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) August board of directors meeting featured a very exciting surprise presentation- a special recognition in honor of the LVCVA’s eldest staff member, soon-to-be 100 year-old, Bill Darwin. That’s an achievement we can all aspire to! An LVCVA employee since September 2008, Darwin works for the organization’s registration services to help staff various meetings, events and trade shows throughout the destination. He has worked for 102 shows in the destination via the LVCVA. When the LVCVA staff learned Bill was turning 100, the organization wanted to find memorable ways to honor and thank him for the incredible customer service he provides to Las Vegas’ valued visitors. In addition to recognizing Darwin’s birthday at the August LVCVA board of directors meeting, the LVCVA honored him with a special award for
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the incredible customer service he provides to Las Vegas’ visitors. Earlier this year, Darwin was also featured in a special edition of the LVCVA’s ‘Tourism Matters” video series. His video has received millions of views on social media, which has even helped him gain recognition when he is out-and-about in our community. Many times, Darwin is also asked to stop and pose for photos with admirers. Darwin is an inspiration to the LVCVA, our community and thousands of visitors the nearly 43 million visitors that travel to the destination each year. Darwin says interacting with the high volume of convention attendees, including the many international visitors who travel to Las Vegas for business, keeps him young and healthy. What’s the secret to Darwin’s good health and vivacity? He claims maintaining a simple lifestyle, moderate exercise schedule and avoiding stress are the Continued on pg. 28 Not That Old And Loving It!
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