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NOTEWORTHY STORIES
PLANNING FOR AN EMERGENCY
ON THE COVER Technology to harness the sun has improved to the point where it threatens power company’s profits.
It’s not something any of us wants to think about, but in the event of a natural disaster, house fire or other emergency that requires evacuation, every home should be prepared. In five minutes, we’ll make you an expert on all the items you’ll need in your emergency kit and to-go bag.
NEVADA’S SOLAR CEILING
Advocates of solar power have taken their cause to Carson City, fighting to eliminate NV Energy’s cap on net metering. But the utility has fought back, arguing that the more people use solar power, the more users of the traditional energy grid will have to pay so the power company can maintain its profits.
BOSS BEARDS
Competitors in the Whiskerino Contest at Helldorado Days get creative with their facial hair in a quest to earn such titles as most unique beard and audience favorite.
BACKYARD GAMES
IN THIS TOGETHER
Cornhole and beer pong are staples at tailgating parties and backyard barbecues, but for those looking for a new game to get guests’ competitive juices flowing, we break down the rules and costs of putting together some lesser-known games: beersbee, washer toss and ladder golf.
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Sara Hill and Jill Murray wanted to fill a void in Las Vegas. The city needed an idea accelerator, they thought, so they created The Mill, where tech entrepreneurs share inspiration and help each other develop new businesses.
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Jury still out on Hardy’s style The surprise winner of Nevada’s 4th Congressional District race plays with fire, shooting from the hip during public speaking engagements.
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Angels in the Valley: Marianne Schwartz and George Barnett For two humble Henderson residents, serving U.S. veterans is personal.
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A man leaves with a Riviera souvenir during a liquidation sale at the closed casino. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF)
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Immigration activists staged their third rally to denounce state Attorney General Adam Laxalt’s decision to join a lawsuit challenging a federal deportation deferral plan.
The Teamsters union that represents valet workers picketed outside SLS Las Vegas over claims that three workers were fired for trying to unionize.
Gov. Brian Sandoval signed Senate Bill 9, paving the way for the state gaming industry to incorporate skill into slot machines.
Rick Harrison of “Pawn Stars” will host a fundraiser for GOP presidential hopeful Sen. Marco Rubio. Harrison is a vocal critic of President Barack Obama.
A 5.28-magnitude earthquake struck near Caliente in Lincoln County, more than 100 miles from Las Vegas, at 11:47 a.m. Southern Nevadans took to Twitter to share that they’d felt it.
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New Metro Police officers welcomed to the department. Metro had a ceremony at the Orleans for the recruits, who had been training since November. Twenty are minorities, and 13 are military veterans.
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Neil Diamond, 74, was energetic throughout a twohour performance with a five-song encore May 17 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. (CHRISTOPHER DEVARGAS/STAFF)
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LASER MYSTERY A Frontier Airlines crew member said a plane was struck by a green laser during landing preparations near McCarran International Airport. The plane was about six miles from the airport at 3,800 feet when it was hit by the beam about 2 a.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration. A crew member said a pilot suffered an eye injury, but the airline denied the pilot was injured. The plane landed safely.
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SCHOOLS SEE MORE HOMELESS CHILDREN Clark County School District officials say the number of unaccompanied homeless youths attending school in the district has jumped more than 50 percent since last year. The students aren’t under the care of their parents or legal guardians; many live on the streets, in shelters, in motels or in foster care. Officials say the jump is due in part to students being more willing to reach out for help and make their situations known.
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Staphylococcus bacteria was found on shower floors in two Las Vegas city pool facilities, though no bacteria was detected in the pools. City officials conducted the tests after staph bacteria was reported in the water of a Clark County pool. The bathrooms were disinfected and power washed, city officials said.
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WATER CUTS COULD BE COMING By January 2017, Lake Mead’s elevation could dip below the point that would trigger cuts in water supplies for Nevada and Arizona, a new report by federal water managers showed. If cuts were to occur, Las Vegas likely would lose access to about 4 percent of the water it gets from the Colorado River.
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Record number of students who graduated from the College of Southern Nevada. The 2015 class was the community college’s largest ever. Thirty-six percent of the students graduated with honors.
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1 CLARK COUNTY IS VULNERABLE TO BOTH NATURAL AND MAN-MADE DISASTERS: Earthquakes Explosions Floods Hazardous material spills Power failures Storms Severe heat Terrorism Wildfires
HAVE A PLAN Talking to your family about how to prepare for a disaster is a crucial step to ensuring their safety in an emergency. q Pick two meeting places, one for a sudden emergency (a spot outside your house in case of a fire, for example) and one in case you or other family members can’t return home. For those situations, choose a location with a known address and phone number outside your neighborhood. q Plan transportation for children or people who may not have access to a car. q Pick an out-of-state family contact. It can be a family member or a friend. In an emergency situation, it’s often easier to reach someone outside the affected area. Family members should call the person to update their status and location. Make sure every member of your family knows the contact’s information.
WILL YOU BE READY? BY ANDREA DOMANICK STAFF WRITER
Southern Nevada may not be prone to tornadoes and blizzards, but there still are plenty of reasons to make sure you and your family are prepared in case of an emergency. ¶ If disaster strikes, would you know what to do? ¶ Here’s what you need to be prepared:
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KEEP EMERGENCY CONTACTS ON HAND Police/fire/medical emergencies: 911 Las Vegas Fire & Rescue headquarters (nonemergency number): 702-383-2888
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT Las Vegas: 702-229-6501 Clark County: 702-455-5710 Henderson: 702-267-2212 North Las Vegas: 702-633-1125
Las Vegas emergency hotline: 702-382-5378 Emergency road conditions: 1-877-687-6237 Federal Bureau of Investigation: 702-385-1281 American Red Cross: 702-791-3311 Flood Hotline: 702-455-5195 Southern Nevada Health District: 702-759-1000 Las Vegas Valley Water District: 702-870-2011 NV Energy (to report outage or emergency): 702-402-2900
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KEEP TRACK OF IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS Store copies of important personal and family documents in a portable waterproof container. Include the following: q Will q Deeds q Passports, Social Security cards q Important telephone numbers q Immunization records q Bank account numbers q Credit card account numbers and companies q Insurance policies, inventory of valuable household goods q Family records (birth, marriage, death certificates)
Southwest Gas Company (emergency): 702-365-1111
ENTERTAINMENT Store playing cards or board games to help pass the time and take people’s minds off the situation.
DOES THIS SEEM LIKE A LOT TO DO AT ONCE? The Southern Nevada Health District offers a six-month plan to help you stock up gradually on emergency items. Visit southernnevadahealthdistrict. org/php/calendar.php for more information.
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3 PREPARE AN EMERGENCY KIT + A GO BAG The Southern Nevada Health District recommends preparing a disaster supply kit with enough items to sustain your family for three to seven days. In addition, keep a separate “go bag” handy in case of evacuation. A go bag is a smaller version of your disaster supply kit that you can grab easily and take with you in case you need to leave your home. Store the items in something portable, such as a camping backpack, duffel bag or light storage container, and keep one go bag at home and one in the trunk of your car. Both your go bag and home disaster supply kit should be stocked with six basic items at all times:
WATER
CLOTHING AND BEDDING
THREE GALLONS PER PERSON
ONE FULL OUTFIT PER PERSON
One gallon of water per person per day — two quarts for drinking, two for sanitation. Keep at least a threeday supply per person. Children, seniors, nursing mothers and people who are ill will need more, so store extra if they are part of your household. Store water in sturdy plastic or metal containers. Avoid containers that can break or decompose, such as glass or cartons.
Include one complete change of clothing and footwear per person, plus something to sleep on. Recommended items: q Sturdy shoes or work boots q Rain gear q Blankets or sleeping bags q Hat and gloves q Thermal underwear q Sunglasses
KEEP SUPPLIES FRESH Store your disaster supply kit in a convenient location that is known and can be accessed by all family members. All items should be stored in airtight plastic bags. Water and food should be switched out every six months. Nonperishable supplies such as batteries and clothing should be evaluated and changed once a year, as needed. Consult with your physician or pharmacist about storing prescription medications, and periodically check the expiration dates of overthe-counter medications.
FOOD THREE-DAY SUPPLY PER PERSON Choose foods that are nonperishable and easy to store, meaning they require no refrigeration, preparation or cooking. The Southern Nevada Health District recommends a selection of the following: q Ready-to-eat canned meats, fruits and vegetables q Canned juices, milk, soup (if powdered, store extra water) q Sugar, salt, pepper q High-energy foods such as peanut butter, jelly, crackers, granola bars, trail mix q Vitamins q Food for infants, elderly people or people on special diets q Comfort foods such as cookies, hard candy, sweetened cereals, lollipops, instant coffee, tea bags
FIRST-AID SUPPLIES ONE KIT IN YOUR HOME AND ONE PER VEHICLE Each kit should include the following: q Sterile adhesive bandages in assorted sizes q 2-inch sterile gauze pads (4-6) q 4-inch sterile gauze pads (4-6) q Hypoallergenic adhesive tape q Triangular bandages (3) q 2-inch sterile roller bandages (3 rolls) q 3-inch sterile roller bandages (3 rolls) q Scissors q Tweezers q A needle q Moistened towelettes q Antiseptic q Thermometer q Tongue blades (2) q Petroleum jelly or other lubricant q Assorted sizes of safety pins q Soap q Latex gloves (2 pairs) q Sunscreen q Aspirin or pain reliever q Anti-diarrhea medication q Antacid q Laxative q Activated charcoal (use if advised by the Poison Control Center) q A basic first-aid manual (available at your local Red Cross)
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TOOLS AND EMERGENCY SUPPLIES Keep the following in a toolbox Keep a separate or portable container: kit for sanitary q Mess kits or paper cups and supplies: plates and plastic utensils q Toilet paper q Emergency preparedness (one roll for manual every two q Battery-operated radio and people) extra batteries q Soap, liquid q Flashlight and extra batteries detergent q Cash or traveler’s checks, q Feminine change supplies q Nonelectric can opener, q Personal utility knife hygiene items q Fire extinguisher (small q Plastic canister, ABC type) garbage bags q Tube tent with ties (to q Pliers dispose of q Tape waste) q Compass q Plastic bucket q Matches in a waterproof with tight lid container q Disinfectant q Aluminum foil q Chlorine q Plastic storage containers bleach q Signal flare q Paper, pencil q Needles, thread q Medicine dropper q Whistle q Plastic sheeting q Map of the area (for locating shelters)
SPECIAL ITEMS Remember to store items for family members with special needs, such as infants, seniors, disabled people and people with illnesses. For babies: q Formula q Diapers q Bottles q Powdered milk q Medications
For adults: q Daily and emergency medications (ex. heart and high blood pressure medication, insulin) q Other prescription drugs q Dentures and supplies q Contact lenses and supplies q Extra eyeglasses
4 DON’T FORGET TO PLAN FOR YOUR PETS Be sure to store items for your pet in your main emergency supply kit. Include food stored in a sturdy container (the Southern Nevada Health District recommends dry, unappealing food to prevent overeating), medications, a large-capacity self-feeder and water dispenser, and kitty litter. Some shelters or veterinary offices may take care of pets in an emergency, but many emergency shelters refuse animals, so determine a safe place in your home to leave your pet if needed. Avoid choosing a room with windows, which could break, or with items that could fall on your pet. If possible, select a room with high counters or tall furniture that a pet can jump on in case of flooding. Set up separate locations for dogs and cats. If you do have to leave your pet, leave familiar items such as toys and bedding, along with a three-day supply of dry food and water in sturdy containers the pet can’t overturn.
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BATTLE FOR POWER Consumer choice is at risk as NV Energy fights to keep rooftop solar from cutting into its profit
BY GAUTHAM THOMAS AND KYLE ROERINK | STAFF WRITERS
he future of solar energy in Nevada is at stake in a furious battle that likely won’t be resolved as the 2015 state legislative session nears an end next month. Solar advocates, Nevada businesses and solar industry reps are pushing for more rooftop solar, saying it’s unfair to force consumers to remain chained to the grid and warning that the state could lose thousands of jobs if it doesn’t adapt. State utility NV Energy claims more household solar means increased prices for traditional customers who can’t or won’t install solar panels on their houses or businesses. Much of the fight revolves around Nevada’s cap on net metering, an arrangement by which people with rooftop solar can sell extra power they generate back to the grid. Nevada is likely to hit its limit as early as this summer, solar advocates say, which will make it less advantageous for homeowners to tap the enormous solar energy potential of Southern Nevada. The Legislature seems to have sided with NV Energy. On May 17, it passed a solar bill that failed to raise the cap
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but gave Nevada’s regulatory Public Utilities Commission the ability to levy new fees on net metering customers who come online after the cap is hit. The new fees seem intended to protect NV Energy’s income from what the company has characterized as an unfair subsidy at the expense of nonsolar ratepayers. While NV Energy, owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, battles to keep the cap in place, it’s also fighting on another front. A consortium of casinos and businesses is looking to leave NV Energy’s grid and start generating their own power, saying they’re being placed at a competitive disadvantage because they’re paying more for energy than their business rivals in nearby states. The state Public Utilities Commission has said it would charge hefty fees — $27 million in the case of Las Vegas data center Switch — to let industrial ratepayers leave the system. Meanwhile, the utility is facing another threat in the form of technological advances. Tesla’s Powerwall unit, a relatively cheap storage battery that can charge up on solar power, can help business operators and homeowners reduce their reliance on the grid — or, for the very wealthy, leave it altogether.
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Number of customers who participate in the net metering program statewide.
WHAT IS NET METERING?
The solar energy policy fight in Nevada revolves around a net metering cap, a limit on the amount of solar power that can be bought back from people or institutions with renewable energy systems.
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If a home or business generates more power from the sun than it uses in a month, NV Energy will buy the extra at retail power rates and give the customer a credit, the net of their power usage and power production. That means a homeowner with solar panels may be able to run his or her house largely on solar energy during the day and resell what he or she doesn’t use to the grid, seeing real reductions in energy costs.
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CENTRALIZED GENERATION When a utility builds large-scale solar plants, such as one under construction at Nellis Air Force Base
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Inverter converts energy from panels into usable energy for home
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Average annual base cost for traditional power: $1,359.13 Estimated annual savings from net metering: $271.83 Extra energy not used by the home is sent back to the grid
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ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST LEGISLATIVE CHANGES TO SOLAR
THE FUTURE OF RESIDENTIAL SOLAR POWER?
Some say an increase in rooftop solar production would cause the traditional grid to collapse, others say solar would help meet power needs and help the state reach alternative energy mandates Senate Bill 374, passed May 17, states that once the net metering cap is hit, new net metering customers will have to pay an additional tariff, to be determined by the Nevada Public Utilities Commission. That means anyone who installs a solar system on a roof after the cap is hit will pay higher rates to use and sell solar energy than net metering customers do now, though how much higher remains unclear. A bill proposed this year to raise the cap from 3 percent to 10 per cent never passed. State Sen. Patricia Farley discussed an amendment to SB374 that would pass authority over the cap to the utilities commission, but the amendment wasn’t included in the final version of the bill. Solar industry representatives say the cap must be raised to allow for consumer choice and more industry jobs. “(People’s) consumer choices are driving the growth of a homegrown industry,” said Will Craven, a spokesperson for SolarCity, a solar power system provider and installer. “Rooftop solar jobs by definition must happen in-state.” Several solar advocates point to a study commissioned by the Nevada Public Utilities Commission as proving net metering benefits all customers — those who generate energy and traditional customers. What the state’s study, released last year, actually said was that it’s probably a wash. Net metering probably won’t ultimately cost nonparticipants more. Distributed generation may be more expensive than building large utility-scale solar plants, but Nevada is required to source 25 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2025, and power from net metering customers may offset the cost of buying renewable power or building more renewable energy plants. Many experts question whether distributed generation is the most cost-effective route for the state to invest in clean energy. Severin Borenstein, a University of California, Berkeley economist who specializes in energy regulation and energy markets, said neither solar industry advocates nor the public utility are being honest about real costs. With distributed generation, Borenstein said, “You lose the economies of scale. And the economies of scale are really large. The economics overall pretty clearly favor grid-scale generation, both wind and solar.” Borenstein said the way net metering is structured is indeed a subsidy. “You’re basically giving them (net metering customers) retail price credit for putting power into the grid,” Borenstein said. “If (the credit for power) were at wholesale rates, it wouldn’t be a subsidy.” Proper rate design — crafting fees to reflect the true costs and benefits of individual solar power generation — is key to fairness, Borenstein said. “Utilities say if you keep installing solar, the grid’s going to collapse and we’re going to go out of business,” Borenstein said. “There really isn’t much chance of that, and we should be a having a discussion about that, whether that’s the best way to put in renewables. Instead, you get politicians who are either boosting utilities or playing to the residential photovoltaic advocates with all this free consumer choice stuff. It’s not true consumer choice if you can just fall back on the grid and the rates don’t reflect the cost.” But in the fight between the utility and solar industry advocates, experts say, a real public discussion of the costs of distributed generation versus utility-scale clean power from solar and wind plants is being lost.
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he basics of solar photovoltaic panels have been around for more than a century, but it’s only recently that the price of a solar power system has dropped sharply, along with steady increases in efficiency. That’s due to economies of scale. As incentive systems provide subsidies at the federal and state levels to manufacture solar systems and to make it more affordable to buy them, more production means each unit produced becomes cheaper. But “at night, when the sun doesn’t shine or the wind doesn’t blow … you will still need NV Energy to power your home,” an NV Energy customer fact sheet reads. That’s because solar power, and electricity in general, has historically proven difficult to store. One of the most useful things about net metering is that NV Energy can pull power from distributed generation to send to people who need it if the grid has a large power demand. But the energy has to be used or lost. Thanks to Tesla’s recent unveiling of its Powerwall battery systems, however, homeowners now have a way to store energy from rooftop panels, providing an opportunity to reduce their dependence on the grid or break off of it completely. Although going off the grid would still be prohibitively expensive for most people, as it would require thousands of dollars for installation costs and the purchase of an inverter and multiple Powerwall batteries, the system was a step forward for consumer choice.
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Solar systems pay off in a couple of ways: through a 30 percent tax credit from the federal government for equipment and installation costs, and through energy cost savings.
IT COMES DOWN TO MONEY FOR BOTH SIDES
Major solar system providers offer financing and leases. In the case of leases, the company claims the tax credit. Leasing is worthwhile if energy savings from net metering and solar usage, along with your lease payment, add up to less than your previous energy bill.
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Powerwall owners can network up to nine units together, covering either 63 kilowatthours of energy or 90 kilowatt-hours, depending on the unit type. That’s more than enough to cover an average home’s daily energy needs, though charging the batteries would depend on the solar array to which they’re connected.
Since peak hours of sunlight are during the middle of the day and peak usage is during the morning and evening when most people are home, solar power systems may not do much to reduce usage when they’re needed most. Batteries like the Powerwall store power generated when sunlight is greatest to be used when sunlight is scarce but the need for power is high. The battery can work without a solar system to store electricity as a backup system, similar to a generator. Attached to a solar system’s inverter, however, it becomes far more flexible. As a solar power system generates electricity, the Powerwall stores it.
SOLAR POWER CONS Solar power systems can be expensive. The cost depends on the size of your home, the availability of sunlight and the kind of system installed. Systems for an average-sized home can cost $15,000 to $18,000, according to solar installer Sunrun. And not all homes can support them. Solar systems require a roof in good repair, the ability for the system to face mostly south for the best solar gathering and shade-free access to sunlight.
UNKNOWN SOLAR POWER COST VARIABLES The federal tax credit is scheduled to drop to 10 percent in 2016, and if Nevada hits the net metering cap later this year, a home with a newly installed solar system will not receive energy bill credits for electricity sold back to the grid. Without the tax credit, solar power systems will cost more up front. Without net metering credits, the system won’t generate cost savings in the same way.
SOURCES: U.S. ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION, NC CLEAN ENERGY CENTER DATABASE OF STATE INCENTIVES FOR RENEWABLES & EFFICIENCY
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It’s all about dollars for both the solar industry and NV Energy. The utility says ratepayers will be charged an additional $8 million for every percentage point the net metering cap increases. Rooftop solar customers receive a credit worth about 7 cents per kilowatt-hour for powering their homes and the grid with solar electricity. That credit is an incentive to go solar, but it’s also a means for consuming less power from NV Energy, biting into the company’s profit. The solar industry says a tariff and lockedin cap rate will kill the majority of the 6,000 jobs the industry brought to Nevada over the past five years and will limit consumer choice. Early in the legislative session, NV Energy unloaded a team of lobbyists to squelch any attempt to raise the cap. Solar followed with its own lobbying effort, congregating with a consortium of gaming and tech interests. The battle heated up after a bill draft to raise the cap to 10 percent died without a single public hearing or vote. Solar advocates met with lawmakers and the governor — whose outside advisers lobby for NV Energy — but had little success. Now, as time winds down in the session, only one solution is on the table — a punt. Republican Sen. Patricia Farley’s amendment to a building codes bill would allow the Public Utilities Commission to raise the solar cap and to impose up to three tariffs on net metering customers. The eleventh-hour measure was the only way to save the solar industry this session, Farley said. “It gave the solar industry a vehicle to start a discussion,” Farley said. The amendment cleared the Senate and is moving through the Assembly. The compromise is not ideal for companies such as SolarCity and Sunrun, which lease solar panels to customers who participate in net metering. Industry officials say proposed fees could hurt business by discouraging people from participating in a net metering program. Rooftop customers — who pay bills to both the utility and solar companies — pay about 20 percent less for solar than conventional energy, and the fees, industry leaders say, could bite into their cost savings. Adding fees and restricting the cap would be a big win for Berkshire Hathaway Energy and one of its few net metering successes nationally. Berkshire failed to impose caps in Utah and Washington. Arizona instituted a $5 to $7 net metering charge for homeowners. A fee is pending in Wisconsin. Colorado has no cap and no fees. In other words, utility companies in more than 40 states have unsuccessfully fought to eliminate net metering or impose fees.
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Las Vegas-based data center Switch will have to pay $27 million to leave the energy grid and produce its own power, the Public Utilities Commission has ruled. (COURTESY)
HOW THE REGULATED MONOPOLY CAME TO BE In exchange for building power plants, power lines, distribution networks and maintaining electrical systems, Nevada, like many states, gives public utilities an authorized rate of return. Here, that rate is about 8 percent, authorized by the Nevada Public Utilities Commission. NV Energy’s net income in 2014 was about $354 million, according to Berkshire Hathaway Energy’s SEC filings. NV Energy did not respond to a request for comment on this story. Giving a utility a regulated monopoly over generating and providing power is a compromise. The utility gets a guaranteed profit and in return gives access to everyone who needs it and ensures capacity for all users. It’s the commission that holds the utilities to the bargain, said Stephen Brown, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at UNLV. “The utility doesn’t have an incentive to operate in the community interest,” Brown said. “That doesn’t mean they don’t, but that’s not their economic incentive. We’re relying on the utility commission to make sure that the utility operates in the public interest.” More rooftop solar production means more competition for NV Energy. The way competition disrupts the energy industry parallels the shift in the telecommunications industry, said Steven Weissman, director of the energy program at UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment. “It started with one monopoly utility and a black rotary dial phone in everybody’s home,” said Weissman, referring to AT&T and its monopoly on the U.S. telephone system until its breakup in 1984. By 1996, Weissman said, Congress forced companies to provide competitors access to infrastructure. And the emergence of mobile phone technology made the fight
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over access to landline infrastructure obsolete. “Now you have a whole generation of people who decide not to get a landline,” Weissman said. “If the phone companies were able to gain anything by resisting opening their networks to competitive providers, it was something of only limited duration. They didn’t create something that preserved their business model long-term.” The way AT&T and its descendents adapted to the loss of their monopoly was to spread into the broadband and mobile sectors, but big electric utilities have been comparatively slow to adapt to competition from new ways of producing power. “What utilities are doing is instinctively looking for ways to take this pesky new technology and bat it away,” Weissman said. SOME COMPANIES WANT TO PRODUCE THEIR OWN POWER, BUT QUITTING THE GRID COMES AT A COST A group of Nevada companies wants to break from NV Energy and stop paying the utility for energy. Instead, the companies want to start generating and purchasing their own power and quit the grid. The group calls itself the Nevada Coalition to Protect Ratepayers and includes Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts, solar companies SolarCity and Sunrun, and Switch. The utilities commission ruled this month that Switch would have to pay $27 million to leave the grid. Switch has asserted it should pay about $18 million. Borenstein said exit fees weren’t unjustified. “I’m sympathetic to the Public Utilities Commission’s view,” Borenstein said. “I would be suspicious of numbers utilities put out, but I don’t think it should be free for customers to just walk away … (They) built the grid to support customers, and there’s all these sunk
costs. There may be stranded assets for which costs have to be recovered. When you leave, you have to bear some of those costs.” Yet the combination of limits on net metering programs and high exit fees seems to leave companies squeezed in the middle. Switch has said its energy costs in Nevada are 30 percent higher than competitors’ in nearby states. Some energy companies elsewhere are adapting to new technology and demands for clean energy and more distributed generation. In California, public utility Southern California Edison is testing how to integrate Tesla Powerwall users, both residential and commercial, with its grid. The utility is performing test runs with a small number of Powerwall users to see if the batteries can, in aggregate, be helpful to Edison’s grid needs. “The idea would be: How could a residential storage unit be used to help the grid?” said Kevin Payne, the utility’s senior vice president for customer service. “We could take power (from battery units) when necessary or inject power when it would be helpful to do that.” Payne said the ability to control a customer’s energy requirements or regulate the way customers pump power back into the grid could be a significant resource for the utility if battery storage users increase. In contrast to NV Energy’s resistance to distributed generation, Payne said Southern California Edison is adapting its vision for its power grid to incorporate new technological advances its customers might use. “The grid of the future is going to need to be upgraded and modernized,” Payne said. “Today … power flows from the top to the bottom. Going forward, the grid is going to have different characteristics: generation, solar or other, batteries, demand response. It’s going to require upgrades to the grid to see what’s happening and manage the two-way flow of power.”
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Jury still out on Hardy’s shoot-from-the-hip style Surprise winner of 4th Congressional District plays with fire in public speaking engagements BY ANA LEY STAFF WRITER
ABOUT CRESENT HARDY Background: Hardy was born June 23, 1957, and raised in a Mesquite farming community with cattle, horses and pigs on his father’s ranch. Religion: Hardy is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Education: He graduated from Virgin Valley High School and attended Utah’s Dixie State College (now known as Dixie State University). Career: Hardy has served as Mesquite public works director, a Mesquite City Council member and a two-term state assemblyman. He runs a small business as a construction contractor. Family: He and his wife, Peri, have been married for 32 years and have four children: Kagen, Archer, Stacha and Vonae. Hobbies: Hunting, fishing and traveling.
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Cresent Hardy hasn’t prepared a speech, so the characteristically blunt congressman shoots from the hip. “You know, the opportunities that arise in your life, you sometimes never expect them to happen,” Hardy tells a group of workers at the United Parcel Service sorting facility near downtown Las Vegas. “So you don’t know what happens, but (you have to) be prepared for it in one way or the other.” To the chagrin of his campaign staff, Hardy is an unpolished speaker prone to occasional blunders. Today, Hardy admits he’s not ready to address the crowd, then stresses the importance of preparation. But interactions like these are a chance for Hardy, a Mesquite Republican who is most at home in rural Nevada, to connect with the densely populated, heavily minority, Democratic-leaning portion of his district, which includes North Las Vegas and several rural, central counties. He has to take advantage of such opportunities if he expects to keep his job longer than his one-term predecessor. A SURPRISE WIN A year ago, Hardy’s win was unthinkable. His victory over Democratic incumbent Steven Horsford was one of the most surprising outcomes of November’s midterm elections, when Nevada Democrats watched in horror as the state switched from blue to red. Until about a month before the election, Horsford seemed well on his way to an easy win in the state’s newest district, whose constituent base is a hodgepodge of innercity and desert dwellers scattered over nearly half the state. Republicans seemed to barely put up a fight by nominating Hardy, a rural assemblyman who lacked name recognition and funding. Hardy’s chances seemed doomed during a September fundraiser, when he told donors he agreed with Mitt Romney’s infamous comment that 47 percent of Americans take no personal re-
sponsibility but “believe the government has a responsibility to care for them.” But Hardy, like other state GOP candidates, managed to ride a national red wave. Sensing an advantage, Republican operatives pounced into action. Hardy’s team even used a Horsford campaign ad narrated by President Barack Obama to feed the resentment. Although voters in Hardy’s district had voted for Obama by a margin of 10 percentage points in 2012 and chosen Horsford over Republican Danny Tarkanian in 2010 by an 8-point margin, Hardy won. Democrats, who are notoriously bad at mobilizing during midterm elections, failed to turn out in large numbers. THE REAL WORK BEGINS Hardy now is in the position of representing a district that, at least on paper, seems to favor Democrats. Of the 310,000 registered voters in the 4th Congressional District, about 133,000 are registered Democrats, about 99,000 are Republicans and about 72,000 are independents or nonpartisans, state records show. The district is politically, geographically and demographically diverse, with a minority population concentrated in urban North Las Vegas. It demands balance. Hardy, so far, has voted mostly in line with his party, although he did vote against repealing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which grants deportation relief to certain undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as children. Hardy points to constituent services as proof he’s sensitive to his district’s varying needs. Staffers in Hardy’s Las Vegas office set up residents with immigration paperwork, veteran services and Medicare assistance. Hardy says he wants to gain the loyalty of his constituents by serving them directly and meeting them personally. “That’s how you get to the hearts and minds of people, is being able to get out and meet folks of diverse backgrounds and
help them understand my views,” Hardy said. “Maybe they’ll change their mind, and maybe they won’t.” But Democrats accuse Hardy of brushing aside Las Vegas residents while latching onto conservative issues that interest only the rural community he represented as a Mesquite assemblyman. “That district is not the Tea Party district that he votes with,” Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said. PERFORMANCE REVIEW On the campaign trail, Hardy described himself as a constitutional conservative who thinks the federal government has overstepped its bounds on everything from health care to land ownership. He has held firm to that belief and sponsored two bills to limit Washington’s influence over land in Nevada. This month, he also introduced a bill to revive efforts to name a Nevada peak after former President Ronald Reagan. For the most part, the congressman has blended into the shadows and avoided calling attention to himself. But in a March opinion piece, he called on state leaders to reconsider the disposal of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain. The move drew howls of protest from Nevada Democrats, including Rep. Dina Titus, who accused Hardy of aligning himself with out-of-state politicians who have “been trying to ram Yucca Mountain down our throat for years.” Hardy drew the ire of Democrats again when he criticized Obama for considering creating a national monument in the 4th Congressional District. Although Hardy ran a successful race last year, his approach could backfire during next year’s election, said John Hudak, a government studies expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. “He’s still sort of outspoken, straight from the hip, and I think he’s brought that personality forward,” Hudak said. “Typically, that shoots-from-the-hip approach is disastrous, and you get yourself in trouble.”
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At a February luncheon organized by the Las Vegas Latin Chamber of Commerce, Hardy described himself as “not real articulate” and said he wasn’t “a refined, slick, smooth-talking politician.” While boasting about his new staff member Kelly Espinoza, a UNLV student who previously worked for the Latin Chamber, Hardy muttered, “Who knows where she got her education.” Spotting bemused looks from the crowd, Hardy quickly apologized and called Espinoza “educated” and “ready to serve.” Still, Hardy has been relatively careful to try to appease his left-leaning constituents. “He has shown himself to be somewhat politically savvy about what his district needs,” Hudak said, pointing to Hardy’s early emphasis on constituent services. “In that sense, you sort of sense that, in that Average Joe personality, you can expect a little bit of a coy politician. Over the next year, he’ll really start to campaign, and we’ll get a better understanding of whether he is that coy campaigner.” ROAD TO RE-ELECTION Hardy’s seat will be a top target for Democrats next year, and Hardy will have to work early and hard to keep his job. Less than four
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months after Hardy took office, Democrats Ruben Kihuen and Lucy Flores already had lined up to run. “It’s going to be competitive,” said Kihuen, the first to announce. “I’m going to work harder than any candidate or incumbent in winning every single vote of that district.” But Hardy’s campaign manager, Ryan Erwin, who helped him win last year, said he is optimistic for an easy victory. “We did his campaign before, when not many people thought he could win,” Erwin said. “There’s a lot more confidence now that he can win re-election than there was in the first election.” Erwin admits Hardy’s personality “isn’t always the easiest for guys like me,” but says it shows constituents exactly where the politician stands on issues. “He’s a guy that just keeps his head down and does a good job,” Erwin said. “Whether you are in the urban core or the rural part, everyone is working hard to have a better quality of life. That’s a commonality that is more important than any geographic or political differences.” LOOKING BUSY Freshman members of Congress face a steep learning curve and especially long work
hours filled with orientations, staff management and travel. That period is even tougher for members in competitive districts. “Being a member of Congress is unlike any other job in the world, and there’s very little that prepares people,” Hudak said. “It’s not that uncommon for people to be lining up to challenge a new member of Congress, and if the incumbent knows he wants to run for re-election, he has to campaign from the first day.” Fortunately for Hardy, though, members of Congress aren’t expected to accomplish much in their first year. The likelihood of their legislation passing is slim, and they aren’t usually picked to join any rigorous committees. As a result, Hardy should have the chance to spend enough time campaigning without appearing too focused on his political career. “The most likely time that a congressman will lose re-election is during his first term,” Hudak said. “This is the time that is risky for him. He has to be busy or look busy.” As Hardy said during his UPS meet-andgreet, he has to be ready for anything. With opponents eager to take him down and Democrats prepared to come back swinging in 2016, Hardy likely won’t be able to win just by winging it.
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Rep. Cresent Hardy, R-Nev., left, and Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., stand on the crest of Yucca Mountain during a congressional tour near Mercury. Several members of Congress toured the proposed radioactive waste dump 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. (ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE)
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Dr. Phillip Devore teaches classes in business, as well as interpersonal communications, at UNLV’s School of Dental Medicine. (CHISTOPHER DEVARGAS/STAFF)
Drilling students on bedside manner BY IAN WHITAKER STAFF WRITER
“Whoops.” That’s the last thing you want to hear from your dentist as he hovers over you. Unfortunately, it’s not that uncommon. “Dentists say silly stuff all the time,” Dr. Phillip Devore said. “They’re trained to drill holes in little things and fill them with stuff, but it’s not enough.” That’s why Devore, a dentist for 20 years, teaches a communications class at the UNLV School of Dental Medicine designed to train students to do more than just clean teeth and fight cavities. The class touches on topics such as bedside manner and how to communicate with patients, which Devore says dentists aren’t always great at. Devore, who had offices in Southern California and Summerlin, taught parttime at the dental school for 11 years before being brought on full time. Now he’s the go-to guy for teaching aspiring dentists how to navigate the trickier
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parts of the trade. First, he introduces students to the concept of “outcome-based communication.” That means choosing your words carefully to achieve what you want, be it a favor from a friend or calming an unruly customer. It’s an important skill, he said, because many people, including doctors and dentists, have a tendency to say whatever pops into their head. “Don’t go into a conversation with your mouth open,” Devore tells students. “Go in with your mouth closed and your brain open. Think about how you want the conversation to turn out.” During their junior year, UNLV dental students begin seeing patients in the school’s clinic. They need to be able to think on their feet and sometimes break bad news to people in a professional, helpful way. “Patients often come in asymptomatic,” Devore said. “You could have a raging abscess, and you don’t even know about it. Now, how do I explain to you
that you potentially have a life-threatening problem that is unknown to you?” The key is explaining matters clearly, Devore said. Dentists often assume patients have the same knowledge as they do and steamroll over concerns people might have. That leads to confusion, uncertainty and ultimately buyer’s remorse if the patient feels he or she has been taken advantage of. Students also tend to put too much emphasis on learning about tools and procedures and ignoring one of the most important aspects of the practice: the patients. “Patients want to work with someone they like,” Devore said. “Patients are far more likely to accept treatment if they like the doctor.” That’s where the business side comes in. Students who are good with their hands can easily find work in a dentist’s office, but Devore wants to prepare them for someday owning their own practice. In a business class, Devore teaches
dental students which contracts to sign, how to negotiate a lease and how to read a profit statement. In the communications class, he shows them how to grow a business organically without marketing, simply through effective communication and good dentistry. Often the advice can be as simple as calling each patient personally after an operation and asking how they are doing. “The key is to be honest and don’t hide anything,” Devore said. “Parenthetically, it’s also really good for business.” Devore said the class is rare among dental schools. Most programs focus on traditional academics, although curriculum is gradually changing as educators recognize the value of teaching interpersonal skills. “I’m trying to teach ‘nice,’ which is hard to do,” Devore said. “Relationships are important to people. It’s what makes them choose to go to a dentist or not.”
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Marianne Schwartz, 85, and George Barnett, 90, are members of the Jewish War Veterans Post 65. The two donate countless hours of service to U.S. veterans organizations. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF)
For them, serving veterans is personal raise to the Department of Veterans Affairs, the USO centers in McCarran International Airport and U.S. Vets in Las Vegas. Much of the money goes toward helping veterans pay for rent or If you meet Marianne Schwartz and George Barnett, don’t In Angels in the Valley, an utilities as they struggle to make ends meet. ask them who does more charitable work. They’re masoccasional series, we “We try to do the best we can,” Barnett said. ters in humility. profile people who have made a difference in Their motivation is personal. Barnett served in the Army Air “He’s incredible,” Schwartz, 85, says. Barnett, 90, shakes his the lives of others and Forces from 1942 to 1946 and joined the Jewish War Veterans head in disagreement, deflecting the attention back to Schwartz. deserve to be recognized when World War II ended. As a teenager, Schwartz traveled CaliThe reality: It’s probably a tie. for their willingness to fornia playing the accordion at USO events. Her husband served The Henderson residents, who have been friends for 15 years, help. If you know in the Korean War, and her son joined the Air Force. are active members of the Jewish War Veterans and have dedian Angel, email Schwartz and Barnett met when Barnett’s wife, Sylvia, recogcated their elderly years to helping needy war veterans. news@thesunday.com nized Schwartz’s name on a list of Jewish War Veterans members in On Tuesdays, Barnett visits Costco to collect donated pastries, with details. Southern Nevada. Sylvia Barnett had been a customer at the Calithen heads to a VA primary care clinic on Boulder Highway to fornia delicatessen Schwartz and her husband owned for years. serve breakfast and coffee to patients. The veterans thank him Now, Schwartz considers Barnett and his wife family. profusely — both for the breakfast and for his military service. “We’re hooked at the hip,” Schwartz said. “It’s quite gratifying that they recognize me,” Barnett said. Schwartz and George Barnett said they look forward to their charitable acSchwartz, meanwhile, knocks on doors to solicit donations for veterans. A tivities, especially when they get to share history with young people. It’s their thick, three-ring binder she calls her “Bible” lists every donation received, from way of giving back to the community. businesses big and small and generous residents. All told, Schwartz estimates Schwartz said the best compliment she receives when handing out poppies at she has raised about $20,000. grocery stores each year is, “Oh, you’re still here!” Leading up to Memorial Day and Veterans Day, Schwartz and Barnett station And the pair have no plans to slow down. Schwartz’s calendar, filled with themselves at local grocery stores to hand out poppies in honor of the men and scribbled reminders, is proof. women who have served in the U.S. military. The pair donates the money they BY JACKIE VALLEY STAFF WRITER
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Former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, left, tells a story about Jay Sarno during a discussion at UNLV. Mel Larson, right, former Circus Circus vice president of marketing, listens. Sarno founded Caesars Palace and Circus Circus, and is often credited for creating the mold for modern Las Vegas. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF FILE)
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scar Goodman fancies himself a cult figure, in the sense he has engendered a cult following. “There are people who keep showing up to hear my stories,” said the former mayor of Las Vegas and the city’s longtime “mob lawyer.” “And I’ll never run out of stories.” Safe to say, he won’t run out of stories about Jimmy Chagra. Up next for Goodman on his minitour of Vegas speaking engagements is a discussion about Chagra’s fanciful life as a high-stakes gambler and his highly theatrical legal battles. “Oscar’s Case of the Century: The Life and Crimes of Jimmy Chagra,” which also might be the case of this century, is set for May 28 at the Mob Museum. The presentation is the latest in the Mob Museum’s Courtroom Conversations series. The moderator is Mob Museum Director of Content Geoff Schumacher. Co-hosting with Goodman is Las Vegas author and screenwriter Jack Sheehan. The Las Vegas writer is the only person ever to film
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this fit-for-film saga, Goodan interview with the man man certainly has a promiwhose name was changed nent supporting role. His to James Madrid while as“miracle” defense of Chagra signed to the Federal Witled to an acquittal. ness Protection Program. “It’s almost an unbelievThat happened in 2006 able case,” Goodman said. in Mesa, Ariz., two years “It’s the type of story you before Chagra’s death. can keep revisiting, and Goodman, of course, also JOHN people who have never is an expert on Chagra, as KATSILOMETES heard it are just fascinated he represented the reputed by it. drug kingpin when Chagra “We will have 90 minwas accused of running one utes,” Goodman continued, of the largest pot-smug“and when you have 90 minutes with gling operations in the United States. In three people telling stories about Jimmy a story that stars the man Sheehan once Chagra, time really flies.” said “could play the lead role in ‘The One of the stories recounted by Sopranos,’ ” Chagra hired Charles HarSheehan seems pulled from a script. relson to kill Judge John Wood, known Chagra once ordered Frank Sinatra to as “Maximum John.” Harrelson was the move from his suite at Caesars Palace — father of actor Woody Harrelson. which happened to be called the Sinatra (Kennedy assassination conspiracy Suite — because Chagra and his entoutheorists long have claimed Charles rage needed room to party. The casino Harrelson actually fired on the presimade the move because even as Sinatra dent at Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22, 1963, a was selling out the Circus Maximus tidbit that might make it into the talk at showroom, the hotel was making more the Mob Museum.) money from Chagra’s betting losses. If Chagra was the lead character in
Goodman is scheduled for another Chagra talk June 11, during his dinner series presentation at the Plaza. Goodman has built a loyal following of friends and fans and even some former clients at these dinner talks. “This is a good night with good food, right off the menu,” he said. “This is not a rubber-chicken dinner.” (The dinner costs $150 per person; call 702-386-7227 for reservations.) Goodman clearly has relished his 30-minute talks, which invariably stray from the announced topic. For instance, his memories of Caesars Palace and Circus Circus founder Jay Sarno veered into a discussion of Nevada’s Black Book, a list of people prohibited from entering a casino. “I don’t know if we’ll go with Chagra again, so close to what we’re doing at the Mob Museum,” Goodman said, as if restructuring plans for the night while he spoke. “People might be getting too much Chagra.” Either way, Goodman will be holding the mic, as usual, and in this scene, you can never get too much of that.
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Nationwide, men between the ages of 18 and 44 are at higher risk for traumatic injuries. The number of geriatric trauma patients has been growing, as well.
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A trauma center is a place no one hopes to visit. When it is necessary, however, we’re thankful for the staff, technology and education available there to meet our needs. Medical trauma occurs when a patient is injured seriously and suddenly by an external force. That can include severe, blunt or penetrating wounds; burns; electrical shocks; and near-drownings. Such acute injuries also can be accompanied by behavioral, psychiatric or social factors, or a combination of all three. “The spectrum of traumatic injuries is wide, and trauma centers treat it all,” said Dr. Chris Fisher, medical director of trauma services at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center. Trauma treatment requires immediate, swift and coordinated action to ensure the best possible outcome for the patient. TRAUMATIC INJURIES IN LAS VEGAS
Common causes of traumatic injuries n Motor vehicle crashes n Falls n Pedestrians being hit by cars n Physical abuse or assaults n Gunshots n Stabbings n Contact sports n Animal attacks
“We see a lot of motor vehiclerelated trauma in Las Vegas, because our roads are very wide and the speed limits are high,” Fisher said. “It’s also a tourist destination, and many tourists may be inebriated and crossing the street in areas where they’re not supposed to cross or not following the lights. Sometimes, both the driver and the person they hit are inebriated.”
Trauma care in Clark County operates as a coordinated system between three different hospitals, which include a Level I facility, a Level II facility, and a Level III facility. The distinguishing difference between Level I and Level II is that Level I publishes research and has residents, but both facilities are equipped to handle the same severity of trauma. Cases handled by Level III are not as critical as those handled by the other levels. All three levels work together to make up the Southern Nevada Trauma System.
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Trauma center staffers undergo extensive training that can take multiple years, depending on the discipline. Trauma surgeons, for instance, must complete a two-year fellowship on trauma and critical care after their general surgery residency. Nurses must have emergency room experience and complete Trauma Nursing Certification Courses (TNCC), as well as eight hours of trauma-specific courses each year. Ongoing continuing-education classes also are required for other staff. The success of a trauma center hinges on its staff’s ability to assess, diagnose and treat each injury or wound in and of itself, and in combination with other injuries and wounds. As such, effective trauma treatment requires a complex, multidisciplinary effort.
May is National Trauma Awareness Month.
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HOW DO THEY TREAT SO MANY TYPES OF INJURIES? Trauma centers need to be able to treat a wide range of patients, which means every trauma center is equipped to handle myriad medical subspecialties. To receive trauma center certification, every trauma center is required to provide 24/7 coverage for medical subspecialties including neurosurgery, eye surgery, orthopedics, spine, plastic surgery, neurology, thoracic surgery, interventional radiology and urology. Surgeons, anesthesiologists and nurses — all dedicated solely to trauma — also are available 24/7, along with access to operating rooms. “To treat acutely injured patients, we have the added designation of specially trained doctors and staff,” Fisher said. “We also have dedicated services that can be used only for trauma, such as a specific operating room, intensive care unit and emergency room beds reserved for trauma patients.”
“On any given day, there are at least 100 people dedicated to trauma services” at Sunrise, Fisher said.
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRAUMA CENTERS AND EMERGENCY ROOMS? Like trauma centers, emergency rooms are equipped to handle nearly any medical situation imaginable, including life-threatening injuries. However, emergency rooms also handle disease symptoms (such as high fevers or severe stomach cramps), medical events (such as heart attacks or strokes) and less critical medical emergencies (such as broken bones or mild lacerations). Trauma centers often are located within the emergency room of the hospital, but they are required to adhere to stricter guidelines established by the American College of Surgeons.
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JUDGES HAD TO SPLIT HAIRS TO PICK A WINNER BY ADWOA FOSU | STAFF WRITER
Dozens of men gathered inside downtown’s Pullman Grille this month to settle a debate that has plagued such prominent figures as Salvador Dali and Col. Sanders: Who has the best facial hair? ¶ As contestants in the May 16 Whiskerino Contest, part of the annual cultural festival known as the Las Vegas Elks’ Helldorado Days, the men subjected themselves to the scrutiny of volunteer judges to determine who would take the comb for longest beard, most unique beard, longest mustache, best mustache, best overall and audience favorite.
JERRETT RUNNELLS
AARNE BIELEFELDT
KEVIN RIORDAN
JAMES WATSON
DAN BARFIELD
Hairstyle: Man bun
Hairstyle: Curly mustache and full, grayish beard
Hairstyle: Extremely long, single braid of hair
Hairstyle: Two curly strands
Hair style: Wolverine beard
Competed for: Most unique (first place) and best overall (second place)
Competed for: Longest mustache and best mustache
Competed for: Most unique beard (second place) and audience favorite
Competed for: Best mustache and most unique beard A last-minute competitor, Runnells, who has been growing out his facial hair for the past six months, decided to enter the contest at the suggestion of admiring bar patrons. He never hesitates to show off his “labor of love.” And what labor it is. Runnells spends time each morning massaging his 3-inch faux-patch and 5-inch mustache with wax to make it manageable. He often wakes up to find it in disarray. He also keeps his hairs happy with frequent trims and combing. “The hair itself tells me what to do,” Runnells said.
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Competed for: Longest mustache and best overall Facial hair is about more than just aesthetics to Bielefeldt. It is a companion that tells the story of time, he said. “It always changes and goes through a lot of mutations, like me,” said Bielefeldt, who kept his beard trimmed short in his younger years. Now, 10 years later, Bielefeldt maintains roughly 2 feet of whiskers by brushing and combing them daily. He keeps products off his beard (which he wants to keep natural), opting instead to use them to style his mustache, which he rolled especially for the competition. His greatest pet peeve: Getting his luscious facial locks caught in car doors.
For Riordan, growing his 5-foot-long beard has been a 14-year mental game that stems from his competitiveness. “When I’d go to concerts, there was lots of facial hair,” he said. “So I’d compare myself to everyone and see if I could get a longer (beard).” Having such long hair comes with challenges. Riordan said it is difficult to work out and sleep without getting tangled. His job as a construction worker means he spends four hours every few days binding his hair together with rubber bands to keep it from being a safety hazard. He lets it all out on the weekends, though. All of the hardships, he said, are worth it to compete in contests such as the Whiskerino, which donates proceeds to charity.
Rocking what is known as a Fu Manchu, Watson’s facial hair checks in at 1 foot long, a length that made him competitive in his contest categories but that can get annoying. “I sometimes wake up with (hair) in my eye,” he said. Apart from keeping his chin free of hair, Watson’s whiskers require little maintenance as his strands, which he has been growing for 10 years, are naturally colored and curly. Watson also is conscious of the products he uses on his facial hair and opts to use only a few to avoid altering or damaging his natural look.
For the past 12 years, Barfield and his “racing stripes” have earned compliments from women and men alike. “I’ve always had a beard, but I woke up one day, and I wanted something different,” he said of his eye-catching pattern. The means to achieving his beard is a secret Barfield would like to keep to himself. But he said the upkeep of his “yike stripes” is relatively easy. A simple trim once a week is enough to keep the compliments flowing.
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Summer camp fund helps kids escape stress BY TOM GORMAN STAFF WRITER
Ask about his first summer camp, and Victor Diaz starts talking about food. Lots of food. He was 10 years old, in fifth grade, and was forging an unforgettable memory of spending a week in the mountains. He remembers — and cherishes — it all: the new kids he met, sitting along the river, storytelling around the campfire. This summer, he is heading back into the mountains — as a 52-year-old — to watch over some 50 Las Vegas children ages 8 to 14 who are about to experience their first camp. They are one of several groups of local adolescents and teenagers who, thanks to the support of Sun readers, have been selected to participate in the Las Vegas Sun Summer Camp, set at multiple campgrounds in Mount Charleston and the foothills outside Las Vegas, the San Bernadino and Sierra Nevada mountains in California and the White Mountains in Arizona. The kids have had a rough go of it in
their everyday lives and deserve a week of fresh air, cool summer temperatures and lifelong memories. If Diaz knows one thing, it’s that they’ll have a blast and make new friends. “When the kids leave for camp, a few kids might cry — only because they see their moms crying, and that gets them started,” Diaz said. “But once they’re up in the mountains, they’re making friends. I’ve never had a kid sent to me with a problem adjusting to camp.” Diaz is trained to help children with problems. He has worked his entire career with young people, first as a school sports coach in Los Angeles and for the past seven years as an adult leader at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada. In a way, working with Sun Camp youngsters helps him relive his own experience. “There’s so much to do — horseback riding, hikes, jogging, the rock-climbing wall, the skits during the campfires, the canoes,” Diaz said. “They love the canoes, splashing each other with the paddles, laughing, having a ton of fun. “And there’s the dance at the end of
the week. Kids are shy and they’re holding up the walls, right? Until one guy finally asks one girl, and that breaks the ice, and if other boys are shy, the girls dance with each other.” But the week is more than just a series of fun events. “These kids are underprivileged,” Diaz said. “Some come from broken homes or are dealing with financial difficulties. This gets them away from all those stresses they’re facing. Kids shouldn’t have to deal with stress, or not having enough food, or hearing their parents yelling. They deserve a break from that. “Up in the mountains, at first, they stick with their friends. Then they start meeting others. You see them interacting with new kids at breakfast, lunch, dinner. They’re opening up and interacting with kids from different clubs, different races, different nationalities, whatever. It’s great. “When the kids come home, they’re refreshed. And they see their parent crying again — because they missed them.”
As Southern Nevada has grown, so have the needs of its children. Please help give a child the opportunity for a great summer camp experience. Donations can be made out and sent to: Las Vegas Sun Summer Camp Fund 2360 Corporate Circle, Third Floor, Henderson NV 89074 Questions? Call Sheila Lee at 702-259-4150.
n The Las Vegas Sun Summer Camp Fund was launched in 1970 by the Sun’s founding publisher, Hank Greenspun. Since then, with the generous support of the community, about 35,000 economically and physically challenged children ages 8 to 14 have attended. All come from lowincome homes, many from singleparent families. Some are foster children who have no permanent home. n Las Vegas Sun Summer Camps programs are operated by the Girl Scouts of the Frontier Council, Las Vegas; Las Vegas Area Council Boy Scouts of America; YMCA of Southern Nevada; Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada; St. Jude’s Ranch for Children; Nevada Diabetes Association, and the Salvation Army. n One hundred percent of the money donated to the Sun Summer Camp Fund goes directly toward camperships. The Las Vegas Sun absorbs all administrative expenses for the Sun Summer Camp Fund, which is a 501(c)3 organization. All contributions are tax deductible.
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The Animal Foundation and the Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are shelters dedicated to finding homes for dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, turtles and more. Each week, we feature a selection of animals available for adoption.
Bogie (A830467)
Gracie (A788038)
Holden
Age: 5-year-old neutered male Breed: Chihuahua Description: Bogie is shy but sweet and loving. A total lap dog, all Bogie wants is a caring family to call his own. He can’t wait to meet you! Adoption Fee: $155
Age: 7-year-old spayed female Breed: Domestic longhair Description: Gracie hasn’t been around other pets before and would do best in a quiet home with older children. Adoption Fee: $80
Age: 6-month-old neutered male Breed: Cinnamon mix rabbit Description: Holden, rescued from a suspected hoarder/breeder, is making good progress with socialization and trust, accepting kindness and interaction. Adoption Fee: $25
Comet (A838127)
Bentley (A747007)
Colt
Clara
Age: 6-month-old male Breed: Domestic shorthair Description: Comet is a curious kitten who loves to cuddle Adoption Fee: $100
Age: 21-month-old spayed female Breed: Pit bull Description: Bentley loves people, including children. She knows some basic obedience and is housebroken. She’s smart and eager to become part of a family. Adoption Fee: $105
Age: 5-year-old neutered male Breed: Siberian Husky Description: Colt is a charming boy with an ebullient spirit. He is housetrained and loves children. He is compatible with most dogs. Adoption Fee: $60
Age: 2-year-old spayed female Breed: Dwarf mix bunny Description: Clara is a petite, bashful girl. We think she will be a terrific little sister for a lonely bunny longing for companionship. Adoption Fee: $25
Jerry (A754968)
Sushi (A747007)
Ramses
Vinny
Age: 2-year-old neutered male Breed: Chinese Shar-Pei mix Description: Jerry is happy and friendly, and loves spending time with other dogs and children. He knows how to sit and shake, and is eager to learn more. Adoption Fee: $105
Age: 7-year-old neutered male Breed: Domestic shorthair Description: Sushi has a laid-back personality and loves meeting new people. He has a heart murmur and may need follow-up care at a veterinary hospital. Adoption Fee: $80
Age: 6-year-old neutered male Breed: Leonine longhair, previously declawed (front paws) Description: Ramses enjoys his toys and naps by windows. He is compatible with friendly cats and dogs. Adoption Fee: $20
Age: 4-year-old neutered male Breed: Bully mix Description: Vinny’s favorite activities include games of fetch and trips where he can join you and be right at your side. Adoption Fee: $50
ANIMAL FOUNDATION 702-384-3333 x131 | animalfoundation.com/adopt Animals are assigned a color next to their names indicating location: 655 N. Mojave Road, Las Vegas 286 W. Lake Mead Parkway, Henderson
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Tiny and Bubbles Age: 7-year-old neutered boy and 3-year-old spayed female Breed: Chihuahuas Description: Tiny and Bubbles are bonded for life. They like other sweet dogs but are happiest and most content when close to each other. Adoption Fee: $50 total for the pair
NEVADA SPCA 4800 W. Dewey Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89118 702-873-SPCA | www.nevadaspca.org
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Rules and scoring aren’t consistent nationally, but that’s perfectly fine — after all, this is a backyard cookout or tailgate competition.
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If you’re looking to bring some friendly competition to your summer cookout, toss games are an easy way to do it. Beer pong and cornhole have gained popularity in recent years as a way to add enjoyment to backyard gatherings and pregame tailgates. But they aren’t the only toss games gaining traction. Here are three more relatively inexpensive ways to keep people engaged at a party.
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BUY IT: A Frisbee, which can cost as little as $5, is the easy part. Poles can be trickier. Several online sites sell beersbee poles for about $30, but many of them stick directly into the ground. That’s not ideal in the desert, so building your own structure is the best option. DIY IT: It’s relatively simple. Buy two plastic buckets, a bag of sand, two 5-foot sections of PVC pipe and two PVC couplings at a hardware store. Cut a hole through the tops of the buckets and slide the pipe through them. Fill the buckets with sand to stabilize the poles. Add couplings to the top of the pipe, so the bottles have a place to sit. Any bottle will work, but those that don’t dent or shatter easily are best.
Originally conceived as a drinking game, the goal is to knock a bottle off a pole with a Frisbee. A match requires four players (two teams of two) and two poles stationed at least 20 feet from each other. Players alternate throwing the Frisbee at the other team’s pole to try to knock off their bottle. The defensive team must catch the Frisbee with one hand — the classic version forces each player to hold a beverage in their off hand — and stay behind the poles until the Frisbee passes or makes contact.
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SCORING: One point is awarded to the throwing team whenever the bottle or Frisbee hits the ground. If both fall on a single turn, the team gets a bonus point, for a total of three points. If the defensive team fails to catch the frisbee, it’s a onepoint penalty, and crossing the pole line is a threepoint forfeiture. Games are played to 11 points, though matches often are played in a best-of-five or best-of-seven competition. LEARN MORE: Visit poleish.com.
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Also called Texas horseshoes, wash pitching, washoes 2-4 players, all ages
Also called ladder toss, lasso golf, Läderbölen 2-4 players, all ages
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THE NECESSITIES: Washer discs typically are an eighth of an inch thick and 2 1/2 inches wide with a 1-inch hole. They range in price from $5 to $20. Washer boards or boxes can differ in shape, size and number of holes. Some have recessed holes, others have raised holes; some have one hole, some have three holes. Washer boards with one or three holes range from $50 to $150.
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THE EXTRA STUFF: If you want to splurge, bombatwashers.com also sells accessories: a pickup magnet for $13.50, a score tower for $29.95 and a beverage tower for $39.95. The company also sells customized washers, such as themed for the college football program you follow.
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Earn points for tossing a metal washer about 20 feet toward a 4-inch hole on a washer board. Games are played to exactly 21 points. A washer in the cup is five points. The washer closest to the outside of the cup is one point.
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THE LINGO n Diddle: When determining throwing order, each player takes one pitch toward the cup. Whoever is closest pitches first. Hammer: When a player lands a washer in the cup on top of his opponent’s washer.
If you score 11 points before your opponent scores, you win by a “skunk.”
Bust: Scoring higher than 21 points. If a player busts, his points drop to 11 or 15, depending on the variation of washer played.
If you score 17 points before your opponent has two points, you win by “whitewash.”
Full term: When a player scores at least two points, meaning he can’t be skunked or whitewashed.
DIY IT: For the ladders, buy 18 feet of 3/4-inch PVC pipe, six 3/4-inch T joints and two 3/4-inch elbow joints, and for the bola, buy 12 feet of 3/8inch nylon rope to cut and thread through drilled golf balls.
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Cupper: When a washer lands inside the cup. LEARN MORE: Visit washers.org.
BUY IT: Official ladder golf sets sell for $70 and up and have ladders made of wood, but sets made from PVC pipe are common. PVC sets typically include two ladders and six bolas and can be found in stores for $40 to $50.
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The most common rules have players take turns throwing a bola, which is two golf balls attached to a rope about a foot long, at a ladder with three rungs that’s placed 15 to 20 feet away. Each team gets three bolas, and the object is to toss them underhanded so they connect and wrap around one of the ladder’s rungs. The bottom rung is worth one point, the middle worth two and the top worth three. The bola can bounce off the ground as long as it ends up on a rung. SCORING: Each round is scored by subtracting the smaller point total from the larger one. Games are played to exactly 21 points, so if a turn results in a player or team going over the limit, no points are awarded. Good defensive players can knock an opponent’s bola off the rung. SWITCH IT UP: Variations of the game have a player throw all three bolas in a row before the opponent’s turn, and some people award bonus points for landing all three bolas on the same rung, landing a bola on each of the three rungs or wrapping the entire length of a bola around a rung.
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Uncatchable: A Frisbee throw that is below the shins, far above the head or more than a step to the outside. No point is awarded for the Frisbee hitting the ground if it’s not an accurate throw. Medal game: A game that’s played to 15 points instead of 11, often the championship match of an all-day competition.
THE LINGO Zelda: A game that ends 21-0 and earns you automatic bragging rights for the rest of the day. Toss line: The established distance you have to stay behind when throwing. It’s usually 15 feet for standard games and 20 feet for experienced players, but five paces is perfectly acceptable for a casual backyard game. Hat trick: Landing all three bolas on the same rung without any opponent bolas on the rung. LEARN MORE: Visit laddergolf.com.
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CASINO PROMOTIONS SLS Memorial Day Bud Light six-pack giveaway Date: May 25 Information: Earn 250 slot points or 500 video poker points to receive a gift. Mail recipients or guests who made a $10 advance-deposit wager or higher during the past 90 days also are eligible. Beer may be picked up between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. at the podium near 800 Degrees Pizza. Memorial Day bonus spin Date: May 25 Information: Mail recipients and guests who made a $50 advancedeposit wager or higher during the past 90 days are eligible to win up to $1,000 in slot play. Bonus USpin We Owe You Date: May 26-31 Information: On May 26 and 27, mail recipients and guests who made $10 advance-deposit wagers or higher during the past 90 days are eligible to win up to $500 in slot play. On May 28 and 31, guests who make a $50 advance-deposit wagers or higher can win up to $1,000 in slot play. Guests who make a $25 advancedeposit wagers or higher on May 29 and 30 are eligible as well. $200,000 Mini Cooper Mayhem drawing Date: Sundays Time: 7 p.m. Information: Players must earn 25 slot or video points or have an average rated bet of $15 for one hour on a table game to receive one drawing entry. Guests who sign up for a loyalty card will receive 50 entries for that week. Double entries can be earned every Friday and Saturday. Ten winners will be chosen during each drawing and can choose one of 25 keys, each with a hidden amount and one with a Mini Cooper.
Young at Heart Date: Wednesdays Information: Loyalty card members can earn up to 50x points to receive dining and other discounts at the Orleans, Suncoast, Gold Coast and Sam’s Town.
SILVERTON Supercharged drawings Date: Saturdays Time: 8 p.m. Information: Earn drawing entries daily to win cash, a 2015 Mini Cooper or a 2015 Tahoe boat. Ten winners each week. Earn double entries on Sundays. $5K Makin’ Money Date: Thursdays Information: Earn 300 points to play a kiosk game. Win up to $5,000, free play, dining credits and more. $1,250 Humpday Hot Seat table games drawings Date: Wednesdays Time: 5-10 p.m. Information: Eleven people will win $100 in chips. Players can win multiple times per day but only once per hour and must be present to win. A second-chance drawing will begin at 10:15 p.m. The winner will receive $250 in chips. $10,000 Reel & Win slot tournaments Date: Fridays Time: Noon-5 p.m. Information: Loyalty card holders will receive one free entry, redeemable at kiosks. Earn additional entries for every 100 points earned by 4 p.m. First place wins $1,000. Senior Mondays Time: Drawings at 2, 4 and 6 p.m. Information: Players 50 and older receive dining discounts. Random names will be drawn for a chance to win cash and free play.
SUNCOAST Table games drawings Date: Fridays and Saturdays Time: 7 and 9 p.m. Information: Earn entries at table games for a chance to win a share of $20,000. Earn 4x entries on Mondays and Tuesdays.
THE D Win Derek’s Hellcat Date: Through Aug. 29 Information: Earn tickets for monthly drawings that culminate with a chance to win a 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat.
gaming promotions will raise money for Las Vegas military personnel and families served by Veterans Village. All Station-owned restaurants and some tenant eateries will offer a “round-up” option on meals so diners can donate. Budweiser will donate up to $15,000 through Station bars that sell Budweiser bottles. The spas at Red Rock Resort and Green Valley Ranch Resort will donate 5 percent of all sales of 50-minute hot stone massages. Also, a percentage of the proceeds from themed gift card sales will go to the initiative. A portion of the proceeds from poker, blackjack, sports book bets, slot machines and bingo will be donated, and guests may donate their winnings at any kiosk. MyGeneration Wednesdays Date: Ongoing Locations: All Station properties, Fiesta Henderson and Fiesta Rancho Information: For loyalty card holders age 50 and older. 10x points on slots and 6x points on video poker; discounts on dining, movies and bowling; slot tournaments from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., with a top prize of $1,000. First entry is free; receive up to four additional entries by earning 50 additional base points for each. $2 million American Pride giveaway Date: Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays Locations: All Station properties, Fiesta Henderson and Fiesta Rancho Information: Win cash, slot play, points, dining credits and more by playing a kiosk game. Great American Moments cash drawing Date: May 31 Time: 6:15 p.m. Locations: All Station properties, Fiesta Henderson and Fiesta Rancho Information: Win up to $10,000. Earn 5x drawing entries on Wednesdays. $250,000 Spring scratch card giveaway Date: Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays Locations: Fiesta Henderson and Fiesta Rancho Information: Check your mail or earn 300 base points to receive a scratch card. Loyalty card members who receive a scratch card in the mail will not be eligible to earn additional scratch cards. Card must remain unscratched until the designated time and place.
BOYD GAMING A-May-Zing May Date: Fridays and Saturdays Time: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Information: Earn 10 base points to play a kiosk game at the Orleans, Gold Coast, Suncoast and Sam’s Town.
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bers age 50 and older. First entry is free with a swipe at a club kiosk; collect a second by earning 250 points and a third by earning 500 points. Top prize is $1,500; the total prize pool is $5,200. Live money Spring Fling handicapping contest Date: Select Fridays through June Information: A $150 buy-in allows players to wager on five horse races in win, place and exacta formats. The contest features a $100 bankroll and a $20 minimum bet per race. Bettors can win cash prizes or one paid seat to the Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge qualifier, worth $1,500. Memorial Day point multipliers Date: May 25 Information: Earn 10x points on penny slots, 5x points on other slots and 2x points on video poker.
PLAZA 10x points Date: Tuesdays and Fridays Information: Earn 10x points on reel slots. 50-plus slot tournament Date: Wednesdays Time: 10 a.m. Information: Best combined score from two sessions wins $1,000. $200,000 Super Bingo Date: June 7-9 Information: Registration starts at $150.
PALMS $50,000 May Money Madness drawings Date: Fridays through May 29 Time: 7 p.m. Information: Earn drawing tickets from slot play. Earn 2x entries from 4 to 6:30 p.m. and 5x entries from 8 p.m. to midnight. Ten winners will be selected, with a top prize of $3,000. Activate at least 10 drawing tickets to receive $10 in slot play the following Saturday. Play for prizes — Garden Fresh Date: May 25-29 Information: Earn gift cards for Fresh & Easy and McDonald’s. Gift days Date: May 24 Time: Midnight-6:59 p.m. Information: Earn 100 base points on video slots or 500 base points on video poker and receive a beach towel.
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STRATOSPHERE Camaro Point Challenge Date: Through July 15 Information: The top three loyalty card users who collect Camaro points will win cash. The top 50 winners will earn entry into a slot tournament. $30,000 Camaro slot tournament Date: Aug. 13-15 Information: The top 20 point earners can play for a share of $25,000 in prizes. The grand prize is a Camaro signed by NASCAR’s Earnhardt family.
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ALIANTE ELDORADO Cash Blower Wednesdays Date: Wednesdays Time: 12:30-7:30 p.m. Information: A player will be selected hourly to step into the cash blower. Spin the prize wheel Date: Thursdays Time: 12:30-7:30 p.m. Information: A player will be selected hourly to spin the wheel. Rollin’ For Dough Date: Fridays Time: Drawings from 2 to 9 p.m. Information: Earn drawing tickets for a chance to roll the dice and win 10x the roll. One player will be chosen every hour.
$65,000 Route 66 drawings Date: Saturdays Time: 7:15 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Information: At 7:15 p.m., 20 names will be drawn for a top prize of $1,000 in slot play. At 9:15 p.m., the drawing will be a Route 66 Road Trip Race, with winners receiving a share of $3,000 in slot play and a chance to win $2,600. 50-plus kiosk game Date: Mondays in May Information: For players 50 and older; must have a loyalty card. Earn 50 slot points and spin the wheel to win up to $500 in slot play and more. Bonus days Date: May 25 Information: Earn 6x points on video poker and 12x on all reels.
WILDFIRE MyGeneration Mondays Date: Ongoing Information: For players 50 and older. Earn 6x points on slot machines and video poker, receive discounts on bowling and dining, and win up to $250 in free slot play.
CLUB FORTUNE Top of the Hill slot tournament Date: Tuesdays and Wednesdays Time: 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Information: Win cash prizes.
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EL CORTEZ Saturday Point Fever – The 1 million point giveaway Date: Saturdays Information: Ten loyalty card members will be selected randomly for a chance to win 100,000 points. Receive one virtual drawing ticket for every 200 points earned each day during the week. Weekly High Noon “Wheel and Deal” drawing Date: Saturdays Time: Noon Information: Collect drawing entries by receiving qualifying hands on blackjack, roulette and baccarat. Win $100 to $500 in chips. Free White Castle Date: May 25 Time: Noon-6 p.m. Information: Free White Castle cheeseburgers will be served to celebrate Memorial Day.
Spring Fling cash giveaway Date: May 30 Time: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Information: Earn drawing entries through play. Win up to $1,000 cash or $1,200 free play. Rollin’ For Dough Date: Fridays Time: Drawings from 1 to 9 p.m. Information: Earn drawing tickets for a chance to roll the dice and win 10x the roll. Two players will be chosen
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SILVER SEVENS Nifty 50 slot tournament Date: Wednesdays Time: 10 a.m.-5:45 p.m. Information: Earn entries with play. Top prize is $1,000. Point multipliers Date: Thursdays and Saturdays Information: On Thursdays, earn 3x points on video poker and 7x points on reels. On Saturdays, earn 4x points on video poker and 10x points on reels.
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Las Vegas as a moviemaking town: Lights! Camera! Tax credits!
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either on screen or behind the camera. The production employed about 3,500 people, many of them Nevadans. Some people hired as extras grew into more prominent roles. But there are more expenses than just payroll — catering, equipment rentals, facility fees, hotel accommodations and the like. About 70 percent of the movie’s $38 million budget was spent in Nevada, where the entire 49day production took place. That’s good for our economy and the people who work in the entertainment industry here — experts in makeup, costuming, lighting and all the other supporting jobs in moviemaking. The economic uptick is thanks to tax credits Nevada began offering last year to movie producers who bring projects here. “Mall Cop 2” is the first movie to be awarded a certificate of eligibility for those credits. Once its expenses are audited and the qualifying expenditures are confirmed, the production could receive as much as $4.3 million in tax
credits, according to Kim Spurgeon, an analyst at the Nevada Film Office. The four-year pilot program, operated by the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, offers the transferable tax credit to productions that, among other things, have budgets greater than $500,000 and will shoot at least 60 percent of their footage in the state. The credit maxes out at $6 million per production. There are two broad payoffs for the region having movies filmed here. One, it puts one of the world’s most cinematic backdrops teasingly before millions of eyes. (The specific visual star in “Mall Cop 2” was the Wynn, where the movie’s plot plays out.) Two, it provides jobs to the talented Las Vegans who work in the entertainment trades, providing them income they in turn will spend here. The math is pretty simple, in the case of “Mall Cop 2:” The state is providing $4.3 million in tax credits to a company that pumped more than $20 million into the economy.
With an effective and targeted film tax credit program, Nevada can develop, nurture and benefit from an ongoing, stable economic sector that also serves to promote the state’s core industry — tourism. The program initially was funded at $20 million a year, but half of the money was redirected this year toward luring electric car maker Tesla Motors to Northern Nevada. Nine movie and television projects applied for the tax credit and have been, or are being, produced in Nevada. Each said that were it not for the incentive, only part of the production, at best, would have occurred in Nevada. We are counting on the Legislature to restore the film credit budget to at least $20 million funding for biennium. A bill to do just that, Assembly Bill 147, is before lawmakers now. It would be good for our hospitality industry and for the many skilled craftsmen, tradesmen, directors and actors who know their stuff and can raise Las Vegas’ reputation as a place for profitable moviemaking.
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Puerto Rican festival: Experience Puerto Rican culture with live music, raffles, Caribbean food and more. Noon, $10, Clark County Amphitheater, 500 S. Grand Central Parkway, 702-455-0000.
FRIDAY, MAY 29 Gumball 3000: The seven-day international street rally culminates in Las Vegas with live music, skateboard demonstrations by Tony Hawk, car displays and more. 3 p.m.-midnight, $40-$50, MGM Resorts Village, 3901 Las Vegas Blvd. South, gumball3000.com.
“Hansel and Gretel”: Sin City Opera ends its season with Engelbert Humperdinck’s fairy tale opera. 2 p.m., $10-$15, Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 S. McLeod Drive, 702-455-7340.
MONDAY, MAY 25 Memorial Day feast: Veterans and active and nonactive members of the military can receive a free breakfast, lunch or dinner buffet for themselves and a guest. South Point, Garden Buffet, 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 702-796-7111.
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Sevens Live: Las Vegans perform original music, comedy and spoken arts. 7-9 p.m., free with drink purchase, Silver Sevens, 4100 Paradise Road, 702-733-7000.
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Thanks Living Bike Crew Circus Extravaganza: A fundraiser with music, raffles, vendors, hoop performers and more will benefit a local bike crew that delivers meals to the homeless. 6-11 p.m., $5, Hard Rock Live, 3771 Las Vegas Blvd. South, facebook.com/thankslivingbikecrew.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 27 2015 Senior Health & Fitness Day: Join the Centennial Hills Active Adult Center and Centennial Hills YMCA for cardio classes, line dancing, low-impact aerobics, health-related seminars and a health fair with vendors. Participants will receive a boxed lunch. Ages 50-plus, registration required. 8:30 a.m., free with a $2 annual city of Las Vegas Senior Programs membership, Centennial Hills Active Adult Center, 6601 N. Buffalo Drive, 702-229-1702. Spring blood drive: Help save lives by donating blood via the American Red Cross. Donors should be at least 18 years old, in good health and meet height and weight requirements. 2 p.m., free,
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Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, redcross.org. Julie Snider exhibit: Artist Julie Snider will reveal 50 pieces of her signature 3-D art. Reservations required. 7-midnight, free, Keep Memory Alive Event Center, 888 W. Bonneville Ave., 3dabstractsbyjulie. com.
Safe Summer Nights: Music, children’s games, face painting and free refreshments, plus information about summer activities for children, health services, community safety, money management programs and more. 5:30-7:30 p.m., Kermit Booker Elementary School, 2277 N. Martin Luther King Blvd., 702-229-5406. Lifesavers Firefighter Bachelor and Bachelorette auction: Southern Nevada’s single firefighters will be auctioned off to members of the community to raise money for the After the Fire is Out program, which helps child burn survivors. 6-10 p.m., $40-$45 for women, $80-$85 for men, $80-$90 for couples, Life at SLS, 2535 Las Vegas Blvd. South, theburnfoundation.org.
SATURDAY, MAY 30 THURSDAY, MAY 28 Stroke awareness open house: Free blood pressure checks and stroke risk assessments, plus information about strokes, healthy eating and the connection between diabetes and stroke. 9-11 a.m., free, Valley Hospital, 620 Shadow Lane, 702-388-4000. “Oscar’s Case of the Century”: Oscar Goodman and others will share first-hand, insider stories about mobster Jimmy Chagra’s life as a drug kingpin and Las Vegas high roller. 7 p.m., $25, the Mob Museum, 300 Stewart Ave., 702-229-2734. Family movie night: Enjoy a screening of the animated film “Brave.” 7 p.m., free, Downtown Container Park, 707 Fremont St., downtowncontainerpark.com. Rose Society meeting: Lyn Vinson will discuss how to preserve, keep and share roses. 7 p.m., free, Lifelong Learning Center, 8050
Parenting expo: More than 125 vendors will showcase products, services and activities for families. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., $8 for adults, children are free, Cashman Center, 850 Las Vegas Blvd. North, parentingexpo.org. Fiesta Filipino: Explore Filipino heritage at the seventh annual Fiesta Filipino. The event will include food and retail vendors, cultural performances, live entertainment and more. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. $3-$5, Sammy Davis Jr. Festival Plaza, Lorenzi Park, 720 Twin Lakes Drive, 702-229-3514. International Obscura Day: Join the National Atomic Testing Museum for a curated artifact showcase and guided tour, led by Director of Education Joe Kent. 11 a.m.-2 p.m., $12, National Atomic Testing Museum, 755 E. Flamingo Road, nationalatomictestingmuseum.org. Reiki clinic: The Reiki clinic offers community members 30-minute
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in Schools of Nevada. 5-8 p.m., $25 for adults, $15 for children under 17, the Green at Town Square, 6605 Las Vegas Blvd. South, cisnevada.org. “The Story of Mariachi”: Izel Ballet Folklorico and Mariachi Mexico Antiguo will present “La Historia del Mariachi,” a tribute to Mexican mariachi music and dance. 6-8 p.m., $10-$12, Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 S. McLeod Drive, 702-455-7340. Jazz in the Park: Spyro Gyra combines jazz with elements of R&B, funk and pop. 7-10 p.m., free, Clark County Government Center Amphitheater, 500 S. Grand Central Parkway, 702-455-0000. USA Ballroom Dances: Presented by USA Dance, a group lesson will be followed by traditional ballroom dancing. 7-10:30 p.m., group lesson begins 7:30 p.m., ages 13 and over, $10, Charleston Heights Arts Center, 800 S. Brush St., 702-229-6383.
SUNDAY, MAY 31 ’Chelle Reed performance: Violinist ’Chelle Reed will perform works by Franck, Paganini, Kreisler, Bach and Dvorak. 2 p.m., $10-$12, Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 S. McLeod Drive, 702-455-7340. Windmill Music Club meeting: Discuss the history and works of James Brown. 4-5 p.m., free, Windmill Library, 7060 W. Windmill Lane, 702-507-6030.
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On a recent Monday morning, 12 entrepreneurs from across North America sat in a circle in the penthouse of the Newport Lofts luxury high-rise condominiums downtown. Nine had just moved to Las Vegas — two from as far away as Halifax, Nova Scotia. Most had never met previously. ¶ They soon would get to know each other very well, though, because they’d spend the next three months working together in close quarters as the inaugural cohort of a new program run by THE MILL, CONTINUED ON PAGE 53
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CONTENTS PUBLISHER Donn Jersey (donn.jersey@gmgvegas.com)
EDITORIAL
NOTEWORTHY STORIES
47 48 56 Q&A WITH TYLER JONES
The founder and owner of home development firm Blue Heron talks about how his luxury brand survived the Great Recession, his passion for motorcycle racing and his family’s long history in Nevada. THE NOTES Giving, P46
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They don’t just sell chocolate, they make it. And we don’t mean they shape it into little flowers and sell it as truffles — they turn cacao beans into chocolate bars, right here in Las Vegas. TALKING POINTS Marijuana law creates hazy situation for employers, P49
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A listing of local bankruptcies, bid opportunities, brokered transactions, business licenses and building permits. MORE VEGAS INC BUSINESS NEWS Calendar: Happenings and events, P55 The List: Residential care facilities, P60
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Summerlin: Ahead of the curve on going green Tom Warden knows it’s not always easy being green. As Summerlin senior vice president of community and government relations for The Howard Hughes Corporation, Warden helped establish the master-planned community as a leader in conservation. Hughes showed its characteristic foresight when it recently removed 100,000 square feet of water-thirsty turf from its roundabouts. And Summerlin was the first Southern Nevada community to implement strict Water Smart guidelines. The Water Conservation Coalition, including The Howard Hughes Corporation, is working to raise the bar for responsible water use. To learn how your business can make a difference, go to snwa.com/waterconservationcoalition
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“Defending the Caveman” executives donated $500 to Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada to support its community food pantry. The money came from patrons, the cast and the crew. The Community Counseling Center of Southern Nevada celebrated its 25th anniversary in April. The agency provides support and treatment to hundreds of underinsured and uninsured people suffering from mental illness, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS and other disorders. The Fremont Street Experience raised $7,020 for Ronald McDonald House during a charity challenge that collected proceeds from SlotZilla tickets sales. The Engelstad Family Foundation awarded a $1.6 million grant to Project 150, a nonprofit that helps homeless, displaced and disadvantaged high school students in Southern Nevada and Reno. The grant will be issued over three years to support operations and help purchase an 8,000-square-foot facility with an office, warehouse and boutique. The shop, at 3600 N. Rancho Drive, Las Vegas, will be stocked with donated clothes for the high school students Project 150 serves.
Friends of Henderson Libraries donated $39,000 to Henderson libraries. The money was raised during the 2014 Library Tree Lane gala and was the highest amount collected at the event since its inception in 2004. (COURTESY PHOTO)
house, 401 Drake St., Henderson. Through a $4.1 million partnership, the CarMax Foundation and KaBoom! plan to build 30 playgrounds across the United States by the end of 2015.
Debbie Harpster is executive director of Project 150. Harpster has 12 years of experience working with nonprofit groups.
Erica Thompson is regional event specialist and Allison Loftus is regional events liaison at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Thompson has worked at Three Square Food Bank, Shade Tree and Catholic Charities. Loftus previously worked at Communities In Schools of Nevada and Vegas PBS.
Nevada Women’s Philanthropy allocated $350,000 to Communities in Schools of Nevada. The grant will pay for 240 laptops for six high schools. Also, attorney Adam S. Kutner donated $1,000 to Communities in Schools of Nevada. MGM Resorts Foundation gave $30,000 to the WestCare Foundation for its women and children’s campus. In addition, the campus received a $280,000 grant from NV Energy’s Solar Generations program to install solar panels. NV Energy and Black Rock Solar supplied and installed 396 panels. The campus, at 5659 Duncan Drive, Las Vegas, houses women and children who need safe shelter and substance abuse and mental health treatment.
Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada honored two groups with its Heart of Hope Award for their service to the community: the Investment Counsel Company, headed by founder and CEO Randy Garcia, and the Lied Foundation. Julie Murray was honored at the 2015 Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Hope Gala. Murray is president and CEO of the Moonridge Group, a consulting firm that helps people, corporations and foundations reach their philanthropic goals.
Jersey Mike’s Subs capped off its “Month of Giving” by donating $12,444, all proceeds from sales on a single day, to the St. Rose Dominican Health Foundation. McDonald’s locations donated 12,692 Big Macs to homeless youths in Southern Nevada through the “Buy One Give One” program. McDonald’s owners donated one free burger to the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth for every Big Mac purchased during the event. Three Square Food Bank received $20,000 from the Dunkin’ Donuts Baskin-Robbins Community Foundation to support the BackPack for Kids Program, which helps fight child food insecurity in Southern Nevada. The program provides hungry children with nutritious and easy-to-prepare food to take home on weekends and school vacations when other resources are not available. In addition, more than 30 Bank of America employees packed 3,375 pounds of apples for Three Square. The event was sponsored by the bank’s Hispanic/ Latino Organization for Leadership and Advancement employee network group. Caridad, which works with local homeless agencies, police and governments to try to end homelessness, partnered with Nacho Daddy downtown to host Undie Sunday, a sock-and-underwear drive for Catholic Charities, the Shade Tree and Salvation Army.
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The Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth expanded its drop-in center. The 2,600-square-foot addition enhances existing service areas and adds a kitchen, computer lab, staff office, half-court basketball, gym, art and music rooms, and private areas. Nevada Women’s Philanthropy allocated $350,000 for the project. HomeAid Southern Nevada provided $270,000 worth of services. (COURTESY PHOTO)
The Stratosphere donated $1,000 to the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth. The Outlook Foundation of Las Vegas, which repurposes computers for children and military members, donated 50 notebook computers to the Nevada State Veterans Home. The computers will allow residents to connect with family across the country and help residents communicate with staff. Local students will volunteer to teach the residents how to operate the notebooks. More than 225 volunteers from CarMax, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada, KaBoom! and Henderson built a playground at the John C. Kish Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada Club-
After-School All-Stars Las Vegas received a $10,000 donation from the John Krakauer MURRAY Charitable Trust advised by Professionals in Philanthropy. The money will be used to support two programs to help disadvantaged students in the Clark County School District: Lifetime Adventures and We Are Ready. “Lifetime Adventures gives our students the opportunity to learn social and life skills through outdoor activities, while We Are Ready is a proven middle-to-high-school transition and drop-out prevention program,” said Ranna Daud, executive director of After-School All-Stars Las Vegas. Jennifer Bradley, a public relations consultant for Vegas PBS, was appointed to the board of directors for the Las Vegas chapter of the American Cancer Society. Ben & Jerry’s 37th annual Free Cone Day raised money for the CASA Foundation, which helps foster children.
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Developer invested emotionally and financially Tyler Jones is founder and owner of Blue Heron, which developed Sky Terrace, a desert-themed luxury community of custom homes in Henderson. The homes are packed with electronics and offer over-the-top amenities, such as elevators, outdoor kitchens and entertainment rooms with 105-inch drop-down television screens. Jones launched Blue Heron in 2004 with his father, Steve Jones, who has been in the Southern Nevada real estate business since 1989. Where do you get your inspiration for developments like Sky Terrace? My personal experiences and observations from a lifetime spent in Las Vegas. That is truly how the Blue Heron signature architecture was born. We call this architectural style “Vegas Modern,” and it was created in response to the lifestyle and needs of the contemporary Las Vegas resident. It complements our Mojave Desert surroundings and climate while taking full advantage of the most advanced green building technology available. What do you hope Blue Heron accomplishes over the next five years? It’s my goal to see “Vegas Modern” become accepted more and more into Tyler Jones, co-founder of Blue Heron, a luxury housing development firm, draws the mainstream of the housing mar- inspiration from the Nevada landscape. (CHRISTOPHER DEVARGAS/STAFF) ket and for Blue Heron to remain the reset button each weekend. have always been different, and buyleader in architectural innovation and ers who want something unique that energy efficiency in Las Vegas. Describe your management complements their sense of personal style. style and sophistication come to us. What are some of your tradeI try to lead by example, and I try This is as true now as it was during the mark designs? to have fun at work. I think we have a recession. It is very difficult to find reWe use the natural beauty of our good blend of creativity, discipline and ally well-designed modern homes in surroundings — namely, Southern hard work at Blue Heron, and I think Las Vegas. Nevada — to create unique homes that is a recipe for good results. with unparalleled indoor/outdoor reWhat is the most rewarding lationships. Our homes feature a lot Where do you see yourself and part of your job? of earth tones and organic materials your company in 10 years? Speaking with a client and seeing with forms that lend themselves to I’d like to be intimately involved in them glow with pride as they describe exaggerated shading elements. Our the day-to-day workings of Blue Hertheir home. Often, clients will describe homes work with the climate in such a on 10 years from now, just as I have the reaction their friends and famway that shaded spaces are created by been since day one. I sincerely enjoy ily have, and it is great to hear about the massing of the home and great efevery minute of it and am very proud how others react to the spaces and ficiencies are gained through passive of what we have accomplished. It is forms we have created. It’s all about solar strategies. my belief that we are just at the beproviding something totally amazOur outside spaces are designed ginning of our journey as a company, ing and unique for each client, and it as a continuation of interior living and I think Blue Heron will continue feels great when you can see how you spaces, as opposed to just a yard. Outto have a big impact on the way homes have affected their daily life in such a door spaces are functional, finished, are defined and redefined in Las Vegas meaningful and personal way. detailed and connected to interior well into the future. spaces. What do you do after work? What is your dream job, outside Race motorcycles. I really enjoy the What allowed Blue Heron to of your current field? physical and mental challenges I find survive the recession and home Professional motorcycle racing is at the motocross track. I spend a lot of foreclosure crisis? the only other job I could see myself time in the office and when I’m away, It was difficult to sell homes when really enjoying. my mind is always thinking about there was so much downward presways to improve our company. For me, sure on real estate values, and real Whom do you admire and why? motorcycles are the best way to clear estate — especially distressed homes Both of my parents. I was really my mind for a few hours and hit the — became a commodity. Our homes
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lucky to grow up in an environment with a huge emphasis on personal and professional values. My father is one of the most grounded and genuine people I have ever met, and I grew up watching how quickly he gains people’s trust. He seems to wear his integrity on his sleeve. My mother is the most caring person on the planet, and I watch the way she brightens up the lives of those around her with her selfless energy. I strive to conduct myself in a way that lives up to those qualities, and this informs almost everything I do, both personally and professionally. What is your biggest pet peeve? Slow drivers. What is something people might not know about you? People don’t usually know that my family has been in Las Vegas since the 1920s. It is hard to find families that have been invested in the community for so long, and my roots are really important to me. Las Vegas is home to me, and I care deeply about all of the issues and opportunities we face as a community. Anything else you want to tell us? I would invite people to take a step back and think about the home you live in. Ask yourself if your home inspires you? Does it make you feel good? How does it impact your daily lifestyle? If you are searching for an answer to these questions, then I believe your home has failed you. A great home will have a noticeable impact on the quality of the time you spend there. Your home should inspire a sense of well being and tranquility while meeting all of your practical needs. An exceptional home will do all of those things and add another dimension to your lifestyle and family dynamic. I like to challenge people with these questions because a home can be so much more than people realize, and I think the industry has been very complacent over the years.
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Number of stores and restaurants that opened at Las Vegas North Premium Outlets after an expansion. The shopping center now totals 685,000 square feet and, with 175 stores, is one of the largest retail centers in the country.
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Average price of a gallon of gasoline in Nevada in May, compared with the national average of $2.66.
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Median price of Southern Nevada homes sold in April, up 10.7 percent from a year ago, according to the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors.
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Median sales price of local condominiums and townhomes in April, up 15 percent from a year ago, according to the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors.
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Number of single-family homes listed without any offers at the end of April, up 13.6 percent from a year ago, according to the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors.
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Sales price of a chandelier that hung over the Riviera’s casino and was sold in advance of the resort’s implosion.
HEXX Kitchen serves High Road Craft ice cream in addition to making its own chocolate at its shop on the Strip. (L.E. BASKOW/STAFF)
Searching the world to bring unique chocolate to Las Vegas Describe your business.
HEXX is a full-service experience, with a restaurant, bar and patio offering Strip-side dining, as well as a large retail, chocolate, candy and “confexxions” store. We bring craft, bean-to-bar chocolate making to Nevada, with a custom kitchen dedicated to the production of single-origin chocolate. Where does the name HEXX come from?
HEXX KITCHEN Address: 3655 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas Phone: 702-331-5100 (restaurant), 702331-5551 (retail/chocolate kitchen) Email: info@hexxchocolate.com Website: hexxchocolate.com Hours of operation: Restaurant open 24 hours a day; chocolate kitchen open 9 a.m.-midnight daily. Owned/operated by: Perry Rogers, Corey Jenkins and Matthew Silverman In business since: Spring 2015
The name originated from a few different elements of our brand — the first being the two X’s, which stand for the Roman numeral 20, since cacao trees grow 20 degrees above and below the equator. Secondly, the name comes from our chocolate bar shape, which is composed of a number of hexagonal pieces. What makes your shop unique?
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The Cosmopolitan’s first quarter revenue, up 3.8 percent from last year.
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Maximum amount in federal fines that Caesars Palace may have to pay as part of a federal investigation into how the casino prevents and detects money laundering.
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We are chocolate-makers. Unlike chocolatiers who buy someone else’s chocolate, then add ingredients, we actually travel the world to find the best flavored cacao beans and import them ourselves. We approach our chocolate-making process similar to that of fine wine. We focus on bringing out the flavors of the beans from each country. Each origin of chocolate is made using only two ingredients — the pure cocoa nibs from the specific farm and organic coconut palm sugar.
guests will also experience the joy of our chocolate. What’s the most important part of your job?
Constantly innovating while ensuring that our products are being created and delivered in a way that represents our brand and brand values. What is the best part about doing business in Las Vegas?
The nonstop energy, excitement, innovation and diversity found in Las Vegas is exhilarating. But the best part is that Las Vegas is a very close-knit business community, and doing business with people you know is always a plus. What is the hardest part about doing business here?
It is challenging always staying innovative and fresh in such a dynamic marketplace, but that is also what is so exciting and compelling about doing business in Las Vegas. What obstacles have you overcome?
With a startup concept, there are scores of issues and considerations to address. Because of our size, variety of elements, volume and center-Strip location, the typical challenges of a startup have consequently been bigger and more dramatic. It has all been a great learning experience. What have you learned from the recession?
What is your business philosophy?
Be authentic, and love and believe in what you do. By sharing our love and passion for craft chocolate and providing one-of-a-kind tasting experiences, we believe our
Don’t take anything for granted, and pivot when appropriate. But above all, treat every guest as the one and only, and deliver that experience to everyone who walks through your doors.
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On J.D. Morris’ vegasinc.com story “Loss down, casino revenue up at Cosmopolitan in first quarter”: They aren’t going to fix everything overnight, but this is a good sign. — rippee_robert The only way to show a gain these days is to cut costs. Gaming is in the dirt and won’t get better in the near future. — jokersmile On J.D. Morris’ vegasinc.com story “Riviera operators get initial approval to run Westgate”: Some day, someone is going to wake up and say, “What happened to the history of this city?” — JMcElyea
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GUEST COLUMN: unlawful use at work? wenty-three states, including WHIT SELERT In fact, detecting whether an employee is Nevada, have passed laws using marijuana at work is, itself, an increasingly permitting marijuana for medical difficult proposition — marijuana-infused purposes. Twenty others have candies, pastries, granola bars, soft drinks, butters and lotions ballot measures pending to do the same this year. Four are difficult to distinguish from any other food or drink. — Colorado, Oregon, Washington and Alaska — and Given these challenges, many employers are confused. the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana for Should they revise existing workplace drug policies or recreational purposes. continue using “zero tolerance” policies to screen out job As Nevada begins issuing medical marijuana registration applicants and employees who fail drug tests? The answer cards, employers should consider and plan to tackle some may vary for each employer. potentially sticky issues. It’s important to remember that under federal law, Nevada’s medical marijuana law prohibits discrimination marijuana is illegal. Businesses operating under federal against employees with a valid registration card and requires contracts or funding, or dependent on federal licensing employers to consider reasonable accommodations for lawful or regulation, may be required to maintain a drug-free use of the drug. However, employers are not required to permit workplace. Following state law can violate federal law. marijuana use in the workplace and are not required to modify Every employer has a legal obligation and right to provide job requirements or working conditions to accommodate an a safe work environment. Accommodating medical or employee with a marijuana registration card. As it stands, recreational marijuana without the means to effectively employers need only consider accommodations that enable detect and prevent impairment puts employers in a serious employees to fulfill their existing job responsibilities and bind. Every court to address the issue has cited marijuana’s which pose no danger to people or property. status under federal law to uphold employer decisions based That sounds good on paper, but what about in practice? on an employee’s failed drug test for marijuana. Detecting whether an employee is impaired by marijuana Key features of any sound policy should clearly define is not as easy as it sounds. There are no consensus what is permissible and require testing upon reasonable standards defining impairment. The technology for suspicion of impairment, which should be broadly defined. accurately measuring the drug’s active ingredient is largely Whit Selert is of counsel at the Las Vegas office of Fisher & developmental. How can an employer know whether an Phillips. employee is impaired from lawful use at home versus
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On J.D. Morris’ vegasinc.com story “MGM Resorts might rename, revamp its ‘underutilized asset’ Monte Carlo”: Now that they have reworked the front with the park coming, I think they will rebrand this to better fit a need in the city for quality mid-level resorts. — PatrickJDyer On Eli Segall’s vegasinc.com story “Developer Larry Siegel talks Grand Bazaar Shops, ‘dwell time’ and retail on the Strip”: Vegas needs a diverse collection of shopping choices. This is one where the average guy could spend some money. — RonHirschkind
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‘Shopping and retail are all about dwell time’ BY ELI SEGALL
things on the Strip but didn’t win.
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Sporting a pirate-style bandana and a bedazzled maroon and gold vest, the guy behind the counter of Marash Authentic Turkish Ice Cream is no ordinary dessert slinger. In a one-man show of sorts, he moves quickly, playfully teasing patrons as the pop-music hit “Gangnam Style” blasts from a speaker and draws a crowd. The ice cream parlor is at Grand Bazaar Shops, a new retail plaza on the Strip whose developers are betting that, with a not-so-ordinary property, they’ll grab shoppers and tenants in a crowded field that’s only getting more crammed. Grand Bazaar Shops, in front of Bally’s at the southeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Flamingo Road, opened in February. The outdoor mall has about 120 storefronts — some just 150 square feet — squeezed onto 2 acres and selling a hodgepodge of products, including posters, hot sauce, jewelry, temporary tattoos, luggage, clothing, alcohol-infused chocolates and deep-fried Oreos. “Shopping and retail are all about dwell time — how much time people are going to spend at a project,” said Larry Siegel, the mall’s lead developer. “You have to have a lot of different kinds of activities and a lot of different kinds of uses.” Gambling is losing its luster in Las Vegas as tourists increasingly bypass casino floors to dine, shop and party in nightclubs. Last year, 71 percent of visitors gambled, down from 80 percent in 2010, according to GLS Research, in a report for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. Visitors last year spent about $282 each on food and drinks per trip, up from $257 in 2010, and $150 on shopping, up from $123 four years earlier, GLS found. Siegel and other investors are spending big dollars to capture tourists’ attention — and, more importantly, what’s inside their wallets. Recent or current retail projects on the Strip include the Linq, a
Larry Siegel, lead developer of the Grand Bazaar Shops, walks through the new retail project on the Strip. (CHRISTOPHER DEVARGAS/STAFF)
$550 million open-air complex with more than 30 shopping, dining and entertainment options; the Park, a $100 million outdoor plaza with bars, restaurants and retail; and a threestory mall at Treasure Island. Existing malls on the Strip include Fashion Show, Showcase Mall, Grand Canal Shoppes, Miracle Mile Shops, Forum Shops at Caesars, and Shops at Crystals. Siegel, 62, is chairman of Potomac, Md.-based Juno Property Group. He’s the former chairman and CEO of mall operator Mills Corp., which was bought out in 2007, the year after he stepped down as CEO. Grand Bazaar Shops is his first project in Las Vegas, and his investors include Caesars Entertainment Corp., which owns Bally’s and the ground underneath the new mall. Siegel recently met VEGAS INC there to talk about the project and the Strip’s retail scene. When you announced the project in December 2013, you talked a lot about how you wanted to emulate the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul and open-air markets around the world. Was that still the goal as you built this out or did you move away from that?
I don’t think we tapered back. Every time you open something, you have to look at where we are in the world of retail. The landscape has changed considerably in the past year and a half, and especially since I got in the business. You’ve got to create something that is different and unique. What got you interested in doing a deal out here? How did this come about? This site has been sitting here for a long time. It’s on the 50-yard line of Las Vegas Boulevard. If you type into Google Earth “Las Vegas Strip,” the pin drops right here. This was a park with a moving sidewalk down the middle of it. It was a no-brainer figuring out that it wasn’t the highest and best use. It was a matter of sitting down with Caesars and talking to them about what might work here. I come to Vegas for retail conventions and for other reasons, to see what’s going on in the world of retail. This has always been sitting here. Had you thought over the years of doing a deal in Las Vegas? I had. If I was to do something, it would have been on the Strip. When I was at Mills, we bid on a couple of
This mall has a lot of small shops. Did you want to be able to sign retailers who can only afford smaller spaces? There are two things that grab people: one is price, the other is selection. This is a 2-acre site. Typically, you build a regional mall on 90 acres or so, 1 million to 1.5 million square feet. This is about 60,000 to 65,000 square feet. The smaller stores give people more selection. I grew up in the department-store business. The main floors of department stores really emulate the old bazaars — they’re exciting, interactive places with lots of different subtenants. We wanted to make this attractive to consumers walking by, with an array of prices. I heard there was supposed to be an area of the mall with haggling and no pre-set prices. Swarovski has a haggling window. It’s called the Sparkle Exchange. Much of the ground-up construction on the Strip lately has been retail. Do you worry about the increased competition? No, because a lot of those projects are food- and beverage-centric. This is a place where you can come and buy something, affordably, for the most part. Do you think there’s too much retail on the Strip? I think there’s a lot of retail. But I think it’s incumbent upon everybody to try and be different and offer something special to the consumer. Do you think there’s too much being built? We just hit all-time visitor records last year with more than 41 million people. The thing that’s interesting about Vegas is every three or four days, you get new consumers. You’re always new and unique, so we probably have more retail here than in other places.
“Every time you open something, you have to look at where we are in the world of retail. The landscape has changed considerably in the past year and a half, and especially since I got in the business. You’ve got to create something that is different and unique.” — Larry Siegel, lead developer of Grand Bazaar Shops
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UNLV law professor a key player in Caesars case BY J.D. MORRIS STAFF WRITER
Although the Caesars Entertainment bankruptcy is playing out in a Chicago court far from Nevada, it’s still closely connected to Las Vegas, including through one local academic involved in the case. UNLV law professor Nancy Rapoport recently was appointed to lead a committee that reviews bills for legal work as well as other professional fees and expenses tied to the Caesars bankruptcy proceedings. Rapoport, an expert in bankruptcy law, will be a key player as the Las Vegas-based casino giant seeks to restructure one of its divisions in court. Caesars Entertainment Operating Company, one of multiple Caesars divisions, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in mid-January. The flagship Caesars Palace resort is the only Las Vegas property owned by the bankrupt division — the other Caesars properties on the Strip are controlled by different parts of the
company. Caesars wants to adopt a real estate investment trust setup for the bankrupt division, and hopes to eliminate about RAPOPORT $10 billion in debt through its planned restructuring. But not all parties agree about the best path forward. Some Caesars creditors are fighting the company over corporate maneuvers they say unfairly robbed the bankrupt division of value — allegations being investigated by a court-appointed examiner. Accordingly, an army of legal professionals is working on the case, which is racking up a sizable stack of bills. That’s where Rapoport comes in. She’s the chairwoman of the fee committee, which consists of five members. Rapoport is the committee’s independent member, a position the court says must be held by
a “disinterested” person. The other committee members represent various parties with a stake in the case as well as the U.S. Trustee, an arm of the Department of Justice that oversees bankruptcies. Rapoport described her work as helping the court take a “first cut” at determining the reasonableness of professional expenses, like fees for attorneys and advisers. Those costs can be steep: Rapoport said that in other cases, she’s seen them stretch upward of $75 million, and even as much as a half-billion dollars. “One of the things that we look at is the ratio of those fees to the overall stuff that’s going on in the Chapter 11,” Rapoport said. “When you put it in the context of how much money is at stake overall, it’s typically pretty proportional. But it’s still a lot of money.” Although the committee investigates the reasonableness of these fees, the bankruptcy court ultimately decides who gets paid, Rapoport said.
City manager gets a $38,500 raise BY CONOR SHINE STAFF WRITER
Las Vegas City Manager Betsy Fretwell received her second raise in less than a year. The City Council voted to increase her pay by $38,500 to bring it in line, members said, with the salaries of city managers in other similarly sized cities. The pay increase, which was framed by the city as a “market-rate adjustment,” comes 10 months after Fretwell got a $20,000 performance raise, equal to about 10 percent of her salary at the time. Las Vegas City Manager Betsy Fretwell has seen With both increases, Fretwell, who has been her salary increase twice in 10 months. (STAFF FILE) city manager for six years, will receive a base oversees McCarran International Airport and salary of $260,000 a year, plus nearly $100,000 University Medical Center. more in other pay and benefits. Outgoing Henderson City Manager Jacob The council approved the increase on a 6-1 Snow has a base salary of $225,000 a year, while vote, with Councilman Bob Beers opposed to the North Las Vegas City Manager Qiong Liu makes raise, which is retroactive to April. $190,000 annually. Councilwoman Lois Tarkanian praised the job Fretwell’s salary is still slightly below the averFretwell has done after taking over the city’s dayage of $276,974 paid to city managers in compato-day operations in the heart of the recession. rable cities such as Phoenix, Dallas, San Jose, CaThe economic turmoil led to cuts in staff and lif., and Kansas City, Mo., according to a survey services, but the city has been on the recovery by Las Vegas human resources staff. recently, managing to balance its budget without Beers called the salary comparison “signifidipping into reserves each of the past three years. cantly flawed” because it failed to account for “We’ve had a remarkable recovery,” Tarkanian retirement benefits. said. “We don’t want to lose” Fretwell. He also criticized Fretwell’s raise of about 18 The raise makes Fretwell’s salary the secondpercent of her previous salary as much larger highest among government managers in the than the 1 to 2 percent rank-and-file employees valley, trailing Clark County Manager Don Burhave been receiving. nette’s base salary of $262,597. Burnette also
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But her duties — for which she also plans to enlist the help of some UNLV law students and graduates — can save the court a lot of legwork. When she played a similar role in the Station Casinos bankruptcy case, Rapoport said her students and graduates saved the court at least 2,000 hours of time. This case presents unique challenges for Rapoport, both because of its innate complications and its jurisdiction. “The cases I’ve been involved in have been Texas and Nevada cases, so there’s a learning curve here that makes it difficult for me personally, and the complexity of the case is high,” she said. “The principles are the same, but every case presents novel issues that the committee is going have to work through.” Rapoport said the committee would meet for as long as the case lasted, which she said wouldn’t be “years and years and years,” but could comfortably be around a year, “depending on how things play out.”
First-time unemployment claims hit 7-month low BY CY RYAN STAFF WRITER
The number of people in Nevada filing initial claims for unemployment benefits fell in April to its lowest point in seven months. The state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation reported that 13,550 people submitted initial claims, the smallest number since August 2014, when 13,063 first-time claims were filed.
Committee OKs funding for building at UNLV BY CY RYAN STAFF WRITER
A joint budget subcommittee approved a state construction program of more than $234 million that includes funding for a new hotel college building at UNLV to replace the main office of the Department of Motor Vehicles in Las Vegas. The new building at UNLV’s William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration is expected to cost $49 million, with half the money coming from the state and the other half from private donations. At last count, about $14 million in donations had been secured.
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Summerlin land prices rising, but homebuilders not shying away BY ELI SEGALL STAFF WRITER
Homebuilder Kent Lay knows all too well that Summerlin land isn’t cheap. His company, Woodside Homes, is paying double what it did a few years ago. It’s not alone. Land prices have been climbing at a faster rate in the sprawling Las Vegas community than in the valley at large, with the gap growing even wider in recent months. Summerlin land prices soared 31 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, while prices valleywide fell 34 percent in that time. The price jumps are slowing land sales but by no means scaring off builders, who spend big dollars tying up land in the 22,500-acre project, one of the most affluent and popular places to live in Southern Nevada. High-end builder Toll Brothers, for instance, shelled out nearly $45 million last fall for about 111 acres near Bishop Gorman High School, where it plans to build a 55-and-older community. “The (land) values in Summerlin are worth it; it is such a premier location,” said Mary Connelly, Nevada division president for William Lyon Homes, a longtime Summerlin builder. However, the higher land prices will only make new homes more expensive, and parcels might get too costly for builders to turn a profit, potentially slowing development there and fueling construction in cheaper communities. “It’s right on that cusp now to make these deals work,” said Lay, Las Vegas division president for Woodside. Investors bought 46 acres in Summerlin in the first quarter, down 11 percent from the same time last year, and paid an average of $715,000 an acre, up 31 percent, according to Dallas-based Howard Hughes Corp., the community’s developer. Homebuilders bought almost all of that. Summerlin buyers paid an average of $518,000 per acre last year, up 46 percent from 2013. But sales volume fell 12
Summerlin began taking shape in 1990 and has a projected completion date of 2039. (L.E. BASKOW/STAFF)
percent to 280 acres, “primarily” because of higher prices, Howard Hughes CEO David Weinreb said. Howard Hughes executives figure Summerlin land prices will stabilize, Weinreb said, adding “the current level appears to be sustainable.” “We’re selling everything we put out for sale,” project President Kevin Orrock said. And there’s plenty left. Summerlin, which began taking shape in 1990, is a long way from being fully built, with a projected completion date of 2039. The community — which runs along the western rim of the Las Vegas Valley and is known for its parks, trails, upscale homes and proximity to Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area — is planned for more than 200,000 residents. By the end of 2014, it had roughly 105,400 people, as well as 4,600 acres of available residential land and 850 acres of commercial land. However, Orrock’s group keeps prices high by tightly controlling and limiting the land it sells. It doesn’t flood the market and push prices down; instead, it typically puts certain properties up for bid to certain
groups of builders. Company officials “keep supply and demand in check to keep prices up,” and could have finished the project by now if they were willing to sell cheap, said land broker and investor Scott Gragson of Colliers International. Howard Hughes also has a clause in its contracts with builders that lets it buy back undeveloped land. This prevents builders from selling parcels and potentially driving down Howard Hughes’ prices. “I want to control the market here; I don’t want a builder to control my market,” Orrock said. Meanwhile, it’s a different situation throughout the valley. Land sales rose fast in recent months as prices plunged. Investors bought almost 900 acres in Southern Nevada in the first quarter this year, up 21 percent from the same time in 2014. They paid an average of nearly $190,000 per acre, down 34 percent from a year earlier, according to Colliers. Before prices slumped, Southern Nevada homebuilders bought land quickly the past few years, pushing up values, CBRE Group broker Keith
Spencer said. This especially sped up after Clark County commissioners in spring 2013 opened roughly 3,600 acres, mostly in southwest Las Vegas, to potential development by shrinking McCarran International Airport’s noise contour. But new-home sales have slowed from a few years ago, and today, builders aren’t loading up on land they won’t develop anytime soon. “It’s an appetite issue,” Spencer said. In their absence, speculators have been buying huge amounts of land and, as a result, getting lower prices, he said. Southern Nevada builders sold about 6,000 new homes last year, down 18 percent from 2013, according to Las Vegas-based Builders Research. The drop-off was bigger in Summerlin. It was the 15th-highest selling master-planned community in the country last year with 437 sales, but that was down 23 percent from 2013, according to real estate consulting firm RCLCO. However, activity is picking up this year, with local builders selling about 1,380 homes in the first quarter, up 8 percent from the same period last year. And it’s rebounding even faster in Summerlin, with new-home sales up 46 percent year-over-year, Orrock said. Builders will keep spending as long as they can keep selling homes at highenough prices, said Dennis Smith, president of Home Builders Research. And, as locals know, it’s not cheap to live there. Builders’ median base price in Summerlin is $519,950 — two-thirds higher than the median sales price of all new homes in Southern Nevada, Smith’s company says. All told, Summerlin land is some of the most expensive in the valley, if not the priciest outside the Strip, and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon. “If you look at the other (masterplanned communities), which one would even come close?” Smith said. “None.”
Flipping homes still profitable — especially outside of Nevada BY ELI SEGALL STAFF WRITER
House-flipping is still a popular pastime in Nevada, but investors can make a lot more money doing it elsewhere, a new report says. Flipping accounted for 6.4 percent of home sales statewide in the first
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quarter this year, the third-highest rate in the nation behind the District of Columbia (8.3 percent) and Florida (6.5 percent), according to RealtyTrac. The rate nationally was 4 percent. RealtyTrac defines flipping as selling a home within a year of buying it. In Nevada, owners waited an aver-
age 154 days before selling, tied with Michigan for the fastest turnaround in the country. The average wait time nationally was 176 days. Silver State flippers booked an average $40,327 in gross profit in the three months that ended March 31, giving them a 24 percent return on
investment, RealtyTrac found. Nationally flippers had $72,450 in gross profit per deal, a 35 percent return. Those profits represent the sales price minus the purchase price. They do not account for renovations or other costs that homeowners may incur before selling.
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THE MILL, FROM PAGE 43
Goal is to test ideas and discover which are viable a downtown seed accelerator, The Mill. Co-founders Sara Hill and Jill Murphy started The Mill in early 2014 with money provided by the Vegas Tech Fund. At the time, Hill worked as director of entrepreneurship at coworking space Work in Progress, another Vegas Tech Fund project. “I had felt that Vegas needed an accelerator since a couple months after I moved here,” Hill said. “Initially, I talked to so many program directors, people who ran accelerators, hoping we could find someone who would want to open one here.” It never materialized. So Hill approached Vegas Tech Fund officials with the idea of starting her own. Hill recruited Murphy to help. The Mill’s first program, the Idea Accelerator, started in early 2014. The Mill gave each company access to mentors and a workspace for two months at Work in Progress. In exchange, the companies agreed to attend events, present their ideas at a monthly meeting called The Grind and give the Vegas Tech Fund the right to participate if a company received additional venture funding in the future. In its first year, The Mill funded 44 companies. Eight went on to participate in other startup accelerator programs outside Las Vegas, and seven received additional venture capital funding. HashRabbit, which makes software for BitCoin miners, now is listed prominently on the Vegas Tech Fund’s investments page. But the goal of the Idea Accelerator wasn’t necessarily for companies to receive additional funding; rather, it was for founders to test and discover
FOR MORE INFORMATION Visit themill.vc. The Idea Accelerator has rolling admissions, so companies can apply anytime. Applications for the second Startup Accelerator will open this summer.
whether their ideas were viable. Seven participants decided their ideas were not and chose not to pursue them. The Mill still considers those companies successes and lists them as alumni on its website. The only official failure during the first year was one company whose founders stopped answering phone calls part way through the program and missed their scheduled Grind presentation without explanation. In January, The Mill revamped its program. It moved into its own building, nicknamed “The Loft,” and shifted its focus to larger investments in fewer companies, mirroring a similar change made by the Vegas Tech Fund. The revised Idea Accelerator will sponsor 12 companies this year, one per month. And a new program, the Startup Accelerator, will sponsor two cohorts, each composed of five larger companies. The first cohort just started and will run through June. The second will run from September to December. The Startup Accelerator is designed for companies further along in development but still too small for traditional venture capital funding. The Mill gives each company $25,000, classes and mentors, and three months of desk space in The Loft. In exchange, the companies give 5 percent ownership of their companies to the Vegas Tech Fund,
a $3,000 program fee to The Mill and agree to move to Las Vegas to participate in the program as they work to start their companies. For the first cohort, The Mill selected Castoff, Fluttrbox, Konsiderate, Zora and Document ProveUp. After the companies relocated, the program started with a two-day retreat designed to build relationships and encourage the teams to support each other. “The goal of doing all that and making those connections is to build relationships because you never know where those relationships are going to lead,” Hill said. The culture of support appears to be working. When one team mentioned its application was running on a single home-built Web server, three other teams raced to see who could be first to help the team move its application to Amazon Web Services. The cohort also is an experimental community. As the teams experiment with their businesses, The Mill is experimenting on the teams to evaluate which aspects of the program work and which it will change for future cohorts. The Mill itself also is an experiment to discover ways to create a sustainable startup community downtown. In the past, Las Vegas has seen startups such as Romotive leave because they needed resources only available in larger tech communities such as Silicon Valley. The Mill’s companies have more basic needs — housing and transportation. Two Canadian teams are living at the Gold Spike. Living downtown has not been easy for them, between
THE FIRST COHORT n Castoff (castoffapp.com) Blake Arnet and Alex and Richard Jacobson are creating a mobile app to enable people to send groups of pictures to their friends and quickly receive votes on questions such as, “Which outfit should I wear today?” n Fluttrbox (fluttrbox.com) Aristo Mohit-Coker and Nadia Shiwdin are providing a way for customers to get aerial mapping with less hassle and expense, by
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taking orders online and subcontracting with hobbyist drone operators who can take the pictures. n Konsiderate (konsiderate.com) Jackie Morck, Lance Baily and Matt McLaughlin are creating a platform on which people can create and read verified peer reviews of high-end B2B products and services, starting with medical simulation equipment.
the noise, the “weirdness of Fremont Street” and the difficulty of finding basics supplies such as groceries. “It’s not sustainable,” said Fluttrbox’s Aristo Mohit-Coker. “It’s not oriented toward living, it’s still oriented toward tourism.” Transportation also has been an issue for a few teams, partly because The Mill promotes an ethos called the Lean Startup, which instructs company founders to “get out of the building” and talk to potential customers. The Mill planned to partner with Shift to provide vehicles, but Shift recently closed. Despite the challenges, every team has expressed interest in staying in Las Vegas. Several members commented on how friendly and helpful they found people in the valley, compared with other tech communities. Nevada’s legislative support of drone testing was of particular interest to Fluttrbox, which depends on unmanned aerial systems and would have been much more difficult to start in any other state. In some ways, the small size of Las Vegas’ fledgling tech community gives it an advantage. Here, it is much easier to meet key players in the tech community, such as established businesspeople and venture capitalists. The Mill takes advantage of that by introducing members to potential mentors. Such access would be unlikely in places such as Silicon Valley. “We think this is the next startup boom behind L.A.,” said Castoff’s Blake Arnet. Editor’s note: David Davis co-founded a company funded by The Mill and currently is participating in The Mill’s Startup Accelerator program.
n Zora (zora.io) Milan Vrekic and Colin White are creating an online application to enable property owners to screen prospective tenants and manage rental properties more easily, without having to hire a property manager. n Document ProveUp Amber Davis and David Schnell-Davis are creating a program to enable small law firms to more easily collect, organize and send documents needed for complex applications such as mortgage modifications.
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Calendar of events TUESDAY, MAY 26 Henderson Health Care Forum Time: 7:30-10 a.m. Cost: Free Location: Henderson Convention Center, 200 Water St., Henderson Information: RSVP to cohecon@cityofhenderson.com Join members of the Henderson Chamber of Commerce for a discussion about how the city could become a premier location for health care services and education.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 27 Restricted Licensees Regulatory Compliance Time: 9-11 a.m. Cost: $95 Location: UNLV Stan Fulton Building, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas Information: Visit unlv.edu/calendar Restricted licensees can learn about compliance procedures performed by the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Presenters will discuss the most common causes of violations and how to prevent them.
nonmembers without advance reservations Location: Las Vegas Country Club, 3000 Joe W. Brown Drive, Las Vegas Information: Visit bomanevada.org/event A panel discussion, “Utility Panel — What it Takes to Serve Las Vegas 24/7,” will include Pat Egan, senior vice president of NV Energy; Bob Coyle, vice president of government affairs at Republic Services of Southern Nevada; David L. Johnson, deputy general manager of the Las Vegas Valley Water District; and Jose L. Esparza Jr., vice president of energy solutions at Southwest Gas Corp.
TEDxLasVegasWomen: Potential Energy Time: Session one is 8-10 a.m., session two is 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., session three is 2-3:30 p.m., session four is 4:30-6:30 p.m. Cost: Free Location: InNEVation Center, 6795 Edmond St., Las Vegas Information: Visit tedxlasvegas.com Join other local entrepreneurs and businesspeople to watch a simulcast of the TEDWomen Conference in Monterey, Calif.
Economic Outlook and Nevada Investment Opportunities Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $35 for members of the Turnaround Management Association, $45 for nonmembers Location: Las Vegas Country Club, 3000 Joe W. Brown Drive, Las Vegas Information: Email info@TMAofNevada.com
Eric Samuel Schweitzer of Kaercher Insurance will talk about how the insurance industry has developed coverage solutions for the unmanned aircraft industry.
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Scott Shapiro of CellMedics will discuss his company’s efforts to develop an advanced painrelief cream that increases drug bioavailability in muscles and joints.
The insurance industry has developed coverage solutions for drones. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF FILE)
BOMA monthly breakfast meeting Time: Registration begins 7 a.m. Cost: $35 for members with advance reservations, $45 for members without advance reservations, $40 for nonmembers with advance reservations, $45 for
Henderson Chamber networking mixer Time: 5-8 p.m. Cost: $15 for members, $25 for nonmembers, additional $10 for walk-ins Location: Miller’s Ale House, 594 N. Stephanie St., Henderson Information: Visit hendersonchamber.com/ events/calendar
Topical drug delivery seminar Time: 11:30 a.m-1 p.m. Cost: $40 Location: Lawry’s the Prime Rib, 4043 Howard Hughes Parkway, Las Vegas Information: Email john.k.laub@gmail.com
A panel discussion on the resurgence of master planned communities in Southern Nevada. Panelists include Kevin Orrock, vice president of master planned communities at the Howard Hughes Corporation; Gregg Wolin, principal of Crescent Bay Holdings; and Lee Ferris, vice president of Landwell Company. Kathryn Bovard, vice president of Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors, is the moderator.
THURSDAY, MAY 28
Betty Lo, vice president of community alliances and consumer engagement at Nielsen, and Jerry Wong, a data dissemination specialist at the U.S. Census Bureau, will present, “Census Surprise? The Asian Influx and How it Affects the Las Vegas Economy and Political Landscape.”
TUESDAY, JUNE 2
Southern Nevada CCIM Chapter luncheon Time: 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Cost: Free for chapter sponsors, $40 for members, $50 for nonmembers Location: Palms, second-floor conference area, 4321 W. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas Information: Visit snccim.org
Representatives of the Turnaround Management Association will lead a forum discussion on the national and international economic outlook, with an overview of the companies and countries looking to invest in Nevada.
Asian Chamber of Commerce luncheon Time: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $35 for members, $45 for nonmembers Location: Arizona Ballroom Salon E, Gold Coast, 4000 Flamingo Road, Las Vegas Information: Visit lvacc.org
UAS Nevada business forum Time: 6-9 p.m. Cost: Free Location: National Atomic Testing Museum, 755 E. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas Information: RSVP to stevencurtis@centurylink. net
PRSA LVVC May luncheon Time: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $40 for members, $50 for nonmembers Location: Panevino, 246 Via Antonio Ave., Las Vegas Information: Visit prsalasvegas.com Join members of the Las Vegas Valley Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America for a “lunch and learn” session on whistle-blowing. Paula Pedene, who helped expose mismanagement and health care breakdowns at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs medical center, will discuss public relations professionals’ responsibility regarding ethical and legal issues.
Business outreach event Time: 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Cost: Free Location: Historic Fifth Street School, 401 S. Fourth St., Las Vegas Information: Visit lasvegasnevada.gov/information Learn about competitive bidding exceptions and becoming certified as an emerging small business.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3 Las Vegas Heals medical mixer Time: 6-8 p.m. Cost: Free for the first 40 physicians, $30 for members Location: Gordon Biersch, 3987 Paradise Road, Las Vegas Information: Visit lasvegasheals.org Network with local members of the medical industry at the monthly meeting of Las Vegas Heals.
SATURDAY, JUNE 6 Solar NV Summer Solstice Golf Tournament Time: 7 a.m. Cost: $125 for Solar NV members, $150 for nonmembers, $500 for a group of four Location: Angel Park Golf Club, 100 S. Rampart Blvd., Las Vegas Information: Visit solarnv.org/golf Celebrate the summer solstice with Solar NV and network with local business professionals over a round of golf.
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Records and Transactions BANKRUPTCIES CHAPTER 7 3334 King Elder LLC 3334 King Elder St. Las Vegas, NV 89117 Attorney: 3334 King Elder LLC pro se
CHAPTER 11 Soda Condos LLC 2512 W. Mesquite Ave., Suite 4 Las Vegas, NV 89101 Attorney: Spencer M. Judd at spencer@SJuddLaw.com
BID OPPORTUNITIES TUESDAY, MAY 26 2 p.m. 68,000 GVW cab and chassis State of Nevada, 8325 Marti Marsh at mmarsh@admin. nv.gov
WEDNESDAY, MAY 27 2 p.m. A four-wheel drive tractor State of Nevada, 8334 Marti Marsh at mmarsh@admin. nv.gov 2:30 p.m. Two-year open-term contract for the printing and possibly the mailing of payment coupon books State of Nevada, 8327 Sharon Knigge at sknigge@admin. nv.gov
THURSDAY, MAY 28 2 p.m. One-year open-term contract for flat goods mattress ticking State of Nevada, 8331 Sharon Knigge at sknigge@admin. nv.gov 2:15 p.m. Desert Breeze Recreation Center exterior and interior painting Clark County, 603613 Sandy Moody-Upton at scm@ clarkcountynv.gov 2:30 p.m. 3/8” screenings State of Nevada, 8335 Marti Marsh at mmarsh@admin. nv.gov
BROKERED TRANSACTIONS SALES $1,650,000 for 25,026 square feet, office 4624-4660 N. Rancho Drive, Las Vegas 89130 Seller: Southwest College of Medical-Dental Assistants and Practical Nurses Seller agent: NAI Vegas
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Buyer: Lavar Winsor Buyer agent: Pete Janemark of Cushman & Wakefield Commerce $372,376 for 4,184 square feet, industrial 1051 Olsen St., Suite 3511, Henderson 89011 Seller: Ten Buildings A 13213 LLC Seller agent: Sam Scaletta of MDL Group Buyer: Wallin Construction LLC Buyer agent: Did not disclose $295,000 for 3,177 square feet, industrial 1850 Whitney Mesa Drive, Suite 140, Henderson 89014 Seller: WM Capital LLC Seller agent: Did not disclose Buyer: MPM Holdings LLC Buyer agent: James Griffis of MDL Group
fice for 39 months 9089 S. Pecos Road, Suites 3500 and 3510, Henderson 89074 Landlord: Pecos Rd LLC-MIG Real Estate Landlord agent: Nicholas Barber of Gatski Commercial Tenant: Destination to Recovery LLC Tenant agent: Jarrad Katz and Galit Kimerling of MDL Group $219,707 for 1,724 square feet, retail for 60 months 43 S. Stephanie St., Suite 133, Henderson 89012 Landlord: Vegas Stephanie LLC Landlord agent: Dan Hubbard of Cushman & Wakefield Commerce Tenant: Teriyaki Madness (renewal) Tenant agent: Did not disclose
BUSINESS LICENSES LEASES $526,122 for 7,200 square feet, office for 62 months 1421 W. Warm Springs Road, Henderson 89015 Landlord: Reisbord 1999 Children’s Trust Landlord agent: Penny Mendlovic of CBRE Tenant: Uniforms of Henderson LLC Tenant agent: Todd Manning and Dan Hubbard of Cushman & Wakefield Commerce $360,580 for 3,304 square feet, office for 65 months 5888 Sunset Road, Suite 130, Las Vegas 89118 Landlord: HDI Las Vegas LLC Landlord agent: Jerry Hagfeldt of MDL Group Tenant: Glory Global Solutions Inc. Tenant agent: Michael Dunn and Paula Lea of Commerce Real Estate Solutions Inc. $344,751 for 3,707 square feet, office for 62 months 9005 S. Pecos Road, Suite 2600, Henderson 89074 Landlord: 9005 – 9089 South Pecos Road LLC Landlord agent: Nicholas Barber and Jeremy Foley of Cushman & Wakefield Commerce Tenant: Victor Klausner, D.O. (renewal) Tenant agent: Did not disclose $263,038 for 9,121 square feet, industrial for 63 months 441 Eastgate Road, Henderson 89011 Landlord: Brookhollow Landlord agent: Art Farmanali of Cushman & Wakefield Commerce Tenant: TOL Designs LLC Tenant agent: Eric Rogosch of Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, Nevada $257,615 for 5,119 square feet, of-
T1 Payments Business type: Administrative office space Address: 10655 Park Run Drive, Suite 100, Las Vegas Owner: T1 Payments LLC Tamra L. Coulter Business type: Real estate sales Address: 10000 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 130, Las Vegas Owner: Tamra L. Coulter Tech Kiosk Outlets LLC Business type: Internet adult entertainment Address: 2800 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 4A-4B, Las Vegas Owner: William Sifert The Arts Factory LLC Business type: Alcohol beverage caterer Address: 107 E. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: The Arts Factory LLC The Vaccine Center and Travel Medicine Clinic Business type: Professional services - medical Address: 2051 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 100, Las Vegas Owner: The Vaccine Center LLC TNA Heating & Cooling Business type: Contractor Address: 5782 Calanas Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Did not disclose Total System Services LLC Business type: Repair and maintenance Address: 4535 W. Russell Road, Las Vegas Owner: Jenylou Balistreri Triplett CPA Firm PLLC Business type: Professional services Address: 7473 W. Lake Mead Blvd., Suite 100, Las Vegas
Re Owner: John R. Triplett US Drug Test Centers Business type: Clinic or laboratory Address: 2051 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 100, Las Vegas Owner: The Vaccine Center LLC Vegas Leisure Homes Business type: Short-term residential rental Address: 5108 Wapiti Point Court, Las Vegas Owner: Kendall Heath Vegas Urbanwear Business type: General retail sales Address: 4821 W. Craig Road, Las Vegas Owner: Rebecca Kang Vilma Tungol Business type: Real estate sales Address: 9525 Hillwood Drive, Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: Vilma Tungol Viva Salon Business type: General retail sales Address: 10870 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: Viva Salon LLC 101 Mobility of Las Vegas Business type: General retail sales Address: 3151 W. Tompkins Ave., Las Vegas Owner: MKA Inc. 20/20 Plumbing & Heating Inc. Business type: Contractor Address: 4745 Copper Sage St., Las Vegas Owner: Did not disclose 9970 CCO LLC Business type: Business space Address: 9970 W. Cheyenne Ave., Suite 100, Las Vegas Owner: Kevin Elder A Better Chi LLC Business type: Independent massage therapist Address: 1073 Otto Ridge Court, Las Vegas Owner: Martin Marx Absolute Beverage & Spirits Business type: Alcohol beverage caterer Address: 400 S. Seventh St., Suite 400, Las Vegas Owner: Events Catering LLC Adidas Clearance Store Business type: General retail sales Address: 817 S. Rainbow Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Adidas America Inc. Alifesworks Success Center LLC Business type: Management or consulting service Address: 1623 Fremont St. Suite 3, Las Vegas Owner: Darla Miller
Aloha Properties Business type: Real estate sales Address: 8784 S. Maryland Parkway, Suite 135, Las Vegas Owner: Aloha Enterprises LLC Amigos Flooring & Moulding Business type: Building, plant nursery and hardware supplies Address: 3001 Contract Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Amigos Flooring & Moulding Inc. Andrea M. Loveland Business type: Real estate sales Address: 7854 W. Sahara Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Andrea M. Loveland
Business Address 101, Las Owner: B
Bayside Business Address Suite 22 Owner: S
Brew Ha Business caterer Address Vegas Owner: B LLC
Ann Hwang Business type: Real estate sales Address: 777 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: Ann Hwang
Byo-Kle Business property Address Vegas Owner: B
Anne (Missy) Matyas Business type: Real estate sales Address: 1925 Village Center Circle, Suite 150, Las Vegas Owner: Anne M. Matyas
Camilla Business Address Suite 110 Owner: C
Antranik Minassian Business type: Real estate sales Address: 10000 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 130, Las Vegas Owner: Antranik Minassian
Carlito’s Business lounge Address Suite 102 Owner: C
Asap Property Inspections LLC Business type: Professional services Address: 3170 Polaris Ave., Suite 4, Las Vegas Owner: Kyle Sutton
Cathy V. Business Address Suite 120 Owner: C
Ashley Lazarus Business type: Real estate sales Address: 1215 S. Fort Apache Road, Suite 210, Las Vegas Owner: Ashley Lazarus
Centrafu Business Address Blvd., Su Owner: M
Associated Services for Well Pregnancy Business type: Instruction Services Address: 1925 Glider St., Las Vegas Owner: Grateful Birth Inc.
Chelsea Business Address Suite 100 Owner: C
Atlas Realty Business type: Real estate sales Address: 3265 N. Fort Apache Road, Suite 110, Las Vegas Owner: Atlas International Group LLC
Cheryl P Business Address Blvd., Su Owner: C
Automotive Rebuilt Exchange Business type: Automotive garage (major) Address: 1606 S. Commerce St., Las Vegas Owner: Rebuilt Products LLC Avalante LLC Business type: Contractor Address: 1020 S. Commerce St., Las Vegas Owner: Thomas C. Myers
Christian Business property Address Vegas Owner: R
Christop Business Address Blvd., Su Owner: C
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Records and Transactions Business type: Real estate sales Address: 9310 Sun City Blvd., Suite 101, Las Vegas Owner: Barbara Grater Bayside Watch Business type: General retail sales Address: 4300 Meadows Lane, Suite 2271, Las Vegas Owner: SMQ Inc. Brew Ha Ha Mobile Bar Business type: Alcohol beverage caterer Address: 910 Fremont St., Las Vegas Owner: Brew Ha Ha Mobile Bar LLC Byo-Kleen Business type: Residential property maintenance Address: 2424 Tyneside St., Las Vegas Owner: Byo-Kleen LLC Camilla Goodwin Business type: Real estate sales Address: 8330 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 110, Las Vegas Owner: Camilla Goodwin Carlito’s Way Business type: Tobacco sales/ lounge Address: 5001 E. Bonanza Road, Suite 102, Las Vegas Owner: Calero Inc. Cathy V. Rojas Business type: Real estate sales Address: 9525 Hillwood Drive, Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: CV Rojas LLC Centrafuse Holdings LLC Business type: General retail sales Address: 10300 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 13, Las Vegas Owner: Mark Twyman
community services Address: 800 W. Bonanza Road, Las Vegas Owner: Elite Youth Sports Computer Systems for Business Business type: Business support service Address: 4425 S. Pecos Road, Las Vegas Owner: Scott Brim Cornerstone Benefits & Insurance Business type: Insurance sales Address: 6881 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite A, Las Vegas Owner: Cornerstone Benefits LLC Daniel R. Valenzuela Business type: Real estate sales Address: 777 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: Daniel R. Valenzuela Dennis O’Shea Business type: Real estate sales Address: 10220 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 3, Las Vegas Owner: Dennis O’Shea Desert Gardens Business type: General retail sales Address: 1717 S. Decatur Blvd., Suite C17, Las Vegas Owner: Richard C. Wood Desert Grace Home Health Business type: Residential home care provider Address: 4955 S. Durango Drive, Las Vegas Owner: Desert Grace Health Services Inc. Desert Valley Refrigeration LLC Business type: Contractor Address: 1168 Wigwam Parkway, Las Vegas Owner: Did not disclose
Chelsea T. Randa Business type: Real estate sales Address: 9420 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 100, Las Vegas Owner: Chelsea T. Randa
Diamond Catering Business type: Alcohol beverage caterer Address: 679 N. Nellis Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Maurice Jung
Cheryl Pekarovic Business type: Real estate sales Address: 10750 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 180, Las Vegas Owner: Cheryl Pekarovic
Diane Sirikhan Business type: Real estate sales Address: 2620 Regatta Drive, Suite 102, Las Vegas Owner: Diane Sirikhan
Christiansen Handyman Business type: Residential property maintenance Address: 2373 Judson Circle, Las Vegas Owner: Raymond Christiansen
Dieu Joli Business type: Nonfarm product vendor Address: 302 S. Rampart Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Maya Branch
Christopher Beaumont Business type: Real estate sales Address: 10000 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 130, Las Vegas Owner: C Beaumont LLC
Dino’s Lounge Business type: Parking lot Address: 201 E. Wyoming Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Ringside Liquor Inc.
Community Youth Football League Business type: Nonprofit
Direct Mobile Imaging Business type: Clinic or laboratory
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Address: 3320 N. Buffalo Drive, Suite 202, Las Vegas Owner: Direct Mobile Imaging LLC Downtown Las Vegas Events Center Business type: Alcohol beverage caterer Address: 200 S. Third St., Las Vegas Owner: Downtown Las Vegas Events Center LLC Earldan B. Nino Business type: Real estate sales Address: 9420 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 100, Las Vegas Owner: Earldan B. Nino Eficaz LLC Business type: General retail sales Address: 5000 W. Oakey Blvd., Suite A1, Las Vegas Owner: Irving Hernandez-Carmona Elegante Banquet Hall Business type: Alcohol beverage caterer Address: 3020 E. Bonanza Road, Suite 110, Las Vegas Owner: Bonanza Mojave LLC En Fuego Cigars & Lounge Business type: Tobacco sales/ lounge Address: 328 W. Sahara Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Improv LLC Filemon Hernandez Business type: Repair and maintenance Address: 3851 Wynn Road, Suite 1079, Las Vegas Owner: Filemon Hernandez Flakos Auto Spa Business type: Automobile detailing Address: 2538 Rocky Countryside St., Las Vegas Owner: Edgar Lucero Frank Prezgay Business type: Real estate sales Address: 9525 Hillwood Drive, Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: Frank Prezgay Fresh Kidz Boutique Business type: General retail sales Address: 2901 W. Washington Ave., Suite F102, Las Vegas Owner: Bobby Hopper Galaxy Pilates LLC Business type: Instruction services Address: 1970 Village Center Circle, Suite 5, Las Vegas Owner: Agnieszka Koziarska Gallery Red Business type: General retail sales Address: 1237 S. Main St., Las Vegas Owner: Lilia Laforce Gold & Silver Pawn Shop
Business type: Administrative office space Address: 708 S. Sixth St., Las Vegas Owner: Gold & Silver Coin Shop Inc. Haggen 2234 Business type: Nondepository lender Address: 820 S. Rampart Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Haggen Opco South LLC Hilit Weiss Business type: Real estate sales Address: 1925 Village Center Circle, Suite 150, Las Vegas Owner: Hilit Weiss Hill & Hill Construction LLC Business type: Contractor Address: 1414 Athol Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Did not disclose Hooper Industries Ltd. Business type: Apartment house Address: 912 E. Bridger Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Barbara L. Buchanan
BUILDING PERMITS $1,050,000, tenant improvement 2251 N. Rainbow Blvd., Las Vegas Hadfield Building Corp. $820,680, commercial-new 330 W. Centennial Parkway, North Las Vegas Milestone Construction Inc. $797,432, commercial-new 4703 W. Ann Road, North Las Vegas GM Northup Corp. $690,000, tenant improvement 5720 Centennial Center Blvd., Las Vegas TWC Construction $570,000, tenant improvement 100 S. 14th St., Las Vegas Star Energy Construction LLC $461,000, tenant improvement 1585 N. Decatur Blvd., Las Vegas JG Enterprises $367,985, residential-new 7451 Yonie Court, Las Vegas Plasim Homes LLC $367,985, residential-new 7447 Yonie Court, Las Vegas Plasim Homes LLC $286,887, miscellaneous apparatus conduits and conductors 1293 N. Sandhill Road, Las Vegas Richardson Construction Inc. $250,000, commercial-on-site hardscapes and improvements 2450 W. Charleston Blvd., Las
Vegas Affordable Concepts Inc. $248,342, residential-new 9720 University Ridge Ave., Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC $234,381, commercial-shade structures 1293 N. Sandhill Road, Las Vegas Richardson Construction Inc. $220,000, tenant improvement 2025 N. Buffalo Drive, Las Vegas R&K Development $218,097, residential-new 12129 Paseo Terraza Lane, Las Vegas Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC $214,980, residential-new 45 Arista Port St., Henderson Richmond American Homes of Nevada $214,758, residential-new 1108 Via Alloro, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC $214,758, residential-new 2285 Laughing Water Way., Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC $211,982, residential-new 298 Calgrove St., Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC $211,918, residential-new 9724 University Ridge Ave., Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC $211,711, residential-new 315 Calgrove St., Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC $211,007, residential-new 308 Calgrove St., Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC $203,466, residential-new 9721 University Ridge Ave., Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC $203,258, residential-new 453 Paso De Montana St., Las Vegas Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC $200,341, residential-new 2882 Shining Sun Way, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC $200,000, tenant improvement 795 S. Grand Central Parkway, Las Vegas Three Rivers Construction & Development $198,550, tenant improvement 6260 N. Durango Drive, Las Vegas J&F Construction LLC $198,306, residential-new
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Records and Transactions 318 Calgrove St., Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC
3161 Via Como, Henderson Inspirada City Partners LLC
$196,197, residential-new 307 Calgrove St., Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC
$170,287, residential-new 821 Tarbet Ave., Henderson Inspirada City Partners LLC
$195,388, residential-new 8056 Majestic Bighorn St., Las Vegas Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC
$169,954, residential-new 2199 Maderno St., Henderson Pardee Homes Nevada
$194,962, residential-new 912 Lynne Harbor Ave., Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC $194,401, residential-new 8062 Majestic Bighorn St., Las Vegas Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC $181,821, residential-new 3218 San Cilino Ave., Henderson Toll Henderson LLC $181,821, residential-new 2548 Pont Marie Drive, Henderson Toll Henderson LLC $180,604, residential-new 1509 Fantastic Court, North Las Vegas William Lyon Homes Inc.
$169,954, residential-new 2190 Maderno St., Henderson Pardee Homes Nevada $164,465, residential-new 2883 Shining Sun Way, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC $160,472, residential-new 2874 Shining Sun Way, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC $160,472, residential-new 2867 Shining Sun Way, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC $160,472, residential-new 2879 Shining Sun Way, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC $159,142, residential-new 2887 Shining Sun Way, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC
Toll Henderson LLC
Ryland Homes Nevada LLC
DR Horton Inc.
$145,723, residential-new 2195 Maderno St., Henderson Pardee Homes Nevada
$127,701, residential-new 49 Arista Port St., Henderson Ryland Homes Nevada LLC
$108,959, residential-new 7946 Blue Lake Peak St., Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC
$145,723, residential-new 2198 Maderno St., Henderson Pardee Homes Nevada
$123,598, residential-new 283 Via San Gabriella, Henderson Century Communities Nevada LLC
$144,503, residential-new 3157 Via Como, Henderson Inspirada City Partners LLC
$123,422, residential-new 7656 Albright Peak Drive, Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC
$144,503, residential-new 3159 Via Como, Henderson Inspirada City Partners LLC $144,503, residential-new Did not disclose, Henderson Inspirada City Partners LLC $144,503, residential-new Did not disclose, Henderson Inspirada City Partners LLC $141,675, residential-new 2878 Shining Sun Way, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC $141,675, residential-new 2767 Sacred Court, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC
$180,604, residential-new 1504 Fantastic Court, North Las Vegas William Lyon Homes Inc.
$159,142, residential-new 2875 Shining Sun Way, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC
$141,657, residential-new 8068 Majestic Bighorn St., Las Vegas Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC
$180,604, residential-new 1512 Fantastic Court, North Las Vegas William Lyon Homes Inc.
$158,404, residential-new 5646 Pleasant Palms St., North Las Vegas J.F. Shea Co. Inc.
$139,770, residential-new 1505 Fantastic Court, North Las Vegas William Lyon Homes Inc.
$180,604, residential-new 1513 Fantastic Court, North Las Vegas William Lyon Homes Inc.
$158,404, residential-new 3609 Corte Bella Hills Ave., North Las Vegas J.F. Shea Co. Inc.
$138,306, residential-new 9514 Harlan Hills Court, Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada
$179,769, residential-new 3217 San Cilino Ave., Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC
$158,349, residential-new 1508 Fantastic Court, North Las Vegas William Lyon Homes Inc.
$137,294, residential-new 1105 Via Alloro, Henderson KB Home LLC
$179,693, residential-new 5634 Mackenzie Park Court, Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada $179,693, residential-new 5607 Mackenzie Park Court, Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada $179,658, residential-new 2194 Maderno St., Henderson Pardee Homes Nevada $178,993, residential-new 2186 Maderno St., Henderson Pardee Homes Nevada $177,717, residential-new 169 Wynntry Circle, Henderson Nancy Frasure Living Trust Agmt $170,287, residential-new
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$157,277, residential-new 9717 University Ridge Ave., Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC $156,323, residential-new 12261 Catanzaro Ave., Las Vegas Ryland Homes
$132,764, residential-new 5654 Pleasant Palms St., North Las Vegas J.F. Shea Co. Inc. $132,576, tenant improvement 5051 Stewart Ave., Las Vegas Master Built Construction LLC
$155,537, residential-new 2191 Maderno St., Henderson Pardee Homes Nevada
$129,143, residential-new 1093 Via Della Costrella, Henderson DR Horton Inc.
$155,537, residential-new 1112 Strada Cristallo, Henderson Pardee Homes Nevada
$129,143, residential-new 1104 Via Alloro, Henderson DR Horton Inc.
$151,377, residential-new 8126 Majestic Bighorn St., Las Vegas Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC
$129,143, residential-new 1096 Via Della Costrella, Henderson Greystone Nevada LLC
$149,881, residential-new 1908 Galleria Spada St., Henderson
$128,644, residential-new 2779 Sacred Court, Henderson
$123,422, residential-new 7610 Phoenix Peak St., Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC $123,422, residential-new 10541 Mount Blackburn Ave., Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC $123,422, residential-new 10549 Mount Blackburn Ave., Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC $122,187, residential-new 6700 Bristle Falls St., Las Vegas Ryland Homes $122,187, residential-new 6749 Conquistador St., Las Vegas Ryland Homes $120,835, residential-new 4132 Seclusion Bay Ave., North Las Vegas Beazer Homes Holdings Corp. $117,926, residential-new 7349 Monticello Mist St., Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC
$108,959, residential-new 7943 Blue Lake Peak St., Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC $107,296, residential-new 1092 Via Della Costrella, Henderson DR Horton Inc. $106,774, residential-new 7950 Blue Lake Peak St., Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC $106,774, residential-new 7947 Blue Lake Peak St., Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC $106,108, residential-new 4361 Shady River Ave., North Las Vegas KB Home Nevada Inc. $104,272, residential-new 7923 Mineral Peak St., Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC $104,272, residential-new 7924 Mineral Peak St., Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC $103,442, residential-new 9033 Cross Stitch Court, Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC
CONVENTIONS
$114,802, residential-new 8118 Majestic Bighorn St., Las Vegas Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC
Couture 2015 Location: Wynn Dates: May 28-June 1 Expected attendance: 4,000
$114,228, residential-new 7660 Albright Peak Drive, Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC
Magic the Gathering Tournament 2015 Location: Las Vegas Convention Center Dates: May 28-31 Expected attendance: 10,000
$114,228, residential-new 7618 Phoenix Peak St., Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC $114,228, residential-new 10545 Mount Blackburn Ave., Las Vegas Adaven Homes LLC
Wholesalecrafts.com-American Craft Retailers Expo 2015 Location: South Point Dates: May 28-30 Expected attendance: 3,000
$112,841, residential-new 386 Monique Springs St., Henderson DR Horton Inc.
Bick International - Coin, Currency, Jewelry & Stamp Expo Location: Orleans Dates: May 29-31 Expected attendance: 1,000
$112,841, residential-new 381 Monique Springs St., Henderson DR Horton Inc.
JCK Annual Trade Show 2015 Location: Mandalay Bay Dates: May 29-June 1 Expected attendance: 37,500
$112,841, residential-new 383 Monique Springs St., Henderson
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Category 2 beds* Owner
Top executive
Atria Sutton 3185 E. Flamingo Road Las Vegas, NV 89121 702-436-9000 • atriaseniorliving.com
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Atria Senior Living Group
Diana Mott, administrator
Brookdale Cheyenne 6031 W. Cheyenne Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89108 702-658-5882 • brookdale.com
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Brookdale Senior Living Solutions
Don Parker, administrator
Wentworth of Las Vegas 2620 Lake Sahara Drive Las Vegas, NV 89117 702-233-9800
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Roger Hittle, administrator
Atria Seville 2000 N. Rampart Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89128 702-804-6800 • atriaseville.com
144
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41
Atria Senior Living Group
Andrew Levin, administrator
Atria Sunlake 3250 S. Fort Apache Road Las Vegas, NV 89117 702-256-6500 • atriaseniorliving.com
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Atria Senior Living Group
Dana Daunter, executive director
Prestige Assisted Living at Mira Loma 2520 Wigwam Parkway Henderson, NV 89074 702-260-8400 • prestigecare.com
138
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Prestige Care
Barbara K. Gottlieb, administrator
Pacifica Senior Living San Martin 8374 W. Capovilla Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89113 702-222-3600 • pacificasanmartin.com
132
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132
Pacifica Senior Living
Donald Trump Jr., administrator
The Charleston Residential 2121 W. Charleston Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89102 702-382-7746
129
Did not disclose
Did not disclose
Did not disclose
Wendy Ramirez, administrator
Heritage Springs Assisted Living and Memory Care 8720 W. Flamingo Road Las Vegas, NV 89147 702-360-6023 • heritagespringsseniorliving.com
127
Did not disclose
Did not disclose
BPM Senior Living
Nancy G. Overson, administrator
Willow Creek at Buffalo Assisted Living 3890 N. Buffalo Drive Las Vegas, NV 89129 702-396-1700 • willowcreeklv.com
113
85
28
Willow Creek
Brad Boman, administrator
Siena Hills Assisted Living 2910 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway Henderson, NV 89052 702-614-8733 • seniorlifestyle.com
110
45
65
Senior Lifestyle
Gerald Taylor, administrator
Merrill Gardens at Green Valley Ranch LLC 1935 Paseo Verde Parkway Henderson, NV 89012 702-568-7900 • merrillgardens.com
108
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108
Merrill Gardens
Linn Thome, administrator
Pacifica Senior Living Green Valley 2620 E. Robindale Road Henderson, NV 89074 702-992-0000 • pacificaseniorliving.com
108
36
72
Pacifica Senior Living
Trudy Andrews, executive director
Brookdale Las Vegas 3025 E. Russell Road Las Vegas, NV 89120 702-451-7896 • brookdale.com
105
89
16
Brookdale Senior Living Solutions
Ranae Cemensky, administrator
Sunrise of Henderson 1555 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway Henderson, NV 89012 702-837-6582 • sunrisehenderson.com
105
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105
Did not disclose
Michael Korin, administrator
Facility
*Category 1 beds are for residents without memory loss; category 2 beds are for residents with some form of memory loss. Source: Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health and VEGAS INC research. It is not the intent of this list to endorse the participants or to imply that the listing of a company indicates its quality. Although every attempt is made to ensure the accuracy and thoroughness of VEGAS INC lists, omissions sometimes occur. Please send corrections or additions on company letterhead to Pashtana Usufzy, researcher, VEGAS INC, 2360 Corporate Circle, Third Floor, Henderson, NV 89074.
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ACROSS 1 Mound site 8 1996 Olympic tennis gold medalist 14 Track fastener 19 Jim Brickman fan, perhaps 20 Gathered in a mass 21 Darlings’ creator 22 Stay with doggedly 23 Dishes set in gelatin 24 Canine coat? 25 *Dreamt of 27 *Type of surplus store 29 Couple maker 30 Equal 31 Question of concern 32 *Forgot the past 37 Dope (out) 38 Eponymous Belgian town 41 Nincompoop 42 German article 43 Word with dive or drops 44 War of the Ring force 45 Pact 47 Fix, as a model airplane 51 Bleep 53 Discernible range 55 Hinduism’s Chandra, e.g. 57 2005 horror sequel 58 Singer Tori 59 Words before dare or ever 61 Scottish export 62 Where texts are often read 63 ISP option 64 *Yellow Monopoly property 67 “Speak up” requests 70 Base path? 72 Cutting beam 73 Bouncer’s handful 74 In short order 75 Some saxes 77 Law office visitors 79 Part-time player 81 “I’m outta here” 83 Potters’ wheels, e.g. 85 Home of Mandrake the Magician 86 Part of BOGOF 87 Annoyances 89 They’re often found in mice 91 Sign of an omission 92 Spots 93 Deere rival 94 *School in-crowd
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Momentum Beersheba’s region Series ender Feature of some Roy Rogers numbers 48 Ship out 49 *Like some flats 50 Expose 52 “Understood” 54 Weigh station unit 56 The __: Horace works 60 “__ be fun!” 62 Polish brand 64 Credit giant 65 Does masterfully 66 Crunched things, for short 68 Large groups 69 Weevil feature 71 Poll position? DOWN 74 Egyptian peninsula 1 Sapa __: ancient South 75 Belgium-based imaging American ruler company 2 Jodie Foster title role 76 Master 3 Relative of IMO 77 Journalist who has been a 4 Collector’s suffix host on all “Big Three” 5 Like rich batter networks 6 Sics on 78 12-time NFL Pro Bowler 7 Overwhelmed, with “out” Junior 8 Jackson with a 2015 80 Connie __, winningest MLB “Keepin’ It Country” tour manager 9 Austrian painter Klimt 82 Responded to a bad joke 10 Word in current news? 84 U.S./Soviet pact 11 Scorpion cousin 12 Texas A&M joined it in 2012 88 Gets to 90 Walk easily 13 “You’re probably right” 93 Twisted together 14 Some HDTVs 94 Ground, say 15 Trick 95 Garment easy to get in and 16 “Joy of Cooking” author out of Rombauer 96 More swank 17 Capital ESE of Warsaw 97 Throw a big party for 18 Hard to control 98 Burning 21 In a fog 101 Cops, or pressure from 26 Puff __ them 28 Woke up 102 “The Aviator” actor 32 Gets out 103 Landlocked land 33 *“Be My Baby” singers 105 Weigh station concern 34 Pile up 106 Brought up 35 “American Pastoral” 107 Hard-to-ignore feeling Pulitzer-winning writer 108 Fixed __ 36 City near Provo 109 De Matteo of “Sons of 38 *Alpine feline Anarchy” 39 Spitting sound 110 Apple product 40 Wine commonly served chilled 113 Cut off 98 Look forward to 99 Game with an Angry Birds version 100 Cal. column 101 *Tape width, perhaps 104 Signs of spring that are literally hidden in the answers to starred clues 111 Tennyson’s “lily maid of Astolat” 112 Cuthbert of “24” 114 Steak __ 115 Thought quite a lot of 116 More promising 117 In 118 Downed with a jolt 119 Wheelhouse 120 Elizabeth I or Prince Harry
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without repeating. Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 through 4 (easy) or 1 through 6 (challenging)
The numbers within the heavily outlined boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the
target numbers in the top-left corners. Freebies: Fill in singlebox cages with the number in the top-left corner
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