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This year is the 80th anniversary of Social Security. The federal program aims to reduce poverty among seniors and provide Americans with a basic level of retirement security. Nevada officials say without it, 105,000 Nevada seniors would fall into poverty.

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NOTEWORTHY STORIES

PICK THE PERFECT TREE

ON THE COVER Six Las Vegas Valley residents share their extraordinary stories of survival.

Whether you’re landscaping a new backyard or just want to spruce up your condo’s balcony, a tree can be a beautiful addition to your home. But choosing the right one isn’t just about its shade, fruit or branches. In five minutes, we’ll make you an expert on what fits best into your living space and your life.

STORIES OF SURVIVAL

A mother was shot 12 times. An untrained pilot crash-landed an airplane. A firefighter was struck by lightning. A man lost limbs to a flesh-eating bacteria. A construction worker fell 150 feet, and a man was in a car when it exploded. They all lived to tell their stories. We present them in their own words.

HOW TO SELL YOUR BET

Ian Epstein and Luke Pergande are the founders of PropSwap, a business they opened in a local sports bar that gives sports gamblers the option to cash out on their wagers before the games are played. It’s a business that could be particularly popular — and lucrative — with people who lay money on futures bets.

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Supporters say a new law will bolster Nevada’s wine industry by opening opportunities in Reno and Las Vegas. Previously, only counties with fewer than 100,000 people were permitted to have wineries. The law is not without controversy, though, as some complain about regulations on tasting rooms and grape use.

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BE THE BEST BABYSITTER

The competition for part-time work among teenagers can be stiff. We’ve got tips to set you apart from the rest of the kids on the block.

FERTILE GROUND FOR WINERIES

Are we lying in sex-ed class? The Nevada American Civil Liberties Union took a look at what’s being taught in the Clark County School District and deemed it “horribly inaccurate in so many ways.”

candidate picking up steam 20 Fiery The message of underdog Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has resonated with some Nevada Democrats.

Restaurateur makes his own waves Christopher Campbell took being fired from Chipotle as an opportunity to create Braddah’s, a Hawaiian variation on the popular Mexican food chain.

Parts of the past are worth preserving Six Las Vegas neighborhoods are being considered for the National Register of Historic Places.

Former mayor catches up with the times Oscar Goodman, the man who ran Las Vegas without a computer, now uses email.

OPINION

New plan for solar users needs review NV Energy’s proposal to charge new solar customers a monthly fee is puzzling.

CORRECTION Due to an editing error, the Casino Promotions in the Aug. 2 edition of The Sunday mistakenly listed a 50+ senior slot tournament Wednesdays at Max Casino at the Westin. The weekly tournament is at the Plaza.

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Jaden Beliveau kisses her miniature horse Bravo while showing him off at a Horses 4 Heroes booth at a National Night Out block party at Providence within Knickerbocker Park. The goal of the event was to promote community safety. The mission of Horses 4 Heroes is to make horseback riding affordable for service members, veterans, survivors, first responders and their immediate families. (L.E. BASKOW/STAFF)

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Ten thousand hackers and computer security experts gathered for the annual Black Hat conference at Mandalay Bay. This is the convention’s 18th year in Las Vegas.

Union officials launched a campaign to organize UFC fighters, saying they “deserve to share in (the) success” of the Las Vegas tourism industry.

The top 10 candidates for the Republican presidential nomination tried to capture voters’ attention during the first Republican presidential debate.

Sen. Harry Reid introduced a bill to expand the Moapa Band of Paiutes’ Southern Nevada reservation by more than 25,000 acres.

The Nevada Public Utilities Commission will meet to review NV Energy’s proposal for how to charge future residential solar power customers.

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Share of Nevada voters who support President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

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THE HOPEFULS AND HOPELESS ON THE PRESIDENTIAL SCENE The purplest of purple states, Nevada is a key battleground for Oval Office aspirants. Each week, we rank how the presidential candidates fared in the state and on issues important to its residents. Here’s who had a good week and a bad week.

JEB BUSH

MARCO RUBIO

HILLARY CLINTON

TED CRUZ

KERRY BOWERS

Jimmy Vaccaro, the dean of Las Vegas oddsmakers, released his betting odds for the GOP field. Bush led the pack at 2-to-1. (Just behind him: Scott Walker at 3:1.) Betting odds are for entertainment purposes only.

Though the Florida senator converted from Mormanism to Catholicism as a young man, Rubio has been building a network of key LDS endorsers in Nevada, replicating the strategy that helped propel Mitt Romney to the nomination in 2012.

The first Democratic debate will be in Nevada on Oct. 13. Former first lady Clinton will share the stage with four candidates her campaign would prefer voters didn’t know about.

The Texas senator announced he would return to Nevada Aug. 14 to speak at Red Rock Resort, then take part Aug. 15 in Attorney General Adam Laxalt’s inaugural Basque Fry in Northern Nevada. (Check back next week to see how he did.)

The Henderson retiree, who served 30 years in the Air Force, was left out of the first debates. He complained to USA Today: “Everything you see in terms of who is going to get into the polls or be in the debate is the result of the work done by the RNC and the media to promote only certain candidates.”

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MONEY’S FINAL PURSE Floyd Mayweather Jr. announced what he is calling his final fight, naming Andre Berto his opponent for a Sept. 12 welterweight bout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Mayweather opened a minus-4,000 favorite at the Westgate Las Vegas Superbook, meaning you’d have to wager $4,000 on Mayweather to win $100. A Mayweather victory would bring the fighter’s record to 49-0, equal to Rocky Marciano’s.

Locals gaming giant Station Casinos is scheduled to report its second-quarter earnings Aug. 11. The casino chain earned almost $38 million during the first quarter of the year.

Average profit Nevada house flippers banked per deal last quarter. Flipping remains prevalent here but not as profitable as nationwide, where the average flip netted $70,696.

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ANOTHER STEP TOWARD HOCKEY The National Hockey League league moved Las Vegas’ expansion team application to the next phase. NHL officials will gather information about the market and the MGM/AEG arena being built. The third phase would include the collection of an estimated $500 million in expansion fees. A decision is expected this fall.

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Number of fulltime teachers the Clark County School District will be short on the first day of school. That’s 100 more than last year, renewing fears the district’s ongoing teacher shortage is getting worse.

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5-MINUTE EXPERT

Nevada and California are the only states with more than one state tree.

PICK THE PERFECT TREE FOR YOUR YARD BY JESSE GRANGER | STAFF WRITER

Whether you’re looking for shade from the summer heat, fresh fruit just outside your front door or simply a contrast from the monotonous desert landscape, trees are a great way to spruce up your yard. ¶ But the Mojave Desert is unforgiving, and choosing the right tree can be just as important as providing it with the proper care.

HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT TREE Find a tree that can survive with a minimal amount of water. A great way to do this is by observing the local landscape to see which trees appear healthy. Trees that survive near abandoned or foreclosed homes that no longer receive water are more adapted to the desert climate than, say, palm trees thriving on frequently watered casino properties. n Pick a tree with good form. Because nurseries often sell trees based on the size of the pot, customers often search for the tallest tree in the smallest pot. But size isn’t necessarily the only sign of a healthy tree. Smaller trees planted at a younger age may take a year or two longer to grow into full size, but they tend to be much healthier in the long term. TIP: Look for trees that grow upright without excessive pruning.

n Check the roots. A tree’s roots can be the best indication of the health of a young sapling. Roots should not grow in a circle pattern around the trunk of the tree. That’s called root girdling and can restrict or cut off the movement of nutrients and water throughout the roots.

An ash tree sapling.

HOW TO PLANT YOUR TREE CORRECTLY 2016

n Start the new year by planting.The best time of year to plant is January or February. It allows the tree to set during winter before blooming in spring.

n Use organic mulch. Because Southern Nevada’s soil is nutrient poor compared with most areas, using organic mulch can greatly improve a tree’s health. The mulch helps the soil retain nutrients and moisture, while keeping the roots cooler during summer and warmer during winter. TIP: University of Nevada Cooperative Extension in North Las Vegas supplies organic mulch free of charge. Load up a trash bag or the back of a pickup truck.

n Apply three to four inches of mulch around the tree, starting about five inches from the trunk. Piling mulch against the base of the tree is not healthy for it. Extend the mulch to the drip line where the furthest branch extends.

n Add mulch every year as it breaks down into the soil. This keeps the soil rich with nutrients.

University of Nevada Cooperative Extension in North Las Vegas offers classes on how to plant trees if you want hands-on lessons.

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CONSIDER CHILLING HOUR REQUIREMENTS n Don’t have a yard? There are many options for people who want the benefits of a tree but have limited space. Adorn your apartment balcony or living-room window with a fruit-producing arboreal accent. Dwarfed apple and peach trees are available at local nurseries and can be kept in a pot, as long as limbs and roots are pruned regularly. Citrus trees, which are particularly sensitive to the cold, are great for porches and balconies. In the event of a cold snap, they can be brought inside.

Chilling hours are the number of hours per year when the temperature drops below 45 degrees Fahrenheit. That time period is crucial for many fruit trees, as it signals winter and cues the trees to begin producing fruit for spring. Trees that require fewer than 200 hours are most likely to thrive in Southern Nevada. The region can’t supply the 1,000 chilling hours needed by other varieties. While it is possible to grow those, it is not ideal and certainly not for beginners. KEY: TYPE, chilling hour requirement

EASY CITRUS, 0 hours FIG, 100-200 hours POMEGRANATE, 100-200 hours PERSIMMON, 200-400 hours JAPANESE PLUM, 300-500 hours MULBERRY, 400 hours CHESTNUT, 400-500 hours JAPANESE PEAR, 400-500 hours

INTERMEDIATE PLUMCOT (OR PLUOT, A PLUM-APRICOT HYBRID), 400 hours QUINCE (A HARD, PEAR-SHAPED FRUIT), 300-500 hours KIWI, 600-800 hours

DIFFICULT CHERRY, 600-1,000 hours PEAR, 600-1,000 hours PEACH, 600-1,000 hours GOOSEBERRY, 800-1,000 hours APPLE, up to 1,000 hours

A potted tangerine tree.

WHEN TO WATER YOUR TREE The Southern Nevada Water Authority offers a guideline for how often to water trees in the valley:

SINGLE-LEAF PINYON

BRISTLECONE PINE

NONFRUITING TREES In winter:

In spring or fall:

In summer:

Deep water once or twice a month

Deep water two to four times per month

Deep water once or twice a week

There are plenty of desert-dwelling trees that don’t bear fruit but are great for decoration. The official state trees of Nevada are the single-leaf pinyon — discovered by John C. Fremont, for whom Fremont Street is named — and the bristlecone pine. Bristlecone pines are the longest-living trees on the planet; they can live for thousands of years. The oldest living nonclonal tree in the United States is a bristlecone pine named “Methuselah” in the White Mountains of California. It is almost 5,000 years old. (Clonal trees clone themselves and can live for tens of thousands of years.) Other great trees for Southern Nevada are the Palo Verde and the Mesquite tree, known for its contorting branches.

Forest managers look for pine cones to take from “Methuselah,” the world’s oldest known tree, in 2002. (ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE)

n More trees that are easy to grow here: n

Utah juniper

Arizona ash

Desert willow

Canyon oak

Mountain mahogany

Western redbud

Fremont cotton

Sources: University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, Raintree Nursery, UNR, Southern Nevada Water Authority

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I SURVIVED BEING SHOT 12 TIMES A F L E S H - E AT I N G B AC T E R I A CRASH LANDING A PLANE BEING STRUCK BY LIGHTNING FA L L I N G 1 5 0 F E E T A VEHICLE EXPLOSION

BY MEGAN MESSERLY | STAFF WRITER

ou go to work and take the kids to school; eat meals and attend meetings; celebrate birthdays and holidays. Mornings and evenings pass, and days blur together — waking, sleeping, eating, breathing, living. ¶ And then the unthinkable happens. ¶ They are the stories that lead the nightly news: A plane crashes in North Las Vegas; a worker falls 150 feet; a woman is shot 12 times. ¶ As observers, we think to ourselves, “Oh my goodness, I hope they’re

all right,” quickly followed by, “That would never happen to me.” ¶ But it does happen and has happened here in the valley. ¶ Six people who survived against the odds sat down with The Sunday to share not only what it feels like to cheat death but to overcome it triumphantly. Here, in their own words, they share their stories of healing, of growth and of the desire to be better and do more.

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I S U RV I V E D B E I N G S H OT 1 2 T I M E S KATHLEEN SWEENEY, 31 FULL-TIME MOTHER JUNE 11, 2014

yan and I had been dating off and on for six months. We worked together at Pizza Rock. Our relationship got brought into work, where it shouldn’t have. He yelled at me in front of people and ended up getting fired as a result. He got into fights with most people he worked with, but that was the last straw. I knew it wasn’t my fault, but I still felt horrible. We didn’t talk for a week, but we started talking again. I felt he needed my support, so we spent the whole weekend together. We got a lot of things out in the open. I felt like we were in a good place. That Tuesday, he came over for dinner. We watched a movie, gave the kids a bath, gave them Popsicles, and then the kids went to bed. About 2 a.m., the conversation turned to work and how it was my fault he got fired. He wanted me to say I instigated it. I said no, I didn’t, we have different recollections. He got pissed, threw a few things, grabbed his

dog and left. I texted him a few times: “Hey, we’ll talk tomorrow. Sleep well. Let’s get some help.” He texted me back, “Nothing’s ever your fault. You always lie about everything.” I was getting ready for bed about 30 minutes later, and I heard a knock at the door. I thought, “Here we go again.” I opened the door and he was asking something like, “Are we done?” He must have asked five or six times until he heard what he wanted to hear. Then he was like Jekyll and Hyde. Red face. He literally looked crazy. He pushed me down, and I thought he was going to beat me. I curled up on the floor in a defensive position, and he pulled out a gun and started shooting. It took me a minute to comprehend what was happening. I heard it before I saw it. My brother had this cap gun when we were little, and that’s exactly what it sounded like. I screamed a bloody-murder scream I didn’t think I was capable of. Once I realized what was happening, I counted six shots. I actually was shot 12 times. It just didn’t stop, and then it did stop. I laid there a minute, and he walked like 3 feet away from me. He clicked the gun back, put it under his chin, pulled the trigger and fell to the ground. I laid there another minute, waiting for him to move, but he didn’t. I could hear him breathing. It was this kind of gurgling breathing. He wasn’t dead. I looked at my arm and hand and thought, “This is not OK.” I had two large

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holes in my arm, and what felt like a ball in my stomach. I didn’t know if it was blood building up and getting bigger. I didn’t know if I was bleeding out. I slid down the hallway because my phone was in my bedroom. When I got to Colin’s room, he was awake, crying, screaming, “Mom, mom.” I told him I needed him to get my phone. So he went to my room and got it. Then I told him to go back into his room, and I called 911. I was lying in the hallway. My whole apartment was dark. The only light that was on was a porch light outside the front door. When the cops came in, it was SWAT style: flashlights, guns drawn. The sergeant went over to Ryan and kicked the gun out of his hand. Officer Parrish was right next to me. He directed the other two officers into the bedroom to get Colin and Emily Mae, who were 4 and 2 at the time. The officers put something over the kids’ faces so they didn’t have to see Ryan on the ground. Then the firemen rushed in, and it was like 20 questions: name, age, date of birth, spell your last name, what happened, how much do you weigh, how tall are you, what medications do you take? Once they saw the injuries, all they could do was wrap me up in gauze, give me an IV and go. When we got to the hospital, there were people waiting. They did X-rays. When they moved me, I was in excruciating pain. I remember it burning everywhere, all over my body. I heard the doctors say, “We need to get this girl into surgery,” and I thought, “Good idea, I’m ready for a nap. Just make sure I wake up.” When I woke up, I was in ICU. It wasn’t until the third day that I realized the extent of my injuries. I had taken a bullet to the stomach. Both of my tibias were broken. My left femur was — my doctor used the word “obliterated” — so I have a metal rod there. That left a long scar from my mid thigh to my hip, which became infected with MRSA. One bullet went in between my fingers, burning my ring finger

and shattering my pinky. One of my doctors joked I had “three flat tires.” Everyone has to keep their humor about these sorts of things. There’s always a bright side. After, I went for rehab and learned the skills I needed to get around the house in a wheelchair. I went home three days before I turned 30 and celebrated my 30th birthday at home with my kids and my mom. I moved into my mom’s house because I couldn’t live in an apartment with two children and me in a wheelchair. I had in-home nursing and physical therapy for two more months until I got the OK to put weight on my legs. The kids asked me in the beginning, “Why did Ryan shoot you?” We never hid anything from them. They have as much of a right to talk about it and work through it as I do. But I don’t know. I don’t have an answer. On Ryan’s birthday last year, I wondered how his mom felt. I didn’t have any contact with them. I don’t know if they hate me, if they think it’s my fault, if they had any sign or knew him to the point where maybe they would’ve said, “Watch out.” I’ll see something daily — not just the physical scars — and it’ll remind me of him, and I’m like, why do I have to think about that? I went back to the apartment a few months ago, and Ryan’s car was still parked out front. It had all of those “will tow” stickers on it. It was shocking to see. I was like, “Why is his car still there? What happened to his stuff? Who went and took care of that?” That was something I never found out. Nursing school is in my future. It always has been in the back of my head, and now it’s like, I have to do it. But walking for eight hours right now is not an option, physically. So I hang out with my kids, I do mom duty, I do my physical therapy and counseling, and that’s enough for now. We’re almost back to normal, but we’re not quite there yet.

“It took me a minute to comprehend what was happening. I heard it before I saw it. My brother had this cap gun when we were little, and that’s exactly what it sounded like. I screamed a bloody-murder scream I didn’t think I was capable of.”

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JUNE 28, 2009 came home early from work one day thinking I had the flu. My wife t was my last day of vacation, and already had been sick for about a I felt empty. I was trying to fill that week, so I thought I caught what void through drinking, women she had. and partying — trying to do what I But when I got home, I literally passed thought any 25-year-old kid would out. I remember only bits and pieces from do. I was clouded about where I was going the next day. in life. My wife took me to urgent care. My The house I bought was underwater. I kidneys weren’t working. My blood had worked a good job but wondered whether I become septic. would be a server at a steakhouse my whole Worst-case scenario, they expected it was life. Two and a half weeks earlier, my girla flesh-eating bacteria. The tests take about friend at the time and I broke up. three days, so they treated me with antibiotI got invited to church, but I didn’t go. I ics just in case. went to the pool at the Palms. I got there By the time the results came back, I around 10:30 a.m. and had five drinks with already was on life support. They told my no food and little sleep. I remember being family to come down because it didn’t seem in the pool. I remember seeing my friends like I was going to survive. hanging out. I remember making plans for But the doctor who went in to remove later that night. I remember leaving the the bacteria didn’t give up on me. That kind Palms, getting in the car — and that’s all I of has been the story of my life. He went in remember. and asked my wife if it would be all right to My co-worker parked in front of my home perform surgery on me. He said I probably about 5:30 p.m., but he never woke me up. He wasn’t going to make it — I wasn’t stable — told my family he had the AC on in the car full but there weren’t really any other options. blast. He stepped outside, smoked a cigarette. PHOTO BY L.E. BASKOW The doctor went in twice, but the surgerI’m still sleeping. He comes back in the car ies didn’t work; they couldn’t remove all the bacteria. At that point, they could’ve and falls asleep with his foot on the gas pedal. just taken off my whole leg, but he didn’t want to give up. So he went in a third My neighbor said he thought they were cleaning carpets outside because time, and they were able to control the bacteria, remove it and save my leg. there was a revving sound for 45 minutes. But I still had to have amputations. The flesh-eating bacteria didn’t get my My co-worker is asleep. I’m asleep. The car blows up. hands and feet, but the medication that kept me alive caused a frostbite effect My neighbor hears the explosion and comes downstairs. He sees me enand caused me to lose my extremities. gulfed in flames, and I’m screaming for help. He goes back upstairs and grabs Ironically, it was an amazing experience to be in the hospital. Not too many some covers. This gentleman delivering Capriotti’s grabbed me and took me people get the opportunity to say this, but I got to see the legacy I would leave beto the other side of the street. He suffered second-degree burns on his hands. hind. When you’re at a funeral, people go up to the podium and say what a great Then the car blew up a second time. person he was and how much he was loved and revered and this and that. But the I was in a coma for more than 90 days. But it was miracle after miracle — person never gets to hear those words while they’re alive. I got that opportunity. God came through. When I got out of the hospital, my routine After I woke up, I also said all the “what if’s” didn’t change. We still did the same things — difand “why me’s.” I was bitter. The fire came from “I was perfectly healthy, strong and in the best shape ferently, we had to learn, we had to adjust — but the engine, but cars don’t blow up, you know? of my life, and within 24 hours, I went from that to life our lifestyle didn’t change much. Within two But with all the people, not only my family months I was back on the basketball court coachbut so many friends, so many doctors, the room support. I realized how easily life can be taken away, so ing summer basketball. was full of light. The staff in the hospital said I’m I don’t take anything for granted.” Others may think this is a curse, but I’ve told a miracle. People I didn’t know took the time to my wife a number of times, I actually consider this come pray for me and share words of encouragea blessing. I think I can help more people in this ment. I was like, “God does love me. He grabbed condition than I ever could have with hands and feet. me from the burning flames.” I fell back to my faith. We speak motivationally across the United States, and if somebody looks at I still had many, many operations. I lost count at 30. I think we hit 30 in the me and says, “Wow, and I thought I had it bad,” and all of a sudden does somefirst month. My injuries were all burns. Eighty percent of my skin burned. thing to change his or her life, I think we’ve done something positive. They’re considered fourth-degree burns because they went down to my bone. Ninety percent of the time I’m in a wheelchair. But the easiest thing to do They took the good skin from my legs and put it all over my body. when times are tough is to give of yourself. Find something, go and volunteer. I Sometimes I still get a phantom pain. My legs are real sensitive, so if I’m coach, and I volunteer at UMC. It gets me through any depression rather than lie standing or walking for long periods of time, it hurts. But I try to walk the in bed and feel self-pity. majority of the time on my legs and use my chair at home. When I wake up in the morning, I think, “What magical thing is going to hapI work a part-time job and go to school. I play wheelchair rugby because I’m pen to be today?” I think life is exciting. a big-time sports guy. I try to eat well and stay active. I’m also involved with a I was perfectly healthy, strong and in the best shape of my life, and within 24 ministry called Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and we try to impact kids and hours, I went from that to life support. I realized how easily life can be taken get them active in sports. I plan to give back to the community in a big way. away, so I don’t take anything for granted. Life can be as exciting as you make it. I I have major goals, and they’re gonna come through. I was a go-getter bekeep telling my wife, “The best is coming.” forehand, and this hasn’t stopped me.

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COVER STORY I S U RV I V E D CRASH LANDING A PLANE JERRY GARAPICH, 70, ARCHITECT MAY 5, 2005

t was a beautiful day. The sky was clear, and there was very little wind. Doug Reichardt — the pilot — was a friend of mine and an architect. It was Doug, myself and Bob, Doug’s business partner. Doug wanted to start an upscale restaurant chain, and he had a site in San Diego he wanted to look at. Doug had a really nice airplane — a twin engine Aero Commander, a big plane. We took off about 9 a.m.. I was sitting in the copilot seat, and Bob was in one of the seats behind us. I’m not a pilot, but I used to love to sit up there because it was fun. As we were climbing out of North Las Vegas Airport, Doug started to sweat really profusely, someplace over Jean. We were probably at about 10,000 or 12,000 feet. He had trouble talking to the JERRY GARAPICH tower. He had trouble saying anything. He was sweating worse. I had the earphones on, and I was listening to the North Las Vegas tower responding back. They were saying something like, “Do you want to declare a medical emergency?” Doug started to turn the plane around. But once he started heading back toward North Las Vegas, he just collapsed, unconscious. We couldn’t revive him. I felt like there was no choice at all. Either you figure out how to fly the plane, or you end up sitting back and crying and eventually hitting a mountain someplace in Utah. So I grabbed the wheel of the plane, while Bob was trying to wake Doug up. I knew at the time that Doug was gone. It was pretty easy to tell what had happened at that point. The automatic pilot was on, and I couldn’t move the wheel. I told Bob to reach over and find out where to switch it off, and he did. It was such a clear day, and I could see the airport, so I just aimed for it. I couldn’t talk on the radio because I didn’t know how to work the radio. But I could hear the North Las Vegas tower, and I could hear McCarran tower clearing all of the airplanes out of the area, so they must’ve known something was wrong. When we got pretty close to North Las Vegas Airport, I was able to figure out how to turn the plane. But when we made the first pass at the airport, I

“I tried some things on the controls, but at that point, I was pretty afraid because it felt like the plane dropped the minute I touched anything.”

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couldn’t get the plane to come down. So I turned around and came back again. It was so odd, but when we were flying over Henderson, I looked down and saw my son’s school. And it flashed in my brain, here I am, in a plane, and I don’t know if I’m going to survive. I pictured him sitting in a classroom with no idea that I was up there at 8,000 feet trying to figure out how to get down. I tried some things on the controls, but at that point, I was pretty afraid because it felt like the plane dropped the minute I touched anything. About the third time we went around, we went way out to Summerlin to turn the plane around to see if we could get it closer to the ground. We were coming in, and we could see the end of the runway. But we had put the landing gear down and that slowed the plane, and the plane just dropped. I remember seeing the roofs of these apartments and buildings in front of me. You get that rush, like you’re going to hit. Thirty years ago, I took a couple of lessons in a glider because I had a fear of flying and I thought doing that would help me. I remembered my instructor telling me, “Speed is safe. If you can gain airspeed, you can survive.” So I pushed the wheel forward as hard as I could and aimed right for the top of the buildings. Just before we got there, I pulled back as hard as I could. I remember looking out the right window, and I could see that the nose of the plane was up and it had just cleared the wires. There was a big, almost explosion, when the plane hit the ground. All I remember is looking out the front and seeing a lot of weeds and things on the windshield, and then the plane just slid to a rest. We hit short of the runway. The tail of the plane came down and hit the dirt, which probably saved our lives because no sparks means no fire — and there were about 1,100 pounds of fuel on the plane. Bob figured out how to pop open the emergency window, so we both climbed out of the plane. I tried to get Doug off the plane, too, but Bob pulled me out because he said there was fuel all over. At UMC, I was diagnosed with collapsed vertebrae in my upper back and my upper middle back. At the time, the doctors warned me there was a 50-50 chance that if they operated, they could hit a nerve and cripple me for life. I’m still under treatment for my injuries. Two weeks after the crash, I went to the hangar, and I saw the plane. It was almost like looking at an old friend. I felt really sad, because the airplane was bent and they were tearing the engines out. They were literally destroying the aircraft to take the parts because it couldn’t be made flyable. Now, I look back and think, you know, I died. I died back in 2005, and now I’m here. This recession has hurt so many of us, and I’ve lost so much financially. But I’ve gained so much, too. It’s only recently that I’ve really come around. I fell into a really deep downward cycle for seven or eight years after the crash. But I’ve realized you can take my house away, you can take money away, you can take away a lot of things, but you know what? You really can’t take my pride, you can’t take my intelligence, and you can’t take my desire to want to start doing better.

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I S U RV I V E D B E I N G ST R U C K BY L I G H T N I N G SCOTT TAGGARD, 52, CLARK COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT CAPTAIN

I S U RV I V E D FA L L I N G 150 FEET CHARLES SCHUELER, 33, ELECTRIC SIGN BUILDING AND MANUFACTURING WORKER JULY 31, 2013

t was like any other day. We started with a quick, informal meeting about what we were doing, working on a rehaul of the MGM Grand sign. I was inside the sign, surrounded by four walls with a catwalk above me and a catwalk below me. It was my job to make sure everything was ready to come down. By about 9:30 a.m., I had been in there a couple of hours, and we were getting close to the end. We were chitchatting about going home, and that’s what was on my mind — getting off of work soon. They had just cut one of the last attachment points to the main structure, but it wasn’t budging very much. I remember we were trying to find where to cut it with the torch, and I remember handing off a torch. But that’s the last thing I remember. I fell 150 feet, from about halfway up the sign. They said I stepped off the catwalk onto the skin of the sign that’s sheet metal and plastic. I don’t think I would do something that stupid. I’m assuming maybe I was reaching for something. The guys on the ground said there was a loud metal-on-metal noise and they saw some debris falling — me falling — then more debris falling. The palm tree I hit first was a 20-footer. I broke a lot of that. Then I hit an 8-foot palm tree. They say I killed it, because it died. Then I hit the dirt. I fell within inches of the stage of a motorized platform. It was aluminum. If I hit that, I would have had more severe head trauma and internal bleeding in my brain. I remember being at UMC and being out of it. Things seemed really, really fuzzy. I figured I was in a hospital, but they told me I asked several times, “What am I doing here?” They told me, and I said, “No, that’s not why I’m here.” I was in disbelief. I had a hard time keeping track of days, from what the doctor told me. I was giving them the wrong day and the wrong year. I had told my buddies before, if anybody ever falls, they’re going to die. But everything with the fall happened just right. I broke my leg perfectly. I broke my back perfectly. I was so messed up physically. But mentally, I felt pretty normal. I was expecting to have a full recovery, but it’s not going to be. My body has titanium now. I’m never going to be the same. I can’t do my job the way I used to, so I might have to find different work. I don’t feel my longevity at work is going to be there anymore. I probably have 10 years in me, but if it’s hard labor, I probably have five. I’ll wear out quick. That’s what I’m worried about now. I wasn’t sure if I was going to be afraid of heights, but mentally, I don’t have any effects. I doubt that I would be able to climb around like a little monkey, but I can be close to the edge, doing what I do for work.

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t sounds so long ago now, but the smells, the images and all the stuff that happened that day are still right there. Early that day, I noticed there was quite a storm coming through the other end of the valley. I’m a firefighter, and calls started pouring in because of the weather, accidents and whatnot. We got a call out near Sloan Road, about 10 miles away. As we got in the engine and started rolling down the road, you could see dark clouds and lightning hitting all over the area. Everybody was kind of oohing and aahing about the lightning. But by the time we got there, the storm cell had passed. There was a lot of water in the median and you could see it was really wet, but there wasn’t any lightning. It just seemed like one of those freak summer storms — comes in fast, leaves fast. We found a car that had rolled about 30 yards off the highway. We parked the engine on the pavement and walked out there. There was one victim inside who was injured pretty badly. One of the firefighters, Holly, was inside the cab of the truck taking care of him. The other victim was walking around, so I sat him on the tailgate of the truck. I was talking to him, and he had some injuries but didn’t appear to be as serious as the gentleman inside. I was just standing there, then woke up — I don’t know how many minutes later — on the ground, 10 or 15 feet away from the truck. I don’t remember anything. There’s basically a blank in time. Holly said she heard the big boom, the loud crash, and saw a big, bright flash. She said she looked up and saw my feet going up and away from the truck. She knew what had happened. Lightning hit the ground near us. It didn’t hit any of us

directly, but its fingers got us, got the firetruck and blew out one of the windows. It burned one of the guys in the ambulance. When I opened my eyes, I remember the odd sensation of the rain coming straight at me as I was looking straight up. The whole right side of my body was tingling like it was on fire. I laid there, trying to gather my thoughts and figure out what had happened. It felt like getting hit in the head with a sledgehammer and sticking your finger in a light socket at the same time. I kept trying to move and eventually started moving my left fingers and my arm and then my feet. I really didn’t hear anything either. It wasn’t until several minutes later that it seemed like someone had turned the sound up and then I could hear again. Holly was attending to me, and she cut off my shirt because she thought I was in cardiac arrest, but I wasn’t. I was real pale and didn’t look very good. They called the helicopter, which initially couldn’t get out there because of the weather. When it finally did come, they took both me and the patient from the vehicle to the hospital. I had burns on my abdomen and chest. They kept me in the hospital for a day or two because they said there are things that can go wrong with your organs after the fact. The only remaining effect is I get headaches that have come and gone since that day. They don’t know why. We go on fires all the time that are caused by lightning, but it’s always after the fact. We’re never really that close when it happens. I definitely have a newfound respect for lightning; I look at it in a totally different way. It’s dangerous. It’s nothing to be messing around with. It’s no joke.

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Are we lying in sex-ed class? BY IAN WHITAKER | STAFF WRITER

The Clark County School District is in hot water for its sex-education curriculum, which has been criticized for excluding gay and transgender students. ¶ But beyond issues of inclusion, could the lessons be inaccurate, too?

The answer to that question is more difficult to determine, because anyone who wants to review the health textbooks and sex-education materials students used must get permission from the district. The Nevada American Civil Liberties Union got that permission this year and examined a host of classroom materials. It detailed its findings in a memo sent to the district in May.

“What we have seen is horribly inaccurate in so many ways,” said Tod Story, director of the Nevada ACLU. “It’s not inclusive of all students, it excludes LGBT students, there are religious overtones and things that shouldn’t even be part of the conversation.” Here are a few examples of what the ACLU found being taught in Clark County schools.

The ACLU found lessons in district-approved materials that contained outdated or wrong information. WHAT’S BEING TAUGHT

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Intrauterine devices are “(a) method of birth control considered unsafe for young girls and many women.”

Both Planned Parenthood and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services say IUDs — small T-shaped devices inserted into the uterus — are safe for most women. They also are one of the most effective forms of contraception.

“Contract chlamydia one time in your lifetime, cured or not, and there’s about a 25 percent chance you’ll be sterile for the rest of your life. Get it twice, it jumps to 50 percent.”

That statement comes from Pam Stenzel, a speaker who travels to schools across the country advocating for abstinence. She said this in a speech called “Sex Still Has a Price Tag” recorded in 2006. The video frequently is shown to local students in sex-education classes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says only 10 to 15 percent of women with untreated chlamydia are at risk of becoming infertile.

“Condoms aren’t much good against the most common sexually transmitted infection.”

This comes from a video called “Sex is Not a Game,” produced by the abstinence-focused Medical Institute for Sexual Health. The $15 DVD is one of many sold by the organization, which has received federal funding from Republicans to promote abstinence. The group is a staunch critic of teaching students about condoms, which it believes are unreliable. The CDC website states “consistent and correct use of latex condoms reduces the risk for many STDs that are transmitted by genital fluids (STDs such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis).”

“Girls, if you have sex, you will get a bad reputation. If you have a reputation for having sex, it will lead to predators looking for you. If you have sex and you are a boy, then you are looked at as a cool person.”

“If you have sex outside of one, permanent, monogamous (relationship) … you will pay. No one has ever had more than one partner and not paid.”

This comes from “Real People — Abstinence: Choosing to Wait,” a 23-minute video produced by Sunburst Visual Media. Local schools pay $130 for each DVD. The ACLU says such messages reinforce hypocritical and unfair gender stereotypes and shouldn’t be taught to young people.

This is another statement made by Stenzel in her 2006 video. Critics have attacked her for using scare tactics to discourage teens from having sex rather than teaching them useful information. Millions of people have had multiple sexual partners in their lives and have not suffered a terrible disease.

IS CLARK COUNTY ALONE IN TEACHING SUCH INFORMATION? As it turns out, no. “It’s not just in Clark County,” New York University researcher Jonathan Zimmerman said. “It has been shown that many (sex-education) curricula teach things that have been shown to be untrue. It’s fair to say the curricula that contain the most inaccuracies are inspired by the abstinence-only movement.” Zimmerman said research hasn’t proved whether attending sex-education classes in junior high and high school makes a difference in preventing sexually transmitted diseases later in life. Regardless, he said, schools have a responsibility to provide students with accurate information. “The reason they shouldn’t teach those things is not because they are going to affect kids’ behavior,” he said. “The reason we shouldn’t teach that is because the things they identified are not true.” District officials said a group of health teachers convened in June and decided some of the materials mentioned in the ACLU memo would be retired. That includes Pam Stenzel’s video and the rest of the materials mentioned above. “We review materials periodically anyway, and it was time to do so,” said Mary Pike, the district’s health and science curriculum director. Said Tod Story: “We welcome (the district’s) review, but we remain concerned that much more material is in need of review. Our memo to CCSD highlighted only a small sample of misleading materials we discovered approved for use in the current archaic curriculum.”

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Fiery Sanders gaining steam Underdog strikes a chord with some Nevada Democrats BY SCOTT LUCAS STAFF WRITER

On a recent weeknight, a crowd of dozens hoisted margaritas at El Dorado Cantina, a Las Vegas Mexican restaurant that refuses to serve genetically modified food. The group wasn’t there for tacos and empanadas. They were listening to a webcast of a speech by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. The event was one of several Sanders’ campaign conducted recently across the valley, including a house party billed as “Henderson Non-Billionaires for Bernie.” Campaign officials hope to build on the local momentum Sanders generated after he spoke in July at Treasure Island. As it is for all of the presidential candidates, Nevada is one of the most important states for Sanders to win. Sanders appeared on the webcast from Washington, D.C., where he called for an increase to the minimum wage and railed against the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision that allowed corporations, labor unions and other organizations to freely spend money in the hopes of influencing elections. The event coincided with 3,500 similar rallies throughout the country. “Enough is enough,” said Sanders, who says he is trying to form a grassroots movement of millions of people to create a political revolution. The speech reached 100,000 supporters nationwide, campaign officials said. In Las Vegas, Angie Morelli, a volunteer organizer for Sanders’ campaign, said that unlike most of the other candidates, Sanders has no paid staffers in the state. Morelli views that volunteerdriven organization as an asset. “Voters would rather be talking to people who live here than someone paid to be here,” she said. As she spoke, volunteer coordinators took down contact information for peo-

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, above, has no paid staffers in Nevada. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

At left, Sanders supporters listen to a webcast of a speech by the senator during a gathering at El Dorado Cantina in Las Vegas. (COURTESY OF HEATHER KOWALSKI/CCNV FOR BERNIE)

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“He’s pissed off, sure. But he’s pissed off at the right things.” — JAMES WOODBRIDGE, UNLV PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR

ple in the crowd. “The goal is not only to win but also to do it without corporate money,” said Morelli, a Marine veteran who now heads an activist organization called GMO Free Vegas. Sanders also spoke about the questionable circumstances surrounding the death of Sandra Bland in Texas, calling for reform of the criminal justice system. Sanders in the past has appeared flat-footed on racial justice is-

sues. Last month, protesters with Black Lives Matters forced Sanders from the stage at Netroots Nation, a progressive conference. Local supporters argued Sanders could be misunderstood. “He’s not a socialist; he’s a social Democrat,” said James Woodbridge, a philosophy professor at UNLV. “Not a single thing that he’s proposing is socialism.” Woodbridge also defended Sanders’

sometimes dyspeptic style. “He’s pissed off, sure,” Woodbridge said. “But he’s pissed off at the right things.” Could Sanders mount a serious challenge to Hillary Clinton? Supporters say they’re confident, but Sanders’ taking Nevada would represent a significant upset against the front-runner. Clinton in 2008 received more caucus votes than Barack Obama, although fewer delegates. Though no recent polling has been done in Nevada, Sanders trails widely in national surveys. But there is historical precedent for such a challenge succeeding. Recent polls show Sanders closing to within 10 points of Clinton in New Hampshire. In 1968, progressive challenger Sen. Eugene McCarthy forced incumbent President Lyndon Johnson from the race by keeping him within seven points in the New Hampshire presidential primary. Don’t doubt that Sanders’ local supporters are aware of the parallels. Also paying attention: Vice President Joe Biden, who was rumored this month to be mulling a bid for the Oval Office.

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Restaurateur makes his own waves He took being fired from Chipotle as an opportunity to create Braddah’s BY KAILYN BROWN STAFF WRITER

Christopher Campbell created the Braddah’s Island Style brand, modeled after Chipotle, and has opened five locations in the Las Vegas Valley. (L.E. BASKOW/STAFF)

As an area manager at Chipotle Mexican Grill, Christopher Campbell helped train and develop employees for the fast-casual chain and played a key role in the company’s expansion to Las Vegas in 2005. A Southern California native, Campbell moved to the valley with his wife and newborn baby for his career. Then, he got fired. Campbell said it was because he voiced dissatisfaction with Chipotle leadership. It couldn’t have come at a worse time, but rather than let the experience bring him down, Campbell used it as inspiration to start his own business — one with a model similar to Chipotle’s. Campbell came home the night he was fired and wrote a five-page business plan for Braddah’s Island Style, a Hawaiian-themed fast-casual restaurant specializing in burritos, bowls and tacos. “I designed Braddah’s with Chipotle in mind,” said Campbell, 48. “I thought I could do it better.” The idea didn’t take off right away. Campbell moved across the country to work for another company before moving back to Las Vegas almost seven years later. He opened the first Braddah’s in June 2013. While many Yelp reviews refer to Braddah’s as the “Hawaiian version of Chipotle,” Campbell said his restaurants have much more to offer. Several locations have drive-thrus. Sauces are homemade. Meals are served in real bowls with real silverware. Braddah’s also serves meats that stay true to the restaurant’s theme, including Huli Huli chicken, Kalua pig, Pulehu steak and grilled fish. And Campbell’s wife, who is from Hawaii, created a signature coconut bark dessert. “We have an aloha spirit,” Campbell said. “When people come to Braddah’s, I want them to imagine being on an island with salty hair and sandy toes.” Today, Campbell owns four Braddah’s locations in the valley, and a fifth is on the way. But he admits his company still struggles. “I invested my entire life savings into this dream, and I’m not seeing revenue yet,” he said. “But I knew when I set out on this that I would not make much money in the first few years. I am more concerned with investing in building the brand rather than just a restaurant that won’t last.” Campbell says he believes the tide is beginning to turn. One restaurant location is starting to break even. “I look at it like waves in the ocean,” he said. “The swell is just the beginning with trials and tribulations, but in order to surf, you have to break the wave. Once you do that, there’s magic.” Campbell even has come to terms with being fired by Chipotle brass. Now that he’s in charge of a company, he understands a management perspective. “In every company, you have to let some people go and do what’s best for the business as a whole,” he said. “I like to offer opportunities for everyone, whatever their experience may be, but unfortunately as a businessman, you have to make those tough decisions.”

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Parts of past worth preserving Six neighborhoods being considered for National Register of Historic Places 6 BY CONOR SHINE

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In a city famous for imploding its past to make way for its future, Las Vegas is beginning to do something virtually unheard of here — hanging on to its historic neighborhoods. The city is considering which of six neighborhoods built during the 1940s should be nominated for designation on the National Register of Historic Places. Why preserve the homes? Courtney Mooney, Las Vegas’ historic preservation officer, said the neighborhoods tell the story of how Las Vegas was born. “It’s important to have ownership of your community,” Mooney said. “When things change all the time, people tend to lose that historical anchor.” WHAT IS THE Although the aging, NATIONAL single-story houses REGISTER OF likely won’t grace HISTORIC PLACES? the cover of ArchiEstablished in 1966 and administered by the tectural Digest, they National Parks Service, document the city’s the National Register transition during the of Historic Places is the middle of the last official list of the nation’s century from a small historic places worth desert outpost to a preserving. Properties or neighborhoods listed fledgling burg. Most of on the register also can the homes were built qualify for tax incentives. during World War II For example, downtown’s using federal housing Mob Museum received funds funneled to citabout $8 million in ies of military imporcredits to convert the Las Vegas Post Office and tance. In Las Vegas, Courthouse. Placement the money was used to on the national register build housing for nondoesn’t come with commissioned officers additional restrictions and civilian employon property owners, although a separate ees working at Las local register requires Vegas Army Air Corps Las Vegas homeowners Gunnery School, now to receive city approval known as Nellis Air before making major Force Base, and at modifications to historic the Basic Magnesium properties. Plant in what is now Henderson. The homes generally share a minimal traditional architectural design, the predominant style at the time, characterized by rectangular buildings with horizontal, symmetrical facades, low-pitched roofs and small front porches. The city held a public meeting last month to gauge neighborhood interest in pursuing the historic designations. With a limited amount of grant money available, the city can nominate only one district for historic designation. Once a neighborhood is nominated, being placed on the National Register of Historic Places typically takes one to two years.

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THE NEIGHBORHOODS 1 BILTMORE This downtown neighborhood started in 1941 on land owned by Union Pacific Railroad. The neighborhood has remained largely unchanged since construction was finished in 1950, although many of the single-family homes have been converted to duplexes or fourplexes.

4 HUNTRIDGE The largest of Las Vegas’ early neighborhoods, its blueprints called for a school, theater and shopping center within walking distance of homes. The neighborhood’s progressive design was meant to avoid the “mining town” aesthetics of earlier housing developments.

2 CHARLESTON SQUARE Charleston Square was envisioned as a housing development for returning World War II veterans receiving G.I. Bill benefits but was converted to nonveteran housing when the project ran into financial trouble. The neighborhood is notable for having one of the area’s first homeowners associations — with additions and fences requiring approval from a committee of homeowners.

5 MAYFAIR When construction started in 1942, developers promised a host of modern luxuries to homebuyers — electric heat, air conditioning and attached garages. Advertisements for the neighborhood even touted “unobstructed views of the Las Vegas Valley.” Today, the area includes 326 residential and commercial buildings, although many of the original homes are on the verge of condemnation.

3 EASTLAND HEIGHTS The neighborhood is named for one of its founders, Van Eastland, who moved to Las Vegas to work on the Hoover Dam. Eastland later did civil engineering and surveying for several World War II-era subdivisions, including Biltmore, Huntridge and Sebec Acres. Planned as a 40-acre, golf course-adjacent subdivision where a house would cost no more than $5,000, the area today is a mix of homes and commercial businesses.

6 SEBEC ACRES Designed in 1941 by William Smith, Las Vegas’ first veterinarian, and his wife, Zina, this singleblock neighborhood was outside city limits before being annexed. Of the first 12 properties, which were single-family homes from 450 square feet to 2,000 square feet, only nine remain. Four still are used as residences.

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Back in 2009 when the economy tanked, I took a pay cut at my job and couldn’t afford to pay my mortgages. In 2013, I got a loan modification on my first mortgage and have been making payments on it for the past two years. Now, my second mortgage is threatening to foreclose. They tell me that unless I pay six years of past-due payments, they’re going to take my home. Can they do that? I thought second mortgages can’t foreclose. Please help!

Lenders that hold liens in second position, often referred to as second mortgages and/or HELOCs, typically have the right to foreclose on a home when the loan is in default. Collectively, all nonpriority liens placed after a first mortgage are called junior mortgages, and lien holders generally have the right to foreclose when the repayment terms are not met. That said, it isn’t so much that junior lien holders can’t foreclose. A more accurate statement is that second lien XENOPHON holders typically don’t forePETERS close. The reasoning is simple. NRS 40.462 explains how the proceeds of a foreclosure auction are distributed to various lien holders. Essentially, mortgage liens are paid in the order they were recorded on the property. The first mortgage is paid first, the second is paid second and so on. So, for example, if a first mortgage holder is owed $150,000 and the second mortgage holder is owed $50,000, there is no benefit for the second mortgage holder to foreclose unless the house will sell at auction for more than $150,000. In other words, unless the sale price on the foreclosed property is higher than the first mortgage, the second mortgage holder won’t get any money, even if it were to foreclose.

Applying this to what happened recently in Nevada, lenders with second and third mortgages on properties that had values less than what was owed on the first mortgage wouldn’t foreclose. Instead, they waited until homeowners modified their first mortgages, often lowering the amounts owed on the homes, then waited until property values recovered enough that foreclosure would get them paid — at least in part. Now that home values have risen, junior mortgage foreclosure is becoming more common. This isn’t the end of the world, though. Junior mortgages can be modified and/or reinstated. In some cases, it also is possible to settle the balance for pennies on the dollar or get them stripped entirely with zero cash out of pocket. If you are going to pursue one of these alternatives, I’d urge you to act quickly before home values rise too far. The less your home is worth, the greater the chance to work something out with your junior lender. If you have a question you’d like to see answered by an attorney in a future issue, please write to questions@PandALawFirm.com. Please note: The information in this column is intended for general purposes only and is not to be considered legal or professional advice of any kind. You should seek advice that is specific to your problem before taking or refraining from any action and should not rely on the information in this column.

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hen he served as mayor of Las Vegas, Oscar Goodman made his disdain for computer technology widely known. The mayor did not use a personal computer, never used social media, never sent or read an email, and never typed, writing all of his notes in longhand. Goodman’s Twitter account, @OscarBGoodman, has been handled by a subordinate since launching in August 2012. “I am the only person in City Hall who does not have a computer,” Goodman said in June 2011, less than a month before leaving office. “I am a dinosaur.” As something of a goingJOHN away gift, Goodman received KATSILOMETES a tutorial several hundred pages long prepared by Audrie Dodge, liaison for then-City Councilman Steve Wolfson. The title: “How to Use a Computer.” Goodman said he would save it to read later. Finally, the self-proclaimed dinosaur is embracing technology. This month, Goodman and I were talking about his efforts to land a major league sports franchise here for a column I was writing. “I want to read it,” said Goodman, who recently celebrated his 76th birthday. “Email it to me.” “What?” I said. “It’ll be in print.” “No,” he said. “Email it.” “You’re kidding,” I said. “No, I am finally learning email,” Goodman said. “That’s all I can tell you. I’m trying.” Baby steps. And if Goodman ever posts a tweet to his own account, there should be a ceremony marking the event. Summon the showgirls ... n The Fremont hotel turns 60 next year, and hotel chieftains are uncertain when to have the celebration. (The hotel’s formal opening date was May 18, 1956). But during a conversation with Fremont General Manager Jim Sullivan at the opening party for the new bar Filament, I broached the subject of inviting Wayne Newton to the party. Sullivan’s eyes flashed as he said, “I like that idea.” It is just an idea at this point but one steeped in Vegas legend. Newton’s history at the Fremont dates almost to its opening. He and his older brother, Jerry, opened at the hotel in 1959, during Wayne’s junior year in high school. The duo spent 46 weeks toiling at the Carnival Lounge, performing six shows a night, six days a week, starting at 5 p.m. and careening into the early morning. One of Newton’s favorite stories is the night he sang,

Wayne Newton sings as a photo of him as a young man flashes on the screen during a 2009 performance at the Tropicana. (STAFF FILE)

“I’ve Got the Joy Joy Joy Joy Down in My Heart,” and a man from the audience flung a beer bottle at the stage. “The guy thought it was blasphemous to sing that song in a casino,” Newton once recalled. Though the anniversary is far off, the history of the Fremont and Newton’s career are intertwined. If Newton does play the birthday party, maybe he’ll bust out the banjo, though I know which song not to suggest. n As I recently interviewed former Rep. Steven Horsford, I was reminded of the power of personal relationships in Washington, D.C., where Horsford now is based. He and I were scheduled to talk about his new position as owner of R&R Resources+ and the company’s budding partnership with MGM Resorts International. R&R Resources+ is working to establish diversity-targeted marketing strategies for MGM’s under-development

resorts in Maryland and in Massachusetts. When Horsford took the line, he mentioned he’d just returned from a meeting with a U.S. senator. “Which one?” I asked. It was Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey. “We were catching up, and Cory is just a good friend,” Horsford said. “I was sharing news of the partnership with MGM Resorts, filling him in on what we’re doing.” Booker also is a member of a number of Senate committees: the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; the Committee on Environment and Public Works; the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; and the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Booker is a good friend to have — as any or all of his committees will be touched by MGM’s multibillion-dollar developments.

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WHAT DOES YOUR CHOLESTEROL LEVEL MEAN FOR YOUR HEALTH? Most people know high cholesterol is bad for your health. But you may not know cholesterol levels can be too low, which also could result in serious health issues. “Cholesterol is important — it’s a vital element of the body,” said Dr. Nayab Zafar, an interventional cardiologist at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center. “Like any other substance in the body, a low or high level of cholesterol – an imbalance – can affect the body in a negative way.” WHAT IS CHOLESTEROL? Cholesterol is a lipid, a kind of fat used by the body. It is present in all of the body’s cells because it forms the cell membrane, the outer wall of each cell. “It ensures proper functioning of nerve tissues, regulates the digestion of food and helps synthesize hormones, which regulate various bodily functions,” Zafar said.

HOW THE BODY PROCESSES CHOLESTEROL 1. The liver makes a large share of the body’s cholesterol from saturated fats or animal fats consumed. 2. Particles called lipoproteins carry the fats, including cholesterol and triglycerides, to where they’re needed in the body via the bloodstream. The two most important lipoproteins for calculating cholesterol levels are ...

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HDL can help lower cholesterol levels and take fat out of arteries.

Sometimes, the body processes LDL into artery-clogging plaque.

WHY TOO MUCH IS BAD Fat particles such as triglycerides and LDL contribute to plaque, which clogs the body’s arteries and can lead to high blood pressure, an increased chance of coronary artery disease, heart attack or stroke. Total daily cholesterol consumption should be less than 200 mg.

That’s why cholesterol carried by HDL is known as “good cholesterol” and LDL cholesterol is known as “bad cholesterol.”

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Cholesterol is calculated using a simple blood test.

Cholesterol can be affected by factors such as ethnicity, age and health history.

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WHERE CAN I FIND GOOD CHOLESTEROL? Fish, such as salmon and black cod, are good sources of healthy fats. Eating highfiber foods and replacing traditional cooking oil with olive oil or avocado oil also can help.

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MEDICATION Though the best first step is lifestyle modification, doctors often presecribe a family of medications called statins to block cholesterol production and help reduce high cholesterol.

EVERY ADULT NEEDS TO BE CHECKED Statistically, your risk of high cholesterol goes up sharply as you age. At 20 years old, about 20 percent of the U.S. population has high cholesterol. By age 40, half of the population has high cholesterol. That means “everyone and anyone who’s an adult needs their levels checked,” Zafar said.

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WHAT ABOUT LOW CHOLESTEROL? Low cholesterol is the rarer form of cholesterol imbalance, and some doctors may not recognize the effects, Zafar said. Because of the liver’s important role in cholesterol production, it’s a two-way street: The liver can contribute to low cholesterol, and low cholesterol can affect the liver. Low cholesterol may contribute to liver disease, and people with liver disease may end up with low cholesterol. Low cholesterol could lead to difficulty absorbing vital nutrients such as vitamin D, skin problems and hair loss. In women who are pregnant, low cholesterol can lead to pre-term delivery or low birth weight. A cholesterol deficiency even can affect mental health. “Cholesterol helps facilitate nerve and neuron conduction in a better way,” Zafar said. “Cholesterol also helps regulate hormones. Both those factors could lead to mental illnesses like depression or anxiety.”

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BE THE BEST BABYSITTER ON THE BLOCK BY EMILY KULKUS | SPECIAL TO THE SUNDAY

Part-time jobs for teenagers can be competitive and difficult to find. ¶ But babysitting is always in high demand and can be a great job for young people. ¶ That said, it takes skill. Here are some tips on how to be the best babysitter on the block: n SPREAD THE WORD

n SET YOUR RATE

n CHANNEL MARY POPPINS

You might be a great babysitter, but does anybody know it? If you want to get hired, don’t be shy. Consider printing fliers to post in libraries, at church, in a local community center or at other select locations. Or create a PDF that Mom or Dad could email to friends. Include your name and contact information, your experience with children, your availability and your rate. Other information you might want to include are how much notice you require, whether you can drive yourself or need a ride, whether you have special training or skills, and if you’re available overnight. A detailed ad can show a prospective employer you’re organized and serious about the job.

Do your homework and find out what the going rate is for babysitting in your area. Consider different rates for multiple children and decide whether you want to charge less when a child is sleeping or more for a holiday or late night. Communicate your price clearly and confidently. Parents appreciate knowing what you think is fair, especially if they want to keep you on “the payroll.” Saying, “Whatever you think is best,” could lead to hard feelings if you don’t agree on the rate.

Remember that big bag the famous nanny carried that had an umbrella, coat rack and endless other goodies in it? Consider bringing your own Mary Poppins bag of surprises to your next babysitting job. Three things to remember: Keep it simple, keep it frugal and keep the items — they are your babysitting tools, not gifts. Grab a new coloring book and markers, supplies to make a craft (beads, pipe cleaners and foam stickers all are easy and cheap) or old clothes to play dress up. The children will love the novelty of playing with something new, and the parents will appreciate your going above and beyond to take an interest in their kids.

n GET TRAINING If a parent knows you are CPR certified or have first-aid training, that experience may give you an advantage over other babysitters. Call your local Red Cross or higher education learning center to see what classes are offered. Some classes even are tailored specifically for babysitters.

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Don’t be afraid to sen da text to the parents to check in. You don’t need to up date them on every food consume d or how many times their children asked to watch “Frozen,” but lettin g Mom and Dad know dinner went we ll and everyone is in bed and quiet can be a great relief for pa rents trying to enjoy some private time. It also shows them their kids are in great hands.

n CLEAN UP Coming home to a picked-up house will score big points with parents. Wash the dishes you and the children use or load the dishwasher and store any uneaten food in the fridge. Tidying up stray toys, sippy cups and bath supplies isn’t just a nice perk for parents, it’s part of your job.

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The Neon Museum draws plenty of out-of-town visitors, but it also brings in longtime residents eager to take a trip down memory lane. ¶ How well do you know Las Vegas signs of old? See if you can identify these.

The lobby building of the 1961 La Concha Motel is now the visitor center for the Neon Museum Boneyard’s collection of more than 150 vintage neon signs. (L.E. BASKOW/STAFF FILE)

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Binion’s is badged with a “B” above its front door, but it was adorned by a different letter during its 53year history as the Horseshoe. The Neon Museum now is home to many of the Horseshoe’s original signs, including one that contains dozens of interwoven letters.

The Algiers was demolished to make way for the ill-fated Fontainebleau, but the resort remains the subject of warm memories for many long-time Las Vegans. “It’s one of the things that, if in another city, would become a historical place,” the late UNLV history professor Hal Rothman once said. “It’s the archetypical 1950s style of the Las Vegas hotel.”

With more than a mile of neon tubing and six miles of wiring, the Stardust’s sign was a marvel when the casino opened 57 years ago. “The brilliant Stardust sign that stretches across the hotel’s vast facade is in itself immense,” the Las Vegas Sun reported on the casino’s opening day in 1958. “Weighing 129 tons, the sign is 216 feet long and 37 feet high. Installation utilized 32,000 feet of wiring, 7,100 feet of neon tubing and 11,000 incandescent lamps.” But the Stardust didn’t make it to 50 years old. It was imploded in 2007.

The lettering in the Barbary Coast’s signs was meant to transport visitors to the Gold Rush days of the 1800s. The casino was rebranded as Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall in 2007.

SAHARA

LA CONCHA

You might recognize this lettering if you spend a lot of time in the Hard Rock, but that resort didn’t originate it. This sign is one of several the Neon Museum obtained from the Sahara. The Hard Rock uses Sahara-inspired letters in one of its restaurants.

The Neon Museum is home to the La Concha Motel’s sign — and then some. The shell-shaped, concrete lobby of the hotel was moved to the museum and now houses its visitors center.

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HOW TO SELL YOUR BET Founders of PropSwap create a hedge brokerage, giving gamblers the option to cash out before the games are played BY DANIEL ROTHBERG STAFF WRITER

This scenario plays out frequently for sports handicappers wagering on futures bets in Nevada: Betting odds for the New York Giants to win the Super Bowl are listed at 40-1 in the preseason, but they lose their initial two games and don’t appear to have a championship-contending team. Since futures bets on championships are available all season, oddsmakers adjust their line to 100-1 with hopes of enticing bettors who think it’s not too late for the Giants to turn around their season. You bite and make a bet. Then, the Giants win three consecutive games. Oddsmakers respond again and lower the odds to 25-1, making your 100-1 ticket valuable. If the Giants win the title, you would receive a better payout at $100 back for each $1 wagered than casinos offered at 25-1. In that gap, there is value — and a business idea. PropSwap, launched Aug. 1 by Ian Epstein and Luke Pergande, facilitates the buying and selling of active bets with an online marketplace. Bettors interested in selling a ticket while it’s valuable, and thereby guaranteeing a profit regardless of who wins, can find a buyer through PropSwap. Prop Swap receives 10 percent commission on the sale — if a $100 ticket sells for $400, PropSwap gets $40. “If you are a sharp bettor, you can win off inefficiencies in the markets,” Pergande said. “What you look like in Week 2 is who you are. But in the sports books and the public’s opinion, people overreact. And when people overreact, that means there’s volatility. And when there’s volatility, that’s when you can make money.” Epstein and Pergande, University of Arizona graduates with backgrounds in gaming and finance, describe the service as a win-win because buyers can purchase better odds than available at Nevada sports books and sellers can turn a profit without winning. PropSwap positions itself as a brokerage firm, similar to ticket-broker StubHub, and doesn’t have a gaming license. Epstein said a PropSwap lawyer met with Nevada Gaming Control Board officials and determined that, since the company does not engage in gaming, it operates outside the control board’s jurisdiction. “PropSwap is not buying bets from people,” Epstein said. “We’re just the middle man.” Pergande compared his company to Craigslist in that sellers post property on the site, but the site nev-

er owns the listed item. Here’s how PropSwap works: All transactions must be done in person at the PropSwap terminal, which is open evenings Monday, Thursday and Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday inside the Sporting Life Bar near South Jones Boulevard and Robindale Road. The ticket holder determines the selling price and gives PropSwap permission with a signed waiver to list the ticket online at propswap.vegas. Tickets that don’t sell revert back to the original owner. The seller agreement allows PropSwap to verify the ticket’s authenticity, take possession — not ownership — of the wager and store it securely. If the gaming establishment issuing the ticket doesn’t honor the buyer claim on it, the PropSwap agreement dictates the seller must cash the ticket on behalf of the buyer. The concept of a marketplace for sports betting isn’t new for gamblers, who previously hedged future bets to turn a profit. For instance, a $50 wager at 100-1 on the Giants to win the Super Bowl is in line to win $5,000. If the Giants were to reach the Super Bowl, the gambler then could make a wager on the other side to guarantee a profit. “We talk about the concept of hedging or locking a profit,” said Ted Sevransky, a veteran Las Vegas handicapper known as “Teddy Covers.” “This turns that concept into a reality.” Epstein and Pergande believe they are the only business with an organized space for selling and buying sports bets, serving a market they are confident already exists. Even so, Nick Bogdanovich, director of trading for William Hill, said it can be difficult to accurately price a live ticket. “It’s a huge undertaking,” Bogdanovich said. “If you have the Royals 20-to-1 to win the World Series, what is your ticket worth right now? It is a very complex formula to figure it out.” Pricing is something PropSwap plans to leave to its sellers, although Epstein, who worked at Cantor Gaming for three years, said PropSwap would offer advice to sellers. He also said sellers could adjust the price of bets, which are locked for buying during games, as they are likely to increase or decrease in value. If the marketplace takes off, Epstein predicts it could cause people to make more bets and perhaps riskier ones, knowing they could sell them. It’s an idea the friends spent two years working on. “We want to live in a world where you can get something back for your bet,” Epstein said.

Ian Epstein, left, and Luke Pergande are partners and co-founders of PropSwap, inside the Sporting Life Bar, 7770 S. Jones Blvd. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF)

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What you look like in Week 2 is who you are. But in the sports books and the public’s opinion, people overreact. And when people overreact, that means there’s volatility. And when there’s volatility, that’s when you can make money.”

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CASINO PROMOTIONS WESTGATE Fourth annual Supercontest Date: Through Sept. 12 Information: Entry fee is $1,500. Pick five pro football games against the spread each week; the top 50 players win. Giving Away the Bank Date: Aug. 24 and 31 Information: Earn points playing slot and video reel machines to win gift cards up to $100.

WILLIAM HILL RACE & SPORTS BOOK Pro Pick ’em Football Contest Date: Weekly contest starts Sept. 13 Information: Pick winning teams to collect a share of $13,000 in prizes each week of football season.

Date: Sundays Information: School supplies will be accepted all month. Receive $10 in play with a $10 donation on Sundays.

ing, seven winners will be selected for a chance to win $1 million. Earn 2x drawing entries Monday through Thursday until Aug. 20.

Military Appreciation Day Date: Sundays Information: Veterans receive discounts at Caffé Bottega, the Café, the Cantina and the gift shop.

Slot tournaments Date: Aug. 11 and 18 Time: 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Information: The Aug. 11 tournament is open to Elite Code members. The Aug. 18 tournament is open to Premium Code members.

Point multipliers Date: Mondays and Wednesdays Information: Earn 10x points on reels and 7x points on video poker. Senior day Date: Thursdays Information: Seniors receive discounts at the Cantina and Caffé Bottega. Seniors who earn 200 points will receive a gift.

RAMPART CASINO $6,500 Galleons of Gold mid-month drawing Date: Second Wednesday of the month Information: Players who earn 2,000 base points during the previous calendar month can participate in the following month’s drawing. Ten winners will be chosen.

CLUB FORTUNE FREMONT Swipe and Win Saturdays Date: Saturdays Information: Win up to $1,000 in play, point multipliers and bonus entries in Boyd’s $400,000 giveaway.

STRATOSPHERE $5,000 locals slot tournament Date: Aug. 22 Information: Earn 2,000 points by Aug. 20 to qualify for tournament entry and a two-night stay. First place wins $1,000. 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. $1,000 new member bonus Date: Through Sept. 30 Information: Sign up for a loyalty card for chance to win up to $1,000 in play. Earn 75 points on your first day for an extra chance.

TUSCANY Cards to Cash Date: Fridays Time: 7 p.m. Information: Earn tickets with play. Three players at each drawing will have a chance to win up to $3,000. Gift giveaway Date: Aug. 15 and 29 Information: Earn 300 same-day points to receive a gift. School supply drive

Match ’em Up Date: Fridays Time: 5-10 p.m. Information: Two winners every hour will be drawn to play. Match prize tiles to receive a prize, up to $500. Earn one electronic drawing ticket for every base point earned on the Thursday and Friday leading up to the promotion.

SLS Scratch and win Date: Fridays Information: Mail recipients and guests who have made a $10 or greater advance-deposit wager during the past 120 days can receive a scratch card to win prizes. Gift giveaway Date: Aug. 9, 16 and 23 Information: Earn 250 slot points or 500 video poker points and receive a gift. Mail recipients and guests who have made a $10 or greater advancedeposit wager during the past 90 days also are eligible.

GOLD COAST Flashback Fridays Date: Fridays Information: Earn 100 points, then swipe your loyalty card at a kiosk to win up to 4 million points. 40th anniversary cash drawings Date: Saturdays Time: 8:15 p.m. Information: Earn entries through play. Win up to $10,000. All entrants will be eligible for Boyd’s $400,000 drawing Sept. 5. Send Me Back Sundays Date: Sundays Time: 4 a.m.-4 p.m. Information: Earn up to 40x points for your first 400 points.

JOKERS WILD Gift giveaway Date: Aug. 9, 16 and 23 Information: Earn 200 points to get a gift.

BOYD GAMING Point multipliers Date: Mondays Information: Earn 3x points on video poker. Guests who made a $40 or higher advance-deposit wager can win up to 1,000 slot points. $1 Million Deal of a Lifetime Date: Aug. 22 Time: 7 and 9 p.m. Information: Win a chance to play a hand of blackjack worth $1 million. During the first drawing, 21 winners will be selected to win $500 in chips or play, as well as entry into the second drawing. During the second draw-

Boyd’s 40th anniversary cash drawings Date: Saturdays Information: Win a share of $40,000. One winner will be chosen every hour from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 6 to 10 p.m.; another winner will be chosen at 4 p.m. $400,000 Nationwide Giveaway Date: Sept. 5 Location: Drawing will be at Sam’s Town and will be simulcast to all Boyd properties. Information: One person will win $40,000; 39 runners-up will take

home $10,000.

ALIANTE Bunco tournament Date: Aug. 15 Time: Doors open at 6 p.m.; tournament begins 7 p.m. Information: Tournament will raise money for the Goodie Two Shoes Foundation. Early bird registration costs $35; registration at the door costs $50 if seats are available. 50+ Play Day kiosk game Date: Mondays Information: Earn 50 points to spin the wheel to win up to $500 in slot play. $12,500 mobile hot seat Date: Sundays Information: Players must accept the hot seat offer from the mobile app to qualify. From noon to 5 p.m., five people will win $50 in slot play. At 6 p.m., 10 people will win $100 in slot play. Winners will be announced over the intercom and must swipe at a kiosk to redeem their prize. Point multipliers Date: Wednesdays Information: Earn 5x points on video poker and 10x points on all reels. $1,200,000 Keys to Aliante Treasures drawings Date: Fridays and Saturdays through Aug. 29 Information: The first person to unlock all the boxes in the contest will win a 2015 Cadillac Escalade. Anyone else who unlocks all the boxes will win $25,000. The top point earner each week will receive a guaranteed entry into the drawing on Saturday and a bonus $500 in slot play. Earn 20 free entries Fridays through Mondays and on Wednesdays. Earn 10X entries every Tuesday and Thursday. 50+ $2,500 senior slot tournament Date: Aug. 10 Time: Noon-4 p.m. Information: The top 25 places will share $2,500 in slot play. $100,000 Airin’ It Out football contest sign-up Date: Aug. 10 Information: Win weekly, quarterly and year-end cash prizes. No point spreads, just pick the winner. $25 per entry; buy three, get one free. Table Games Staycation giveaway Date: Fridays Time: 7:45 p.m. Information: Earn entries by playing table games. Ten winners will be se-

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lected at each drawing. The top prize is $500 in chips, an Aliante staycation for two nights and a $50 food-andbeverage credit.

SILVERTON Extreme Spin drawings Date: Select Fridays and Saturdays through Sept. 19 Time: Drawings at 5 and 8 p.m. Fridays; 2, 5 and 8 p.m. Saturdays Information: Receive one drawing entry for every 200 points earned. Ten winners at each drawing will receive a spin on the big wheel with a top prize of $10,000 or free play. See a players club representative for details. 8x entries for Extreme Spin drawings Date: Mondays and Tuesdays Information: Earn 8x entries for the Extreme Spin drawings by playing machines. Earn & Win: Buffet Date: Wednesdays Information: Earn 50 points and receive a free lunch buffet; earn 100 points for a free dinner buffet. Earn & Win: Polo shirts Date: Aug. 14-15 and 28-29 Information: Earn 500 points and receive a shirt.

Information: Players who win a $200 or more jackpot on a slot machine, a $200 or more jackpot on a video poker 5-cent or lower-denomination machine, a $300 or more jackpot on a video poker 10-cent or highdenomination machine, or a $200 or more jackpot on live keno will receive their choice of gift cards. Saturday Point Fever Date: Saturdays Information: Ten loyalty card users will be selected for a chance to win 100,000 points. Receive one virtual drawing ticket for every 200 points earned each day during the week. Earn entry multipliers at the kiosks every day.

SUNCOAST 40th anniversary cash drawings Date: Saturdays Time: 8:15 p.m. Information: Earn entries with play. Win up to $10,000. All entrants are eligible for Boyd’s $400,000 drawing Sept. 5.

SILVER SEVENS Nifty 50 slot tournament Date: Wednesdays Time: 10 a.m.-5:45 p.m. Information: Earn entries with play. First prize is $1,000.

at a kiosk for a chance to win $1 million, free play, comp dollars, food and more. A valid email address is required.

STATION CASINOS Thanks a Billion! point giveaway Date: Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays Information: Swipe your loyalty card at a kiosk to win up to 1 million points. $250,000 Spin & Win cash drawing Date: Fridays Time: 8:15 p.m. Information: Win up to $5,000. Earn entries by swiping your loyalty card at a kiosk. Earn 5x entries on Wednesdays. The top two base point earners from slot and video poker each week will automatically be among the 10 winners in that week’s drawing. Top Dog Poker kiosk game Date: Through Aug. 27 Time: 6 a.m.-midnight Information: Win up to 1 million points. Every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, guests can play a poker kiosk game to collect chips. Chips collected are based on the poker hand won. Players can cash in the chips to win points each Thursday.

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Date: Saturdays in August Information: Win up to $1,000 in play, point multipliers and bonus entries in Boyd’s $400,000 giveaway.

PLAZA 50+ slot tournament Date: Wednesdays Time: 10 a.m. Information: The best combined score from two sessions wins $1,000.

WILDFIRE MyGeneration Mondays Date: Ongoing Information: Players 50 and older earn 6x points on slot machines and video poker, and receive discounts on bowling and dining.

DOWNTOWN GRAND Get a Grand from the Grand Date: Through Dec. 31 Information: For new loyalty card members. Earn up to $1,000 back on all reel and video reel games. Requires a minimum loss of $50. The rebate will be split over three redemption periods to total 100 percent of the player’s loss.

THE D Point multiplier Date: Aug. 13 and 27 Information: Activate multiplier at a kiosk and receive 10x points on video reels and slots.

ORLEANS 40th anniversary cash drawings Date: Saturdays Time: 7:15 p.m. Information: Earn entries through play. Win up to $10,000. All entrants will be eligible for Boyd’s $400,000 drawing Sept. 5. Throwback Thursdays Date: Thursdays Time: 4 a.m.-4 p.m. Information: Earn up to 40x points for your first 400 points. Flashback Fridays Date: Fridays Information: Earn 100 points, then swipe your loyalty card at a kiosk to win up to 4 million points.

EL CORTEZ $25,000 Cash is King drawing Date: Aug. 15 Information: Receive an entry for every 5,000 points earned. Gift cards for jackpot winners Date: Throughout August

ELDORADO Hit & Spin for cash and slot dollars Date: Thursdays Information: Players who hit the designated four of a kind of the day with no wild cards or win $50 or more on reels or keno will receive one spin on the prize wheel. Cash Blower Wednesday Date: Wednesdays Time: 12:30-7:30 p.m. Information: One player will be selected every hour to win cash in the blower.

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.

Up to 5x points Date: Fridays and Saturdays Time: 4 a.m.-11:59 p.m. Information: Rewards members who swipe their cards at a kiosk receive 3x points, 4x points or 5x points on slot and video poker games.

SOUTH POINT Pump up Your Points Date: August Information: Players who redeem $25 in points or 8,333 in base points will receive a $50 gas gift card. Must be redeemed no later than Sept. 4.

Point multipliers Date: Aug. 16 and 30 Information: Earn 15x points on penny reels, 11x points on other reels and 7x points on video poker and keno machines.

Electronic bingo specials Date: August Information: Bingo machine players who spend $15 to $40 will receive two free blue packs. Casino players who spend $41 or more will receive a free small rainbow.

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Swipe and Win Saturdays Date: Saturdays Information: Win up to $1,000 in play, point multipliers and bonus entries in Boyd’s $400,000 giveaway.

Rockin’ 777 slot tournament Date: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays Time: 4-8 p.m. Information: Free for loyalty club members. The top five winners will receive $100 in free slot play.

GOLDEN GATE AND THE D Email Yourself a Million Date: Through Aug. 31 Information: Swipe your loyalty card

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SAM’S TOWN Poker High Hands bonus Date: Through August Information: Players who get a royal flush, straight flush or four of a kind while playing seven-card stud and hold ’em will receive a bonus payout. Video Poker Showdown Date: Fridays Time: 4-8 p.m. Information: Earn 10 points to receive your first entry and 50 points for each additional entry in a video poker tournament at 8:15 p.m. Top prize is $1,000 in play. 40th anniversary cash drawings Date: Saturdays Time: 6:15 p.m. Information: Earn entries with play. Win up to $10,000. All entrants are eligible for Boyd’s $400,000 drawing Sept. 5.

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magine living in a community served by just one grocery store that had expanded over the years to accommodate the region’s growth. One day you decide to embrace a healthier lifestyle and produce your own food. Some neighbors do the same. You shop at the supermarket only when your own pantry runs low. In fact, your garden sometimes does so well, the store’s produce manager buys your extra vegetables and puts them in a bin to sell to others. The owners of the supermarket grumble; they never anticipated a handful of renegade customers would grow their own vittles. So the store owners say, if you come back to the store, you’ve got to pay to park, and not just pay for your groceries but also pay a fee to make sure the shelves will be stocked. Their logic: Someday, your trendy garden will go to seed and you’ll be back filling your grocery cart to the brim, and if you think we’re going to have all those products on our shelves for you to buy whenever you feel like

We understand NV Energy’s expectation that customers who are turning to solar panels still bear some financial responsibility to the utility’s investors and other customers. But we grow confused by the decision to base some of the cost on the homeowner’s past peak use rather than average use.

it, you’ve got another thing coming. This is a simple metaphor for how NV Energy wants to treat customers who have turned to rooftop solar panels to generate most, although not all, of their electricity. The company is asking the state Public Utilities Commission — three people appointed by the governor — to keep solar-energy customers on the hook for helping to cover the cost of the utility’s investments over the years. At issue is how much residential customers with solar panels should pay NV Energy to tap its electricity at night, on cloudy days or when panels aren’t producing enough electricity to meet the household’s needs. Utility

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Sunday Salutations: Relax, stretch and recharge during a yoga session hosted by Lululemon Las Vegas. 9 a.m., free, Downtown Container Park, 707 Fremont St., 702-3599982.

Opportunity Village fundraiser: Ending a monthlong philanthropic promotion, the local nonprofit will host a night of entertainment and fundraising with live performers and a balloon artist. 6-10 p.m., free, Grimaldi’s Pizzeria Boca Park, 750 S. Rampart Blvd., 702-479-1351.

Music on the Mountain: See Kelsea Ballerini in concert and enjoy food and drinks from food trucks. Noon, $40-$50, Las Vegas Ski and Snowboard Resort, 6725 Lee Canyon Road, skilasvegas.com. Las Vegas Gay Softball League skills assessments: Sign up to play slowpitch softball for the fall season and demonstrate your ability to throw, field, run and hit so you can be assigned to the appropriate division. Wear cleats without metal spikes and bring a glove. 10 a.m., $25 for fall season, Lorenzi Park, 3343 W. Washington Ave., lvgsl.com.

MONDAY, AUGUST 10 INGREDIENTS 1 1/2 oz The Botanist Islay Dry Gin /2 oz Mathilde Raspberry Liqueur

Fever-Tree Elderflower Tonic Water Sprig of lavender for garnish Lemon peel for garnish Raspberry for garnish

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Build the drink over ice in a stemless wine glass. Stir well. Garnish with a lavender sprig, lemon peel and raspberry.

Valley Health System Hospitals job fair: Fill out an online application before the job fair and bring copies of your resume. On-the-spot interviews will be conducted. 8 a.m.-2 p.m., free, Desert Springs Hospital, South Magna Conference Room, 2075 E. Flamingo Road, jobs.valleyhealthsystemlv.com. Stretch For Health: Learn how to stretch properly to improve flexibility, range of motion and overall muscle health. 10:30 a.m, $10, R.E.I. Summerlin, 710 S. Rampart Blvd., 702-951-4488.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 11 This drink may be beautiful, but don’t let the elderflower and lavender fool you. It packs a punch. The Botanist Gin layers 22 botanicals within traditional gin aromatics, lending an unexpected wildness to this refined cocktail.

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Las Vegas Film Festival: The city’s annual film festival returns with entries in more than a dozen categories. Also, CineVegas makes a comeback with three features after a six-year hiatus. Times vary, $12-$70, Inspire Theatre, 107 Las Vegas Blvd. South, lvff.com. *Also: Through Sunday Tuesday Night Jazz: The nonprofit American Jazz Initiative presents jazz music in the Downtown Arts District. 7:30 p.m., $15, Artifice, 1025 S. First St., 702-489-6339.

“Gila Monsters: The Story of Monsters in our Midst”: Jason Jones, a herpetologist at the Nevada Department of Wildlife, will discuss the natural history and behavioral ecology of Gila Monsters. 6:30 p.m., free, REI Green Valley, 2220 Village Walk Drive, Suite 150, 702-896-7111. “Tarzan”: The 2015 Super Summer Theatre season continues with a musical based on Disney’s animated film and Edgar Rice Burrough’s “Tarzan of the Apes.” 8:05 p.m., $12-$20, Spring Mountain Ranch State Park, Highway 159, Blue Diamond, supersummertheatre.org.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 13 Atomic Bomb discussion: A Japanese atomic bomb survivor will tell a personal and harrowing story live from Japan via Skype. 6 p.m., free for museum members, $10 for nonmembers, National Atomic Testing Museum, 755 E. Flamingo Road, 702-794-5151. Back to School Family Movie Night: Enjoy a swim followed by a screening of “Finding Nemo” plus treats, kosher pizza, ice cream and drinks. 6 p.m., $25-$35, children 2 and under free, Wet ‘n’ Wild Las Vegas, 7055 S. Fort Apache Road, 702-979-1600. Rock Shot Bingo: A twist on the classic game with live music, mood lighting, guest emcees, a special theme and wacky board patterns. 9 p.m., $25, Green Valley Ranch Resort, 2300 Paseo Verde Parkway, 702-617-7777.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 14 Ward 2 Coffee with the Councilman: Join Ward 2 Councilman Bob Beers to talk about the city of Las

Vegas and anything of interest to the community. 7:30-9 a.m, free, Rachel’s Kitchen, 9691 Trailwood Drive, 702-317-7000. Hello Kitty’s Supercute Friendship Festival: Featuring Hello Kitty and her friends in live performances and DJ-driven dance sequences, with interactive exhibits, animation, art, fashion, photo opportunities, collectibles and more. 7 p.m., $19-$29, Orleans Arena, 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., 702-284-7777. *Also: Saturday and Sunday Sunset Yoga: Join as students practice a mixture of Hatha and Vinyasa yoga outdoors. 7 p.m., $5, Sunset Park, 2601 E. Sunset Road, 702-331-2030. An Evening with Shelley Sheppard Gray: The best-selling author will discuss writing and her popular “Amish Brides of Pinecraft” series. A book signing will follow. 7 p.m., free, Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3459. “Full House: The Very Special Episodes”: This campy production skewers the popular TV sitcom. 11 p.m., $15, Onyx Theatre, 953 E. Sahara Ave., Suite 16B, onyxtheatre.com.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 15 Fresh52 farmers and artisan market: Browse organic and seasonal produce, freshly baked goods, gourmet olive oils, salsas, spices, handmade crafts and more. 9 a.m., free, Tivoli Village, 302 S. Rampart Blvd., fresh52.com. Hello Happy Splash Day: Henderson’s Inspirada will open its resident-only pools to the public and host games and activities for children. 10 a.m.-1 p.m, free, Potenza Park, 2355 Via Firenze; Aventura Park, 2525 Via Firenze; Inspirada Clubhouse and Pool, 3190 Mantua Village, inspirada.com. La Oportunidad Expo: Visit more than 80 business exhibitor booths, apply for a job at the Wynn and receive local deals from Findlay Chevrolet. 10 a.m.-3 p.m., free, Cashman Center, 850 Las Vegas Blvd. North, 702-385-7367.

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Clark County School District, including information about food service, bus transportation, zoning and more. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., free, Boulevard Mall, 3528 S. Maryland Parkway, coxknowledgecollege.com. Comic book workshops: Comic book writer Russell Lissau will teach “Making Comics” for teenagers and adults at 11 a.m. and “Ready, Set, Draw” for children and teenagers at 1 p.m. free, Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400. Fourth annual Boot Scootin’ Benefit & Dance-A-Thon: This fundraiser will feature mechanical bull rides, carnival games, food and drinks, a raffle and the dance-a-thon. Prizes will be awarded to the best line dancers and the bestdressed team. 1 p.m., $25, Gilley’s at Treasure Island, 3300 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 702-836-2130. Live, Love, Latch: In honor of National Breastfeeding Month, La Leche League USA will celebrate breastfeeding and community support. 1-4 p.m., free, Centennial Hills Hospital,

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Fertile ground for wineries Supporters say new law will bolster Nevada’s wine industry by opening opportunities in Reno, Las Vegas BY VALERIE MILLER | SPECIAL TO VEGAS INC

Acres of vineyards and quaint wineries probably don’t come to mind when most people think of Nevada. But that could change, thanks to a new state law allowing wineries in population hubs, such as Clark County. ¶ In May, the Legislature passed and Gov. Brian Sandoval signed Assembly Bill 4 to help the winery industry grow. The law, which WINERIES, CONTINUED ON PAGE 53

$8.1B

Wynn Resorts’ debt at the end of the second quarter. The company’s performance both in Macau and in Las Vegas was weaker than last year.

300

Employees expected to be hired at the IKEA store being built at Sunset Road and Durango Drive. The 351,000-square foot furniture warehouse is scheduled to open next summer.

$42M

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16.3%

Decline in gaming revenue at Strip casinos in June, compared with June 2014. The Nevada casino industry suffered a steep decline in statewide gaming revenue in June.

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Jacqueline Lim and Magnolia Magat recently moved their restaurant, known for its bacon jam, to a larger location. Their unusual flavor combinations have earned a following among people who work in the food industry. TALKING POINTS Ten ways to help safeguard your business, P49

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MINING SAFETY AWARDS The Nevada Mining Association honored members during the 2015 Safety Awards. Operator awards were given to the top three mines in each category based on number of employees onsite, number of man hours and penalties for lost-time accidents, number of reportable incidents and lost-time days. Individual awards were chosen based on nominations and judged on the person’s safety record and involvement in advocating for safety in the workplace. Individual Safety Awards n General manager: Robert Stepper - Coeur Mining n Safety manager: Mark Carlson - American Drilling Corp. n Safety professional: Temby Lawrence Newmont Mining Corp.; Aaron Weight - Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc. n Mine manager/superintendent: Tracy Carroll - Newmont Mining Corp.; Don Dwyer Barrick Gold Corp.; Daryl Everett - Robinson Nevada Mining Co.; Mike Isaak - Klondex Mines Ltd.; Sam Marich - Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc.; Lorin Noble - Coeur Mining n General supervisor/middle management: Wes Amos - Round Mountain Gold Corp.; Page Adkins - Barrick Gold Corp.; Pat Chacon - Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc.; Pete Chavez - Newmont Mining Corp.; Scott Lawson Klondex Mines Ltd.; Max Lujan - Coeur Mining; Tom Stannard - Newmont Mining Corp.; John Taule - Barrick Gold Corp. n Trainer: Wynn Anderson - Silver Standard Mining; Bobbi Jo Bostic - Robinson Nevada; Nikkayla Simon - Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc. n Supervisor: John Bailey - Newmont Mining Corp.; Jason Deputy - Klondex Mines Ltd.; Dale Freese - Newmont Mining Corp.; Tim Felzein - Klondex Mines Ltd.; Neil Hastings - American Drilling Corp.; Dave Kelly - Silver Standard Mining; Terry Krantz - Barrick Gold Corp.; DeeJay Leach - Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc.; Shawn Migas - Newmont Mining Corp.; John Moffitt - Newmont Mining Corp.; John Neary - Newmont Mining Corp.; Justin Petrie - Barrick Gold Corp.; Russell Sheets - Newmont Mining Corp.; Wayne Thompson - Barrick Gold Corp.; Art Willms - Coeur Mining; Chris Zeiler - Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc. n Nonsupervisory trainer: Leonard Barraza - Newmont Mining Corp.; David Johnson Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc.; Mary Myrick - Barrick Gold Corp.; Lorenzo Olivas - Coeur Mining n Emergency response: Dave Baker - Newmont Mining Corp.; Rob Carter - Newmont Mining Corp.; Jeff Freeman - Barrick Gold Corp.; Travis Petersen - Newmont Mining Corp.; Andrew Smith - Silver Standard Mining n Safety champion: Mike Andersen - Silver Standard Mining; Kent Barrett - Newmont Mining Corp.; Dan Brown - Round Mountain Gold Corp.; Nikki Cooley - Round Mountain Gold Corp.; Joel Dunkin - Coeur Mining; Lester Gilman - Barrick Gold Corp.; Steve Justus - Air Products & Chemicals; Mark Koopman - Klondex Mines Ltd.; Chris Laloup - Klondex Mines Ltd.; Porsche Lee - Newmont Mining Corp.; Aaron Leininger - Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc.; Dave Murphy - Graymont; Diana Nelson - Newmont Mining Corp.; Reid Olsen - Barrick Gold Corp.; Billy Richardson - Klondex Mines Ltd.; Sean Riley - Newmont Mining Corp.; Dave Roberson - Newmont Mining Corp.; Scott Taylor - Coeur Mining; Edward Tester - Barrick Gold Corp.; Vaughn Tripp - Graymont; Wayne Tucker - Klondex Mines Ltd.; Josh Upton - Newmont Mining Corp.; Adam Wilson - Barrick Goldstrike

Mines Inc. Special awards: Earl Doege, Outstanding Career in Safety; Randy Harris, Outstanding Career in Safety n

Mine Operators Safety Awards n Surface operations: Large (300-plus employees) First: Round Mountain Gold Corp. Second: Newmont Mining Corp. – South Area Third: Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc. – Goldstrike n Surface operations: Medium (100-299 employees) First: Newmont Mining Corp. – Mill 6 Second: Newmont Mining Corp. – Genesis Third: Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc. – Roaster n Surface operations: Small (20-99 employees) First: Newmont Mining Corp. – Lone Tree First: Barrick Gold of North America – Ruby Hill Second: Rawhide Mining LLC – Denton Rawhide Mine n Underground operations: Large (300-plus employees) First: Barrick Gold of North America – Turquoise Ridge Second: Barrick Gold of North America – Cortez Third: Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc. – Meikle/ Rodeo n Underground operations: Medium (100-299 employees) First: Newmont Mining Corp. – Exodus n Underground operations: Small (20-99 employees) First: Small Mine Development – Lee Smith Mine First: Nevada Copper Corp. – Pumpkin Hollow First: Newmont Mining Corp. – Chukar Second: Sterling Gold Mining Corp. – Sterling Mine n Nonmetal mining First: Art Wilson Co. – Adams Claim First: Granite Construction – Nevada Operations First: EP Minerals – Clark Mill & Mine First Gypsum Resources – Blue Diamond Hill First: EP Minerals – Colado Mine First Baker Hughes – Argenta Mine & Mill First: M-I Swaco – Battle Mountain Grinding Plant First: Halliburton Energy Services – Nevada Operations First: EP Minerals – Fernley Operations n Contractors First: Ames Construction – Ames Backfill Portable First: American Drilling Corp. – Nevada Operations First: Brahma Group Inc. – Nevada Operations First: Cementation USA Inc. – Pumpkin Hollow First: Phoenix Industrial – Round Mountain Gold Corp. First: N.A. Degerstrom, Inc. – Robinson Mine Project First: J.S. Redpath – Bazza Mine, Goldstrike First: Small Mine Development – Chukar

Anthony Lai is student affairs program manager at the International LAI PATAY School of Hospitality. He supports students with externships, career advice and job placement as they work toward certification in hospitality-related fields. In addition, Kate Patay, a faculty member at the school, won a 2015 Pacesetter Award from the Convention Industry Council. Patay is executive director of sales and marketing at Creative Coverings, a linen rental and sales company. Mark Lipparelli is the Interblock compliance committee chairman. Interblock develops and supplies luxury electronic table gaming products. UNLV School of Nursing Dean Carolyn Yucha received the 2015 State Award for ExLIPPARELLI cellence from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners for making significant contributions to the status of health care delivery and the nurse practitioner role. Bill Brewer is deputy director of the Nevada Rural Housing Authority. The La Concha Motel lobby was added to the Nevada State Register of Historic Places for its iconic midcentury modern architecture. Architect Paul Williams designed the La Concha.

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Matt Kershaw was appointed president and CEO of the Clark County Credit KERSHAW FERRANDINO Union, Tina Ferrandino is branch manager at the Sunset Road location and Karen Hirschfield is call center manager. Kershaw succeeds Wayne Tew, who served as Clark County Credit Union president and CEO for 29 years. Also, Lekia Smith and HIRSCHFIELD LeeAnn Driesen are member services representatives at the credit union. Ben Klink is senior director of strategy and finance at Sundance Helicopters. He oversees the financial growth of the company. He previously worked as director of financial operations at Caesars Entertainment. KLINK Tom Perrigo is city of Las Vegas planning director. He was hired in 1994 as a statistical analyst for the planning and development department, was promoted in 2003 to planning manager and in June of 2006 was selected deputy director of planning.

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Dramatic law career is just part of his story In the television series “The Defenders,” Jim Belushi played Nick Morelli, who was based on Michael Cristalli, managing partner of the law firm Gentile, Cristalli, Miller, Armeni & Savarese. In addition to working in the spotlight for TV and radio, as well as arguing high-profile cases involving the murder of Ted Binion and the legality of medical marijuana, Cristalli focuses on the more mundane but equally important task of teaching future lawyers about the business. What are your greatest accomplishments so far in your career? Growing up with a mother who was a judicial secretary for a New York Supreme Court Judge, I watched and interacted with many judges and lawyers. However, I was drawn to the trial lawyer who gracefully and persuasively articulated his clients’ cases before juries. It is the advocacy of the trial lawyer defending his clients’ positions passionately and zealously that inspired me. To become known and recognized as one of them has been one of my greatest accomplishments. Also, in 2007, I, along with several others, developed and participated in a documentary, “The Defenders,” Attorney Michael Cristalli helped create the television series “The Defenders” and highlighting injustices in the crimi- teaches a class at UNLV. (YASMINA CHAVEZ/SPECIAL TO THE SUNDAY) nal justice system. The documentary litigated? The audience is the barometer for the resulted in the development of the In 2004, I handled the retrial of value of the topic and the disseminadocudrama series that aired on CBS. State vs. Rich Tabish and Sandra Retion of your thoughts. My involvement was a fulfilling expenee Murphy. The state charged Rick rience. Consulting on each script with Tabish and Sandy Murphy with the As an adjunct professor at the idea of entertaining while also murder of casino heir Ted Binion. The UNLV, what advice do you give educating the public was extremely case was one of the most high-profile students? rewarding. When you defend a clicases in the history of Nevada. I repreIn my class, law practice manageent, you are influencing that one case, sented Sandy Murphy. ment, I try to give a practical apbut when you highlight the inequities After seven weeks and close to 100 proach to the business of law. There of the entire judicial system in a TV witnesses, the jury returned a notare many facets of the business, such series, you are communicating your guilty verdict to the charge of muras creating budgets, handling trust position to 10 million viewers each der. After being convicted and senaccounts and other economic considweek. tenced in the first case to a 20-to-life erations that have nothing to do with sentence, Sandy Murphy was a free handling a case. Students must unWhat is the most challenging woman. derstand how to price a case, and balpart of your job? Sandy now is married and has two ance the eagerness to bring a case in Business and law do not marry young children. She and her husband with the amount of resources it takes well. If you got into the law business own an art gallery in Laguna Beach. to handle the case competently. exclusively for money, you got into it When I began practicing law, the for the wrong reason. What is the most rewarding part legal community was smaller and Making money is important to a of your job? more collegial. Today, there’s a more successful practice. It allows you to Protecting the constitutional priviirreverent attitude toward the pracservice your clients better by matchleges afforded to people is the essence tice. Lawyers are not always considing your opponents’ resources. Howof my being. It is who I am and what I erate of each other, and I see a level of ever, the balancing act of how many want to continue to be. disrespect among the profession that clients to take, and how many is too did not exist when I started. Lawyers many, is a delicate analysis. Tipping What are you reading right now? are officers of the court and should the scales disproportionately toward I enjoy reading The New York always remember the oath they took generating more revenue could comTimes as well as our local news when they were sworn in. Despite the promise the services you provide. publications. I am a fan of the Huffadversarial nature of the profession, ington Post, where I get everything a lawyer should maintain decorum as You host two radio shows. Why? from politics and sports to gossip a representative of the court. There is a freedom associated with and entertainment. For pure enjoypresenting your views to an audience ment, I usually have a James PatWhat was the most high-prowithout objection. However, that terson or John Grisham book somefile case in Nevada you have freedom is not without challenge.

where close. What do you do after work? I spend time with my wife of 22 years, Kristyn, and my two teenage boys, Michael and Christopher. Our days are consumed with watching them play baseball. Both are accomplished players, and it is pure enjoyment to watch them play. I also like to golf and ski. Blackberry, iPhone or Android? Only Apple everything. I am an addict. I love the interaction between the devices to keep me constantly connected — which may or may not be a good thing, but it is definitely my thing. Describe your management style. I am definitely not an autocratic manager. I would say I apply a persuasive democratic style of management. I like to think I persuade my colleagues and staff into reaching consensus. What is your dream job, outside of your current field? A writer. It would afford me a similar vehicle as that of a lawyer, wherein I can articulate a position persuasively to my audience. When I was creating “The Defenders,” I worked with many accomplished writers. Neils Mueller and Kevin Kennedy, the two co-creators of the show, taught me a great deal about the craft. I definitely would like to do script writing. I love the production process and collaboration that goes into developing storylines and then seeing them on film. What is your biggest pet peeve? Unopened emails drive me crazy. It doesn’t matter where I am or what I am doing, if I get an email, I have to open it. What is something people might not know about you? I am an only child. People seem surprised when I tell them. But I grew up in a large extended family with many cousins, so I really never identified myself as an only child.

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$4.3 MILLION Amount operators of the Reid Gardner Generation Station have agreed to pay to settle a lawsuit and clean up contamination nearby that Native Americans say caused health and water pollution problems. The coal-fired power plant is operated by NV Energy and the California Department of Water Resources.

Chef Jacqueline Lim, left, and Magnolia Magat own Truffles n Bacon Cafe. Among the restaurant’s offerings is the “Rawlins” ciabatta fried chicken sandwich, above. (PHOTOS

855 Nevada’s goal for reducing power plant emissions by 2030, measured in pounds of carbon dioxide per net megawatt hour. In 2012, state power plants emitted 1,102 pounds of carbon dioxide per net megawatt hour.

$322.1 MILLION Allegiant Travel Company’s revenue for the three months ending June 30, up 11 percent from the same period last year.

2.4 MILLION

Number of passengers who used Allegiant during the second quarter, a 15 percent increase from a year earlier.

$1.04 BILLION

Wynn Resorts’ revenue for the second quarter of this year, down 26 percent from a year earlier.

$830.9 MILLION Amount Nevada casinos won in June, down 8.4 percent from June 2014.

$445.5 MILLION Amount won in June by casinos on the Strip, where the bulk of Nevada’s gaming revenue is generated. Revenue was down 16.3 percent year over year.

21 MILLION

Number of people who visited Las Vegas the first six months of this year. Visitation is up 1.5 percent from the same period last year.

1.7 PERCENT

Increase in Las Vegas convention attendance in the first six months of the year compared with the same time period last year.

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Cafe takes fresh approach to flavor Describe your business.

We offer new American comfort food with a twist. Everything is freshly prepared and can be customized. We also offer tea service and catering, and our space can be rented for private events and parties. Who are your customers?

TRUFFLES N BACON CAFE Address: 8872 S. Eastern Ave., Suite 100, Las Vegas Phone: 702-503-1102 Email: magnolia@trufflesnbacon.com Website: trufflesnbacon.com Hours and days of operation: 8:30 a.m.2 p.m. Sunday; 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday; 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday Owned/operated by: Jacqueline Lim and Magnolia Magat In business since: February 2014 (February 2015 in current location)

us unique. We don’t just serve food to put food out; we put our heart and soul into every plate that comes out of our kitchen. What is the hardest part about doing business in Las Vegas?

The market here is quite different from the East Coast. It was hard to find out what works and what doesn’t. It was hit or miss for the first few months of operation.

On the weekdays, we have young professionals coming in for their lunch breaks. During the weekends, we have parents who bring in their children or their own parents. A growing trend we’ve noticed is people from the food industry have been our regulars — chefs, servers and bartenders.

Starting a business in Nevada is quite easy. The government agencies all are very supportive and easy to deal with. They guided us throughout the whole process.

What are some of your most popular dishes?

What obstacles has your business overcome?

Our most popular item is our TNB Signature Burger. It has crispy mac ‘n’ cheese and an angus beef patty topped with bacon jam. The next most popular item is the Not Your Mama’s Grilled Cheese, a grilled-cheese panini with brisket, bacon jam, grilled tomato and sautéed kale with chipotle ranch.

We financed the business using all of our savings, so we can’t afford any surprise expenditures. We still haven’t paid ourselves, so we really have tightened our belts to the most basic needs.

What do you suggest eating with bacon jam?

One of the ways we serve the bacon jam is with roasted garlic toast. Another is with our Sinful Tots — tater tots tossed in truffle oil and shredded cheese, then topped with bacon jam, chipotle ranch and pepperoncini. What makes your business unique?

The passion Jackie puts into creating our food makes

What is the best part about doing business here?

How can Nevada improve its business climate?

Maybe offer small businesses financial assistance to stay afloat during the most critical times of operations. What have you learned from the recession?

There were opportunities waiting for those willing to take a risk during the recession. You just needed to be more prudent about your ways and stick with it. If you have a good product, people will buy it, even when times are tough.

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Ten ways to help safeguard your business

GUEST COLUMN: Evolution (LTE) to ensure uninterrupted as Vegas is open for business CHRISTOPHER DUGGAN connectivity. 24/7/365. Many of Sin City’s 5. Better yet, if possible, create an IP VPN businesses — hotels, casinos, by adding Internet connections at two or restaurants and clubs — never more locations with automatic failover close. So even in the wee hours of the during an outage at the primary location. morning, IT issues such as power failures, network outages 6. Order automatic failover for voice lines and trunks, too, and equipment crashes can mean customers can’t book so customers never get a busy or out-of-service signal. rooms, charge meals or play slot machines. 7. Consider a cloud-based service for your phone system, IT downtime can cost thousands of dollars per incident email or collaboration applications since they can be — and the meter turns faster as more businesses simply accessed anytime, anywhere and from any device. can’t operate without communications, data and Internet 8. Move data servers to an off-site, secure facility to provide connections. A study by the Ponemon Institute documented higher availability for mission-critical applications. a 41 percent rise in the cost of downtime between 2010 and 9. Subscribe to a managed security service to prevent 2013, with no indication the curve will flatten. malware and denial of service (DoS) attacks from taking The good news is you can minimize the impact of IT down your network. downtime. Here are 10 ways to improve uptime: 10. Look for a service provider that will consult with you 1. Temporarily store inbound email at a remote data on developing a continuity plan that includes a range of center in the event of a server, line or power failure. Emails solutions that are right for you. automatically are forwarded when service is restored. Don’t put off business continuity planning. Admittedly, 2. Back up mission-critical data automatically over existing preparing for a disaster that may never happen seems like a Internet or virtual private network (VPN) connections to a low priority, but consider this: A careless backhoe operator secure storage facility and restore when needed. or a user error could stop your business dead in its tracks as 3. Remotely forward calls to your company’s main phone surely as a flood, earthquake or hurricane. line to another office, a mobile phone or even a residence Christopher Duggan leads the Las Vegas office of TelePacific when you need to. Communications, a provider of connectivity, continuity and 4. Pair your primary Internet connection with a cloud services for businesses, not-for-profits and governments. backup option, such as fixed wireless or 4G Long Term

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Governor’s office expects to get NASA contract to test drones BY DANIEL ROTHBERG STAFF WRITER

NASA could soon be testing drones in Nevada airspace. As one of six designated drone test sites, the state is in the process of securing a contract to host the agency while it researches unmanned aerial vehicles. Tom Wilczek, who works with the aerospace and defense industries in the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, expects to have an agreement within two months. The contract would give NASA the freedom to use the Nevada test site for UAV-related projects, such as developing an air traffic management system for drones. NASA also is expected to conduct a demo flight in Nevada as part of its testing for unmanned aircraft. The state has not determined where the testing would take place, but there are several locations with good conditions for operating unmanned vehicles. They include Creech Air Force Base, Nellis Air Force Base, Fallon Municipal Airport, Reno-Stead Airport, Boulder City Airport and the Nevada National Security Site/Desert Rock Airport. Given its long history of flight research, NASA is one of several federal agencies, along with the Federal Aviation Administration, that Congress has tasked with helping to integrate commercial drones into the national airspace. According to Wilczek, an agreement with the agency could be a significant stimulus for the state’s technology industry because NASA likely would collaborate with companies in the state’s commercial drone sector. “NASA is doing a lot of the (research and development), but they are very, very interested in integrating the technological components that come from industry,” Wilczek said. Talks between NASA and the state have been on and off since October. The federal agency recently issued a request for proposal to the six FAA test sites. Although the contracting process is ongoing, Wilczek said he has been told that NASA has funding to sign Master Services Agreements — the agreement to permit testing — with all six test sites. “They’ve expressed a growing interest to start engaging with these test sites,” he said. In addition to bidding for the Master Services Agreement, Nevada is bidding for a NASA demo flight and an agency simulation center that will give researchers the capability to test how a UAV might respond to particular environments and situations. “It’s the opportunity that we’ve all kind of been waiting for,” Wilczek said. “It’s an opportunity for obtaining some really significant research as well as an opportunity to (bring) really exciting (research and development) to Nevada research institutions and Nevada industries.”

The Las Vegas Ikea store under construction at Durango Drive and Sunset Road is expected to open in summer 2016. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF)

With Ikea building, a major project finally sprouts at Sunset and Durango BY ELI SEGALL STAFF WRITER

When Ikea was in talks to buy a big piece of land in Las Vegas, executives wanted to keep it hush-hush. They even gave the deal a code name in honor of Nevada: “Project Silver.” “I named it myself,” Ikea spokesman Joseph Roth said. Ikea, the popular Swedish furniture dealer and meatball slinger, paid a fortune for the site at the southwest corner of Sunset Road and Durango Drive, and it’s building a 351,000-square-foot superstore there. It’s not the only construction project in the southwest valley today, and unlike other big plans at Sunset and Durango, this one is actually taking shape. Workers are building Ikea’s steel frame, and construction crews recently began installing blue exterior panels to form the shell of the building. Ikea broke ground in April and expects to open the store next summer. It will be Ikea’s 42nd store nationally. The two-level store — offering Ikea’s lowpriced, self-assembly furniture — is expected to employ about 300 people and will include a 450-seat restaurant. Ikea closed the $21.3 million purchase of the 26-acre site in December. Roth said the code name was needed in part because the company wanted to avoid a “bidding war” if people found out Ikea was eyeing the land. “You don’t want to skew the real estate market by it getting out that Ikea is looking,” he said. Still, Ikea’s purchase price — about $819,000

per acre — far outweighed the market average. Last year in Southern Nevada, land sold for about $276,000 per acre, according to Colliers International. Roth has said the company paid “a fair price” for the property. Southwest Las Vegas is one of the most active areas for construction in the valley. Most of the work involves apartment complexes, single-family housing tracts and warehouses. Projects underway near Ikea include a 310-unit apartment complex and the roughly 116,000-square-foot American Preparatory Academy, a charter school. Ikea’s store, however, isn’t the first big project planned for the Durango-Sunset intersection. Last decade, developers sought to build the Curve right about where Ikea is taking shape. Plans for the first phase alone called for two 18-story luxury condo towers; at least 10 buildings with retail and restaurant space; and about 60,000 square feet of offices above retail, according to news releases. It never materialized. Across the street, developers pursued plans during the go-go years for Sullivan Square. Their $800 million high-rise project was supposed to include 1,300 to 1,400 residential units, 45,000 square feet of retail and 272,000 square feet of offices. Excavation and utility work began that summer. But by spring 2008, the project had been hit with $2 million worth of lawsuits and liens, and the developers owed another $2 million to consultants and vendors, according to news reports. Today, the site is little more than a giant hole in the ground with no signs of work.

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Golden Gaming becomes publicly traded Golden Entertainment BY J.D. MORRIS STAFF WRITER

Golden Gaming, a major operator of Nevada taverns, casinos and grocery store slot machines, has completed its transition from a family-owned business to a publicly traded company. The company’s merger with Minnesotabased Lakes Entertainment closed recently. Now known as Golden Entertainment, the combined business owns Maryland’s Rocky Gap casino in addition to the casinos, taverns and slot machines Golden Gaming controlled in Nevada. The merger was approved by the Nevada Gaming Commission on July 23. Blake Sartini, who was the CEO of Golden Gaming, is staying on as CEO of Golden Entertainment, which is headquartered in SARTINI Las Vegas. He said the closing marked a “truly monumental and meaningful day.” “With Golden Entertainment, we now have a national, diversified gaming company with strong assets across the country,” he said in a company statement. When the merger was announced in January, Golden Gaming said it would value Lakes at $9.57 per share, which was a 37 percent premium from Lakes’ closing price at the time. The merger issued about 7.8 million shares to the Sartini family, who were the sole shareholders of Golden Gaming. Golden Entertainment has also appointed three new members to its board of directors: Mark Lipparelli, a state senator and former chairman of the Gaming Control Board; Robert Miodunski, the former CEO of American Gaming Systems; and Terrence Wright, the board chairman and majority owner of Westcor Land Title Insurance Co. They join existing directors Lyle Berman, Timothy Cope and Neil Sell as well as Sartini, who is the board’s chairman. Sartini has previously said the merger creates one of the gaming industry’s strongest balance sheets. He has also suggested that the company may grow even more, noting that “as a public company, we’re charged with growth.” Golden Gaming was preparing to enter the Montana slot machine business before the merger. The company runs three casinos in Pahrump and 48 taverns under brands that include PT’s, Sean Patrick’s and Sierra Gold. It’s also Nevada’s largest slot machine route operator, with thousands of machines inside hundreds of grocery stores and similar spots.

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5 things to keep in mind as Caesars’ bankruptcy advances BY J.D. MORRIS STAFF WRITER

More than six months after a major division of Caesars Entertainment Corp. filed for bankruptcy, it’s still unclear exactly how the company will emerge on the other side. Caesars wants a Chicago bankruptcy court to approve a restructuring plan that could shed around $10 billion in debt from the division, but lawsuits from some of the company’s creditors continue to complicate things. One recent court decision in particular threatens to create big problems for the entire casino company. If Caesars’ plan is successful, the division that filed for bankruptcy will be reorganized under a real estate investment trust setup that will split it into two parts: one that owns casinos and another that manages them. That setup would have Caesars follow in the footsteps of other casino companies — including Penn National Gaming, the company buying the Tropicana — that have made similar moves. Despite the lingering questions surrounding the complicated bankruptcy case, some basic elements remain clear. 1. Caesars Palace is the company’s only Las Vegas property included in the bankruptcy for now. Caesars Entertainment is a massive company that’s split into multiple divisions. The only division that filed for bankruptcy in January was Caesars Entertainment Operating Co., which has been described as the largest of the company’s units. Accordingly, the only Las Vegas property included in the original bankruptcy filing is Caesars Palace. Caesars’ other properties on the Strip — such as the Flamingo, the Paris and the Linq hotel — were not. However, that may change. Other areas where Caesars operates weren’t so lucky. Harrah’s Reno, Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Caesars Atlantic City and Bally’s Atlantic City were among the properties included in the bankruptcy filing in January. So what does being part of the filing mean for Caesars Palace? Not much at the moment. The property — as with other Caesars casinos — is open for business as usual, the company says. 2. But recent events suggest the whole company could go into bankruptcy. The case hit an important milestone recently, and it did not work out well for Caesars. Judge Benjamin Goldgar refused to shield the Caesars parent company from lawsuits by its creditors while the operating division is in bankruptcy. Caesars is appealing the decision, but it was denied a request that would have sped that process along. That has further complicated the company’s attempt to stop suits against it before a judge

in New York “can consider imposing billions of dollars in liability on the parent,” Bloomberg reported. Caesars has said the suits could force the parent company into bankruptcy. The creditors’ lawsuits generally have to do with the legitimacy of asset transfers Caesars made before the bankruptcy. The company is standing its ground. “We believe our defenses in the New York litigation are strong and will continue to contest those cases vigorously,” Caesars spokesman Stephen Cohen said in a statement after Goldgar’s ruling. Cohen said the ruling was a “technical interpretation of bankruptcy law and did not address in any way the merits of the New York litigation.” 3. At the same time, Caesars has made progress in gathering support from creditors. Days before the Goldgar ruling, Caesars announced that a “significant amount” of secondlien debt holders signed an agreement that gives them a “substantial improvement” in what they can recover from the bankruptcy. Holders who sign the agreement could receive two sets of $200 million in convertible notes, the company said. Caesars needs more than 50 percent of its second-lien debt holders to sign the agreement for it to become effective. The company did not say last week exactly how close it was to that goal, but Bloomberg reported that the group owned about 30 percent of junior notes. Caesars said the parent company and the operating division were working to capture further support of the agreement. 4. The case has become expensive. A case as complicated as this one is bound to produce a hefty stack of legal bills. And they’re piling high: According to the Associated Press, the Caesars case resulted in about $47 million in professional fees and expenses from Jan. 15 through the end of May. UNLV law professor Nancy Rapoport is leading the fee committee that’s reviewing those costs. She said in a previous interview that such committees usually consider the ratio of the fees to everything else going on in the case. It’s “typically pretty proportional” to the amount of money at stake in the overall case, she said, “but it’s still a lot of money.” 5. It’s going to take a long time to resolve. Don’t hold your breath for a conclusion to this case anytime soon. According to Bloomberg, Caesars’ original plan envisioned an exit from the bankruptcy by Feb. 9, but its newer plan is to emerge by July 15 of next year.

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Unification Church opens long-gestating events center BY ELI SEGALL STAFF WRITER

The Unification Church has built an events center in Las Vegas that it’s calling “America’s most heavenly place” and “a new beacon of hope.” The move comes years after buying the project site and changing plans a number of times — including scrapping a museum dedicated to its late founder, a self-proclaimed messiah. The International Peace Education Center, across the street from McCarran International Airport, plans to hold a grand opening ceremony Aug. 10 and is aiming to host its first nonchurch-related events next month. Church leaders held a ribbon-cutting and sanctification ceremony in The International Peace Education Center, 6590 Bermuda Road, will have its late May. grand opening Aug. 10. (STEVE MARCUS) The three-story, 93,000-squareevents-industry software firm. church says. Known as “True Father” foot facility — white, inside and out — The meetings business is clustered to followers, Moon hoped the facility will be run by an outside vendor, who on and near the Strip, but Fiorentino “would change the reputation of Las hopes to lure local and out-of-town figures that plays to his advantage. Vegas from ‘Sin City’ to a city of educustomers for conventions, training The founder of New York-based LNF cational enlightenment,” according to seminars, weddings and other gatherEvents, Fiorentino — not a member the church. ings. of the church — says he plans to tarChurch leaders and IPEC operator Formerly called the Peace Palace, get convention operators who want Mike Fiorentino are entering a lucraIPEC features white marble flooring, to leave the resort corridor for a day tive yet crowded industry. Las Vegas a 10,000-square-foot ballroom, conto hold events in an “intimate,” nonis one of the most popular places in ference rooms, a 5,000-square-foot casino facility; visitors who want to America for meetings and convenfoyer with a fountain and two grand be near Las Vegas Boulevard but not tions, and has an abundance of event staircases, and 49 hotel-style rooms, in the thick of it; and locals who want space. Almost 5.2 million convention including a four-bedroom suite with a place to hold a wedding, corporate delegates came to town last year, acprivate elevator access. event or other function. cording to the Las Vegas Convention Church founder the Rev. Sun Myung At 6590 Bermuda Road, IPEC sits and Visitors Authority. The valley Moon, who died in 2012, launched the among clusters of warehouses and ofhas three of the 10 largest convention project in America’s gambling mecca fice buildings just south of the airport, centers in the country, says Cvent, an and directed the site’s purchase, the

a few miles from the south edge of the resort corridor. As Fiorentino sees it, IPEC is detached from “the distractions that may happen over at the Strip.” Moon founded the Unification Church in 1954 in Seoul. About 20 years earlier when he was a teenager, he claimed, he was praying on a Korean mountaintop when Jesus appeared to him and asked him to create the kingdom of heaven on Earth. He recruited followers around the world, and the church became known for, among other things, mass weddings with tens of thousands of couples sometimes marrying at once. Moon also built a corporate empire, with real estate holdings, a gun-manufacturing business, a ballet company, and newspapers and magazines. The church bought the IPEC site in 2011 for $11 million, Clark County records show. Clark County commissioners in March 2012 approved plans for a convention hall. The project had been expected to finish in early 2013. But after Moon died, “there was a need for a refocusing of the vision God had given to him for the Peace Palace,” Michael Jenkins, director of the church’s Office of Business Investment and Asset Development, told the Sun last spring. The project underwent a redesign; the church hired new architects, engineers, interior designers and others, general contractor Steven Kwon said last year.

Marijuana dispensary: Business going to pot amid opening delays BY CONOR SHINE STAFF WRITER

Frustrated by months of delays, a medical marijuana dispensary is requesting internal Clark County records and threatening a lawsuit to get the store open. Euphoria Wellness passed state and county inspections in April and has been ready to open since. But the dispensary hasn’t been able to obtain marijuana because approved cultivation facilities have been slow to start and haven’t produced a viable batch. Euphoria Wellness initially planned to buy medical marijuana from cardholders already licensed to grow their own plants until cultiva-

tion facilities were up and running. But Euphoria attorney Maggie McLetchie said the plan has been derailed by the county business licensing department’s “overly strict and absurd” interpretation of state law. “It seems designed to do nothing but slow us down,” McLetchie said of the county’s stance. “We’ve been extremely frustrated with this process.” Under state law, patients are allowed to have up to 12 marijuana plants but can’t possess more than 2.5 ounces of usable cannabis. The county has refused to allow Euphoria to acquire more than 2.5 ounces of medical marijuana from any patient, citing the law. The dispensary has argued that it

should be able to acquire all 12 plants from patients — the equivalent of about 10 pounds of marijuana. The stalemate has prevented Euphoria from acquiring any marijuana to sell and forced it to recently lay off 15 employees hired months ago in anticipation of opening. McLetchie also accused the county of adding conditions to Euphoria’s business license that aren’t based in state law. For instance, the county is limiting the number of pipes and other marijuana-ingestion devices the dispensary can display. Late last month, McLetchie filed a public records request seeking internal documents she hopes will shed light on whether the county has handled Eu-

phoria’s application appropriately. “We’re trying to get information about why there have been so many delays and what basis there is for the various conditions that have been placed on Euphoria’s license,” she said. Depending on the content of the records, McLetchie said, further legal action could be possible. County spokesman Erik Pappa said Euphoria Wellness has been treated “fairly and in accordance with the law.” “We’re going to provide all the public records they’ve sought. They’ve been treated fairly, and you’ll see that when you get the records,” Pappa said. “We expect them to follow state law, even if it’s inconvenient to do so.”

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WINERIES, FROM PAGE 43

Controversial rule forces use of Nevada grapes takes effect in October, will allow wineries to open in any Nevada county. The previous law, written in the 1980s, limited wineries to counties with fewer than 100,000 people, essentially prohibiting wineries in the Las Vegas Valley and in Washoe County, which includes Reno. The new law will mean economic opportunities for both Southern Nevada and Northern Nevada, said Randi Thompson, a lobbyist for the Nevada Wine Coalition. “We have the fewest wineries of any state,” Thompson said. “But Arizona has a $30 million wine industry, and we are right next door to California and below Oregon, so the sky’s the limit.” One local business, Henderson’s Grape Expectations, is looking to capitalize. Operators of the winemaking school hope to open an onsite winery. General Manager Mike Schoenbaechler said the company has enough space at its warehouse and could buy grapes from growers. “We are going to meet with some attorneys and just see how it all plays out,” Schoenbaechler said. “I would hope to know in the next couple of months. Then we can start moving forward with licensing.” Grape Expectations helps wine enthusiasts make wine. The ninemonth process takes students through each step, from harvesting to crushing to bottling. “AB4 is very important to us because it allows us to have a tasting room and sell wine to someone who comes in,” said K.J. Howe, “a professor of yeastology” at Grape Expectations. “It allows us to have additional offerings to the public.” Howe sees a potential ripple effect from wineries opening in Nevada, as the new law requires startup wineries to use 25 percent Nevada-grown grapes after selling the first 1,000 cases of wine each year. “It’s good for the state because it will induce people to grow grapes,” Howe said. Nevada’s four existing wineries don’t have to meet the quota for 10 years. GROWING PAINS Still, the new bill has detractors. Thompson said the original draft didn’t include a quota for state-grown grapes, nor did it limit new wineries to one tasting room, as the enacted

Workers bottle and pack wine into boxes at Pahrump Valley Winery. (MIKE STOTTS/SPECIAL TO VEGAS INC)

bill does. Thompson worries about the impact the amendments will have on startups. “I think it will discourage serious winemakers from starting wineries, at least for a while,” she said. There is a dearth of vineyards in Nevada, Thompson said. Although initial grape crops can be grown in about a year, the first fully-mature crops typically take three to five years. Full vineyards can take as long as seven years to grow. The Nevada Wine Coalition’s goal was to spark Nevada’s wine industry much sooner. But Pahrump Valley Winery owner Bill Loken and Sanders Family Winery owner Jack Sanders successfully lobbied for the 25 percent rule. Loken said it was necessary to protect the state, otherwise large corporations could have set up wine bars, called them “wineries” and simply shipped in wine from other states. “The Legislature, back in the late ’80s when they fashioned the (original) law, actually showed great wisdom,” Loken said. “They knew if this industry was going to ever happen, it would happen out in the rural areas. And they wanted to prevent the very thing we wanted to prevent, and that is to turn these two metropolitan areas into nothing but bottling plants for California wineries.” Pahrump Valley Winery is the old-

est Nevada winery. It serves tens of thousands of tourists each year from the Las Vegas Valley, Loken said. The other wineries in Nevada are Sanders Family Winery in Pahrump; Tahoe Ridge Winery, which moved to Carson City from Minden in May; and Churchill Vineyards in Fallon. Jack Sanders founded Pahrump Valley Winery in 1989 before selling it. Now, his Sanders Family Winery uses about 20 percent Nevada-grown grapes to produce about 6,000 cases of wine and serve about 40,000 visitors a year. Sanders and other proponents say growing more grapes in Nevada — and thus supplying future wineries — will be a boon for the state. And grapes need much less water than, say, alfalfa to grow. But UNLV economics professor Stephen Miller said increasing Nevada’s grape production could be tough. The director of UNLV’s Center for Business and Economic Research pointed out that most of Nevada’s land is owned by the federal government. “The best use of land for grape growing would be land that is not cultivated now for anything else, but most of that is (Bureau of Land Management) land,” Miller said. DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH For Tahoe Ridge Winery owner

Tom King, the restriction on the number of tasting rooms is the biggest impediment to growth. New wineries will be permitted to have only one on-site tasting room where they can sell their wine directly to the public without going through distributors. The existing Nevada wineries still can have two tasting rooms — one on site and a second at a remote location, such as a bistro in another county. “There has been a bad sequence of state laws put into place since the Al Capone days,” King said. “The distributors make about three times what I make on a bottle of wine. And the wholesaler, like a liquor store, will also make about three times what I make.” King said he would like to see a fairer system, such as allowing Nevada wineries to have four tasting rooms. “This wouldn’t hurt the distributors, but it would help the wineries a lot,” he said. Thompson doesn’t rule out going back to the Legislature in 2017 for more changes to the law. In the meantime, she and others in the wine industry say they’ll look forward to more immediate industry shifts. “I support the changes to the wine industry,” King said. “And I am for breaking down the barriers to having wineries in Las Vegas and Reno.”

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Calendar of events TUESDAY, AUGUST 11 Henderson Chamber of Commerce networking breakfast Time: 7-9 a.m. Cost: $25 for members, $45 for nonmembers, additional $10 for walk-ins Location: Sunset Station, 1301 W. Sunset Road, Henderson Information: Call 702-565-8951 Henderson Mayor Andy Hafen will discuss new businesses expected to open in the city and changes at City Hall. U.S. Green Building Council Nevada chapter breakfast Time: 7-9 a.m. Cost: $20 for members, $35 for nonmembers, $20 for partners, $500 for sponsors Location: InNEVvation Center, 6795 Edmond St., Las Vegas Information: Visit usgbcnv.org Learn how the architecture and design of a building matters when it comes to letting in enough sunlight to provide a comfortable environment for clients and employees. Southern Nevada Society for Human Resource Management breakfast meeting Time: 7:30-9:30 a.m. Cost: $25, $15 for students Location: United Way of Southern Nevada, 5830 W. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas Information: Visit snv.shrm.org Rebecca Weaver, a former TedX speaker and human resources specialist, will discuss common HR problems and solutions, as well as stereotypical attitudes in the workplace.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12 SIOR Southern Nevada chapter: August luncheon meeting Time: 12-1:15 p.m. Cost: Free for members and sponsors, $40 for candidate members, $50 for nonmembers invited by members, $100 for nonmembers invited by a sponsor Location: Maggiano’s Little Italy, Fashion Show

Mall, 3200 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas Information: Call Katrina Bruce at 702-798-5156 Cheryl Persinger, vice president of marketing at Cadence, and Ryan Martin, a senior vice president at Colliers International, will discuss the Landwell Company’s new 2,200-acre masterplanned community in Henderson. Business by the Book workshop: “Grow Your Business” Time: 6-8 p.m. Cost: Free Location: UNLV Lied Library, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas Information: Call Angela Ayers at 702-895-2277 Learn how to use research tools to identify customers, understand their buying habits and reach them most effectively.

Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: Free, but members must register guests Location: Bootlegger Bistro, 7700 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Suite 1, Las Vegas Information: Visit web.lvchamber.com Trade business cards and build new business relationships while enjoying selections from an award-winning menu. BOMA Nevada mixer and post-session panel Time: 6-8 p.m. Cost: $35 for members, $40 for nonmembers Location: Orleans, 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., Las Vegas Information: Email andrea.pineda@us.belfor.com Assemblywomen Victoria Seaman and Marilyn Kirkpatrick, Sen. Aaron Ford and Assemblyman Derek Armstrong will discuss this year’s legislative session.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 13 Southern Nevada Home Builders Association builders breakfast Time: 7:30-9 a.m. Cost: $25 for members, $35 for nonmembers Location: Orleans Conference Center, 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., Las Vegas Information: Email events@snhba.com Steve Cervino of Beazer Homes, Joe Whatley of Liberty Homes and Nathan White of Summit Homes will discuss upcoming projects.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 18 The Social Register: Business coaching webinar Time: 12:30-1:15 p.m. Cost: Free Location and information: Visit socialregister. com Life coach Nathan Smith will discuss how to maximize business profits.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19 Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce: Business After Hours

THURSDAY, AUGUST 20 City of Las Vegas business licensing event Time: 7-9:15 a.m. Cost: Free Location: Las Vegas City Hall, 495 S. Main St., Las Vegas Information: Register at nevadasbdc.org A free informational event for residents interested in starting businesses. Cathy Brooks, owner of the Hydrant Club downtown, and Kathy Carrico of the Nevada Small Business Development Center are the featured speakers. NAIOP Southern Nevada: Legislative review Time: 7:30-8:30 a.m. Cost: $25 for members, $45 for nonmembers Location: Orleans, 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., Las Vegas Information: Email laura@theferrarogroup.com State Sens. Aaron Ford and Ben Kieckhefer, Assemblywoman Marilyn Kirkpatrick and Assemblyman Derek Armstrong will discuss the 2015 legislative session.

Conventions

EXPECTED

SHOW

LOCATION

DATES

ATTENDANCE

Photoshop World Conference and Expo

Mandalay Bay

Aug. 11-13

3,000

The Prepaid Press

Planet Hollywood

Aug. 11-13

1,800

World Beauty Fitness and Fashion Inc.

Cosmopolitan

Aug. 14-16

2,000

Off-Price Specialist Show

Sands Expo and Convention Center

Aug. 15-18

10,500

MRket Trade Show

Sands Expo and Convention Center

Aug. 17-19

7,500

PGA Expo

Venetian

Aug. 17-19

6,500

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Records and Transactions BANKRUPTCIES CHAPTER 7 Creative Interior Solutions LLC 6960 W. Warm Springs Road, Suites 100 and 110 Las Vegas, NV 89113 Attorney: Timothy P. Thomas at tthomas@tthomaslaw.com Amedia Creative Inc. 4471 Dean Martin Drive, Suite 701 Las Vegas, NV 89103 Attorney: Samual A. Schwartz at sam@schwartzlawyers.com

BID OPPORTUNITIES THURSDAY, AUGUST 13 3 p.m. Collection agency services for Las Vegas Justice Court Clark County, 603699 Chetan Champaneri at chetanc@ ClarkCountyNV.gov

FRIDAY, AUGUST 14 2:15 p.m. Annual traffic signal modification, installation and maintenance contract Clark County, 603761 Tom Boldt at tboldt@ClarkCountyNV.gov

BROKERED TRANSACTIONS

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SALES $2,250,000 for 17,606 square feet, retail 821 Lamb Blvd., Las Vegas 89110 Seller: DCR Real Estate VI Sub I LLC Sales agent: Ben Millis and Chris Beets of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Buyer: Orexco 1031 Exchange Buyer agent: Carlington Miller of Realty One $316,000 for 10,000 square feet, industrial 4650 Judson Ave., Las Vegas 89115 Seller: TIB LLC Sales agent: Soozi Jones Walker and Bobbi Miracle of Commercial Executives Real Estate Services Buyer: RAA Global Trading LLC Buyer agent: Did not disclose

LEASES $643,811 for 3,600 square feet, retail for 120 months 9310 Sun City Blvd., Las Vegas 89143 Landlord: South Grove Avenue LLC Landlord agent: Bob Miller and Laramie Bracken of Gatski Commercial Tenant: UNLV-USC LLC

BUSINESS LICENSES D&D Construction Inc. License type: Contractor Address: 181 E. Rancho Drive, Las Vegas Owner: Did not disclose Dany Racine Ltd. License type: Communication systems Address: 2270 Smokey Sky Drive, Henderson Owner: Dany Racine Ltd. Dave Scott Photographic License type: Still photography service Address: 122 Industrial Park Road, Suite 201, Henderson Owner: David Scott DC Auto and Body License type: Automotive garage Address: 4561 E. Bonanza Road, Suite 130, Las Vegas Owner: Juan C. Vides Quintana Desiree (Dee) Sweet License type: Real estate sales Address: 9525 Hillwood Drive, Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: Desiree Sweet Detalleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Beauty Salon

License type: Cosmetics Address: 865 N. Lamb Blvd., Suite 15, Las Vegas Owner: Laura G. Ramos Devin Stanley License type: Independent massage therapist Address: Did not disclose, Las Vegas Owner: Devin Stanley Diamond China Restaurant License type: Restaurant Address: 3909 W. Sahara Ave., Suites 8-10, Las Vegas Owner: Louie & Ng Enterprises Inc. Diehl Realty LLC License type: Real estate sales Address: 3100 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 112, Las Vegas Owner: Bonnie Diehl Digital Matrix International Inc. License type: General retail sales Address: 5041 N. Rainbow Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Robert A. Lambert Dottyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s License type: Restaurant/nonrestricted gaming Address: 2428 E. Cheyenne Ave., North Las Vegas Owner: Nevada Restaurant Services Inc. Dragone Holdings LLC License type: Management or consulting service Address: 11197 Piazzale St., Las Vegas Owner: Sherie Zeller Eastman & McKinney LLC License type: Accounting firm Address: 2298 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway, Suite 211, Henderson Owner: Eastman & Mckinney LLC Edward M Bernstein & Assoc Inc. License type: Professional services Address: 516 S. Fourth St., Las Vegas Owner: Edward M. Bernstein El Dorado Banquet Hall License type: Alcohol beverage caterer Address: 4440 E. Washington Ave., Suite 105, Las Vegas Owner: El Dorado Enterprises Inc. El Pueblo de Los Arboles License type: Apartment house Address: 5400 W. Cheyenne Ave., Las Vegas Owner: 5400 W. Cheyenne Ave. LLC Eli Rivera License type: Real estate sales Address: 7465 W. Lake Mead Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Eli Rivera

R Elite Imaging Consultants LLC License type: Management or consulting service Address: 4525 W. Reno Ave., Suite A6, Las Vegas Owner: Ian Johnson

Focuslink Behavioral Health LLC License type: Social work and behavioral therapy business Address: 600 Whitney Ranch Drive, Suite A5B, Henderson Owner: Focuslink Behavioral Health LLC

Elton J. Ebarb Bail Bonds License type: Bail bond broker Address: 141 Industrial Park Road, Suite 303, Henderson Owner: Elton Jacob Ebarb

Fork & Knife Kitchen License type: Food services or cafe Address: 6235 S. Pecos Road, Suite 106, Las Vegas Owner: Black Spot LLC

Engineering For Kids License type: Engineering Address: 3125 N. Buffalo Drive, Suite 2143, Las Vegas Owner: HKL Creative LLC

Friend Factory License type: General retail sales Address: 4695 Sun Valley Drive, Las Vegas Owner: Amber Bacilio

Enterprise Rent A Car License type: Rental car agency Address: 8535 W. Centennial Parkway, Las Vegas Owner: Enterprise Leasing Company-West LLC ERP Leasing LLC License type: Medical marijuana support business Address: 7151 Cascade Valley Court, Suite 210, Las Vegas Owner: Kris A. Madsen ES Design License type: Contractor Address: 840 Colina Alta Place, Las Vegas Owner: Soebbing Flooring Inc. Events With A Twist LLC License type: Alcoholic beverage caterer Address: 495 S. Grand Central Parkway, Las Vegas Owner: Jennifer K. Colacion Extra Space Storage License type: General retail sales Address: 5900 Smoke Ranch Road, Las Vegas Owner: Extra Space Management Inc. Fairweather Fitness License type: Fitness business Address: 2241 Montferrat Lane, Henderson Owner: Kendra Fairweather

General Discount License type: General retail sales Address: 2901 W. Washington Ave., Suite K106, Las Vegas Owner: Robert G. Ellis Gislaine Martell License type: Real estate sales Address: 9525 Hillwood Drive, Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: Gislaine Martell Goals For Autism Inc. License type: Professional services - medical Address: 3909 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas Owner: Adryon Ketcham Gold Spike Hotel License type: Alcoholic beverage caterer Address: 217 Las Vegas Blvd. North, Las Vegas Owner: LFDTP LLC Grasons Estate Sales Co. of Las Vegas License type: Trucking Address: 10120 S. Eastern Ave., Unit 200, Las Vegas Owner: Sisunik & Benson LLC Green Valley Mini Mart License type: Convenience store Address: 690 N. Valle Verde Drive, Henderson Owner: GV Mini Mart LLC Guaranteed Rate Inc. License type: Professional services Address: 1333 N. Buffalo Drive, Suite 170, Las Vegas Owner: Nikolaos Athanasiou

Faithfully Therapeutic License type: Massage establishment Address: 6600 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 126, Las Vegas Owner: Shannon L. Kastler

Hair Salon Maktub License type: Cosmetics Address: 1449 N. Jones Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Rebecca L. Gutierrez

Fancy Feet License type: General retail sales Address: 707 Fremont St., Suite 2070, Las Vegas Owner: Anjanelle Yancy

Hakaza LLC License type: Business space, rent or lease Address: 2421 W. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Roopvinder Dhesi

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Records and Transactions Henderson Liquidation LLC License type: Home-based online business Address: 100 Grove St., Henderson Owner: Henderson Liquidation LLC Homer the Handyman License type: Trucking Address: 5761 Baffy Circle, Las Vegas Owner: William J. Poska Jr. Hunt Property Inspections LLC License type: Professional services Address: Did not disclose Owner: Jason Hunt Ilovekickboxing.com License type: General retail sales Address: 2230 N. Rainbow Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Emmerson LLC Imagine School at Mountain View License type: Instruction services Address: 6610 Grand Montecito Parkway, Las Vegas Owner: Ku Champions LLC Integral Fitness License type: Instruction services Address: 3900 N. Rancho Drive, Suite 104, Las Vegas Owner: Marcia Washington Integrity Rehab Group License type: Professional services - medical Address: 8402 W. Centennial Parkway, Las Vegas Owner: Integrity Rehab Group Inc. Isabela’s Seafood, Tapas & Grill License type: Alcoholic beverage caterer Address: 2620 Regatta Drive, Suites 111, 114 and 119, Las Vegas Owner: Lakeside Trifecta LLC Ivan Ortiz License type: Real estate sales Address: 10750 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 180, Las Vegas Owner: Ivan Ortiz J Torres Lawn & Landscape Services License type: Property maintenance Address: 1904 Stonington Place, Las Vegas Owner: Jose Antonio TorresRebueltos J. Timothy Katzen License type: Medical office Address: 2490 Paseo Verde Parkway, Suite 100, Henderson Owner: J. Timothy Katzen Jasco Technolog LLC License type: General services counter/office Address: Did not disclose, Las Vegas Owner: Kayla Larson Jessica A. McCormick

License type: Real estate sales Address: 5550 Painted Mirage Road 140, Las Vegas Owner: Jessica A. McCormick Jessie Rae’s BBQ LLC License type: Nonfarm product vendor Address: 9200 Tule Springs Road, Las Vegas Owner: Michael L. Ross Jones Trucking Corp. License type: Sales Address: 1917 Nature Park Drive, North Las Vegas Owner: Jones Trucking Corp. Jose L. Garcia Romero License type: Independent massage therapist Address: 2620 Regatta Drive, Suite 113, Las Vegas Owner: Jose L. Garcia Romero Jr’s Upholstery License type: Repair and maintenance Address: 806 W. Bonanza Road, Las Vegas Owner: Richard Watson Sr. Kelly Brown License type: Real estate sales Address: 10000 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 130, Las Vegas Owner: Kelly Brown La Fiesta Party Supply Nevada License type: General retail sales Address: 1720 E. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Victor Sermeno Lake Mead Radiology License type: Medical office Address: 6301 Mountain Vista St., Suite 101, Henderson Owner: Lake Mead Radiology LLC Lake Mead Radiology License type: Clinic or laboratory Address: 7455 W. Washington Ave., Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: Lake Mead Radiology 2 LLC

Suite G, Las Vegas Owner: Eric Ita

2932 Coast Line Court, Las Vegas Westpoint Development Group

Leo Breau License type: Real estate sales Address: 6628 Sky Pointe Drive, Suite 200, Las Vegas Owner: Leo Breau

$695,988, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 4300 Meadows Lane, Las Vegas Bombard Electric LLC

Leticia C. Gonzales License type: Real estate sales Address: 10750 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 180, Las Vegas Owner: Leticia C. Gonzales Lido’s Beauty Salon LLC License type: General retail sales Address: 2901 W. Washington Ave., Suite 108, Las Vegas Owner: Emily Sandoval Limited Edition Auto Spa License type: Automobile detailing Address: Did not disclose, Las Vegas Owner: DKDM LLC Liquid Courage License type: Alcoholic beverage caterer Address: 300 Stewart Ave., 495 S. Main St., Las Vegas Owner: Jobo Enterprises Liquor Emporium License type: General retail sales and tobacco dealer Address: 240 N. Jones Blvd., Suite F, Las Vegas Owner: Liquor Emporium LLC Los Portales Bakery License type: Bakery Address: 2630 E. Lake Mead Blvd., North Las Vegas Owner: Ayala-Ribera Inc. Lowry’s Catering Inc. License type: Alcoholic beverage caterer Address: 4125 W. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Robert W. Lowry

Larry Sweet License type: Real estate sales Address: 9525 Hillwood Drive, Suite 120, Las Vegas Owner: Larry Sweet

Loya Management Group LLC License type: Product sales - hair products and tobacco Address: 1300 W. Sunset Road, Suite 1000, Henderson Owner: Loya Management Group LLC

Las Vegas Presort LLC License type: Trucking Address: 3655 E. Patrick Lane, Suite 300, Las Vegas Owner: Las Vegas Presort LLC

LV Home Furniture License type: Furniture sales Address: 2987 Las Vegas Blvd. North, North Las Vegas Owner: Salvador Manriquez

Las Vegas Sock Company License type: General retail sales Address: 4300 Meadows Lane, Suite 5543, Las Vegas Owner: Jeffrey Harrington

BUILDING PERMITS

Lawrence Creative Group LLC License type: General services counter/office Address: 2912 Highland Drive,

$3,381,708, commercial - addition 3443 Neeham Road, North Las Vegas SR Construction $1,000,000, single-family residential - custom

$539,900, retail 1540 W. Sunset Road, Henderson Grace Construction LLC $500,000, tenant improvement - store 1800 Industrial Road , Las Vegas Pearson & Pearson Inc. $465,000, commercial - remodel 315 Auto Mall Drive, Henderson Boyd Martin Construction LLC $300,000, disaster 4747 Pennwood Ave., Las Vegas Kalb Construction Co. $300,000, tenant improvement nightclub/restaurant 509 Fremont St., Las Vegas Tre Builders LLC $270,000, plumbing 278 S. Decatur Blvd., Las Vegas Martin Harris Construction $270,000, single-family residential - custom 6000 N. Monte Cristo Way, Las Vegas Johnson Craig $252,852, residential - custom 1121 Dufort Hills Court, Henderson DR Horton Inc. $252,852, residential - custom 1131 Harwood Hills Court, Henderson DR Horton Inc. $238,032, single-family residential - production 7231 Fresh Harvest Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $233,230, single-family residential - production 362 Granitico St., Las Vegas Toll South LV LLC

DR Horton Inc. $198,306, single-family residential - production 351 Elder View Drive, Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC $191,303, residential - custom 521 Trenier Drive, Henderson DR Horton Inc. $181,821, residential - production 3209 Porto Vittoria Ave., Henderson Toll Henderson LLC $179,159, residential - production 412 Via Gigante Court, Henderson Century Communities of Nevada LLC $175,000, tenant improvement - office 410 S. Rampart Blvd., Suite 420, Las Vegas Affordable Concepts Inc. $175,000, tenant improvement - office 410 S. Rampart Blvd., Suite 460, Las Vegas Affordable Concepts Inc. $173,871, single-family residential - production 7281 Orchard Harvest Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $173,871, single-family residential - production 7270 Fresh Harvest Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $173,871, single-family residential - production 7250 Fresh Harvest Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $173,871, single-family residential - production 7230 Fresh Harvest Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $169,622, residential - production 705 Gulf Pearl Drive, Henderson KB Home Nevada Inc.

$226,487, single-family residential - production 345 Elder View Drive, Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC

$169,622, residential - production 708 Gulf Pearl Drive, Henderson KB Home Nevada Inc.

$211,982, single-family residential - production 346 Elder View Drive, Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC

$156,323, single-family residential - production 378 Port Reggio St., Las Vegas Ryland Homes

$211,711, single-family residential - production 352 Elder View Drive, Las Vegas Greystone Nevada LLC

$150,741, single-family residential - production 258 Evante St., Las Vegas Toll South LV LLC

$203,113, residential - custom 500 Patti Ann Woods Drive, Henderson

$149,022, residential - new 7037 Solana Ridge Drive, North Las Vegas

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Records and Transactions Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC $148,712, single-family residential - production 6633 Conquistador St., Las Vegas Ryland Homes $146,518, single-family residential - production 7291 Orchard Harvest Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $142,483, single-family residential - production 6642 Bristle Falls St., Las Vegas Ryland Homes $142,396, residential - production 3098 Ripe Peak Lane, Henderson KB Home Nevada Inc. $140,919, single-family residential - production 12230 Argent Bay Ave., Las Vegas KB Home Nevada Inc. $140,327, single-family residential - production 7230 Orchard Harvest Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $140,327, single-family residential - production 7211 Orchard Harvest Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $140,327, single-family residential - production 7260 Fresh Harvest Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $140,327, single-family residential - production 7220 Fresh Harvest Ave., Las Vegas DR Horton Inc. $138,306, single-family residential - production 9802 Yellow Shadow Ave., Las Vegas Richmond American Homes of Nevada $136,906, residential - production 943 Harbor Ave., Henderson KB Home Nevada Inc. $136,699, single-family residential - production 281 Besame Court, Las Vegas Toll South LV LLC $136,130, residential - production 1000 Via Stellato St., Henderson Century Communities of Nevada LLC

3605 Greenbriar Bluff Ave., North Las Vegas J.F. Shea Co. Inc.

- addition 10601 Sable Oaks Court, Las Vegas Focus Construction LLC

$132,055, residential - new 5625 Pleasant Palms St., North Las Vegas J.F. Shea Co. Inc.

$80,000, tenant improvement nightclub/restaurant 6010 W. Craig Road, Suite 150, Las Vegas Distinctive Contractors LLC

$130,000, single-family residential - custom 6000 N. Monte Cristo Way, Las Vegas Johnson Craig $124,319, residential - production 2503 Pennabilli St., Henderson KB Home Inspirada LLC $123,433, single-family residential - production 10809 Wrigley Field Ave., Las Vegas Ryland Homes $120,835, residential - new 5853 Clear Haven Lane, North Las Vegas Beazer Homes Holdings Corp. $115,891, residential - production 2601 Marvel Astoria St., Henderson Beazer Homes Holdings Corp. $113,173, residential - production 3160 Fortunati Walk, Henderson KB Home Nevada Inc. $111,777, single-family residential - production 8219 Southern Cross Ave., Las Vegas Ryland Homes $105,000, tenant improvement - office 1800 Industrial Road, Suite 102, Las Vegas Pearson & Pearson Inc. $102,527, residential - production 724 Sea Coast Drive, Henderson KB Home Nevada Inc. $102,527, residential - production 2129 Emyvale Court, Henderson KB Home Nevada Inc. $100,742, residential - new 3609 Greenbriar Bluff Ave., North Las Vegas J.F. Shea Co. Inc. $94,242, single-family residential - production 7546 Whitman Colonial St., Las Vegas Woodside Homes of Nevada LLC $87,000, residential - remodel 1639 Liege Drive, Henderson New Freedom Properties LLC

$134,483, single-family residential - production 12238 Argent Bay Ave., Las Vegas KB Home Nevada Inc.

$86,391, residential - production 3160 Del Dotto Walk, Henderson KB Home Nevada Inc.

$132,764, residential - new

$80,000, single-family residential

$73,475, pool and/or spa 1731 S. Tioga Way, Las Vegas Poolscapes LLC

Axiom Construction & Management $48,818, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 5893 Audria Falls Ave., Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $47,897, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 7605 Mooring Ave., Las Vegas SolarCity Corporation

$70,000, plumbing investigation 1551 Hillshire Drive, Las Vegas Nevada General Construction

$45,950, pool and/or spa 3641 Corte Bella Hills Ave., North Las Vegas Polynesian Pools Inc.

$61,447, disaster 2700 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 2008, Las Vegas Belfor USA Group Inc.

$45,500, pool and/or spa 3321 Lapwing Drive, North Las Vegas Desert Springs Pools & Spas Inc.

$61,447, disaster 2700 N. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 1008, Las Vegas Belfor USA Group Inc.

$45,000, electrical 475 S Grand Central Parkway, Las Vegas Data Processing Air Corporation

$60,590, pool and/or spa 2621 Cattrack Ave., North Las Vegas PPAS - LV LLC

$45,000, tenant improvement office 495 S. Grand Central Parkway, Suite 248 , Las Vegas Whiting Turner Contracting Co.

$60,000, wall/fence 333 S. Valley View Blvd., Las Vegas The Tiberti Fence Co. $56,536, pool and/or spa 4032 Deep Space St., North Las Vegas Anthony & Sylvan Pools Corp. $55,000, pool and/or spa 5820 Revital Court, Las Vegas Desert Springs Pools And Spas $55,000, pool and/or spa 805 Ville Franche St., Las Vegas Desert Springs Pools And Spas $54,970, pool and/or spa 701 Flowing Meadow Drive, Henderson Laguna Pool & Spa Inc. $52,734, wall/fence 9050 Gilcrease Ave., Las Vegas Hirschi Masonry LLC $51,940, solar 6542 Green Sparrow Lane, North Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $51,038, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 9309 Canyon Mesa Drive, Las Vegas SolarCity Corp.

$44,017, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 9413 Canyon Mesa Drive, Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $42,416, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 6508 Alpine Autumn Court, Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $41,860, solar 6528 Black Oaks St., North Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $40,950, solar 2917 Columbia Ave., North Las Vegas Premier Solar Solutions LLC $40,500, tenant improvement office 200 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 130, Las Vegas Western Trades Construction Inc. $40,000, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 2312 Alpine Pointe Lane, Las Vegas Hamilton Solar LLC $40,000, pool and/or spa 724 Puerto Real Court, Las Vegas Watters Aquatech Pools and Spas

$50,964, pool and/or spa 6917 Snow Finch St., North Las Vegas Anthony & Sylvan Pools Corp.

$40,000, pool and/or spa 7503 Yonie Court, Las Vegas Desert Springs Pools and Spas

$50,000, single-family residential - remodel 2500 Llewellyn Drive, Las Vegas

$40,000, pool and/or spa 7459 Yonie Court, Las Vegas Desert Springs Pools and Spas

$40,000, pool and/or spa 7455 Yonie Court, Las Vegas Desert Springs Pools and Spas $40,000, pool and/or spa 7447 Yonie Court, Las Vegas Desert Springs Pools and Spas $40,000, pool and/or spa 7507 Yonie Court, Las Vegas Desert Springs Pools and Spas $40,000, tenant improvement residential care 1800 W. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas Muller Construction $39,998, residential - remodel 1848 Heydon Court, Henderson Jason Strodl Adapture $39,215, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 4413 Rosebank Circle , Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $38,000, single-family residential - remodel 5401 W. Alexander Road , Las Vegas Johnson Family Trust $36,190, solar 7074 Seabirds Place, North Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $35,334, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 400 Lacy Lane, Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $34,609, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 7609 Belmondo Lane, Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $34,580, solar 3836 Kohler Way, North Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $34,413, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 5509 Goldbrush St., Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $33,390, solar 3556 Morgan Springs Ave., North Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $32,978, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 6113 Iron Kettle St., Las Vegas SolarCity Corp. $32,595, roof-mounted photovoltaic system 4900 Hayride St., Las Vegas Summerlin Energy Las Vegas LLC

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CATEGORY: SUBCONTRACTORS (RANKED BY NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES AS OF JULY 1 Year est.

Company

Employees

Specialty

Recent projects

WestCor Cos. 5620 Stephanie St. Las Vegas, NV 89122 702-433-4040 • westcorcompanies.com

425

Carpentry, concrete, masonry

Rhodes Ranch and Tuscany for Century Communities, PDQ restaurant for Breslin Builders, Gibson Apartments for Pier Construction & Development

1989

Michael Coronado, CEO

Helix Electric 3078 E. Sunset Road, Suite 9 Las Vegas, NV 89120 702-732-1188 • helixelectric.com

280

Electrical

Ikea, Silverton Towers I, Allegiant Air Corporate Office

2001

Victor Fuchs, president

Tradewinds Construction 1714 W. Bonanza Road Las Vegas, NV 89106 702-310-6088 • tradewindsconstruction.com

186

Carpentry, painting/ decorating

Tivoli Village, Tenaya Creek Brewery, Asurion

1988

Jeffrey Vilkin, president

Commercial Roofers 3865 W. Naples Drive Las Vegas, NV 89103 702-876-1777 • commroof.com

150

Roofing/ siding

MGM Arena, SLS, Zappos

1996

Scott Howard, president

XL Landscape Development LLC 451 E. Sunset Road Henderson, NV 89011 702-598-1711 • xilandscape.com

140

Landscape

Premium Outlet Mall North expansion and enhancement, Summerlin Village 20, Sean’s Park at Opportunity Village - Buffalo campus

2012

Russell Bay, CFO; Donnie Garritano, COO

KHS&S Contractors 6713 S. Eastern Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89119 702-597-3200 • khss.com

107

Carpentry

Silverton Tower, Henderson Hospital, Las Vegas Premium Outlets expansion

1996

Shawn Martin, senior vice president

Acme Electric 6600 Amelia Earhart Court, Suite B Las Vegas, NV 89119 702-876-1116 • nclasvegas.com

Electrical

CLV ITS Infrastructure - phase 2, runway 7L/25R and taxiway C, fuel storage modification phase 2

1965

Greg Paulk, president

MMC Inc. 6600 Amelia Earhart Court, Suite B Las Vegas, NV 89119 702-642-9876 • nclasvegas.com

Concrete

1956 WPCF reduced loading operation, Las Vegas Wash pedestrian bridge, fuel store modification phase 2

Greg Paulk, president

TAB Contractors 6600 Amelia Earhart Court, Suite B Las Vegas, NV 89119 702-642-3033 • nclasvegas.com

Earthwork, underground utilities

Rampart diversion, runway 7L/25R and taxiway C, fuel storage modification phase 2

1958

Greg Paulk, president

Sting Surveillance LLC 7120 Rafael Ridge Way Las Vegas, NV 89119 702-737-8464 • stingalarm.com

Intrusion alarm and monitoring, surveillance, electronic access control

Omnia Las Vegas, Grand Bazaar Shops, Elara

2003

Jon Perry, president

Cal Pac Painting of Nevada 900 S. Commerce St. Las Vegas, NV 89106 702-383-5144 • calpac.us

Painting/ decorating

Nevada State College, Wet ‘n’ Wild, Golden Nugget remodel

1996

Sherrie Hermann, president

Heritage Surveying 1895 Village Center Circle Las Vegas, NV 89134 702-474-6277 • heritage-surveying.com

Professional Downtown Summerlin, Fashion Show land surveyor Mall, Ikea

2006

Dennis Layton, president

BEC Environmental 7660 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 150 Las Vegas, NV 89117 702-304-9830 • becnv.com

Environmental oversight and review

Advanced rail energy storage for Clark and Nye counties, Brownfields Coalition assessment for Nye County, biological monitoring and environmental compliance assistance, I-11 corridor, Boulder City bypass project

2002

Belva Eileen Christensen, president

Aqua Plumbing Service & Repair 7495 W. Azure Drive, Suite 110 Las Vegas, NV 89130 702-642-8400 • aquaplumbinglv.net

Plumbing/ heating

Hakasaan hospitality suite tenant improvement, Ulta Cosmetics remodel, Reo River burn repair

2004

Rebecca White, managing member

Top executive

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Las Vegas sIOR 2014 impact impact RepORt total # sIOR active Member Brokers

total # Commercial Brokers

400

sIOR Brokers as % of total Brokers

6.5%

sIOR Chapter transaction Volume Citywide transaction Volume

$778,819,429 $1,860,681,544

sIOR Chapter % of total Market Volume

KNOWLEDGE

42%

EXPERIENCE

R E S U LT S

SIOR Southern Nevada Chapter Members Art Farmanali

Donna Alderson

Michael De Lew

Soozi Jones Walker

Bobbi Miracle

Garrett Toft

Michael Dunn

Taber Thill

CBRE – 702-369-4868

Cushman & Wakefield RE – 702-796-7900

Colliers International – 702-836-3796

Greg Pancirov

Michael Hillis

Thomas Grant

Avison Young – 702-280-5720

Diversified Interests – 702-813-0089

Greg Tassi

Pat Marsh

Thomas Naseef

CBRE – 702-369-4853

Colliers International – 702-836-3742

Colliers International – 702-836-3720

Jarrad Katz

Randy Broadhead

Xavier Wasiak

MDL Group – 702-388-1800

CBRE – 702-369-4867

Jason Simon

Rob Lujan

Jones Lang LaSalle – 702-522-5001

Jones Lang LaSalle – 702-522-5002

Kevin Higgins

Ryan Martin

Cushman & Wakefield RE – 702-796-7900 Commercial Executives – 702-316-4500

Bradley Peterson

CBRE – 702-369-4810

Chuck Witters

Gatski Commerclal – 702-789-6346

Curtis Sanders

Cushman & Wakefield RE – 702-796-7900

Daniel Doherty

Colliers International – 702-836-3707

Dean Willmore

Colliers International – 702-836-3763

CBRE – 702-369-4866

Colliers International – 702-836-3734

CBRE – 702-369-4944

Colliers International – 702-836-3736

Colliers International – 702-836-3780

Commercial Executives – 702-316-4500

Jones Lang LaSalle – 702-304-2631

SOUTHERN NEVADA CHAPTER

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4100 PARADISE ROAD, LAS VEGAS, NV 89169

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HOUSE OF BLUES INSIDE MANDALAY BAY RESORT 3950 LAS VEGAS BLVD. S, LAS VEGAS, NV 89119

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(702) 632-7600 www.houseofblues.com/lasvegas

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