Pinwheels set up in front of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center in Minden remind visitors that April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. Court Appointed Special Advocates are always looking for responsible adults to speak for children in court. You can find out more at https://douglasdistrictcourt.com/court-advocates/casa/
Photo by Kurt Hildebrand.
Genoa, Nev. — Douglas County recycled 57 percent of its waste in 2019, the highest percentage in the Silver State, mostly through composting of organic matter, according to the Nevada Department of Environmental Protection. While figures are not yet available for 2020, a record year for Full Circle Soils & Compost indicates it could be even higher.
A resolution that called on the BLM to roundup thousands of Nevada’s wild horses died in the Nevada Senate on Wednesday. Senate Joint Resolution 3 had been amended to encourage fertility control as an alternative to roundups and its sponsors lost interest, according to the American Wild Horse Campaign.
Douglas County’s coronavirus reopening plan is scheduled to be discussed by the Nevada COVID Task Force today. If approved, it will go into effect on May 1. The mask mandate will remain for now.
The county had four new cases and four recoveries from the coronavirus on Wednesday, holding steady at 104 active cases, according to Douglas County Emergency Management.
Today’s edition of The R-C doesn’t contain an opinion page, because by noon Monday we hadn’t received any publishable letters. Don’t read anything into it. I expect the dry spell will be over and the opinion page will be back to its usual rare form next week.
Speaking of dry spells, the National Weather Service issued its drought update report today and the news is not good on this Earth Day. Snow telemetry shows that nearly half of the peak water locked in the snowpack has already melted, putting this year in the top three worst in the last 30 years. Stream flow is likely to remain around 40 percent on the east and west forks of the Carson.
This weekend storm might bring some rain starting late Saturday night with a little snow in the forecast for the Valley on Monday morning. If warm conditions gave you the planting bug, it might be a good idea to cover those plants on Sunday and Monday nights when lows are forecast to drop to 27 degrees.
But for today, expect sunny skies and a high of 69 degrees. We’ll see breezy conditions with the wind out of the west at 15-20 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Kurt Hildebrand is editor of The Record-Courier. Reach him at khildebrand@recordcourier.com
