Beekeeper Daunelle Wulstein demonstrates protective clothing to Minden Elementary School students at Ag in the Classroom on Tuesday morning.
Photo by Kurt Hildebrand.
Genoa, Nev. — Today will be the last ride of the Local Emergency Planning Committee under the East Fork Fire Protection District. The committee was revived in 2008 under the eye of Deputy Chief Steve Tognoli. With emergency management returning to the county, that responsibility will shift to the new emergency manager starting July 1.
Even April’s mild weather didn’t bring better times to the Stateline casinos, which posted a pretty disappointing $13.67 million, down 26.05 percent from April 2022. With two months left in the fiscal year the clubs are still up 7.68 percent, according to figures released by the Nevada Gaming Control Board on Wednesday.
I went to Ag in the Classroom at Minden Elementary on Tuesday morning where students were learning where things like milk come from. It has been four years since the last time the Douglas County Farm Bureau has conducted the program, according to organizer Woody Worthington.
There was a 1.7 magnitude earthquake in the Pine Nuts just southwest of Mount Siegel above Ruhenstroth around 2:50 a.m. this morning. It is the fourth shallow earthquake in that vicinity over since May 19. It and one three hours earlier were essentially at the surface, according to the Nevada Seismology Lab, so there might be a glitch.
That’s not far from a spot where I saw 2 inches of snow fell on Memorial Day, according to a Numbers Post Fire gauge in Thompson Canyon southwest of Mount Siegel. According to the National Weather Service, that spot saw 1.15 inches of precipitation over the course of three days this week. The gauge in Skyland indicated .93 inches of rain over the same period.
Fredericksburg resident Jeff Garvin said he got .05 inches precipitation and 22 hits on his lightning detector with outflow winds to 33mph. It was a nice little storm. I counted more than a half-dozen lightning strikes in the Valley by 5 p.m.
The odds of more of the same today are 50-50, according to the National Weather Service, generally between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Otherwise expect mostly sunny skies and a high temperature near 75 degrees and a west wind at 5-10 mph.
Kurt Hildebrand is editor of The Record-Courier. Contact him at khildebrand@recordcourier.com or 775-782-5122.
