Douglas Animal Welfare Group members Tina Dillion, Kathy Robbins, Laura Winking, Diana Furness, Terry Murphy, and Sue Ruhl with shelter dogs Lady Lucky and Grover show off T-shirts and dog bandanas for the Mutt Poker Walk fundraiser outside the Carson Valley Museum & Cultural Center on Saturday. Check-in is 8-10 a.m., first walk at 9 a.m. Entertainment by Sierra Storm, barbecue lunch available for purchase by the Lions Club from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., vendor booths, microchip clinic, and fun dog contests. Low-cost vaccination clinic is 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Information, dawgrescue.com or 267-7325.
The sixth annual Carson Valley Harvest Festival is 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. every weekend in October at the Corley Ranch, 859 Highway 395, a mile south of Pinenut Road in Gardnerville.
The 15th annual Fall Festival & Pumpkin Patch is 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Saturday at Lampe Park Pavilion in Gardnerville. The free event is sponsored by University of Nevada Cooperative Extension's 4-H program, Douglas County Parks & Recreation, and Joe Benigno's Tree Service. There are nominal fees for food, pumpkins and some activities.
There's a change in the Douglas County Historical Society's lecture series for October. Our previously scheduled speaker canceled and our dear friend, Stan Paher, has agreed to join us and give us another of his talks about the history of Nevada on Oct. 14.
The Douglas County Education Foundation's second annual Run Ed Run 5K, 10K and Kids' Fun Run is Oct. 10. The organization hopes to raise $10,000 to kick off the 10k run on 10/10/10.
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The Carson Valley Chapter of Women Entrepreneurs of The World hosts a benefit concert for the Family Support Council of Douglas County featuring music by Vanessa Littrell and Living Picture Show, 7-9 p.m. Thursday, at the CVIC Hall in downtown Minden.
Notice is hereby given to the Gardnerville baseball club that I have taken possession of the lumber, etc., at the ball grounds to secure me for cash advanced. Wm. Starke
Gardnerville resident Janie Johnson's book, "Don't Take My Lemonade Stand - An American Philosophy," was written in response to her 10-year-old son's question, "How do I know who to vote for?"
The Carson Valley Arts Council opens their 2010-11 concert series with Canadian folk band Tiller's Folly, Thursday, at the CVIC Hall in Minden.
Authors meet readers, sell their books and sign autographs at A Gathering of Local Authors, 2-4 p.m. Saturday, at the Douglas County Public Library in Minden.
More than 1,000 gently used purses have been collected, cleaned and priced for Baggin' Memory Loss, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, at the Nugget Casino in Carson City.
Tonight, 6 p.m. at Coleville High School, there will be an Eastern Sierra Unified School District meeting, which will discuss boundaries for the schools that students may attend while living in the district. It sounds like it will certainly be worthwhile information for parents in the valley to hear.
With my garden chores slowing down, I have been reflecting on some of the garden lessons I learned this season. Since I'm always experimenting, each year I pause to review what I have done and whether it worked or not.
There were 300 youth from Nevada who attended the 2010 4-H Expo held Aug. 23-29 in conjunction with the Nevada State Fair in Reno.