The Sustainable Living and Renewable Energy Roundup educational non-profit would like to thank everyone who participated in the Green Living Festival on Sept. 11 and made it such a fun and rewarding event. The weather was perfect and we had a great time learning, sharing, and networking over ways to improve our comfort, food quality, and self-sufficiency while being kinder to the planet.
It is time to say thanks to our wonderful community, businesses and parents from Douglas High School Volleyball. We had a successful MudFest Tournament, car wash, bake sale and raffle. Without the hundreds of hours put in by the girls and their parents, the local businesses who donate prizes and labor, and the parents, friends and neighbors we would not succeed.
EDITOR: The Douglas County Economic Vitality Plan was introduced to the public on Sept. 13. Twelve priority projects were presented, all of which had merits, but the two largest economic sources for Douglas County were not addressed.
Douglas County's English curriculum might benefit from a couple of additions, like "The Caine Mutiny" or "Mutiny on the Bounty."
The Record-Courier did a good job covering the airport debate and has been very good at including letters from both sides of the table.
Having voted against every Senate bill to support the Wwar in Iraq, and declaring that Bush's surge would fail, Obama has proudly stated tonight that he kept his campaign promise to bring our combat troops home with honor ... their mission having been accomplished (i.e. an Iraq free to determine its future).
We have been residents of Douglas County for more than 16 years. Sadly it is time to get out of this area, since I am now unemployed due to a large employer in Minden's change of ownership and subsequent termination of many good people.
In order to run for political and public office, a candidate has to give up everything else in life. JoEtta Brown knows this all too well. JoEtta has never stopped believing that she is the right person for the job.
I am writing to share a wonderful time about 100 people had on Sept. 17 watching "Perfect Wedding" at the CVIC Hall in Minden.
Please refer to your article entitled, "Genoa provides $1,500, museum," Sept. 10, 2010, page 2.
I had to respond to Mr. Van Dien's letter to the editor Sept. 15. His allegations that the "users are too stingy to maintain their own airport without federal money" is grossly incorrect.
We have a choice to make. Do you want to vote "yes" for the proposed use ordinance that seemingly does away with the squabble about the maximum takeoff gross weight at our airport: Or, do you want to vote "no" and continue with more of the same non-enforcement of the citizens' initiative passed back in 1984 necessitated to forestall the onslaught of 140,000-pound airplanes? But a "no" vote would give us a chance to get a more reasonable ordinance in the next election.
It's hard to believe that Mexican drug cartels have invaded our neck of the woods to grow marijuana, but that's what authorities believe is happening.
Ten or 15 years ago hundreds of wild horses roamed over the hills in the Pine Nut range. Vaqueros, who rode in that section some 15 or 20 years ago, have great tales to tell of the cunningness and beauty of some of the stallions. Wild stallions fought and killed each other and only the mightiest survived. Today one may ride for miles and miles through the former haunts of the Pine Nut mustang without seeing a single horse and in fact the animals are about extinct.
In the fall of 2008, Western Nevada College sociology professor Don Carlson was taken aback after seeing the New York Times' Roster of the Dead.