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June 15th, 2014 Photos by Wanda Issue #173

NAVY Edgar Aguilar Adam Smith Phillip Hayes Arturo Colon Julio Colon Destini Smith Stella Cochran ARMY/NAVAL RES. Luke Mostoller David Albright Tony Pohl R.O.T.C. AIR FORCE Jennifer Walsh Aron Wing Austin Shupe Samantha Chavez

ARMY Greg Fend D.C. Rich Jordan Mahaffey Mike Mestas Thomas Lahey Kris Fosmoe David Reyes Daryl Groneman Justin Groneman Steven Walton Eric Rogers Ryan Black Pricilla Hartsoe Thomas Penkal Kenneth Scott Elihu Gaines Chyanna Dresden Christopher Carter Billy Berkheimer Jason Miller Sean Williams Shadie B. Wagner Bob Harrington Logan Timberlake

Army Rangers Anthony Brown Marines Ricardo Garcia Trenton Brooksher Michael Carlson Steven Barnes Coast Guard Cordell Benner Darian Suprun National Guard ChasenYoung Michael Plaza Valeria R. Colon Kristopher Lockett

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SANDY VALLEY’S Military Family

Sandy Valley Graduating Class 2014

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Sun. June 15th Happy Father’s Day Mon. June 16th Coffee & donuts 8am-10:30am S.C. Tues. June 17th Sit & Sew S.C. 1pm Wed. June 18th Crafts 1pm S.C. Thurs. June 19th Fluffy Buddies 11am S.C. Pinochle 1pm S.C. Grange mgt. 6pm S.C. Fri. June 20th Sit & sew-crochet & knit 1pm S.C. Sat. June 21st Pancake Breakfast S.C. 8—10;30AM Mon. June 23rd Tues. June 24th Genealogy 6pm S.C. Wed. June 25th Sit & Sew 1pm S.C. Thurs. June 26th Fluffy Buddies 11am S.C. Soup & Quackers 1pm S.C. Gardening 6pm S.C. Fri. June 27th Sit & Sew 1pm S.C. Sat. June 28th Quilting 2pm S.C. Mon. June 30th Senior Board Mgt. 11a. S.C..

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Senior Happenings! By Linda LeVasseur

The Sandy Valley Senior Center has lost another long time member. Linda Drake passed away on Tues-day, June 10. Linda was in charge of our membership and was always the first to volunteer for cooking for our potlucks and baking for our bake sales. Our deepest sympathies to Dick Drake and their extended family. The Sandy Valley Seniors pre-sented their first Scholarship at the June 5 graduation. This is a Thank You to all that come to our fund raising events. It is your participation in these events that helps us donate money for Easter, 4th of July, Thanksgiv-ing dinner, Xmas café and now our Scholarship. The Senior Center works very hard to help support community events. So again thank you for help us to help others. EVERYONE WELCOME on June 21 from 8 to 10:30 at the Sandy Valley Senior Center is our Break-fast, best pancakes and biscuits and gravy in town. New item on menu is Blueberry Pancakes. We also will have the Farmers Market at that same time. This event is open to all regardless of age.

SAVE THE DATE!!! SUNDAY JULY 13TH , FROM 5 P.M. TO 7 P.M

OLD FASHIONED 50’S & 60’S ICE CREAM SOCIAL

AT THE SANDY VALLEY SENIOR CENTER.

A community High Five is warranted!

Thanks to all of the support on our Rock Star Your Future Career and College Fair! We had over 22 venders and 12 guest speakers. Represented were UNR, UNLV, NSC, CSN and Key-stone with education information. Valley Electric, Metro,United States Military, Fire department, Primm Valley Resort, South West Region Medical, were on site for employment opportunities. Our numerous guest speakers in-cluded business men and women who shared their personal stories of success and offered personal men-toring services. Our scholarship expert shared his expertise and provided a Road Map to College workbook and a handout of over 100 local scholarships worth thousands of educational dol-lars! These workbooks and hand outs are available at your Sandy Valley Library. Lunch was provided by the Sandy Valley Booster Club, Sandy Valley Fire department, Sandy valley 4-H Club and Nopah Springs, provided a garden fresh salad. The dessert buffet was provided by the senior center, Community Church, Baptist church and many other generous bakers! Youth activities were pro-vided by the LDS Young Women's group. The Sandy Valley School provided us with their facilities and technical staff to insure that all went smoothly. The community support was truly amazing and our little community is the talk of the town among our guests and and attendees. We have been asked to provide a workshop for other rural communi-ties to provide these same opportu-nities to their residents. Thank you for all the support from our Las Vegas Clark County Li-brary District and our HELP of Southern Nevada Office.

Memory Book Linda Drake touched a lot of lives here in Sandy Valley. We are starting a memory book from all those whose lives she touched. Please send written memories, pictures, anecdotes or anything you can think of that would add to our book. Either bring them to the Senior Center, or e mail them to aweber246@hotmail.com

New Library Hours WHEN: Starting Tuesday, July 1 WHAT: Old Hours:

Monday and Tuesday, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Wednesday and Thursday, 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. New Hours:

Monday – Thursday, 1 p.m. – 7 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. WHY: After several years of im-plementing cost-cutting measures to weather the economic downturn, the Library District finds itself in a stable financial position. The Board of Trustees listened to feed-back from the community and is pleased to include expanded service hours for Sandy Valley Library in the Library District’s budget.

Thank You I want to thank Officers Snook and Hoffman for their help in trying to locate some tools that went missing from our property after my hus-bands death. I appreciate it very much Marilyn DeGeovanni

Linda Drake Memorial Service

Linda lost her fight with cancer June 10, 2014. A Memorial service at the Community Church on Jade will be held Saturday, June 21st at 2pm. Following the service will be a pot-luck at the Senior Center.

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SANDY-MESQUITE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT ASSOC.

PARADE PARTICIPATION FORM Name: _____________________________Phone: __________________________ Address: ___________________________E-Mail: __________________________ Please Check One: Float ____ Horse ____ Walking ____ Motorcycle _____ Classic Cars, Trucks, Tractors _____

Float Fee is $10.00 – All other categories are $5.00. Please fill out this form and drop off (with fee pay-ment) at the Post Office. Parade begins at 10:00 a.m. All entries should gather no later than 9:30 a.m. –

horses at Keystone, all others will be lined up on Miami & Quartz.. Have questions? Call Bill Newsome 702-343-1214

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ASSOCIACION DE DESAROLLO DE SANDY-MESQUITE VALLEY

REGISTRO DE PARTICIPACION DE DESFILE

Nombre: _____________________________Telefono _______________________ Domicilio: ____________________________E-Mail ________________________ Favor de escoger uno: Carro Parade/Flotador de desfile ______ Caballo ________

Caminando ____ Motocicleta ____ Carro Clasico, Camioneta,

Tractor de Campo ____ Carro Parade Registro Solo $10.00 – Otra categorias es solo $5.00. Favor de entrar la informacion y pagar en la oficina de correos. Desfile va a empezar a las 10 a.m. Favor de desfilar a las 9:30 a.m.con los caballos en-

frente del edificio de Keystone, los demas en la calle Miami y Quartz.

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SANDY-MESQUITE VALLEY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION

VENDOR PARTICIPATION FORM Name: ____________________________________ Phone: ____________________________ Address: __________________________________ E-Mail: ___________________________ T Type of Item to be Sold: _ _______________________________________________________ Vendor tables are $25.00 and are non-refundable; only one table per food & drink category and will be sold on a first-come first-serve basis (for example, only one organization will be allowed to sell water and soda, etc.). No hot dogs or hamburgers. All other types of vendor categories (jewelry, leather goods, etc.) will be open to all. Vendors may start serving immediately after parade’s con-clusion. Applications and fee may be dropped off at SV Post Office no later than July 2nd. Checks should be made out to SMVDA..

Have questions? Call Bill Newsome at; 702-343-1214

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Science 101 – Climate Change is Real By Al Marquis

Those who deny that global warming is occurring undermine the urgent need for an international consensus to reduce carbon emissions in order to mitigate the catastrophic effects of upcoming, man-made climate change. The May 19 Review Journal editorial, “Full of hot air—Dire climate-change predictions just a distraction”, is a case in point. Dire climate change predictions are not a distraction. Over 97% of scientists agree that man-made climate change poses a grave threat to future generations. Of 938 peer-reviewed scientific articles that appeared on the subject between 1993 and 2003, not a single paper rejected the consensus that man-made global warming is underway Around the world glaciers are melting, which will inevitably cut off water sources to millions of people and raise sea levels to the point where 80 of the world’s largest 100 cities are inundated, as well as most of Florida. Weather pat-terns are changing which threatens crop production worldwide. Already four children die of hunger every minute of every day; how much worse this shameful statistic becomes depends on the extent of future CO2 emissions. Increas-ing levels of carbon acidify ocean waters threatening coral reefs, the home of most life in the sea. And here in the southwest we are facing extended droughts. All of this and more has been predicted by scientists for the past three decades. Once released, carbon dioxide remains in the atmosphere for over 100 years. The 7.2 billion people on Earth are pumping 2.4 million pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every second of every day. This amounts to 28.2 billion tons every year. The level of CO2 in the atmosphere recently topped 400 parts per million—the highest in human existence. There is no doubt that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, which traps reflected heat in the atmos-phere, and there is no doubt these increasing levels of CO2 are drastically affecting our climate. Nearly every extinction that has ever occurred on planet Earth has been due to climate change. We have only one atmosphere, which we all share, yet we are playing Russian Roulette with our planet’s climate. As weather patterns change, the cost of food will rise and the poor will suffer first. Famines will become ever-more common. When sea levels rise, millions living in low lying areas such as Bangladesh will be wiped out in devastat-ing typhoons. Species, unable to adapt to the changing climate, will become extinct. Once it becomes clear to every-one, even the present deniers, that drastic climate change is underway, it will be impossible to reverse course. The Earth is presently adjusting to higher temperatures, but it takes time for glaciers to melt and oceans to heat. The end Those who deny that global warming is occurring undermine the urgent need for an international consensus to reduce carbon emissions in order to mitigate the catastrophic effects of upcoming, man-made climate change. The May 19 Review Journal editorial, “Full of hot air—Dire climate-change predictions just a distraction”, is a case in point. Dire climate change predictions are not a distraction. Over 97% of scientists agree that man-made climate change poses a grave threat to future generations. Of 938 peer-reviewed scientific articles that appeared on the subject between 1993 and 2003, not a single paper rejected the consensus that man-made global warming is underway. Around the world glaciers are melting, which will inevitably cut off water sources to millions of people and raise sea levels to the point where 80 of the world’s largest 100 cities are inundated, as well as most of Florida. Weather pat-terns are changing which threatens crop production worldwide. Already four children die of hunger every minute of every day; how much worse this shameful statistic becomes depends on the extent of future CO2 emissions. Increas-ing levels of carbon acidify ocean waters threatening coral reefs, the home of most life in the sea. And here in the southwest we are facing extended droughts. All of this and more has been predicted by scientists for the past three decades. Once released, carbon dioxide remains in the atmosphere for over 100 years. The 7.2 billion people on Earth are pump-ing 2.4 million pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every second of every day. This amounts to 28.2 billion tons every year. The level of CO2 in the atmosphere recently topped 400 parts per million—the highest in human existence. There is no doubt that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, which traps reflected heat in the atmosphere, and there is no doubt these increasing levels of CO2 are drastically affecting our climate Nearly every extinction that has ever occurred on planet Earth has been due to climate change. We have only one atmosphere, which we all share, yet we are playing Russian Roulette with our planet’s climate. As weather patterns change, the cost of food will rise and the poor will suffer first. Famines will become ever-more common. When sea levels rise, millions living in low lying areas such as Bangladesh will be wiped out in devastating typhoons. Species, unable to adapt to the changing climate, will become extinct. Once it becomes clear to everyone, even the present deniers, that drastic climate change is underway, it will be impossible to reverse course. The Earth is presently adjusting to higher tempera-tures, but it takes time for glaciers to melt and oceans to heat. The end result will almost certainly be catastrophic, but we can cap the magnitude of that catastrophe if we make a concerted effort to reduce carbon emissions. We have to try. Earth is the only home we have.

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Watch over us Linda I first met Linda Drake while volun-teering at the 1st. Annual Christmas

Café in the Senior Center. We had only lost our beloved 12 year old son Allan 6 months prior and I had not really ac-

cepted it yet. As I looked at all the happy families and children, I broke

down and as I started to fall, there was Linda to catch me and support me while they called for my husband

Robert. She helped me through that long night, from that moment on we

were best of friends. Linda really cared about the community, she and Dick were always involved in everything (whether Dick wanted to or not J).

They were great together, what would Holidays be without them packing

Easter Baskets, or getting the 4th of July parade, and Halloween carried through? All the work they put into several Spring Flings, what a dinner

and that big beautiful cake, proved very successful for Fun and Funds for our whole valley! We had so much fun

together, even if it was only picking up Taco Tuesday from the Hitchin’ Post and sitting around the living room just chillin. Our own version of Taco Tues-day included watching a good movie but many times we talked together so much we wouldn’t have time for the whole movie, it was on pause more than on, but we always enjoyed our-

selves. Linda, Dick Robert and I took many side trips together including a week touring the California coast, seeing all those sites that included a Sea Going cruise (San Diego Bay), all the time with that big beautiful smile Linda was really a good friend, always ready to help people ---

☺ always with a smile ☺ I will, as I know you all will, truly miss Our Wonderful LINDA

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