12 Thursday, January 2, 1997 Pahrump Valley Gazette
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Pahrump is growing. New people come everyday. New
houses are under construction and modular homes are
being setup on every street. All areas of the valley are
becoming home to people from all parts of the country. The
influx is exciting, it also presents a challenge to find a
community identity..
As we get to know each other, we'll
have a better idea of what it means to be
a "Pahrumpian."
Our home is a big valley with room
for all of us. There is space for us to be
uniquely individual and to allow our
neighbors the same right. In return, it is a
place where each of us can contribute to
build a community we are proud to call
home.
Jean and Brian Buckingham arrived
in Pahrump in 1992 and promptly opened
"The Reading Oasis" bookstore on Loop
Road. They have devoted their talents to
helping develop a cultural community in
the area. They and the Gazette cosponsor
the annual Spring Poetry Contest. Two
years ago, they put up the "Angel Tree"
to provide books for Christmas pre-
sents for needy children.
Jean served as treasurer for the
"Friends of the Library" in 1996, and is a
charter member of the PV Kiwanis. Brian
started the "Oasis Writer's Guild" which
meets the first and third Tuesday eve-
nings at the bookstore. He and Donna
Lamm were the catalysts for the founding
of the Pahrump Visual and Performing
Arts Council. Brian currently serves as
PVPAC president.
Lamm was PVPAC's president during its first two
years. APahrumpian since 1979, Lamm has always been
active in artistic pursuits. She formed Pahrump's first
dance troupe, "Donna's Desert Dancers." A talented potter
Lamm, with Stephen Wells and Floyd Young, formed the
Pahrump Valley Potters. Their studio is located in the
basement of Lamm's home. Lamm is also a partner in
Provenza Realty.
Almita Bey-Carrion used her organizational skills to
start a number of special interest clubs including: the PV
Garden Club, Epistolary Friends and a quilting club. She
also co-founded, with Elizabeth St. George, the Pahrump
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PAINTER & POTTER-Janet Toy brings a lifetime of
artistic training to enhance Pahrump's cultural
community.
chapter of the Audubon Sooiety. Bey-Carrion believes
clubs are vital in meeting the basic human need for fellow-
ship. She saw a need in the community when she moved
here in 1994, and she filled it.
B. J. Hetrick, a former Ms. Senior Nevada, founded the
Nevada Silvdr Tappers. The striking group of senior danc-
ers tap for a variety of community func-
tions each year. The enthusiastic group
say Pahrump is a town where "dreams
come true."
Stella Buck loves dolls. She makes
dolls and teddy bears. She also rescues
dolls from yard sales and thrift stores,
cleans them up, repairs and clothes them.
Her eclectic collection is adoptable to
children who need a doll to hug.
Dolls are also a joy and avocation
for Wally Wood who houses a diverse
family of distinctive dolls at "Kids in the
Neighborhood."
Janet Toy is one of many artists who
have made Pahrump home. She is a tal-
ented painter and potter with an impres-
sive art career. A sample of her one of a
kind "cloud jars" can be viewed at
Cooper's Photography and Art Gallery
on East Second Street.
Gene and Jan Pickering and Bob
Tomato founded the Children's Com-
munity Service Organization in 1983.
The Pickerings delight Valley children
every year as Santa and Mrs. Claus and
Charlie Chicken and the Easter Bunny.
Theyhave donated their time, talent and
resources to enhance the lives of area
i children for fourteen years.
Harry Ford and Wayne Mapes were key people in the
founding of the Pahrump Museum and Historical Sociin
1992. Ford, who arrived in Pahrump in 1944 at age six ad
his wife Mary donated two acres at the comer of Basin Road
and Ford Lane to house the museum. Ford has watched
Pahrump grow from a community of 100 people, 40 white
settlers and 60 Paiute Indians, to a population of more than
20,000 today. He and his fellow Museum Society members
want to make sure Pahrumpians have a place to record our
history as it unfolds.
These caring folks are a small sample of the people who
make Pahrump a special place to call home.
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