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Gazette on the street...
How effective do you think Clinton's Volunteer Army
will be in hel00oing American Children?
Pp Pahrump Pahrump Texas Pahrump
DEAN JENSEN -- Retired CHARLES EVANS -- Retired
trucker -- "I hope its to be very special effects -- "I don't think it
positive -- if they follow through." will be very effective. As Clinton
turned his country down when
asked tO serve ill the mifitary."
VIVIAN MORAN - Home
health nurse -- "They are not -- if
you don't know the background
of the city or townthey live in.
We live in a rural area and those much
children (from rural areas) won't
receive help ualess wanspettafion
is provided." "
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Nevada-then a00!tt now
Archaeological Awareness/Historic Preservation Week
by Phillip I. Earl
Nevada Historical Society
rom May 11 through May 17, various Nevada communities will be observing
"Archaeological Awareness and Historic Preservation Week." Sponsored by
the National Trust for
Historic Preservation and
the Nevada Office of Historic
Preservation, the theme this year
is "preservation Begins at Home."
Readers interested in a schedule
should call (702) 687-6360 or
687-6361.
In Carson City, there will be
walking tours of the city's his-
toric district and a reception at
the Roberts' House, 1217 North
Carson Street on May 17. On the
Comstock, a variety of dramatic
presentations, lectures, a parade
and tours will be featured.
Washoe County will mark the
occasion with a "Founder's Day"
gathering at the LakeMansion on
the grounds of the Reno-Sparks
Convention Center, South Vir-
ginia Street, Reno on May 9 at
5:00 p.m. Pat Klos will be lead-
ing an architectural walking tour
on May 17 and the Nevada
AmArcs will sponsor a tour to
Winnemucca Lake to view the
remains of the lake's last steamer
that day. Meet at Denny's parking lot, 1-80 at East McCarran, at 9 a.m., May 17. Call
Oyvind Frock at 826-8779 for information on this tour.
Boulder City and Las Vegas preservationists will be sponsoring a photo exhibit
at the Boulder City Library. Cultural resource exhibits and demonstrations will be
held at the Alan Bible Visitors Center at Lake Mead, and programs on Boulder City's
history will be given by Mimi Rodden, historic preservation consultant. In Las
Vegas, Bureau of Land Management personnel will be presenting a program on Ash
Springs at the Las Vegas Public Library on May 15. Las Vegas High School, 7th and
Bridger, and the surrounding resi-
dential area will be the focus of a
walking tour on May 17 spon-
sored by the Preservation Asso-
ciation of Clark County and the
Nevada State Museum and His-
toYical Society. For this tour, call
Frank Wright at 486-5205.
Eureka's celebration will in-
clude an interpretative artifact dis-
play and a lecture on Ruby Hill at
the Eureka Opera House and a
tour of the Ruby Hill site on May
17. Call Wally Cuchine at 237-
6006 for further information. The
citizens of Austin will also be
taking part with exhibits on
women in Nevada history at Aus-
tin High School and a lecture on
"Women at Work" by Christi
Shaw on May 15.
The historic lecture series at
the Gold Hill Hotel will be con-
tinuing weekly through the end of
August. This writer will speak on
"prohibition on the Comstock"
on May 6 and author/journalist
Ty Cobb will hold forth on "A
Kid on the Comstock" on May 15. Other weekly programs will include lectures on
"Bottles and Taverns," the Donner Party, the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, Nevada
myths and realities, Pony Express archaeology, Gold Hill history, borax mining, the
Unionville Chinese Riot of 1869, Virginia City's Daughters of Charity, a lecture on
Nevada artists by .lim McCormick and a program on Lilly Langtry. For a schedule on
Gold Hill Hotel programs this summer, call Pat McMaster at (702) 847-0111.
