4 Thursday, September 18, 1997 Pahrtmap Valley Gazette
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(for animal control). It' s never going to break even," she said.
"Do not license cats because of the animosity from people
who don't want it."
Joey Bodin said, "I should not be subsidizing all the
people who don't pay for licenses."
McRae again interjected, "I proposed (to levy) hefty fines
on the habitual offenders that let their animals get out. And
I was almost spayed and neutered. The sheriff does not want
to have anything to do with animal control. We've got to do
something folks. We can't keep subsidizing everyone who is
irresponsible."
Juanita Dietrich of J J's Groom 'n Room told tales of
animals with collars choking themselves and being so tight
that vets had to cut them out of the animal's skins. She said
requiring animals, especially cats, to wear collars is wrong in
many cases.
"Why do you want me to enforce your law," she asked
;everal times. "Why have us pay twice?" A kennel permit
and a professional animal handler's permit would be required
under the ordinance, she said. There is a choice of collars with
tags, embedded chips and tattoos to identify animals, she said.
"And don't forget pet fanciers," she said, "some of them
are just as bad as the others. Don't put laws in that would be
prohibitive. The attitude of Pahrump and Amargosa Valley
and Beatty is that people came here to live out their lives in a
rural community. Do not destroy this lifestyle. People can't
be afraid to breathe or walk their dog."
Jim Quirk, chairman of the Town of Amargosa Valley
Advisory Board went over along list of items in the ordinance
that people objected to.
After the lunch break, Commissioner Bobby Revert began
the discussion with, "I think it's time we leave this to the
various town boards. They have a much better feeling for
what they have to do."
Commission Chairman Dick Carver said, "I want to take
this opportunity to let you know the commissioners have had
their fill of this."
Sheriff Wade Lieseke Jr. said, "I think many of the people
haven't even read this ordinance. The sheriff's department
has always had the right to enter property. That's what we do
as sheriffs...to investigate probable cause. It all has to do with
probable cause. I don't have the personnel to enforce this. Let
the towns enforce it if they want to. This mostly consolidates
ordinances we already have on file."
Clark Wheeler then gave a long talk about why he got
involved in the animal issue in the first place. It involved how
he found a stray pit bull dog and saved it from being killed in
the county animal control offices because no one adopttt'
before the three-day limit. He got the sheriff to change"ffl
stay to seven days and was asked by the commissioners to
write the ordinance after that, he said.
McRae said, "I understand that this is an unpopular issue.
If you think that the towns are going to take control of
this....that is a pipe dream."
"Do we have any obligation to control this? I want a
district attorney's opinion," he asked Deputy District Attor-
ney Gary Pulliam. "Then let's just get ridofit. We've gotten
no where with this....we don't need this bill. It's already in
place."
When the vote on the motion to notapprove the bill was taken,
Revert, Copass and Carver voted yes and McRae voted no.
CCSN, Herbst form training program
by Mary Ann McNeill
Gazette Staff
PAHRUMP--Dan Simmons, coordinator for the Corn-
• munity College of Southern Nevada (CCSN) in Pahrump,
announced that a contract has been signed between the
Terrible Herbst Corporation and the Hospitality Institute of
CCSN to teach hospitality related classes in Pahrump.
The Herbst Corporation will sponsor its employees' en-
rollment in the classes locally and others can join in upon
paying tuition. Class size is proposed to be limited to 25
people and projected classes will be Tuesday and Thursday
nights from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
John Thielman, general manager for Terrible's Town in
Pahrump, agreed to the project on Tuesday, September 16.
Terrible's will help CCSN secure computers, software and
equipment for the classes and CCSN will teach the students.
Dr. Hank Milton, a retired and well-known expert in the
hospitality industry will teach the classes. Milton was for-
merly with UNLV, the University of Florida, and Virginia
Norfolk State University. He is best known locally for his
consulting services to hotels on the Los Vegas strip. Milton
has contracted to set up training programs all over the world
in hospitality management.
Initial classes are HRC 104, Front Office Operations and
ILRC 107, Hotel Computer Systems at 1 1/2 hours each
session.
"This is our entrance into
the hotel and gaming industry in Pahrump. We hope in the
future to expand into the gaming aspect of casino manage-
ment," Simmons said.
"We have approval for a tutoring center for the college
students," he said. The college is also trying to put together
a high-tech computer center for all students, including high
school and college students, days and evenings, he said.
"We are trying to offer as many services in Pahrump as
possible. Many young people have arrived and are now'able
to take classes here. There is a large percentage in the 20- 25
age range," Simmons s. "Before, we had a lot of rdired
people here. We have meta record now. There are over 450
students enrolled in classes. There were 300 enrolled last
year."
Simmons and Michael DeLee also added that Pllip
Niedzielski-Eichner, a consultant to Nye County and the
Nevada Test Site Development Corporation(NTSDC), has
donated $500 to the Friends of the College to be used to file
for nonprofit corporation status. The college is also forming
a partnership with NTSDC to train people for technical jobs
involving the high-tech corridor that stretches along High-
way 95 from Pahrump and Indian Springs to Tonopah.
"They will help us secure computers and equipment and
we will help train their people," Simmons said.
The hospitality classes are projected to begin September
30 in Pahrump. For more information, contact Dan Simmons
at 751-3452.
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