8 Thursday, October 23, 1997 Pahrump Valley Gazette
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Out Esmeralda Way
by Carol Sirnes
PVG Staff
Another beautiful, chilly Indian Summer morning. The
bamboo is dormant and turning brown until spring. The
beautiful ornamental pear trees in front of the Esmeralda
County Courthouse have white blossoms in the spring and
now with the cooler weather are aglow in deep autumn reds.
Juanita Colven (now Justice of the Peace) and Leila Shrider,
with permission from the commissioners, were instrumental
in getting these trees planted about 1980.
Lights, Camera, Auction
Many of you watch Public Broadcasting System, Channel 5,
from Reno and know that every year they sponsor a week-long
program called "Lights, Camera, Auction" where they auction off
items donated by various businesses and viewers, with the proceeds
going to support public broadcasting so that they may bring the
public the very best programming available. Last spring the Gold-
field Chamber of Commerce put together a tour package of Gold-
field and Gold Point which included many sight-seeing trips in the
area, souvenirs, meals, gifts from many of the local artists and sent
this to Channel 5 for their auction.
The high bidders on this pact were Bob and June Sebop with Don
and Nada Workman, from Sun City West, Ariz. who spend their
sumnrs in Reno. They arrived here on October 16, 1997, and did
get in one days visit as their trip was cut short because of a broken
water pipe which flooded their home in Arizona.
Arriving here at noon, we met them at the Glory Hole Girl Shop,
then Slim took them on a whirlwind tour of the town with the first
stop being the Historical Mine Display where local resident Al
Metscher has handmade sigus with dates and nos for each item on
display. Then Slim introduced them to LaDon and Barbara Murray
who owns the Goldfield Motel and had donated a nights lodging for
them. After settling in there, they were given a choice of transpor-
tation around town; their vehicle or riding in Slims pickup. They
chose the pickup, so the ladies rode in front with the gentlemen
riding in the back sitting on two of Slims aluminum woven lawn
chairs. On tO Joyce Haskew's Herb Pantry where they had a choice
of gifts, then on to the Mozart Club for lunch. The next stop being
Slim's place where they received a one piece swimsuit, an American
flag and neckties, all woven from aluminum, a copy of his book,
"Stuff Layin' Around," and issues of tbe Pahmmp Valley Gazette.
On to the courthouse where Lynn Scott showed them around, then
back to her office where she had recently found a box of old voting
ballots printed for the 1916 election between the Republicans,
Socialists and Democrats.
Then on to the old Florence Mine, where custodian Jon Aurich
is doing the ixeservation work of keeping it in what is called,
"arrested decay." Jon wasn't available so his very knowledgable
friend Jim was the host. The house itself once set in Goldtield on the
U.S. Highway 95 curve and was moved to the mine in the 1940s after
many incidents concerning vehicles who failed to make this danger-
ous curve. AlL the furnishings are ofat era.
The day ended with all of us having a wonderful dinner at the
Mozart Club then cocktails at the Cactus Club owned by Marge and
Layne Else&
They will be returning in April on their w ay back to Reno and will
resume their interrupted Goldfield-Gold Point visiL Even a week-
end here isn't time enough to really see all the points of interest and
historical sites in the area. Four more people who travel through here
on a yearly basis, now know there is more than just sand and wind
to see in this area.
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Cactus Club celebration
The Cactus Club celebrated its first anniversary on October 18,
with lots of snacks, drawings, live entertainment and good fellow-
ship. Some out-of-state friends of Layne and Marge Elsea, owners
of the club, Roy and Francis Mainwaring of Placerville, Calif. and
Dick and Debbie Johnson from Pennsylvania stopped in to visit.
Furnishing the entertainment was a family band from Reatty, a
few miles down 1 road. Jim and wife Nina, with son Larry, have
lived in Bcatty about 10 years. Jim and Nina have been married 35
years. Jim plays lead, Lany plays bass" and they all sing and enjoy
sharing their time and talent with others.
Don Bailey, Dee Adams and yours Intly were among the winners
of the drawings during the evening.
Other out-of-town visitors were Steve and Jamie Evenson with
new son Vincent Fade, former Goldfield residents.
Halloween carnival
On Octoher 30, from 6-8 p.m.,there willbe a Halloween carnival
at the Goldfield Elementary School. There will be a concession
stand, costume contest and pumpkin carving contea. Please bring
your pumpkins already carved. Everyone is welcome.
A note on pumpkins
• Pumpkins, or "pompious," were a standby of the early New
England settlemea An old verse goes:
"Forpotmge, andpuddings, andcusmrds'andpies'onrpumplam
and parsnips ate conunon supplies. We have pumpkins at morning
and immpkins at noon;/fit were not for pumpkins, we should be
I/IKIOI."
Commissioners meeting
OnTuesday, October 21,1997, the Esmeralda County Commis-
sio met in the Goldfield courthouse with all officers present.
* Commissioners Ben Veljoen of Silver Peak showed the plaque
that was awarded to their Librarian Sylvia Bartak for excelkat
public service, The State Library Assoc/ation gives four awards
yearly with only one going to an individuaL The plaque reads,: "The
Dorothy McAlinden Award presented to Sylvia Bartak of Silver
Peak for achieving a professional level of service at Silver Peak
Library and in Esmeralda County for nresenting Nevada Libraries
to the Mountain Plains Libr Association-1997," Congratula-
tions, from all of us.
* In the discussion replacing Rice Engirring as engineer
work on water permits, it was agreed to drop them as they were not
reliable in responding when contacted. Chairwoman Susan Dudley
stated that in many cases she and Commissioner Ben Veljoen had
been signing the water permits.
* The discussion for the approval of application for a
manufacturer's license for Goldfield Brewery Company, DBA,
Goldfield Brewery, was approved on the condition that additional
paperwork he submitted in the next few days.
* The Community Services Block Grant progress report for the
third quarter of the grant year #97-008 was approved.
* Amendment one for current Inteflocal or Intemgency agree-
ment with Nevada Medicaid, moving Nevada Medicade from the
Nevada State Welfare Division to the Division of Health Care
Financing and Policy was approved.
* The proposal of a FEMA (Federal Emergency Management
Agency), grant given to each jurisdiction for conducting training
and exercises (mock disasters) including one live mock disastor and
two tabletop exercises was passed.
* In discussing the requirements for right-of-way on Blue Dick
Mountain, the motion was made and passed that their first step
would he to have the Sheriff's Department take inventory of the
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Costume Party
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Friday, October 31 st ,
Winner announced at the Witching Hour
NiteLifeBancl - FrL&Sat, gpm-2am
Sunday
Jam with the band 3 - 8pm
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Located off Blagg (Bwen Irene &/vsquit)
county communication equip-
ment at all three sites: Palmetto,
Mustang Mountain and Blue
Dick.
* Gerry Johnson, Eric
Hansen, project manager and
Darwin Morgan public affairs
officer, all from the Department
of Energy (DOE) office in Las
Vegas, were heretoanswermore
questions from the residents on
the malfunctioning rocket that
went off conrse and landed near
Goldfield on October 4.
They stated that Sandial_alx
ratories is reviewing why the "
rocket misfired, and will send a
copy of that report to the Com-
missioners when they are fin.
ished. Also, the fact was brought
out that there needs to be a better
communication system set up
between DOE and Esmeralda
County. In small towns, many
daytime emergency phone num-
bers (such as the courthouse
numbers) are not accessible af-
ter 5 or 6 p.m.
