Daytime temperatures well over 100 degrees didn’t stop San-ta and Mrs. Clause from visiting Mesquite for a Christmas in July Extravaganza.
Only July 24-25, the Mesquite Chamber of Commerce partnered with local businesses, non-profits and churches in a holiday extrav-aganza! The event brought dis-counts, hosted a food drive and helped locals get a jump on their Christmas shopping.
Businesses all over town go in the holiday spirit for the two-day event. They offered deep discounts on their products and services that reminded shoppers of Black Friday sales.
Mesquite Ace Hardware was offering 20 percent off all home and garden decor. All In Cycles
Christmas in July!By AMY DAVIS
The Progress
AMY DAVIS The Progress
Santa Claus presents a full tip jar from Danielle’s Chocolates, as well as $250 in Walmart gift cards from Dave Ballweg of Loadtec, to Mesquite resident Yerania Quezada to help her family through a difficult time during the Mesquite Christmas in July event last weekend. See Christmas on page 2
School administrators and ed-ucation advocates in both Moapa Valley and Virgin Valley were given new hope last week for lo-cal students to be able to return to live classes as the school year begins next month.
On Tuesday, June 21, Clark County School District (CCSD) trustees voted to set aside pre-vious plans for a hybrid, live in-struction/online back-to-school schedule and instead begin the school year with an all-online distance learning model. But built into that proposal was a special ‘carve-out’ for rural communities in the district that are meeting the state’s Phase 2 criteria as well as other health and safety criteria.
This special exception, pro-posed by Trustee Chris Garvey, recognized that COVID-19 num-bers might be far less widespread in the rural areas of the district than in urban areas. For such ar-eas with relatively few cases, the exception allowed for a blended learning model to be developed by rural schools. Such a model would let kids return to the class-rooms earlier than urban schools under carefully controlled cir-cumstances.
The vote brought a flurry of activity among local school ad-ministrators last week as they worked quickly to polish off plans for starting the school year with scarcely more than two weeks to go.
Fortunately, for Moapa Val-ley schools, drafts of plans were already in place. In a June 25 meeting of the Board of Trust-ees, CCSD Deputy Superinten-dent Brenda Larsen-Mitchell had recognized publicly that some unique treatment of rural areas might be merited. These could be considered on a case-by-case ba-sis, she said.
This statement led School Or-ganizational Teams (SOTs) in Moapa Valley to convene special summer meetings to work on pos-sible plans that would bring stu-dents into the live classroom more than the blended model originally considered by CCSD officials. Each of the plans that resulted were unique to the specific cir-cumstances and challenges faced by the individual schools.
At Ute Perkins Elementary in Moapa, for example, very little needed to be changed. At around only 100 students, the popula-tion at Perkins is already small enough that the school could re-turn to a full, five-day week, all while easily meeting the required social distancing guidelines.
At Moapa Valley High School (MVHS), students could return to school for a four-day week. The fifth day, being proposed for Fri-days, would be left open to allow for deep cleaning of the building.
The MVHS student body would be divided into cohorts. Cohort A would receive live classroom instruction for two class periods in the morning between 7:15 and 10:05. During that time Cohort B would be engaged in distance learning either at home or in su-pervised Learning Centers made available on campus. After a stag-gered lunch period which would
Rurals encouraged
by CCSD trustee vote
By VERNON ROBISON
The Progress
See School plans on page 3
A whole row of American flags placed along the front fenceline of the Logandale Cemetery last week were vandalized on Sunday night, July 26.
Thirteen of the 16 flags placed at the cemetery were destroyed or damaged by fire. Someone had apparently gone down the fence-line and set fire to each of the flags while they were still hang-ing on the poles. The value of the damaged property was estimated at $100.
Local veterans Clifford Peter-son, Oscar Henderson and Jack Johnson had placed those flags
last week, as well as many others, to celebrate the “Pioneer Day” holiday. The flags were intended to remain flying through the Ko-rean War Memorial Day on July 27.
The three-man team had taken on this new role with great enthu-siasm. For years now, the flags have been set out by members of local veterans organizations to celebrate major holidays. But this year, the veterans groups ex-perienced a shortage in personnel who were able to post the colors in the community.
When they learned of this, Henderson, Peterson and Johnson immediately contacted the VFW
US Flags vandalized at Logandale cemeteryBy NICK YAMASHITA
The Progress
NICK YAMASHITA/ The ProgressLocal veteran Oscar Peterson takes down a damaged flag after it was vandalized on Sunday night. A number of flags that had been posted at the Logandale cemetery to celebrate the holiday were vandalized. See Flags on page 2
The continuous problem long lines and extreme waits to do business at the Nevada Depart-ment of Vehicles has been in the recent spotlight. Since the de-partment reopened earlier this month with new social distancing and COVID regulations in place, the process of doing the simplest DMV transactions has been near-ly unbearable for area residents.
Because of the state restric-tions around COVID, people needing service at the Mesquite DMV have been required to wait
for hours in the heat of the day.“Calling this a mess is really an
understatement,” said area resi-dent Chris Young.
Young had just spent seven hours in line outside the Mesquite DMV on Friday, July 24. During that time, he became known as “the hammock guy” because he had brought a hammock with him where he could relax while wait-ing in the line.
“The people at the head of the line got here at about 3 a.m., a full five hours before the place opens!” Young said. “The line
If you must go to the DMV, be ready for the waitBy NICK YAMASHITA
The Progress
Photo courtesy of Kim HardyChris Young aka The Hammock Guy (left) came prepared last week to wait in a long line at the Mesquite DMV. Because of COVID-19 pro-tocols, people are being forced to wait hours in the summer heat to do business at the DMV. See DMV on page 5
The Lost City Museum is preparing for the second annual Hot and Dusty Art Exhibit next month. The exhibit will start on August 1 and run through the end of the month.
Last year saw a monumental premier event. The show featured works from a cadre of local art-ists including Nancy Glazier, JD Challenger, Susan Perez, Max Bunnell and more.
This year’s exhibit will feature local photographers. Selected photographers include Bobbie Howell, Virginia Lucas, William Willis, Parker, Kayla Doty, Jana
Ward, Doug Giles, Nick Ya-mashita and Kris Zurbas.
“The theme is Southwestern,” said event organizer Sally Wirth. “We decided to leave it as a gen-eralized theme so it leaves it open to the photographers’ views and creativity.”
Lost City Museum Events Co-ordinator Jessie Davie said that he is looking forward to the second year of the Hot and Dusty Show.
“We love doing this event! “ Davie said. “August is usually a slow month and this show is a way to help get people here, es-pecially locals. This greatly helps us, plus it features some amazing talent!”
Unfortunately this year the mu-
Hot & Dusty exhibit to feature local photographersBy NICK YAMASHITA
The Progress
seum will not be able to host the weekly artist receptions because of COVID-19 restrictions, Davie said. Last year’s show featured a Meet the Artist event for each participating artist, and then a final reception at the end of the month.
But attendees to the museum will still be able to enter a draw-ing for prizes. They can also vote for their favorite work at the ex-hibit. These People’s Choice win-ners will be announced on the last Sunday of August.
While the museum is prepping for the show, it is also finishing off an amazing exhibit by Native American portrait artist Jim Cal-laway.
“This will be my last show,” Callaway said in an interview last week. “It is getting too frustrating to paint with my age and medical problems.”
Callaway, who has received national attention for his portraits of Native Americans, is retiring due to his medical condition of Parkinson’s Disease, diagnosed in 2010.
He also gained recognition painting sports athletes’ portraits as he was the UNLV Team Den-tist for 37 years.
“I was able to paint such ath-letes as Stacey Augmon, Larry Johnson, and Glenn Carano, as
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had Christmas in July doorbuster sales as well as 15 percent off kids bikes and other giveaways. Sher-win-Williams offered 40 percent off paints and stains. And there were many more sales out there.
There were also plenty of ac-tivities for the kids. Danielle’s Chocolates were handing out kids coloring sheets which could be completed and returned for a special surprise. The Women’s History & Culture Center held an Art Contest for kids and young adults. And there was plenty of candy, treats and other giveaways being handed out by businesses all over town.
And speaking of giveaways, what is Christmas without a big red stocking? Participants who
stopped by the Front Porch Flow-ers and Gifts were able to enter a prize drawing to receive an over-sized stocking with more than $700 worth of gifts and prizes tucked inside, all donated by local businesses.
In jolly holiday fashion, San-ta also treated kids 12 and under to free goodie bags stuffed with items from local businesses. They were able to collect these goodie bags on the Chamber’s rooftop patio starting at 8 AM on Friday.
Lucky locals may have spotted Santa as he visited local estab-lishments such as The Depart-ment Chamber office, the Catho-lic thrift store, Mesquite Baptist Church, Mesquite Lutheran Church, First Baptist Church and Front Porch Flowers and gifts, just to name a few.
Santa picked up food items
that had been donated at these locations to deliver them to the food bank at the Salvation Army of Mesquite. The Salvation Army has been working overtime to support individuals and fami-lies affected by the fallout from COVID 19 closures. There is much more need during this sum-mer season than usual.
Many people are out of work right now and finding it difficult to pay the bills and put food on the table. Local resident Yerania Quezada is no exception. Queza-da is a single mom with 4 chil-dren and has been doing her best to take care of her family. The Salvation Army, the Chamber, and local businesses wanted to ease her burden and shower her with the love of a community.
At noon on Friday, Santa and Mrs. Clause climbed into a fire truck bearing gifts, and were es-corted to the Quezada home by the Mesquite Fire Department, the Chamber and the Salvation Army.
Once he arrived, Santa present-ed Quezada with a multitude of
gifts for her family. She was giv-en the cash tip jar from Danielle’s Chocolates and Popcorn. In ad-dition, she received five Walmart gift cards for $50 each donated by David Ballweg of LoadTec Inc. in Mesquite. She also received four goodie bags that had been over-stuffed with treats for the kids as well.
“We are so thankful to Dan-ielle’s and to Dave (Ballweg),” said Chamber President/CEO Carol Kolson. “They always step up to the plate when we need a hand, Just like Charlene (Udall) here (at The Front Porch flow-ers).”
To which Charlene Udall re-plies, “Oh, I try! These guys (the Chamber) are always stepping up to the plate for everybody, so if they ask, you just want to say, ‘Yes! I’ll do it!’”
The whole crew was so excit-ed to be able to deliver this un-expected cheer to a deserving and hardworking local family.
Quezada was quite emotional as she received the gifts and re-peated the words, “thank you” with tear-filled eyes. It was an
emotional moment that touched all involved.
“This makes all the paper work, audits and long days worth it,” said Stephanie Woolley of the Salvation Army of Mesquite. “Seeing her face; seeing that joy; this is what fills my cup. This is going to make me have a really good day.”
“We see how hard these people work and we see that their pay-checks go to rent because hous-ing is not affordable,” Woolley added. “So after they pay rent, they have nothing left. I am glad we are here and that we get to do this. I am so glad that we get do-nations from the community. This helps so much.”
Stephanie was emotional as she spoke and her husband, Bill, stepped in saying, “Stephanie intentionally created a culture where, if you come through that door (at The Salvation Army) with a need then you are going to get help and love. No matter what it is, even if she can’t do it herself she is going to hook you up with someone who will.”
leadership to find out how they could take over the job. They vol-unteered to do the job.
But in taking over the project, they also decided to expand the flag-flying observance to other important days of the year. They identified 40 such days and cre-ated a schedule for posting the flag on all 40 days throughout the year. The first date was on the In-dependence Day holiday earlier this month.
“We got ahold of the old flags and found all of them to be in bad shape,” Peterson said. “We were able to get some private donations from local families and were able to purchase all new flags for the 4th of July. Then we simply took over the duty of being flag-bear-ers for the community.”
“We felt like during these
tough times, we really needed the uplift of spirits that the flags bring by getting the flags up,” Peterson added.
It worked. Last week, the men again went about putting up the brand new flags. Feedback from community members was posi-tive. In social media posts, many local residents expressed delight to see the colors flying in the community again.
That made Sunday’s act of vandalism even more hurtful. Henderson said that seeing the new flags treated in this manner was heartbreaking.
“It doesn’t matter about the value of the flags,” he said. “It is the principle that this flag rep-resents our patriotism and that we value what the flag represents.”
Henderson called the act of vandalism despicable. “The whole community is going to be outraged about it,” he said, “espe-cially those who just donated the money for the purchase of these
flags.”The vandalism was discovered
by a Logandale family who were out for a family drive at around 7:30 p.m. on Sunday evening. It shocked them to the point that they notified a friend who then contacted Henderson and Peter-son. The two men came to the scene to find ashes from the dam-aged flags still on the ground. It was they who called the Metro-politan Police dispatch in Las Ve-gas to report the incident.
Local law enforcement re-sponded to the scene after being notified of the incident. The mat-ter is still under investigation. No suspects have yet been named.
Local law enforcement per-sonnel reminded the community that when a crime is committed, it should be reported immediately by calling 311 or 911 in order to help local law enforcement with faster response and with the in-vestigation.
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allow for classrooms to be sani-tized, the cohorts would switch off for the rest of the school day.
Plans at Mack Lyon Middle School would also have a four-day school week. The school day at Lyon would be divided into three sessions. Two would be for core subjects. The third would use distance learning techniques at school in a supervised learn-ing center environment. This would include subjects like social studies, health and other elective courses.
Perhaps most challenging was drafting a plan for Grant Bowler Elementary. With a student pop-ulation similar in size to urban elementary schools, the Bowler facility is not big enough to ac-commodate the entire student body in a daily session while meeting social distance require-ments.
But the Bowler SOT worked hard over multiple meetings to come up with several possible op-tions on making in-person classes work also on a four day per week basis.
The preferred Bowler plan has grades K-2 coming back to full day classes. This was possible due to the smaller class sizes in those grades. The larger classes in grades 3-5 would be divided into a morning and an afternoon co-hort for half days of live instruc-tion. The other half of the day for each cohort would be distance learning at home. A period during the lunch hour would be used to sanitize classrooms before the af-ternoon cohort arrived.
All four schools would offer a full distance education option for families not comfortable sending their children to school yet.
Last week’s Board of Trustees vote breathed new energy into these local plans. Principals and members of school staff worked last week putting finishing touch-es to the plans in preparation for an expected meeting with CCSD central officials early this week.
In addition, principals in Vir-gin Valley were in communica-tions with Moapa Valley princi-pals on developing plans of their own. They expressed an interest in both valleys working together on a unified plan that would en-compass all of the northeast Clark County schools.
During a Moapa Valley Com-munity Education Advisory Board (MVCEAB) meeting held on Friday, July 24, Bowler prin-cipal Shawna Jessen said that the SOTs had gone as far as they could in making plans. But Jessen emphasized that there were still obstacles to overcome to make the plans work. CCSD central administrators are the only ones who can address many of those obstacles, she said.
Among these obstacles were limitations dealing with bus
transportation, food service re-quirements, staffing contracts and more, Jessen said.
“I feel like this has been a truly monumental shift that the trustees would make such a decision for the rural areas,” Jessen said. “But we are not quite out of the woods yet. We have to wait for (CCSD officials) to come out next week and work through some of these details with us to address each one. I believe it can be done. But there is still a lot of ground to cover.”
Parents in attendance at the MVCEAB meeting asked ques-tions about an array of details re-garding the plans.
One of the more frequent ques-tions asked was on the subject of young children being required to wear face coverings throughout the school day.
“I know parents who are strug-gling over sending their kid back to school just based on that one issue,” said Moapa parent Wendy Jensen who was in attendance at the meeting.
The principals responded that they would initially be bound to follow the state guidelines in place that require face coverings for people in public places.
But Lyon principal Ken Paul said that he had carefully re-searched the Governor’s face mask directive and found some helpful information in it that per-tained to young school kids. First-ly, children under 9 years old are exempted from the directive, al-though it is highly recommended that they wear masks when possi-ble. Secondly, the face coverings are not required when six-foot so-cial distancing is being observed, as it would be when children are sitting at their desks in the class-room, Paul said.
“I think that within those guidelines, we can teach kids to be responsible and wear face coverings during the times it is required and necessary,” said Paul. “Plus, parents should keep in mind that this is a temporary directive. It won’t last forever.”
New MVCEAB member, Jeff Proffitt, who is also a CCSD trustee candidate in the upcom-ing election, said that if there was ever a time when the eyes of the whole district were on Moapa Valley this is it. If the plans are approved, the MVCEAB and var-ious SOTs should be prepared for the scrutiny to come, Proffitt said.
“There are some groups out there who don’t like (what you are doing) at all,” Proffitt said. “There is a small group; and I don’t know what their agenda is; but they want this to fail. So you must be unified as a community.”
Proffitt said that the time would come when a first case of COVID-19 will strike in a local school. “At that point, you have to be prepared with a plan and be able to just work your plan and stick to it,” he said.
“We need to continue to keep
the spotlight on Moapa Valley,” Proffitt said. “That is really where it should be, because there is so much good here that should be shown as model to the rest of the district. And there are opportu-nities we will see if we get this right. Great things will happen.”
MVCEAB member Terry Hol-zer said that this made it even more important that parents and students alike are prepared to em-ploy all of the recommended best health practices.
“We need to do all we can to stay healthy out there,” Holzer said. “That means teaching our kids the habit of washing hands, folks should not travelling to high risk areas, wearing face cover-ings and everyone take your vita-mins! We need to help our kids to stay safe and keep them going to school.”
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No One Asked Me But... I have just completed reading two books written by two men who served American presidents as their National Security Advisor. One, John Bolton, came from a career in the Washington, D.C. bureaucracy. The other, Col-in Powell, from a career in the American military.
When John Bolton left the po-sition of National Security Advi-sor to President Trump he did so in the mood of vengeance against what he perceived to be an unsta-ble and incompetent leader.
President Trump in his nev-er-let-a-criticism-go-unanswered manner helped Mr. Bolton sell his book entitled The Room Where it Happened.
If indeed you are looking for something new or insightful, I would suggest you skip this book. There is nothing there that you have not already heard 100 times on CNN or CNBC.
Mr. Bolton did, however, con-firm for me the fact that elected officials in Washington have not run the country for years. Ac-cording to Mr. Bolton, President Trump’s major fault was that he refused to merely rubber stamp the actions of the professional bu-reaucrats who have run the coun-try.
Abraham Lincoln faced an is-sue with his cabinet when they all voted against the president’s pro-posal. President Lincoln said “I vote aye. That is seven nays and one aye. The aye has it.”
This is not the leadership de-sired by profession bureaucrats. Those who watched the recent impeachment hearings saw that the complaints of the bureaucrats who testified were not of any criminal activity on the part of President Trump but that he re-fused to do as the bureaucats told him.
If you are interested in how a real leader thinks, you will enjoy Colin Powell’s book My Ameri-can Journey. Most of the rest of this column is made up of ex-amples of the wisdom of Colin Powell. This wisdom led to his gaining the highest military rank in America and becoming the confidant of numerous presidents.
While these are the words of Colin Powell, I like to think they reflect the leadership principles I followed in the rather lowly lead-
ership positions I have filled in my life. If this is true, it may well be due to the fact that we both learned our leadership qualities in the American military.
It is important to find ways to make individuals feel important and part of something larger than themselves. Therefore, traditions and rituals remain essential for they instill a sense of belonging and importance in these people. However, being in charge means making decisions, no matter how unpleasant. “If it’s broke fix it. … being in charge means sometimes making people mad.”
Gen. Powell states: “Incompe-tence, corruption, and flashy dress seems to increase as a direct ratio to rank. …don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world. …Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros … Moments of stress, confusion, and fatigue are exactly when mis-takes happen. … people want to share your confidence, however thin, not your turmoil, however real.”
We elect a President to run the country, but Presidents soon dis-cover that they don’t necessarily control the machinery of gov-ernment. Their wishes are often thwarted due to the fact that as President Franklin Roosevelt ob-served: “ the federal bureaucracy is a huge beast: you kick it in the tail and two years later it feels the sensation in the brain.”
When confronted with bu-reaucratic nonsense Gen. Powell advised one should fulfill those requirements with a minimum of effort and then go on with the things that really matter. “Don’t wrestle with the pig, the pig has fun and you just get dirty. Lead-ership is the art of accomplishing more than management says is possible.”
Gen. Powell advises that, “Bad news in not like wine; it does not get better with age. Loyalty means giving the leader advice even if he doesn’t like it. If he ac-cepts the advice fine; if not, once a decision is made loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.”
Something the CCSD leader-ship should learn is: “The field commander is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless
proven otherwise. The field com-mander is on the scene, feeling the terrain, directing troops, fac-ing and judging the enemy.”
The quote below explains Col-in Powell’s political philosophy and explains why I would vote for him: “I am a fiscal conser-vative with a social conscience. Neither of the two parties fits me comfortably…I am troubled by the political passion of the extreme right… I am put off by extreme liberals who claim to know what is best for society but devote little thought to who will eventually pay the bills. …I dis-trust rigid ideology from any di-rection …the time may be at hand for a third major party to emerge to represent this sensible center of the American political spectrum.”
Explaining why he is not inter-ested in getting involved in the present political world, he states:
“I feel that civility is being driven from our political dis-course. Attack ads and negative campaigns produce destructive…debate. …television and radio talk shows, and print media chas-ing after…audiences…displaces reasoned dialogue. …any public figure espousing a controversial idea can expect to have not just the idea attacked but his or her integrity. And Lord help anyone who strays from accepted ideas of political correctness….(they) will be met with cries that the offender be fired…” Mr. Powell indicates we seem to have lost our sense of shame as a society.
What is his answer to these problems? “We have to start thinking of America as a family. …start caring for, sacrificing for, and sharing with each other. …stop constantly criticizing….get back to the can-do attitude that made America.”
These are the qualities I would like to see in our next President, and presently, I do not see any candidate that will fill those hopes and dreams for the America that I love.
If you think the riotous minori-ty that are burning our cities and murdering our inner city residents are not a threat to America let me remind you that the revolution that established this country was supported by less than one third of the people in the colonies at the time.
While the majority of the law abiding American citizens quietly stand by, they may very well see the country where they grew up disappear.
Thought of the week… The only thing that saves us from bu-reaucracy is its inefficiency.
– Eugene McCarthy
From our readers....
Myself and other Utah family members want people to know that we think the Virgin River Ca-sino is extremely vigilant in keep-ing the virus from spreading.
I felt perfectly safe there seeing the way they now operate.
We were frequent patrons there before, and now will continue en-joying the motel, the casino and the buffets.
Peter Vander Meide
Perfectly safe
As I read the article entitled “Travel Plaza Closed Due To COVID-19 Outbreak" (The Prog-ress, 7/15/2020) I could not help but be a bit disheartened about how our neighbors chose to treat the rest of the community.
I understand and support the desire for our tribal communities to maintain a sovereign govern-ment and to keep issues within the tribal nation focused there. As a proud nation there should be no argument that what happens in the confines of their nation should be solely the business and respon-sibility of that nation.
That being said, when issues from the tribal nation affect the communities that surround it, I think the game is changed. The response should reflect the sur-
rounding community as a whole. The COVID-19 infections at
the smoke shop certainly were not isolated to just tribal busi-ness. Yet their tribal council feels they have the right to suppress any information that would help our community limit the impact of this virus on the citizens in our area. Regardless of how the tribal council feels about non-na-tives, we all share a community each and every day. Not everyone working at the smoke shop is a tribal member and not every trib-al member is isolated to the tribal community.
Do I blame anyone for the em-ployees of the smoke shop con-tacting COVID-19? Absolutely
Respect and consideration goes both ways
I received a registration renew-al notice in the mail, that was nor-mal in every way, with the pos-sible exception of the bold print across the middle, stating "must go to DMV to renew". So with my limited ability to follow sim-ple instructions, I did that.
Not wanting to be in line any longer than necessary, I waited until 2:00 pm to arrive at the Mesquite DMV office. The "line" of applicants I found there was beyond belief. A long way be-yond.
Some, who were close to the door, got in line at 7:30 am. They told me about a man who actually had got in, who they found nap-ping in a hammock when they ar-rived at 7:30. Brilliant! I can't do that. Can you?
The DMV has a long history of being slow, mismanaged and disorganized; and slow and un-necessary and hectic – and have I mentioned slow?!
My first experience with the DMV was when I got my own li-cense to drive myself to the job I'd been driving myself to for about 3 months already. I drove from the job to the license office and filled in the answers to the written test, then sat on the bench to wait to be "drive" tested.
After a few minutes, it was closing in on the 5:00 pm closing time. The only remaining officer finally got tired of pacing the floor and asked me if anybody had come or was coming to bring a car for my test. I pointed to the only car left in the yard and asked "Like that one maybe?"
Although he didn't think I'm
nearly as funny as I think I am, he tested me, I did well, and I legally drove away.
It seemed to take forever, even though I was their only customer.
Now, we're back to that. Those who were there last Tuesday at 11 am, barely got out at 5 pm.
The DMV has always taken its customers one-by-one. So what's the hold up now?
Making us wait outside does not cause each transaction to take longer. Making us talk to them through a mask does not cause the questions and answers to take more time.
Have they shoved us outside on purpose, to cause us to visit with each other, so they can test the 6-foot theory at our expense?
What sense does any of this make?
This is what happens every time the fox gets put in charge of the henhouse. We become the "subjects" in an experiment we don't realize we're all in.
Esther Ramos
What’s the holdup at the DMV?
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the right to know when our com-munity is at risk. The fact that they would add thousands of people to the exposure pool during their 4th of July celebration should deeply concern us all.
If they knew they were hav-ing an issue the only responsible thing to do would have been to
reorganize to protect everyone involved. There could have been more adjustments made to help limit the exposure to those that attended this event.
We all need to work together to make our communities work. We need to hold our tribal neigh-bors in the highest regards and celebrate the amazing things they bring to our communities. In the same vein they owe us the same respect.
When tribal issues are going
to affect other communities the tribal leadership has the responsi-bility and obligation to keep their neighbors as safe as possible, es-pecially the first responders they ask to keep their own community safe.
We are all tasked with caring for our brothers and sisters and we owe it to each other to protect each other whenever we can, re-gardless of political boundary.
Brian Burris
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at one time was about 80 yards long.”
By about 1 p.m., the DMV had helped 25 people, averaging only five per hour. There were still around 40 people waiting in line with only three workers in the of-fice and three customers allowed into the building at a time.
The line included Dennis Hamerick and his pregnant wife who had come from Caliente, NV; nearly 3 hours away.
“We were checking into go-ing to the DMV at Tonopah but they are a limited services office,” Dennis Hamerick said. “So we had to come here. It is ridiculous they have this going on with peo-ple waiting in line outside in more than 100 degree heat for hours!”
The line also included an 85 year old man, an older woman with an oxygen tank and oth-ers with health problems. One 16-year-old Bunkerville teenager was waiting to do a written test for a driver’s permit.
“Why can’t they allow us to do this written test online and bring in a printout verifying we passed it?” the teen asked. “It would cut down time.”
Several individuals waiting at the end of the long line never did
get inside before the office closed for the night. One of them said he was there for his sixth time.
Another line lounger was Moapa Valley resident, Kim Har-dy.
“It’s such a pain!” Hardy said. “This was the only day I can come due to my job and I have to get my car registered today. I can’t take any time off. Them only being open on weekdays does not help”.
Lucky for Hardy, she got in and was done at about 2:45 p.m. after waiting in line since about 6:30 a.m.
At about the same time Har-dy got finished, one of the DMV workers left, leaving only two workers at the office.
“This is again not the fault of the people working inside the office,” Young said. “They have been working non-stop. They have even given out pop-sicles to people to help. This is the administration and Governor Sisolak failing the people again. They have been telling us this is for our safety and health in doing all of these regulations, but yet we have the safety and health of people at risk due to them being in line around people for hours, in extreme heat, and without proper service and help. This is a com-plete fail! Our elected officials
need to understand their constit-uents are not happy!”
The DMV encourages people to go online to complete the more routine items. Renewals of licens-es or registration, for example, may all be done online.
In addition, the DMV has of-fered automatic extensions on most of these documents. Driv-er’s licenses, vehicle registra-tions and most other DMV-issued documents that expired between March 16 and June 14 will be extended until Sept. 13 for cus-tomers to renew them. If the expi-ration falls between June 15 and July 14, the extended deadline is August 14.
well as others,” he said. “They were all good guys and I thor-oughly enjoyed their friendships.”
Callaway talked about his in-terest in Native American por-traits. “The culture and traditions always were a fascination in my life,” he said.
Since it is Callaway’s last show, his artwork is for sale. Learn more about Jim Callaway by visiting his website at www.jimcallawayart.com.
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The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA) announced a revised 2020-2021 schedule for high school athletics on Thursday, June 23. The cus-tomary fall sports season had to be delayed due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The delay of the fall sports season will shorten and change all three high school sports sea-sons during the 2020-2021 school year.
Rather than erasing the season altogether, the NIAA has chosen to move all fall and winter sports to 2021, with the latter coming first.
Each season will be six weeks long. Traditional winter sports will be played from January 2, 2021, to February 20, 2021; fall sports will be played from Febru-ary 20 until April 10; and spring sports will be played between April 3 and May 22.
Football will start one week earlier than other fall sports, with an expected first day of practices to be on February 13.
These six-week schedules in-clude any playoff tournaments that might be scheduled at the dis-cretion of each classification, ac-cording to the NIAA’s announce-ment.
“At this time, it is anticipated that there will not be State Tour-naments,” the announcement read.
While state tournaments may be a casualty, Moapa Valley High School Athletic Director Dallas Larsen still believes there is hope for a regional tournament.
“I’m kind of curious how they’ll adjust the schedule and how that will look,” he said, “I believe there will be a Southern tournament and championship of some kind.”
It’s a lot to unpack: shortened seasons, sports played out of or-der, and a potential absence of state tournaments altogether.
“It’s definitely going to be an adjustment process for ev-erybody,” Larsen said. “This is something you just don’t have a plan for. It’s going to be a day-to-day situation.”
Larsen noted that even a sports schedule beginning in January is not a guarantee, but rather a goal to strive towards. It all depends on the virus.
“I think what it does is it gives us more time to see if things are getting better,” Larsen said. “I can see where if things are still re-ally bad, they could say ‘We tried, but it just won’t work.’”
Local players and parents are starting to come to terms with what the upcoming season might look like in the wake of the pan-demic.
NIAA delays fall sports, locals react
By GANNON HANEVOLD
The Progress
See Sports on page 2B
The Moapa Valley Fire District (MVFD) received good news last week. In a meeting held Tuesday, July 21, the Clark County Board of Commissioners appointed Lo-gandale resident Stephen Neel as the first full-time fire chief of MVFD.
Neel has served in the position of chief over the past year, but on an informal and mainly volunteer basis. This action of the Com-missioners formally created the full-time position and officially appointed Neel to fill it.
“It is a great honor to be the first fire chief out here in the val-
ley,” Neel said in an interview last week. “I look forward to the future, especially in the recent progress we have achieved and the direction we are going.”
Neel will be assuming com-mand of 65 volunteers who serve in the district’s three fire stations. The majority of these personnel are fully certified EMTs and fire-fighters, or will be after August 25 when the current Fire Acade-my graduation will occur.
Neel has several goals includ-ing better training for all person-nel, updated equipment, main-taining and increasing personnel, as well as seeking additional
Neel named as first MVFD ChiefBy NICK YAMASHITA
The Progress
Logandale resident Stephen Neel was officially appointed as MVFD Fire Chief last week by the Clark County Commissioners. See Chief on page 2B
The winners of the Fire & Ice competitive exhibit gathered at the Mesquite Fine Arts Center on Thursday night, July 23 to receive their awards. This was done by the Virgin Valley Artists Associ-ation while staying within neces-sary COVID-19 regulations.
Unfortunately, the usual pub-lic reception and presentations were by-passed and the event was only open to contest winners in order to keep the gathering small.
These themed competitions are held monthly. The winner in the Best of Show category was Ilene
Bandringa for her Photograph entitled “Flaming Sandstone in Winter.”
The first place award went to Vanessa Temple for her Fire & Ice in mixed media.
Second place went to Cheryl J. Sachese for a watercolor of “Fire Lake”.
The third place winner was Barbara Halicki, for “Volcano in Dormancy” a mixed media work.
The Mayors choice and Peo-ple’s choice award went to Shir-ley Smith for her photograph en-titled “Kolob Sunset, Zion.”
The Fire & Ice Sponsor Seabreeze Management Compa-ny choice award went to Randy
Winners awarded in VVAA ‘Fire & Ice’ exhibitBy BOBBIE GREEN
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Some of the winners in the Virgin Valley Artists Association July Fire & Ice competitive exhibit included Vanessa Temple (1st place), Barbara Halicki (3rd place), Ilene Bandringa (Best of show), Cheryl J. Sachese (2nd place) and Floyd Johnson (Honorable mention. See Fire & Ice on page 3B
The Mesquite Senior Games (MSG) organization is making its return to live sporting compe-tition next month. Registration is now open for the MSG Bowling Tournament to be held on Friday, August 21 at the Virgin River Lanes.
MSG has struggled in recent months because COVID-19 has
shut down some of the group’s most popular sporting events in the community.
But the MSG board has now targeted sports like bowling; along with golf, softball and pick-le ball; as some of the competi-tions that the group may still be able to organize this year.
MSG Executive Director Amy Bradshaw and Bowling Event Di-
COVID scores a spare for MSG bowling tournament
By BOBBIE GREEN
The Progress
See Bowling on page 4
Concerned parents of the Moapa Valley community will host a Homeschool Fair on Aug. 5 from 6-8 p.m at the Old Logan-dale School Historica at 3011 N Moapa Valley Blvd.
One parent, Korindi Totten of Logandale, said how disappoint-ed she has become with current school options.
“The leaders of our school district and the education system
have failed our kids,” Totten said. “They have shown that the kids do not matter at all.”
For these reasons, Totten worked on an idea of putting on a homeschool fair to help bring information and resources to parents who are also considering homeschooling their children the coming school year.
The event will feature options including coordinating and com-municating with other parents
Homeschool Fair to be heldBy NICK YAMASHITA
The Progress
See Homeschool on page 6B
The Overton Power District (OPD5) Board of Directors voted to reprice nearly $7.5 million in debt at a significantly reduced in-terest rate during a meeting held Wednesday, July 22. The interest savings to the district, to be re-alized over the remaining eight-year life of the debt, would total more than $1.5 million.
According to a report present-ed to the board by Accounting Supervisor MeLissa Garcia, the block of debt comes from three separate loans held through the
National Rural Utilities Coopera-tive Finance Corporation (CFC). After CFC discounts, the effec-tive rate of these loans were pre-viously set at 5.5 percent.
They were all three due for re-pricing on October 1 of this year. But Garcia pointed out that, with immediate board action, the re-priced rates could be locked in immediately which would allow current low interest rates to go into effect two months early, on August 1. The difference in those two months alone would add up to more than $45,500 in savings to the district, Garcia said.
“That is why we want to get
OPD5 board reprices loans at $1.5 million savingsBy VERNON ROBISON
The Progress
this done right away,” Garcia said.With qualified discounts from
CFC, the effective rate on the loans would be repriced at around 1.84 percent.
OPD5 staff had also shopped another lender, CoBank, which had previously expressed an in-terest in competing with the CFC rates. CoBank was able to offer a lower interest rate at 1.38 per-cent. This was estimated to bring the district a further savings of $139,000 on the three loans.
But moving these three loans away from CFC, would jeopar-dize several additional discounts that are in place on the other seven
remaining loans that the district holds with CFC. The loss of these discounts over the life of the re-maining loans would cost the dis-trict more than $264,000.
Thus, the staff recommen-dation was to reprice the loans through CFC, Garcia said.
“I just want to say that both banks have been very good to us,” said OPD5 General Manag-er Mendis Cooper. “Cobank has partnered with us on our scholar-ship programs and other things. So this was a tough decision. But we let the dollars bear out where
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We want to thank all those who helped with the funeral services for Ivan.
A special thank you to Brian & Ben Rebman of Moapa Valley Mortuary,
Thank you for coming so quickly.
The Nevada Honor Guard for the military honors.
The doctors and staff at the cancer center and hospital in Cedar City, UT for their
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Kyle Heiselbetz, who has two sons in the MVHS football program, said, “It’s proba-bly not the most popular or traditional way to do it, but I think with what we’re faced with it’s something we can work with.”
The possibility of no state tournament is something completely foreign, and it’s leaving many Moapa Valley athletes look-ing at how their team may react.
“I am just hoping I can get back out there with my team and play some good old foot-ball again,” said Justin Proffitt, a senior tight end for the Pirate football team. “And I think I speak for most of my teammates as well. We’re just hoping we can put the pads back on and compete.”
Meanwhile, Jessi Frei, a senior volley-ball player, thinks that having a trophy to play for makes a crucial impact on the game.
“Volleyball is a very competitive sport,” Frei said. “A lot of it is about getting the experience but it’s also about winning. Knowing that a state championship is at the end of the finish line would push our team to be exactly where we need to be.”
Frei also said that the new schedule in-terrupts many of the extracurricular club
volleyball plans that the team usually par-ticipates in.
“Because of the current situation, we have not been able to do a lot of what we had planned,” she said. “It’s going to be a little backwards.”
But Larsen is not concerned with Pirate athletes and the athletes’ motivation. As a former head boys basketball coach, Larsen said he’s seen teams mathematically elim-inated from the playoffs with a few games left continue to play with the same passion as when the season started.
“Truthfully, there’s no meaningless games in high school,” Larsen said, “I’ve never met a kid that didn’t go out there and want to win every single game. Every game is like a championship in some ways.”
But Larsen did raise concerns about the possibility of some local families deciding to relocate to a neighboring state. The Utah High School Activities Association recent-ly announced that it would go ahead with fall sports as scheduled. Larsen expects the NIAA to eventually put rules in place to ban athletes from playing in one state in the fall, then returning to Nevada to play again in the Spring.
“I don’t want to lose any student-athletes for any reason,” Larsen said. “But people have to make up what’s best for them and
their families. I wouldn’t be the one telling them they can’t do it, but I would definitely caution them.”
With all sports seasons being postponed until 2021, the new schedule could increase the likelihood of having fans in attendance at Moapa Valley sporting events, depend-ing on where Nevada is in the reopening process come January.
“If we do play, a lot of the experience, especially in Moapa, is packing the stands
and having people come watch,” said Kyle Heiselbetz, “If we have to delay the season so we can get more community involve-ment, that’s probably a positive.”
While the new schedule is unconven-tional and raising some eyebrows, ulti-mately, local student-athletes are excited at the opportunity to have a season.
Senior quarterback Cameron Reese said, “I’m just grateful if we have the chance to play ball.”
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Neel grew up in the “fire world” as his father was a firefighter with Clark County Fire Department for 35 years.
“That, along with my other jobs I held, have been building blocks to where I am today,” Neel said.
Neel grew up in Las Vegas and grad-uated from Chaparral High in 2000. He attended BYU-Idaho for his paramedic national certification received in 2005. He then attended the College of Southern Ne-vada for a Fire Science program finishing in 2011.
Neel held previous employment with a car dealership, landscaping and was even a business owner. He started working for Southwest Ambulance in 2002. In 2004, he volunteered with the CCFD in Moapa Val-ley while he was working for Southwest Ambulance.
He attended the Mesquite Fire Academy in 2005-2007 and then was hired by Nel-lis Air Force Base to start the paramedic program at the Base Hospital during 2009-2011.
He was hired by Lake Mead Nation-al Recreation Area in 2010 to start the paramedic program there. He attended the Ranger Academy and became fully li-censed as a Law Enforcement Ranger.
In 2017, he switched from the National Park Service to the Bureau of Land Man-
agement as a ranger stationed in the Moapa Valley and serving the vast public lands surrounding the community.
Neel will be leaving his position at the BLM to focus full time on his new position as fire chief.
Neel is married to Alecia Archibald Neel and has four kids, ages 14, 12, 11 and 6. He met his wife while on the job. Alecia is also an EMT/Firefighter with Las Vegas Fire Dept.
“We met on a 911 call,” Neel recalled. “She was with the ambulance and I was on a ride-along with my dad. She asked me to ‘please take her out’. So I did and we ended up married in 2002.”
Neel said that he plans on getting an Ex-plorer program going for local youth.
One of his main objectivces is to keep up the recruitment and retention of person-nel at the district.
“We are always accepting volunteers,” Neel said. “We will make sure they get the proper training that is needed. For exam-ple, we are starting an Advanced EMT cer-tification program in January.”
Neel expressed thanks to everyone in the community for their support.
“I got to thank (County Commissioner) Marilyn Kirkpatrick and all of my crew, the volunteers and personnel who helped me through thick and thin,” Neel said. “It has been a long process to transition into our own fire district here. Most important-ly, I have to thank my wife for being ‘my rock’ and ‘cornerstone’.”
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The Mesquite Public Arts Commission (MPAC) held its first meeting on Tuesday, July 21 at the Mesquite Fine Arts Gallery.
The seven member commission is made up of one appointee selected by each of the five members of the Mesquite City Council, one selected by the mayor and one selected by the Commission itself. The MPAC has been tasked with bringing works of art for display in the public spaces of Mesquite.
The Commission was formed by an or-dinance passed by the City Council in De-cember 2019. In the ordinance, the MPAC was given an initial grant of $5,000 from the City to commence its operations. From there, members are encouraged to solicit donations, charitable gifts and bequests for continuing its work from there.
City Councilman George Gault who was in attendance at last week’s meeting explained that the idea of the MPAC origi-nated at a public forum held in 2015 at the Eureka Resort. The objective of the event was to set objectives of the then-newly formed Mesquite Opportunities Regional Fund (MORF), Gault said.
“The number one thing that emerged from those conversations was beautifica-tion,” Gault said, “bringing culture and art to the community. MORF took that as a challenge and we have worked on it for several years now.”
Gault pointed out the recent grand open-ing of a new trail system created between the library building and the Rec Center. The project, which worked in partnership with several different local groups and business-es, had improved the trail with new shade structures, landscaping and park benches.
“That would now be a perfect starting place for public arts,” Gault suggested.
In addition, the City’s renewed focus
on redevelopment of the downtown area might provide opportunities for placement of public artwork, Gault said.
Board member Ryan Breeden suggest-ed that the commission should develop an inventory of available locations for public art. These could include walls for murals, grounds for sculpture and other locations in the city where art may be commissioned or placed.
Another topic of discussion involved es-tablishing a revenue stream for the MPAC to operate in the longer term.
“There are people in this community with money that would make donations for public art in Mesquite,” Gault said. “And we have the charitable foundation at the City with an arts subfund in it. Everything is lined up. We just have to go out now and beat the weeds to get things started.”
City Councilman George Rapson, who was also present at the meeting, suggest-ed that the MPAC consider establishing several subcommittees to begin work on the various functions of the commission. Brainstorming, Rapson suggested com-mittees for things like fundraising, grant-writing, searching for artists and artworks, researching appropriate protocol on main-tenance contracts, and developing an in-ventory of usable spaces in Mesquite for artworks.
“I think that there is room to bring in a lot of people to help the commission and be involved in these things,” Rapson said.
During the meeting, the Commissioners appointed Christine Picior as the MPAC chairperson. As vice chair, Ryan Breeden was appointed by the commission.
MPAC members also appointed Eliz-abeth Etie as the seventh member of the commission.
The MPAC’s next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 17 at 9 am at the Mes-quite Fine Arts Center.
MPAC meets for the first timeBy VERNON ROBISON
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Bauman for his photograph entitled “Snow Glow.”
“It’s wonderful for a photograph to be recognized as an art medium,” Bauman said.
Four honorable mention awards went to Floyd Johnson (who was also Artist of the Month for July), Teri Rochford, Helen Fayeweather and Kathleen Ludwig.
When asked what she thought of win-ning First Place, Vanessa Temple said, “It
was a surprise because “Acrylic Pour” is a new medium for me.”
She explained that Acrylic Pour is a technique where the select colors of acryl-ic paint are all poured onto the canvas and then the canvas is tilled around to achieve the desired effect by the artist.
In August, the themed competition will be “In the Still of the Night.” The August exhibit will be sponsored by Mesquite Gaming. Anyone may enter. More infor-mation is available at www.Mesquitefin-eartscenter.com.
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rector Toni Gans are excited that the Bowling Tournament compe-tition will take place next month.
“Our seniors have been locked up in their homes, they need to safely get out for their health and fitness,” Bradshaw said.
An emphasis will be placed
on safety in this Bowling tourna-ment, Bradshaw explained.
“We have cut the number of competitors in half for this tour-nament to achieve the right so-cial distancing,” said Bradshaw. “Normally we would have 48 teams. But there will only be 24 this time around.”
Competitors will be assigned to every other bowling lane, Brad-
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shaw said. And face coverings may be required, depending on the state restrictions still in place.
In addition, the bowling alley itself has its own COVID stan-dards for cleanliness and social distancing.
Competitors in the tournament can still sign up to participate by going to www.mesquiteseniorga-mes.org or by calling 702-345-3347. There will be 24 teams of 2 each for the Handicap Doubles and 48 competitors in the Hand-icap Singles competition. There will be a three-game event for each division.
The event will begin at 9 am for doubles and 1 pm for singles. Awards will be given at the end of each competition.
The registration fee is $25 for each event. A $10 discount is of-fered if registering for both sin-gles and doubles tournaments.
MSG is open to seniors age 50 and over. All competitions are di-vided into age groups.
The MSG Bowling Event is
sponsored in part by Medicare Insurance Agent, Barbara Irwin Insurance.
“We are in the process of planning as many fall events as COVID allows” said Bradshaw. “We will plan them and wait and see what happens.”
Still in the planning stage is a KP golf competition (closest to pin) long drive, putting and a 9-hole competition in October.
Also on the schedule is a Pick-
le Ball competition, tentatively scheduled for October 27, at Sun City. This event will depend upon state mandates for if it will be held or not.
The Huntsman Tune-up, as it is called, is the MSG Softball competition. It is scheduled to be held just days before the Hunts-man Senior Games Oct 2 – Oct 13. Find more information go to www.mesquiteseniorgames.org or call 702-345-3347.
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An additional question for the board came regarding whether to simply pay down a large portion on one of the loans. The district has set aside $1.25 million in cash to use for debt reduction.
In past meetings, board mem-bers had expressed an eagerness to use these funds to pay down portions of the OPD5 debt at the time of repricing.
But given the current interest rate environment, board members were less eager at this point to do that. The district has nearly $18 million in capital improvement expenditures projected over the next four years. Board members expressed doubt that future in-terest rates would be lower than those being offered now.
“I agree that we want to pay down our debt,” said Moapa Board member Chad Leavitt.
“But it is really hard to do that if we know that we have projects coming up and these rates are so low right now. It is really hard not to just keep the cash and use it on the upcoming projects. We would be crazy not to take these low rates now.”
Logandale board member Jack Nelson agreed. “I would be fully in favor of keeping the capital on hand,” he said. “It makes no sense to pay down the loan at the rate being offered right now.”
Mesquite board member Mike Young added that there would be another chance to use the debt re-duction money to pay down debt next year. Another $2.7 million in debt is scheduled to be repriced in September of 2021.
“I agree that we should wait at this time,” Young said. “We will have another chance at this next year when we will know better our financial situation. Then a couple of years later we will have another opportunity.”
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about possibly doing round-robin style of schooling for their chil-dren.
The fair will also feature some experts in homeschooling op-tions.
Elissa Wahl, Chair for the Ne-vada Homeschool Network, will be on hand to answer parent ques-tions.
The Nevada Homeschool Net-work advocates for the funda-mental right of parents to direct the education of their own chil-dren as they see fit, according to theorganization’s website at www.nevadahomeschoolnetwork.com.
Representatives from the Ne-vada Action for School Options will also be in attendance at the Fair. This group focuses on an educational application theory called “micro-schooling”. A mi-cro-school generally serves less than 25 students in a class size and has only a minimal admin-istrative staff, thus holding down costs. They can also consist of mixed age-level students.
This theory has picked up in popularity recently and has a growing following as an alterna-tive to the public education sys-tem. The website for this organi-zation is www.nevadaaction.org.
The local non-profit organiza-tion, Power to Parent, will have representatives available at the Fair to answer questions and pro-vide information about legality of homeschooling.
“This will be a big need for the community!” Totten said. “Especially now with the current CCSD plans of distance learning. Our kids need so much more than what they (CCSD) will provide!”
“We have seen a huge down-turn of our education system in Clark County, Nevada and our country,” Totten added. “They fo-cus on teaching subjects that do not apply to real life and meeting standards of tests. That is not how education should be!”
Totten said that all parents are invited, including from the Virgin Valley areas.
“We hope to see a lot of par-ents take advantage of this great opportunity,” Totten said.
