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News item: A church official’s recent admission to stealing parish funds to fuel his gambling addiction makes one wonder if there weren’t warning signs. Brothers and sisters, some among you may have heard whispers within our community of certain questionable financial matters at this parish.
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November’s dining events you don’t want to miss Art & Wine: A Perfect Pairing Nov. 10, 5-7 p.
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Two young men take on childhood obesity with a free fitness program that’s fun — and fierce Oh, great — another initiative against childhood obesity. (Yawn.
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An in-kind donation In 2009, 12-year-old Josh Stevens was killed in a golf cart accident in Henderson. But from that tragedy, his parents created a powerful gift in his memory — powerful because it’s so simple.
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The discomfort: Hey! He’s a lover, not a fighter The zone: He takes lessons in the Israeli martial art of Krav Maga So there I was, eating a Cool Mint Chocolate Clif Bar, anxiety forcing my heart into thumping beats, unsure if it was nerves, the green tea in the Clif Bar, or the three cups of coffee (decaf, but loads of sugar) I consumed sitting all day in a social media marketing seminar. I was 15 minutes away from leaving the comfort of my home office to drive to Krav Maga Las Vegas’ Henderson location for my first, free, drop-in class.
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It’s the holiday season, and you know what that means: It’s the season of the usual rash of articles about how Southern Nevadans have all the charitable spirit of a cold sore. Yeah, thanks for the total downer, media, by reminding us that Nevada ranks last in the nation for volunteerism — oh, and that we’re pretty awful, too, when it comes to philanthropic giving.
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Keeps on giving Some of the best gifts can’t be wrapped We’ve all had the joy of shopping for a kvetcher moaning about the wasteful nature of human beings, the coming apocalypse courtesy of peak oil and the moral outrage of importing plastic goods from China. As for that purist who eschews the notion of all material goods, consider the gift not of a thing, but of an experience.
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‘Musical engagement enhances learning.’ Once upon a time — OK, four years ago — about 80 miniature violins were gathering dust in a Sunrise Acres Elementary School closet.
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new and notable Walls could talk Have you, like us, been thinking: I would kill to paper my exercise room in vintage Soviet-era art? WALLS 360 is a locally based business that specializes in stickable wall graphics—er, make that high-resolution, Ultrachrome digital ink prints on “premium self-adhesive re-positionable fabric paper.” That means everything from rose decals for a princess bedroom to life-size Star Trek characters for your socially awkward friend.