tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77084490012915793062024-03-14T02:39:36.531-05:00Yerington MondaysOriginal "Yerington Monday" posts from FacebookAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14245843020446561585noreply@blogger.comBlogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708449001291579306.post-18037574806162903362018-01-27T17:33:00.001-06:002018-01-27T17:33:42.896-06:00COCB: On The Way To Becoming - Google Slides<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wbMItIJMqMw" width="459"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14245843020446561585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708449001291579306.post-40010952381558609792016-08-15T15:55:00.001-05:002016-08-15T15:55:35.355-05:00Yerington Monday: First Friends<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The YHS Class of 1966 had it 50-Year Class Reunion Saturday August 13, 2016 at the Pioneer Crossing in Yerington. We all had a wonderful time and renewed old friendships. This was a speech that I read to our class and at their request I am posting it for all of them.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We peaked at each other from behind our mother’s skirts;</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And played tinker toys on bare floors while watching cowboy shows on TV</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We compared our marble and bottle cap collections and traded</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">baseball cards </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When we could no longer hold still, we played hide and seek, kick the can, and red rover. Jumping on our bikes we raced each other and played follow the leader, who often lead us in the into a cloud of fog behind the mosquito truck.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As the street lights came on, we reluctantly dragged home, tired but hating to leave our first friends and begging our mother’s to let them stay for supper or overnight.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the playground we met up with our first friends. We shimmied across the monkey bars, and teetered on the the sawhorses </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We jumped hopscotch squares and knelt in the dirt at circles of marbles</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We slammed each other down at the tetherball pole and chased the boys and girls of our affection at recess</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We learned to wait our turn as we stood in line for games, lunch and to going back to class.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After school and during the summer, the boys joined Little League and Mighty Might Boxing and the girls became the fans and cheerleaders.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We joined Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and 4-H</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We took Square & Ballroom dance lessons (yes, even the boys)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We were awed by fireworks as we swatted away mosquitos.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As we grew and our friendships also grew and our activities changed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We were beginning to fall in love with love.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It became the subject of every locker room and pool hall conversation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every song on the radio, every dance and prom promoted love. Even sports promoted love, as boys showed off for the girls and the girls swarmed over the boys. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our friendships solidified as we shared confidences and hurts over our latest love interest. We dragged Main Street on weekends looking for love. We waited at John’s Cafe hoping love would walk in the door and sit at our booth. We snuck out to Perk’s Slough, Lake Lahontan and Wilson Canyon to party and make out with our love. If we needed a make out place, we needed only to drive out to the cemetery, Anaconda lookout, or go to the Sagebrush Drive In. And if we had no transportation, the Yerington Movie theater balcony would do just fine.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We further solidified our first friendships while pantomiming the Beatles in assembly, marching in the drill team or band behind cows and elephants at the Nevada Day parades in our white Oxfords. We joined the after school clubs that were to promote our future: Future Teachers, Future Homemakers, Future Farmers, Medical Arts,, etc, etc, etc. And despite all this activity we would still get bored. Our first friends were our best resource at those time as we talked, complained, gossiped, and schemed on how to pull off pranks. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We shared our dreams and fears about the future. We were shocked into the reality of the world ahead of us with JFK’s assassination and MLK’s freedom marches. Our boyfriends and brothers were required to register with the draft for the Vietnam War. Our first friendships had grown, but now we had to make major decisions about our lives the would separate us. Ahead lied marriage, college, work and military service. We were about to be scattered and separated. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We all went on to our separate lives. Most had children, many had careers. We had many relationships, some good, some not so good. Each experienced their own life crises - illness, divorce, wayward children, career disappointment, loss of parents and our own old age over the years. And through it all, many kept their first friendships going, while others, because of distance, could not. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over the years, we had many friendships. But now, over sixty years later, we peak at our first friends again, not from behind our mothers aprons but at our 50-year class reunion. We realized how much we have all change, but despite age, distance and life's wear and tear, something has remained constant. Our first friendships have weathered the test of time and they are still standing. Yes, first friends are the best friends and now after all this time, I have come to realize that first friends are also forever friends. Happy 50-years, Class of 1966!</span></div>
<br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By Chere L Brown, August 13, 2016, Yerington, NV</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14245843020446561585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708449001291579306.post-72931631614471145332016-08-08T12:02:00.001-05:002016-08-08T12:02:05.160-05:00Yerington Monday: Fences of Old<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Fences are the beginning and the end of the open range.” -Pandion</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="395" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/RrE43RFkkesbTvDoFbXMHyqaySvUcHouMdnb_yUupzszpLdvIR3o06wimkCKwaPj5CyVH874P_Ju0c4enlCdw87I9ahAW8Xu6wUpCbaJQ1YGdXqXdHWItweP8j0DONA3pSPnXbib" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="640" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faded outlines in the desert, barely discernible now, the earliest fences in Nevada were built of sagebrush, stone, or juniper. Toward them Native Nevadans on the hunt spooked the antelope, half the hunting party hooting and hollering, while the other half shot the animals from behind these makeshift corrals. Sometimes the fences led the antelope into ravines or over small cliffs where the entire herd was trapped and the largest taken for meat. Few native fences survive: weather, animals, and man have tumbled even the stone fences to the ground.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="416" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/eACTYVT48T1WrrqhvzPZb8X3dLRj-kETsrqlIV0T9h-zDCgdZnHy2WrzoWRyAfyvdwT5Xg-1FajqGTFL_y2XB1tDochBi0cDhnPXuYoZVjOFTX78P83pFIVkAiryQi8IX6N_6xC0" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="640" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ranchers in the 1880’s hired Chinese labor to build their fences; these had holes augured in juniper posts for wire to pass through. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="481" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/Pzo1Qs4wTdk8G9bSZC5aCXCfTljT7kTLGp0hsXdxWycfXIvM0OiAOAY2gr77vekflDGvbnibkpXy7NOr-j7S1RgtyAMl2Urkf9Kl63bEaJJXgUZKdZIN78OUgl44h6dwqe9rrN32" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="640" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Later, manufacturers devised barbed wire to string between the posts. Straight post material was scarce in the desert, so fences were built of whatever was handy, even bristlecone pine, oldest of trees. Wagon loads of trees were brought down from the mountains to build corrals and loading chutes, and where the Iron Horse ventured, fences were often constructed of abandoned railroad ties. In the arid Nevada soil, many early ranch fences - bleached by the elements, tilted in the wind, square nails testifying to their 19th century origin - are still standing, and standing firmly, throughout rural sections of the Silver State</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="425" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/sTc_Z34i0dGSibox4wlQX2Yx2NUvrhuhWLevjHZZy5PGisvItzvg0HbECGlME3PH6oEKEtTlMGe_cgzBZ_gC9Ji7IEW21O2rZF9ertneqz8aEcvHp7Bxi7gF9pPTZwYqKiuxs-Dd" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="640" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More recently, the post hole digger has been replaced by the small pile-driver. Steel now marches across the desert, a loss of the picturesque to the functional. And with the growth of cities, homeowners mark their property lines and ensure privacy with fences, both decorative and utilitarian. Perhaps, some day, even steel posts and chain link fences will be nostalgic reminders of the past as invisible shields of laser beams or magnetic force fields keep the herds on the range and screen out pollution and unwanted noises for city dwellers.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14245843020446561585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708449001291579306.post-87108907563062734132016-07-31T23:55:00.002-05:002016-07-31T23:55:50.146-05:00Yerington Monday: People’s Packing Plant<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mining camps around Nevada demanded a large amount of meat. In Virginia City during the boom period, there were no slaughterhouses in Carson Valley or nearby towns. Practically all livestock was driven or hauled to the vicinity of Virginia City, where it was slaughtered cooled overnight. And delivered to butcher shops the following day.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="420" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/KU2nMcwDz5A52nR0gMPHyi3yCjhoqTHeesJdqzJcuwP4hrcd7hwNtRStaM6gdQzpXnhsXiJkGCbvxW31tYmLhpMqCu9-vjKgWPxtCs3NN97caqVVCvM1q0-7rW_UXBWgorlWafIS" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="640" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A third large packing plan was built in Yerington by Louis J Isola and Ralph Mariconi in 1928. The partnership of Louis Isola and Ralph Mariconi lasted until 1962, when the People's Market was sold to Richard Fulstone. Richard Fulstone resold the plant to a group of local businessmen. The plant could not continue to operate as a financial success, because large regional packing plant began to furnish meat to local butcher plants. The plant was closed. All buildings and facilities have deteriorated to a point where the plant would now be unusable.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are no other federally inspected slaughter plants in Nevada. With rapid transportation and cooling facilities available, fresh USDA-inspected meats can be delivered quickly to butcher shops or large restaurants from out-of-state slaughterhouses. The chances of s large slaughterhouse being opened in Nevada are minimal now or in the foreseeable future.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Louis J Isola was born in 1902 in the town of Cosono Visco near the city of Lucca in the province of Lucca. Louis left Italy because he did not like the restrictions society imposed on the individual. He was also sure that he could advance his ambitions better in the United Stat than in Italy. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Louis’ trip from Lucca to Yerington was a harrowing experience. H was unable to speak English but , fortunately, he was helped by strangers. His first job was in a butcher shop. The owner worked him very had and he quit. He took ranch and other jobs to earn money. When Louis first arrived in Nevada, he did not like the climate or the desert. He kept thinking of the mild climate and green fields back in his home in Italy. He gradually lerned to love Nevada’s climate and the desert. He spent most of the remainder of his life in Yerington.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eventually Louis opened a butcher shop where he was in a familiar occupation. An opportunity to purchase a struggling slaughterhouse in Yerington came to his attention. Since he did not have enough money to complete the transaction, he took a partner, Ralph Mariconi. This partnership lasted many years and ended when the slaughterhouse was sold.</span></div>
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<a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/FvzcBHUp1nYpD9AlfrAFRcdzIo5i6Tiqx3qOdBrj33YRXM7e64q8uZwWvzR8wjzjkz-6CdEbYr1Y9nJeISXGsZtfeuZizygS-0rUSUhDXXYrNfr49fxSH9SRzT4UJvqY3TonC-d-" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="217" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/FvzcBHUp1nYpD9AlfrAFRcdzIo5i6Tiqx3qOdBrj33YRXM7e64q8uZwWvzR8wjzjkz-6CdEbYr1Y9nJeISXGsZtfeuZizygS-0rUSUhDXXYrNfr49fxSH9SRzT4UJvqY3TonC-d-" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="217" /></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Louis Isola was a staunch backer of youngsters in 4-H livestock clubs. His interest in youth programs attracted the attention of the people in the College of Agriculture of the University of Nevada, Louis judged many livestock lasses in Nevada and the west. He was considered an outstanding livestock judge.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Louis helped plan the slaughterhouse on the Main Station Farm of the University which is used to train students in meat studies. His reputation as a </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cattle </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">feeder & slaughterhouse operator, plus his willingness to help in promoting worthy causes resulted in his being voted into the Cowboy Hal of Fame.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even after he sold the People’s Packing Plant, he continued his interest in cattle He purchased and fed cattle in a feed yard owned by Eddie Snyder of Yerington.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14245843020446561585noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708449001291579306.post-26441904861813054782016-07-24T10:43:00.000-05:002016-07-24T10:43:03.768-05:00Yerington Monday: Commotion at Como <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Discovery of gold in the Pine Nut Mountains of western Nevada lead to a mild rush after June, 1860, which lead to the establishment of a district that was called Palmyra. By autumn of 1860, a few merchants set up to provide services to about 100 miners living and working in the district. In 1861, Palmyra gained a post office and improved merchant services. New discoveries a short distance away lead to the platting of Como townsite and Palmyra waned. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tunnels were opened and a small mill was built by J.D. Winters. It proved to be unsuccessful and Winters later drifted to Virginia City and became an employee of the Yellow Jacket Mine. Another Como citizen was Alf Doten, who eventually went on to fame on the Comstock. Other ventures in Como ensued and soon stock of the district was peddled on the streets of Virginia City. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The business sector of the camp had all the usual amenities of frontier life. A highlight of town was the Cross Hotel, a first class establishment with a parlor, bar, carpeted rooms, and a meeting hall. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Como had a newspaper, the Como SENTINEL, which was published for all of 13 issues between April 16, 1864 to July 9, 1864 by T.W. Abraham and H.L. Weston (the latter formerly of the Petaluma [CA] JOURNAL. After the last issue of the Como SENTINEL, Abraham and Weston went on to publish the Lyon County SENTINEL at nearby Dayton. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Como's post office operated during two periods, opening originally December 30, 1879 and closing January 3, 1881. During a subsequent revival of the old camp, another post office operated between May 29, 1903 to February 28, 1905. Como remained quiet afterwards. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A notable event came during the 1930's when a large mill was built, only to shut down immediately thereafter when it was found there was no ore to work. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today Como is totally abandoned and rests only some foundations of the old buildings. In addition to abandoned mines and ghost ruins of the old town, the region also contains Indian caves and petroglyphs.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14245843020446561585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708449001291579306.post-58975757409889696122016-07-09T22:35:00.000-05:002016-07-09T22:35:09.698-05:00Yerington Monday: The Story of the Wabuska Mangler<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nevada Magazine, No 2. 1977</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Things were quiet in Carson City, which was not so good for newspaper circulation. There wasn’t even a fight worth mentioning to stir up a little reader interest. And thereby hangs the tale of the newspaper that never was.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pioneer publishers dreaded peace and quiet, which yielded nothing worth reading about and thus hastened bankruptcy and oblivion. Without world-hopping wire services to draw color from, their writers were often compelled (and encouraged) to manufacture news, or at least something with entertainment value. </span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Such a lull was becoming a great worry around the office of the Carson Appeal. A new gimmick would have to be dreamed up fast to persuade people to part with their money, preferably something everybody enjoyed reading about, like a nice juicy feud. Accordingly Carson residents were soon attracted to blazing headlines attacking the scurrilous editorial policies of a rival newspaper, the Wabuska Mangler, whose editor was billed as the meanest, vilest low-down skunk in the business, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strong words weren’t strong enough to describe the doings of the dastard, the Appeal assured its reinterested readers. Accuse him of any crime in the book, call him the most forbidden name, and justice would merely cry out at the understatement. But the Appeal was unafraid of this monster, the flaming sword of the free press would take on the villain, however ruinous the consequences; responsibility and all that. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This volley was just the start of a beautiful, artful, lovable campaign which stirred the hearts of spirited citizens who were once more plunking down coin of the realm for papers It almost seems a shame that this wretched rag, the infamous scandal sheet, the wicked Wabuska Mangler (as the colorful and rather outrageous name implies) never existed outside of the office of the Appeal.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="512" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/6kBTI2w_7DdJzh2f0JJ37_CDuRWNhab388TpKApPiR7brvT6D9ndgY35jvKshmFjxjAs0lgih1c6FNUBKHvP6PoV8P3ux7_Pg-e8wL7PboIFy4r9jxE4BCwAtiXtc7rwT2XYsTxg" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="640" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now the town of Wabuska was real enough, of course, and it was sufficiently remote from Carson for safety’s sake, being way over in Lyon County. So for several years the “feud” continued, the Appeal bravely doing battle for the truth and righteousness against the forces of darkness as represented by the mythical Mangler. When the thing grew tiresome, the blackguard editor was reported as having skipped the country, although a tales persists that Carson residents were putting together a necktie party to lynch the mangy cuss. But then, this could just be a hoax on top of a hoax, a thing now unheard of in western humor.</span></div>
<br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In any case, even today if you ask around Washoe about pioneer newspapers you’ll probably find somebody who will cite the Wabuska Mangler as the worst example in journalistic history, which is pretty good mileage for a homegrown hoax that was cooked up to stall off starvation for a couple of hungry newspapermen.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14245843020446561585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708449001291579306.post-77856137751541886362016-07-09T20:39:00.000-05:002016-07-09T20:39:41.008-05:00Yerington Monday: What’s With Those Big Hillside Initials? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Giant capital letters adorn hillsides near many cities and towns in the American West. These letters, typically constructed of whitewashed or painted stones or of concrete, are cultural signatures. They serve as conspicuous symbols of community and institutional identity, and they represent an idea, perhaps traceable to a single point of origin, that diffused quickly and widely early in this century. The letters are distinctive vernacular landmarks in the western states, rarely occurring elsewhere. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Both environment and culture have affected the distribution of those hillside monograms. An accessible and fairly steep slope, undeveloped and preferably treeless, is the first requisite. If it is public land, such as Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, park, or school property that is protected from urban encroachment, so much the better. Many western communities can meet these requirements admirably.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hillside symbols have a surprisingly respectable history dating back some eighty years. To a remarkable extent the letters can be traced to a single decade, 1905-1915. They have almost always been built and maintained by college or high-school student groups. The earliest letter-building projects were devices for defusing increasingly violent inter-class rivalries, which college administrators and faculty found difficult to control. It apparently worked. Making a letter was often a gala community event, an organized "men's workday" declared a formal school holiday, with picnic lunch and supper provided by campus women.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once built, letters quickly became symbols of community and school, instant traditions shouting "Here we are!" Illuminating them before major sports contests or for homecomings began early. At such times, when tensions between rivals ran high, the letters were prime targets for raids so they were zealously defended through the night with bonfires and beer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The University of California's "Big C" on the Berkeley hills is the granddaddy of them all. Only seventy feet high, the Berkeley letter has been dwarfed by many others over time, but it has persisted. It was built by the freshman and sophomore classes over two rainy days in the spring of 1905 and finished in time for official recognition at the annual Charter Day celebration. The traditional brawl between the two classes had degenerated into something close to guerrilla warfare, a kind of primal savagery known as "the rush" that was likened by one contemporary to Anglo-Saxon raids on the British coast. The intramural battles were receiving increasingly lurid press coverage, discrediting the university throughout the state. Legislative appropriations and alumni giving were threatened. In a well-publicized truce, the classes of '07 and '08 agreed to end the rush and instead devote their energies to constructing a masonry </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">C</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on the steep, grassy slope behind the campus. Maintaining the six-inch-thick slab of concrete, painted yellow, was a job assigned to succeeding freshman classes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is no apparent precedent for the Big C. Announcement of the plan to build it brought a storm of community and faculty protest. Opponents denounced it as unworthy of the university, claiming it would "for all time disfigure the sensuous beauty of the hills," and would "slide and become an eyesore." The color yellow "wouldn't harmonize." The mathematics professor A. W. Whitney protested that "living in contemplation of this kind of vulgarity students would soon be painting </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">C</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'s on Yosemite's El Capitan. And why not? Why is it worse? The Berkeley Hills in their way are just as fine as Yosemite.... One thousand times as many people look on them....They front on the Orient....Our wantonness would be in the eyes of the world. We cannot afford to stand for such vulgarity." Charles Mills Gayley, the distinguished professor of English literature, had an alternative: "A great </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">C</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of acacia trees, with their burst of golden spring bloom. Or something else, anything." Both the influential Hillside and the Town and Gown clubs protested by petition. The </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">C</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> would offend many of their members, citizens who had long been loyal friends and benefactors of the university.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Three more college letters appeared in 1908. One was </span><a href="http://www.deuceofclubs.com/mts/golden_co.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">one-hundred-foot </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">M</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on Mount Zion behind the Colorado School of Mines at Golden</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Here, as elsewhere, engineering students and faculty played a prominent role in the planning, and the construction day was declared a school holiday. Laying out the emblem on a twenty-three-degree slope so that it would be seen from the town as a perfect block letter was described as an instructive lesson in descriptive geometry. In true miner fashion, burros were used to move tools and materials to the construction site. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">High schools and a few junior colleges and grade schools followed the collegiate example, and today their letters vastly outnumber college letters. Several early ones were in Nevada, including the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at Elko, built in 1916 to honor a physical-education instructor who had lost his life in a snowstorm while leading a student group in the nearby Ruby Mountains. </span><a href="http://www.deuceofclubs.com/mts/tonopah_nv.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at Tonopah</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is lighted by a spotlight on the roof of the Mizpah Hotel. It celebrated the Nevada State Championship won by the Tonopah girls' basketball team in 1917. At Winnemucca, where a handsome </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">W</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was built to honor another girls' championship team in 1920, a trust fund was set up to pay for periodic whitewashing, but, according to a recent report, "no one knows where the money is."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other early Nevada high-school letters include the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BM</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at Battle Mountain (1925), the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">V</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at Virginia City (1926), the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at Panaca, Lincoln County (1927), and the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at Lovelock (1931). The </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">S</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at Sparks became a focus of controversy in the summer of 1985 when the ski manufacturer, Salomon-American, acquired the land on which it stood and redesigned the fifty-year-old symbol to resemble its corporate logo. In the face of community complaints, the company apologized and restored the letter to its original form.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In some cases, the new spray-can graffiti artists find these letters irresistible targets, to the dismay of student groups responsible for their upkeep. In earlier years students sometimes placed class numerals alongside letters. In August 1966, the citizens of Reno, Nevada, awoke to find the university's seventy-five-year-old </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">N</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> prefixed by a Greek sigma, the work of a college fraternity. Raids by groups from rival institutions armed with aerosols or cans of paint still enliven campus life.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The letter on the mountain is a subject without a literature. The map represents the author's personal observations over several years as well as the gleanings of students and associates who have joined the letter game. Additional examples will assuredly turn up. I predict that most will lie west of the hundredth meridian.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These monograms, usually of respectable antiquity, are part of community and landscape history. To some extent they reflect the spirit of the time when most were constructed, before environmental preservation and esthetics became concerns in our culture. Virtually all have been produced by student groups and represent their institutions. The letters remain a conspicuous and durable part of the identity of many communities, fortifying institutional allegiances and the sense of place. Occasionally they arouse antipathies among those who are offended by the intrusion of the human hand on often dramatic scenery. However, for travelers in the arid West the letters are "anchors to the eye," adding diversity and interest to the natural beauty of the landscape.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hillside Letters in the Western Landscape by James J. Parsons</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Partial Reprint courtesy of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Landscape</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, vol. 30, No. 1, 1988.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A mysterious ‘A’ written into a Nevada hillside beside the permanent ‘N’ was discovered to be part of a love message (Picture: KOLO News)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you’re trying to win back an ex you might send flowers, a heartfelt mix tape or even try the classic stand-outside-the-house-and-shout-to-the-window move – but this wasn’t enough for one Nevada man.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For 100 years, a hill near Peavine Mountain in Reno, Nevada, has had a large ‘N’ etched in white rocks as a symbol for the University of Nevada.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unfortunately, after spending five hours writing the letter ‘A’ in chalk next to the ‘N’, he got tired and left.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lazy lover: Brent Wilbur tried to win back his ex with the hillside message – but tiredness took over ‘I rented a truck and bought a palette full of marking chalk, actually I bought all they had left,’ he told local media.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘I was trying to write a woman’s name, “Tina”. I started with the ‘A’ and just ran out of steam.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘I owe her a great many apologies for the way I treated her,’ he added.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Luckily for Brent, local authorities have since said the letter does not violate any state codes and the University of Nevada believe nature will wash away the ‘A’ in its own time.</span></div>
<a href="http://metro.co.uk/author/sarah-kerr/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #ea6400; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sarah Kerr for Metro.co.uk</span></a><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.3333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Saturday 23 Nov 2013 12:18 pm</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14245843020446561585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708449001291579306.post-54150571902838245072016-07-04T19:01:00.001-05:002016-07-04T19:01:24.913-05:00Yerington Monday: Fernley’s Wigwam Restaurant<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just fifty-plus miles down to road on Alt 95 is Fernley, another city in Lyon County. Every time we traveled to Reno for business or pleasure, we would pass this wonderful restaurant-museum. As I kid I loved it and consider it with fond childhood memories.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The homey and comfortable restaurant features an All-American menu and the decor incorporates Native American artifacts and western art throughout the dining room. The mood is like home.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For many locals the restaurant is a Fernley icon and a place where city and county politicians congregate to discuss affair of state and families celebrate birthdays and reunions.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mary & Moe Royel</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mary moved to Nevada from Tennessee with her mother. She recalled back in 1949 they were “having a hard time in Tennessee.” and a family friend encouraged them to move to Nevada where they might find “a better life.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The restaurant began as a small drive-in called the Dainty Cone in 1961 and featured soft ice-cream cones. Back then, Mary was the sole owner of the establishment. She owned a similar shop in Reno that was maing $300 a day and then decided to expand to the rural are.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wanting to add a room for indoor dining, they went to a bank n Reno to borrow the money to build the addition. The bank said they didn’t loan money eat of Sparks, so the industrious couple decided to build the structure regardless. Mary & Joe traded food and their prized artifacts for construction material. They traded hamburgers for dirt. As well as their Centennial pistols, arrowheads and silver dollars for construction material. “We traded anything we had to get the room built,” said Mary</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Casino</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By 1994, Fernley began a growth spurt and the Wigwam also expanded to include a casino, bar, and more dining room space. To celebrate the expansion, the Royels invited Walker River Tribal member Allson McMasters to bless the restaurant. The grand opening also included traditional Indian dancers from the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe. The Tribe presented Mary and Joe with a plaque for “helping to save and preserve their heritage” through their private museum. The plaque still hangs inside the restaurant.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morris "Moe" Royels</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">August 17, 1940 - April 15, 2014</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morris "Moe" Royels, a well respected Fernley resident and restaurateur, passed away at home on April 15, 2014, with his loving family by his side after a valiant battle with pancreatic cancer.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14245843020446561585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708449001291579306.post-38043242020930867612016-06-26T21:45:00.001-05:002016-06-26T21:45:10.808-05:00Yerington Monday: Brooks/Yerington Hotel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Annie Carroll and May Johnston (later May Archer)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A deed signed January 11, 1906 show the property being signed over to Mary Ellen Brooks for the sum of $262.50.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Following a bit of schooling, she became cook for several area farms. At age 18, she married local buckaroo Romanzo Sidney “Manny” Brooks, who was considered on of the finest horsemen of the day. Romanzo had moved to Mason Valley with his parents from his native Illinois in 1971 and settled on what was known, at the time of his death, as the Old Brook’s Ranch. Long time Mason Valley resident Ed Silva recalled this ranch was located northeast of town north of Manha Lane and left at the fork. Ten years following his arrival, Romanzo and Mary Ellen were married. The couple remained at the home ranch until 1906 when they moved into Yerington.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mrs. Brooks had a driving strength which served her well throughout a life of hard work, various physical illnesses and personal loss. Washing, cooking and overseeing the hotels additions were just the icing on the cke for a woman who was victim of various ailments, including one time breaking a few fingers while working with a window; however this likely became small potatoes when compared to other bouts.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Aug 9, 1913 edition of the Yerington Times reported she had been ill enough to call her sons to her bedside. However, her spirit prevailed, as the next week found her on the “road to recover.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of course not all of her tribulation came from muscle fatigue and illness. Mary Ellen and Romanzo lost three children before 1925. Electa Brooks passed away from a 17 year illness, however as her mother’s daughter, Electa did not allow her illness to diminish her spirit, her obituary noted. They also lost their daughter May Belle Brooks McCulla and one of their three sons, Edward.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Taking tidbits from the day’s papers, it seems a boarding house later took the name, “Brooks Home Cottage.” Amenities included kitchen and dining room; however, in a time when hotels cost a dollar to $2.50 per night and Yerington was beginning its boom as a mining camp, it was difficult to keep space available for every soul in search of slumber.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The “growing transient trade” takes credit for the eventually construction of a three to four room addition to the hotel in February, 1911. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Advertisements in the weekly Yerington Times began to boast of the “Brooks Home Cottage” On could board by day, week or month at “reasonable rates” and enjoy “home cooking and home style” Breakfast was served 6:30-8:30am, lunch from noon to 1 pm and dinner from 5-6:30 pm including Sundays. “Best of service for transient and regular customers” the ad finishes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yerington Times</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> praised the completion of the addition of The “Home Cottage Hotel” on October 7, 1911. It exclaimed that the hotel was “one of the most popular buildings in town with its new addition and fully furnished rooms and meals as good as ever”.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In a short lived publication, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Lyon County Wasp</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">published an article on December 5, 1912 where it reported that Mary Ellen was making another addition to the “Home Cottage Hotel “this time to the west of the main hotel an fronting south.” It continued, “Mrs Brooks has found it necessary to have additional sleeping rooms to accommodate her patrons, hence the new building. It also reported that her son Frank Brooks and Frank Gallagher were charged with the construction. “Mrs Brooks certainly deserves the success she is achieving..”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As this building sits in three distinct units today, it is difficult to ascertain which unit this addition refers: however, as the booming qreq continued to grow, the hints were soon to be made print.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the short -lived publication titled “The Lyon County Wasp,” an article on Thursday Dec 5, 1912 leads an answer when it says Mary Ellen is maken another addition to the Home Cottage Hotel, “this time to the west of the main hotel and fronting south. Mrs. Brooks has found it necessary to have additional sleeping rooms to accommodate her patrons, hence the new building,” it says, adding her son Frank Brooks and Frank Gallagher were charged with construction, “Mrs. Brooks certainly deserves the success she is achieving.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Less than a month later, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Yerington Times</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> reported, “The Brooks Home Cottage Hotel is prospering, if judged by the improvements being made on the property. A new 22-room building is near completion and will give the place accommodations of many more guest. A nice new cellar is constructed of adobe and plastered outside and inside with gypsum making quite an attractive, clean-looking building. The owners of the property deserve all the success that is coming to them, for they are builders.” The new addition also included a storage house and a bar area for gentlemen.</span></div>
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<b style="clear: left; float: left; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><br /><img height="203" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/XBKwlJwCkcc-2uwZnaenSFslwD3--MfQNPNRWqAxBh0A1HdML9dLZm-dv0MMsezdhGH0tGZ_PXnybcWiryWzIj2l0Vkbc8Y_ztbnoOoVUJvhNN9JUW4ANAupYUAe50kmLVniTemr" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="139" /></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Brooks Home Hotel quickly became famous through Western Nevada as “the headquarters for salesman, mining men, lawyers and politicians.” In fact, a rising young lawyer had made the hotel his headquarters and this lawyer, later better known as U.S. Sen Patrick McCarren, continued to keep the hotel as his headquarters whenever business brought him to Yerington.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For many local old-timers, memories of the hotel and its proprietress share a similar thread in describing the rank as a first-class establishment of its day. Even parties at the Brooks Hotel sometimes made headlines including that described within the Dec 27, 1919 edition of the Mason Valley News: “Pheasant Party at Brooks Hotel” caught the reader’s eye going on to describe a “very pleasant” Christmas Eve get together in honor of Miss Ruby McDaniels, who had been a waitress at the hotel for nearly a year and was leaving Yerington on Christmas Day to take up new residence in Oakland, CA. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many local residents recall the establishment as being a very nice place. Lifelong resident Maxine Ford whose brother Gene Trankle was married to one of Mary Ellen’s granddaughters, Lena, said she once ate at the Brooks Hotel with her father. Sh recalls it was very unusual for her to go to someplace like that for a luncheon. Ford also recalls some of the rooms being small with restroom and shower facilities located down the hall.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For others, the place was simply a place to call home until their new residence was fit for habitation. Local resident, Dody Newell (the Dody Balaam) stayed at the hotel for a few months at age 16 during the winter of 1947/48. Her parents, still settling things with their former ranch in California, allowed her to stay at the hotel in Yerington by herself in order to assure she could locally start the school semester. In her eyes, she recall the room bing liveable and a place to call home for a while.</span></div>
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<b style="clear: right; float: right; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /><br /><img height="147" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/bACB_BBSMSZik6rvcBmdw-6-jw0JLUUqV1sbro13kYxAf0fNHFXydmc5_ItUHYKxKeaOrNVvq7qpkTuQIdEQPLEqaqgZfXaeGFFNrYrfuX3qtL86l7vQuW_PxFTMtbHMIn_zctFU" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="195" /></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">The same could be said about local resident, Joe Dini, who lived in the hotel for a time while his home was being remodeled. He recalls the fixtures being antique.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Speaking of antiquity, it is a note of interest in our modern day of political correctness, an old newspaper advertisement from about 1920 paints a somewhat exclusive outlook of the hotel in bragging of employing only “white cooks.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fred and Frank Brooks</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like any legacy created and sustained within the realm of mortality, the torch of the well-know hotel was passed on following Mary Ellen’s death. Next to hold deed was Fred and Frank Brooks, however their ownership was relatively brief. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was only six months prior to Mary Ellen’s passing that she deed the hotel to Frank who, just 24 days after his mother's passing deeded the property to Fred. The next summer, on July 18, 1949, the hotel was deeded to William H. and S Jane Tretheway.</span></div>
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<a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/AOZ0KdMXJBtZV4RiCFpV1KUrW2ud3vbdIR5bGBc7HjUht08c7Rp05DHv2f6AtIIvnXK6J2b2Z8EqpN0M5Ko7BnS7b3aV3VglzrL5KclOTlS7JE6X7izrmme4lGOylQEVEMdTRx0" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="249" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/AOZ0KdMXJBtZV4RiCFpV1KUrW2ud3vbdIR5bGBc7HjUht08c7Rp05DHv2f6AtIIvnXK6J2b2Z8EqpN0M5Ko7BnS7b3aV3VglzrL5KclOTlS7JE6X7izrmme4lGOylQEVEMdTRx0" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="161" /></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On July 28, 1949, the Thetheways, who once owned a ranch, which he sold to purchase the hotel from the Fred Brooks. Any and all change to the building following the Brooks’s ownership paled in comparison. In fact, most improvements could be chalked up to improving electrical and plumbing infrastructure.</span></div>
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<a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/wpiKEf0tg5AgXa6Wycb3c60l4Vg6J_9O-SxPoftIEoNGdxszCwPqfkZV13TJwyzAF0Vh6Zm3rV_UZMfjkFBLDukT1en9bzaPdqm2bzDMlvMQEgFSSMKe6k1f56nUCx_FKv-3Iv1K" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="194" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/wpiKEf0tg5AgXa6Wycb3c60l4Vg6J_9O-SxPoftIEoNGdxszCwPqfkZV13TJwyzAF0Vh6Zm3rV_UZMfjkFBLDukT1en9bzaPdqm2bzDMlvMQEgFSSMKe6k1f56nUCx_FKv-3Iv1K" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="203" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bill Pursel recalls Mary Ellen’s constant strive to improve the building, however, he also recalls an attribute, which made her a tireless efforts that much more noteworthy: She was physically small. Pursel said people were often amazed at how much work she performed. In fact, even the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wasp made a passing observation, upon reporting of of the second addition, referring to her as a “hustling little woman.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joseph "Joe" Menesini, Jr. passed away Thursday morning, April 14, 2016 at South Lyon Medical Center in Yerington. Joe was 90.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14245843020446561585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708449001291579306.post-19798160617108299162016-06-20T17:50:00.001-05:002016-06-20T17:50:15.580-05:00Yerington Monday: Lake Anaconda<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the Fall 1978 edition of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nevada. The Magazine of the Real West</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, they reported:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A generation of Mason Valley residents knew the great Anaconda pit as a place of toil, but the next generation will go there for recreation.</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2016, thirty-eight years later, “Lake Anaconda” is still far from being a recreational area. Yet it could happen or it could be drained and copper mining continued. At this point both seem like unlikely possibilities.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14245843020446561585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708449001291579306.post-47213574905591057462016-06-04T20:06:00.001-05:002016-06-04T20:06:03.707-05:00Yerington Event: Indian Taco Sale Buck, Aiazzi Field, June 4 & 5, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14245843020446561585noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708449001291579306.post-17077373368335206552016-06-04T19:15:00.000-05:002016-06-04T19:15:48.459-05:00Yerington Event: Lisa Ellis & Jessie Gregg Wedding May, 21, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14245843020446561585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708449001291579306.post-28221831584659635972016-05-30T01:33:00.001-05:002016-05-30T01:33:50.439-05:00Yerington Monday: The Red Hat Society<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Red Hat Society (RHS) is an international social organization originally founded in 1998 in the United States for women age 50 and beyond, but now open to women of all ages. Today, there are over 20,000 chapters in the United States and over 30 other countries</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Why a play group for women?</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most women give their all to family, career, and community. And they enjoy it. But, along the way, sometimes our existing bonds of friendship gradually diminish. Membership in the Red Hat Society is a rewarding vehicle for reconnecting old friends, making new friends and rediscovering the joy of getting together with other woman for the express purpose of… having FUN! We wholeheartedly promote periods of "recess" from the cares and duties of everyday life in which Hatters gather for no other purpose than to play.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Who are the women of The Red Hat Society?</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our Queens & Members are from all walks of life and have varied interests. As a result, each Chapter is unique. Unlike traditional clubs, RHS may have multiple Chapters in a given town. If a woman wants to be Queen of her own Chapter, then by all means… self appoint! Members who have attained the fabulous age of 50 wear red hats and purple clothing, while those under 50 wear pink hats and lavender clothing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our Queens & Members make friends online through our Members' only website, RedHatSociety.com, and gather locally in groups, known as Chapters, simply for fun. The RHS website provides Members with an Event Calendar for posting and viewing local Chapter events, an online discussion forum where Sisters are up 24/7 ready to chat and a Chapter connection tool that allows any Member to communicate with Queens of local Chapters anywhere in the world! Some of our favorite activities are to go to lunch, shop, see movies, theater, weekend trips and RHS conventions. If an activity sounds fun, we grab our Hats and go!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>The Benefits of Being a Part of The Red Hat Society.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes, we are all about "play," but we cannot discredit the deeper, more meaningful benefits of RHS Membership – powerful interpersonal connections and emotional support systems built among Sisters both online and offline. We support one another in every life stage from all corners of the globe! We are reshaping the way women are viewed in today's culture by promoting, not only fun and friendship, but freedom from stereotypes and fulfillment of goals and dreams. Fitness is the foundation on which we base healthy, rewarding lives. Red Hat Society naturally promotes positive Hattitudes!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mary Louise Combs passed away on April 16, 2016 after a short illness. Mary Louise was a true pioneer, moving with her family from her birthplace in Wheatland, Wyoming at an early age. She grew up in exciting times in a burgeoning wilderness, raising six children, all but the last one being born in Alaska while it was still a Territory, Living through the Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964, and numerous volcanic events, she carried that “can do Survivor/Pioneer spirit” with her in everything she did and with everyone she met.</span></div>
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<br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Celebration of Life will be held on June 11, 2016, at 1:00 PM, followed by a Potluck reception, held at the Community United Methodist Church, 221 Main Street, Yerington, Nevada.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14245843020446561585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708449001291579306.post-12443961653224658172016-05-28T22:35:00.001-05:002016-05-28T22:35:07.278-05:00Yerington Event: Rotary Spring Picnic Dinner & Dance May 21, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over 75 years of service to Mason Valley.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Welcome to the website of the Rotary Club of Yerington, Nevada USA. We are a group of civic minded residents of this area and are proudly affiliated, since 1935, with Rotary International. Our primary emphasis is on improving our community, but we have also been involved in international projects.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some of our early local projects include work on the old wooden bleachers at the high school football field, landscaping around the downtown Post Office building and work at the Wilson Canyon Rest Area (including installing a pump to provide water for picnickers and protecting trees from beavers). When the state highway department paved the center of Highway 208 (better known as Main Street) Rotary took care of oiling on both sides of the center concrete strip. In 1994 we were instrumental in acquiring some of the land for our present airport.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1985 we began a scholarship program that has grown to annually offer four 4-year scholarships and two 2-year scholarships (total annual cost of ($20,000). We also sponsor several other programs for local high school students. Our Student of the Month program honors two students from YHS and one from ROP each month chosen by the school faculty. Our RYLA program provides a week long leadership training experience for several local high school students during the summer before their senior year. A similar program deals with middle school students at the beginning of their 8th grade year. Our RYE program sends local students to live for a year in a foreign country and brings foreign students here to live for a year.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2000 we completed one of our most ambitious projects, the transformation of an eyesore unkempt area into the Bridge Street Park next to the long term care facility at the local hospital. In 2003 we hauled tons of trash from a canyon near town that had been abused for years as a dump ground. In 2007, as part of the Yerington centennial celebration, we purchased and installed the clock in front of the downtown post office. In 2009 we installed the arched “Gateway to the Jeanne Dini Cultural Center” sign at Main Street and Littel Avenue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rotary International is an international </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_club" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">service organization whose</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> stated human rights purpose is to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and to advance goodwill and peace around the world. It is a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secularity" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">secular</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> organization open to all people regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, or political preference. There are 34,282 member clubs worldwide. 1.2 million individuals called Rotarians have joined these clubs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rotarians usually gather weekly for breakfast, lunch, or dinner to fulfill their first guiding principle to develop friendships as an opportunity for service. "It is the duty of all Rotarians, " states their </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Manual of Procedure</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "outside their clubs, to be active as individuals in as many legally constituted groups and organizations as possible to promote, not only in words but through exemplary dedication, awareness of the dignity of all people and the respect of the consequent human rights of the individual." The Rotarian's primary motto is "Service Above Self"; its secondary motto is "One profits most who serves best."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joe married Lola Savini on New Year's Eve, December 31, 1950. They were High School classmates. In their junior year Lola become his sweetheart. They were married in the Catholic Church and celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary this past New Year's Eve, unfortunately while Joe was in I.C.U. at Renown Medical Center. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joe owned and operated Frade Ranches, Inc., Valley Dairy, Inc., and Valley Beverages, Inc., until his retirement in 2015. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Well-known Yerington/Smith Valley businessman Arthur Joseph Giomi passed away at his home surrounded by loved ones on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 after a brief battle with cancer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joe was born September 4, 1947 in St. Mary’s Hospital in Reno and moved to Smith Valley at the age of 3 with his parents John and Jere Giomi. He attended Smith Valley Schools, where he was an outstanding athlete competing in basketball, football and track. He graduated from SVHS in 1965. Following high school, Joe attended UNR, Shasta Junior College and Chico State University, earning a degree in accounting and economics. He also received a teaching certificate and taught classes in Reno for a couple of years before returning to Yerington as a substitute teacher. Joe and his father purchased Ace Hardware from the previous owners and opened the store under their management on February 11, 1972. Joe continued to operate Ace Hardware until the time of his death.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joe became a father from the first time on August 13, 1979 when his daughter Cheryl was born, and a second daughter, Carrie, was born later. Both girls were Yerington High School graduates, with Cheryl going on to attend Pacific University where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology; and Carrie attending Lassen Junior College where she picked up an Associate of Arts degree in Liberal Arts. Both daughters later joined Joe in the family business.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joe was very active in the Smith Valley and Yerington communities where he supported local education – something that was “super important” to him. He was also a member of the Yerington Rotary Club where he owns more Paul Harris Awards that any other Rotarian here and also served as president 3 times. In his earlier years, Joe was also a member of the Yerington Lions Club and a board member and president of the Mason Valley Chamber of Commerce. The Knights of Columbus was another organization to which he belonged. He was a member of the Yerington/Mason Valley Fire Department, a MV Fire District board member, and was recently honored as a Lifetime Member. Golf was Joe’s love when it came to sports but he also played slo-pitch softball locally, and he coached Little League.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14245843020446561585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708449001291579306.post-68213209838264306702016-05-25T01:25:00.000-05:002016-05-25T01:25:27.662-05:00Yerington Event: YTA - Slide Luck Pot Show May 19, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14245843020446561585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708449001291579306.post-66348508305772960032016-05-24T01:05:00.000-05:002016-05-24T01:05:41.022-05:00Smith Valley Event: Author Program Smith Valley - Ronda Eden May 20, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ronda Eden is a very multi-talented person. She is a teacher, an artist, a writer, a blogger, a wife and an endurance horse rider. She lives in Smith Valley and has an artist studio there. Her art uses many forms and mediums such as illustrations, oils, abstracts and paper mashes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Homemade, handwritten newspapers were a noble tradition in Nevada’s pioneer days, but the best may have been the last: Frank Bugbee’s Granite Times.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Granite was a mining camp and post office from May 1908 to May 15, 1909. It was seven miles west of Schurz. Granite was founded when mineral locations were made in the area in March 1908. Shortly thereafter, the Mountain View Mining District was established attracting 200-300 speculators, saloonkeepers, prostitutes and drifters of every stripe. Among them was Frank Bugbee.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Easter edition of April 17, 1908 featured drawings of a colored egg, a chick, a rabbit and a scene entitled “Single Jacking in Granite.” The issue reported that a Mr. Burroughs had struck placer gold while digging the foundation for a building and that Raleigh Baker had recently returned from Yerington with a new pair of shoes --both for the left foot.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bugbee pushed for culture in Granite. He supported an effort to import a preacher, but he warned anyone considering the position not to come ”unless he is a good hammerman and can handle a shovel.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You are the wonder of the day.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In a good old -fashioned way.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And pretty girls a few,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the May 1 issue, Bugbee reported that Dry Hide Louie had amassed so much wealth from panning miner’s whiskers that he had retired and moved to Yerington. There was a plug for the town’s physician, Mrs. Dr. Carpenter. Bugbee recommended that his readers go to her for sulfur and molasses, since spring had arrived. His own mother had given the remedy to him, he wrote, and he could still taste it 20 years later.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The May 1 issue is the last surviving for the Granite Time. In it Bugbee summed up his philosophy: “Stop grumbling. Get up two hours earlier in the morning and do something out of your regular profession. Mind your own business and with all your might let other people alone. Live within your means. Give away or sell your dog. Go to bed early. Talk less of your own peculiar gifts and virtues and more of those of your friends and neighbors. Pay your debts. Be yourself all you would see in others. Be a good man and stop grumbling.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a mining camp, Granite never got beyond the leasing stage, and when its fortunes waned, its inhabitants began to depart for newer, richer diggings. Among those who took their leave was Bugbee. Moving on to Dayton, where he acquired some mining properties, he later became a Lyon County deputy sheriff and served in the Nevada Assembly in 1931, 1933, and 1935. In the early 1940’s, he moved to Yerington. He died there on April 4, 1943, just after his 73rd birthday.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The two surviving issues of the</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Granite Times, kept at the Nevada Historical Society, were donated by Bugbee himself in 1909. They can be viewed on microfilm or in their original full-color glory at the museum and research library in Reno.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14245843020446561585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708449001291579306.post-60682677684387781912016-05-16T00:54:00.001-05:002016-05-16T00:54:18.166-05:00Yerington Event: YTA Artist Reception for Karen Kreyeski, May 14, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Attended an artist reception for Karen Kreyeski at the YTA on Saturday, May 14. I got a chance to chat with the artist and view some of her work, which I really enjoyed. She does lots of portraits and hopes to publish a book of her art some time in the future. Below is a summary of her life in her own words taken from her website: </span><a href="http://karenkreyeski.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://karenkreyeski.com/</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Originally from Montana where I worked in fiber, I designed my own fabric through batik and tie dye, designing clothing and large tapestries on silk and linen. However when I moved to Nevada, I was drawn to paint the stark landscape and the mountain ranges using watercolors, oils, and mixed media. I love their naked human-like forms in this high desert of the Great Basin. I was not inclined to paint what is but to reorganize the natural reality into my idea of a dreamscape. I like to play with the elements of time and space while giving a sense of the place that has so moved me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My most treasured art adventure was a summer working and living in Yellowstone Park at the Caldera Art Center via a Thomas Moran Fellowship. Those artists with whom I have worked post grad that have most influenced my ideology and technique are Bailey Doogan and Francheskaa in Arizona, Joellyn Duesberry in Colorado, Jean LaGassick in Nevada, and Sant Sabaugh Khalsa, Phyllis Schafer, and Gregory Kondos in California</span></div>
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(I think this was one of my favorites. I love the expressions on this lady's face - so much personality)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My professional training was acquired at Eastern Montana University and the Memphis Art Academy. I worked for 30 plus years in art education, simultaneously following my passion for painting. In the mid 80’s I initiated the Northern Nevada Art Educators, was an active officer regionally and statewide for 5 years, received an Outstanding Nevada Art Educator Award and represented Nevada in a national invitational Master Art Teacher Seminar in Johnson, Vermont. Active in town art councils, I coordinated artist-in-residence programs through the Nevada State Council on the Arts throughout my teaching career, which also enriched and broadened my artistic outlook.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14245843020446561585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708449001291579306.post-78217636716979566202016-05-16T00:29:00.001-05:002016-05-16T00:29:34.997-05:00Yerington Event: Meeting with 50-Class Reunion Committee May 13, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14245843020446561585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708449001291579306.post-35115401282954887142016-05-01T15:50:00.001-05:002016-05-01T15:50:21.798-05:00Yerington Monday: Hap Mcgee & The Longhorns<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to multiple news reports of the 1960's and 1970s, Magee's herd of longhorns, split between his Alamo ranch and his property in Nevada, was one of the largest herds in the country. At one point, the herd's fame transcended its status as a local novelty: The Hayward Daily Review in May 1976 quoted Magee as saying that his herd had a theatrical agent to handle its numerous commercial and public appearances.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; line-height: 1.38;">In fact, it was not uncommon for Magee to herd a few of his cattle through Danville to the Silver Dollar Banquet Room (now Celia's in the complex behind the Danville Hotel), so the community could see the cattle up close. One story in the local papers said that Magee once rode in a Danville parade with one of his bulls in the back of a black limousine, but photographs of that spectacle are sadly lacking.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Despite the attention his cattle garnered, Jones' book and many other sources assert that it was Magee's collection of Western memorabilia and branding irons that made him a local legend. Sources place the size of his brand collection anywhere from 1,000 to 2,500 strong. At one point, the collection included brands from Daniel Inman, Bing Crosby, Beatrice Kay, Safeway Stores and the King Ranch.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This and the following lots contain 300 irons that once belonged to Nevada resident Hap Magee who began acquiring them in 1935. the collection consists of irons rom Nevada, California, Texas and as far away as Australia and Mexico. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So famous was his collection of brands and Old West memorabilia, that in 1977, Magee became a trustee for the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center in Oklahoma City.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In his later years, Magee shared his collection of memorabilia with the community by setting up displays to help educate folks on the ways of the West. He would load up trailers and bring the West to the Diablo Bank parking lot for residents to enjoy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Those who knew Magee remember him as an affable guy. Mike Doyle, a former mayor of Danville and a resident since the early 1950s, recalled Magee as "a nice fellow who loved this city and community."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"He was a real nice guy," remembered author and historian Virgie Jones, who has lived in the area since the '40s and knew the Magee family.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Magee chapter of the story ends after his 1985 death in Napa when his wife sold the land to a nonprofit land agency for about $940,000. The agency then sold the land to Danville and Contra Costa County for about $1 million, and a commission was formed to plan and operate the park, beginning the current chapter of the story.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first public meetings on the park began in 1988. For a long time it was an open grassy area and a few buildings, but slowly it has evolved into the popular place it is now. Today, Hap Magee Ranch Park is a wonderful asset to the community. Its children's play area is crowded, the dog park is a popular spot, and the buildings are used to host a number of special events.</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The current chapter is punctuated by the laughter of children and underscored by the importance of preserving history. If the question ever arises about the identity of Hap Magee, answer confidently that he was a colorful character who played an important role in the community. Given the property's history, it seems fitting that the land is making kids smile once again.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14245843020446561585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708449001291579306.post-90139817449470409392016-04-23T19:36:00.000-05:002016-04-23T19:36:48.740-05:00The First Recorded Drug Bust in Mason Valley<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Long before marijuana, cocaine, crack or meth, Mason Valley did have a drug problem. It was opium. Around 1910 the newspaper reported that there was a drug bust at the Mason Hotel in Mason. At the time, the Hotel was run by a China man by the name of Charlie Foo. Apparently he had quite a business selling opium to the Indians who frequented his establish. In the raid, $2,500 worth of opium was obtained. </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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