Youth

UnitedHealthcare and YSA are inviting schools and other community-based nonprofit organizations in Nevada to “Step into Service” by applying for UnitedHealth HEROES grants.

UnitedHealth HEROES is a wellness initiative designed to encourage young people, working with educators and youth leaders, to create and implement walking, running or hiking programs aimed at helping fight childhood obesity.

The Carson City Symphony, directed by David Bugli, will open its twenty-ninth season on Sunday, October 21, 2012, 4:00 p.m., with a concert, "Scandinavia & All That Jazz," at the Carson City Community Center's Bob Boldrick Theater, 851 E. William Street in Carson City. Featured guest soloist is Swedish pianist Carl Petersson.

This fall, the Lodge Assisted Living Community is sponsoring SOLEmates, a month long program to help provide new athletic shoes to kids with The Boys and Girls Club of Western Nevada. The number of children who need help in Carson City is disproportionately high when compared to other communities of its size. Too many kids don’t have life’s basic necessities; some even tape their shoes to keep them together. The goal of SOLEmates is to acquire 300 pairs of new athletic shoes to help those kids run, play and stay active.

It’s hard to find fun things that the entire family can do within a budget.

Come and enjoy a totally fun, totally free afternoon with us at
Tumbleweed Gymnastics, 2231 Meridian Blvd. #2, Minden;
Saturday, October 6th from 1-4pm.

Carson Valley Fit Kids Coalition, Tumbleweeds Gymnastics & Kaia F.I.T. are proud to announce their 3rd annual Fall Family Fun & Fit Day on Saturday, October 6th from 1-4pm at Tumbleweeds Gymnastics, 2231 Meridian Blvd. #2 Minden, NV 89423. This event is completely FREE to the community.

Aspiring young actors have two audition opportunities in Carson City and one in South Lake Tahoe beginning this weekend.

Proscenium Players, Inc. of Carson City, currently in its 47th season, is holding auditions for “A Christmas Chaos” Sunday at 5:30 p.m. and again Sept. 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the Silver State Charter School Performance Arts Building, 900 Mallory Rd. in Carson City.

“A Christmas Chaos” is a hilarious romp of everything that can go wrong in front of and behind the curtain of a community theater production. When the Royal Shakespeare Company – slated to perform the Dickens classic, “A Christmas Carol” – is waylaid, the local troupe is forced to rewrite, rehearse and perform a replacement.

South Tahoe High seniors Emily Barnett and Tyler Myers will travel to Russia to present their field research project, “The Effects of Fire and Forest Thinning on the Biodiversity of Understory Plants in the Lake Tahoe Basin,” at the 9th Annual International Junior Foresters’ Competition. Their project was selected by the U.S. Forest Service International Programs office in Washington DC to represent the U.S. in the upcoming competition.

The Nevada Department of Wildlife is offering a special two-day upland game season for youth hunters.
Scheduled for Sept. 29 – 30, the statewide season is open to hunters 15 years of age or younger.
Youth hunters 12 -15 years of age are required to possess a junior hunting license with an upland game stamp for the hunt.
Any youth participating in the youth hunt must be accompanied by an adult who is at least 18 years of age.

Chili's in Carson City will donate 15 percent of patrons checks on Thursday, Sept. 13 to Carson City Recreation Department youth programs. Print out the flyer above and Chili's will make the donation.
The event runs from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Chili's is located at 3784 Highway 395 South.

I wanted to take some time to send out a special thank you to the awesome Businesses and people in our community who helped support our Junior and Senior Little League All Stars advancement to the Western Regional Tournaments in Vancouver WA and Ontario, CA this year! With out their support this would not have been possible for these fine athletes. Our Juniors (13-14 year olds) and Seniors (15-16 year olds) both Finished 1 and 3 in their tournaments and failed to advance to the Little League World Series but had an experience that most kids never have had.

CARSON CITY – More than $27 million in federal job training funds were awarded to two local workforce development boards by the Board of Examiners today despite ongoing concerns about how the money is being spent by the Southern Nevada board, called Workforce Connections.

Dayton Valley soccer, a league dedicated to teaching the youth in our community the fundamentals of soccer, are holding sign ups for the fall season. We will be at Pizza Factory in Dayton from 10-2 on Saturday August 4th and 10-3 on Saturday August 11, 2012. As well as players we are also looking for volunteers, coaches and assistant coaches. Please visit our website at www.dvsoccer.org

Dayton Valley Soccer has been in the community of Dayton for 10 years.

The summer sizzles as the Mile High Jazz Band Association, Carson City, local businesses and jazz lovers proudly present the 2012 "Jazz & Beyond" Carson City Music Festival, an annual event that began in August 2004. Performances at multiple venues in Carson City will feature more than 100 musicians in over 50 bands, Aug. 3-19 and are mainly free. Music styles include Dixieland jazz, big band, bluegrass, Latin, blues and folk.

Dave Jenkins returns for his second performance at A Concert Under the Stars, a fundraiser for The Greenhouse Project, July 11 with his band, Pablo Cruise.
Jenkins performed four years ago for the inaugural event, which takes place at Café at Adele’s, but his love of music began at a tender age.
“My folks had an old pump organ and I couldn’t reach the pedals,” Jenkins said. “I’d play and my sister would pump the pedals for me; I always had an ear and a love for music.”

CARSON CITY – Local elected officials representing the Northern Nevada workforce development agency have endorsed a plan to restructure the delivery of job training funds to Nevadans, including eliminating the two local boards now involved in the process.

Bring your imagination and prepare for fun as young actors use basic improvisation and acting skills to write and direct their own fairy tale! Using well-known fairytales as a starting point, students will write, cast, and rehearse their own unique version while designing and constructing basic props and costumes. The 7-week session will culminate with a performance for friends and family.

Tuition: $120 ($110 BAC Members)
Wednesdays, 2-3:30pm, June 27th – August 15th (No class the week of July 4th/August 6th)
Instructor: Mitzi Nelson, Location: Performance Hall

The Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation announced that the Boys & Girls Clubs of Las Vegas (Las Vegas, Nev.) and Elko Boys & Girls Club (Elko, Nev.) will both receive a $10,000 start-up grant to implement Triple Play programming. Additionally, Boys & Girls Club of Truckee Meadows (Reno, Nev.) and Boys & Girls Club of Western Nevada (Carson, Nev.) will receive $5,000 Triple Play Healthy Habits grants to provide programming focused on teaching the importance of healthy eating habits and being physically active.

CARSON CITY – The Governor’s Workforce Investment Board today unanimously approved a plan to consolidate two local boards in an effort to free up $5 million in federal funds to train the unemployed.

The move, which requires approval from the U.S. Department of Labor, is opposed by Workforce Connections, the Southern Nevada workforce investment board.

If you did not draw a big game tag in the recent completed main draw, The Nevada Department of Wildlife wants to remind you there are still tags remaining for the upcoming second draw.
There are currently 95 tags still available for the any legal weapon hunt for antlered mule deer (Hunt 1331) in Units 101-109, Oct. 15-28.
The Mule Deer Antlered Longbow Hunt 1341 (Aug. 10-Sept. 9) still has 1,090 tags still available in several different units.
There are also 179 tags remaining for the Mule Deer Antlered Muzzleloader Hunt 1371 in Units 101-109 (Sept. 10-30).

CARSON CITY – Gov. Brian Sandoval said today he plans to move forward with the consolidation of two local workforce investment boards even though several Southern Nevada officials testified in opposition to the plan at a public hearing on Monday.

CARSON CITY – Representatives and supporters of the Clark County workforce investment board today strongly opposed a plan being pushed by Gov. Brian Sandoval to consolidate the two local boards in an effort to make more money available to train the unemployed.

Diving into the Arts is a partnership between the Brewery Arts Center and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada.

IHOP Fundraiser on June 9th, from 4-10pm at IHOP, 3883 S. Carson Street, Carson City, NV 8971. 775-882-6308.

Come soak up some sun at the “Cowboys & Cowgirls” performance during Carson City’s twenty-eighth annual Pops Party on Sunday, June 10, located at the Governor’s Mansion at 3 P.M. The “Cowboys & Cowgirls” program will feature classic western tunes performed by The Carson City Symphony and Chamber Singers, and Strings of the Schools youth orchestra.

Carson City’s Greenhouse Project will hold a plant and yard sale on Saturday, May 19th from 8am to noon. Several varieties of seedlings and small plants will be available including tomatoes, peppers and petunias. The Greenhouse opened in December 2011, these plants are the first crops grown in the facility. There will also be a yard sale of donated items including restaurant supplies and household items. All money raised will benefit the Greenhouse Project.

The Greenhouse Project is located on the campus of Carson High School, 1111 N. Saliman in Carson City.

CARSON CITY – A state agency announced today it plans to consolidate three separate boards that oversee workforce development into one, resulting in $5 million more in federal funds directed annually to helping train job seekers to find employment.

The plan, “Moving Nevada Forward: A Plan For Excellence in Workforce Development,” was released by the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation (DETR).

The Tintabulations Handbell Choir will be returning to the Carson City Library on Saturday, April 28th for an 11:00 a.m. performance! The Dreams & Magic handbell concert will include a variety of music to go along with our upcoming Summer Reading Program Theme, "Dream Big, Read!" including nocturnal motifs and several well-known pieces from Disney movies. This free performance will be held in the library’s auditorium. Call Youth Services Librarian Amber Sady at (775)887-2244 for more information.

The Heavenly Ski and Snowboard Foundation will host the 11th Annual Grapes and Gates wine tasting event on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at the Edgewood Clubhouse’s North Room beginning at 6 pm. Enjoy a beautiful Lake Tahoe sunset while tasting exquisite regional wines and gourmet foods from the area’s top restaurants.

Strings in the Schools, Carson City Symphony's after-school program, presents its 2012 Spring Concert, on Tuesday, April 3, 6:30 p.m. at the Carson City Community Center, 851 E. William St., Carson City. About 80 string players, including public-, private-, and home-schooled students from the Carson City area, will perform several pieces, from classics to folk and fiddle tunes. Admission is free.

The study of climate change through Earth history has produced a wealth of information on the operation of the ocean-atmosphere system during climate transitions as well as the feedbacks that impact the magnitude and rate of climate change on the planet. A public lecture on Thursday at the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences will address some of what has been found.

The Heavenly Ski and Snowboard Foundation is proud to announce that two of our Foundation athletes have received invitations to attend the Junior Worlds to be held in Valmalenco, Italy March 20-24, 2012.