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What to do about wild horses? | Page 4

4th CoNgressioNal DistriCt

By Humberto SanchezThe Nevada Independent

Former Democratic rising star Ruben Kihuen evinced a business-as-usual atti-tude Wednesday despite calls for him to resign following allegations that he sex-ually harassed a former 25-year old cam-paign staffer during his 2016 congressio-nal campaign.

“I’m not resigning,” Kihuen said—three times for emphasis— in an inter-view outside his office.

However, he demurred when asked

whether he would run again in 2018. “I’m definitely not resigning. That’s all I can tell you for now,” he said.

He said the scandal has not kept him from doing his job: “I’m still represent-ing my constituents from the fourth congressional district. And look I was elected to do a job for two years and that’s what I intend to do,” Kihuen said.

“I’ll be going back to the district this weekend and continue to do public events and again continue to represent my constituents,” he added.

His staff said that while some activ-

ities may have been shuffled around, “we are open for business” and “the district office is open to handle constit-uents’ needs.” Still, Politico reported that chief of staff Peter Koltak had cir-culated the resumes of Washington D.C. staff members to other Democratic offices on Tuesday, saying, “I’m hoping to place them all here pretty quickly in other offices.”

Kihuen stuck by his story that Demo-cratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and DCCC chairman Ben Ray Lujan, who have called on the Nevada lawmaker to re-

sign, knew of the allegation in 2016.Meredith Kelly, spokesman for Lujan,

reiterated his position that Kihuen is be-ing untruthful.

“Congressman Kihuen’s statement is not true. We were presented with these disturbing facts for the first time last week, and the Chair immediately called for his resignation,” Kelly told The Inde-pendent in a statement.

This article reprinted with permission from The Nevada Independent. Those interested can email contact@thenvindy.com

Kihuen says he won’t resign amid allegations

Battle Born MediaNearby Gold Butte National Monument was reviewed by President Donald Trump but will not be trimmed for now.

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trump chops utah monument size; Gold Butte not on the listBy Linda Faas

Gold Butte National Mon-ument was not mentioned as President Donald Trump re-moved millions of acres from two massive national monu-ments during his visit to Utah on Monday, Dec. 4. With lavish praises for the wisdom and abil-ity of the people of Utah to stew-ard their public lands, Trump signed proclamations reducing the size of both Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante Na-tional Monuments. Both mon-uments have been the subject of vigorous public opposition since their designations, in part because they encompassed 1.35 million and 1.7 million acres re-spectively.

Gold Butte was declared a national monument by Presi-dent Obama in December 2016, after years of efforts by various groups to gain some form of fed-eral protection for the unique cultural, biological, and geo-

logical features of the area bor-dered by the Virgin Mountains on the north, Arizona state line on the east, Virgin River on the west, and Colorado River on the south. As designated, Gold Butte National Monument com-prises an area of nearly 297,000 acres of public land, managed by the federal Bureau of Land Management.

Governance of Gold Butte area has been hotly contested for years. While people speak of the wonderous qualities of Gold Butte and agree it is a place that must be preserved for future generations, the proclama-tion of the national monument raised serious questions of ac-

cess to water rights for both the Virgin Valley Water District (VVWD) and the City of Mes-quite.

By recent estimate, the Virgin Valley population will outgrow its groundwater supply in about 20 years and will need to tap new water sources to meet the needs of the area. Virgin Valley Water District, responsible for supplying Mesquite and Bun-kerville with water, has rights to 2,200 acre feet of water per year in the form of springs on the Virgin Mountains. VVWD also owns groundwater rights and river water shares, but those springs are water sources marked for Mesquite’s ex-panded population in the future. The 2016 boundary line drawn for the monument enclosed five of the six springs that comprise VVWD water rights.

VVWD had provided very specific verbiage to Senator

> See MONUMENTS, Page 2

Zinke didn’t suggest changes to 17 other us monuments including basin and range in southeastern Nevada.

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loose wire to blame for sunday power outageBy Dave Maxwell

A power outage at a trans-mission pole somewhere in the Jumbo Lake area knocked power out for about two hours in all of Lincoln County Sunday afternoon, and a little bit longer in the Mt. Wilson, Dry Lake area.

Occurring approximately at 3:20 p.m. and lasting un-til around 5:40 p.m., Lincoln County Power District General Manager Dave Luttrell said the outage was caused by “a ground wire breaking loose from the power and shorting out one of the main 69 kV transmission lines.”

He explained a ground wire runs along the side of the pole to the ground. “It is stapled to the pole. The high winds we were experiencing pulled it loose and it touched a live wire.”

He explained further that the power poles in the area where the outage occurred are from 1936, “and the ground wire is there for lightning protection and shunting to ground. But the staples that hold the wire to the pole are the same age and as the poles get older and dry out, the staples pull loose. Each one is a little bigger than a fence post staple, but similar in appearance. On this pole,

the high winds just worked the wire loose.”

Maintenance work to replace the original poles has been go-ing on for several years, but can only be done when the district has money in the budget. “It’s a section we haven’t gotten to yet,” Luttrell said, “right above a section we are currently working on.”

He said repair time Sunday evening was relatively short. “It was quite an easy fix. Most of the time involved was due to finding where the outage was. Alamo Power helped us locate and pinpoint the general area. With that in mind, we were able to reroute some power and re-store Coyote Springs and West-ern Elite within about half an hour.”

Following that, Luttrell said, “Then it was just having two of our workers patrol from pole to pole in a given area checking for the problem until they found it and made the necessary re-pairs.” There is about 500 feet between each pole.

He said restoring power to the majority of the rest of the county came after about two hours. “It did take a bit longer, about another hour, for cus-tomers north of Pioche at Mt. Wilson, Lake Valley and Gey-ser Ranch.”

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sheriff ’s department welcomes new facesBy Dave Maxwell

A couple of new hires have helped relieve a bit of the staff shortage at the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department. Sheriff Kerry Lee reported Ryan Lloyd and Alex Grantham, both grad-uates of Lincoln County High

School, have been added to his list of employees.

Lloyd is completing his field training to become a Category I officer. “He will be doing that for about 12 weeks before be-ing able to go out on his own,”

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candidate makes stop in countyBy Mary Cordle

Republican Jeff Miller, running a grassroot campaign for the U.S House in Nevada’s 4th Congressional District, stopped in Caliente at the Olson Senior Center last Thursday afternoon, talking to people and joining them for lunch.

Born in Arkansas, Miller moved to Nevada in 2001 to Sun Valley, then to Winnemucca and later landing in North Las Vegas. He says because of that he knows both sides of the story.

“I know what it’s like in the rural and what it’s like to be in the city, Las Vegas, Clark County, places that I love; I live there now. They’ve been like a big boat anchor to the rest of the state. They take and take until rules have been forgotten. Now we have a chance to do things dif-ferent.”

Miller said he is self-funding right now.

“A lot of sweat equity, getting out, put-ting the hard work in building relation-ships and networking one on one. At the end it comes down to the voters. Money doesn’t vote, people vote.”

The candidate is seeking to get out and reach the people in the rural areas.

He said he wants to get out and go and

meet the people and planned to go and visit the stores in Caliente, letting them know he is accessible to the people. He also plans on coming back and having public meetings.

“I understand Nevada, not just one side of it. I understand the needs of District 4. I am truly the best man to elect to Congress to represent you in Nevada.”

Mary CordleCandidate Jeff Miller has lunch and visits with residents at the Olson Senior Center in Caliente last Thursday. Miller is a candidate for the U.S. House in Ne-vada’s 4th Congressional District.

Reid’s office that was expected to be in-cluded in any federal law or proclama-tion concerning the area, and worked in cooperation with those crafting designa-tions so that the valley would be assured access to those future water sources. The final monument proclamation, however, included different verbiage that allowed varying interpretation. Thus, when public comment was sought on the new monument, VVWD requested that the monument boundary be moved south of the Virgin Mountain ridgeline to exclude the valley water sources. (See map)

President Trump directed Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to review over 20 national monuments early in 2017, cit-ing federal overreach in the formation of some national monuments designated by earlier presidents. National monuments have been formed by presidential decree since the early 1900s. The Antiquities Act of 1906 was passed by Congress to allow the president to set aside areas of special cultural, biological, geological interest to be protected. The original stated intent was to designate “the smallest area com-patible and management of the objects to be protected.” The act has been the ba-sis of formation of almost 200 national monuments of varying size and purpose. Later presidents have amended monu-ment boundaries 18 times.

Zinke agreed with VVWD’s request for access to its water rights, and in his summary report to Trump, he recom-mended that Gold Butte be one of nine national monuments placed under con-sideration for change.

Subsequently, Trump, invoking the 1906 Antiquities Act, changed the boundaries of Utah’s monuments. The announced change of Utah monuments cannot be construed as probable pres-idential action in regard to Gold Butte National Monument.

Zinke didn’t suggest changes to 17 other US monuments including Basin and Range in southeastern Nevada.

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obituaries

patriCia aNN settlesPatricia Ann Settles passed away

peacefully November 25, 2017 in Caliente. She was born Patricia Ann Wil-son on November 13, 1937 to Mur-rell Wilson and Francis Bonn in Louisville, Ken-tucky. She was an administrative as-sistant for Execu-tive West Proper-ties in Louisville, Kentucky. She

married the late Joseph Marion Settles to whom she later divorced. They had one son, John Joseph Settles. She moved to Panaca in 1981 to be a caregiver for her mother.

Pat (Nana to her grandchildren), loved life. She had many friends in Panaca and the surrounding communities. Her fa-vorite activity was spending time with her grandchildren. A favorite memory is them coming from school to eat lunch with her during the day. She was proud of them in every way. Most recently she loved watching Jessica in theatrical pro-ductions. She was an avid reader and was a Yahtzee, Bingo and crossword puzzle fanatic.

She is survived by her only child, John Settles and her three grandchildren: Jo-seph (23), Jaden, (19) and Jessica (17)

As per her wishes, there will not be a funeral. She will be laid to rest in the Panaca Cemetery under the direction of

Southern Nevada Mortuary. Online con-dolences can be made at www.snmortu-ary.com.

ChristiNe eDith williamsChristine Edith Williams, age 72,

passed away on November 21, 2017 in Panaca, Nevada. She was born January

7, 1945 in Basing-stoke, England to Roy and Rose-mary Devene Wil-liams. The daugh-ter of an English mother and a U.S. Army Captain, Christine grew up in Germany and moved to the United States in the late 1950’s.

Christine was a model, actress, and Playboy Centerfold (Miss October 1963), as well as an artist and horse trainer. She was a creative woman who loved art, his-tory, animals, and rock ‘n’ roll music. She also loved the desert at night, and no-body could make a more delicious spin-ach lasagna!

Christine is survived by her identical twin daughters, Jamie Leigh Gardner and Rebecca Lynne Goodrich, age 37, and two grandsons, Grant Steven Goo-drich and Brady Michael Goodrich, ages eleven and nine.

Arrangements are being handled un-der the direction of Southern Nevada Mortuary. Online condolences can be made at www.snmortuary.com.

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emergency Management coordinator search moving forward; candidate names to be reviewed Dec. 18By Dave Maxwell

At the next meeting on Dec. 18 in Pi-oche, the board of county commission-ers search committee plans to submit three names for review as the new county emergency management coordi-nator.

Committee member Nathan Katschke emphasized that the position being filled will be an emergency management coor-dinator who will also have oversight of the Lincoln County Fire District. “It’s not fire chief, it’s an emergency manage-ment coordinator first, and the fire dis-trict oversight included.”

Current coordinator and district fire chief Rick Stever is retiring, effective Jan. 5, 2018.

Katschke reported at the commission-ers meeting on Monday that a six-mem-ber search committee met Nov. 29 to review the seven applications that had been received.

He said interviews with four of the ap-plicants were held this Tuesday. Com-missioner Kevin Phillips requested that following the interviews, the commit-tee narrow the field to three to present to the commission board at the Dec. 18 meeting.

Katschke said two of the applicants showed particularly high level expe-rience in emergency management, but none currently had all the cer-tifications and licenses the state re-quires. “The person selected is going to have to obtain those remaining cer-tifications and go through other spe-cialized trainings,” he said. However, most of those classes are available on-line.

A list of interview questions was pre-pared based upon the committee’s read-ing of the applicants information.

Another matter of concern to the search committee was what the starting pay scale of the position was to be and if the applicants could agree to what the might be the initial amount set. Com-mission chair Paul Donohue said he thought the pay scale ought to be at the starting grade.

Outgoing EM coordinator Stever had recommended to the commission board some months ago that he felt the posi-tion really warranted two full-time peo-ple, saying, “There was enough work for both of them.”

However, the board decided to make the position just for a full-time emer-gency management coordinator.

Public land sale next MondayBy Dave Maxwell

Monday, Dec. 18 is the date for the sale of three parcels of public land adjacent to Hiko and Alamo in Lincoln County. The Bureau of Land Management, Caliente field office, is conducting an oral auction of the parcels, totaling about 15.92 acres, beginning at 1 p.m. in the City Council meeting room at the Caliente Railroad Depot. Bidding on the parcels will begin at fair market value.

County Planning and Building Direc-tor Cory Lytle said the parcels are lands “between Cowboys Dream and Wind-mill Ridge in Alamo and some inadver-tent agricultural trespasses out in Hiko.” He explained those to be small parcels that may be “property in the corner of your field that goes onto BLM land. It’s an inadvertent trespass and the BLM is looking to get those things cleaned up.”

Lytle said sale of these parcels goes back to what was round two in 2013. However, he said, “The original ap-praised prices were so high no one would even bid on them. So we hope that there have been adjustments made in those pre-bid appraisal prices to where it makes it feasible for someone to come in and make a purchase.”

He did not know what the appraised price on any given parcel is, but thought the information could be obtained at the BLM office in Caliente.

Maps delineating the sale parcels are

available online at https://go.usa.gov/xn9uW. Hard copies are available at the BLM Caliente field office.

The proposed sale is in accordance with the Lincoln County Conserva-tion, Recreation, and Development Act of 2004, complies with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, and is in conformance with the Ely Resource Management Plan. Five percent of the proceeds from the pro-posed land sale will go to the Nevada State General Education Fund, ten percent to Lincoln County, and the remaining 85 percent will be depos-ited into a special account for archae-ological resources, natural resource protection, recreation and wilderness planning, and other opportunities in Lincoln County.

For more information, contact Chris Carlton, BLM Caliente Field Manager, at (775) 726-8109 or ccarlton@blm.gov.

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The Lincoln County Coalition met on Nov. 28 at the Panaca Town Center. Eighteen community members and stakeholders came together to share information, coordinate, and discuss issues in the county. Here are the high-lights.

HealtH CareRepresentatives from the WestCare

Foundation, which is based in Hender-son, joined the meeting. They focus on health and human services, including substance abuse, preventative services, mental and physical health, as well as inpatient and outpatient services. They joined in to introduce themselves and see if there are areas where they might be of help. Their website is https://west-care.com and their phone number is (702) 385-2090.

If anyone has questions about Medic-aid, the Panaca Rural Clinic will be com-ing to the Panaca Town Center on Dec. 11 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Contact Gina Byrge RN with the Ne-vada Department of Health and Hu-man Services at (702) 668-4272 or gina.byrge@dhcfp.nv.gov for more informa-tion.

emergenCy PreParednessThere will be a Red Cross training that

will include CPR and disaster training. It will be Dec. 16 from and Jan. 27 from 12 to 5 p.m. at Panaca Town Center. An-other training will happen in January but they don’t have dates yet. Commu-nity Emergency Response Team (CERT) training will be Feb. 11 and 12 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Panaca Fire Department. Contact Christy Blood for more info. She can be reached at (775) 726-3800 or cblood.lcdat@gmail.com.

emPloymentAll those looking for a job can con-

tact Lincoln County Workforce at (775) 726-3800 or email cblood.lcworkforce@gmail.com.

AmeriCorps positions are still open. These provide opportunities to give full-time or part-time service to the com-munity and includes a modest stipend plus an education scholarship. There are three areas of service: community health worker, community opportu-nity worker, and community education worker. Volunteers must be 18 by the time they end service and they must be citizens or qualified residents. Those interested can contact Mary Duff at 775-727-9970 or email mary@nyecc.org.

PanaCa senior CenterThe Panaca Senior Center is work-

ing to get more participation. Without enough participation it will go back to county control. The building is available to rent for events at $35 per day with a refundable $25 cleaning deposit. Lunch

is also available. They would also like to start the lunch program there, but need enough people to sign up. Those wish-ing to get involved may contact Irvin Wright at 775-728-4662 or email drirvin-wright@gmail.com.

senior serviCesNevada Senior Services/Nevada Care

Connection Resource Center will be coming to Caliente every other month for three-day periods at the Depot. Ser-vices include assistance and advocacy; benefits counseling; care planning; care-giver support; care transitions; eligibil-ity and access to services; information and referrals; medicare savings and extra help; veteran service officer. They are working on bringing community partners into rural areas. For more in-formation, contact Riley Kelley at (702) 333-1554 or rkelley@nevadaseniorser-vices.org.

Human/senior serviCesFor December, Alamo mobile pantry

will be on Dec. 13, then in Caliente on Dec 22. Starting January, commodities will be on a monthly basis on the third week of month. Panaca, Pioche, and Caliente will be on Thursday, and Ra-chel and Alamo will be on Friday.

mental HealtHThe school district has intervened on

several recent occasions in regards to Google searches being done by students in relation to suicide. The district is working on an app that students can use to report bullying, suicide watch, and other needs called “Safe to Tell.” The district still has a full-time high school counselor position open.

Those struggling with depression or other mental health issues can be re-ferred to Lincoln Counseling & Sup-portive Services. Contact Janie Rippetoe at (775) 962-8089 or jrippetoe@health.nv.gov.

A 24/7 suicide prevention hotline is also available for those in distress and their loved ones, as well as for profes-sionals. That number is 1-800-273-8255. The website is https://suicidepreven-tionlifeline.org/. Nevada also has a Chil-dren’s Mobile Crisis Response Team hotline. It has been utilized several times by county professionals and is said to be very helpful in responding to youth and families of youth in crisis.

That number is (702) 486-7865.

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what to do about wild horses?

thomas mitChellCommeNtary

Part two of two

In his newly published book, “Wild Horse Country,” writer David Phi-lipps offers his suggestion for what to do about the overpopulation of

wild horses in the West, which are over-grazing the open range: “The solution is mountain lions.”

Realizing that this will leave horse-huggers aghast and cause cattle and sheep ranchers to gasp, Philipps forges ahead, “For decades, the BLM has said the wild horse has ‘no natural predators.’ … But the same people who have long dismissed using predators to control horses as impossible have never made an attempt to understand it. They have likely been too busy rounding up and storing horses. If they took the time to look into the idea of mountain lions, they would see that research on the ground contradicts the conven-tional wisdom.”

Philipps came upon this audacious “solution” after visiting Dr. John Turner at his summer digs in Montgomery Pass near Boundary Peak and the California border west of Tonopah, where the re-searcher observed wild horses and their environs. Turner spends his winter months working in a lab researching fertility drugs such as PZP, which is being used experimentally to dart mares in an effort to keep herds in check.

The book notes that Turner first

came to Montgomery Pass in 1985 in-tending to do research on herd dynam-ics that might aid fertility drug studies. Then he learned about mountain lions.

“The BLM was saying there was overpopulation and there was actu-ally underpopulation, because the mountain lions were just going crazy. This was something totally new,” the book quotes Turner as saying. “The old timers around here knew cats were hunting horses, but no one in the scientific community really realized it was happening, or that it could hap-pen.”

Turner told Philipps that the highly adaptive lions, which weigh from 100 to 180 pounds, had learned to lie in wait near watering spots and would spring on the backs of foals, sinking their claws into the flesh and biting the neck, sever-ing the spine in seconds.

The researcher learned this by at-taching radio collars to some lions and

tracking them for five years. His team discovered that mature horses were too big for the lions but they found foal carcasses near watering holes. In some years nearly two-thirds of the foals were eaten. “You would have some lions eating a foal every other week or so,” Turner told the author.

Philipps also related that in 2005 a University of Nevada, Reno a graduate student started tracking wild horses in the Virginia Mountains. She managed to attach a radio collar to one mountain lion and follow it for 10 months, finding that 77 percent of the lion’s diet was horse flesh. Despite this, according to Philipps, the BLM expressed no interest in the findings.

Meanwhile, the Nevada Division of Wildlife is spending $200,000 this year to kill lions.

“The economic tangle of killing pred-ators while storing horses is mind-bog-gling. The Bureau of Land Management warehouses thousands of horses each year,” Philipps writes. “Each of those horses costs on average $50,000 to cap-ture, house, and feed over its lifetime. At the same time, we are spending millions to kill mountain lions in the West. It is fairly safe to say that every dollar spent taking out mountain lions in Wild Horse Country drives up the cost of storing wild horses.”

While Philipps’ solution has a certain

appeal for being a natural population control method, we suggest that in an earlier chapter he reported an even better and more economically viable solution offered by a Eureka rancher. Besides, foals, calves and lambs proba-bly taste the same.

In 2010 George Parman posted a letter on the Internet, “No, what we need to do, is to let the ranchers and the mustangers take care of the problem, just as they did in the old days, back when, along in the Fall a handful of cowboys would take their saddle horses — throw a bunch of grub and their bedrolls in the back of a pickup — and off they’d go to do a little mustanging. … The horses were automatically kept at reasonable numbers. It cost the taxpayer nothing. The best of the horses were put on the market for people to use and enjoy. The remainder of the older and less desirable animals were euthanatized via a facility that made good use of the end product. … The cattle had plenty to eat. The horses had plenty to eat. Wildlife did well.”

Both solutions make too much com-monsense to ever be tried.

Thomas Mitchell is a longtime Nevada newspaper columnist. You may email him at thomasmnv@yahoo.com. He also blogs at http://4thst8.word-press.com/.

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Accountability Act leaves Congress unaccountable

Isn’t it nice to know your tax dollars have been used to payoff employ-ees of Congress who have been subjected to civil rights, labor, and

workplace safety and health law viola-tions — presumably including sexual harassment?

Under the Congressional Account-ability Act of 1995 congressional staffers are covered by those laws and their employers are no longer exempt.

In most cases in private industry the employer pays the penalties for viola-tions of these laws, but not members of Congress. They get to pick our pockets for the settlement checks.

According to the Office of Compli-ance, taxpayers from fiscal year 1997 through 2017 have shelled out $17.25 million dollars to cover the legal awards and settlements with congressional staffers.

Some of those settlements may well have been for sexual harassment, con-sidering the recent spate of allegations against powerful men in Hollywood, the news media, as well as senators and congressmen and presidents.

Specifics about the reasons for the claims, the person complaining and the person complained about are conve-niently not reported. Therefore, there is no accountability — ironically enough given the name of the aforementioned act — nor means for voters to address how their money is spent and whether they might consider changing their votes under the circumstances, were they known.

According to Politico, California

Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier is push-ing for legislation to make members of Congress personally liable for any harassment settlements. Why not any other violation of the law, too?

“Make no mistake that the fault of the current complaint process lies within Congress, which authored and passed this deeply flawed legislation that estab-lished the Office of Compliance and its burdensome complaint process,” Speier was quoted as saying. “It is our respon-sibility to fix this law and do better for our employees.”

Speier said a Sunday television talk show recently, “I think it was a system set up in 1995 to protect the harasser. This is not a victim-friendly process.”

She added, “One victim who I spoke with said, ‘you know, the process was almost worse than the harassment.’”

According to The Hill, Rep. Bradley Byrne, an Alabama Republican and a labor attorney, is pushing for a law granting the Office of Compliance the power to investigate and subpoena people.

“If they find something is actually a violation, to go actually present it as a case to an administrative law judge and ultimately to get justice for the vic-tim — and not require the person that makes this allegation to go through counseling and mandatory mediation. If they want to do that great, but don’t force them to do it,” Byrne said in an interview.

The Congressional Accountability Act doesn’t make Congress accountable, but some law should. —TM

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By Greg Hicks

So far, this winter is shaping up to be the mildest Lincoln County has seen in a long time; “seen” being the key word here. We expect to see things like snow, ice, and the occa-sional scowl one gets when they’re grateful to be back in their warm home, but real-ize they forgot to grab the one thing they needed at the store. With the exception of a cou-ple snow dustings, the county hasn’t seen any of the familiar signs it’s used to; instead, we’ve seen almost a week straight of above-average degree weather, shorts, t-shirts, and a few con-fused bees.

Snow fell Monday evening for a brief period in the northern part of the county in Pioche’s higher elevations. Panaca resi-dents saw a dreary day of rain Tuesday. Caliente residents said it was just plain cold. Next week looks to be in the fifties again.

Unfortunately, as a result of this mild winter, we won’t be seeing the annual Ice Hole In-vitational and recently added Frisbee Golf Tournament out at Eagle Valley Reservoir. Right now, the current thickness of the ice is between four to six inches. Reported average of thickness this time of year is 9 to 10 inches). Ben Johnson, Spring Valley State Park super-visor, said, “The conditions at the lake have forced us to cancel this year’s event unfortunately. It is still safe to go ice fishing, however it’s just not ideal for ice golf at this time.”

Last year, the reservoir had 11 inches of ice for fishermen and golfers.

Johnson also noted that, if the conditions improve, he will consider hosting the event later this winter.

eagle Valley

Annual Ice Hole tourney canceled

Rachel WillifordLast year, Eagle Valley Reser-voir was frozen with 11 inches of ice. This year’s tournament has been canceled due to lack of freezing temperatures.

Dave MaxwellThe Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge is holding a Grand Opening of its new visitors center on Jan. 24.

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New visitors center to open next weekBy Dave Maxwell

Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge, under the U.S. Depart-ment of Fish and Wildlife, is having a Grand Opening cer-emony and dedication of the new visitors center Jan. 24 at the Refuge beginning at 10 a.m.

At 11 a.m. will be the premier of a new film “Pahranagat Na-tional Wildlife Refuge,” and at Noon, live birds of prey will be presented by Martin Tyner of the Southwest Wildlife Foun-dation in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Other events from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. include chuckwagon stew, crafts for kids, solar viewing with the Las Vegas Astronomical So-

ciety, a photo booth at the historic petroglyph cabin and water color painting by artist/photographer Sharon Schafer.

Acting Refuge manager Amy LaVoie said the new center was made possible with a SNPLMA grant, funds generated from the sale of public lands. “The purpose of the new center,” she said is “to provide an opportu-nity to interpret the Refuge and the valley and get people ex-cited about visiting other places on the Refuge.”

The visitors center is about 5,000 square feet, including the Refuge administrative head-quarters offices that will move into the new facility. “There

are also exhibits along a short trail,” LaVoie said.

“Inside the center,” she ex-plained, “is information about the refuge, different educa-tional exhibits inside and out-side, a theatre to show the new 8-minute refuge film, and meet-ing space.”

LaVoie said “We are excited to show off new technology that displays the great things to do at the Refuge and then get people interested in coming back for another visit, to walk on a trail, or view some wildlife. We’re hoping it will bring people off the highway and from the local community who will want to spend a day or two in Lincoln

County.”Also attending are expected

to be Polly Wheeler, Chief of Refuges in the Pacific North-west from the Sacramento, Calif. office, and some of her staff, as well as former County Commission chairman Ed Hig-bee, and representatives from NUWUVI, six Southern Paiute tribes in the southwest. “There are a lot of Paiute themes in the visitor’s center and the trail area,” LaVoie said. “They have been helping us a lot.”

After the grand opening, the visitors center will be open at no charge Thursday through Mon-day 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., closed Tuesday and Wednesday.

By Greg Hicks

Every January, states across the country reach out to their communities by educating and raising awareness about ra-don exposure and health risks caused by prolonged exposure to it. January is National Ra-don Action Month, and Lin-coln County Commissioners approved a Proclamation last meeting. Initiative programs and resources are commonly in-troduced to counties around the state this time of year, however this year, raising awareness about exposure to radon gas isn’t just a concern; it’s a priority.

Radon is a radioactive, color-less, odorless and tasteless gas that comes from the ground. It accumulates in homes and is the leading cause of lung cancer

in nonsmokers. The U.S. Envi-ronmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates 21,000 Ameri-cans die each year from radon-caused lung cancer, killing more people than secondhand smoke, drunk driving, falls in the home, drowning or house fires. Ac-cording to EPA estimates, one in every 15 homes nationwide have a high radon level at or above the recommended ra-don action level of 4 picoCuries (pCi/L) per liter of air. Living in a home with an average radon level of 4 pCi/L of air poses as much danger of developing lung cancer as smoking half a pack of cigarettes a day.

Out of the homes that have completed tests, Lincoln County has the second highest average

Radon levels a concern for homes in lincoln county

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A map produced by the UNCE shows Lincoln County homes have one of the highest occurences of radon in the state.> See Radon, Page 3

new year’s resolution for estate planning in 2018By Jeffery J. McKenna

While our young children stayed with grandma, some years ago, as a young couple, my wife and I excitedly boarded a plane.

As the plane’s engines screeched into take off mode, my wife’s excitement had vanished; she locked my hand in a vice grip and said, “I hate this. What if some-thing happens to us?” At that moment, I didn’t think it was the right time to ex-plain the intricacies of our estate plan.

I am glad, however, that we had one.As a new year begins, many people

make plans and New Year’s resolutions.If your plans include travel or even if

they don’t, you may want to make and keep a resolution to update or get an es-tate plan.

As an estate planning attorney for twenty years, I have prepared thou-sands of estate plans. Some for young couples with minor children, others for older individuals with adult children or single individuals with no children.

In every case, an updated estate plan provides peace.

Peace comes in knowing you have done everything you can to help ease the often strenuous, financial and emotional circumstances related to death.

I emphasize up-dated estate plan, because very of-ten a plan that may have been perfect for you and your family five or ten years ago, may not now be adequate.

Although you cannot remove all

the emotional stress and burdens that come when someone dies, you can help eliminate much of it. I have told many clients upon the completion of their es-tate plan, “You have done all you can to help make things easier for those your love.”

So, as this new year begins, review your New Year’s resolutions. You may want to add one that can bring peace to you and great benefit to those you love.

Jeffery J. McKenna is a local attorney serving clients in Nevada, Arizona and Utah. He is a shareholder at the law firm of Barney McKenna & Olmstead, PC, with offices in Mesquite and St. George. If you have questions you would like addressed in these articles, you can contact him at (435) 628-1711 or jmckenna@barney-mc-kenna.com.

Jeffery J. McKenna

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Kristina LloydLincoln senior Benson Wadsworth flies above the defense for the shot.

walker’s late three gives lynx first winBy Marinda Lamb

The Lincoln County High School boys basketball team earned a last-second win over last year’s state runner-up Adelson in Las Vegas on Tuesday.

The Lions had an eight-point lead go-ing into the fourth quarter, but the Lynx rallied to tie the score on an Alex Vin-cent three with seconds left. Then Kobe Walker stole the ball and nailed a deep buzzer-beater three to win the game 48-45.

Last weekend the Lynx traveled to Las Vegas to compete in the Lake Mead Hol-iday Classic.

Coach Sean Fitzsimons said, “We’re still learning a lot. Still trying to figure out what kind of a team we’re going to be. I was proud of the effort and proud of how hard we worked. There’s still a lot of little things we haven’t fixed, but

it’s only going to come with more prac-tice time and experience.”

The Lynx played Boulder City for their first game. Boulder City is a lot larger of a school; however, the Lynx were right there with them every step of the way. In each quarter, they were only outscored by a couple points. They came up short, the final score being 53-41.

The next day, Lincoln played Virgin Valley. It was also a very close game. The first quarter started out slow; Lincoln was losing 21-10. After that, the boys picked it up. They ended up outscoring Virgin Valley in every other quarter and were just a couple points behind. Un-fortunately, Lincoln had to fight even harder to make up the loss in the first quarter. They lost to Virgin Valley, 51-50. Noah Smith and Elijah Harr both had 13 points in this game. Walker was right behind them with 11.

Their final game was against Lake Mead. The Lynx were in the lead in the first half. Their shots just weren’t going in. They fell behind. Missed shots and turnovers decided the game for them. They lost 28-37.

Fitzsimons also said, “I think we need a little more court sense. Finishing at the rim and actually making the easy ones would’ve helped us out. We missed a lot of easy shots this weekend. But like I said those are correctable things that we will be able to fix as the season gets un-derway. Especially in league play. I think everyone is all about the same right now. We saw some spurts of people doing nice things, a lot of people attacking the basket, a lot of good things on defense. Still seeing who’s going to start and what our rotation is going to be.”

Lincoln has their first home game to-night at 6 p.m., playing Mountain View.

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Dave MaxwellPahranagat Valley boys coach Michael Strong runs practice for the Panthers. The team is participating this week, through Saturday, at the Comstock Classic in Virginia City.

Panthers finish 3-1 at wells tournamentBy Dave Maxwell

A bad fourth quarter was the undoing for Parhagatant Valley boys in their first game Nov. 30 at the Wells Rural Electric Classic. However, the team regrouped and won all three of their remaining games.

On Thursday though, they lost to Whittell 50-44 after scoring only five points in the final period. In the mean-time, the Warriors had a complete turn-around from scoring only three points in the third quarter and being behind 39-29 at that point to scoring 22 points the last period while the Panthers were cold.

“They just got hot that quarter, and we didn’t play very well,” said PVHS coach Michael Strong. “We turned the ball over too much and did not get a few re-bounds and didn’t make plays in the last four minutes of the game and they did. They hit some tough shots.”

Little 5-foot-7 senior guard Cory Huber led Whittell with 16 points. Nick Bucholtz had 12 and Genaro Mena added 10. For PVHS, Stockton Maxwell had 14 points and Culen Highbe had 11.

But the Panthers made the adjust-ments on Friday and hammered both of their opponents that day, whipping Eu-reka 64-34 and then doing the same to host Wells 58-20.

“The boys played really, really well in the Eureka game,” Strong said, “We had a strong second and third quarter.”

Culen Highbe led the Panthers with 22 points.

Eureka coach Fred Minoletti said he thought Alamo looked to be in “mid-sea-son form already.”

PVHS outscored the Vandals 22-7 in the second quarter.

Against Wells, the boys poured it on heavy in the first half, scoring 51 points while holding the Leopards to only 16. In the second half, things got even worse for Wells as the team went completely cold, scoring only four points total.

Strong said, “Offensively, although the second half doesn’t show it – scoring only seven points – that was probably our best game.” It was a running clock in the second half, having a more than 35-point lead, and Strong used his sub-stitutes almost exclusively.

Stockton Maxwell came back on Sat-urday to score 19 points in leading the Panthers to a 60-20 win over the Elko JV’s at Wells. Strong said, “We were re-ally good defensively that game,” Strong said.

Lewis added 14 points, and Preston Higbee scored 10 for Pahranagat Val-ley. Except for Lewis, PVHS again used mostly second-string players and held Elko to single digits in each quarter.

Things will get tougher for PVHS (3-1) this weekend as they play in the Comstock Classic in Virginia City. They opened on Thursday against 2A North-ern division favorite Battle Mountain (3-3).

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lady lynx off to a strong startBy Marinda Lamb

Lincoln County High girls basketball is off to a good start. Last weekend, they not only participated in but made it to the championship game of the Lake Mead Holiday Classic Tournament. This is a 12-team tournament with quite a few 3A and 4A teams.

First, Lincoln played Slam Academy. The Lady Lynx rolled over Slam with a 52-9 win. Lincoln was able to keep Slam from scoring the entire first quarter. Brooklyn Hafen had 20 points in this game.

The next game was a little more com-petition. The Lady Lynx played hard for their 51-28 win over West Wendover.

Lincoln then played Virgin Valley to determine which team went to the championship. It was a close game. The Lady Lynx had over 10 fouls in the first half, and five of those were on Bryn-lee Wadsworth. She fouled out and the team had to go most of the second quar-ter and all of the second half without their starting point guard. Sophomores Macie Howard and Sadie Soderborg stepped up to fill her spot. Virgin Val-ley was right behind Lincoln in scoring, close enough, that the game went into overtime.

Lincoln kept Virgin Valley at bay and went on to score the winning points. They won 40-38.

Lincoln faced Moapa Valley for the championship. They were in the lead in the first quarter but began to slip behind when Virgin Valley outscored them each quarter. Eventually, the Lady Lynx were 10 points behind in the last few minutes

of the fourth quarter and it was almost impossible to get back the lead. They lost 46-36. Kailey Kelley made 14 points. Sadie Soderborg made all three of her three-pointers for nine points.

Brooklyn Hafen and Brynlee Wadsworth were named to the All Tournament Team.

The girls traveled back down to Las Vegas on Dec. 5 to play Adelson. Lincoln dominated the Lions. Adelson is still building their program, so it was a good chance for Lincoln to run plays and try some new things. Everybody got in and got to play a lot. The final score was 57-7.

Today the Lady Lynx have their first home game at 4:30 against Mountain View.

Kristina LloydLincoln senior Brynlee Wadsworth goes up for the shot.

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Panther girls shine at wells classicBy Dave Maxwell

Pahranagat Valley girls began the sea-son well at the WREC classic in Wells last weekend. They took the measure of Whit-tell on Thursday, 46-17, then had two close wins on Friday, 48-41 over Eureka and 48-42 over Wells. They concluded things with a 47-38 win over the Elko JVs on Saturday.

Against Wells, the Lady Panthers held on to a 24-23 halftime lead. The win was particularly nice because the Lady Pan-thers had lost twice to Wells last season. They had never played Whittell before.

“Everybody is playing well right now,” said Coach Amy Huntsman, who is now in her 24th year at the school. “Each game it’s been somebody different who has stepped up. It’s early yet, so we kind of went into this as scrimmages. The goal was to go up there and come away with things we need to work on.”

Individual scores were not available from the games in Wells.

Two close games with Eureka and Wells highlighted the weekend. In both those games, the Lady Panthers had fairly bal-anced scoring. They hit in double figures each quarter against Eureka and with that advantage were able to hold off a charge by the Lady Vandals at the end.

“I was very happy with that aspect,” Huntsman noted.

And the same was true with Wells. A 36-31 advantage going into the fourth quarter held up for a six-point win. It ups Pahranagat’s record against Wells since 2006 to 10-3. The teams will meet again in Alamo Dec. 14 in the Panthers’ first home game of the season, followed on Dec. 19 along with the boys, for a game at Lincoln County.

This week though, the girls play in the Comstock Classic in Virginia City Dec. 7-9. Their first game Thursday was with Battle Mountain (3-2), then Coleville (2-0) and Virginia City (0-4) on Friday, finish-ing with Smith Valley (1-3) on Saturday.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on the 22nd day of November 2017 Bedroc Limit-ed LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Compa-ny of Las Vegas, Nevada made application to the State Engineer of Nevada for per-mission to appropriate 0.2 c.f.s.(diversion only - no additional duty is being request-ed) of the public waters of the State of Nevada. Diversion is to be made from an underground source (Bedroc Well No. 3) at a point located within the SE1/4 NW1/4 Section 24, T11S, R62E MDM, or at a point from which the NE corner of said Section 24, bears N 66 degrees 11 minutes 51 se-conds E, a distance of 4,291.6 feet (ap-prox. 30 miles NW of Moapa, NV). Water will be used for commercial and domestic purposes from January 1st to December 31st of each year.Jason King, P.E.State EngineerJK/jlPublish: December 08, 15, 22 & 29 2017

APPLICATION TO APPROPRIATE WATER NO. 87497

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on the 22nd day of November 2017 Bedroc Limit-ed LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Compa-ny of Las Vegas, Nevada made application to the State Engineer of Nevada for per-mission to appropriate 0.1 c.f.s.(diversion only - no additional duty is being request-ed) of the public waters of the State of Nevada. Diversion is to be made from an underground source (Bedroc Well No. 4) at a point located within the NE1/4 SW1/4 Section 24, T11S, R62E MDM, or at a point from which the NE corner of said Section 24, bears N 43 degrees 59 minutes 02 se-conds E, a distance of 4,442.5 feet (ap-prox. 30 miles NW of Moapa, NV). Water will be used for commercial and domestic purposes from January 1st to December 31st of each year.Jason King, P.E.State EngineerJK/jlPublish: December 08, 15, 22 & 29 2017

APPLICATION TO APPROPRIATE WATER NO. 87498

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on the 22nd day of November 2017 Bedroc Limit-ed LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Com-pany of Las Vegas, Nevada made applica-tion to the State Engineer of Nevada for permission to appropriate 0.15 c.f.s.(di-version only - no additional duty is being requested) of the public waters of the State of Nevada. Diversion is to be made from an underground source (Bedroc Well No. 5) at a point located within the SE1/4 SW1/4 Section 24, T11S, R62E MDM, or at a point from which the NE corner of said Section 24, bears N 36 degrees 43 minu-tes 43 seconds E, a distance of 5,567.7 feet (approx. 30 miles NW of Moapa, NV). Water will be used for commercial and do-mestic purposes from January 1st to De-cember 31st of each year.Jason King, P.E.State EngineerJK/jlPublish: December 08, 15, 22 & 29 2017

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APPLICATION TO APPROPRIATE WATER NO. 87500

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on the 22nd day of November 2017 Bedroc Li-mited LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Company of Las Vegas, Nevada made application to the State Engineer of Ne-vada for permission to appropriate 0.1 c.f.s.(diversion only - no additional duty is being requested) of the public waters of the State of Nevada. Diversion is to be made from an underground source (Bedroc Well No. 7) at a point located wi-thin the SE1/4 SW1/4 Section 24, T11S, R62E MDM, or at a point from which the NE corner of said Section 24, bears N 36 degrees 13 minutes 48 seconds E, a dis-tance of 6,038.7 feet (approx. 30 miles NW of Moapa, NV). Water will be used for commercial and domestic purposes from January 1st to December 31st of each year.Jason King, P.E.State EngineerJK/jlPublish: December 08, 15, 22 & 29 2017

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Dolan Edwards Insurance - CalienteIndependent Agency. Customize your needsPhone: 775.726.3196

Southern Nevada Mortuary - Caliente“Dignified & Respectful Care”Phone: 775.726.3779

Boothill Bouquets - PanacaOffering fresh flowers for all occa-sions 1278 Main Street, Panaca, NVDanielle - (775) 962-3629Dawn - (775) 962-1983■ Funeral Services

■ Florists

■ Insurance

3R Grooming - Pioche45 years experience, Sandy RobinsonPhone: 775.962.5317 or 702.300.7530

■ Pet Grooming

Jerry’s Johns - Caliente“Use our house not yours,” septics pumpedPhone: 775.726.3189

■ Septic

Dougherty’s Fine Jewelry -Gold-smith Gold/silver sales, manufac-turing. Now offering greeting cards Phone: 775.962.5511

Lynn’s Auto Center - Caliente24 hour towing - We are here to help Phone: 775.726.3191

■ Towing

Nevada Central Media www.nvcmedia.comWeb, print, audio, video services Phone: 775.962.2461

■ Marketing and Communications

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MEDICAL

InVision Eye Center - CalienteWed 9am–7pm, Thurs 8am–4pmPhone: 775.726.3911

MHP Limited - Call Jason Fackrell for all of your surveying needs. Serving all of Lincoln CountyPhone: 702.334.1331

■ Land Surveying

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UPCOMING EVENTS*Get Help With Medicaid- Panaca Rural Clinic @ the Panca Town Center. Monday, December 11th from 11 am - 1 pm. Contact Gina Byrge, RN, @ (775) 668- 4272 or gina.byrge@dhcfp.nv.gov with any questions.

*PVHS Choir Christmas Concert- Wednesday, December 13th from 7 pm-8 pm. PVHS Multipurpose room. The PVHS & PVMS choirs present “Here We Come a Caroling.”

Public Meetings

Alamo LDS Addiction Recovery: Support group meets Thursdays, 7 p.m. in the LDS Church in Alamo. Please use southwest door. Everyone welcome. 775-725-3768 or 775-962-1085. Healing Within, Al-Anon Tuesdays, 7 p.m. at Trinity Church, 463 Cottonwood Rd. (downstairs entrance), Alamo. Call 775-725-3705 or 775-482-4012.Caliente AA Meetings: Tuesday and Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Agape Church, 270 A St., Caliente. Everyone welcome. 775-726-3233.Caliente NA Meetings: Friday at 7 p.m., open NA meeting will be held at the Agape Church. 775-962-3807.Panaca AA Open Meeting: has moved to the Panaca Senior Center, Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m. at Main and Atchison St. All are welcome to attend this open meeting. Call 775-962-1911 for info or directions.Panaca NA Open Meeting: At Panaca Senior Center. Monday Night - 6:30-7:30 p.m. (775) 962-3437LDS Addiction Recovery Program: Support group will meet every Thursday, 7 p.m. at the LDS church in Panaca. (Use north entrance) Contact 775-962-1963 or 962-5449. Everyone welcome.Pioche AA Meetings: Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Episcopal Church basement. Everyone welcome.

suPPort grouPs

servicesLincoln County Child Support Services: Available through the Elko Child Support Office, 1020 Ruby Vista Drive, No. 101. 800-229-4188. Applications may be picked up at the Lincoln County Clerk’s office in Pioche, Pahranagat Valley Justice Court in Alamo or Caliente City Hall.CodeRED: www.lincolncountynv.org and click on the “CODE RED” on the right side of the website. Register to receive emergency alerts in your area for free! Sent right to your phone! Once submitted, put in your address and location on the map, and start receiving your alerts. Or, visit the app store, and get connected instantly on your Droid or iPhone.Lincoln County Library, Caliente, in Depot. Open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Open Thursday 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursday story hour, 4-5. Pioche, will be open Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Tuesday from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. Alamo is open Tue., Wed., Thu. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Mon. 1 to 4 p.m.Panaca Senior Center is available for personal computer use or to check out library books by request. Please contact Torrie: 775-962-

Caliente City Council: First and third Thursday of the month, 6 p.m. at the Caliente Depot.Caliente Beautification Committee: third Tuesday, 5 p.m. at City Hall. Caliente Planning Commission: first Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. at City Hall. Caliente Olson Senior Center Board: third Tuesday, 2:00 p.m. at Olson Senior Center.Caliente Town Hall meeting: last Tuesday of every month at the Olson Senior Center, 6 p.m.Lincoln County Board of Commissioners: first and third Monday of each month at 9 a.m. at Lincoln County Court House, Pioche. Lincoln County Power District: second Monday, 9 a.m. at District Office in Caselton.Lincoln County School District: second Thursday, 6:30 p.m. at District Office in Panaca. Lincoln County TV District: second Wednesday, 5 p.m. at Lincoln County Housing Administration Office on Hollywood Way in Pioche.Pioche Chamber of Commerce: second Tuesday, at Noon at the Silver Cafe. Pioche Town Board Meeting: second Tuesday, 2 p.m. at Pioche Town Hall. LCAT: monthly meeting the second Tuesday of each month, 4:30 p.m. at the Cooperative Extension office in Caliente.American Legion Alamo Post 17: Meets the first Thursday of the month at the Trinity Assembly of God Church in the fellowship room, Cottonwood Street at 4 p.m. All veterans, wives, widows and children of veterans are encouraged to attend. For more information, call K.C. Stewart, 775-962-2523. Constitution Study Group: classes run the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month, 7 p.m. at Keith Pearson’s home. Everyone is welcome to every class. Call 775-962-1407 for info.Freedom 4-Wheelers: Will meet the first and third Sunday of the month at 6 p.m. in the Panaca Fire Hall to discuss upcoming events and ovarian cancer education. All are welcome to attend. Call Kirt or Hope Johnson, 775-728-4795. Masons Meetings: Caliente Lodge No. 38 meets the first Saturday of the month at 1 p.m. at the Caliente VFW Hall. All Masons are invited. Mizpah Chapter No. 19, Order of the Eastern Star, meets at St. John Lodge on the second Saturday of the month at 2 p.m.St. John Lodge No. 18 in uptown Pioche meets the second Saturday of the month at 11 a.m. VFW Post 7114: monthly membership meeting 2nd Friday every month, 7 p.m. All members are urged to attend. 391 Dixon St. in Caliente.Great Basin Amateur Radio Club: Monthly meeting second Wednesday of the month, 6 p.m. at a local Fire Dep’t station in Pioche, Panaca or Caliente. Any questions call Lee Hone at 775-962-1528 or E mail k7nkh@lcturbonet.com. Members will be notified of location by email. You do not need to be a member to participate.

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American Legion Alamo Post 17: Meets the first Thursday of the month at the Trinity Assembly of God Church in the fellowship room, Cottonwood Street at 4 p.m. All veterans, wives, widows and children of veterans are encouraged to attend. For more information, call K.C. Stewart, 775-962-2523. Constitution Study Group: classes run the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month, 7 p.m. at Keith Pearson’s home. Everyone is welcome to every class. Call 775-962-1407 for info.Freedom 4-Wheelers: Will meet the first and third Sunday of the month at 6 p.m. in the Panaca Fire Hall to discuss upcoming events and ovarian cancer education. All are welcome to attend. Call Kirt or Hope Johnson, 775-728-4795. Masons Meetings: Caliente Lodge No. 38 meets the first Saturday of the month at 1 p.m. at the Caliente VFW Hall. All Masons are invited. Mizpah Chapter No. 19, Order of the Eastern Star, meets at St. John Lodge on the second Saturday of the month at 2 p.m.St. John Lodge No. 18 in uptown Pioche meets the second Saturday of the month at 11 a.m. VFW Post 7114: monthly membership meeting 2nd Friday every month, 7 p.m. All members are urged to attend. 391 Dixon St. in Caliente.Great Basin Amateur Radio Club: Monthly meeting second Wednesday of the month, 6 p.m. at a local Fire Dep’t station in Pioche, Panaca or Caliente. Any questions call Lee Hone at 775-962-1528 or E mail k7nkh@lcturbonet.com. Members will be notified of location by email. You do not need to be a member to participate.

coMMunity grouPs

Axia Home Loans - Dennis Schultz“My goal is to get you home. Plain and simple. Let’s work together!”Phone: 702.628.5020

■ Home Loans1130, Irvin: 702-420-0008 or Elona: 775-962-1864.Mobile Food Pantry: Call LC Human Services, 775-962-8084, for more info.VFW Post 7114: 391 Dixon St. is now open Friday and Saturday, 4 to 9 p.m. Visit, watch your favorite program on our wide-screen TV, enjoy a beverage. Try your skill with Wii sports games. Open to the public.GED Testing will be available the second week of every month. Please contact Lincoln County School District to schedule your test, 775-728-4471.Lincoln County Workforce: Ages 18-80, we can help you complete your education, gain necessary occupational training, build work placement skills or find employment. Servic-es are offered to all individuals that enroll. Contact program manager Launa Chouquer, Christy Blood or case manager Jaime Torreal-day at 775-726-3800, ext. 108. Club Radio Net on the 147.12 repeated every Monday night at 7 p.m.

*Red Cross Training- Panaca Town Center. Saturday, December 16th from 8 am- 2 pm. Contact Christy @ (775) 962-2865 for more information.*Bella Voce Choir Christmas concert- Neldon C. Mathews Center in Panaca. December 22nd & 23rd at 7 pm. Enjoy spiritual, traditional and contemporary music of the season.*County Office Closure- All Lincoln County offices will be closed on Monday, December 25th & Tuesday the 26th due to the holidays.

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Several Mental Health First Aid train-ing classes will be put on in 2018. Any-one 18 and older is able to be trained. There is a course for dealing with adults and one for dealing with youth. Training is eight hours over one day or two days of four-hour sessions. Those interested in taking part in this training can contact Ben Rowley at (775) 962-2461 or ben@nv-cmedia.com.

veteransThe Nevada attorney general is look-

ing to have more legal assistance out-reach events for rural communities.

The Veterans Day First Annual Free-dom Festival, sponsored by the VFW Auxiliary, was a success and the orga-nizers are grateful for all who partici-pated.

Veterans support questions can be di-rected to Linda Rollins at (775) 962-1304. Those who have contacted Linda previ-ously are asked to follow up, as she may have additional information for you.

emt volunteersThe group discussed the low level of

EMT volunteers and ways to increase their numbers. The group agreed that if each town had a large pool of volunteers, it would be less burdensome for EMTs. With 20-30 EMTs, a volunteer would only need to be on call a couple times per month. There was a suggestion of hav-ing Las Vegas EMT students do three months of internship in Lincoln County for experience. An EMT class was just held in Lincoln County and only one passed. Someone suggested there be more incentive given to the volunteers such as PERS. There was a suggestion of a tutor for the students taking the EMT training in Lincoln County to raise the pass rate. There are people out there willing to help. It was said that there is not enough word out in the community to let people know of the need for volun-teers.

Heidi Whimple and Christy Blood will serve as a subcommittee to coordi-nate an action plan of building up the pool of volunteers. It was suggested that the subcommittee needs to set bound-aries and start small and then have each volunteer bring a friend who is inter-ested to build the volume of people who are willing to help. It was also suggested that the subcommittee work on ways to decrease the amount of 911 calls that end up being non-emergencies. It was also recommended that the new emergency manager be part of the subcommittee and that the sheriff’s office and LEPC committee stay in the loop on these ef-forts.

drug-Free Communities grantMary Duff and Ben Rowley went to

the middle and high schools in the com-munities and did focus groups regard-ing substance abuse. Preliminary notes indicate kids are concerned about the amount of adult use in the communities and that adult use trickles down to the youth. Kids in sports are less likely to get involved, but there few after school activities beyond sports. Data will be compiled and given out to everyone about what was said by the kids. It was a diverse group of kids involved. There seems to be a misconception of drug use and how many kids are actually using drugs. Similar focus groups will also be conducted with adults. More info will be made available in the January meeting.

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lincoln wrestlers battle at PanguitchBy Marinda Lamb

Lincoln County High School had its first meet last weekend in Panguitch. Five wrestlers participated.

Ben Culverwell did very well in this tournament. He wrestled in eight matches and only lost one, qualifying him for third place overall.

Jordan Free, a freshman who’s never wrestled before, wrestled in the varsity tournament and took one win out of four matches.

Kyle Zierow also competed and earned one win. Trevin Perkins wrestled one match and then Gavin Pladsen stepped in for Perkins and wrestled the remain-ing three.

The Lynx were in Moapa on yesterday and are at Parowan today.

Courtesy photoLincoln’s Ben Culverwell, third from the left, gets third overall during a wrestling tournament in Panguitch last weekend.

said Lee. “He will rotate assignments throughout the county, including the De-tention Center and outlying areas so peo-ple will become familiar with him.”

Lloyd also completed 16 weeks of train-ing at the Academy in Carson City.

Grantham began as a dispatcher at the Detention Center, then enrolled in a

nine-week course with the Nevada De-partment of Corrections in Carson City. She is now working as an officer at the Detention Center.

“Right now it helps to cover our short-age,” Lee said. “It helps to have them to also be able to cover our needs for bai-liffs for the court proceedings. Not fully staffed yet, but much better than we were.”

In other news from the Detention Cen-ter, Lee said the inmate population is a bit down, “not unusual for this time of

year, but our contract with Las Vegas and North Las Vegas for overflow inmates is still going. I’ve spoken to their officials several times and things are going well, just that our numbers are not as high as we’d like it to be.”

Lee also mentioned for people who may be going into the hills for Christmas tree hunting to be sure to be prepared and careful not to get stuck in the snow. However, he added, “right now, with the lack of snow, we’ve been pretty fortunate this year.”

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county seeking emergency response volunteersSubmitted by Rick Stever

Over the years Lincoln County has re-lied on Clark County and Las Vegas for support and resources when any major incident has happened here.

I have been asked what Lincoln County is doing to help them out in time of their need. We have been in contact with their Emergency Managers and also their governing officials. They are aware that we do not have the resources that they require. Their responders have been tasked to the limit. The support

personnel have also been putting in very long hours and days.

I am still getting requests for volun-teers to relieve the support personnel in Las Vegas. This is the one area that volunteers from Lincoln County could help out, but the volunteers have to be trained. We have been trying to es-tablish a Community Emergency Re-sponse Team (CERT) and a Red Cross Team with in Lincoln County. People that have had the training in either of these areas are needed and can volun-teer to help when larger incidents hap-

pen. Trained volunteers have been called

on to helped out with the recovery pro-cess in the areas devastated by the hur-ricanes, the Las Vegas incident, and now the fires in California.

If you have the time and are serious about helping out in extended emer-gencysituations, please contact Christy Blood at cblood.lcdat@gmail.com and get signed up for future trainings.

With the necessary training, you could provide your skills in a large vari-ety of ways and locations.

BlM accepting applications for seasonal firefightersThe Bureau of Land Management

Ely District will accept applications for temporary seasonal firefighters starting Monday, Dec. 4, 2017. The BLM will ac-cept applications through Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, but those submitted by Tuesday, Jan. 9 will receive first consideration.

Positions are available on engines, in Helitack and dispatch. Successful ap-plicants will serve in Caliente, Ely or Pony Springs. Submit applications on-line at usajobs.gov, available at http://

www.firejobs.doi.gov.Length of appointment varies depend-

ing on agency needs and funding, but can-not exceed 180 days, excluding overtime and training. The normal term of employ-ment is from May through mid-Septem-ber. Salaries range from $11.48 and $19.49 per hour, depending on experience.

Applicants must be a U.S. citizen. They must also be 18 years of age at time of employment and in possession of a valid driver’s license. Selected individ-

uals are required to complete a physical examination and drug screening prior to employment and are subject to random drug testing during their time of service. Those in primary firefighting positions must also complete a “pack test” upon entering duty, which consists of hiking three miles over flat terrain in 45 minutes or less while carrying a 45-pound pack.

For more information, contact BLM Ely District Assistant Fire Management Officer Ray Maestes at (775) 289-1923.