The extraordinary Albert Einstein said, "Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think." Starting this school year, Eagle Valley Middle School students will have new classrooms and education spaces to help shape their young minds.
Six years ago, wanting to create an event and space to help celebrate LGBTQ equality, the owners of Sassafras, Tony Fish and Jayme Watts, started the Sassabration, a diversity fundraiser to help support the PFLAG Carson Region, The Ron Wood Family Resource Center and the Carson Animal Services Initiative.
The favored Jazz player Ray Brown once said, "Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live." During the family movie night at Mills Park on Friday, the audience experienced jazz music and the animated Pixar movie Soul, whose main character Joe Gardner is a school jazz instructor.
For those in Carson City struggling with addiction, a new type of help is on the horizon: Carson City CrossFit has recently partnered with "The Phoenix" to support those wishing to lead a sober lifestyle. The Phoenix is a nonprofit organization that helps people in their journey to sobriety and healthy living through fitness.
After five years of providing nights free from the dangers of hypothermia and exposure for those experiencing homelessness, Carson City’s Night Off The Streets (NOTS), has been granted non-profit status.