To the editor: Read with much interest Mr. John Barrette s Nevada Appeal story about the Ormsby House 15 year rebuilding project. The basic problem seems to be the owners are not hotel industry people. They are computer experts.
Billy Don Wainscott is the racetrack outrider at the nearest racetrack to Carson City Cal Expo in Sacramento. It s a very tough and sometimes dangerous job. Billy Don has to work under many types of weather conditions.His job is vital to the safety of harness drivers their racehorses, and everyone trackside.
Surrounded by small flags, empty gun shells, pioneer headstones and a poignant hand written card from an old girlfriend, where she wrote to him "it had been over forty years, I finally found you" is the grave marker of a Carson City Vietnam veteran, Sgt. Daniel Ackerman, who died in combat. His body is buried at the old pioneer Empire Cemetery.
Billy Don Wainscott is the racetrack outrider at the nearest racetrack to Carson City Cal Expo in Sacramento. It s a very tough and sometimes dangerous job. Billy Don has to work under many types of weather conditions.His job is vital to the safety of harness drivers their racehorses, and everyone trackside.
Employees at Cactus Jack s Casino will hold a memorial for Mike Shields this Tuesday, Nov. 25 from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. inside the Poker Room at Cactus Jack s at 420 North Carson St., Carson City. Shields died Nov. 11 after being struck in a crosswalk by a motorcycle as he was returning from Cactus Jack s, where he was an employee.