Sheridan Acres residents conduct a Fire Safe cleanup.
Cleaning up for fire safety
Editor:
Sheridan Acres, on the west side of Carson Valley, recently participated in Nevada Wildfire Awareness Month. Our Firewise USA chapter sponsored a 30yd dumpster for neighbors to remove hazardous fuels, such as sagebrush, juniper, tree limbs, pine needles, tumbleweeds and leaves. Sheridan residents are to be congratulated for working to make the neighborhood more defensible, and for contributing to the cost of the waste bin. We thank Douglas Disposal for facilitating this rental.
Our neighborhood is in the Wildland Urban Interface and, with +90 homes on mostly half-acre lots, each neighbors’ actions affect the safety of the entire neighborhood. Sheridan Acres was first developed in the 1970s and our mature landscaping needs regular defensible space maintenance.
Sheridan Acres is part of the Foothill Road corridor, which has been rated as ‘high’ fire danger. We are part of the Big Sagebrush-Bitterbrush ecosystem, which can produce flame-lengths of over 100 feet. This extremely flammable vegetation can pose a threat not only to our homes, but also to safe evacuation of residents and timely arrival of fire services. For more information about western Nevada’s fire danger visit the website www.livingwithfire.com.
Peggy Ristorcelli
Sheridan
Thanks for supporting Ham Bingo
Editor:
On behalf of the Kiwanis Club of Carson Valley, we would like to thank all the community members who supported our annual Ham Bingo on April 12. As always, the sessions were well-attended, and a good time was had by all, including the volunteers who showed up in force to make everything happen.
This year, Peter Difillipo of ABE Printing and Copy Center donated 90 hams for this event! This remarkably generous sponsorship provides us more opportunity and resources to reinvest our net earnings back into the community. We cannot thank him and his wonderful staff enough for their ongoing support of both Ham and Turkey Bingo events.
The following businesses and organizations also made significant contributions as raffle prizes, and we are so grateful for their continued support as well. Thank you Carson Valley Health, Carson Valley Health Foundation, Chocolate Shoppe, David Walley’s Hot Springs, Douglas County Community and Senior Center, Double J Auto, Especially for You, Les Schwab Tire Center, Main Street Barber, Max’s Pet Store, Optima Advertising, Pet Station Gardnerville, Raley’s, Schat’s Bakery and Restaurant, Starbucks Distribution Center, Valley Larder Farm House Café, Vim & Vigor Fitness, Visit Carson Valley, and Volante.
The proceeds earned at our Kiwanis-sponsored events are reinvested into local service organizations serving youth, families and adults with developmental disabilities. Additionally, Kiwanis Club of Carson Valley is an avid supporter of hard-working students, to whom the club donates approximately $20,000 in scholarships annually.
Kiwanis of Carson Valley meets every Thursday at 6:30 a.m. at the COD Casino in Minden. If you would like to learn more about what we do, would like to present to our club or consider membership, we invite you to come and have a cup of coffee on us.
Dan Hamer
Gardnerville
Thank you to Holy Smokers supporters
Editor:
This is a Thank You to everyone who supported, worked on and participated in our 12th annual Car Show and BBQ Lunch on May 3. Special thanks go to the Gardnerville Starbucks, Kim’s Donuts, Ted Nagel the Music Man and announcer, and to The Record-Courier for all their help. Also thanks go to the Trinity Lutheran Church Members, the Men’s Ministry and the Outreach committee for all their help. The money we raised supports the National Lutheran Youth Gathering and selected charities.
We were blessed with a beautiful day.
John Hamer
On behalf of Holy Smokers Car Show
Minden
How bad is it?
Editor:
How bad is it yet? Are our store shelves bare? Are prices up?
As I write this, ocean container bookings are down 30–60 percent, store closures are expected to double and consumer confidence is at a 12-year low.
Further, egg prices are forecast to increase 57 percent, car insurance could rise more than $300 and home insurance could go up 8 percent (after a 20 percent rise the last two years). International visitors to the U.S. are predicted to decline 9.4 percent, a blow to Nevada tourism.
Finally, the International Monetary Fund says there’s a 48 percent chance of a recession.
This is what our dilettante golfer-economist President (who won by only 1.48 percent) has given us.
Along with a tariff trainwreck, Social Security in freefall, a mess in DOGE-closed government services, a gut punch to constitutional rights, an unresolved war in Europe and an eroding U.S. brand overseas.
We’ve been sucker-punched. How do we deal with the chaos? The incompetence? The cruelty? And the lying, the lying, the lying . . .?
B.K. Williams
Genoa