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34 43FOR BETTER AND WORSE

Las Vegas has seen its share of celebrity

weddings and quickie divorces — and through

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local economy. In five minutes, we’ll make you

an expert on how to tie the knot in Sin City,

as well as the requirements for

ending a marriage here.

NOW HE’S ONE OF US

Mike Tyson, one of boxing’s most polarizing

figures throughout his career and his life in the spotlight since, has spent most of his

adult life in the Las Vegas Valley. But

his upcoming induction into the Southern Nevada

Sports Hall of Fame is what has made him feel

most at home here.

KEEP COOL AT HOTEL POOLSSummer weather is here, and locals

looking for relief from triple-digit temperatures have lots of options for cooling

off. We’ve done the homework for you and provided a list of fees and times the pools are

open, even if you aren’t a hotel guest.

TAKING ON THE BIG GIRLSThe Vegas Aces aren’t

that big and haven’t played together all that long, at least compared

with the teams they routinely face on the

touring volleyball circuit. But they have taken on — and taken down — all

comers and are poised to make a run for the title at the Girls’ Junior National

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ON THE COVERMike Tyson by

Christopher DeVargas

(Photo illustration)

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How gaming has changed over the yearsVoices from the industry talk about its evo-lution in Las Vegas.

The classroom is virtually anywhereOnline high school isn’t for everyone, but does have advantages for the right kind of student.

Must-see video of Metro policeA pool party video from McKinney, Texas, has become the latest example of police brutality to go viral, but just as notable is a video of Metro officers responding to an angry crowd on the night of the Mayweath-er-Pacquiao fight.

Legislature went beyond educationLocal governments say they are excited about several accomplishments lawmakers made in Carson City this year.

Stadium plan is visionary but still a long shotJohn Katsilometes gets the scoop on the latest billion-dollar idea proposed for the Strip.

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8WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU Send your news information to news@thesunday.comNEWS

JUNE 14- JUNE 20

WEEK IN REVIEW

WEEK AHEAD

NEWS AND NOTES FROM THE

LAS VEGAS VALLEY, AND BEYOND

J U N E 7 - J U N E 2 0

ENTERTAINMENT

JUNE 8

BICKFORD

MAKES CUT

Despite failing a pre-draft drug test for marijuana, Col-lege of Southern Nevada pitcher Phil Bickford was selected No. 18 overall in the MLB Draft by the San Francisco Giants.

JUNE 10

NEW EXEC

IN TOWN

Penn National Gaming appointed Kansas casino executive Bob Shel-don to oversee the Tropicana and M Resort. Penn owns the M and is buying the Tropicana for $360 million.

JUNE 11

Gov. Brian San-doval signed a bill that funds the proposed UNLV School of Medi-cine . The $27 million in state funding will pay for faculty and administrators.

JUNE 18

CLINTON

RETURNS

Hillary Clinton will make her sec-ond visit to Las Vegas in as many months, to speak to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials at Aria.

JUNE 20

BRONER V.

PORTER

It’s not Floyd-Man-ny, but this boxing match should pro-duce more action. Adrien Broner (30-1, 22 KOs) takes on Shawn Porter (25-1, 16 KOs) at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

Annual cost to educate one

student in a public K-12 school in

Nevada. Sandoval recently signed

legislation that lets parents use that

money for private school instead.

RENEWING

THEIR BOWS

The Kids in the Hall, a Canadian comedy troupe that disband-ed 20 years ago but reunites every several years, took the stage this month at Treasure Island. (L.E. BASKOW/STAFF)

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9JUNE 14- JUNE 20

TIME TO SET OFF INTO THE REAL WORLD. BUT FIRST ...

Science teacher Mark Walsh quickly jumps in front of the graduating seniors to take a selfie at the end of graduation ceremonies at Indian Springs High School. (L.E. BASKOW/STAFF)

JUNE 8

OFFICER

MEMORIAL

Community members marked the first anniversary of the slaying of two Metro Police officers and a good Samaritan by dedicating trees at the police substation where the officers worked. Officers Alyn Beck and Igor Soldo were killed June 8, 2014, at a pizza shop by a husband-and-wife team of anti-government extremists. Minutes later, the couple killed civilian Joseph Wilcox at a nearby Wal-Mart.

JUNE 9

LET THE SPECULATION BEGIN

Gov. Brian Sandoval announced he would not run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Harry Reid in 2016. Sandoval’s decision opens the door for Republican Rep. Joe Heck to seek the position. Heck, who’s expected to take advantage of the opportunity, would face Reid’s chosen candidate, former Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto.

NINE LIVES

PACKED

INTO ONE

The world’s oldest living cat recently died at age 27 in San Diego, accord-ing to Guinness World Records. Tiffany Two, a black-and-orange tortoise-shell, died in her sleep. The oldest cat ever record-ed, Creme Puff, lived 38 years.

Amount the Nevada

Commission on Tourism plans to spend to attract more international visitors to the state. Money will be used to contract advertising

companies in Brazil, Australia, England, France, Germany, South

Korea and Mexico.

SMOKING IS NOT GOOD FOR YOUR WALLET, EITHERSmoking cigarettes is about to get pricier. Sandoval signed a measure that will raise the cigarette tax from 80 cents per pack to $1.80 per pack. The higher tax kicks in July 1.

$1.4MILLION

N E W S S P O R T S B U S I N E S S L I F E G A M I N G P O L I T I C S E N T E R TA I N M E N T

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World Series of Poker champ Phil Hellmuth,

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a $10,000 buy-in razz champion-ship at the Rio.

$12.7MILLION

DANCING WITH PURPOSE

Paiute youth Koby White with NERDS (Native Education Rais-ing Dedicated Students) performs with others at Reclaimed Art to raise awareness and money to travel to Washington, D.C., to promote/preserve their culture. (L.E. BASKOW/STAFF)

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105-MINUTE EXPERT

JUNE 14- JUNE 20

BY REBECCA CLIFFORD-CRUZ AND DELEN GOLDBERG | STAFF WRITERS

Both the bride and groom must appear in person to apply for a marriage license before a clerk at a Clark County Marriage Bureau location. The bu-reau at the Regional Justice Center, 201 E. Clark Ave., Las Vegas, is open 8 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.

Under special circumstances, a marriage license may be issued when only one party can be present due to a mate’s hospitalization or incarceration.

Applicants must be 18 or older and be no closer of kin than a second cousin or cousin of half-blood. Applicants also cannot be legally married to anyone else.

Teens ages 16 and 17 can marry with permission from a parent or legal guardian, and people younger than 16 can marry if a judge approves it.

THE COSTA Clark County marriage

license costs $60, although the state Legislature approved a bill that allows county commissioners to raise the fee by up to $14 in counties with populations greater than 700,000. Marriage license applicants can pay with cash, credit card, traveler’s check or money order.

WHAT TO BRINGBe sure to bring original

identification to prove your name and age, such as a driver’s license, passport or military ID. You may bring an original or certified copy of your birth certificate but will need a second form of ID as well in that case, such as a sheriff’s work card, Social Security card, bank-issued debit card or membership card from a store such as Costco or Sam’s Club.

U.S. citizens also must provide a Social Security number.

Marriage licenses will be prepared with your name exactly as it appears on the identification you present. So if you want your marriage license to reflect your full middle name, the identification you submit must contain it.

SAME-DAY SERVICEMarriage licenses are

issued on the spot, as soon as the application is approved by bureau staff. Licenses are valid for one year, and there is no waiting period to get married.

Wedding ceremonies must be performed by a certified marriage official.

It is the officiant’s responsibility to send the marriage certificate within 10 business days to the county recorder. Certified copies are available the next day and can be ordered online, by mail or in person at the Clark County

Recorder’s Office for $15.

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If you are divorced, you’ll have to list the

month, day and year of when your divorce was finalized, as well as the

city and state where it was granted.

Sources: Clark County Marriage Bureau, Clark County Recorder’s Office

Paul Newman

Joanne Woodward

Dennis Rodman

Carmen Electra

Richard Gere

Cindy Crawford

ElvisPresley

Priscilla Anne Beaulieu

FOR BETTER AND WORSE

n DID YOU KNOW? Marriage records in Nevada are public documents.

COMPARE WITH the cost of a marriage license elsewhere:

Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.

Gloria Vanderbilt

The U.S. marriage rate fell from 8.2 per 1,000 in 2000 to 6.8 per 1,000 in 2012. But the divorce

and annulment rate also has dropped, from 4 per 1,000 in 2000 to 3.4 per 1,000 in 2012.

Las Vegas is the undisputed wedding capital of the world. Last year, the Clark County Clerk’s Marriage License Bureau issued 80,738 marriage licenses, at a rate more than double any other jurisdiction in the country. ¶ The marriage industry brings big bucks into Clark County. Last year, wedding tourism pumped $2 billion into the local economy and generated $69 million in tax revenue. ¶ But our dominance is waning. A decade ago, Clark County issued more than 128,000 marriage licenses annually, and weddings generated $190 million each year for county government coffers. ¶ Why the drop? Nevada no longer is alone in quick, easy weddings. Other states increasingly are enacting relaxed marriage laws to compete for wedding tourists. ¶ Still, there aren’t many other places people can go to file marriage paperwork at midnight or have Elvis officiate their wedding.

HOW TO TIE THE KNOT IN SIN CITY

Foreign birth certificates

must be translated into English and

notarized.

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Tule Springs Ranch in the Tule Springs Archaeological

Site was a divorce ranch in the late 1940s.

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CELEBRITY WEDDINGS AND

DIVORCESEven for Hollywood types,

Las Vegas is a wedding destination. Among the

celebrities who have wed (as well as some who have

called it quits) here:

By 1940,

EVERY 1,000

divorces filed in the United States were

filed in Nevada.

Ironically, the number of

weddings in Nevada skyrocketed after divorce

laws were eased. Clark County records show 584 weddings were performed in 1930 and 1,048 in 1931.

The filing fee in Nevada

for both types of divorce is

Sources: Clark County Family Court Self-Help Center, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Nolo

Carmen Electra

Mickey Rooney

Ava Gardner

Billy Bob Thornton

Angelina Jolie

Frank Sinatra

Mia Farrow

Mark Consuelos

Kelly Ripa

FOR BETTER AND WORSE

A spouse may obtain a divorce in Nevada if he or she has at least one of three statutory causes:

1. Incompatibility

2. Insanity for at least two years

3. Spouses have lived separately for more than a year

JOINT PETITIONJoint petitions are the easier

method, as they are used when both spouses agree on all issues, including custody of children, child support, alimony and how to divide property and debts.

Both spouses must sign the joint petition, then file it in Family Court. Judges typically sign the decree without

a hearing because nothing is disputed.

COMPLAINT FOR DIVORCEIf you are ready to file for divorce

but your spouse isn’t willing to sign the papers, you can file for divorce by

yourself. You must fill out a complaint that outlines what you want from the divorce, such as custody of children and/or alimony. The person who files is the plaintiff; his or her spouse is the defendant.Once the complaint is filed,

the plaintiff must notify the defendant of the case by serving

him or her paperwork. The defendant then has 20 days to answer the complaint.

Both parties are prohibited from selling community property, moving children out of state or harassing one another as the divorce case proceeds. Financial disclosures also must be filed.

Once the paperwork is complete, a judge typically sets a hearing date. Mediation for parents who can’t agree on custody or visitation also is common.

The judge also can issue temporary orders outlining where children live, child support or alimony payments and other logistics until the divorce case is settled.

While Nevada is a wedding mecca, it’s also the divorce capital of the country. ¶ For decades, it has had the highest divorce rate in America . ¶ That the state is a divorce hub isn’t surprising considering divorce was one of the

industries that put Nevada on the map. From the 1930s to the early 1960s, Nevada was the go-to state for quick and easy marriage dissolution. ¶ In 1931 (the same year gambling was legalized), as a way to boost the local economy

during the Great Depression, state lawmakers approved a bill that allowed essentially anyone to get a divorce as long as they lived in the state for six weeks. ¶ Technically, Nevada offered nine grounds for divorce — impotency,

adultery, desertion, conviction of a felony, habitual drunkenness, neglect to provide the common necessities of life, insanity, living apart for three years, and extreme mental cruelty — but officials required no proof. Many

other states limited divorce to victims of adultery or outlawed it entirely and had yearlong residency requirements. ¶ As a result, men and women from across the country flocked here to live on dude

ranches for six weeks to bide their time until they could divorce. Historians estimate the divorce trade pumped $5 million a year into the local economy in the early days of the ranches.

HOW TO GET DIVORCED

THE LAWNevada is a community property state, meaning income earned by either

spouse during the marriage and all property bought with those earnings are considered equally owned. In a divorce, the property is split equally.

Nevada is also a “pure no fault” jurisdiction, meaning infidelity or other bad behavior is irrelevant to divorce proceedings.

FIND OUT MORE: For more information, visit familylawselfhelpcenter.org.

n DID YOU KNOW? Marriage records in Nevada are public documents.

Rita Hayworth

Gloria Vanderbilt

Jack Dempsey

Estelle Taylor

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12COVER STORY

JUNE 14- JUNE 20

TTMike Tyson walked into Piero’s, the iconic Italian restaurant in

the heart of Las Vegas where a who’s who of locals dine, and instantly felt at home.

Tyson, the boxing knock-out artist whom fans were so interested in watching they bought pay-per-views know-ing his fights would last only minutes, still was a few years away from becoming the sport’s most interesting man. It was the mid-1980s, and 18-year-old Tyson had never been to Las Vegas, let alone packed one of our resorts for a heavyweight fight.

“I was so overwhelmed, so impressed,” Tyson recalled. “You walk in there to Piero’s, and Frank Sinatra is with his crew, his team, having dinner. Vegas was just so glamorous with all of the lights. I’ll never forget that night.”

The native New Yorker knew then, nearly three de-cades ago, that Las Vegas would be his home.

And Tyson has been good to Las Vegas, pumping mil-

BY RAY BREWER | STAFF WRITER

lions into the economy with his can’t-miss fight nights and, later, his popular “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth” one-man show at MGM Grand.

On June 19, Tyson will re-ceive what he calls the ulti-mate honor in defining his legacy here. He will headline this year’s class for the South-ern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame, joining an exclusive group of the area’s most nota-ble sports figures, from tennis great Andre Agassi to cham-pionship UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian.

Tyson already is part of the International Boxing Hall of Fame and Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame, and has a long list of other achievements from a legendary career.

But for 48-year-old Tyson, who has spent most of his adult life living in Las Vegas, joining the local hall carries just as much significance, if not more.

“For the first time, I’ll feel like (a Las Vegan),” he said. “I’m accepted as someone who lives here.”

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TT RESIDENCE Lives in the Anthem area of Henderson with

wife, Kiki. Tyson has eight children.

RECORD 50-6 with 44 wins via knockout

RETIRED Tyson went just 1-3 in his last four fights and retired in 2005 after consecutive defeats to Danny Williams and Kevin McBride, two no-

name fighters.

CAREER EARNINGS Estimated $300 million

NICKNAMES Iron Mike, Kid Dynamite

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ON HIS CARTOON AND BROADWAY SHOWFrom “Mike Tyson Mysteries” on Adult Swim to cameos in

“The Hangover” movies to a six-night run on Broadway, Tyson has rebranded himself as more than just a boxer. And Tyson the entertainer has proven to be compelling. He has no problem making fun of himself, including what stands out most about his appearance: his facial tattoo.

“I never thought I would go in this direction in a million years,” Tyson said. “But I am an entertainer. That is what I do. I entertain people.”

ON MAYWEATHER-PACQUIAOBoxing fans were vocal in their displeasure last month when the

welterweight championship match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao didn’t live up to the prefight hype. Limited ac-tion stretched 12 rounds. Tyson didn’t have that problem during his career. Rather, people complained because his fights didn’t last long enough.

He won his first fight in just 19 seconds, and 24 of his fights ended in the first round, including nine of 10 fights early in his career.

“Isn’t that something?” Tyson asked. “Now we are complaining because people don’t fight enough.”

ON MIXED MARTIAL ARTS AND THE UFCTyson has embraced mixed martial arts and often is spotted

at local Ultimate Fighting Championship cards. And UFC owner Lorenzo Fertitta and President Dana White, two members of the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame, are boxing fans — and Tyson fans. Fertitta watches old Tyson fights on TV and tweeted with Tyson during the Mayweather-Pacquiao bout.

“Those (UFC) fighters are exciting,” Tyson said. “They are out there fighting for their livelihood.”

If mixed martial arts were prominent during his prime, Tyson would have tried it, he said.

“I really think I would do well with that stuff,” Tyson said.White will be Tyson’s presenter as he is inducted into the

Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame.TYSON’S MOST NOTABLE LAS VEGAS FIGHTS

THE HOLYFIELD BITE JULY 1997

Mike Tyson fought 16 times in Las Vegas, usually in front of standing-room-only crowds and providing powerful knockouts that sent fans to their feet.

However, in his second fight against Evander Holyfield, in July 1997 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Tyson deliv-ered far more than a punch. It was a bite.

Referee Mills Lane stopped the fight after the third round because Tyson twice bit Holyfield’s ears. Tyson claimed it was in response to headbutts from Holyfield. The fight now is known as “the Bite Fight.”

“That was one of those nights that got out of hand,” Tyson said.

In their first meeting, Holyfield was a significant betting underdog but upset Tyson, which set the stage for the highly anticipated rematch. Their second bout grossed more than $14 million in live gate sales, ranking ninth all-time in state history (which is especially notable given that ticket prices weren’t nearly as high 20 years ago.)

“It’s not about winning or losing, it’s about how you handle your losses in life,” Tyson said.

Tyson and Holyfield have since made amends in retire-ment and now consider each other friends.

FIRST FIGHT BACKAUG. 18, 1995

After four years of inactivity while serving prison time for a rape conviction in Indiana, Tyson returned to boxing, and Las Vegas, to face Peter McNeeley at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. The fight ranks 10th all-time in Nevada history for live gate sales, with ticket revenue top-ping $13,965,600.

Tyson beat McNeeley in 89 seconds, dropping him to the canvas for the first time less than 10 seconds into the fight.

ANNOUNCING HIS PRESENCENOV. 22, 1986

Tyson, only 20, beat Trevor Berbick for the World Boxing Council title, be-coming the youngest person to win the heavyweight title. A pair of knockdowns during the second round was all Berbick could take, handing Tyson the TKO win.

The Sunday chatted with Tyson recently. Here are highlights of the conversation:

ON HIS CHILDRENFor Tyson, boxing was the only career he knew and a way to survive. It paid

extremely well, making him a multimillionaire before his 21st birthday. But he wouldn’t endorse his children entering the sport.“I would never want them to box,” Tyson said about his four sons. “I tell

him, ‘I took all these punches for you, so you don’t have to.’”

ON HIS HEALTHTyson said he has no lingering effects from the punches he took. He works

out regularly at Las Vegas Athletic Club and says he’s in pretty good shape.“I look decent with my clothes on,” he joked.

ON UNLV BASKETBALLTyson was a courtside regular at UNLV basketball games during the pro-

gram’s glory years during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Soon, he’ll join players from that era, such as Larry Johnson and Stacey Augmon, in the hall of fame.

“Oh man, the Runnin’ Rebels back when they had everyone, that was my team,” Tyson said.

ON THE GREATEST FIGHTER OF ALL TIMEDuring prefight interviews before the May 2 megafight, undefeat-

ed Floyd Mayweather Jr. referred to himself as the greatest of all time. That didn’t sit well with Tyson, who said there’s no question who the greatest ever was.

“Ali is No. 1 — there’s no question,” Tyson said. “Then there’s Ray Rob-inson.”

Tyson, who was boxing’s first undisputed heavyweight cham-pion after unifying the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, said he isn’t concerned about where he ranks on the list. He is happy just being ac-knowledged as one of its best entertainers.

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Mike Tyson isn’t entering the Southern Ne-vada Sports Hall of Fame by himself.

This year’s class includes NASCAR champion and Durango High school graduate Kurt Busch; UNLV rodeo coach Ric Griffith; Southern Nevada Junior Golf Association founder Joe Kelly; and former UNLV and Dallas Cowboys quarterback Glenn Carano.

The hall of fame, inside Findlay Toyota in the Valley Automall, has inducted an average of five new members annually since launching in 1997. Members include the 1990 UNLV basket-ball team, the UFC’s Dana White, Steven Jack-son, Greg Maddux and Randall Cunningham.

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Mike Tyson shoves Evander Holyfield during a timeout called by Mills Lane after Tyson bit Holyfield’s ear in the third round of their 1997 bout at MGM Grand Garden Arena. (STAFF FILE)

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BY IAN WHITAKERSTAFF WRITER

When school starts for William Foster, he’s usually still in his

pajamas.He typically wakes around 9 a.m.,

wipes the sleep from his eyes and goes downstairs to grab a quick breakfast. Then he cracks open his laptop at the foot of his bed and, within minutes, is connected to his first class of the day.

Foster is one of hundreds of students in Nevada who have switched from tra-ditional brick-and-mortar neighbor-hood schools to online charter schools.

Foster is a junior at Nevada Virtual Academy, founded in 2008. With about 3,000 students enrolled in K-12, it’s one of the largest state-sponsored charters in Nevada. Foster is one of more than 700 students in the school’s online high school.

He used to have to get up at 5 a.m. to ride the bus to Centennial High School. Not anymore.

“I wake up, drag myself out of bed, and I can still barely get up in time, to be honest,” Foster said.

As online education has gained in popularity, some have criticized it as being too geared toward motivated stu-dents. Many students come to Nevada Virtual Academy as a last resort after doing poorly in public school. As a re-sult, the school has a 50 percent gradua-tion rate and a 2-star rating, but officials say that’s because some students are not proficient in reading and math or are credit deficient when they enroll.

During class, Foster listens to the teacher’s lecture through headphones and takes notes as a student in any classroom would. The school, since it’s part of the public education system, is tuition-free and sends Foster the text-books he needs. His schedule is simi-lar to a traditional student’s, about six hours each day.

“I’m not gonna lie, it does still get slightly boring,” Foster said. “But you learn to be responsible.”

Foster’s path to online school began in 2013, after he spent four months as a freshman at Centennial. He initially was excited to go to high school.

“The second week, I was like, ‘This is not going to work,’” he said. “There’s a lot of drama. It just got to be too much.”

So his mom, Patriece Foster, pulled

him out and enrolled him at Nevada Virtual Academy after she heard about it through a school counselor.

“I just want my son to have a good, quality education,” she said. “He doesn’t have to worry about what he looks like or what he’s dressed like.”

The big draw for William is being able to work at his own pace. He tracks his progress online, so he knows what’s due and what he needs to read that week. When it’s time to take a test, proctors check in on students via webcam. When the test is over, Foster gets the results immediately rather than waiting for a teacher to grade it.

But just because he gets to hang out at home most of the day doesn’t mean it’s easy. Most of his day is spent taking notes, listening to lectures and doing assignments. When he’s not doing that, he’s doing required reading.

What keeps him organized and on task? Ironically, it’s that there aren’t teachers hovering over him or holding his hand. If he doesn’t turn in an as-signment or log in to class each day, he knows he will miss vital information that could come back to hurt him dur-ing tests.

“It’s a lot of responsibility,” he said.If Foster slacks off, it doesn’t take long

for school officials to take notice. That

helps Patriece, who works more than 60 hours a week at University Medical Center and can’t stay home every day to make sure he’s on task.

“I’ll get a phone call within a week,” she said. “A lot of parents might worry their kid might slack off, but they’ll let you know.”

If Foster does fall behind — and he says that’s easy to do — he can sched-ule face-to-face tutoring or meet with teachers in person at the school’s cam-

pus on South Eastern Avenue near the 215 Beltway. The school also offers electives and college credit through Ad-vanced Placement courses. Occasion-ally, classes take field trips.

After the school day, Foster’s life is like those of many other kids his age. He hangs out with neighborhood friends and goes out on the weekends. He said his social life hasn’t suffered for not see-ing his friends at school.

Orlando Dos Santos, principal of Ne-vada Virtual Academy’s high school, oversees the online high school’s 35 teachers.

“The students who choose us do so for all kinds of reasons,” Dos Santos said. “The traditional brick-and-mortar school doesn’t fit everybody.”

Many students who take classes at Nevada Virtual Academy do so because they simply have no other choice. Some of the students have jobs with odd schedules, while others are rural stu-dents or homeschoolers transitioning back into public education.

When Foster graduates in a year, he wants to be either an anthropologist or a historian. He hasn’t decided which yet, but he wants to go to UNLV.

“I’ve learned a lot,” he said, pausing for a moment to think. “It’s actually kind of weird.”

WHERE DO THEY GO FROM HERE?Nevada Virtual Academy students received more than $556,600 in col-lege and university scholarships this year. Graduates plan to attend:

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R I C H A R D B R Y A NFormer governor

Bryan is an attorney who was governor for most of the 1980s and a U.S. senator

for years after that.

On casinos and the mob: “There was almost an implicit social contract, and it went something like this: ‘Look, we don’t care a lot about your background, but as long as you’re here in Nevada, you keep your nose clean, you mind your p’s and

q’s. There is a myth that the mob ran the town. Totally false. All the mob wanted to be was, ‘Leave us alone.’ … They didn’t try

to control anything.”

BY J.D. MORRISSTAFF WRITER

When Gov. Brian Sandoval and state lawmakers approved the largest tax increase in Nevada history, they gave the casino industry’s lobbying group something it strongly desired.

The measure aims to improve Nevada’s bottom-tier school system by broadening the tax base, which has long been a goal of the Nevada Resort Association. Although the gaming industry will pay more taxes as a result, its advo-cates in Carson City say the industry is happy to do so along with virtually all other businesses in the state.

Virginia Valentine, the association’s president, went so far as to say that supporting the tax measure might be her group’s crowning achievement.

It’s good timing for the association, which is celebrating its 50th birthday this year and reflecting on how gambling has changed over five decades.

A N N A B A I L E YFormer showgirl, Moulin Rouge

Bailey is the wife of the late Las Vegas civil rights activist Bob Bailey.

On racial discrimination in 1965: “A lot of the hotels out there, they wouldn’t let us come out there and gamble. ... (We went to) the

Sands hotel, and the security guard stopped us at the door. There were about four of us. And Frank Sinatra, God bless him, came and

got us and took us to his table in the gaming department. And Sammy Davis was just beating the table; he was so embarrassed for

us because we were looking pretty good during that time.”

M I C H A E L G A U G H A NOwner, South Point

Gaming is a family business for Michael Gaughan, whose father, Jackie Gaughan, was a major figure in the downtown casino busi-

ness. Gaughan grew up watching the industry and its players.

On gaming innovators: “Steve Wynn prob-ably did more to bring this city into the 21st

century than anybody else. Steve is probably the most creative guy I was ever around.

Caesars Palace was probably the first mega-hotel, but Steve was the one who raised

hotels up to a new level.”

T O N Y M A R N E L LCEO, Marnell Companies

Marnell, who grew up in the valley, is an architect who counts many major Las Vegas properties among his portfolio. He also was a casino executive at the Rio.

On the changing casino industry: “There’s nothing more powerful than an idea. … In Las Vegas, you have the eating idea, you have the sleeping idea, you have the outdoor recreation idea, you have the casino idea. You have all these ideas that come together, and how they go together for the next 20 years, I don’t think

are like the way I was a part of putting them together for the past 40 years.”

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“On the heels of a pretty historic Legislature, it’s an op-portunity to talk about what gaming does for the Nevada economy in terms of jobs and revenue generation, and the capital investment the industry continues to make,” Valentine said.

Since its founding in 1965, the resort association has be-come the key lobbying voice in the state capital for Nevada’s casinos and resorts. The association, whose members in-clude all of the state’s largest casinos, keeps tabs on govern-ment actions that affect gaming and advocates on behalf of the industry. It’s also a member of the American Gam-ing Association, a Washington, D.C.-based group that does similar work on a national level.

To reflect on the past 50 years, the resort association created a series of video interviews with key voices from the gaming industry. The interviews provide perspective on how gaming has changed since 1965 and how it may grow going forward.

Here’s some of what the interviewees had to say.

B I L L B O Y D Co-founder, Boyd Gaming Corp.

Bill Boyd and his father, Las Vegas casino pioneer Sam Boyd, helped establish the locals casino movement with the opening

of Sam’s Town in 1979. The Boyds were important players in the casino industry before that, too.

On how the industry was perceived during its formative years: “Generally, gaming was not thought of in those early

days like it is today, as a respected industry. I would say a lot of people thought, ‘Well, if you’re in the gaming business,

you’re a little shiftless and irresponsible and not really seri-ous.’ Banks wouldn’t loan money in those early days. So it was

much different than it is today, in the sense that we weren’t really thought of as a legitimate industry yet.”

R I C H A R D B U N K E R Former gaming regulator and

resort association president

A devout Mormon, Bunker doesn’t promote gam-bling as an activity, but he helped regulate it as

chairman of the Gaming Control Board. He served at a crucial time for the industry as it shifted from its seedier roots toward corporate control of casinos.

On the corporatization of casino ownership: “After we did what we did with changing the ownership of the hotels, I think the whole environment changed. I know the banks loosened up; they started to look at Las Vegas in a different light. Howard Hughes also helped bring that about. ... We cleaned house and

got rid of the bad guys.”

R O N L U R I EGeneral manager, Arizona Charlie’s

Lurie is a former mayor of Las Vegas who now is general manager of Arizona Charlie’s on Decatur

Boulevard. A longtime local, he’s intimately familiar with the evolution of gaming in Las Vegas.

On the future of the casino industry: “Gaming’s going to be here. Everybody thought when Atlantic City opened Las Vegas was going to fold up. ... The way I look at it, when you open something outside

Las Vegas, people get exposed to gaming, but there’s nothing like coming to Las Vegas. ... Las Ve-

gas is here to stay, and we’re going to keep growing.”

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YELLOW DOT PROGRAMThe Regional Transportation Com-

mission is pushing to improve driver safety in an unlikely way — with a circular yellow sticker.

The Yellow Dot Program, au-thorized by Assembly Bill 176, will create a system in which drivers with pre-existing medical conditions can place a yellow decal on their vehicle. If there’s an crash, the stickers notify first responders to check the glove compartment of the vehicle for a medical information sheet.

The goal is to give first responders critical medical information about patients in the immediate aftermath of a wreck to improve treatment and outcomes.

BY CONOR SHINE | STAFF WRITER

With the 2015 Legislature in the books, local governments and agencies are beginning to take stock of how they’ll be affected by new laws. ¶ Education and tax issues headlined the session, but many smaller measures were approved that will give cities more auton-omy and help boost their economic development efforts. Missing this year were controversial tax votes, such as the More Cops sales

tax increase decision the Legislature left to the Clark County Commission in 2013, which sparked months of debate before ultimately failing to pass. Here’s a look at several issues local governments say they are excited about:

The Legislature, beyond education

WATER TO APEXSince it opened more than 20 years ago,

the Apex Industrial Park in North Las Vegas has been mired in a Catch-22. Businesses have been reluctant to move to the 7,000-acre site because there isn’t a water line. But without any businesses in the park, there was never reason to connect water.

North Las Vegas wants to tap into potential economic development at Apex but has been stymied by the lack of water. The city’s finances aren’t strong enough to borrow the $80 million or so needed to build the line.

Assembly Bill 497 gives the city the ability to create a tax increment district at the Apex site. That allows city officials to use sales and payroll taxes generated at Apex to pay off debt used to build a waterline.

“This creates a financial backstop,” North Las Vegas Chief of Staff Ryann Ju-den said. “It’s a dedicated source of revenue that will go into paying for or alleviating the financial liability of a pipeline.”

REDEVELOPMENT EXTENSION

Among the most useful tools cities have for revitalizing their aging cores are redevelopment areas, used in downtown Las Vegas and Henderson. Redevelopment areas capture growth in property taxes in specific zones and allow cities to reinvest the proceeds into roads, sewers, sidewalks and other infrastructure.

Assembly Bill 445 gives cities extra time before their redevelopment areas expire. In Henderson, the redevelop-ment area downtown will be extended from 2025 to 2040. In Las Vegas, the redevelopment area, which includes the Fremont Street Experience, will extend an additional 15 years.

HOME RULEA constant source of friction

between cities and state government is the distribution of power to make decisions. Most lawmaking ability, including tax decisions, is held by the Legislature. Cities must petition every two years for changes.

Assembly Bill 493 shifts a bit of the decision-making ability to local governments regarding “matters of local concern.” Cities now can control certain issues that might not be granted specifically in their charter. That should allow cities to pass new ordinances and respond faster to issues with public health, public nui-sances, graffiti, zoning, development, jail operations and management of assets.

FLOOD CONTROLThe effects of one small change might be

felt in the coming weeks as monsoon season rains sweep the valley. Senate Bill 156 makes it illegal to drive around a roadblock established because of flooding, holding drivers liable for expenses if their cars get stuck in floodwaters

and require rescue by emergency respond-ers. The law, supported by the Clark County

Flood Control District, was prompted in part by heavy rains in 2013 during which dozens of

drivers ignored barriers, drove into floodwaters and needed to be rescued.

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ANSWER: Because I hear this ques-tion every week, I understand this situation very well. I’m afraid you’re not going to like the answer.

In my experience, there is no way to remove a single party from an ex-isting real estate loan. You can refi-nance the property, via traditional refinancing methods, into one per-son’s name, but that pays off the original mort-gage and sets up a new loan with new terms. It would have to be a traditional refinance (not HARP) and generally cannot happen if you are underwater, have missed any payments in the last year and/or do not qualify to refinance the home on your own merits. For refinance op-tions, you would need to speak with a lender.

This is true regardless of what the divorce decree says, because the divorce can’t alter the original agreement between you, your ex, and the

bank. So, if the divorce agreement says you must remove his name, you’ll ei-ther need to buy out — in other words, pay off — the current mortgage, refi-nance it into your own name or sell the property.

If you don’t qualify to refinance on your own, our firm’s recommenda-tion is to sell the property in a tra-

ditional sale if there’s equity or via short sale if it’s underwater. I understand this probably runs counter to your emotions, as most people want to keep a home in a divorce. Sadly, when refinancing is not an option, selling the house is the only way to get a “clean break” from the marriage and prepare yourself for a new, bright-er future. As I’m sure you’re aware, there can be problems for both of you if he’s not removed.

The biggest problem actually is on your ex’s side. He probably won’t be able to buy another

property while his name still is on your home loan. If and when he realizes that, it can quickly become your problem. Your ex-husband could petition the courts to force you to sell the house just to get his name off the loan. There may be other issues for you down the road, too. For ex-ample, if you try to sell the home five, 10 or 20 years from now, you still may need his approval and signature to close the deal.

In other words, if you don’t qualify to refi-nance the home in your name only and you don’t sell the property now, you may be opening yourself up to a huge nightmare in the future because your ex will retain certain rights and responsibilities to the property and loan.

Best of luck, and thanks for your question.

If you have a question you’d like to see answered by an attorney in a future issue, please write to questions@PandALawFirm.com.

Please note: The information in this column is intended for gen-eral purposes only and is not to be considered legal or professional advice of any kind. You should seek advice that is specific to your problem before taking or refraining from any action and should not rely on the information in this column.

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S omeone far wiser than I — maybe it was Steve Wynn or the late Bob Stupak — once said to be wary of a man and

his renderings. Regretfully, you could paper the Strip

with the fancy and fruitless concepts proposed for our city through the years: the UNLV Now stadium, the downtown Las Vegas Arena, the downtown Las Vegas soccer stadium.

So what to make of the Fusion Proj-ect, a project of F Group International, and its co-founder, Daniele Fortunato? The charismatic gentleman from Rome comes to Las Vegas packing a vision, enthusiasm and a persuasive pitch for a sports and entertainment complex to break ground in 2017. Fortunato has produced slick renderings and a groovy video of how the complex might look. But we are meeting him only today — no more, no less.

“We want to offer something to Las Vegas that it doesn’t have,” Fortunato said during lunch at Beach Café at Tropicana, which could sit close to the Fusion Project’s Green Sports Village. “We will be near the Strip, and we will

do this with no public money.”

A resident of Miami, Fortunato played profes-sional soccer in Italy and Scotland. He learned how to organize and operate professional soccer clubs and built partnerships with design and construc-tion companies equipped to build something as elaborate as the Fusion Project.

Fortunato’s partner in the project is Gaetano Di Renzo, CEO of GDR Studio International Consulting & Associates. The two have spent two years building a proposal to bring the facility to Las Vegas and began scouting the city last November.

Plans for the Fusion Project call for a stadium of 70,000 to 90,000 capac-ity, dubbed Heroes Hill Stadium and located on a 200-acre parcel to be identified.

The project would cost at least $1 billion. Fortunato said he has about half that cost covered by a list of

international investors, a consortium of more than 50 officials from around the world, many with links to international soccer franchises. Fortunato spoke of Las Vegas courting an MLS team, despite the downtown stadium project targeted for Symphony Park’s unraveling in spring. He touted lower-level pro leagues such as the North American Soccer League,

United Soccer League and National Women’s Soccer League as possible ten-ants. Concerts and events such as NFL’s Pro Bowl are part of the Fusion Project’s vision.

Clearly, there are details to be deliv-ered. Fortunato said he wants to have his “master plan” in place by December. He has met with officials from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Author-ity to share his renderings and a stack of documents describing the Fusion Project.

LVCVA supports any project that can expand the Las Vegas brand and deliver

visitors to the city, but nobody from Las Vegas Events, charged with book-ing events here, has met formally with Fortunato.

Clark County Commissioner Larry Brown has sat with the pilot of the Fu-sion Project. Brown said he had seen maybe a dozen such concepts during his five-year tenure on the board.

“What they need to do is answer, ‘Why are you different from the ones who have failed?’ ” Brown said. “You have to build credibility, talk about real finances, real sponsorships and a real site.”

But Brown does like Fortunato’s pas-sion and perseverance.

“It’s a concept that is unique to Las Vegas,” Brown said. “The concept is a good one.”

And as you look around the city, you find towering examples of people who defied the skeptics.

“What are his chances?” Brown asked. “It’s tough to say. But this is a city of beating odds, and once in a while, you see that one long shot work. There’s a lot of work to do, a lot of credibility to be gained, but he could be the long shot.”

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DESK-BOUND WORKER

SQUATSDo squats in the office by

placing your back against a wall and moving down into a squat position.

Or do them right at your desk. While in your chair, push away from your desk. Keeping your nose over your toes with your head slightly forward, lift your rear and legs up off your chair, then come back down.

“Just make sure your chair doesn’t get away from you, maybe using your arms on the armrests,” Villafuerte said. He suggested 10 to 20 repetitions.

Work your gluteal muscles by pressing them together for five seconds, then releasing.

Work your stomach and improve your posture by imagining someone pulling up on your head. Suck in your stomach as far as you can.

“Get your stomach to touch your spine because you’re sucking it in that much,” Villafuerte said.

If you’re stuck behind a desk all day, it can be hard to find time to exercise, espe-cially if you have a family at home. But failing to do so can have serious conse-

quences. ¶ “The risk of not getting enough exercise can include a greater incidence of high cholesterol, obesity, heart disease and stroke,” said Ceferino Villafuerte, a physical therapist who is director of rehabilitation services at MountainView Hospital. “Lack of exercise can also cause higher mortality, an increased risk of depression, poor cognitive performance — everything you can think of.” ¶ While making time to exercise outside of the office should be a priority, there also are plenty of healthful actions you can do right at your desk.

ARM EXERCISES 1. Use an isometric exercise

to work your arms. Place your palms together in a pray-ing position and push them against each other for three to five seconds.

2. You can use a wheeled chair and a desk to do a fore-arm workout. Grab the desk with four fingers on top and your thumb below. Then pull yourself in and push yourself away to work your forearms.

3. You also can use a chair to do dips that work multiple muscle groups. Grab your armrests and lift your body up from your chair. Extend your legs and do a full dip, but be careful to keep your heels planted if you’re using a wheeled chair.

4. Do chin tucks to help exercise your neck muscles. While sitting up straight and looking straight ahead, bring your chin back horizontally into your neck without tilt-ing it down. Hold the posi-tion for a few seconds, then release it slowly.

WALK EVERYWHEREWalking as much as pos-

sible helps minimize strain from sitting and adds to your daily activity tally.

Instead of calling or email-ing a co-worker, walk over and deliver the message in person. Use stairs instead of the el-evator to get to and from your workstation. Cut your lunch short by 10 minutes and use that time to walk; it will aid your digestion.

“If in your work day, you are walking less than 5,000 steps, you’re truly sedentary,” Villafuerte said. “A pedome-ter can be a good tool to help remind you to get up every hour and walk.”

EXERCISESThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends adults get at least two and a half hours of moderate exercise each week. “It doesn’t have to be all at once,” Villafuerte said. “The key is cumulatively, it should add up to two and a half hours.”

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EYELINEThe top of your computer screen

should be at the same level as your eyeline. The bend of your knees and your legs should both be 90 de-grees, and your feet should be flat on the ground.

If your monitor is too low, the effort to keep it in view can strain your flexed neck and your lower back. Keep your ears over your shoulders to avoid this.

If you can’t adjust your monitor’s height, placing books or a ream of printer paper underneath can help bring it to the right level.

ALTERNATIVE WORKSTATIONSWhile many of us may not be able to take ad-

vantage of alternative workstation formats, they can be helpful to reduce the bodily stress that comes with sitting for extended periods.

“My office chair is a physioball,” said Villafuerte, referring to a large exercise ball sometimes called a yoga ball. The effort it takes to stay seated up-right on an exercise ball facilitates good posture.

An adjustable workstation that allows you to work standing or sitting also can be a huge help.

“Sitting creates flexion in our lumbar spine and compression; standing puts that natural curve in your lumbar spine in the proper position,” Vil-lafuerte said. “Variable height workstations are expensive but very important.”

ARMRESTS“Your chair should

facilitate a good sitting po-sition,” Villafuerte said. “That’s the key to ergonomics.” Proper

armrests are important for main-taining health while sitting, because the weight of your arms can com-press your spine. So can having to reach too far for your keyboard.

Hands and wrists should be in a neutral position, not

bent up or down.

Good ergonomics and posture are vital to good health. To check your posture, stand against a wall and make sure your neck, spine and lower

spine all touch the wall. Sitting for long periods can compress your lumbar spine, the portion of spine in your lower back, Villafuerte said. It can start to bend and flex, leading to strain or weakness. To counteract that, try to

sit with your stomach tucked in. That works your stomach muscles, and strong stomach muscles help strengthen the lower back.

STRIVE FOR GOOD POSTURE WHEN SEATED

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JUNE 14- JUNE 20

n RIO VOODOO BEACH Cover chargeMonday-Thursday: $10 for adults, $5 for children Friday-Sunday: $20 for adults, $10 for childrenChildren under 4 are always free. 9 a.m.–6 p.m.

n n PLANET HOLLYWOOD PLEASURE POOLS Cover charge: $20 10 a.m.–5 p.m. • The south-side pools are 21 and older; the north side pools are all ages.• Ever wondered what it would be like to surf the Strip? Try your water-boarding skills on the Flowrider Wave-in-a-Box, an easy-to-use waveform machine. It costs $20 for 30 min-utes. The attraction is open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

n MANDALAY BAY BEACHCover charge: Must rent a cabana or chair; Monday through Thursday only8 a.m.–7 p.m. • The pool area features a wave pool, lazy river and sandy beach.• Cabana rentals run $325 to $475.

n SUNSET STATION Cover charge: $10 Monday-Thursday: 10 a.m.–7 p.m. Friday-Sunday: 9 a.m.–8 p.m.• Cabana rentals cost as low as $50 on weekdays and $100 on weekends. • All ages are welcome, but children must be ac-companied by an adult.

n LUXOR Cover charge: $15 for locals; $20 for nonhotel guests without a Nevada driver’s license. Children under 5 are free. 9 a.m.-7 p.m. • Cabana rentals include free entry for up to six people.

n MONTE CARLO Cover charge: $10 8 a.m.–7 p.m.• The pool complex includes a lazy river, wave pool, lagoon pool and hot tub.

n DELANO LAS VEGAS Cover charge: Must rent a cabana or chair; Monday through Thursday only8 a.m.-7 p.m. • Cabana rentals for six to 10 people start at $125; chair rentals start at $75

n EXCALIBUR Cover charge: Must rent a ca-bana big enough for your party ($200-$350) or purchase the pool side package ($40-$50) Drenched pool: 9 a.m.–7 p.m. Slide pool: 10 a.m.–6 p.m.Main pool: 12 p.m.–7 p.m. (Saturdays only)* The pool side package in-cludes two cushioned chairs, bottled water, chips and an umbrella.

BY KAILYN BROWN | STAFF WRITER

It’s getting hot. But Las Vegas locals don’t have to go far to cool off. ¶ Instead of paying big bucks for admission to a water park or day club, or road-tripping to a California beach, you can make the most of your summer vacation right here. ¶ Whether you’re

searching for a spot to take the kids or a cool place to relax with friends, there are many hotel pools locals can visit for a daily fee or

for free with a valid Nevada driver’s license.

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AT HOTEL POOLS

ALL AGES ADULTS ONLY

n ALIANTE STATION Cover charge: Monday-Friday: $10 Saturday-Sunday and holidays: $20 Children under 2 are free. 11 a.m.-9 p.m.

n VDARA Cover charge: Must rent a cabana or daybed 9 a.m.-7 p.m.• Cabanas for up to eight people range from $175 to $350, depending on the day.• Vdara has multiple pools and a whirlpool.

n GOLDEN NUGGETCover charge: $25 Children 2 and under are free. Sunday-Thursday: 9 a.m.- 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday: 9 a.m.- 9 p.m. • The Golden Nugget pool features a slide that pass-es through the resort’s 200,000-gallon aquarium, which houses sharks, fish and other species. The Shark Chute is open 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and is free with pool admission.• Visitors can get close to the sharks and other sea creatures during tours with a marine biologist. Tours begin 3:30 p.m. Thursday through Satur-day and cost $30.

n THE M POOL Cover charge: Monday-Friday: $10Saturdays, Sundays and holidays: $20. Children under 10 are free with a paying adult. 9 a.m.-dusk

n BALLY’S BLU POOLCover charge: $10 8 a.m.-8 p.m.Children are free.• At 12 feet deep, Bally’s pool is one of the last deep pools in Las Vegas.

n CAESARS PALACE GARDEN OF THE GODS POOL OASIS Cover charge: $20 Main pool: 8 a.m.–7 p.m. Venus pool: 11 a.m.–6 p.m. • 21 and older

n THE LINQ HOTELCover charge: Free; just call 702-503-8320 ahead of time to get a spot on the guest list.9 a.m.-5 p.m.• 21 and older• On the second floor of Tower 3

n EXCALIBUR Cover charge: $20 9 a.m.–8 p.m.• The adult pool is 18 and older.

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JUNE 14- JUNE 20

BY KATIE VISCONTI | STAFF WRITER

They’ve got a lot of titles and just as many roles: coach, mentor, friend, husband, soldier, broth-

er. ¶ Fathers are one-of-a-kind, and Father’s Day is a chance to remind your dad of that. ¶ Whether he taught you how to ride a bike, introduced you to great literature or made you laugh endlessly, he likely deserves a special thank you. ¶ So put down the “World’s Best Dad” mug and cancel your brunch reser-vations. Instead, get your dad the gift of an experience perfectly suited to his tastes. Here are a few ideas:

MAKE YOUR DAD’S DAY MEMORABLE

FOR DADS WHO LOVE THE OUTDOORS n The Refuge Climbing and Fitness Gym6283 S. Valley View Blvd., Las VegasThis 11,000-square-foot space has mul-tiple climbing routes and is a great spot for anyone looking for a new fitness challenge or a fun way to spend the afternoon. Passes cost $17 per person per day. n Red Electric Bike Tours702-544-4261 or redebike.comCommune with nature during this four-hour tour of the Red Rock Conserva-tion Area. For $89, Dad gets to bike, hike and sightsee for 13 miles under the direction of a Red Rock expert. Bottled water is provided.

FOR ADRENALINE- JUNKIE DADSn SkyJump2000 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las VegasJump 855 feet, a staggering 108 floors from the top of the Stratosphere. A jump costs $119.99 for visitors and $99.99 for locals.

n Fremont Street’s Slotzilla425 E. Fremont St., Las Vegas Take your dad for a zipline ride above the Fremont Street Experience. Rides cost $20 for the lower zip line and $40 for the upper zoomline.

FOR DADS WHO CHOOSE SHAKESPEARE OVER ESPN n The Smith Center for the Performing Arts361 Symphony Park Ave., Las VegasShows play every weekend in Reynolds Hall and showcase a variety of per-forming arts, from jazz to Broadway to ballet. Tickets range in price and can be found at thesmithcenter.com.

n The Arts Factory107 E. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas Enjoy local and emerging art with your dad, and get a tour from the artists. The gallery building has been around for 50 years and is connected to Bar + Bistro, a perfect place to treat your dad after checking out the galleries.

FOR NO-FUSS DADS n Royal Links Golf Course5994 E. Vegas Valley Drive, Las Vegas Highly rated and built to honor the his-tory of golf, Royal Links is designed to take you back to the sport’s ancestry. The golf course has a discounted “Stay and Play” package, offering multiple-night stays plus rounds of golf starting at $184.

n Boat at Lake Las Vegas10 Costa Di Lago, HendersonSonrisa Grill: 30 Via Brianza, Suite 100, HendersonLuna Rossa: 10 Via Bel Canto, HendersonA great retreat from the city and only a short drive away, Lake Las Vegas is a perfect spot to spend a relaxing Father’s Day. Rent an electric Duffy Boat for $79 an hour, then shop and dine. For a view of the lake while you eat, try Sonrisa Grill or Luna Rossa.

FOR ANIMAL-LOVER DADS n The Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay3950 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las VegasSee more than 200 species, including sharks, sawfish, sea turtles, piranhas, giant rays and more. For Nevada resi-dents, admission costs $15 for adults and $10 for children.

n Siegfried & Roy’s Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat3400 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las VegasDolphins, tigers and white lions are just a few of the creatures you’ll see. Tickets cost $19.95 for an all day pass, which lets you in and out of the exhibits from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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MarilynBreed: Lop and Himalayan mix bunnyAge: 2-year-old spayed femaleDescription: Marilyn is a pensive girl and is improving with trust and so-cialization. She has tremendous lov-ing potential in a kind, gentle home.Adoption fee: $25

Stella (A789255) Breed: Pit bullAge: 4-year-old spayed femaleDescription: Stella loves people, including young children, and other dogs. She’s friendly, happy and knows some basic obedience.Adoption fee: $105

CecilyBreed: Domestic mediumhairAge: 3-year-old spayed femaleDescription: Cecily is great with other cats and tender with people. Give her chin scratches, and she will melt in your hands. This social girl needs plenty of daily attention.Adoption fee: $40

Gracie (A837277) Breed: Terrier mixAge: 2-year-old spayed femaleDescription: Gracie walks well on a leash and would make an excellent running companion. She’s friendly with other pups and would do best in a home with older children. Adoption fee: $105

DeMarcoBreed: Heinz 57 with sporting breedsAge: 5-year-old neutered maleDescription: DeMarco’s favorite activities include napping in the sun and frolicking in wading pools. He is house-trained and crate-trained.Adoption fee: $50

Sissy (A831497) Breed: Domestic shorthairAge: 3-year-old spayed femaleDescription: Give Sissy time to get to know you and you will be reward-ed with lots of love and snuggles. Once she feels comfortable, she likes being held and laying close to you. Adoption fee: $5 (through June 30)

YetiBreed: Leonine tabbyAge: 7-year-old neutered male Description: Yeti’s extra toes help him give amazing hugs and cuddles. He enjoys meeting and building rela-tionships with people and cats.Adoption fee: $20

Baybe (A833572) Breed: Chihuahua mixAge: 2-year-old spayed femaleDescription: This sweet girl gets along with adults and kids, and loves the company of other dogs. She knows basic commands and is eager to learn more.Adoption fee: $155

JoachimBreed: Chi-Weenie (Chihuahua/dachshund mix)Age: 2-year-old neutered maleDescription: Joachim is good with other dogs, crate-trained and best suited for a calm home environment.Adoption fee: $60

Kiara (A831911) Breed: Domestic shorthairAge: 11-year-old spayed femaleDescription: Kiara can’t get enough attention. She hasn’t spent time around other pets before but is easygoing and social with the people she meets. Adoption fee: $5 (through June 30)

LexiBreed: Shih TzuAge: 7-year-old spayed femaleDescription: Lexi is affectionate and gets along well with other dogs. Be sure to plan and budget for profes-sional grooming at least four to six times a year.Adoption fee: $60

Dude (A843425) Breed: Domestic shorthairAge: 6-year-old neutered maleDescription: Laid-back Dude can be a bit timid when he first meets new people but, given some time, warms up.Adoption fee: $5 (through June 30)

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ANJELINA STARCK

CAROLINE EDGEWORTH

THE SUNDAY

34JUNE 14- JUNE 20

CHAMPIONSHIP RUN

DIG THIS

The Vegas Aces youth

volleyball team, which is

preparing for a trip to the

national championships,

consists of two sets of

twins, four sets of sisters,

and nine best friends.

(L.E. BASKOW/STAFF)

It’s cool because we don’t take

people just because of how good they are, we take them because we are friends. Volleyball ... (is) to have fun, not to put any stress on you. You just try to play your best.”

— SIDRA WOHLWEND

ʻSPORTS

RENI AJAYI

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KEJI AJAYI

THE SUNDAY

35SPORTS

JUNE 14- JUNE 20

CHAMPIONSHIP RUN

BY JESSE GRANGERSTAFF WRITER

The volleyball sails over the net and nearly lands on the

ground. But out of nowhere, the Ve-gas Aces’ Lauren Soong stretches and saves it.

Sidra Wohlwend passes to her left, and Keji Ajayi vaults above the net to spike it down.

The scenario isn’t unusual for a volleyball practice — except Lauren, Sidra and Keji are just 12 years old.

And this isn’t some plastic Fish-er-Price net they are scorching the ball over. The twine stretches 7 feet in the air, 4 inches short of a wom-en’s professional regulation net.

The Vegas Aces, a 12-and-un-der squad , will compete June 27-30 in New Orleans at USA Vol-leyball’s Girls’ Junior National Championships.

At fi rst glance, the Aces may seem like an easy team to defeat. The nine-player squad includes girls age s 9 to 12, while most teams are stacked with girls on the age threshold — almost 13. Because of the age difference, the Aces typi-cally fi eld a team of smaller players .

But they win and rank fi rst of 162 clubs in the Southern California re-gion.

“People in California were say-ing, ‘Who is this Vegas team?’ ” said Angela Edgeworth, the club’s direc-tor and mother of team members Caroline and Lauren Edgeworth. “Some parents would wonder why their team has to play our team full of shorter and younger girls, but then we would win.”

The Aces quickly outgrew Las Vegas leagues, never losing a match locally despite playing against many teams consisting of 14-year-olds. Parents and coaches decided it was time to move to a bigger pond.

“California is like the mecca of vol-leyball,” said Candice Tung-Wohl-wend, whose daughter Sidra plays for the Aces. “We just wanted to get

better competition, but once we got out there, we still kept winning.”

The Aces are the fi rst girls’ vol-leyball team from Nevada to earn a bid to nationals, winning a spot by posting a 7-2 record at the Far Western Regional qualifying tour-nament in late April in Reno.

“I’ve heard a bunch of stories about New Orleans, and it sounds really fun,” said Keji’s sister and teammate, Reni Ajayi. “I’m really excited, but I’m also really ner-vous because there are a lot of good teams there.”

The girls are used to playing the role of underdog .

The team has been traveling for just over a year, and the girls were introduced to the sport on a recre-ational level only three years ago. That is when Angela Edgeworth and her husband, Brian, became team parents.

After having no luck fi nding prac-tice facilities for youth teams in Las Vegas, Brian Edgeworth convert-ed his offi ce warehouse into “ the Edge” volleyball training gym for teams all over the valley to use. The Edgeworths brought in head coach Ruben Herrera, a former assistant at UNLV who coached at colleges in Virginia and New Orleans.

“I didn’t know what to expect with 12-year-olds, to be honest,” Herrera said. “I was thinking, ‘Uh-oh, what am I getting myself into? ’ But then I came in and watched ... and there is some potential here.”

Unlike most teams in the ultra-competitive California region, the Aces do not hold tryouts . Instead, they have kept the same group of friends playing together since the team was founded.

“It’s cool because we don’t take people just because of how good they are, we take them because we are friends,” Sidra said. “Volleyball is not really that important. It’s to have fun, not to put any stress on you. You just try to play your best.”

12-UNDER TEAM ROUTINELY TAKES DOWN SQUADS WITH OLDER, BIGGER PLAYERS

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$40,000 Jammin’ June DrawingsDate: Fridays through June 26Time: 7 p.m.Information: Earn drawing tickets with slot play. Earn 2x entries from 4 to 6:30 p.m. Earn 5x entries from 8 p.m. to midnight. Ten winners will be selected to win up to $3,000 in cash. Activate at least 10 drawing tickets and receive $10 in slot play the fol-lowing Saturday.

Play For Prizes – Free PlayDate: June 29-July 3Information: Points earned Monday through Friday may be combined and redeemed for up to $190 in free play per day.

Play For Prizes – High TechDate: June 15-26Information: Points earned Monday through Friday may be combined and redeemed for gift cards to Fry’s and the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf.

Gift daysDate: June 28Time: 12:01 a.m.-6:59 p.m.Information: Earn 100 points on slots or 500 points on video poker and receive a hair clipper set.

ALIANTE

Summertime Grillin’ giveawayDate: FridayTime: 7:45 p.m.Information: Earn entries by play-ing table games. Ten winners will be chosen; the top prize is $500 in chips, a barbecue and a $150 gift card to Smith’s.

Hot Summer Fun Pull TabsDate: Fridays and Saturdays in JuneInformation: Earn 250 points to re-ceive a card. Come in both days and earn a pull tab to come back Sunday for a bonus offer. Win up to $10,000. Receive pull tab vouchers at kiosks, then turn them in at the Players Club to receive a pull tab.

50+ Play Day kiosk gameDate: Mondays in JuneInformation: Earn 50 points to spin the wheel to win up to $500 in slot play.

June point multipliersDate: WednesdaysInformation: Earn 5x points on video poker and 10x points on reels.

Burst June multiplierDate: June 21Information: Earn 6x points on video poker and 12x points on reels.

$25,000 Hot Summer Nights drawingsDate: June 27Time: 7:15 p.m.Information: Earn entries through June 27. The top 10 drawing entry earners will receive a spot in the final drawing and $250 in slot play. Ten additional names will be drawn. First place wins $7,500 in free slot play.

$12,500 mobile hot seatDate: TuesdaysInformation: Players must accept the hot seat offer from the mobile app to qualify. From noon to 5 p.m., five people will win $50 in slot play. At 6 p.m., 10 people will win $100 in slot play. Winners will be announced over the intercom and must swipe at a kiosk to redeem their prize.

Father’s Day giveawayDate: June 18Information: Earn 250 points to re-ceive a beer mug set.

Father’s Day dauber giveawayDate: June 21Information: Free dauber giveaway during all bingo sessions.

SILVERTON

Earn and win — buffetDate: ThursdaysTime: 11 a.m.-9 p.m.Information: Earn 100 points to receive a free lunch or dinner at Sea-sons Buffet.

Father’s Day Bass Pro Shops gift card giveawayDate: June 21Information: There are three ways to win Bass Pro Shops gift cards. Guests who earn 10,000 points will receive a $100 gift card, 20 winners will receive a $25 Bass Pro Shops gift card during random hot seat draw-ings and 25 winners will receive a $100 Bass Pro Shops gift card at a 7 p.m. drawing for which entries can be acquired for 250 points.

Silverton sweepstakesDate: June 20 and 27Information: Win up to $10,000. The June 20 drawing is at 8 p.m. Ten win-ners will have a chance to win up to $5,000. Grand finale drawings will be 5 p.m. June 27 with a $5,000 prize and 8 p.m. June 27 with a $10,000 prize. Free drawing entries are avail-able to loyalty card members daily; additional entries are 300 points each. Diamond card members receive 10 free entries, platinum card members receive seven free entries and gold card members receive five free entries daily. Each Friday, Silverton Rewards

Club members receive double draw-ing entries.

Point multipliersDate: WednesdaysInformation: Earn 6x points on reels and 2x points on video poker.

$10,000 Reel & Win Slot Tournaments Date: TuesdaysTime: 11 a.m.Information: The top 30 players will qualify for cash and slot play. The first-place player will win $1,000.

Scratch ’n’ WinDate: FridaysInformation: Mail recipients and guests who have made a $10 ad-vance-deposit wagering or higher in the past 90 days can receive a scratch card to win prizes.

Gift giveawaysDate: SaturdaysInformation: Earn 250 slot points or 500 video poker points to receive a gift.

Point multipliersDate: JuneInformation: Earn 2x points all month. Every Thursday, guests who have made a $40 advance-deposit wager or higher can win up to 1,000 slot points. Guests who make a $40 advance-deposit wager or higher be-tween 4 and 7 p.m. and 8 and 11 p.m. Sundays also are eligible.

$130,000 Caddies and CashDate: SundaysTime: 7 p.m.Information: Earn 25 slot or video points or bet an average of $15 for one hour on a table game to enter. Ten winners will be selected during each drawing and will choose one of 10 keys, each with a prize, one being a Cadillac ATS.

BOYD GAMING

Young at HeartDate: WednesdaysInformation: Loyalty card members can earn up to 50x points and receive dining and other discounts at the Orleans, Suncoast, Gold Coast and Sam’s Town.

Father’s Day multiplierDate: June 21Information: Earn 15x points on penny slots, 11x points on other reels and 7x points on video poker at the Orleans, Suncoast, Gold Coast and Sam’s Town.

SUNCOAST

$16,000 Table games drawingDate: Fridays and SaturdaysTime: 7 and 9 p.m.Information: Win $250. Earn drawing entries by playing table games. Earn 4x entries on Mondays and Tuesdays.

Point multipliersDate: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and ThursdaysInformation: Members of the 50+ Club can earn a mystery multiplier on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. On Thurs-days, earn 12x points on reels and 6x points on video poker.

GOLDEN GATE AND THE D

Email Yourself a MillionDate: Through Aug. 31Information: Swipe your loyalty card at a kiosk for a chance to win $1 million, free play, comp dollars, food and more. A valid email address is required.

Win Derek’s HellcatDate: Through Aug. 29Information: Earn tickets for monthly drawings that culminate with a chance to win a 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat.

STATION CASINOS

MyGeneration WednesdaysDate: Ongoing Locations: All Station properties, Fi-esta Henderson and Fiesta RanchoInformation: For loyalty card holders age 50 and older. Swipe your card at a kiosk for up to 10x points on slots and 6x points on video poker; dis-counts on dining, movies and bowl-ing; slot tournaments from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., with a top prize of $1,000. The first entry is free; receive up to four additional entries by earning 50 additional base points for each.

$1.3 Million Music Mania giveawayDate: Fridays and Saturdays through June 27Time: 10 a.m.-midnightInformation: A kiosk game and draw-ing. Win up to $5,000. Drawings are at 8:15 p.m. Saturdays.

SOUTH POINT

50+ weekly slot tournamentDate: Thursdays Time: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.Information: Open to Club Card members age 50 and older. The first entry is free with a swipe at a club kiosk; collect a second by earning

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250 points and a third by earning 500 points. Top prize is $1,500; the total prize pool is $5,200.

Live money Spring Fling handicapping contestDate: Select Fridays in JuneInformation: A $150 buy-in allows players to wager on five horse races in win, place and exacta formats. The contest features a $100 bankroll and a $20 minimum bet per race. Bettors can win cash prizes or one paid seat to the Breeders’ Cup Betting Chal-lenge qualifier, worth $1,500.

REAL GAMING

Get $20Date: Through June 30Information: Sign up for an account at realgaming.com, join a game and receive a $20 credit.

Spin to WinDate: DailyTime: 8:15 p.m.Information: Win up to $1,000.

50-plus slot tournamentDate: WednesdaysTime: 10 a.m.Information: The best combined score from two sessions wins $1,000.

ORLEANS

Gift daysDate: Tuesdays and ThursdaysTime: 11 a.m.-7 p.m.Information: Earn 300 points to re-ceive a gift.

‘B’ Loyal to the Royal drawingDate: Through June 26Time: 7:15 p.m.Information: Earn entries for drawings through play. Win up to $5,000. Hit a royal flush with a max coin bet and earn additional free play and drawing entries.

Point multiplierDate: SundaysInformation: Earn 15x points on penny reels.

DOWNTOWN GRAND

Grand ThursdaysDate: ThursdaysInformation: Loyalty card members 50 and older receive point multipli-ers, dining and gaming discounts, and entry into slot tournaments.

Get a Grand from the GrandDate: Through Dec. 31Information: For new loyalty card members. Earn up to $1,000 back on all reel and video reel games. Requires a minimum loss of $50. The rebate will be split over three

redemption periods to total 100 per-cent of the player’s loss.

SAM’S TOWN

Pie giveawayDate: ThursdaysInformation: Earn 200 points to receive a pie. Banana cream will be given out on June 18 and apple on June 25.

Cool cash giveawayDate: MondaysTime: 11 a.m.-11 p.m.Information: Twelve table games players will win each hour. Players can win more than once.

Bonus tourneyDate: Sundays, Tuesdays and Thurs-daysInformation: As an eligible penny slot machine is played, a tournament icon meter will grow. Once the meter is full, the player can press a spin but-ton on the tournament game three times. Cumulative scores will be added up at the end of the tourna-ment. Top prize is $750 in play.

Poker High Hands bonusDate: Through AugustInformation: Players who get a royal flush, straight flush or four of a kind while playing seven-card stud and hold ’em will receive a bonus payout.

$3 Million Blackjack Bonus drawingDate: Fridays, Saturdays and SundaysTime: 6:15 p.m.Information: Earn entries by playing slots and table games. Five winners at each drawing; win up to $50,000.

Video Poker ShowdownDate: FridaysTime: 4-8 p.m.Information: Earn 10 points for the first entry; earn 50 points for each additional entry in a video poker tournament at 8:15 p.m. Top prize is $1,000 in play.

STRATOSPHERE

Camaro Point ChallengeDate: Through July 15Information: The top three loyalty card users who collect Camaro points will win cash. The top 50 winners will earn entry into a slot tournament.

Camaro slot tournamentDate: Aug. 13-15Information: The top 20 point earners can play for a share of $25,000 in prizes. The grand prize is a Camaro signed by NASCAR’s Earnhardt family.

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Pirate’s Treasure progressive drawingsDate: Last Wednesday of the monthTime: 6:15 and 8:15 p.m.Information: Ten winners will be chosen at each drawing. The progres-sive jackpot increases every month it doesn’t hit.

$6,500 Galleons of Gold mid-month drawingDate: Second Wednesday of the monthInformation: Players who earn 2,000 base points during the previous calen-dar month can participate in the fol-

lowing month’s drawing. Ten winners

will be chosen.

CLUB FORTUNE

Top of the Hill slot tournamentDate: Tuesdays and Wednesdays

Time: 10 a.m.-7 p.m.

Information: Win cash prizes.

JOKERS WILD

Gift daysDate: Sundays

Information: Earn 200 points to re-

ceive a gift.

Jumpin’ Jokers cash giveawayDate: Saturdays

Information: Nine players will be

chosen, one winner on the hour every

hour from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and one

every hour from 6 to 10 p.m. Win up

to $1,000 cash or $1,200 slot play.

Free shirt giveawayDate: Tuesdays

Information: Earn 300 points to re-

ceive a T-shirt.

Point multipliersDate: Wednesdays

Information: Earn 7x points on video

poker and 11x points on slots.

Rollin’ for doughDate: Fridays

Time: 1-9 p.m.

Information: Watch for the prize cart

for your chance to roll the dice to

earn 10x the amount.

Bonus ThursdaysDate: Thursdays

Information: Win bonuses with select

hands on video poker, slots and keno.

EL CORTEZ

$25,000 Cash is King drawingDate: Aug. 15

Information: Earn one entry for every

5,000 points.

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Information: Rewards members who

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games.

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Information: On Thursdays, earn 3x

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38WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU Send your feedback to news@thesunday.comEDITORIAL

JUNE 14- JUNE 20

Wondering whether Metro police show restraint?

W ith all the video evidence, it’s little wonder there’s such outrage over cops who

lose control and escalate, sometimes lethally, what otherwise might be man-ageable situations.

We saw it most recently in McKin-ney, Tex., where video captured a white police officer going “out of control,” as his chief said, while trying to deal with a large gathering of mostly black teenag-ers at a pool party.

Our own Metro Police department has been in the crosshairs too, with officer-involved shootings getting the attention of the Justice Department.

It might seem like long gone are the days of the local beat cop arriving at a scene, taking stock of the situation and mapping a plan to keep the peace and work through the issue. Most officers were welcomed members of a neigh-borhood, known for tact and civility in handling disturbances.

Today, community policing is falling out of favor, cops are stressed due to un-derstaffing, and the public has become

more quick to challenge authority.Now comes a new video that brings

us some comfort. It shows Metro Police dealing with a crowd issue on Tomi-yasu Lane, which includes some of the most palatial estates in Clark County. What does this video show? Cops doing all the right things, peacefully and ef-ficiently.

On this particular night, May 2, a championship boxing match be-tween Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao would draw the largest ever pay-per-view crowd. And on Tomiyasu Lane, a home once owned by boxer Mike Tyson was the scene of a watch party. More than 200 people, most of them young black men, said they bought tickets for $350 to $1,200 but when they showed up, the house was full and they were denied admission. Some witnesses reported that armed people inside the gated estate pre-vented outsiders from getting in. The crowd was angry, and the scene seemed potentially ugly. Someone called the police.

And here’s what happened, as

related by witnesses and bolstered by a 20-minute video shared with The Sunday: More than a dozen Metro of-ficers arrived, and with no shouting, no barking, no pushiness and no demands, made conversation with the group. They learned they were dealing with boxing fans who seemed to have been swindled. What could have been intimi-dating crowd of angry people quickly was soothed by the arriving officers who got out of their patrol cars without swagger or attitude.

“How much did everyone pay?” an officer is heard asking on the video, shot by a neighbor. “Three-fifty,” some people yell. “Fifteen hundred,” others say. The officers now are sorting out the victims.

“All right, the less you paid, go down this way, and the more you paid, go up that way,” an officer instructs. “Orga-nize yourselves based on how much you paid. …We’re going to try to get your money back.”

And they did. At the urging of the officers, ticket holders who paid cash got it back. Those who used credit cards

were advised by police to contact the card companies to seek refunds. Then the cops called for cabs to help those without vehicles get back to the Strip.

“Our officers try to resolve things in the most peaceful way possible,” Metro spokesman Larry Hadfield said later. “We give people the opportunity to solve their own problems when the op-portunity offers itself.”

Said the neighbor who recorded the scene: “The cops were easygoing. There was easy conversation. People were respectful of each other. The entire scene was managed beautifully. It could have been a national incident, depend-ing on how it turned out. But it was a nonevent.”

Are Las Vegas police better trained than others in handling potentially volatile situations?

The neighbor speculated: “Cops here probably see so much crazy stuff, compared to most other cities, they know how to handle it. In crowd situa-tions, they’re very good at restraint and problem-solving.”

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Decorate and dine with Dad: Paint a coffee mug and celebrate dads, grandpas, uncles and guard-ians with food from Judah’s Kosher Grill. 10 a.m.-1 p.m., $15 per person, Jewish Community Center of Southern Nevada, 8689 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 180, 702-794-0090.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Xtreme: Be amazed by circus artists and animals. 1 p.m. and 5 p.m., $13-$53, Thomas & Mack, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, unlvtickets.com.

Blue Man Group sensory-friendly show: Blue Man group will modify its show as part of its yearlong partnership with Autism Speaks. Sound and light levels will be reduced, headphones will be available, audience interaction will be limited, and the lobby will be outfitted with calm areas for families seeking a break from the excitement. 2 p.m., $32.75, Monte Carlo, 3770 Las Vegas Blvd. South, blueman.com/autismspeaks.

Las Vegas Jazz Society: Enjoy the music of Charles McNeal and his quartet. 2-4 p.m., $12-$15, Bootlegger Bistro, 7700 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 702-313-6778.

Guitar for amateurs: Local instructor Don Musser teaches a hands-on class for amateurs looking to learn to play guitar. Bring your own guitar. 4 p.m., Spring Valley Library, 4280 S. Jones Blvd., 702-507-3821.

Eastern European and Jewish Gala: Violinist Arkadily Gips and singer Svetlana Portnyansky perform Klezmer, Russian, Balkan, Romanian and classical violin pieces. 5 p.m., $35-$40, Summerlin Library, 1771 Inner Circle, 702-750-0088.

TUESDAY, JUNE 16

Veterans job fair: Goodwill of Southern Nevada will host more than 80 employers that are actively hiring. Interviews will be done onsite for many of the open positions. Job seekers should dress professionally and bring several copies of their resume and refer-ences. 10 a.m.-2 p.m., free, Boule-vard Mall, 3528 S. Maryland Parkway, 702-735-7430.

Wonderland Bakery culinary camp: Professional bakers and

decorators will teach children how

to create beautiful baked goods.

The three-day class specializes in

decorating with fondant and

frosting. 1-3 p.m., $295 per person,

Wonderland Bakery, Downtown

Summerlin, 2010 Festival Plaza,

Suite 150, 702-363-3333.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17

Parkdale community BBQ and pool party: The Parkdale Recre-

ation Center and Metro Police will

host a picnic and pool party with

games and activities for all ages.

Food will be provided, and a

bounce house will be set up for

children. 2:30 p.m., free, Parkdale

Recreation Center, 3200 Ferndale

St., 702-455-7517.

THURSDAY, JUNE 18

Luau luncheon: Enjoy a Hawai-

ian-themed meal and entertain-

ment by the Hawaii Dance com-

pany. For people ages 50-plus.

11:30 a.m., $5 with a Las Vegas

Senior Programs membership, Las

Vegas Senior Center, 451 E. Bonan-

za Road, 702-229-6454.

“Radiation Reality”: The Desert

Research Institute’s Ted Hartwell

and Steve Curtis will discuss

radiation and how comic books

have portrayed it. 6 p.m., free for

members, $10 for students, $20 for

nonmembers, National Atomic

Testing Museum, 755 E. Flamingo

Road, 702-794-5151.

Chamucos tequila dinner: Chamucos Tequila paired with Mexican cuisine by Executive Chef Terry Lynch, featuring halibut and salmon caviar ceviche, chilaquiles, leg of lamb and more. 6:30-8:30 p.m., $60 per person (gratuity not included), El Segundo Sol, Fashion Show Mall, 3200 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 702-258-1211.

Movies in the Square: Enjoy a screening of “Space Jam.” Film begins at sundown, free, the Green at Town Square, 6605 Las Vegas Blvd. South, mytownsquarelasve-gas.com.

FRIDAY, JUNE 19

Amazing Las Vegas Comic Con: Fans of comic books, video games and cartoons will convene for celebrity appearances by “Mortal Kombat’s” Chris Casamassa, the “Sailor Moon” cast and the Power Rangers. 3-8 p.m., $25-$60, South Point, 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. South, amazinglasvegascomiccon.com. *Also: 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday.

The Poets’ Corner: A monthly forum for poets and open-mic participants. 7:30 p.m., free, West Las Vegas Arts Center Community Gallery, 947 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 702-229-4800.

SATURDAY, JUNE 20

Downtown Summerlin farmers market: Buy organic, sustainably grown produce from California and Nevada family farms, and food from local artisans. 9 a.m.-2 p.m.,

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40WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU Send your feedback to events@thesunday.comLIFE

JUNE 14- JUNE 20

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Blue Man Group will put on a “sensory-friendly” show at 2 p.m. June 14 at Monte Carlo as part of its partnership with Autism Speaks. (GETTY IMAGES FILE)

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Downtown Summerlin, 1980 Festival Plaza Drive, 702-832-1000.

Public art workshop: The city of Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Arts Commission will offer a free work-shop on creating public art projects. The workshop is designed to help artists and administrators learn more about public art and will feature Mary Lucking, an artist who has earned three national awards from the Public Art Network. RSVP encouraged. 10 a.m., free, Las Vegas City Hall, 495 S. Main St., 702-229-4631.

Lights, Camera, Take Action on MS: Actress Madeleine Stowe will join Dr. Heidi Crayton of the Multiple Sclerosis Center of Greater Wash-ington and a lifestyle expert to teach people about managing stress and the physical and emotional aspects of living with MS. Lunch will be served. 11 a.m.-2 p.m., free, Renais-sance Hotel, 3400 Paradise Road, takeactionms.com.

Pet adoption drive: The Nevada SPCA will be on site handling animals, assessing potential adopt-ers and answering questions. Towbin Dodge will donate $150 for each car sold that day. Towbin also will accept donations of canned pet food, blankets, towels and crates. 11 a.m.-2 p.m., free, Towbin Dodge, 275 Auto Mall Drive, kingofcars.com.

Dinosaur diorama workshop: Create a 3-D prehistoric scene. 12:15-1:30 p.m., $15, Charleston

Cocktail created by Francesco Lafranconi, executive director of mixology and spirits education at Southern

Wine & Spirits.

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Chamucos tequila dinner: Chamucos Tequila paired with Mexican cuisine by Executive Chef Terry Lynch, featuring halibut and salmon caviar ceviche, chilaquiles, leg of lamb and more. 6:30-8:30 p.m., $60 per person (gratuity not included), El Segundo Sol, Fashion Show Mall, 3200 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 702-258-1211.

Movies in the Square: Enjoy a screening of “Space Jam.” Film begins at sundown, free, the Green at Town Square, 6605 Las Vegas Blvd. South, mytownsquarelasve-gas.com.

FRIDAY, JUNE 19

Amazing Las Vegas Comic Con: Fans of comic books, video games and cartoons will convene for celebrity appearances by “Mortal Kombat’s” Chris Casamassa, the “Sailor Moon” cast and the Power Rangers. 3-8 p.m., $25-$60, South Point, 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. South, amazinglasvegascomiccon.com. *Also: 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday.

The Poets’ Corner: A monthly forum for poets and open-mic participants. 7:30 p.m., free, West Las Vegas Arts Center Community Gallery, 947 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 702-229-4800.

SATURDAY, JUNE 20

Downtown Summerlin farmers market: Buy organic, sustainably grown produce from California and Nevada family farms, and food from local artisans. 9 a.m.-2 p.m.,

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Blue Man Group will put on a “sensory-friendly” show at 2 p.m. June 14 at Monte Carlo as part of its partnership with Autism Speaks. (GETTY IMAGES FILE)

Downtown Summerlin, 1980 Festival Plaza Drive, 702-832-1000.

Public art workshop: The city of Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Arts Commission will offer a free work-shop on creating public art projects. The workshop is designed to help artists and administrators learn more about public art and will feature Mary Lucking, an artist who has earned three national awards from the Public Art Network. RSVP encouraged. 10 a.m., free, Las Vegas City Hall, 495 S. Main St., 702-229-4631.

Lights, Camera, Take Action on MS: Actress Madeleine Stowe will join Dr. Heidi Crayton of the Multiple Sclerosis Center of Greater Wash-ington and a lifestyle expert to teach people about managing stress and the physical and emotional aspects of living with MS. Lunch will be served. 11 a.m.-2 p.m., free, Renais-sance Hotel, 3400 Paradise Road, takeactionms.com.

Pet adoption drive: The Nevada SPCA will be on site handling animals, assessing potential adopt-ers and answering questions. Towbin Dodge will donate $150 for each car sold that day. Towbin also will accept donations of canned pet food, blankets, towels and crates. 11 a.m.-2 p.m., free, Towbin Dodge, 275 Auto Mall Drive, kingofcars.com.

Dinosaur diorama workshop: Create a 3-D prehistoric scene. 12:15-1:30 p.m., $15, Charleston

Heights Arts Center, 800 S. Brush St., 702-229-6383.

Architect and builder workshop: Ascaya, a luxury development in Henderson, will host a monthly workshop to teach people about the custom home-building process. 1-2:30 p.m., free, 808 Roma Hills Ave., 702-978-5800.

Las Vegas Juneteenth Celebra-tion: Juneteeth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. Spend the day celebrating people whose lives continue to encourage critical thinking, conversation and reflection. Also, commemorate Nevada’s signing of the Juneteenth Bill. 1 p.m., free, West Las Vegas Library, 951 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 702-507-3989.

Willie Wainwright: The Hawaiian fiddle player and singer will perform. 2 p.m., free, Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 S. McLeod Drive, 702-455-7340.

DjangoVegas!: Celebrate the music of Django Reinhardt and other gypsy jazz musicians. 6 p.m., free, $10-$15, 401 S. Fourth St., artslasvegas.org.

Sinatra Sings Sinatra: The Centennial Celebration: Pay tribute to the legacy of Frank Sinatra as Frank Sinatra Jr. delivers recollec-tions of life on and off stage with his father. 7:30 p.m., $29, Smith Center for the Performing Arts, 361 Sym-phony Park Ave., 702-749-2012.

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THE SUNDAY

43JUNE 14- JUNE 20

BY DANIELLE BIRKIN | SPECIAL TO VEGAS INC

When David Knight founded the data-trading platform Terbine last year in the Bay Area, he immediately recognized the saturation of startups in the Silicon Valley and the high cost of doing business there, and he set out to relocate. ¶ The

serial entrepreneur narrowed his search to two possibilities: Austin, Texas, and Las Vegas, with Southern Nevada VENTURE ACCELERATOR, CONTINUED ON PAGE 53

12Number of consecutive months

gaming revenue has been

down in Macau, China. Las

Vegas Sands, Wynn Resorts

and MGM Resorts International

operate resorts in the region.

280KNumber of jobs employers

added in May, according to

the U.S. Labor Department.

Most were in professional and

business services, leisure and

hospitality, and health care.

1MNumber of jobs added so far this

year nationwide, according to

the U.S. Labor Department. The

economy contracted during the

first three months, but recent job

gains have outpaced expectations.

$600MCost of a Vancouver hotel-casi-

no being built by Paragon Gam-

ing. The project was mothballed

in 2011 but revived almost three

years later. The development is

adjacent to BC Place Stadium.

Jump-starting new business

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Typinski, center, talk with Fennemore Craig

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MEET: HIGH DESERT FARMSDoug and Leslie Ives have learned how to grow fruit, vegetables and micro-greens in extreme desert conditions. They discuss the challenges of doing so and the benefi ts of buying local produce.

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DATA AND PUBLIC INFORMATIONA listing of local bank-ruptcies, bid opportuni-ties, brokered transac-tions, business licenses and building permits.

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GREAT RECESSION HAS A SEQUEL: ‘RETURN OF THE ZOMBIE HOMES’

Las Vegas’ housing market is a lot better than it was during the depths of the recession, when it seemed everyone was underwater, losing a home to foreclosure or both.

But today, a hallmark of the housing bust not only remains, it seems to be getting worse: abandoned homes.

Some 34 percent of Las Vegas Valley homes in the foreclosure process but not yet bank-owned have been vacated by their owners, according to RealtyTrac. That amounts to 1,942 “zombie” foreclosures,

up 16 percent from 1,670 zombie homes a year

ago. All together, 1 in every 435 homes valley wide is a zombie foreclosure,

compared with 1 in every 1,040 homes nationally, RealtyTrac reported.

Such homes usually fall into disrepair and are prone to squatters. They blight neighborhoods and push down property values.

Real estate agents, concerned about the number of abandoned homes locally, are “hopeful banks will fi nally address one of the last dark clouds on the horizon,” Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors President Keith Lynam recently said.

But this can’t be solved just by bankers.Las Vegas is a transient place, and the

local economy, while improving, is far from robust. There always will be people, in good times and bad, who can’t afford their mortgage. And there will always be people who say, “ Forget it, I’m outta here.”

— ELI SEGALL

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Cox Communications opened a tech-nology center at Desert Pines Boys & Girls Club in East Las Vegas. The company also redeployed Connect-2Compete, a program that offers dis-counted high-speed Internet service to low-income families and targets nine Clark County schools near the club: Bracken, Edwards, Earl, Grag-son, Hewetson, Ronnow, Cambeiro and Lunt elementary schools, as well as Robison Middle School.

The Stratosphere donated $1,000 to the Nevada Society for the Preven-tion of Cruelty to Animals and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foun-dation. The diabetes foundation donation was made on behalf of Old School 105.7 radio host Lynn Briggs, whose family is affected by the dis-ease. The resort also donated $1,000 to the Children’s Heart Foundation and its Walk With the Heart of a Child event. The heart foundation supports families affected by pediatric cardiol-ogy conditions.

Wynn and Encore committed $75,000 to the Meeting Planners International Foundation to launch a scholarship for professional meeting planners. The money will cover two scholarship recipients each month over the next three years.

Blue Man Group is partnering with Autism Speaks, an autism science and advocacy organization. The Blue Man Group pledged $25,000 and is hosting sensory-friendly shows suit-able for children with autism spectrum disorders. Slight modifications will be made, including reducing sound and light levels, making headphones available and creating calming en-vironments in each theater’s lobby for families seeking a break from the excitement.

Palms Pool and Dayclub is help-ing charities through Cabanas for a Cause, an annual initiative in which a $100 cabana rental fee is donated on select days to a featured charity of the week. This summer’s beneficiaries include the Epicurean Charitable Foundation, Aid for AIDS in Nevada, Three Square Food Bank and the Goodie Two Shoes Foundation.

Rex Bell Elementary School received 450 backpacks filled with school supplies from HDI Global and World Vision.

The Leadership Las Vegas Class of 2013 presented Cambeiro Element-ery students with more than 800 books for classroom libraries, prizes for reading and nearly $15,000.

Police officers raised more than $94,000 at Claim Jumper restaurants during the annual Tip-A-Cop fund-raiser benefiting Special Olympics. Officers traded in their badges and handcuffs for aprons and served din-ers at Claim Jumper locations in Ne-vada, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington.

The Public Education Foundation honored Foothill High School Direc-tor of Bands Travis Pardee with the Myra Greenspun Teacher Excellence Award. The award — established in 2008 by Myra Greenspun, who is on the executive committee of the Public Education Foundation’s board of directors — recognizes an exem-plary public school teacher who uses innovative teaching strategies and raises student achievement. Pardee was nominated by Sean Thueson, a parent and chair of the Falcon Band Boosters at Foothill High School. In his nominating letter, Thueson wrote Pardee’s “life work is dedication to teaching, not just about music, but about life and how to be a good per-son.” Greenspun is the wife of Brian Greenspun, CEO and publisher of Greenspun Media Group.

Raymond Wilmer joined the board of directors of Make-A-Wish South-ern Nevada. Wilmer is associate vice president of client sales and a service officer at U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management. He co-founded the Las Vegas chapter of Bank of America’s LGBT Pride Employ-ee Network and served as board presi-dent of the Gay and Lesbian Commu-nity Center of Southern Nevada.

More than 900 volunteers and corpo-rate sponsors from across Southern Nevada repaired and renovated 20

homes during National Rebuilding

Day. Southwest Gas teamed with Re-building Together Southern Nevada

for the 21st year and repaired the

home of a U.S. Navy veteran’s widow

who adopted her three grandchil-

dren, who require special medical

attention. More than $65,000 worth

of repairs were made to the home.

Lowe’s Home Improvement provided

$10,000 to replace the air condition-

ing unit and repair the home’s roof.

Elsewhere, more than 15 Chase Bank

employees and five Air Force mem-

bers worked at a home, landscaping

the back yard, painting the exterior,

replacing a door, replacing locks and

lights, and rewiring the patio area.

Nevada State Bank donated $25,000

to Communities in Schools of Ne-vada to benefit the Splashdown for

Kids event and support a hunger pre-

vention program that provides meals

to Elko County schoolchildren.

The Association of Fundraising Professionals, Las Vegas Chapter, do-

nated $2,000 to the Library District Foundation. The money will benefit

the Library District’s Southern Ne-vada Nonprofit Information Center.

Rotary Club of Las Vegas West donated $10,000 to Jack Dailey Elementary for a school garden. The

money will pay for raised beds and

landscape improvements so students

can enjoy an outdoor classroom and working, living garden.

The Torino Foundation received $5,000 from Findlay Automotive Group to help fund the Camp I Am program, which sends children with autism to summer camp.

CenturyLink donated $35,000 to valley schools for technology proj-ects. Dorothy Eisenberg Elementary School was awarded almost $5,000 to buy iPad Minis and pay for atten-dance to the 2015 National Asso-ciation for the Education of Young Children Conference. The grant will help students with autism better com-municate and learn through hands-on technology. Teacher Brenda McNair submitted the project. East Career and Technical Academy was awarded about $5,000 to buy iPod Touches for students to enhance science and technology learning. Teacher Bonny Warby submitted the project. Ed W. Clark High School was awarded more than $4,000 to buy dual-control starter kits for the robotics program. Teacher Jean Moran submitted the project. Helen Marie Smith Elemen-tary School was awarded more than $2,500 to buy iPad Minis and iTunes gift cards for educational applications. Gifted Specialist Amie Blumenthal submitted the project. Jim Bridger Middle School was awarded approxi-mately $5,000 to buy MacBooks and an Apple TV for collaborative learn-ing. Teacher Amy White submitted the project. Legacy High School was awarded $5,000 to buy chemistry lab probe-ware for advanced placement chemistry students. Teacher Matthew Totaro submitted the project. Silvestri Junior High School was awarded more than $4,000 to buy 3-D engi-neering software and printing technol-ogy. Librarian Julie Curl submitted the project. Spring Mountain Youth Camp was awarded $4,500 to buy a MakerBot printer and 3-D modeling software for art students. Art De-partment Chairman Bradley Combs submitted the project.

A $1 million gift from the Bennett Family Foundation will provide scholarships to more than 150 new and returning UNLV Honors College students over the next four years.

Elsa Sabellano Jenstad received a $20,000 scholarship and Krista Burdick was awarded $5,000 to fund their culinary educations at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Las Vegas, courtesy of Chase Sapphire Preferred. The aspiring chefs worked with chefs Emeril Lagasse and Mi-chael Mina in a cooking competition at Vegas Uncork’d.

Matt Smith Physical Therapy’s fourth annual food drive benefiting Three Square Food Bank collected 706 pounds of food, which will help cre-ate 588 meals. Since the food drive’s inception in 2012, Matt Smith Physical Therapy has collected 4,291 pounds of food.

GIVINGSend your business-related information to news@vegasinc.com

Nominations are due June 22 for the 2015 Angel Awards. VEGAS INC will honor people and businesses in Southern Nevada who make a difference in the chari-table landscape of our community. The Angel Awards were established to ac-knowledge and encourage the accomplishments and contributions of our most outstanding community leaders and will be included in our special publication, the Giving Guide. Categories for individuals are Humanitarian of the Year, Vol-unteer of the Year and Cultural Advocate/Entertainer of the Year. Categories for companies are Nonprofit of the Year, Philanthropic Business of the Year — Public, Philanthropic Business of the Year — Private and Foundation of the Year. Send an email to craig.peterson@gmgvegas.com for more information.

More than 225 Henderson residents and volunteers from CarMax, Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada and KaBOOM! built a new playground for children served by the John C. Kish Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada Clubhouse. Construction and painting took about four hours. The CarMax Foundation also donated $10,000 to Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada. Through a $4.1 million partnership, the CarMax Foundation and KaBOOM! plan to build 30 playgrounds across the United States by the end of 2015.

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You left Las Vegas for a while. What did you miss about the city? What didn’t you miss?

I missed my family the most, the weather — I was in Chicago — and the 24-hour food-and-beverage options.

I’m excited to be back home to hopefully make a very soulful contri-bution to the culinary offerings in my hometown.

What’s the hardest part about working in the restaurant industry? What’s the most rewarding part?

The hardest part has to be the hours. To be a contender, you have to put in lots of effort that the other guy isn’t willing to put in. You have to live, sleep, breath and eat 24/7 like a chef. If you aren’t working on your weaknesses, I can guarantee you the other guy is. You have to always have the drive to be better and offer more.

It’s demanding but very rewarding. I guess the effort and invested time is both the hardest and the most reward-ing part of being in this industry, all wrapped into one neat little package.

What are your favorite local restaurants?

My favorite local restaurants are Raku, Lotus of Siam, and I always re-ally love Mary’s Hash House for break-fast. Every ounce of effort at those es-tablishments shows consistently.

What do you hate to cook?Subpar ingredients. I don’t enjoy

cooking something if I feel chal-lenged by its quality. Fishy fish, mushrooms that are wet and decom-posing. If I were cooking at a friend’s house and was handed a bag of frozen vegetables, I’d respectfully agree to cook them, but I would definitely loathe every second.

What is the best business advice you’ve received, and from whom did it come?

Rich Melman told me to save my money. Being smart with your own money translates into an ability to

carefully manage a business. He’s a genius and took me under his wing as a mentor years ago. If I’ll take advice from anyone, it’s him.

What are you reading right now?“The French Kitchen,” by Michel

Roux Jr.

What do you do after work?I stay up two to four hours with

my girlfriend doing what other cou-ples do, just a little later at night. We watch TV, eat late dinners, have a few drinks, try new bars, etc.

Blackberry, iPhone or Android?IPhone, always.

Describe your management style.

Consultative/situational leader-ship. I try to design training and man-agement around my cooks’ abilities, level of motivation and knowledge.

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

I see myself owning and operating a few of my own restaurants — hope-fully starting here in my hometown. Wherever I start, I’d like to stay. I don’t believe in spreading too thin.

Rich Melman has most of his con-cepts in Chicago. He keeps the busi-ness close to home, and that makes it sincere.

What is your dream job, outside of your current field?

Motorcycle builder.

Whom do you admire and why?My first and foremost role model

is my mother. She always puts family first and is extremely responsible and organized. I’d be nowhere if it weren’t for her efforts.

In the food kingdom, it has to be Dan-ny Meyer and Daniel Humm, two peo-ple I admire for very different reasons.

What are your biggest pet peeves?

Swooshes of sauce on a plate and foam sauces.

What is something people might not know about you?

I survived a motorcycle crash about two years ago.

I was hit head-on by a car in my lane. He totaled my motorcycle and got away with a hit-and-run. I was lucky to have just a lot of crazy bruising and a fractured wrist that required surgery.

In retrospect, that crash could have ended my life, or life as I know it. I was moving about 45 mph, and the car was doing at least 20 mph.

It was a miracle I could walk. I was at L2O 24 hours later with my arm in a sling, using crutches to get around, but I still cooked on the line and carried my own weight.

Q&A WITH JOSHUA SMITH

‘You have to always have the drive to be better’

Executive Chef Josh Smith prepares a Mediterranean seabass in the Bardot Brasserie kitchen. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF)

Joshua Smith is executive chef at Bardot Brasserie at Aria. A Las Vegas native, Smith has more than a decade of experience in the restaurant business, including a stint at L20 in Chicago, which had two Michelin stars before it closed five months ago. Smith is responsible for developing the culinary program at Bardot Brasserie, which is Michael Mina’s first foray into traditional French cuisine on the Strip.

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BY THE NUMBERS

569 Number of Las Vegas

establishments licensed to

sell package liquor, beer

or wine. The Las Vegas

City Council recently put

a hold on new package

liquor licenses as it stud-

ies whether parts of the

city are oversaturated with

alcohol retailers.

85Size, in acres, of Speed Ve-

gas, a proposed racetrack

south of the M Resort that

would allow customers to

drive luxury vehicles . Plans

for the attraction call for

shops, restaurants and a

lounge that serves alcohol.

37.1 PERCENT Drop in Macau’s gaming

revenue from May 2014 to

May 2015 . Analysts attribute

the decline to government-

led crackdowns on corrup-

tion, which they say scared

off high rollers.

$2.7 BILLION Cost of the Parisian Macao

being built by Las Vegas

Sands on Macau’s Cotai

Strip. The casino, which will

include about 3,000 rooms

and a replica of the Eiffel

Tower, is scheduled to open

next year .

$4.1 BILLION C ost of Wynn Palace, a

Wynn Resorts casino, set to

open next year on Macau’s

Cotai Strip.

2.9 POUNDS

Weight of a drone that a

real estate broker plans

to use to take photos for

home listings.

48Nevada’s ranking for overall

economic health, according

to the nonprofi t Corpora-

tion for Enterprise Devel-

opment. The group said

Nevada residents “lack the

most basic tools to save

and build a secure econom-

ic future.”

Describe your business. We are a local farm that sells

products within 24 hours of cut-ting them, and we deliver our microgreens to Las Vegas each week.

We welcome and encourage chefs to visit so they can see our products and how we take care of them .

What do you grow? We specialize in microgreens but also grow fruits and

vegetables. Our special house blend of microgreens is called Mystical Mix , which enhances the taste buds . It’s one of our most popular products . All of the chef s whom we sell to ask for it.

We also work with chef s to create special blend s that only their restaurant s will serve.

How have you acclimated your garden to the desert ?

We have a high-quality cooling system in our greenhouse to keep our micr ogreens fresh and he althy. Dur-ing winter months, we use a heating system to help them grow consistent with the temperature and climate they are used to .

What makes your business unique?We truly are a mom-and-pop business. Everything we

do is hands-on, including growing, watering, cutting, labeling, packing and delivering. We like to deliver our products freshly cut, because we sell to high-end restau-rants that enjoy how the microgreens enhance the pre-sentation of their dishes .

What’s the most important part of your job?

There is no one job more im-portant than the other. Each job component has to work hand-in-hand for the business to work successfully. Doug worked in the greenhouse for a year before we started selling to restaurants.

What is the hardest part about doing business in Las Vegas?

Trying to get my foot in the door, meeting chefs and getting them to try our samples. It has been challenging encouraging restaurants to purchase products grown locally instead of reaching out to other states. Buying products that are locally-grown not only shows in the freshness and quality but shows the chefs are support-ing local businesses. What obstacles has your business overcome?

Learning how to grow microgreens with extreme temperature changes that vary from 20 degrees to 120 degrees year -round. Also, always trying to keep ahead of the curve to ensure we have enough product but then struggling with a chef canceling part of their order or all of their order due to a slow week at the restaurant. What have you learned from the recession?

Never give up. Part of having a business is watching it successfully grow while you face hard times. Our busi-ness has become successful through the small steps we have made. Slow and steady has been our philosophy, and that is why we grow a quality product and why our customers keep coming back.

Desert climate doesn’t stop local farm from growing, selling quality greens

Doug and Leslie

Ives own High

Desert Farms,

which specializes in

growing and selling

microgreens, fruit

and vegetables for

local chefs and

restaurants.

(COURTESY)

HIGH DESERT FARMSAddress: 1681 Pearl Lane, Pahrump

Phone: 971-570-6462Email: IdBo619@aol.com

Website: facebook.com/HighDesertFarmsHours and days of operation: 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

Monday-Wednesday and Friday-SundayOwned/operated by: Doug and Leslie Ives

In business since: 2010

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SMITH’S WORLD

Mike Smith is an award-winning editorial cartoonist who also draws for the Las

Vegas Sun. His work also is distributed nationally by King Features Syndicate.

See archives of his work at lasvegassun.com/smithsworld.

READER COMMENTSWe want to hear

from you. Visit

vegasinc.com to

post your opinion.

On Eli Segall’s veg-

asinc.com story

“Broker gets FAA

approval to use

drone to take real

estate photos”:

It means the end of

privacy. Any time,

any place ... boom,

you can be caught in

a picture.

— todieforlv77

On Conor Shine’s

lasvegassun.com

story “Las Vegas

puts moratorium on

new package liquor

stores”:

Amazing how these

“concerned officials”

always play right into

the hands of the peo-

ple who are currently

benefiting from the

very same licensing,

be it casinos or liquor

stores or pawnshops.

— tvegas

On Ian Whitaker’s

lasvegassun.com

story “Las Vegas

strip club invites

recent grads to

apply”:

What vultures, and

what a nice message

for younger girls

to read as they are

passing by on I-15.

Just try to imagine

if you had daughters

old enough to read or

close to graduating.

— ChristopherVeat-

ersenior

If they are 18, it is

LEGAL, protected by

the constitution, and

a smart choice. Why

make minimum wage

when you can make

a thousand dollars a

night? There is noth-

ing wrong with legal

adult entertainment

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— ryanisawesome

Federal Reserve is walking a tightrope

T he U.S. economic recovery began accelerating this past year, its sixth year of recovery.

Recently, the Federal Reserve stated it planned to slowly raise interest rates in the second half of 2015 or sometime in 2016. The Fed walks a tightrope as it considers altering monetary policy.

The Fed currently holds $4.5 trillion in assets, including $2.5 trillion in treasuries and $1.7 trillion in mortgage-backed securities. Before implementing the program of quantitative easing, the Fed held just under $1 trillion in assets.

Also, the banking system now holds $2.6 trillion in excess reserves, a 1,300 percent increase from the $2 billion it held before the Great Recession. This huge overhang in excess reserves constitutes the fuel that could ignite excessive inflation.

The Fed’s decision to pay interest on bank reserves in October 2008 of 0.25 percent, the fall in the federal funds rate to less than 0.25 percent and the Great Recession largely precipitate the accumulation of these enormous reserves and liquidity in the banking system.

How does the Fed plan to unwind its balance sheet and absorb the overhang of excess reserves?

Under ordinary conditions, the Fed withdraws excess liquidity by selling government securities in the open market, leading to lower asset prices and higher interest

rates. Rather than withdrawing this excess liquidity, however, the Fed now plans to keep the excess liquidity in the short run and the size of its current balance sheet by increasing the interest rate on bank

reserves and locking up the excess reserves. Then, in the long run, it will withdraw the excess liquidity at a more measured, less frenetic pace.

Although this strategy apparently differs from the conventional approach, the same dangers exist. Raising the interest rate on bank reserves too little can release more reserves than desired, financing too much money and credit creation, overheating the economy and igniting inflation. Raising the interest rate on bank reserves too much keeps more reserves locked up than desired, financing too little money and credit creation and possibly leading back into recession.

Using the interest rate on bank reserves to lock up excess liquidity in the short run and withdrawing the excess liquidity in a sustained and systematic manner in the long run provides the best policy choice.

The Fed, however, embarks on an untested policy path. Let’s hope economic shocks — most likely European and/or Chinese events — don’t topple the agency off its high-wire act.

Stephen M. Miller is a professor of economics at the Lee Business School at UNLV and chairman of board of directors of the Economic Club of Las Vegas.

GUEST COLUMN: STEPHEN M. MILLER

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How skill-based slots, social media and more will shape casinos of the futureBY J.D. MORRISSTAFF WRITER

A new future for slot machine-style gambling is taking shape in Nevada, one that should make casino floors feel more like arcades as casinos at-tempt to attract younger and more technologically savvy players.

Senate Bill 9, which unanimously passed both chambers of the Legisla-ture before Gov. Brian Sandoval signed it last month, allows for an element of skill in the traditionally chance-heavy realm of slot technology. It presents an opportunity for the casino industry to make slots more closely resemble the video games that millennials have grown up playing.

But the bill is light on specifics, so regulators and game makers need to figure out exactly how the skill-based evolution will work.

“The whiteboard of creativity is blank at the moment,” said Marcus Prater, executive director of the Asso-ciation of Gaming Equipment Manu-facturers, the law’s main advocate. “Once the rules and regulations are written, then the game designers will take over, and that’s who will really make this happen.”

The bill directs regulators to adopt rules that promote “innovative, alter-native and advanced technology” in casino equipment. That can include requirements for games of skill, which the bill defines as outcomes driven by a player’s ability rather than by chance.

The bill also mentions “hybrid” games, in which a combination of chance and a player’s skill determines the outcome.

The bill lets casinos create an expe-

rience that better reflects the variety of games people can play outside ca-sinos.

The key to accomplishing that, he said, is through variable payback per-centages. Under that concept, skilled players could boost a game’s 88 per-cent payback to 98 percent if they excel at a bonus round or in a com-petition against friends, according to Prater’s group.

Don’t expect the advent of skill-based slots to erase the house ad-vantage. Accordingly, Tony Lucas, a professor at UNLV’s hotel college, cautioned against drawing too strong of a comparison between the new technology and actual video games.

“You can get better at a video game than I’m sure they will allow you to get at a skill-based slot machine,” Lucas said.

Nonetheless, the industry is poised

for substantial changes because of the possibilities afforded by the bill.

The equipment association tried to demonstrate that in a rendering it commissioned that shows how a ca-sino of the future might appear. La-bels on the image point out a “skill zone midway,” slots with a “team play option,” “spin & win group play” and even “holographic slots.”

Eric Meyerhofer, the CEO of Gam-blit Gaming, said he’s already heard talk of special areas on casino floors where this kind of alternative gaming technology will be featured.

“It’s as much about the modern-day, fun arcade experience as it is just a pure gambling experience,” he said.

Meyerhofer’s company makes prod-ucts that play like video games with a wagering element added. Gamblit wants its games inside Nevada casinos, and though Meyerhofer sees a way to

do that under current regulations, he’s also excited about what variable pay-back percentages make possible.

“An example would be: You’re play-ing a game like ours and you’re doing well. As you’re moving up the levels into more complicated challenges, the pay tables get better and you can see better jackpots, or more frequent wins or just an overall better return-to-player number,” Meyerhofer said.

But as the equipment association’s rendering makes clear, variable pay-back isn’t the only idea the industry is kicking around. The bill also mentions integrating social networking tech-nology.

“A lot of these guys want to be able to use their cellphone right at the slot machine to upload their photos to In-stagram, or whatever it’s going to be,” casino consultant Eliot Jacobson Ja-cobson said. “That’s already happen-ing, so why not make it seamless?”

Before any of the bill’s ideas can be put in place, the regulatory framework needs to be established. The Gaming Control Board will develop a regula-tion draft, then receive input via pub-lic workshop before sending it to the Nevada Gaming Commission for ap-proval.

Board chairman A.G. Burnett said he would like to see the regulation ap-proved in three months.

“That would be a very, very time-compressed, hardworking sort of mandate, but I think that when in-dustry and regulators come together on this one — which we will — we can move pretty fast,” Burnett said.

Burnett said he could envision new technology allowed by the bill hitting casino floors by the end of the year.

An artist’s rendering depicts what a casino could look like with the addition of

games allowed under Senate Bill 9. (COURTESY OF THE ASSOCIATION OF GAMING

EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS)

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BY ELI SEGALLSTAFF WRITER

Las Vegas homebuyers are mak-ing smaller down payments for new purchases, says a new report, a pos-sible sign of easier mortgage lend-ing in what had been ground zero for America’s real estate bust.

Southern Nevadans made an aver-age down payment of 13.3 percent of the home’s purchase price in the first

quarter this year. That’s down from 14.9 percent a year earlier, according to RealtyTrac.

In dollars, the average down pay-ment last quarter was $36,326, down from $43,712.

Nationally, homebuyers made an average down payment of 14.8 per-cent in the three months ending March 31, down from 15.5 percent a year earlier, RealtyTrac reported.

Government-controlled mort-gage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac recently introduced low down payment programs, and lower insurance premiums for gov-ernment-insured Federal Housing Administration loans took effect at the end of January, according to RealtyTrac vice president Daren Blomquist.

All that helps first-time buyers,

who “typically aren’t able to pony up large down payments” and “are final-ly starting to come out of the wood-work,” albeit gradually, Blomquist said in the report.

In theory, stronger credit scores could result in smaller down pay-ments. But that seems unlikely in Southern Nevada, as the state’s resi-dents have some of the worst person-al finances in the country.

Homebuyers in Las Vegas are making smaller down payments, report says

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BY CONOR SHINESTAFF WRITER

Long the domain of cars and taxis, getting around the Las Vegas Strip could be a very different experience in 20 years — one that includes an under-ground light rail system, according to a draft transportation plan released by a coalition of business and government groups.

The report gives a first glimpse of some of the proposed ideas to relieve congestion and modernize Las Vegas’ transportation system. The recommen-dations range from massive long-term projects — like the proposed light rail running beneath the Strip — to smaller, more easily achievable suggestions like adding more pedestrian bridges over Las Vegas Boulevard and increasing staging areas for taxis at the airport and casinos.

Known formally as the Transporta-tion Investment Business Plan, the draft report is missing a key component: how to pay for the billions of dollars worth of proposed improvements.

That’s something the group of stake-holders working on the plan, which includes the Regional Transportation Commission, casinos, taxi and limou-sine companies, the Las Vegas Conven-tion and Visitors Authority, and local governments, still is figuring out. The group plans to present possible funding mechanisms to the public this year.

The planning process was launched more than a year ago with the goal of find-ing ways to build and pay for projects that will boost mobility along the Strip and the surrounding urban core, including Mc-Carran International Airport, downtown, UNLV and the medical district.

The process is being guided by North Carolina-based Michael Gallis & Asso-ciates under a $2.3 million contract.

The recommendations in the draft plan are organized into near-, medium- and long-term improvements based on how long they’ll take to fund and com-plete. Here’s a look at specific sugges-tions for each category:

n Short-term improvements. These are policy, technology and smaller-scale construction projects that could be completed in one to five years.

The suggestions focus on such areas as building more bridges over Las Vegas Boulevard and widening sidewalks.

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Report: Light rail under Strip, monorail extension are envisionedlay Bay Convention Center and adding a stop at the Sands Expo Convention Center.

Smaller items include adding real-time transit information to bus stops and creating a real-time parking mo-bile app.

n Medium-term improvements.

Improvements possible in the next five

to 10 years begin to dream a bit bigger, with talk of high-speed rail to Southern California and a multimodal transpor-tation hub at McCarran Airport.

This section also calls for a bus rapid transit or streetcar line down Mary-land Parkway connecting the airport, UNLV and downtown Las Vegas.

n Long-term improvements. The

headliner is a light rail service that would run underneath Las Vegas Bou-levard between Hacienda and Sahara avenues, while also linking to down-town Las Vegas and the airport.

The other major change recom-mended in this section is to extend and connect East and West Russell Road underneath the airport.

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Luxury-home construction bouncing backBY ELI SEGALLSTAFF WRITER

Azure, a luxury, gated community within a luxury, guard-gated commu-nity, is built along a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course and nestled out-side Red Rock Canyon, with hills and mountains practically in its backyard.

And now, it’s packed with work crews building mansions.

More than 20 custom homes are being built in Azure, which sits inside the Ridges, one of the wealthiest, most exclusive areas of Southern Nevada. A number of the new homes are said to average 7,000 square feet, and the cluster of construction makes it look like another tract subdivision — but instead of Las Vegas’ usual cookie-cut-ter stucco homes, it’s getting custom-ized palaces.

It’s not the only part of town getting a new crop of high-end houses.

Luxury-home construction is on the upswing throughout the valley. It’s not booming, but the increase reflects ris-ing wealth among the already-wealthy, easier lending, a dearth of bargain-priced resales and confidence that Las Vegas’ luxury-housing market won’t tank again — at least not soon. Some even want to flip their mansions.

Overall, the market is “not super-robust, but at least it looks like it’s getting better,” custom-home builder Dan Coletti said.

Developers sold 21 new homes for at least $1 million this year through May. That’s up from 34 sales all last year and just three in 2013, according to Las Vegas-based Home Builders Research. Those numbers don’t include high-rise condo sales.

Luxury builder Christopher Homes didn’t even try selling houses around 2010 in its Boulder Ridge community in the Ridges because of the wrecked economy. Things started picking up a few years ago, and in the past six months, buyers have signed contracts for six homes at an average price of about $2 million, said Erika Geiser, vice president of sales and marketing.

Custom-home deals, not included in Home Builders Research’s data, also are on the rise. Coletti, owner of Sun West Custom Homes, said he built “probably two” homes in 2014 and ex-pects to complete six this year. Raftery Homes owner Jack Raftery, who at the depths of the recession “was lucky to have at least one” project underway in the valley, now has three under con-struction and a few more in design.

Blaser Construction owner Scott Blaser built three or four custom homes a year at the peak of the bubble, dropped to just one or two during the recession, and now has three under-way. He expects to line up two or three others by year’s end.

“I’ve got more on the books now than I’ve ever had,” Blaser said.

In a recent one-week period, buy-ers signed contracts for seven lots in the upscale Henderson foothills com-munity of MacDonald Highlands, de-veloper Rich MacDonald said. In that same time, he said, he also signed a joint venture with a builder for seven other lots.

On the other side of the valley, sales of custom-home sites slowed in Sum-merlin — where the Ridges is located — to five lots in the first quarter, down from eight a year earlier. But sales nearly doubled last year, with devel-oper Howard Hughes Corp. selling 20 custom lots, up from 12 in 2013, ac-cording to securities filings.

The company is gearing up for more luxury construction. Howard Hughes formed a joint venture with Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Discovery Land Co. last year to develop a 555-acre, high-end community just south of the Ridges. Plans call for about 270 homes, with custom-lot prices starting at $1.5 mil-lion. The first sales of lots and homes are expected to close in early 2016.

Altogether, there are several rea-sons for the uptick. A big one is the stock market, which has shot past its pre-recession peak and keeps climb-ing, giving investors the cash for multimillion-dollar homes and other

goodies.The economy “might not be all that

great, but these guys have a lot of mon-ey in their pockets, and they feel pretty confident,” MacDonald said.

For custom homes, residents pay the landowner for the lot and then a builder to construct the house. Most seem to be paying cash, but more than a few are getting loans to help cover the costs or to replenish their cof-fers after paying for everything out of pocket.

Banks — which gave loans to prac-tically anyone during the bubble and then seemingly no one during the re-cession as lenders collapsed through-out the country — have been opening the spigot again, issuing more “jumbo” mortgages and other debt to luxury-home buyers.

“We’ve seen a big improvement on that,” said Blue Heron co-founder Ty-ler Jones, who is building five homes in Azure and getting permits for an-other.

Lenders issued 762 jumbo home-purchasing loans, totaling $619 mil-lion, in Nevada in 2013. That’s up from 384 loans, totaling $326 million, in 2012, according to the most recent data from the Mortgage Bankers As-sociation.

Interest rates are historically low, meaning cheap borrowing costs for buyers. But rates are expected to climb, prompting some people to get loans while money is cheap, builders say.

At the same time, buyers don’t have as many low-priced options on the re-sale market as they did a few years ago.

Foreclosures swept through the valley during the recession, and luxury hous-ing was by no means spared. Bargain hunters had a big pool of big houses at relatively small prices, and resales soared.

In 2013, owners bought 341 homes that cost at least $1 million apiece, up 92 percent from 2012, according to the Greater Las Vegas Association of Real-tors, which mostly tracks previously owned homes.

But such bargains are largely gone, executives say. Buyers picked up 300 homes last year for at least $1 million each, GLVAR data show. The pace of sales is up this year from 2014, with 151 million-dollar homes sold through June 9, but the rapid jumps have stopped.

Ascaya, the long-delayed mountain-mansion project in Henderson, re-opened for business last August after sitting untouched for years. But since then, buyers have picked up only three lots at the 313-lot development, and at falling prices.

The first parcel, 0.46 acre, sold in October for $925,000; the second, 0.73 acre, went in December for $915,000; and the third, 0.49 acre, sold last month for $865,000, Clark County re-cords show. All buyers were local resi-dents.

Last August, the project’s listing brokers said they were aiming to sell all 313 lots in phases in five to seven years and to have Ascaya fully devel-oped in a decade or so.

Ascaya sales manager Darin Marques said this week that his group initially was “a little frustrated” by the small number of deals. But with each sale, interest from prospective buyers has picked up, he said.

Overall, despite the increased con-struction, the market remains a shad-ow of what it was during the frenzied boom years.

At the peak of the bubble, in 2005, builders sold 226 new homes in South-ern Nevada that cost at least $1 million each, according to Home Builders Re-search. Resales also were hot, with 626 homes selling for at least $1 million that year through the GLVAR’s listing service.

Builders say the market isn’t over-heating now, but given how badly things turned out last time, they don’t want a return to the go-go years.

“That’s what we don’t want to see happen again,” Blue Heron’s Jones said.

Workers put in a pool for a home in the Ridges, a luxury residential community

in Las Vegas. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF)

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VENTURE ACCELERATOR, FROM PAGE 43

Fennemore Craig adopts Silicon Valley modelemerging as the front-runner.

“There is a growing technology community in Las Vegas and a lot of people who would like to see South-ern Nevada become a technology hub,” Knight said. His company Ter-bine is a broker through which com-panies can buy and sell data collected from sensors. “We wanted to be one of the anchor companies in this vi-brant market.”

There was one possible deal-break-er.

“We realized there’s not as much infrastructure and support systems in place here for tech startups, so we wondered if we would be able to find the services we needed,” Knight said.

A colleague suggested Knight get in touch with law firm Fennemore Craig, which in late 2013 launched a venture accelerator program and emerging businesses and technolo-gies department, designed to help entrepreneurs avoid common rookie mistakes and steer clear of pitfalls throughout the startup process.

Run by attorneys who specialize in startups, the venture accelerator pro-gram offers legal advice and tailors its approach to need. Topics for which help is offered include raising capital; protecting branding, technology and other intellectual property; labor law considerations; engaging in the mar-ket; securing office space; and litiga-tion.

But there’s much more to the pro-gram than a little lawyerly hand-holding. In breaking with the tradi-tional legal mold, Fennemore Craig adopted an approach that’s com-mon in the Silicon Valley but new to Southern Nevada.

“One of the biggest issues facing startups is lack of capital, so in this program, we can defer a small amount of legal fees and also put up a small equity investment in the company through a separate fund,” said Mark Hawkins, a director with Fennemore Craig, which employs almost 200 at-torneys and more than 400 employ-ees in offices in Las Vegas, Reno, Den-ver, Phoenix, Tucson, and Nogales, Ariz. “Silicon Valley firms often offer such programs, but we’re the only one in Nevada that I know of.”

Fennemore Craig has helped cli-ents with such basic legal tasks as get-ting business licenses, issuing corpo-rate charters and establishing bylaws and articles of incorporation, as well

as more complex matters specific to tech companies or businesses taking on venture capital. Those issues in-clude stock-purchase and stockhold-er agreements and employee stock-option plans.

“We selected Fennemore Craig over some very prestigious Silicon Valley firms and realized they are the only firm in the region that was speaking our language,” Knight said. “It’s com-plicated from a legal standpoint, so having a group of people who really understand the law in Nevada, as well as the world of federal legislation, is very important moving forward.”

Fennemore Craig recruited Roy Farrow, formerly with Palo Alto, Ca-lif., mega-firm Wilson Sonsini Go-odrich & Rosati, to help develop the program. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a leading provider of legal

services to tech-nology compa-nies worldwide, offers a similar initiative and has worked with a slew of big-name startups.

“Roy is a really sage technology industry attorney who comes from a prestigious Silicon Valley firm, and he brought that DNA with him when he came to Nevada,” Knight said.

Serial entrepreneur Thomas Typ-inski also applied and was accepted to the venture accelerator program. Typinski, an Army veteran and com-petitive bodybuilder who launched three tech companies in the Bay Area, recently launched Peak Physique, a mobile iPhone application and fitness

progress tracker. “I did my first two companies

through LegalZoom, but the third one was much bigger, so I used a com-pany in California that was familiar with deferred payments,” Typinski said. “When I sold my shares in that company and started Peak Physique, I wanted to have the same type of structure here in Las Vegas, and I went with a local firm who immedi-ately sent me a random bill for thou-sands of dollars.”

Disgruntled, Typinski broke off that relationship and resigned him-self to the fact he was on his own.

A chance meeting with Fennemore Craig associate Mary Bacon changed his tune.

“The program they have catering to the Vegas tech scene is really rare here, but the concept was familiar to me because of my experience with Silicon Valley law firms,” Typinski said. “This is my fourth company, so I kind of know what to look out for, but it’s great to have the team for sup-port.”

So what kind of companies are a good fit for the program?

“We try to identify promising startups that have a significant op-portunity for success,” said Farrow, who oversees the program for all six Fennemore Craig offices. “There’s an old adage that ideas are a dime a doz-en, and there are a lot of great ideas out there. But having a really good idea is only a small step in building an enterprise. You also need a skilled and experienced legal team, a com-plementary management team and a viable business model to take that idea to a successful conclusion. His-torically, most new companies fail.”

In fact, according to a recent Har-vard Business School study, more than 75 percent of startups go belly-up. Cash-flow problems are among the leading causes.

Fennemore Craig has a fee-deferral component to the venture accelera-tor program to help ease that initial financial squeeze.

Despite participating in startup seminars and workshops to raise awareness about the program locally, only four companies have qualified because the vetting process is so rig-orous.

“This is an ongoing program that we will continue to develop,” Hawkins said.

Attorneys Mary Bacon and Mark Hawkins work with the Fennemore Craig venture

accelerator program. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF)

FARROW

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Calendar of eventsMONDAY, JUNE 15

PLuS Center Course: Casino Auditing I

Time: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. (same time June 16)

Cost: $895; $945 for late registration

Location: UNLV Stan Fulton Building, 4505 S.

Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas

Information: Visit cvent.com/d/1rq2f0

Auditing personnel and gaming industry regula-

tors can participate in discussions about internal

control and fraud, and other gaming topics,

online or in person.

TUESDAY, JUNE 16

Franchising: Debunking the Myths,

or “It’s not all burgers and fries”

Time: 8:30-9:45 a.m. Cost: Free

Location: Microsoft Store, 3200 Las Vegas Blvd.

South, Suite 1045, Las Vegas

Information: Visit facebook.com/SCORELV

Sarah Brown, a FranNet consultant and SCORE

partner, will lead a workshop for people who

work with small businesses and want to better

understand the franchise model, explore small-

business ownership or be a franchise investor.

Women’s Club of Summerlin

“Dare to Dream” awards dinner

Time: 6:30 p.m. Cost: $32

Location: TPC Summerlin, 1700 Village Center

Circle, Las Vegas

Information: Visit web.lvchamber.com/events

Winners of the Women’s Club of Summerlin

“Dare to Dream” grant will be announced. The

award is given to women working to improve

themselves and the community’s educational

opportunities and business development.

Southern Nevada Nonprofit Information

Center workshop

Time: 2 p.m. Cost: Free

Location: Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo

Road, Las Vegas

Information: Call 702-507-3459

What’s the next step after becoming a nonprofit

organization in Nevada? Co-sponsored by the

Foundation Center, this workshop will teach

nonprofit professionals how to obtain tax-ex-

empt status from the IRS.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17

The College of Medicine at Roseman

University of Health Sciences public meeting

Time: 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Cost: Free

Location: College of Medi-

cine at Roseman University

of Health Sciences Summerlin

campus, 10530 Discovery

Drive, Las Vegas

Information: Email medi-

cine@roseman.edu

Dr. Mark Penn, dean of the college, will speak

about the institution’s impact on Southern

Nevada and how the acquisition of the former

Nevada Cancer Institute building will further its

cause.

PLuS Center Course: Casino Auditing II

Time: 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. through June 19

Cost: $1,245, $1,295 for late registration

Information: Visit cvent.com/d/crqw1m/4W

Auditing personnel and gaming industry regula-

tors who participated in “PLuS Center Course:

Casino Auditing I” can join in discussions about

auditing credit, comps and slot clubs, and other

auditing topics.

Gaming employee registration training

Time: 8:30 a.m.-noon Cost: $75

Information: Call Nakia Jackson-Hale at 702-

895-2008 or email nakia.jackson-hale@unlv.edu

Learn about the Nevada Gaming Control Board’s

online gaming employee registration system and

how to access the board’s records.

Rebel business network luncheon

Time: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $25 for members,

$35 for nonmembers

Location: UNLV Richard Tam Alumni Center,

4505 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas

Information: Visit connect2.unlv.edu/network

Find out what changes are heading our way in

the wake of the state legislative session.

THURSDAY, JUNE 18

“Meeting Tomorrow’s Challenges Today: A

Reliable Water Supply for Southern Nevada”

Time: Registration begins 11:30 a.m. Cost: $35

for NAIOP members, $50 for nonmembers

Location: Orleans, 4500 W. Tropicana Road, Las

Information: Visit naiopnv.org

Southern Nevada water expert John Entsminger

will speak about water issues facing the valley

and the commercial real estate development

industry.

2015 Bank Secrecy Act Conference

Time: All day Cost: $290, $230 for State Bar of

Nevada Gaming Law Section members

Location: Paris, 3655 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las

Information: Visit regonline.com/Register/

Checkin.aspx?EventID=1654257

Speakers from several industries will discuss

best practices in the gaming profession and how

to meet customer expectations.

FRIDAY, JUNE 19

“Direct Marketing for

Farm and Food Products”

Time: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $30 (includes lunch)

Location: University of Nevada Cooperative

Extension’s Lifelong Learning Center, 8050

Paradise Road

Information: Call 702-397-2604

This workshop is designed for growers and small

food producers looking to expand or diversify

their direct marketing. Topics will cover farm

shop development and value-added product

sales via tourism outlets.

MONDAY, JUNE 22

Vegas Young Professionals

Toastmasters meeting

Time: 6 p.m. Cost: Free

Location: Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Com-

merce, 575 Symphony Park Ave., Suite 100, Las

Information: Call Shavonnah Tiera at 702-743-

9358 or email info@vegasyp.com

Network with local young professionals and

trade tips on how to improve speaking, presen-

tation and leadership skills.

THURSDAY, JUNE 25

CBER’s 2015 Midyear Economic Update

Time: 8-10:30 a.m. Cost: $80 per person, $75

for two or more people before June 17, $100 per

person after June 17

Location: Venetian, 3325 Las Vegas Blvd. South,

Las Vegas

Information: Visit cber.unlv.edu/outlook.html

Members of UNLV’s Center for Business and

Economic Research will present the center’s

economic outlook for Southern Nevada and

the nation. Robert Lang, director of Brookings

Mountain West, will discuss opportunities and

obstacles for Southern Nevada’s long-term

growth.

Nevada Restaurant Association

and Nevada Hotel and Lodging Association

2015 bowling tournament

Time: 12-4 p.m. Cost: $39

Location: Orleans Bowling Center, 4500 W.

Tropicana Ave., Las Vegas

Information: Visit nvrestaurants.com

Join local professionals and friends in a bowling

tournament with cash prizes. Proceeds will fund

hospitality scholarships.

John Entsminger will speak about water issues at the Orleans. (STEVE MARCUS/STAFF FILE)

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Records and TransactionsBANKRUPTCIES

CHAPTER 7Hallier Aviation LLC 2510 E. Sunset Road, Suite 5-400Las Vegas, NV 89120Attorney: Victoria L. Nelson at vnelson@nelsonhoumand.com

Panorama Towers II Mezz LLC 2510 E. Sunset Road, Suite 5-400Las Vegas, NV 89120Attorney: Jacob L. Houmand at jhoumand@nelsonhoumand.com

Hallier Group Holdings Inc. 2510 E. Sunset Road, Suite 5-400Las Vegas, NV 89120Attorney: Victoria L. Nelson at vnelson@nelsonhoumand.com

Hallier Panorama Holdings LLC 2510 E. Sunset Road, Suite 5-400Las Vegas, NV 89120Attorney: Victoria L. Nelson at vnelson@nelsonhoumand.com

Panorama Towers II LLC 2510 E. Sunset Road, Suite 5-400Las Vegas, NV 89120Attorney: Jacob L. Houmand at jhoumand@nelsonhoumand.com

Hallier Properties LLC 2510 E. Sunset Road, Suite 5-400Las Vegas, NV 89120Attorney: Victoria L. Nelson at vnelson@nelsonhoumand.com

Panorama Towers III LLC 2510 E. Sunset Road, Suite 5-400Las Vegas, NV 89120Attorney: Jacob L. Houmand at jhoumand@nelsonhoumand.com

CHAPTER 11Power & Environment International Inc. P.O. Box 2890Minden, NV 89423Attorney: Kevin A. Darby at kevin@darbylawpractice.com

BROKERED

TRANSACTIONS

SALES$12,000,000 for 138 units, residential 7400 Pirates Cove Road, Las Vegas 89145Seller: 7400 Pirates Cove LPSeller agent: Patrick Sauter and Art Carll of NAI Vegas’ Sauter Multifamily Group Buyer: RAAMCO LV LLCBuyer agent: Patrick Sauter and Art Carll of NAI Vegas’ Sauter Multifamily Group

$6,500,000 for 144 units, residential 711 E. Nelson Ave., Las Vegas 89030Seller: Did not disclose

Seller agent: Patrick Sauter, Art Carll and Devin Lee of NAI Vegas Sauter Multifamily GroupBuyer: Did not discloseBuyer agent: Patrick Sauter, Art Carll and Devin Lee of NAI Vegas Sauter Multifamily Group

$4,000,000 for 153.32 acres, golf course 901 Olivia Parkway, Henderson 89011Seller: Century Tuscany GC LLCSeller agent: Keith Cubba of Col-liers InternationalBuyer: Chimera Golf Club LLCBuyer agent: Did not disclose

$3,177,735 for 45,000 square feet, hotel 1000 N. Main St., Las Vegas 89101Seller: Spinsig Enterprises LLCSeller agent: Al Twainy of Colliers InternationalBuyer: CMA IndustriesBuyer agent: Did not disclose

$2,200,000 for 28,000 square feet, industrial 6335 Sunset Corporate Drive, Las Vegas 89120Seller: Southwest LinenSeller agent: Dean Willmore, Dan Doherty, Susan Borst, Chris Lane and Jerry Doty of Colliers InternationalBuyer: MCA RealtyBuyer agent: Did not disclose

$1,630,000 for 7.5 acres, land APN: 176-19-801-014 near South Fort Apache Road and West Gomer RoadLas Vegas Seller: BLMSeller agent: Did not discloseBuyer: Mosaic Four LLCBuyer agent: Vince Schettler of Colliers International

$1,185,000 for 5 acres, land APN: 176-19-801-018 near South Fort Apache Road and West Gomer Road, Las Vegas Seller: BLMSeller agent: Did not discloseBuyer: Mosaic Land Fund Two LLCBuyer agent: Vince Schettler of Colliers International

$775,000 for 5 acres, land APN: 176-19-701-019 near South Fort Apache Road and West Gomer RoadLas Vegas Seller: BLMSeller agent: Did not discloseBuyer: Mosaic Land Fund Two LLCBuyer agent: Vince Schettler of Colliers International

$490,000 for 4,023 square feet, office 1661 Horizon Ridge Parkway, Suites 211 and 291, Las Vegas 89012Seller: Sunstone Horizon LLCSeller agent: Bridget Richards and Jason Lesley of Colliers Interna-

tionalBuyer: Weiss Family TrustBuyer agent: Andrew Kilduff and Sam Newman of Colliers Interna-tional

$280,000 for 2,554 square feet, office 3674 E. Sunset Road, Las Vegas 89120Seller: Sunset Pecos II LLCSeller agent: Bridget Richards and Jason Lesley of Colliers Interna-tionalBuyer: Sedum LLCBuyer agent: Did not disclose

$561,475 for 3,444 square feet, retail for 72 months, NNN Investment1124 W. Sunset Road, Henderson 89014Seller: Sun Life Assurance Com-pany of CanadaSeller agent: Nelson Tressler and Mike Zobrist of Newmark Grubb Knight FrankBuyer: Select Comfort Retail CorporationBuyer agent: Did not disclose

$381,031 for 6,289 square feet, office for 50 months9041 S. Pecos Road, Suites 3900 and 4100, Henderson 89074Seller: 9005-9089 S. Pecos Road LLCSeller agent: Nicholas Barber and Jeremy Foley of Cushman & Wake-field CommerceBuyer: Udeed LLCBuyer agent: Did not disclose

$322,770 for 15,261 square feet, office for nine months7450 Arroyo Crossing Parkway, Building 1, Las Vegas 89113Seller: EJM Corporate Center 1 & 2 Properties LLCSeller agent: Brad Peterson of CBREBuyer: SolarCity CorporationBuyer agent: Dan Palmeri of Cush-man & Wakefield Commerce

$208,367 for 1657 square feet, retail for 65 month1750 N. Buffalo Drive, Suite 103, Las Vegas 89128Seller: New Deal-Seabreeze LLCSeller agent: Robert S. Hatrak II of Virtus CommercialBuyer: Salon Broadway LLCBuyer agent: Robert S. Hatrak II of Virtus Commercial

$189,000 for 100 square feet, retail for 120 months, base rent1995 N. Nellis Blvd., Las Vegas 89115Seller: 1995 Nellis LLCSeller agent: Eric Berggren of Newmark Grubb Knight FrankBuyer: Bank of America, National AssociationBuyer agent: N/A

$89,802 for 1,551 square feet, retail for 36 months10845 E. Eastern Ave., Las Vegas 89147Seller: Eastern Hills Center Phase L2015 LLCSeller agent: Deanna Marcelo of the Equity GroupBuyer: Stacy & John O’Leary dba Penelope WildberryBuyer agent: Lauren Tabeek of Voit Real Estate Services

$84,250 for 1,000 square feet, retail for 60 months, NNN Investment5415 S. Rainbow Blvd., Suite B-1, Las Vegas 89118Seller: Levian Flamrain Las Vegas LLC and Favan Flamrain Las Vegas LLVSeller agent: Nelson Tressler and Mike Zobrist of Newmark Grubb Knight FrankBuyer: Silk Skin Laser Spa LLC dba Silk Skin Laser SpaBuyer agent: Rudy Romano of Urban Nest Realty

$70,128 for 1,206 square feet, retail for 36 months 7595 W. Washington Ave., Suite A120, Las Vegas 89128Seller: PWREO Buffalo & Washing-ton LLC and AG Brookfield LLCSeller agent: Bill Dunbar of Dunbar CommercialBuyer: Alpha Female LLC dba Kaia Fit Las VegasBuyer agent: Jeff Mitchell and Preston Abell of Virtus Commercial

BID OPPORTUNITIES

TUESDAY, JUNE 162 p.m.One-year open-term contract for highway solid chemical de-icerState of Nevada, 8344Marti Marsh at mmarsh@admin.nv.gov

FRIDAY, JUNE 192:15 p.m.Convention Center Drive, Las Ve-gas Boulevard to Paradise RoadClark County, 603674Tom Boldt at tboldt@ClarkCoun-tyNV.gov

BUSINESS LICENSES

Family Property MGMT LLCBusiness type: Real estate salesAddress: 7324 W. Cheyenne Ave., Suite 2, Las Vegas Owner: Eric Roth

Fancy NailsBusiness type: Beauty parlorAddress: 3960 W. Craig Road, North Las Vegas Owner: Cindy Chau

Firerock Steakhouse

Business type: Restaurant Address: 5990 Centennial Center Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Firerock Steakhouse Cen-tennial LLC

First Choice Green Solutions LLC Business type: Business support serviceAddress: 3161 E. Warm Springs Road, Suite 200, Las Vegas Owner: Eugene Cimorelli

Fitness By M! Business type: Instruction servicesAddress: Did not disclose, Las Vegas Owner: Fitness By M! LLC Frank RuffaBusiness type: Business consultantAddress: 5124 Conway St., North Las Vegas Owner: Frank Ruffa

Friendly Computer Repair LLC Business type: Interactive enter-tainment centerAddress: 2562 S. Valley View Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Maria Torres Full Steam Ahead LLC Business type: Residential prop-erty maintenanceAddress: 11555 W. Wigwam Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Kent Bosworth Gabriel CamachoBusiness type: Rental propertyAddress: 2501 Crawford St., North Las Vegas Owner: Gabriel Camacho

Genesis Car Wash Business type: Automobile detail-ingAddress: 5494 Jacobs Field St., Las Vegas Owner: Carlos C. Pretell

Golden Gate Chinese RestaurantBusiness type: RestaurantAddress: 1654 W. Warm Springs Road, Henderson Owner: Tsai & Kuan LLC Great Clips Business type: General retail salesAddress: 877 S. Rainbow Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Vguru LLC

HaggenBusiness type: Package Address: 1940 Village Center Circle and 820 S. Rampart Blvd., Las Vegas Owner: Haggen Opco South LLC Hansen Network Solutions & Services LLCBusiness type: Trucking - service vehicleAddress: 4255 S. Dean Martin Drive, Suite C, Las Vegas Owner: Hansen Network Solutions

Records and Transactions& Services

Hectors Construction LLCBusiness type: Drywall contractAddress: 2624 Westwood Drive, Las Vegas Owner: Hector Torres Revilla

Hipolito Lozoya Business type: Automobile detail-ingAddress: 3630 E. Owens Ave., Suite 1082, Las Vegas Owner: Hipolito Lozoya Home Depot Business type: Building, plant nursery and hardware suppliesAddress: 7881 W. Tropical Park-way, Las Vegas Owner: Home Depot USA Inc. Hunt & Gather Cafe Business type: Alcoholic beverage catererAddress: 7240 W. Azure Drive, Suite 145, Las Vegas Owner: Pura Vida Amigas LLC Icollision LLC Business type: Automotive garageAddress: 6905 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 170, Las Vegas Owner: Akop Giandjian Iconn ConsultantsBusiness type: ConsultingAddress: 333 Laguna Glen Drive, Henderson Owner: Intimate Connections Consulting LLC Ifloat Therapy LLC Business type: General servicesAddress: 2291 S. Fort Apache Road, Suite 106, Las Vegas Owner: Anushavan Yeranosyan

Integrity Global Security Business type: Professional servicesAddress: Did not disclose, Las Vegas Owner: Dragon Master Security LLC Intelligent Office Business type: Business support serviceAddress: 5550 Painted Mirage Road, Suite 320, Las Vegas Owner: Daly Double Inc. J&M Appliance Repair Business type: Residential prop-erty maintenanceAddress: 6730 Prairie Dusk Drive, Las Vegas Owner: Joseph Bayne James J. Montgomery Business type: HVAC serviceAddress: 893 Coldwater Falls Way, Las Vegas Owner: Montgomery Air Condi-tioning And Heating LLC Jan Rowe

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Records and Transactions& Services

Hectors Construction LLCBusiness type: Drywall contractAddress: 2624 Westwood Drive, Las Vegas Owner: Hector Torres Revilla

Hipolito Lozoya Business type: Automobile detail-ingAddress: 3630 E. Owens Ave., Suite 1082, Las Vegas Owner: Hipolito Lozoya Home Depot Business type: Building, plant nursery and hardware suppliesAddress: 7881 W. Tropical Park-way, Las Vegas Owner: Home Depot USA Inc. Hunt & Gather Cafe Business type: Alcoholic beverage catererAddress: 7240 W. Azure Drive, Suite 145, Las Vegas Owner: Pura Vida Amigas LLC Icollision LLC Business type: Automotive garageAddress: 6905 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 170, Las Vegas Owner: Akop Giandjian Iconn ConsultantsBusiness type: ConsultingAddress: 333 Laguna Glen Drive, Henderson Owner: Intimate Connections Consulting LLC Ifloat Therapy LLC Business type: General servicesAddress: 2291 S. Fort Apache Road, Suite 106, Las Vegas Owner: Anushavan Yeranosyan

Integrity Global Security Business type: Professional servicesAddress: Did not disclose, Las Vegas Owner: Dragon Master Security LLC Intelligent Office Business type: Business support serviceAddress: 5550 Painted Mirage Road, Suite 320, Las Vegas Owner: Daly Double Inc. J&M Appliance Repair Business type: Residential prop-erty maintenanceAddress: 6730 Prairie Dusk Drive, Las Vegas Owner: Joseph Bayne James J. Montgomery Business type: HVAC serviceAddress: 893 Coldwater Falls Way, Las Vegas Owner: Montgomery Air Condi-tioning And Heating LLC Jan Rowe

Business type: Psychic artsAddress: 4760 S. Pecos Road, Las Vegas Owner: Jan Rowe Jessie Sorani Business type: Real estate salesAddress: 6628 Sky Pointe Drive, Suite 200, Las Vegas Owner: Jessie Sorani LLC Jose BarronBusiness type: Rental propertyAddress: 2120 Statz St., North Las Vegas Owner: Jose Barron and Gloria Ruelas

Joseph Memolo Business type: Real estate salesAddress: 10750 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 180, Las Vegas Owner: Joseph Memolo Just Smooth You Business type: Cosmetological establishment Address: 3400 W. Desert Inn Road, Suite 2, Las Vegas Owner: Just Smooth You LLC K. Kruz Bounce House & In-flatablesBusiness type: Trucking - service vehicleAddress: 1244 Appaloosa Hills Ave., North Las Vegas Owner: Brittany L. Haney

Kelly Camacho Business type: Real estate salesAddress: 10220 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 3, Las Vegas Owner: Kelly Camacho

Kelly Humphries Business type: Real estate salesAddress: 1120 N. Town Center Drive, Suite 130, Las Vegas Owner: Kelly Humphries Kent’s Glass & Mirror Inc. Business type: Handbill and oral solicitationAddress: 1717 S. Decatur Blvd., Suite J21, Las Vegas Owner: Kent L. Crawford

Khepri Solar Energy LLCBusiness type: Commercial - solar energyAddress: 2808 Willow Wind Court, Las Vegas Owner: Justin Parr

Khepri Solar Energy LLC Business type: Contractor Address: Did not disclose, Las Vegas Owner: Justin Parr

Kojak ChiuBusiness type: SolicitorAddress: 831 Coronado Center Drive, Suite 2209, Henderson Owner: Kojak Chiu KS Cool LLC

Business type: Food specialty storeAddress: 1201 Searles Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Kevin Stevenson Lalio LLCBusiness type: ClothingAddress: 6308 Sereno Springs St., North Las Vegas Owner: Lalio LLC

Las Vegas Larry’s Business type: General retail salesAddress: 1717 S. Decatur Blvd., Suites G47, H48 and H49, Las Vegas Owner: Michael Seigel

Las Vegas Voice and Piano Business type: Instruction servicesAddress: Did not disclose, Las Vegas Owner: Marta Pistiner Menendez

Latino Air LLCBusiness type: HVAC contractorAddress: 1737 Del Mira St., Las Vegas Owner: Juan C. Vera

Leftbank Art Business type: Art gallery/retailAddress: 495 S. Grand Central Parkway, Suite 254, Las Vegas Owner: Outlook Resources Inc.

Let There Be Light Electrical ServicesBusiness type: Electrical repairsAddress: 6364 W. Sahara Ave., Las Vegas Owner: Brigido Valdez

Lola Jewels Business type: General retail salesAddress: 855 S. Grand Central Parkway, Kiosk 14A, Las Vegas Owner: Ta Accessories LLC

M&J Partners In GrimeBusiness type: Property mainte-nanceAddress: 1809 Allen Ave., Hen-derson Owner: Marcia Sobalvarro and Lujane Sobalvarro

BUILDING PERMITS

$12,940,760, commercial - new4660 Berg St., North Las VegasMartin-Harris Construction LLC

$2,300,000, office - medical2450 W. Charleston Blvd., Las VegasAffordable Concepts Inc.

$1,999,940, commercial - re-model10575 S. Eastern Ave., HendersonPV Eastern Commons LLC

$1,489,591, casino/banquet hall35 W. Owens Ave., Las VegasLF Harris and Company Inc.

$1,000,000, office430 S. Rampart Blvd., Suite 150, Las VegasChristopher Homes Renovations

$731,788, electrical651 McKnight St., Las VegasBombard Electric LLC

$700,000, casino/banquet hall200 Fremont St., Las VegasAustin General Contracting

$482,190, pool and/or spa4204 Topsider St., Las VegasAnthony & Sylvan Pools Corpora-tion

$463,236, commercial - new300 E. Gowan Road, North Las VegasThe Penta Building Group LLC

$400,000, retail555 S. Grand Central Parkway, Suite 3405, Las VegasJames M. Barb Construction Inc.

$350,646, commercial1366 W. Cheyenne Ave., North Las VegasBurke Construction Group Inc.

$317,174, residential1111 Christian Road, HendersonJeffrey Hague and Felicia Hague

$279,222, wall/fence397 Antelope Ridge Drive, Las VegasCedco Inc.

$243,700, commercial - remodel2300 Paseo Verde Parkway, HendersonStation GVR Acquistion LLC

$236,823, single-family residen-tial11946 Girasole Ave., Las VegasToll South LV LLC

$227,663, residential - new6524 Claystone Creek Court, North Las VegasPardee Homes of Nevada

$225,958, residential1101 Dufort Hills Court, HendersonDR Horton Inc.

$225,000 commercial - remodel100 S. Green Valley Parkway, HendersonDistrict Green Valley PH II LLC

$223,125, solar6236 Double Oak St., North Las VegasVision solar Contractor Inc.

$222,289, single-family residen-tial356 Rellegra St., Las VegasToll South LV LLC

$218,195, residential391 Cactus River Court, Henderson

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$218,097, single-family residen-tial12105 Cabo Rojo Ave., Las VegasWoodside Homes of Nevada LLC

$214,757, residential1084 Via Della Cosstrella, Hen-dersonGreystone Nevada LLC

$213,443, single-family residen-tial350 Rellegra St., Las VegasToll South LV LLC

$195,388, single-family residen-tial9947 Coyote Echo Court, Las VegasWoodside Homes of Nevada LLC

$186,518, single-family residen-tial10735 Hammett Park Ave., Las VegasToll North LV LLC

$179,768, residential1100 Via Alloro, HendersonGreystone Nevada LLC

$179,768, residential1088 Via Della Constrella, Hen-dersonGreystone Nevada LLC

$179,768, residential1089 Via Della Costrella, Hender-sonGreystone Nevada LLC

$176,532, single-family residen-tial267 Castellari Drive, Las VegasWoodside Homes of Nevada LLC

$175,399, residential - new4341 Shady River Ave. , North Las VegasKB Home Nevada Inc.

$175,399, residential - new6204 Stratford Bay St., North Las VegasKB Home Nevada Inc.

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Records and Transactions$175,399, residential - new4329 Shady River Ave., North Las VegasKB Home Nevada Inc.

$169,621, residential3126 Istria Ave., HendersonKB Home Inspirada LLC

$168,956, residential3073 Venaria Ave., HendersonPardee Homes of Nevada

$167,751, single-family residential279 Castellari Drive, Las VegasWoodside Homes of Nevada LLC

$161,659, commercial6050 N. Decatur Blvd. , North Las VegasEllis Construction Company

$153,058, single-family residen-tial9944 Coyoto Echo Court, Las VegasWoodside Homes of Nevada LLC

$149,881, residential3217 Porto Vittoria Ave., Hender-sonToll Henderson LLC

$148,699, single-family residen-tial474 Port Reggio St., Las VegasKB Home Nevada Inc.

$146,944, single-family residen-tial12254 Argent Bay Ave., Las VegasKB Home Nevada Inc.

$143,005, residential1125 Echo Pass St., HendersonKB Home LV Portola Hills LLC

$142,950, residential3122 Istria Ave., HendersonKB Home Inspirada LLC

$141,017, single-family residential448 Trevinca St., Las VegasRyland Homes

$140,924, single-family residen-tial201 Castellari Drive, Las VegasPulte Homes of Nevada

$140,580, residential - new6513 Claystone Creek Court, North

Las VegasPardee Homes of Nevada

$139,401, residential3069 Venaria Ave., HendersonPardee Homes of Nevada

$134,909, residential2513 Bankhurst St., HendersonPardee Homes of Nevada

$134,798, residential716 Gulf Pearl Drive, HendersonKB Home LV Pearl Creek LLC

$132,996, single-family residen-tial10822 Faulkner Run Ave., Las VegasRyland Homes

$132,796, single-family residen-tial139 Berneri Drive, Las VegasPulte Homes of Nevada

$132,055, residential - new3517 Starlight Ranch Ave., North Las VegasJ.F. Shea Co. Inc.

$130,743, single-family residen-tial205 Castellari Drive, Las VegasPulte Homes of Nevada

$129,640, single-family residen-tial7122 Orion Bands St., Las VegasRyland Homes

$129,143, residential1085 Via Della Costrella, Hender-sonGreystone Nevada LLC

$128,644, residential936 Miller Canyon Ave., HendersonRyland Homes Nevada LLC

$126,054, single-family residen-tial6687 Conquistador St., Las VegasRyland Homes

$125,868, single-family residen-tial7619 Phoenix Peak St., Las VegasAdaven Homes LLC

$122,821, residential245 Cadence View Way, Hender-sonRyland Homes Nevada LLC

$122,187, single-family residential6717 Bristle Falls St., Las VegasRyland Homes

$122,156, residential940 Miller Canyon Ave., Hender-sonRyland Homes Nevada LLC

$121,934, residential249 Cadence View Way, Hender-sonRyland Homes Nevada LLC

$120,015, commercial - remodel10251 S. Eastern Ave., HendersonSiena II Holding LP

$119,130, wall/fence7700 N. Fort Apache Road, Las Vegas

Frank Iovino & Sons Masonry Inc.

$117,276, residential965 Harbor Ave., HendersonKB Home LV Pearl Creek LLC

$117,055, residential - new5641 Pleasant Palms St., North Las VegasJ.F. Shea Co. Inc.

$116,927, single-family residen-tial143 Berneri Drive, Las VegasPulte Homes of Nevada

$114,337, residential1342 Quiet Fox Way, HendersonRyland Homes Nevada LLC

$108,959, single-family residen-tial7927 Blue Lake Peak St., Las VegasAdaven Homes LLC

$108,865, single-family residen-tial6990 Ebbets Field St., Las VegasRyland Homes

$103,442, single-family residen-tial9029 Good Humored Court, Las VegasGreystone Nevada LLC

$102,527, residential3136 Biccari Ave., HendersonKB Home Inspirada LLC

$102,527, residential722 Gulf Pearl Drive, HendersonKB Home LV Pearl Creek LLC

$100,000, commercial831 W. Bonanza Road, Las VegasTradewinds Construction

$95,630, commercial - addition4900 Engineers Way, North Las VegasThomas Reuters Golden Triangle Industrial Park

$90,495, residential - new3821 Citrus Heights Ave., North Las VegasJ.F. Shea Co. Inc.

$87,610, wall/fence831 W. Bonanza Road, Las VegasTradewinds Construction

$86,391, residential1097 Via Della Curia, HendersonCentury Communities Nevada LLC

CONVENTIONS

Western States Roofing Contrac-tors Association 2015 Convention & TradeshowLocation: Paris Las VegasDates: June 14-17Expected attendance: 4,000

International Quality & Productiv-ity Center (IQPC) - 16th Annual Call Center WeekLocation: Mirage Dates: June 15-19Expected attendance: 1,000

Amazing Las Vegas Comic Con - 2015Location: South PointDates: June 19-21Expected attendance: 4,000

International Esthetics, Cosmetic and Spa Conference (IECS) - 2015Location: Las Vegas Convention CenterDates: June 20-22Expected attendance: 25,000

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sometimes occur. Please send corrections or additions on company letterhead to Pashtana Usufzy, researcher, VEGAS INC, 2360 Corporate Circle, Third Floor, Henderson, NV 89074.

CATEGORY: ACCOUNTING FIRMS(RANKED BY NUMBER OF PROFESSIONAL STAFF AS OF APRIL 30)

FirmYear est.

Professional staff CPAs Services Top executive

1 Deloitte & Touche LLP3883 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 400Las Vegas, NV 89169702-893-3100 • deloitte.com

1968 160 71 Audit and Enterprise Risk Services (AERS), tax and consulting

Christopher Griffin, office managing partner

2a Ernst & Young LLP3800 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 1450Las Vegas, NV 89169702-267-9000 • ey.com

2004 63 23 gaming, real estate, hospitality Tom Roche, man-aging partner

2b McGladrey - Assurance, Tax and Consulting300 S. Fourth St., Suite 1200Las Vegas, NV 89101702-759-4000 • mcgladrey.com

1953 63 31 tax preparation, auditing, business consulting

Bill Wells, office managing partner

4 Piercy, Bowler, Taylor & Kern6100 Elton Ave., Suite 1000Las Vegas, NV 89107702-384-1120 • pbtk.com

1990 60 23 audit, tax, forensics L. Ralph Piercy, president

5 L.L. Bradford & Company8880 W. Sunset Road, 3rd FloorLas Vegas, NV 89148702-735-5030 • llbradford.com

1992 57 17 audit, tax, consulting Lance Bradford, managing partner

6 BDO6671 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Suite 200Las Vegas, NV 89119702-784-0000 • bdo.com

2008 50 12 tax, audit, consulting Bill Powell, man-aging assurance partner

7 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP3800 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 650Las Vegas, NV 89169702-691-5400 • pwc.com

1990 45 15 assurance, advisory, tax Frederick Hipwell, office managing partner

8 Stewart, Archibald & Barney LLP7881 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 250Las Vegas, NV 89117702-579-7000 • sabcpa.com

1972 42 19 tax auditing, exit planning/value en-hancement consulting

Robert Worthen, CEO

9 Ovist & Howard7 Commerce Center DriveHenderson, NV 89014702-456-1300 • ohcpas.net

1981 25 10 taxation, small business, homeowners Francis Howard, managing partner

10a Bradshaw, Smith & Co. LLP5851 W. Charleston Blvd.Las Vegas, NV 89146702-878-9788 • bradshawsmith.com

1976 16 14 audit, tax, litigation support Douglas Winters, managing partner

10b Wallace Neumann & Verville8930 Spanish Ridge Ave.Las Vegas, NV 89148702-387-0999 • wnvcpa.com

1990 16 9 real estate, health care, small and mid-size businesses

Jason Neumann, partner

12a Eide Bailly LLP8485 W. Sunset Road, Suite 204Las Vegas, NV 89113702-384-7717 • eidebailly.com

1972 12 6 accounting services, audit and assur-ance, cost segregation

Tamara Miramon-tes, lead partner

12b Kondler & Associates CPAs6460 Medical Center St., Suite 230Las Vegas, NV 89148702-433-7075 • kondlercpa.com

1995 12 3 audits, tax return preparation, AICPA peer reviews

Ray Kondler, man-aging shareholder

14a Houldsworth, Russo & Co.8675 S. Eastern Ave.Las Vegas, NV 89123702-269-9992 • trusthrc.com

1996 11 7 audit, tax, bookkeeping Dianna Russo, managing principal

14b JW Advisors9139 W. Russell Road, Suite 200Las Vegas, NV 89148702-304-0405 • jwacpas.com

2015 11 8 business transitions/consulting, litiga-tion support, tax and assurance

Kirk Jacobson, managing partner

14c Swarts & Swarts10091 Park Run Drive, Suite 200Las Vegas, NV 89145702-312-8111 • swartscpas.com

1995 11 5 CPAs, business advisors and litigation support

George and Curtis Swarts, partners

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per Carton*

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purchased. Excludes filtered cigars. Cannot be combined with other offers

or discounts. Limit one discount given per customer per day. Must present

this coupon for redemption. Cannot be redeemed for cash. No photocopies

accepted. EXPIRES 7/31/2015

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$1 OFF PER CARTON* (Cigarettes Only)

*Must be 18 years of age or older. NO LIMIT on any brand of carton purchased. Excludes filtered

cigars. Cannot be combined with other offers or discounts. Limit one discount given per customer

per day. Must present this coupon for redemption. Cannot be redeemed for cash. No photocopies

accepted. EXPIRES 7/31/2015

6825 REDWOOD ST., LAS VEGAS, NV 89118

I-215 & S. RAINBOW

(702) 475-3015

www.ABCHyundai.com

Start of Summer Specials

VALID SATURDAY 7AM–6PM

20% OFF

Any of the Following Factory

Recommended Services

15,000 miles | 30,000 miles | 45,000 miles60,000 miles | 75,000 miles | 90,000 miles

*Valid for Hyundai owners through 6/30/15. See dealer for complete details. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Must present at time of service.

6825 REDWOOD ST., LAS VEGAS, NV 89118

I-215 & S. RAINBOW

(702) 475-3015

www.ABCHyundai.com

START OF SUMMER SPECIALS

A/C Cooling System and

Battery Check included

when you bring in this coupon. See dealer for complete details.

*Expires 6/30/15.

FREE Entrée

with the purchase of any other entrée and two beverages of equal or lesser value**Offer valid at participating Denny’s Nevada locations only. One coupon, per table, per visit. Second entrée must be of equal or lesser value. Not

valid with any other coupons or promotional offers. Coupon has no cash value. No change returned. Taxes and gratuity not included. Beverages not

included. Selection and prices may vary. Only original coupon accepted. Photocopied and Internet printed or purchased coupons are not valid.

Use PLU#2642 if barcode fails to scan.

$1.99 for a Medium

Hot (16 oz.) or

Iced Latte (24 oz.)

*(Plus appl. tax). Limit one coupon per customer per visit. Coupon and

barcode must be presented at time of purchase. Shop must retain coupon.

No substitutions allowed. No cash refunds. Void if copied or transferred and

where prohibited or restricted by law. Consumer must pay applicable tax.

May not be combined with any other coupon, discount, promotion combo

or value meal. Coupon may not be reproduced, copied, purchased,

traded or sold. Internet distribution strictly prohibited. Cash redemption

725 S RACETRACK RD. HENDERSON, NV 89015

(702) 566-5555

www.clubfortunecasino.com

$5 FREE

Slot Play

for New MembersMust become a Player Rewards Card member to redeem.

Existing Player Rewards Card Members do not qualify.

Cannot be used in conjunction with any other free slot play offer.

Management reserves all rights. Limit of one (1) New Member

free slot play offer per person and Player Rewards card.

Group #5353. Valid 6/14/15 - 6/20/15.

31 Off

Your Next

Removal

*Not valid with any other offer. Limit one coupon per customer.

Expires 6/30/15.

(800) 468-5865

www.1800gotjunk.com

$40 All You

Can Drive

Tuesdays from 6p - 10p*Valid at both LV locations only. Must have Local I.D. # of races may vary.

Subject to availability and may be cancelled without notice. Restrictions may apply

4175 SOUTH ARVILLE, LAS VEEGAS, NV 89103

7350 PRAIRIE FALCON RD., LAS VEGAS, NV 89128

(702) 227-RACE

www.PolePositionRaceway.com

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For answers to this week’s puzzles, go to Page 41

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