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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 11, 2019
He is often mistaken for governor or urged by his former Ward 5 constituents to run for that office, which is to say that Commissioner Lawrence Weekly has been recognizably active in the valley since his appointment to Las Vegas City Council in 1999.... Read full article
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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 11, 2019
Faith in hand, Jon Ponder has graduated over 2,000 ex-offenders from the nonprofit jobs and re-entry program he founded in 2009. Hope for Prisoners combines life skills training, job readiness and career planning classes with 18 months of mentorship.... Read full article
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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 11, 2019
The smell of incense and often the quiet beat of live djembe align to coax the limbs into the challenge of poses that Maticia Sudah has traveled throughout Egypt and parts of the Caribbean to master.... Read full article
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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 11, 2019
A vibrant connection to the past and a visionary of a community future, Helen Anderson Toland, 92. reads widely, cultivates a garden of sculptures collected during her many travels to Zimbabwe and practices yoga with the same grace-filled agility...... Read full article
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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 11, 2019
New York City born, Kim Russell is director of educational outreach for the Smith Center for the Performing Arts. She is responsible for a number of programs, including the Southern Nevada Wolf Trap Educational Program.... Read full article
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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 11, 2019
When Vogue Robinson became Clark County’s poet laureate in 2016, she joined the ranks of Gwendolyn Brooks, Rita Dove, Natasha Trethewey and Tracy K. Smith, all women of color appointed to the post on either the state or national level.... Read full article
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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 11, 2019
Ricky Towers, Sr. takes pride in a life that has been high-stakes. Having launched a career on the legendary gaming floors of Fremont, Towers worked to roll the dice in favor of opportunity for the nearly 15,000 young people he coached.... Read full article
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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 11, 2019
Jani and Jewel Jeppe have become creative and strategic forces in the community as performing arts coordinator at the West Las Vegas Library Theatre and cultural activities specialist at the West Las Vegas Arts Center.... Read full article
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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 11, 2019
Co-founder of the theater companies Afrikan People’s Art Continuum and the Hittite Empire, Ellis Rice migrated first from the small town of Kinlock, outside of St. Louis, Missouri, to Los Angeles in 1983.... Read full article
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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 11, 2019
A stone’s throw away from a fire station, a small nondenominational church and a Buddhist temple, its location is in keeping with the sanctity of the space Vicki Richardson has created at Left of Center Art Gallery.... Read full article