Vegas

Its raining hard outside with thunder and lightning abound.
My thermometer says its 55 out there, but the weather reports say 50.

Its a hot cocoa day!

We went to the South Coast tonight.
Somehow, its visible and looks huge, 5 miles away on the 215.
They have nine great restaurants!
Don Vito's is an Italian restaurant with classy cuisine.
The Big Sur Oyster Bar has a very long counter, where people can see their oysters being shucked.
All of their menu prices look well below market (typically $9 or less a plate).
The casino is brightly decorated.
I just love its golden hued themes. I noticed they have a lot of flat screen video poker machines.
A security guard told us South Coast just hosted the Jerry Lewis Telethon.
Check out the Equestrian Arena Calendar
It looks like they have horse shows and competitions in there Equestrian Arena all of the time.
Most of the activities are free, too. They just had a Nevada painted pony competition!
Today, they are having a Futurity Race.
That means the under 2 year old horses in the race were selected at birth for this event.
I was wondering why so many horse trailers were parked out front.
The security guard told us the equestrians are kept in a 5 story air conditioned barn!
Ya know, I've lived in Vegas since 1974
We eat someplace different every week. We cruise the strip and site see at least two times a week.
And I'll never see it all.

With it's petroglyphs and scenic beauty, Sloan Canyon is one of Southern Nevada's most precious natural resources yet few people get the chance to experience it.

The Bureau of Land Management is expecting approval by the end of the year for a plan to make Sloan more accessible to the public. At the same time -- the BLM hopes to better protect Sloan's historic sites from thieves and vandals.

"We are at Petroglyph Canyon trailhead in Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area," said Robbie McAboy with the BLM, as he escorts an Eyewitness News crew.

Right now the only way to access Sloan Canyon is to hike into the canyon. There are no paved roads, no trail markers, no visitor's center, no bathrooms and did we mention the rock scrambling?

Saddle Island instakes #1 and #2. Diane Sylvain

Las Vegas mayor, Oscar Goodman, publicly stated that a person would be crazy to drink his city's tap water (1).He should know, Goodman uses 1.6 million gallons of water at his nearly three-quarter-acre home a month (2). The Las Vegas sewage treatment plant is just six miles upstream from where we get our water. Doesn't that sound backwards, like nature hanging our wet runny noses upside down over our mouths? Shouldn't our water come upstream from the sewage treatment plant?
The Colorado River (which feeds Lake Mead) gets its water from those clear, refreshing Colorado Rocky Mountain streams. Thats what I want to shower in. Wouldn't it be nice to know that when we flush our toilets, we'd be sending the yuck to Pheonix, instead of back into our kitchen faucets.
Recent studies have found perchlorate, which is a rocket fuel component, mutated fish, pharmaceutical residue and human hormones in the wash and the bay. Now thats just nasty.
While I'm on this subject, why don't terrorists bomb sewage systems? Wouldn't that pretty much wreck any town? Where would you go if you were in a casino, and all of the toilets town were backed up? The craps table...

Goldfield, NV - Goldfield Hotel
Following the impregnation of a prostitute by the manager of the hotel many years ago, the manager became angry at the women for the incident and took her to his hotel. As her pregnancy became more obvious, he chained her to the radiator in one of the rooms., and when the baby was born, he killed them both. The hotel has been closed for many years with no power to any part of it, but on some nights there are several lighted rooms.
Workers have been hired on several different occasions to do restoration on the hotel, and due to the many unexplained incidents, the hotel restoration has never been completed and has changed hands several times. There have been several ghosts seen in several parts of the hotel, including the prostitute, the original owner, and two other men. Paranormal experts have visited the hotel many times and have determined that it is one of the nine portals that connect our world with the spirit world.
Boulder City - Boulder City Hotel
Many reports have been filed, claiming that everything from noises to apparitions
fill the historic site which is now a full service hotel, restaurant, and historic files office.

Boulder City - Boulder City pet cemetery
Built over 50 years ago, it is said that if you go to it at night
a white cat will follow you through out the cemetery if it likes you.

Henderson - Foxridge Park
A ghost in the form of a little boy had been seen swinging on the swing set every day after midnight. When approached changes form(demon/devil)and disappears.
Henderson - Treem Elementary School
A white face of a girl appears in the school hall when your alone. She cries out for help.
Jackpot - Hot Ponds
Just outside of Jackpot Nevada there were some naturally occurring hot ponds that had been made into an attraction where people could rent rooms. It had been popular until apparently some people were murdered there. Witnesses report "Footprints and hoof prints would appear on the path, coming after us even though there was no possible way anyone else could have been out there. Broken glass was discovered around our van; even though it had not been there in the beginning and we had not brought anything glass out. There were strange noises and the air in certain spots on the property would suddenly grow very, very cold. it was a strange, yet interesting experience there was defiantly something or someone there."
Las Vegas - Bally's Hotel/Casino
It used to be the old MGM which burned down (with people in it) and Bally's bought the property. (The new MGM is located further south.) . I was there when it burned. 96 people died. Some jumped. My ex grabbed all of the 35mm pictures that I took. They're probably in a shoe box somewhere. This picture just doesn't relay the actual horror of the events that happend that day. If there is such a thing as ghosts, this is where they would be. Jumping out the windows, some took the chance on surviving a fall rather than having what would be a terrible death of asfixiation
Las Vegas - Dell Robinson Middle School
Many sightings of an old man walking the halls of this school have been reported by new students coming from another state. They always see a man dressed as a janitor walking around in the hallway with blood on his hands. when school is out, the man follows them all the way home then disappears. The student will have nightmares and see this man in their dreams. This only happens to new students enrolling to this school and will happen until next time they go to church.
Las Vegas - The Excalibur
Walking down the hallway on the 10th floor you feel as though someone is directly behind you, hovering over your back, and then you hear a whisper, directly in your ear as if their lips were only an inch away.
Las Vegas - Las Vegas Academy Main Theatre
Since the opening of the theatre students have reported hearing strange sounds and seeing the apparition of an elderly main named "Mr. Petre". The legend says the man used to live on the property before the theatre was built in the 1930's and appears when the theatre is empty.
Las Vegas - Little Choo Choo Daycare
The daycare was closed because of a teacher who committed suicide and a little boy who was killed getting dragged underneath the tracks of the toy train. Some people said usually at night or sometimes in the day there is a presence of a little boy digging with his shovel in the ground. Nobody knows who he is, but sometimes he appears out of nowhere and some said at night a black woman can been seen trespassing and disappearing out of thin air.
Las Vegas - Redd Foxx' home
Said that Redd Foxx ghost is playing pranks on the current tenants.
Las Vegas - Sahara and Sandhill
If you drive down the dirt roads in that area you may be chased by an elderly woman in a car. If you leave the street she won't follow.
Las Vegas - Sandhill and Charleston
If you turn off of Charleston Blv. onto Sandhill Rd. heading toward Sahara you will shortly pass a set of flood control tunnels that pass under the freeway and let out onto a small neighborhood street named Olive. Many neighborhood residents use this as and uncomfortable but fast shortcut to the other side of the freeway and neighborhood children often play in them. Many people including have heard the voices of two people whispering in the tunnels late in the evening when there is none around. They sound like a male and female and coincidently just before those tunnels were built a young couple were flying down Olive on motorcycles and hit the pile of construction debris that was there at the time. They crashed early morning and were not discovered until around 6 am.
Las Vegas - Tropicana Hotel & Casino
Over the years visitors to this hotel are greeted at the entrance by a large tiki mask face, and many people have reported getting a terrible purple rash after touching it. And when people take pictures in front of it they report seeing a strange purple hazy cloud of smoke in the picture after they developed the pictures.
Las Vegas - Vo-Tech High School
Late at night around 11:00pm there is a shadow in the figure of a man that stands by the gym doors.

Fireworks at 9 p.m.
More Info: 564-4766
American-style BBQ, live jazz on the events plaza and fireworks followed by a party in Casino Montelago.

Festivities begin with the traditional 7 a.m. Rotary Pancake Breakfast in Bicentennial Park.
The parade down Nevada Way begins at 9 a.m. and travels to Central Park at Fifth Street and Avenue B.
At 7 p.m. the entertainment begins and at 9 p.m. the Fireworks Show takes place.
After the fireworks, there will be more entertainment until 11 p.m

6pm James Seastrand Park, 6330 Camino Eldorado, North Las Vegas.
The 7th Annual Independence Day Jubilee will be held July 3, 2006 at Seastrand Park (6330 Camino Eldorado.) This year's event will feature a variety of food vendors, great music, kids activities including the only 15 ton Snow Mountain in July, along with give-aways and much more. This year's event will be from 6:00pm-9:30pm and is free to the public. Families are encouraged to come and enjoy the festivities

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