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Mesa View Regional Hospital (MVRH) has been in a state of “Awareness Ready” during the inter-national COVID-19 health crisis. According to MVRH spokesman Rob Fuller, that state enables the institution to quickly implement its emergency preparedness plan when and if needed.

MVRH is equipped with an Intensive Care Unit

(ICU) and trained ICU staff. They have ventilators and isolation rooms on site and at the ready. Currently there is no shortage of pro-tective equipment for staff and there are patient beds available.

As of last week, there were no confirmed cases of the COVID-19 reported in the Mesquite/Moapa Valley area. But the disease is hav-ing an affect nearby. The Southern Nevada Health District reported a total of 126 confirmed cases of

MVRH at the ready for possibility of local COVID-19 casesBy BOBBIE GREEN

Moapa Valley Progress

BOBBIE GREEN/ Moapa Valley ProgressJudy Hutton (left) is greeted by Alex Imbach, Public Health Worker volunteer, with health questions, temperature tak-ing and sanitizer before entering Mesa View Hospital last week.

COVID-19 in urban Clark County as of the end of last week. The Southwest Utah Health Department has confirmed two case, as of Saturday night, within its five county areas of Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Kane and Washington. Both of these were reported as travel re-lated and no person-to-per-son spread has yet been detected in southwest Utah.

Testing for local resi-dents is available at their doctor’s office if they think you may have been

exposed to the virus. But if the patient is showing symptoms of shortness of breath or a fever, he/she can be screened at the MVRH emergency room.

Patients with respiratory symptoms, fever and other risk factors that have called ahead are met at their vehi-cle with a mask and have an option to wait in their car. Not all patients experienc-ing respiratory symptoms get the COVID-19 test.

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Classrooms throughout the Clark County School District (CCSD) have been dark for near-ly two weeks now as response to the COVID-19 has washed across the country and around the world. But that hasn’t kept local teachers from continuing their mission of educating Moapa Valley kids.

Undaunted, many local teach-ers have traded in their traditional classroom setting for an all-online platform to keep in contact with students and to provide instruc-tion to kids that want it. This is possible because local high school and middle school students are all equipped with Chrome Book computers. Furthermore, students are familiar with online tools like Google Classroom, ZOOM meet-ing space and other platforms that have been used in the classroom for several years now.

In interviews last week, lo-cal principals reported that these tools have become standard in local schools and can provide a smooth transition to all online instruction in times such as this. But they also emphasized that CCSD as a whole has not autho-rized a full switch to online class-es.

“We have been told that any on-line assignments given right now must be optional,” said MVHS principal Hal Mortensen. “They can’t count for actual grades.”

Mortensen said that a group of CCSD principals from on-line-ready schools had ap-proached CCSD administration and asked if their schools might be allowed to move forward with the school year with online class-es. “They considered that request for a time,” Mortensen said. “But finally they came back and told us to hold off and just make the ma-terials available to students who want them.”

Mack Lyon Middle School (MLMS) principal Ken Paul ex-plained that the district policy was set that way to keep a sense of eq-uity across the whole of CCSD. “Our valley would be pretty good because all the kids are equipped with Chromebooks,” Paul said. “But even here, there are some kids who don’t have internet at home. And in Las Vegas not all kids have the Chromebooks. So a lot of kids in CCSD would be left behind. That is why the district as a whole could not move forward with online school.”

But a growing number of Moapa Valley teachers are mov-ing forward with instruction all the same.

MLMS Assistant Principal Ai-

Local teachers take instruction

onlineBy VERNON ROBISON

Moapa Valley Progress

See Education on page 5

Last week was an all-new ad-venture for many. As schools were postponed and jobs placed in a holding pattern, families have been looking for ways to stay busy at home. Yes, there is always laundry, chores and school read-

ing that need attention. But this new degree of self-isolation was unprecedented.

Many families have turned to social media for interaction. In doing this a new Facebook group “MV Quarantine Events & Games” was created. With-in hours the group expanded to more than 200 followers. The

Community spirit despite ‘distancing’

By JENNA RHUDE

Moapa Valley Progress

Local mom Amanda Ramos and her kids practice “social distancing” as they set out for a stroll through the neighborhood looking for shamrocks posted in windows on St. Patrick’s Day.

group consists of parents, grand-parents and neighborhood mem-bers ready and willing to support each other during this time.

What has been going on in the Valley during these days of so-cial distancing? Many have been hunting for shamrocks, looking for bears and searching for rain-bows. Several families have tak- See Activities on page 2

The Moapa Valley Mobile Food Pantry held its monthly event at Grant Bowler Elementa-ry School parking lot on Saturday, Mar. 21. It was a landmark event which served over 700 local fami-lies and distributed around 24,000 pounds of food in about 5 hours.

This month’s event was met with some new challenges. Of course, the biggest of these was the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Demand for the food products were particularly high this month, but precautions had to be taken to maintain proper social distancing techniques.

“We had to make sure all vol-unteers were wearing latex gloves and that no one got out of their vehicles while picking up,” said Larry Griffiths of Moapa Valley

Revitalization Project (MVRP) who coordinates the event each month.

The preparations for this

COVID-19 doesn’t stop MV Mobile Food PantryBy NICK YAMASHITA

Moapa Valley Progress

NICK YAMASHITA/ Moapa Valley ProgressLocal resident Bonnie McGrew and a host of other volunteers work amidst stacks of food items to prepare them for distribution at the Moapa Valley Mobile Food Pantry event on Saturday morning.

unique event were well in ad-vance. Just a few days before the scheduled food delivery by Three Square, Griffiths received

word there would be a second food distribution of an addition-al 12,000 pounds of food, made available. This additional sup-ply came thanks to the efforts of Clark County Commissioner Marilyn Kirkpatrick. Organizers hustled to establish a second food distribution location at the Clark County Fairgrounds parking lot so that the event would proceed in an orderly manner.

Even before the volunteers ar-rived at 4:30 a.m., food recipients were already lining up at the drive thru area at the Bowler Elemen-tary parking lot. By 6 a.m., two trucks from Three Square arrived with the food. By that time, those who were previously registered for the food distribution were lined up at Bowler Elementary in two line of cars that already

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en to walking or riding around neighborhood streets in search of these magical items.

As pre-arranged by the group, a lot of families created brightly colored shamrocks which they placed in windows, posted on cars and even colored on side-

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walks to help create the adventure for others. Kids had a good time keeping an eye out for these fun displays.

Another fun quest that sent families out again was searching for rainbows. Quite a few local residents painted rainbows on their windows. They colored rain-bows in chalk on their sidewalks and garage doors.

The latest adventure is the chalk walk. Everyone was en-couraged to leave a positive mes-sage or picture in sidewalk chalk for others to find on their adven-tures.

There are also some educa-tional activities for younger kids. Grant Bowler kindergarten teach-er Stephaine Viers is uploading a fun new story on YouTube every day. Go to https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cBAaMFmPb-g.

Of course, it is not all fun and games. There are frustrations as well. Children are social by na-

ture and it is difficult for them to understand why they cannot go out and play together. For those that are struggling at home with school-age children who want to have sleep-overs and play dates, just know you are not alone. Frus-tration is a human response, its how you react that will make all the difference.

One of the most magical hap-penings to come out of all of this is that families are spending more quality time unplugged and en-joying the company of one anoth-er. Neighborhoods are returning to the good old days. Neighbors are sitting outside more. Many conversations between neighbors are being held over fences and from those walking by. Social distancing does not mean com-plete and utter darkness and isola-tion. It just means you have to be more creative with how to handle the situation.

So next time you see a family out for a walk, bike ride or just sitting in their yard, pass them a friendly glance, a wave and wish them a happy day.

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Due to the COVID-19 pan-demic and the massive shutdowns of both government agencies and private commercial operations, one of the biggest concerns by government officials and citizens were students and seniors who relied on the schools and senior center for meals.

After the announcement was made to shut down schools across the state, Clark County School District (CCSD) Superintendent Jesus Jara released a statement that there would be 19 locations across the Vegas Valley and Clark County where students could pick up meals. But there was no loca-tion(s) on the list for the Moapa Valley and Mesquite areas.

According to Mack Lyon Mid-dle School Principal Ken Paul it was Moapa Valley High School principal Hal Mortensen who re-alized that local schools were not included on the list.

“Hal did everything possible to notify the district of the over-sight and make sure we had loca-tions ready for students to pick up

meals,” Paul said.Mack Lyon Middle School was

designated as the site for Overton and Logandale students to pick up meals. In Moapa, Ute V. Per-kins Elementary was designated. Charles Hughes Middle School became the meal pickup location for the Mesquite area.

“When it was first announced, it sounded like the meals were only for those students who were approved for free and reduced

School kids and seniors receive free lunch pickup By NICK YAMASHITA

Moapa Valley Progress

NICK YAMASHITA/ Moapa Valley ProgressSenior Center volunteer Mike Marino (right) puts a hot lunch contain-er into the trunk compartment of Dorothy Fitzgerald who drove in a shiny green golf cart to get curbside lunch service from the center.

lunches.” Paul said. “There was a lot of confusion about it. We had to do a little looking into it and we were able to confirm that the meals were for every student. This helped clear some things up.”

The administrators from local schools worked together in mak-ing sure the locations were picked in more centralized areas for the students. Once everything was set up, the meal pickups began on

Monday, Mar. 16. That first day, the pickup took place at MVHS. After that it was all done at Mack Lyon.

“Our first day we did not have as many as we thought we would at Mack Lyon,” Paul said.

But the second day really picked up with approximately 70 meals given out. By the third day that number was 117. As of the end of last week, it had nearly doubled every day since.

“Once the word got out, more and more people took advantage of the benefit,” Paul said.

Student meal pick-ups are from 8-11 a.m. during weekdays at Mack Lyon Middle School at 179 S Anderson St in Overton and at Ute V. Perkins Elementary at 1255 Patriots Way in Moapa. Mesquite students can pick up meals at the same time at Charles Hughes Middle School at 550 Hafen Lane in Mesquite.

Meanwhile the Senior Cen-ter in Overton, transitioned from serving daily lunch to a crowded cafeteria room to providing curb-side lunch service to local seniors.

United Seniors, Inc. Director Cindy Davis Marino reported a similar trend in the amount of meals being picked up.

“We started out with a small amount of pick ups,” Marino said. “But every day we have been see-ing an increase in the amount of meals picked up. It’s definitely growing!”

Lunch pickups at the Senior Center started at below 50 on the first day, Davis Marino said. The numbers rose to 60 and 68 over the next couple of days and con-tinued to grow.

“The word is getting out that

we are still providing meals, so more seniors are starting to come,” Davis Marino said.

Besides meal pick-up, Meals on Wheels was still delivering from the Senior Center to those who needed that essential service. The Senior Center does not pro-vide pick-up meals on the week-ends, although Meals on Wheels is available on those days.

The Senior Center had approx-imately six personnel working on making the food plates and bringing them out to the vehicles. These included Davis Marino and her husband Mike, along with lo-cal Parks and Rec Director John Stastny, Martha Ham; and in the kitchen, Raegan Whited and Sier-ra Kimbrough.

“Thank you to all of them for their help,” Davis Marino said. “We could not have done this lit-tle drive-up without them.”

One drive-up recipient, Doro-thy Fitzgerald who drove over in a green golf cart, expressed her gratitude for this service.

“It is wonderful they are doing this and have meals ready,” Fitz-gerald said.

Besides the meal pick-up, they also had puzzles and books avail-able for seniors to take home for entertainment.

Marino encouraged everyone to “hang in there”.

“We miss you all,” she said. “We are looking forward to when the socializing and events will be up and running once again.”

The United Seniors Center in Overton is located at 325 N Coo-per and has meals ready for pick-up from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on weekdays.

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Suritas Tacos food truck is one of several local vendors who will feel the profound impact of this year’s cancellation of the Clark County Fair.

Local Food Vendors Feel Impact Of CC Fair CancellationBy LAURA ROBISON

Moapa Valley Progress

Local residents who are ven-dors are already feeling the nega-tive impact over the closing of the Clark County Fair and Rodeo.

One of those people is Sar-ah Neil, who has been a Lularoe business franchise owner for a number of years. In an interview, she stated that cancelling the fair will affect her business and her family.

“The fair was 39% of our sales last year,” Neil stated. “Not only is that a huge percentage of our business, having a booth at the fair allows us to obtain more sales by circulating through our inven-tory and products. We don’t even know now when our next event

can be held, as we are all in limbo now with more and more cancel-lations happening every day.”

Another local vendor at the fair is the Great Basin Cooking Co-many, owned by Logandale res-ident Rik Eide. Eide’s is a main event food vendor at the fair. But he also attends several events during the year hdl throughout the region.

“The Fair is a big part of my year,” Eide said. “But I commend the Fair Board. They did a great job in cancelling the event in a timely manner, notifying the ven-dors as early as possible so they could mitigate their damages.”

Eide said that he already had expected the event to be cancelled even before the Fair Board had made it’s official announcement

on Mar. 13. He praised the efforts of the decision makers for this event and feels it was the right thing to do.

“I employ a lot of local kids to work at my booths,” Eide said. “Although they now won’t have the opportunity to do that this year, I am looking forward to the Fair for 2021. We will be back, better than ever, and I will still need help from the youth of this valley.”

Suritas Tacos, owned by Surita Hernandez of Moapa, is a relative newcomer to the fair. This would have been her third year as a ven-dor at the event.

“I know this will have a huge impact on our finances this year.,”

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Staying on top of the change!

Things have been changing awfully quickly over the past few weeks! Hardly a day has gone by without at least one announce-ment that completely shifts our paradigm; not only that of the

community, but of the nation and, in some cases, even the entire human race. In short, we are all blessed to live in interesting times!

All of that change has been hard to keep up with for a small-town weekly newspaper. Staying atop just the local changes is a challenge. Of course, we are posting important announcements and updates im-mediately to our website and on social media. That is helpful to get the word out quickly and we encourage readers to keep an eye on those notices. But trying catch it all in a weekly print edition is pointless. By the time the paper hits the streets, the news has already changed.

So for the print edition, we have gone back to the fundamentals of what a weekly newspaper does best: covering the people of the com-munity. We are casting a spotlight on what folks are doing out there, how families are coping and how local residents are prevailing through very stressful and difficult circumstances one week at a time.

The fact is, the positive things really don’t change. The goodness of neighbors helping neighbors; the unifying of a community, even in a time when all local events, assemblies or activites are cancelled; the persistence of regular people to retain faith, hope, charity and op-timism through trials – all of these positive traits and more are sown deep into the fabric of the Moapa Valley’s heritage. They have always been here, we are seeing them surface again now in abundance and, hopefully, they will always continue to abound here.

Even so, with so many seismic economic and social shifts playing havoc across the nation and the world, it would be foolish to tell our-selves that some harsh effects won’t be felt in our little town. They will and they already are. Indeed, some of those effects are being manifest this week in the community’s newspaper.

No doubt, our Overton readers have already noticed that this edition did not arrive in their mailboxes as usual. Last week at this time, we would never have imagined such a change. But circumstances beyond our control have made it necessary to drop a portion of our mail distri-bution cost for this week. It is the first time that has happened in more than 20 years of mail distribution. But given the business realities on the ground, and the rough waters yet to come, it became a reluctant necessity.

Logandale and Moapa readers will not be affected this week by this. The mandatory business closures that are in effect have left us with a very limited number of distribution outlets in those communities so we felt that the U.S. mail was necessary to get it to them. But in Overton there are several different distribution points available to our readers which we can easily keep stocked with newspapers. These major dis-tribution points include Maverik, which is right across from the post office, as well as Overton Ace Hardware, Home Hardware and Lin’s Market. With all of these choices available, we decided to make this admittedly draconian budget cut for this week. We apologize to our Overton readers for the inconvenience and beg their patience with us.

This change is not meant to be permanent, though. Even now we are making plans to return back to full mail distribution as early as next week. But as with most of the earth-shattering announcements being made in recent weeks, “it is still a very fluid situation.” We suspect our business conditions to get worse before they get better. Things are changing fast and there can be no promises made.

In this environment, it’s difficult to follow any long-term business plan, given the uncertainty that exists. But there is hope. We can en-vision the sunlight peaking through the clouds again soon. Like the human race, our blessed country, the state of Nevada and our beloved community; the Progress will survive this crisis to fight another day.

We have no doubt that we will all come out the other side of this trial stronger; though we may be forever changed by it. Exactly what the extent of that change will be we cannot know; nor can we control. All we can control right now is to continue on, week by week, adapting to whatever reality is presented to us. At least, that is what we pledge to do at the Progress. We aim to focus on covering our community one week at a time. We will continue to do that the best we know how, like we have for more than 30 years now. It still remains true that no one covers the Moapa Valley like we do. And God willing, it will stay that way for another 30 years to come... and far beyond.

Stay well, Moapa Valley! Don’t panic. And just take it one week at a time. Thanks for reading the Progress!

No One Asked Me But...By DR. LARRY MOSES

No one asked me but… A few friends and I were discussing the various conspiracy theories be-ing used to explain the hysteria in America today, and there are many.

There is the one where the Rus-sians released the Coronavirus to destroy the American economy and defeat President Trump in 2020.

Then there’s the one where the Chinese released it to destroy the American economy because of the economic war we are engaged in.

Another one explaines that the “deep state” of American bureau-cracy is using it to defeat an in-cumbent president they cannot control.

While all of these are possibil-ities, I suppose, let me state that there is no evidence of this.How-ever, they are all interesting to contemplate.

Someone in the group even postulated that the Coronavirus is God’s punishment of a nation that has turned its back on Him. I be-lieve that may be a question that has come to the minds of many Americans. Let me take the lib-erty as a professing Christian to address that issue.

I would put this question to both Christian and Jew in the context of problem solving. Our religious patriarchs were suc-cessful in solving problems when they turned to God. The book of Exodus is full of examples of how when the Israelites strayed from God, they were defeated and how when they turned back to God, they were victorious in overcoming whatever misfortune befell them.

There is an old Baptist hymn entitled “Victory in Jesus.” This is one of my favorite hymns for it is so true that this is where all meaningful victories are found. Everyone has problems, howev-er, through the grace of God we are assured of victory over those problems. And this principle is in play today.

To resolve a problem, one must get to its root and not merely treat the symptoms. One of the great-est example of this principle is when David, a mere shepherd boy, faced down and killed Go-liath with a sling-shot and stone. Goliath was a nine-foot-tall mil-itary champion of the Philistines who the Israelite army saw as an insurmountable challenge. David, however, saw not the symptom of Goliath’s challenge, but the base problem. Goliath’s challenge was

to God, not the nation of Israel. “Then David said to the Phi-

listine, You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.” 1 Sam. 17:45

When you are confronted with a problem it is important that you treat the symptoms, but im-perative that you recognize and treat the base cause as well. That problem in America today is very simple. America has moved away from God who has made this a great nation. I would suggest that if you are a believer in God, you might want to re-read Exodus and remember each time Israel moved away from God, they suffered.

How can we relate that to America today? I would ask that you look at America today. The majority of Americans to-day, including many professing Christians, support the murder of children in the womb. According to figures published by Planned Parenthood during the year 2018-2019, an average of 6,301 abor-tions took place EACH WEEK in America. Over forty percent of the children born in America today are born to single mothers as young couples are choosing to forego marriage and merely move in together. Nearly fifty percent of all marriages in America end in divorce.

The breakdown of the family is a disease as great as COVID-19. Our inner cities are rampant with crime. Drug use is being legalized throughout America.

These however, are symptoms, and not the root problem. Until we return our churches and nation back to the teachings of God, we will not, as a people, see a victo-ry over the problems plaguing the nation that we established under God 243 years ago.

A praying people can affect the changes needed. Miracles happen every day. Americans today are less willing to accept this fact. They believe they are too scientif-ically sophisticated to believe in miracles. Rather than closing our churches, we need to be gathering as a united people under God ad-mitting our national sins asking for His intervention. A church leader in Texas called for a prayer meeting in a drought stricken farm community. When the con-gregation showed up he sent them all home.

“We came here to pray for rain and I don’t see a single umbrella,” he said.

God’s people need to assemble and pray with conviction for His intervention, it will make all the difference in the world.

Thought of the week…Stay well, maintain the faith, and may God bless you all.

From our readers....Self Isolation Won’t Work

Quarantine my thoughts if you want, not our lives! Spread the word.

In my opinion, based on pure-ly common sense, self-isolation is NOT going to slow down the spread of COVID-19.

Rules of no more than 10 peo-ple are irrelevant. If you are sick, stay home. Just the same as if you had a common cold or the flu. Sports, entertainment, schools, etc. all being closed, it doesn’t matter!

Why? If you feel great you can still be a carrier of the corona vi-rus, right?

If and when they close down everything except groceries and pharmacies, folks still have to go there and exchange consideration (payment) in the form of cash or plastic.

If you carry the virus and are not sick, you hand the cashier pa-per money. There is an extremely great chance that paper is going to be handed off to someone else. Plastic is a little better. You need to touch the buttons to enter your pin. Walla! More endless contam-ination.

Weeks of seclusion is not the answer. It will only kill the econ-omy. Spread the word!

Note: Nov. 2019 thru Mar. 2020 - 250,000 people hospital-ized due to influenza, 14,000 died in the U.S alone. No closures.

Same time period - 110 people die in the U.S. from the corona virus and everything closes. I’m confused or is it just me?

Keith J. Telshaw

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“We are getting Accelerated Reader (AR) tests set up so that kids can do them online from home,” Lewis said. “That will encourage kids to keep reading at least.”

In addition many MLMS teach-ers are pointing their students to online resources like IXL, Khan Academy and other activities to keep them learning.

“We are really just getting start-ed on this,” Lewis said. “There is a lot still to come from here.”

At MVHS, some teachers are continuing without much inter-ruption at all.

MVHS English teacher Kenna Higgins said that she is fortunate that her subject lends itself easy to online learning models.

“I had already assigned my classes to read a book before Spring Break anyway,” Higgins said. “So now, though it’s not re-quired at this point, I’m just mes-saging the kids and encouraging them to read. They might as well since they are stuck at home with nothing much to do.”

Twice per week, Higgins is posting questions about the read-ing materials on a discussion board in Google Classroom. Stu-dents are then encouraged to post responses to these questions. And a few are actually doing it.

“It’s pretty much what we would have been doing in class,

and what we will be doing if class resumes later on,” Higgins said. “So it’s not required for them to do it. But if they do, it will put them ahead in the work.”

MVHS Math teacher Rob-in Fulmer had to do some quick shuffling to go forward online. But she has posted practice tests, exercizes and other resources that could keep her students active, if they choose to be. Fulmer said that her focus is on preparing her classes for Advanced Placement Testing in her classes in Probabil-ity/Statistics and Computer Sci-ence. Those tests are set to go on later this spring with online home exams, she said.

Fulmer is making herself avail-able to students who need ex-tra help with difficult concepts. “Kids can message me if they need help and I will get back to them to set up a time to work with them depending upon the need,” she said.

Fulmer has already met with small groups of kids in the ZOOM online meeting platform to give help and instruction where needed.

“It is not required, but there is plenty of material I’ve made available to them,” Fulmer said. “So all of them should be doing something.”

MVHS Video/Graphic produc-tion teacher Kim Hardy said that she already had plenty of resourc-es to keep her students going. Most of her classwork is done via computer online anyway, she said.

“Frankly, we could easily just continue our curriculum without any interruption and I could grade their work as always, if we were

allowed to,” Hardy said. Hardy said that she had sent

out messages to all her students to find out who was interested in continuing their work. She had 10-15 kids who responded and have been sending her completed projects regularly. This has been ideal because the kids who really want to learn are doing so, un-fettered from those who are only there because they have to be, Hardy said.

Hardy said that the experience, has actually refreshed her memo-ry of what motivated her to be a teacher in the first place.

“It’s easy as a CCSD teacher to get bogged down in all that we are required to do to stay in compliance,” Hardy said. “But this challenge returns us to the question of, morally, as teachers, what we must do to educate our students. It’s a chance for us to be what we dreamed about being when we first came out of college with stars in our eyes and entered the classroom. It returns us to that ideal.”

Educationfrom page A1

trailed down Lyman Street to-wards Gubler.

The fairgrounds also had two lines set up for recipients who had not registered in advance.

By 6:15 a.m., two local Met-ro Police units arrived to help keep the flow of traffic organized and orderly. Along with the offi-cers, there were also a number of off-duty officers and military per-sonnel who helped coordinate the distribution and maintain safety at the sites.

Griffiths highlighted the impor-tance of these extra safety mea-sures. “We could not have done what we did without the help of the police and “spotters,” he said. “They helped everyone feel at ease and the volunteers were able to work without fear. This made everything go so much easier.”

By 7:38 a.m., the food distri-

bution had served 138 families, at the fairground location alone. From 4:30 a.m. until a little after 9 a.m., approximately 58 volun-teers compiled boxes of food and helped distribute food evenly to each vehicle and for each family.

By the time the whole distribu-tion had completed, after 9 a.m., hundreds of families had received items including eggs, milk, chick-en strips, pink salmon, oranges, apples, walnuts, chili, canned goods, vegetables and more.

“We had no problems!” said Moapa Valley Food Pantry Di-rector Shanna Munns. “Every-one cooperated, were patient and grateful! We had no problems that concerned safety or people getting disorderly or being prob-lems. It went extremely smoothly and well!”

At the end, the volunteers helped load up the very little that was left and even helped a cou-ple of straggling late vehicles get

food.“The volunteers were wonder-

ful!” said MVRP President Mary Kaye Washburn who was helping with the distribution throughout the morning. “They were helpful and smiling the whole time.”

Griffiths said that he was proud of everyone who helped. “We could not have done any of this without the volunteers,” he said.

Griffiths specifically expressed appreciation to Sgt. Bret Empey and the rest of local Metro of-ficers who were present, John Stastny of the Parks and Recre-ation, Grant Bowler Elementary administration and Three Square of Las Vegas.

“However, most importantly I need to give a huge thank you to Commissioner Kirkpatrick for her extreme hard work to make sure we had additional food,” Griffiths concluded. “We could not have accomplished this amaz-ing feat without all of their help, especially during this hard time.”

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Medical staff will first determine, by a quick test, if a patient has an influenza virus. If not then the COVID-19 test will be given.

Cleaning and sanitizing of waiting area surfaces at MVRH has been escalated during this time and occurs continually throughout the day. Patients wait-ing in the lobby are directed to wait with more than 6 feet dis-tance between one another.

All area clinics and Quick Cares are open at their regu-lar hours. For Mesa View Main

Clinic at 1301 Bertha Howe Av-enue suite #1 in Mesquite, that is Monday through Friday from 8 am to 5 pm. The Quick Care in Mesquite located at 450 Hill-side Drive Bldg. B #104 is open Monday through Friday 7:00am to 7:00pm and Saturdays 9:00am to 2:00pm. The Quick Care in Logandale at 1925 Whipple Ave, Suite 30 is open Monday through Friday 7:00am to 5:50pm.

Mesa View Hospital sends reg-ular updates on the COVID-19 disease that are posted on the City of Mesquite website. You can also get more information about the disease at www.CDC.gov.

Hospitalfrom page A1

Hernandez said. “This event was our bread and butter for the year. It gave us a sense of financial sta-bility for the rest of the year.”

Hernandez recalls that after her first year of doing the fair she couldn’t wait to be back the fol-lowing year. “We loved it!” she said. “I think everyone in the val-ley loves attending the fair every year. Although we are sad it isn’t happening this year, our greatest concern is the health and safety of everyone in the community.”

Of course, the Fair is not the

only impact on Hernandez’ busi-ness. “I’m concerned about how to help provide for our family at this time,” Hernandez said.

“I normally set up at the Moapa Paiute Travel Plaza three days a week. But I will not be able to do that for a while either, due to the shortage in supplies.”

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The Mesquite Senior Center is still providing warm meals daily to senior citizens in its territory. The center will be open for drive-up food service only, Monday through Friday from 11 am-12:30 pm. Meals cost $3.50. But even that cost may be waived if patrons are unable to pay it. Because of this, donations to the senior cen-ter are more than welcome.

The Senior Center is located at 102 West Old Mill Road. Res-idents of Mesquite who are home bound may call in for Meals on Wheels delivery service at 702-346-5290.

On Monday, March 16, senior citizens who frequent the Mes-quite Senior Center were told the unpleasant news that the facility would be closing indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ac-cording to Senior Center Super-visor, Griseyda Belalcazar, many

of the seniors cried when they got the news.

“This is where they gather to socialize,” Belalcazar said. “This place is more than just a meal to so many. So some were telling me ‘Please don’t take this time away from us. This place was our sanity.’” That really tugged at our heart strings.”

Laura Rivas is one of the two long-time cooks that work for the facility. On the menu are items like, Pork Rib Patty, Chicken Broccoli Rice and Steak Strips Smothered in Onions.

“We know this is the main meal of the day for a lot of senior friends,” Rivas said. “This is a great way for us to still see them and take care of them each day.”

On Tuesday March 17, the Mesquite Senior Center served 46 meals in the first 20 minutes. And it didn’t stop there. “We are able to feed a lot more people and we

Mesquite seniors still getting hot mealsBy AMY DAVIS

Moapa Valley Progress

AMY DAVIS Moapa Valley ProgressBraving the rain, Mesquite senior center staffers Krissy Thornton and Griseyda Belalcazar wave to a patron as she pulls away from the curbside pickup zone with her food. See Meals on page B5

Mesquite real estate agent, Karen Fielding, celebrated her birthday earlier this month with a “Fill My Trunk” donation event. She took to social media to ask the community to donate food and water that could be given to the local Salvation Army. The re-sponse was inspiring.

This effort has become an an-nual birthday tradition for Field-ing.

“Five years ago, I had an idea,” Fielding explained. “In lieu of cards, gifts and presents for my birthday, all I wanted was food items for the Salvation army.”

Fielding said she noticed that during Christmas the local Sal-vation Army center is inundated with food donations. But as the

months continue the pantry de-creases. Thus Fieldings “Fill My Trunk” tradition was born.

March 2 marked Fielding’s 5th annual donation event. “I use

A Birthday Tradition of ServiceBy AMY DAVIS

Moapa Valley Progress

AMY DAVIS Moapa Valley ProgressMesquite realtor Karen Fielding spent her birthday this month coordi-nating a food drive called “Fill My Trunk” to benefit the local Salva-tion Army food pantry.

Facebook to let the rest of the community know I was looking for donations,” Fielding said.

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The Moapa Valley Fire District (MVFD) Overton Station #74 re-ceived a new rescue unit vehicle on Monday, Mar. 16.

“Today we took delivery of our new rescue unit for Station 74 in Overton,” said a press release from the MVFD on that date. “This rescue is what is considered a ‘Remount’ Rescue.”

In an interview last week, MVFD Chief Stephen Neel ex-plained, “A ‘remount’ is when they remount a box off a current rescue onto a new chassis. This saved us over $100,000 by doing it this way.”

The box was donated by the Clark County Fire Department to MVFD. It came from a unit that had been retired. MVFD bought a new Dodge Chassis instead of the full commercial cab for several reasons; only one of which being the lower price.

“It was less expensive but still there is excellent quality and we

were even able to customize the rescue unit according to our needs out here,” Neel said.

The customizations included four-wheel drive, liquid springs, better suspension, better LED lighting and a sleek new red-striped design.

With the four-wheel drive, the rescue unit is now able to get to remote places like Logandale Trails and other ‘sandy’ areas where the previous unit could not go, Neel said.

In addition, the springs and suspension provide a much smoother ride for patients as well as EMTs and the lighting makes it easier for the EMTs to see while they work. The new design helps set up more visibility.

“This rescue unit is everything we hoped for and more,” Neel said.

On Tuesday, Mar, 17, the new rescue unit was put into service.

“The EMTs love it!” Neel said. “They had several calls and they

Overton Station #74 gets new rescue unit

By NICK YAMASHITA

Moapa Valley Progress

Overton Fire Station #74 got a new rescue unit last week. The new vehicle is expected to provide better service and, as a remount unit, it saved the district more than $100,000

See Rescue on page B3

A special meet and greet event was held on Saturday, Mar. 14 to introduce U.S. Congressional candidate Charles Navarro to the Moapa Valley public. With him were his wife Aly and their baby daughter Reagan. About 20 peo-ple attended the event which was held at the Old Logandale School.

Navarro is one of seven Re-publicans running for the Con-gressional District 4 (CD4) seat currently held by Steven Hors-ford (D).

In a crowded GOP field, Na-varro emphasized that what set him apart as a viable candidate is his depth of experience in work-ing with the people of CD4 and the issues important to them.

Navarro worked as District Di-rector for Congressman Cresent Hardy (R-Mesquite) during his two-year term of office between 2015-2017. Hardy has stopped short of making an official en-dorsement of Navarro in the crowded primary race. But Har-dy has voiced strong support for Navarro in informal settings and political gatherings.

“I met with Cresent a couple of weeks ago and he just went on and on that you’re the only person for this,” said one attendee who had travelled from Mesquite to attend the meet and greet event.

Navarro said that his time working for Hardy made him fa-miliar with the many facets of the large and diverse CD4; especially its rural areas and people. Navar-ro told story after story of his ex-periences with helping Hardy to

address needs in rural areas and bring positive results.

During that time, Navarro said he had become well known, in rural areas of the state, as some-one who was responsive and un-derstanding to rural needs. He has since garnered support from elected leaders throughout the state from county commissioners in White Pine and Nye counties to a former Las Vegas city coun-cil member, and even Mesquite mayor Al Litman who endorses Navarro.

“These local elected officials understand that when there are is-sues and concerns, I’m somebody who was responsive in the past and someone who can understand what’s going on now,” Navarro said. “So when I do go to Con-gress that I can be responsive and advocate for the right way.”

Navarro also talked about his unique experience on the issue of immigration. He explained that he is the only candidate in the race, including Horsford himself,

Navarro campaigns in M.V.

U.S. Congressional candidate Charles Navarro answers questions from area residents at a meet and greet event held earlier this month at the Old Logandale School.

By VERNON ROBISON

Moapa Valley Progress

who has actually taken a trip to the border of Mexico to observe

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The Moapa Valley Town Advisory Board (MVTAB) heard a report last week from Clark County officials regarding plans to relocate a large stretch of Airport Road which runs parallel to the runway at Perkins Field airport in Overton.

Roger Patton of WSP Engineering in Las Vegas represented county departments in making the presentation to the board at the Wednesday night, Mar. 11 meeting.

Patton explained that major improve-ments had been planned at Perkins Field airport. These included resurfacing the runway and taxiway at the airport as well as expanding areas for hangar space.

Before these improvements could be made, though, some long-standing safety issues with Airport Road needed to be ad-dressed by the county, Patton said.

“The roadway must be done first before Dept. of Aviation can improve the taxiway and runway,” Patton said. “The existing Airport Road does not comply with FAA regulations. There are safety issues with the road being too close to the runway and separated only by a fence from Lou all the way to Anita Rd.”

To bring this into compliance, the Clark County Dept. of Aviation is proposing to close Airport Road and incorporate it, and a swath of airport land to the west of air-port bringing it within the airport fence line, Patton said. This would provide the necessary buffering distance for the run-way, he said.

In addition, Clark County Public Works would pave a series of new roads just out-side of the fenceline to the west to replace the Airport Road thoroughfare.

“This would result in a whole series of streets to be improved as standard rural roads with a 32-foot right-of-way,” Patton explained. “No acquisition of rights-of-

way is required because the airport proper-ty would give up about eight acres of land on its western perimeter for the roadway.”

Patton said that the design phase was ex-pected to be completed by January 2021. The project is expected to go out to bid in May 2021 and a contract awarded by Au-gust 2021. The road project is expected to reach completion by August 2022.

During public comment several resi-dents of the affected neighborhood had questions about the proposal.

James Riley asked why the airport run-way couldn’t be moved further over onto the vacant desert land to the east to fulfill the distance requirement. Then the existing Airport Road could be left as is and the neighborhood would be left unaffected.

Ben Czyzewski, Assistant Director of Dept. of Aviation, responded that there were cultural artifacts in the lands to the east of the runway that would not allow it to be moved. In addition, given the terrain, it would be easier to demolish the old run-way and taxiway and simply build anew on top of them, he said.

Riley also asked if any accommodations were being made for the regular flow of large gravel trucks that traversed the area regularly.

“This is intended and designed as a city street,” Patton said. “We can’t restrict peo-ple or trucks from using it. If a problem arises it would have to be handled legis-latively.”

Area resident Jean Gottschalk said he had spoken to a county official about ways that neighborhood residents might receive some benefit for the disruption of the neighborhood. “We talked about the possibility of additional paving being done in the area outside of this roadway to off-set those impacted,” Gottschalk said. “Is there a possibility that other road segments might be paved as well?”

Patton responded that the engineers had

County staffers give report on Airport Rd rerouteBy VERNON ROBISON

Moapa Valley Progress

only been directed to design pavement for the specific roads on the project and no oth-ers.

The preliminary map shown to the town board indicates that the existing Airport Road approach would turn west at Anita Ave. at the southwest corner of the airport. After about 200 feet, it would turn straight north on the Cooper alignment running parallel to the existing Airport Road about 100 feet west of the current route.

At the Cottonwood Ave. alignment, the road would proceed west for approxi-mately 450 feet of new pavement. Then it

would jog in a diagonal route to the north-west, across what is currently empty desert land, to the intersection of Willow Ave. and Anderson Rd.

The route would then proceed directly north, only about 300 feet along a new-ly paved section of Anderson Rd. At that point, the route would turn west at Anthon Ave. for 650 feet to the Lou Road align-ment.

Finally, the route would span another 1500 feet due north to connect with the ex-isting pavement at N. Lou Street near the end of the airport runway.

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ADDRESS SQ FT BD BATH YEAR ACRES LIST PRICE271 Behmer Dr. 1,152 3 1 3/4 1980 0.17 $69,990641 Wagonwheel St. 1,152 3 2 1982 0.19 $73,340450 Ingram Ave. 1,232 3 2 1998 0.15 $119,000895 Greasewood Ln. 1,200 1 1 1987 2.41 $120,0001930 Turvey Ave. 720 2 3 1969 2.06 $120,000768 Lillian Condie Rd. 1,056 2 2 1998 0.17 $160,000354 Colleen Ct. 1,166 2 2 1997 Condo $165,000174 Thomas Ave. 1,082 3 1 3/4 1995 0.18 $166,0001015 Ranch Rd. 2,888 5 2 1976 0.69 $176,800610 Moapa Valley Blvd 1,216 3 2 1965 0.43 $179,900254 Thomas Ave. 1,350 2 1 3/4 1932 0.17 $180,000585 Cox Ave. 1,299 2 1 3/4 1981 0.16 $184,0002170 Mescal Vista cir 1,566 3 2 1990 2.06 $195,000866 Jackrabbit St. 1,230 3 2 2001 0.08 $197,500156 Jones St. 1,864 3 2 1941 0.22 $215,000671 Ryan Ave. 1,440 3 2 1979 4.00 $218,500175 Perkins Ave. 1,529 3 1 1948 0.25 $219,0001760 State HWY 168 1,188 2 2 1979 2.50 $219,0008659 Horizon Wind 1,118 2 2 2005 0.03 $221,9001992 Gubler Ave. 2,016 6 1 3/4 1979 0.51 $229,0003515 Sandy St. 1,296 2 2 1982 0.50 $239,000736 Weiser Ridge St. 1,550 3 2 2006 0.18 $240,500225 Pioneer Rd. 1,659 3 2 2000 2.18 $259,000565 Bader Ave. 1,512 3 2 2009 2.39 $265,0003430 Lyman St. 1,972 2 2 1962 0.48 $269,0002090 Liston Ave. 2,118 5 2 2000 6.85 $274,0004420 Pinwheel St. 1,728 4 2 1997 2.52 $279,000725 Henrie Rd 2,588 4 2 1995 4.11 $285,0001695 Whitmore St. 3,142 4 2 3/4 1988 3.52 $299,0001325 Neil Ave. 1,120 2 1 3/4 1971 7.19 $299,0002225 Airport RD. 2,566 5 3 1986 0.71 $299,0004720 State HWY 168 B 2,001 3 2 2006 1.84 $314,000464 Tres Coyotes Ave. 2,058 3 2 2005 0.46 $349,0001180 Vista View St. 2,024 4 3 1999 2.13 $349,0002950 Taylor St. 2,808 5 2 3/4 1979 1.03 $398,5001389 Red Sage Ln. 2,508 4 2 3/4 2001 0.46 $399,9004720 State HWY 168 A 2,773 5 4 2006 2.04 $409,000980 Thom St. 2,872 4 2 1/2 1987 1.96 $410,0001377 Victory Joy St. 1,834 2 1 3/4 1992 2.76 $411,0001588 Heights Dr. 2,618 5 3 1/2 2015 0.46 $419,0002434 River View Way 3,117 5 4 2001 0.84 $452,900975 Carol Ave. 3,148 3 3 3/4 1993 2.10 $460,0002825 N. Pioneer Rd. 3,085 3 2 1/2 1991 1.15 $469,0001182 Thomas Bay Cr. 5,649 6 6 2006 0.51 $540,0001630 Zubia St. 3,978 6 3 1/2 2002 2.12 $569,0005355 State HWY 168 2,199 2 1 3/4 1979 40.00 $695,0001120 Lou Jean Ave. 2,061 3 3 1/2 2005 5.00 $699,0004255 State HWY 168 2,318 3 2 1/2 2002 9.92 $750,0001980 N. Moapa Valley 4,586 4 3 1/2 1993 4.33 $1,099,0004540 Moapa Valley Bl 6,318 5 5 1997 2.72 $1,100,000

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conditions on the ground there. Navarro visited a large segment of the border at El Paso, Texas and met with officials there.

“I was tired of people campaigning out there and saying they want to fix immigra-tion but they don’t really understand the is-sues on the ground and how it is impacting people,” Navarro said. “When I get to Con-gress, I want to be able to hit the ground running on legislation that will actually do something to solve real problems.”

Navarro expressed strong opinions about retaining public access and traditional uses on public lands in Nevada.

“I’ve personally dealt with fighting back against the BLM and understanding how it is that they go about their processes in trying to capture and restrict more lands,” Navarro said. “I can appreciate the at-tempts to manage our lands and keep them for future generations. But you also have to make sure that we are not encroaching on how the public uses the land and how people have used it for generations before. We have to keep an eye on how it will be used in the future as well.”

Navarro wants to return the federal gov-ernment back to conservative fiscal princi-ples, to work to reduce the deficit and bring

the national debt under control. This must be done through cutting government waste and using common-sense cuts to reduce the budget, he said.

“I would advocate having sunset clauses attached to spending bills and programs,” he said. “That allows us to re-evaluate the effectiveness of programs to see if its worth bringing any more federal dollars into it in-stead of just having a blank check forever.”

On the issue of affordable health care, Navarro said that the idea of Medicare for all would not solve the problem. “I firmly believe that focusing on access to health-care and building up the infrastructure for a lot of communities, is what ultimately is where the covnersation nationally needs to be, instead of Medicare for all,” he said. “The focus needs to be on what’s really happening right now. And what is really happening is shortages of hospital care and health care providers and people getting access to care.”

Navarro, who resides in Las Vegas, cur-rently serves as a reservist with Naval Se-curity Forces based at Pearl Harbor, HI.

He has also served as a re-entry manag-er with Hope for Prisoners, a faith-based organization in Las Vegas that works to re-turn recently incarcerated prisoners to so-ciety through career and life skills training as well as counseling.

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“We have so many who are willing to help others. With everyone’s help, I was able to collect 1,682 pounds of food!”

To give an idea of just how much food that is, Fielding explains, “In 8 days, we filled three trunks and two complete cars. Next year, I am going to need a truck!”

Stephanie Wooley, Director of Social Services at Salvation Army said that this year’s donations were perfectly timed. “Who would have thought that the dona-tions Karen put together would have come just in time for the Corona Virus to hit,” Wooley said. “These donations were lit-erally a godsend. She brought us cases of water and ready-made food – the kind you can microwave like raviolis in a can – that makes it easier for kids to prepare meals for themselves while they are out of school.”

Woolley said that these difficult times are the reason why Salvation Army is here. “If you find yourself falling on hard times and you are in need, please reach out to us so we can help,” she said. “You can contact us on social media, you can call, or you can just walk in our doors. We provide food

boxes to anyone in need. The community has been a great support. We would love to serve you.”

Fielding said that the “Fill My Trunk” event has never been about making herself look good. “I have the avenue and the rep-utation that allows me to spread the word when I see a need,” she said. “That is why I do it.

“This year I was blown away by the goodness of people and their donations,” Fielding added. “It was the most I have had ever. It was an incredible moment when the Salvation Army weighed, the food.”

Woolley said that Fielding had learned empathy through weathering tough times of her own. “Because Karen has known hardship in her own life, she looks for ways to alleviate the burden in the lives of others,” said Woolley. “She is always look-ing for ways to help our community. I feel honored to work with her. She has a heart of gold.”

Fielding emphasized that the Salvation Army needs food all year round, as does the Food Pantry in Mesquite. “If you have a means to donate, please do,” Fielding said. “They go through the food so quick-ly.”

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went over the (railroad) tracks and the ride was smooth for them. They didn’t even feel a sharp turn that was taken. It was well-re-ceived.”

As for the old rescue unit, it will remain in service at the district as a reserve and rehab unit.

“Thanks to CCFD in their donation, we are now able to keep our old unit,” Neel said. “This is a huge blessing and no doubt

will benefit the people of Moapa Valley.”Neel added that this addition of new

equipment was overdue.“That older unit is about 14 years old,”

Neel said. “This new unit being a Dodge 5500 Chassis and the customizing helped us save a lot of money since most regular units are $250,000 and we only used about $143,000 for the new unit. This will serve the people more efficiently out here and we were able to put the saved money back towards other necessities needed for better serving the residents of Moapa Valley.”

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Allen Lynn Simmons, age 73, passed away Tuesday, March 17, 2020 at his home in Pine Valley, Utah. He was born Octo-ber 15, 1946 in Las Vegas, Ne-vada to Andrew Cooper and Mary Geneva Jones

Simmons. His step father Oscar Rob-bins, (whom Lynn considered his dad) was a very positive influence on his life. On March 13, 1965 he married Charlene Searles in Logandale, Ne-vada. She preceded him in death on October 3, 2006. On March 24, 2007 he married Linda Lou Odom in St. George, Utah.

Lynn grew up in Logandale. He loved playing sports and participating in FFA at Moapa Valley High School. He continued enjoying Pirate sports and activities as his children and grandchildren grew up. He worked as a manager at Overton Power Dis-trict and later as a owner / operator of Simmons Electric in Las Vegas. He lived in Las Vegas, St. George and finished out his life peacefully in Pine Valley. He enjoyed hunting, fishing

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and time with family. He will be re-membered for his love of people, his service to others and as the historian of the family.

Survivors include his wife, Linda of Pine Valley, UT; two sons and four daughters: Tiffany (John) Lewis of Las Vegas, NV, Tracie (Tony) Himes of Prescott, AZ, RuthAnn (Ray) Horsley, Trent (Jenna), and Ashleigh (Rhett) Gallagher all of Las Vegas, NV, and Coltyn (Mindy) of Hender-son, NV; son in law Eric Peterson of Las Vegas, NV; step children: Jason (Melanie) Dimitt of Eagle Mountain, UT, Angela (Ryan) Basil of Shoreline, WA, and Amy (Mario) Salas of Boul-der City, NV; 25 grandchildren; six great grandchildren; two brothers and one sister: Bobbi Simmons-Michael of Ivins, UT, John Simmons of Apple Valley, CA, and Terry (Lani) Simmons of Fallon, NV; and half sister, Renee Simmons Black of UT. He was pre-ceded in death by one son, Troy and one sister, Carrol Perry. Services will be private due to the Covid - 19. The service will be recorded and added to the Moapa Valley Mortuary website on Wednesday, March 25, 2020.

Friends and family are invited to sign an online guest book at www.moapavalleymortuary.com

The Moapa Town Advisory Board (MTAB) gave approval last week for a power transmis-sion line to connect a new solar generating plant proposed on the Moapa Paiute Reservation to the regional electric grid at the Reid Gardner substation in Moapa. The unanimous approval came during a meeting held Tuesday, Mar. 10.

The 300 megawatt Eagle Shad-ow Mountain Solar Project, being built by 8 Minute Solar Energy, is proposed to be built just west of the First Solar facility currently in operation across I-15 from the Paiute Travel Plaza. It is planned to occupy 2,300 acres of tribal land with arrays of photovoltaic panels, fulfilling a power pur-chase agreement with NV En-

ergy. The plant is set to be fully constructed and in operation by the end of 2021.

Luke Shellington of 8 Minute Solar Energy, explained to the MTAB that he was seeking their approval on the final mile-and-a-half stretch of the transmission line that would connect the solar plant into the grid. This would en-tail 13 transmission line structures supporting the line as it crosses out of tribal land into BLM land in Clark county and eventually into private land owned by NV Energy.

The Special Use Permit was being required because the zon-ing on the BLM land limited the structures’ height to 75 feet. The company was proposing to build the structures at up to 150 feet in height for the line, Shellington said.

Shellington explained that the

MTAB approves power transmission lineBy VERNON ROBISON

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transmission line is proposed to be built immediately adjacent to already existing power lines in the BLM right of way.

MTAB member Bob Lyman asked why the plant wasn’t be-ing connected to the grid at the Crystal substation near Apex. Shellington responded that, after doing a full “pass flow” analysis, it was determined that there was not enough capacity at Crystal for connection of this project there.

The MTAB members voted to approve the request.

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AQUATIC (formerly Lasco Bathware) in Moapa, is now hiring: We are accepting appli-cations from 8AM to 3PM Mon-day through Thursday. Aquatic has a competitive wage start-ing at $13.00/hr and benefit package, including medical, dental, vision insurance and 401k. We also offer ten paid holidays per year. (702) 864-2100 ext. 4182.

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are hoping to spread the word,” Belalcazar said.

Senior Center Volunteer Pat Heningson said, “We also have food delivery for people who can’t get out or don’t want to take the risk of going out. We are still serving meals on wheels as well.”

Heningson continued to en-courage the local seniors by say-ing, “Come on down folks, you’ll still get to eat. The food hasn’t changed, and we would love to serve you.”

Leora Hillius, fellow cook to Rivas, says she knows the seniors will be wondering if the menu has changed. “Our menus are exactly the same as they are on our news-letter” Hillius assured. “We aren’t going to make any adjustment. It will be the same meal that you were planning on, so come in and see us.”

Krissy Thornton, Programs

Assistant says to her senior pa-trons, “We love you, but stay in-doors. We don’t want you sick. We miss you. If you are home bound call us and we will gladly deliver.”

The Senior Center is an upbeat and positive place to be. “You’ve never seen a more fun group than

this group,” said City of Mesquite Community Resource Manag-er Janice Ridondo of the Senior Center staff. “They are having as much fun with these folks as they do when they come inside. We want them to be safe, but you can get in your car, get your meal, and then drive home to eat it.”

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Out of concern for the health, safety and financial well-being of the communities it serves, OPD5 will be implementing sev-eral changes to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Effective Friday, March 20, OPD5 has chosen to close public access to its offices and facilities for the next 30 days. Custom-ers who have essential business needs that cannot be conducted electronically, such as new cus-tomers signing up for service, can schedule an appointment, if needed, to meet with a customer service representative.

OPD5 staff will still be avail-able during regular business hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. via phone and e-mail to answer customer inqui-ries. The OPD5 crew will also continue to operate, maintain and conduct system repairs if a power interruption or problem were to occur during this time.

OPD5 will also suspend all ser-vice disconnections and penalties for late and missed payments for those who are directly affected by COVID-19. OPD5 is well aware that a number of customers are currently facing health and finan-cial hardships. Customers who are under self-quarantine orders, have contracted COVID-19, or

have been furloughed from work can call and make the necessary arrangements with an OPD5 cus-tomer service representative.

These changes also apply to OPD5’s local business partners. Businesses that have been direct-ly affected by COVID-19 can call OPD5 customer service to dis-cuss payment arrangements.

OPD5 also offers a variety of contactless payment options. Payments can be made online or through the mobile app available for download through the Apple Store and Google Play store. Cus-tomers can also make payments by phone using the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system or by speaking with a customer service representative. Addition-ally, customers can set up auto-pay from a debit or credit card or checking or savings account.

This policy will remain in ef-fect until April 30, 2020 and will be re-evaluated before April 30 by OPD5’s Board of Trustees to determine if an extension is need-ed.

For more information, vis-it www.OPD5.com, e-mail us at customerservice@opd5.com or call 702.397.2512 to reach our Overton office or 702.346.5710 for our Mesquite office.

OPD5 customer service updates during pandemic

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We’re here for you.Especially now.

From all of us at OPD5, we want to assure you, our customers and neighbors, that we’re doing everything in our power to

continue serving you during these trying times.

This includes following the latest recommendations of local and national public health authorities and closing our offices and

facilities to the public for at least the next 30 days.

During this time, we ask that you contact us by phone, email, mail, or through our website, instead of visiting us in person.

We’re committed to keeping the lights on and providing the safest and most dependable power service possible

for our customers.

We’re willing to work out arrangements with our residential customers and local business partners who are facing

financial hardships because of this crisis and need additional time to make payments.

For those who are directly affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19),

OPD5 will suspend all service disconnections and penalties for late and missed payments through at least April 30.

We’re here for you.

Visit us online at www.OPD5.com.Email us at customerservice@opd5.com.

Call (702) 397-2512 to reach our Overton office.Call (702) 346-5710 for our Mesquite office.