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Aug 06, 2019 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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Aug 08, 2019 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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Wild Horses - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Aug 21, 2019 12:00 PM
During his presentation, Pat Pinjuv will show an 18 minute documentary on the impact of feral horses and burros on public lands. Our environment is currently being overgrazed by a run-away population of horses and burros. There was a time when no domesticated animals roamed our landscape and there is a clear limit of food and water allocated to the environment. The original number of wild horses and burros was set by scientists and biologists. The 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act set the total number at 26,715. This number was determined to allow the native elk, antelope, wild sheep, managed cattle, etc. to survive without a negative impact. The original law was to dispose of all horses and burros past the 26,715 limit. However, the law is not followed or funded. The number of feral horses and burros now exceeds 88,000 and will double in four years to over 170,000 animals. The federal government houses vast numbers of horses and burros in corals at a cost of almost $50 million a year. 200 horses died of dehydration on the Navajo Indian Reservation last year. Pat Pinjuv was born in Nevada. His grandfather arrived in Las Vegas in 1918. Pat received a degree in accounting from UNR. He has over 40 years of construction experience including 3.5 years at the Nuclear Test Site. Pat has enjoyed the outdoors since he could walk with his older brothers and father and has been in almost every mountain range in Nevada enjoying the outdoors and hunting. He has been involved with Nevada Bighorns Unlimited for 27 years, has served on the board since 2004, and is currently the president. Pat is involved with numerous outdoor groups. |
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Sep 25, 2019 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
We will be touring Ormat's Steamboat Geothermal Plant on Wednesday, September 25 from Noon until 1:30 p.m. Ormat leads the global geothermal sector in exploring, designing, developing, building, owning and operating geothermal power plants around the world. Geothermal energy captures renewable, non-carbon generating energy from heat escaping from the earth's mantle and turns it into clean, renewable energy. Reno's Steamboat project is one of the larger plants in the United States. Please meet at the far east-end of the Orvis store in The Summit shopping center at the at the intersection of South Virginia and the Mount Rose Hwy. We will carpool from there to 1100 Power Plant Road located just across the Mount Rose Hwy opposite The Summit shopping center. This road is located east of I-580 intersection and only accessible traveling east on the Mouth Rose Hwy. Please wear comfortable shoes and a hat/sun protection. |
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Rotary District 5190 District Governor Club Visit
Oct 09, 2019 12:00 PM
District Governor Randy Van Tassell and his wife Chris are looking forward to visiting the Rotary Club of Sparks on October 9th. He would like to encourage our members to invite potential members, guests, and spouses to your club meeting. His goal for the club meeting is to have all our members feel prouder than ever to be Rotarians and for guests to understand more about why we are Rotarians and the value of the work of Rotary. As RI President Mark Maloney stated: “In 2019-2020, it will be our challenge to strengthen the many ways that Rotary Connects the World, building the connections that allow talented, thoughtful, and generous people to unite and take meaningful action through Rotary service. He is encouraging the Clubs to look at every aspect of the Club and be willing to and excited about doing new things and continuing the successful things they do as they Do Good in World.” As RI President Mark Maloney stated: “In 2019-2020, it will be our challenge to strengthen the many ways that Rotary Connects the World, building the connections that allow talented, thoughtful, and generous people to unite and take meaningful action through Rotary service. He is encouraging the Clubs to look at every aspect of the Club and be willing to and excited about doing new things and continuing the successful things they do as they Do Good in World.” |
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University of Nevada, Reno Athletic Director Dough Knuth
Oct 30, 2019 12:00 PM
Doug Knuth became the eighth director of athletics at UNR in April of 2013. As special assistant to the president and director of athletics, he brings more than 25 years of professional experience and achievement in athletics administration. He has guided significant achievement in the department's academic successes as well as multiple team championships. Nevada is coming off of its third straight Mountain West championship in men's basketball and is ushering in a new era with the hire of a proven winner Steve Alford. In football, the pack had its best record in the Mountain West with eight wins and a victory in the NOVA Home Loans Arizona Bowl in 2018. The women's basketball team played in the MW Championship game and in six conference tournament games overall in two years under Coach Amanda Levens. Four-time All-American multi-sport star Nicola Ader and the re-birth of men's cross country program in 2019 have also occurred under Doug. He holds master's degrees in sports administration and facility management from Ohio University (1998) and business administration (2002). While at the University of Connecticut he was a four-year letter winner and captain on the men's tennis team. A native of Fairfield, Conn., Knuth and his wife, Marci, married in 2019 and their family shares five children. |
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Nov 06, 2019 12:00 PM
Gary Gilberg is a professional life coach, public speaker, retired contractor, furniture maker, writer and ski bum, not necessarily in that order. He volunteers at Project Mana, the local food bank, and the Tahoe Safe Alliance, where he speaks to young men in the local schools about healthy male attitudes and behaviors. At For Goodness Sake he offers spiritually based life coaching and occasionally fills in as a facilitator for Jon L. Weedn’s Monday night meditation class. He’s summited Mt. Kilimanjaro, ski mountaineered Mt. Shasta, survived the Escape from Alcatraz swim and travels the world with his wife Karyn. Gary's latest book, "Love and Prozac", was written to help break the silence and stigma of mental illness. |
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Rotary Service
Nov 27, 2019 12:00 PM
Maddie has been involved with Rotary since she was 16 years old, starting out as a RYLA participant, then RYE student to Chile. After returning from her study abroad, Maddie helped to found district 5190’s first ROTEX club for former RYE students. She is now a senior at Willamette University studying Anthropology and hopes to move towards a career in the realms of either law or public health. |