Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 34

4D SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2010 RENO NEVADA HISTORY First Truchee Meadows settlements established in 1850s Years before Nevada's statehood, Eastern gold seekers Central Pacific Railroad bought land from Myron Lake and developed what became the city of Reno. Lake's bridge at what is now at Virginia Street became the preferred crossing to the Comstock Mines in Virginia City. Glendale rapidly declined because the residents, including Larcombe, preferred the amenities offered in Reno. Jameson's Station and the Stone and Gates Crossing disappeared after 1 6 years of catering to travelers. Patty Cafferata can be reached at pdcafferata sbcgfoal.net and eastemslopepublisher.com.

Glendale School opened in 1864, and the local children studied there until 1958. (U. S. Sen. Pat McCarran, D- was the school's most famous graduate.

Around 1866, Englishman John Larcombe opened a general store at the Stone and Gates Crossing. With people surging into the area and merchants successfully operating their businesses, a post office was soon Larcombe suggested the name of Glendale, he became the postmaster, but the post office only operated from October 1867 to July 1868. In 1868, the crossing began to wither after the ferried travelers and animals across the river using some sort of raft and a stout rope. Well after these crossings were developed, Nevada became a state in 1 864. According to F.

B. Kingsbury's "Pioneer Days in Sparks and Vicinity," between 1857 and 1867, this site developed into the largest and most prosperous village in the valley. The town folk prided themselves on their houses, stores, blacksmith shop, butcher shop, hotel, restaurant and saloons. The local farmers decided their children needed a school. Among the first schools in the area, the place of hand-fitted rocks without mortar.

The station consisted of one large room and two smaller ones in the rear. He roofed the structure with willows and erected a stone corral nearby. The travelers often traded Jameson their exhausted stock for good horses and cattle. Later researchers disputed Mulcahy 's claim and believed the stone foundation belonged to a later settler named Guerey. In 1 85 7, farmers John Stone and Charles Gates developed the Stone and Gates Crossing north of the river and slightly west of Jameson's.

The owners of the Utah Territory at the time. The first Mormons from Salt Lake City settled in Genoa in Northern Nevada and he was part of the group. When Jameson moved from Genoa to the southern bank of the Truckee River, he became the first permanent white pioneer in the area. He opened a trading post at what is now south of Vista Boulevard and across the river in the area of the sewage treatment plant. In the 1960s, historian Walt Mulcahy discovered some rubble that he believed was from the stones Jameson used to build his looking for their fortunes in California passed through the Truckee PATTY place to rest, buy provisions and cross the river.

According to Effie Mona Mack's "History of Nevada," H. H. Jameson, sometimes spelled Jamison, established the first crossing of the Truckee River in the valley in 1852. The area was part CodeEnforcement officer can see results PHOTOS BY LIZ MARGERUMRGJ Reno code enforcement officer Cindi Gil-Bianco writes a warning for a couch left on the sidewalk Nov. 18 in downtown Reno.

She said that bedbugs are a big problem, and couches outside can contribute by making a place for critters to hide. of work the owner is an ex-convict who uses a walker and hangs out at Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center. Gil-Bianco pointed to a soiled spot on the street, where the owner has thrown out food scraps. She left an orange violation notice on the vehicle, giving him three days to move. Homes Next stop is a house on Fifth Street.

She can't do anything about the makeshift porch and several rough additions unless a tenant complains that the building is unsafe. But the owner has complied with a warning to remove a junk pile. Down the street and around the corner is a blue house on Ralston Street. She finds junk and garbage from the front yard have been removed as requested, and the boarded-up windows were painted the same color as the house as requested since her last visit. Not bad, she said.

"Foreclosures have hit the city hard," Gil-Bianco said. "The number of unattended homes isdefinitely up. There's a long gap between when you get, a foreclosure and a new loan company. By then, it's full of weeds and junk." When homes are in foreclosure, she said the last thing people want to hear is to clean up their yards. She said she is often told that they have no money for gas for the lawn mower or the mower is broken.

Before, she said people would hire a landscaper and get the job done. "1 tell them to work on it, to do the best they can," she said. On the positive side, her notices have resulted in the Masonic Temple repainting its building at First and Virginia streets, and a new paint job for the Wild Orchid, a few blocks south on Virginia Street. Recently, with prodding from her division, the Fitzgeralds Casino-Hotel parking garage, next to Harrah's Reno on Virginia, was cleaned up and secured to keep out teenagers and vandals. "It's a great job, knowing I'm making an impact on people's lives in a positive way," Gil-Bianco said.

"I can visibly see the changes I make in the community." wm sow From ID "People will stop and talk. I get to know people," she said. "And if issues come up, I go back and follow up. Getting these leads, I can get problems solved faster." At her first stop on State Street on the recent Friday, she stopped to issue a warning about couch furniture left in the front yardi A security guard from the closed Siena Hotel Spa Casino approached. Gil-Bianco asked if the guards are getting paid and still on the property 24 hours a day.

She said she was pleased to hear that the new owner is paying them regularly, and the building will reopen in February. Before the recent auction of the property, the guards were paid in cash. If the building were abandoned, Gil-Bianco said, the city would require windows and glass doors to be boarded up. "Thieves are rampant," she said. "If copper thieves got in, they could do $250,000 in damage in one night stripping all the copper." Riding a bike, she said, allows her to easily check the front, as well as the rear of buildings and the alleys.

Alleys also exist in old southwest neighborhoods, which are also part of her beat. Riding down Fourth Street, she pointed to a pest-control truck parked at one motel. She's happy to see the owner is taking care of business voluntarily. Bedbugs Bedbugs are a big deal. People who live in weekly motels can take them with them as.

they move their belongings and bedding from place to place. The critters climb through electric outlets and the walls to get from one unit to the next. She repeatedly cautions apartment owners about allowing used furniture in their buildings. The day before, she found one bug on the floor of an apartment. It was dying, turned upside down with its legs kicking in the air.

"Feed me, feed me," she said, imitating the bug. On days like that, she wears surgical leggings. She said the bugs are much worse than three years ago. "It's bad," she said. "They LOCAL PEOPLE Comings and goings, graduations and Air Force Airman 1st Class NickolasW.

Caldwell graduated from basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. He is the son of Ralph Caldwell of ers still are asleep and not yet doing drugs or alcohol. "I probably run into two or three camps a day on the river, from Lake Street to Wells Avenue," Aufiero said. The next stop is checking a 1980 recreational vehicle, coated in a grey primer that is parked on Fifth Street. The owner has been living in it, a violation.

Gil-Bianco calls dispatch for a nearby police officer before approaching the vehicle. She is barely 5 feet tall. "That makes me much more on my toes," she said. "I get a take on people's cues. I try to leave before anything bad happens." And she has a pretty good handle on reading people.

She has been a code officer for Reno for 10 years and for San Jose for three years before that. She also was a police officer. Police officer Tom Ytur-bide arrived and checked inside the vehicle with his flashlight. A dog inside starts barking, but the owner is not there. Yturbide said the RV has been on Fifth Street for the past several weeks after the owner was evicted from nearby house.

Yturbide said son of Helen Nelson of Reno and Michael Menzies of Valley Springs, Calif. He earned an associate degree from Loma Linda University, in 2009. Molly Carrigan, daughter of Mike Carrigan and Cora Carrigan of Sparks, was commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Navy on Nov. 12, following her graduation from Naval Officer Candidate School in Newport, R.I.

After Surface, Warfare Officer School, she will report aboard the U.S.S. Harpers Ferry. Army Pvt. Ervin N. Martinez has graduated from basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C He is the son of Nick Martinez of Carson City and is a 2010 graduate of Incline Village High School.

Army Pvt. Maximillian J. Corey has graduated from basic training at Fort Sill, Okla. He is the son of differ Corey of Reno and is a 2010 graduate of Reno High gest cases," she said, because of all the lawsuits filed over the Belvedere units. In general, she said, it's hard to get a bankruptcy judge to free up the money to pay the city for cleanup work.

Usually, the city issues a fine and the property owner gets the work. If the city has to do the work, a hearing officer approves the amount and the necessity. In a small percentage of cases, she said, the city puts a lien on the property. To get a clear title, the owner has to pay before the property can be sold. Homeless While picking up the Belvedere trash, Steve Aufiero, a public works employee, told Gil-Bianco he spotted several new homeless campsites behind Sixth and Vine streets.

They agreed to pay them a visit on Monday when Charlie Smith, a Reno police officer, comes back to work. They do not go into homeless camps alone. Gil-Bianco said she usually bunches up several "scary" calls requiring police assistance to make the best use of their time. They also go in the morning while the camp completed Naval Nuclear Power Training Pipeline in Ballston Spa, N.Y. He is a 2008 graduate of Silver Stage High School in Stagecoach.

Army Pfc. Jason M. Menzies has graduated from basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C. He is the This house on Fifth Street was violation notification. eat at night, and people wake up the next morning with bug bites.

"We do have big white suits to put on." Belvedere The next stop was a parking lot at the northwest-corner of Fourth Street and Arlington Avenue abandoned by the Belvedere condominium developers. Gil-Bianco and two public works employees picked up some Styrofoam packing materials before they blew around in the coming storm. She had received several complaints about it. military updates Sparks and is a 2010 graduate of Spanish Springs High School. Air Force Airman Lathaniel P.

Amelsberg has graduated from basic cleaned up after a code In all, the city has issued $3,000 in fines to the owners of the abandoned lot during the past few years. It's crumbling away, and construction materials are stacked in piles. The city also has sent the developers a $250 bill for a public works crew's cleanup work on the condominium parcel, the former Sundowner hotel casino. But the developers now are cleaning up the property. She pointed to a worker, using a crane for scaffold ing, who was finishing repainting a burned area of the building.

A giant "condominiums for sale" sign on top of the tower also is to be removed, she said. "It's been one of my lon training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. She is the daughter of Tracy Bradfute of Fernley and is a 2002 graduate of Fernley High School. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Adam P. McGuire, son of Erina and Sean McGuire of Stagecoach, has School.

Violinist Molly Carr won the Reno Chamber Orchestra's annual College Concerto Competition. Violinist Tian TianLan won second prize and cellist Matt Linaman won third prize. Elana Marie Asselin of Reno has graduated from Naval Officer Candidate School in Newport, R.I., as an ensign in the U.S. Navy. She is a 2010 graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno and a 2004 graduate of North Valleys High School.

Her parents are Robert and Mary Asselin. Sage Ridge School senior Alexis Garduno has been named a 2010 Point of Light volunteer for her community service. She also received the school's Director's Award as the student athlete with the highest grade point average for the season.Send your local people items to Susan Skorupa at sskorupargj.com. JONESVD JONESi7i.