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Reno Gazette-Journal Friday, October 20. 1989 3B 3 Washoe educators among honorees in state awards Business lights a glaring problem for neighbors By Jill JordnGMoMni Three Washoe County educators are among the recipients of the 119 Nevada Educator Awards. Silver Lake elementary School Kincipal Krancey Dennis, Reed gh history teacher Kred Hor-lather and McQueen High math teacher Jennifer Sails will each receive Other inners are Patricia Howe, who teaches first grade at Lovelock Elementary; Virgil SesUni, a science teacher at Bonanza High in Las Vegas; and Wayne Tanaka, principal Del Robison Junior High in Clark County. "Recognizing outstanding teachers and principals is a wonderful way for the government and the private sector to say how much we appreciate their contributions to the ell being of our children," said Eugene Paslov, state superintendent of public instruction. "The Nevada Educator Award Program will make a significant contribution to our efforts to improve Nevada schools by honoring practicing educators and helping the public better understand the importance of our educational system." The Nevada Educator Award Program, sponsored by the Nevada Department of Education and funded by the private, nonprofit Milken Family Foundation in Los Angeles, is designed to rec ognize and reward outstanding teachers, principals and other education professionals for their contributions and commitments to excellence in education.

The program's philosophy is that educators do not earn enough money, so supplementary monetary awards and other forms of financial compensation are needed to attract and keep talented, intelligent and creative people in the business. Award recipients are selected by a committee of fellow educators. No nominations are tanen and potential recipients do not know they are being considered. Dennis, the tirst principal of the new Silver Lake School in Stead, has received many awards for her service. While principal at Stead-Elementary, the school was cited in the U.S.

Department of Education Elementary School Recognition Program. She also has been, recognized by the Washoe County School District for dedicated service. Horlacher was Nevada's Teacher of the Year in 19M. He has been recognized by the Washoe County Teacher Association and the "In Honor of Excellence" program. Sails was Nevada's Teacher of the Year in 1985.

The year before, she received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Mathmatics Teaching. ju -A By Susan VoyletGw.n.ou.M Bonnie Svare, a retired teacher who lives on Cordone Avenue, doesn't need to turn on the lights in her living room. An next-door auto dealership keeps the light on for her. Warren Ghiglieri. who also lives on Cordone.

keeps his heavy-duty drapes pulled tight to keep the glare out of his bedroom. Thirty-foot-tall lights from businesses on Kietzke Lane wash over Chiglieri's home and those of his neighbors. Only a back yard fence separates the neighborhood from two auto dealerships and a fast-food restaurant on Kietzke. Another five dealerships are located on the other side of the street. The homeowners, many of whom moved to Cordone when their homes were built 25 or more years ago, say they're not budging.

And about 20 of them have taken their gripes downtown to Reno City Manager Hal Schilling. In addition to lights, Chuck Taylor said he and his neighbors are upset by car salesmen and mechanics who screech on the brakes or put a heavy foot to the pedal during test drives down their street. Schilling is checking all avenues to see if the city can intervene. A task force involving the police, planning, building and traffic departments was organized last month. But Pat Sorenson, Schilling's assistant, said he will have little good news to present to residents at a meeting later this month.

When the zoning for area was mapped out in the late 1940s, he said Kietzke was made commercial and Cordone residential, with no buffer in between. And as the dealerships were built, no Mantyn REFLECTING: Pierre Achatobohere. left, and Warren Ghglen must doal wth kits from Kefcke Lane. intensity lights and has pointed them away from the homes. But Sorenson said a letter from the dealership's attorney says his client plans to do no more.

Svare, how ever, complains the lights are still too bright. Dealership officials could not be reached for comment. Neighbors also are demanding more traffic controls through the neighborhood, but city traffic engineer Jim Poston said none has been recommended. Poston said he some the speeding traffic through the area is temporary because more motorists using side streets because of congestion from freeway conditions were made to restrict the lighting, which the dealerships need for security. In short, Sorenson said the dealers' property rights are just as valid as the residents' rights to peace and quiet.

Senior planner Stuart Peters said the city's only tool against these older business is "jaw-boning," a practice he doesn't hesitate to use. His staff, for instance, has asked the dealers on both sides of the street to tone dow the volume of their loudspeakers. The dealerships responded, and Taylor and other residents agree the noise has been reduced. However, when a business asks to expand, the city has more leverage. Peters said he told Reno Imports officials last July his department would kill the dealership's expansion plans because it refused to tone down its loudspeaker.

A few hours later. Reno Imports Manager Jay Webber said, he had his construction supervisor put the offending speaker wires and all on Peters' desk. Reno Imports got its approval for a $500,000 expansion now under way. "It's to our advantage to get along with our neighbors," Webber said. "But equally so, there is a line that has to be drawn." Sorenson said Dick Donnelly Lincoln-Mercury has drawn that line.

It has shielded its high- Vegas council turns down sign ordinance LAS VEGAS (AP) The Us Vegas City Council has refused to approve a new sign ordinance that was aimed at preventing casino owner Bob Stupak from erecting a sign tower. Council members said the proposed sign ordinance was vague and meaningless. Members called Wednesday for city staff to draft a new ordinance. Stupak has since withdrawn his sign proposal. He has said he will return with plans for a 1,012 foot observation tower near his Vegas World casino, at the north edge of the Las Vegas Strip.

Council members have criticized city staff for drafting the ordinance, saying it was poorly drawn and aimed specifically at Stupak 's project. Reid defended the proposal, saying a Senate committee wanted another name since there already is a Santa Rosa Wilderness in southern California. He said he chose O'Callaghan for the honor because he wanted someone who was "noncontrover-sial" and known across Nevada. Humboldt County Commission Chairwoman Sammye Ugalde said she opposes a proposal by U.S. Sen.

Harry Reid to rename the Santa Rosa mountain range the Mike O'Callaghan Paradise Peak Wilderness. "I've got nothing against Mike O'Callaghan," she said. "But I don't feel it is appropriate. We like the name it has now." If the name must be changed, she said, it should be named after a Humboldt County figure since the range is located in the county. "We have some pretty great people in Humboldt County," she said.

Plan to name area after O'Callaghan criticized WINNEMUCCA (AP) A proposal to name a Nevada wilderness area after former Nevada Gov. Mike O'Callaghan is drawing opposition in a rural Nevada county. Of C9 ligllmno William BY ORDER OF DON CAVALLO. WASHOE COUNTY PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR. IN ORDER TO SETTLE THE ESTATE OF MR.

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