Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 8

8A RENO THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2006 CarterFocused on Iraq veterans ResortBuilding may start in early fall 2007 MOGUL 1 1 "Ml 1 flrG IV From 1A encourage bus ridership. A second vote is required. The council removed 85 acres from the corridor plan south of Robb Drive. Council members Dave Aiazzi and Dan Gustin said they favored making the land owned by the Heiser family part of the McQueen area plan. For the Heiser property, developers are proposing a shuttle service to Fourth Street where a rapid bus system would operate, said Barron Caronite, planning consultant for the family.

The shuttle would operate on a new street to provide another route to downtown. After the Fourth Street plan is approved by the city and said he expects early next year to seek a special-use permit for the River Inn, required because of the A-frame casino. With that permit, he said construction could begin by early fall 2007. Turnier said the close of escrow on the property sale to Smith is near. T.M.

Chang of the San Francisco Bay area has owned the land since 1979. George I. Benny, who leased the property from Chang, had nearly finished the A-frame casino when he went bankrupt in 1 982. Benny later was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for fraud. Chang had plans approved in 1986 to renovate and reopen the property, but those plans were never fulfilled.

Reno police use the vacated motel for SWAT team training. SCOTT SADYRENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, Jack Carter, signs a VFW T-shirt Wednesday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1 002 in Fallon where he was campaigning with his father, former President Jimmy Carter. From 1A mobbed like a rock star Wednesday when he visited a local sports bar after his speech at the VFWpost. "I'm just thrilled," said Linda Dailey, 61.

"I've never met a president before or even seen one in person. "Maybe I'll get to shake his hand." Dailey strained to get a glimpse of the former president in the packed bar and said the visit probably would help his son gain rural Nevada votes. "He's got a reputation of being a peace-loving person and campaigning with his son, well, it's got to help," she said. Although the mood at the Sandwinds Restaurant 4k Sports Bar was jovial, the mood at Fallon's VFW Post 1002 was serious. With veterans standing behind them, the Carters took turns criticizing Bush and Ensign, R-Nev.

The Carters said Ensign has voted lockstep with the whims of Bush and that Bush has ignored the veterans who have returned home from Iraq. "My opponent (Ensign) has voted with the Bush administration 96 percent of the time," Jack Carter said, referring to statistics from the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee report. "I believe in all three branches of government," Jack Carter said. "My opponent only believes in one, and it's not the one that he's in." Jack Carter and two others are challenging Ensign in the Nov. 7 election.

Jimmy Carter, president from 1977-81, ripped Bush for acting as if wounded veterans don't exist. "During the Iraq war, we have seen a very strange attitude of concealing what happens to A model of the train trench plaza is shown Wednesday. The $16 million pedestrian plaza is the final phase of the $313 million train trench project. ANW BARRON SAL I will RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL RIVER INN HISTORY Lawton's Hot Springs opened here in 1884 when Sumner Lee Laughton purchased the land for $1 ,040 from the Central Pacific Railroad. One of the first men to cross Panama by wagon, he developed and sold 11 ranches.

The resort became known as Lawton's after signs arrived with the incorrect spelling. On Nov. 4, 1890, the first train robbery in the West occurred here. Deputy James Kinkaid singlehandedly captured the robbers and later became sheriff. From the 1920s to 1957, the resort was mostly in the hands of the Mark Yori family.

The resort became famous for its gigantic outdoor swimming pool and tree-lined park. In the early 1930s, it was the training camp for Max Baer, who later became world heavyweight boxing champion. The resort was later known as the Holiday Lodge, a Pig 'n' Whistle restaurant and the Rodeway Inn before T. M. Chang bought it in 1979.

SOURCE: Reno Gazette-Journal research ON THE WEB MEDCO: www.medco.com ADHD INFORMATION: www.chadd. org, www.ncgiadd.org pediatrics at Schneider Children's Hospital in New Hyde Park, N.Y., said the explanation is that more women are being examined for attention deficit problems. The study was based on analysis of prescription claims filed in 2005 for more than 107,000 children ages 5 to 19 and their parents. Among children taking ADHD drugs, 7 percent had a parent also using the medicine, the study found. Among twins with one taking an ADHD drug, there was a 25 percent chance the other also was on the medicine.

to replace your old, ADHDMoms more likely to take meds than fathers JIMMY CARTER'S PUBLIC EVENT IN RENO UNR rally: starts at 2 p.m., with Jack and Jimmy Carter speaking at 2:30 p.m., at the Manzanita Bowl at the University of Nevada, Reno. People In the downtown area are encouraged to take the Sierra Shuttle bus to the event. Parking will be available in the West Stadium Parking Complex and other parking lots on the north end of campus. Shuttle service will be available from the north end of campus to the Manzanita Bowl. For more information, call the Carter for Senate office, 702-309-5225.

endofWorldWarll. "I don't think there is a magic bullet to fix it all," veteran Jerry Baurbeau said. Council approves money for downtown rebuilding The Reno City Council on Wednesday approved a $6.5 million award to Granite Construction the last council action in rebuilding Virginia Street to create a more pedestrian friendly atmosphere. The work includes narrowing the street to three lanes and building wider sidewalks on Virginia between Second and Fourth streets and a pedestrian overpass over the railroad trench at the train depot The work is a change order to the company's contract to build the trench. Much of this work is to be done early next year.

Granite was given a contract change order earlier this year to do another $3.3 million in sidewalk work on other streets downtown, including Sierra and Center. The first work on Virginia Street began Monday on the block between the Truckee River bridge and Second Street and is to be finished by early December. TW Construction of Sparks won a $3.56 million contract for the work, which includes the block between First and Second streets. The street projects largely are funded by trench-related bonds and federal grants. City public works crews are putting up more detour signs to warn people Virginia Street is closed between Mill and First streets.

SueVoyles.RGJ 1 true with some veterans in attendance. "He (Jack Carter) will make a difference because he has a heart," said Chuck Fulkerson, a World War II Army veteran, "Ensign doesn't have a heart. All he is interested in is promoting the party line." Ensign could not be reached for comment, spokesman Tory Mazzola said. "Sen. Ensign is in Washington, D.C., today, finishing up business in the Senate," Mazzola said.

"Maybe it is a coincidence, but today, the office sent out a release, announcing $406 million for the veterans hospital in Las Vegas." Other Fallon veterans said all the blame can't be placed on Ensign or Bush. Some said veterans have been treated as well as they should have since the each week 20 percent higher than the cost of building in downtown Chicago. If the project is approved on Oct. 11, Granite Construction Co. would build the plaza as a change order to its trench contract.

City Manager Charles Mc-Neely said city staff would work with the designers to narrow a $3 million funding gap and find other revenue sources. But his view is get all of the plaza work done now. "Waiting a while longer, it isn't going to get any cheaper," McNeely said. EltHZB 1 i-mmu. 7 4 -v: Grift.

kL From 1A The findings support what doctors see in their practice, said Dr. Thomas E. Brown, associate director of the Yale Clinic for Attention and Related Disorders, but there were some big surprises. In families where a parent and child both started on ADHD medicine last year, nearly half the time the parent did so first, according to the study, by prescription benefit manager Medco Health Solutions Inc. of Franklin Lakes.

In households where a parent and child both began taking the drugs for the first time last year, it was Mom doing so rather than Dad nearly 60 percent of the time, although ADHD is two to three times more common in males than females. Dr. Andrew Adesman, chief of developmental and behavioral veterans because this administration does not want to admit that it made a mistake by going into Iraq," Carter said. "Look at disabled veterans," he said. "Do you ever see any publicity with them with the president, the secretary of defense or the vice president? "Do you ever see them going to funerals of the people who were killed in Iraq? Do you see them visiting hospitals and so forth where veteran go? No, it's a matter of, 'Let's keep it A mistake has been made, and it needs to be kept a secret." "As you know, it's even a crime for someone to take photographs of a dead soldier's casket," Jimmy Carter said.

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