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Reno Sparks METROWATCH 2B LOTTERY 2B OBITUARIES 4B MARKETS 5-7B BUSINESS 5-8B WiimiiiftT-'mfiit SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1993 RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL LINDA L.D0N0, CITY EDITOR: PHONE, 788-6302 CIRCULATION: 786-8744 CLASSIFIED: 348-7355 ALSO COVERING NORTHERN NEVADA AND THE WEST IN AND AROUND Powwow events still on in Carson OUiiTGH Despite insurance issue: Stewart Indian Cultural Center forced to find alternate sites. Awakening Powwow. It had been scheduled to start Friday. Despite the setback, festivities will happen elsewhere. The revised schedule for dancing, food, arts and crafts and other activities: Today: Carson Indian Colony gymnasium, South Curry Street, 1-10 p.m.

Sunday: Tahoe Indian Ministries, Snyder Avenue, Stewart, 1-5 p.m. Lisa said representatives of the cultural center have attempted to notify as many people as possible, including vendors and partici But Lisa said the center is not out of business and will keep going until the transfer to the Carson Urban Indian Consortium is completed. "And that's ultimately going to be a good thing. They'll have a much larger volunteer base and that will help get things done," Lisa said, such as organizing special events and programs and taking steps to renovate the center. Lisa also offered assurances that the Stewart Collection artifacts linked to Stewart Indian School's history are not in any danger and will continue to be preserved.

pants, of the change in plans after learning of problems with the state earlier this week. "All along, we felt we'd be able to resolve the insurance issue. Clearly, we didn't feel letters of intent we signed with a new nonprofit group that will take control of the center would be a problem," Lisa said. But, she said, state officials believe it could leave a question of liability because the arrangement to transfer control had not been completed before the powwow. State officials have said they could not issue a special use permit to an entity no longer in operation.

By Tim Anderson RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL A long-planned Indian powwow will go on as scheduled this weekend in Carson City, but not in locations organizers had anticipated. After state officials wouldn't provide a special use permit because of concerns related to liability insurance, Stewart Indian Cultural Cen ter officials were forced to find alternate sites. "We" were caught in a situation no one could have imagined. Our group has insurance in place and always has. But the state had a problem with the fact we're in transition," said Suzi Lisa, acting director of the Stewart Indian Museum.

As a result, Lisa said there will be no sixth annual Mother Earth Young Reno leukemia victim gets his wish h-J 'r'M. SiWW III i Shelter opens for homeless women, kids By Janice Hoke RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL To get homeless women and children off the street, Project Restart opened a new shelter Friday on the grounds of the Nevada Mental Health Institute. The shelter will take in 40 women and children for up to 45 days. The clean, bright facility was freshly painted by Washoe County Jail inmates and decorated with murals. The children's toys and quilts came from volunteers at the Children's Cabinet, a child welfare agency for the Truckee Meadows.

The only other emergency shelter that takes in homeless families is the RenoSparks Gospel mission. The Salvation Army Family Emergency Shelter in a nearby building closed more than a year ago. "There's nowhere else in the community that's safe," said Theresa Lemus, who was visiting the shelter. "I cringe when I see a mother holding a baby and walking the streets. "Homeless shelters are not well equipped to take care of children, and you really want to keep that mother-child A Editor's Note: We invite readers to submit items by calling the number listed below or faxing to 788-6458.

Watch for "Our Town Tuesday through Saturday. Richard Sorensen, the only Nevada winner of the Medal of Honor, is recovering in Veterans Hospital from Tuesday surgery on an aortic aneurism and should be released early next week. Dr. John DePalma says his 70-year-old patient will be well enough in a month or two to travel to the Marshall Islands to teach children about World War II. Sorensen received the highest U.S.

decoration for valor when he was a 19-year-old Marine fighting in the Pacific. The board of trustees of the Nevada AIDS Foundation is hosting a welcoming reception for Juan Carlos Velazquez, executive director, at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Bordeaux Room of the Eldorado Hotel and Casino. Velazquez has 10 years of experience in the AIDS field, including working at the Santa Cruz AIDS Project, Victorian AIDS Council and Nevada Hispanic Services. Details: Anna Haenchen of Henderson has won the voter slogan contest staged by the Secretary of State's Office.

Officials sought entries for the 1998 election from among seniors' groups. Haenchen, 71, submitted "I had my say I voted today!" She receives a 19-inch color TV to be delivered by Secretary of State Dean Heiler. Her slogan will be printed on "I voted" stickers given to voters on Election Day, Nov. 3. The Nevada Children's Diabetes Association elected Claude K.

Lardinois president; Martha Gould, vice president; Kay Murphy, vice president; and Jim Crofoot, treasurer. Mylan Hawkins was hired as executive director of the organization that raises community awareness of diabetes and sponsors Camp Buck, a summer camp program for children with diabetes. Scholar Doris Dwyer will portray Donner Party survivor Margaret Breen in a free Chautauqua presentation at 1 1 a.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 780 Del Monte Lane. Breen, a heroine of the wagon train, got her nine-member family through the snowy Sierra ordeal in the winter of 1846-47.

Reno businessmen Leo V. Seevers and David J. Morgan have been reappointed by Gov. Bob Miller to two-year terms on the state Economic Forum. Seevers and Morgan are joined by three Las Vegas-area business leaders on the forum, charged with setting tax revenue projections for the governor and Legislature to use in writing the state's two-year budget.

To submit items: Call 324-0225; punch 5627 when asked or fax to 788-6458. li rl Vn rmmir mrn r-T-niinfi Marilyn NewtonReno Gazette-Journal HAVING A GREAT TIME: A proud Skylar Harrington, left, waits Friday with his brother, Hunter, to ride in the firetruck operated by Sandy Munns. 3-year-old rides in fire engine, shops for toys mow 'm bond intact." Lemus is clinical director of the Northern Area Substance Abuse Council, an alcohol and drug treatment center in the Mental Health Institute. The new shelter will be open 24 hours daily, and residents will be able to stay during the day instead of being forced out as in some other shelters. Children will be bused to their schools.

Arrangements will be made for transitional housing once families are stable, said Nancy Paolini, Project Restart director. The center The new shelter needs furnishings for three more rooms, including twin and double beds, dressers, towels, sheets and blankets. Pots and pans, paper plates and cups and staple food supplies are needed for the kitchen. Diapers, baby bathtubs, changing tables, baby food and toiletries are needed. Outdoor play equipment and a sandbox would complete an outside play area.

To donate, call 324-5168. A. i Toys Us, where the boy was treated to a $1,000 shopping spree and lunch at Chuck Cheese's. Skylar was diagnosed with leukemia in July 1997, his mother said. Through intensive chemotherapy, his cancer now appears to be in remission.

But the ordeal has taken its toll on the family. The single mother supports the family by working in a photography studio. Harrington, who has no vehicle, recalled taking the bus with her family so that Skylar could undergo his chemotherapy treatments at the University of California at Davis. Skylar told his mother he dreaded the trip, knowing what was ahead of him, and always wanted to return home. Home is where the boy has been for the past few months.

His prognosis looks good. By Marilyn Newton RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL Three-year-old Skylar Harrington got his wish Friday, a ride in a great big fire engine. Make-A-Wish, the national foundation to grant seriously ill children their fondest wishes, discovered the Reno cancer patient's love for fire-trucks. On Friday, "Moby," the largest truck operated by the Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District, pulled up by Skylar's home and asked the boy to hop aboard. After getting his own fire hat and fire marshal badge, the boy was ready for the day's adventure.

Fire operator Sandy Munns drove the youngster with his brother, Hunter, 2, and mother, Stephanie, around the area before heading to Marilyn NewtonReno Gazette-Journal LOTS MORE FUN: Skylar Harrington, left, shows off some of the toys he picked during Friday's shopping spree as his brother, Hunter, looks on and his mother, Stephanie, tries to figure out how some of the items work. Reed students to test civics knowledge in national competition will be staffed with a social worker, substance abuse counselor, two students from the University of Nevada, Reno and two night staff. Operations are funded through June by United Way and private foundation donations. It's estimated the shelter will need 168,000 to operate next year. Single-father families will not be able to stay in the shelter but can be lodged in a motel with United Way respite funds, Paolini said.

If mother and father are together, the father will be housed at the Project Restart center on Sixth Street or at the Morrill Street center when it opens in about a month. "I wasn't interested in government before, but I've learned so much that now I get excited about it," said senior Shannon Schott. Before the competition, each team gets three questions to research and be prepared to answer in a four-minute presentation. The judging panel then quizzes students on the topic, asking them to relate what they've learned to current topics or their own lives and communities. See STUDENTS on page 4B said.

The program is a yearlong class at Reed dedicated to the Constitution and preparation for the regional competition. Students began studying last fall and had to pass a test to make the competition team, teacher Milton Hyams said. The students are divided into six teams that focus on one issue, such as the Bill of Rights, the role of citizens in a democracy or how the Constitution shaped the nation's views on states' rights and other topics. Center for Civic Education and focuses on teaching students about the Constitution, Bill of Rights and the foundations of American democracy. Senior Luke Kunze is part of the group that is studying the Bill of Rights and he said it's been interesting to see how the document has been interpreted.

His teammate Michelle Beard added the words have stayed timely for more than 200 years. "I'm not so sure we could write something like that today," Beard By Jennifer Crowe RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL Several Reed High students hope their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution will pay off at a national competition in Washington, D.C. The school's We the People team won the state championship March 7 in Las Vegas and will represent Nevada against schools from across the country at the national contest in May. We the People is sponsored by the U.S.

Department of Education Reed High School's We the People team needs to raise $10,000 for a five-day trip to Washington, D.C, for the national competition. Students are offering to make presentations of their work for area civics and community groups in exchange for donations to their trip fund. I To make a donation or for more information, call Judy Simpson at Partners in Education at 353-5533. Washoe coroner still trying to identify human remains Efforts are continuing to identify a human skeleton found in a field north of Mustang Ranch Road an. 24, asnoe county coroner vera McCarty said Friday.

Vote for yean top iSr5-5 student end educator JMCJILQ5L For the second consecutive year, the Reno Gazette-Journal is looking for the top students and educators (K-1 2) from public and private schools across northern Nevada. Winners, published May 24, compete for $35,000. (Estamos buscando tos mejores estudiantes maestros en norte Nevada para designar los Mejor en Educaci6n.) Nomination forms are available at (formas para nominar 8e encuentran): Reno Gazette-Journal Nevada Hispanic Services 955 Kuenzli St. 1 90 E. Liberty St.

Reno Reno Please turn to page 4B for a complete obituary listing and other news of record. Anthony G. Barile 84, Sparks Ada Fanini Cecchi, 8 1 Winnemucca Clarence John Elkin, 84, Carson City Patricia Ann Turner Flemming, 35, Dayton Robert Clark Hooper, 59, Reno Jason James Holtz, 22, Sparks Doris Frank McDade Irwin, 76, Reno Lorraine Josephine Swirczek, 75, Fallon Charlotte A. Vanoni, 77, Reno John William Warren, 9 1, Carson City Sparks man hits big jackpot, becomes instant millionaire A Sparks man walked out of John Ascuaga's Nugget a millionaire Friday after putting 1 into an IGT Fabulous Fifties MegaJackpot slot machine. Kenneth Roberts, 34, won $1,127,019 after taking his wife, Karen, to the Nugget for lunch.

They live only two blocks from the casino. Roberts, a welder, said he put 1 into the machine on a whim. Usually he plays video poker. "The first thing I did was to yell to my wife who was playing a slot behind me," Roberts said. "She came over and took one look and started to cry.

"I don't think it has really set in fully with us yet." The couple said they plan to spend their winnings "slowly, very slowly." It could be the remains ot 5 j-year-oia Micnaei Snelling of Reno, believed to have accidentally driven into the Truckee River behind a North Edison Way business during the January 1997 flood. "Everything points in that McCarty said. Clothing characteristics match, he said. Also, the field once was covered by the overflowing river. However, attempts to identify the skeleton through teeth have been unsuccessful because Snelling's family does not know who has a dental chart.

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