Environment

Students Plant Tree at Northwest Park

Submitted by Natalie Cullen, Online Editor

Monday, May 20th, 2013, 3:35pm

The City of Las Vegas and a third-grade class from Kay Carl Elementary School worked together to plant a tree at a northwest park in honor of Arbor Day.

The students and city officials gathered Monday to plant a tree at Polly Gonzalez Memorial Park, 5425 Corbett Street, at the corner of West El Campo Grande and North Bradley Road.

Besides the Raywood ash tree that was planted, the kids placed a time capsule in the spot that includes short essays from the students about what is happening environmentally in Las Vegas and around the world.

"We had a time capsule where we did research on environmental issues in Las Vegas and Nevada and we planted them so that when we open up the time capsule in 50 or 100 years, they will know exactly the environmental issues of the day," Sue Rodrigues from Carl Elementary School said.

The city has had a program in place since 1950 to plant trees at parks around southern Nevada.

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Tree Planting to Mark Arbor Day for Students

Submitted by Adam Candee, 8 News NOW

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013, 1:00pm

City of Las Vegas officials will join a third-grade class from Kay Carl Elementary School and their principal Dr. Robert Bennett to plant a Raywood ash tree.

The ceremony will starti at 9:30 a.m. Monday, May 20 in Polly Gonzalez Memorial Park in honor of Arbor Day. The park is located next to the school at 5425 Corbett St., at the corner of West El Campo Grande and North Bradley Road.

Laura Eisenberg, a community forester with the Nevada Division of Forestry, will present the city with a Tree City USA flag. This is the 21st year Las Vegas has earned this recognition from the National Arbor Day Foundation because of the city’s program to care for trees.

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Volunteers Needed to Clean-up Around Lone Mountain

Submitted by Natalie Cullen, Online Editor

Monday, May 6th, 2013, 3:25pm

Volunteers Needed to Clean-up Around Lone Mountain

Volunteers are needed to help clean-up a desert area at the base of Lone Mountain.

The Bureau of Land Management, Get Outdoors Nevada and Clark County Commissioner Larry Brown are sponsoring the event Saturday.

They're looking for people to help clean up illegally dumped trash and litter in the area between Lone Mountain Park and the base of Lone Mountain.

Registration starts at 8:30 a.m. on the eastern edge of Lone Mountain. The cleanup effort runs from 9 a.m. to noon. Volunteers should wear sturdy shoes, a hat and sunscreen. The BLM will provide snacks, water, trash bags, gloves and hand tools.

The BLM sponsored 10 similar cleanups each year. Last year, volunteers removed 270 yards of trash from public lands.

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Martin, Academy Students Win RTC Art Contest

Submitted by Adam Candee, 8 News NOW

Thursday, April 25th, 2013, 12:58pm

Martin, Academy Students Win RTC Art Contest

Rudy Amaya of Roy Martin Middle School and Jessica Judd of Las Vegas Academy earned top honors in the RTC’s Earth Day art contest.

The annual contest, sponsored by the RTC and Vector Media, invited local students in grades six through 12 to create artwork that celebrates Earth Day and the RTC’s sustainability initiative, “quicker, cleaner, greener.”

More than 300 students from 17 schools across the valley participated in this year’s contest. The artwork of the two winners will be displayed on the outside of RTC transit vehicles and will travel valley streets for up to a year.

Runners-up were also recognized with certificates of achievement. They included:

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County Commissioners to Look at Trash, Recycling Changes

Submitted by Natalie Cullen, Online Editor

Monday, February 4th, 2013, 4:36pm

County Commissioners to Look at Trash, Recycling Changes

The Clark County Commission may finally make a decision on changing trash pickup and recycling.

The commission will look at changing the agreement with Republic Services to allow for pickup to one day a week and increase recycling pickup to one day a week.

The system has been in place in several neighborhoods for years as a pilot program to see which system increases recycling.

The plan also includes changing from recycling bins that require homeowners to sort their own trash to single-stream recycling, which is one bin where all recyclables are placed for pick up.

According to Republic Services, the once-weekly trash, and once-weekly recycling pilot program has boosted recycling.

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Site Stewards Safeguard Ice Age Treasures in Upper Las Vegas Wash

Submitted by Adam Candee, 8 News NOW

Wednesday, November 14th, 2012, 12:51pm

A former Shadow Ridge teacher is part of the effort.

Retired school teacher Pat Weidknecht hunched over in the sun, plucking small bits of old bone from a rocky patch of desert at the valley's northwestern edge.

Read more at the Las Vegas Review-Journal

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Shredding Event Planned for Saturday

Submitted by Natalie Cullen, Online Editor

Thursday, November 8th, 2012, 3:39pm

Las Vegas Mayor Pro Tem Stavros Anthony is hosting a shredding day this weekend to help people get rid of unwanted documents.

The shredding event will start at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Centennial Corporate Center, 5550 Painted Mirage Road. Documents will be shredded until about noon or until the truck is full.

The shredding will be provided by Opportunity Village, and volunteers will be there to unload materials. There is a limit of five boxes or bundles of unwanted documents from each vehicle.

Free refreshments will be offered while supplies last. Opportunity Village will also be accepting donations of household goods and clothing items, during the event.

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