Dave Knows: Elko

There’s an open house at the Igloo on Saturday!  From the Elko Daily Free Press:
The Igloo Recreation Center is turning 5 and everyone is invited to an open house at the facility this week.
The open house is from 5-7:30 p.m. Saturday.
The Igloo is a recreation center where children and adults are able to play in-line [...]

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This Saturday, October 3rd, from 11am to 5pm, there will be an open house at the National Weather Service office in Elko.  That’s the big white thing on the hill up north of the highway.  You’ll get to see how the meteorologists do all of their forecasting .  They’ll even launch some weather balloons [...]

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Stuff this weekend in Elko!
Octoberfest
Get your shnitzel on at the Octoberfest.  This Saturday at the Convention Center.  For more information call Lynn Rubel 738-4187
I realize it’s nothing like what they have in Portland, but hey, cut us some slack, it’s Elko, dammit.
Ruby Mountain Balloon Festival
The Ruby Mountain Balloon Festival is this weekend!  We saw some [...]

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Now that’s probably a stretch, but I agree with most of this article from Fortune magazine about Elko:
Elko, Nevada: where the recession never hit
It’s actually a great read, lots of information, past and present, about the beautiful town of Elko, Nevada.

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Now with more mapping goodness!
Below is the route we took from Elko to Vegas.  Note the right turn at Ely, which takes you to the “Lund Cutoff” on highway 318.  That cuts off about an hour from the alternate route on 93 through Pioche and Caliente.

It’s a pretty boring drive, most of it looks exactly [...]

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I’m still tired after a whirlwind trip to Vegas over the weekend.  And I only had one drink!
We packed up the rental car (a 2009 Impala) Thursday night.  It’s a nice car, leather, sunroof, giant trunk.  It served us very well the whole trip and was very comfortable.
The boys and I hit the road about [...]

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I’m headed to Las Vegas this weekend with the boys.  We plan to leave Friday morning, arrive in Vegas around lunchtime, stay until Sunday and arrive back in Elko on Sunday afternoon.
The trip was originally planned for just me to go to the USA Basketball tryouts to see a few Portland Trailblazers play.  It was supposed [...]

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The 2009 Elko Mining Expo is this week!  Pretty much every hotel room in town is occupied, and restaurants should be full every night (don’t try to go to The Star this week).  The wife works for a local mining supplier in town so she’s a busy little bee getting everything ready.  The Elko Convention [...]

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 Cooper and Ollie are officially 1 year old so we threw a little party over the weekend.  We invited their brother Tully and brother-from-another-mother Monson over.   There were balloons, streamers, doggie bags, cake (with dog-friendly ingredients of course) and everyone seemed to have a great time, with very little humping. 
We even invited the cats.  Here’s [...]

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Barack Obama is returning to Elko today for a rally at the city park at 11:00am.
I won’t be attending.  Not because I don’t like Obama as a candidate, but because I’m just not all that into politics.  I do feel like I should be more involved than I am.  My parents didn’t push their political [...]

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