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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How come nobody told me about this?  I’ve been an avid Craigslister over the past few years, but I always check Salt Lake City, Reno and Twin.  I decided to check Nevada again and Elko has its very own craiglist now!  
http://elko.craigslist.org/
We’ve hit the big time!  I’ve seen a few bulletin board posts about a “different” [...]

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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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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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Those crack reporters at the Elko Daily Free Press reported on saturday that the gas pumps at the Smith’s grocery store on Mountain City Highway were shut down for some ‘mysterious” reason on Saturday.
Patrons looking to fill up their vehicles at Smith’s Food and Drug gas center were greeted this afternoon by yellow caution tape [...]

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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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According to the Elko Daily Free Press, an Elko man recently stole 5 of those car-top Pizza hut signs, the ones the delivery drivers use.  This criminal mastermind decided to hold them for ransom: 
Jess Jay Long, 23, a former Pizza Hut employee, allegedly called the manager of the restaurant and said he had five signs and [...]

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Back to school,
Back to school
To prove to Dad
that I’m not a fool
Billy Madison would be proud.  It’s school time again in Elko.  But doesn’t August 18th seem a little early?
According to the Elko Daily Free Press:
The first day creeped up a little earlier this year, as the third Monday of August fell three days earlier [...]

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Lack of Trees and “Green-ness”– I miss Oregon.
Rude customer service — some businesses give off quite the if-you-don’t-like-it-just-try-to-go-somewhere-else vibe, especially car dealerships.
No affordable housing — Houses seem to have leveled off a bit, but apartment prices just keep going up and up and there still just aren’t enough.
Slow Mail/Shipping service.  — There’s no such thing [...]

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