Today's News

West Las Vegas Key Club members are always on the go, participating in community events and volunteering their time to worthy causes. Members say doing good works is also good for the soul.

Club President Angelique Arguello said, “It’s such a great reward knowing that you helped someone and knowing that you’re making a difference in someone’s life. It’s a great feeling.”

Key Club sponsor Christine Rodriguez said the organization is the oldest and largest club for youths in the world.

Instead of arithmetic and spelling, area elementary students got to learn about cows and bugs recently.

It was all a part of the sixth annual Kids and Kows and More Expo at Zamora Arena. The event was sponsored by the Southwest Dairy Farmers Association.  

Tonya Collins of the New Mexico Beef Council said during the expo that children rotate to a number of stations where they learn about America’s breadbasket, and about the farmers and ranchers who essentially feed the world.

So this is Earth Day, a moment in which most of us give little more than lip service to the world we live on. But in recent years, it seems there’s been a growing national consciousness in recent years. Maybe it was Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” that shifted our focus from feel-good environmentalism to real-world talk about carbon footprints. Or maybe it was the war in Iraq, which has highlighted our need to be less independent on foreign oil, but Americans are clearly “thinking green” as never before.

After an hour behind closed doors, the Las Vegas City Schools board voted unanimously to uphold the expulsion of an 18-year old student arrested on drug charges in an investigation on Robertson High School grounds.

Board President Phillip Vigil called for a vote, with Patrick Romero and Ramon “Swoops” Montaño offering a first and second on the motion. Romero, Montaño, Gabriel Lucero, Elaine Luna and President Vigil all voted yes to expel the student.