Today's News

West Las Vegas is announcing its summer football program for prospective players in grades 7-12.

The voluntary camp begins Monday and continues from 7:30 to 9 a.m. daily, Mondays through Thursdays at the Frank Herrera Football Complex on campus.

Once planned improvements to the complex begin, the program will shift to the WLV baseball fields.

All Dons football players are encouraged to participate.

For more information, those interested may call head coach Mike Maldonado, 706-6990.

The waiter at a Santa Fe restaurant greeted us with the usual spiel: “My name is Brian, and I’ll be your waiter for the evening.”

There are only two ways to respond to this kind of greeting: “That’s nice!” and “My name is Art, and I’ll be your customer for the evening.” But rather than poke fun at a formality which at least shows, well, formality, I was struck with the non-sequitur that followed.

MONTEZUMA — An Albuquerque girl fell to her death and a Las Vegas boy was successfully rescued Wednesday morning from the rock face overlooking the Montezuma skating pond.

Kimberly Karlson, 15, of Albuquerque fell “a couple hundred feet to her death” between 9 and 10 a.m., according to Peter Olson, communications director for the state Department of Public Safety. The boy, Mathew Cartee, 14, of Las Vegas was uninjured, Olson said.

Last year, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama quit wearing his flag lapel pin on a regular basis. He said he thought the pin was a substitute for true patriotism.

This may actually become an issue in this year’s presidential campaign — a distraction from the more important matters at hand, but an issue nonetheless.

Never mind that both Republican presidential candidate John McCain and Obama’s former Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, don’t wear such pins. Some on the far right are whispering that Obama doesn’t love his country.