SPaRkS SPARKS Marnell Gaming purchases Bourbon Square Casino YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1910 Page 3 TribuneSERVING SPARKS SINCE 1910 Volume 109, Number 31 Wednesday, August 2, 2017 $1.00 SPORTS THE BEAT GOES ON northERN NEvaDa Smoke, hot weather moving through region PGA Tour returns this week to Northern Nevada this week Sparks Tribune It might be a good week to Page 11 stay indoors around North- ern Nevada. In addition to smoke fill- ing the Truckee Meadows from a nearby fire outside Quincy, Calif., the National Weather Service in Reno has issued a Heat Advisory John Byrne/Tribune for the area until Thursday Sparks High School principal Kevin Conner was all smiles this week after the school night. received enough money in donations to save the marching band and choir programs for Record-high tempera- the upcoming school year. tures are possible through- out the week, especially on Wednesday when they could top out as high as 104 Aces tumble to degrees in the Reno-Sparks second place for Donations save music area. first time since May The high temperatures bring an increased chance Page 12 of thunderstorms pop- programs at Sparks High ping up, which could cool things off a bit mid-week. The advisory is set to ex- INSIDE for 2017-18 school year pire at 11 p.m. Thursday, and daytime highs are Weather...............................2 forecasted to return to the State Briefs..........................2 marching or concert band. Why would you mid-90s over the week- Nevada History..................5 By Kayla Anderson Sparks Tribune guys want to take that away - from not just end. Seniors................................9 me - but other band members? All of these With the increased heat, Opinion............................16 In late spring, the Washoe County School kids have been working hard all year and officials are warning the Puzzles..............................20 District announced that due to budget cuts, were looking forward to marching and play- public to take extra precau- Advice...............................21 new teacher allocations would cut six and a ing next year too. All of the kids in the band tions and avoid any stren- Classified Ads..................23 half positions from Sparks High School with are musically talented but what will we do uous activities during the Legals................................24 one of them being the beloved music pro- with that talent now? What are we supposed daytime. gram. to do now that our passion was taken away? The Weather Service is Parents, teachers, and students were How do you think people are going to react also advising residents to Follow us on shocked and dismayed to learn of the news when they hear that the oldest school in the stay indoors if possible as Twitter: and desperately began trying to raise funds city of Sparks is getting their band cut?” smoke from the Minerva @SparksTribune to keep the Marching Symphonic Band, Fortunately, the students do not have to Fire began to move into the Concert Choir, and Advanced Choir Pro- worry about it anymore as private donors area on Monday, when the grams for the 2017-18 school year. and organizations came through with the 1,050 acre blaze was just 15 One member of the Sparks HS Marching funds. Reaching its goal on Friday, July 28, percent contained. Band stated, “It came to my concern that The cause if the fire is still Sparks High School will no longer have a > See MUSIC, Page 4 under investigation. SPARKS Get the digital edition. SEE MORE sparkstrib.com Tribune News | Sports | Trending Now Your Community Newspaper Since 1910 ONLINE! 2 Aug. 2, 2017 yOuR SEvEN-Day fOREcast WEDNESDAY ThuRSDAY fRIDAY SaTuRDAY SuNDAY MONDAY Tuesday 102/70 101/72 99/61 93/63 94/60 93/65 95/56 Partly sunny Sunshine and Partly sunny Partly sunny Partly sunny Plenty of Plenty of sun patchy clouds sunshine NEvaDa news bRIEfS Associated Press ing up to six years in prison after officiaLs: fLight in Vegas Police say a private security firm deLayed by naked passenger a jury convicted her of putting her called early Saturday morning to re- newborn baby in a garbage bag and LAS VEGAS — Officials say a port a video feed showed men were Las Vegas casino-resort leaving her in a car trunk. Spirit Airlines flight leaving Las Ve- breaking through walls with crow- announces birth of doLphin The Elko Daily Free Press reports gas was briefly delayed after a pas- bars at the Blackjack Collective dis- caLf that 23-year-old Nikki Shelley was senger removed all their clothes pensary and taking things to a car LAS VEGAS — The Mirage ca- found guilty of one felony count of while boarding and approached a waiting in the parking lot. sino-resort in Las Vegas has an- willful child abuse, neglect or endan- flight attendant. Officers arrived and saw three men nounced the birth of a bottlenose dol- germent after her grandmother dis- The incident occurred Saturday on a running away. They yelled for them phin calf. covered the baby in the trunk while plane bound for Oakland, California. to stop, but they kept going. An offi- Resort officials on Monday said Shelley was at a hospital. McCarran International Airport cer armed with a shotgun fired one the yet-to-be-named female calf was Prosecutors say Shelley gave birth says police and medical responders round toward a man with a crowbar, born July 17. in a bathroom at home, wrapped the took the passenger for observation. but missed. David Blasko is the resort’s director baby in towels and put her in a trash Police Lt. Carlos Hank said the pas- Three men were arrested after a of animal care. He says everyone at bag in May 2016. Authorities say a senger received treatment after the chase and a fourth was later spotted the facility is thrilled about how well friend drove her to a hospital where medical episode. in a car and arrested. the calf is doing. Mother Huf n Puf is she told staff she’d miscarried. KTNV reports the flight was de- also doing well. Defense attorney Benjamin Gau- layed by about 30 minutes and ar- officiaL: Man hit 19 tiMes, Officials say the calf swam unassisted mond says she thought the baby had rived 20 minutes behind scheduled. surViVes Vegas poLice shooting to the water’s surface immediately after died, and didn’t intend any harm to delivery and took her first breath. the child. neVada prison inMate, 75, LAS VEGAS — A police official Visitors can view the calf at the re- dies at MedicaL faciLity says a 37-year-old man was shot 19 sort’s Siegfried and Roy’s Secret Gar- reno Man, 55, heLd on CARSON CITY — Nevada prison times by two Las Vegas police officers den and Dolphin Habitat. MuLtipLe chiLd sex charges officials say a 75-year-old inmate has but survived after a miles-long car RENO — Police say a 55-year-old died. chase and shootout in neighboring Man shot at reno park in Reno man has been arrested on multi- The Nevada Department of Cor- North Las Vegas. stabLe condition, expected ple felony charges including allegations rections says in a statement Saturday Assistant Clark County Sheriff Todd to LiVe that he sexually assaulted a minor. that Robert Moore died at a medical Fasulo (fah-SOO’-loh) told reporters RENO — Reno police say a man was Reno police Sgt. Curtis Lampert facility at the Northern Nevada Cor- Thursday that William Alfredo Chaf- wounded in a shooting at a park is in says Jeffrey Lynn Fluckiger was ar- rectional Center in Carson City. oya fired five shots during the Monday stable condition and is expected to live. rested Thursday after police served He was sentenced to at least 10 night incident, and a woman who had Police officers found a man with a search warrants at his home and years and up to 40 years after being been in a vehicle with Chafoya was gunshot wound at Paradise Park Sat- business and contacted investiga- convicted in January 2003 of sexually wounded in the wrist. urday night. The man was taken to a tors from a regional internet crimes assaulting a child under age 16. Fasulo says Chafoya and 31-year- nearby hospital. against children unit. An autopsy will determine the old Ashley Elizabeth Olivetti were in As of Saturday, police have not lo- Lampert says Fluckiger was being cause of the Thursday death. stable condition in custody at a Las cated a suspect or discovered the mo- held at the Washoe County jail pend- Vegas hospital pending court appear- tive behind the shooting. The park was ing an initial court appearance on 4 arrested in pot dispensary ances on multiple felony charges. closed after the shooting and there is at least 10 charges including sexual burgLary after shotgun Fasulo says no one else was in- fired no estimate of when it will reopen. assault of a minor, lewdness with a jured, but people were nearby when child and possession of child pornog- LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas police a training supervisor, Tyler Hebb, MoM accused of LeaVing raphy. say they arrested four suspects in a and rookie Officer Brandon Foster baby in trash bag conVicted It was not clear from the jail record burglary at a marijuana dispensary shot Chafoya as he ran from a stolen of feLony if Fluckiger had a defense lawyer to after an officer fired a shotgun toward car believed to have been involved in ELKO — A Nevada woman is fac- represent him. the men without hitting anyone. a Sunday shooting. 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