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Hawthorne The Week of June 14, 2018 America’s Patriotic Home Mineral County 75¢ | Vol. 87 • No. 20 | A BattleIndependent-NewsIndependent-News Born Media newspaper The oldest continuous privately owned business in Mineral County. Published in Hawthorne, Nevada, since 1933 news | 3 opinion | 12 County commission highlights High court should stand firmly for free speech mineral county primary results County Commissioner, Miller, Jeff – 29 seat C Monroe, Mike – 25 Hoferer, Christine - 230 Townsend, Bill – 85 Owens, Barbara “Barb” - 113 Wegner, Kenneth – 33 Owens, Russell C. - 40 Utterback, James “Gunny” - lieutenant Governor 156 (dem) Hansen, Laurie – 59 reCorder-auditor Marshall, Kate – 191 George, Cherrie – 147 None of these candidates – 62 Nixon, Cindy – 382 lieutenant Governor assessor (rep) Clark, Janeen – 177 Hoover, Eugene – 59 Tipton, Jerrie – 131 Jones, Brent – 78 LaFata, Scott – 18 HawtHorne townsHip Meyers, Gary – 38 JustiCe of tHe peaCe Roberson, Michael – 213 Hatfield, Breanna – 135 None of these candidates – 120 James, Mike – 423 Kenner, James W. – 98 seCretary of state Reed, Paula Joe – 341 (rep) Aldridge, Ernest – 134 mineral County Cegavske, Barbara – 300 sCHool Board trustee None of these candidates – 98 (inside seat) Farley, Teresa – 160 treasurer – (rep) Neville, Keith E. – 448 Beers, Bob – 355 Heidi Bunch Ziegler, David – 364 Uehara, Derek – 75 Poll workers in Mineral County were hard at work throughout the day on Tuesday during the pri- None of these candidates – mary election. state assemBly, 100 distriCt 32 Fransway, Tom – 179 attorney General Hansen, Alexis M. – 320 (dem) Ford, Aaron – 137 Hoferer, James among local u.s. senate – (dem) MacKie, Stuart – 85 Burleigh, Danny – 13 None of these candidates – 84 Knight, David – 28 Mahendra, Bobby – 7 attorney General winners of Tuesday’s primaries Rheinhart, Allen – 15 (rep) Rosen, Jacky – 163 Duncan, Wes – 261 By Heidi Bunch against Mike Guss (DEM) this fall. Non-Partisan Sbaih, Jesse – 6 Mueller, Craig – 178 MCIN Staff candidate Norman Williams informed the Inde- None of these candidates – 82 None of these candidates – 89 pendent-News that he had withdrawn his name Mineral County voters showed up to cast their from the ballot for the November election. u.s. senate – (rep) supreme Court seat C votes at this year’s primary election. As reported The state office of Nevada Governor had contes- Brooks, Sherry – 16 – (np) Gazala, Sarah – 19 Aberasturi, Leon – 150 by Mineral County Clerk Chris Nepper, 40.62 per- tants airing commercials and hitting the Armed Harrell, Vic – 4 Cadish, Elissa – 251 cent of the county voters showed up to make sure Forces Day parade in hopes to grab some rural Heck, Tom – 84 Lefebvre, Alan – 54 their voices were heard. votes. Heller, Dean – 381 Rutledge, John – 201 One of the largest races on the local front would Steve Sisolak (DEM) and Adam Laxalt (REP) None of these candidates – 40 Tao, Jerry – 78 be the republican candidate for Mineral County will begin their campaign for governor. None of these candidates – Commissioner – Seat C. Christine Hoferer beat Primary Election votes are listed to the left. The Governor – (dem) 247 Bonaventura, John – 17 out the other opponents, who will now face off General Election will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 6. Dewan, Asheesh – 7 reGent, university of Giunchigliani, Christina – 83 nevada, dept. 9 Jones, David – 11 Del Carlo, Carol – 843 Sisolak, Steve – 122 Thorns, Henry – 13 Hospital Board None of these candidates – 63 trustee, seat a Fitzgerald, Tom – 895 Nevada primary election tees up Governor – (rep) Boyd, Bill – 15 Hospital Board Carlisle, Stephanie – 34 trustee, seat B battleground governor, Senate races Conquest, Frederick – 1 Schumann, Richard Lee – 888 Dundas, Edward – 3 Fisher, Jared – 25 By Michelle L. Price Las Vegas Strip, overcame a saying she was sexually abused Hospital Board Associated Press bruising Democratic primary as a child. Laxalt, Adam – 391 trustee, seat C Lusak, Stan – 5 Womack, Karen – 876 against his Clark County Com- “I’m not going to pretend that Schwartz, Dan – 23 LAS VEGAS — Nevada vot- mission colleague Christina Gi- this was an easy race. It was None of these candidates – 44 mineral County ers delivered easy primary unchigliani. tough and long,” Sisolak said sCHool Board trustee election wins Tuesday to Re- The race got combative, in his victory speech at the Aria u.s. House distriCt 4 (outside 4 year) publican Sen. Dean Heller and with an attack ad alleging Gi- casino-resort on the Las Vegas (dem) Birchum, Candice – 860 Anzalone, John – 16 his Democratic opponent Jacky unchigliani “single-handedly Strip. “While Chris and I have Horsford, Steven – 166 Rosen while teeing up a No- protected perverts” because of had our differences - and we Spearman, Pam – 38 mineral County sCHool Board trustee vember battle for the governor’s changes she made to a sex of- aired them out on the public Stephens, Allison – 27 mansion between the chairman fender bill in the Legislature a airwaves - we both agree on one Vilela, Amy – 29 (outside 2 year) Zeller, Sid – 28 Castagnola, Kathy – 896 of a powerful Las Vegas-area decade ago. thing: Nevada families cannot council and the state attorney Giunchigliani, a 63-year-old afford to let Adam Laxalt be- u.s. House distriCt 4 HawtHorne townsHip general. former state legislator and come our next governor.” (rep) ConstaBle Steve Sisolak, who had the teacher who earned backing Speaking to her supporters Gibbs, David – 116 Schaaf, Gary - 886 backing of former U.S. Sen. from Hillary Clinton and the at a cowboy-themed saloon Hardy, Crescent – 218 Harry Reid and chairs the pow- women’s group Emily’s List, erful council overseeing the struck back with a campaign ad > See PRIMARY, Page 6 Groundbreaking ceremony held for Isabella Pearl mining site By Sheri Samson ciated directly with the project. MCIN Correspondent With safety as a paramount issue within the structure of GRC, guests As honored guests followed an array donned hardhats, along with visibil- of directional signage leading into the ity vests to proceed to a gathering spot hills of Luning, at the foot of the Gabbs which overlooked the surrounding val- Valley Range, the Gold Resource Corpo- ley surface. Gold Resource Corporation’s ration (GRC) was prepared to present a CEO, Jason Reid, began the ceremony groundbreaking ceremony for the Isa- with an overview of the company, then bella Pearl mining site, which had been mentioned the many years of positive many years in the making. strides which had taken place within Guests included the GRC Chairman their company. With successes from of the Board Bill Conrad and those from their Oaxaca Mining Unit properties, lo- their board of directors. Attendees also cated in the southern portion of Oaxaca, included GRC Staff Members; Mineral Mexico, Reid spoke proudly of a com- County Commissioners Jerrie Tipton pany that had experienced seven consec- and Chris Hegg; local Mineral County utive years of profitability. Economic Development Association Speaking about the unique opportu- Sheri Samson Board members; representatives from nity within the landmark moment of fi- Gold Resource Corporation board members and staff broke ground on the Isa- Ledcor Construction; local business bella Pearl mining site in Mineral County last week. owners and other various entities asso- > See MINE, Page 13 page 2 Mineral County Independent-News || The Week of June 14, 2018 your seven-day forecast today friday saturday sunday monday tuesday wednesday 95/57 93/55 86/51 80/53 80/54 87/55 93/58 Sunny; remaining very Mostly sunny Plenty of sunshine Mostly sunny Mostly sunny; nice Partly sunny Mostly cloudy warm FEEDING AN ARMY Students master sewing skills By Sheri Samson MCIN Correspondent The lost art of quilting was resur- rected in the Mineral County High School’s Career and Technical classes. The class entitled “Clothing and Tex- tiles”, had instructor, Sandra Jones, teaching various formats of practical living through pathways of career-ori- entated classroom instruction. This particular curriculum was part of a three-year program in which students learn a variety of basic living skills, while highlighting topics such as cook- ing, child development and other de- tailed accomplishments. “In this class, students learned about the actual sewing machine and related tools or attachments; stitching and cut- ting patterns; basic repairs as well as cre- ating selected projects,” Jones explained. Sheri Samson “In a year they made a simple pillow From left, Kati McCune and Talina case, apron of their choice, a “quillow” Hicks proudly show off their com- which is a blanket-pillow combination pleted quilting projects. and then ultimately the quilts.” Students Kati McCune and Talina during class time. Mallory Jimenez Hicks completed their quilts after select- A donation of cotton fabrics and The El Capitan Restaurant provided more than 2,300 meals from June 1 through ing a color scheme of choice, cutting the thread would be greatly appreciated by June 13 to all the U.S. Army National Guard Reserves. The staff and management cotton fabrics to size, learning the entire this program, in preparation for next of the El Capitan are proud to serve the U.S. military troop’s food needs while skill set of quilting, then slowly making year’s classes. Please contact the MCHS training in Hawthorne. Glenn Carns mentioned that it takes a whole team to “feed the progress to complete their projects instructor by calling 775-945-3332. an army.” This operation was lead by Jason Eaton, restaurant manager; Austin Williams; Don Townsend and their team with the assistance of other staff of the El Capitan to help meet the high demand. 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