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CITY DESK •702-383-0249 LASVEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL •SATURDAY-SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8-9, 2016 a SECTION B BRIGHT IDEAS Neal Morton ON EDUCATION Neon Museum lays out Breakupof CCSD baffling plansfor growth spurt to voters Attraction to add store, relocate staffaspartofexpansion

epending on which By BUCK WARGO has 16 gift shops in , in- museum has outgrown its existing candidate you ask, SPECIAL TO THELAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL cluding at McCarran Internation- retail and administrative space in- Southern Nevada voters al Airport, will invest more than side the former Dare terrified of arecently The Neon Museum on Friday un- $300,000 in the project, said Rob lobby that serves as the museum approved plan to reorganize the veiled the first stage of its expan- McCoy,president and chief execu- visitor’scenter,770 Las Vegas Blvd. Clark County School District. sion plans that includes apartner- tive officer of the Neon Museum. North. Or they love it and can’twait for ship with Las Vegas-based Marshall It’sexpected to open by the end of As part of its community part- it to happen as soon as possible. Retail Group to build aretail store. the year. nership initiative, is fund- Or they have no idea what you’re The museum announced that con- The museum staff will relocate ing the cost of the lease, which also talking about. struction will begin Nov.1oncon- to office space at the old Las Vegas includes exhibition space that will It’sunclear whether the general verting existing administration of- City Hall annex, across from Zap- election will register any blowback fice space into retail. MRG, which pos’ headquarters, McCoy said. The ▶ See NEON, Page 4B from the recent approval of the reorganization plan, what with no pro- or anti-candidate campaigns having yet emerged. Still, voters have shared awide range of emotions with candidates who knock on their door. Deanna Wright said she’sheard everything from fear and anxiety Four-Legged to confusion and uncertainty from principals, school staff and parents. She’srunning for athird and final four-year term to District A on the Clark County School Board. Her southeast district includes Therapy Henderson, which provided some of the most vocal proponents of areorganization. The final plan, which goes into effect August 2017, strips power from the district’s central administration and shifts control to individual communities. “Principals are afraid they’ll get the same few parents they get volunteering for everything,” Wright said. Meanwhile, “a lot of people are very concerned about principals going rogue,” she added. “Some of these people out here think they won’thave to teach sex (education) anymore.” That’scertainly not the case, but to Wright, the misconception suggests communities that fought for more local control might be disappointed in the final result. Exhibit A: Moapa Valley,where families long have clamored for aclean split from the sprawling district. State lawmakers made it clear more than ayear ago that wouldn’thappen. Still, they handed rural residents an olive branch by allowing local government authorities to appoint arepresentative to ahiring committee that selects superintendents who oversee up to KEITH ROGERS/LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL 25 schools each. Gulf Warveteran Ben Hernandez stands alongside Pablo, amustang, at Spirit Therapies in northwest Las Vegas on Sept. 30.Pablo Cities such as Henderson and is oneofthe horses used in atherapeutic horsemanship program designed to help veterans cope with war stress anxiety.Black labrador retriever Wasabi, top photo, also provides comfort and assistance to Hernandez. Las Vegas likely will exercise that power.But Clark County commissioners, fearing they would “politicize” the hiring process, Dogs,horses help afflicted veterans repel stress voted unanimously to abdicate that responsibility. By KEITH ROGERS surrounding,” Hernandez said of being targeted in an accidental Their decision effectively LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL the Spirit Therapies corral in the friendly fire attack and then prevents residents in rural and northwest ,where subjected to an enemy artillery unincorporated communities from dog and now ahorse have the programisheld, stroking bombardment in early 1991, he and having asay in who supervises made ahuge difference Pablo’scoatashetalked. “I don’t his fellow soldiers were exposed to their neighborhood schools. for Ben Hernandez in his have to be afraid or anything like ahorrific scene: the burned bodies “They were very much for the battle with post-traumatic that, or too anxious.” of Iraqi soldiers strewn along reorganization because they want Astress disorder. Hernandez, 48, is among four what later became known as the as much autonomy as they can The Gulf Warveteran says veterans withPTSD and anger- Highway of Death, leading from get,” said Mark Newburn, District the calming influence of ablack management issues who are taking Kuwait into Iraq. 4incumbent on the State Board of Labrador retriever named Wasabi the innovativecourse funded “Wedid alow flight through Education. over the past six years has by the Department of Veterans there, and you could see the He seeks asecond term to recently been enhanced by Pablo, Affairs, which uses horses like figures of charcoal bodies. It was represent constituents in eight amustang he’sbeen working Pablo in ametaphoric healing amassacre. All that basically got counties, including Moapa Valley with through atherapeutic program. into my head,” he said. and most of northern Clark County. horsemanship program aimed at Hernandez traces his PTSD to After leaving the service and “They’ve become really helping military vets conquer the the early days of the Gulf War, returning stateside, Hernandez frustrated with the Clark County mental demons spawned by their when he was amember of the was diagnosed with PTSD School District, and they’re really service. Army’s101st Airborne Division’s distrustful,” Newburn said. “I enjoy being around the 502nd Infantry Regiment. After ▶ See VETERANS, Page 6B Patrice Tew, who represents the northwest District Eonthe local school board, indicated asmall minority of voters actually care about the reorganization. She said it’sprobably too early Motive in killingofgrandmother remains unknown for the overhaul —which cleared a final legal hurdle Sept. 9—tohave By RACHELCROSBY the woman before she was walking out of her garage an impact on education races in LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL killed. and down her driveway. Southern Nevada. The neighbor who tried Guidry had blood on her “This is going to be very much Though police have not to intervene had just pulled face, the neighbor told po- adynamic, growing, changing named amotive in the into her garage about 4:30 lice. organism,” Tewsaid, “because shooting death of aLas Ve- p.m. across the street from Detectives are still in- there’sjust so many unanswered gas grandmother Tuesday, the grandmother’shome in vestigating whether an al- questions.” an arrest report details the 2100 block of Henniker tercation happened inside On Education appears everyother Saturday. Contact the moments that led up Way, near Lake Mead and the home before Guidry Neal Morton at [email protected] or 702- Bradley Christian to the crime, including a Rampart boulevards, when 383-0279.Follow@nealtmorton on Twitter. Francis neighbor’sattempt to help she saw Marilyn Guidry,86, ▶ See MOTIVE, Page 6B Page 4B • Saturday & Sunday, October 8-9, 2016 a Las Vegas Review-Journal Obituaries

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CRAWFORD, ELIZABETH DOUMANI, EDWARD MAURICE, PASTOR DONALD

ELIZABETH CRAWFORD Elizabeth Ann “Lisa” Crawford, 58, passed away Sept. 29, 2016, at home, with her family beside her. She was born Oct. 19, 1957, in El BILL HUGHES/LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL FILE Paso, Texas, to Robert and Mary Odening. She Parts of an old Golden Nugget sign are displayed in the North Gallery at the Neon Museum, 770 Las Vegas Blvd. North, on Sept. 2. graduated from Hoover High School in 1974 in San Diego. Her first ca- fice space but to build indoor gallery reer was as an allergy ▶ NEON technician. She later became the kinder- where visitors can see a display of garten teacher at Calvary Chapel Green Continued from Page 1B documents and other artifacts. That Valley Christian Academy. Lisa will be re- would include a working neon fab- membered for her radiant smile, warm personality, love for Jesus and great com- be co-curated by the Neon Museum, rication area where visitors can see passion for others. She was deeply loved Zappos and the Contemporary Arts how neon is made and fabricated. and will be greatly missed by her family and many friends. Lisa is survived by her Center, McCoy said. “It’s a dying art, and lot of folks go husband, of 29 years, Steve Crawford; “These strategic partnerships to LCDs (liquid crystal displays),” children, David Campbell, Joseph Craw- ford and Mary Crawford; daughter-in-law, mark the beginning of an exciting McCoy said. “They’re cheaper and Amanda Crawford; grandchildren, Adrian time for the Neon Museum as we more easily and quickly changed, Gutierrez, Nadia Campbell, Melina Craw- ford and Joseph Crawford; mother-in-law, strive to serve the public in new and but neon is an art and we’re starting Freida Crawford; brother, Gene Odening; greater ways,” McCoy said. to lose that. It’s incumbent on us to and sister, Janet Francis. There will be a memorial service at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. Paco Alvarez, art curator and make sure we do everything we can 15, at Calvary Chapel Spring Valley, 7175 Z’Boutique Buyer for Zappos, said to preserve it as an art form well into W. Oquendo Road, Las Vegas, NV 89113. working with the Neon Museum in the future.” creating a new art space is exciting The museum last month an- and complements Zappos’ ongoing nounced it expects to set a visitation commitment to the cultural arts record and surpass 100,000 a year by downtown. the end of June 2017. The museum, Following completion of the new which opened in October 2012, re- EDWARD DOUMANI store, merchandise will be displayed cently added a self-guided weekday 1936-2016 Edward in the 1,300-square-foot area direct- tour in addition to its regular guided Doumani passed away Wednesday, Sept. 28, ly behind the reception area, McCoy tour. 2016, in Las Vegas, suc- said. The new retail area will offer McCoy said he would like to boost cumbing to ocular mela- apparel, drinkware, books and sou- local visitation from its 10 percent noma (cancer) after a nearly two-year battle. venirs along with other neon-brand- mark. It’s a local attraction Las Ve- Born Edward Malick ed items. Grab-and-go food and bev- Parts of a Binion’s Horseshoe sign are gas residents need to be a part of, he Doumani May 30, 1936, displayed in the North Gallery of the in Los Angeles, he gradu- erage with patio seating also will be Neon Museum. said, but because they have lived it, ated from USC with a part of the expanded offerings. they don’t view it the same as visi- law degree in 1959. By 1960, he had relocated to Las Vegas, In association with the new retail is an understatement,” Wilkins said. tors. building (with his father M. K. and broth- partnership, MRG will develop Neon “It’s the perfect fit for us and we’re “(Tourists) have seen it in film er, Fred) the iconic Paul Williams’ de- signed La Concha (opened in 1961) and El Museum merchandise which also looking forward to a long associa- over the last 50 to 60 years,” McCoy Morocco (1964) on the . will be available at the company’s 16 tion.” said. “They know what Las Vegas 40 Edward was also instrumental in the Golden Nugget, purchasing the property Welcome to Las Vegas stores city- Museum staff is expected to oc- to 50 to 60 years ago looked like, and with a group headed by Steve Wynn in the wide, which McCoy said would add cupy the temporary administrative they are very much interested in it.” late 1960’s, where he was influential in adding a hotel component to the then significantly to the museum’s reach space, which has been re-christened The museum has a collection of gambling hall. In the mid-1970’s, he and and visibility. NE10, the chemical and atomic more than 500 signs, which includes his brother, Fred, purchased the Tropicana Hotel, where Edward designed Michael Wilkins, chief executive number for neon, for one year after full signs and parts of signs. About and completely renovated the property officer of MRG, said the partnership which it will move into new perma- 70 percent are from casinos, 20 per- before selling it to Ramada in 1977. is the first of its kind for the retailer. nent museum offices, McCoy said. cent from motels and 10 percent Doumani, a Las Vegas stalwart for more than 50 years, was married to Eleo “To say we’re excited to share in The museum this year is expected from businesses. Many are from the Doumani, who lost her own battle with the expansion of the Neon Museum to announce plans not only for of- 1940s through 1970s. cancer earlier this year. He is survived by their three children, Lorenzo Doumani, Dahlia Merhi and Dominique Doumani; and seven grandchildren, Sophia, Dylan and Tyler Doumani, Carina, Daniel and Kyla Merhi, and Cole Doumani. There will be a celebration of Edward’s life 4-6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, at the Neon Museum USS Arizona survivor dies, will be interred with crewmates (which is the original La Concha Motel lobby), 770 N. Las Vegas Blvd. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be By JENNIFER McDERMOTT made in Edward’s name to St. Jude Child- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ren’s Research Hospital. PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The memories of bombs falling on the battleship USS Arizona were too painful for Ray- mond Haerry to ever return to Pearl Harbor, while he lived. PASTOR DONALD MAURICE But that’s precisely where he wants Pastor Donald Dee Maur- to be laid to rest. ice, 84, peacefully went home Sunday, Sept. 25, Haerry was one of the last living 2016, to be with his Lord crew members on the Arizona during and Savior Jesus Christ. Don leaves his wife; two the Japanese attack on Pearl Har- daughters; seven grand- bor. He died Sept. 27 in Rhode Island children; and three great-grandchildren. at age of 94, said his son, Raymond Don loved to spend time Haerry Jr. He was one of six remain- with his family and ing Arizona survivors. friends and had great enjoyment in travel, golf and other sports. Hundreds of sailors and Marines Most importantly, Pastor Don wanted to are entombed in the ship’s sunken make sure that people he met knew how much Jesus loved them. Don’s memorial hull. service will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. “As he was getting closer to the end, 12, at Calvary Chapel Green Valley, 2618 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway. I think he felt that if there’s any place that he’d like to be at rest, it would be with his crewmates, the people who STEVE SZYDLOWSKI/PROVIDENCE JOURNAL VIA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS suffered and died on that day,” Haer- Raymond Haerry is photographed April 20 at West View Nursing & Rehabilitation in ry Jr. told The Associated Press on West Warwick, R.I. Haerry, who was one of the last living survivors of the USS Arizona, Friday. which was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, died Sept. 27 at 94. Time is a Haerry Jr. said his father never wanted to talk about what happened planes from shore. Later, he helped Navy, retiring as a master chief. He on Dec. 7, 1941. But after 50 years of retrieve corpses from the harbor. lived with his wife of 70 years, Eve- physician asking questions, Haerry Jr. said he The ship lost 1,177 men, nearly four- lyn, at a nursing home in West War- pieced together the narrative. fifths of its crew. wick, Rhode Island. Evelyn Haerry is His father, then 19 years old, ran to Documentary filmmaker Tim Gray 95 years old. that heals an anti-aircraft gun after the first ex- recently interviewed Haerry for “Re- Haerry Jr. cried as he recounted his plosions, but the ammunition was in member Pearl Harbor,” a film for this father’s story. storage. year’s 75th anniversary of the attack. “It had to be a nightmare,” he said. Every Grief. He tried to get ammunition, but a “He struggled toward the end of “Even though war hadn’t been de- large bomb detonated first, igniting his life to speak, but you could tell by clared yet, he was one of the first fuel and powder magazines. Most of looking into his eyes that he remem- American heroes of World War II and the bow was instantly separated, and bered everything about that morn- I’ll always be proud of him, what he ~Diphilus~ the ship was lifted out of the water. ing,” Gray said. did and how he acted.” Haerry Jr. said his father swam Anytime a World War II veteran Only USS Arizona survivors can be through flaming waters, sweeping dies, Gray said, a piece of history is interred on the ship. Haerry Jr. said his arms in front of him to push the lost. he will take his father’s ashes there flames away. He shot at Japanese Haerry served for 25 years in the when he can afford the trip.