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Eureka Resident Receives the Gift of Mobility SERVING THE COMMUNITY SINCE 1870 Vol. 148, No. 28 the week of june 28, 2018 50¢ nevada development community Water issues Eureka resident receives continue to stall progress at the gift of mobility Eureka resident Pamela medical equipment to Northern Coyote Springs Lyninger received the gift of Nevadans. People are asked to mobility on June 21, when the donate equipment and/or make By Dave Maxwell Northern Nevada Center for monetary donations to NNCIL, Independent Living (NNCIL) so they can help even more Lack of water might just end delivered to her a motorized, Northern Nevadans. the dream of a Coyote Springs rough-terrain wheelchair. NNCIL Independent Living master-planned community. “I’m pretty much trapped at Advocate Hentjie Apag deliv- A recent article in the Las home now and this chair will ered the chair to Lyninger. “It’s Vegas Review-Journal noted, give me the ability to get outside incredibly gratifying being able “Nevada’s state water engineer and putt around town,” she to help people like Pam have is blocking construction at Coy- shares. some freedom,” Apag said. “It’s ote because he says there isn’t Lyninger suffered a brain amazing what something as enough water to support the aneurysm in 2004. During sur- simple as a wheelchair can do.” project.” gery, it popped, leaving her with The Northern Nevada Cen- Jason King, the state water en- hemiplegia, which is a form of ter for Independent Living gineer, sent a letter in early June paralysis affecting the left side (NNCIL) was founded more to Coyote Springs Investments of her body. This means she than 30 years ago as a 501c3 by stating that he cannot justify can’t move her leg, arm, hand or a small group of people with approving any subdivision toes, and she’s blind in her left disabilities to help others with maps for the long-stalled devel- eye. disabilities hone the skills they opment about 45 miles south of Lyninger, who lives alone needed to achieve independent Alamo, on the east side of U.S. with her dog and cat, uses living. Over the years, they’ve 93. a manual wheelchair to get brought in experts, gained and The article said King warned around her apartment complex, shared knowledge, developed that “pumping the existing but perilous sidewalks don’t programs, embraced tech- groundwater rights at Coyote allow her to go much further. nology and expanded our re- Springs could dry out springs Before suffering from an aneu- sources exponentially, all in an to the east that form the head- rysm, Lyninger worked as an effort to help Nevadans with waters of the Muddy River and Courtesy photo administrative assistant for the disabilities to achieve happier, the sole habitat for the Moapa Pamela Lyninger of Eureka recently received a motorized, Eureka County Sheriff’s Office. more active, community-based dace, a small fish protected by rough-terrain wheelchair to help her get around town from the NNCIL’s Equipment Loan lives. For more information, the Endangered Species Act.” Northern Nevada Center for Independent Living. program provides used durable visit www.nncil.org. Emilia Cargill, Senior Vice President and General Coun- sel for Coyote Springs, declined comment on the article except to say that they have gone to liti- yerington gation in Clark County, seeking to overturn King’s decision. “I do not wish to make any com- ment at this time because of the Rural Nevada students win discrimination settlement litigation.” The lawsuit notes that if the Associated Press day. they were protected as free speech and that company is not allowed to use “I hope that our story inspires others,” the family’s police statements were shred- the water rights it already has, RENO — Two African-American stu- Tolliver said. ded accidentally. then, “effectively, the Coyote dents who say they were subjected to re- The lawsuit said the name-calling became After the lawsuit was filed, the Yerington Springs development is dead.” peated racial bullying at their rural Nevada terrifying in October when photos of a Lyon School District initiated changes to existing Coyote Springs is owned by high school have won a settlement in a County sheriff’s deputy’s son holding a gun policies, reached out to racial harassment prominent San Francisco Bay federal discrimination lawsuit against the and wearing a belt with knives was posted experts from the U.S Department of Edu- Area-based developers Thomas school district and the city of Yerington. on social media. Superimposed over the cation and agreed to pay for counseling for and Albert Seeno Jr., who have U.S. District Court Judge Larry Hicks photos were the words “the red neck god the teens. spent more than $200 million sealed details of the settlement he approved of all gods.we bout to go (racial slur) huntin’ But school district lawyers said in court so far on utilities, flood control in Reno on Monday. and “Watch out (racial slur).” filings in February the girls and their fam- structures, and a Jack Nicklaus- But the teens’ lawyer declared victory on Their lead attorney, Terri Keyser-Cooper, ilies could not prove there had been “de- designed signature golf course Tuesday, and court records show the city said school officials knew the girls were liberate indifference” necessary to estab- which opened in 2008. and the Lyon County School District agreed complaining about the racial comments lish a violation of federal law regarding Cargill added that King has to pay at least $160,000 to cover the stu- but that district officials couldn’t produce a the allegations of bullying and race-based requested a public hearing at dents’ attorney fees. single document showing they had investi- discrimination. They said they met with the end of July, The Reno Gazette Journal first reported gated the nearly daily racial name-calling or about 50 students and their parents, con- “to review everything, and to the settlement on its web site late Monday. had interviewed the girls about their expe- tacted law officers approximately four look at the science behind the The two 15-year-old sisters, Jayla Tolliver riences. times and suspended six students of ac- letter he sent us. He sent the let- and Taylissa Marriott, were freshmen at She and co-counsel Kerry Doyle said in a cused of wrongdoing for between one and ter to us before he provided us Yerington High about 65 miles (104 kilome- statement declaring victory they are hope- five days. with the science leading to his ters) southeast of Reno when their parents ful Yerington police and school officials The Lyon County School District said in findings.” filed the lawsuit in January alleging they “will in the future be more sensitive, com- a statement Tuesday it was pleased “to con- The hearing will be held July had been subjected to repeated racial slurs passionate and responsive should racist be- firm this matter has been resolved.” 24 at 9 a.m. at the Moapa Valley and threats for at least six months. havior again occur.” “The district looks forward to work- Community Center in Overton. “I would never in a million years believe Yerington Police Chief Darren Wagner ing positively with students, families, It will deal with the water avail- we would have to go through what we did,” told the Reno Gazette Journal in an October and staff to ensure a safe and respectful able in five linked aquifers in Marriott said in a statement her lawyers 2017 interview that he was not investigating learning environment for everyone,” the what is called the Super Basin. emailed to The Associated Press on Tues- the threats posted on social media because district said. According to the Review- Journal, in 2014, King rejected a host of pending applications for new groundwater rights in Coyote Springs and four adja- cent watersheds, based on the Sessions defends immigration policy at speech in Reno results of a two-year pumping test conducted by the South- By Daniel Rothberg going to continue to prosecute uproar over the Trump admin- defending the administration’s ern Nevada Water Authority to The Nevada Independent those adults who enter here istration’s aggressive border zero-tolerance policy, arguing see if it could safely withdraw illegally. We are going to do policy, which left thousands of that a tight border would keep water from the area without After a week of outcry over everything in our power, how- children separated from their students safe from the influ- impacting the upper Muddy an immigration policy that ever, to avoid separating fam- parents in detention centers, ence of drug cartels and other River or its endangered fish. separated families at the bor- ilies. All federal agencies are and a tweet from President violence. King was quoted in the arti- der, one of the policy’s chief working hard to accomplish Donald Trump advocating for “Children have indeed borne cle as saying he believes “only a proponents, Attorney Gen- this goal.” denying due process to those much of the burden of our small portion” of the 50,000 acre eral Jeff Sessions, defended During the speech, Sessions who cross the border. Over broken immigration system, feet of water already applied for the administration’s hawkish also announced $2 million in the weekend, Trump tweeted: and the children you serve in in the five water basins can be approach during a speech to additional funding for first re- “We cannot allow all of these your schools are too,” he said, used without negatively impact- a school safety conference in sponders to the Oct. 1 shoot- people to invade our Country.
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