business SPARKS Nugget on track to complete makeover by end of 2018 YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1910 Page 3 TribuneSERVING SPARKS SINCE 1910 Volume 109, Number 27 Wednesday, July 5, 2017 $1.00 SPORTS FIREWORKS SPECTACULAR Fresno shaves three games off Reno’s division lead Page 7 Star-studded Phoenix can’t find net in Reno Donald Abbot/Special to the Sparks Tribune The Nugget Casino Resort lit up the Northern Nevada sky Saturday night with a fireworks display to cap off the Page 8 “All-American Block Party” that featured live music, crafts and food vendors in Victorian Square. The event was part one of a planned two-day celebration for the Fourth of July. The annual “Star Spangled Sparks” followed on Tuesday. INSIDE Weather...............................2 cOvER story State Briefs..........................2 Opinion............................10 Puzzles..............................14 Advice...............................15 Marijuana sales begin in Nevada, but not Sparks Seniors..............................16 in Sparks. sponse from the second reading. Classified Ads..................17 By Kayla Anderson Sparks Tribune “My understanding is that Sparks is After the stakeholders meeting in Legals................................18 having a second reading on the regula- which local cultivators, laboratories July 1 marked the day when retail sale tions on July 10,” says Reef Dispensaries and dispensaries gathered at city hall, of recreational marijuana became legal Store Manager Marty Mulligan. “If that the first reading of Bill #2719 was dis- in Nevada where medical marijuana goes well, then hopefully by the end of cussed again at the June 26 Sparks city Follow us on sales are already underway, thanks to that week our Sparks dispensary will council meeting. This discussion was Twitter: the Measure 2 initiative passed by vot- be able to sell recreationally,” he adds. about approving ordinance amending @SparksTribune ers last November. Mulligan said that a few weeks ago Sparks Municipal Code Title 5 to li- So now the question remains, where he attended a stakeholders meeting at cense existing medical marijuana dis- can you buy marijuana? Although rec- Sparks City Hall where it was rumored pensaries to sell it at retail. Likewise, reational marijuana use is now legal, that city staff would expedite the dis- the code would allow cultivators, lab- herbal wellness aficionados may have pensaries’ recreational marijuana sales to wait until mid-month to purchase it applications pending a positive re- > See SALES, Page 4 SPARKS Get the digital edition. SEE MORE sparkstrib.com Tribune News | Sports | Trending Now Your Community Newspaper Since 1910 ONLINE! 2 July 5, 2017 yOuR SEvEN-Day fOREcast WEDNESDAY THuRSDAY fRIDAY SaTuRDAY SuNDAY MONDAY Tuesday 94/64 95/65 97/65 99/63 97/61 98/65 97/60 Sunny to partly Mostly sunny and Mostly sunny and Partly sunny Sunshine Hot with clouds Mainly cloudy and cloudy very warm hot and sun hot NEvaDa news bRIEfS Associated Press marijuana-related offense, so the is- increases on the rate submissions doval said Friday that Christopher sue has always been personal for him. filed with the division reflect the -un DeRicco of Reno is being named certainty of the health care market. to replace Lucille Monterde, who Driver crashes through nevaDa man’s conviction She says the division will diligently didn’t seek reappointment to the Las vegas airport fence in of poLice Dog interference review the proposed rates before seven-member state Board of Parole stoLen car upheLD they are approved. Commissioners. LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas author- CARSON CITY — An appeals Dollar amounts for the increased Board members Adam Endel and ities say they have arrested one per- court has upheld the conviction of premium costs for 2018 weren’t avail- Anthony Cordia are being reap- son after they crashed into a fence at a Las Vegas man who punched and able Friday. Those figures will be re- pointed to new four-year terms. McCarren Airport in a stolen vehi- tried to choke a police dog that bit leased in October. DiRicco is a federal probation offi- cle. him during a chase. Four insurance companies will be cer and a former Nevada state proba- Police say the incident occurred The Nevada Court of Appeals on offering 24 individual health plans in tion officer. late Saturday. According to Metro Thursday rejected Jesus Gonzalez’s Clark, Washoe and Nye counties on Simpson is seeking release from police spokesman, the person tried to argument that there was not enough the exchange. prison Oct. 1. leave the scene on foot and ran across evidence to convict him of mistreat- Now 69, he will have served the the tarmac and runway. ment or interference with the duties shooting ban issueD for minimum nine years of a nine-to-33 KSNV reports the crashed caused of a police animal. nevaDa, caLifornia pubLic year sentence for armed robbery, kid- LanD one runway to close. Minor injuries Gonzalez was sentenced in 2016 to napping and other felony charges in were also reported. 16 to 40 months in prison, with 160 CARSON CITY — A temporary a 2007 confrontation with two sports Police are investigating the crash. It days credit for time served. shooting ban has been put in place by memorabilia dealers in Las Vegas. is unknown whether the driver was The Metro Police SWAT team had the U.S. Forest Service for the public impaired. been attempting to serve a search Carson Ranger District due to fire man sought in washington warrant on Gonzalez when he fled danger. state chiLD sex case heLD in nevaDa the high Life? coupLe weDs and hid in a shed at a nearby home. The Forest Service states people are in pot faciLity to back new Officers, fearing Gonzalez might be prohibited from shooting between WINNEMUCCA — Authorities Laws armed, dispatched the dog to detain Friday and Sept. 30, unless they are say a man who was arrested while LAS VEGAS — A groom donned Gonzalez, who is accused of then at- hunting. hitchhiking across northern Nevada a bud of marijuana in his coat pocket tacking the dog after it latched onto The district covers more than 625 told a judge he won’t contest his as he and his bride said “I do” inside him. square miles (1,600 square kilome- transfer in custody to Washington a Las Vegas facility growing the drug ters) of land both in Nevada and Cal- state, where he is sought in a child that’s newly legal to buy. nevaDa heaLth insurance ifornia. sexual assault case. Anna Balfe-Taylor says she had to rates face proposeD Officials say there have been nine A Humboldt County sheriff’s dep- increases think about it when Mark Balfe-Tay- fires in the region where target shoot- uty says 46-year-old David Edward lor asked her to marry him inside CARSON CITY — Nevada resi- ing is suspected. Wilson waived extradition during a the grow house but eventually sup- dents who receive medical insurance Anyone who violates the restric- Friday court appearance. ported it. However, neither of them through the Silver State Health In- tion could be punished with a fine of Wilson has been held at the county will be smoking what was in the surance Exchange face an average in- up to $5,000 or six months in jail. jail in Winnemucca, where there was groom’s pocket Saturday, the same crease of 38 percent under rates pro- no record that he had an attorney. day Nevada launched recreational posed for 2018. paroLe boarD to hear He told deputies when he was ar- pot sales. The Nevada Division of Insur- simpson case in nevaDa gets rested last Tuesday on U.S. 95 that he new member The two were sober and say they ance, which regulates the industry, had been hitchhiking from Wyoming plan to stay that way. The couple said released the figure on Friday based CARSON CITY — The parole to Oregon. a grow house wedding was more on proposed plans that insurance board that will hear imprisoned foot- Sheriff Mike Allen said in a state- about supporting Nevada’s new mar- carriers have submitted to the ball star O.J. Simpson’s bid for release ment that Wilson was wanted on a ijuana laws. state. from a Nevada prison July 20 is get- felony child sex and child molesta- Mark Balfe-Taylor says his father Insurance Commissioner Barbara ting a new member. tion warrant issued in Walla Walla, was once imprisoned because of a Richardson says the proposed rate An aide to Nevada Gov. Brian San- Washington. 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For subscription prices, please call 358-8062, ext. 7. July 5, 2017 3 Nugget on track to complete makeover by end of 2018 By Kayla Anderson in a press release, “Com- Sparks Tribune pletely remodeling the West Tower rooms and convention When Marnell Gaming center reflects our commit- acquired the Nugget Casino ment to making the property Resort 14 months ago, there a market leader and this is was a lot of work that had to just the beginning of the Nug- be done.