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November Contents 8 Magician Shin Lim 10 Happy Place 12 Lazy Dog Teams Up With Habitat for Humanity 14 ‘Erth’s Prehistoric Aquarium Adventure’ Teaches and Entertains with Lifesize Puppets 16 Coral Academy: A World- Class Education in a Positive Atmosphere 18 Family Events Calendar 24 Who should get the flu vaccine this season? 25 Henderson Future Fair 26 Preschools +Daycare 27 Six Strategies to Stimulate Literacy at Home 28 How to Make the Home(Work) For Your Child 30 Directory Pages 6 ParentsGuide of Las Vegas November 2019 ParentsGuide of Las Vegas Distribution ParentsGuideLV.com Publisher To have copies of Parents Guide of Las Vegas facebook Facebook.com/ParentsGuide distributed at your business, office or Twitter Twitter.com/ParentsGuideLV Mark Rudy community event call 702-843-8350. 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Forbes declaring “fantastic intricate card magic… Shin won audiences last year with Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, his detailed routines that defied logic and yet raised in Massachusetts sharing dual he came back with similar intrigue but citizenship in the U.S. and Canada, the self- even more confidence and experience,” proclaimed ‘sleight of hand artist’ started and USA Today remarking “Magician Shin piano training at 9 and didn’t begin doing Lim wowed.” Parade described his act card tricks until he was 16 – a late start for as “incredible magic” and Las Vegas Sun a future professional. He studied piano in billed him as “the new master of close-up college, but carpal tunnel syndrome even- magic.” tually forced him to decide between the As Deadline states, Lim’s “close-up style two pursuits. remains a thing of elegant beauty,” and it “I was practicing too much music and has garnered quite the following via social then sleight of hand. All this rigorous media with over 760,000 YouTube sub- training with my fingers was too much for scribers and nearly 655,000 Instagram fol- my wrist to handle. The tendons got too lowers. inflamed,” says Lim, who takes a break Following his success on America’s Got after two hours of practice. Talent, the 27-year-old continues to revolu- Lim notes he is not a magician, nor a tionize the way close-up magic is presented wizard, and has no intention of lying to with his highly acclaimed show, “Limit- the audience. Instead he performs care- less,” that left sold out audiences stunned fully self-choreographed routines combin- when it opened at The Mirage Hotel & ing dexterity, precision and grace meant Casino in Las Vegas this summer. Lim to mystify the audience. Having made performs the incredible 90-minute spec- appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show tacle alongside fellow America’s Got Talent and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, alum and forensic mind reader Colin Cloud both call Lim “amazing.” Howie Mandel of during select dates throughout the year. America’s Got Talent raves he is “the best For more information or to purchase tick- sleight of hand I have ever seen.” E! News ets please visit mgmresorts.com/mirage. 8 ParentsGuide of Las Vegas November 2019 Happy Place HAPPY PLACE, AN INTERACTIVE, In September, HAPPY PLACE at Man- ing grants specifically to offset out-of- immersive pop-up experience with dalay Bay hosted its first Lemonade Stand pocket life expenses. TRF is the nonprofit larger-than-life installations and multi- Fundraising Party benefiting the Tyler organization of the GRAMMY® Award-win- Robinson Foundation. sensory themed rooms, is now open ning, multi-platinum selling band Imag- Net proceeds from the Lemonade Stand at its newest location in Las Vegas at ine Dragons. TRF meets a critical need in at HAPPY PLACE at Mandalay Bay benefit a communities across the U.S., Canada and Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. On different local non-profit each month and Mexico. Each year, one in 285 children are a mission to spread happiness across started in September with TRF in honor diagnosed with cancer. While many pediat- the world, “the most Instagrammable of National Childhood Cancer Awareness ric cancer organizations focus on growing pop-up in America” (Urban Daddy) Month. TRF is the nonprofit organization awareness and support for families with of the GRAMMY® Award-winning band has helped people of all ages “find the physical and emotional toll of a diag- their happy” while exploring multiple Imagine Dragons and is dedicated to sup- porting children battling childhood cancer. nosis, the huge financial hardship cancer vibrant rooms. HAPPY PLACE is pro- The Tyler Robinson Foundation (TRF) treatment places on families is rarely dis- duced by Faculty Productions in part- helps strengthen families financially and cussed. More than 85-percent of every nership with Live Nation Las Vegas and emotionally as they cope with the tragedy dollar TRF raises goes right to families in MGM Resorts International. of a pediatric cancer diagnosis by provid- need. For more information visit TRF.org. 10 ParentsGuide of Las Vegas November 2019 Lazy Dog Teams Up With Habitat for Humanity to Build Homes and Hope, for the Holidays THIS HOLIDAY SEASON ENJOY A COZY and volunteers, Habitat for Humanity Las A Brush with Kindness – The nonprofit meal at Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar and Vegas has impacted 400 people, includ- also provides exterior home preserva- share some hope for those in need of a ing 250 children while also completing 55 tion to improve existing homes by offer- home of their own.