Trusted. Valued. Essential. JULY 2018 Helping Our People Helping People It’s a guiding principle at Silver State Schools Credit Community Union. Since 1951, we have been fully-vested in the Southern Nevada community we serve. Whether it’s setting up your child’s first savings account, finding a Through Life’s great rate on a loan, buying your first home or finding the best investment, our employees are available to Financial Journey put your best interests first. Become a member today and experience the SSSCU difference. 800.357.9654 silverstatecu.com Vegas PBS A Message from the Management Team General Manager General Manager Tom Axtell, Vegas PBS Educational Media Services Director Niki Bates Production Services Director Kareem Hatcher Communications and Brand Management Director Shauna Lemieux Business Manager Brandon Merrill Content Director Cyndy Robbins The New Nevada Week Workforce Training & Economic Development Director Debra Solt oday there is no shortage of news. It’s on demand, on every corner, online Corporate Partnerships Director and on our phones. Often it merges reporting with commentary designed Bruce Spotleson to create emotion and generate passion. At PBS and Vegas PBS, we seek Engineering, IT and Emergency Response Director John Turner to provide programs that provide insight, perspective and respectful dis- agreement. Meaningful community solutions require mutual respect, Southern Nevada Public Television Board of Directors Tthoughtful and engaging perspectives, fact-based content, conversations and experi- Executive Director Tom Axtell, Vegas PBS ences delivered with warmth and humanity. President For more than 50 years you have welcomed us into your homes, tuning in for stories Nancy Brune, Guinn Center for Policy Priorities with meaning. And for 34 of those years, many of you tuned in to Vegas PBS for a recap Vice President Thomas Warden, The Howard Hughes Corporation of the week’s top news stories on Nevada Week in Review. After a three-year hiatus, Secretary we are pleased to announce the return of this weekly public affairs show on Vegas PBS. Clark Dumont, M.S., APR, Dumont Communications, LLC Nevada Week is a weekly half-hour public Treasurer affairs program that explores and examines After a three-year Geraldine Tomich, Marquis Aurbach Coffing current and emerging local issues critical to Chair, Desert Meadows Area Health Education Council “hiatus, we are pleased Jerry Reeves, HealthInsight Nevada with the people who have researched to announce the return Chair, Planned Giving Council the topic and have perspectives or responsi- Geraldine Tomich, Marquis Aurbach Coffing bility for finding solutions. It builds on the of this weekly public CCSD Liaison to SNPT Board success of Nevada Week in Review, but with Carolyn Edwards, Clark County School District Trustee affairs show...” a future-focused, forward-looking approach. Board Members In a media landscape full of pundits, Nevada Week will provide a non-partisan, non- Vince Alberta, University Nevada Las Vegas Linda Ammons, Community Volunteer sectarian, non-commercial exploration of the issues facing Nevada. We will go beyond Tracy Bower, NNSS,Managed and operated by breaking news, headlines, tweets and hot topics to cover a wide range of important Mission Support and Test Services issues such as health, water, transportation, arts and culture, education, economic Cheryl (Cheri) Colbus, US Bank Rachelle Crupi, Bank of Nevada development, family income, social services, economics and of course politics. Bill Curran, Ballard Spahr, LLP Instead of simply discussing critical issues, the show’s intention is to inform and Mo Denis, Nevada State Senator empower those viewers who want to make informed votes or take personal action to Thomas Gallagher, TreVista Group, LLC drive the future. Our goal is to inspire, connect and strengthen a community that is curi- Jason Gastwirth, Caesars Entertainment Stephen Greathouse, Las Vegas Hotel & Gaming Industry, retired ous and enthusiastic about issues and ideas that matter, and to increase civic engage- Dema Guinn, Community Volunteer ment based on fact-based information for the improvement of our community. Lori Lea, AECIndustryPro.com Nevada Week will be hosted by long-time television news anchor Casey Smith. Casey Nora Luna, Nathan Adelson Hospice has served as an anchor and reporter for The NOW Report, KTNV and KLAS in Las Marydean Martin, Marydean & Associates Steve Seroka, Las Vegas City Councilman Vegas as well as local news programs in California and Wyoming. 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Tom Axtell This magazine is printed on recycled paper JULY 2018 5 July 2018 Contents Cover Story 8 Summer of Adventure With a variety of science, nature and history programs, you will visit some of the world’s most amazing places and cultures. Departments 5 Message to Our Members Letter from General Manager Tom Axtell 14 Upcoming Member Events 22 A Message from the Corporate Sponsorships Director Features 10 Drama Drama at Its Finest including Burton and Taylor, Maigret, Midsomer Murders, Season 5 and much more! 12 Spotlight Nevada Week Science NOVA: Treasures of the Earth: Gems 8 15 How-To Ciao Italia 17 Food For the Foodie in All of Us Spotlight Remembering the Sacrifices of Vietnam 20 History Stories of War and Peace 32 The Vietnam War by Ken Burns 33 Gorongosa Park: Rebirth of Paradise 34 Martha Bakes 35 Burt Wolf:Travels & Traditions 37 Vegas PBS Rewind/Worldview/Jackpot! 10 17 Program Menu 23 Weekdays/Children’s Lineup 24 Primetime Programming 32 Weekend Daytime Programming 36 Vegas PBS Create Programming 36 Vegas PBS Channels 38 Vegas PBS Sponsors 20 32 JULY 2018 7 COVER STORY “ Summer of Adventure Throughout July St. Louis, Missouri Explore the stories “behind ten American monuments...” 10 Monuments That Changed America Tuesday, July 17 at 8 p.m. Explore the stories behind ten American monuments and the historical moments that inspired them. Visit little-known locations like the Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial, a sculptural master- piece dedicated to one of the first African- American units to serve in the Civil War, and learn the surprising stories behind American icons like the Statue of Liberty, which was Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC devised as a propaganda piece by French repub- Be transported on an around-the-world adventure this summer with the PBS Summer of lican politicians. One episode is full of epic bat- Adventure! With a variety of science, nature and history programs, you will visit some of the tles fought over how to remember our past: world’s most amazing places and cultures. The month kicks off with 10 That Changed America. from Maya Lin’s controversial design for the Host Geoffrey Baer takes viewers across the country to the legendary streets, monuments and Vietnam Veterans Memorial to the ongoing con- troversies over Confederate monuments across modern marvels that changed our country. Come join the expedition —we are saving a seat for you! the South.You will also learn the stories of such 10 Streets That Changed oldest streetcar line out to some of the nation’s sites as the Lincoln Memorial, Mount America first suburbs in New Orleans, and in Detroit, Rushmore, the St. Louis Gateway Arch, the Tuesday, July 10 at 8 p.m. drive a Model T along America’s first mile of AIDS Memorial Quilt and the Oklahoma Discover how streets have connected the concrete paved road. Explore a car-friendly National Memorial. nation, divided communities and changed the street created by a 1920s entrepreneur who 10 Modern Marvels That way Americans live, work and shop. Trace predicted that Los Angeles would be dominat- Changed America Broadway’s 400-year evolution: from Native ed by the automobile, and take a horse and car- Tuesday, July 24 at 8 p.m. American trails to Dutch trading routes to the riage ride on a Brooklyn parkway built on the Celebrate those who have scoffed at the laws home of America’s first public transit service proposition that streets should be scenic.Travel of nature and defied the naysayers — and some- and an electrically-lighted theater district down the Lincoln Highway from New York to times even gravity — by undertaking these fan- known as the “Great White Way.” San Francisco. This cross-country road, which tastic feats of engineering. Each story includes Ride from Boston to New York on the began as a PR stunt dreamed up by a car sales- a fun physics lesson and a tale of human folly, Boston Post Road, a dirt “highway” created for man, laid the groundwork for America’s love beginning at the Erie Canal, a 363-mile long the nation’s first mail carriers. Take America’s affair with the road trip. man-made waterway that was built in the 19th 8 VEGAS PBS SOURCE ...don’t miss the “episode on July 24 that features Hoover Dam right here in Southern Nevada. It was designed to do the impossible...” century by thousands of laborers using primi- tive hand tools.The Holland Tunnel in New York was the first underwater tunnel for cars and the engineers had to solve a seemingly impossible, life-or-death challenge: build a tunnel with enough ventilation to prevent it from becoming a deadly gas chamber.