Las Vegas news briefs

Tuesday, Sept. 9, 1997 | 9:54 a.m.

* HARTER SPEECH -- UNLV President Carol Harter will deliver her third annual State of the University Address at 2:30 p.m. Sept. 18 in the library of the new Paul B. Sogg Architecture Building. A highlight of the event will be the unveiling of photographic portraits of the seven presidents UNLV has had during its 40-year history. The portraits, a gift from the UNLV Alumni Association, will hang in the James R. Dickinson Library.

* SCHOOL OUTAGE -- Students at Wolfe Elementary School were sent home this morning after a power outage at the North Las Vegas campus, officials said. The outage occurred within the school's own electrical system, said Tom Henley, spokesman for Nevada Power Co. "We don't have a system failure," said Henley, who noted that technicians checked for a power failure this morning at Nevada Power and found none. "It's something in their own electrical system." He said because it wasn't the power company's system, he didn't know how long it would take to restore the power. School officials were unavailable for comment. Wolfe, a year-old school, has been in double sessions until Guy Elementary opens next door on Oct. 30.

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