Community news briefs for October 4, 1999

Monday, Oct. 4, 1999 | 12:44 p.m.

Henderson to host positive choices carnival

The Henderson Parks and Recreation Department will host its 10th annual Spectroscope Positive Choices Carnival noon-4 p.m. Saturday at Titanium Field, at Lake Mead Drive and Water Street. It is open to children in grades K-8.

The Spectroscope carnival is designed to educate and entertain children about positive life choices through games, carnival attractions and positive social interaction. Call 565-2121.

Festival scheduled at Rainbow Library

The 1999 Storytelling Festival will be held 3 and 7 p.m. Saturday at the Rainbow Library Amphitheater, 3150 N. Buffalo Drive.

Bring your blankets and lawn chairs, relax on the grass and enjoy free performances with Angela Davis and Queen Esther, John Mooy, Joyce Rice and Rhonda Renee's and Skeeter, Clown of Clowns. Call 243-7307.

Surfing lessons

An Internet class is being offered 6 p.m. Thursday at the North Las Vegas Library, 2300 Civic Center Drive. Call 633-1070.

UNLV student gets help from Hispanic fund

Las Vegan Jamie Rivera received a $1,500 scholarship from the Hispanic Scholarship Fund. He is attending UNLV.

The fund awards scholarships to both colleges and college-bound students and is the largest Hispanic scholarship-granting organization in the United States. The Bank of America Foundation has donated $1 million to the fund.

Tate to head training of area missionaries

Warran G. Tate has begun his service as the new mission president for the Nevada Las Vegas Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

He and his wife, Suzanne Jeppson Tate, of Holiday, Utah, will spend their three-year mission training, teaching and supervising more than 180 missionaries who serve in the eastern area of Nevada and the northwestern portion of Arizona.

For 20 years Tate was chairman, owner and general partner of Tate/Brubaker Corp. of Salt Lake City and partner of Tate/Brubaker Realtors. He served as a political party worker, a state and county delegate and chairman and member of the board of directors of the Granite Education Foundation.

Apple re-elected to national council

Kathy Apple, Nevada's nursing board executive director, has been re-elected by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing to serve as its director at large, a one-year term. The council has 61 member boards.

The National Council of State Boards of Nursing and the Nevada State Board of Nursing promote safe and effective nursing to protect public health, safety and welfare.

Apple joined the Nevada State Board of Nursing in 1992 as associate executive director for nursing practice.

Ramos named to panel for national organization

The National Association of Housing and Redevelopment officials appointed Gustavo Ramos Jr. to serve a two-year term on its member services committee.

The committee represents concerns of special interest groups within the association's membership, addresses organizational issues such as constitutional changes and dues and coordinates conferences, publications, insurance, member benefits and awards.

Ramos will begin his term Oct. 21.