Ed Koch

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Mountain lodge owner dies at 76: Thursday, Nov. 17, 2005; It is just about impossible to find a stretch of the Mount Charleston area that Collie Orcutt and his wife, Barbara, did not traverse on horseback.
Youth Forum experience was a help to LV attorney: Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2005; -- Jim Crockett, Dec. 26, 1965
Youth Forum still meaningful for alum: Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2005; * School: Rancho High
Griffith, artist, competitive swimmer, dies at 100: Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2005; Born: Nov. 8, 1905, at Jamestown, N.Y.
LV woman made most of Forum opportunity: Monday, Nov. 14, 2005; * School: Rancho High
Forum's birth year listed as 1955 for good reason: Sunday, Nov. 13, 2005; "The Sun Youth Forum put me in front of my peers and taught me that I had something to say and that others would listen. I attribute much of my professional success to that seed that was planted 25 years ago."
Success of Youth forum is celebrated: Sunday, Nov. 13, 2005; As Brian Greenspun was preparing for fall classes at Georgetown University in 1969, his father, then-Las Vegas Sun Publisher Hank Greenspun, phoned him and asked him to hop on a plane to Georgia to receive something special.
Alzheimer's claims longtime Las Vegan: Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005; Doris Wellendorf was all about family and the holidays.
Comrades in a lost war: Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005; Ba says the insurgent forces in Iraq are well aware of U.S. military history, particularly the 1973 pullout of Vietnam amid mounting protests at home. With U.S. deaths in Iraq recently topping 2,000, terrorist forces believe all they have to do is hold on until similar protests force a pullout of Iraq, Ba said.
Poker room supervisor Bruce Meierkord dies: Saturday, Nov. 5, 2005; As a poker room supervisor at the Mirage, Bellagio, Horseshoe and other major resorts for 30 years, Meierkord won the respect of players and dealers. On Internet poker chat rooms, news groups and poker blogs, when someone had a difficult question about the rules or etiquette of poker, Meierkord often would pop in with a concise and accurate interpretation of regulations and customs.
After eight years, blinds justice still being sought: Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005; Talk about a landlord turning a blinds eye to a tenant's complaint.
Free fall fundraisers: Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2005; Local skydiver Mary Tortomasi says she pays a parachute packer $6 to pack her square main chute prior to each jump. However, only a certified rigger is permitted to pack the vital reserve chute, which is deployed when the main chute fails. The cost for that service is $60, and a reserve chute must be repacked every 120 days even if it has not been deployed, she said.
Longtime car dealer Pete Findlay dies: Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2005; Born: June 19, 1919, in Pioche.
Health officials set for rat race: Monday, Oct. 31, 2005; After more than two years of not rooting out roof rat colonies in the valley, the Clark County Health District has scheduled its second major roof rat surveillance program planned for January.
Fremont Middle School gets tough with roof rats: Monday, Oct. 31, 2005; * Order: Rodentia
Trombonist for Sinatra dies at 82: Saturday, Oct. 29, 2005; Education: Bachelor's degree in music from Northwestern University; master's degree from the Chicago Conservatory of Music.
Sun's first sports editor dies at 88: Thursday, Oct. 27, 2005; * Born: Oct. 18, 1917, in Flagstaff, Ariz.
Deceased Sun executives to be honored: Thursday, Oct. 27, 2005; A bust of Nevada Paiute activist Sarah Winnemucca will be dedicated in memory of Ruthe Deskin, the late assistant to the publisher of the Sun, during an unveiling ceremony, 1:30 p.m., Sunday at the Spanish Springs Library in Sparks.
LV 101: Beyond the Strip: Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2005; Pop Quiz: Test your LV Histoy knowledge
Drag racer puts brakes on multiple sclerosis: Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005; For more information about multiple sclerosis call the National Multiple Sclerosis Society toll-free at (800)-FIGHT MS. (Press 2 for the Las Vegas office.) Or go to nationalmssociety.org.
Men of mettle: Monday, Oct. 17, 2005; In addition to Steven Glenn and Clifton Anthony, 11 other Southern Nevadans have been awarded the Carnegie Medal for heroism since it was established in 1904. The ages and hometowns are those at the time of their acts of heroism. In all, 20 Nevadans have won the medal. Here are the other local honorees:
Disasters not yet hurting donations to local charities: Friday, Oct. 14, 2005; Dan Goulet, president and chief executive of United Way of Southern Nevada, warned that one more disaster could overload the system.
Heroes of the pandemic: Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005; Flu deaths
Court is in session: Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005; Some of the UNLV law students attending a session of the Nevada Supreme Court on campus Tuesday say a lesson that they came away with is that Clark County School District teachers had better watch out for their jobs.
Thinning the herd: Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2005; By Ed Koch
Las Vegas Sun
Bailiff and LV pioneer dies: Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2005; Born: Oct. 26, 1925, in Los Angeles.
Zenoff, former justice of Supreme Court, dies: Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2005; As a district judge in the 1950s and '60s, he was a driving force behind the creation of the Spring Mountain Youth Camp to rehabilitate youths.
District attorney: Cases tragic, but not criminal: Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005; Clark County District Attorney David Roger defends his office's decisions not to prosecute some cases in which children have been injured or died after being left in cars, while prosecuting some parents whose children have survived.
Deadly lapse of memory: Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005; According to the national organization Kids in Cars, all of the deaths occurred from May through July when temperatures inside the vehicles reached triple digits.
Sun pledges to uphold ideals of founder: Monday, Oct. 3, 2005; Despite the joint delivery arrangement, The Sun remains a fierce competitor of the Review-Journal. By sharing the R-J's larger circulation, the Sun will ensure that its independent voice will more clearly be heard.
Getting back to Basic High School: Monday, Oct. 3, 2005; The red brick schoolhouse at Henderson's Van Wagenen Street and Pacific Avenue, in the foothills of Black Mountain, is boarded up and fenced in, awaiting a date early next year with bulldozers.
Back to the future: Friday, Sept. 30, 2005; WEEKEND EDITION
Essay competition aimed at increasing awareness of pets' value: Friday, Sept. 30, 2005; WEEKEND EDITION
Early Las Vegas entrepreneur Ragland dies: Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2005; Bertha Ragland came to Las Vegas in 1943 against the advice of family and other friends and with just $60 to her name.
Giuliani discusses leadership during Las Vegas speech: Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2005; Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani told a Las Vegas audience Tuesday that "relentless preparation" was one of the six principles of leadership that helped him get his city through the crisis of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Viatorians celebrate 50 years in valley: Saturday, Sept. 17, 2005; The Clerics of St. Viator are celebrating their 50th anniversary of serving Nevada. Here are key accomplishments of the local Catholic priests of the Viatorian order as compiled from research of Marie Feeney, coordinator of the golden anniversary observance, and Las Vegas Sun archives:
Vets home wants to junk troublesome computer: Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2005; Although it was only two years ago that $50,000 was spent on computer software for the Southern Nevada Veterans Home in Boulder City, state officials now are prepared to scrap that software and spend $250,227 more to buy a new computer system.
France, longtime dancer, producer, dies: Monday, Sept. 12, 2005; Penny France had a desire to be more than just a pretty face on a statuesque showgirl's body.
Laboratory testing on dead bighorn sheep doesn't reveal why animals perished: Friday, Sept. 9, 2005; Nevada wildlife officials know what did not cause 22 desert bighorn sheep to die in the Southern Nevada mountains in July, but they may never know what actually killed the animals.
Legends in their time: Friday, Sept. 9, 2005; WEEKEND EDITION
Hughes confidant, aviation leader Jack Real dies: Thursday, Sept. 8, 2005; Aviation pioneer Jack Real enjoyed spending hours on the phone with reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes discussing their favorite subject -- flight.
LV soldier's 'life was about service': Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005; As Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery workers covered the casket of 21-year-old Army Spc. Joseph L. Martinez with dirt, a woman in a long black print dress a few hundred feet away knelt at the headstone of her son.
Rittendale, veteran teacher, former Sun society columnist, dies: Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005; By day, Marguerite Rittendale was a dedicated teacher at Kermit R. Booker Elementary School and at other educational centers during a career that spanned four decades.
Fair shows it's never too late to learn: Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005; WEEKEND EDITION
AIDS treatment making progress: Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005; WEEKEND EDITION
Movie makeup artist Scott dies at 76: Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005; Mickey Scott, a movie makeup artist who supervised cosmetologists working on the 1985 family sci-fi film "D.A.R.Y.L." and applied makeup to Shelly Long for two of her motion pictures, died Tuesday in Las Vegas. She was 76.
Woman run over, killed on I-15 after alleged argument with taxicab driver: Friday, Aug. 26, 2005; A woman who slapped a cabdriver and got out of his taxi after he pulled over alongside Interstate 15 early this morning was killed when she was run over by several vehicles on the freeway, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
Scouts learn to park it: Friday, Aug. 26, 2005; WEEKEND EDITION
Recent monsoons won't delay Henderson interchange project: Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2005; The recent monsoon rains will not delay the completion of the $82.2 million Interstate 215-U.S. 95 interchange in Henderson, Nevada highway officials and the chief contractor for the project said Monday.
Legacy of tennis groundbreaker Arthur Ashe moves Vegas teen: Friday, Aug. 19, 2005; WEEKEND EDITION