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Oscar Goodman: Las Vegas Mayor Builds The Most Livable City In America
 "We arrived here in Las Vegas in our mid-20s, with just $87 in our pockets," laughingling recalls Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman. "We couldn't go back to Philadelphia. We couldn't afford to. We looked down over the valley from Boulder City when we first got here and a tumbleweed came out in front of our car and a couple of twinkling lights and my wife Cariloyn ...
Brian Greenspun: Greenspun Family Pioneers Record Growth In Las Vegas
 In the late 1940s, the rapidly-growing Greenspun family blended in very well with all of their hardworking, middle-class neighbors in young Las Vegas. Back then, the population was just 16,000. Today, the Greenspuns are among the community's top ...
John Paul DeJoria: Success Unshared Is Failure, States Paul Mitchell CEO
 Might this be something out of the latest Hollywood movie? Perhaps it should be. Boy grows up poor in the concrete jungles of East LA, works his tail off, battles homelessness, conquers business and life, marries a beautiful wife, raises a great family and becomes an entrepreneur, mega-millionaire and ...
Kirk Kerkorian: Billionaire Investor Bets Big On MGM MIRAGES' Future
 When you think of the legendary risk takers who pioneered the landscape of Las Vegas, names like Howard Hughes and Steve Wynn may first come to mind. However, it may strongly be argued that it was the youngest son of Armenian immigrant parents who risked it all many times over and made a huge ...
Nicole "ND" Durr: Havana Night Show Radiates Freedom, Passion And Hope
 What do you get when you combine an extremely passionate, visionary and beautiful German-Danish blonde with 50 uniquely talented and dedicated Cuban singers, dancers and musicians, who recently immigrated to the United States against tremendous odds? ...
Jim And Heather Murren: Nevada Cancer Institute's Dream Becomes A Reality
 Jim and Heather Murren, make up a team that worked hard and built two incredible careers at early ages prior to finding their true calling. After nine years on Wall Street, Heather became group head for global consumer product research at ...
Jerry Tarkanian: Tark The Shark Puts UNLV Runnin' Rebels On The Map
 Prior to the years when legandary UNLV head basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian was coach at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, most people across the nation had heard little about the small southern Nevada college. Everything changed when "Tark the Shark" led the UNLV Runnin' REbels during his unprecedented 19 seasons as coach from 1973-1992. His incredible record of ...
Nathan Drage: Las Vegas Television Network Pioneers 24/7 All Vegas TV
 More than 25 years ago, a visionary entrepreneur named Ted Turner first launched Cable News Network, CNN based out of Atlanta, Georgia. At the time, there were plenty of doubters. One of Turner's favorite quotes of all-time happened to say ...
Allan And Debbie Creel: Creel Printing Delivers Over 50 Years Of 24/7 Deadlines
 Beloved and admired by family, friends and business associates alike, husband and wife, Allan and Debbie Creel, are the proud owners of Creel Printing. They prove that family members can all work together in harmony and finish at the very top through strong teamwork and dedication. "My mother and father ...
Nicholas Gouletas: American Invsco Creates $4.0 Billion In Real Estate Wealth
 The amazing journey of Nicholas S. Gouletas spans Athens to Chicago, to Las Vegas and 40 markets in-between. An inspiring, rags-to-riches story of a poor 8-year-old immigrant is filled with hope and determination. In 1944, near the end of World War II, the Gouletas family fled Greece for the promise of the U.S. in search of a better live and a place to have the opportunity to build their very own American dream. ...
Edward M. Brown: Patron Explodes Into World's #1 Ultra-Premium Tequila
 What's the hippest and most popular ultra-premium spirit, the brand Tom Cruise, Paris Hilton, Robin Leach, and a host of the hottest A-list celebrities reach for? It is Patron tequila, which has exploaded into the world's No. 1 ultra-premium ...
Bobby Baldwin: Ex-Poker Champ Builds A Winner In Mirage Resorts
 He's no longer living on Tulsa time. Bobby Baldwin, president and CEO of Mirage Resorts, Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary of MGM MIRAGE, and president and CEO of Bellagio, has embraced the 24/7 lifestyle of Las Vegas. He now plays an incredible role in the development and growth within the heart of the Las Vegas Strip. "I spent most of my life in Tulsa, Oklahoma," Baldwin recalls. "I had a morning and and afternoon paper route ...
Nancy Housells: Nevada Ballet Theatre Brings World Class To Las Vegas
 Is it possible for a world-class culture to blossom behind the glitz and glitter of the Las Vegas Strip? "It certainly is," according to Nancy Housells, chairman and co-founder of the Nevada Ballet Theatre. "This city continues to be built on new dreams, each and every day!" Housells, who started serious ballet training at age 3, danced professionally as part of the famous dance team of "Szony and Claire" throughout the ...
Jim Rogers: Business Leader Contributes Millions To Education
 Imagine working extremely hard all of your life to get ahead and then taking over $2 out of every $3 you have ever accumulated and giving it all away. You donate it to help fund education and other causes you believe in within communities where you do business. That would be a great example of good business at its best. Now, imagine putting a few hundred million at the end ...
Bruce Merrin: Entertainment And PR Flow In The Merrin Family Blood
 At age 12, Bruce Merrin had a crush on singing star Brenda Lee, who also was 12. Nostalgically, Merrin recalls the year as 1957, when Lee performed at the Flamingo as the youngest headliner ever on the Strip. Her recording, "Jambalaya," was the No. 1 hit, and a huge birthday pool party was thrown for her. Young ...
Norm Clarke: Norm Is The Pulse Of What Really Goes On In Vegas
 Terry, Montana - population 600 - is located near the beautiful Yellowstone River and is a great place for a kid to grow up. For Norm Clarke, top-selling author and columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the journey from this small town to the ...
Jim Gibson: Henderson Mayor Celebrates Life And The American Dream
 When you put together a native Nevadan, a top lawyer, a Henderson, Nevada, resident for 48 years, the secretary and past chairman of the board for the Las Vegas Visitors and Convention Authority, a loving husband, and the father of six wonderful children, all who are currently in college, what type of super-star team might this consist of? Surprisingly, you might come up with one unique and incredibly hardworking person ...
Danny Gans: Entertainer Of The Year Is Spectacular At The Mirage
 His dream of being one of the top players in Major League Baseball was cut short with a sports injury. However, a brand new dream surfaced for this all-American boy who took a chance at entering the exciting and highly-upredictable world of entertainment. Danny Gans is an extraordinarily gifted entertainer who continues to sell out the 1,265-seat Danny Gans Theatre at the Mirage Hotel & Casino in the ...
Lark Williams: Las Vegas' Rock 'N' Roll & Home Show Goddess
 The bumpy road between California and Nevada has not always been such a smooth ride for Lark Williams, one of Las Vegas' most beloved and respected radio and television personalities. "In the mid-1960s, my parents moved here from California ...
Larry Ruvo: Southern Wine And Spirits Quenches Huge Vegas Thirst
 After meeting Larry Ruvo, you walk away with the type of upbeat feeling only a favorite uncle can instill. It's part of the charm of this senior managing director of Southern Wine and Spirits of Nevada, and partner in the largest liquor distributorship in the nation. From busboy to restaurant owners to the president of the United States, Ruvo treats everyone he meets with equal respect, sincere warmth an the utmost ...
Joseph Sugarman: Direct Marketing Visionary Has It Made In The Shades
 Thanks to Joseph Sugarman, one of the nation's premiere sunglass companies is located right here in Las Vegas. But the trail to his success didn't start here. It started in the early 1970s when Sugarman formed JS&A Group, Inc, in Northbrook, Illinois, in the basement of his home. He was successful in marketing the world's first ...
Perry Rogers: Agassi/Rogers Partnership Creates Winning Team
 By the time they were barely 13 years old, two best friends from Las Vegas shared an extraordinary dream to one day do something special to make a difference in the lives of other young people, especially in the lives of disadvantaged children. And what a difference this top doubles team has made and continues to make. Andre Agassi, 35, has become ...
Steve Schorr: Cox Communications Keeps Community Commitment
 While conversing with the impecably dressed Steve Schorr, vice president of public and government affairs for Cox Communications, one might find it hard to believe he once was a poor kid from the projects of Newark, New Jersey, with a severe speech problem. "I was a rotten kid in school," recalls Schorr. "I was just a terrible student. However, when I was a junior in high school I had a teacher who believed in me. It was a turning ...
William S. Boyd: Boyd Family Parlays $80 Into $5 Billion Gaming Empire
 Legend has it Sam Boyd rolled into Las Vegas on Labor Day, 1941, along with his wife and 10-year-old son Bill with just $80 in his pockets, a sense of strong optimism, a winning attitude, and a legendary work ethic. His only son, William S. Boyd (Bill), chairman and CEO of Boyd Gaming Corporation, learned a tremendous amount from his father and helped build Boyd Gaming into a staggering ...
Howard Lefkowitz: Vegas.com Becomes The Top Choice Of Las Vegas Visitors
 In the 1970s, he learned a great deal about teamwork and winning from his hometown professional football team, the Pittsburgh Steelers. From their dismal 1 and 13 record in the early '70s to their amazing four Super Bowl appearances ...
Lorraine T. Hunt: Amazing Success In Business, Entertainment And Politics
 In 1943, Maria and Al Perry journeyed West with their little baby girl from Niagra Falls, New York. They left for personal health reasons and to pursue their dream for a better life. Ove the years, that same little girl blossomed into a business, entertainment and political dynamo, and is now known and respected as Nevada's Lieutenant Governor ...
Randall H. Walker: Air Traffic Soars To Record Levels AT McCarran Airport
 A native Nevadan, Randall H. Walker was born in Boudler City and grew up close by in Henderson, where he still lives today with his family. Walker never dreamed he would one day be the director of the Clark County Department of Aviation and now the key person responsible for the record-breaking growth of the life blood of Las Vegas' air transportation marvel, McCarran International Airport. "When I graduated from ...
Clint Holmes: Holmes Raises The Roof As 'Best Singer' In Las Vegas
 Tremendous talent. Where does it come from? With an African-American father as a jazz musician and a mother as a classically trained British opera singer, the two create a unique combination. Add a very powerful voice, magnetic stage presence, silky vocals, dancing, comedy, suave ...
Jan L. Jones: Ex-Las Vegas Mayor Creates A Winning Team At Harrah's
 Moving to Las Vegas from Southern California in 1982, she thought she'd live in Nevada for 12 months max. This blossomed into 23 years. During those whirlwind, two-plus decades, Jan L. Jones created an extraordinary life as mother of three wonderful children, successful leading businesswoman, two-term mayor of Las Vegas, top gaming executive, cancer survivor and a longtime community ...
Colle and Phyllis Davis: King & Queen Of Diamonds Brings Sparkle To Las Vegas
 It was on Thanksgiving Day 2004 when husband and wife, Colle and Phyllis Davis, both superachievers in their own right, took one last look from the deck of their spectacular four-story beach house in Southern California overlooking ...
Fafie Moore: Realty Executives Cultivates $2.4 Billion-Dollar Business
 For Fafie Moore, applying the wisdom and advice learned from her parents turned out to be an unbeatable, life-long combination. She now is president of Realty Executives, the No. 1 ranked female-owned business in Southern Nevada, according to the Las Vegas Business Journal. "Two things my parents have taught me. You never lie and you never quit," states ...
Bill Walters: The Best Bet He Ever Made Was Betting On Himself
 From the back roads of Kentucky to the neon lights of the Las Vegas Strip, Bill Walters, CEO of The Walters Group, has lived a life of contrasts. He's done it all, from being a used car salesman to being a professional gambler, from a top visionary developer to a leading community philanthropist. He give his credit for his success to two special women: his ...
Norm Jenkins: His Journey Started With A '49 Olds, $150 And A Dream
 He was born in Oregon and moved to Idaho after his grandfather died. In his teens, he was pretty good in sports and received several university athletic scholarships, but everything changed after a tragic car accident. His athletic dreams were now put on an indefinate hold, yet a new journey with a new dream was in the making. For Norm Jenkins, owner of several successful businesses over the years, the new path led him to ...
Sig Rogich: Rogich Earns The Trust Of Top American Presidents
 "My family and I moved from Westmann Island, Iceland, to America when I was 7 years old," reminisces Sig Rogich, president of The Rogich Communications Group. "My father was a construction worker, and he followed the circuit. It took us through the states of Washington, Montana, Utah and finally to Henderson Nevada, back in ...
Robert Cromeans: Award-Winning Mandalay Bay Stylist Inspires Beauty
 Robert Cromeans has followed in the inspiring footsteps of fellow Scottish countryman Andrew Carnegie, who immigrated to the United States with near nothing in the 19th century in search for a better life. Carnegie built his empire from scratch and became the richest man in the world with his ...
Paula Francis: She's One Of Our Favorite TV Anchors For Nearly 20 Years
 With all the record-breaking growth and endless change going on in Las Vegas, the local community certainly appreciates seeing a familiar face they can trust. Especailly a warm, comforting, down-to-earth and caring professional who shares with them the latest, fast-moving news each weeknight - someone who has been a fixture in town for two ...
Michael La Fleur: Show Director Captivates All With Imaginative Theatre
 He received his first taste of show business at age 3, when he was heard singing on the radio from his tiny hometown of Worland, Wyoming.The entertainment seed was firmly planted in the soul of Michael La Fleur, actor, director, writer and choreographer for some of the world's leading productions, including Celine Dion - A New Day at Caesars Palace. "I'd never seen a live play until one day, in the 4th grade, two of ...
Fluff LeCoque: Dance Legend Keeps 'Em Kickin' At Bally's Jubilee!
 In her 80s? Au contraire! And, who'd ever believe it? This lady flies up and down backstage stairs with the spirit and energy of an 18-year-old. She has things to do, deadlines to meet and a cast of 85 singers and dancers who pay strict attention to her every move. Is she the latest diva? Hardly. She is the legendary Fluff LeCoque, company manager of Donn Arden's smash hit, "Jubilee!", which continues to dazzle crowds at ...
Tina Walsh: MAMMA MIA! Audiences Love Timeless Hit Musical
 Her name is Tina, but her leading role voice is anything but tiny. And it takes a big, dedicated team of creative and highly-talented professionals to stay up with her in the widely entertaining, fun and feel-good story, "MAMMA MIA!" The world-renowned, smash hit musical is based on the timeless songs of ABBA and is playing to record breaking crowds at Mandalay Bay. Walsh stars as Donna Sheridan, the independent single ...
Richard H. Bryan: Former U.S. Senator Dedicates His Life To Serving Nevadans
 The young boy's dream began during the completion of grade school: to one day make it into politics and to make a noticable difference in the lives of the people he served. This ambitious dream has come true several times over for extraordinary leader Richard H. Bryan, former two-term governor ...
Sabrina Markey: Stripper 101: Life's Lessons By The Master Entertainer
 A most strikingly beautiful and exotic blend of pure Japanese and Norwegian descent, Sabrina Markey was raised in Honolulu, where she attended private prep school, graduated from USC with a B.A. in International Business and eventually arrived in Las Vegas, working in one of this city's most popular industries. "I followed all the rules," she laughs. "After USC, I landed a job in New York in sales with an ...
Steve Cyr: Vegas Casino Host Shares His Whale Hunting Secrets
 Of the over 500 casino hosts in las Vegas alone, few know how to dangle the casino candy, and bring in the highest of the high rollers, like Steve Cyr, president of H Six and one of the world's leading casino superhosts. In 1983, Cyr left small town ...
Somer Hollingsworth: Nevada Development Team Brings In The Business
 "Where else could a family from Texas put a mattress on top of their car, rent a U-Haul and move west with really nothing going on and end up with this great life?" questions Somer Hollingsworth, president and CEO of the Nevada Development Authority. That's exactly what happened over time when the Hollingsworth family moved to Las Vegas while he was ...
John Ensign: Nevada Senator Fights For The Rights Of Nevadans
 The Ensign family has roots in Nevada dating back nearly a century. The work ethic and the rewards have been very good for the family of United States Senator John Ensign, the Republican junior senator of Nevada. On his mom's side, his family has ben here since 1906, and on his dad's side, 1961. "I had my first real job when I was 12, cleaning pots and pans in a delicatessen and really worked ever since then," recalls ...
Nick Swinmurn: Zappos.com Sells 10,000 Pairs Of Shoes On-line Each Day
 Can you imagine having over 1.7 million pairs of brand new shoes to choose from at your fingertips 24/7, 365 days a year? That's exactly what Nick Swinmurn, founder and chairman of Internet-based Zappos.com, created, along with his rapidly ...
Frank Marino: Superstar Impersonator Of La Cage Rocks The Riviera
 "Paging Dr. Frank Marino, Dr. Marino please." Can you imagine what might have been? In an interesting twist of fate, Frank Marino, Riviera headliner and superstar impersonator of An Evening at La Cage, shifted his career direction ...
Rose Heeter: A Beautiful Rose Blossoms In The Red Hot Desert
 So who is the beauty who helped superstar actress Sharon Stone win her 1996 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in the movie, "Casino?" Why it's Las Vegas's own multitalented actress, body double, stand-in, stunt woman, director, trainer ...
Johnny Brenden: Brenden Theatres Delivers Movie Magic At The Palms
 "My father died when I was young," recalls 40-year-old Johnny Brenden, owner, president and CEO of the Brenden Theatre Corporation. "I grewup working for my grandfather, and living with my grandfather, when I wasn't in school. Brenden's grandfather was legendary movie theater pioneer Ted Mann, who built and operated the widely successful Mann Theatre Corporation. Mann, a self-made made, humble and hard-working visionary, taught Johnny the business beginning in his early ...
Art Marshall: Business Leader Banks On 50 Years Of Local Success
 Growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, as the child of hardworking Russian/Jewish immigrants, toght times coupled with the Depression just couldn't keep him down or from chasing after his dreams, which eventually brought him to Las Vegas a half-century ago. Art Marshall, chairman of BankWest of Nevada, Nevada Gaming Commission member, and a remarkably successful business and community ...
Tim Poster & Tom Breitling: Golden Nugget Partners Add Sparkle To Downtown
 In the early 1990s, two energetic, hardworking and optimistic recent college graduates had maybe a few hundred dollars between them. However, it never stopped them from living well beyond their means and getting in to see their hero, Frank Sinatra, perform live in concert in Las Vegas. The entertainment capital of the world has been good to multimillionaire ...
Stan Breland: Andre Agassi Boys And Girls Club Creates A Ray Of Hope
 How does a rough and tough, inner-city neighborhood become home to the 2,000th Boys and Girls Club of America? In Las Vegas, it began in part with a major contribution of over $1 million by local tennis pro Andre Agassi. Named after him, it opened to huge applause and support in 1997. Selected as ...
Pat Morita: Veteran Movie And TV Actor Chooses Las Vegas As Home
In memory of (1932 - 2005)
 Character actor Noriyuki "Pat" Morita has endured many of life's ups and downs and yet landed his feet firmly on the ground to become one of the most admired and respected television and movie actors worldwide. Morita, a youthful 73, is best known to millions of fans internationally as the wise and humbel teacher, or "sensei," Mr. Kesuke Miyagi, from the hit "Karate Kid" ...
Pete "Big Elvis" Vallee: "Big Elvis" Rocks The House At Barbury Coast
 It all started at age 13, up in Tacoma, Wash., when a local pastor first heard him sing and told him he sounded like a young Elvis Presley. Today, Pete "Big Elvis" Vallee has found his calling and rocks the house and more at the Barbury Coast Hotel & Casino on the world famous Las Vegas Strip. "I moved to Las Vegas when I was 15," recalls Vallee. "The first place I ever played here was the Sahara. I also played the ...
Carlos Garcia: CCSD Is The Fastest-Growing School District In America
 He's come a long way from his early childhood roots in the Los Angeles barrio where gangs, drugs and violence were a tough thing for a lot of kids to say no to. However, at an early age, he knew by making the right choices, and working hard, a good education would one day open the doors to an unlimited number of opportunities. During his lifetime, eduation has served Carlos Garcia, the former superintendent of the Clark County ...
Francois Badeau: Las Vegas Monorail Visionary Creates Innovative Solutions
 Considered by many to be one of America's greatest imports from the Frozen North is Francois Badeau of Montreal, Canada. Life began with a bit of a chill in his early years, when he dropped out of the eighth grade and was forced to ...
Wayne Allyn Root: 'America's Handicapper' Shares His WinningEDGE
 "We are a nation of risk takers. My pioneering ancestors came over from Germany and Russia, and they came here without a dollar in their pockets," proudly beams Wayne Allyn Root, CEO of GWIN, Inc. America's only publicly traded sports handicapping company, located in Las Vegas. "I'm an S.O.B., the son of a butcher. I grew up in a dead-end town at the end of a dead-end street in Mt. Vernon, New York. I'm a gambler. I started at age 14. When I was 16, I started betting against ...
Bill Fayne: From Monte Carlo To Vegas, He Keeps The Music Rockin'
 In 1964, two aspiring performers met while studying to be opera singers at New York's prestigious Fredonia State College. Fast-forward to the Las Vegas Strip over four decades later as these two multi-talented entertainers, after years of performing together in the four corners of the world, currently are dazzling audiences six nights a week at Harrah's ...
Harry Reid: Senator Harry Reid Shares A Life Built On Nevada Values
 In the words of U. S. Senator Harry Reid: My story begins in Searchlight, Nevada, a small desert town, an hour south of Las Vegas. Searchlight is a mining town and my dad was a miner. He taught me the importance of taking pride in your job and doing it well. I attended a two-room elementary school. Neither of my parents finished high school but they were determined that I would. So after eighth grade I sent to high school in ...
Lynette Boggs McDonald: Fast-Track Leaker Helps Shape Nevada
 As an Army brat, she was exposed at an early age to a unique view of the world while living in Germany and Italy and traveling throughout Europe. Once she arrived in Las Vegas, a mere 15 years ago, she hit the ground running and has never ceased to improve the quality of life in Southern Nevada. Lynette Boggs McDonald, a Clark County commissioner, has lived her life on the fast track and has helped shape Nevada's future through her unequaled roles in city, county and philanthropic ...
Charlie Palmer: Charlie Palmer Creates Primo Progressive American Cuisine
 Located in New York and California, Washington, D. C., and especially well received in Las Vegas, Charlie Palmer, the James Beard award-winning chef and owner of The Charlie Palmer Group, operates 10 widely successful restaurants throughout America with over 1,000 dedicated ...
Douglas Beckley: Building A Better Nevada Four Generations Strong
 It is said less than 3% of the Las Vegas population was born in the state of Nevada. In regard to the Beckley family, four generations have grown up in this area and flourished in its desert paradise, including successful entrepreneur, philanthropist and gifted speaker Douglas Beckley. "My grandfather traveled from Illinois looking for opportunity right after the turn of the century. He came after his friend, Ed Von Tobel, told him about this amazing place in the middle of ...
Ken Riley: 'I Had The Burning Desire To Make Something Of Myself'
 It was the summer of 1957, early July to be exact. Ken Riley was an ambitious bartender in his early 20s working at the Cal Neva Lodge in Tahoe. It was there he first laid eyes on a stunning show girl and professional dancer named Melinda. Four months later, they were married. Life hadn't always been such smooth sailing for Riley. He was born into a lower ...
Jim and Lee Medick: MRC Thrives In Las Vegas Market Research Success
 Just over a decade ago, Jim and Lee Medick left the birthplace of modern research, Princeton, New Jersey, to find new opportunities in the desert of Las Vegas. Their dream was to create one of the top market research companies in the U.S. They did it the right way.
 "One day I went home and asked my wife, have you ever thought about moving to Las Vegas?" recalls Jim Medick. "It was one of those gray, overcast, miserable Northeast days. She happened to be looking in the travel section at the Bahamas that day. She really surprised me and said ...
Manny Cortez: From Valet To LVCVA CEO He's Done It All With Class
 As a young man, originally from New Mexico, he was never afraid of rolling up his sleeves and going to work. For Manny Cortez, the former CEO and chairman of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, he's worked his way up the ranks from washing dishes and parking cars in the early days, to ...
Max James: American Kiosk Management Builds Shopping Mall Success
 The daily work ethic was strongly ingrained laboring together with his dad on their Tennessee farm at an early age. Even stronger was the desire of the son, Max James, a self-proclaimed serial entrepreneur and current CEO of innovative retailer American Kiosk Management, to be all he ...
Michael Politz: Las Vegas Food & Beverage Becomes The Industry Voice
 His swift journey from the political power corridor of Washington D. C., to the entertainment and restaurant capital of the world in Las Vegas has proven a whirlwind for Michael Politz, publisher of Las Vegas Food & Beverage Magazine, the leading trade pub targeted on the rapidly-growing food and hospitality industry. "I started over many times ...
Dr. Russell B. Clark: 105-Year-Old Cashes In On Las Vegas Real Estate Boom
 The odds are probably pretty good there is not another living person on this planet who can claim he was born on November 19, 1900, lived through World War I, graduated from college in 1926, survived the Great Depression of 1929, witnessed World War II, was a practicing physician and surgeon for 47 years, received the honor as "America's ...
Ed Guthrie: Opportunity Village Turns Disabilities Into Abilities
 Opportunity Village is one of those rare, magical organizations that combines an equal amount of teamwork, love, hope, respect and care, which together produce some incredible results for all. Consistently voted "Best Community Organization" by the readers of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Opportunity Village just celebrated its 51st birthday on July 7, 2005. The beloved community organization works with ...
Florence Shapiro: She's The Reigning Queen Of Las Vegas Luxury Homes
 Some three-plus decades ago, Florence Shapiro set her dream to move from her hometown of the City of Lights, Paris, France, to the Big Apple of New York City. Her dream though took a slight detour to the Las Vegas desert. She ended up loving Las Vegas so much, as she got hooked on the real estate business, she never left. Now, she's called the fastest-growing city in America home for more than ...
Polly Gonzalez: (1962 - 2005) She Lifted Hearts And Inspired All With Hope
 She was one of the most precious earth angels in the desert, who reached out and touched many thousands within the community. From her two beautiful daughters, Sabrina and Gabriella, to her loyal veiwers at KLAS-TV Channel 8, to her beloved Latino comminity, family and friends, Polly Gonzalez led the way by encouraging all to believe in the beauty ...
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