​SNAKE VALLEY FESTIVAL
JUNE 16-17, 2017

Friday, June 16, 2017
6-9 pm Beer Tasting and Root Beer Tasting, Whispering Elms All beers made with Great Basin Water!
7-9 pm Silent Auction - with “Premium” items at the Whispering Elms
 
Saturday, June 17, 2017
7 am - 10 am Pancake Breakfast at Kerouac’s Café on Baker Ave.
8 am – noon - Community Yard Sale At NOON, everything left is FREE
8 am – 3 pm Booths near Baker Hall and on Baker Avenue
8 am – 3 pm Book Sale near Baker Hall at 3 PM, anything left is FREE
10 am Small Town Parade -So small it goes around twice! 
11 am - 2 pm Lunch and Food Booths near Baker Hall
11 am - 1 pm Solar Telescope on playground
11 am - 2 pm Kids' Games on Baker Hall lawn
11 am - 2:30 pm Silent Auction in Baker Hall
11 am - 3 pm Bake/Pie Sale in Baker Hall
1 pm - 3 pm Free Entertainment Baker Hall lawn 
3 pm Massive water fight on playground
5:30 pm BBQ dinner at Border Inn
7 pm  – 50:25:25 Raffle winner announced
7:30 - 11 pm Dance at the Border Inn, featuring Travis Allred as DJ with Karaoke
8:30 pm Astronomy Program, Great Basin National Park at the Lehman Caves Visitor Center

Truman and Barkley Are Moving!
 
After spending years on the road with their person driving semi truck over the road throughout the country, Truman and Barkley are about to start on a new adventure. They have relaxed at home base all winter and now are getting ready to move to a new house in a new area.
 
Their person has been going to school since January to train as a welder and will continue school this fall. A new house is coming to be placed on 3 ½ acres in western Nevada. The house will be home to the parents of their person so everyone will be together. This includes Truman and Barkley’s big sister dog Marley and 4 cats.
 
Truman and Barkley will have lots of room to run. A band of wild horses roams across the property and some fences will need to be put up. In Nevada much of the land is public land and wild horses along with other wildlife are free to roam. The law is if horses or other animals aren’t wanted on the land, fences must be put up to keep them out without harming any of them.
 
The move should be completed by the end of June. Watch for posts as progress is made on the new house. Truman and Barkley are ready for new adventures on their new place.

So, I am a couple of months into my new existence as a city dweller. It has been a bit of a learning curve, but I think I am ready to graduate from “strange haole” to “new here”. It hasn’t been easy, but it has been highly enjoyable.

I know my way around all the thrift shops on the island, the clerks know me, and I have my senior discount card at each one.  After slowing down a line which grew from 2 people waiting behind me to 7, the lady behind me, having observed my basket full of housewares, smiled at me and said (sincerely), “I hope you enjoy your new home here.” That did for me, I was completely smitten.

Parking garages have presented a bit of a challenge, but my driving is stellar! I just turn up the radio so no one notices my GPS lady’s voice saying, “recalculating route” over and over! But what does it matter, I am in no rush. I have a wonderful parking place on the 5th floor of the parking garage attached to the high rise where I live. I won’t claim being perfect at any part of the experience of parking in said garage except the remote which opens the gates. I have that down pat now with just enough time to put on my shades, turn up the music and open the moon roof before the gates have opened sufficiently for me to exit.

I did run into a bit of a scrimmage more than once now on the curved one way driving path that carries one’s car from one parking floor to another. First off no one told me what those curved mirrors were for, and while I was checking my reflection to see if my car needed a wash a very loud horn blew and scared me witless. I am not sure but I think those mirrors are supposed to be for drivers to try and discern whether a car is coming around the corner.

The whole parking act though is giving me all kinds of fits. One big wig in the Home Owner’s Association said my car was too big. I don’t know if he dislikes renters and wants me to move, or if he is a hopeful car salesman. All I know is I told my Dad that practicing parallel parking with a standard transmission on a hill in a small town in the middle of nowhere probably would not prepare me to park anywhere. City parking is insane! But I almost have it down. I proceed to the end of the aisle on my parking floor and make approximately 32 forward and backward moves to turn my car around so that I can maneuver between the concrete pillars and my parking neighbor’s extra-long pick up cab with a camper on it. I am working up to backing into the space, I mean I do have a reverse camera, but there is only an inch and a half on each side.
​
It reminds me of the tiny garages we had in the old days when we started buying Pontiac boats. Oh, well. I always claimed to be a lifelong learner. I’ll keep ‘ya posted on the flip side.

​Art Bank Hosts Annual Student Art Show
 
The fourth Annual Student Art Show will take place this May 5th & 6th, 12th & 13th, and 19th & 20th from 10 am to 4 pm at the Ely Art Bank.
 
Rose Mehlhaff , the Art Instructor at White Pine High School, works with the students each year preparing their best work to be displayed to this public event. Mrs. Mehlhaff teaches various art mediums including drawing in pencil, charcoal and pastels. Some of her students are first year students and some are in their third year of class.
 
Part of the fun for the students is seeing their work on display and taking time while in the Art Bank to  critique all of the work,  even making thoughtful suggestions and comments to the artist..
 
Also on display at this time will be the Wally Cuchine Art Collection. This exhibit showcases over 40 years of Nevada art by Nevada artists. This collection of painting depicts the landscape and people of Nevada.
 
The Art Bank hours are Thursday 10 am to 2 pm; Friday and Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm; and Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm.  The Art Bank is located at

After 22 years, Ely United Methodist Church has moved into their new church building!  We are having a celebration on May 27, 2017.  

We would love for you to come celebrate with us!  Please share the invitation with all your family.

Please let us know if you plan to attend.  If you cannot, we appreciate your prayers and support during this long process!  We did it!!!