Dayton, Nevada -Healthy Communities Coalition sponsors a series of FREE cooking classes for the community. The next class is on Monday, November 16th (2014) at The Dayton Community Center at 170 Pike Street. Participants will learn how to prepare lima bean soup. Cooking begins at 5:30pm, and participants will enjoy a meal together at 6:15pm. The class is open to anyone who would […]
Healthy Communities Coalition?s director Christy McGill is quoted extensively on page 10 and 11 in the new edition of Remote Area Medical?s magazine. This spring, RAM served not only Nevadans from the cities of Reno and Vegas, but also rural residents who were brought by the van loads from communities like Minden, Silver Springs, Dayton, Carson City, etc. The two […]
Silver Springs, Nevada ? HCC?s Silver Stage Food Pantry will be distributing Thanksgiving turkeys and whole chickens on Monday, November 17th through Friday, November 21 from 10am until 4pm. For more information, please call (775) 577-9161. Pantry Closed Nov. 24-Nov 28: The Silver Stage Pantry will be closed from November 24th through Nov 28th so the volunteers, who put in 1630 hours […]
Dayton, Nevada ? The Dayton Food Pantry will be closed both Monday and Tuesday, November 10th and 11th due to Veterans Day. The Pantry will also have special hours and events during the Thanksgiving season (details below). For more information, please call (775) 246-7834. Turkey Distribution: Thanksgiving turkeys or whole chickens will be distributed by the Dayton Food Pantry on Saturday November 15th at Sutro […]
Oct 31st from noon to 4pm at the Silver City School House, 385 High Street Silver City, Nevada, an historic community within one of the largest federally designated historic landmarks in the United States, is the site for one of the official Signature events marking the statewide celebration of Nevada’s Sesquicentennial. The afternoon show at the Silver City School House […]
Silver Springs, Nevada – When you go to the Lyon County Fly-In this weekend, check out the Silver Stage Co-Op’s Hoe Down square dance (see the flyer image for time and date). The Silver Stage Co-Op is a strategy group of Healthy Communities Coalition, working to create more opportunities to buy and grow local and fresh foods. The group is […]
Virginia City, Nevada – On Thursday, September 25, 2014 at 6pm, the public is cordially invited to the “unveiling” of a Cultural Resource Inventory of the Comstock (Silver City, Gold Hill, Virginia City and Dayton). The Inventory is a project funded by the Nevada Arts Council and National Endowment for the Arts, and carried out by volunteers from the four communities […]
Dayton, Nevada ? This summer, 80 kids attending the Boys and Girls Club found out that kale and fish actually taste quite good. Farmer Rebekah May, who is also a certified Community Health Advocate with Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey, showed youths how to create tasty dishes from ?scratch? using fresh local produce, herbs and meat from her farm […]
What do you get when you mix Food Security, Health, Citizens, Schools, Mental Health, Farmers, Teachers, Students, Art, Healthy Eating, School Gardens and the total belief that people or communities do not have to be monetarily wealthy to be AWESOME, HEALTHY and INNOVATIVE? You get the Thrive Conference in Lyon County. Our speakers are students and professionals both local and […]
Dow Jones and CNBC are reporting Tesla has chosen Nevada as the site of its Gigafactory. Tesla had already broken ground on a prospective site in Storey County earlier this summer that only bore the name “Project Tiger.” The Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (TRIC) in Storey County currently boasts e-commerce facilities owned by Apple, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Zulily. […]
