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Helix Electric Relocates to New Facility in Reno – Northern Nevada Business Weekly.

Education in America can trace its roots all the way back to the Puritans of the 1600s. The first public school was established in Boston, Massachusetts and allowed only boys. Eventually, the school system grew and became the recognized K-12 system that is familiar to Americans today. In the 1960s, the first magnet school opened with the aim to increase diversity in the nation’s public school system. Magnet schools differ from other district public schools in two major ways.

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To the south of Lake Las Vegas, just past Lake Mead Boat Storage off Lake Mead Parkway, lies a paradise of graffiti and dirt.

There are couches littered with graffiti and firework cartridges, with names such as “Addicted to Quack.” And as you walk, it’s a challenge to avoid the broken glass and bullet casings.

The dirt lot is accessed by a narrow opening between concrete barriers covered in, you guessed it, more graffiti.

This area is the abandoned Three Kids Mine.

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Kirk Stowers has a caliche story. Not because he’s a geologist, which he is — with the consulting firm Broadbent & Associates — but thanks to his dad. It was 1973, and his family had just arrived from Illinois. “My father had been led to believe that in order for a family to appreciate living in Southern Nevada, a swimming pool was going to be necessary in our backyard,” Stowers recalls. A contractor was hired and began to dig. “We wanted an eight-foot pool, and at about six feet they ran into caliche.” Full stop. That’ll be $10,000 extra, they said.

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