Not only showing on Fox11 and My21 in Reno, NV,  check out Carson City Public Access TV Charter Cable Channel 210 and www.ACCtv.org on demand for DIDyouKNOW? viewings this week and next.

Veterans Day, Wednesday – 11/11/09 – 1:30 pm

Friday, 11/13/09 – 9:30 am

Monday, 11/16/09 – 11:00 pm

Wednesday, 11/18/09 – 1:30 pm

Friday, 11/20/09 – 9:30 am

So be sure and spread the word — DIDyouKNOW? about Second Hand Smoke… with Lee Radtke.

 WhoDunnit? Murder Mystery Theater  

 November 13-14, 2009

Friday 7:00pm 

Saturday 1:00pm and 7:00pm 

    

 

An interactive Fundraiser Presented by the Nevada CASA Association and the Sierra Association of Foster Families

will be held at the Historic Caughlin Ranch House in Reno, Nevada.

Guests will explore the ranch house and surrounding buildings, interacting with actors depicting characters from 1865, when the Caughlin Ranch House was located in Virginia City.  It was during this time that President Abraham Lincoln, a group of Irish nuns, and a few other less notable townsfolk began Nevada’s first orphanage and created the state’s foster care system.

Tickets are ($75) and  include an array of libations; sinfully delectable desserts; silent auction; more live entertainment; celebrity guests; contests; raffles. Guests might want to add to the revelry by donning period costumes.

 

For information, sponsorships, tickets and volunteer opportunities, please contact Meg Davis at 775-329-2272 or megdavis@nevadacasa.org.  

                           

 Hurry before tickets sell out!!!

This week…. Senator John Ensign released this press release:

Ensign: Carson City Couple Truly Angels in Adoption

Washington. D.C. – Senator John Ensign is proud to announce that his nominees for the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute’s Angels in Adoption Program have been selected to represent the state of Nevada for the extraordinary contributions they have made on behalf of children in need of homes.

Roberta and Merrill Simon, of Carson City, have adopted 18 children over the past 30 years – most of whom have been special needs children.

“When you come across people like Roberta and Merrill Simon, you see what good there really is in the world,” said Ensign. “Having been adopted by my dad when I was a child, I know what an amazing gift adoption is. For the Simons to open their homes and hearts to 18 children is beyond extraordinary. There is no better word to describe them than angels.”

The Simon’s children range in age from 15 months old to 30 years old. They have adopted children with short life expectancies and extreme disabilities.

Roberta Simon explained that the couple is humbled by the recognition but feel that there are many others that deserve it more. “We were brought together by tragedy, but we try not to define ourselves by those events in the children’s life,” she stated.

Additionally, a family portrait of the Simon family will be hung in the halls of Congress outside Congressman Dean Heller’s office in WDC.

To ALL of Nevada’s adoptive parents….accept everyone’s gratitude for creating family permanency.