Business in Nevada

by Kris E. Holt, Executive Director, Nevada Business Connections

NBC Executive Director, Kris Holt, conducted the sixth NBC business recruitment mission in the northwest during the past three years. The companies visited in the Seattle region were:

by Kris E. Holt, Executive Director, Nevada Business Connections

The LaMotte family, who moved their recoil reel manufacturing company to Carson City in 1992, sold their expansion building to Allstate Can Corporation from New Jersey.

NBC members Gary Moriera, Commerce Commercial Real Estate, the Nevada State Development Corporation Team and the LaMotte family helped residential real estate agent Bob Fredlund make the project happen.

Duro Manufacturing donated a 1,000 sq. ft. office to NBC during our first year, in 2008, at 3535 Arrowhead Drive, which was the building sold to Allstate Can Corporation.

Allstate Can Corporation plans to manufacture specialty decorative tin containers with 7 relocating employees from Stockton while adding 20 new local, primary jobs in approximately 30,000 sq. ft. of their new facility. Dohlander-Graedener Corporation, the high-end speaker manufacturer, will remain tenants next door.

Welcome Ronald and Richard Papera to our community.

speech by Dr. Carol Lucey, President, Western Nevada College, delivered in August 2012

As a child, I grew up in a small town in upstate New York. I went to a little school that emphasized rote academics, and my sister and I always spent the hours after school at the kitchen table, doing homework drudgery like memorizing vocabulary and multiplication tables, and later on, computing complex trigonometry problems without the benefit of a calculator. The television set was never turned on until after dinner, and then there were only three channels to choose from. Our parents always chose what we would be allowed to watch. Programs that lasted past nine p.m. were not permitted, because that was our bedtime. Our sole source of intellectual stimulation came, not from school, but from our evenings spent exploring the books in the public library. I encountered my first experience with political and religious opinions that differed from those of my parents and grandparents in that old Carnegie public library and from my mother’s “Funk and Wagnalls” encyclopedia, purchased one volume at a time as part of a grocery store promotion program.

Our playmates were our many cousins who lived in the same little town and, on the weekends, we ran through the backyards that connected our houses to one another and moved back and forth between one another’s homes as if they were all part of one big house. It’s amazing to think of all this now: there were eleven of us, from four families. Our stay-at-home mothers made our clothes, supervised our softball games, and ran the Girl Scout troops and the P.T.A.  After dinner, some of our fathers were involved in Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Babe Ruth baseball.