Tuesday, March 18, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.
* SHAFFER SEEKS SEAT -- Sharon Shaffer, wife of state Sen. Ray Shaffer, D-North Las Vegas, will run this spring for a seat on the North Las Vegas City Council. Shaffer said Monday she will file for the seat held by Councilman Theron Goynes, who has said he will run for mayor. When asked what issue is the most important in North Las Vegas, she said, "I think planned growth." Shaffer, 61, is a bookkeeper and secretary who spends who spends much of her time at the Legislature every two years assisting her husband. The Shaffers own a mobile home near Carson City. Filing for municipal elections opens March 27 and closes April 4. The primary election is May 6, and the general election is June 3. Four of the five North Las Vegas seats, including the mayor, are up for election.
* TRAILER FIRES -- Fire investigators are continuing their search for clues into two suspicious trailer fires that broke out in less than 24 hours. Las Vegas Fire Department investigators are positive that the incidents are not related, yet have declined to give further details, said spokesman Tim Szymanski. A 35-foot travel trailer at B&N Rentals, 1735 N. Rancho Drive, went up in flames at 2:49 p.m. Monday. The female occupant told investigators she had left the trailer to use a telephone and returned to find it consumed by smoke and flames, Szymanski said. She escaped injury. Damage was estimated at $20,000. Late Sunday, a travel trailer at the Shady Acres Mobile Home Park at East Washington Avenue and North Main Street was destroyed, but no one was home at the time.
* MAN SENTENCED -- A Las Vegas man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for throwing a Molotov cocktail into an apartment last year. District Judge Mark Gibbons delivered the sentence to John Stuart Lang, who a jury previously had convicted on charges of attempted murder with a deadly weapon, first-degree arson and use of an explosive to destroy property. Las Vegas Fire Department investigators arrested Lang shortly after developing evidence that he threw the incendiary device -- an ignited, wicked bottle filled with flammable liquid -- into 3305 Sky Country Lane, No. 103, on April 4, 1996.
* FORUMS PLANNED -- Anyone interested in studying the risk to human health and the environment from contaminated groundwater at the Nevada Test Site may attend information forums at UNLV's Harry Reid Environmental Research Center. The Nevada Risk Assessment/Management Program (NRAMP) is seeking help from members of the public as it gathers information about Test Site problems created during the Cold War. Tod Johnson of the NRAMP technical staff will offer groundwater information forums at 9 a.m. Saturday and 7 p.m. March 27. "We are seeking people who are willing to invest time in this working group and who are eager to learn and contribute along with this research team," said Donald Baepler, principal NRAMP investigator. Those interested may call Kathleen Lauckner, coordinator for NRAMP's risk communications program, at 895-1423.
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