Photo archive for August 18, 2008Las Vegas Sun News

Photo archive for August 18, 2008

Minuteman

Minuteman James Bulman of Green Valley, Ariz., scans brush during his first "muster," held Friday on a private ranch near Amado, Ariz. "This is my first time out with the Minutemen," Bulman said, "so I'm learning what's going on." View photo

Minuteman Civil Defense Corps

Members of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps gather for a briefing before an operation Friday. During the meeting, the leader went over procedures, reinforcing the goals: observe, record and report. Another aim: "Offer humanitarian help when we can," the state director says. View photo

Lopez

Las Vegas High senior quarterback Emir Lopez threw for 2,708 yards and 27 touchdowns this year. View photo

QB Drills

Las Vegas High quarterback's coach Zach Ordish gives senior QB Emir Lopez a few pointers during practice Monday night at LVHS. View photo

Bullock

Las Vegas High running back Reggie Bullock, who also plays in the secondary for the Wildcats, takes part in a defensive drill during the first day of full contact practice at LVHS. Bullock, a senior, rushed for 12 scores last season at Western. View photo

Blocking

Las Vegas High coach Chris Faircloth watches Alanzi Langstaff, left, and Hayden Remer perform a hitting drill during the first day of full contact practice Monday at Frank Nails Field. View photo

Coach Faircloth

Las Vegas High football coach Chris Faircloth takes control of a hitting drill during the first day of full contact practice Monday at Frank Nails Field. View photo

Rio Grande High School

Rio Grande High School students, from left, Tiana Clovis, 17; Estephania Loya, 17; and Olivia Legarda, 15, talk about being in the audience as Sen. Barack Obama spoke Monday at the predominantly Hispanic school in Albuquerque. View photo

Sen. Barack Obama

Sen. Barack Obama shakes hands with the crowd after a town hall meeting at Rio Grande High School in Albuquerque View photo

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De La Hoya Retrospective

Oscar De La Hoya celebrates his win over Julio Cesar Chavez on the shoulders of his trainer at Caesars Palace in 1996. View photo

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Manny Pacquiao raises his arms after defeating Juan Manuel Marquez at Mandalay Bay in March. Pacquiao, who began as a 106-pounder, moved to the 135-pound division this year. View photo

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Weather station on Mount Charleston. View photo

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Michael Yackira, right, president and chief executive of Sierra Pacific Resources, chats with Pat Mulroy, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, during the June grand opening of a plant that manufactures components for solar thermal power systems. The Sierra chief says the future of a coal project near Ely is uncertain. View photo

Lopez

Carlos Lopez, 18, poses in the quad area of The Henderson International School -- with which Findlay College Prep is affiliated -- on Monday, the first day of classes. The 6-foot-11, 208-pound basketball player from Puerto Rico is a senior and he has already committed to UNLV, for the 2009-10 season. He played for the Puerto Rican 18-and-under national team this summer in Formosa, Argentina, where it qualified for the U-19 World Championship in New Zealand next summer. View photo

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Palo Coach

Coach Darwin Rost watches as his players run through a drill during the first day of full contact football practice at Palo Verde High School on Monday. View photo

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Palo hitting

Palo Verde football players participate in a hitting drill during the first day of full contact practices at Palo Verde High School on Monday. View photo

Kim Kardashian-Pure

Kim Kardashian has a nice seat during her appearance with The Pussycat Dolls at Pure in Caesars Palace on Friday, Aug. 15, 2008. View photo

Winning the West

Driving through the historic plaza of Mesilla, N.M., on Sunday, I noticed a man sitting in the middle of the gazebo. It was Dave Curtis, a Las Cruces resident of 26 years, and maker and seller of turquoise jewelry -- and Barack Obama supporter. Curtis is an excited Democrat. "We've got to take this back," he said of this year's presidential election. His dream ticket? Obama/Clinton. He was patiently awaiting the start of Sunday Mercado, where he sells his jewelry. His necklaces: One he made from a piece of Kingman turquoise from Kingman, Ariz., and the other is a Santo Domingo turquoise piece he picked up from a pawn shop many years ago. View photo

Winning the West

My Sunday morning plan was to visit a church service somewhere in Las Cruces, N.M. Searching on the Internet, I found the historic Basilica of San Albino in Mesilla, built in the mid-1800s and only two miles away from our hotel. I came early for the morning Spanish mass to talk with Father Richard about photographing the service. He had concerns about whether his parishioners would feel comfortable being photographed, but told me to come back after mass because people tend to stick around. To my delight, when I came back an hour later, Sister Carmen Gloria, left, and Sister Teresa Maria were stationed out front, selling empanadas to the hungry crowd for only $2 per pack. -- Leila Navidi View photo

A Midsummer Night's Dream party at the Palms

Sound and creative lighting helped transform the pool area of the Palms hotel into an exotic playground for the annual Midsummer Night's Dream party. View photo

A Midsummer Night's Dream party at the Palms

Scantily clad women mixed and mingled with Hugh Hefner wannabes at the annual Midsummer Night's Dream party at the Palms. While Hef wasn't in attendance, his live-in girlfriend, Bridget Marquardt, was. View photo

A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Palms

A festive partygoer enjoys the set and uses his camera to get a closer look at Crazy Town frontman Shifty Shellshock's Calvin's. (Shellshock was born Seth Binzer.) View photo

A Midsummer Night's Dream party at the Palms

Crazy Town partied and performed a lip-synced performance of their 2001 hit single, "Butterfly," during the Midsummer Night's Dream party at the Palms. View photo

A Midsummer Night's Dream party at the Palms

Playboy Playmate and "Girls Next Door" star Bridget Marquardt, right, served as the Queen of the Masquerade in the King's Court during the Midsummer Night's Dream party at the Palms. View photo