TODAY'S MINERAL COUNTY COMMISIONERS MEETING WILL BE BROADCAST WEDNESDAY AT FIVE PM, ALONG WITH WEDNESDAY'S MEETING.  WE HOPE TO HAVE TV 13 BACK UP TO FULL POWER BY THAT TIME.

Hawthorne's USO Building was the site of this years Hawthorne Democratic Party Caucus.  Hillary Clinton, by the luck of two card draws, emerged the winner.  Both Lou Warner and outgoing Mineral County Commissioner Richard Bryant have been key players in the rejuvination of this vintage building.  See USO restoration story just below.

Now that Sam's got the "golf" thing pretty much in paw, she's turned her attention to next years rodeo in Hawthorne.  Rounding up and penning sheep or calfs should be a piece of cake.  Sam's best time for putting 100 golf balls in the 15 available holes is 17 seconds.  If you play Hawthornelive's 15 hole desert classic don't forget to tip the catty. 

Proudly serving Hawthorne since 1942, our USO Building is about to get some rest, recreation, and restoration of it's own.  The architects arrive Monday to finalize plans to bring the inside up to full fire code compliance in time for next year's schedule of community events thanks to a grant submitted by Fair and Rec.

 

              

Lou Warner posing with members of Inner Circle Jazz.  Photos below are from this years presentations and events held in Hawthorne's USO Courage Theater.

 

Planning, Architecture & Urban Design of Henderson, Nevada, in conjuction with H.D.A.  Architecture, Planning & Interior Design of Carsen City has been awarded the historic restoration of the Mineral County USO Building in Hawthorne, Nevada.  The project entails a comphrehensive facility analysis of the historic property and the restoration of its major interior spaces.  The work will be directed by the firms' senior principals Dr. Robert Freiden, NCARB, FAIA and Arthur Hannafin, AIA.

 

 

The Hawthorne USO was one of only two ever built in Nevada.  It was constructed in 1941 and opened in January of 1942 providing social activity for the military forces serving the nation.  During World War Two there were as many as 10,000 people a month using the Hawthorne facilities for dances, banquets, awards ceromonies, music, movies, dramatic performances, boxing matches  and meetings for various groups and orginzations.  After the war ended the USO reverted to Mineral County to be used as a community and recreation center, a role it continues to play today.

          

Dr.Fielden and Mr. Hannafin view the project as a rare opportunity to gift back to Mineral County and Nevada a small portrait of it's critical role in American History and American life during World WEar Two.  Information submitted by Mike McNeal.


  

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....Is the same gift I shared with my own son, Hitomi Desi, who now shares my dad with generations he might otherwise have never known.  Just when you thought this would be the first Christmas without dad, he is there, more than ever, bigger than life itself.  To my dad, Larry.

 

In 2003 Nevada Mike planted a "hawthorne" tree to celebrate a life still being lived....

I am my dad's son.... A Christmas update:

Many of you that visit these pages regularly know that my dad passed away this fall.  This was to be  our first Christmas Eve family gathering  that he had not been with us in my memory.  I even brought a favorite picture of him fly fishing for those elusive trout at Lake Lucile in California's Desolation Valley, the namesake for my own son, Hitomi "Desi.

 

I never brought the picture in, as it seemed that dad was already present, as usual.  Mom came with Harry, a long time family friend.  Harry gave the prayer, noting how dad would be missed.  Afterwards I commented that dad might not missed too much, since he was standing behind mom and Harry.  Everyone chuckled.  Later in the evening Harry and I struck up a conversation and I moved my chair closer so we could better converse.  We started with observations on politics and wisely moved on to other topics.

 

I talked about my new life in Hawthorne.  Harry asked how I  managed to not be lonely in such a small remote community?  I asked him if he felt lonely being in a room with only 15 or 20 people celebrating Christmas?  He replied of course not.  I suggested then that a community of over 3,000 people was quite sufficient to keep a dialogue and a life moving forward.  Even Mark Twain had made those observations.

 

I told Harry  that for the first time in my life I was living in a way and doing things that I enjoyed.  Harry was ok with that, but still not quite convinced.  It occoured to me as I spoke to Harry in that moment, that my words were much less my own, but rather the thoughts and feelings of my father who had often  sat there with  Harry on so many previous Christmas Eves. 

 

 It was at this moment that Harry turned back to me and shared a most timely observation of his own.  He said, "you know Lee, for so long your dad and I have attended these yearly gatherings and have sat here discussing the precious moments of our lives as the younger ones  celebrated Christmas all about us.  Listening to you speak it's almost as if I were here with your dad tonight." 

 

 It was at this moment that my dad and I, after so many years together in "real" life, finally became one in spirit.  My own son, Hitomi, played nearby with daughters Amaya and Hannah.  The spirit of Christmas present is closer than we sometimes acknowledge.  My father, my son, celebrating and beholding the "one" in all.

 

  May this be you most blessed Christmas yet.

     

 

"Always do right. 

 This will gratify some and astonish the rest."

MARK MY WORDS!

 

 

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