Oral history interview with Carole Fisher conducted by Barbara Tabach on December 14, 2016 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. In this interview, Fisher discusses her family background and moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1979. Fisher talks about Nathan Adelson Hospice, programs that they provide for the Las Vegas senior community, and the increase of hospices in Las Vegas. She describes how Nathan Adelson Hospice is able to provide care for uninsured people, fundraising events they organize, and how their hospice differs from traditional hospital care. Lastly, Fisher discusses the significance of death in the Jewish religion.
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Judy Newman describes her early life in an orphanage in Poland, and went to Israel in the 1950s, where she met her husband.
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Brief history of water in Las Vegas and overview of the water situation
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The Beda Cornwall Collection on the Citizen's Library Association of Las Vegas consists of material gathered by Beda Brennecke Cornwall that documents the activities of the Citizen's Library Association of Las Vegas during the years 1941 to 1973. Most of the materials document the efforts by the citizens group to raise money in the community to build and sustain a new public library in Las Vegas, Nevada. The remaining part of the collection relates to local and statewide libraries and biographical materials on Beda Cornwall and her husband through various documents and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings.
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These four people worked in EMS in Esmeralda County, Nevada. Art Johnson was a combat medic and became the Civil Defense Coordinator in 1977, and his wife Rusty accompanied him on ambulance runs. Knighten joined the ambulance service in Fish Lake Valley and became an EMT, and she has worked in the area for 20 years. Serfoss became an EMT after moving to Dyer, Nevada in 1979.
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