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16 Friends oF red rock canyon

See You At The Festival

By Sharon Schaaf

Each fall the City of Las Vegas celebrates ing, writing and publishing “Seekers, Saints
the written word at the Vegas Valley Book and Scoundrels.”
Festival. In its fifteenth year, this year’s
festival will be held on Saturday, October 15 The Festival will also be celebrating the
from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Historic 100th Anniversary of the National Park Ser-
Fifth Street vice. QT
School, 401 Luong,
S. Fourth author
Street. All and pho-
events are tographer
free and of “Trea-
open to the sured
public. Lands,” a
pictorial
Friends of Red Rock Canyon is happy history
to be part of this year’s gathering. Chuck of the
Williams, Norm Kresge and I will be there National
talking about our book “Seekers, Saints and Park Service, will talk about his book. An
Scoundrels: The Colorful Characters of Red exhibit of his photos will also be featured.
Volunteers dedicated to the preservation of Red Rock Canyon
Rock Canyon.” We are excited to discuss
our book with the Las Vegas community. There will be workshops, panels and
author presentations covering all genres,
In the past year, “Seek- including children’s
ers, Saints and Scoundrels” literature with special
has won two awards. The events designed just for
Association of Partners kids. This is just a part
of Public Lands (a group of what is planned for
of nonprofit organiza- the day.
tions working together to
benefit public lands) gave Up-to-date informa-
our book their Honor- tion is available on
able Mention-Best New the Festival’s website:
Publication Award. The www.VegasValley-
Daughters of the American BookFestival.org.
Revolution gave Friends
the Historic Preservation Make sure you stop
Recognition Award for excellent volunteer by to visit Chuck, Norm and me. We’ll be in
work in historic preservation for research- Tent 2 from 1:00 to 1:45 p.m.

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