Great Basin Bank announced the appointment of Stephanie Demos Bauman as Branch Manager of their branch in Winnemucca, Nevada. Ross said, “Bauman was hired because her customer service skills are an outstanding example of how we want to treat our customers, and she is the kind of staff member we want to represent Great Basin Bank of Nevada in the community. She will make an excellent leader for the ‘Winnemucca Branch’ team.”
Bauman began her banking career in 1997 at Nevada Bank and Trust in Ely as a teller. She also worked in new accounts and as a Loan Officer and has been in banking for 10 years. She joined Citibank in Winnemucca in August 2004 as the Financial Center Manager and managed a staff of six people. Before going into banking she spent five years as a Sales Manager with Lerner New York in Las Vegas. She has her Life & Health Insurance License and Series 6, 63 & 26 Securities licenses for investments.
Bauman lives in Winnemucca with her husband, and their three kids. Bauman said, “I am very excited to be joining the team at Great Basin Bank and it will give me the opportunity to better serve my customers and friends with hometown banking again.”
Since The-OnRamp.net’swebcam hasn’t updated since early 2004, I’ve been on the lookout for a new Winnemucca webcam. I’m happy to report I finally found one at Lowry HS.:
When Congress targeted Nevada as the nation’s nuclear waste dumping ground, the state didn’t have the political power to say no.
Twenty years later, the most ardent foe of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump is about to become U.S. Senate majority leader. Nevada Democratic U.S. Sen. Harry Reid’s new job, which gives him control over what legislation reaches the Senate floor, could deal a crippling blow to the already stumbling project.
Among Reid’s first acts after this month’s election was to convene a conference call with home-state reporters to declare Yucca Mountain “dead right now.”
Alicia and I checked out the Winnemucca movie theatre (notice I said “the” and not “a”) last night. Besides the fact they don’t take debit cards and only let you buy tickets 20 minutes before the movie, the theatre wasn’t that bad.
I did a search for Winnemucca on YouTube and found this pretty bad ass video someone made of a lightsaber battle filmed on the mountains around Water Canyon.
You have got to watch this video!
It’s been nearly a week since I did the exact same search on YouTube! and found this video, but for whatever reason I didn’t get around to posting it. I emailed the creator about the video, and he replied:
We drove to the top of Water Canyon in Pete’s truck and duked it out in a 60mph wind storm.
We need to relocate to Winnemucca in mid-December when my husbands starts his job at the mine. Family of 3 (we have a 7-month old son), looking to rent a house in the area. We have 2 dogs (chihuahua & a boxer). No smoking, no drugs, excellent references & renter’s history available.
Giant capital letters adorn hillsides near many cities and towns in the American West. These letters, typically constructed of whitewashed or painted stones or of concrete, are cultural signatures. They serve as conspicuous symbols of community and institutional identity, and they represent an idea, perhaps traceable to a single point of origin, that diffused quickly and widely early in this century.
Both environment and culture have affected the distribution of those hillside monograms. An accessible and fairly steep slope, undeveloped and preferably treeless, is the first requisite. If it is public land, such as Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, park, or school property that is protected from urban encroachment, so much the better. Many western communities can meet these requirements admirably.
Hillside symbols have a surprisingly respectable history dating back some eighty years. To a remarkable extent the letters can be traced to a single decade, 1905-1915. They have almost always been built and maintained by college or high-school student groups. The earliest letter-building projects were devices for defusing increasingly violent inter-class rivalries, which college administrators and faculty found difficult to control. It apparently worked. Making a letter was often a gala community event, an organized “men’s workday” declared a formal school holiday, with picnic lunch and supper provided by campus women.
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High schools and a few junior colleges and grade schools followed the collegiate example, and today their letters vastly outnumber college letters. Several early ones were in Nevada, including the E at Elko, built in 1916 to honor a physical-education instructor who had lost his life in a snowstorm while leading a student group in the nearby Ruby Mountains. The T at Tonopah is lighted by a spotlight on the roof of the Mizpah Hotel. It celebrated the Nevada State Championship won by the Tonopah girls’ basketball team in 1917. At Winnemucca, where a handsome W was built to honor another girls’ championship team in 1920, a trust fund was set up to pay for periodic whitewashing, but, according to a recent report, “no one knows where the money is.”
I’m a semi-retired old fellow that recently moved to a little town in Nevada from living a few years in crowded New Jersey.
Nevada = Good People, Good Climate, No Traffic, Cheap Housing, Cheap Food, Low Taxes, Cheap Everything but Gasoline.
I find that with the house paid for, no car payment and the kid out of college and self-supporting (more or less) that life has gotten cheap and sweet. There’s plenty of time for reading, friends, travel and I’m loving it.
