Kenny Guinn, the former governor of Nevada, died Thursday after a fall from the roof of his Las Vegas, Nev. He was 73.
Dema, his wife of 54 years, found him on the ground unconscious about 10:30 a.m. PDT Thursday. He was declared dead at a Las Vegas hospital just after 11 a.m.
Guinn was born in Aug. 24, 1936, in Garland, Ark., in Miller County. But his family moved to California when he was a child, eventually winding up in Exeter in the San Joaquin Valley.
He moved to Las Vegas for a teaching job and wound up as the Clark County superintendent of schools.
A moderate Republican noted for bringing people from both parties together, Guinn was governor from 1999 to 2007.
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Fall foliage can mean different things to different people.
Some people believe they must travel to see the brilliant collision of orange, yellow, green, brown, purple and red — to New England, to the mountains, to northern Arkansas.
We went to the lake last weekend, hoping to see the leaves in full color on the shores of Lake Ouachita, but likely, we were a week or 10 days early.
But this weekend, when we look out the windows on the back of the house, we see that the oaks in our yard and the maples in neighboring yards are getting close to that magic moment when they are at the height of their beauty for this season. It’s a beautiful gift.
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Nancy and I spent a cool but calm weekend at the lake. (Our dog, Daisy, a Lhasa apso we keep cut short, also came along.) The leaves are starting to change colors and Ouachita is up to its upper banks. No TV, no Internet. Beautiful.
It was almost a blast from the past — we listened to the Arkansas-Florida football game Saturday afternoon on the radio, via a sports station at 96.3 FM out of Fort Smith, then switched to the American League Championship Series between the Angels and the Yankees on XM Satellite Radio. We worked in a DVD of “Friday Night Lights,” the movie, in between.
It was nice. We didn’t get involved in the “blame the referees” stuff about the Razorbacks game because we couldn’t see if they were bad calls or not. The radio announcers (Chuck Barrett and Keith Jackson) said there were some bad calls, but both of those guys DO work for the University of Arkansas, so what do you expect?
I know that the Razorbacks were much-improved over previous games this year, yet they had three chances to score from inside the Gators 40-yard line in the third quarter and managed only three points. So, yes, we scared the top-ranked Gators, but we had chances to win and didn’t — we lost 23-20. That’s it. Whine all you want, but if you want to be Hog-crazy, worry about the Ole Miss game.
The rest of us will get on with our lives or continue to watch the baseball playoffs — football doesn’t really start until the World Series is over. That’s what matters to me, after my family.
Meanwhile, it’s back to work in the midst of some wonderful fall weather.
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