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I bought a book of stamps this week because people still use the post office for things they could e-mail. The stamp vending machine looked neat, so I used that.
As I took out the stamps, I listened to my change fall into the coin slot.
Then I looked for the bills, because the machine owed me more than a dollar.
But no bills came.
I opened the coin slot.
What?
The machine had given me $1 coins.
"$1 coins?" I thought. "What am I going to do with $1 coins?"
I know some people get excited about $1 coins and that's good. Usually I trade $1 coins for real money.
Besides being the size of a marble, dollar coins are terrible because they are the only piece of American money you have to convince people is real.
"It's a $1 coin," you might tell a cashier inspecting your $1 coin.
The reason you have to say this is because no one besides that coin collector at work likes $1 coins.
People are busy, and America is a dollar-bill nation.
Americans and I do, however, love foreign coins. I remember seeing a coin from Germany when I was little and I didn't know what to do I was so excited.
"How much will this be worth when I'm grown up?" I thought. "Can magic be quantified?"
All foreign coins look magical, with the exception of Canadian coins.
I want Canadian coins not to look like American coins.
Canadian coins also only appear when you're excited about buying something important like a candy bar.
"Time for a candy bar!" you think.
"No it's not," say the Canadian coins.
What's worse is how I feel bad about throwing away Canadian coins because they are worth something in Canada and I'm greedy.
Anyway, I don't know if I'll ever be able to trade away my $1 coins because I tend to suspect uncommon but worthless things - like geodes - will gain value with age.
Maybe I'll just wait to trade them away at a time when I have no control over my will, like when someone I know has a candy bar.
"Look," I'll say. "It's a $1 coin."
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Sierra Acupuncture and Healing Arts has bought The Yerington House, 512 N. Division St. The 4,086-square-foot house was built in 1863. "Nevada Style" Real Estate Service represented the buyer.
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HE-5 Resources announced that it is plans to build a leaching plant close to its Overman Pit property in Gold Hill to extract ore.
The company is looking at three areas within five miles of the pit for the plant.
The company also announced that it will hire a team of mining engineers to design the leaching facility once the second phase of the drilling program at the Overman Pit is done. Under geologist Paul Pelke this phase will determine the southwest and northeast limits of mineralization and the lower limits of mineralization in the immediate area of the Overman Pit floor.
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Shaheen Beauchamp Builders LLC, a commercial contracting firm based in Carson City, has finished work on the 37,000-square-foot Harley-Davidson Motorcycle dealership in North Carson.
The project at Research Way features motorcycle sales, parts, service, clothing, accessories and storage. A rider education course is also being designed with construction planned for the spring.
The distinct asymmetrical building was designed by Hannafin Design Associates.
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Lance Gilman, developer of the 104,000-acre Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, announced that the third phase of the industrial complex has been renamed from Bittleman Flats to Comstock Meadows.
Work has started on an extension of the four-lane USA Parkway, the main road through the center that will take it four miles into the Comstock Meadows. That extension is going to cost an estimated $1 million per mile. When that is completed the parkway will be half way to Highway 50.
Comstock Meadows is approximately 5,000 acres and similar in size of both of the center's phase one and two. The $20 million interchange of USA Parkway and Interstate 80 opened on Thursday. The four-lane USA Parkway will eventually connect I-80 with Highway 50, a distance of 18 miles.
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Union Property Capital has leased 140,000 square feet of its 500,00 square-foot facility at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center to Midwest Air Technologies (MAT) that has its world headquarters in Lincolnshire, Ill. MAT was established in 1984 and has grown to a large multimillion dollar global company with more than 20 manufacturing and importing warehouses through Asia, Europe and the United States.
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The Sierra Nevada Association of Realtors praised the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act signed into law by the president. The association said the act will help many individuals and families who would have been burdened by taxes after losing their home. Homeowners, who already have suffered through the agony and humiliation of losing their home to a short sale or foreclosure, can now rest assured that they will not be faced with additional taxes that typically are enforced during these stressful situations.
• Contact reporter Dave Frank at dfrank@nevadaappeal.com or 881-1212.
As I took out the stamps, I listened to my change fall into the coin slot.
Then I looked for the bills, because the machine owed me more than a dollar.
But no bills came.
I opened the coin slot.
What?
The machine had given me $1 coins.
"$1 coins?" I thought. "What am I going to do with $1 coins?"
I know some people get excited about $1 coins and that's good. Usually I trade $1 coins for real money.
Besides being the size of a marble, dollar coins are terrible because they are the only piece of American money you have to convince people is real.
"It's a $1 coin," you might tell a cashier inspecting your $1 coin.
The reason you have to say this is because no one besides that coin collector at work likes $1 coins.
People are busy, and America is a dollar-bill nation.
Americans and I do, however, love foreign coins. I remember seeing a coin from Germany when I was little and I didn't know what to do I was so excited.
"How much will this be worth when I'm grown up?" I thought. "Can magic be quantified?"
All foreign coins look magical, with the exception of Canadian coins.
I want Canadian coins not to look like American coins.
Canadian coins also only appear when you're excited about buying something important like a candy bar.
"Time for a candy bar!" you think.
"No it's not," say the Canadian coins.
What's worse is how I feel bad about throwing away Canadian coins because they are worth something in Canada and I'm greedy.
Anyway, I don't know if I'll ever be able to trade away my $1 coins because I tend to suspect uncommon but worthless things - like geodes - will gain value with age.
Maybe I'll just wait to trade them away at a time when I have no control over my will, like when someone I know has a candy bar.
"Look," I'll say. "It's a $1 coin."
•••
Sierra Acupuncture and Healing Arts has bought The Yerington House, 512 N. Division St. The 4,086-square-foot house was built in 1863. "Nevada Style" Real Estate Service represented the buyer.
•••
HE-5 Resources announced that it is plans to build a leaching plant close to its Overman Pit property in Gold Hill to extract ore.
The company is looking at three areas within five miles of the pit for the plant.
The company also announced that it will hire a team of mining engineers to design the leaching facility once the second phase of the drilling program at the Overman Pit is done. Under geologist Paul Pelke this phase will determine the southwest and northeast limits of mineralization and the lower limits of mineralization in the immediate area of the Overman Pit floor.
•••
Shaheen Beauchamp Builders LLC, a commercial contracting firm based in Carson City, has finished work on the 37,000-square-foot Harley-Davidson Motorcycle dealership in North Carson.
The project at Research Way features motorcycle sales, parts, service, clothing, accessories and storage. A rider education course is also being designed with construction planned for the spring.
The distinct asymmetrical building was designed by Hannafin Design Associates.
•••
Lance Gilman, developer of the 104,000-acre Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, announced that the third phase of the industrial complex has been renamed from Bittleman Flats to Comstock Meadows.
Work has started on an extension of the four-lane USA Parkway, the main road through the center that will take it four miles into the Comstock Meadows. That extension is going to cost an estimated $1 million per mile. When that is completed the parkway will be half way to Highway 50.
Comstock Meadows is approximately 5,000 acres and similar in size of both of the center's phase one and two. The $20 million interchange of USA Parkway and Interstate 80 opened on Thursday. The four-lane USA Parkway will eventually connect I-80 with Highway 50, a distance of 18 miles.
•••
Union Property Capital has leased 140,000 square feet of its 500,00 square-foot facility at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center to Midwest Air Technologies (MAT) that has its world headquarters in Lincolnshire, Ill. MAT was established in 1984 and has grown to a large multimillion dollar global company with more than 20 manufacturing and importing warehouses through Asia, Europe and the United States.
•••
The Sierra Nevada Association of Realtors praised the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act signed into law by the president. The association said the act will help many individuals and families who would have been burdened by taxes after losing their home. Homeowners, who already have suffered through the agony and humiliation of losing their home to a short sale or foreclosure, can now rest assured that they will not be faced with additional taxes that typically are enforced during these stressful situations.
• Contact reporter Dave Frank at dfrank@nevadaappeal.com or 881-1212.
