The Carson City Chamber Leadership Institute Class of 2025 is raising funds to upgrade Carson High School’s ticket booth.
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Carson High School ticket takers soon will welcome upgrades to their ticketing booth that will help improve their public interaction all year.
The Carson City Chamber Leadership Institute Class of 2025 has chosen to renovate the aging facility and its amenities on the high school campus. Revitalizing the structure will modernize the booth’s appearance and create a more comfortable environment for workers, families and alumni, Chamber Executive Director Ronni Hannaman said.
“The Chamber Leadership Class does a project every year to enhance the city in some way or another and it helps build their skills,” Hannaman said. “What’s really great is this one, like others in the past, is we always involve the community. This one, I think, is going to be better because we have so many Carsonites who have lived here and who have graduated from Carson High.”
The project will cost approximately $150,000, with Leadership class members seeking community support and CHS alumni assistance for donations to finance construction of the outdated booth, according to Hannaman. Various incentives based on donation levels are available to community partners.
The first cash donation already has been collected, Hannaman said Jan. 16. Leadership student Kristine Assing collected $5,000 from Bret Sheldon, president and chief executive officer of CINC Industries in Carson City. Hannaman said Sheldon is challenging others to match his donation, and when completed, he will provide another $5,000 to the effort.
The Leadership Class expressed gratitude to local firms Alpine Drafting, Clark Engineering and Lumos and Associates for their commitment to project.
“It’s a great school,” Hannaman said of Carson High. “They’ve got a good sports team, and their sports team certainly does deserve to have a good ticket gate, not one falling down. But it will have heat and lights that they don’t have. It will be more modern, more user-friendly for the ticket takers.”
Members of previous leadership classes often dedicated their skills to refurbishing rooms or centers for nonprofit organizations such as museums, libraries or the senior center. Last year, members redesigned the former firefighter memorial in Mills Park as its class project. The legacy program of the Carson City Chamber of Commerce has been ongoing since its inception in 1989.
Hannaman recalled the Leadership Class of 2022, which created a sensory garden for the Eagle Valley Children’s Home.
“There are so many supporters, it’s unbelievable,” she said. “Builders came out and people donated wood. I think this is a very caring community, and they like these projects.”
Hannaman said the class chose Carson High’s booth from several suggestions Superintendent Andrew Feuling provided, and this was the most challenging for members to complete.
“We are so excited and grateful for the support from the Carson City Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber Leadership group to complete this project,” Feuling said. “Thousands of visitors pass through the gate to the sports complex each year and this will leave a positive impression of the strength of this community and its support for the schools on all of them.”
Those who are interested in donating can go to carsoncitychamber.com/spotlight/details/2025project or send a check to the Carson City Chamber of Commerce, 1900 S. Carson St., Suite 200, Carson City, Nev. 89701. The Chamber also will accept Visa or Mastercard by calling 775-882-1565.