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Vol. 3 No. 23 | e Week of November 27, 2025
Shining a light on all of Eureka County. Our Mission: Inform, enlighten, educate and entertain—Enjoy the journey.
St. James Episcopal 1871 Church Gets Re-roofed
Is this you? ankfully Ditching Nay-sayers By Trina Machacek I know a very unique and varied group of people that have jobs ranging from heavy equipment operators to a bar and casino owner. If you just sat and thought about all the things the people you know do for a living, would you know a gun smith? A furniture maker? A film maker/TV celebrity? A jewelry maker? An underling of a pilot. If you believe in past lives maybe a king or queen of some far-off country? A man of the cloth? Or maybe even a writer/author. I would bet you would be surprised at the different jobs your friends and acquaintances hold and make a living at. e list above is just a very short list for me. But. Yes, a working “but.” at of course is not where I am going. As if you didn’t already know.
In 1968 through the work of Eureka resident, Marcia Elliott, at that time our resident historian, and the University of Nevada-Desert Research Institute, Eureka was put on the National Historic Register. With that giant step, many of our old buildings we see now were saved from further destruction. Here is the history that was used to add to the application to make Eureka an Historic District: “EPISCOPAL CHURCH – is is Eureka’s first permanent church, built in 1871. e first services of the Episcopal Church in Eureka were held in the Antelope Restaurant, a tent. is lovely little church managed to survived the disastrous fires, though it stood right in their way. At the back of the church, high over the alter, there is a 4-foot opening for a round window. It is sealed off. e side windows of the church are tall and narrow; they are rounded at the top with a peak at the center. e church is nestled against a canyon wall. Her bell sits high on the hill behind her.” In the most recent times of approximately 30 years ago to present, the church was used as an Episcopal church served by Father Red Sims of Ely until the
numbers dwindled and for a time the church was empty. en the parishioners of e Eureka Community Church were asked to leave their home which was the old unused Eureka County School District, district offices. A very small number of residents complained that the school district was letting that “church/state” line get blurred. at led the Community Church to look for another place to call home. e diocese kindly opened their doors to e Eureka Community Church and for the next years the church was filled each Sunday. Over that time the Community Church began to plan to build their own and permanent Church home. at came to be in the past two years and is now open to the public each Sunday and for many other events at 101 S. Spring St, in Eureka. One of the biggest concerns for the Community Church goers was the roof. It was in terrible disrepair from the years of Eureka snow, sun and ozone. But thanks to new owners who hired Llew Miller of Diamond Valley to put the new roof on the building, she will stand for a very long time. To see the entire historical register application that holds quite a few short histories of many of our buildings and even the graveyards, scan the QR code.
Christmas Tree Lighting and Parade December 2 in Eureka
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Brenna our new event gal has let e Star know all about the much community enjoyed Christmas Tree lighting coming up. With a new twist! A parade will start off the evening with a line up at 5 p.m., Parade to start at 5:15 p.m. and tree lights up the night at 6 p.m. is event is put on by the ECHS Honor Society. Be sure to take some time aer the tree lighting to shop at the local shops downtown. e County Cottage will have hot dogs, chili and hot drinks. e 180 Gallery will have hot cider and cookies. Don’t miss Aerlife Antiques and Oddities, e Depot and e Urban Cowboy for food and other wonderful gi ideas to help your Christmas list get a little bit shorter. It’s looking like an amazing evening in downtown Eureka.
TIDDLES-N-BITTLES Welcome Home and Blessings Goodness and light ahead for the Douthit family as they are home with their little boy, Atticus who came into the world a bit early in October. Aer many long nights and prayers the family, Bobby, Alecia, very cute daughter Amelia and newest member Atticus are reveling in home, hearth and family. Welcome home and anksgiving blessings to the Douthit’s.
Happy and Ful-Filling anksgiving! Wishing you blessings abound all around, everywhere and all the time. ank you for the kindness shown to e Star as I thank you, and everyone that have helped make this the Biggest Little Paper in Nevada—and now being online, further that I can throw a rock! Eat, drink and be merry—for tomorrow we all step on the scale! Send in your news from around town to: trina@theeurekacountystar.com
Let’s imagine, if we could one day wake up and have the job of our dreams. I personally have no dreams or expectations of doing anything other than what I am absolutely delighted to be doing. Writing. Everyday. Writing of things I know a lot about, and things I know just a titch about. I do not write about things I don’t know about. ink about that. How could I write about things I don’t know about? Because, I don’t know about them, right? Now there’s a round-about I don’t want to enter. Back to the main road Machacek. I suspect we have all heard a little kid say they wanted to grow up to be a cowboy, a fireman, a nurse, maybe a teacher. When I was a little kid, I just wanted to play in the mud. Does that mean I wanted to be a mud wrestler? I think not. Maybe a farmer. Well that came true for some 40 years. Even though I love the smell of mother earth, farming is a tough job. Dealing with weather, the costs of fuel, seed, baling wire, breakdowns. en hay buyers and truckers, OH MY! e freedom is super, and the neighbors are priceless. e mental side however, drove me more mental than I want to remember. Little kids though. Some of them grab onto the desire of fireman, doctor, teacher and that is exactly where they go. Being what you want is a dream come true. ere is only one doctor that I have ever met that didn’t desire to be up to both arm pits in the rush of trauma. Yes, blood-n-guts. Several of the providers here in Eureka stop off for a time then the call of the city and more ooze and gooze calls to them. at is the nature of that beast. I did meet one doc that when I asked him if he liked the blood and guts, he said “Nope.” Telling me that his lab partners in school told him that he couldn’t cut well. So he was assigned to write all the papers as his teammates did the cutting. Ick. Teachers. Oh how? How can teachers be teachers? I know a handful and they are delightful and love their “kids.” I was a K-12 secretary for a few years and I found the kids fun, but they sometimes are like ants. ey are everywhere. So teachers out there—kudos from me. When you sit, quietly. HA. Who in this life has time to sit quietly? Rather when a moment comes over you and you have a true free second, what, I wonder, would be your dream to be? Recently a woman I know was so excited to finally become a housewife and mother. She was able to leave her job and do exactly what she wanted. Stay home and enjoy every quickly passing moment of her kids while at home. “It’ll be tight,” she said. I could see it in her eyes, on her last day of work, that her dream of being what she wanted was about to explode. at saying, “If you love what you do for a living, you will never work a day in your life.” Oh how true that baby is. ere is a young lady in our town who is embarking on a new venture of a store that will have three different parts to it. e excitement bubbles through her skin. Some say she is young and has no idea what she is getting into. e “naysayers” of life. Oh they are real. As real as the fact that millions of people will have cold turkey sandwiches the day aer anksgiving! With chips. And olives. And deviled eggs-if there are any le over. Move it along munch mouth. Do not let the “nay sayers” detour your dream. Go. Do be your dream. Trina lives in Diamond Valley, north of Eureka, Nevada. She loves to hear from readers. Email her at itybytrina@yahoo.com Really!