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Is this you? Shrinking Toilet Paper By Trina Machacek life happens and things change. we all know that. in recent years covid changed the way we did a lot of things. ings tht affected our pocket books and wallets. Not just our personal monies, but monies of big businesses too. But! Yes, a quietly shrinking “but.” here’s my tale of tail woe! oh my Goodness. my other half and i owned a hardware store that we sold in the early 2000’s. Because i could i ordered a bunch of what you might call “back stock” that i would have as i went through the withdrawals of not having a store of my own. some of the things i ordered were cases of paper products. Kleenex, the ones that were 3 layers and so as a kitten. Paper towels of course and much-needed toilet paper. at was some fieen years ago and i admit i still have some of my “exit order” stored. But i am coming down to the end of the last case of tP. Knowing that, i decided to buy just a little extra cushion (pun intended) of toilet paper for my stock room. Before putting the new stuff out with the old stuff i grabbed a few rolls to put in the closet with what was standing guard. waiting to be unrolled when needed. at’s when i saw it! i wear glasses and sometimes my eyes play tricks on me. like the mirror on the passenger side of our vehicles where there is a sticker that reads, “somethings may look smaller…” well my new rolls looked smaller than my older rolls. i thought, “No way. it’s toilet paper.” i will admit i was sitting down when i noticed this deviation. eventually i grabbed the two side-by-side rolls and yes, the new ones were smaller. Just the width. e package still touted the 1000 sheets and the strength and blah, blah, blah. But the width! e width was narrower. is is just wrong on sooooo many levels. to make sure i wasn’t imagining this change i did something you will really get a giggle out of. i have a roll of toilet paper that i got when i got married in 1976! Yes, it’s 50 years old-and it’s pink. it was stuffed up inside one of those crochet toilet paper covers that a lady made for a wedding gi. i don’t have the crochet cover, but i do have the roll of toilet paper. it was a full 3/8” taller! i remember when i noticed that my paper towels changed. oh yes they did! e size of each towel was smaller and the number of square inches changed by a number that you would only have noticed if you had a hand that weighed nails by the pound by taking them out of a nail bin for customers for years. i have that hand. (i introduced myself to the president of a Bofa from las vegas when he bought a ranch in our area, by measuring his nails with my weight conscious hand— such another story.) when i bought the “new” paper towels as my “back stock” was about to run out i noticed in the grocery store the difference in the weight. so to find my toilet paper was also given a shave down made me madder than a wet hen! i was quiet when the iced tea company i bought my tea from went from a full 2 quarts and downsized the amounts to something akin to a quart now measured in those danged metric measurements—and raised the price too! Price is not the issue. Prices increase. But to increase the price, and decrease the amount too? Quietly with subversiveness? and to the most sensitive and much needed items of life. haha ere are so many things in the world to get our hair in the air about. is toilet paper one of those things? i say maybe, because in our world we need to stop and realize the phrase popularized by author and psychotherapist richard carlson, who used it as the title of his massive 1997 best-selling self-help book, don't sweat the small stuff . . . and it's all small stuff is true. Not any truer today than it was when paper grocery bags became plastic. soon we began to tie them closed. en we all became frustrated and lost fingernail aer fingernail trying to get them untied! Yes, there will always be something to wag a finger at. Pull hair out about. squish our faces up at. learn the decisions made in board rooms to keep companies in the black so we can always have toilet paper. Because just think what the world would be like if toilet paper went away all together. Trina lives in Diamond Valley, north of Eureka, Nevada. She loves to hear from readers. Email her at itybytrina@yahoo. Really!
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2026 Hunt Huge Success By Trina Machacek sometimes all it takes is an idea out of the blue to make amazing life altering events happen. chad Bliss of diamond valley was on the wildlife Board in eureka when he found himself at a state commission meeting. ere he listened to two hunters who had had life happen, leaving them unable to hunt because of disabilities. chad took it upon himself to reach out to the men just to hear more about their stories. at was “the out of the blue moment” chad needed. From that meeting and talking to farmers and ranchers in diamond and Newark valleys, he created Nevada outdoorsmen in wheelchairs in 2008.
The Ryan Harris family from Salem UT—12 year old Maylie took her trophy. is year was a remarkable year for the annual hunt in diamond valley for a new group of men, women and kids who might not otherwise have the opportunity to participate in a hunt. Nevada department fr wildlife is aware of the need for depredation hunts on farms where wildlife has grown in numbers where their existence caused farmers to be impacted by those numbers. to be eligible for tags on farms the farmers must be inspected by Ndow and be found to have at least 50 head of wildlife. in some cases in diamond valley there have been farms with more than 200 head of antelope eating the profits of farmers. enter local farmer lynford miller and chad Bliss and his organization, outdoorsmen in wheelchairs. miller who has a farm in diamond valley, has for several years aided chad in gathering depredation tags from farmers who donate them to this hunt. chad added that he is so grateful to the farmers who so generously give tags and access to their fields for the hunt. especially, he added, to ernie and heather Zimmerman of Newark valley. ey make sure there is no hunting on their farm before e outdoorsmen can get in to hunt there first. is year the hunt took place on august 22 and six families were invited to participate in the exciting hunt. some have been in wheelchairs since child hood, some more recently through accidents. it isn’t just that reason that brings these tough souls to the hunt. some have been diagnosed with possible life ending illnesses and they just want to hunt one more time. at is the magic of Nevada outdoorsmen in wheelchairs. one wife said of her newly wheelchair bound husband that he had not smiled since his accident earlier this year is hunt, this experience with chad and the
TIDDLES-N-BITTLES EUREKA SCHOOLS ARE STRONG IN NUMBERS according to Kathy Porter, eureka high school, Principal Glover’s secretary, here are the number of students enrolled this year in our eureka county school district. Eureka High School: 148 Eureka Elementary School: 105 Crescent Valley Elementary School: 28 in comparison, in 1976 the district reported these numbers: Eureka High School: 66 Eureka Elementary: 50 Beowawe (now Crescent Valley): a whopping 53!
That smile! Casey, his wife and son from Spring Creek, NV. many volunteers brought him out of the blackness and into the light again. she could hardly contain her overwhelming gratitude to the group relayed miller to us when talking about the weekend. at is the magic of Nevada outdoorsmen in wheelchairs. it certainly takes a village to create this type of magic. chad expressed his deep appreciation to so many who donated time, money, supplies and support this year as in the past, but wanted to especially thank Jerry white of Perdiz shooting range in eureka. Jerry started Perdiz in 1992 and has been the driving force ever since he and a group of local businessmen planned and built the range. Jerry has always been a huge supporter of this annual hunt put on in diamond valley. Quieter and in the background are also lynford miller and his amazing wife, sue. lynford has been able to not only go to farmers in diamond and Newark valleys to get the donated tags for the hunts, but goes out to spot animals too. he takes time to get the best places and ways to get the hunters to the animals. en assists the hunters to the fields and with the aercare of the harvest. his wife sue is instrumental in holding a bar-b-q dinner at their home in dimond valley. she and four other ladies, Kristi, Julie, Nicloe and lindsey served up meals to the hearty hunters and families. she also bakes cookies and her famous cinnamon rolls to get the hunters out on hunt day with full tummies. she even makes homemade granola and packages it for the day for her “hunters.” at, too, is the magic of Nevada outdoorsmen in wheelchairs. if you would like to be part of this amazing experience, know someone who would fit into the parameters of the hunt, or donate please contact chad Bliss who works with mt. wheeler Power in eureka. or go to Nevada outdoorsmen in wheelchairs | Providing experiential hunting adventures for those utilizing wheelchairs. with the support of our forward-thinking volunteers and sponsors, Nevada outdoorsmen in wheelchairs ™ is able to provide participants with a memorable and life-changing experiences thanks to: Nevada mines, au ranch, southwest Gas, Nevada Bighorns unlimited, Kinross, wild sheep, vortex optics, Perdiz sport shooting course, wade distributing, crystal Gibson Photography, eN vogue marketing, Gateway rv center, wonrate Gear, silver sage wildlife studio, and Gunworld.
WHO WILL START A RESTURANT IN EUREKA? is week we interviewed a representative of rNdc about the former Busy Bee, clementine’s restaurant on the south end of eureka. will you, or someone you know throw your hat into the food industry and become a restaurateur in eureka? read all about it on page 3. NEW AddITION TO THE STAR You may have noticed your star is fatter! we are happy to introduce you to the Great Basin sun and a sports section! e sun is an informational section about happenings and events in rural Nevada. e new sports section is put together and will cover rural schools and the athletic departments and games played throughout the school year. Yes, iNcludiNG the vaNdals aNd ladY vaNdals! e reporters writing the new sports section have a combined nearly 50 years of rural Nevada high school sports reporting. we hope you enjoy these two new sections to e Eureka County Star. we are growing and loving delivering the news weekly to eureka county and far beyond!
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Our Little Ants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
From our Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Market Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Crossword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Worship Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Sheriff’s Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Senior Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Commissioners News & Notes . . . . . .6
Legal Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Business Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 September Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8