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Vol. 3 No. 24 | e Week of December 4, 2025
Shining a light on all of Eureka County. Our Mission: Inform, enlighten, educate and entertain—Enjoy the journey.
Eureka Main Street Wayfinder Signs
Is this you?
Recently new signs have appeared up on the light poles along Main Street in Eureka.
Fast Food Menu Friends By Trina Machacek In the “out to dinner” world, I have no real favorites or non-favorites. I go with the crowd. Reading the menu I usually just go with what I can identify. Staying away from what I don’t like, like anything with brown gravy. Or things I cannot pronounce or identify. Happily I have been a “plain Jane” eater. But. Yes, a country gravy “but.” Why is there, about half the time, someone who tries to talk me into “just trying” something different? No, I don’t want the raw oysters on the half shell served with a dot of hot sauce. As an example.
The poles along Main Street hold the signs, but are on tap for replacement soon.
Sign volunteer workers, local Insurance agent, Johnny Fitzgerald and Sheriff Miles Umina.
e signs are doing just what they are designed for, to show the way to the different attractions and businesses in our downtown corridor. Kristan Umina, director or Eureka Main Street gathered up some troops to finish the installation of the Hinter Green, White and gold touched signs. At both ends of town there are Eureka Historic District signs proclaiming our establishment in 1864. On many of the light poles up and down the street there are signs pointing out what and where things are on main street and within walking off of the main drag. Kristan has let e Star know that the signs may be up for just a short time. e poles up that are lighting our downtown and holding the signs have more than done their job for a while and are in line to be replaced. e signs may be us through the holidays then taken down. e replacement of the light poles has been kicked about for a time. Possibly a plan will be developed. If so, the Eureka Main Street program and volunteers will have a hand in the choices to be made. Until then, enjoy the short time the signs will be up. Feel free to contact Kristan and let her know you saw them. You can reach Kristan at: eurekamainnvstreet.com
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TIDDLES-N-BITTLES Birthday Suprises are the Best! Add a birthday to our community calendar. Send in the current month or any month of the year. We’ll keep them on our giant calendar for any and all birthdays. Send the name and date to: trina@theeurekacountystar.com.
Food Drive at the High School Food drive is driving to get points for extra lunch minutes, goodness and light! To give is not only a blessing to the receiver, but it is a blessing to the giver too. is year the classes at the high school will be collecting food items to bless local families. If you can give, call Kathy Porter at the high school, Kathy, by way of pick-n-choose will send students to pick up your blessings. From canned tuna, to bagged turkeys and everything in-between. Call Kathy, 775-237-5361.
at’s why all Fast-Food Menus and the choice to eat at those fast-food eateries is a happy experience. Every time. Each and every time. Sure there are taco places, and fish places, and chicken places, and where’s the cow places. For the most part though fast-food menus say the same thing. Just different fluff is added. If every menu just said hamburger or cheeseburger, how fulfilled could you get from that. e other day my friend and I zipped through a drive through fast-food place. One that she hadn’t been to in a while, so she was unfamiliar with the 6’ by 10’ size menu we drove up to. It was covered with 12 different meal options and more sides and drinks and kids’ meals and desserts and special deals that even a speed reader couldn’t read in twenty minutes. She says to me she just wants a cheeseburger and a soda. HA! at’s just a starting point. e guy in the order box relays for me to begin to order when ready. Oh I was so ready. I say to the box guy, a cheese burger and a small soda. Back he comes with the questions. “Just a cheese burger?” “Yes,” I replied, knowing there would be more. e guy in the box comes back with, “Do you mean a child or a big or a double or the special with bacon and the special pretzel bun?” I turn to my friend and she has this look of terror and confusion. I think she thought that if we didn’t answer quick, within a certain amount of time something drastic would happen. What? Will our vehicle be dropped through a trap door in the asphalt? Will we be refused service because we did not have our order ready when the guy in the box said to “order when ready”? Maybe the people in the three cars behind us will attack us with pitchforks and torches? I said to her not to worry I got this. I am a great Fastfood Menu friend. I finish her order with a big cheeseburger, adding no onions as she has tried to add that as I was talking to the box. I added my want to the order, got the total and moved to the second window. Bing. Bang. Boom. We all need a Fast-food Friend. Someone that may not have the entire menu embedded in our gray matter. But at least know what the box will ask and what we will need to know to complete the order. I have a DEL-ightful taco place I like, (Wink-Wink) but I have a friend that goes to one that I don’t go to as much. We stopped once at her choice, and I am sure I looked like a deer in the menu headlights. ere was sooooo much to choose from that I was at a loss. My friend picked up the order gauntlet and ordered just what her Plain Jane Friend would like. She too is a Fast-food Friend. I will admit I draw the line at ordering a dessert for my friends. Ordering dessert for your friend from an ice cream place or other sweet shoppe and you risk your Food Menu credentials forever-more. Sweets. Well you just don’t mess with a dessert choice. Why? Because it triggers the release of dopamine, a “feel-good” neurotransmitter in your brain that creates feelings of pleasure and reward. In other words, sugar and sweet make us happy and aer many, many years of eating them, our brain knows what we like, want and strongly desire in a dessert. You know that saying, “Don’t mess with Texas?” Well it’s possible that before it was Texas it was “Don’t mess with my dessert!” Lesson learned. Trina lives in Diamond Valley, north of Eureka, Nevada. She loves to hear from readers. Email her at itybytrina@yahoo.com Really!