Nevada’s 150th Birthday Bash at 10:51 AM

Nevada will celebrate its 150th anniversary of statehood with a year-long, state-wide Sesquicentennial celebration beginning this coming Nevada Day, and continuing until October 31, 2014.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, through an executive order, has designated a seven-man committee to establish a state commission which will be constituted by January 31, 2013, in time to present a plan to the 77th regular session of the Nevada Legislature on how to celebrate the state’s yearlong anniversary event beginning Nevada Day 2013.October 31, 2013. The commission to be created will be responsible for planning the events and for seeking funding for the celebration.

Monthly meetings of the seven-man committee started in March, with month’s meeting open to the public at 9:30 a.m. Friday on the 10th floor of the McDonald, Carano, Wilson law office, 100 W. Liberty St. A video teleconference will be set up with members in Las Vegas, as the committee will discuss future plans and its progress with the public.

The committee has already launched the celebration’s website( www.nevada150.org) and it has already selected the official Nevada150 logo which was designed by Don Siersen of Faiss Foley Warren Public Relations & Government Affairs of Las Vegas.

Funding for the events will come from private donations, but the committee will also be applying for grants. Neena Laxalt, a lobbyist with Kathleen Laxalt Consulting and the co-chairwoman for the committee, said, “We have opted in our mission to try to not use any other state tax payer money.”