City Celebrates Grand Opening

Of Alexander Library and Park

The City of North Las Vegas Library District and Parks & Recreation Department will celebrate the grand opening of the City’s third full-service library and adjacent 2-acre park at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10.

Library and City officials said the new library provides a valuable resource to area residents and students who attend eight nearby elementary schools, two middle schools and two high schools.

“We are excited to open this long awaited and much needed library,” Library District Director Kathy Pennell said.  “We expect that it will be very busy given there are approximately 14,000 students in the immediate area.”

The Alexander Library and Park, at 1755 W. Alexander Road, is a $12 million project that includes a 16,400 square-foot library with meeting rooms, children’s library, public access computers and thousands of book and multi-media titles.  The park include tot lots, shade structures, paved and lighted walking paths and demonstration gardens.

The library will open to the public on March 11.

For more information, contact Library District Director Kathy Pennell at 633-1070.

City Seeks Public Participation In

Kiel Ranch Design Workshop

Members of the City’s Park & Recreation Advisory Board invite the public to participate in a workshop to help create the new design for historic Kiel Ranch.  The workshop will be held during the group’s regularly scheduled meeting at 5:45 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10, in the North Las Vegas Library, Community Room, 2300 Civic Center Drive.

Park officials have begun work on a master plan to preserve the ranch, believed to be home to one of the state’s oldest structures.  The City encourages residents to share their ideas for improving the Kiel Ranch Comprehensive Development and Preservation Master Plan.  Officials expect to put the plan into action when funding becomes available.

Kiel Ranch is a seven-acre site near the intersection of Carey Avenue and Commerce Street.  It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  Native tribes used the site for fresh water along trade routes.  By 1855 it was settled by members of the Church of Latter Day Saints and used as an Indian farm. In the late 1880s, Conrad Kiel turned the site into a 240-acre ranch.  Kiel Ranch is currently home to an adobe structure, a natural artesian spring, and a rich history that the City intends to showcase with the completion of the master plan.

For more information, call Stephanie Brüning at 702-633-2789 or visit  www.cityofnorthlasvegas.com and access the Parks & Recreation page under the Departments menu.