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56 Douglas Countys Hometown Newspaper since 1880 Wednesday, May 10, 2017

FORECAST
High
Canines ready for competition
70s Annual event makes early splash Park in Gardnerville. UPCOMING SPLASH DOGS EVENTS:
This will be the fifth year Splash Dogs X Spring into the Sierras May 12-14 at Heritage
Low by Sarah Drinkwine events have been hosted by the town and Park, Gardnerville.
40s sdrinkwine@recordcourier.com the first year nationals will be held in the X Tamarack Junction Summer Sol June 23-25 at
Valley. the Tamarack Junction, Reno.
Sunny Dozens of canines will make waves early Regional competitions will be held X Fallon Cantaloupe Festival Aug. 25-26.
this year as Splash Dogs hosts Spring into X Nationals- Sept. 8-Oct. 1 at Heritage Park,
the Sierras events May 12-14 at Heritage DOGS, 4 Gardnerville.
SPORTS

DHS SOFTBALL
Walter, Moore spark
Tigerswalk-off wins
Page 14

COMMUNITY

WAVE BRAD COMAN

Carson veteran receives Carson Valley native Aldo Biaggi will turn 100 on Sunday.

ALDO BIAGGI:
life-saving services
Page 3

INDEX
Calendar .......................................... 11

This is what 100 looks like

Classified ......................................... 19
Community ...................................... 8
Crime ..................................................... 6
Nevada ................................................. 7
Opinion ............................................ 13
Obituaries ......................................... 4
Puzzles .............................................. 18
By Sheila Gardner IF YOU GO his brothers and sisters.
Special to the R-C The community is invited to a reception 2-3:30 p.m. Saturday at St. Biaggi said he never even
Sports ................................................. 14

T
he news that Aldo
Questions about
Biaggi is about to
delivery? Call celebrate his 100th
775-882-2515
birthday leads to two
To place a classified, call questions:
775-881-7653 How does it feel to be 100?
www.recordcourier.com Do you have any advice?
Biaggi, who is Carson Valleys
oldest living native, doesnt give
it much thought.
I would say I have had a
good life, he said in a recent
Gall Catholic Church, 1343 Centerville Lane, Gardnerville, to honor thought about living any place
Aldo Biaggi on his 100th birthday. The Carson Valley native is a else.
lifetime parishioner of St. Gall and longtime volunteer at the Carson One of his favorite boyhood
memories is that when school
Valley Community Food Closet.
was dismissed for the summer,
interview from his home on at the property which is now the shoes came off.
County Road. I cant com- Cuttin Loose Ranch. The day school was out, I
plain, and I have no advice to He remembers driving a threw my shoes away for the
give. I just didnt sit around too horse and wagon to Mottsville summer. It was tough to put
much. School where his teacher was them back on when school
Biaggi was born May 14, 1917. Annie Brockliss. started again, he said.
He grew up on Foothill Road He was the middle child in
with eight brothers and sisters the family and has outlived BIAGGI, 5