INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. – Kitchen of Kindness is on a mission to give back to the community. The nonprofit is a volunteer-driven program through Chabad Cares Nevada and aims to assist those in need including seniors, hospitalized individuals and families by providing meals, support, and connection.
When asked how the idea for the program first came to fruition, Executive Director of Chabad Cares Nevada, Rabbi Moshe Cunin, said “The inspiration for the idea was from my wife and her family. Unfortunately, her dad died from cancer, but he had been helped for many years by members of their community bringing food to them.”
After receiving kindness and support from others, Cunin’s wife Doba, and Doba’s mother, decided it was time to give back. Thus, Kitchen of Kindness was created last June and has been picking up the pace ever since.
A major avenue to their funding is through selling homemade challah bread and pastries at the Incline Village Farmers Market which is scheduled to open this summer on Thursday, May 21.
“It’s been amazing,” said Cunin. “We just popped up at the Incline Village Farmers Market and we sold out every week. What’s really cool is that some of the bread is being sold, but the money from that bread sold is going to fund the rest of it getting delivered that week to family members of people in the hospital, people in need, or a new mom with a baby.”
Cunin delivers the food himself, along with other program volunteers, and their goal for distribution is to get the fresh food out as quickly as possible.
While serving a wide range of Northern Nevada, including Lake Tahoe, Cunin wants to continue to grow Kitchen of Kindness. Already, the community kitchen offers assistance in family events, team building, birthday parties, and ways to prevent food waste. They even provide hot meals and companionship as part of their senior engagement, and partner with larger nonprofits such as Eddy House Youth Homeless Shelter in Reno.
“Our dream would be to up the scale of the amount of events we do, the amount of volunteers, and the amount of people we can help,” said Cunin who notes that although they are borrowing a local kosher kitchen space through a jewish school and synagogue, his vision is to have a dedicated space to be used full-time.
As Kitchen of Kindness’s mission unfolds, Cunin says the Torah’s teachings of anonymous, selfless charity is a key factor in its importance, where the giver feels no arrogance and the receiver feels no embarrassment.
“There’s so many that want to give and be generous, and may not have a ton of money to give away, but they have time,” said Cunin. “Time itself is such a value and this is such a great opportunity for people that have time and can partner together with us and use their time and turn it into giving.”
Stop by their bake sale booth at Incline Village Farmers Market this summer for an oppertunity to support their cause.
To learn more about Kitchen of Kindness or Chabad Cares Nevada, as well as ways to get involved, visit https://www.chabadcaresnevada.com/kitchen.
A recent Review-Journal letter to the editor mischaracterized Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s Southern Nevada Economic Development and Conservation Act, also known as the Clark County Lands bill. As the former executive director of the Nevada Conservation League, I wholeheartedly support this legislation, so I wanted to set the record straight.
Sen. Cortez Masto has been working on this bill for years in partnership with state and local governments, conservation groups like the NCL and local area tribes. It’s true that the Clark County lands bill would open 25,000 acres to help Las Vegas grow responsibly, while setting aside 2 million acres for conservation. It would also help create more affordable housing throughout the valley while ensuring our treasured public spaces can be preserved for generations to come.
What is not correct is that the money from these land sales would go to the federal government’s coffers. In fact, the opposite is true.
The 1998 Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act is a landmark bill that identified specific public land for future sale and created a special account ensuring all land sale revenues would come back to Nevada. In accordance with that law 5 percent of revenue from land transfers goes to the state of Nevada for general education purposes, 10 percent goes to the Southern Nevada Water Authority for needed water infrastructure and 85 percent supports conservation and environmental mitigation projects in Southern Nevada. This legislation has provided billions to Clark County and will continue to benefit generations of Southern Nevadans. Sen. Cortez Masto’s lands bill builds upon the act’s success.
So here’s the good news: All of the money generated from land made available for sale under Sen. Cortez Masto’s bill would be sent to the special account created by the 1998 law. Rather than going to an unaccountable federal government, the proceeds would continue to help kids in Vegas get a better education, bolster outdoor recreation and modernize Southern Nevada’s infrastructure.
I know how important it is that money generated from the sale of public land in Nevada stay in the hands of Nevadans, and so does the senator. That’s why she opposed a Republican effort last year to sell off 200,000 acres of land in Clark County and other areas of the country that would have sent those dollars directly to Washington.
Public land management in Nevada should benefit Nevadans. We should protect sacred cultural sites and beloved recreation spaces, responsibly transfer land for affordable housing when needed and ensure our state has the resources it needs to grow sustainably. I will continue working with Sen. Cortez Masto to advocate for legislation, such as the Clark County lands bill, that puts the needs of Nevadans first.
Paul Selberg writes from Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas High’s baseball team claimed a 3-2 home win over Coronado on Friday.
Las Vegas (9-13-1) next hosts Rancho at 10 a.m. Saturday. Coronado (13-14) hosts Chaparral at 3:30 p.m. Monday.
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LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Nevada’s jobless rate is holding steady, but the state is still adding jobs.
A new report from DETR shows February’s unemployment rate unchanged at 5.3 percent, with the labor force growing by nearly 3,800 people.
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Nevada now has about 1.6 million nonfarm jobs, up 2.2 percent over the past year and 1,500 more jobs than in January.
“This month’s report shows a strengthening labor market,” said David Schmidt, Chief Economist. ”Compared to the report for January, the pace of job gains in the past year increased from 1.9% to 2.2%, building on what was already the fastest pace of job growth in the country. While the unemployment rate remained stable, the labor force participation rate rose to 63.7%, 1.7 percentage points higher than the national level.”
In Las Vegas, employment ticked up by 1,100 jobs in February, about 0.1 percent, and is up more than 25,000 jobs compared to last year.
Reno added 1,000 jobs on the month, while Carson City shed about 200 but is still slightly above where it was a year ago.
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