RENO, Nev. (KOLO) – While some people like to mail in their ballot, others like to show up in person.

Here in Nevada, you can do either to vote. But it takes a big effort to set up and man polling centers on Election Day.

Right now, Washoe County’s Registrar of Voters is looking for local residents to help do the job.

“We need about 800 election workers for this upcoming season,” says George Gutherie, Washoe County Registrar of Voters Office Media Specialist.

For the first time Washoe County’s Registrar of Voters is tapping into a new resource.

But it’s not a new concept. Based on a 1993 Nevada law, 16-year-olds can work at poll centers. They must be U.S. Citizen and be attending high school.

The registrar is looking to pique the interest of 100 teens to help out on Election Day.

“Student election worker(s) are an untapped resource that we want to make sure there is awareness to this amazing, amazing program,” says Gutherie.

Those who sign up will be required to take a course offered on an evening or weekend day. They will be assigned a location which could be their own high school.

What they won’t be doing is just sitting around on Election Day.

“This isn’t an observation position,” says Valerie Balen, an election specialist. “This is actually where we want them to be talking to voters. We want them to be learning how the registration process works. It is great. They are going to get a first eye look on what they might have to do in two years. We aren’t here to just put them in the corner.”

Teens must get their parents’ permission to commit to working on Election Day at a poll center.

The deadline is September 15, and you must be 16 years of age by that date.

Students will be treated as professionals. They will receive professional training and work up to 12 hours a day on Election Day. And they will be paid as professionals–$225.00.

For more information: https://www.washoecounty.gov/voters/get-involved/election_workers/studentelectionworkers.php

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Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – August 29, 2024) – Nevada Organic Phosphate Inc. (CSE: NOP) (“NOP” or the “Company), a B.C. based company engaged in the exploration for organic sedimentary raw rock phosphate in Nevada, is pleased to announce that, NOP’s wholly owned subsidiary, Nevagro, has been informed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that the Assistant Secretary for Lands and Minerals for the Department of the Interior is currently reviewing the BLM’s press release for the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) decision.

Once the official NEPA decision is received, NOP’s next step will be to submit the habitat reclamation bond to the Bonding Specialist at the BLM Nevada State Office. They will then forward the Prospecting Permit Application to the Deputy State Director (DSD) for Energy and Minerals at the BLM Nevada State Office for signature to issue the Prospecting Permit.

NOP is excited that the Prospecting Permit could be signed by the Deputy State Director (DSD) for Energy and Minerals at the BLM Nevada State Office in the weeks ahead.

Meanwhile, the exploration team is evaluating the lands under the 3 new Applications to Prospect while lining up the necessary drilling and site preparation contractors for the planned drill program.

Nevada Organic Phosphate Inc.

NOP is a junior exploration company with a sedimentary rock phosphate property (the “Murdock Property”) hosting a nearly flat lying sedimentary bed of known phosphate mineralization in NE Nevada.

The increasing interest in organic and sustainable agriculture practices has contributed to the demand for organic fertilizers, including those derived from rock phosphate. Organic rock phosphate is often marketed as a fertilizer that not only provides phosphorus but also contributes to overall soil health.

The Issuer aims to be one of the only certified organic rock phosphate producers with large scale potential in North America. The Murdock Property is situated adjacent to a main highway and the rail head to California.

Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor its regulations services providers have reviewed or accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

This news release may contain forward-looking statements and information (“FLSI”) within the meaning of applicable securities laws. FLSI may include expectations, anticipations, beliefs, opinions, plans, intentions, estimates, forecasts, projections, guidance or other similar statements and information that are not historical facts. All statements which are not historical statements are considered FLSI. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the anticipated Prospecting Permit and the anticipated timing of its receipt. All FLSI is based on assumptions, which may prove inaccurate, and subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including without limitation those risks and uncertainties identified in the Company’s public securities filings, which may cause actual events or results to differ materially from those indicated or implied in FLSI. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance or value on FLSI. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in any FLSI in this news release are reasonable at the present time, it can give no assurance that such FLSI will prove to be correct. Any FLSI in this news release is made as of the date hereof and the Company undertakes no obligations to publicly update or revise any FLSI, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, unless required by applicable securities laws. Any FLSI in this news release is expressly qualified in its entirety by this cautionary statement.

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A local power cooperative in Pahrump was awarded an $80.3 million federal loan for a solar project that would produce enough electricity to power 3,500 homes in the Pahrump and the Fish Lake Valley region.

On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced plans to invest $140 million for solar in rural communities in Kentucky and Nevada. Investment funds for the projects were sourced from the Inflation Reduction Act.

The Valley Electric Association, an energy cooperative based in Pahrump, plans to use its $80.3 million investment to install a 37-megawatt solar power generation and storage system that would serve a portion of their 20,100 members in Pahrump and the Fish Lake Valley region. 

Valley Electric Association was selected for the investment after committing to lower electricity rates for their members while lowering greenhouse gas emissions. The project is also expected to strengthen the energy grid and keep critical services powered in the region. 

“We put a lot of effort into rural development with these new Inflation Reduction Act investments in making sure that it is reaching the hardest to reach places and communities that are often underserved,” USDA Deputy Secretary Xochitl Torres Small said.

In Nye County, home to the growing city of Pahrump, up to 40% of the population has three or more socioeconomic risk factors – high poverty rates, age, and low educational attainment, for example – that would make it difficult for them to absorb, endure, and recover from climate disasters, according to the Fifth National Climate Assessment — a congressionally mandated report due roughly every five years

“Rural people deserve continued energy opportunities as demand for clean energy increases,” Torres Small said. “The Biden-Harris Administration is working to make sure efforts to tackle climate change also help grow the local economy.”

The solar project is still in the initial stages of permitting, meaning it may take years for construction to start.

Valley Electric Association is one of approximately 900 member-owned electric cooperatives in the U.S., according to the power company. Valley Electric serves communities participating in the Rural Partners Network (RPN), a USDA-led collaboration between federal, state and local partners to help underserved communities access federal funding.

Both the projects selected in Kentucky and Nevada are part of the USDA’s Powering Affordable Clean Energy (PACE) program, the largest investment in rural electrification since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Rural Electrification Act into law in 1936, according to the agency.

So far, USDA has announced more than $665 million of investments selected to proceed under the PACE program. The investment for Valley Electric Association marks the first project funded under the program in Nevada. Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kentucky, and Nebraska have already received investments.

Last year, the USDA made $1 billion available through PACE to fund new clean energy projects and energy storage in rural America. The program provides low-interest loans with up to 60% loan forgiveness to renewable energy developers, rural electric cooperatives and other rural energy providers for renewable energy storage and projects that use wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal and biomass.

Nye County officials, including in Pahrump, have expressed some reluctance to embrace utility-scale solar projects. 

Pahrump, the county’s most populous town, has been plagued by declining groundwater levels with domestic well failures increasing annually, according to county officials. Nye County officials expressed concern that cumulative solar development in the basin would only worsen the county’s water woes.

However, the county is also the site of some of the largest planned solar projects in the state, including the 2,250 megawatt Chill Sun Solar Project along the U.S.95, and the 700 megawatt Copper Rays Solar Project southwest of Pahrump.