An event focused on a downtown community garden is slated for Saturday evening.

Students in Clark County’s Summer Business Institute (SBI) internship program will host a senior and youth community fair from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Vegas Roots Community Garden, 715 N. Tonopah Drive.

The event will feature entertainment, a talent show, food and nutrition vendors, arts and crafts fair, carnival games and the unveiling of a new mural designed and painted by the students. Anyone interested in attending must bring paint supplies, gardening tools, or clear Christmas lights to donate in return for admission. The donated materials will be given to the community garden.

A number of students from Bishop Gorman High School announced their college plans Wednesday.

Equestrian star Kayla Hillegas is getting a full-ride scholarship to Kansas State. She is ranked third in the country in the equestrian event known as reigning. It is where a rider is judged on the difficulty of the pattern they can guide their horse on.

"It is amazing. I am the first equestrian to sign at Gorman. So, I am very excited," Hillegas said.

Adam Wozniak is a 6-foot-5 left-handed pitcher, who has pitched his way to a scholarship at Portland University.  

"All my hard work is finally paying off after all these years," Wozniak said. "Sometimes, people only focus on the more important people, and those people just get left in the shadows. It is good to have your own shining moment.”

Student nurses and hospital professionals launched a new effort to protect kids at one middle school.

Safe Kids at Sunrise Children’s Hospital partnered with Roseman University nursing students to create the traffic safety plan at Tarkanian Middle School. The new program was launched Thursday morning.

The idea is to change the students and the parents’ unsafe behaviors. Many students cross the street outside a crosswalk. The solution to that problem came from a student who suggested putting up temporary pylons to create a crosswalk in the middle of the street.

“It takes a long time to get sidewalks put in and crosswalks and permits for a long term solution,” Jeanne Cosgrove, RN Director for Clark County Safe Kids, said.

At the same time that kids are crossing illegally, many drivers perform illegal and dangerous U-turns.