NAIOP Southern Nevada Breaks Ground on NAIOP Casey Jones Health Center

WHO: NAIOP Southern Nevada, Communities In Schools of Nevada, and Elaine Wynn Elementary School with special guests Elaine Wynn and Clark County School District Superintendent Walt Rulffes

WHAT: NAIOP Southern Nevada is breaking ground on its NAIOP Casey Jones Health Center. Located at Elaine Wynn Elementary School, the new clinic will offer free health care to approximately 5,000 students in the area under the age of 18.

The clinic is part of the Communities In Schools of Nevada program which offers free basic health care for underprivileged students throughout Clark County. Services will be similar to other Communities In Schools of Nevada health clinics located at Reynaldo Martinez and Cynthia W. Cunningham Elementary Schools.

The new facility is named after the late Casey Jones, a former NAIOP Chapter president, who committed himself to giving back to the Las Vegas community and who is largely credited with expanding NAIOP Southern Nevada’s community outreach efforts.

NAIOP’s Community Service Committee is overseeing the project, which is being funded by NAIOP Southern Nevada with in-kind and cash donations from its members in addition to its construction partners: Crisci Builders, Pugsley Simpson Coulter Architects, Martin-Harris Construction, The Slater Hanifan Group and Wright Engineering.

WHEN: Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 2 p.m.

WHERE: Elaine Wynn Elementary School, located at 5655 Edna Avenue on South on the cross streets of South Jones Boulevard and Edna Ave.

VISUALS: Check presentation from NAIOP Southern Nevada to Elaine Wynn, Communities In Schools President Dan Cardinali and Louise Helton, State Director for Communities In Schools of Nevada.

Ceremonial turning of the dirt with Elaine Wynn, NAIOP President Lee Phelps, Communities In Schools President Dan Cardinali ,Communities In Schools of Nevada State Director Louise Helton, Community Service Committee Chair Barbara Demaree, Superintendent Walt Rulffes and Elaine Wynn Elementary School Principal Ellen M. Bordinhao.
                       
INTERVIEWS AVAILABLE: Elaine Wynn, Lee Phelps, Louise Helton, Barbara Demaree, Dan Cardinali, Walt Rulffes and Ellen M. Bordinhao.

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