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07/22/2008
FACING ADVERSITY WITH GRACIE: Little girl's big battle
Suffering from hard-to-diagnose condition, little girl fights like a champ

By FRED COUZENS
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On Gracie Sauer's first birthday, a leading medical geneticist at UCLA's School of Medicine said he believed the Boulder City girl suffered from some type of mysterious metabolic disorder and warned her parents that Gracie's condition would probably deteriorate rapidly, leading to her death at an early age.

Medicine is an inexact science, however, and every so often, a child like Gracie comes along to remind us of that fact.

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07/22/2008
Local program for young offenders attracts notice
Other Nevada cities see merit of quick action when youths go astray

By FRED COUZENS
VIEW STAFF WRITER

Boulder City's highly successful Juvenile Conference Committee that metes out sanctions to less-serious juvenile offenders -- the only such program in Nevada -- is expanding in Clark County, and possibly as far as the state's capital city.

"We're taking the show on the road," said Pat Spero, the JCC coordinator and Police Chief Tom Finn's secretary. "For years, we've been telling Laughlin and Mesquite they can do the same program."

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Book Briefs
Wrong rye doomed to die in heat
Things to do in Boulder City
All Mountain Cyclery outgrows current store
Manhole Project Nears End
View Dining Guide
Golden-era Las Vegas actress Terry Moore still has it
City answers call for more dispatchers
Cottrells Mark Half Century
Last Park Wetlands Pond Goes Dry
Literary Las Vegas
Neighborhood news
Briefs
Pancake pros cook up stacks for July 4
Letters to the Editor
Boulder Bowl offers cool indoor athletic activity
Sagging economy, high gas prices bring customers to pawnshop
Book provides tips for college-bound freshmen
Get tips on how to prepare your home to be rented out
Local program for young offenders attracts notice











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