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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
December Paradise Palms Social Club and other news.
With the holiday season coming up, its a good opportunity to give back to our community. In an effort to show our ongoing appreciation for those at the Cambridge Community Center, we thought it would be a great idea to focus on their cause. The Cambridge Community Center are the folks who have assisted us in our neighborhood pride clean-ups and are responsible for providing us with the equipment, volunteers and additional resources to better our neighborhood.
They're in need of non-perishable food items and/or gently used clothing, including business attire, to provide to those in need who are seeking employment.
If you plan on attending the next social club, which will be held Saturday 12/3, we will have a drop off box at the social. If you are unable to make it but would still like to contribute, send us an e-mail with your address and we can come to you. Were hoping to do all our pickups on Saturday 12/10, between 10:00 am -12:00pm, however if this doesn't work for you please let us know and we can make other arrangements. Also, any monetary donations that we receive at the December social club will be donated to the Cambridge Community Center. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Thank you all for your support!
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The next Paradise Palms Social Club will be hosted Saturday, Dec 3rd at Steve & Tami's from 7-10. Bring your favorite beverage.
Teri & Chad will host in January, February we will be at Neil &Andre's, Mike & Amanda will host March, Clay & Denise will host in May, June will be at Lois & Rob's, Sandra is hosting in July, Sandy & Mark's place in August, Mario will host in September, October will be at Danny & Kevin's, November (Terrordise Palms Halloween party) at Chad & Teri's.
Paradise Palms Social Club hosts a “get to know your neighbors” cocktail party on the first Saturday of the month. Each month the party is at a different home. If you would like to host let us know what month you'd like to do it.
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We just received an e-mail from the golf course regarding their new rates:
Las Vegas National Golf Club will be offering Clark County Residents the following golf rates:
Before 11:30 am: $40 (Includes golf cart)
After 11:30 am: $30 (Includes golf cart)
To receive the local rate, all players must present a valid form of identification.
______________________________We recently added our 100th member to the Paradise Palms residents page on facebook. We share more info on the neighborhood there, so if you aren't a member, find us and join.
Hope to see you all on Nov 3rd.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
Paradise Palms resident: Robert Maheu.
Robert Maheu, a chief aide to Howard Hughes who engineered the deals for the Hughes business empire that helped change the face of Las Vegas, but who never once met his boss in the decade and a half he worked for him, lived at 3525 Cochise Lane in Paradise Palms.
Communicating with Hughes through countless handwritten messages and phone calls, Mr. Maheu bought a host of Las Vegas hotels and casinos and other real estate in and around the city for Hughes in the late 1960s. Those deals, adding a corporate presence to a city with a reputation for mob influence, were arranged while Hughes was secluded at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas.
“If Howard wanted someone fired, I did the firing,” Mr. Maheu recalled in his memoir, “Next to Hughes,” written with Richard Hack. “If he wanted something negotiated, I did the bargaining. I was his eyes, his ears and his mouthpiece. I met with presidents, appeared before committees and entertained the rich and famous.”
Mr. Maheu was remembered as well for his involvement in an affair going far beyond the bizarre world of Hughes, the billionaire businessman, movie producer and aviator turned recluse. Maheu was a very close confidant to brothers President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. In 1960, Mr. Maheu was enlisted by the C.I.A. in a plot to have the underworld carry out the assassination of Fidel Castro.
Robert Maheu died Aug. 4th 2008 at Desert Springs Hospital in Las Vegas. He was 90 and had cancer and heart ailments.
Story about the Bob Maheu estate sale.
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| Attorney Morton Galane and Robert Maheu inside Maheu’s Paradise Palms home. |
Communicating with Hughes through countless handwritten messages and phone calls, Mr. Maheu bought a host of Las Vegas hotels and casinos and other real estate in and around the city for Hughes in the late 1960s. Those deals, adding a corporate presence to a city with a reputation for mob influence, were arranged while Hughes was secluded at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas.
“If Howard wanted someone fired, I did the firing,” Mr. Maheu recalled in his memoir, “Next to Hughes,” written with Richard Hack. “If he wanted something negotiated, I did the bargaining. I was his eyes, his ears and his mouthpiece. I met with presidents, appeared before committees and entertained the rich and famous.”
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| Maheu's book about working for Howard Hughes. |
Robert Maheu died Aug. 4th 2008 at Desert Springs Hospital in Las Vegas. He was 90 and had cancer and heart ailments.
Story about the Bob Maheu estate sale.
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