opinion/streetalk

ThiS ModerN World by tom tomorrow

Cold-and-snowy or warm-and-dry winter?

Asked around downtown Reno

Nanci Snyder

Nurse Dry and warm. I’m from Michigan. I just moved here like a week ago, so I want warm.

Kailee Seal

Student Cold and snowy because we need it, and we haven’t had snow for a while, and I like to snowboard.

So long, Carmen

Carmen Michele Garcia died on Saturday, October 3, know Carmen Garcia through taking her classes, 2015, after bravely fighting an excruciating battle working with her, or just talking to her about against pancreatic cancer. She kept her sense of anything and everything, who fell in love with humor right to the end. She was 48. her brilliance and who won’t ever forget her or Carmen was born in Vinita, Oklahoma, on the impact she had. A lot of people here became July 29, 1967, to Benigno Diaz and Martha Carmen Kids, all of us bonding with her in Measner. She spent her youth in Oklahoma, unique and special ways.” attending her senior year of high school in Among her friends and co-workers, she’ll Grove, Oklahoma. She left Oklahoma at her be remembered for her work ethic, pointed wit, earliest opportunity, moving to Reno in 1986. brilliant mind and fierce capacity for love. From 1987-2003, Carmen put herself through Throughout her life, Carmen enjoyed readcollege working in the service industry as a ing classic literature like William Faulkner, cocktail waitress and bartender at places includ- Eudora Welty and Flannery O’Connor, as well ing Eddie’s Fabulous as contemporary writers like 50s, Paul Revere’s Kicks, and Doc Holliday’s. Carmen Garcia: Cormac McCarthy and William Kennedy. Her preferred music According to her resume, July 29, 1967- followed similar themes with her jobs included “Standard bartending October 3, 2015 Hank Williams Sr., Patsy Cline and Billie Holiday among her duties in a gaming envi- favorites. She was also a fan of ronment, including impromptu comedy routines philosophy of mind philosophers like Ludwig as well as amateur counseling and the operation Wittgenstein. She was an amazing cook of rich of an unorthodox and unlicensed confessional.” foods, a fitness buff, and a lover of wine and At the University of Nevada, Reno, she spirits. She delighted in doing crafts and decoratearned her bachelor’s degree in English in 1999 ing the spaces she lived in. and her master’s in Secondary Education in Carmen is survived by her husband, Mark 2005. Lindquist, stepsons, Logun and Quinn Lindquist; She began her life’s work at the Davidson her mother, Martha Liou; sisters, Jo Ann Reed, Academy, the school for young geniuses at Mae Zarnitsyn Liou and Lori Baker; and stepfaUNR, in 2007. At the time of her death, she was thers, Joe Reed and Long Liou. The legendary Director of Curriculum & Instruction. Miss Carmen will be sorely missed by many During her time at Davidson Academy, friends and former patrons. Carmen directly influenced hundreds of the A celebration of Carmen’s life is in the planfinest minds of a generation. As one Davidson ning stages. Date and time will be announced on Academy student wrote, “I’m what we call her memorial Facebook page at www.facebook. a Carmen Kid—that is, a student who got to com/carmen.m.garcia2. Ω Robert Gutierrez

Auto body worker Cold, snowy because it’s nice, it’s beautiful to feel the snow coming down. I think cold and snowy.

Zachary Taylor

Student I’m from Las Vegas, so I’d actually like a cold and snowy winter. I’m not used to it, and that’s kind of why I enjoy it up here. It’s a little cooler, and I like the cold better than I do the heat.

Devon Smith

Barback I would like it cold and snowy because I like to snowboard a lot and I hope to go up and enjoy it.