Money raised to buy student’s mom new car
It was already a blessing for Tyria Smith to see her son, Bryan Lagrange, honored at the Sierra Vista High School senior awards ceremony before he enrolls at the University of Montana Western in the fall on a scholarship.
In Louisiana, the single mother of five had seen her kids starting to go down the wrong path. They were the reason she packed up and moved to Las Vegas, where she hoped they could have a better life.
“I was like, you know what, it’s getting rough here in Louisiana for these kids,” she said. “Before my kids start running with the wrong crowd, we have to go — and I saw that coming.”
Smith settled into Las Vegas with family. With an old, often-broken car that her sister bought, she would drive to the school to check in on her four high schoolers, watching Bryan play in as many football games as she could.
The mom got an even greater blessing Thursday when her son received a special senior award: the keys to a used Cadillac to replace the unreliable car.
as a base for the new asphalt pavement.
The Nevada Department of Transportation needs to wait to carry out the asphalt overlay, as the temperature needs to be 80 degrees and rising for proper adhesion, said NDOT spokesman Tony Illia.
Also, the 42 active traffic management signs that span stretches of I-15 and U.S. 95 will go online by mid-july. Though they have been in place since the end of February, activating them has taken NDOT longer than expected.
“Obtaining permanent power from NV Energy and the systems integration into the FAST Southern Nevada Traffic Operations Center has taken longer than expected,” Illia said.
Aside from that work, repaving and restriping remains to be done on various portions of roads in the Project Neon area between now and late June.
Freeway
U.S. 95 between City Parkway and Rancho Drive.
Freeway ramps:
U.S. 95 southbound to I-15 southbound collector distributor road. I-15/charleston ramps. I-15/sahara southbound off-ramp and northbound on-ramp.
U.S. 95 and Martin Luther King Boulevard ramps.
Spaghetti Bowl ramps.
City streets:
Alta Drive/bonneville Avenue, I-15 to Martin Luther King.
Wyoming Avenue and Industrial Road intersection. Western Avenue.
Grand Central Parkway from Premium Outlet Drive to Western.
Charleston Boulevard from Shadow Lane to Commerce Street.
Martin Luther King between Bonanza Road and Mineral Avenue.
Symphony Park Avenue. Oakey Boulevard, Martin Luther King to Ivanhoe Way.
Outside of those items, landscaping and aesthetic work will occur between now and July, when Project Neon will officially wrap up with a celebratory event originally scheduled for May. So don’t pull out that party hat just yet, as a few more bumps in the road to 100 percent completion lie ahead for Project Neon.
I-15 closure
A portion of Interstate 15 near downtown will shut to traffic overnight this week because of Project Neon.
The southbound lanes of I-15 at Charleston Boulevard will close from 10 p.m. Tuesday until 5 a.m. Wednesday for overhead sign work, NDOT announced last week.
Drivers who wish to continue on I-15 southbound will be detoured to get off the freeway at Charleston. They’ll then go through the traffic light at the intersection and re-enter I-15 from the Charleston on-ramp.
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