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Reizner, Sonny
"Born Julius Charles Reizner in Taunton, Mass., in 1921, he fell in love with sports as a child. He placed his first bet with a bookie -- on the Boston Braves -- when he was 16."
"The family moved to Las Vegas in 1970. Reizner went to work at the now-defunct Churchill Downs Race and Sports Book."
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Salgado, Sergio (Sergio Checko), 1970-
Sergio “Checko” Salgado was born in Las Vegas, Nevada at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital, a hospital whose name is unrecognizable to the majority of the people that now make Southern Nevada their home. Although the building still operates today, it is known as the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, Nevada’s Level I trauma center and one of the largest public hospitals in the United States.
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Armstrong, Sammie R., 1942-
Sammie Ross Armstrong was the owner of Ray and Ross Transport, the largest minority owned company in the state of Nevada during the 1980s and 1990s. In addition to being the second largest bus company in Clark County, Ray and Ross Transport, employed over 180 people and paid higher wages to their drivers than any other West Coast company. The company was voted one of the Top 5 most well run and safest bus companies of that era and owned more than 40 buses.
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Emerson, David
David W. Emerson was born in Littleton, Massachusetts. His father, a mining engineer, moved the family to Mexico twice, once when he was one year old and again when he was seven. In 1938, his father retired to work on his apple orchard in
Littleton. Emerson helped with pruning, spraying and dusting for insects, and hauling apples to the cider mill.
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