{"id":7876,"date":"2022-03-03T11:09:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T19:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rtcsnv.com\/news\/?p=7876"},"modified":"2022-03-03T13:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T21:23:48","slug":"the-rtc-celebrates-national-womens-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/the-rtc-celebrates-national-womens-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"The RTC celebrates National Women\u2019s History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Honoring the \u201cFirst Lady of Las Vegas\u201d<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>March is National Women\u2019s History Month, a celebration of women\u2019s contributions to history, culture and society. \u00a0This year\u2019s theme is \u201cProviding Healing, Promoting Hope,\u201d a tribute to the ceaseless work of caregivers and frontline workers during this ongoing pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>All month long, we will be honoring local women of the past and present who were and are movers and shakers in our community. This week we pay tribute to Helen Jane Stewart.\u00a0 She is known as a Southern Nevada pioneer, and was considered the &#8220;First Lady of Las Vegas.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p>In 1902, Stewart sold 1,834 acres of ranch land, including the water rights, to the\u00a0Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, and this land was established as the City of\u00a0Las Vegas\u00a0in 1905.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Among her many accomplishments and contributions, Stewart served as the first postmaster of Las Vegas for ten years (1893-1903), and became the first woman elected to the Clark County School District&#8217;s Board of Trustees in 1916. She also helped fund the city\u2019s first public library.<\/p>\r\n<p>In 1922, Stewart donated land for the Las Vegas Grammar School, which was built in the following year. It was the first public school attended by Native American students from the Southern Paiute Indian Colony. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-7878 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rtcsnv.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/03\/Las-Vegas-Grammar-School-1920_UNLV-e1646328834901.jpeg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.rtcsnv.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/03\/Las-Vegas-Grammar-School-1920_UNLV-e1646328834901.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27655%27%20height%3D%27341%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20655%20341%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27655%27%20height%3D%27341%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/03\/Las-Vegas-Grammar-School-1920_UNLV-e1646328834901-200x104.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/03\/Las-Vegas-Grammar-School-1920_UNLV-e1646328834901.jpeg 270w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>The next time you\u2019re walking, biking, or riding the bus down Stewart Avenue in\u00a0Downtown Las Vegas, remember, that roadway is named in honor of Helen Jane Stewart.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honoring the \u201cFirst Lady of Las Vegas\u201d March is National Women\u2019s History Month, a celebration of women\u2019s contributions to history, culture and society. \u00a0This year\u2019s theme is \u201cProviding Healing, Promoting  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":7879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-7876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-womens-history-month"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}