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Battle Born Media Reporter Gets It Wrong on Rate Setting Process(Part 4 of 6)

August 16, 2019Posted inColorado River, On The Water Front, Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), Uncategorized, Virgin River Water District, Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB)
This is a response to part 4 of Battle Born Media’s (BBM) of a 6-part series in which they through their “reporter” Barbara Ellestad, attempt to blame. BBM originally scheduled five parts. Now they have added a 6th part to discredit individuals who support Wolf Creek. We will write to those acquisitions when they appear.

In part one  BBM “reporter” Barbara Ellestad grossly misrepresented the May 2018 lawsuit filed by Paradise Canyon, LLC, owner the Wolf Creek golf club against the Valley Water District (VVWD).

In Part 2, Ellestad twisted the facts in a 2011 lease agreement between the two parties as she tries to defend the VVWD.

In part 3, she continues to take selective comments from a deposition taken by Virgin Valley Water District attorney Jedediah (Bo) Bingham involving Cory Clemetson, a partner with his brother in Paradise Canyon as if that confrontation somehow proves that the case lacks merit. Also, in Part 3, Ellestad attempted but failed to make the point that the VVWD could claw back alleged unused water from Wolf Creek and lease that potion to the Nevada Water Authority (SNWA).

In part 4, Ellestad returns to her theme that the Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB) has sole discretion to set water rates and again uses selective wording from the Bingham-Clemetson deposition.

Battle Born Media Reporter On Rampage Against Mesquite Golf Course (Part 1 of 6)

July 24, 2019Posted inEditorials, On The Water Front, Opinions, Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), The Economy, Virgin River, Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB)
When Barbara Ellestad, the “reporter” for the Mesquite (NV) Local News (MLN) left her position as an elected official on the Virgin River Water Board (VVWB), she immediately launched into acerbic attacks on the owners Paradise Canyon and their business Wolf Creek Golf Course.

Supporting Ellestad is Kirk Kern, the Battle Born Media publisher for MLN. He has been advised that much of what Ellestad says is misleading, filled with innuendos and could be libelous.  Once or twice Kern has published opinions questioning Ellestad’s “yellow journalist” approach to the truth. Unfortunately, he most often lets her questionable work stand without opposition.

Now she has decided, and Kern apparently approves, to launch 5-part series casting aspersions against the owners of Wolf Creek and their supporters in a desperate attempt to hide from the public the questionable behavior of the majority on the VVWB and their attorney over time.

Nevada-today will supplement her articles with additional information that puts what she says into a context that is more suitable for an open and honest exchange of ideas.

Ellestad proposes in:

supplement to Ellestad’s Part 1:

Water Attorney Extends Lawsuit With Public Money

July 15, 2019Posted inNews and information, On The Water Front, Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB)

Mesquite, NV. With another $240,000 of public funds guaranteed this year by the Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB) their attorney Jedediah (Bo) Bingham is going back to court this week.

This time he is attempting to defend his  performance during a May 29th hearing in the legal action filed against the water district by Paradise Canyon (dba Wolf Creek Golf Club).

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