IN PROFILE: Terrie Hicks
BUSINESS: Driver for Integrity Taxi
AGE: 50
BACKGROUND: “I like driving. I was a long-haul trucker for a year and have been a travel agent. I worked as a travel agent in Manhattan, N.Y., for five years. I worked quality control for Letica as well.”
FIRST JOB: “I worked as a reservations agent for Trans-World Airlines.”
YEARS IN BUSINESS: “I have only lived in Pahrump for six months. I moved here to take the job with Integrity Taxi. So far, I’ve become a member of the local Moose Lodge but I want to get involved in helping the homeless and the elderly through the programs offered here. I’ve spent most of my volunteer time working from my church.”
PERSONAL: “I love spending time seeing things I’ve never seen before and taking trips to Death Valley and other close places. If I were retired, I’d drive across the country and stop to look at everything.”
BUSINESS CLIMATE: “This is a good community. It’s small and I like the rural environment. It’s a Catch-22 of sorts. It would be great to have some entertainment that doesn’t have to do with gambling, such as a movie theater, or other options to shop — things that keep you from having to travel to Vegas.”
“We need more businesses here to create not only entertainment but jobs as well.”
