Reno plumber on GOLD RUSH

Reno native and small business owner Juan Ibarra is back to the daily grind of machine maintenance and plumbing after making his television debut Nov. 6 on Discovery Channel’s GOLD RUSH.Ibarra, owner of Ibarra Drain Service, did machine maintenance for Todd Hoffman’s mining crew in the Canadian Yukon during the six months filming the show’s sixth season.Response to his small-screen debut has been great, he said, and “funny.”“A little different for sure.”