El Dorado County

CHP to support Wagon Train!

April 6, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE…
CHP to support Wagon Train!

In a surprising and most welcome reversal of their previous position, the California Highway Patrol has Advised the Highway 50 Association Wagon Train of their intent to WAIVE the escort fees for the 2011 Wagon Train, scheduled to enter California on June 5, 2011!

New Radio Campaign Promotes End to “Redevelopment Boondoggle”

RELEASE MONDAY, MARCH 7,2011
CONTACT: Carroll Wills, California Professional Firefighters (916) 921-9111 (office); (916) 799-8148 (cell); cwills@cpf.org

New Radio Campaign Promotes End to “Redevelopment Boondoggle”

Shutting Down Subsidies for Developers an “Easy Choice” For Lawmakers

Cameron Park Library Print Showing Features Karen Schmautz

faviconOur camera club, El Dorado Camera Club favicon, has been invited to show some of the members photos in the Cameron Park Library. I have the honor of being the first one to show my prints. There is room for 6-8 prints and so I have been poring over my photos trying to find a theme and some photos that would represent me as a photographer. I first thought that I would show my landscapes because it is a library, after all. But, I don’t think landscapes represent what my passion as a photographer really is. I love a beautiful landscape, but in the back of my mind I always think a person would really bring the landscape to life. With that in mind, I’ve chosen several of my portraits for printing and as is always the case, sometimes they look great on the computer screen, but when they are printed, I find things that I don’t like. So, I’m printing a few extra just in case.

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The Food Bank of El Dorado County needs Help this Week

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The Food Bank of El Dorado County is once again in need of volunteers.

We are putting together our Hidden Hunger, newsletter tomorrow, Thursday and Friday of this week.

And you guessed it, we need your help!

Do you have any time available you can come in and spend with us?

We are looking for volunteers for both Thursday and Friday, the 18th and 19th from 9-1pm.

Please reply to this email and let me, know if your teenager, aunt, mother, mother-in-law or yourself are available to spend a day with us prepping newsletters. Thank you for your ongoing commitment and support to the Food Bank of El Dorado County.

We couldn’t do it without you! Remember together we are making a difference!

A New Dawn for Issei Colony

“Graner House” was built in 1854 on the Gold Hill Ranch and will restored and become a museum. The big keyaki tree at right has been growing since the time of the Japanese colonists. (RYOKO OHNISHI/Rafu Shimpo)

By RYOKO OHNISHI
RAFU
STAFF WRITER
The American River Conservancy, a nonprofit land preservation organization, announced last week that it has purchased the 272-acre Gold Hill Ranch, the former site of the Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony. The ranch in Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif., is known for being the location of the gravesite of “Okei-san,” the first Japanese woman buried on American soil.

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District Attorney Vern Pierson Endorses Harry Norris for El Dorado County County Supervisor

El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson endorses local business owner Harry Norris for El Dorado County Supervisor, District 1.

Pancakes Breakfast for Harry Norris, Candidate for Supervisor

Pancakes Breakfast for Harry Norris, Candidate for Supervisor, May 3, 2008

Reception for Harry Norris, Candidate Board of Supervisors

A Special Reception for Harry Norris Candidate, El Dorado County County Board of Supervisors on April 11, 2008 in El Dorado Hills @ Hang It Up Gallery (Across from Bistro 33) in El Dorado Hills Town Center

Local Soroptimists Service Clubs Raise Awareness of Human Trafficking with Website

DefeatHumanTrafficking.com Launched and Maintained by Soroptimist SNR District 4 Director Sherri Lum-Alarcon

9th Annual Summer Spectacular Date Set - Over 9,000 projected to attend family fun event

Get ready for another “spectacular” event. The Cameron Park CSD has confirmed that it will hold the 9th Annual Summer Spectacular on Saturday, June 28, 2008 at Cameron Park Lake in Cameron Park, California.

Harry Norris Wins Key Endorsements

El Dorado County Supervisor candidate and local business owner Harry Norris has been endorsed by El Dorado Hills Community Services District board member Tony Rogozinski, library advocate Betty January, community leader Buzz Nunn, and El Dorado Irrigation District (EID) board members John Fraser, Bill George, George Osborne and George Wheeldon.

WINE TASTING TO BENEFIT DOG PARK FUND

Wine tasting event hosted by Dolce Vino on March 15th to benefit El Dorado Dog Owners Guild (EDDOG) fund for the formation of a dog park in Cameron Park.

Effort to Resurrect Japanese America’s ‘Plymouth Rock’ Underway

PLACERVILLE, Calif.  There is a relative calmness in these El Dorado Hills. It is far removed from the pandemonium of the Gold Rush that swamped the area a century and-a-half earlier, and a world away from the daily hustle and bustle of San Francisco’s Japantown.

Yet don’t let the lush rural surroundings and lack of chain stores fool you. Nestled between Placerville and Coloma the latter town just two miles north where gold was discovered by John Marshall in 1849 is a plot of land that has been referred to as the Japanese American Plymouth Rock. A literal gold mine of Japanese American history.

Next to the Gold Trail Elementary School lies the former site of the Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony, which although it lasted for only two years remains the first sizeable settlement of Japanese immigrants in the United States. For Japanese Americans, this is our Jamestown.

Blue Shield leaves El Dorado

The California Public Employees' Retirement System approved a cost-cutting plan that would increase co-payments for some office visits and allow Blue Shield of California to exit El Dorado County.

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The CalPERS board on Wednesday also approved Blue Shield's proposal to withdraw from parts of El Dorado County, where the health maintenance organization's costs are 39 percent higher than CalPERS statewide average.

Floodplain Management Presentations Due May 31

FMA invites you to participate in the 2007 Annual Conference, Sept 4-7, 2007 in South Lake Tahoe! The deadline for submission is May 31. Please visit our web site at www.floodplain.org favicon to download the full details on topics and submissions guidelines.

Floodplain Management Association
Announces the 2007 Annual Conference Call for Presentations Due May 31!

Local Telemonitor at EDC Office of Education

I am at a K-12 site. Actually, I am in charge of Educational Technology at Charter Community School, under the aupsices of the El Dorado County Office of Education. My site spends a lot on technology -- I have a terrific lab with high

Entries Close Friday, June 29, 2007 - 5:00 p.m. for the El Dorado County Fair Horse Show


Entries Close: Friday, June 29, 2007 - 5:00 p.m. (NO EXCEPTIONS WILL BE MADE) Classes Include: DRIVING CLASSES, ENGLISH SHOW, HALTER & WESTERN CLASSES, TRAIL CLASSES, & REINING CLASSES

Eldorado National Forest Receives “Energy for Wildlife” Habitat Improvement Grant

Placerville, CA…..Wildlife in the Eldorado National Forest will have a better place to live near Sly Park and Fleming Meadow when a habitat improvement project is completed under a PG&E powerline. Thanks to a grant

Deadline approaches for Commercial Wine Competition


The El Dorado County Fair will be accepting commercial wine entries from April 23 through May 11 for the 19th Annual El Dorado County Fair Commercial Wine Competition. The competition is open to all California wineries producing less than 20,000 cases total production annually and to all Sierra Foothills wineries

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