What: ”White Christmas” Who: Imagination Theater Where: The theater on the El Dorado County Fairgrounds, 100 Placerville Drive in Placerville When: Opens Friday, Dec. 2 at 7 p.m. and runs through Friday, Dec. 23 at 7 p.m. Tickets: $17 for adults, $14 for seniors and $10 for students Information: Imagination Theater at 530-642-0404, imagination-theater.org or e-mail itplacerville@yahoo.com Danielle Badger is [...]

Christmas at Burke Junction, 3300 Coach Lane in Cameron Park, on Saturday, Dec. 3, will be a day filled with family fun and the train will be running all day. Start the day at 11 a.m. with a ride on the Burke Junction Train, after the ride capture that special visit with Santa that includes a [...]

For that good old-fashioned Christmas remembered from earlier years or from stories like “White Christmas” or “It’s A Wonderful Life,” Pollock Pines continues to bring joy of the season to all. On Saturday, Dec. 3 beginning at 8 a.m. the Pollock Pines-Camino Rotary Club will again be hosting Breakfast with Santa, completely free to children [...]

Celebrating 14 years of Christmas shows, Roger Filippelli and Lorrene Baum-Davis will be back at Filippelli’s home/studio, on Chamberlain in Placerville. Filippelli’s collectible wooden cooking and kitchen utensils and Baum-Davis, a highly acclaimed and award-winning jewelry artist and teacher, will show her fine multi-media art jewelry. Paula Joy Welter will also be showing a selection of her [...]

The sixth annual Las Posadas Candlelight Walk supporting the Interfaith Food Bank is Saturday evening, Dec. 3 at 7. Luminaries will glow along Spanish Street in Sutter Creek, guiding the way for a contemporary version of Las Posadas. A tradition of some 500 years and a favorite celebration in Mexico, Las Posadas (lodging places) tells the [...]

SANTA ROSA – Field biologists funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have counted a record number of coho salmon in the downstream portions of the Russian River system in western Sonoma County, offering a glimmer of hope that recovery of the endangered silver salmon is one day possible. Based on surveys led by [...]

HORSE LOVERS T-SHIRT:
 Mr. John Chapman provided the following T-shirt statement: “I’m so busy I don’t know if I found a rope or lost my horse.” • • • BREAKFAST WITH SANTA:
 Tomorrow, Dec. 3, the Pollock Pines-Camino Rotary Club will be hosting “Breakfast with Santa” at the Pollock Pines-Camino Community Center, 2675 Sanders Dr., Pollock Pines, [...]