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It should be perfect weather to view the Perseid meteor shower on the nights of Saturday, Aug. 11 and Sunday, Aug.12. This is one of the best annual displays and can deliver a spectacular 90 meteors per hour. Get those shooting star wishes ready and enjoy the show. Rocking dance An other great night [...]
THE MAGIC OF LOVE: If you leaf through the “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff” calendar, you will discover the following belief: “Something magical happens to your life when nothing is seen as more important than love. “Small stuff” is kept in its proper perspective and consciousness opens to the beauty and joy of life. Our [...]
What: Wine and Olive Oil Tasting Event Who: Suicide Prevention Education Action Resources (SPEAR) Where: Holiday Inn Express, 4360 Town Center Drive in El Dorado Hills When: Saturday, Aug. 11 from 7 to 9 p.m. Cost: Tickets are $20 per person and $35 per couple in advance. The day of the event it’s $25 per person. Information: Call Vivian [...]
ACCEPTING CONTRADICTIONS OF LIFE: Check out the “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff” calendar, and you will discover the following thought: “Inner peace is accomplished by understanding and accepting the inevitable contradictions of life — the pain and pleasure, success and failure, joy and sorrow, births and deaths. Problems can teach us to be gracious, humble, [...]
NATURE LOVER ADVICE: John Chapman forwarded the following “Advice from a Heron” T-shirt statement: “Wade into life – Keep a keen lookout – Don’t be afraid to get your feet wet – Be patient – Look below the surface – Enjoy a good reed. Go Fish!” GET RID OF E-WASTE: Snowline Hospice informs us that [...]
DAVEY RIDES AGAIN: For the past 35 consecutive years, Davey “Doc” Wiser has been a member of the famous Wagon Train that travels from Zephyr Cove, Nev., to Placerville. This year he was the oldest traveler. He also participated in the Studebaker Wheelbarrow Races and the Pony Express Ride. OK, Davey, what’s the secret for not [...]
El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies converged on El Dorado Hills Town Center on June 12 after a construction worker found a woman’s body hanging in an enclosed trash area. Though originally deemed suspicious — 911 calls made to the Sheriff’s Department the night before the body was discovered reported a woman screaming for help in [...]
El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies converged on El Dorado Hills Town Center Tuesday morning after a woman’s body was found hanging in an enclosed trash area.
“It’s suspicious,” said Sgt. Jim Byers. “It’s out of the ordinary.”
Detectives will treat the case as suspicious unless they find evidence that suggests otherwise, he explained. It’s possible that the woman killed herself.
Byers described the victim as a Caucasian female but no other details about her identity were available.
PAROLE OFFICER’S ADVICE: John Chapman sent me the following T-shirt statement: “Bad Decisions Make Good Stories.” There are a lot of bad-decisions stories in newspapers. • • • PLACERVILLE FRESH: The Farmer’s Market continues to operate on Saturday mornings from 8 a.m. to noon on Main Street at the Ivy House parking lot, Placerville. Items available include fresh [...]
Tylar Marie Witt, the 16-year-old former lover of murder suspect Steven “Boston” Colver, was called by prosecutors Wednesday morning to testify against the man she was once willing to kill for. Witt, who last year pleaded guilty to her mother Joanne Witt’s 2009 murder, stoically recalled the first time she met Colver, now 21, at El [...]
A MAN OF CULTURE: John Chapman of Folsom provided the following T-shirt statement: “In some cultures what I do would be considered normal.” • • • SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS: On the second Wednesday of each month, the Pleasant Valley Grange Women’s Activity Group sends care packages to our Calif. troops. If you have a local relative stationed [...]
Is your child at risk of suicide? Family health depends on the health of all of its members and to help community members deal with family health issues, the Suicide Prevention Education Action Resources (SPEAR) is sponsoring a Health Expo and Awareness Spectacular at the Holiday Inn Express in Town Center, El Dorado Hills, on [...]
MEAT EATERS DELIGHT: John Chapman of Folsom left me the following T-shirt statement: “I didn’t climb to the top of the food chain to become a vegetarian.” By the way, are you aware that Johnny Appleseed’s given name was John Chapman? • • • START LOSING WEIGHT! EDHS Class of 1961: The Reunion Committee for the 50th [...]
SHIRT À TROIS: Thanks to John Chapman of Folsom, the following T-shirt statement is offered: “Me, myself and I say you’re wrong. It’s 3 agaist one.” • • • FAMILY SEARCH PARTY: On Wednesday, March 16, from 6 to 8 p.m., the El Dorado Hills Genealogical Society will meet in the Community Room in the El Dorado [...]
The Community Gift Tree is a joint effort between the El Dorado County Office of Education, the Child Development Program, Cameron Park and El Dorado Hills libraries, Missouri Flat Save Mart, Placerville Kmart and Main Street Courthouse. The trees will have a child’s name, needs and wishes. You can drop off your child’s gift on [...]