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Walking around the Amador County Fair, you hear a lot of, “If I could have entered my project in the fair, I would have won a blue ribbon. I should have done that.” This year the time has come to take a look at your best jam, that perfect photo, or the quilt that is [...]
With the relocation of the Mountain Democrat to the Placerville Drive area, new commute routes are being tested. The early morning drive down Main Street to Forni Road to Ray Lawyer Drive is a pleasant choice and is a nice chance to check out activity on Main Street. It is nice to see that most [...]
CALL ME GRACEFUL: John Chapman sent me the following T-shirt statement: “I’M NOT CLUMSY! The Floor Just Hates Me, the Table & Chairs are Bullies, and the Walls Get in My Way.” READER’S RAPTURE: Used books are for sale on the first Saturday of each month from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Placerville [...]
OCEAN ADVICE: My pal John Chapman forwarded the following “Advice from the Ocean” T-shirt statement: “Be shore of yourself * Come out of your shell * Take time to relax and coast * Avoid pier pressure * Sea life’s beauty * Don’t get tide down * Make waves!” ALL ABOARD! The El Dorado Western Railroad [...]
HEAVENLY ADVICE: John Chapman was nice enough to provide the following “Advice from the Night Sky” T-shirt statement: “See the big picture * Be a star * Keep looking up * Don’t be afraid of the dark * Stay full of wonder * Expand your horizons * Turn off the lights!” Thank you, John. FEEL [...]
Golf tournament The very first Cameron Park Friends of the Library Golf Tournament is scheduled for Saturday, May 4, starting at 8:30 a.m. at Bass Lake Golf Course. Registration packets are available at Cameron Park Library, 2500 Country Club Dr., Cameron Park 95682; or Bass Lake Golf Course, 300 Alexandrite Dr., Rescue 95672. Proceeds to [...]
The Benefit of Arguing Planets Mercury and Pluto cannot seem to come to an agreement today. Is their agreement necessary for things to move ahead, though? No way. Everyone knows that the best collaborations are fraught with tension. Our differences make us stronger, as long as we try to hear each other out and learn [...]
June 24, 1927 — Feb. 6, 2013 Russell S. Grove, age 85, passed away in Placerville, Calif., on Feb. 6, 2013, of congestive heart failure. He was surrounded by the loving presence of his family and very close friends. Russ was born in Sacramento, Calif., on June 24, 1927. Like many people of his generation, [...]
BERKELEY — Seventeen members of Aquasol’s senior group attended the meet on the campus of UC Berkeley that played host to 300 swimmers representing 25 teams from Northern and Southern California. Kaela Marcus, 15, made the finals in the 200 backstroke (8th) with a new AA time of 2:17.83 (a whopping 5-second drop from her [...]
They are coming home, but what happens for members of the military once they are home? Last year there were 349 reported suicides in military personnel with suicides among veterans exceeding that of active-duty troops. It can be difficult to shut out the sounds of battle and reconnect with families not seen for many months.
For one group of military families, a well-known El …
The Gift of the Present We are always moving forward, even when we’re not consciously aware of it — so why push ahead? Needing to push life into the future can be rob you of the moment, which is very hard to enjoy when you’re constantly thinking about changing it into something else. Mercury and [...]
Hail the Aquarius Sun The Sun waves goodbye to Capricorn and heads into the realm of Aquarius. The last weeks have been ambitious and productive, bringing us to new latitudes. Now we’re in store for a plateau. It’s a chance to take a break and reorder priorities. It’s time to figure out how to use [...]
HPisces Moon Channels Zen Master The Pisces Moon is a spiritual teacher. She reminds us that the wild moments you create outside of yourself bring only temporary release. True freedom comes from bringing your inner world to a state of harmony. The expansive, unlimited joyful feeling was always there inside you, waiting for you to [...]
Venus and Uranus Square Off It could have been so easy. Venus is known to cool off as she transits Capricorn in search of a more practical and traditional mode of love. And though she’s but a few days into this journey, Uranus in Aries isn’t about to let things get boring. Filled with rebellious [...]
ONGOING put sunburst 104 here Sunburst Clay and Glass, 429 Main St. in the Fairchild Building in Placerville, is open Saturdays and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p. m. and for Third Saturday Art Walk, Jan. 19 from 5 to 8 p m. Stop by to view raku pottery, fused glass jewelry, photography and [...]
Chaz Smith now top-ranked DIAMOND SPRINGS — Chaz Smith, of the Hangtown Saber Club in Diamond Springs, was second in the Veteran 50 women’s saber event in late October at the Veterans World Championships in Krems, Austria. Competing in her first Veterans Worlds and ranked fourth on the four-person US squad, Smith was the 15th [...]
October 31 this year will have more to celebrate than candy and costumes. U.S. Army Specialist Doug Harris, recently wounded in Afghanistan, is coming home. On May 30, Harris,21, was struck by an improvised explosive device while on patrol in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Along with a numerous gashes and contusions and a broken elbow, Harris lost [...]
The Leo moon rules the day with a vibrant sense of whimsy and outrageous fun. As this moon mixes with the energy of Venus in Leo trine Uranus in Aries, casual relationships rent more space in our brains, while serious relationships take on a lighthearted ease that could only occur between people who know each [...]
The nurturing Cancer moon rules the day, pumping empathetic vibrations into the atmosphere. “Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these.” — Siddhartha Gautama ARIES (March 21-April 19). You have [...]
The Western Railway Museum has had a busy summer, and shows no signs of slowing down with the annual Pumpkin Festival on Oct. 13, 14, 20, 21, 27 and 28, and a contest to help name a new stop on its historic electric rail line. Name that Station Contest In late June, the Western Railway [...]