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MISTAKES ARE FUN: Carlyn White sent the following “Great Lessons on Stress:” “Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.” FUNDRAISER FOR EVAN ORTIZ: A fundraiser for Evan Ortiz and family is scheduled for Monday, April 22, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the American Legion Hall, 4561 Greenstone Rd., Placerville. There will be [...]
DO NOT INTERRUPT NAPS: John Chapman provided the following T-shirt statement: “Consciousness — that annoying moment between nap-times.” HOLIDAY MUSIC FESTIVAL: On Thursday, Nov. 15, the Placerville Fellowship and Newcomers Club will meet at the Cold Springs Country Club, 6500 Clubhouse Dr., Placerville, at 1 p.m. The entertainment for this luncheon will be the Sensational [...]
When looking back over childhood memories, some people wax poetic. Lanita Bingham, 82, wrote a poem as a teenager lamenting what she did not have as a child. One line says that she wished for a square of concrete where she could skate and talked about dreams of an indoor bathroom. That way, she wouldn’t [...]
When red-headed Dan Gelwicks put his premier edition of the Mountain Democrat out on the streets of Placerville on Saturday, Feb. 24, 1854, he and his newspapers probably got splattered with mud. Muddy streets were an issue then, in the early stages of Placerville’s metamorphosis. It had been a rowdy mining camp in ’49; now [...]
Sports editor Each year student-athletes from El Dorado, Union Mine and Ponderosa high schools are selected to receive the Tyler Flynn Memorial Scholarship, awarded for heart, intergrity and mastery in athletics. Funds are raised, mainly through the annual Tyler Flynn Ò44 ForeverÓ golf tournament, and distributed in FlynnÕs honor. The three-sport star at El Dorado [...]
Special to the Democrat On a balmy Thursday evening at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds, Mary Kay Brancheau, 67, was selected to be the 2010 El Dorado Rose. Roni Pettibone, 2009 El Dorado Rose, placed the white sash over the green silk bibbed jacket of BrancheauÕs award-winning, original, authentic 1895 traveling suite. Undeniably perfect weather [...]
Special to the Democrat A sparkling crown of white lights twinkled on the dark purple inner curtain of the Theater at the Mine stage last Friday night at the Miss El Dorado scholarship competition and pageant. Soon the pretty, simple and elegant stage backdrop was eclipsed by dazzling light as Sarah Miller, 18, and Raeven [...]
Special to the Democrat With part of a gold mine on her beautiful property and an old photo in hand, Kathy Walter is becoming part of El Dorado CountyÕs heritage. A newcomer by pioneer standards, Walter, 72, moved to Placerville with her late husband William ÒBillÓ Walter in 1984. But she knows for certain that [...]