Beginning Friday, April 6, Animal Outreach of the Mother Lode will be a participant in the qualifying heat of the 2012 ASPCA Rachael Ray $100K Challenge. Animal Outreach is competing for a chance at more than $500,000 in grant funding, including a grand prize of $100,000. The 2012 ASPCA Rachael Ray $100K Challenge is a [...]
Girl Scout Tiffany Peterson will be collecting donated coats, hats, and gloves for the needy at Walmart this Saturday, Feb. 18, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The store is located at 4300 Missouri Flat Rd., Placerville. The clothing will be donated to the Green Valley Community Church, El Dorado County Resource Center, and New Morning [...]
EDITOR: I am sure that you probably heard about the lay-a-way angels going to stores and paying off random lay-a-ways for people. Well, I was one of those lucky recipients at the K-mart store in Placerville. This year has been particularly hard on my family. My husband had neck surgery, so our income has droped considerably, [...]
Where do you suppose all the “no-growth” advocates have disappeared to? You remember, all the folks a few years back who were alarmed about the area’s exploding rate of growth. Perhaps they have moved someplace else, along with a substantial number of former residents. The anti-growth movement should be pleased with the direction our state [...]
MARRIAGE INTERMISSION: On Thanksgiving Day John Chapman gave me the following T-shirt statement: “We interrupt this marriage to bring you Football Season.” You guessed it — we were watching football. • • • EL DORADO CHRISTMAS DINNER: El Dorado Community Hall is having its annual Christmas dinner on Saturday, Dec. 10. Social hour starts at 5:30 p.m., [...]
Ryan and Karrie Fieri encountered their first Black Friday together — and why not do it with immediate and extended family members? The Fieri clan were some of many people who shopped at Target inside Town Center in El Dorado Hills. The family left the department store spending more than $200 in gifts for nephews [...]
The Friends of the Amador County Library recently received a $500 grant for its Shelving Fund from the Wal-Mart Foundation, Bentonville, Ark. This grant was awarded through the Local Community Contribution/Hunger Outreach Grant Program. “We appreciate the generosity of Walmart in helping us to improve the county’s main library branch,” said Janie Brown, president of [...]
