CAMINO — Making sure your family and your home is set for an approaching wildfire and a possible evacuation is the second part of Cal Fire’s READY-SET-GO fire safety program. “Right now is a good time to review your evacuation plan (Wildfire Action Plan) with your family. Don’t wait until the smoke is swirling around [...]
“COOL” stands for Collaborative Opportunities for Online Learning Rescue’s COOL SCHOOL offers free, innovative and personalized learning choices open to students in grades three through eight in El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, Amador and Alpine counties. Enrolled students participate in an online, blended learning environment combining digital courses with the direct instruction and guidance of fully [...]
The El Dorado County Health Services Department, Public Health Division, is offering Tdap vaccine at low-cost this summer and just in time for middle school and high school students who will need proof of the vaccination to start school this fall. The Tdap vaccine, which helps protect against pertussis, will be administered to seventh through 12th [...]
Pastel as an art form gets a bad rap. First, because the average person thinks that pastel is chalk. And second, because its name, “pastel,” is often connected with light, watery and pale colors. An upcoming exhibit by the Pastel Society of the West Coast at The Gallery at 48 Natoma will set the record [...]
During the first real hot spell of this summer 170 young football players, ages 6-14, took the field at Oak Ridge High School for three days of conditioning, drills, practice and scrimmages. And despite the heat — which can be intense on the 2-year-old synthetic turf fields — the campers never lost their enthusiasm and [...]
Anna Pagcaliuagan, 7, El Dorado Hills “I cried. It was cool but too loud.” Jayden Wagner, 8, Cameron Park “I enjoyed all shapes and rockets in the sky, and the activities were fun.” Jen Wagner, Cameron Park “We went for the first time last year after eight years here, how bad is that? It was [...]
The sun came back just in time for golf. Wednesday 54 First Tee junior golfers joined Serrano’s senior golfers for a day on the beautiful El Dorado Hills course. After a significant storm Tuesday the course was damp but the sun and players’ high spirits guaranteed a bright day ahead. The Serrano First Tee Senior/Junior Invitational [...]
