SACRAMENTO – Three projects funded by United Way California Capital Region are making significant differences in the lives of hundreds of El Dorado County residents, CEO Steve Heath said during a recent town hall meeting in Placerville. “We are working with several partner nonprofits to produce measurable results on issues of vital importance to El [...]
Celebrating young people seemed more important than ever Friday night at the El Dorado Hills Community Vision Coalition’s annual Youth Star Awards. In the wake of what happened across the country in Connecticut, a lengthy moment of silence opened the ceremony at Lakehills Covenant Church in El Dorado Hills. Vision Coalition Board President Roger Taylor [...]
“Forever Plaid:Plaid Tidings” offers the best of “Forever Plaid” tied up in a nifty package with a big Christmas bow on top! Filled with Christmas standards that have all been “Plaid-erized” Sutter Street Theater’s boys are back to do their Christmas special. At first they aren’t sure why they’ve returned, but a phone call from [...]
Pamela Hayes Classical Ballet has a lot to be proud of with its upcoming production of “The Nutcracker.” The holiday ballet’s three principal dancers — Kristoffer Reyes (The Prince), Allyn Ginns (Sugar Plum Fairy) and Sarah Beth Kosterman (Clara) — are products of the acclaimed El Dorado Hills ballet studio. “In two years at Pamela [...]
A few weeks ago, I wrote about fate, joy and sadness as they relate to the arts. “All mortal life is ‘fated’ to have a beginning and an end,” I wrote in Village Life on Nov. 28. “(But) between those fixed points in time are all the things that go into life: good and evil, [...]
With its simple tale of a young girl who gets a gift of a nutcracker (a prince), audiences all over the world, year after year, have been transported through the girl’s dreams about The Nutcracker/Prince, falling in love with and the beautiful land of Sugar Plums. Audiences who missed Pamela Hayes Classical Ballet’s performances of [...]
Women see better because they pay attention to their reading glasses. They clean their glasses more often, and they clean them correctly, with soft soap, water and a soft cloth. For some strange reason, guys don’t pay attention to their glasses and rarely clean them properly. Perhaps guys are just lazier? • I very rarely [...]
