Summer is here at last Hope all of you are enjoying these nice warm days as much as I am, especially doing yard work and watching everything grow except my tomato plants. I have six plants and two tomatoes; isn’t that a good crop! My friends at the Senior Center are doing well. They come [...]
It’s fitting that the big blockbusters come out this time of year. Summer is about reconnecting with family, and watching movies together is one good way to do that. My husband and I have been showing the kids movies at home from our own childhoods lately. Last week we showed them “Big” with Tom Hanks [...]
Cinco de Mayo luncheon Another big party was a great success! The event was sponsored by the El Dorado Hills Senior Council and the County’s Senior Nutrition Lunch Program. The strolling mariachi band was very festive and many nice prizes were given away. Local merchants who donated gift cards included: Raley’s, Nugget, Safeway and Big [...]
Dear Tracy, I am sorry I can’t make your bachelorette party later this month. I would like nothing better than to kick up my heels with you and dance, to celebrate the next wonderful chapter of your life. But you see, it’s May. It was the writer T.S. Eliot who called April “the cruelest month,” [...]
Earlier in the year I decided to take the plunge and sign up for what is called Alternate Student Break – a group at Northwestern University that organizes about 10 different trips across the Midwest to work on service projects. It means not coming home for break (which means being at NU for almost six [...]
EDITOR: I didn’t know that even if you don’t sign up for the Recyclebank program, Waste Connections, Inc./El Dorado Disposal Service (EDS, the company that hauls the trash) still has to bill you for the service. Since I did not sign up with Recyclebank I get no benefit from it. Where does the money they [...]
Cinco de Mayo is just around the corner Last chance to make your reservations this week. Our annual Cinco de Mayo luncheon will be held on Friday, May 6, in the CSD gym. Join us for live mariachi music, nacho bar, door prizes and lots of fun! Doors open at 10:30 a.m. with entertainment at [...]
