Last month I laced up my hiking boots and successfully completed one of the most difficult physical challenges for which I’ve ever volunteered. After hours of rock scrambling and a grueling, slow climb through steep, loose ash and pumice I made it to the top of Mount St. Helens (thanks to my boyfriend, my stubbornness, [...]
EDITOR: I was walking our dog in Stephen Harris Park this morning and heard explosions. It turned out CSD staff were blowing up gophers and moles,just like Bill Murray did in the movie “Caddyshack.” This park was a beautiful park until they removed two old oak trees not long ago, and now they’re blowing up [...]
I was a high school teacher on Sept. 11, 2001, not yet a mother. My husband and I had been married just over a year and we’d recently decided it was time to start a family. Like many hopeful couples we had it planned down to exactly what season I should conceive (OK maybe it [...]
EDITOR: Are members of the community frustrated by the fundraising that is taking place at Safeway stores? For over two years now, shoppers have had to endure a request for donations that is posted on the computer screen by which the grocery bill is transacted. In addition, the clerk also asks the customer: “Would you [...]
By John Knight District 1 supervisor I have received a number of calls and questions in the past few months about redistricting in El Dorado County and especially around District 1, which currently covers major sections of El Dorado Hills and Cameron Park. I was surprised that the redistricting of supervisorial districts, which is required [...]
It doesn’t matter who is right and who is wrong. The damage is done. By anyone’s estimate, the recent standing-room only El Dorado Hills Community Services District Board of Directors meeting/showdown with John Skeel was teetering on an angry mob scene. And it wasn’t in favor of the board. The fact remains the board under [...]
Oktoberfest is coming soon Our next big party is the Oktoberfest and will be held on Friday, Oct. 14, sponsored by the El Dorado Senior Support Council and the Placerville Nutrition Lunch Program. It will be held in the CSD gym on Harvard Way, doors open at 10:30 a.m., entertainment is at 11 and lunch is [...]
