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"Violet" Violet is a 1½ year old, female gray and white Staffordshire Terrier. She is housetrained and can be left alone in the house for up to 8 hours. She is an indoor dog who enjoys sleeping with her people or on a fluffy dog bed. She has lived with children and cats. She may do well with another male dog, if introduced carefully. She knows the commands sit, off, come, go potties, and go outside. She knows how to use a dog door and loves to cuddle! Violet is available at the Colusa County Animal Shelter; the shelter hour is 2-3pm daily. Please call (530) 458-0229 with any questions. Adoptions are $10 with a $50 spay/neuter deposit. A license must also be purchased in the county of residence.
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March 20, Shady Creek staff put on an assembly for Egling students to make up for the science camp closure
Drop-in Literacy Assistance Colusa Library
■ 11:45AM - 12:45PM
Storytime: Colusa (Spanish) Colusa Library
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Funky Junk Art Program Colusa Library
Storytime: Arbuckle Arbuckle Library
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Fairboard Meeting
Colusa County Fairgrounds
THUR. MAR. 13 ■ 5 PM
Photography Workshop Colusa County Arts Council
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Stonyford Community Meeting Stonyford Grange Hall
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Storytime: Colusa
Colusa Library @ 738 Market Street, Colus
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CRAF Golf Tournament Colusa Golf & Country Club
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Drop-in Literacy Assistance Colusa Library @ 738 Market St., Colusa
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Williams Community Art Show Williams Community Center
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S. William Abel Community Plant Sale
CCOE Education Village Parking Lot
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Indivisible Colusa County Meeting with Edgar Lampkin El Jaliscience Restaurant, Arbuckle
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Williams Blood Drive
Butte City Bridge plans made better Caltrans brought enough engineers, supervisors and public relations people to deliver bad news. But they did a 180, and brought good news instead. Instead of the replacing the Butte City Bridge by closing the farm-to-market and major security route for many months, a rework means that Caltrans may close it for 72 hours. A network of levee and temporary roads will make the long-term closure unnecessary. Caltrans proposes to replace a 71-yearold bridge that spans the Sacramento River in Butte City because the structure no longer meets current seismic safety standards. In addition, the $96.8 million project calls for replacing a viaduct section west of the bridge and constructing various roadway improvements in Butte City. Construction is estimated to start in summer 2021 and conclude in 2023. While a meeting three years ago was rancorous, (the March 14) meeting was like a high school reunion. The graphics were first-rate. The place crawled with experts. And the area farmers, many whom are graduates of River Valley Christian School, are no slouches when it comes to engineering. Most are autodidacts. They seemed, on the whole, satisfied with the new Caltrans proposal.
COURTESY: TIM CREWS / SACRAMENTO VALLEY MIRROR
Geoff Giesbrecht, a part of Giesbrecht Hulling in Glenn, points to a portion of the Caltrans workaround for bridge and causeway replacement. The project will cost some $98 million, as estimated. Caltrans had planned to close the route for 18 months. That would have been a disaster for the Glenn County Sheriff, the Butte City and other fire departments, the Princeton Joint Unified School District, farmers, sales people and residents. Firefighters in Butte City are thinly staffed. Volunteers are there but there
are few of them. For the sheriff, the added 45 minutes of response time would have demanded a resident deputy in or near Butte City. But with what money? Caltrans found a way around the closure problem. There will still be some inconvenience but better that than closure. ■
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MARCH 27, 2019 VOLUME: 12 ■ ISSUE: 13 ■ NO 410
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TIM CREWS Sacramento Valley Mirror
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TODAY Thurs.
ice Principal at Egling Middle School (EMS), Erika Lemmenager had to break the news to disappointed students and parents: “Our sixth grade Shady Creek trip was canceled due to the health department shutting down Shady Creek because of a norovirus,” Lemmenager reported. EMS has been sending sixth graders to Shady Creek for years, so the staff was well aware of what the students were missing out on. Thankfully, the teachers were familiar with Shady Creek’s nature-based curriculum. Pulling their resources together over two days, teachers created a week of fun learning they called, “Shady Creek Week: Egling Style.” Five teachers dedicated their time after-hours to compass around the closure and recreate an experience similar to the one that is offered in the Nevada City foothills.
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The Colusa County Farm Bureau distributes books to students at Children’s Community Charter School, which has taken refuge at Grace Community Church, in Chico, since the Nov. 8 Camp Fire that destroyed their school and most of their homes.
People who have been happy to donate new or gently used children’s books to Camp Fire victims can be pleased that many have been placed into the hands of children who lost so much. The Colusa County Farm Bureau’s Camp Fire Relief Book Drive was to help those burnt out of their homes, businesses, and schools have received so much attention that Farms Bureaus from other counties and states, non-profit organizations from all over the United States, and Colusa County residents have gotten behind the program. “I’ve received books from Hawaii, Canada, the Bahamas – all over,” said Melodie Johnson, Colusa County Farm Bureau manager. “I had a children’s author send copies of all of his books, and for his birthday, he had all his friends who were authors ask their publishers for books. We got cases of new books. It’s crazy.” Books for adults have also reached good hands, Johnson said, but nothing has touched people’s hearts as much as the Farm Bureau’s efforts to replenish school libraries.
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