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Colusa County Celebrates Easter
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at the Colusa Branch Library The Colusa County Library is planning a Splendid Spider Week in honor of Charlotte's Web. Here is the line-up of activities: ■ APRIL 24, 3:30 PM–4:30 PM Explorit Science Center will bring a hands-on spider lesson, story time and activity stations for all school-age children. ■ APRIL 25, 6:30 PM–7:30 PM Family Story Time will feature a story about young E. B. White, A Boy, a Mouse, and a Spider. ■ APRIL 26, 11 AM and 1 PM Movies! Bring snacks and a pillow for a Charlotte's Web movie marathon at the library featuring the 1973 animated classic followed by the beloved 2006 live action feature film. Spider Week activities are brought to us FREE OF CHARGE by the Friends of the Colusa County Free Library.
Virginia Read Day Saturday, April 27, 2019
■ 1 PM to 2:30 PM Rocco's Banquet Rm., 546 Market St., Colusa The Value of Children's Literature Professor Seth Lerer, distinguished professor of literature at the University of California at San Diego will be one of our special guests for Virginia Read Day 2019. His book Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Dr. Lerer's presentation will discuss Charlotte's Web in the larger contexts of women in children's literature as well as the shared experience of reading as children and as adults. Q&A session will follow. ■ 2:30 PM to 4 PM Rocco's Banquet Rm., 546 Market St., Colusa Charlotte's Arts Show: Fiber artists Travis Meinolf, Ani Lee, Margot Becker, and Colusa's own Sierra Reading will be demonstrating and teaching drop-spindle spinning, loom weaving, knitting and more! ■ 7:15 PM Stagehands Theater, Colusa Fairgrounds Stagehands presents: Charlotte's Web The Stagehands community theater presents Charlotte's Web. ■ 10 AM to 4 PM Friends Around the Block Quick Shop 211 8th St., Colusa Quilts are created with a theme from Charlotte's Web will be displayed on Virginia Read Day, and prizes will be awarded for the best design commemorating this classic children’s book.
Charlotte's Web
at Stagehands Theater The Stagehands present Charlotte's Web. Directed by Susan Gibbs in collaboration with the Virgina Yerxa Community Read. Performance dates are: April 26, 27 at 7:15 PM; April 28, at 2:15 PM; and May 3, 4, at 7:15 PM. Tickets are sold at the door, $10 per person. Stagehands Theater is located in the Colusa Fairgounds.
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APRIL 24, 2019 VOLUME: 12 ■ ISSUE: 17 ■ NO 414
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Pictured: Josie Charter, 1; Rumi Barber, 3; Reini Barber, 1; Macie Charter, 3; and Leila Schertze, 3; with their baskets at the Arbuckle Golf Club Easter egg hunt held on Saturday.
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Dozens of children scour for colorful eggs during the Easter egg hunt at the Colusa Assembly of God Church on Saturday.
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Jackson Cardosa, 1, gives the Easter bunny one of his own eggs while wishing a "Happy Birthday" at the Lions Club Easter egg hunt Saturday.
Ground broken on new ag barn in Princeton SUSAN MEEKER susan@colusacountynews.net
Groundbreaking got underway last Thursday on the new Ag Barn at Princeton High School. The facility will be the first of its kind, and will house animals raised by students that participate in the FFA organization, officials said. Students, community members, and members of the school board, Career Technical Education Advisory Board, and Princeton Ag Boosters attended the brief ceremony on Argo Street, including three generations of the Chrestensen family. Ag Booster member Dan Chrestensen, his daughter Debbie Wills, a 1996 graduate of Princeton High School, booster member and district trustee, Joey Wills, a member of Princeton FFA, and several other took turns turning over a shovel of dirt to officially launch the project. To many in Princeton, the longplanned addition to the school campus is a dream come true. “We’ve been waiting for this day since (Debbie) was a freshman in high school,” Chrestensen said. “I’ve been cooking at the rib feed for over 30 years hoping to see this actually happen.” Princeton Joint Unified School
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Princeton Ag Teacher Amador Martinez, front right, is one of the movers and shakers to turn over a spade of dirt on Thursday for a new FFA barn at Princeton High School. District Superintendent Korey Williams said the $93,000 project is funded primarily from a Career Technical Education grant, plus the Ag Boosters raised and donated about $10,000 for additional work. “The school board authorized the funding and the use of the land,” Williams said. “The Ag Boosters are responsible for paying for a chunk of it. We couldn’t do this
without support from the community.” For decades, Princeton FFA students have had to raise their animals for the Colusa County Fair at home or rely on the generosity of space from others. The lack of facilities restricted many students from the same opportunities as those in other districts, officials said.
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Woman accused of stabbing cop dead from apparent suicide SUSAN MEEKER susan@colusacountynews.net
Haile Eden Neil, the 26-year-old Martinez woman accused of the attempted murder of a Williams California Highway Patrol Officer died April 16 of an apparent suicide inside her cell at the Colusa County Jail.
Neil had been in custody two months following her arrest on Interstate 5 on Feb. 16, near Arbuckle, after she reportedly became belligerent during a traffic stop, pulled out a knife she had concealed on her body, and stabbed CHP Officer Philip Martinsen in the back. Colusa County Sheriff’s Lt. Neil
Cotter said Neil was discovered unresponsive in her cell around 4:45 AM on April 15, although the cause of death and manner of her possible suicide have not been released pending the results of an autopsy performed Monday by a coroner outside Colusa County.
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