Casting call — to fish

california Department of fish and Wildlife

Have you ever felt the excitement of watching your bobber suddenly jiggle, then dive out of sight? Or feeling the tap-tap-tap of a bass as it tastes the worm on the end of your line? Or having a salmon practically tear the rod out of your hands? What’s that? You say you never learned to fish? For those new to the sport of fishing opportunity awaits.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife offers two Free Fishing Days each year. In 2023 those dates are Saturday, July

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For example, over the next five years there are plans for more than $35 million to be invested in water service line and water line replacement replacements.

On these days, anyone can fish without a sport fishing license. Free Fishing Days provide a low-cost way to give fishing a try.

In El Dorado County trout were planted in Jenkinson Lake and Forebay Reservoir the week of June 18, according to CDFW’s fish planting schedule. All fishing regulations, such as bag and size limits, gear restrictions, report card requirements, fishing hours and stream closures remain in effect on Free Fishing Days.

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In addition to the required investment to replace aging infrastructure, the Caldor Fire’s devastation in 2021 highlighted the urgency of our ongoing program of replacing wooden flumes in the district’s 22-mile canal and flume system with resilient concrete structures.

Wastewater facilities will also see needed investment, with $10 million in planned upgrades to wastewater lift stations and more than $22 million for pipeline replacements. Continued work like this is critical to our community sewage conveyance and treatment system, ensuring wastewater can be effectively transported, treated and disposed of at our wastewater treatment plants.

Undoubtedly these decisions and financial adjustments will not be easy. However, they are essential for the future of our water and wastewater services. We owe it to ourselves and the generations to come to support and understand these necessary changes. In the coming weeks the cost-of-service analysis will review in more detail these needed changes transparently and openly. I encourage you to visit our dedicated page on the district website to view some of this information.

EID’s connection to the community it serves is personal, not just professional. As employees of the district, we are your neighbors, your friends and your family. We live and work in our community, experiencing first-hand the impact of rate adjustments and we do not take these changes lightly.

Our commitment is that every dollar you invest in us will be stewarded with the utmost care, discretion and transparency. This principle isn’t something new. It has guided us since our formation as a special district nearly a century ago and will continue to lead our way into the future.

As we navigate these necessary rate adjustments, we aim to maintain a balance between providing high-quality services and respecting your hardearned investments through rate payments. Together, as your community agency, we will build a future that supports a resilient and sustainable future for another 100 years and beyond.

Jim Abercrombie

is general manager of EID.

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Hundreds of thousands more die from malaria. Buying bed nets with insecticides that kill mosquitoes would save lots of lives. So would spending on basic vaccines for kids.

These ideas are common sense. They cost much less than what we spend now pretending to manage the climate.

“You want to help people,” I say to Lomborg, “yet people hate you.”

“Well, some people hate me,” he laughs.

One shoved a pie in his face. Others call him “the devil incarnate,” a “traitor” who “needs to be taken down.” All because he points out that the world has bigger problems than climate change.

“Climate change might kill poor people, too,” I point out.

“It certainly will. And climate change is more damaging for poor people!” Lomborg replies. “But remember, everything is worse for poor people — because they’re poor.”

“Unmitigated scaremongering leads to ineffective political action,” says Lomborg. “We need to have a conversation about where we spend money well, compared to where we just spend money to feel virtuous about ourselves.”

John Stossel is the author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.”

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