Cameron park’s saint to play in Kenya rugby tourney

Isaac Streeter

Staff writer

El Dorado County resident and college rugby star Cormac Saint is traveling to Kenya to play for the United States’ Under 20s Rugby National Team as it attempts to reach the highest division of international rugby. Saint, 19, was born in England before his family made the decision to move to Cameron Park, when his dad Tony took a job with Intel’s Folsom campus. Cormac was 5 years old when they moved and earned his citizenship when he was 15, making him eligible to play for Team USA.

Tony played in England before becoming a coach for Motherload Rugby, then called the Oak Ridge Rugby Club. The opportunity allowed him to coach all four of his children, including his youngest, Cormac.

“It’s been really exciting. We’ve had a great club experience at Motherload,” Tony said.

“Especially being his coach — I got to see (his development) up close.” Cormac began playing rugby when he was 6-years-old. After a decade of development and hard work, the Ponderosa High School graduate became the first Motherload player to receive an offer to play college rugby at the University of California, Berkeley. The mecca of college rugby, the Golden Bears have won 33 national titles since the rugby championship circuit began in 1980.

“I took it, no questions asked,” Cormac said of

Warren Edward Tooker

April 8, 1929 – March 22, 2023

Warren Edward Tooker was born April 8, 1929 in San Francisco, California and passed March 22, 2023 peacefully at home of heart failure.

He was the first son of Floyd Llewellen Tooker and Marguerite May (Wills) Tooker. He had three brothers and one sister.

He attended Mt. View Academy and Pacific Union College where he met Marilyn Mazie Dennis in a music class. After multiple proposals, they finally married in Reno, Nevada on March 23, 1948. His first daughter was born in 1949, followed by two sons in 1950 and 1951. He got a job with the U.S. Forest Service and followed assignments to Bishop, Weaverville and Quincy, eventually settled in Placerville in 1956. His second daughter was adopted in 1964.

Warren was active in the Placerville Seventh-day Church. He was an accomplish violinist and vocalist. He was a guest performer in various churches in the Placerville area as well as a soloist in the annual Handel Messiah combined choirs at the Federated Church.

His hobbies included photography, bird watching, book editing and writing a newsletter for his church. He liked red sporty cars.

He was proceeded in death by his wife, Marilyn, two brothers, Ronald and Duane. He is survived by his brother Raymond and sister Marlys and his four children, Tamra, Roger, Vikki and David, five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.