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Fatal fire Mountain Democrat file photo by Krysten Kellum

Drivers on Highway 50 through Placerville will see solid green lights during two designated weekends this fall.

Trip to Green pilot set for fall debut Andrew Vonderschmitt Staff writer The Trip to Green pilot program will be implemented with a soft closure accessing Highway 50 Sept. 17-19 and again Oct. 15-17, 2021, during which all traffic signals on Highway 50 through Placerville will be “tripped to green” for the duration of those weekends. Cross-traffic on Bedford Avenue, Canal Street and Spring Street will be restricted to emergency access only and right-turn movements will be permitted on and off the highway at select locations.

The soft closures will begin around midnight on Friday and lights will return to normal operating status by 10 p.m. Sunday of each pilot weekend.

The California Highway Patrol will place vehicles at each of the closure points as well as steel “Road Closed” barriers during the entire closure period.

These barriers will communicate clearly that the roads are closed but offer flexibility for unfettered

Photos courtesy of Ken Pauley

Flames raze a detached garage in Garden Valley, where a man was fatally burned. The cause of the July 10 fire is under investigation.

Garage blaze claims one life Mountain Democrat staff A man who was severely burned in a garage fire in Garden Valley has succumbed to his injuries, according to Garden Valley Fire Protection District officials.

At approximately 3:47 p.m. July 10 Garden Valley firefighters were dispatched to a garage fire on the 5000 block of Hope Mountain Road in Garden Valley after neighbors heard what sounded like an explosion.

Fire personnel said they arrived at the scene to find a fully involved blaze consuming a detached garage and a man with major burns.

The man, who has not been identified, was taken by air ambulance Calstar 3 to UC Davis Medical PLACE ADDRESS LABEL HERE

Center. Fire officials said they were notified the next morning the patient had succumbed to his injuries. Events leading up to his injuries under investigation.

Fire agencies worked through 109-degree heat battling the blaze, which reportedly had some extension into surrounding vegetation that was quickly mitigated. Forward progress of the fire was held to one-quarter acre and no other structures were lost or injuries reported.

Fire personnel from Garden Valley Fire Protection District, Georgetown Fire Department, Cal Fire, U.S. Forest Service and El Dorado County Fire Protection District responded to the incident.

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EDH resident Gaines running for gov.

Mountain Democrat staff Among the 41 candidates confirmed for the race to replace California Gov. Gavin Newsom, if recalled in September, is El Dorado Hills resident and state Board of Equalization member Ted Gaines.

Gaines, who served in the state Assembly Ted Gaines (2006-11) and Senate (2011-19), is a Republican vowing, if elected, to rein in taxes, reduce burdensome regulations and create jobs.

A pillar of flames erupts from a Garden Valley garage.

Some nearby vegetation was also scorched.

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Conservancy invests $19 million in wildfire resilience Sierra Nevada Conservancy News release The Sierra Nevada Conservancy Governing Board authorized 15 forest and wildfire resilience grants totaling more than $19 million under a new Immediate Action Wildfire and Forest Resilience grant program.

“The Sierra Nevada covers a quarter of California and our communities, along with headwater forests rich in biodiversity and carbon, are at increasing risk from damaging wildfires,” said Angela Avery, executive officer of the Sierra Nevada Conservancy, a state agency based in

the Sierra Nevada foothills of Auburn.

“We could not be more pleased that our Board authorized more than $19 million in early action funding for these 15 critical wildfire resilience projects to start this summer.”

The grants will fund Sierra Nevada fire safe councils, nonprofit organizations, resource conservation districts and water agencies to manage just over 11,600 acres of Sierra Nevada forestland for reduced fire risk to communities, infrastructure and natural resources across the Sierra Nevada region.

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George E. Stephenson II April 2, 1952 – June 11, 2021

George Elliott Stephenson II passed away with his family by his side on June 11. George was born April 2, 1952 in Dearborn, Mich., and was the son of George Sr. and Lillian Stephenson also of El Dorado Hills. George lived in Dearborn before moving to California at the age of 4. George graduated from Bloomfield Hills High School and later attended Wayne State University where he played football on the same field and ironically had the same coach as his father.

George emerged into the group health and life insurance industry and successfully held titles of president, vice president and director of several insurance companies that spanned his 45 year career. George was an avid motor cross racer, competed in many states as well as Northern California where he won the Hangtown competition. George was a talented musician, singer and songwriter. George is survived by his loving wife Leslie Perez; parents George Stephenson Sr. and Lillian Stephenson of El Dorado Hills; son George III, (Melody); daughter Trinity, (Michael); step-children Sydney and Grant Perez; sister Valerie Ashker; niece Lanie Ashker; grandsons Ezra, Alister, Oliver, Hayes and Luke and many living aunts, uncles and cousins.

George will be remembered for his wit, charm and constant humor but most of all, his love for his wife Leslie, his family and friends which he so adored.

He especially loved spending time with his father watching football together and going to the movies.

George meant so much to so many people and will be truly missed by all who were fortunate enough to know him.

A celebration of life will be held Aug. 1.

In lieu of flowers, please make a contribution to STE, Save The Elephants, in memory of George

Debra Nelson Eslick July 16, 1955 – Dec. 1, 2020

Debra Lee Nelson Eslick went home to be with Jesus Dec. 1, 2020.

Debbie was born in McClellan Air Force Hospital in San Rafael, Calif. July 16, 1955.

She was the second of five children born to Msgt. Robert and Louise Nelson while her dad was serving in the U.S. Air Force.

She lived in several locations including England, eventually settling in Placerville when her dad retired from the U.S. Air Force after he served 22 years.

Growing up, she was a Girl Scout brownie, a baton twirler in the El Dorado Drum and Majorette Corps along with her brother Bob Jr. who played the drums.

While stationed in Kansas, she twirled baton with Jr. Miss Majorette of America and sang in the Air Force Jr. choir which took best in all Air Force. Back in California she taught Bible School along with Russ Eslick who became her husband. She owned and operated her own salon in Diamond Springs, called Natural Hair.

She played piano and organ for services at Gold Country Baptist Church. Russ often led the singing.

Her delight in life was her children, grandchildren and her nieces and nephews. She so enjoyed them.

Debbie was preceded in death by her brother Rick, her dad Bob Sr., her brother Jim and her sister-in-law Sandy Nelson.

She is survived by her husband Russell Eslick; children Jon Eslick, James Eslick and Sheri Koder.

She is also survived by her mother Louise Freeman, her brother Bob Jr., sister-in-law Barbara Nelson, her sister Laurie Carruth, her brother-in-law Ron Carruth and grandchildren Zackary, Ezekiel and Levi Koder.

Robert “Bob” Stewart Dec. 17, 1934 – July 1, 2021

Robert “Bob” Stewart was born on Dec. 17, 1934 in Glenn, Calif.

In 1963, Bob moved to Camino with his lovely wife Lotus and three rambunctious boys Brent, Mark and David. The family joined Camino Community Church, where they spent many years making life-long friendships, loving and worshipping God, and serving the community and God’s people.

Bob enjoyed the outdoors— camping, water skiing, hunting, boating and fishing — which he shared with his kids and grandkids, or whoever was around and wanted to go with him. He used every opportunity to share his contagious love for Jesus.

Bob passed peacefully in his sleep on July 1, 2021, having lived a full, good life of 86 years. His life touched hundreds, if not thousands during his time here on earth. When he stepped into heaven, we know that he heard, “Well done, my good and faithful servant.”

A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, July 24 at 2 p.m. at Camino Community Church, 4205 Carson Road, Camino, Calif.

Driver dies in fiery Camino crash Eric Jaramishian Staff writer A vehicle crash on Highway 50 turned fatal Friday afternoon. The driver of an Audi died after the vehicle overturned, landed in a drainage ditch and then became engulfed in flames, according to information provided by the California Highway Patrol.

The driver, whose identity has not been released, was traveling eastbound on the freeway at around 4:50 p.m. At the turn onto 5 Mile Road in Camino the Audi went directly into the path of a Dodge Ram 2500 traveling westbound. The Ram hit the right passenger side of the Audi, causing the vehicle to overturn.

The collision caused major front damage to the Ram and the 32-year-old driver sustained minor injuries, CHP reported.

The cause of the collision is under investigation.

No arrests were made.

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Earnest E. Poe

Feb. 2, 1940 – May 7, 2021

A long time Placerville resident passed away at home surrounded by his loving family. Earnest grew up in Kansas, but made his way to Placerville at 20 where he met Donna, his loving wife of 60 years.

Earnest is survived by his wife; two daughters, Lorrie Stern, and Patricia Leist; his sons-in law, Peter Stern and Jim Leist and three grandchildren; Scott and Haley Huntsman and Eric Hamerton.

Earnest worked in the logging industry for many years as an owner/operator before his retirement in 2012. He loved his work and the many friends he made throughout his career.

Earnest enjoyed the outdoors and any toy that went fast. Throughout his life, he spent much of his free time either on his boat, in his RV or driving his sand car. He will be missed by his family and friends.

The family plans a celebration of Earnest’s life at Sand Mountain in the fall.

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El Dorado County sheriff’s officials are attempting to identify the person in these photos who is associated to a series of vehicle burglaries in the Cameron Park area. This person is believed to be wearing a maintenance-style disguise during the commission of these crimes. Anyone with information on the identity of this person is asked to contact EDSO Det. Macres at (530) 642-4718 or Macresc@edso.org.

CRIME LOG The following was taken from El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office logs:

arrested on suspicion of being in possession of burglary tools and drug paraphernalia while on parole on Pleasant Valley Road in Diamond Springs.

July 12 10:32 a.m. A 41-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of driving on a suspended license on Pony Express Trail in Pollock Pines.

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July 15 9:47 a.m. A 37-year-old woman was arrested on Nashville Trail in Placerville for outstanding warrants and possession of drug paraphernalia.

10:34 a.m. A 32-year-old man was

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July 17 6:03 a.m. A 43-year-old female transient was arrested after she was reportedly found with multiple warrants and drug paraphernalia on Smith Flat Road in Placerville.

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Dennis Alberty Sr. Dec. 1, 1928 – July 9, 2021

Dennis, a long time resident of Placerville left this world to be with his wife, Viola and daughter Denise Friday, July 9. He is survived by daughter Diane Zaun (Michael), son Dennis Jr. (Lisa) and daughter Darlene Phillis, (Craig). He is also survived by 10 grandchildren and 14 greatgrandchildren. He was 100% cowboy and was a member of the Kit Carson Mountainmen. Loved to ride in wagon train and parades. He kept busy finding chores to do outside, even if it meant mowing his lawn every other day. He will be missed very much. There will be private services.

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Pets rescued from Grizzly house fire

COVID-19 case update (july 17-19)

Mark Matthews Pioneer Fire Protection District A Grizzly Flats home suffered moderate damage after a fire, during which firefighters had to resuscitate two family pets and administer oxygen to the other family pets.

At 8:30 p.m. July 17 fire crews from Pioneer Fire Protection District, El Dorado County Fire District, Diamond Springs and Cal Fire responded to a reported house fire on Tyler Road. Pioneer’s crew arrived first to find a two-story house with the back half on fire. The fire was primarily on the exterior of the home, spreading through the exterior wall into the upstairs rooms. Crews made an aggressive exterior attack and then moved to suppress the remaining fire in the upstairs rooms inside.

Several animals were rescued from the fire.

First arriving units were able to contain the fire and smoke damage to the exterior back walls, upstairs rooms and there was minor smoke damage throughout the home.

Family and friends did not understand after removing several pets from the home, why their pets ran back into the house while it was still on fire. It has been Pioneers fire crews’ experience when these types of incidents occur — and there are noises, confusion and upset family members — pets will go to their safety zone and typically their home is their safe space. Fire officials advise people to place their animals in a secure place when they are removed from these types of incidents.

There are four adults and two children living at the home along with their family pets. No injuries were reported. The homeowners were able stay with family and on site in a travel trailer.

Fire units began being released around 9:45 p.m. with the last crew on scene until 10:50 p.m.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

Fire officials are asking anyone with information regarding this fire to contact the Pioneer Fire Protection District at (530) 620-4444.

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Pioneer Fire Protection District firefighter Tony Pedro holds onto one of the pets rescued from a Grizzly Flats house fire Saturday.

Mountain Democrat photo by Sel Richard

Funded projects in El Dorado County are the Twofer Pillikin Fuels Reduction Project ($1,255,225) and the Trestle Mastication Project ($370,300).

The Great Basin Institute, in partnership with the Eldorado National Forest and the Bonneville Foundation, will treat 1,300 acres of land managed by the Eldorado National Forest along Highway 50. The Twofer Pillikin project area is located between Pollock Pines and Kyburz, midway between Placerville and Echo Summit.

The project will help protect the headwaters of the American River, and water and power infrastructure managed by the El Dorado Irrigation District and Sacramento Municipal Utility District, from catastrophic wildfire.

This effort is part of the Crystal Basin Focus Area, a large watershed encompassing Union Valley and Ice House reservoirs, Alder Ridge and a portion of the South Fork of the American River. The Crystal Basin Focus Area stems from the South Fork American River cohesive strategy and is supported by a broad range of partners within the group.

The timeline for this project runs from this coming August to January 2025

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bike lanes, Americans with Disabilities Act requirements at the crosswalks and curb ramps and optimize the traffic signals for safety and efficiency.

Every effort will be made by the county’s contractor to minimize any impacts to school drop-off and pick-up times while school is in session. The intersection serves as the entryway to Rolling Hills Middle

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EDH intersection getting a makeover El Dorado County’s Department of Transportation’s contractor has begun road work at the intersection of Silva Valley Parkway and Harvard Way in El Dorado Hills. The construction work, expected to take place through Sept. 30, 2021, will require occasional lane and shoulder closures for which motorists should expect delays.

The closures are necessary to ensure motorist and worker safety while the county’s contractor, Martin General Engineering, constructs additional capacity in right- and left-turn pockets in both directions and adds a southbound through lane at the intersection on Silva Valley Parkway.

Additionally, the project will improve

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School and is adjacent to Oak Ridge High School.

Motorists are advised to slow down through the work zone and expect delays during reversing traffic control.

Motorists are also advised to allow extra time when traveling through the work zone in order to arrive at their destinations on time.

The total cost of the

The National Wild Turkey Federation is partnering with the Placerville Ranger District of the Eldorado National Forest to treat 317 acres for fuels reduction as part of the larger 16,000-acre Trestle Project. This specific project site is situated south and east of the community of Grizzly Flats in El Dorado County about 15 miles southeast of Placerville.

The purpose of the project is to improve forest health and wildfire resiliency around the community of Grizzly Flats and to protect surrounding assets.

Grizzly Flats is a rural community with approximately 1,200 residents. It is an at-risk community because it is completely enveloped within the wildland urban interface and surrounded on 90% of its borders

by U.S. Forest Service land.

The timeline for this project runs from this coming August to June 2022.

For more information about these and other projects visit sierranevada.ca.gov.

“The governor’s early action budget represents a strategic shift, investing funds directly into high-risk regions and putting communities in the driver seat to ensure projects not only reduce wildfire risk but also improve local economies and ecology,” said Deputy Secretary for Forest and

project is nearly $1.4 million with funding coming from the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality program (43%) and Urban Surface Transportation Block grant program (57%) — all federal funds.

For more information regarding this project contact DOT’s main line at (530) 621-5900 and select Option 3 for Engineering.

Wildfire Resilience Jessica Morse.

“The Sierra Nevada Conservancy is bringing a fast, thoughtful and community-based approach to help remarkable mountain communities not just survive fires but thrive.”

SNC’s IAWR grants are some of the first state-funded projects resulting from that investment.

SNC prepared to respond to the 2020 fire season by developing and adopting IAWR program guidelines in March. When the SNC was allocated $20 million for shovel-ready projects in California’s April 13 early action budget, strong regional relationships and expertise of area representatives located throughout the Sierra Nevada allowed the SNC to solicit and evaluate 32 applications requesting $38 million in funding.

“The projects authorized to receive early action funding show the benefits of the Shared Stewardship Agreement between California and the USDA Forest Service,” said Liz Berger, deputy regional forester for the Pacific Southwest Region and USDA Forest Service representative on the SNC Governing Board.

“Eleven of the early action projects funded by SNC today will improve forest resiliency across the landscape and amplify our commitment of staff and funding

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OPINION

Richard B. Esposito Publisher/Editor

Noel Stack Managing Editor

Krysten Kellum Associate Editor

California Matters

Who should get online sales taxes?

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Californians spend roughly that much each year on taxable goods, everything Dan Walters from chewing gum to earthmoving equipment ... and sales taxes can run as high as 10%.

It’s a major source of revenue for the state, surpassed only by income taxes, and a mainstay for city and county budgets, which are guaranteed a 1% cut or about $7 billion a year in unrestricted income.

The rub comes when authorities allocate the 1% among those local governments.

For decades, the local share went to the jurisdiction in which the sale occurred, a doctrine known as “situs.” It encouraged local officials to maximize retail businesses, such as auto malls and shopping centers, often using — or misusing — their redevelopment powers to subsidize revenuegenerating developments.

The advent of internet shopping from online sites As online retail such as eBay and digital powerhouses such as sales soar in Amazon changed the game California, how dramatically. If a Californian should taxes orders a taxable item from Amazon or Walmart and has on those sales it shipped from a warehouse, be allocated? who gets the 1% local government share of the sales tax?

It often goes to the local government of the buyer, but increasingly, big online sellers have been making deals with the communities in which their warehouses are located. The sellers funnel all of the local sales taxes into those communities and then receive rebates of those taxes — as much as 80% in some instances.

Two years ago Sen. Steve Glazer, a Democrat from Orinda and a former mayor of that suburban community, carried a bill to prohibit sales tax kickbacks, arguing that they unfairly deprive other local governments of revenues.

However, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed Senate Bill 531, declaring that rebates are “an important local tool that captures additional economic activity, particularly in rural and inland California cities that continue to face significant economic challenges like high unemployment rates.”

This year Glazer takes a milder approach with Senate Bill 792, which would require that the local tax- sharing agreements be disclosed. The bill has

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Letters to the Editor Scams EDITOR: receive phone calls almost every day with someone claiming I have won a sweepstakes or prize — $2.5 million, $8 million, $15 million, whatever. All I need to do to claim my certified check is pay shipping and handling charges, processing fees or prepay the taxes with a prepaid gift card. That’s an instant red flag.

It’s only $250 to $1,300 they ask for. I think that would be cheap — pay only $900 to receive $2.5 million. Why haven’t I done this? I could be living it up on a beach somewhere. Trust me, it ain’t gonna happen. In all reality, my phone number somehow got sold or stolen; maybe they looked it up in the phone book. I know I haven’t really won anything.

Go ahead, send the money. Guess what? No check.

These guys are professional liars/thieves and these are scams. They’re trying to separate you from your money — whatever angle they try, whether it be from the IRS, Social Security, Publishers Clearing House, the police officers association or even a church group. If you do not personally know them, you are probably being scammed. No government agencies or legitimate companies will ever call you direct and ask for (or demand) money or a credit card or bank account numbers. If you get a letter in the mail, call the agency or company and find out if it’s real.

If you want to feed children in Africa, save the whales or help the homeless, there’s a very good chance you’re also wasting money. Yes, there are a lot of good causes out there but some professional fundraisers are no better than scammers, with often more than 90% of the money collected going to “administrative costs,” political foundations or high paid personnel.

Apparently, many folks these days don’t have a conscience and there’s no end to what they’ll try next.

My advice is to be vigilant. Don’t be afraid to hang up when you’re told you’ve won the American Cash Awards sweepstakes or other phony prize. Find out exactly whom it is you’re actually talking to. Never use the callback number they provide, never open a link or click on anything they furnish and never send money.

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Social Security and the IRS will be glad to talk to you, if you call them. They don’t call you. You’ll get a letter. That mysterious, long-lost relative who is tragically being detained and badly needs funds for whatever reason ... yeah, right. You haven’t seen or heard of them in years, if ever. Why call you now?

Money.

P.T. Barnham said it best: “There’s a sucker born every minute.” Don’t be one.

If you really feel the need to send someone money, might I suggest ... me. In other words, keep your money, do some research and don’t let yourself get scammed.

JIM ALLEN Placerville

Crime and (lack of) punishment EDITOR: here was a recent article in the Mountain Democrat about a Reno couple caught stealing packages off front porches. The article talked of a chase that ended off Schnell School Road.

When you read the article, however, you see that due to our new, left-wing bail policy they were just cited and let go. When they don’t appear for court, a warrant will be generated. Big deal.

If that couple is arrested in another jurisdiction or across the border in Nevada where they live that agency will call El Dorado to confirm the warrant.

If El Dorado confirms the warrant then the county is on the hook for costs of transporting them back here, where they would just probably be cited out again anyway.

The lesson here: If you have packages coming, wait for them if you can because there is basically no penalty for stealing them.

Another good question is why should law enforcement chase these people and risk injury when nothing is really going to be done to those criminals anyway? With the left’s anti law enforcement crusade in this country and these insane bail reforms, the only reason for people not to victimize you is that they don’t feel like it.

How long will the people of this state continue to support this leftwing insanity?

GEORGE ALGER Placerville

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He is either confused he Poor or disingenuous when People’s he claims abolishing Campaign has the Senate filibuster announced a is about protecting “season of nonviolent, “democracy.” moral direct action,” It is not democracy targeting the U.S. he cares about, but Senate with disruptive Democrats, who now activities every Monday control the government, through Aug 2. being able to pass every According to the piece of far-left, bigcampaign’s co-chair, the Star Parker government legislation Rev. William Barber they want. The only II, “The Senate must thing that stands in their way is the end the filibuster, protect and expand 60-vote requirement of the Senate voting rights and pass a minimum filibuster. wage of $15 an hour.”

The history of our American Barber is getting national attention. democracy is that government Even President Joe Biden recorded a changes hands all the time. When video expressing his support.

Concern about poverty is something Republicans are running the show, as they will again, Barber will direct his we all share. heavenly prayers to save the filibuster What bothers me is the factors so that Democrats can prevent driving poverty, according to the Republicans from doing whatever research of my organization and they want. others, are ignored by the Poor It is the filibuster in the Senate that People’s Campaign. And the issues prevents passage of the For the People on which they choose to focus either Act, the voting and election reform have nothing to do with the reality of poverty or actually make things worse. legislation, House Resolution 1, that passed in the House without a single It may surprise Barber that the Republican vote.

Senate filibuster is a powerful tool to Although HR 1 is being labelled as protect minority interests.

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Regarding minimum wage, economic logic and economic facts show that the higher the minimum wage, the more low-wage jobs disappear. Raising the minimum wage is a great tool to make poverty worse, not better. “voting rights” legislation, it addresses many more aspects of election law than just voting. The legislation eviscerates actions that Republican states have moved on to reduce voter fraud, such as voter ID laws and stopping vote harvesting. But it also moves the federal government into a host of other areas, such as defining political speech and the organization of the Federal Election Commission.

The issue here is not to debate election law but to ask what this has to do with poverty and why it is such a priority for the Poor People’s Campaign.

In the current Congress there are 60 African American senators and House representatives. In 1964 there were five.

Per The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Riley, in 1970, nationwide, there were fewer than 1,500 Black elected officials. Today, there are more than 10,000.

In the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, Black turnout was higher than white turnout.

Yet in 2019 the average Black poverty rate was more than 2 1/2 times higher than the white poverty rate.

There is little evidence that Black poverty has persisted over the last half-century because Black Americans have not been able to accumulate political power or express their will on election day.

Regarding minimum wage, economic logic and economic facts show that the higher the minimum wage, the more low-wage jobs disappear. Raising the minimum wage is a great tool to make poverty worse, not better.

What can make a difference?

In 2019 the average poverty rate among American households was

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It cries out for some fundamental rethinking cleared the Senate and is pending in the Assembly. on the role of sales taxes in an ever-changing 21st Meanwhile, rural counties are complaining that century economy, but Capitol politicians have been one online seller is trying to retroactively funnel so far unwilling to undertake that chore. sales taxes back to its warehouse sites rather than Dan Walters is a journalist and author who writes continuing to provide them to the communities for CALmatters.org, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media where its customers live. venture explaining California policies and politics.

“This large online retailer has delivery vans constantly crisscrossing our county and wearing out our roads,” El Dorado County Auditor-Controller Joe Harn told county supervisors. “It is only fair and reasonable that our community receive some tax Continued from A4 revenue to compensate us.”

9%. The average poverty rate in Black households Harn could not identify the seller due to headed by a married couple was 6.4%, per confidentiality laws, but his reference to delivery Statistica. vans hinted strongly at Amazon, the nation’s However, the average poverty rate in Black dominant online seller with more than a dozen households headed by a single woman was 29.5%, warehouses, dubbed “fulfillment centers,” up and and 41% of Black households were headed by single down the state.

Online sales had been growing rapidly even before women.

But the Poor People’s Campaign has nothing to COVID-19 struck, but they exploded after Newsom say about the data connecting family breakdown issued stay-at-home orders to battle the pandemic and seem destined to grow even more as brick-and- and abortion to poverty.

Many Americans do understand this connection, mortar stores shrink. Thus, the issue of sales tax including my organization, CURE. So, when the allocation becomes even more pressing.

Poor People’s Campaign storms the Senate over the The sales tax itself is an anachronism, since next four weeks with bogus claims, we hope our it applies only to physical objects such as autos, elected officials will heed other voices. appliances and clothing. It’s also riddled with Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban loopholes and exempts services that capture an Renewal and Education and host of the weekly ever-growing share of consumer spending. The flap television show “Cure America with Star Parker.” over sales tax allocation is merely another The New Yorkanomaly.

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Do your feet or hands tingle, feel numb, or hurt. The Placerville Neuropathy Support Group meets the 2nd Wed. of each month, 1 PM, Senior Center, 937 Spring St. Except: July, Aug. & Dec. Jan., Feb., March telephone meeting. Call Bev (877)6226298 for instructions.

El DORADO COUNTY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB Dedicated to all aspects of ham radio. Meetings held on the fourth Thursday of each month at Federated Church, 1031 Thompson Way, Placerville, 7:15 pm. Visitors and non-hams welcome. Info at www.edcarc.net The El Dorado County of Republican Women Federated meet on the 4th Thursday of every month at 5:30PM. Email to get location of meeting edcrwf1952@ gmail.com. We are looking to have other conservative women join our group. Feel free to come to a meeting and check us out. Please contact -chilcoat_edcrwf@ netzero.com CANTARE CHORALE of the Sierra Foothills performs all styles of choral music and is always looking for talented new members. For information, audition, or to schedule an event see www. cantarechorale.com, call (530) 677-8463. or (530) 676-4432.

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Fleet Reserve Assoc, Br 275, Active Duty or Retired Veterans, USN, USMC, Coast Guard. Regular meeting on 4th Wednesday each month, social 5:30 pm, dinner 6:00 pm, and meeting 7:00 pm.

Veterans Memorial Building 130 Placerville Drive, contact Larry (530) 677-3925 Save America Freedom Car Caravan. Bring your flags support Conservative Values First Saturday of every month. Hwy 50 Ray Lawyer Park and Ride, Placerville to Watt Ave and back. Meet 11:30A.M. Depart 12:00 noon 530-240-5896 GOLD RUSH CHORUS now welcomes both men and women to share the joy of singing four-part harmony in the barbershop style.

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A California Highway Patrol Valley Division Air Operations helicopter, seen above, rescued a hiker near Horsetail Falls Sunday. The hiker was located in steep, remote terrain and was unable to hike out on her own. She was brought up by the CHP’s H-20 helicopter and transported to Strawberry Meadow where an ambulance awaited. The Valley, Placerville and South Lake Tahoe divisions of CHP along with the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office were on scene to ensure a smooth rescue.

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SACRAMENTO — Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber has made the Sept. 14, 2021, California Gubernatorial Recall Election Official Voter Information Guide available for public review. The guide, which will be mailed to every voting household in California, includes information about the recall and gubernatorial replacement candidates on the statewide ballot, as well as other helpful election information.

California’s official voter information guide is available in 10 languages — English, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Tagalog, Thai and Vietnamese.

The guide is available for public examination through Aug. 6 at sos.ca.gov/elections/upcomingelections/2021-ca-gov-recall/publicdisplay and at the Secretary of State’s Office in Sacramento. During this public display period, anyone

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horoscope by Holiday Mathis n today ARIES (March 21-April 19). It’s like you’re playing an intensely psychological game of poker. What makes the game so interesting is opponents who are a worthy match. Your sense of truth will be put to the test.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). There are realities to be accepted and realities to be challenged. There is no way to know the difference except to take them on and let your will, mind and imagination determine which goes into what category.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Priorities shift to accommodate new influences and interests. Growth like this is exhilarating and, at times, exhausting, so get the extra rest and support you need.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’re an expert at making people feel valued. The technique is simple: You actually do value people, and your care contributes to the positive environment many enjoy today.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Those versed in the art of knife sharpening know there’s a point in which the knife cannot get any sharper, and sharpening beyond that point has the effect of blunting instead. Know when your work is done, and then stop.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The form of luck on tap for you today is among the greatest blessings -- honed instinct and a keenly intuitive approach to prioritizing.

Your attention flows naturally to the right thing in each moment.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). As you observe the world, you will also gain new insight into your place in it. Your observations go in both directions, and you’ll understand yourself in a fuller range of contexts.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). There is elegance in setting your own limits and living within them. It’s a powerful feeling to be within your own control. Self-restraint may not be a very exciting quality to cultivate, but it’s one that pays off beautifully.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Entrances are opportunities. When something is happening for the first time, the mind opens a fresh drawer for the memory to live inside.

You’ll make the moment of newness work for you with a brilliant first impression.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). For those who are convinced “to the victor go the spoils,” such a game can certainly play out. Does this really have to be a zero-sum game? Is there a way for everyone to gain something that matters to them?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You seek a respectable game and will find it as you lead the way with your own exemplary sportsmanship, which includes knowing when to stop to avoid taking things too far. Success will be sweet because it’s honorably won.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Self-consciousness is one kind of consciousness -- not a very fun one at that. Self-focus leads to loneliness. You will be reminded of and focused on your place. You belong to something much larger than any single individual.

may challenge any portion of the official voter information guide in Sacramento Superior Court.

Following the conclusion of the public examination period, the Secretary of State’s Office will begin printing and mailing the statewide voter information guide to all households that have at least one registered voter. Audio versions and large print versions will be available as well. Additional hard copies of guides in each of the 10 languages can be requested from the Secretary of State’s Elections Division by calling (800) 345-VOTE (8683) or by email at vigfeedback@sos.ca.gov.

Registered California voters can opt-out of receiving a paper voter information guide by mail and instead receive a link to the electronic version via email. Voters who are registering for the first time or updating their voter registration information can opt-out while registering online at registertovote. ca.gov. Voters who are already registered can opt-out a voterstatus. sos.ca.gov. Every registered voter in a household must opt-out of receiving the paper guide to ensure it is not mailed to their address.

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“As a state legislator I’ve had to fight the government bureaucracy on behalf of my constituents. As a family insurance agent I’ve had to fight insurance companies on behalf of my clients. I promise to continue fighting to protect California families and taxpayers while bringing competition and economic growth to California,” Gaines states on his official campaign website, tedgaines.com.

Among his accomplishments, Gaines notes on the website that he’s “fought against California’s one-sizefits-all environmental regulations and fees that unfairly targeted his taxpaying constituents and business owners.”

Specifically, Gaines was one of

several representatives who fought the “fire tax” imposed on property owners several years ago and also publicly opposed 2020’s Proposition 15, “saving property owners from more than $12 billion in new taxes each year.”

Gaines is a graduate of Lewis & Clark College. He and his wife, former Assemblywoman Beth Gaines, have six children.

The California Secretary of State’s Office released the list of 41 candidates July 17. The recall election is set for Sept. 14. Mail-in ballots will arrive in voters’ mailboxes in midAugust. Voters may check their voter registration status at voterstatus.sos. ca.gov.

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emergency access.

During peak traffic season in the county, traffic backs up on the highway and spills into adjacent roadways and city streets throughout Placerville and surrounding areas. This effect can be further heightened by GPS applications that route vehicles onto city streets to “avoid” traffic. The actual consequence is often moving heavy traffic onto city streets, which impacts residents, businesses and tourists alike.

The El Dorado County Transportation Commission approved the program on June 3, identifying $200,000 of Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations funding for the project's traffic management efforts, including placement and removal of barriers, changeable signs, CHP placement and other traffic control devices. An additional $71,080.66 was approved for a public outreach effort contract between EDCTC and AIM Consulting to deliver the project this fall.

“It’s a huge team effort,” said EDCTC Executive Director Woodrow Deloria at last week’s Placerville City Council meeting. “The success of this will be based in large part on the public outreach.”

Council member Patty Borelli asked how the success of the program would be measured.

“Success would be measured based on the feedback we receive after the pilot project is done,” said City Engineer Rebecca Neves. “We know what it looks like when we don’t do anything, so let’s take it out for a test spin and let’s see what it does.”

She went on to explain that this pilot will “simulate this proof-of-concept project of essentially removing the signals on Highway 50.”

“The other thing that is sitting in the back of my mind for this is having an option to look at if we ever have to do an evacuation here,” she added.

“I purposely went into the traffic, just to see how long it would take me to go from one end of town to the other,” said Council member Michael Saragosa, referring to navigating Placerville’s streets during the peak traffic season. “I think it was 26 minutes going from Broadway to Main Street.”

“This is a really unique project,” said Deloria. “We typically build capital projects that solve safety problems, congestion problems, add capacity to highways.”

The success of this pilot will be measured by the quality of life improvements as well as the traditional technical metrics Caltrans uses, he explained.

“If the community feels that the quality of life is improved during those two weekends and Caltrans sees that the traffic was improved with those technical metrics, that’s how we are going to have the support and buy-in to moving forward to continue doing something like this in the future,”

Deloria said.

“The solutions that we may learn from this proof of concept might not necessarily look like what we are doing now,” said Mayor Dennis Thomas, explaining that there are a lot of options for addressing these issues that will be looked at in the future and that this pilot program would offer data to help make those decisions.

“This simulates what had been proposed over the past three decades, and that is some form of a flyover or bypass,” said Deloria. “This low-cost, high-impact solution of flushing traffic may serve the near term until we have the funding available, the community support and a design that ultimately everybody is in support of, to move forward.”

“There will be a lot more information coming forward … know that our marketing and community outreach is going to be quite significant,” said Thomas.

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July 22 Thursdays: El Dorado Hills Town Center hosts Live on the Boulevard, 7-9 p.m.: Briefcase Blues Brothers (July 22) and Swift Country (July 29).

Paddle Splash is a fourday water festival on beautiful Lake Natoma at Nimbus Flat, July 22-25.

This is a fun weekend on the water for the entire family. Paddlers of all levels are welcome — SUP, kayak, surf ski, prone and more. Starboard SUP Champion Fiona Wylde will lead SUP skills clinics.

Visitors can check out the demo boards and SUP yoga. Watch the races — 2, 5 and 8 miles and kids.

Spectators can enjoy the action on the sandy beach.

The festival will close with a beach clean-up at noon on Sunday. For more information and to register visit paddleguru.com/ races/PaddleSplash2021.

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spen groves make for the unlikeliest galleries. High in the remote meadows of the Sierra Nevada range there are works of art secreted away by unexpected and unwitting artists. Nude figures, animals, names and dates, erotic scenes, portraits and profiles were carefully carved into the smooth white bark of young trees by Basque sheepherders during the 20th century. The majority of known carvings were created in the 1930s and 1940s, at the height of the sheep industry in the American West.

Using knives or nails like pencils, these artists carved a fine line so as not to damage the tree and to achieve the desired effect over time;

as the aspens grew taller and thicker, so too did the lines of the carvings. These herders, many of whom had only recently arrived from the Basque homeland of the Pyrenees Mountains in Spain and France, literally made their mark on the American West, dropping images onto trees like a trail of crumbs as they drove flocks of sheep up the spine of unfamiliar mountain ranges.

The aspen carvings, often referred to as arborglyphs, were intended only for viewing by other sheepherders and so, when chanced upon by hikers or foresters, were largely disregarded as having any cultural, historical, or artistic significance. It wasn’t until the late 1960s that the embellished aspen groves began to garner some interest in academic circles. At a lecture in Reno in 1969,

Jean and Philip Earl were first introduced to the existence of the arborglyphs languishing deep in the wild mountains.

Intrigued, they began to actively seek out what they first termed “living galleries” and to experiment with methods of recording and preserving the images they found (muslin and black rubbing wax proved the best tools for the job).

The Earls spent 40 years devoted to developing an archival record of the carvings, whose existence was inextricably linked to the lifespan of the tree onto which it was etched. In short: when the tree died, so too did the art. “It was the sense of loss we felt for these familiar images that led to our search for a way to preserve them,” said Jean. n

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Jean Earl demonstrating her rubbing technique on a carving on an aspen tree.

Laughs Unlimited in Old Sacramento is hosting a comedy show fundraiser for All About Equine with headliner Mike Paramore.

The show begins at 8 p.m. at the club, 1207 Front St. in Sacramento. All tickets must be pre-purchased online at laughsunlimited. com.

July 23 The Widowed Person's Club hosts a general meeting luncheon at the Cold Springs Country Club in Placerville. Please try to have correct change or write a check when paying at the general meeting.

The Heritage Foundation hosts a lasagna dinner fundraiser, 4-7 p.m. in the Marshall Building at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds, 100 Placerville Drive in Placerville. In addition to the homemade lasagna dinner, there will be a raffle, desserts for sale and no-host bar. Attendees are encouraged to eat inside the Marshall Building or out on the beautiful grounds.

Drive-thru pickup is also available. Buy tickets at eldoradocountyfair.org.

The Heritage Foundation is a nonprofit organization raising funds for local livestock programs and to rebuild the old gatehouse on Placerville Drive.

Hwy 50 Brewery, 3544 Carson Road in Camino, is having music on the patio.

On July 23 Goin' Down the Line is playing at 5 p.m. For more information call (530) 556-5060.

Back by popular demand, the fifth annual Stand Up For MORE event will be held 5:30-9:30 p.m. at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds.

Enjoy terrifically talented, top-notch acts benefiting MORE and the El Dorado County Chamber of Commerce.

For more information visit morerehab.org/ event-details/stand-up-formore-2021.

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The drive-up Highway 49 on the Golden Chain Highway is always a pleasure.

My high school friend Matt suggested this trail.

An avid outdoorsman, Matt said I must go here after reading my column on the Sierra Buttes Lookout (also Matt’s suggestion).

I passed the town of Downieville and recalled this as the sight of gallows where a young woman of 20 was the only woman ever hung.

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Round Lake Basin can be enjoyed while hiking the Basin Lakes area in Sierra County.

City because if you don’t stop you will miss it all together. The story goes, the Monument gold nugget was found here weighing over 106 pounds recovered in September 1869. On your way, a mile out of Sierra City on Highway 49, you cross the Pacific Crest Trail. If you pull over and hike maybe a quarter mile on the east side, you will see Loves Falls with its beautiful bridge and the heart shaped rock below that gives this section of the

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The two-year long process involved the articulation of policies and practices, including course offerings and lesson design. Teachers synchronized approaches to learning skills and attributes across subjects as well as worked with a consultant to ensure alignment with IB philosophies.

“IB has a huge focus on collaboration,” said Amy Gargani, IB coordinator for Buckeye Union School District. “There is a strong emphasis on supporting each other and working together to support student achievement.”

Managing that collaboration and the induction of a new teaching method during COVID19 shutdowns were challenging, Gargani admitted. And although proud that the two schools are now officially authorized and recognized as IB World Schools, she said the work has only begun.

Gargani explained that differences between an IB curriculum and a more traditional approach is rooted in the connection of information through a global context so students see the relevance of what they are learning and why it matters. “IB really is all the best practices in teaching wrapped up in a purposeful framework,” she said. “It’s a lot of work, but it’s a good kind of work.”

For example, sixth-graders at Camerado Springs were tasked with selling real estate in Mesopotamia as one of their final projects. Potential buyers asked questions about the location, water sources, trade routes and more. “Students had a lot of fun, but admitted they worked harder on this final showcase than a regular pencil and paper test,” Gargani said. “IB focuses on learning how to learn, how to apply what you’ve learned and how to reflect on what you learned.”

Ian Christensen, who just completed his sixth-grade year in the Camerado Springs IB program had all good things to report. “It was great,” he shared. “All of it is pretty hands on.” He described projects like making life vests for cans that were required to float for at least 30 seconds and his final social studies assignment, which had students pretending to be business owners in ancient

Camerado Springs IB student Ian Christensen, above, seen here with a school project, told the Mountain Democrat he liked many aspects of the program. IB student Theo Barnum, left photo, said the curriculum has helped him prepare for high school.

Greece or Rome. “I was a restaurant owner.”

Though Ian is enthusiastic about the fun aspect of school, he also noted the importance his teachers put on IB learner profiles like being principled and open-minded. And he found both morning reading time and the opportunity to do homework at the end of the school day valuable.

Rising eighth-grader Theo Barnum now has two years of the IB curriculum under his belt and liked beginning Spanish a year early. “It was a nice head start,” he said. “I think it will help me advance in high school and college.” He also told the Mountain Democrat he enjoyed his art projects, but his favorite task of the year was building a solar system out of wallpaper

through a graphing website. “The design aspect was really cool.”

One of the differences Theo noticed is the emphasis his IB teachers put on learning goals, “like what you’re trying to get from the exercise or what they’re trying to teach you,” he shared. He expressed hopes that Ponderosa High School will have a full IB program next fall.

Final decisions on an IB curriculum at the high school level were unfortunately delayed during the COVID-19 shutdown. “We were unable to attend trainings and conduct any visitations to fully explore the details of starting a high school program,” reported El Dorado Union High School District Superintendent Ron Carruth. “The district will investigate and evaluate the program this coming fall.”

Technology expands medical care Barton Health SOUTH LAKE TAHOE — Barton Health continues to innovate with medical imaging technology, investing in the latest equipment that enhances services, expands care and improves the patient experience. Along with advanced MRI prostate and breast screenings, Barton now offers: an Achilles Heel Scanner, helpful in detecting osteoporosis; computed tomography (CT) Cardiac Heart scoring for identifying signs of heart disease; and the ability to diagnose Parkinsons’ Disease with a Nuclear Medicine study called a DaTscan.

The Achilles Heel Scanner is an aid to physicians in the diagnosis of osteoporosis. Risk for osteoporosis increases during the transition into menopause, as hormone imbalances accelerate bone loss and bones weaken. Osteoporosis is known as “the silent disease” because it can go undetected until you get a broken bone from a simple fall.

Women older than 45 spend more time in the hospital because of osteoporosis than any other chronic disease. Once detected, osteoporosis can be stopped and even reversed with change in diet, medications, exercise, etc. Barton recognizes this correlation and is offering osteoporosis screening with the Achilles Heel Scanner at no cost with every mammogram screening. The exam uses sound waves to test the bone density of your heel and takes less than 5 minutes.

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“As a nonprofit healthcare system, Barton invests in leading-edge technology that directly benefits our community and expands access to high-quality, local care,” said Dr. Clint Purvance, president and CEO at Barton Health. “Early detection of any disease can provide greater opportunity for early intervention and treatment, resulting in better quality of life.”

Barton’s Medical Imaging department continues to offer Breast MRI and MRI-guided breast biopsies, particularly beneficial for patients with a high risk of breast cancer, those who have been diagnosed with breast cancer, or those who are undergoing chemotherapy. Prostate MRI screening is also available at Barton, helping diagnose enlarged or infected prostate glands. Barton’s advanced MRI technology is proven to be easy and fast for male patients completing this critical exam.

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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE — Those looking for a new trail to blaze in Lake Tahoe with some interesting history behind it are in for a treat this August.

Freelance writer and author Suzie Dundas is getting ready to release her new book "Hiking Lake Tahoe: A History and Travel Guide," which mixes recreation and history to give readers an unique view on their next hike in the basin.

“I think it’s really important to understand where you live and explore where you live to see the value and protect where you live,” said Dundas. “The hikes in the book can help people get outside and realize how beautiful and also how fragile the environment is and how much they need to protect these beautiful places.”

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“I would say that I am a tree-hugging, history nerd who loves Tahoe,” Dundas said. “I’m an avid hiker. So I was already familiar with a lot of these trails. I think Tahoe’s history is extremely interesting and also extremely deep.

I don’t think people realize how many layers of people were here before and how long it’s been inhabited and all the really interesting stuff that went on here, from ghosts towns to the Donner party, to the Native Americans who lived here literally thousands of years

before anybody else was here.”

Dundas explained that what makes her travel book unique was the opportunity to not only enjoy the trails, but to learn about the history along the way. During her researching process, she used old newspapers and her time on each of the hikes in the book to make notes and do further research while at home.

“I think it’s really cool to be able to stand in a spot where somebody stood 200 years before you,” Dundas said. “I think it really fascinated me that we get to live in a place where you can literally walk through history.”

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The Purple Dragonfly Book Awards is part of a prestigious national book contest, hosted annually by Story Monsters LLC, which recognizes exceptional authors for excellence in writing and publishing.

Story Monsters LLC is also home to the award-winning Story Monsters Ink magazine, the literary resource for teachers, librarians and parents — selected by School Library Journal as one of the best magazines for kids and teens.

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“Cowgirl and the Ghost Horse” an honor to have one of my books recognized with this award.”

“Cowgirl and the Ghost Horse” is a “not so scary ghost story” about a girl on the hunt for the legendary ghost horse. It will take courage, bravery and just a little bit of luck.

In addition to her Cowgirl series of books, Rankin has published other books — “Mountain Girl” and

“Mountain Winter” about the beauty of Plumas County and “Beach Day,” a story of fun and exploration at the beach. All her books can be purchased on her website at RaeRankin.com.

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Grow for it!

Crazy for clematis “The earth laughs in flowers.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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alph Waldo Emerson’s words come to mind whenever I behold the beauty of a clematis bloom. Clematis are among the most decorative, hardy and visually striking of all the flowering vines.

They are a group of mostly woody deciduous and evergreen vines in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae.

Clematis blooms, curiously enough, lack petals. The colorful portion of the flower consists of sepals instead of petals. Sepals, which are usually green, typically form a protective case around the bud and often support a plant’s petals in bloom. Sepals that are indistinguishable from petals, as in clematis and lilies, are

Bobbie McCaffrey UCCE Master Gardener of El Dorado County sometimes referred to as tepals.

Clematis flowers range in color from deep purple to shades of blue, mauve, pink, red, yellow and cream and others are bi-colored. Some clematis have blooms four to 10 inches in diameter and as many as 100 blooms per plant in a season. There are a variety of flower forms: flowers in loose clusters, bell or urn-shaped flowers and flat or open flowers.

Some varieties — there are more than 250 — are best suited to shade, though most require about six hours of sun

per day. The old saying is, “Clematis like their heads in the sun and their feet in the shade.”

Though the stems and foliage should be in the sun, the roots like a cool, moist environment with well-drained soil.

Mulching around the roots will help keep the soil cool. Or plant low groundcover or perennials with shallow, non-invasive roots.

Clematis are born to climb. Some reach a height of 20 feet or more. Most grow to between 8 and 12 feet. A few smaller, herbaceous species can range in size from 2 to 5 feet.

Clematis have a dense mat of leaves that can shade porches. They are excellent for use on trellises, fences and walls. They also do well in containers.

There is another old saying about clematis: “The first year they sleep, the second year they creep and the third year they leap.” If you would rather not wait for the growth to take

off, consider purchasing a plant that is at least 2 years old.

When it comes to pruning, there are three categories of clematis.

Type one includes plants that bloom in early spring from buds produced the previous year; they should be cut back soon after their blooms have died. Type two includes plants that bloom in the late summer and continue into fall and which flower on the last 2 to 3 feet of the current season’s growth; these should be cut back in February or March and the stem should be cut to a height of 2 to 3 feet. Type three includes plants that bloom in summer from the previous season’s growth and which often flower a second time in late summer on new growth; these should be pruned in the spring to the topmost pair of green buds.

(For more information, there is a lovely book on clematis botany and

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Clematis have enjoyed a surge in popularity recently and justifiably so. They add a magical dimension to even the smallest of gardens.

If you already have a clematis, you might be pondering how to add another. And if

you do not have one, perhaps you soon will be adding a “Queen of the Climbers,” so that you too can be crazy for clematis.

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BriarPatch Food Co-op and WSFF presents ‘The Story of Plastic’ Wild And Scenic Film Festival Join BriarPatch Food Co-op and Wild & Scenic Film Festival for a virtual screening of the 2020 Official Selection, “The Story of Plastic,” followed by an exclusive interview with director Deia Schlosberg on Thursday at 7 p.m. as part of the co-op’s line-up of Plastic Free July activities.

“We’re really excited to share this important film with the community and hope it inspires folks to take steps to reduce their own plastic waste and feel empowered to use their voice to change the status quo,” said communications specialist Laura Petersen.

A percentage of proceeds from the event will benefit South Yuba River Citizens League’s (SYRCL) Annual Yuba River Cleanup and ticket holders will receive a reusable tote bag. Registered guests will receive

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First review of applications on July 29, 2021

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county residents and they are doing their best to provide virtual learning opportunities. You can find the new online class schedule at mgeldorado. ucanr.edu/Public_Education_ Classes/?calendar=yes&g=56698 and recorded classes on many gardening topics at mgeldorado.ucanr.edu/ Public_Education/Classes/.

The Sherwood Demonstration Garden is open on Fridays and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon April – October. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, masks and distancing are required. Please check the website for more details at ucanr.edu/sites/EDC_

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a password-protected link to Vimeo the day of the screening. The film and pre-recorded interview will be available for five days to ticket holders.

Called a “searing exposé,” “The Story of Plastic” reveals the truth behind plastic pollution and plastic recycling.

Virtual filmgoers will travel around the globe, visiting marginalized communities where waste products generated by the powerful oil and gas industry are piling up causing a crisis too big to ignore. From the extraction of fossil fuels and plastic disposal to a global resistance fighting back, “The Story of Plastic” is a poignant, lifechanging film depicting one of the world’s most pressing environmental issues.

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Have a gardening question? Master Gardeners are working hard remotely and can still answer questions.

Leave a message on the office telephone (530) 621-5512, or use the “Ask a Master Gardener” option on the website mgeldorado.ucanr. edu. Master Gardeners are also on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.

For more information on the UCCE Master Gardeners of El Dorado County see mgeldorado.ucanr.edu. To sign up for notices and newsletters see ucanr.edu/master gardener e-news.

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Courtesy art

“Fish on a Line,” Jean and Phillip Earl wax-on-muslin rubbing, 1972.

In all, the Earls completed upwards of 135 rubbings, from four distinct groves in the high Sierra. Arts and Culture El Dorado has selected the most striking of these rubbings for exhibition at Confidence Firehouse Gallery in Placerville. Marking Their Trail: Basque Arborglyphs of the Sierra Nevada celebrates the unique history of immigration in the American West and a diasporic culture who, in navigating the new terrain, created a unique visual language using the landscape itself as a means of expression.

Marking Their Trail will open July 22 and run through Sept. 19. An opening reception will be held at the Gallery on Thursday from 6-8 p.m.

with complimentary pintxos (Basque appetizers similar to Spanish tapas) and cold Basque cider. Jean Earl will deliver a talk on her work among the aspens on Thursday, Sept. 2.

Both events are free and open to the public.

Confidence Firehouse Gallery is located at 487 Main St. in Placerville.

Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Arts and Culture El Dorado’s mission to promote, connect and empower arts and culture throughout the county is achieved by targeted programs and services, a vibrant gallery exhibition series and a focus on initiatives which support and sustain the cultural life of the region.

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Helpful tips to plan for wildfire emergencies News release This year is expected to be hotter and drier than last year. It would be simple to attach blame to one or maybe even two root causes but, the fact of the matter is that many factors are at play. That is why there has been an elevated wildfire frequency in a wider range of locations, larger and much more destructive than at any other time in history.

While the direct and indirect costs of damage that wildfires cause are difficult to quantify, Accuweather has estimated that the 2020 wildfire season totaled between $130 and $150 billion in damages. That figure, however, can’t include what the long-term health costs related to the U.S.’s wildfire exposure will be.

Regardless of why the wildfire season is that way and what that means for 2021, preparation is key.

Homes that survive a wildfire almost always have one thing in common. The property

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owner took the proper steps to prepare their family, home and property for the unpredictable event of a wildfire.

Wildfire prep 2021 Make a kit Everyone across the country should include wildfire preparedness in their emergency plans and the first step is assembling a Wildfire Readiness Kit. To get a downloadable template go to hippo.com/blog/emergencypreparedness-checklist.

Rehearsing ahead of time Practice not only helps people understand the plan, but it will also allow you to troubleshoot unanticipated issues in a safe environment.

Once you have decided on a plan, do a dry run and adjust your strategy based on what you’ve learned. Readjust your plan to fit everyone’s needs and scenarios until everyone in the home feels confident in the plan.

Tick the boxes One crucial way to help

prevent wildfire damage to your home and its surrounding area is to make sure it is well-maintained with clear defensible space.

• Review home insurance policy. Speak to an insurance professional to ensure the entirety of your property is protected from wildfire damage.

• Make sure you can receive emergency alerts in a few different ways. Download the FEMA app, figure out all of the different ways the EAS (Emergency Alert System) and WEA (Wireless Emergency Alert) systems provide notification in your area.

• Install smoke and CO detectors outside each bedroom and on each level of your home. This includes attics, basements and garages.

Test these once a month and change batteries once a year.

• Create defensible space.

This means clearing 100 feet around every structure on your property, with the closest 30 feet directly off the home being the most frequently maintained. Your local fire

department can always guide you with best practices more catered to your area.

• Landscape your home and entire property with wildfire prevention and safety in mind. This includes selecting trees, shrubs and building materials that are fire retardant.

• Clean the roofs and all the gutters of your home and outbuildings on the property.

• Have a garden hose long enough to reach anywhere around your home and any other structure on your property.

• Inspect fireplaces and chimneys twice a year. Ensure structures are clean and that dampers and the flu is working correctly.

• Move or store all patio/outdoor furniture, trampolines, woodpiles, barbecue grills, etc., outside the defensible space.

• Keep a few fire extinguishers in the home and garage. Make sure every member of the family knows where they can be found and how to use them.

HOA can help It’s important to note that if you are part of an HOA, check in with them. They are a great resource as they should have a preparedness plan and are experts in the property and surrounding neighborhoods.

Failure to plan is a plan to fail Wildfires occur with little warning and are often unnoticed until it is too late.

They can spread quickly, so being hyper-vigilant to fire prevention and preparation, especially during the warmer months, reduces the risk of damage to your home and property. Take the time to prepare yourself proactively for these catastrophic events and the better off you’ll be if a wildfire happens in your area.

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Ed Wilson will perform, 6-8 p.m. at the Smith Flat House, Placerville.

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“Wild Son: The Testimony of Christian Brando” (Aug. 27-29) and the West Coast premiere of “Freeze!” (Sept. 10-12). For tickets and more information call (916) 706-2000 or visit Calcapstudios.com.

of golf, barbecue lunch and more. For more information email Laura Hutchinson at lauradelh@prodigy.net. For more information about the playground visit cedapp.biz/ pollock-pines-playground.

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Cameron Park Family Taekwondo and Peak Nutrition present a free kickfit pop-up class at 9 a.m. at 4100 Cameron Park Drive, Cameron Park. Register online at cameronpark familytkdacademy.com.

El Dorado Disc Sports hosts Discers for Whiskers, an inaugural pet food fundraiser, at the Cameron Park Lake Disc Golf Course. Registration begins at 7 a.m. with first tee at 8 a.m. The entry fee is $25 per player plus a bag of pet food. The Green Valley Church pantry will receive proceeds.

Tee off and raise money for the Pollock Pines Playground at a fundraiser golf tournament at Apple Mountain Golf Resort. The event begins with registration at 8 a.m. and includes a lovely game

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2021-0715 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RUSTIC WOODCHUCKS DESIGNS, located at 2921 Forebay Rd Unit 3, Pollock Pines, CA 95726 Registered owner(s): Andrea Kamp, 2921 Forebay Rd Unit 3, Pollock Pines, CA 95726 This business is conducted by an Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: Not Applicable Signature of Registrant: /s/ Andrea Kamp ANDREA KAMP, OWNER I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 06/23/2021.

NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED

IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 6/30, 7/7, 7/14, 7/21 9199 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2021-0714 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARES HEALTH SYSTEMS, located at 1731 Tai Pan Drive, Placerville, CA 95667 Registered owner(s): Martin P Entwistle, 1731 Tai Pan Drive, Placerville, CA 95667 This business is conducted by an Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed

Arts & Culture El Dorado presents Expressive Therapies — Collage and Mixed Media, 10 a.m. to noon July 24 & 31 on Zoom.

No previous art experience necessary. Materials provided

by Arts and Culture El Dorado.

Expressive Therapies is a free program open to foster parents, adoptive parents and caregivers in El Dorado County. This program pairs artists with therapists to tailor artistic workshops geared toward helping those parents and caregivers who are experiencing stress, trauma, anxiety or grief. For more information or to sign up visit artsandcultureeldorado.org/ expressive-therapies.

The Mills Station Arts and Culture Center in Rancho Cordova hosts a Gelli Print Workshop with Victoria Smith at 11:30 a.m. For more information visit rcmacc.org.

Hwy 50 Brewery, 3544 Carson Road in Camino, is having music on the patio. The NoBS is playing at 5 p.m. For more information call (530) 556-5060.

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recreation area, so the length of the hike is up to you. I wandered for about four miles before another friend texted me another must see side trip to the Mills Peak Lookout.

Going back the way you came in; you see the road for Mills Peak Lookout on your left.

The view is worth the extra time.

A high clearance vehicle is advised but I took it slow and made it in my low-profile Subaru simply fine. There is nothing like the view from the top.

Mary West is author of the book series “Day Hiker – Gold Country Trail Guide I, II and III” (second edition available on Amazon). The books are a collection of the

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UCCE Master gardeners of El Dorado County hosts Home-Grown Habitat – One Yard at a Time, 9-10:30 a.m. online. Learn how to include native plants and build a backyard ecosystem adapted to our climate.

Register for this free class at ucanr.edu/survey/survey. cfm?surveynumber=35227.

Vitalant and Mother Lode Church, 870 Beach Court in Coloma, host a community blood drive, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Bloodmobile will be in the parking lot. To ensure sufficient social distancing donors are encouraged to make an appointment by calling Vitalant at (866) 8225663 or go to donors.vitalant. org, then choose Advanced Search and use blood drive code SMFR438. Walk-ins will be accommodated if space allows. For eligibility questions contact Vitalant (877) 2584825.

Photo by Mary West

Mills Peak Lookout offers amazing views.

Day Hiker columns where West shares her longtime love of the outdoors, favorite hikes in Northern California’s Gold Country and

beyond. West was the recipient of the 2017 and 2019 CRAFT Award for Best Outdoor Column and the 2020 Craft Award for her second

book in the series — “Day Hiker Gold Country Trail Guide” by the Outdoor Writers of California.

You can follow West on Facebook and Instagram.

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above on: 04/01/2021 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Martin Entwistle MARTIN ENTWISTLE, OWNER I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 06/23/2021.

NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 6/30, 7/7, 7/14, 7/21 9200 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2021-0702 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 1. KENNYS KRACKLIN BRITTLE, 2. KENNYS BRITTLE, located at 3409 Thornhill Court, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 Registered owner(s): 1. Kenneth M. Clement, 3409 Thornhill Court, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762, 2. Ann F Clement, 3409 Thornhill Court, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 This business is conducted by a Married Couple.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 06/01/2021 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Kenneth Clement KENNETH CLEMENT I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed

one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 06/16/2021.

NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 6/30, 7/7, 7/14, 7/21 9201 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2021-0687 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DOBBS LEASING,

located at 825 Stillwater Rd, W Sacramento, CA 95605/Mailing Address: BethAnne Benson, c/o Dobbs Management Service LLC, 6070 Poplar Avenue, Suite 750, Memphis, Tennessee, 38119 Registered owner(s): Western Truck Parts & Equipment Company, LLC, 33301 9th Avenue S, Suite 100, Federal Way, WA 98003 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company, State of LLC: California The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A Signature of Registrant: /s/ W. Christopher Crosby W. CHRISTOPHER CROSBY, VICE PRESIDENT I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 06/15/2021.

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Public Notices  AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 9215 6/30, 7/7, 7/14, 7/21 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2021-0752 The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: 1. CA SYSTEMS, 2. FARM TO FLAME CANDLEWORKS, located at 4347 Fowler Lane, Diamond Springs, CA 95619/Mailing Address: PO Box 5405, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 Registered owner(s): Kevin P McPeters, 4347 Fowler Lane, Diamond Springs, CA 95619 This business is conducted by an Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 04/30/2014 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Kevin P McPeters KEVIN P MCPETERS, OWNER I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 06/30/2021.

NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 9231 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2021-0735 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CUTTING EDGE POOL SERVICE, located at 880 Pleasant Valley Road, Diamond Springs, CA 95619 Registered owner(s): Jonathan C Nixon, 880 Pleasant Valley Road, Diamond Springs, CA 95619 This business is conducted by an Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 06/25/2021 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Jonathan C Nixon JONATHAN C NIXON, OWNER I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 06/25/2021.

NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 9236 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2021-0753 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HICKORY LANE FLOWER FARM, located at 2860 Hickory Lane, Placerville, CA 95667 Registered owner(s): Janet Bland, 2860 Hickory Lane, Placerville, CA 95667 This business is conducted by an Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 04/29/2021 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Janet Bland JANET BLAND I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 06/30/2021.

NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28 9237 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2021-0754 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE VINTAGE TRADEWINDS, located at 6500 Perry Creek Rd, Somerset, CA 95684 Registered owner(s): Amy M Davis, 6500 Perry Creek Rd, Somerset, CA 95684 This business is conducted by an Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 06/15/2021 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Amy M Davis AMY M DAVIS, OWNER/OPERATOR I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 07/01/2021.

NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28 9238 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2021-0738 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BALANCE & BLISS MASSAGE THERAPY, located at 438 Main Street C1, Placerville, CA 95667/Mailing Address: PO Box 413, Coloma, CA 95613 Registered owner(s): Gina T Longo, 438 Main Street C1, Placerville, CA 95667 This business is conducted by an Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 06/28/2021 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Gina Longo GINA LONGO, OWNER I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 06/28/2021.

NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4 9252 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2021-0772 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GPLUMBING, located at 4547 Pony Express Trail, Camino, CALI 95709 Registered owner(s): Gordon W Petley, 4547 Pony Express Trail, Camino, CA 95709 This business is conducted by an Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 10/05/2005 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Gordon Petley GORDON PETLEY, OWNER I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on

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NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4 9262 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2021-0697 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MOUNT SAINT JOSEPH WINES, located at 7400 Perry Creek Road, Somerset, CA 95684/Mailing Address: Linda Fox, c/o Compliance Connection, Inc., PO Box 3699, Santa Rosa, CA 95402 Registered owner(s): Mount Saint Joseph Wines, LLC, 8233 Foxfire Drive, Orangevale, CA 95662 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company, State of LLC: California The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A Signature of Registrant: /s/ Gary McCollum GARY MCCOLLUM, MANAGER I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 06/16/2021.

NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4 9263 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2021-0757 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: YOUR SENIOR ASSISTANT, located at 7600 State Hwy 193, Garden Valley, CA 95633/ Mailing Address: PO Box 697, Garden Valley, CA 95633 Registered owner(s): Mary-Kathleen Smith, 7600 State Hwy 193, Garden Valley, CA 95633 This business is conducted by an Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 07/02/2021 Signature of Registrant: /s/ MaryKathleen Smith MARY-KATHLEEN SMITH, OWNER I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 07/02/2021.

NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4 9264 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2021-0790 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CAMINO FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER, located at 3070 Camino Heights Drive, Ste B, Camino, CA 95709 Registered owner(s): Judith Brandt Do Inc, 3070 Camino Heights Drive, Ste B, Camino, CA 95709 This business is conducted by a Corporation, State of Incorporation: CA The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 07/07/2021 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Alex Giloff ALEX GILOFF, SECRETARY I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares

as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 07/15/2021.

NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 7/21, 7/28, 8/4, 8/11 9280 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2021-0793 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE SULTRY SQUIRREL, located at 5320 Rocky Ridge Rd, Placerville, CA 95667 Registered owner(s): Dustin Russell, 5320 Rocky Ridge Rd, Placerville, CA 95667 This business is conducted by an Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: Not Applicable Signature of Registrant: /s/ Dustin Russell DUSTIN RUSSELL I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 07/15/2021.

NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 7/21, 7/28, 8/4, 8/11 9281 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2021-0786 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AQUAMARINE POOLS, located at 2862 Aquamarine Circle, Rescue, CA 95672 Registered owner(s): Aquamarine Pool Service Inc, 2862 Aquamarine Circle, Rescue, CA 95672 This business is conducted by a Corporation, State of Incorporation: CA The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 07/13/2021 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Marc Aldridge MARC ALDRIDGE, PRESIDENT I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 07/13/2021.

NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 7/21, 7/28, 8/4, 8/11 9282 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2021-0728 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN MARINO SOLUTIONS, located at 701 San Marino Ct, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 Registered owner(s): Sean and Jessica Sehnem, 701 San Marino Ct, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 This business is conducted by a Married Couple.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 12/01/2020 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Sean Sehnem SEAN SEHNEM I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 06/24/2021.

NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 7/21, 7/28, 8/4, 8/11 9283 NOTICE OF LIEN SALE 2006 Starcraft trailer 1SACS02M961SB6218 9/05/2021 at 10:00 am 530 647 0619 4041 Carson Rd Camino Ca 95709 7/21 9284 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JOHN JOSEPH PEARSON, JR. AKA JOHN J. PEARSON, JR. CASE NO. PP 20210141 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of JOHN JOSEPH PEARSON, JR. AKA JOHN J. PEARSON, JR. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by MAURA EASTWOOD in the Superior Court of California, County of EL DORADO. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that MAURA EASTWOOD be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 09/15/21 at 8:30AM in Dept. 8 located at 295 FAIR LANE, PLACERVILLE, CA 95667 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner JONATHAN P. HUBER - SBN 225809 HUBER FOX, P.C. 650 UNIVERSITY AVE., STE 113 SACRAMENTO CA 95825 7/21, 7/23, 7/28/21 CNS-3491680# THE MOUNTAIN DEMOCRAT 7/21, 7/23, 7/28 9285 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PC 20210362 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner: Jenny McCormack filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JENNY MCCORMACK Proposed name: JENNY TRINH MCCORMACK 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: SEPTEMBER 03, 2021, 8:30 A.M. DEPT. 9 AT SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF EL DORADO, 3321 Cameron Park Drive, Cameron Park, CA 95682.

3. A copy of the ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Mountain Democrat.

This order has been filed on JULY 15, 2021. /s/ Dylan Sullivan DYLAN SULLIVAN, Judge of the Superior Court 7/21, 7/28, 8/4, 8/11 9290

NOTICE OF INTENT TO ADOPT A NEGATIVE DECLARATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the County of El Dorado, as lead agency, has prepared a Negative Declaration (ND) for the below referenced Project. The Draft ND analyzes the potential environmental effects associated with the proposed Project in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). This Notice of Intent (NOI) is to provide responsible agencies and other interested parties with notice of the availability of the Draft ND and solicit comments and concerns regarding the environmental issues associated with the proposed Project.

LEAD AGENCY: County of El Dorado, 2850 Fairlane Court, Placerville, CA 95667 CONTACT: County Planner: Matthew Aselage, 530-621-5977 PROJECT: P21-0003/ADM21-0020/ Vandegrift PROJECT LOCATION: The property, identified by Assessor’s Parcel Number(s) 109-320-007, consisting of 20-acres acres, is located on the east side of Barnett Ranch Road, approximately 50-feet west of the intersection with Cattle Drive, in the Shingle Springs area, Supervisorial District 2.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Tentative Parcel Map dividing a 20-acre parcel into two parcels of ten-acres each and reduce the 200-foot setback from agriculturally zoned parcels to the base zone setback standard of 30-feet.

PUBLIC REVIEW PERIOD: The public review period for the Draft ND set forth in CEQA for this project is 20 days, beginning July 22, 2021, and ending August 10, 2021. Any written comments must be received within the public review period. Copies of the Draft ND for this project may be reviewed and/or obtained in the County of El Dorado Planning and Building Department, 2850 Fairlane Court, Placerville, CA 95667, during normal business hours or online at https://edc-trk.aspgov.com/etrakit/ by typing the first word of the project name in the search box.

Please direct your comments to: County of El Dorado, Planning and Building Department, County Planner: Matthew Aselage, 530621-5977, 2850 Fairlane Court, Placerville, CA 95667 or EMAIL: planning@edcgov.us PUBLIC HEARING: A public hearing before the Zoning Administrator has not been scheduled. Once that date has been determined, a public notice will be issued.

COUNTY OF EL DORADO PLANNING AND BUILDING DEPARTMENT TIFFANY SCHMID, Director July 21, 2021 9286 7/21 NOTICE OF INTENT TO ADOPT A MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the County of El Dorado, as lead agency, has prepared a Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) for the below referenced Project. The Draft MND analyzes the potential environmental effects associated with the proposed Project in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). This Notice of Intent (NOI) is to provide responsible agencies and other interested parties with notice of the availability of the Draft MND and solicit comments and concerns regarding the environmental issues associated with the proposed Project.

LEAD AGENCY: County of El Dorado, 2850 Fairlane Court, Placerville, CA 95667 CONTACT: County Planner: Matthew Aselage, 530-621-5977 PROJECT: P20-0007/Z21-0002/ Yancey PROJECT LOCATION: The property, identified by Assessor’s Parcel Number(s) 109-250-012, consisting of 15-acres, is located on the north and south side of Lariat Drive, between Flying C Road and Strolling Hills Road, in the Cameron Park area, Supervisorial District 2.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Tentative Parcel Map dividing a 15-acre parcel into three parcels of five-acres each and a rezone from Residential Estate - Five-Acre, Planned Development (RE-5-PD) to Residential Estate Five-Acre (RE-5).

PUBLIC REVIEW PERIOD: The public review period for the Draft MND set forth in CEQA for this project is 20 days, beginning July 22, 2021, and ending August 10, 2021. Any written comments must be received within the public review period. Copies of the Draft MND for this project may be reviewed and/or obtained in the County of El Dorado Planning and Building Department, 2850 Fairlane Court, Placerville, CA 95667, during normal business hours or online at https://edc-trk.aspgov.com/etrakit/ by typing the first word of the project name in the search box.

Please direct your comments to: County of El Dorado, Planning and Building Department, County Planner: Matthew Aselage, 2850 Fairlane Court, Placerville, CA 95667 or EMAIL: planning@edcgov.us PUBLIC HEARING: A public hearing before the Zoning Administrator has not been scheduled. Once that date has been determined, a public notice will be issued.

COUNTY OF EL DORADO PLANNING AND BUILDING DEPARTMENT TIFFANY SCHMID, Director July 21, 2021 9288 7/21 PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T Mobility, LLC proposes to install new telecommunications equipment at an approximate centerline height of 18 feet on an existing 25-foot building located at 3661 Ponderosa Road, Shingle Springs, El Dorado County, California (38° 40’ 26.1” N, 120° 56’ 31.6” W). AT&T Mobility, LLC invites comments from any interested party on the impact the proposed undertaking may have on any districts, sites, buildings, structures, or objects significant in American history, archaeology, engineering, or culture that are listed or determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under National Historic Preservation Act Section 106. Comments may be sent to Environmental Corporation of America, ATTN: Annamarie Howell, 1375 Union Hill Industrial Court, Suite A, Alpharetta, GA 30004 or via email to publicnotice@eca-usa. com. Ms. Howell can be reached at (770) 667-2040 x 405 during normal business hours. Comments must be received within 30 days of the date of this notice. X1138b/ENH 7/21 9289

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