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OCTOBER 27, 2021
CSD pitches golf course proposals Sel Richard Staff writer In response to an El Dorado County request for input on Parker Development’s Central El Dorado Hills Specific Plan development agreement, the El Dorado Hills Community Services District recently publicized several options previously discussed in closed session. Final county review of the project is expected in early 2022. Parker’s plan proposes approximately 1,000 residential units along El Dorado Hills Boulevard, the most controversial portion hinging on an El Dorado County ■
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REDISTRICTING
EDH residents, supes favor city-based map
Deidre Robberecht, 10, above left, and Coraline Robberecht, 4, above right, pose with a witchy mermaid who made an appearance at the El Dorado Hills Community Services District’s Pumpkin Patch Splash Saturday at the community pool. At right, Teagan, 9 but basically 10; Darby, 4; and Abby, 7, left to right, show off the Halloween pumpkins they decorated “Jumping in for pumpkins was the best,” Teagan shared.
Eric Jaramishian Staff writer El Dorado County residents were largely in favor of a city-based redistricting alternative map, one of nine presented at a third redistricting public hearing in the Board of Supervisors’ chambers. Similar to the district map adopted in 2011, the citybased Alternative 1 map shows little change, except Union Valley Reservoir and the Rubicon Trail would be moved from District 4 into District 5. Three of the proposed maps consider cutting up
Photos courtesy of April West, EDHCSD
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McClintock, Kiley talk politics Sel Richard Staff writer
Village Life photo by Sel Richard
Congressman Tom McClintock speaks to attendees of last week’s El Dorado West Republican Women Federated luncheon at Cameron Park’s Light of the Hills Lutheran Church.
The mood in the room was festive at the annual El Dorado West Republican Women Federated luncheon, canceled last year due to COVID-19 restrictions. Cinda Walton, treasurer of the group, echoed the sentiments of fellow attendees of the in-person event. “It’s just great to see everybody come out and be in a community again,” she said. “When you watch the news, you just get a sense of despair, but when you actually talk to people in person, you get a sense of hope.” Elected officials rallied the crowd, which was made up of several area Republican Women Federated chapters as well as special guests. “This is half again as many as I have ever seen at one of these luncheons,” said Congressman Tom McClintock
as he began his address Oct. 18 at Cameron Park’s Light of the Hills Lutheran Church. “That speaks a lot to what’s happening across the country.” McClintock briefly outlined some triumphs of the previous presidential administration. “We produced the biggest regulatory rollback in American history, four times greater than what Ronald Reagan was able to achieve in eight years, we achieved in those first two years,” he said, also mentioning control over a secure border, immigration enforcement and stoppage of fraudulent asylum claims. McClintock railed against current policies such as the cessation of border wall construction and illegal immigration. “This mass migration is moving ■
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