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Golf course negotiations a bust given our current and future resources and we believe the community’s future cannot be mortgaged against a single property.” EDHCSD board Vice President Noelle Mattock The El Dorado Hills Community Services also made an announcement to the community in District Board of Directors revealed last Thursday that after months of talks with Parker Development, a YouTube video published Nov. 19. Making the statement with a “heavy heart,” a deal to purchase the parcel of she thanked the community for land that holds the now defunct “... this represents too high its support before and during executive golf course is no lonnegotiations. ger under negotiation. a price given our current “This isn’t the outcome we In an open letter to the comhad anticipated or desired,” and future resources ...” munity, the board maintains Mattock shared in the video, that members worked hard to — EDHCSD statement “but we are looking forward to acquire the golf course land. a bright future together.” “Consistent with the CSD’s The old executive golf course evaluation of the property at highest and best use in 2014 at a price over $20 mil- remains the most controversial piece of Parker Development’s Central El Dorado Hills Specific lion, Parker Development’s valuation also exceeds Plan in which approximately 1,000 residential units $20 million,” the letter specified. “Therefore, the CSD’s efforts to acquire the property has resulted ■ See NEGOTATIONS, page A5 in a conclusion that this represents too high a price Sel Richard Staff writer
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Parker Development and the EDHCSD have ended negotiations regarding the purchase of the old golf course in El Dorado Hills.
75 YEARS OF LOVE
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Forty-one California counties are now in the purple tier, which is the most restrictive regarding business operations and gatherings.
EDC among 41 counties hit with a curfew
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Patience, love and a willingness to stick together have created a long, happy marriage for Ed and Bernice Salata.
Bernice & Ed Salata are still sweethearts Sel Richard Staff writer
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met her at the drugstore,” Ed Salata reminisced. “She was sitting at the soda fountain and from the first time I met her I said, ‘That’s the gal I’m going to marry.’” The rest, as they say, is history. On Nov. 16 Ed and Bernice Salata celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary, still living a love story quick to spark and burning strong as ever. “We met in May, got engaged in July and were married in November,” shared Ed of their whirlwind romance in St. Joseph, Mo. Ed had just returned from a harrowing stint in the Navy, having survived Omaha Beach on D-Day. “We were in the third wave. We brought in the combat engineers onto the beach,” he said. “We lost 2,500 people on that beach the first day.” Life took a turn for the better after Ed found the lovely Bernice sitting at that soda fountain. The two quickly built a family, having their first son, Mike, a year after the wedding and daughter Patricia soon after. Two years later they rushed to the hospital, Bernice only seven months pregnant. “They delivered a boy and we went to put him in the incubator,” Ed recounted. “When I came back the nurse told me to stay there. I ■
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Sheriff announces he won’t enforce the overnight lockdown
Thomas Frey Staff writer Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Department of Public Health last Thursday issued a curfew order for all residents living in purple tier counties. The curfew went into effect Nov. 21, asking people to refrain from nonessential activities between the hours of 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. through Dec. 21. Forty-one counties seeing increases in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations were sent to the purple, most restrictive tier of the state’s color-coded reopening guideline last week; the curfew order was the next step in an attempt to curb the spread of the virus. In El Dorado County there have been 511 cases reported out of 5,531 tests returned since Nov. 1. In the first week of November the county was averaging about 14 positive cases per day but that number has since jumped with an average of more than 40 cases reported each day last week. Statewide the case rate has increased about 50% since the first week of November, according to the Governor’s Office. As of Nov. 20 eight El Dorado County residents were being treated for coronavirus in hospitals, with four in the
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Ed and Bernice wed in November 1945, the beginning of an unforgettable life together.
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