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Monday, December 13, 2021
Fan of the Year
County chooses redistricting map for adoption local makes waves for Miami Dolphins Eric Jaramishian Staff writer El Dorado County finalized a map to redraw the supervisorial district boundaries Dec. 7, settling with a revised version of the El Dorado Hills Community Draft Alternative redistricting map. A slight offshoot of the original El Dorado Hills Community Draft Alternative maps presented at the Nov. 16 redistricting hearing, county staff curated the new version in an attempt to address Supervisors’ recommendations to keep Rescue north of Green Valley Road in District 4, include the business park in El Dorado Hills in District 1 and to keep the northern portion of Pleasant Valley in District 2. Staff lumped the community sitting north of Green Valley Road and east of Starbuck Road in District 4. Adjusting the boundary line between Districts 2 and 3 in the Pleasant Valley area would have caused District 2’s population to be disproportionately high, pushing the population differential to be over the legal requirement, according to geographic information analyst Jennifer Carlton. “Adjusting it to capture just enough population (and) the differential would have meant the residents of Pleasant Valley would be even further split than they currently are,” Carlton said. Carlton said adding the business park in
El Dorado Hills to District 1 and including the retirement communities south of White Rock Road in District 2 with those north of White Rock Road would not maintain geographic compactness and contiguity. The map splits the community of El Dorado Hills along White Rock Road between Districts 1 and 2. District 1 gets Serrano, Lake Hills and the Bass Lake communities north of White Rock Road while District 2 retains the population south of White Rock Road, including Blackstone, Heritage and Four Seasons. District 2 keeps Cameron Park and much of the south county, including Somerset, Pleasant Valley and Grizzly Flat. District 3 includes Placerville, El Dorado/ Diamond Springs and the Missouri Flat area to the west, south to Sly Park Road and the North Fork of the Cosumnes River, east to Camino and Cedar Grove and north to the South Fork of the American River. District 4 combines Shingle Springs, Rescue and communities that make up and the majority of north county. District 5 gets Pollock Pines along with South Lake Tahoe and the county’s share of the n
See redistricting, page A3
Thomas Frey Staff writer Marc Angelo of Placerville was named Miami Dolphins Fan of the Year after more than a decade of inspiring other Fins fans and helping raise funds for the Dolphins Challenge Cancer Foundation, among other causes. He was presented a special jersey at the Dolphins Nov. 7 game. Photo courtesy of NorCal Dolfan Club The roar of the crowd was loud at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami during the first half two-minute warning of the Houston Texans vs. Miami Dolphins game. It wasn’t for the quarterback — Super Bowl champion Jacoby Brissett, who was game planning with head coach Brian Flores — it was for Marc Angelo of Placerville, 2021 Miami Dolphins Fan of the Year. He was at the game with his wife Rusty Angelo and hundreds of Dolphins fans from World Wide Dolfan Clubs that he and Scott Howell of Atlanta founded. On the field, he was standing next to T.D., the Dolphins mascot, and Dolphins legend O.J. McDuffie, who handed him a Fan of the Year jersey as the crowd serenaded him with an applause usually reserved for a touchdown. “It was awesome because I turned around and we had
Photo courtesy of NorCal Dolfan Club
Marc Angelo of Placerville was named Miami Dolphins Fan of the Year after more than a decade of inspiring other Fins fans and helping raise funds for the Dolphins Challenge Cancer Foundation, among other causes. He was presented a special jersey at the Dolphins Nov. 7 game. 210 people with us the whole time I was standing on the field,” Marc said of his club up in the stands. “I knew we were being loud up there and I knew that the players could hear (the club) down on the field too because I could hear them.” Marc has been a fan of the Dolphins since watching them play in Super Bowl XVII when he was 8 years old Jan. 20, 1983. In the 1984 season Dan Marino
set the NFL regular season passing record and led the Dolphins to Super Bowl XIX. Marc was hooked on the gunslinger and the team. He remained a loyal fan of the team until about 2008, when he took it to the next level. He founded NorCal Dolfan Club in Suisun City and began having fan meetups for games and other events. At his home in Placerville the
basement is known as the Fish Tank and has scores of Dolphins items. Marc and Rusty head out to Miami about twice each year for games and once a year, his World Wide Dolfan Clubs have a fan meetup in Miami. For the last seven years World Wide Dolfan Clubs have raised money to send military personnel out n
See Fins fan, page A7
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Ron Thompson from Thompsons Family of Dealerships and Shon O’Neil from Absolute Auto Glass, above, were busy Thursday collecting Toys for Tots. For more than 16 years the two have been rounding up toy donations from local business drop-off locations. This year they picked up at more than 56 local businesses, bringing in 777 toys and two bikes with helmets. The toys were distributed to El Dorado County youth Saturday and Sunday at the El Dorado County sheriff’s headquarters. The crew at GS Smog in Shingle Springs, left, load Thompson and O’Neil’s box truck up with the toy donations the collected.
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