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Hidahl is ready for second term Sel Richard Staff writer
The new Vintage Grace building in El Dorado Hills is expected to be completed this summer.
Incumbent John Hidahl, El Dorado County District 1 supervisor, hopes to hold onto his seat in what could be a contentious election this March. Born and raised in California’s Central Valley, 68-year-old Hidahl grew up working on his family’s peach farm and JOHN HIDAHL driving trucks before getting his mechanical engineering degree from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. From there, he spent 31 years at Aerojet as
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Church’s new look takes shape Sel Richard Staff writer
DISTRICT 2 RACE
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chance to serve the community of El Dorado Hills” is the inspiration for the new building quickly taking shape on the corner of El Dorado Hills Boulevard and Serrano Parkway/Lassen Lane, said Drew Sodestrom, lead pastor at Vintage Grace Church. Sodestrom and his wife Jen, Vintage Grace kids’ pastor, moved to El Dorado Hills six years ago with their three children and have since built a congregation that has their current digs bursting at the seams. Starting out at Marina Village Middle School, they were approached by Cornerstone Church to join forces and take over the building, a fortuitous development that led to a thriving ministry and the decision to erect a new structure to not
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Loewen wants to serve in new way Dylan Svoboda Staff writer El Dorado Hills Community Services District General Manager Kevin Loewen is running to represent District 2, which encompasses south county, much of Cameron Park and portions of Shingle Springs and El Dorado Hills, on the El Dorado County Board of KEVIN LOEWEN Supervisors. Loewen lives in the Placerville area with his wife Lara and their three boys, Kevin Jr., Lucas and Oliver.
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This rendering shows what the new building will look like once completed. Church officials expect to host an open house this coming fall. only accommodate a burgeoning flock, but also provide a community resource. After three years at this location, the Sodestroms decided it was time to expand. “We exist
to serve our city and we’re limited in the ways that we can do that,” explained Drew as to the impetus for building the new n
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Another delay announced in murder retrial for Ricky Davis Pat Lakey Staff writer If murder defendant Ricky Davis was seething beneath his cool exterior in a Placerville courtroom last week, as yet another delay in commencing a new trial in the 1985 stabbing death of a woman at an El Dorado Hills home was announced, the man who has spent 15 years behind bars for a crime he says he didn’t commit didn’t show it. Davis, 54, cocked his head and listened as defense attorney Melissa van der Vijver spoke to him, sitting together in the space where it was hoped last fall a jury would be sitting, ready to determine whether Davis truly is the person who stabbed Jane Anker Hylton nearly 30 times at a home on Stanford Lane where she was staying with her teenaged daughter to flee an ugly domestic situation involving her husband Archie Hylton. Hylton, 54 at the time of her death in July 1985, had accepted an invitation from Ricky Davis’ mother to stay at her
... despite the fact that Davis consistently has refused to waive his Constitutional right to speedy court proceedings, he has been overruled ... El Dorado Hills home, where Ricky and his girlfriend Connie Dahl also were living, according to court records. Jane Hylton, who reportedly refused to allow her 13-year-old daughter to accompany the older Ricky and his girlfriend to a party that night, would be stabbed to death in a vicious attack that left blood smeared on walls and soaked into carpeting and other signs of a violent struggle. While El Dorado County sheriff’s detectives and District Attorney’s Office investigators have suspected since early on that Ricky’s anger over being denied escorting young Autumn Anker to n
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Village Life file photo by Thomas Frey
Ricky Leo Davis, seen here in an earlier court proceeding, has had his trial delayed yet again.
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