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Health WalkSeveral hundred students and dozens of adults participatedTuesday in the fourth annual San Andreas Community Health Walk.A2
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Sonora High School senior Donald McNair, 18, talks about making a Taiko drum out of a wine barrel and cow hide during his senior project exit interview Tuesday with five judges and four of his peers.
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Students present yearlong projects this week
• MLL MVP: Summerville High School senior Bryce Farrell was voted the Mother Lode League'sMost Valuable Player.C1 • ALL STARS:Two Sonora Wildcats and two Summerville Bears were named to the All-Mother Lode League baseball team.C1 • NBA: Curry, Warriors tip Rockets.C1
that gave back to the community or challenged the student to try something new. Seniors &om Summerville and Projects ranged from commuSonora high schools dressed up in nity service to craftsmanship, and their finest Tuesday for the first included coaching youth sports, orround ofsenior project presenta- ganizingfundraisers,woodworking tions. and car repair. The presentations were the final Projects, at both schools, must instage in ayearlong process that volve a minimum of 15 hours — a askedstudentsto develop a project limit many students surpass. By SEAN CARSON The Union Democrat
Sonora High School senior Jocelyn Schader spent 62 hours crafting a quilt she hopes will become a family heirloom. "We had a bunch of quilts from my great-grandmother, and I wanted to have something that I could pass on to my family or keep with my siblings," Schader said. See PROJECTS / Back Page
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Summerville High School students (from left) Gabbi Grande-Edralin, 17, Chelsea Magnante-Wertz, 17, Max Wulf, 18, Ayla Buck, 17, Julia Jensen, 17, and Emily Fishburn, 17, are six of the 11 Summerville High seniors up for Outstanding Senior Project.
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• YOSEMITE:Helmet camera captured deadly Yosemite cliff jump.A6 • CHINESE CHARGED:Six Chinese nationals charged with stealing US trade secrets.A6 • TRADE BILL:The Obama administration and Senate Republicans worked in unusual harmony Tuesday to advance major trade legislation.A7
— Sonora Pass (Highway 108) is closed 26.4 miles east of Strawberry because of weather conditions. Tioga Pass (Highway 120) and Ebbetts Pass (Highway 4) are open.C6
Some work still needs to be done to balance next year' s budget before the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors votes on a preliminary proposal next month. County Adm i nistrator Craig Pedro offered an early glimpse ofthe 2015-16 budget tothe board at Tuesday's meeting. He typically presents a proposed preliminary budget to the board in early June. "It'snot a cooked budget by any stretch," Pedro said of Tuesday's presentation. "It's a sneak peek at where we are at in developing the budget." Pedro called next year' s budget the county's first in the
Bottling giant Nestle donates water for drought-impacted county residents Corp. under fire for tapping water sources in drought-stricken state
commodity th e A m ador- Rig gs emphasized the Tuolumne Community Ac- teamwork required to action Agency and Tuolumne cept the generous but sizCounty Envi r onmental able giR of drinking water. Health distribute on initial It arrived in the Standard visits when residents having area in back of a big-rig difllculty with wells call for truck: 2.5-gallon bottles, two help, said Tracie Riggs, co- per box, 48 boxes per pallet, ordinator for the Tuolumne weighing 2,000 pounds per County Office of Emergency Services. See WATER/Back Page
work with Tuesday when they accepted deliveryof 5,280 gallons of Arrowhead Officials trying to help drinking water donated by Tuolumne County residents bottling giant Nestle Waters cope with drought-impacted North America. wells got another tool to Bottled water is a key By GUY McCARTHY The Union Democrat
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The Angels Camp City Council on Tuesday adopted mandatory water conservation measures limiting all its water customers to two days
a week of outdoor ornamental plant watering. The city aims to meet a 25 percent-per-month p otable water-use reduction compared to 2013, following Gov. Jerry Brown's unprecedented executive order in April. The council had the choice of passingthat 25 percent reduction to its 1,700 customers or, instead, restricting out-
door ornamental landscape watering to two days a week. The council chose to follow the recommendation of City Engineer Dave Myers and adopt a two-day-a-week watering schedule, similar to what the Calaveras County See COUNCIL/Back Page
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