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Cemetery Advisory Committee buried Eric Jaramishian Staff writer

The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors has disbanded the county’s Cemetery Advisory Committee in favor of plans county leaders think will help facilitate proper maintenance of gravesites.

A list of actions made by the board during its Feb. 6 meeting include passing the reigns of advisory and hands-on work to the cemetery nonprofit Save the Graves. The group would provide feedback to county staff on problems observed at countymaintained cemeteries. The board will also direct staff to work with Save the Graves collaboratively to recruit volunteers.

“It makes sense because these are county assets

“I’m a big believer in sunsetting things that need to be sunset and the Cemetery Advisory Committee is a prime candidate.”

— Mike Roberts, Save the Graves president that this volunteer group is promoting and helping preserve and maintain with the funds they get from their events,” Parlin said.

Additionally, the county plans to promote the Adopt-a-Cemetery Project, established in 2017 as a way for volunteers to help monitor, maintain and improve cemeteries.

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As sandwich board signs proliferate along Main Street and take away walkway space on some stretches of narrower-than-normal sidewalks, Placerville City Council met Tuesday evening to discuss what the city could do to cut down on the clutter.

Director of Development Services Pierre Rivas presented a slideshow to the council that included a series of photos taken on Main Street in recent months to illustrate the widespread use of freestanding signs on the street and show how such signs impact foot traffic.

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ESSENTIALS OBITUARIES Obituaries on this page are written and paid for by the families or funeral homes. They are edited minimally by the Mountain Democrat. To submit an obituary, call (530) 622-1255, e-mail obits@mtdemocrat.net, fax (530) 344-5092, or visit mtdemocrat.com under “Submission Forms” at the bottom of the website. Include contact information with all submissions.

Nancy Kay Stephens

May 24, 1937 – Jan. 27, 2024

Nancy Kay Stephens born May 24, 1937 passed away peacefully at her home with her husband, daughter and granddaughter by her side in Placerville, California on January 27, 2024, at the age of 86.

Nancy was the only child of Gilbert (Gil) and Yvonne (Toots) Ludtke of Cody, Wyoming.

Growing up in Cody, Nancy enjoyed going to the Cody, Rodeo which was a half-mile walk up the hillside trail. The rodeos were held in the spring, summer and fall and that became her passion as a young lady.

Her parents created and owned the Cody Bus Line, owned the Heart Mountain Hotel and during the years after World War II, owned the Cody Jeep dealership.

Wyoming’s Buffalo Bill stayed in the hotel years before the Ludtke’s ownership. Additionally, Nancy’s mother managed the businesses and in the summer months drove guests to Yellowstone Park for a day’s visit.

In the early 1950s, Nancy’s parents sold the bus line to Continental Trailways, sold the hotel and the Jeep dealership and moved to Billings, Montana where the Continental Trailways headquarters was located. Nancy then attended Billings High School for the last two years of high school.

Upon graduation, she went to Montana State College in Bozeman, Montana majoring in education. It was at the college’s freshman social that Nancy met her future husband Harold Stephens who was also a Montana State freshman as they danced together. While attending college, Nancy was a member of the Delta Gamma sorority.

After graduating in three years, Nancy taught school in Helena, Montana for a year. Upon Hal’s graduation from college, Nancy and Hal married in the Catholic Cathedral in Helena, Montana on August 8, 1959. After they departed on their honeymoon trip, in their 1958 Volkswagon Bug, to the west coast they visited Seattle, San Francisco, Lake Tahoe and Salt Lake City. They then returned to Montana to visit family and start their new teaching careers in Baker, Montana.

After visiting the west coast on their honeymoon, they chose to become teachers in California. Nancy taught third grade, in Ceres, California for eleven years.

Hal taught industrial arts, radio and electronics, at Ceres High School for many years until he was offered a position with the California Teachers Association in the San Francisco Bay Area.

During Hal’s first two years with CTA, Hal commuted to the Bay Area during the week and Nancy taught while raising their two children Denise and Mark. In 1973, they all moved to San Jose. Nancy then worked as a substitute teacher until she accepted a staff position at Blossom Ridge Teachers Professional Center where she worked alongside Hal who was serving as Executive Director. Nancy loved this role as she enjoyed working with teachers from many school districts.

In 1996 after retiring, Nancy and Hal moved to Placerville, California to enjoy the mountains which Nancy loved and to have a personal owned aircraft hanger as they were both airplane pilots and both love spending time around aviation, the airport, and flying.

Nancy became a part of many Placerville philanthropic organizations including the Placerville Elks Emblem Club where she served as president during her more than a decade-long involvement and the Placerville Shakespeare Club. Nancy enjoyed participating in these organizations, socializing with the many members and meeting new friends.

She was also part of the Placerville EAA, Experimental Aircraft Association, organization as she was a licensed private pilot. Many weekends and vacations as a family were spent flying to various destinations around the country including many aviation flyins. A memorable trip that Nancy took with her family was in 1976, where in honor of the America’s bicentennial, they spent a month flying in their plane throughout the United States seeing many historical sites. Nancy enjoyed traveling extensively, the list of her travels included but was not limited to England, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico and all of the fifty states. Her favorite locations that she loved going to consistently were the Hawaiian Islands to enjoy the beauty and culture, Lake Tahoe for the mountains and lake, Pismo Beach to ride sand buggies and play in the sand and San Jose to spend time with her daughter, son and two granddaughters.

Nancy is survived by her husband of 65 years Harold (Hal) Stephens, her daughter Denise Holm (Mark Holm) and son Mark Stephens. She also leaves behind two granddaughters whom she adored, Juliette and Vanessa Holm.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Nancy’s memory to the organizations that she was passionate about. A celebration of life is in the planning for March.

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On February 5, 2024, Aurelina Lobsinger, our beloved mother, passed away at home in Placerville, CA, and was reunited with the angels in heaven. She was a loving and devoted wife, mother, sister, daughter, friend, Grandma, and Great Grandma.

Aurelina came to the United States from Guatemala back in 1962 to study nursing. While studying in San Francisco she met our father, Phillip who had just left the army. Two years later they were married and expecting their first child.

Three more would follow over the next 5 years.

They later moved to Concord and bought their first house. Her children kept her busy driving them to school and sporting events. She fed an army of kids that came in and out of the house throughout her children’s youth. While juggling the duties of motherhood she worked at a convalescent home for 25 years taking care of the elderly. In her retirement, she took care of her mother, father-inlaw, and 11 grandchildren. Always helping others kept Mom happy.

Mom fought hard and suffered through so much pain to give her husband of 60 years, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren extra time with her. When the time came to let go, we played her favorite song- Elvis Presley’s “Unchained Melody”. She used to listen to it with her sister who had passed away many years ago and with her children when they were young. As the song played, we felt peace settle across the room. All four of her children and husband were there as she wished.

As the song concluded, on the very last note, Mom left us. I cannot think of a purer soul than our mother, good to everyone and brought happiness everywhere she went. We know you are in a better place, but we are so devasted. Mom, we Love you and miss you so very much.

Aurelina is survived by her loving and caring husband, Phillip, whom she was married to for 60 devoted years, her children Raymond (Suzanne), Phillip (Kirsten), Betty (Mike), and Ricky (Anna), her 11 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren.

Alyshia Comedy Drake (Aly) was born on January 19, 1974, in Placerville, California and passed away in Roseville, California on February 5th, 2024.

Aly grew up in the towns of Camino and San Ramon, California. In her late teens and 20’s she lived and worked in Germany where she self-taught herself the language. After a brief time in Thailand, Aly returned home and settled in Sutter Creek, California, where she started a fitness business and later married Ryan Drake. Several years later Aly and Ryan had their son, Roman and Aly opened a daycare ‘Grow from the Stem’ so she could be close to Roman and the children she loved.

Aly had a goofy but delightful sense of humor, a hearty laugh and a genuinely kind spirit. She is survived by her son Roman Drake and his father, Ryan Drake, her mother and step-father, Nancy and Peter LaTorre, her father and step-mother James and Linda Davies, her sister Jessica Butts, her brother Spencer Davies, her grandmother Amelia Carleton and her fiancé Tommy Feltenberger.

A celebration of life will be held at the “Spur Emporium” within the Amador County Fairgrounds at 18621 Sherwood Street, Plymouth, California, 95669 on Saturday February 24, 2024 from 1pm to 5pm. Family, friends, and those whose lives were touched by Alyshia are invited to come to laugh, cry, and share stories of the ‘Racy Blonde’ marathon runner, Mrs. Drake’s ‘Grow from the Stem’ daycare operator, caring friend and devoted mother, Alyshia Comedy Drake.

Oct. 30, 1944 – Feb. 5, 2024

Donald Davis

July 4,1927 – Jan. 28, 2024

Donald Woodbury Davis was born in Jamestown, North Dakota. He was a WWII Veteran; serving as a Signalman in the Navy. After being honorably discharged; he married Hattie Mae Walker in 1948. As a civilian he continued working with the Navy; as a photo lithographer at the China Lake Naval Base. Later he transferred to Point Magu Naval Air Station. After he retired; he and Hattie moved to El Dorado; and then later to Placerville. They had five children; and was preceded in death by Hattie, and daughter Joan.

He has a daughter Susan and son in law Jim, and sons Kyle & Mike and daughter in law Suzanne, and daughter Eileen. He has seven grandchildren, and twenty two great grandchildren.

Lois Jean (Marden) Dawson May 16, 1928 – Feb. 7, 2024

Lois Jean (Marden) Dawson passed away February 7, 2024, born and raised in El Dorado County to parents Melven and Elsie (Veerkamp) Marden, proceeded in death by her first husband, Weston Ellis Dawson, son Robert Melven Dawson (Widow Debra Davies Dawson), second husband Albert Aubin, brother Melven Marden (Darlene), sister-in-law Helen (Padilla) Marden, (Husband Bill Marden) Laura Barber (Lois’s niece), daughter of Ann (Marden) Barber.

The birth of her great, great Granddaughter, created 5 generations of family.

Lois loved working in her yard, making homemade ice cream, putting together family holiday gatherings that we all enjoyed.

She was a great Trout fishing lady and during years of reunion camp outs, with her family, she pulled many out of the creeks at Hope, Faith and Charity Valley in Alpine County.

Lois leaves behind the sadness of her children, daughter Nola Jean (Dawson) Rumsey (Husband Nick Rumsey), son Wayne Ellis Dawson (wife Jennifer), Daughter-in-law Deb Dawson (Husband Robert Dawson, deceased), 5 grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren and a great great Granddaughter.

With respect, to all families suffering, please donate to Alzheimer’s/Dementia research programs.

Services were held Thursday February 15th, 2024 at 1pm at Green Valley Mortuary. No graveside service.

Jan. 19, 1974 – Fe. 5, 2024

Mark Gernandt

Nov. 20, 1958 – Feb. 7, 2024

It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that we are sharing the passing of our beloved husband, father, brother, son, grandfather and friend Mark Steven Gernandt on February 7, 2024. He was surrounded by loved ones and passed in peace.

Born on November 20, 1958 in San Francisco, California to Patricia and Ronald Gernandt. He was raised in the City of San Francisco and South San Franciso. He was a Police Cadet as a teenager and graduated from El Camino High School class of 1976. He started his 30 year Law Enforcement career in 1979 at the age of 20 with the San Mateo Police Department. In 1988 he bought property in Placerville, California and transferred to the Sacramento County Sheriff ’s Department. This is where he would start his dream of being a cowboy and raising his kids in the country. During his career he worked in the Jail, as a Patrol Officer and Motorcycle-cop, Detective, Sergeant and Lieutenant where he retired in 2009. He was also part of the Mounted Unit where he fulfilled his dream of being a cowboy. His hobbies included golfing, attending Giants games and spending time with his grandkids and attending their events. He was always the life of the party and up for any adventure. He was a member of the Native Sons of the Golden West Parlor #9 and belonged to the Cold Springs Country Club. Mark leaves behind his wife Tracee Gernandt, son Shane Gernandt, sister Denise Gernandt, Uncle Rich Gernandt, Uncle Garry Gernandt, grandkids Kyla, Camden, Aundrea, Leo, Mia, Noah and the extended family in San Francisco the McCarthy’s.

Rest easy Dad you now get to be with Ricky and Kinsley. A Celebration of life will be held with the date TBD. Please visit Greenvalleymortuary.com tribute page for more details to follow.

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Mary Oragene Johnson

The following information was taken from Placerville police reports:

June 7, 1926 – Feb. 2, 2024

Mary was born June 7, 1926 and passed on February 3, 2024 of natural causes. She loved her life in the Sierra Nevada mountains. She spent many happy years in Kyburz and Placerville, CA. She is survived by two sons, Joseph and Tom, 4 grandchildren Andrea, Jennifer, Eric and Cole. She had 5 great-grandchildren, Grayson, Jacob, Nolan, Colton and Matthew. She was also a great-great grandmother. She will be missed everyday by those who loved her. Services will be on February 17th at 1pm at Chapel of the Pines in Placerville, CA.

Janet Morzov

June 26, 1950 – Oct. 12, 2023

Jan passed away after a brief hospice from respiratory failure due to end-stage lupus. She was born and raised in the Molokan community of southern California before moving to the Placerville area in 1977 with her husband Fred to raise their children in the rural and historic community of Diamond Springs.

She worked at Marshall Hospital for 36 years, first as a unit secretary in the emergency room and then in the staffing department until her retirement in 2016.

Her interests and talents were many and varied: she dabbled her whole life in geology, botany, antiques, doll making, painting, quilting, knitting/crochet, and textile arts. After taking a fabric painting class in 1986 she discovered her life passion: hand-painted silks. She briefly worked the circuit at area craft fairs for a few years until she settled into selling her beautiful scarves, hair accessories, clothing, neckties, checkbook covers and handbags seasonally each autumn at High Hill Ranch in Camino, CA. Working her way up from stall vendor she eventually became craft coordinator with her husband and together they managed all crafters on the Ranch until they stepped down in 2014. She spent her retirement exploring additional artistic pursuits such as pour painting, worked endless puzzles, sold her silk stock off her Etsy storefront, and spent time with her grandchildren. Her husband of 52-years briefly survived her death until his passing 7 weeks later. She is survived by her brother Wayne Planin of Aalborg, Denmark; daughter Laura Morzov of Placerville, CA; daughter Amanda Morzov of Diamond Springs, CA; and 2 grandchildren.

Frederick Morzov

Aug. 5, 1946 – Dec. 1, 2023

Fred passed away after a short hospice from complications stemming from a massive and debilitating stroke he suffered in September 2023. He was born and raised in the Molokan community of southern California before moving to the Placerville area in 1977 with his wife Jan to raise their children in the rural and historic community of Diamond Springs. He continued his family’s glazier tradition by purchasing and operating El Dorado Glass in Shingle Springs, CA until 1992 when he was forced to sell the business after being stricken with Guillain-Barre Syndrome.

Though being told first he would not live another six months and then that he would never walk again, Fred persevered and ambled his way through the rest of his life with the assistance of various beautifully handcarved wooden canes. He was an avid band booster at Ponderosa High School, helping with field shows and marching competitions as well as concerts and command performance competitions from 1989-1997.

He supported the local Sierra Symphony, attending concerts, assisting administratively, and serving on the board as community representative. He helped his wife build her fledgling silk business, eventually co-coordinating the crafters each autumn at High Hill Ranch in Camino, CA, where he was dubbed the Craft Czar. After stepping down as craft coordinator in 2014 he spent his retirement aiding his ailing wife and spending time with his grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife of 52-years just 7 weeks prior to his passing. He is survived by daughter Laura Morzov of Placerville, CA; daughter Amanda Morzov of Diamond Springs, CA; and 2 grandchildren.

Karen DeBerry

Oct. 22, 1948 – Jan. 9, 2024

Karen L. DeBerry (Cameron) 75, of Diamond Springs, passed peacefully on January 9th, 2024, surrounded by her family. Karen was born in Artesia, CA in October of 1948, and preceded in death by her parents Hugh R. and Anna L. Cameron, her brother Robert Pell.

Karen was a resident of El Dorado County for over 65 years, a graduate of El Dorado High School, Class of 66. She had worked as a Beautician for many years. Later in life, she owned a business in Diamond Springs.

Karen was a strong individual, who had dealt with several bouts of cancer throughout her years. She remained strong no matter what the circumstances.

Survived by her loving husband of 47 years, Brian, their sons Randy (Cerita) and Tim (Joel), and her loyal dog Elmo.

Karen was very active and a proud member of the local Rebekah’s Lodge and served as a state officer representing Northern California. With this, she traveled throughout the state. Karen was also a member of the Native Daughters of the Golden West, Parlor 12.

She will be remembered with love, smiles, and laughter.

In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to UC Davis Cancer Center at give.ucdavis. edu.

A Celebration of Life is planned for late May or early June this year because those were her favorite months and season.

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Feb. 4 12:23 a.m. Officers booked into jail a 37-year-old man suspected of elder abuse on Pintail Lane. He was listed in custody in lieu of $75,000 bail.

3:51 a.m. Petty theft was reported on New Morning Court.

Feb. 5 3:27 a.m. Vandalism was reported on Marshall Way. 5:54 a.m. Residential burglary was reported on Stout Court.

10:11 p.m. Officers booked into jail a 36-year-old woman suspected of trespassing, disorderly conduct, possession of illegal drug paraphernalia and obstruction on Placerville Drive. The suspect was arrested earlier the same day on similar charges on Fair Lane. She was released on $3,000 bail.

Feb. 6 10:04 a.m. Burglary was reported at an apartment complex on Coloma Court.

10:52 a.m. Officers booked into jail a 48-year-old woman suspected of possession of a controlled substance and illegal drug paraphernalia and obstruction on Tunnel Street. The suspect also allegedly attempted to smuggle a controlled substance into the jail. She was released on $178,000 bail.

11:31 a.m. Petty theft was reported on Smith Flat Road.

1:20 p.m. Grand theft was reported at a store on Main Street.

Feb. 7 8:03 a.m. Officers booked into jail a 38-year-old woman suspected of being under the influence of a controlled substance on Main Street. She was later released.

Feb. 8 1:47 a.m. Battery was reported at a facility on Marshall Way.

9:33 a.m. Officers booked into jail a 59-year-old man suspected of being under the influence of a controlled substance on Placerville Drive. He was later released.

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10:36 a.m. Illegal dumping was reported on Briw Road.

James Madison was referred to as the “Father of the Constitution.”

11:38 a.m. Battery was reported on Canal Street.

1:12 p.m. Petty theft was reported at a business on Main Street.

The following was taken from El Dorado County Sheriff ’s Office logs:

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Feb. 5 8:02 p.m. Deputies booked into jail a 32-year-old man suspected of possession of a controlled substance and illegal drug paraphernalia and a post-release violation on Broadway in Placerville. He was listed in custody.

11:07 p.m. Deputies booked into jail a 27-year-old man suspected of possession of a controlled substance and illegal drug paraphernalia, being under the influence of a controlled substance and being a prohibited person in possession of ammunition on Racquet Way in Diamond Springs.

He was listed in custody in lieu of $20,000 bail.

Feb. 6 1:40 a.m. Deputies booked into jail a 37-year-old man suspected of grand theft, conspiracy to commit a crime and a post-release violation on China Garden Road in Diamond Springs. He was listed in custody in lieu of $20,000 bail.

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2:42 a.m. Deputies booked into jail a 36-year-old man suspected of grand theft, vehicle theft, giving false ID to law enforcement and conspiracy to commit a crime on China Garden Road in Diamond Springs. He was listed in custody in lieu of $20,000 bail.

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He developed a taste for French wine and once spent his entire furniture budget on wine & champagne.

3:40 a.m. Deputies booked into jail a 49-year-old woman suspected of DUI on Highway 50 at El Dorado Hills Boulevard. She was later released.

Feb. 9 1:33 a.m. Battery was reported on Schnell School Road.

8:47 a.m. Officers booked into jail a 48-year-old man suspected of being under the influence of a controlled substance on Main Street. He was later released.

11:49 a.m. Grand theft was reported on Carson Road.

6:34 a.m. Burglary was reported at a storage facility on Business Drive in Shingle Springs.

7:20 a.m. Battery was reported on Larkspur Lane in Camino.

7:45 a.m. Vandalism was reported on Happy Valley Road in Somerset.

8:21 a.m. Vehicle burglary was retried on Cappella Drive in Diamond Springs.

8:22 p.m. Officers booked in to jail a 39-year-old man suspected of disorderly conduct on Main Street.

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10:56 a.m. Vandalism was reported on Bear Creek Road in Garden Valley.

1:01 p.m. Battery was reported at a school on Pleasant Valley Road in Placerville.

11:29 p.m. Officers booked into jail a 53-year-old man suspected of vandalism on Fair Lane. He was

LAKE LEVELS

Stumpy Meadows Reservoir as of Feb. 15 Water storage 21,240 acre-feet Percent full 99.8% Inflow/outflow data not available Folsom Reservoir as of Feb. 14 Water storage 598,665 acre-feet Percent full 61% Inflow - cfs Outflow - cfs

Water storage 30,290 acre-feet Percent full 70% Inflow 24 cfs / Outflow 52 cfs Caples Lake as of Feb. 15 Water storage 11,796 acre-feet Percent full 53% Inflow 4.54 cfs Outflow 10.30 cfs Silver Lake as of Feb. 15 Water storage 749 acre-feet Percent full 9% Inflow 8.99 cfs Outflow 15.80 cfs

Union Valley as of Feb. 13 Water storage 169,670 acre-feet Percent full 64% Inflow 306 cfs Outflow 211 cfs

Sly Park as of Feb. 15 Water storage 41,104 acre-feet Percent Full 100.2% Inflow 0 cfs Outflow 31.47 cfs

Loon Lake as of Feb. 13 Water storage 46,413 acre-feet Percent full 67% Inflow 26 cfs Outflow 147 cfs

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‘Trailer bills’ allow state lawmakers to enact policies with little public input

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alifornia’s state budget process was relatively straight-forward, albeit often opaque, prior to 1978.

Governors and legislators would estimate how much money they had to spend during the forthcoming fiscal DAN WALTERS year, which was fairly easy because most of the state’s revenue came from predictable sales taxes. They would set aside enough money for basic governmental functions, and divvy up the remainder in response to specific requests from legislators and interest groups, with few legal mandates.

The process became much more complicated after voters passed Proposition 13, the iconic property tax reduction measure in 1978. School systems and local governments that had depended on property taxes clamored for state aid to make up Over the last for lost revenue, and four decades, as overnight the budget California’s state became a much larger and infinitely more budget became complicated document. more complicated, That complication governors and soon spawned another element of the annual legislators have process: “trailer bills” to used “trailer bills” implement the budget’s to sometimes pass financial decrees by changing laws governing major legislation how the newly allocated with little or no money should be spent. public input.

Over the ensuing 40-plus years, the number of trailer bills blossomed. Eventually, they ceased being just adjuncts to the budget and became vehicles for major changes in policy having little or nothing to do with the budget.

That has been especially true since 2010, when the state’s voters passed Proposition 25, a measure sponsored by Democratic politicians and public employee unions to change the required vote on the budget from two-thirds of both legislative houses to simple majorities.

The measure eliminated the ability of Republican legislators to influence the budget.

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■ See WALTERS, page A5

Letters to the Editor Support Prop. 1 EDITOR: urge readers of the Mountain Democrat to vote yes on Proposition 1.

Our state has a homeless, housing and mental health crisis. Proposition 1 is a positive step forward in addressing these issues.

Adding supportive housing for 6,800 individuals that wraps around, coordinates and integrates mental health care and drug or alcohol treatment will yield, in my opinion, more positive results than the current system. Supportive housing is a key element in helping homeless individuals with severe mental health and drugs issues to get on the road to a sustained recovery.

Integrating and coordinating mental health and substance abuse services in combination with supportive housing will create a more effective county mental health care system.

In regard to the shift of some Mental Health Services Act funding from counties back to the state, the “Use of MHSA Tax Money” chart on page 11 of the Primary Election Voter Guide indicates only a 5% shift in MHSA funds from counties back to the state. Local, county mental health programming can absorb this relatively small reduction in local county funding while sustaining important local, county mental health services that are an important component of our county’s overall services.

Again, I hope El Dorado County voters will support and vote yes on Proposition 1.

FRANK PORTER El Dorado Hills

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Drop the one drop EDITOR: uring my first couple of trips to Africa I noticed how the whites and Blacks held specific roles based on race. For instance, in Namibia the Blacks ran the government and the military and whites, even though they were only 7% percent of the population, held a disproportionate amount of land and businesses.

At one lodge I visited all the guides were white and the cooks; laborers and trackers were Black.

I noticed how the whites and Blacks had rules.

For instance, the Blacks didn’t eat or drink with the clients. Knowing the history of how the Germans had imposed genocide on Black people in that area just 100 years ago, I wonder how long before the whites are pushed out.

While sitting around a fire one night a white guide complained about how impossible it was

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for him to find a wife because there are so few women in the area. I said I saw many beautiful women on the ranch he worked at and asked why he doesn’t date one of them? Suddenly you could hear a pin drop and he looked shocked. He said, “I would never have sex with a Black woman for the sake of my heritage.” He said the whites have the one-drop rule. Meaning if a person had any Black person in their family history, then they are considered Black and ostracized from their family.

I retorted that he would be very lonely and that there is no such thing as race. I also pointed out that the sooner they assimilate with the Blacks the better. As it is now, those with German ancestry have no problems marrying the Dutch, French and British ancestry and they were mortal enemies for hundreds of years. The benefits would be his mixed-race children could work for the government and not worry about the government taking his land. He said privately he knew that but would be shunned by everyone he knows, including family, and he couldn’t do that to his parents.

We here in the U.S. still have the one drop rule. My sons, who have Black fathers and white mothers, are considered Black. My children, whose mom is Filipino and I’m white, tend to mark Asian when asked about race and my children who have Spanish ancestry as well as white tend to list Hispanic when asked.

I enjoyed going back to that concession with three of my boys, who were able to witness true racism and the various cultures in Africa.

The Black Africans did not like my half Black son because they said to his face that Black Americans are lazy. They viewed my Hispanic and Filipino sons as white because their skin was lighter than theirs. The white landowners treated them like royalty because we were paying guests.

My point being that this one drop rule is fundamentally racist to keep white purity. To categorize someone of mixed race as anything but what they are is wrong.

KEN STEERS Cameron Park

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reported the trip took n Feb. 3 60 10 days traveling Minutes through multiple Sixty countries. minutes TikTok has a video reported about a gap that provides all the in our border wall. The details on where to find gap is about 60 miles the gap and how to east of San Diego and obtain the help needed is a global destination in Mexico to get to the for migrants from destination. around the world. The Who are these news source reported people? Are they that during a four-day GLENN MOLLETTE simply well-intended watch they personally people who are coming witnessed about 600 here to make our country better? illegal entries come through the Is this a move to fill our country small gap. with Chinese soldiers who may be According to the news source, people from China are the positioning themselves to attack fastest growing number of illegal America from inside? Hopefully, it’s immigrants coming into our country. just a large group of people trying More than 37,000 just last year — a to escape a bad country where life is growing number. Stories were told not good. about people who had sold their The dumbest part of this 60 houses and gave up everything to Minutes story is the 4-foot gap make the trip. The trip had cost so many are coming through. one person $14,000 and another Reportedly, there isn’t any federal

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If President Joe Biden wanted to improve his dismal ranking ... then he should coordinate such an effort. He and VP Kamala Harris could each drive a big truck of rocks and dump them into the gap. money allocated to fix the gap. We’ve sent billions to Ukraine and Israel but we don’t have any money to plug up a hole used by people who are essentially invading our country.

We don’t call them invaders, but they come illegally and in massive numbers. It may not feel like an invasion in Iowa but it does to people who live on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Why doesn’t someone take a dump truck or two of rocks and close up that gap? If President Joe Biden wanted to improve his dismal ranking in the polls, then he should coordinate such an effort. He and VP Kamala Harris could each drive a big truck of rocks and dump them into the gap. I bet he would have an impressive convoy of people who

would join him in the effort. I can’t see how it would be that much of a strain on the federal budget. Of course he won’t do that nor will any other politician. There is probably some kind a rule or law that forbids such an action.

One elderly man who owns property close to the gap fired a gun in the air because migrants were burning trees on his farm. He was arrested for trying to protect his property.

Fixing that hole in the wall seems like a simple common-sense thing to do. When you bring Washington into the process there is no common sense.

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It also gave budget trailer bills legal standing, declaring that they, too, could be enacted with simple majority votes and – like the budget – would take effect immediately upon being signed by the governor.

Thereafter, Democratic governors and legislators would often draft last-minute bills containing sweeping policy changes, insert token $1,000 appropriations to tie them to the budget and pass them with little or no opportunity for the public or affected interests to know what was happening. Since trailer bills take immediate effect, they could not be challenged via a referendum ballot measure.

As Prop. 25 was pending, then-Assembly Speaker John Pérez and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg issued a statement that, if passed, it “will not allow a majority of the Legislature to use budget trailer bills to enact new ‘referendum-proof ’ programs or requirements,” adding, “Any attempt by this or any future Legislature to circumvent this right would be in clear violation of California’s constitution…”

In the 13 years since, hundreds of trailer bills have been enacted and many do contain major policy declarations that are referendum-proof.

The misuse of the trailer bill loophole finally

became so blatant that voters passed another initiative in 2016, Proposition 54, requiring bills to be in print for 72 hours before final passage, although legislative leaders, who opposed the measure, often use parliamentary tricks to minimize opportunities to see the contents of trailer bills.

This bit of legislative history is offered because the annual budget process is underway and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Department of Finance has just released a list of 77 trailer bills that would be attached to his 2024-25 budget, although their precise contents are far from determined.

That’s just the beginning because before the budget is passed in June – and even after it’s enacted – other trailer bills will continue to surface. In fact, we’ll probably see some new trailer bills attached to the 2023-24 budget, which was passed last June, as Newsom and the Legislature try to shrink its multibillion-dollar gap between income and outgo.

The opportunity for political mischief looms large.

Dan Walters is a journalist and author who writes for CALmatters.org, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.

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City of South Lake Tahoe officials have identified the four individuals who died of a suspected drug overdose in South Lake Tahoe Monday as South Lake Tahoe residents Abraham Lemus, 34, Adam Joy, 35, Keely Pereira, 33, and Douglas County, Nev., resident Clifford Joy, 38.

At about 9 a.m. Monday first responders were called to a Roger Avenue home after four people were found unresponsive, South Lake Tahoe Police Lt. Jeff Roberson said. Upon arrival two subjects were pronounced deceased while life-saving

measures were performed and several doses of Narcan were administered for the other two to no avail.

“The South Lake Tahoe Police Department is continuing the investigation of the four deaths. Examination of the substance located on scene tested presumptively as fentanyl, however, autopsies and toxicology reports are still pending,” states a SLTPD press release. “Investigative and technical assistance continues to be provided by the El Dorado County Sheriff ’s Office and the El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office.”

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with information about the incident to email cybertips@ cityofslt.us.

City of South Lake Tahoe Mayor Cody Bass asked the community to join him in holding a candlelight vigil Friday night to honor the four lives lost. The vigil is planned to begin at 5 p.m. at Lakeview Commons in South Lake Tahoe.

El Dorado County’s South Lake Tahoe Behavioral Health clinic staff was organizing a community grief and loss support group Thursday. The support group was facilitated by a licensed clinician and aimed at helping people ■ See VICTIMS ID’D, page A11

Tahoe police see string of overdoses but find no evidence of connection Ashleigh Goodwin Tahoe Daily Tribune

Just after 11 a.m. Tuesday a man with “no shoes or shirt” ran across Lake Tahoe Boulevard in South Lake Tahoe wearing only shorts, according to one witness.

Moments later he was seen running back across the street near Ski Run Liquor.

“Five cops showed up and then the individual ran back across the street to the liquor store. Two fire trucks and an ambulance showed up too,” said Kat Clevenger, manager of Heidi’s Pancake House across the street. She added that restaurant employees watched “on and off ” for almost two hours.

“We could see them doing

CPR and holding up an IV bag,” Clevenger said, noting that police officers were wearing face masks while searching a truck the man had been inside. “Made us think of fentanyl.”

According to Sgt. Nicholas Carlquist with the South Lake Tahoe Police Department, “Two guys were using fentanyl in a truck in a parking lot. One had too much, was reversed with Narcan and is fine.”

The incident happened just one day after three men and one woman died in a Roger Avenue home in what South Lake Tahoe City officials called a “drug related incident.” Carlquist told the Tahoe Daily Tribune the incidents are unrelated.

While this overdose didn’t end in another fatality, the timing

is drawing speculation from the community and officials.

“There was another overdose reported on Skyline Drive around the same time,” said SLTPD Lt. Jeff Roberson. “We were hoping there would be clear evidence of linkage to a single source but we didn’t get any clear evidence of the source. This is still an ongoing investigation as we work on the death of the four over on Roger Avenue.”

Following up on new leads in the investigation are the El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office and the El Dorado County Sheriff ’s Office.

Anyone with information that could aid in the investigation is asked to email cybertips@ cityofslt.us.

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A pedestrian sidewalk and bike trail starting at Highway 49 and Lotus Road is proposed to connect to the parking lot of Henningsen Lotus Park in Lotus.

El Dorado County is in a review stage to implement the alternative transportation project, which would stretch for a quarter mile along Lotus Road to the park.

Pedestrian and bicycle improvement studies done in 2016 determined the need for the project, according to the county’s Department of Transportation Director Rafael Martinez.

“If you’re a professional bicyclist, they can ride that road no problem, but if you’re more of a recreational bicyclist and you’re a nervous about riding your bike on the roadway with cars alongside, then this is exactly the type of facility that is geared for families, for the recreational bicyclist and for people who are on one side of the river and migrate to the other side of the river. They will have a safe way of doing that,” Martinez said.

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A proposed pedestrian and bicycle connector would stretch from Highway 49 to Henningsen Lotus Park in Lotus.

The trail will consist of approximately 2,300 feet of new multi-use trail and approximately 1,025 feet of an elevated sidewalk.

Plans also include 1,800 feet of a guardrail and improvements to existing pullouts along Lotus Road.

Designs and environmental review for the project are expected to take about a year, according to Martinez, who noted the county was granted nearly $1 million through the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Program for the project. Overall, the

trail project is expected to cost $2 million-3 million.

County leaders, including Martinez, District 4 Supervisor Lori Parlin and El Dorado County Transportation Commission Executive Director Woodrow Deloria, held a town hall Jan. 17 at the Gold Trail Grange in Coloma.

Through that town hall, Martinez said he learned the community would like to see the path more adjacent to the river for a scenic trail.

Martinez explained that the space between

Lotus Road and the South Fork of the American River is considered a floodplain, where state and federal programs will not allow construction of infrastructure.

Additionally, if a trail had been built along the river, it would have been washed away in the 2023 record storms when the river went up to the banks of the roadways, Martinez said.

“They said this multiuse trail was nice, but they wanted something much more scenic ■ See TRAIL, page A8

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Now Water Works Engineers is designing the 2024 rehabilitation and stabilization project.

The rehab and stabilization projects will be bid as two separate projects.

Water Works is being paid $241,090 for design work.

The rehab project includes seven manholes, three lift station vaults, concrete encasement of

several sections of sewer lines within creeks and roadside drainages.

The stabilization project includes seven service laterals located in backyard drainages.

Also included is relining 5,000 feet of sewer main using “curedin-place pipelining.”

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SAN FRANCISCO – California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued five consumer alerts advising California tenants of their rights and protections under state law, and alerting property managers and landlords of their obligations to tenants.

The consumer alerts cover information about the Tenant Protection Act, security deposits, habitability and the eviction process. The “Know Your Rights as a Tenant” consumer alert includes a new chart outlining, for each county, the maximum annual rent increase allowed under the TPA and is available in 24 languages. Both property owners and property managers must familiarize themselves with the requirements of the TPA and other landlord-tenant laws to ensure that they are acting in compliance with those laws.

“If you live in a rented home in California, you have rights. California law protects tenants from San Diego to Siskiyou — regardless of immigration status or employment status, race or gender identity,” said Attorney General Rob Bonta. “California law protects you from eviction without a court order, discrimination and retaliation. Most tenants are also protected from evictions without just cause and large rent hikes. I urge all Californians to familiarize themselves with their tenant rights, and to seek immediate help if they believe their landlord is violating the law.”

According to the California Budget and Policy Center, almost 17 million Californians — 44% of all state residents — live in rented homes and over half of California renter households are housing cost burdened, placing them at increased risk of housing instability and homelessness.

Californians facing eviction or who believe their landlord has violated their tenant rights should seek legal help immediately. Those who cannot afford a lawyer may qualify for free or low-cost legal aid. To find a legal aid office, visit LawHelpCA’s legal help webpage at lawhelpca.org/issues/ housing/landlord-andtenant-issues. Renters who do not qualify for legal aid are advised to utilize the California State Bar webpage calbar.ca.gov/Public/ Need-Legal-Help/ Free-Legal-Help to find a certified lawyer referral service, or visit the California Courts’ webpage selfhelp.courts. ca.gov/eviction-tenant for tenants facing evictions.

Know your rights as a tenant • Rent can generally be increased by no more than 10% a year.

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Union Mine senior guard Nate Sweet surpassed 1,000 career points Tuesday, Feb. 6, in the Diamondbacks’ final league game against Galt.

The path to this milestone was not straight as an arrow, and Sweet was not always the lethal scorer he has become this season.

“I didn’t expect to achieve this,” Sweet said. “I only averaged 8 points a game as a junior and I was over 700 points away from reaching it.”

Sweet put the time into offseason training before going into his senior campaign and now averages 26 points per game for the No. 2-seeded Diamondbacks who are heading into the playoffs and looking to make a deep run.

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head coach Ryan Williams said. “Every day after practice he works on his game and even tries to find openings on Sundays to work even though we tell him to take a day off.”

Sweet was also named the Sierra Valley Conference league MVP as the team went through league play without a blemish on its league record.

Sweet wants to play basketball at the next level but being from a small area does not bode well for recruitment.

The first part of studentathlete is student, and as a student Sweet thrives as well — he holds a 4.4 GPA. “It means the world,” Williams said. “I feel incredibly blessed that he came into our program. Kids like him rarely come around.”

Williams has the Diamondbacks going into the Division 4 playoffs with a 26-2 overall record and riding a 10-game winning streak.

The Diamondbacks tipped off their playoff run Tuesday at home in the Snake Pit, where they squashed Encina Prep 76-69. Next up Thursday, Feb. 15, Union Mine will face Riverbank (19-9).

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EDH teen encouraging golfers to count birds between birdies News release To extend his study in high school advanced placement classes to his love of golf, Zachary Nicholson has created the Birdie to Birdie Project, a free, easy and brief opportunity for golfers to be a part of a global event.

In golf the best shots under par have names like birdie, eagle and albatross, which are elusive to every golfer as they strive to lower their score in the fewest strokes as possible at each hole.

Whether or not golfers can count birds in their golf game, they are invited to count them and more for the Great Backyard Bird Count, Feb. 16-19. Zachary is inviting golfers of any age to spend just 15 minutes any of the four days noting any birds on their course of choice and logging

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Oak Ridge student and golfer Zachary Nicholson is asking fellow golfers to participate in the 2024 Backyard Bird Count. them at birdcount.org or birdcount.org/es en español.

The Great Backyard Bird Count in partnership with The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, The

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“I created the Birdie to Birdie Project to bring awareness to this meaningful, free and

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Per Caltrans standards, the metalbeam guardrail will be constructed to provide a safe buffer

for the pedestrians and cyclists traveling on the trail. Martinez said the community also expressed a preference for the guardrail to have a rural aesthetic look.

“There are materials we can use now that will actually give it a wood appearance, so we are going to be working with Caltrans to see if we can incorporate that into our contract,” Martinez said.

Residents of the area also requested a crosswalk where the Henningsen Lotus Park parking lot is split on Lotus Road, which will be considered, Martinez said.

When construction time comes Martinez said the county will pursue other modes of funding, especially through programs that promote alternative modes of transportation.

The project will be subject to approval from the El Dorado County Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors.

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El Dorado skier Andie Chandler hits the gates on her way to the finish line in South 1’s second to last race of the season Feb. 12. Season point totals show Chandler in fourth place, just one point away from edging into the top three.

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South 1 skiers and snowboarders took on the last three slalom races of the season at Sierra-atTahoe Feb. 7, Feb. 8 and Feb. 12.

South 1 Division Coordinator and El Dorado alpine race team coach Joe Volek said competition Feb. 12 “saw some of the best racing of the season.”

Skiers and boarders from El Dorado, Ponderosa, Oak Ridge, Union Mine and Amador/ Argonaut will return to Sierra-at-Tahoe Wednesday, Feb. 21, for the third giant slalom and final race of the South 1 season before they make the trip north to Mt. Shasta Ski Park where the California Nevada Interscholastic Ski and Snowboard Federation Championships will be

Slalom No. 4 individual results Women’s ski

1. Carlie Chandler, El Dorado 2. Kate Holtrichter, El Dorado 3. Marley Garner, Amador/Argonaut

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Individual season point totals Women’s ski

1. Carlie Chandler, El Dorado — 399 2. Greta Aronowitz, Oak Ridge — 393 3. Marley Garner, Amador/Argonaut — 391

Men’s ski

1. Charlie Beckerley, Oak Ridge — 397 2. Markus Hirsbrunner-Reist, El Dorado — 394 3. Dylan McLoed, El Dorado — 388

Women’s snowboard 1. Faith Spitzer, El Dorado — 400 2. Abi Cobabe, Oak Ridge — 394 3. Shayla Dalton, Ponderosa — 390

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Men’s snowboard

1. Reed Vogan, Ponderosa — 400 2. Trevor Varain, Oak Ridge — 390 3. Mason Beverly, El Dorado — 388 Team season point totals

Women’s ski

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Rivas’ presentation was given as a primer on the situation so the council could provide direction to city staff on how to approach the situation.

“They are causing congestion, limiting pedestrian travel and providing just general clutter on our pedestrian sidewalks,” Rivas explained. “Staff just wants direction. We’ve been kind of lax on enforcement due to economic conditions and so we get complaints from time to time.

It’s very controversial, with some businesses saying that without signs, it will hurt their business.”

Rivas explained to the council how Main Street’s sidewalks varied in width, often shrinking to as narrow as 5 or 6 feet across — much smaller than sidewalks in other cities, particularly for a part of town prone to heavy foot traffic.

The A-frame advertisements and other business signage placed along the sidewalk create navigation challenges, particularly for visitors to Main Street who are in a wheelchair or pushing a stroller.In some examples documented by Rivas, the signs were placed in a staggered fashion, with some next to buildings and others near the street in close succession, creating a kind of sidewalk slalom course.

“If you’ve ever tried to push a stroller down Main Street, like I have, it is an obstacle course,”

Mayor Jackie Neau remarked.

A city sign ordinance put into place in May 2002 fully prohibits the use of sandwich boards and other temporary portable signs within the city; though city officials have the authority to demand the signs be taken down and put away, the city has taken a relaxed approach to enforcement in the past. Rivas explained city enforcement of the ordinance cooled down during the Great Recession and during the first year and a half of the COVID19 pandemic with the intent of allowing businesses to advertise while struggling through tough economic times.

Business owners spoke in defense of the signs, arguing they were an affordable means of advertising that generated consistent walk-ins from potential customers on the street who may have walked by otherwise.

“Merchants couldn’t survive without them,” Jenny Levitsky, owner of Kitchen Goods on Main Street told the council. “They play a crucial role in promoting our small businesses and offer a cost-effective and versatile means of advertising.

I feel like there’s somebody against us merchants in town just trying to make a living.”

Some residents who spoke during public comment were less in favor of the signs, however, claiming they made a simple walk

down the sidewalk more effort than it needed to be, particularly for those with limited mobility.

Comments from the council fell into a similar vein, identifying the signs as potential clutter and obstructions but also seeing how businesses may need them.

“I’d like to get to a point where we can get to something small and more uniform,” Councilmember Michael Saragosa said. “We can’t have what we have today.”

Ultimately, the council directed city staff to draft an amendment to the ordinance that would allow for a permitting process that would set loose but clear guidelines regarding sign placement, look and size. Considerations for how multiple businesses operating out of one building would utilize signs without cluttering the sidewalk was identified as potential challenges to navigate in the process, and it was suggested merchants be involved in the rule-setting discussion.

“I’ve been accused of trying to destroy Main Street and all of its parts on more than one occasion and I’m not sure I want this to be another one of those,” Vice Mayor John Clerici said. “Can we provide minimalist guidelines and have the merchants on Main Street come back with something that’s palatable for them? I don’t want to die on this hill. This is one of those things where there is no good answer.”

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Annual staff updates would be given to the Board of Supervisors on the nonprofit’s progress.

These efforts are the county’s most recent to give cemeteries much needed attention; the board approved moving the Cemeteries Division from the Planning and Building Department and made it the responsibility of the Chief Administrative Office Jan. 23.

This was done to provide relief for the already strained Planning and Building Department.

Disbanding the advisory committee came up during a board meeting last year around the same time supervisors were preparing to update the resolution that formed the group in 2002, according to District 4 Supervisor Lori Parlin, who has sat on the advisory committee for nearly all her term since taking office in 2019. The resolution called to “protect and promote the public health, safety and general welfare by preserving and enhancing the County’s cemeteries,” to provide effective regulations for their use and to compile historical (and keep record of ) cemetery data through the expertise of trained and interested locals.

“We started to look at it and realized that the resolution had very specific things that were timely in 2002, which were accomplished, and then nobody updated the resolution,” Parlin stated. “I think it was another one of those committees we were finding that their purpose wasn’t clear and it just makes people frustrated.

“What I didn’t realize for all these years was our committee members, our volunteers, really looked at this committee to do the hands-on work for our cemeteries, of promoting (and)

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maintaining them, and an advisory committee isn’t set up to do that,” Parlin added.

Mike Roberts, who chaired the advisory committee and is also president of Save the Graves, concurred with the board’s findings — the committee was ineffective.

“We can’t just keep adding laws and committees and never taking anything away,” Roberts told supervisors. “I’m a big believer in sunsetting things that need to be sunset and the Cemetery Advisory Committee is a prime candidate.”

He added that land use, cemetery law and archeology aspects became things “none of us currently seated were ever qualified to advise on.”

Funding was also an issue the county has had trouble tackling. The board briefly discussed giving small, annual funding to Save the Graves to conduct cemetery maintenance, improvements and preservation.

Currently, the county has no revenue stream to fund the work.

A ballot measure was proposed for the 2022 general election that would have implemented a $9 per parcel tax for maintaining

and improving cemeteries. It was scrapped in May 2022 before it reached ballots.

“We got to that point but there is still a lot of interest, a lot of ambition, love and care that people want to put into our cemeteries, (except) there is no way to do it realistically,” said District 1 Supervisor John Hidahl.

The board also voted to create a cemetery maintenance plan, which would address the needs for each cemetery.

Before the board put everything to a vote, Roberts suggested using contractors to maintain county cemeteries, that county staff keep track of records showing management and graveyard maintenance and to stop using defoliants for vegetation management due to its harmful nature to older gravestones and soil.

Save the Graves is also researching where veteran graves are located and will start at 9 a.m. Saturday at Placerville Union Cemetery, where records and headstones of the graves are missing, Roberts told the board.

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Fourth contract amendment advances Sly Park Intertie design Michael Raffety

Mountain Democrat correspondent Nearing the end of design and moving on to right-of-way acquisition and construction documents for the Sly Park Intertie, Water Works Engineers was granted a fourth change order, called a contract amendment.

The El Dorado Irrigation District Board of Directors approved the amendment 4-0 Feb. 12.

The original contract for Water Works Engineers was

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The four contract amendments add up to more than $676,000.

A lot of it is additional design and geotechnical work using a different route that takes advantage of an already-existing Highway 50 undercrossing.

The Sly Park Intertie connects Reservoir A at the outlet of Jenkinson Lake to Reservoir 1 in Pollock Pines, which processes water from Forebay Reservoir.

The intertie already exists but is comprised of leaky unlined steel pipes installed after the 1975-76 drought and is no

worldwide event, give a peaceful start or end to a round of golf and contribute to the understanding of global migrations.” Observations can be done from anywhere around the world, whether on a

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Zachary founded the Birdie to Birdie Project in 2023. The 11th-grader is AP environmental

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science student at Oak Ridge High School in El Dorado Hills and is inspired by his family’s love of birds. Zachary is also a member of First Tee-Greater Sacramento and the Oak Ridge golf team.

1885 — 1889

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struggling with this week’s events.

Those needing a brief individual intervention related to their emotional response are urged to call the South Lake Tahoe Behavioral Health clinic directly at (530) 573-7970 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

A clinical staff member will be scheduled to provide therapeutic sessions and will help people navigate to supportive services through their health provider.

Authorities also remind residents that Narcan, or Naloxone, is available at no cost at several locations in South Tahoe and El Dorado County’s West Slope.

While it is known as a life-saving medication that can rapidly reverse an overdose from heroin, fentanyl and prescription opioid medications, that reversal is only temporary and medical attention is advised.

More than one dose of Narcan may be needed when stronger opioids like fentanyl are involved, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Narcan lasts between 30-90 minutes, and a longer lasting opioid may outlive it, causing a person to go back into overdose.

“Counterfeit pills or other street drugs i.e. MDMA, cocaine and others may include lethal doses of fentanyl,” notes SLTPD’s press release. “Naloxone is easy to use and small to carry. Naloxone can be used without medical training or authorization and can be used on anyone at risk, as there are no effects to someone without opioids in their system.”

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longer in use. These will be replaced with something more durable and permanent.

Water Works Engineers estimates the project will cost $35 million.

This month the consultant should have a final design and EID will prequalify contractors.

By March or April construction bidding will begin. Between May 2024 and December 2025 construction will take place.

In the meantime, EID will issue a bond to cover this expense.

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Landlord or property manager obligations under the Tenant Protection Act • Rent may not be increased more than 5% plus the change in the cost of living (pursuant to the Consumer Price Index) or 10% total, whichever is lower, over the course of any 12-month period.

• After living in their unit for 12 months, tenants can only be evicted for just cause, as listed in the TPA. • For no-fault evictions, tenants are entitled to relocation assistance equal to one month of rent.

• Cities or counties may have additional rent-control laws and eviction protections.

Security deposits • After July 1, for most landlords, the security deposit is limited to one month’s rent.

• Security deposits may be used only for (1) past-due rent; (2) the cost of repairing damages caused by tenants or their guests, not including ordinary wear and tear; (3) the cost of cleaning property so that it is as clean as when the tenant first moved in; and (4) the cost of replacing or restoring the landlord’s personal property, if the rental agreement says this is allowed.

• Within 21 days after moveout, the landlord must send the tenant an itemized statement of

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Benjamin Harrison 1889 — 1893

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any deductions from the security deposit and return the rest of the deposit.

• City or county rules may have more tenant protections or landlord requirements. For example, some cities make landlords pay interest on security deposits.

Right to a safe and wellmaintained home Landlords must keep a tenant’s home safe and fit to live in, regardless of the home’s condition upon move-in.

Landlords must provide: • Working plumbing, including hot and cold water and sewage disposal • Safe and working electrical equipment and wiring, including lighting • Heating • Walls and roofs that keep out rain and wind • Unbroken windows and doors, with working locks • Working smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors • Safe fire or emergency exits • Adequate pest control for rodents (like rats) and insects (like roaches and bed bugs) • Adequate sanitation, including enough trash cans, and clean common areas • Floors, stairways and railings in good repair • Repairs to prevent and fix health hazards, such as fire hazards, visible mold or dampness

Request repairs • Tenants have a right to ask landlords to repair any unsafe or unhealthy conditions. If a landlord refuses to make repairs, seek help right away. Inform the local code enforcement office, local building department or local health department about any unsafe or unhealthy conditions.

• Tenants may be entitled to relocation assistance. If the conditions are so bad that a tenant’s immediate health or safety is in danger, the city or county may make a tenant leave the property immediately and may also require the landlord to pay for relocation to a new home.

• Withholding rent may put a tenant at risk of eviction. If a landlord refuses to make repairs, seek legal help before deciding whether to stop paying rent.

Evictions • Tenants who get an eviction notice are advised to read it carefully and try to fix the issue in the eviction notice before the deadline. Legal help is recommended for questions about the eviction notice or if there is something wrong with it.

• Tenants who get evictionrelated court documents should get legal help right away.

Evictions can move fast and a renter could lose a court case automatically if they take too long to act.

• A landlord cannot evict a renter without a court order. It is illegal for a landlord to lock a tenant out, shut off utilities or move a tenant’s things to force them out. Only a sheriff, marshall or their deputies may evict someone, and only with a court order.

In addition to statewide protections, some cities and counties have additional rental protections, including stricter limits on rent increases than the TPA and additional just cause requirements. Californians should check what protections are in place where they live. For more information and resources visit oag.ca.gov/housing.

View the AG’s consumer alerts in their entirety at oag.ca.gov/ consumers/general/landlordtenant-issues.

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• Landlords must provide reasonable accommodations if a tenant has a disability.

• Landlords cannot discriminate against a tenant or retaliate against a tenant for exercising tenant rights.

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Russ Reyes, operator of local event production company Kilt & Cork, welcomes guests to the second annual Burns Night celebration at the Placerville Shakespeare Club, left photo. The night of music, poetry, fine wines and delicious food celebrated the 228th birthday of renowned Scottish poet Robert “Rabbie” Burns. “Isn’t it nice that all the entertainment at this Scottish event is Irish?” joked Liam Irish, right photo, whose bagpipe playing greeted guests to the event at the door and preceded the serving of each new dish during the evening’s six-course meal.

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William McKinley 1897 — 1901

He was the first President to ride in an automobile.

Dr. Martin Entwistle was tasked as the bearer of the haggis for Burns Night this year, presenting a platter of Scotland’s notorious foodstuff while accompanied by Irish playing a tune on the bagpipes, left photo. The haggis was created by Kings Meats. Following a reading of Burns’ “Address to a Haggis,” Reyes, right photo, drives a knife into the platter of haggis placed at the head table as the audience applauded. Due to health and safety standards, traditional haggis was not on the menu, but a taste-alike was served alongside a pile of mash.

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KNOW Feb. 16 The Sierra Renaissance Society presents The American River Conservancy, a presentation by Elena DeLacy, 1-2:30 p.m. at the Mother Lode Lions Hall, 4701 Missouri Flat Road.

Admission free for members; public invited to attend two meetings each year for free. The Sierra Renaissance Society of El Dorado County is dedicated to lifelong learning and hosts presentations and workshops throughout the year. For more information visit srsedc.org.

The Funicellos will perform at 5 p.m. at HWY 50 Brewery in Camino.

For more information visit hwy50brewery.com/livemusic.

Coyote Hill Band will perform at 8 p.m. at The Green Room Social Club in downtown Placerville. For tickets and more information visit clubgreenroom.com.

Audioboxx will perform at Red Hawk Casino’s Stage Bar Feb. 16 & 17.

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El Dorado Musical Theatre presents Disney’s “High School Musical,” Feb. 16-25 at Harris Center for the Arts, 10 College Parkway in Folsom. For tickets and more information visit harriscenter. net or call (916) 608-6888.

The Gallery at 48 Natoma presents Abstract Ideas, featuring art by Linda Nunes and Matt Rhoades, Feb. 16 through April 18.

In the adjacent Community Art Gallery, art from the Children’s Art Classes at the Folsom Art Center is on display through April 11.

For more information call call (916) 461-6601 or visit folsom.ca.us.

Sacramento Theatre Company presents “Heathers: The Musical,” Feb. 16-25. For tickets and more information call (916) 443-6722 or visit sactheatre.org.

Feb. 17 Third Saturday Art Walk in downtown Placerville, 4-8 p.m., will feature a fundraiser for a foundation assisting Caldor Fire victims.

This fundraiser takes place at Art Studio 360, featuring n See KNOW, page B4

Photos by Andrew Vonderschmitt

Pete (Christopher Bertram) and Jeanette (Callista Angelli) contemplate love and snow in “Almost, Maine,” opening Feb. 17 at The Stage at Burke Junction.

Love is in the air in ‘Almost, Maine’ Andrew Vonderschmitt Mountain Democrat correspondent

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ameron Park’s The Stage at Burke Junction opens John Cariani’s treatise on love and loss, “Almost, Maine,” on Feb. 17.

“Almost, Maine” transports audiences to the mythical town of Almost located in the rural reaches of Maine in the dead of winter. There they glimpse flashpoints of nine disparate love stories exemplifying the beginnings, endings and reawakenings of love all occurring on a clear, cold, mystical winter evening.

Employing a healthy hint of magical realism, the play is a love story told through nine tales of falling in or out of love, subverting expectations and confounding the audience’s very understanding of love.

The play has been produced more than 5,000 times in American regional, community, university and high school theaters and 100-plus international productions have come to the stage since its world premier in 2004 at the Portland Stage Company in Portland, Maine, according to the play’s official website, almostmaine.com.

Co-directed by Cattaryna Tekin and Anthony DePage, “Almost, Maine” features six actors portraying the show’s 19 characters.

Shelly (Cattaryna Tekin) and Deena (Jill Wilson) come to terms with a realization in the play.

DePage told the Mountain Democrat he thinks the audience will connect with the subject matter.

“I hope that the audience sees

a reflection of something that they can relate to in the dead of winter,” he said. “The dead of winter is known as a sad time and it’s a time of reflection.

“What I really like about this play is that I hope that [we] get the sense of ‘almost’ we’re n See ALMOST, MAINE, page B12

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William Howard Taft 1909 — 1913

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Warren G. Harding 1921 — 1923

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This community art project will enable accepted artists to display their work on Main Street in Placerville for several months during the summer and bring joy to locals and visitors.

Banners on Parade, a community art project, is a collaborative effort of artists, businesses, nonprofit organizations and city government that promotes the arts on historical Main Street in Placerville. It is one of the longest-running community art projects in California with 556 pieces of wonderful community art displayed over the last 19 years (2005-23).

Painted banners will be displayed on the light poles at various locations on Main Street June through October 2024. After that, they will be sold at an online auction in late October. Proceeds from the sale of the banners will be used to fund Placerville Art on Parade in the future. A local artist/art teacher will judge the banners and ribbons will be presented to the top three banners with three honorable mentions. Those banners judged as winners will be awarded $100 for first place, $50 for second place and $25 for

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Beautiful banners will once again grace Main Street in Placerville. Artists interested in designing a banner can fill out an application. third place.

Banners on Parade is a major annual event of Images of Hope El Dorado, which has been a event sponsor for many years.

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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE — It’s a cold, snowy evening. The only thing you want to do is warm up after a long day on the mountain and you’re on the search for the best soups in the basin.

The search for the perfect soup has finally come to the end, with select restaurants in the basin offering a unique look at traditional soups. Even though there are very few places that specialize in just soup, there’s a great chance you can stumble upon a fantastic soup, chowder or chili in some of the most unlikely places.

Keep reading to take a look at the different spots around the basin that offer up a great taste that feels like coming home.

Ladles by the Lake Ladles by the Lake, which is a part of Glazed and Confused, the donut shop in South Lake Tahoe, offers a variety of salads and sides that fit perfectly with a great cup of soup.

The menu is simple, with many options to choose from, and includes the option to order samplers in order

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Ladles by the Lake’s Chicken Tortilla Soup is a flavorful, warm treat. to try all the tasty soups available for the day.

Soups on the menu include New England clam chowder, chicken noodle, tomato basil, chicken tortilla, broccoli and cheddar, poblano pepper and white cheddar, southwestern corn chowder, loaded baked potato, cauliflower white cheddar, Italian wedding and garden vegetable — something for everyone to try.

Each cup of soup is $4.

Samplers include the 6-ounce sippers of six different soups for $24.

If you’re looking for a little more of each soup, try 8 ounces of

four soups for $23. The family pack is also an option, coming in at 16 ounces of four delicious soups.

Nothing pairs better with soup than a crispy grilled cheese, which can come with American, pepper jack or Swiss cheese on sourdough, with the option to add ham or turkey to the sandwich. In addition, a ham and cheese croissant is available to pair with the soups, along with biscuits and gravy and bagels.

This restaurant is located in South Lake Tahoe side by side with Glazed and Confused Tahoe Donuts, which

offers a great sweet bite after a taste of incredible, savory soups made in house and always ready to serve.

Popular items include the New England clam chowder and the chicken noodle soup, but each soup is definitely worth a try.

This is one of the only restaurants in town that offers soup as a main bite and should be added to your list when thinking of places to enjoy dinner this winter.

To learn more about Ladles by the Lake visit ladlesbythelake.com.

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LIGHTHOUSE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH 5441 Pony Express Church Pollock Pines (Across from Valero, Exit 57) Pastor Aaron Bryan Sunday Service 11:00 a.m.

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SOLID ROCK FAITH CENTER DIAMOND SPRINGS Pastor Don B. Pritchard 6205 Enterprise Dr., Diamond Springs Church 642-2038 Sunday Services 10:00 a.m.

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THE EL DORADO COMMUNITY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH 4701 Church St. El Dorado 530-622-8868 message phone Pastor George Turnboo Sunday Service 11:00 AM

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Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933 — 1945

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Meet the artists during Main Street’s Third Saturday Art Walk, 5-8 p.m. on Feb. 17.

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Harry S. Truman 1945 — 1953

He had such poor eyesight, it kept him from attending West Point.

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greens balanced against the intense white of distant clouds entrance the viewer, transporting them on a dream-like journey to another world.

Austin’s work reflects her mastery of the elements of art, composition, perspective, storytelling and especially her use of color to emotionally connect with the viewer.

She shares her expertise through activity in many art clubs and organizations. Her award-winning artwork can be found in many private collections. But beyond everything else, Austin paints with love from her heart and offers that love and wealth of experience to the viewers of her work.

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Michael Rea grew up in the Pacific Northwest outside Medford, Ore. In his youth, Rea was exposed to a variety of media, including pencil, pastel, ink, charcoal, watercolor and oil, with emphasis on strong drawing skills that laid a substantial foundation for him to build his particular artistic style.

He earned his Ph.D. in chemistry and a teaching credential, but Rea never stopped taking art classes.

During breaks from school he returned to Medford, spending time painting on location.

He moved to Temecula, heading the Division of Arts and Sciences Departments while teaching at both high school and college level for many years.

Then an unexpected teaching opportunity arose for Rea to direct the art department.

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Austin expresses her awe and deep love for the lakes, rivers and beautiful skies of Lake Tahoe, Yosemite and the redwoods through the landscapes she paints.

She always loved art as a child growing up in Southern California and had a secret dream of living in the country and painting in the woods. Now at her Sierra foothills home, she is living her dream — surrounded by an astounding variety of natural beauty.

After years of study with many well-known artists, her own unique style emerged with her favored mediums of oil and acrylic paint, presenting a remarkable interpretation of the world — not as we may actually see it, but to wistfully imagine it.

Believing we are all connected to the universe through nature and light, Austin transforms the mountains with lyrical light, infusing the lofty peaks that seem to leap from the canvas, intense skies that vibrate with vivid colors, glorious cloud formations and mysterious shadows hidden within misty hollows. Her painting “Awakening” affectionately illustrates her exploration of the wonder of both the real and ethereal world of scenic and astral landscapes, evoking a sense of the mystical by the viewer.

Austin works from drawings, sketches, plein air and photographs, and she discovered as her favorite palette the powerful colors that evolve from oil and acrylic paint. For “Emerald Bay Splendor,” her inspiration came from her own experience while visiting Lake Tahoe. By infusing it with her unique artistic magic, she transcends the natural beauty of the iconic bay scene into one of mystical proportions.

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Rea and his wife have traveled extensively, including nearly every National Park in the western United States and Canada. Rea explains that although he enjoys painting en plein air — the technique of painting in the open air — it is not always practical, so he does use photographs of a scene for reference later in his studio.

He tells the story of how he created his painting “Tetons Bison.” At Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming he observed a herd of bison grazing in the wide-open space of the grasslands with the mountain range in the distance.

“You can tell the older bulls by their rounded off horns,” he said. “The younger bulls warily eye the elder ones.”

While Rea felt safe observing them at a distance, the herd began moving toward him.

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He memorialized the scene with a quick click of his camera and skedaddled out of there.

His brother Phil took a series of photographs of Half Dome in Yosemite, inspiring Rea to paint “Half Dome Winter.” The trees are vividly detailed under a frosting of ice and snow, while Half Dome rises majestically out of misty clouds behind them. Inspired by Chinese ink landscapes, he demonstrates his versatility with style, as well mastery of brush and palette in this painting. The scene feels serene, the blued shadows between the trees inspiring an ambiance of peace, like a jeweled setting for this lofty monument.

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ACRAMENTO — The Sacramento History Museum is proud to present a compelling new exhibit.

Tattooed & Tenacious: Inked Women in California’s History opens Feb. 17.

The visually exciting exhibit allows museum visitors to explore the world of tattoos and demonstrates why they are not just a recent trend or passing fad.

From the working-class to the upper-class, inked women have a long history in California and have helped popularize tattoos while also providing female tattoo artists the opportunity to leave their mark in an otherwise maledominated industry.

The exhibit sheds light on the little-known history of women and tattoos through photographs, personal histories and artifacts from individuals such as Victorian-era heiress Aimée Crocker. The exhibit also highlights the style differences in tattooing of the past with the inked women of today; for instance, in the late 1800s tattoos were primarily one color while today they are a vibrant and colorful

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Tattooed & Tenacious: Inked Women in California’s History sheds light on the little-known history of women and tattoos through photographs, personal histories and artifacts. display of artistry.

Tattooed & Tenacious is in part a touring exhibit from the Exhibit Envoy/Hayward Area Historical Society plus a showcase of local women and their artwork from contemporary women tattoo artists of the Sacramento region, curated by the Sacramento History Museum. As a highlight,

photos by Tracey Sirbello entitled “Resilience: Photos from the Caldor Burn Scar” — 50% of photo sales will be donated to the West Slope Foundation. See a preview of the photos on Art Studio 360’s Facebook page. Sirbello is also donating the free raffle prize that evening. Five galleries will be open and many restaurants and retail establishments will run specials based on the theme “renewal.”

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Battle of the Badges – 911 Chili Cook-Off takes place 4-8 p.m. at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds (Forni Building), 100 Placerville Drive in Placerville. For tickets and more information visit 911chili.org.

Jason Weeks will perform at 3 p.m. at HWY 50 Brewery in Camino. For more information visit hwy50brewery.com/live-music.

Darth Mozart will perform at 5 p.m. at HWY 50 Brewery in Camino. For more information visit hwy50brewery.com/live-music.

Mastroserio Winery in the Fair Play area hosts Jazz Night, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Ruggero and his friends will serenade you with their jazz improvisation. Dinner is lasagna and dessert, paired with excellent wine. To RSVP text (530) 417-4321 or email mastroserio.winery@ gmail.com.

See The Elephant Theatre Company hosts the Queer Family Re(you)nion, 6 p.m. at the Placerville Shakespeare Club. The event is free.

Patrick Walsh will perform at Sierra Vista Vineyards & Winery in the Pleasant Valley area, 6-8:30 p.m. For more information call (530) 622-7221.

Smith Flat House presents HomeGrown Comedy with Nick Larson and Danielle Arce and hosted by Phat Joe. Dinner is at 6 p.m. and the laughs begin at 8 p.m. For tickets and more information visit smithflathouse.com.

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Explore stalls brimming with homemade treasures including jams and cheeses, as well many handmade creations.

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History exhibit, on display through June 2, 2024, will be located in the R. Burnett Miller Gallery on the museum’s third floor and is included with museum admission. Located at 101 I St. at the Old Sacramento Waterfront, the Sacramento History Museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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museum visitors will have the chance to discover fascinating stories behind the ink as local women share their personal reasons about why they chose tattoos as a form of expression and how tattoo art has empowered and positively impacted their lives.

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Face in a Book in El Dorado Hills Town Center hosts two events: Read to a Dog, 1-2 p.m. Therapy-trained friend Emma the Corgi will be on-hand for a free, fun, oneon-one reading session with kids. Writers’ Coffeehouse, 1-2:30 p.m., allows writers to chat about the latest trends in the industry, about the craft of writing, about marketing, pitching and selling as well as the frustrations and positives of the writing experience. For

The VITA Academy presents the Great Composers Chamber Music series at 2 p.m. at Harris Center for the Arts, 10 College Parkway in Folsom. For tickets and more information visit harriscenter.net or call (916) 608-6888.

El Dorado State hosts a town hall 3-5 p.m. at the Bel Air grocery store in the front private room, 3510 Palmer Drive in Cameron Park. Attendees will also celebrate El Dorado County’s birthday with cake and balloons.

Hear about how El Dorado County can be a state and receive a free U.S. Constitution.

Hither & Yon will perform at 4 p.m. at The Green Room Social Club in downtown Placerville. For tickets and more information visit clubgreenroom.com.

Feb. 19 Music in the Mountains hosts Mondays with the Maestros with Ryan Murray.

The Zoom session will examine the life and works of Hector Berlioz beginning at 7 p.m.

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Feb. 20 Vitalant will host a Placerville Cinema community blood drive 12:30-3:30 p.m. The Bloodmobile will be in the parking lot at the theater, 337 Placerville Drive. Make an appointment at donors.vitalant.org and use blood drive code SMFM553 or call (877) 2584825 and mention the same code. Walk-ins will be accommodated if space allows.

The Bereavement Network presents Understanding Your Grief: Touchstones for Hope and Healing, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the East Lawn Mortuary chapel, 5757 Greenback Lane in Sacramento. To register for the conference visit Eventbrite: The Art of Companioning the Mourner Event.

Feb. 21 The El Dorado County Chamber of Commerce hosts a business luncheon at the Cameron Park Community Center.

For more information and to register visit eldoradocounty.org.

Are you nervous about the fire season?

Have questions about home hardening and creating defensible space? Do you know what to do if wildfire is headed your way? Get answers at the Camino Fire Safe Council meeting, 6:30 p.m. at the Cal Fire Amador/ El Dorado Unit Headquarters’ conference room, 2840 Mt Danaher Road in Camino.

The Bereavement Network presents Understanding Your Grief: The Art of “Companioning” the Mourner: Caring Versus Curing, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the

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Feb. 22 SBL Entertainment presents Ottmar Liebert and Luna Begra at The Sofia in Sacramento.

For tickets and more information call (916) 443-5300 or visit bstreettheatre.org.

Now Sutter Street Theatre presents “Dial M for Murder” through Feb. 18. For tickets and more information call (916) 353-1001 or visit sutterstreettheatre.com.

B Street Theatre presents “Rescue Me” through Feb. 18. For tickets and more information call (916) 443-5300 or visit bstreettheatre.org.

Entries for the California State Fair 2024 Commercial Cheese Competition are now open. Entries close Feb. 19. For more information visit CalExpoStateFair.com.

The Mills Station Arts & Culture Center in Rancho Cordova presents Out of the Shadows, a solo show by Elizabeth Hall, and Sorting Out Race, featuring items with racial imagery, through Feb. 24. For more information visit rcmacc.org.

The Sacramento Fine Arts Center in Carmichael hosts Magnum Opus 2024, an annual juried art show featuring local and international artists, through Feb. 24. For more information visit sacfinearts.org.

Sutter Street Theatre presents “Twelve Dancing Princesses” through Feb. 25. For tickets and more information call (916) 3531001 or visit sutterstreettheatre.com.

Capital Stage in Sacramento presents “American Fast” through Feb. 25. For tickets and more information call (916) 995-5464 or visit capstage.org.

El Dorado County resident and Tahoe Art League member Lisa Parsons has two images from her “Water Desert” series in the art exhibition as part of the Wild & Scenic Film Festival. See her work at Szabos Winery and Tasting Room, 316 Broad St. in Nevada City, through Feb. 29.

B Street Theatre presents “The Prince of Lightning: The Story of Young Nikola Tesla, Boy Genius” through March 3. For tickets and more information call (916) 4435300 or visit bstreettheatre.org.

Imagination Theater on the El Dorado County Fairgrounds in Placerville presents “Rapunzel” through March 3. For tickets and more information visit itplacerville.org.

Entries are being accepted for the 35th annual El Dorado County Open Wine Competition. All entires are due on or before March 11. An awards presentation will take place March 22. For more information contact Jody Gray, competition coordinator. at jodygray22@gmail.com.

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SACRAMENTO — The Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera has announced its concert schedule for the 2024-25 season.

The new season, which begins Oct. 26, 2024, includes seven performances, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. at SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center.

Among the highlights of the new season are concerts featuring renowned pianist Awadagin Pratt and Grammy-award winning violinist Augustin Hadelich, as well as four engagements with Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Ari Pelto. Other guests include conductors Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser, Stephanie Rhodes Russell and Emily Senturia, pianist Parker Van Ostrand, soprano Rhoslyn Jones and opera directors Mo Zhou and David Lefkowich.

Musical highlights include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, Copland’s Suite from “Billy the Kid” and Brahms’ Violin Concerto.

Opera will be an integral part of the season, with performances of the wildly popular and beloved Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” and Mascagni’s gripping “Cavalleria rusticana.” The season will end with Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 in D major, “Titan,” to

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Emily Senturia, left, will conduct “The Marriage of Figaro,” which opens SP&O’s upcoming season. Awadagin Pratt, right, will perform Tchaikovsky in November. commemorate the SP&O’s reopening in 2015.

Next season the SP&O is committed to performing not just the classical favorites audiences have come to anticipate, but also music by underrepresented composers. Composers William Grant Still, Jessie Montgomery and Daniel Catán will have works featured throughout the season.

“Looking at next season’s programs, it’s impossible not to feel a tremendous sense of anticipation,” said Giuliano Kornberg, SP&O executive director. “The SP&O exists to provide our community with unparalleled classical music and that is exactly what this new

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In addition to the exciting lineup of artists and programs, there is more good news for audiences. Ticket sales for 2023-24 have been so strong, with limited seats available for most concerts, that a second performance of the January 2025 concert, Beethoven, Brahms and Hadelich under the baton of Pelto and featuring violinist Hadelich, has been added.

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AN FRANCISCO — The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco hosts leading Taiwanese American artist Lee Mingwei’s first survey exhibition in the United States.

Lee Mingwei: Rituals of Care features seven projects made between 1995 and 2024 that place visitors at the center of radical acts of generosity and care, asking how art can be a conduit for social connection and healing.

Inspired by personal experiences of loss and resilience and major world events such as 9/11 and the COVID-19 pandemic, artist Lee Mingwei (b. 1964) has, over the course of his career, created powerful participatory mixedmedia installations and performances that transform ordinary gestures like writing, sweeping, mending, or breathing into rituals of engagement and solace.

The exhibition opens at the de Young museum on Feb. 17.

“Chaque souffle une danse,” a new work commissioned by the Fine Arts Museums, will be on view at Minnesota Street Project Foundation April 5-21 and represented by a film at the de Young, on view April 9 through July 7.

“Rooted in his own lived experience, Lee Mingwei’s artworks invite museum visitors

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"Our Peaceable Kingdom," 2020–present, by Lee Mingwei, 40 framed paintings, easels courtesy of Lee Studio. to participate in collaborative acts of trust, healing and mindfulness,” said Thomas P. Campbell, director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. “Having spent formative years in San Francisco, we are delighted that Lee Mingwei’s first U.S. museum survey also represents a homecoming for this internationally recognized artist. It’s a privilege to make Lee’s healing practice accessible to Bay Area audiences.”

Central to Mingwei’s practice is the act of exchange or gift-giving.

Lee Mingwei: Rituals of Care is presented throughout the de Young museum’s free

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public spaces and its galleries dedicated to art of the 20th and 21st centuries, allowing visitors to happen upon each work serendipitously.

Intimate scenarios such as writing a letter, receiving a song, or having a conversation on mending unfold in the galleries through Mingwei’s participatory installations. From the earliest work on view, “100 Days with Lily” (1995), to the newly commissioned “Chaque souffle une danse” (Each Breath a Dance, 2024), Mingwei’s work explores the preciousness of human connections.

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through his involvement with various galleries and art associations, as well as exhibiting his work at galleries, art shows and festivals.

Jewels of joy Fine jewelry artist Runtenelli has been involved in jewelry making his entire artistic career. He worked as an apprentice to a silversmith in the Lake Tahoe area where he learned about silver and turquoise jewelry making. He continued to learn about his craft by attending many workshops and studying with master jewelers.

While he is partial to Native American design, his work hints at Asian and Egyptian influences as well. But Runtenelli has since evolved a style that is contemporary in nature, distinctly and recognizably his own.

He works in both silver and gold, and is skilled in the techniques of fabrication, hand forging of metal, lost wax casting and wax design. His “Angel Pendant with Blue Topaz” captures the spirit of the brilliant stone with 14 karat gold embellishments.

He also creates sterling silver bracelets, some with organic-feeling wave designs, and others with intriguing geometric patterns that convey a more industrial sense.

Runtenelli draws on his fascination and awe of the beauty of nature to create his lapidary art designs. For example, he set bumblebee jasper with a golden citrine gem into a “shadowbox” style

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silver pendant. A ribbon of black weaves between vivid golds and oranges that mark this eye-catching piece. Another of his particularly remarkable creations is a necklace, inlaid with lace agate and black jade, set into a silver pendant suggestive of a heart shape.

A recently discovered, multi-colored stone called ocean jasper graces several of his pieces. The stone, which he sets into pendants, bracelets and other eye-catching jewelry items, comes only from one place in the world — Madagascar. He explains that the stone is no longer available due to over-mining, making this a unique and limited collection of oneof-a-kind wearable art.

Runtenelli works his designs with beauty and grace that only a true silversmith can give them, but what he enjoys most about creating is the happiness and joy he knows his jewelry will bring.

About the gallery Gold Country Artists Gallery, 379 Main St. in Placerville, features the work of many awardwinning regional artists working in fields as diverse as fine jewelry, photography, fused glass, wood turning, pastels, colored pencil, scratch board, and watercolor, acrylic and oil painting. The gallery is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on the third Saturday of each month until 8 p.m. For more information call (530) 642-2944 or visit goldcountryartistsgallery.com.

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MacDuff ’s Pub MacDuff ’s is not one to miss when searching for the perfect soup in the basin. This homey, tavern-style restaurant was voted the No. 2 of the best overall restaurants in South Lake Tahoe, and it’s no wonder why.

The menu is extensive, with options perfect for anyone, including a fantastic soup served hot and fresh for anyone looking to warm up.

There are four options to choose from at MacDuff ’s, including a soup du jour, which is an alternating soup option. Menu regulars are hearty clam chowder, French onion soup and chili.

The soup du jour served when this article was written was a tasty and jam-packed corn chowder with bacon, corn and potatoes in a creamy chowder broth.

The soups are unmatchable, with something different in each that makes you keep coming back for more bites.

By far, the corn chowder was the greatest of the soups, with a savory and sweet taste that will keep your mouth watering throughout the entire meal. You won’t want to stop eating this chowder.

For those looking for a little bit of spice, the chili is not to be missed.

This chili packs a punch, classically made and topped with cheese, sour cream and sliced jalapeños.

MacDuff ’s is located at 1041 Fremont Ave. and is open daily, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Ha Noi Pho Ha Noi Pho is a true taste of Vietnamese food. The menu has traditional meals, but features a pho beef broth noodle soup, made with beef broth and rice noodles, topped with onion, cilantro and side of bean sports, Thai basil, jalapeño and lime.

The soup can be paired with multiple meat and vegetarian options. Some of the most popular pairings include a rare beef or chicken soup, which goes well with lime and bean sprouts.

The noodle restaurant has an extensive menu, including pot stickers and spring rolls, along with crab rangoon.

The broth and rice noodles are truly what make this meal absolutely scrumptious,

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Crosby’s Tavern and Gaming Crosby’s Tavern and Gaming is a familyfriendly restaurant located in Christmas Tree Village in Incline Village, offering up an all-day menu perfect for anyone passing through and looking for a bite.

The restaurant is home to a southwestern pork green chili, which can be served over a beef or chicken burrito, or can be eaten on its own as a bowl or cup.

The chili is light and airy, with a mix of spice that is tantalizing to try. The chili is made in house and served daily.

If you’re looking for something else to warm you up but you’re not sure what to try, get a taste of Crosby’s soup of the day. Always different and always fresh, these

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Ranging from clam chowder to a vegetable soup, chicken tortilla to cream of spinach or cream of asparagus, the soup often changes.

Call ahead and ask what the soup of the day is if you’re looking to have a specific soup. In addition to soups and chilis, Crosby’s serves a number of other fun appetizers that pair perfectly with a cup of soup, ranging from mozzarella sticks and old school meatballs to double-dipped wings and zucchini sticks.

Crosby’s is frequented by locals, families and newcomers, with somewhere for anyone.

Sit at the bar and watch the latest game while you enjoy the soup or bring the whole family to try this extensive menu filled with mouthwatering options.

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Tremigo Mexican Kitchen and Tequila Bar Tremigo Mexican Kitchen and Tequila

Bar, located at Palisades Tahoe, is a hidden gem in The Village, home to fantastic chicken tortilla soup.

This house-made soup is like coming home to grandma’s and getting homemade goodness.

The shredded chicken is served in a light broth with tomato, onion, shredded tortilla chips and shredded cheese.

The savory soup is balanced with fresh cilantro and avocado, which adds an airiness to the meal that will leave you wanting bowl after bowl.

The crunchiness of the tortillas also creates a vibrant flavor with the mild broth that gives a satisfactory bite every time.

Tremigo has plenty of seating both in the restaurant and at the bar, with a mindblowing salsa perfect for snacking on until your soup arrives. Whether you’re out for lunch with your friends and coming down after a day on the mountain, Tremigo is the perfect place to go if you want to relax with a good drink and even better soup.

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raising a lily from seed to death in large-scale Ilfochrome prints — documenting his activities with the flower as it progressed through its natural life cycle in honor of his deceased grandmother.

“The Letter Writing Project” (1998– present) draws from the human need to communicate thoughts and feelings left unsaid, keenly felt by the artist after the death of his maternal grandmother. Consisting of three writing booths and an accessible writing station, the latter project invites visitors to write the letter they have always meant to send but never have. Mingwei allows participants to decide whether to address their letters and have the museum post them, or leave the letters unsealed for others to read, creating what he calls “a chain of feelings” that remind us of the larger world of emotions in which we all participate.

In “The Mending Project” (2009– present), Mingwei transforms the simple act of sewing into an opportunity to connect. Visitors are invited to bring items of clothing that need mending to the installation, which consists of a table, two chairs and a wall of colorful, cone-shaped spools of thread. Unlike a traditional tailor, who would try to hide repairs,

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Mingwei’s mending and that of the volunteers activating the installation is done with the idea of celebrating and commemorating the act and its accompanying conversation.

Their conscious embrace and embellishment of the fabric’s damages speaks to the emotional work of mending as a means to deal with trauma and loss. The repaired garments remain on the table, if the visitor so chooses, still connected to the spools of thread on the walls, until the last day of the exhibition.

Also concerned with healing is “Sonic Blossom” (2013–present), which originated when the artist’s mother was recovering from surgery as he played Franz Schubert’s lieder for her, just as she had done for him as a child. In that spirit of unconditional care, Bay Area singers offer the gift of song to museum guests who accept the interaction.

In its presentation at the de Young, “Sonic Blossom” will be presented by local singers for four days monthly during the run of the exhibition.

Hauntingly current in the context of world events, “Guernica in Sand” (2006–present) comments on the cyclical nature of creation and ■ See MINGWEI, page B9

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destruction. Created at the height of the Iraq War, “Guernica in Sand” draws on the Tibetan Buddhist mandala tradition to remake and unmake Pablo Picasso’s famous painting “Guernica” (1937). Halfway through the exhibition, the work is both completed and erased, simultaneously.

From noon to sunset, Mingwei invites audience members to enter the piece and walk across the sand as he works to finish the image. The performance concludes with the artist and three other invited performers sweeping the sand around a rockshaped sculpture island placed at the center of the work, leaving it unrecognizable.

Also countering the inevitability of conflict is “Our Peaceable Kingdom” (2020– present). For this work, Mingwei initially invited 14 artists to

reinterpret or copy American folk painter and Quaker minister Edward Hicks’s famous painting “The Peaceable Kingdom” (ca. 1833; Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts), which depicts a prophecy in the Book of Isaiah: “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.” Those 14 artists then enlisted two more artists each to rework their versions, creating “a family tree of copies, with multiple descendants” that explore the idea of peace. For the de Young iteration, Lee Mingwei asked Bay Area artist Chelsea Ryoko Wong to copy the painting.

Wong in turn invited two other local artists, Emily Fromm and Emilio Villalba, to make the next generation of

paintings.

His most recent project, “Chaque souffle une danse,” that will be presented as a film at the de Young, reflects on the physical and social threats that the simple act of breathing has come to embody since the onset of the COVID19 pandemic and the circumstances of George Floyd’s murder, while also encapsulating the sensation of a world increasingly running out of breath due to climate change.

Mingwei’s focus on rituals of care — both for the self and for one another in community — places the Fine Arts Museums at the center of a dialogue about art as a mode of healing and replenishing joy.

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NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 1/26, 2/2, 2/9, 2/16 12729

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pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 01/22/2024.

NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 1/26, 2/2, 2/9, 2/16 12735

this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 01/23/2024 The Statement of Abandonment of Fictitious Business Name must be published in a newspaper once a week for four successive weeks and an affidavit of publication filed with the county clerk within 30 days after publication has been accomplished.

The Statement should be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the principal place of business is located. The Statement should be published in such county in a newspaper that circulates in the area where the business is conducted (Business & Professions Code 17917).

Any person who executes, files, or publishes any fictitious business name statement, knowing that such statement is false, in whole or in part, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) (Business & Professions code 17930) 12737 1/26, 2/2, 2/9, 2/16

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2024-0067

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2023-1201

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BUNCH O CRUNCH, located at 610 Myrtle Ave, Placerville, CA 95667 Registered owner(s): Devon M Palermo, 610 Myrtle Ave, Placerville, CA 95667 This business is conducted by an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 02/15/2023 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Devon Palermo DEVON PALERMO, OWNER I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 01/22/2024.

NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 1/26, 2/2, 2/9, 2/16 12736

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ELITE BOOKKEEPING SOLUTIONS, located at 4787 Gold Creek Lane, Diamond Springs, CA 95619 Registered owner(s): Gracie E Foust, 4787 Gold Creek Lane, Diamond Springs, CA 95619 This business is conducted by an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 12/12/2023 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Gracie Foust GRACIE FOUST I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 12/14/2023 NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 12738 1/26, 2/2, 2/9, 2/16

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2024-0070 File Number of Fictitious Business Name Statement: FB2022-0852 Date Fictitious Business Name was filed in El Dorado County: 8/2/2022 Fictitious Business Name(s) to be abandoned: BERRY HEAVEN Fictitious Business Name Street Address: 5170 Marshall Rd, Garden Valley, CA 95633/Mailing Address: 3238 Life Way, Placerville, CA 95667 THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) HAVE ABANDONED THE USE OF THE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME: Registrant name(s) & address(es): 1. Theresa M. Cook, 3238 Life Way, Placerville, CA 95667, 2. Dean D Cook, Jr, 3238 Life Way, Placerville, CA 95667 This business was conducted by a Married Couple.

Signature of Registrant: /s/ Theresa M. Cook ____________________________ I declare that all information in

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2024-0072 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WILDER RESCUES, located at 3056 Hazel St, Pollock Pines, CA 95726 Registered owner(s): Matthew D Medel, 3056 Hazel St, Pollock Pines, CA 95726 This business is conducted by an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/21/2024 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Matthew D Medel MATTHEW D MEDEL, OWNER I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

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This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 01/23/2024 NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 12739 1/26, 2/2, 2/9, 2/16 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF VIRGINIA C. CHANG CASE NO. 24PR0010 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of VIRGINIA C. CHANG, also known as VIRGINIA CHUN CHANG A PETITION for Probate has been filed by MARJORIE S. CHANG FULLER in the Superior Court of California, County of El Dorado.

THE PETITION for probate requests that MARJORIE S. CHANG FULLER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: June 10, 2024 at 8:30 a.m. in Dept. 9 at 3321 Cameron Park Drive, Cameron Park, CA 95682 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: KATHLEEN C. WILLCOX Boutin Jones Inc. 555 Capitol Mall, Suite 1500 Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 321-4444 12759 2/2, 2/9, 2/16 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2024-0110 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RWS REAL ESTATE, located at 8301 Martinique Lane, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762/Mailing Address: PO Box 5468, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 Registrant’s Name & Mailing Address: Robin Wymyczak Sweigart, PO Box 5468, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 This business is conducted by an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/29/2024 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Robin Wymyczak Sweigart ROBIN WYMYCZAK SWEIGART I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 01/29/2024 NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see

section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 2/2, 2/9, 2/16, 2/23 12769 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2024-0108 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: APEX AT RED HAWK, located at 1 Red Hawk Parkway, Placerville, CA 95667 Registrant’s Name & Mailing Address: Shingle Springs Tribal Gaming Authority, 1 Red Hawk Parkway, Placerville, CA 95667 This business is conducted by a Tribal Government/An Unincorporated Association other than a partnership The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 12/26/22 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Christopher Porras CHRISTOPHER PORRAS, CHAIRMAN I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 01/26/2024 NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 2/2, 2/9, 2/16, 2/23 12770 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2024-0038 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RED HAWK TRAVEL CENTER, located at 3920 Shingle Springs Dr., Shingle Springs, CA 95682/Mailing Address: 1 Red Hawk Parkway, Placerville, CA 95667 Registrant’s Name & Mailing Address: Shingle Springs Tribal Gaming Authority, 1 Red Hawk Parkway, Placerville, CA 95667 This business is conducted by a Tribal Government/An Unincorporated Association other than a partnership The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/01/2024 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Christopher Porras CHRISTOPHER PORRAS, SHINGLE SPRINGS TRIBAL GAMING AUTHORITY, CHAIRMAN I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 01/12/2024 NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 2/2, 2/9, 2/16, 2/23 12771 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2024-0039 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RED HAWK RESORT + CASINO, located at 1 Red Hawk Parkway, Placerville, CA 95667 Registrant’s Name & Mailing Address: Shingle Springs Tribal Gaming Authority, 1 Red Hawk Parkway, Placerville, CA 95667 This business is conducted by a Tribal Government/An Unincorporated Association other than a partnership The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/01/2024 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Christopher Porras CHRISTOPHER PORRAS, SHINGLE SPRINGS TRIBAL GAMING AUTHORITY, CHAIRMAN I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 01/12/2024 NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS

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SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 2/2, 2/9, 2/16, 2/23 12772 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2024-0114 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JWH VALUATION SERVICES, located at 3928 Heights Court, Cameron Park, CA 95682 Registrant’s Name & Mailing Address: James Herrman, 3928 Heights Court, Cameron Park, CA 95682 This business is conducted by an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/29/2024 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Jim Herrman JIM HERRMAN, OWNER I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 01/30/2024 NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 2/2, 2/9, 2/16, 2/23 12773 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON MOORE CASE NO. 23PR0297 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON MOORE A PETITION for Probate has been filed by ALICE N. MOORE in the Superior Court of California, County of El Dorado.

THE PETITION for probate requests that ALICE N. MOORE be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: February 26, 2024 at 8:30 a.m. in Dept. 9 at 3321 Cameron Park Drive, Cameron Park, CA 95682 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: CAITLIN E. ROSS 919 Reserve Drive, Suite 103 Roseville, CA 95678 (916) 724-1696 2/2, 2/9, 2/16 12774 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2024-0113 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DAZZLE’S DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE, located at 11480 Sunrise Gold Circle, Unit 5, Rancho Cordova, CALI 95742 Registrant’s Name & Mailing Address: Dazzle’s Detailing Corp, 4107 Redondo Drive, El Dorado Hills, CALI 95762 This business is conducted by a Corporation, State of Incorporation: CA The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/01/2024

Signature of Registrant: /s/ Kasra Erfanian Mardjani KASRA ERFANIAN MARDJANI, OWNER/PRESIDENT I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 01/30/2024 NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 2/2, 2/9, 2/16, 2/23 12776 EL DORADO IRRIGATION DISTRICT REQUEST FOR PRE-QUALIFICATION OF BIDDERS FOR PUBLIC WORKS PROJECT SLY PARK INTERTIE IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT NUMBER 21079.01 RFQ24-05 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed APPLICATIONS will be received no later than 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 20, 2024, local time, at the front desk of District’s Customer Service Building located at 2890 Mosquito Rd., Placerville, CA 95667 for the Sly Park Intertie Improvements project, Project No. 21079.01 (“Project”).

Only pre-qualified firms will be eligible to bid on the Project.

A California Classification A contractor’s license is required.

The anticipated work of the Project generally consists of replacing the approximately 4.5 mile connection between the District’s Reservoir 1 and Reservoir A Water Treatment Plants. The project is located 10 miles east of the City of Placerville and 1.5 miles southwest of Pollock Pines, California. The estimated construction cost is $38.5 Million. The estimated date of construction is June 2024 through March 2026.

PUBLIC WORKS LAWS. The project is a public works project subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). To be qualified for this project, a contractor must be registered with the DIR. In addition, pursuant to prevailing wage laws, copies of the prevailing wage rates are on file at the District’s principal office and are available on request.

Interested firms may obtain a copy of the Request for Pre-Qualification (RFQ) from the District’s website at www.eid.org/contracts. Note that the reference procedure requires the reference information be sent directly by the reference to EID by the above date.

Questions regarding this project should be directed to the Project Manager by emailing Ms. Liz Carrington at lcarrington@eid.org, or by calling 530.642.4077.

Dated this 2nd day of February, 2024 EL DORADO IRRIGATION DISTRICT /s/ Jon Money Jon Money, P.E., Engineering Manager 2/2, 2/9, 2/16 12778 PUBLIC NOTICE: RELOCATION OF MARSHALL MEDICAL CAMERON PARK CARDIOLOGY & PULMONOLOGY OUTPATIENT SERVICES Date: 1/29/23 Pursuant to California Health and Safety Code Section 1255.25, Marshall Medical Center is providing public notice of its plan to relocate its Cameron Park Cardiology and Pulmonology Outpatient Services.

Effective Date: April 30, 2024 Current Address: 3102 Ponte Morino Dr. Ste 100, Cameron Park, CA 95682 New Address: 3501 Palmer Dr Ste 204, Cameron Park, CA 95682 Marshall Medical’s Cameron Park Cardiology and Pulmonology Outpatient Services will relocate due to the sale of the building currently leased. The transition to the new location is expected to be completed by late April 2024, ensuring no disruption to scheduled services and appointments for patients.

The Cardiology and Pulmonology staff of 20 will remain unaffected, and Marshall Medical Center is committed to providing highquality, compassionate care at the new location. All services currently offered will continue seamlessly.

For patients seeking comparable services near the existing location, below is a list of options serving Medicare and Medi-Cal patients: Cardiology: • Marshall Medical Center Cardiology, 5137 Golden Foothill Parkway, Ste 200, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 • Folsom Cardiology, 4921 Golden Foothill Pkwy, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 • Marshall Medical Center Cardiology, 1004 Fowler Way, Ste 4, Placerville, CA 95667 Pulmonology: • Marshall Medical Center Pulmonology, 1004 Fowler Way, Ste 4, Placerville, CA 95667 • Dignity Health, 6555 Coyle Ave, Ste 215, Carmichael, CA 95608 • Pulmonary Medicine Associates, 1508 Alhambra Blvd, Ste 100 Sacramento, CA 95816 For any inquiries or comments regarding this relocation, please contact: Marshall Medical Center 1100 Marshall Way, Placerville, CA 95667 Phone: 530-622-1441 Siri Nelson, President and CEO Marshall Medical Center 1100 Marshall Way, Placerville, CA

95667 Phone: 530-622-1441 2/2, 2/5, 2/7, 2/9, 2/12, 2/14, 2/16, 2/21, 2/23, 2/26 2/28, 3/1, 3/4, 3/6, 3/8 12779 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF PATRICIA ANN EARLE CASE NO. 23PR0320 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of PATRICIA ANN EARLE A PETITION for Probate has been filed by BARBARA CRAMER in the Superior Court of California, County of El Dorado.

THE PETITION for probate requests that BARBARA CRAMER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: March 11, 2024 at 8:30 a.m. in Dept. 9 at 3321 Cameron Park Drive, Cameron Park, CA 95682 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Petitioner: BARBARA CRAMER 3174 Ridge Ct Placerville, CA 95667 2/2, 2/9, 2/16 12780 COUNTY OF EL DORADO, CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the County of El Dorado, State of California, that sealed bids for Work in accordance with the Project Plans (Plans) and Contract Documents designated: EL DORADO TRAIL-MISSOURI FLAT ROAD BIKE/PEDESTRIAN OVERCROSSING PHASE 2 CIP No. 36109002, CONTRACT No. 8144 will be received by the County of El Dorado, Department of Transportation (Department of Transportation), through Quest Construction Data Network (Quest) until March 11, 2024 at 2:00 P.M., at which time bids will be publicly opened and read by the Department of Transportation. The bid opening will take place virtually through Zoom. The virtual bid meeting can be accessed via the following: http://tinyurl.com/MoFlatPOC Meeting ID: 225 438 962 65, Passcode: YX5gxT530-447-0967, Phone Conference ID: 257 862 782#.

The Project is located along Missouri Flat Road, near the community of Diamond Springs in the County of El Dorado. The Work to be done is shown on the Plans, and generally consists of, but is not limited to: Furnishing and installing a prefabricated steel pedestrian overcrossing structure, including precast prestressed concrete girders, mechanically stabilized earth retaining walls, structural concrete, hot mix asphalt paving, metal handrailing, signing, and striping.

Other items or details not mentioned above, that are required by the plans, Standard Plans, Standard Specifications, or these Special Provisions must be performed, constructed or installed.

Bids are required for the entire Work described herein.

The Contract time is ONE HUNDRED FIFTY (150) WORKING DAYS. For bonding purposes the anticipated Project cost is less than $5,000,000.

A pre-bid meeting is scheduled for this Project on February 29, 2024 at 2:00 P.M. at the County of El Dorado, Department of Transportation, 2441 Headington Road, Placerville, CA. The meeting will be held in the downstairs conference room.

Attendance at the pre-bid meeting is not mandatory.

The Contract Documents, including the Project Plans, may be viewed and/or downloaded from the Quest website at http://www.questcdn. com. Interested parties may also access the Quest website by clicking on the link next to the Project Name or entering the Quest Project # on the Department of Transportation’s website at http://www.edcgov.us/ Government/DOT/pages/BidsHome. aspx.

Interested parties may view the Contract Documents, including the Project Plans, on the Quest website at no charge. The digital Contract Documents, including the Project Plans, may be downloaded for $30.00 by inputting the Quest Project #8915541 on the websites’ Project Search page. Please contact QuestCDN.com at (952) 233-1632 or info@questcdn.com for assistance in free membership, registration, downloading, and working with this digital project information.

To be included on the planholders list, receive notification of addenda, and to be eligible to bid interested parties must download the

Contract Documents, including the Project Plans, from Quest.

Those downloading the Contract Documents, including the Project Plans, assume responsibility and risk for completeness of the downloaded Contract Documents.

The Contract Documents, including the Project Plans, may be examined in person at the Department of Transportation’s office at 2850 Fairlane Court, Placerville CA. However, the Department of Transportation will no longer sell paper copies of the Contract Documents.

The following Supplemental Project Information will be provided in pdf format as part of the Contract Documents on Quest’s website to all planholders who acquire the Contract Documents digitally through Quest: Foundation Report, Revised Standard Plans Bidders must be properly licensed to perform the Work pursuant to the Contractors’ State License Law (Business and Professions Code Section 7000 et seq.) and must possess a CLASS A license or equivalent combination of Classes required by the categories and type of Work included in the Contract Documents and Plans at the time the Contract is awarded, and must maintain a valid license through completion and acceptance of the Work, including the guarantee and acceptance period. Failure of the successful Bidder to obtain proper adequate licensing will constitute a failure to execute the Contract and will result in the forfeiture of the Bidder’s security.

No contractor or subcontractor may bid on any public works project, be listed in a bid proposal for any public works project, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1.

Contractor must comply with emission reduction regulations mandated by the California Air Resources Board, sign the certification of knowledge in the Agreement, and provide County a Certificate of Reported Compliance when road legal diesel vehicles with a gross vehicle weight over 14,000 pounds are included in their fleet.

Contractor must require all subcontractors to comply with such regulations and provide County a Certificate of Reported Compliance for each sub-contractor with road legal diesel vehicles over 14,000 pound gross vehicle weight.

For federal-aid projects, DBE requirements of Title 49 Part 26 of the Code of Federal Regulations (49 CFR 26) apply. Bidders are advised that, as required by federal law, the County of El Dorado has implemented Disadvantaged Business Enterprise requirements for Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE). Comply with Section 2-1.12 and Section 5-1.13.

Bidder will take all necessary affirmative steps to assure that minority firms, women’s business enterprises and labor surplus area firms are used when possible. The Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Contract goal is 21%.

In accordance with the provisions of California Labor Code Sections 1770 et seq., including but not limited to Sections 1773, 1773.1, 1773.2, 1773.6, and 1773.7, the general prevailing rate of wages in the county in which the Work is to be done has been determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations.

Interested parties can obtain the current wage information by submitting their requests to the Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Statistics and Research, PO Box 420603, San Francisco CA 94142-0603, Telephone (415) 7034708 or by referring to the website at http://www.dir.ca.gov/OPRL/ PWD. The rates at the time of the bid advertisement date of a project will remain in effect for the life of the project in accordance with the California Code of Regulations, as modified and effective January 27, 1997.

Copies of the general prevailing rate of wages in the county in which the Work is to be done are also on file at the Department of Transportation’s principal office, and are available upon request, and in case of projects involving Federal funds, Federal wage requirements as predetermined by the United States Secretary of Labor have been included in the Contract Documents.

Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued as described in the Project Administration section of this Notice to Bidders.

In accordance with the provisions of Labor Code 1810, eight (8) hours of labor constitutes a legal day’s work upon all work done hereunder, and Contractor and any subcontractor employed under this Contract must conform to and be bound by the provisions of Labor Code Sections 1810 through 1815.

This Project is subject to the requirements of Title 8, Chapter 8, Subchapter 4.5 of the California Code of Regulations including the obligation to furnish certified payroll records directly to the Compliance Monitoring Unit under the Labor Commissioner within the Department of Industrial Relations Division of Labor Standards Enforcement in accordance with Section 16461.

In the case of Federally funded projects, where Federal and State prevailing wage requirements apply, compliance with both is required.

This Project is funded in whole or part by Federal funds. Comply with Exhibit D of the Draft Agreement and the Copeland Act (18 U.S.C. 874 and 29 CFR Part 3), the Davis-Bacon Act (40 U.S.C. 3141-3147 and 29 CFR Part 5), and the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act (40 U.S.C. 3701 and 29 CFR Part 5).

If there is a difference between the minimum wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the general prevailing wage rates determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations for similar classifications of labor, Contractor and subcontractors must pay not less than the higher wage rate. The Department of Transportation will not accept lower State wage rates not specifically included in the Federal minimum wage determinations. This includes “helper” (or other classifications based on hours of experience) or any other classification not appearing in the Federal wage determinations.

Where Federal wage determinations do not contain the State wage rate determination otherwise available for use by Contractor and subcontractors, Contractor and subcontractors must pay not less than the Federal minimum wage rate Legal notice continued on the next page

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Bids will be considered for award by the Board of Supervisors. The County of El Dorado reserves the right after opening bids to reject any or all bids, to waive any irregularity in a bid, or to make award to the lowest responsive, responsible Bidder and reject all other bids, as it may best serve the interests of the County.

The Contractor may elect to receive one hundred percent (100%) of payments due under the Contract from time to time, without retention of any portion of the payment by the County, by depositing securities of equivalent value with the County in accordance with the provisions of Section 22300 of the Public Contract Code. Securities eligible for deposit hereunder are be limited to those listed in Section 16430 of the Government Code, or bank or savings and loan certificates of deposit.

Reference the Contract Documents package, which includes the Notice to Bidders, Plans, Specifications, Draft Agreement and Proposal for contractual requirements not listed in this “Notice to Contractors” newspaper advertisement.

2/7, 2/9, 2/12, 12799 2/14, 2/16, 2/21 NOTICE OF AUCTION SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a mobilehome (and all personal property located therein), registered to DANIELLE BUDA, described as a single-wide mobilehome; Year of Manufacture: 1976; Tradename: Hillcrest; Decal ABF9821; Serial 02747182; HUD/Insignia CAL000802 and stored on property within Hidden Springs Villa, located at 2760 Cold Springs Rd, Placerville, El Dorado County, CA 95667, will be sold by auction at Hidden Springs Villa Space 129, 2945 Glenwood Ln, Placerville, CA 95667 on Fri, Feb 23, 2024, at 11:00 AM and the proceeds of the sale will be applied to the satisfaction of the lien, including the reasonable charges of storage, back taxes, registration fees, notice, advertisement and sale.

Only cash or cash equivalent, cashier’s checks, or certified funds will be accepted. Payment is due and payable immediately following the sale. The home and/or contents are sold as is, where is, with no guarantees.

The purchaser will acquire no right of tenancy to any space in the community. The home and contents must be removed from the site if purchaser is NOT approved for tenancy.

This notice is published per the requirements of, and the indicated auction sale shall be conducted pursuant to California Civil Code Section 798.61 and codes referenced therein.

12807 2/9, 2/16 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2024-0139 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ELITE RENTALS, located at 4064 Durock Road, Shingle Springs, CA 95682/Mailing Address: PO Box 1311, Shingle Springs, CA 95682 Registrant’s Name & Mailing Address: Elite Storage Containers, PO Box 1311, Shingle Springs, CA 95682 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company, State of LLC: California, Officer The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/31/2024 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Don Greene DON GREENE, OFFICER I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 02/06/2024 NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 12808 2/9, 2/16, 2/23, 3/1 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2024-0036 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PLANTED ON MAIN, located at 318 Main Street, Placerville, CA 95667 Registrant’s Name & Mailing Address: Amanda J Aspinall, 318 Main Street, Placerville, CA 95667 This business is conducted by an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 10/01/2023 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Amanda Aspinall AMANDA ASPINALL, OWNER I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 01/12/2024 NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION

17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 2/9, 2/16, 2/23, 3/1 12809 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2024-0136 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GERMAN AUTO WERKS, located at 3943 Missouri Flat Rd., Placerville, CA 95667 Registrant’s Name & Mailing Address: Bryan R Bradford, 3943 Missouri Flat Rd., Placerville, CA 95667 This business is conducted by an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: Not Applicable Signature of Registrant: /s/ Bryan Bradford BRYAN BRADFORD, OWNER I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 02/05/2024 NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 2/9, 2/16, 2/23, 3/1 12810 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2024-0137 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AZARIAH ATTIRE, located at 6101 South Shingle Road, Shingle Springs, CA 95682 Registrant’s Name & Mailing Address: Robert Wertz, 6101 South Shingle Road, Shingle Springs, CA 95682 This business is conducted by an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 02/05/24 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Robert Wertz ROBERT WERTZ I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 02/05/2024 NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 2/9, 2/16, 2/23, 3/1 12811 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING City of Placerville Traffic Impact Mitigation (TIM) Fee Consideration of an Adjustment for Inflation A Public Hearing has been scheduled to be held during the February 27, 2024 regular City Council Meeting, at which time City Council will hear public comment on the annual TIM Fee adjustment.

The adjustment is proposed to increase the City’s TIM Fees to cover inflation increases from December 2021 to January 2024 based on the Engineering News Record Construction Cost Index (per the City Code).

The meeting will commence at 5:00 P.M. at Town Hall, 549 Main Street, Placerville Public Input is Encouraged 2/14, 2/16 12817 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2024-0160 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CMJ CONSTRUCTION, located at 4860 Crescent Hill Lane, Shingle Springs, CA 95682 Registrant’s Name & Mailing Address: Craig Medley, 4860 Crescent Hill Lane, Shingle Springs, CA 95682 This business is conducted by an Individual

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The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 02/09/2024 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Craig Medley CRAIG MEDLEY, OWNER I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 02/12/2024 NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 2/16, 2/23, 3/1, 3/8 12820 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2024-0156 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FLEET MOBILE MECHANIC, located at 2847 Holly Hills Ln, Cameron Park, CA 95682 Registrant’s Name & Mailing Address: Carlos Bravo, 2847 Holly Hills Ln, Cameron Park, CA 95682 This business is conducted by an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 02/07/2024 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Carlos Bravo CARLOS BRAVO, OWNER I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 02/08/2024 NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 2/16, 2/23, 3/1, 3/8 12821 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2024-0157 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 1. QUARTZ VEIN CELLARS, 2. GLL CELLARS, located at 6320 Marestail Road, Somerset, CA 95684/Mailing Address: PO Box 419, Somerset, CA 95684 Registrant’s Name & Mailing Address: Cedarville Vineyard & Winery LLC, PO Box 419, Somerset, CA 95684 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company, State of LLC: CA The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 02/07/2024 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Jonathan Lachs JONATHAN LACHS, MANAGING MEMBER I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 02/08/2024 NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 2/16, 2/23, 3/1, 3/8 12822 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. FB2024-0166 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALISHA SPIRITUAL CONSULTANT, located at 2460

Clarksville Rd, Rescue, CA 95672 Registrant’s Name & Mailing Address: Alisha B Durbrow, 2460 Clarksville Rd, Rescue, CA 95672 This business is conducted by an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 02/13/2024 Signature of Registrant: /s/ Alisha B. Durbrow ALISHA B. DURBROW, OWNER I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).)

This statement filed with the county clerk of El Dorado County on 02/13/2024 NOTICE-IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (see section 14411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions Code) 2/16, 2/23, 3/1, 3/8 12823 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS NO. CA-23-969123-BF ORDER NO.: DEF2350945CA YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 1/16/2007.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale.

BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): JOHN W. HUESTIS AND BARBARA J. HUESTIS, HUSBAND AND WIFE, AS JOINT TENANTS Recorded: 2/15/2007 as Instrument No. 2007-0010997-00 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of EL DORADO County, California; Date of Sale: 3/13/2024 at 10:00 AM Place of Sale: At the Main Street entrance to the County Courthouse located at 495 Main Street, Placerville, CA 95667 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $98,079.50 The purported property address is: 4525 CAMERON RD, CAMERON PARK, CA 95682 Assessor’s Parcel No.: 109-18104-100 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 916-9390772 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this internet website http://www.qualityloan. com, using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-23-969123-BF. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet website. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code.

If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction.

There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call 916-939-0772,

or visit this internet website http:// www.qualityloan.com, using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-23-969123-BF to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. NOTICE TO PROSPECTIVE OWNEROCCUPANT: Any prospective owneroccupant as defined in Section 2924m of the California Civil Code who is the last and highest bidder at the trustee’s sale shall provide the required affidavit or declaration of eligibility to the auctioneer at the trustee’s sale or shall have it delivered to QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION by 5 p.m. on the next business day following the trustee’s sale at the address set forth in the below signature block. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary’s Agent, or the Beneficiary’s Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. Date: QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION 2763 Camino Del Rio S San Diego, CA 92108 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 916939-0772 Or Login to: http://www. qualityloan.com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION .

TS No.: CA-23-969123-BF IDSPub #0200768 2/16/2024 2/23/2024 3/1/2024 2/16, 2/23, 3/1 12826 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The County of El Dorado Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing in the Supervisors Meeting Room, 330 Fair Lane, Placerville, CA 95667 on March 5, 2024, at 11:00 a.m., to consider an appeal received from Alice Clary (Agent: Cammy Morreale) appealing the Planning Commission’s January 25, 2024 approval of Commercial Cannabis Use Permit CCUP21-0002/Harde submitted by DAVID HARDE to request for the construction and operation of a cannabis cultivation facility for medical and adult-use recreational cannabis. The property, identified

by Assessor’s Parcel Number 093032-071, consisting of 57.29 acres, is located on the north side of Perry Creek Road, approximately 0.3 mile northeast of the intersection with Fairplay Road, in the Somerset area, Supervisorial District 2. (County Planner: Evan Mattes, 530-621-5994) (Mitigated Negative Declaration) The Planning Commission has recommended approval of these applications based on the Findings and Conditions of Approval on file in Planning Services of the Planning and Building Department.

Agenda and Staff Reports are available no less than 72 hours before the meeting at https:// eldorado.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx All persons interested are invited to attend and be heard or to write their comments to the Board of Supervisors at 330 Fair Lane, Placerville, CA 95667 or via e-mail: edc.cob@edcgov.us. If you challenge the application in court, you may be limited to raising only those items you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Board at, or prior to, the public hearing. Any questions regarding this project should be directed to the County of El Dorado Board of Supervisors, 330 Fair Lane, Placerville, CA 95667 or via e-mail: edc.cob@edcgov.us.

COUNTY OF EL DORADO PLANNING COMMISSION KAREN L. GARNER, Executive Secretary February 16, 2024 2/16 12827 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF OLIVER NOEL SHIPMAN CASE NO. 24PR0030 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of OLIVER NOEL SHIPMAN A PETITION for Probate has been filed by MICHAEL SHIPMAN in the Superior Court of California, County of El Dorado.

THE PETITION for probate requests that MICHAEL SHIPMAN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: April 15, 2024 at 8:30 a.m. in Dept. 9 at 3321 Cameron Park Drive, Cameron Park, CA 95682 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the

hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner: LAURA NELSON-BECKER Becker, Nelson, Center & James 263 Main Street Placerville, CA 95667 (530) 617-1692 12828 2/16, 2/23, 3/1 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: BRIAN KEITH BELL CASE NO. 24PR0005 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of BRIAN KEITH BELL. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by LETA BELL in the Superior Court of California, County of EL DORADO. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that LETA BELL be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 03/18/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 9 located at 3321 CAMERON PARK DRIVE, CAMERON PARK, CA 95682 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner DANIEL A. HUNT - SBN 262943 LAW OFFICES OF DANIEL A. HUNT 798 UNIVERSITY AVE. SACRAMENTO CA 95825 Telephone (916) 610-1788 2/16, 2/21, 2/23/24 CNS-3783458# THE MOUNTAIN DEMOCRAT 12829 2/16, 2/21, 2/23 LEGAL NOTICE REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON DOMESTIC WATER SUPPLIES A Timber Harvesting Plan (THP) will be submitted to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). The THP is located in El Dorado County.

Beginning at a point approximately 5 miles northeast of Riverton, the THP area extends north and to the east about 2 miles. The proposed THP includes portions of sections 28, 29, and 32, T12N R14E, all Mount Diablo Base &Meridian.

This notice is to request information about surface domestic water supplies from Class I, II, and IV watercourses that receive drainage from the THP are and are within 1000 feet downstream of the THP boundary. Watercourses that may be affected include: Union Valley Reservoir, Junction Reservoir, Silver Creek, South Fork Silver Creek, and unnamed associated tributaries to the above-named water bodies.

If you have any information about surface domestic water supplies from these watercourses, please contact (within 10 days): Sierra Pacific Industries PO Box 680 Camino, CA 95709 Any response will be submitted with the THP to Cal Fire for review.

If any surface domestic supplies are noted, the THP shall contain mitigation necessary to protect the water supply.

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Outlaw musician Jenkins to perform with full band News release

Photo by David J. Grenier

UPCOMING EVENTS IMG ARTISTS PRESENTS

Mystic Pizza FEBRUARY 28 - MARCH 3, 2024

Gethen Jenkins, an award-winning singersongwriter born in Huntington, W. Va., comes to Sutter Creek Theatre Feb. 17.

Born to a military family in West Virginia and raised in a rural Indian village in Alaska, Jenkins enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and served honorably for eight years, including a 2003 deployment to Iraq. When he finally left the service, he stayed around Twentynine Palms and began pursuing his dream of playing country music.

Jenkins grew up around country. Ever since he was a kid, he’s been playing the guitar and writing his own music. So, becoming a professional musician was the natural next step for him. And so, he set to be like the great outlaw country stars of the past.

Jenkins and the Freightshakers have played more than 1,000 gigs and have

Courtesy photo

Gethen Jenkins performs outlaw country with the Freightshakers this Saturday night. earned a number of accolades, including the 2015 Ameripolitan Music Award for Best Outlaw Group, the 2017 California Country Awards for Best Male Vocalist and Best Album, and LA Weekly even named Jenkins 2018’s Best Outlaw Country Artist. Sony/ RED MUSIC and Five Music Inc. released his six-song EP “Where The Honkytonk Belongs” in July 2017; it had

revolving play on Sirius XM’s Outlaw Country and was one of the topselling Outlaw Country albums on iTunes.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the show begins at 7 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 17, at Sutter Creek Theatre, 44 Main St. in Sutter Creek.

Open seating, beer and wine are available. For tickets and more details call (916) 425-0077 or visit suttercreektheatre. com.

Trailblazing Women of Country: A Tribute to Patsy, Loretta, and Dolly MARCH 8, 2024

Based on the beloved 1988 MGM romcom, Mystic Pizza is a new musical about three working-class girls who navigate the complexities of life, love, and family in a small-town pizza joint. The infectious score features megahits of the ‘80s and ‘90s, from “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” to “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now.”

Patsy, Loretta, and Dolly revolutionized country music and blazed a trail for future generations of female artists. Featuring soloists, Miko Marks, CMT’s 2022 “Next Woman of Country,” and Nashville based singer, Kristina Train, supported by a 5-member all-female band.

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Lyle Lovett and his Acoustic Group

MARCH 11, 2024

MARCH 14, 2024

Throughout its history, New Orleans has been the point at which sounds and cultures from around the world converge, mingle, and resurface. PHJB has held the torch of New Orleans music aloft for more than 60 years.

Singer, composer, actor, and multiGrammy-Award winner, Lyle Lovett has broadened the definition of American music in a career that spans 14 albums.

The Texas-based musician fuses elements of country, swing, jazz, folk, gospel, and blues.

TISRA: Zakir Hussain, Sabir Khan, and Debopriya Chatterjee

The Cher Show – A New Musical

APRIL 24, 2024

MAY 9-12, 2024

Tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain is proud to present TISRA (three) with two of India’s finest young musicians, Sabir Khan and Debopriya Chatterjee, showcasing the rich folk and classical traditions of the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Punjab.

35 smash hits, six decades of stardom, two rock-star husbands, a Grammy, an Oscar, an Emmy… The Cher Show is the Tony Award-winning musical of her story, and it’s packed with so much Cher that it takes three women to play her.

Tickets available online or call the box office: HarrisCenter.net (916) 608-6888

Photo by Andrew Vonderschmitt

Dave (John Goodin) and Rhonda (Jill Wilson) get down to the bare necessities in “Almost, Maine.”

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witnessing through these windows into the lives of people that we meet,” he continued. “I think the audience will go away with a heartwarming and fulfilling evening.”

Tekin agrees and said she hopes to take the audience on a “rollercoaster where they will experience heartbreak, new love, lost love and sweet and funny moments.”

“I would like the audience to take in all these little moments as a whole and go away with a picture of the play’s theme,” she shared. “These are all little pieces, little scenes, but they are all connected.”

Callista Angelli, who plays Jeanette, hadn’t heard of the play before auditioning.

“I just wanted to branch out, experience new theaters,” she said. “I thought it looked really interesting.”

She immediately connected with the script.

“I like how it shows that there are so many different types of love and different problems and situations,” she explained, adding the audience will easily understand the show’s messages.

“It’s real, relatable and realistic,” she said. “And it sends a good message, I think.”

Christopher Bertram plays Pete. He admitted he wasn’t quite sure about the play when he first auditioned but has since become a convert.

“I love the play,” he said. “I didn’t think I would when I first read it, but I started falling in love with the characters and I like the way the lines are written. It’s just so interesting.”

Jill Wilson plays multiple characters

throughout the play and said she thinks they all have one thing in common. “I think that they all want to be loved.”

The actress also shared how much she enjoys the writing and freedom to explore her characters.

“Yeah, there’s a lot of room because of the way the dialogue is written,” she said. “There’s a lot of room to just play around.

“I personally like the awkwardness.

There’s a lot of awkwardness and it is messy, the way that people come together or fall apart,” Wilson continued. “I liked that about it because, despite all the many cliches that are in this play, it does stay true to the messiness of human connection.”

Wilson thinks the audience will walk away with a sense of joy after seeing the show.

“It’s life-affirming,” she noted. “I think they’ll feel that joy you feel when you watch something lifeaffirming.”

That joy has already been felt by the directors.

“I’ve had a great experience here,” said Tekin of working on the show. “I really like it.”

“The Stage has been very welcoming,” added DePage. “They have been very supportive in all aspects.”

“Almost, Maine” runs Feb. 17 through March 10 with performances at 1 and 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays at The Stage at Burke Junction, 3300 Coach Lane, Suite E1, Cameron Park.

For tickets or more information visit stageatburke.com.