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VOL. 29 ■ ISSUE NO. 31 ■ AUGUST 4, 2022
There’s a new chief in town Jana Rossi Staff writer
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he Cameron Park Fire Department recently welcomed a new fire chief, Dustin “Dusty” Martin. He replaces Chief Sherry Morantz who left at the end of May. Chief Martin is no stranger to Cameron Park or El Dorado County, having worked for the Cal Fire Amador-El Dorado Unit in 2006 and becoming a fire captain at Cal Fire’s El Dorado Station 43 in 2010. The “ever-changing environment” is what drew Martin to a career in firefighting, he shared with Village Life. Originally from Vacaville, he joined the Shasta Range Unit as a firefighter intern at Burney Station in 1999. His most recent assignment was at the McClellan Air Tanker Base, where he had worked on and off since the inception of the program in 2008; he took a permanent position there in 2018. Martin said he enjoys “the variety of the job, the critical thinking, solving and mitigating emergencies” but most important to the new fire chief is giving back to his community. “My ultimate goal is to continue on with the ■
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Murder suspect takes a deal Thomas Frey Staff writer Michael Green pleaded no contest to second-degree murder July 22 for the 1985 killing of Jane Anker Hylton — a crime once thought committed by another man, Ricky Davis, who undeservedly served 15 years in state prison. Green’s plea comes 37 MICHAEL GREEN years after Hylton’s death and two years after DNA evidence led authorities to the now 54-year-old man, who was arrested in Roseville in 2020. Hylton’s body was discovered at 2848 Stanford Lane in El Dorado Hills on July 7, 1985. At the time of the murder Green was 17 years old, according to Savannah Broddrick with the El Dorado County District Attorney’s office.
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Cameron Park Rotary bicycle program keeps growing collaboration between Folsom Prison and the Toys for Tots initiative of giving new toys to needy children at Christmas. Le Pere, an advisor with the Ponderosa High School Interact Club, promoted the project to El Dorado County elementary schools and he received student recipient lists from teachers. Ponderosa students helped deliver the bikes and helmets and the project became so popular it was necessary to find additional partnerships to help with distribution. It has since expanded to a yearround operation that serves youth and adult residents in much of Northern California, including not only El Dorado County but also Alameda, Butte, Placer and Sacramento counties. Thanks to efforts of Cameron Park Rotarians, hundreds of bicycles and bicycle parts are now donated through-
Marlyn Pino-Jones Rotary Club of Cameron Park
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or more than 15 years the Rotary Club of Cameron Park has given away bicycles and helmets to kids, homeless adults, fire victims — and now Ukrainian and Afghan refugees. The latest partnership with Lao Family Community Development and Bethany Slavic Missionary Church in Rancho Cordova helps newly arrived refugees find housing, employment and education (in their charter school), enabling them to become self-sufficient community members. The club’s bicycle giveaways — 6,000 bikes and counting — began with Rotarians Joe Ryan and Chuck Le Pere in 2007, when Ryan was club president and also served as a member of the California State Prison Citizen Advisory Committee and with the Hangtown Marine Corps League helping with Toys for Tots. His interests launched a
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Refurbished bicycles prepared by inmates at Folsom Prison are ready for distribution during an earlier giveaway.
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