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COVID-19 cases in El Dorado County are falling, allowing more businesses to open and others to expand services. Village Life photo by Sel Richard
Parents and students gather in front of Oak Ridge High School to support reopening the high school for instruction. “I just feel it’s so important not only academically, but for sports and socially, they need to be with their peers and teachers,” said Oak Ridge parent Stephanie Wengel. “It’s hard to learn online,” said Oak Ridge freshman Ethan Brady, who said he looks forward most to hanging out with his friends when the school reopens.
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Restrictions High school going hybrid loosen up the unprecedented amount of feedback the board received regarding the opening. “The volume has been unequaled over the course of my career,” he said. “What is clear is that no choice is perfect in Despite efforts of protesting students and parents this environment.” who pleaded with school officials to rethink the However, in a district-wide parhybrid learning model as curent survey that returned 3,191 rently structured, last Tuesday the responses, a solid majority of 79% El Dorado Union High School “My hope is that our of parents voted in support of District Board of Trustees unanistudents and staff will reopening the schools. Oak Ridge mously voted to open schools for School was represented by hybrid learning Oct. 8. rise to the occasion ...” High 37.8% of the votes. Issues surrounding the deciCarruth assured that the hybrid sion were ardently contested, with — Oak Ridge Principal Aaron Palm model meets all the requireimpassioned pleas from supportments in the memorandum of ers of both distance learning and understanding agreed to this past July between the the hybrid model as a necessary step to opening Faculty Association and the district. These include up classrooms to full in-person learning. Parents, public health approval, rapid testing capacity for all teachers and students weighed in at the meeting, live and by phone. n See High School, page A4 District Superintendent Ron Carruth referenced Sel Richard Staff writer
Dawn Hodson Staff writer El Dorado County Public Health Officer Dr. Nancy Williams announced Sept. 22 the county has moved from the red tier into the less-restrictive orange tier of the state’s COVID-19 framework for reopening. “Gov. (Gavin) Newsom today officially moved El Dorado County into the orange tier based on our case rate and test positivity percentage, allowing many businesses to reopen for the first time since March and others to expand operations, which is very good news for our economy,” said Williams. “However, as I have stated before, just because something is allowed does not necessarily make it safe.” Williams said even though more business sectors are n
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Local cyclist debuts at Tour de France Roberta Long Special to Village Life
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Neilson Powless powers up a steep mountain road on a breakaway with a rider on his wheel.
In elite international sports men and women making their first appearance in a premier event are called debutants for men, debutantes for women. This year, Neilson Powless, who grew up riding the trails in the Sierra Nevada foothills with his family, rode for the first time in the world’s most prestigious cycling race. On Aug. 29 Powless joined 32 other debutants in a field of 176 riders on a trip of a lifetime from Nice to Paris. They would ride an average of five hours a day for 21 days, in wind and rain and beautiful sunny days, through small villages and into large cities, past historic sites and lovely pastoral scenes, climbing steep summits and descending at high speed. They would get two rest days. The journey would take them from the Maritime Alps across Provence country to the Pyrenees, along the Atlantic coast and back to eastern France through the Central Massif highland region, into the Alps near the Italian-Swiss border, north to the foothills of the Jura mountains. The final day of racing before the procession into Paris would be dedicated to the sole
Time Trial of the Tour. Time trials are usually held on relatively flat terrain, but premier events often add a climb to even out the competition among different specialists. Stage 20 started in northeastern France in the city of Lure, elevation average 961 feet. The Time Trial ended with an ultra steep 3.66-mile ascent to the ski resort of La Planche des Belle Filles at 3,766 feet in the Vosges mountains, 22.37 miles total. On Sept. 20 Powless joined the field of 146 surviving road warriors for a 76-mile, three-hour cruise through the French countryside on a gently undulating road from Mantes la Jolie west of Paris to their final destination, the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
A spectacular race The 107th Tour de France was dominated by a dual between two Slovenian riders, friends off course, but fierce rivals in competitions. Primoz Roglic, 30, is on Team Jumbo Visma. Tadej Podachar, 21, is on UAE TeamEmirates. The chase started in Stage 7, with Roglic in second place and Podachar in 16th with 1 minute 25 seconds behind. By Stage 9, Roglic had n
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