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SfafIord is 2015 'Mofher of fhe Year'
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SherifF's Posse mother," said Posse Chair-
In 1937, her family moved to the town of Melones — now under the waters our group. of New Melones Reservoir — where a As part of its Mother's Day roots, IIIOtll8f LOll e St afford, 79, has the critical job young "Clete" would grow up. "Looking back, it was awesome," she the Mother Lode Roundup has seof keeping the books for the Posse lecteda "Mother of the Year" for and for the Roundup rodeo itself. said of the mining town. almost as long as the Roundup has Beyond that, she answers phones She said she was sad when the resand tidies up the Posse grounds, ervoir was filled in the early 1980s, imbeen around. This year' s recognition goes to Pi4Nllll4P just like a mother would. mersing the town. She once went to check longtime Tuolumne County SherStafFord was born D equita it out when the reservoir's water levels iff's Posse volunteer Clete Stafford. Chad w ell on Dec. 25, 1935, in La Follette, "Clete is like the Tuolumne County Tennessee. See ROUNDUP /Back Page man Al O' Brien. uShe does so much for
Rodeo readyTrick riders and ropers from the Riata Ranch Cowboy Girls practiced Friday in preparation for this weekend's Mother Lode Roundup rodeo, today and Sunday at the Mother Lode Fairgrounds in Sonora.A2
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Stabbing arrest — A 21-year-old Sonora woman was arrested early Thursday for allegedly stabbing a co-worker.A3
PUBLICMEETING: Sonora Planning Commission, 5:30 p.m. Monday, City Hall, 94 N. Washington St.
ROadWOrk — A list of roadwork planned in Tuolumne and Calaveras counties including times, dates, locations and expected delays. A3
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By ALEX MacLEAN The Union Democrat
A Sonora apartment complex that burned down in January 2012 may rise again with the help of a low-interest loan funded by a $550,000 federal grant. The former multi-family Victorian home at 489 S. Stewart St. was completely destroyedin a fireapparently ignitedby a soldering torch during plumbing repairs. "We hoped to have it rebuilt before now, but there's just been a lot of hoops to jump through," said property owner Justin PfeifFer, of Sonora. On Monday, the Sonora P lanning Commission i s scheduled to consider approving an application by Pfeiffer to construct a two-story com-
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Oplhloh — why justice won't be served in Rim Fire.A4
Poll question — This week's poll question asks, "Which is your favorite spring/ summer event in the Mother Lode?"A4
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Sonora High School garden club members hold braided Spanish red gourmet garlic they harvested Friday morning. Garden Club members are (from left): Back row — Curtis Shivley, 19, Mikaila Hernandez, 17, garden club advisor Frank Garcia, Julianna Rusth, 17, Shayna Reese, 18, and culinary arts teacher Cindy Zelinsky; front row — Sonja Daniels, 16, Amparo Rodriguez, 17, Marie Van Baelen, 18, Cody Bottfield, 15, Julia Scholz, 15, and Daniela Rosas, 15.
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Garden club members gather
school's garlic, potato crops ing them together." The morning was one of 10 trips students have Sonora High School stu- made to the farm to culdents met under grey skies tivate the approximately Friday morning to dig into 130-acre ranch at the cornew crops on the school's ner of Wards Ferry and TuWildcat Ranch. olumne roads. "What wearereally tryA new potato crop and garlicharvest were the ing to do here is grow local, focus of the morning ofF clean and healthy food, " cailipus. said Garcia. Farm manager R ob Zelinsky uses the crops M ayben, culinary a r t s to teach culinary students teacher Cindy Zelinsky how to use, preserve and and GardeningClub advi- servefresh ingredients. "Our trade is cooking, sor Frank Garcia supervised the field trip, which but it's important to know ended with a volleyball how to use our tools," she game and barbecue lunch. said. Zelinsky said the ranch S tudents pulled t h e is a great way to bring stu- fresh garlic from the earth dents with difFerent inter- before cleaning and weavests together. ing the long green into a cWe have science kids, braid. "Braiding the garlic range kids, culinary kids working out here," she said. "It'sfood that'sbringSee RANCH/Back Page The Union Democrat
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The Calaveras County Board of S upervisors on Tuesday will consider helping fund a study on whether the state designating part of the Mokelumne River as "Wild
Sonora High School students (from left) Gavin Watson, 16, Austin Hickey,16, and Zerek Saldivar, 18, work the potato planter as Cooper Kessel drives a tractor Friday at Wildcat Ranch.
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