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JULY 24, 2015
TODAY'S READER DOARD
Chuck Hovey
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Winemaker battling back after stroke Wildfire Fundraiser set Aug. 16 at Murphys Park
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been a staple of the winemaking The Union Democrat community in Murphys for over 30 years might've been the strongest he In May, Chuck Hovey was riding had ever been. his bicycle nearly 100 miles a day to In late June, his strength was testget in shape for the AIDS/LifeCycle, ed. Nearly a month after the ride, a seven-day ride from Los Angeles Hovey suffered a severe stroke. The to San Francisco to raise money neurosurgeon at University of Caliand awareness for the fight against fornia, Davis, said it was the worst AIDS and HIV. The winemakingpioneer who has See HOVEY/ Back Page By JASON COWAN
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Management of federal forest lands in the Mother Lode, especially fire suppression and recovery efforts in the wake of giant blazes like the 2013 Rim Fire, could change iftwo recently proposed laws pass through Congress. The Resilient Federal ForestsAct of2015, co-authored
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senting the Mother Lode, was passed on July 9 by the House of Representatives and is now before the Senate. The Tuolumne County Boardof Supervisors approved sending a letter this week to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-San Francisco, urging her to support the bill. "Not only will r ecovery from catastrophic wildfire be streamlined under HR 2647, but fire prevention will be enhanced," John L. Gray, Tuolumne County's board chairman, said in the July 21 letter to Calif ornia'ssenior senator. "This commonsense bill addresses a number of loopholes, including unnecessary
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Bryan Pollock, of Sonora, works on a robotic arm during an Open Make Night Thursday evening at the Mother Lode Makers Lab in Sonora.
Open house set this Saturday
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CORRECTION A Flashback photo in today'sCommunity section, Page B4, misidentifies a student. Jude Waterbury was one of six students chosen to take a Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) as part of a university research program conducted in 1982.
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Have a shelf of broken appliances waiting to be fixed, or a kid who prefersthe box overthe toy? Well, Sonora may have just the place for you. The Mother Lode Makers Lab — a collection of artists, engineers, craftsmen and tinkers — will hold an all-day open house Saturday showcasing the group's growing community space on the KASA/ Dome campus off Barretta in So-
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The free event will run from 2 to 10p.m. and feature a range of hands-on workshops including home brewing, pickling, printmaking, robot making and more. After 8 p.m. a glowing sculpture built by art collective The Greater Good, will light up Lions Club Park on the Sonora Dome campus, and signal the start of what the makers dub a "glow party."
ment."She enjoyed roaming the hills of the habitat and Mother Lode Makers Lab co-founder Richard Call (left) and maker Zac Calbeft discuss lighting options for an After Dark Glow Party. Over 1,500 programmable LED Music Festival in Tuolumne next lights decorate the sculpture's PVC- month. pipe frame, that will turn on and ofF Organizers encourage the comin different patterns. Saturday will munity to bring anything that glows be thefirst display ofthe piece before it heads off to the River Ranch See MAKERS/Back Page
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