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Firefighters worked in temperatures 90 degrees and hotter Thursday to contain the smokey Big Creek Fire that broke out Wednesday east of Groveland, scorching more

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Firefighter Justin Melendez, of Cal Fire's San Andreas Station, eases down a slope Thursday next to Sprague Road East during mop-up operations on day two of the Big Creek Fire east of Groveland.

than 200 acres of forest and prompting voluntary evacuations in the Hells Hollow Road area.

The burn area was estimated at 204 acres as of Thursday afternoon, down from 265 acres mapped earlier in the day, and it was considered 5

percent contained, according to Cal Fire and the Forest Service.

More than 500 firefighters and other personnel, including 43 engine crews, were assignedtotheincident,accordSee FIRE /Back Page

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OPlnlOn —Gss shortage not stopping California exports; Is America entering a new Victorian era?A4

By ALEX MacLEAN The Union Democrat

COMMUNITY Mother Lode r esidents have long questioned the origin of the so-called "mystery booms" sometimes heard throughout the region, but one local scientist believes he may have stumbled upon the explanation.

Glen White, a science instructor at Columbia College, published a report online in September 2014 explaining the mysterious loud noises were likely coming &om a U.S.

• FAMILY LEGACY: Five generations worked at Columbia cafe.B1 • RODEO QUEEN:Sonora native Taylor Howell will spend the next year traveling to rodeos and events in California in her new position as Miss California Rodeo Salinas.B1 • VETS' CORNER: New ID cards for veterans approved.B1 • CLASS OF 1966: Plans for Sonora High School Class of 1965'8 50th reunion underway.

B1 • FLASHBACK:The Union Democrat shares an unidentified file photo. Do you remember?B2 • CARD GAMES:Results from Mother Lode Bridge clubs.B2

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In recent days, White's reporthas gained attention from regional media organizations.

Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada says it destroys obsoleteor excess munitions for the Department of Defense year-round, Monday through

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Boys (from left) Parker Moore, 8, of Sonora, Andrew Foster, 11, of Columbia, Bronson Obyen, 11, of Columbia, Matthew Foster, 13, of Columbia, Axel Olson-Holm, 12, of Columbia, and Caleb Ambler, 13, of Sonora, jump into the Columbia pool Thursday.

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Youth visiting the Columbia pool Thursday are (clockwise, from above): Gabriel Romano, 8, of Soulsbyville, who rests on the pool's deck; Malia Farmer, 6, of Twain Harte (left), Karoline Witt, 5, of Sonora (right), splash PM Club teacher Heather Dinneen, of Sonora; Nolan Lowry, 5, of Sonora, fastens his life jacket.

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New details have surfaced in the case of a Sonora familydoctorand her offi cem anager a c cused of improperly p rescr i b i n g controlled substancesto their patients.

Dr. Lori Beth So s tock Sostock, 46, and Vanessa Lynn Sostock, 43, both of Sonora, were arrested July 7 at their office on the 800 block of Delnero Drive See SOSTOCK/Back Page

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of Columbia board meet PUBLIC MEETING: Columbia Union School District Board of Trustees, 9 a.m. today, District Office, 22540 Parrotts Ferry Road, Columbia.

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T he C olumbia U n i on S chool District Board of Trustees will hold a public meeting at 9 a.m. today.

A "goal-setting" workshop, open for public comment, is the only agenda item set.

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This will be the first opportunity the board has to void acontract retaining retired Superintendent John Pendley as an advisor for the district in the2015-16 school year, after considering the option in June.

The contract, now in effect, pays Pendley, 62, $9,000 in health insurance a year,

and includes the option to extend the agreement until he is eligible for Medicare in 2018.

After the agreement was signed, the board learned the payment would bededucted from Pendley's retirement check for the first six months of the contract due to state guidelines regarding the rehiringofretired school employees.

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Mother Lode drivers can expecta little something extra week at the gas pump.

Columbia College students from the Automotive T echnology Program o n Monday will provide free vehicle maintenance inspections at Arco's AM/PM gas station at 15 Pesce Way in Sonora.

Under the guidance of Erik A n dal, A u tomotive Technology Program coordinator, students will pump gas, wash windows, check oil and gas levels, as well as check lights and tires.

Andal said the service is reminiscent of full-service stations from the past, and expectsan older generation to get some nostalgia from the experience.

The service is the final project in a five-week course to develop a team project among fellow automotive students.

"The whole idea of the class is to go through a thoughtful planning process to solve a problem," said Andal. "The execution is only a minor part."

This is the first year a class chose to take the project offcampus and offer a largescale community service.

S tudents planned t h e project to showcase the auto t echnology program in a way that benefited the community, said Shawn Vitek, two-year auto t echnology student.

"We' re ready to service a few hundred cars if it comes down that, but it might only be 20 — itall comes down to who has time to stop," he said.

Free vehicle inspections by the Columbia College Automotive Technology Program, 9 a.m. to noon., Monday, Arco's AM/PM, 15 Pesce Way, Sonora.

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Second-year Columbia College automotive student Gabe Orvis, 21 (above), paints a sign for Monday's service project. Second-year Columbia College automotive student Shaun Vitek, 25 (below, at left), works on an electric rock crawler Thursday afternoon as Columbia College automotive program coordinator Erik Andal observes.

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Vitek has nearly completed theprogram, part of the college's Career Technical Education Division, which

ther his skills with computer sciencecourses, allowing him to work on computerized communication systems in most modern cars.

Vitek came to the program aftertwo years atU niI versity of California, Santa Cruz, and said the hands-on training has complimented his previous academic studies.

Inspections will be available from 9 a.m. to noon. and are not limited to paying AM/PM customers, according to Andal.

The Automotive Technology Program is not the only group of students at the college to plan community outreach.

The Columbia College Fire Academy in October will remove litter from a two-mile stretch of Highway provides students with voca- Vitek does not plan to di- 108 as part of the "Keep Caltional training for a variety rectly enter the workforce as ifornia Beautiful" and the of fields.

Caltrans "Adopt-A-Highway general mechanic, he said.

Unlike some of his peers, Instead, he plans to fur- Program."

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There was no denying that the Members o f t he Ca l a veras group of Calaveras County resiCounty P l a nning C o m mission dents, which also included memwere discussing edits to the intro- bers from the organization MyValduction of the General Plan late leySprings.corn and the Calaveras Thursday morningin the Board of County Taxpayer Association, cared Supervisors Chambers in San An- about their community. d reas when Tom I n fusino, of t h e The edits to the introduction of Calaveras Planning Coalition, ap- the General Plan, which were inproached the podium. spired by inquiry from the pubUnder typical circumstances, his lic to address and clarify areas of approach to the council would not concern, was not the only topic the be unusual. But this was a special commission addressed on Thursoccasion — the public hearing peri- day — two subjectsleft over from od had ended 30 minutes prior; the a week prior were also on the table. man had something to say.

In a consensus decision, the de"We' ve gone far beyond the sug- p artment rejected a m o tion t o gestions that were outlined in the provide specificobjectives to the staff report outlines," Infusino said General Plan but decided to add at the hearing. targetpolicies and goals per each The remark, which was made due appropriate department to the in part to a bit of a misunderstand- implementations. Also planned on ing between the commission and Tuesday was the review and modiBy JASON COWAN The Union Democrat

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JAMIE RHINEHART Copperopolis, real estate agent "I love infused water from my infuser water bottle! I infuse lime, oranges, cucumbers and basil into my water and it tasted good!"

NEWS NOTES Lions fourth annual run set Saturday

The items will be distributed to students in need Aug. 12 through 14 through

The Sonora Lions Club the Resource Center. will hold its fourth annual For more information, call run to Sonora High School. Mark Dyken at 984-4704.

The Glenn Bass run, slated forSaturday at Columbia College's Carkeet Park, raises money for the crosscountry team and for the nonprofit Lions Club.

West Side Fitness will Two events will be held: a hold a s elf-defense class one-mile and a 5K. Awards for mothers and daughters will be handed out to the from 9 a.m. tonoon Saturtop three finishers in each day and again Aug. 8 at the age group category, with Tuolumne Memorial Hall, special prizes to the t op 18375 Fir Ave., Tuolumne.

"The self-defense techmale and female finisher.

The shorter run is stroll- niques taught in this class er friendly.

No dogs are al- w ill help t o e n sure t h e lowed. personalsafety of the parAdvanced r e g istration ticipants by providing them cost$20 for the 5K, $10 for with basics on how to avoid the one-mile and $45 for a and escape potentially family pack, which is three dangerous situations. This or more in either race. The will include hands-on techprice goes up $5 for each niques for self protection, run and $10 forthe fam- confidence building exerily pack on race day. Early cises and preparedness for registration must be post- difficult situations," stated marked by July 24. a press release.

Checks can be sent to: Cost is $20 per person, Sonora Lions Pride Stride, and the class is open to P.O. Box 101, Standard, CA those 8 and older.

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Children younger than 16 Check-in starts at 7 a.m. must be accompanied by a The one-mile run begins at parent or guardian.

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fication of the Noise Element based off of public comment.

The drafted plan, which came out in late 2014 and is in the middle of an ongoing editing process after a 90-day public review and comment period, is intended to guide growth and development in the community forthe next 20 years. By the year 2035, the plan states that the current population, excluding Angels Camp, will grow by close to 8,500 people and wil l r e quire nearly 5,500 more housing units.

The document, which could be considered a map of where the county is headed, is made up of eight elements: • Land Use — Works to direct growth around existing communities and away from areas that may limit development.

• Circulation — Targets transportationroutes required to assist any future demands for travel.

• Housing — Addresses housing needs within the community for all of the county's demographic.

• Resource Production — Makes certain that all prominent resources are available when needed.

• Conservation and Open Space — Provides policy instruction for a wide number of recreational and natural resources.

• Noise — Aims topreserve rural environmentthat attracts people to the area while establishing noise standards for future developments.

• Safety — Looks into natural conditions and human activity that can hinder public health and safety.

• Public Facilities and Services — Assists in ensuring that adequate public facilities are provided to current and future residents.

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W oman fac ing second-degree murder charge pleads not guilg to come out of the accident with minor injuries. She was taken to Sonora ReA Sunnyvale woman acgional Medical Center and cused of driving under the then tojail,according tothe influence of a drug and killreport. ing a man in a two-vehicle California Highway Pacrash in April pleaded not trol Officer Ken Bruce said guilty last week in Tuolumne states. drugs and/or alcohol were County SupeBoth cars were report- involved in the crash.

"There was a p ositive r ior Court t o edly traveling about 55 mph charges includwhen they collided. screening on her blood that ing second-deAldana's sedan landed on showed either alcohol or gree murder. its roof on the south edge of drugs, but I can't be specifBrenda Esthe road aAer the impact ic," he said. tefania Ba r Barr e r a from the crash caused it Court records state Barr era, 25 , o f to spin and roll, the report rera was convicted of drivSunnyvale is charged with states.

He died atthe scene. ing with a suspended or resecond-degree murder, gross Aldana's three passen- voked license in December vehicular ma n slaughter gers — which included his 2014 and August 2014. while i n toxicated, d r iv- wife, Martha Aldana, 69, Her jury trial is scheduled ing under the influence of of Escalon, and Vincente for Dec. 2, with a trial readia drug and misdemeanor Cabrera, 85, and Sara Ca- ness conference set for Aug. driving with a suspended or brera, 80, both ofRiverbank 31.

— were alltransported to revoked license.

Barrera remains in the She pleaded not guilty Doctors Medical Center in Tuolumne County Jail on $1 July 20 to all charges before Modesto, according to the million bail.

Tuolumne County Superior report.

Barrera's passenger, ThaCourt Judge Eleanor Provost. cia Godinez,21, of SunnyA California Highway Pa- v ale, was also flown t o trolreport states the crash Doctors Medical Center for Findus on occurred about 10 a.m. April treatmentofmajor injuries, 21 on Highway 120, near the report says.

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Barrera, who was driving a 2005 Mercedes Benz, was traveling west when her car drifted into the eastbound lane and into the path of a 2005 Chevrolet sedan driven by Maxsimiano Aldana, 78, ofEscalon, the report

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The drive is t o c ollect s chool supplies for h u ndreds ofTuolumne County students in need.

Needed items i n clude: Gift cards, shoes, clothing, backpacks, binders, pens, pencils, notebooks, glue, dry erasers, paper, calculators, crayons and markers.

Donations can also be dropped off at Jamestown Family Resource Center.

Native Sons of the Golden West Columbia Parlor No. 258 will host an all-you-caneat spaghetti feed from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, at Angelo's Hall at Columbia State Historic Park.

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ass orta e not sto in ex orts On June 25, just one week before many California motorists began paying upwards of $4.30 per gallon for gasoline, the Bahamian-flagged tanker Teesta Spirit leR Los Angeles headed for ports on the west coast of M exico carrying more than 300,000 barrelsofgasoline refined in California.

The Teesta Spirit was just one of nine large tankers that left California ports carrying gasoline to places like Mexico and Chile between June 25 and July 23 at a time when oil companies were raising prices by as much as $1 per gallon in some regions.

Altogether, oil companies like Chevron and Phillips 66 shipped about 100 million gallons (42 gallons per barrel) of gasoline out of California during that time span.

The i n dustry explained it s ~ y, ThO m aS h uge price i n creases, l evied this time primarily in Southern California, by citing a shortage caused partly by a February explosion that disabled a pollution-monitoring unit at Exxon Mobil's refinery in Torrance. No one explained why it should take more than five months to fix that machinery.

Executives of the industry's Western States Petroleum Assn. did not respond to repeated telephone attempts to get their explanations for this and for the gasoline exports, which amounted to sending away almost three full days' statewide supply of gasoline.

As the oil companies were shipping out that fuel, they reaped unprecedented profitsreportedly approaching$1.50 for every gallon ofgasoline they sold at the higher prices.

Prices, said WSPA President Catherine Reheis-Boyd in a letter responding to a previous column that alleged gasoline price gouging, are a result of supply and demand.

This may be true, but there's ample evidence the oil firms she represents create some of the shortages they cite as a cause of pricing volatility.

It's not just the continued exports and any problems at Exxon Mobil in Torrance. They ascribed another price spike earlier this year to shutdowns at refineries in the Martinez/Benicia area northeast of San Francisco. Labor issues, they said, forced those shutdowns.

But former employees of one of those plants reported they' ve been kept open during previous, similar labor disputes and could have stayed open this year, too.

Said Reheis-Boyd, "All of the many government investigations ... in recent years have concluded that supply and demand are the primary reason (sic) gas prices go up and down."

Shipping information makes it clear any recent shortage was created at least in part by the companies themselves. Here are some examples: The Atlantic Queen left Long Beach headed for Mexico on June 25 witha capacity ofover 398,000 barrels ofgas.The Iver Exact, only slightly smaller, left San Francisco Bay heading for Mexico on June 28. The larger Pudu left Long Beach for South and Central America on July 7.

Several other tanker departures from both Northern and Southern California ports were scheduled through the first week of August. How can the industry claim it has short supplies while it's shipping gas to foreign countries?

Why should California residents suffer the pollution produced by gasoline refineries if the owners of those plants manipulate prices by sending gasoline to foreign users?

Said Jamie Court, president of the Consumer W atchdog advocacy group,"Oilrefi ners have kept the state running on empty and now they are sending fuel refined in California abroad just as the specter of low inventories drives huge price increases."

One thing is certain: Because the latest price spikes began just as the new fiscal year started on July 1, the refineri es'record-level profits won't show up for months in financial reports. To reduce public fury and obfuscate the issue, it's all but certain the companies, which appear to operate like a cartel as prices at all major brands rise and fall simultaneously, will lower thoseprices a bit before the third quarter ends Sept.

30.

So far, as Reheis-Boyd notes, the refiners have gotten away with it. They' ve reported record profits for the last two years or so, but even those profits have not been at today'sreported Californialevels.Besides,profits generated in this state generally are not broken out separately in company reports.

The bottom line is that many California drivers for m uch of the summer have paid about $1.50 per gallon more than the American average. So far, no government agency shows interest in doing much about it.

Thomas Elias writes a column about California government and politics that appears in 98 California newspapers.He's a veteranjournalist who has worked

for Scripps Howard Newspapers and the Associated Press.

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Forty-seven years ago, the musical "Hair" opened on Broadway. Elderly mavens — the core theater audience then,

unlike the throngs of tourists flocking to cheap movie adaptations today — were instructed that America was entering an "Age of Aquarius." The old moral rules popular culture has hardly encouraged were extinct: we were entering a new era abstinence. The trend started well beof freedom, experimentation and self- foreteens gothold ofsm artphones or reexpression. ceived HPV vaccines.

In some ways, the prediction came An accompanying trend is a sharp true.Rates of divorce,cohabitation be- decline in births to teenage mothers. Infore marriage and illegitimate births creased use of contraceptives, including rose sharply in the years after 1968. The morning-after pills, may explain some of percentages of children living with two this. But abortion doesn' t: the number of parents fell sharply. The "Hair" version abortions has been declining since the of history — hundreds of years of oppres- 1980s. sion followed by a sudden trend toward Conservative millennial author Ben evermore liberation — seemed plausible, Domenech sees these trends as a "trieven persuasive. umph of soft conservatism over time," But history i s no t u n idirectional. but also as "another aspect of modern Trends get reversed or arrested sooner riskaversion."That latter trend is also or later. Behaviors that at fi r s t seem apparent in the decline in unsupervised modern and refreshing come to seem an- play for children and removal of jungle tique and old-fashioned. People adjust to gyms and slides from playgrounds. new experiences just as they adjusted to A tendency to risk aversion also helps old. explain the movement against the supToday, several widely unanticipated posed plague of sexual assaults in collegtrends — certainly unanticipated by es and universities, with administrators me — suggest that America is in some running kangaroo courts in which the acsignificant respects entering a new Vic- cused (almost always men) are assumed torianEra.Some may regard that asre- guilty and denied due-process rights. grettable, others aswelcome, stillothers This has been carried, as my Washingas amixture ofgood news and bad news. ton Examiner colleague Ashe Schow has But it's certainly news, especially to the documented, to ridiculous extremes. aging babyboomers who expected the But one can also see it as an updated Age of Aquarius to continue indefinitely. version of the college rules against maleOne such trend is the sharp decline in female sexual contact that were being teen sexual activity. A Center for Disease dismantled as "Hair" was premiering on Control survey showed that less than Broadway. Students, headed to Aquarius half of teenagers over 14 in 2013 have then, are subjected to quasi-Victorian reengaged in sexual intercourse, a sharp strictions now. declinefrom 1988 — and the decline is California and New York legislators sharper among males than females. have chimed in with "yes means yes" Commentators are puzzled as to why statutes applicable to students (but not this has been happening. Sexual ap- other adults). The American Law Instipetites have surely not diminished and tute is considering a similar approach,

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has a Victorian aspect. The early samesex marriage advocates Andrew Sullivan and Jonathan Rauch argued that marriage would domesticate homosexuals. There's logic to that — marriage inevitably includes elements of restriction and restraint — and we will see how it works out.

The most recent Washington PostABC News poll shows that 63 percent of Americans are uncomfortable with the nation's direction on social issues,

even though 52 percent supported the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling overturning bans on same-sex marriage. Perhaps that apparent ambivalence is an understandable response as America moves in some significant ways from the Age of Aquarius to a new Victorian Era. Michael Barone is a syndicated

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Though Ihave been assured by the TC Community Resources Director that there will be opportunity at publicized public meetings to express our opinions, it seems as though the DG's in Soulsbyville and Jamestown were approved and constructed with minimal search for public input and expedited (read rushed) To the Editor: construction. Please contact your supervisor and Planning ComI am writing to those responsible for the push to establish yet mission today to save historic Columbia! another ubiquitous Dollar General in Columbia (already there Peggy Kingman are four such discount stores)! They are: The Dollar Tree at the Junction, the 99cent Store by Orchard Supply, and Dollar GenerSonora als in Jamestown and Soulsbyville. There are all kinds of good reasons not to build yet another one and no good reason that I have heard to proceed with it. The proposed location is already an iffy intersection of roads and Columbia community and fam- To the Editor: ily owned businesses would probably go belly up, and for what?

An item that seems to be totally lacking in the Vision Sonora Columbia residents, if so inclined, can find two other dollar stores plan is the taking over of private property by the city of Sonora within 10 miles. and/or Caltrans. This is called eminent domain. This is a prime But the main reason that it should not be built in Columbia is example of government's overreach.

A man's home may no longer be his castle. It may become a that it doesn't belong theret Columbia is a rural community. That's why most of its resi- roundabout. dents have chosen it as a place to live, but even more than that, If you guard your freedoms and believe in private property it's an historic treasure, not just the confines of the State Park rights, then Vision Sonora is not for you. itself, but also the surrounding community. How would DG's big yellow box enhance that? What justification is there for putting it Laurel Leslie there? Profits for an impersonal corporation in Tennessee?

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which Judith Shulevitz in The New York Times called "the criminalization of what we think of as ordinary sex."

The 1960s saw a sharp decline in birth rates — the end of the baby boom — especially among the highly educated and affluent. But as Charles Murray documented in his 2012 book "Coming Apart," the highlyeducated abandoned Aquarian ratesof divorce and extramarital sex in the 1980s, while these rates have remained high among the less educated.

Now there's been a trend since the 1990stoward higher birth rates atrelatively late ages, and lower childlessness among highly educated women. And more women with higher educations are deciding the stay at home with children and pause their careers. Queen Victoria, a teen bride and mother of nine (the last at age 37), might approve.

Even the legalization and vastly in-

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Officers were unable to locate the alleged assail-

Two men a r e b e i ng sought in connection to an alleged assault that occurred Wednesday night.

The Sonora Police Department was notified about 9:25p.m. oftwo young men allegedly assaulting an older man. Officers responded to the intersection of South Washington and Linob erg streets, where they found Thomas Fulton, 57, on the sidewalk bleeding from the face and head, a Sonora Police Department press release stated.

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Fulton sustained sub stantial head and f a ce injuries and was trans ported toa Modesto-area h ospital where h e w a s listed alert in stable con dition Thursday.

The reason for the attack is unknown, and an investigation is ongoing.

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nesswoman with ambitions of turnirg it into a boutique hotel.

Superior Court J u dge James C. Chalfant said Thursday that he believes the

Katy Perry's dream of owning a hilltop convent near HoHywood is going to have a wait a while longer.

The convent, which Perry has wanted to buy to be her personal residence for several years, is in the middle of a legal 6ght between a group of elderly nuns and the archbishop of Los Angeles over who has contml of the sale and its proceed.

Some of the nuns don' t want Perry to buy their former homeand in June hastily sold the convent to a busi-

sale to entrepreneur Dana

Hollister is invalid. Still, he blocked Perry and representa tives of the archdiocese &om visiting the convent until after the court case is resolved.

That could take months, if not years, the judge said.

"You' re not selling to Katy Perry anytime soon," the judge told lawyers for the archbishop.

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was a loving wife, a devoted July 8, 1932 — July 21, 2015 mother and doting grandmother who will be missed Jeanne Frances Caldwell dearly. was born on July 8, 1932, and Family will hold private passed from this life on July servicesat a later date.Ter21, 2015. Jeanna was the zich and Wilson Funeral daughter of Michael John Home is handling arrangeGebelin and Flora Elizabeth ments.

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Jeanne is survived by her husband of 64 years, KenSally Sarah Jane neth Albert Caldwell; her (von Alt) Dilgard siblings, Jeanette (Frank) Aug. 28, 1925 — July 27, 2015 Sheehan and Jack Gebelin; her children, Susan (Wally) Navarrette, Ken Caldwell, Glenn (Jeannine) Caldwell, Karen Thomas, Mark (Angela) Caldwell; her 14 grandchildren; her 23 great-grandchildren; an d n u m erous nieces, nephews and cousins.

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from thehighway.

The trailer was carrying A big-rig truck tipped a load ofwhat seemed to o ver on H i g hway 1 0 8 be asphalt shavings, which Thursday morning, spill- only partly spilled onto the ing its load and closing road asa result of the ac one lane of the highway for cident, Soria said. about an hour.

The trailer's mechanical According to California structure is being investiHighway Patrol Sgt. Gary gated as a possible cause Soria, Brett Barton, 45, for the accident, Soria said of Tuolumne, was driving One-way traffic control a truck, owned by George was in effect on Highway Reed Construction, which 108 for about an h our was pulling two trailers. while the spilled load was About 9:18 a.m., the truck cleaned and county work tipped onto its side while ers repaired a gouge in the making a right-hand turn road caused by the spill. onto O'Brynes Ferry Road There were no injuries.

Mary was preceded in death by her grandson, Connor Vicars, who passed in 2009; her father, Arthur Jerome Hablin; and her mother, Dorothy Jean Hamblin.

Mary loved writing poetry, gardening, reading, cooking, photography, exploring

Marsha Husman was born on Aug. 3, 1952, and passed away at her home suddenly on July 25, 2015. She was 62 years old. Marsha was born in Newman, California, to Irwin and Frances Husman.

She spent the past 38 years living in Sonora and was a well-known teacher at Summerville High School. Marsha was a home economics teacher a t Su m merville High School for 37 years when she retired in 2014.

Marsha was survived by her daughter Zarah Scesa, of Sonora; and her two siblings, Dennis Husman, of Mulberry, Arkansas, and Mark Husman, of Modesto, California.

Marsha was preceded in death by her father, Irwin Husman, who passed in 2015; her mother Frances Husman, who passed in 2015; and her stepmother, Dolly Husman, who passed in 2014.

Marsha loved sewing, the great outdoors, animals, friends and family, teaching and, of course, the color purple. She was a friend to all, always happy to help out and lend an ear when you needed to talk. The world will not be the same without her.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 9, at Eproson Park, 22901 Meadow Drive. Twain Harte, 95383.

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member of California Women for Agriculture (CWA).

Jeanne will b e g r eatly missed by family and friends.

Mary Jean (Hamblln) Vicars March 14, 1940 — July 27, 2015

Mary Jean (Hamblin) Vicars was born on March 14, 1940, in Concord, California, and passed away on July 27, 2015, in Sonora. She was 75 years old. Mary had spent the past 14 years living in Sonora and was a retired CNA. Mary is survived by her husband of 53 years, James Gordon Vicars; her sister, Carol Abel; her two children, Andy (Susanna) Vicars, and Mark (Noelia) Vicar s; her five grandchildren,Trevor Vicars, Shelby Vicars, Hannah Vicars, Christina Vicars and Derrick Bonderud; and one great-grandchild.

Sally Dilgard passed away peacefully with her family by her side, on July 27, 2015, and went home to be with the Lord. She was born in San Francisco, the only child of Naomi McDaniel and Karl Douglas von Alt. She graduated from Fremont High School in Oakland. Right after World War II, she met Jack Dilgard,a U.S.Marine.

After a brief courtship, the couple marriedin January 1946.

In 1954, Sally and Jack moved their growing family to Livermore, where he accepted a position at the Lawrence Livermore Lab. Sally was a wonderful and dedicated homemaker, and she also had a love for being with her familyin the great outdoors.

Dung the 1960s and '70s, they spent most weekends at their cabin in the 'Peter-Pan' subdivision in the Mother Lode, enjoying the beauty and recreational activities of nearby Pinecrest Lake.

The most important thing in Sally's life was her faith in God and her conviction that everything she did was to be to His glory. Sally had a special burden for helping people less fortunate than herself. She was instrumen-

tal in establishing the Living English Literacy Center in Livermore. Later, she worked at Valley Christian Center in Dublin in the 1970s, serving as the church secretary and teachingremedial reading at the VCC School there.

After Jack's retirement in 1978, the family moved to their new cabin in Crystal Falls, near Twain Harte and Sonora. Sally soon began pursuing her passion for teaching by working at the Mother Lode Christian School in Tuolumne City. She was also an instructor for the Spalding Method of Reading and taught numerous others how to do the same. After leaving the school, Sally spent more than 25 years supporting the homeschooling community of Tuolumne County and serving as a private tutor in language and math. It was the "joy of her life" to work with children, as well as adult learners.

Sally is survived by her three children: Paul (Sylvia) Dilgard, Larry (Susan) Dilgard, and Diane Dilgard Kurgan; as well as six grandchildren: Jennifer (Ryan) Hughes, Amanda ( Steve Rosenberg) Dilgard, Laura (Andrew) Hershberger, Drew Bishop, Shane ( D eidra) Bishop, and Douglas (Haley) Bishop. Sally was also blessed tohave four greatgrandchildren. Her husband, Jack, preceded her in death in 1989.

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 2, at The Journey Church (form erlyFirstBaptist)at14425 Mono Way,in East Sonora.

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SHACKELFORD — John Kelly Shackelford, 85, of Sonora,died July 24 at Oak Valley Care Center in Oakdale. A memorial service will be held at an unspecifed time on Sept. 11 at Country Cowboy Church, at 14888 Peaceful Valley Road in Sonora. Allen Mortuary is handling arrangements.

WILLIAMS — Randy Williams, 55, died Thursday at home in Tuolumne. Terzich and Wilson is handling arrangements.

NEWS OF RECORD stance —An unoccupied black car was parked in a Mono Way parkThe Sheriff's Office reported ing lot.

3:28 p.m., reckless driving — A the following: person driving recklessly along South Washington Street almost WEDNESDAY hit a woman.

1:42 a.m., Valley Springs7:18 p.m., suspicious circumSomeone pounded on thefront stances —A man wearing no shirt door of a Milton Road home.

8:18 a.m., Murphys —Some- and blue jeans was possibly under one slept near the back doors to a the influence on East Lyons Street.

Mitchler Avenue thrift store.

10:13 p.m., suspicious circum9:18 a.m., Arnold —A Longman stances — A man wearing no Lane woman'sex-boyfriend came shirt with long brown hair loitered and "tore a bunch ofstuffup"and around a North Washington Street broke the rear window of her car. high school.

9:27 p.m., San Andreas Someone was pushed down the The Sheriff's 0$ce reported stairs at a West Saint Charles the following: Street building.

11:46 p.m., San Andreas — A WEDNESDAY person screamed and yelled on 9:20 a.m., Tuolumne — A Main Street. woman vandalized a man's truck parked on Toyon Court because TUOLUMNE COUNTY he didn't paint her house. The man threw a bucket of water on TheSenoraPolice Department her, came after her with a shovel reported the following: and pointed a "little dark handgun" at her and said he was going WEDNESDAY to blow her head off.

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12:20 p.m., Jamestown — A person driving a beer-delivery truck drove recklessly all over the road.

1:48 p.m., Sonora area —A motorcycle was stolen from a Crystal Lake Drive yard sometime in the night.

1:57 p.m., Jamestown —A Willow Street resident received an explicit text message.

2:35 p.m., Groveland —Spare changeand an old camera inside a leather case was stolen from a Cresthaven Drive vacation home.

2:54 p.m., Sonora area — A Paseo De Los Portales Road woman' s medication was stolen sometime in the night. She was advised to call back with better information and not to allow homeless people to stay in her home.

5:35 p.m., Sonora area — A television was stolen from a Lynn Lane home.

6:38 p™, Sonora area — A woman's purse was stolen from her Fir Drive home.

7:10 p.m., Sonora area — A Crystal Falls Drive man paid $1,000 in unpaid taxes to another man over the phone claiming to be from the IRS. They then called back requesting $20,000.

7:14 p.m., Sonora area — A drunk man on West Brookside Drive caused a disturbance.

7:41 p.m., Groveland — A Mount Jefferson Street woman' s neighbor repeatedly came onto her property and yelled.

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The suit says those inflated prices led to higher co-pays forcustomers that exceeded what they would have paid for the drugs if they had no insurance and participated in a CVS discount program.

"We' ve seen people who pay $20 for a 30-day supply as their copayments on a

drug that was $11.99 for a 90-day supply had they been in the (discount program)," said Kristen Broz, an attorney with Hausfeld, the firm that filed the suit.

The lawsuit seeks class-

comment on it. He said copays are determined by a patient's prescription coverage plan and added that a similar suit in M assachusetts was dismissed.

At issue in the lawsuit is action status,a court order CVS's "Health Savings Pass" prohibiting CVS from engag- program, which ofFers dising in the behavior, and un- counts to customers who do specified damages. not have insurance or choose Broz estimated that hun- not to use insurance on hundredsofthousands ofpeople dredsofgeneric prescription may have been afFected since drugs, including generic ver2008. sions of the antibiotic PeniCVS Health spokesman cillin and the antidepressant Michael DeAngelis said the Prozac, according to the suit.

Rhode Island-based compaInstead of presenting inny had not been served with surance companies with that the lawsuit, so it couldn' t discounted price, CVS re-

ported the higher price that a normal retail customer not in the Health Savings Pass would pay, the lawsuit allege s.

LOWER LAKE (AP) — Triple-digit temperatures and gusty winds thrust Northern California into full-fledged wildfire season Thursday with several new blazes flaring up, forcing hundreds of people from their homes.

California's 14 large fires, mostly in the scorched northern half of the state, are pushing 7,000 firefighters to their limits as they battle flames amid drought, said Daniel Berlant, a spokesman for the California Department of Fire and Forestry Protection.

Dozens of fires started Wednesday, but Berlant said crews quickly corralled all but fiveofthem.

They only need a little wind to allow them to burn at an explosive rate," Berlant said.

People are to blame for most wildfires, but Berlant said California's drought provides the fuel to get the flames burning rapidly.

The California National Guard said Thursday that it is sending in a fleet of nine helicopters — Blackhawks, Chinooks and Lako-

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ney's office says the teen's arraignment is continued to Sept. 21.

KNTV reports Gonzalez, of Santa Cruz, was led into the courthouse by an attorney, his hands cuffed in front of him.

Gonzalez faces a maximum of life in prison if convicted of charges that he bound, raped, sexually assault and killed the girl.

Police say the teen lured Madyson Middleton into his family's apartment from a courtyard at an artists' complex where both lived with their mothers. Police say he then hid her body in a recycling bin.

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At least 650 residents were chased from their homes as the blaze raged in hills covered in dense brush and oak trees and dotted with ranch homes. The fire is burning near

Lower Lake, south of Clear Lake, a popular summer recreationspot.

A separate fire near the small town of Isleton in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River tas — to b ackup Cal Fire crews. The+I douse Delta burned several mobile homes Thursflames with water, evacuate the injured, and day evening.

Scientist: Oil slick off coast likely from natural sea floor seepage LOS ANGELES (AP)Coast Guard officials say it will likely be a couple more days before they can definitively say what caused a miles-long oil slick to materialize off the Santa Barbara County coast this week, but an expert said Thursday it was more than likely the result of ocean-floor seepage.

Beaches all along the coast remained open and crowded Thursday, with health oflicials saying the 3-mile sheen

is harmless to people. That' s in contrast to the mass closure that occurred in the same area in May when a broken pipeline spilled 100,000 gallons of crude oil, fouling sands, seabirds and fishing areas for miles.

days," she said Thursday.

The oil is floating in the Santa Barbara Channel above the Coal Oil Point seep field, a region known for releasing methane and also about 100 barrels of liquid petroleum per day, said JorCoast Guard Petty Officer dan Clark, professor ofearth Andrea Anderson said sam- science and environmental ples of the spill were collect- studies at University of Calied Wednesday and Thursday fornia, Santa Barbara.

It's not uncommon f or and were being sent to a lab for analysis. even larger amounts of oil 'They expect to hear back to occasionally be "burped" aboutthe resultsin a couple from the sea floor, he said, noting that Spanish explorers first documented the natural seepage centuries ago.It' s one of the largest seep fields in the world, he said.

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ies got ofF to a strong start with water use plunging 27 percent in June, regulators said Thursday.

Data released by the State Water Resources Control Board showed 265 of411 local agencies in California hit or nearly reached savings targets.

The governor ordered citiesto reduce water use by 25 percent to prepare in case California's fouryear drought persists.

The savings came during the hottest June on record, which would normally lead to an uptick in water use. Prior savings have occurred during unusually wet months "The June n u mbers tell a story ofconscious

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Brown OKs school bus hijacker parole SACRAMENTO — California's governor is allowing parole for one of three men convicted in the kidnapping of 26 children and their school bus driver nearly 40 years ago.

Gov. Jerry Brown had until midnight Thursday to decide whether to approve parolefor 63-year-old James Schoenfeld or send the case back to the board that recommended his release. The g overnor chose not t o a ct ,

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ity inappropriately used most of the money to stay afloat instead of on marketing. Relativity says that use of the money was never prohibited.

The bankruptcy filing came a day after Relativity announced it was laying ofF 75 of its approximately 350 employees.

The company amassed its fortunes co-financing big budget movies developed by major studios Universal Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment, like "Fast & Furious 6" and "21 Jump Street."

But it stumbled trying to produce and distr ibute hits of its own and had a slew of misses including "Paranoia," a thriller from 2013 that cost $35 million to make but grossed less than $8 million in domestic theaters.

Microsoft: 14M computers running on Windows 10 PALO ALTO — Microsoft says its' new Windows 10 operating system is now running on more than 14 million computers, two days after the softwarewas released as a free download.

That's a far cry from the company's goal of getting Windows 10 onto a billion devices within three years.

Microsoftsays it' s releasing the software in waves to make sure downloads go smoothly.

In a blog post late Thursday,Microsoft said ithasnot yet delivered Windows 10 to everyone who requested a free upgrade for computers running older Windows versions. Microsoft says the 14 million includes some copies installed on new computers sold in stores.

Reaction has been mostly favorable, with reviewers calling the new Windows an improvement over the last version, known as Windows 8.

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tresses, food and water. They eventually managed to dig LONG BEACH — A fire their way out and escaped in an u nderground vault unhurt. knocked out power to at least Schoenfeld, his brother, 30,000 customers in downRichard, and friend Fred town Long Beach on ThursWoods were convicted of kid- day, just two weeks after a senapping the children rang- ries of similar fires le people ing in age from 5 to 14. in the same area in the dark Richard Schoenfeld was for three days. paroled in 2012. Woods could Southern California Edihave a parole hearing this son spokeswoman Susan Cox fall. saidthe latestoutage appears to be similar to the one two weeks ago. At its height, the earlieroutage afFected about 6,300 residents and businesses, and knocked out street LOS ANGELES — Rela- lights throughout the downtivity Media, the struggling town area. "mini major" Hollywood stu— The Associated Press dio behind movies such as "Immortals" and "Mirror Mirror," filed for Chapter 11 July 30 bankruptcy protection Thursday.

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Republican Gov. L arry Hogan said the state would save $10 to $15 million a year by closing the BaltiATLANTA Police more City Detention Cenworked Thursday to identify ter, which houses hundreds two white males who were of inmates awaiting trial or caught on surveillance cam- serving short sentences. Emeralaying Confederate battle ployees and inmates will be flags neatly on the ground reassigned to other facilities, near the Rev. Martin Luther he said.

"There isplenty of capacKing Jr.'s church.

It was the latestprovoca- ity elsewhere in the system tive act involving the Civil to meet this need," Hogan War-era symbol since nine said. "Given the space that black church members were we have, it makes no sense gunned down during Bible whatsoever to keep this destudy in South Carolina, and plorable facility open." it happened in the heart of an area devoted to the slain civil rights leader, near his WORLD birthplace, his crypt and a centerdevoted to preserving his legacy.

Atlanta police Chief George Turner said his agency was working with federal authoriKABUL, Afghanistan ties and they have not deter- The Taliban confirmed the mined what charges might be death of longtime leader levied.Turner said they have Mullah Mohammad Omar not ruled out a hate crime, and appointed his successor though Georgia has no state Thursday, as a new round of hate crimes law. peace talks was indefinitely An officer &om the Atlanta postponed amid c oncerns FBI's joint terrorism task over how committed the new force was on the scene "to bet- leadership is to ending the ter determine if any specific militant group's 14-year inthreatswere received" and to surgency.

The Afghan Taliban Shura, providesupport toAtlanta police, FBI Special Agent Steve or Supreme Council, chose Emmett said in an email.

Mullah Omar's deputy, MulThe Rev. Raphael Warnock, lah Akhtar Mansoor, as its senior pastor at Ebenezer new leader, two Taliban 6gBaptist Church, called placing ures told The Associated the flags on church grounds a Press, saying the seven-mem"terrori sticthreat." ber council had met in the Pakistani city of Quetta.

M ansoor isconsidered close to Pakistani authorities who hosted peace talks earli er this month, and his election NEW YORK — In one of could widen an internal split his first forays into policy as between 6ghters who favor a presidential candidate, Re- negotiations with the Afghan publican Donald Trump calls government and those who for the deportation of all 11 want to continue an insurmillion people estimated to be gency that has gained speed living in the country illegally following the end of the interwhile allowing the "really national combat mission last good people" to return. year.

It'sa plan Trump offers Mansoor has effectively with few speci6cs — and one commanded the m ovement complicated by the messy re- for the three years since Mulalities of the nation's immi- lah Omar's previous deputy gration system. and co-founder of the moveSuch an effort may be more ment, Mullah Abdul Baradar, difficult than Trump realizes was arrested by Pakistani because deporting so many authorities. Observers say he people means finding them has therespect ofbattlefield 6rst. The government does commanders and is behind not know the identities of the intensification of the war many of the millions of people in recent months as a means who have come into the coun- of strengthening the Taliban's try illegally or remained after hand as it enters into a formal their legally issued visas ex- dialogue with Kabul. pired. Locating immigrants who don't have a legal immigrationstatus has stymied of6cials for decades.

Deporting them all "is impractical and is opposed by a ATHENS, Greece — Greek largemajority ofAmericans," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipsaid Clint Bolick, an Arizona ras has defeated a bid by lawyer who co-authored a dissenters in his l e - wing book on immigration policy Syrizaparty to push for an with former Florida Gov. Jeb end to bailout talks and an Bush, himself a GOP presi- exit from the euro currency. dential candidate.

Syriza's governing cenDuring a n int e r view tral committee early today Wednesday on CNN, Trump backed a proposal by Tsipras said the "good ones" could to hold an emergency party return via an "expedited" pro- conference in September, afcess and then remain in the ter the talks have been concountry legally. cluded.

Dissenters had sought a conference earlier, pressing the government toabandon ongoing negotiations with rescue lenders.

BALTIMORE — M a r yThe decision followed a land's governor announced dramatic 12-hour meeting plans Thursday to imme- by the 200-member central diately shut down Balti- committee, during w hich more's state-run jail, where party rebels appealed for inmates and guards ran a Greece to return to it s n acriminal conspiracy inside tional currency, the drachma. vermin-infested, 19th-cen— The AssociatedPress tury walls and thwarted de-

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Taliban confirm Mullah Omar's death, successor

Trump's call for mass deportations

Greece's Tsipras prevails over rebels

W in art cou e s ove w at a e n e t o M H 7 SAINT-ANDRE, Reunion Even if it is confirmed to (AP) — A barnacle-encrusted be a long-awaited 6rst clue to wing part that washed up on the disappearanceof Flight a remote Indian Ocean island 370, there's no guarantee incould help solve one of avia- vestigators can still find the tion'sgreatest mysteries,as plane's recorders or other reinvestigators work to connect mains.

French authorities moved it to the Malaysia Airlines flight that vanished more the plane piece &om the than a year ago. beach tothe local airporton The surprise discovery of Reunion, and will send it the debris on a rocky beach next to the city of Toulouse, stirred hopes and emotion where it may arrive Saturamong families of the miss- day morning, according to the ing,afl er a year and a half Paris prosecutor's office. of grieving and &ustration Toulouse is the hub of Euat alack of answers, despite rope's aerospace industry, a wide, deep and expensive with the headquarters of multinational search effort in Airbus and a network ofhanthe southern Indian Ocean, gars and plane facilities. The the China Sea and the Gulf of plane part will be analyzed in Thailand. special defense facilities used

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decisions WASHINGTON (AP)Congress is heading out for a five-week summer recess

in anything but a cheerful vacation mood, leaving behind a pile of un6nished business that all but guarantees a painful fall.

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President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, a brutally divisive issue that many lawmakers expect will dominate voter town halls during their annual August break.

And, as more videos emerge showing disturbing fetal tissue collection practices, Republicans are increasingly focused on cutting off funding for Planned Parenthood, raising the prospect that C ongress will spend September tied in knots over how to avoid shutting down the government over that issue.

Later in the fall or winter, Congress will have to raise the federal debt limit, another issue ripe for brinkmanship, especially given the presence in the Senate of several presidential candidates adamantly opposed to an increase.

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coast, expressed hope today that the part would help solve the baffling mystery that has left the families of those on board in an agonizing limbo.

"Nothing has been confirmed, but obviously this is, by far, the most encouraging sign so far," Abbott told Sydney radio station 2SM. 'We have long thought it went down somewhere in the Indian Ocean and, at last, it seems that we may be on the verge of some confirmation."

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The waters where Olympians will compete in swimming and boating events next summer

and dismayed competitors training in Rio, some of whom have already have fallen ill with fevers, vomiting and diarrhea. i n South America's first games are ri f e These ailments could knock an athlete with human sewage and present a seri- out for days, potentially curtailing Olymous health risk for athletes, an Associated pics dreams and the years of hard training Press investigation has found. behind them.

"This is by far the worst water quality The AP analysis of water quality revealeddangerously high levels of viruses we' ve ever seen in our sailing careers," and bacteria from sewage in venues where said Ivan Bulaja, a coach for the Austrian athletes will compete in water sports. Nev- team, which has spent months training on ertheless, an Olympic official said Thurs- the Guanabara Bay. "I am quite sure if you day there are no plans to monitor for vi- swim in this water and it goes into your ruses, which many experts consider the mouth or nose that quite a lot of bad things biggest problem. are coming inside your body."

In the first independent comprehensive Sailor David Hussl has already fallen ill.

"I' ve had high temperatures and probtesting for both viruses and bacteria at the Olympic sites, the AP conducted four lems with my stomach," Hussl said. "It' s rounds of tests starting in March. The re- always one day completely in bed and then sults have alarmed international experts usually not sailing for two or three days."

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Air safety investigators, includingone from Boeing,have identi6ed the c omponent found on the French island of Reunion as a from the trailing edge ofa Boeing 777 wing, a U.S. official said.

The official wasn't authorized to be publicly named.

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BOOMS Continued from Page Al Friday, between the hours of 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Methods of disposal include blowing up explosives.

"They' re using explosives to destroy explosives," White said. 'They want the explosion so big it actually vaporizes the metal."

White determined the depot as the probable originof the booms after a chance meeting last August with researchers &om Southern Methodist University in Texas, who installed a sensor at Columbia College as part of a larger project to monitor nuclear and conventional bomb detonations in other parts of the world.

"This was just another tool to detect nuclear and other large bombs that someone might be testing far away," he said.

White found out SMU researchers have been working with the Hawthorne base for over adecade,using explosions atthe site to help calibrate their sensors, which is one of the reasons they chose Columbia College as a location.

While the team was installing the sensor last summer, White said they actually heard and felt the booms themselves.

"They said it was so loud it shook the enclosure where their instruments are kept," he said.

The booms have long intrigued White, a geologist .He setup a Facebook group in 2014 called "Mother Lode Mystery Booms" where residentscan share theirexperiences.

White said he's heard many theories about the origin of the booms, with some blaming them on seismic activity, mining operations, top-secret military aircraft testing and even aliens.

"If it's secret military testing or secret mining, they' re not doing a very good job at keeping ita secret,"he said."These are awful big booms."

White also dismissed the idea of the loud noises being caused by seismic activity or

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M any on White' s Facebook page have reported hearing the noises midday during the workweek, which coincides with the Hawthorne base's ammunition disposal schedule.

White said the noises could be traveling so far because of the energy waves &om the explosions bouncing off atmospheric layers.

They are typically heard during the summer months when conditions are just right, he added.

'The thickness of the atmosphere, the temperature, density in the air — all of that contributes to how these energy waves bounce off the atmospheric layers," he said.

Those who live near the military installation may not even hear the explosions because of what White described as a "zone of silence."

White said that people who lived near Mount St. Helens when it erupted in 1980 reportedly couldn't hear the noises from the volcano, while others who lived farther away

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"People tend to imagine that energy waves from an explosion would radiate out uniformly, but waves bend and re&act," he said. "So people that are maybe 20 miles away from these huge explosions don't even hear it."

White wrote in his report that it "does not attempt to address the 'mystery booms' reportedoutside ofthe Mother Lode region, nor is there any attempt to explain anecdotal reportsofhistoricalbooms."

He also acknowledged it doesn't explain reports from residents of booms heard during the night or on weekends, which he said would require more testing.

Still, some are skeptical that any of the noises are coming from the Hawthorne base.

'They' re sure that maybe I'm part of the cover up and it's really secret military weapons or all kinds of wild things," he said. "Science is based on skepticism, it's good. But if they have an alternative hypothesis, put your dataout there ... It should be able to stand up to the scrutiny."

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The cause of the fire was being investigated, Lisa WilContinued from Page A1 liams of Cal Fire's TuolumneCalaveras Unit said in an ing to Cal Fire. One helicopter the Forest Service did a update. was assigned along with one Firefighters worked to build air traffic control plane. fantasticj ob on initial containment lines around the Evacuations were l ifted attack. Zhey had a lot burn area as heat and wind and the evacuation center set speeds increased this afterup at Groveland Community offire they were dealing noon, Williams said.

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Thursday, Tuolumne County stressed forest with its Sheri6"s Sgt. Scott Johnson — Capt. Gordon O' Neill of Station thousands of dead trees has said.

330, Solvang in Santa Barbara created an u n precedented Steve and Sue Salmick, County danger to firefighters and resof Hells Hollow, were not idents alike," Williams said.

"Frequent spotfi res across at home when the fire first broke out about 4:30 p.m. the line into this dense, dry, Wednesday, butthey returned from a blackened creek bed. heavy timber are major chal'The fire came up here lenges, raising the possibility an hour later, Steve Salmick said. and bumped the road yester- of steadily worsening fire ac"We had time to get the day," O' Neill said. "The wind tivity." two dogs and one cat and our shifted &om northwest to the P ower lines in t h e a r ea valuable papers," Salmick south and caused the fire to were de-energized at Cal request to protect firesaid Thursday. "We' re always jump the road to the other Fire's packed and ready to go this side of containment lines. fighters, Williams said. The time of year.

Today we' re mopping up to fire had not damaged the aWe could see the smoke make sure all of it's dead out. lines, and they will be re-en'They had some close calls ergized when it's safe to do so. plume and heat on the other side ofthe ridge.The sheriff in here," O' Neill said. 'The loFirefighters &om Los Anhad already been here asking cal guys with Cal Fire and the geles County and San Berpeople to leave," Salmick said. ForestService did a fantastic nardino County were among "They put a lot of manpower job on initial attack. They had the crews at work containing and equipment on it f ast. a lotoffire they were dealing the burn area Thursday. PerThey had three bombers and with." sonnel with the Forest Sertwo helicopters, all the airEngineerAdam Knight, of vice, Tuolumne County Fire Cal Fire's San Andreas Sta- Department, Stanislaus Conpower they had."

Capt. Gordon O' Neill of tion, said he and firefighter solidated,Copperopolis Hre, Station 330, Solvang in San- Justin Melendez were try- Central Fire, San Andreas ta Barbara County, said he ing to put out hotspots near Fire, Georgetown, Diamond and his strike team arrived Sprague Road East.

Springs,Groveland Commu"It's hot and dry in here be- nity Services District, Lathabout 3:30 a.m. Thursday.

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A photo provided by Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada shows an explosion from detonating obsolete or excess munitions. Glen White, a science instructor at Columbia College, believes the explosions could be the source of so-called "mystery booms" sometimes heard by residents throughout the Mother Lode region.

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The Medical Board of Californiagranted an ex parte petition July 17 for an Interim Suspension Order (ISO) which suspended Lori Sostock's medical license.

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Howell just completed her second year at Cuesta Community College in San Luis Obispo where she is majoring Sonora native Taylor Howell will in agribusiness with a minor in accountspend thenext year traveling torodeos ing. She is president of the Cuesta Coland events in California in her new po- lege rodeo team and was crowned Miss sition as Miss California Rodeo Salinas. Cuesta Rodeo. She has another year of Howell, 20, is the daughter of Gary school at Cuesta, then plans to transfer and Krista Howell, of Sonora. She was to California Polytechnic University, the 2012 Mother Lode Roundup Queen San Luis Obispo, to continue her eduwhile a student at Sonora High School. cation toward becoming a CPA. Howell She attended Columbia Elementary alsohopes to make a career asa reined School. cow horse trainer.

"She did a really amazing job. We Howell has competed in numerous were really proud of her," mom Krista horse-cutting, barrel-racing and poleHowell said of the Salinas competition. bending events, including two years in "It's a tough contest." the high school rodeo circuit. She parBy LACEY PETERSON The Union Democrat

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Volunteers are needed to interview World War II veterans in Tuolumne County.

The stories of veterans will be posted on the website of the nonprofit Memoir Center. The mission of the Veterans History Project is to collect and preserve the stories of World War II veterans living in Tuolumne County, explained chief memoirist Chace Anderson, of Sonora.

Interviewers spend between six and 20 hours interviewing World War II veterans, then transcribe the stories from the taperecorded interview.

Veterans receive three free copies of their completed stories.

To volunteer, contact Chace Anderson at 5361755 or email chaceI seniorfan.corn or editorl seniorfan.corn.

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ticipated in 4-H and gymkhana and received numerous equestrian-related awards and recognitions.

Outside of the arena, Howell competed in several varsity-level teams in high school, as well as ski racing events in the Far West Ski Racing Circuit.

Howell rose to the top against four other girls competing for the Salinas crown. Her duties will include promoting the California Rodeo, attending rodeos and other functions to represent the rodeo.

In college rodeo, Howell competes in barrel racing and breakaway racing.

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On July 7, Congress approvedplans to offer new veteran ID cards to honorably dischargedservice members, in an efFort to more easily prove their military service.

The m e asure p a ssed through the Senate and House without o bjection, but took severalyears to get through Congress. The Obama administration has

'Leadership' night set for Aug. 12 The application period for Leadership Tuolumne Seniors is open, and organizers invite local residents to enroll and find out what "life part II" is about.

An information session will be held at 6 p.m. Aug. 12 at the Sonora Area Foundation office at 362 S. Stewart St., Sonora.

The program is designed to attract active baby boomers, retirees and others who want to get involved in local government, nonprofit agencies, committees and other kinds of community service.

There is no minimum or maximum age requirement, but it is geared toward people moving into the next chapter in their life, post-career, said chairman Carleton Penwell, of Columbia.

The 2015 class will begin Sept. 17, and the first 15 people who apply will be admitted.

There is a $350 tuition fee that includes materials, events, refreshments andmeals.

It is open to Tuolumne and Calaveras county residents. All graduates are asked to participate for at least one year after graduation in one or more Leadership Tuolumne Seniors committees or special events.

Applications are available by calling Carleton Penwell at 532-8583 or emailing carpatl mlode.corn.

The program is held each Wednesday for nine weeks, and each week there is a different topic like government overview, economics of aging and encore careers, community service opportunities, health and wellness, and arts and recreation.

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expressed reservations about

the need for the new IDs, but has not threatened to veto the legislation.

The measure, sponsored by Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., would create official VA cards for all veterans, instead of only those who qualify for certain health care and financial benefits.

Supporters called it a simple move to honor the sacrifice and service of veterans.

"This legislation will assist veterans in proving that they are indeed veterans," said Rep. Mark Takano, DCalif. "The majority of service m embers leave before retire-

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Five generations of Jeanne Herick Willhoite's family has worked at Brown's Coffee House and Sweets Saloon in Columbia. Representing three generations are (from left): Milena Brown, of Virginia Beach, Jeanne Willhoite, of Sonora,and Becky Crum, of Tuolumne.

Five generations worked at Columbia cafe wasn't thrilled about back then.

"People were wearing street clothes" before that, Jeanne Willhoite Columbia State Historic Park recalled. has a special place in the hearts of Willhoite later joined the original Jeanne Herick Willhoite's family. staff at The City Hotel and the girls Five generations of her family have wore Jessica McClintock Gunne worked at Brown's Coffee House and Sax dresses that looked very much Sweets Saloon. like Gold Rush-period clothing, she In 1960, Willhoite's parents, Dale said. Willhoite went on to be a tax and Happy Herick bought Mellor's accountant.

Candy Store in the Heyneman buildWillhoite said she grew up in ing from Ted and Elaine Mellor, an Columbia and enjoyed going to street old Columbia family. dances and meeting interesting Willhoite's grandmother Florence tourists visiting the town, and getColby worked in the shop, too. ting to know the colorful local crowd.

It was Happy Herick who started A group of local men used to ride wearing period clothing and had her throughtown and pretend tohave daughter, Jeanne, dress like a Gibshoot outs, she said. son Girl," to which Jeanne says she They weren't paid or hired by anyBy LACEY PETERSON The Union Democrat

body, they just did it for fun, she said.

The Herick's had Mellor's until 1975, when Happy Herick died. The next owner's named it Brown's and m ade the store a bitsm aller,because they also owned the neighboring store, Towle and Leavitt. Then Mike and Cheryl Nelson took over the business, Willhoite said. It's just a coincidence the business was named Brown's and are no relation to Willhoite's first husband or her children.

Willhoite's daughter, Becky BrownCrum, of Twain Harte went to work for them. She is 45 now and worked there from 2008 to 2012. She's now a massage therapist.

"I grew up on the streets of CoSee BROWN'S / Page B2

ment ... and are sometimes

challengedtoprovide proofof their honorable service. This is a simple way to resolve this issue."

The cards would not replace medical IDs or official defenseretiree IDs for veterans, and could not be used as proof of eligibility for obtaining federal benefits.

But they would serve as easy proofof military service for many veterans who complain they have to carry around copies of their discharge paperwork to get discounts orservices at a host of

private businesses.

Buchanan argued t h at practice is at best cumbersome and at w orst unsafe,

given the personal information included on those official documents.

Veterans requesting the IDs would have to pay a small See VETS / Page B2

Sonora High class of '65 reunion plans underway Union Democrat staff

Planning for the Sonora High School Class of 1965's 50th reunion is in the works, and some classmates are being sought by organizers.

Classmates being sought include: William Allen, Lee Ann Barrett, Jeff Cline, Janet Coop Moore, Allen Skip Farley, Yvonne Frazier, Bob Fries, Bob Jones, LeRoy Lang, Mike Mager, Russel Martin, Annabell Moore Anderson, Joe Peterson, Steve Peterson,

Wanda Rice Souza, Ken Taylor, Terrylin Scott, Susan Teem Lacy, William Todd, Robert Wedel and Mike Wilson.

Anyone with information on the whereaboutsof classmates can call 532-2995 or 532-3306.

The reunion will take place Aug. 21 through 23.

Classmates will begin gathering at 6p.m.Aug. 21 for pizza and salad in the upstairs banquet room at The Peppery restaurant, 13949 Mono Way in East Sonora.

Saturday morning at 10:30, alumni are invited to the Sonora Elks Lodge to meet and greet classmates arriving from out of town. Anyone wishing to help decorate for the main invent is invited to do so.

The main reunion will begin at 5:30p.m.Aug. 22 at the Elks Lodge.

A no-host bar and appetizers will be available. The main event, at 7 p.m., will include a DVD program, buffet dinner, entertainment by The Blues Brothers DJs, who will play music

from the 1960s and '70s.

Weekend festivities will continue at 11 a.m. Aug. 23 at the picnic grounds at Columbia State Historic Park.

Cost for the reunion is$50 per person and includes a 'Then and Now" album. Additional albums can be purchased for $14 each. To reserve an album, call 532-2995 or 532-3306.

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HOWELL Continued from Page Bl She has ridden horses her entire life, including cow and cutting horses.

Howell said she ran for queen because "it's a lot of fun," and she enjoys being abletopromote rodeos.

"Seeing all the little kids faces — how excited they are to see us — makes it

really worthwhile," Howell said.

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The California Rodeo Salinasisprobably the second hardest queen contest, next to Miss Rodeo California competition, Howell said.

"It's aprettytough competition. They want who is going to represent them best," Howell said.

The contest had four categories— personality,horsemanship, appearance and scholastics, which included an SAT-like test.

The girl shad torideapattern on a horse and switch horses. They were judged on how well they interviewed both behind the scenes and on stagein front of a large crowd.

When Howell was named queen, she said it was a greatfeeling.

"It was almost unbelievable, it was so exciting. I'm still not off cloud nine," Howell said.

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Sonora native Taylor Howell was named Mother Lode Roundup Queen in 2012. says m givmg answers."

Howell said she received a lot of support from Tuolumne County residents both in person at the contest and online.

"I want t o t h ank my hometown for supporting me so much. It meant a lot.

For someone from such a small town to have so much

support — they were proud a Sonora girl went out and did so much," Howell said.

Sonora native Kendra Brennan also won the Miss California Rodeo Salinas title in 2011.

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"It does kind of build character — having to speak in public and know what you' re talking about. It's a humbling experience," Howell said. "I was rewarded for going with what my heart

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Johanna Filippi, of Big Oak Flat (left), purchases granola from Milena Brown at Brown's.

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"I think it's really cool that my relatives have worked Continued from Page Bl here too," Melina Brown said.

Brown's is currently operlumbia," Brown-Crum said. atedby Jake and Angela Mat"It's just such a sweet little ulich, of Columbia. Angela heritage.

Ijustfeelvery con- Matulich is Cheryl Nelson's nected here." sister.

"Kids come in and drank When the H erick's had sarsaparilla and we did the Brown's it also served as the same thing 25 years ago," town library,Brown-Crum Brown-Crum said. said.

This summer, Willhoite's The Mellor's and Nelson's granddaughter, M elina also used to make taffy in the Brown, 15, of Virginia Beach, back room, where an old tafFy Virginia, came to California pull is still on the wall. to spend the summer with One of Willhoite's favorher grandparents and got ite memories of Columbia a job at Brown's scooping was one of the first Glorious ice cream and helping cus- Fourth of July celebrations tomers. She is the daugh- back in 1975, that was so Family members Milena Brown, Jeanne Willhoite and ter of Willhoite's son, David enormous, Gov. Ronald Rea- Becky Crum haveallworked at Brown's Coffee Shop and Brown. gan attended.

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fee, to be determined by Veterans AfFairs officials. That fee would cover the cost of the program.

The measure heads to the White House to be signed into law. No time frame has been established for when the first ID cards might be issued.

Source: The Military Times

Aetna and Humanafinalize merger Aetna and Humana Inc. announced on July 3 that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Aetna will acquire all outstanding shares of Humana for a combination of cash and

on July 2, 2015.

In a news release, the companies said, "The complementary combination brings together Humana's growing Medicare Advantage business with Aetna's diversified portfolio and commercial capabilit ies to create a company serving the most seniors in the Medicare Advantage program and the second-largest managed care company in the United States.

The combined entity will help drive better value and higher-quality health care by reducingadministrative costs,leveraging best-in-breed practices from the two companies — including Humana's chronic-care capabilities that measurably improve health outcomes for larger

populations — and enabling the company to better compete with more cost effective products."

ARer closing Aetna will make Louisville the headquarters for its Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE businesses, and will maintain a significant corporate presence in Louisville.

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Our nation ln mourning These veterans died on this date: FlavioMeza, 88.Nov.20,1931 — July 20, 2015. Meza served in the U.S. Army in the field artillery.

Eugene Seaholm Smith, 86. Dec. 17, 1929- July 17,2015. Smith served in the U.S. Army in Japan and Korea. He was also in the California National Guard.

CARD GAMEs Mother Lode card clubs have announced these scores: Mother Lode D u plicate Bridge meets at noon every Monday and Tuesday at the Union Congregational Church in Angels Camp: July 20 , s ix-table Howell movement — 1) David Jenkins and Bonnie Landis; 2) Jerrie Bal-

lard and Duane Oneto; 3) Joan Thorsen and Ora Beth Nelson; 4) Yvonne Tiscorniaand Jo Mcinturf July 21, three-table Howell movement — 1) Don Cross and Bonnie Landis; 2) Mike Hankin and Gienna Larson Gold Country Duplicate Bridge meet atnoon Wednes-

days at the Caiaveras Senior Center in San Andreas: July 22, fi ve-table Howell movement — 1) Linda Spear and Sophie Baker; 2) Duane Oneto and Mary Crook; 3) Gienna Larson and Don Stiiiweii; 4) Frankie and DickThorsted Sonora Duplicate Bridge meets at 12:30 p.m. Fridays at

the Tuolumne County Senior Center in Sonora: July 24, si x -table Howell movement — 1) David Jenkins and Wendy Favero; 2) Ron Michaeiisand Dick Rosenbaum; 3) Mike Hankinand Sonny Bailey; 4-tie) Roger Hanion and James Anderson, Frankie and DickThorsted

t,undies for seniors Tuolumne County Senior Centerserves lunches atl2:00 to I p.m. Monday through Fri-

day. Seniors of all ages are welcome. For seniors 60 andover,the suggested donation is $4.50.To receive the discount price, registration is required. For non-registered and individuals under

60 the fee is $6.00 per person. No eligible senior is denied a meal for inability to donate.

Tuolumne County Senior Center: MONDAY, August 3 —Beef stew with carrot, potato and onion, zucchini and yellow squash, grapes, banana muffin, wheat roll with margarine.

TUESDAY, August4 — Baked ham, macaroni salad, romaine saladwith tomato and carrot, broccoli, tropical fruit, wheat bread with margarine.

WEDNESDAY, August 5 — Egg bake with green chile, brown rice, mixed green spinach salad,California gold veggies ,peaches,w heatbread w i th ~ne. Sala dbaraw k able onWednesday.

THURSDAY, August 6 — Roast turkey, mashed potatos with gravy,mixed green salad,grmn beans,cranberry relish, wheat bread with margarine FRIDAY, August 7 — Italian sausagerotini with marinara sauce, romain salad with carrots,grmn peas, tropical fruit, wheat bread with malgarine.

The Calaveras Senior Center serves hot lunches m I I:00 a.m.to I p.m. Monday through Friday with no

age limit. $6.00 for a f'ull meal,soup and salad$4.00,salad $3.00 and soup $2.00.

CaIaveras County Senior Center: MONDAY, August 3 —Hot dawgs, sides, soup and salad.

TUESDAY, August 4 — Asian chicken, sides, soup and salad.

WEDNESDAY, August 5 — Spaghetti and meat balls, sides, soup and salad.

THURSDAY, August 6 — Turkey wrap, sides, soup and salad.

FRIDAY, August 7 — Seasoned fettuccine, sides, soup and salad. *High sodium mealNienu subject to change.

No reservation is required at the Calaveras County Senior Centers.

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EVENTS A benefit concert for AgapeProject25 will be held from 7to 10 p.m. today at211 S. Washington St., Sonora.

AgapeProject25 is a group of artists whose intent is to "uphold the cause of the orphan, poor and needy by providingfood, shelter, safe water, and a future," stated a press release. The current project is building homes in Santa Panchu, Nicaragua.

The evening of live music will include performances by recordingartists Isa Agape, Nina Landis, The ii & Noah Jenks and special guest speaker Dani Johnson. Food and drink will be available for purchase.

Tickets cost $20 in advance or $25 atthe door. Tickets can be purchased online

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Joshua Way, Sonora. Register at 532-4639.

Sierra Bible Church will host an art exhibit and dessertevent from 5 to 9 p.m.

Aug. 7 at the church Worship Center.

Admission is free.

An Italian dinner will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. that day for $10 per person.

Dinner tickets are required and available for purchase in the church office during the week or at the Welcome Cen-

ter on Sunday mornings.

Sierra Bible Church is at 15171 Tuolumne Road, Sonora.

The Mother Lode Jewish Community will host a summer gathering, "Sunday in at www . eventbrite.corn/ej' the Sun, A Lakeside Potluck agapeproject25-live-show- Party," on Aug. 16 at Lake tickets-17628550469. They Tulloch. are also available at Runway The event will be a casual Xchange in downtown Sono- socialget-together,a tim e for ra or Twain Harte Miniature people to catch up with old Golf. friends and share their sumFor more information, go mer adventures as well as online t o w w w.AgapePro- meet some new faces, state a ject25.corn. press release.. Non-members interested in meeting others All S a i n ts ' C a t h olic in the local Jewish commuChurch will host its Aloha nity are welcome.

Parish Festival at 6 p.m. SatTo attend, email the Mothurday at the church, Joaquin er Lode Jewish Community Gully at Cherokee Drive in at motherlodejc@yahoo.co rn Twain Harte. or call 533-1650.

Festivities will include a dinner of ham with pineapple Mountain Christian Felsalsa, barbecue chicken with lowship in Murphys recently island sides, drinks and des- started a new round of Griefsert.

Share classes on Tuesdays.

Live entertainment will be Classes run f rom 6 :30 provided, including a band to 8:30 p.m. every Tuesday and the S'More Ukes group. through Sept. 29. The church There will be games for chil- is at 3488 E. Highway 4 in dren.

Murphys. It will be facilitatDinner tickets cost $15 for ed by assistant pastor Doug adults and $6 for children Nielsen. For more informaages 6 to 12. Children under tion, call 728-2250.

6 are free. Pre-event dinner ticketsare $12, available at St. Susanna Orthodox the parish office.

Church will not hold Bible The main raffie prize is a classes on Tuesday.

Hawaiian getaway for two, Instead, the series of onplus many more prizes. Tick- going Catechism c lasses ets for the raffie, theme bas- for entry into the Orthodox kets and silent auction are C hristian Church will r e availableat the event or at sume at 6 p.m. each Tuesday the parish office. evening. Students will study the Catechism series written Mount Calvary Luther- by Orthodoxeducator,Father an Church in Sugar Pine Thomas Hopko, and the New will host a reunion at 10 a.m. King James translation of the Sunday.

Bible.

The church invites memFor more information, call bers, former members and 352-6791. St. Susanna Orthofriends all to attend the wor- dox Church is at 10825 Robship service and barbecue. inwood Lane, at the intersecFor more information, call tion of Jamestown Road, in thechurch offi ce at586-3616. Sonora.

Free meals, food

theran Church in S ugar • The Amador-Tuolumne Pine holds several events Community Action Agency each month to help the comdistributes food from 10 a.m. munity. to noon on the third Tuesday Events include: - Senior Exercise, 10:30 of each month at All Saints' Catholic Church, corner of a.m. every Thursday JoaquinGullyand Cherokee - Senior Lunch, noon to roads in Twain Harte, and 1 p.m. every Thursday (call at Tuolumne Memorial Hall, 586-8166 for reservations) Fir Avenue in Tuolumne; - Parish Food Pantry, 10 A-TCAA Food Bank, 10059 a.m. to noon, first Tuesday of Victoria Way, Jamestown; each month Church of the Forty Niners, Worship services begin at 11155 Jackson St., Colum- 10 a.m. weekly. bia; Lake Don Pedro Baptist The church is at 24176 Church, 4175 Abeto St., La Pine Lake Drive. Call 586Grange;Mount Calvary Lu- 3616 for more information.

• Murphys Covenant theran Church, 24176 Pine Lake Drive, Sugar Pine; Church hosts "His KitchSonora Baptist C h urch, en," a ministry of free hot 412 Stockton Road, Sonora; meals offered from noon to Tuolumne County Senior 1 p.m. each Thursday at the Center, 540 Greenley Road, church, 34 Jones St. Sonora; Tuolumne Veter• Seventh-day Adventist ans Memorial Hall, 18375 Community Services, 87 S. Fir Ave., Tuolumne. They Forest Road, Sonora, offers distribute10 a.m. to 2 p.m. clothing, small appliances, Monday through Thursday blankets, sheets, l i nens, and Friday by appointment shoes and coats to anyone at Columbia College. They in need from 9 a.m. to noon also distribute from 10 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays. to noon the Friday after the Groceries are given out third Tuesday at Groveland Mondays and Wednesdays.

Evangelical Free Church, For more i n f ormation 19172 Ferretti Road, Grove- about services or making a land. donation, call 532-1872.

• All Saintsoperates a • The Food Pantry profood pantry from 10 a.m. to gram at Sierra Bible Church noon all other Tuesdays. distributes food on Tues• Columbia Presbyterian d ays, Wednesdays a n d Church of the 49ers offers Thursdays from 10 to 11:30 free food and clothing each a.m. in the office conference week. room at 1 5 171 Tuolumne Helen Johnson Commu- Road, Sonora.

• St. Matthew Lutheran nity Dinner, &ee to all, is served at 6 p.m. every Mon- Church hosts a free lunch day in the church social hall, at the Lambert Community 11155 Jackson St., Colum- Drop-in Center on the last bia.Donations are accepted Saturdayofeach month. but not required. Free showThe lunch is served from ersareoffered preceding the noon to 1 p.m. at the Cendinner from 5 to 6 p.m. ter, 347 Jackson St., Sonora.

- ATCAA Food Bank dis- The Center is open from 11 tributesfood at 10 a.m. a.m. to 4 p.m. for fellowship on third Tuesdays of each BIld games. month inLower Sanctuary.

- Nancy's Hope Community Center, located on the church campus, is open daily from 9 to 4:30 p.m. weekdays and 10 to 4 p.m.

Saturdays. Many free programs are available. Call 533-2647.

Call the church at 5322441 for more information.

MONDAY • Faith Lu t h eran Now you are the body Church, 65 Mitchler St., of Christ and members Murphys, hosts a food commodities distribution on individually. the first Thursday of each 1Cor 12:27 NKJ month including dry and canned goods. There is TUESDAY alsoa food bag distribution Do not be overcome by

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St. Matthew Lutheran Church will hold a free Vacation Bible School from 9 a.m. to noon Aug. Monday through Aug. 7 for children in kindergarten through sixth grade.

The theme is "Conquering Challengers with God' s Mighty Power."

The church is at 13880

Union C o ngregational Church in Angels Camp is offering&ee lattes,iced orhot, throughout summer.

The church, 1141 Main Street in Angels Camp, will serve the drinks from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. every Sunday.

For information about the church or its services, call 736-4171.

'The Book of Mormon' gets rousing reception in Salt Lake City SALT LAKE CITY (AP)The biting satirical musical that mocks Mormons received a rousing reception in its firstever showing in the heart of Mormon country, kicking off a sold-out, two-week run at a Salt Lake City theater.

The a udience cheered wildly Tuesday as the Tony Award-winning 'The Book of Mormon" began, with the show's gleefully naive missionaries singing in Pont of a backdrop of the Salt Lake City skyline and Mormon temple that resembles the real one just two blocks away.

They laughed loudly as the jokes played out, many touching on Mormon lingo and culture that is intimately familiar in Utah. Some of the most raucous applause came during a scene when an African

character sings, "Salt Lake City, the most perfect place on Earth." At the conclusion, attendees at the Capitol Theater crowd gave the actors a standing ovation.

Despite the jokes and jabs

that create a caricature of

Mormon beliefs, there were no protests outside and no mass walkouts during opening night. The playbill includedthree advertisements from the Mormon church, including a picture of a smiling man with the words: 'You' ve seen the play, now read the book."

day through Wednesday, available once a month to local residents, in conjunction with the Murphys Senior Center, co-located on the campus.

For more information, call 728-2041.

• I nterfaith C ommunity Social Services, 18500 StrikerCourt, off Tuolumne Road, Sonora, helps those in need with food, clothing, household linens, showers and haircuts. The program is in need of towels, blankets, sleeping bags, tents, can openers, pots and pans, small working appliances, silverware, toiletries, bath towels, layettes for babies and linens. There also is a special need for canned soup and cold cereal.

It isopen 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekdays.

Anyone seeking services should bring i dentification or proof of Tuolumne County residency.

For more information, call 532-0905.

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• St. Patrick's Catholic Church serves a free breakfastfrom 6:30to8 a.m .every Tuesday and Thursday in the parish hall at 127 Jackson St., Sonora. Everyone is welcome.

• Tuolumne United Methodist Church offers free food to anyone in need from 10 to 11 a.m. every Saturday. The church is at 18851 Cedar St., in Tuolumne. For more information, call 928-1376 or 206-3090.

gram at 7 p.m.

The program is designed to help those struggling with hurts, hang-ups and habits.

• Celebrate Recovery, a fellowshipto celebrate God's healing power through the 12 Steps and 8 Recovery Principles, is held at 6:30 p.m. every Monday atthe Sonora Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Separate groups for men and women are offered for anyone suffering with chemical and alcohol addictions, codependency, grief recovery, anger, food addiction, divorce and physical, sexual or Support groups emotional abuse.

FOCUS ministries, a A freedinner is also offaith-based support group fered. for women going through The church is at 40 N. Fordifficult times, is held from est Road in Sonora.

6:30 to 8:30 p.m. each MonCall 532-3337 for more inday in t h e P r omiseland formation.

Building, Room F, at Sierra • Celebrate Recovery, a Bible Church, 15171 Tu- church-sponsored support olumne Road near Stan- group for t hose recoverdard Park. ing from substance abuse Women facing domestic and other life issues meets violence, divorce or separa- Mondays at Tulloch Bible tion are invited to attend Church, 3566 S p angler the confidential group. All Lane, Copperopolis. Dinner women, Christian and non- is served at 6:30 p.m., and Christian alike, are invited the meeting begins at 7 p.m. to take part.

For more information, call The group is facilitated 743-4594.

• A cancer support group, under the umbrella of Sierra Bible Church.

Snuff Out Cancer, meets at For more i nformation, 7:30 p.m. on the third Thurscall 206-4055 or 532-1381. day of each month at Family • Sierra Bible Church Community Church in AnCelebrate Recovery meets gels Camp. The church is on e very Thursday i n t h e Main Street, with a secondYouth Portable at 15171 fioor entrance on Raspberry Tuolumne Road, Sonora.

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Cooper ready to carry big load

LA trade -The Los Angeles Dodgers were involvedThursday in a three team, 13-player trade.C3

Destruction plans — UFC champ Ronda Rousey goes to Brazil Saturday with a definite plan of attack.C2

BRIEFING

By MICHAEL WAGAMAN The Associated Press

Poevich rolls top

scores on lanes

High Roller league bowler Robert Porovich had the lanes were sizzling July14as he rolled boththe high game and series for men.

Porovich finished with a high game of 276 and a 716 series. It was the only 700 series for this report.

Over in Helakno Full House, the women' s high game and series was rolled July 23 by Amanda Klaahsen. She ended the night with a 193/515.

There are a few more notable games and series to mention which included Dan Isam rolling a 266/695 in the High Rollers league and also a 256/696 in Helakno Full House.

Also in the Helakno league, Patrick Pillsbury bowled 655 series.

The sole inductee into the "I can't believe I beat myself" club for this report is CJ Lattin, of High Rollers, who was 79 pins over his average game with a 244.

NAPA — Oakland Raiders' rookie wide receiver Amari Cooper arrived for the start

of training camp looking to make up for lost time.

T he fou r t h o verall pick i n the draft, Cooper didn't get much practice time with secondyear quarterback Derek Carr in theoffseason because of a finger injury that prevented

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Now that training camp See RAIDERS / Page C2 Photos by GuyDossi, The Union Denlcrat

Bowlershit the lanes Thursday evening at Black Oak Lanes in Tuolumneto beat the scorching heat that lasted throughout the day.

Indoor smer tourney Sunday The High Country Sports Arena will host a coed 7-on-7 indoor soccer tournament Sunday.

The cost for one team is $35 but individual players are also accepted for $5 per competitor.

Players of all ages are invited to participate.

Registration begins at 11:45 a.m. with games starting at 12:30 p.m. The day will also include live DJ's, a crossbar challenge, and tamales.

For more information, call Eri Ornelas at 768-0528.

American Phaeah is Haskell hvorite OCEANPORT, N.J. (AP) — Triple Crown winner American Pharoah is the overwhelming 1-5 favorite in a field of eight 3-year-olds for Sunday's $1.75 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park.

This will be American Pharoah's first race since he swept the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes and became the 12thTriple Crown winner and first in 37 years.

A's get 2 hits in loss to Indians OAKLAND (AP) — Chris Bassitt bouncei back nicely attergiving up four consecutive hits in the first inning, including a two-run homer to Cleveland's Carlos Santana.

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Cal Porter, 9, of Kerman (top), takes bowling tips from his mother, Anna. Bob Peters, of Sonora (above, left), practices before league play. Alejandra Acosta, 22, of Silicon Valley (above, right), prepares to roll a strike.

ning's the toughest one on a starter, where they find their rhythm after they throw a few pitches," A's manager Bob Melvin said. eWe're just not See A' S/Page C3

BLG returns from 30th annual wilderness adventure The Backpackers Literary Guild (BLG) just returned from their 30th annual trip into the wilderness. The five current, or retired teachers, s Carl Brownless, Mike Calbert, Mitch Heldstab, Mike Kubasek and Carl Murry, hiked into the heart of the Emigrant Wilderness for a week long adven-

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MARTIAL ARTS 5:00pm (CSBA) MLB BaseballSan Francisco Giants at Texas Rangers.

6:30 pm(CSN) MLB Baseball Cleveland Indians at Oakland Athletics.

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Woods gets hot afhr bad start, shoots 68 at Quicken Loans GAINESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Tiger Woods took a conservative 3-wood off the first hole Thursday in the Quicken Loans National when many players were

hitting driver. No matterhe still pull-hooked it into the gallery, hit his second shot into a greenside bunker and lipped out a 5-footer for par before slamming his putter against his bag.

On the third hole, he missed the green well left and had to get up-anddown for bogey. A threeputt on No. 4 left him 3 over.

It was his final bogey of the day.

W oods got afortunatedeflection off a marshal left of the green on the par-5 fifth.

He apologized, handed out an autographed glove and made his first birdie. Then he ran off five birdies in six holes around the turn for a 3-under 68. That left him five shots behind leaders Retief Goosen and Ryo Ishikawa at Robert Trent Jones GolfClub.

Woods said it was the first time since the Masters in April that he's turned a bad round into a good one.

"That's what scoring is all about," Woods said. "I made a lot of key putts today. I ran them by the hole but I made all the comebacks, and overall I felt like I hit the ball well enough to turn it around. It was nice to actually turn it around."

Woods is the host of the Quicken Loans National, which he won in 2009 and 2012 at Congressional in Maryland. The last of his 79 PGA Tour victories was nearly two years ago, and he has plummeted to 266th in the world.

Woods got up-and-down &om a greenside bunker for birdieon the par-5 eighth. He made a 9-footer on 10 and a 7-footer on 11.

He hit his approach to tapin range on 12, the most diffi culthole on the course, and ended the run with a 12-footer on 13. He twoputted for par on the final five holes.

The 68 was only his sixth round under 70 this year. He has had three scores of 80 or higher and has missed three cuts and withdrawn once in eight events.

Rousey goes to Brazil with plan of destruction GLENDALE (AP) — Ronda Rousey Correia infuriated her with a fiipis in charge now. The unbeaten ban- pant comment apparently referenctamweight champion is the biggest ing Rousey's father's suicide, Rousey star in the UFC, and she decidedtobeat Correia in the could have staged her next most painful, humiliating way title defense anywhere in the possible, which meant fighting

take any damage."

So Rousey hasn't decided exactly what she' ll do when the cage door closes, but there aren't many people left who doubt she can do whatever

world before she moves on to

ing favoriteagainst Correia, whose best chance seems to be one big punch and a prayer.

Rousey doesn't shy away from the role of favorite. With an upcoming role in a Mark Wahlberg fi lm and a soaring international popularity, she welcomes the spotlight with confidence.

"Here's pretty much the plan: I'm going to beat up Bethe," Rousey said.

"Then I'm going to take a couple of weeks to rest. And then I'm going to go beat up Miesha (Tate, her likely next opponent). And then I'm going to go to Thailand, or wherever we decide to film. I'm going to prep for a month and start filming for eight to 10 weeks, and then go beat up the next chick. That' s pretty much my plan."

Correia has kept up her tough talk in recent weeks, although the words sometimes feel like a negotiation. She has publicly asked Rousey to stick to a stand-up fight instead of using her peerless judo skills, insisting Rousey should "really fight a straight MMA fight."

in Correia's home.

her next acting job or book tour stop or red-carpet appearance.

Rousey decided to fight Brazilian challenger Bethe Correia in a raucous arena at UFC 190 in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday night.

Challenges don't scare Rousey.

They' re what keep her rocketing along this wild path. ''When I don't have the home-court advantage, that's another thing that really keeps me motivated," said Rousey, who hasn't fought outside Las Vegas or her native Southern California in three years. "I want the fans to know that even though I'm doing a lot of things, I want to be the most active champion out there as well."

Rousey's journey to Rio is a multifaceteddecision designed toreach her goals — just like nearly everything she does.

After traveling the world during her Olympic judo career,she was eager to fight in front of Brazil's famously intense fans. And after the trash-talking

"I think everything up until the suicide comment could have been understandable from a marketing point of view," Rousey said. But when she said that is when it really crossed the line and became truly personal for me."

So Rousey (11-0) spent several weeks plotting the best way to embarrass Correia (9-0), perhaps toying with the bulky Brazilian on the feet before dropping her with a judo throw and dispatching her with a signature armbar. After winning her previous three title defenses in a combined 96 seconds, Rousey wanted something longerand more painfulto befallCorreia.

Like Babe Ruth pointing his bat at the fence, Rousey is confident she could call her shot.

The only problem is that Rousey's mother disapproves.

"She chewed me out," Rousey said.

"She wants me to end it as quick as possible still. I promised her that I'm going to be fine. I'm not going to

DENVER (AP) — Kaka and David Villa are raising the profile of Major League Soccer. Clint Dempsey and the U.S. national teams have done their part, too.

Buoyed by i nternational soccer icons and capitalizing

to discoverthe next Michael Bradley, Landon Donovan or Dempsey.

"We' re still in investment mode," said Garber, whose MLS All-Stars beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 on Wednesday. "But there's a lot of mo-

look forward to bringing the whole project across the finish line," Garber said.

As for Minnesota, that' s proving a little more challenging. With the passing of an early July deadline for a stadium plan in Minneapolis, the

on recent World Cup success

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by the American men's and

in the U.S. and Canada and that is empowering."

Next on the docket? Expansion. Atlanta is scheduled to join MLS in 2017 and a second team in Los Angeles the following season. Down the road, Miami and Minnesota are expected to come on board as well.

Garber threw his support behind a plan presented by retired soccericon David Beckham to officials in Miami.

Beckham and his partners are looking at the former Orange Bowl site, with the field financed privately and built on city-owned land at an estimated cost ofaround $200 million.

"We believe Miami will be a greatMLS market and we

toward St. Paul. ''We' ve now become intrigued by a possibility of having a stadium be in St. Paul," Garber said. "Similar with Miami, though, without a stadium, you can't go forward anywhere. But we remain hopeful."

Other potential markets include Sacramento, St. Louis or San Diego, he said.

'That speaks to this overall growth period that we' re going through," Garber said.

"You have to do expansion right. There's no rush. If we have to wait any period of time to get it right, we' re willing to do that."

Garber is encouraged by the number of foreign play-

women's national teams, the

league is drawing record numbers so far this season, MLS Commissioner Don

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said in an interview with The Associated Press this week.

MLS a verages 2 1,109 spectatorsa game, a fi gure bolsteredby the additions of Orlando City (Kaka's squad) and New York City FC (Villa's team). The 20-team league also has new television deals that allow their stars to be seenallovertheglobe.

Still, MLS is losing money — Garber declined to give an exactfigure — as teams write

big checks for top players and fundplayer development through academy programs

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V2 weeks before this fight. When she returned to civilization, she eliminated many extra interviews and public appearances — aside from her memorable trip to the ESPYs. Rousey's fire has been rekindled, and she insists her focus is honed. It' s allbad news for Correia.

"It was actually really refreshing in a way," Rousey said."I felt rejuvenated by that. It really reafllrmed the fact that my hunger to fight is still there,

and it's still the thing that I have the most passion for. More than anything."

ers headlining MLS rosters — and not just as a last resort.

Sebastian Giovinco, the 28-year-old former Juventus standout, has 13 goals and 10 assists for Toronto FC this season.

Then there's Kaka and Villa, a pair of 33-year-old highly decorated players who are demonstrating they still have flashy moves. Kaka scored on a penalty kick in the MLS AllStar game and set up Villa's goal. ''We' re still going through these unique phases that are determining what this league will look like," Garber said.

"We don't know what MLS will look like two years from now.

"But if a fan lives in a market with an MLS team, we hope the+ b e deeply connected with our local club.

Paint their face and wave a flag, put on a club jersey and celebrate this game. Think of thisleague asaleagueoftheir owii.

sider it an ancient hybrid of the Western Hemlock and the

Sitka Spruce.

Member Calbert brought sing alongs and some cre-

ative songwriting. Of course, no BLG trip would not be

Hikers we re once again complete without discussing t reated t o d e l i cious h o r s the literary selections for this

d'oeuvres by trail chef Held- year's trip. These included: stab during the 'social hour' The Sisters Br others, The each afternoon afterreturn- Boys in the Boat, The Bully ing to camp. These included Pulpit, Edge of Eternity, and seasonedfl our zucchinis and In the Kingdom of Ice. salmon casa dias cooked on

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"We' re just going to take it day by day and try to build each day," Cooper said Thursday after checking in at the team hotel near the heart of the wine country. "I'm just going to take it day by day, try to get better each day and take advantage ofevery moment while I'm out there on the

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Other t o p ics Ga r ber touched on: All-Star format: Garber is open to looking at a possible return to the East-West format for the All-Star game.

However, the contest featuring an international opponent has been a big hit.

No simmering beef: Garber said he's on good terms with U.S. national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann. The pair had a public spat last year, when Garber criticized Klinsmann for not taking Donovan to the World Cup and also for saying Dempsey and Bradley damaged their careers by returning toMLS from European clubs.

Prime time: Through new TV deals, MLS games can be watched in Europe, South American, Asia and Africa. ''When you have David Villa, Steven Gerrard, and Frank Lampard and Kaka in your league,the restoftheworld is going to pay attention," Garber said.

Local guide John Leichty suggeststhat bass anglerstry using artificial frogs along exposed trees and brushy areas.

The bass will lay below the branches, waiting for food to drop. The frogs, of course, must be of the weedless type.

Big Catfish winner at Glory Hole Sports was Christine Cedillo, of Modesto, with a 10-pound, 2-ounce lunker.

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Along with her list of new goals, Rousey is driven by the chance to accomplish novel feats. Even in her actingcareer,she creates goals for herself: She came up with the idea that she could be the first actor to do "a fight scene, a car chase and a high jump in one long shot with no stunt double."

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Christine Cedillo, of Modesto, was the Big Catfish winner this week at Glory Hole Sports. The lunker weighed 10 pounds, 2ounces and was caught upriver atNew Melones Reservoir. barn to earn free horseback ful scenery and great fishing riding, as well as assist on back then. backpacking trips. I h ave good memories of visiting Meanwhile, back to the high country lakes such as, hot part of the world, the Grouse, Chain Lakes, Chew- water level at New Melones ing Gum, Deer Lake, and Reservoircontinues to drop others. All involved beauti- but fishing continues.

May, two days before Cooper inked a $22.6 million, fouryear contract.

General manager Reggie McKenzie and new coach Jack Del Rio made it an emphasis to upgrade the unit in the offseason.

In addition t o d r afting Cooper, Oakland signed free agent Michael Crabtree to a one-year contract. The Raiders should also benefit from the return of Rod Streater afterhe missed most of last season with a foot injury.

Cooper, however, is expected tobe thecenterpieceofthe receiving corps.

Projected to be Oakland's No. 1 receiver from the moment he was drafted, the former Alabama star went home after the Raiders' final minicamp and worked out with

severalofformer teammates and coaches.

While there, Cooper picked up a few words of advice from Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban.

"I talked to him a little bit," Cooper said. "He was telling how difierent the NFL is from college football. He was just telling me to stay the same player and same person I am."

Asked about expectations that come with being a firstround pick, Cooper simply smiled.

"I don't really feel any pressure to deliver at all," he said.

Cooper was among a handful of players who arrived early in the morning. Players were put through a conditioning test, with the first full workout scheduled for Friday morning.

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An archery event will take place Sunday at the Mother LodeGun Club and spectatorsare welcome.

I' ve heard some long range speculation that a larger than average El Nino may produce a wet winter.

Let's hope so!

TJ Carrie, expected to push for one of the two open starting cornerback jobs, showed up on a charter bus and sounded anxious for the practicestobegin.

A seventh-round draft pick a year ago, Carrie sounded optimistic when talking about Oakland's prospects, but said it's imperative thattheteam's younger players make a big impact.

"The expectation for them is just as high as the veterans," Carrie said. 'The past draft classeshave become more mature in their roles.

The veterans are only going to continue to help us, and we definitely lean on them with their knowledge and expertise. It takes all of us as a whole to accomplish the goal that we want to accomplish."

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BRIEFS 3enner OlympicTorch gets $24K ataucbon NEW YORK — The 1984 Summer Olympic Torch that Bruce Jenner carried through Lake Tahoe, ¹ vada,has sold forjustunder $24,000 at auction.

The torch is the first ma-

jor piece of Jenner memorabilia to go to auction since the winner of the 1976 Olympic Decathlon Gold Medal became Caitlyn Jenner. It had been estimated to bring $20,000 or more.

It was among the highlights of a sports memorabilia auction held Thursday

by Heritage Auctions in Chicago.

A circa 1860s Brooldyn Atlantics team baseball card that's been in the same familyfor over 150 years soldform orethan $179,000.

CONCACAF president to review referees M IAN ( AP) — T h e president of CONCACAF said Thursday he w i ll conduct a review of the organization's refereeing department.

The ongoing r eview is evaluating refereeing standards and assessing the process for determining assignments for each match, the regional soccer body said.

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San Francisco fills hole with Leake CINCINNATI (AP) — The He t h rew eight innings of ond-best starter.

Reds shipped starter Mike f our-hit ball in a 4-0 win in St. The 26-year-old Duvall Leake to the San FranLouis on Tuesday, comgrew up in Louisville and was cisco Giants for a pair taken in the 11th round of the ~gg~ plet i n g his sensational p7 of prospects on Thurs- @ ~ - >E tc month. Overall, Leake June 2010 draft.He batted day night, bolstering is 9-5 with a 3.56 ERA .279 with 25 doubles, 26 homthe defending World Series in 21 starts this season. ers and 79 RBIs in 99 games champions for another playoff T he R e d s got i n fielder for Triple-A Sacramento.

Adam Duvall and right-handr' Mella,21, was signed as run.

San Francisco needed er K eury Mella for Leake, a non-drafted &ee agent in one more solid starter, and who can become a &ee agent September 2011. He went 5-3 got a young pitcher who has after the season.

ChrisLee/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS with a 3.31 ERA in 16 starts been at his best in July. The The d eal came six days New San Francisco pitcher for Class A San Jose this sea27-year-old Leake has won a f ter Cincinnati dealt ace Mike Leake throws for son. He also was on the World team'sroster for the All-Star his last four starts, allowing Johnny Cueto to K ansas Cincinnati Tuesday. onlytwoearnedrunsin30in- C i t y for three minor league Futures Game in Cincinnati nings overall. pitchers. The Giants wound up getting Cincinnati's sec- earlier in July.

LA makes trade to bolster pitching ATLANTA (AP) — T he first-place Los Angeles Dodgers bolstered their pitching staff on the eve of the tradedeadline, completing a 13-player deal with the Atlanta Braves and Miami Marlins that sent two starters and two

relievers to the NL West leaders on Thursday.

Clinging to a h alf-game lead over San F r ancisco, the Dodgers acquired righthander Mat Latos from the Marlins and left-hander Alex Wood &om the Braves, two pitchers who can move right into the rotation behind aces

in a U.S. federal indictment charging soccer officials with racketeering, bribery and money laundering.

Panama and Costa Rica made requests to CONCACAF afier each lost to Mexico in the Gold Cup knockout rounds with the help of a questionable penalty kick.

Panamanian p l ayers posed with a banner after their semifinal loss calling CONCACAF "corruptos ladrones"(corrupt thieves), and federation President Pedro Chaluja later told reporters "wefeelthatthat

Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke. Also, Los Angeles obtained relievers Jim Johnson and Luis Avilan &om Atlanta, adding needed depth to the bullpen.

"To sit here having addressedthe biggest areas of need for us in terms of rotation and bullpen, while adding future pieces and preserving the top guys in our farm system, that's a really good outcome," said Andrew Friedman, the Dodgers' president ofbaseball operations.

"Not only for what it does for the 2015 team, but the position it puts us in for the winter and next season and beyond."

The rebuilding B r aves kept up their massive overhaul, also surrendering top infield prospect Jose Peraza

Brag lawsuit moved to New York court NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Brady's lawsuit the NFL in which he wants his four-game suspension overturned will be heard in New York instead of Minnesota.

Brady and the players' union filed their suit Wednesday in Minnesota.

But the NFL already had filed papers Tuesday in New York, moments after announcing that C o mmissioner Roger Goodell upheld the suspension for Brady's involvement in the use of undermfiated footballs in the AFC championship game.

U.S. District Judge Richard Kyle, based in Minnesota, ordered thetransfer.

He noted that Brady plays in Massachusetts, the union is headquartered in Washington and the NFL in New York, Kyle added that ''the arbitration proceedings took place in New York and the award was issued in

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Dhrhrion W L Pc t GB N ew York 57 44 .5 6 4 Baltimore 51 50 .5 0 5 6 Toronto 52 51 .50 5 6 Tampa Bay 51 52 A 9 5 7 Boston 45 58 A3 7 13 Central Division W L P c t GB K ansas City 61 40 . 6 0 4 Minnesota 53 48 . 5 2 5 8 Detroit 50 52 .490 11r/r Chicago 49 51 A9 0 1 1 "/z Cleveland 47 54 A65 14 West Division W L Pc t 2 Houston 58 45 .563 GB L os Angeles 5 5 4 6 . 5 45 Texas 49 52 A85 8 Seattle 4 6 57 A 4 7 12 Oakland 45 58 A37 13 Thursday's games Detroit 9, Baltimore 8 Toronto 5 Kansas City 2 Boston 8, Chicago White Sox 2 Texas 7, N.Y. Yankees 6 Houston 3, LA. Angels 0 Minnesota 9, Seattle 5 Cleveland 3, Oakland 1 Today's games Detroit (Farmer 0-2) at Baltimore (W.Chen 5-6), 4:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Cueto 0-0) at Toronto (Hutchison 9-2), 4:07 p.m.

Tampa Bay (E.Ramirez $4) at Boston (E.Rodriguez 6-3), 4:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Bumgarner 11-5) at Texas (N.Martinez 5-6), 5:05 p.m.

Arizona (R.De La Rosa 8-5) at Houston (Feldman 4-5), 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 10-2) at Chi-

NAllONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pot GB W ashington 54 46 .54 0 NewYork 52 50 .510 3 Atlanta 46 56 A5 1 9 Miami 4 2 60 .412 1 3 Philadelphia 39 64 .3 7 9 1Srir Central Division W L P c t GB St. Louis 65 37 .637 Pittsburgh 59 42 .584 S rir Chicago 54 47 . 535 10r/r Cincinnati 46 54 A6 0 18 Milwaukee 44 59 A2 7 21rir West Division W L Po t GB L os Angeles 57 45 .5 5 9 S an Francisrxr 56 45 . 5 5 4 rir Arizona 49 51 A9 0 7 San Diego 49 53 A8 0 8 Colorado 43 57 A3 0 13 Thursday's games San Diego 8, N.Y. Meta 7 Washington 1, Miami 0 Philadelphia 4, Atlanta 1 Crncrnnatr 15, Pittsburgh 5 St. Louis 9, Colorado 8 Chicago Cuba 5, Milwaukee 2 Today's games Atlanta (W.Perez 44) at Philadelphia (D.Buchanan 1-5), 4:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Locke 5-6) at Cincinnati (Loranzen 3-5), 4:1 0 p.m.

San Diego (Kennedy 6-9) at Miami

with the Dodgers, who designated him for assignment shortly after the trade.

The deals worked like this: • The Dodgers got Wood (7-6, 3.54 ERA), Johnson (2-3, 2.25, nine saves), Avilan (2-4,

3.58), Peraza (.294 with 26 stolen bases for Triple-A Gwinnett) and pitcher Bronson Arroyo &om the Braves, along with Latos (4-7, 4.48), Morse (.214, four homers, 12 RBIs) and cash considerations from the Marlins. Arroyo is coming back &om Tommy John surgery and hasn't pitched this season, his inclusion in the

deal mainly a financial benefit to the Braves.

• Atlanta received Olivera, who is hitting a combined .348 with two homers and seven RBIs in 19 games at three different levels of the (Phelps 47), 4:10 p.m.

Dodgers' farm system this Washington (e.eonzalez 84) at N.Y. season, along with injured Mats (Harvey 9-7),4:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Bumgarner 11-5) at left-hander Paco Rodriguez Texas (N.Martinez 5-6), 5:05 p.m. and minor leaguer Zachary Arizona (R.Da La Rosa LS) at Houston (Feldman 4-5), 5:10 p.m.

Bird, a right-handed pitcher. cago White Sox (Rodon 4-3), 5:10 p.m.

Chicago Cuba (Hammel 5-5) at MilSeattle (TWalker 7-7I at Minnesota The Braves also got a dry waukee (Jungmann 5-2), 5:10 p.m.

(Milone 5-2), 5:10 p.m.

Colorado(KKendrtck4-11) at&.

Louis pick from the Marlins.

Cleveland (Salazar 8-6) at Oakland (Wacha 114), 5:15 p.m.

• Miami acquired minor (Graveman 6-7), 6:35 p.m.

LA. Angels (Santiago 7-4) at LA. LW Angels (Santiago 7-4I at LW league right-handers Kevin Dodgers (Kershaw 8-6), 7:10 p.m.

Dodgers (Kershaw 8-6), 7:10 p.m.

Guzman, Jeff Brigham and Victor Araujo from the Dodgto the Dodgers largely to land As for the Marlins, it was ers, none of whom has pitched 30-year-old Cuban defector another familiar salary dump. above Class A. Hector Olivera, an infielder Out of contention in the NL While the Dodgers spent who has impressed in the East, Miami rid itself of Latos lavishly to land Olivera, they minors since signing a $62.5 and first baseman Michael decided the organization has million, six-year deal with Los Morse for three minor leagu- enough depth at second base Angeles this year. ers. Morse didn't last long to make the deal.

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Gmt white thwarts marathon swim SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A great white shark thwarted a Northern California man's quest to become the first person to swim &om the Golden Gate Bridge to the Farallon Islands.

Corte Madera marathon swimmer Simon Dominguez was tryingto swim about 28 miles when his teen daughter, in a support boat, spottedthegreatwhite just 3 '/2 miles &om his goal, KPIX-TV reported Thursday.

Afier 18 hours in the &igid ocean, he reluctantly climbed into his support boat as the 12-to -15-foot shark circiei it.

Out of the water, the 49-yearold, blood streaming down his chest &om chafed skin around his neck, said he was disappointed that he didn't finish the swim.

"It was hard. But a shark is a shark," Dominguez said.

Struggling Sandoval says weight no problem B OSTON (AP) — I n the midst of a season-long slump during his first season with the Boston Red Sox, Pablo Sandoval insisted Thursday he weighs the same ashe did lastseason with San Francisco.

Sandoval was back in the lineup at third base against the Chicago White Sox on Thursday, a day after he was thrown out try-

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Gomez traded to Astros after Mets deal falls through HOUSTON (AP) — The Astros have added another bat to their lineup as they make a push for the post-

he thought they were going to explain to him what happened the day before.

"But they tell me: 'No, season, acquiring t wo-time you' ve been traded,'" he said.

All-Star outfielder Carlos "And I say: 'Is this going for Gomez from the Milwaukee like two or three hours or is Brewers. this the real one?' So I was Houston also r e ceived laughing a little bit. But they right-hander Mike Fiers in say, no, it's true that you get the deal and sent four pros- traded to the Houston Aspects to the Brewers: left- tros." hander Josh Hader, rightTo add to the crazy week hander Adrian Houser and Gomez has had professionoutfielders Brett Phillips and ally, he's also a new dad. AlDomingo Santana. ready the father to a 6-yearMilwaukee general man- old boyand a 15-month-old ager Doug Melvin said a boy, Gomez and his wife weltrade fell through Wednes- comed a third child 10 days day that would have sent Go- ago.

"Her mom is right here mez to the New York Mets for infielder Wilmer Flores and with her, but she has go back injured pitcher Zack Wheeler. to the Dominican, and we Luhnow said he had been are still waiting on the birth talking with Melvin for a few certificate and the passport weeks and that they resumed so they can come with me to talks on Thursday morning. Houston," he said.

He raved about Gomez.

Houston's move came a When Gomez was called week after the Astros obinto the manager's office by tained top s t arter Scott the Brewers on Thursday, Kazmir from the Oakland

A' S Continued from PageCl giving him any run support.

He hasn't won a game yet but I don't think he's given up more than three runs. He's been good and he knows he's here for a while."

Making his second start since getting callei back up &om the minors on July 25, Bassitt (0-4) gave up three runs and six hits over seven innings. The 26-year-old, who is in his fourth stint with the big leagueclub this season, set a season high with six strikeouts and one walk Bassitt got off to a shaky start when he gave up hits to the firs t four Cleveland batters. The A's also committed an error in the inning, but it was Santana's 12th home run

Athletics. Seeking its first postseason appearance since 2005, Houston entered Thursday with a one-game lead in the AL West.

The 29-year-old Gomez is hitting .262 with eight homers and 43 RBIs in 74 games for the Brewers this season.

He is making $8 million this season and $9 million in 2016, then can become a free agent.

Gomez, who won a Gold Glove in 2013, is a nine-year veteran coming off a careerbest season last year, when

he hit .284 with 34 doubles, 23 homers, 73 RBIs and 34 steals. Gomez and Mike Trout are the only players with at least 100 steals and 50 home runs over the last

season. He won't be a &ee agent until after the 2019 season.

Before the trade, Melvin bristled at the notion the Mets didn't make their proposed deal because they concludedGomez has a bad hip.

"Like any typical trade, you have a box you have to check off to get deals approved. In the end, we did have a dealdone. When all was said in done there, was a level of discomfort (on the part of the Mets) in making the deal complete," Melvin said.

Gomez's agent Scott Boras said there is nothing wrong with Gomez's hip.

"The Milwaukee medical records were clear," he said.

"Carlos had an adductor isfour seasons.

Gomez played for the Nets sue in June, and the MRI reand the Twins before joining vealed it was without issue, the Brewers in 2010. just some temporary inflamFiers is 5-9 with a 3.89 mation. Carlos has never had ERA in 21 starts for Milwau- a hip issue. In fact the medikee this season. He has 121 calrecordsstated thehip was strikeouts in 118 innings this structurally clean."

of the season that was the big first-inning run for the A' s,who blow. havelostsix oftheirlastseven.

"I tried to throw two-seam Carrasco (11-8) did not allow in," Bassitt said. "It ran right a hit after Reddick's double, down the middle and he hit it facing one over the minimum a long way." &om that point. He walked one Bassitt gave up just two hits and struck out seven. He was the rest of the way, retiring 18 coming off his worst start of of the final 21 he faced. the season in which he allowed "I'm kind of a guy that gets six runs in four innings. ready really quick in the bullCleveland did all of its scorpen and I feel like I just got ing off Bassitt in the first. ready ali ttle too fast today," Jason Kipnis singled on Bassitt said. "I probably had the game's second pitch but 10 minutes sitting there in the slipped trying to get back to dugout just waiting and wait- first on a pick-off throw and ing. My stuff wasn't sharp the was caught. Lindor followed first inning and after that I with a single and scored on kind of got going."

Michael Brantley's double and Carlos Carrasco threw a a fielding error on Sam Fuld. two-hitter while F rancisco Santana then homered on a Lindor had two hits for the 1-1 pitch.

The A's got a run back in Indians, who won their second straight following a six-game their half of the first when losing streak.

Reddick doubled home Billy Josh Reddick doubled in a Burns, who had singled.

ing to score from first base on a ball that rolled to the wall. He exited the game on a hot, humid night with what the team called dehydration.

S andoval ente r ed Thursday hitting a careerworst .262 with 34 RBIs after leaving the World Series champion Giants to sign a $95 million, fiveyear deal contract with Boston. The 5-foot-11 Sandoval, nicknamed Kung Fu Panda, is listed at 255 poulids.

"I'm still th e s a me weight that I was last year, the weight that I finished my season," Sandoval said.

"I don't get complaints about it. Do I have to keep working hard? Yes, I do."

Manager John Farrell said the team has discussed weight, conditioning and diet with Sandoval, a two-time All-Star who turns 29 next month.

"The one thing we do know is there is a wide r ange i n w h ich ( his weight) will fluctuate, and that's been consistent year to year with Pablo," Farrell said. "His work ethic in the weight room, his work ethic on the field is consistent.

It has been since the first day he got on the field with us here.... And yet there have been challenges that we' ve become aware of over the course of his career, that you' re trying to align a number of things.

That's the consistency to

the work routine as well as the nutritional side of things."

Farrell a cknowledged the Red Sox thought they were getting an average fielder. Instead, Sandoval has had trouble coming up with balls hit near the line.

He's committed 12 errors in 89 games after making 11 errors in 151 games a

year ago.

Farrell said they'd like Sandoval to play deeper.

"The c loser he is t o home plate, the less reaction time. But there's been some footwork that's been addressed, particularly in his pre-pitch setup," Farrell said. 'There's been some detection that his first move is to come up

instead of laterally. We' ve sat with him on video and reviewed it, and he continues to work on it in

his pregame routine. Yet there's still times where it does not play out on the field."

Sandoval shrugged off a question about his conditioning and said he feels comfortable at the plate.

"I don't care what people say," Sandoval said, "I feel great."

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Pac-12 aommish: No expansion plans, future bright BURBANK (AP) — Pac-12 Com- AT&T's merger with DirecTV will almissioner Larry Scott envisions fierce low the Pac-12 Networks to increase competition, Heisman Trophy its distribution to a less embarchallengers and national chamrassing portion of the nation. pionship bids for his loaded footBut the conference hasn't exball conference in the next few panded since adding Utah and Colorado before the 2011 season, years.

Scott doesn't expect any new and it won't be putting out the members, however. welcome mat soon. After consider"I do not see us expanding in the ing additional expansion in previous foreseeablefuture, "Scott said Thurs- years, particularly when the Big 12 day while opening the Pac-12's me- appearedto be on the verge ofdisdia days. "We are delighted with 12 integration, Scott now believes the schools. It's worked exceehngly well current format provides an optimal for us." balance of tough league games and Scott projected optimism and con- nonconference opportunities. tentment at Warner Bros. Studios as "As a 12-team conference playing the Pac-12 heads into its 100-year an- nine conference games, this is an inniversary celebration. He believes the teresting distinction between us and league is gaining the national respect some other conferences," Scott said. it deserves,and he is optim istic that 'Tins is why I'm confident standing

up and saying no one has got a tougher schedule than the Pac-12, and the Pac-12 champion has got the toughest road.

The Pac-12's football rise isn't just the product of the optimism of a perpetually upbeat commissioner. Marcus Mariota's Heisman Trophy victory and Oregon's appearance in the national championship game were just the latest manifestations of the West Coast league's rise in quality and esteem.

OregonStatecoach Gary Andersen demonstrated its draw when he left Big Ten powerhouse Wisconsin after just two seasons to take over the Beavers,a solid program that' s mostly known nationally for being perpetually in the Ducks' shadow. Granted, Andersen is a native Westerner who

got to be closer to home, but the Pac12's spotlight is undeniably attractive.

"I absolutely have felt a huge swing in the last two years," Andersen said.

"During those two years I was in the Midwest, the Pac-12 has gained a ton of respect nationally, (and) it's because of the investment in athletics as a whole, is my opinion. It gives you the opportunity totake better careof the kids. If you play in the Pac-12, you play at Oregon State, you deserve to havethebestofthebest."

Scottalso said the Pac-12 prides itself on tough nonconference schedules, but doesn't believe ithurts the West Coast schools' chances in the College Football Playoff "I think now we' re being rewarded for that strength of schedule, and part of it is (having) 12 (teams)," Scott said.

"When you go beyond 12, you' re going to dilute somewhat."

The Pac-12's coaches realize that collective success carries an individual price, however.

The league landed six teams in the preseason coaches' poll, topped by defending champion Oregon at No. 5 and preseasonmedia-pollfavorite Southern California at No. 10. The South division appears particularly loaded, with UCLA,Arizona State, defending champion Arizona and Utah all looking like contenders.

"I would not be shocked if this is the year we have a conference championship with a team in there that has two losses," said Stanford coach David Shaw, who led his second straight team to the Rose Bowl in January 2014.

After down season, Stanford renews team commitment BURBANK (AP) — It was a Sunday, one day after Stanford lost to Utah in double overtime to fall to 5-5 last November, when Cardinal players finally decided to clear the air.

The locker room had become so divided that linebacker Blake Martinez described the tense atmosphere as if the defense was "our own team," openly talking about needing to hold teams under 10 points and return takeaways for touchdowns to win in spite of their sputtering offense.

'They would go out there, do their job, and we would be like, Whatever,'" Martinez recalled Thursday at Pac-12 media days."'If they didn't get itdone,we'regoing togetitdone.'It wasn't like, 'Hey, we got your back.'"

But after that meeting, Stanford rallied. The Cardinal smashed rival California, demolished No. 9 UCLA and routed Maryland in the Foster Farms Bowl, and they' re looking to build on that success this fall by reclaiming the Pac-12 North title.

It starts up front with the offensive line, which Stanford coach David Shaw expects to benefit from improved depth. That group struggled with missed assignments and mental mistakes until that late-season surge, when the offense averaged 45 carries for 204 yards rushing over the final three games.

"It's just our mentality," Shaw said. 'We' re a physical team. That time also coincided with us jelling as

an offensive line and being a more efficient and explosive running game."

'Toward the end of the year, we just decided to try and ball out. You saw the results on the field," said Kyle Murphy, who is moving from right tackle to left tackle. 'We plan on picking up where we left off last year and doing even greater things."

Sophomore running back Christian McCaffrey is expected to be the beneficiary of that development. As a true freshman, the son of 13-year NFL receiver Ed McCaffrey had 796 all-purpose yards and scored two touchdowns lining up at tailback, wide receiver and as a return specialist.

McCaffrey now weighs over 200

pounds, Shaw said, and is capable of picking up blitzes in pass protection, running between the tackles and doing everything required of a feature back.

"We needed him to get stronger before we asked him to do much more than we asked him to do last year," Shaw said. "He's bigger. He's stronger. He's more physical. There is not a lot limiting what he can do."

Shaw also praised the development of Remound Wright and Barry Sanders Jr., which will allow McCaffrey to continue to line up all over the field. The Stanford offense will also have a healthy Devon Cajuste at wide receiver when fall camp opens, as the redshirtseniordid notrequire

surgeryforahigh ankle injury.

Just as vital is a renewed focus on conditioning,as Stanford lost four games byseven points or less last season. Martinez said each offseason workout is being treated like a game, and the only way to win the fourth quarter is for everyone to finish, from starters toscoutteam.

That emphasis on the entire team istheresultofhard-learned lessons.

"Even if something were to happen where the offense or defense is terrible, we' re still going to be all together as a unit no matter what happens," Martinez said. 'We' re never

going to go back to where we were 5-5 and blaming each other about things."

SCORES & MORE Bowling League results At Black Oak Lanes, Tuolumne All team scone are lisled with handicap, if induded Cerdfied Leagues Diamond Duos P-14) Games — Women: Vicky Fox 183, Jeannie Philbim 180, Shirley Parades 171; Men: Kyle Myers 230,Jared Ford 213, George Fifer177.

Series — Women: Philbin 500, Fax 431, Parades 459;Men: Ford 606,Myers 587,Golden Terry 463.

Team Game: Mission Impossibowl 411, Golden Oldies 375, Be Happy Don' t Worry 353.

Team Series: Mission Impossibowl 1173, Golden Oldies 1055, The Blasters 963.

Stand ings:TheOdd Couple321z TheBlast-

ers29-15,On eGame Wonders 24-20.

High Rollem P-14) Games — Women: Anne Peterson and Nan Anderson 167, Eleanor Ellis 113; Men: Robert Porovich 278, Dan Isam 266, CJ Eattin 244, Series — Women: Anderson 461, Peterson 444, Ellis 225; Men: Porovich 71 6, Isam 695, Warren Walker 647.

Team Game: San Andreas Mini Mart 880, ER Energy 863.

Team seses: san Andres Mini Mart 2404, ER Energy 2331.

Standings: ER Energy 27-17, Highlander Paint & Decorating 26-18.

Helakno Full House (7-23) Games — Women: Am ands Klaahsen 193, Ada Hill 179, Ruth Benson 175; Men: Dan Isam 256, Bob Chambers 245, Patrick Pillsbury 237.

Series — Women: Klaahsen 51 5, Hill 475, Benson 463; Men: Isa m 696, Pillsbury 655, Cha mba 645.

Team Game:Randy'sDoors 830,7-10Blues 812, Th3 Thr33 Krinkl3Z 805.

Team Series: The Tire Shop 2301, Randy's Doors 2288, 7-10 Blues 2287.

Standings: Psycedelic Seniors 15.5-8.5, Fantastic Fours and Tire Shop 15-9, Th3 Thr33Krinkl3Z, Randy's Doors and Les' Entertainment 14-10.

Summer M orningRollers — (report not available) Young at Heart — (report not available) Summer Trios — (report not available) Uncerlilied Leagues Black Oak 9 Pin No-Tap — (report not available) wild Nite out — (report not available)

Baseball MLB INDNNS 3, A'S 1 Cleveland sb rhbi Oakland s b r h bi Kipnis2b 4 0 1 0 B u rnscf 4 1 10 Lindorss 4 1 2 0 Fuldl f 4 0 00 B rantleylf 4 1 1 0 Reddickrf 4 0 1 1 C .Santana1b 3 1 1 2 I.Davis1b 3 0 0 0 Y .Gomesc 3 0 0 0 Lawrie3b 2 0 0 0 Chisenhall dh 3 0 0 0 Vogtc 3 0 0 0 Urshela3b 3 0 1 0 B.sutlerdh 3 0 0 0 Bourn cf 3 0 1 0 Sogard 2b 3 0 0 0 T .Holt rf 3 0 0 0 S emien ss 3 0 0 0 Tolsls 3 03 7 2 T alsls 2 9 1 2 1 Cleveland 300 000 000 — 3 Oakhnd 100 000 000 — 1

E —Kipnis (5), Fuld (3),Vogt (5). DP—Cleveland

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2B — Brantley(30), Reddick(17). HR —Csantana

(12). SB —Lindor (2), Burns (21). CS—Kipnis (7), Urshela (1), Bourn (5).

IP H R E R BBSO Cleveland Chavez 5 5 3 3 2 5 Abad 1 0 0 0 0 1 Fe.Rodriguez H4 2 / 3 0 2 2 2 1 Pomeranz L~ BS,1-20 3 3 3 0 0 Otero 1 2 1 1 0 1 O'Flaherty 1/3 2 1 1 0 1 Oakhnd Carrasco W,114 9 2 1 1 1 7 Oakland Bassitt L,0-4 7 6 3 3 1 6 R.Alvarez 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 Abad 12/3 0 0 0 0 1 Umpires — Home, Geny Davis; First, Will Little; Second, Stu Scheurwater; Third, Phil Cuzzi.

T — 2:15. A — 13,173 (35,067).

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS BATllNG — Micabrera, Detroit .350; Kipnis, Cleveland,.332; Fielder, Texas, .330; Jlglesias, Detroit, .318; Bogaerts, Boston, .316; Hosmer, Kansas City, .31 5;LCain, Kansas City, .31 3.

RUNS — Trout, Los Angeles, 75; Dozier, Minnesota, 74; Gardner, New York, 72; Donaldson, Toronto, 71; Kipnis, Cleveland, 66; JMartinez, Detroit, 65; Lcaim, Kansas City, 64.

RBI — KMorales, Kansas City,70; CDavis, Baltimore, 69; Donaldson, Toronto, 69; Bautista, Toronto, 68; Teixeira, New York, 67; J Martinez, Detroit, 66; Pujols, Los Angeles, 64; Trout, Los Angeles, 64.

HITS — Kipnis, Cleveland, 132; Fielder, Texas, 126; NCruz, Seattle, 119; Bogaerls, Boston, 118; Cespedes, Detroit, 118; Hosmer, Kansas City, 117; Altuve, Houston, 116; Donaldson, Toronto, 116.

DOUBLES — Kipnis, Cleveland, 31; Brantley, Cleveland, 30; Cespedes, Detroit, 28; Dozier, Minnesota, 28; KMorales, Kansas City, 27; Donaldson, Toronto, 26; Betts, Boston, 25.

TRIPLES — Kiermaier, Tampa Bay, 10; RDavis, Detroit, 8; Eaton, Chicago, 8; Gattis, Houston, 7; Betts, Boston, 6; De Aza, Boston, 6; Deshields, Texas, 6; Kipnis, Cleveland, 6; ERosario, Minnesota, 6.

HOME RUNS — Trout, Los Angeles, 31; &jols, Los Angeles, %; J Martinez, Detroit, 27; NCruz, Seattle, 26; Teixeira, New York, 26; CDavis, Baltimore, 25; Donaldson, Toronto, 25.

STOLEN BASES— Altuve,Houston,28;sums, Oakland, 21; LCain, Kansas City, 18; JDyson, Kansas City, 17; Deshields, Texas, 16; Reyes, Toronto, 16; Gardner, New York, 15; Pillar, Toronto, 15.

PITCHING — McHugh, Houslon, 12-5; Keuchel, Houston, 12-5; FHernandez, Seattle, 12-6; Lewis, Texas, 114; Gray, Oakland, 114; Buehrle, Toronto, 11-5; Carrasco, Cleveland, 114.

ERA —Kazmir, Houston, 2 10; Kazmir, Houston, 2.10; Gray, oakland, z16; Keuchel, Houston, z32; santiago, Los Angeles, 2A3; price, Detroit, 2.53; Archer, Tampa Bay, z54.

STRIKEOUTS — Sale, Chicago, 177; Archer, Tampa Bay, 173; Kluber, Cleveland, 172; Carrasco, Cleveland, 140; Price, Detroit, 138; Salazar, cleveland, 132; Keuchel, Houston, 13z SAVES —Perkins, Minnesota, 29; Britton, Baltimore, 26; Boxberger, Tampa Bay, 25; Street, Los Angeles, 25; Soria, Detroit, 23; AMiller, New York, 23;Uehara,Boston,22;G Holland,Kansas city, 22; DavRobertson, chicago, 2z NAllONAL LEAGUE LEADERS BATTING — Goldschmidt, Arizona, .347; Harper, Washington, .335; DGordon, Miami, .334; GParra, Milwaukee,.328; LeMahieu, Colorado, 325; P~, San Francisco, 325; YEscobar, Washington, .31 4.

RUNS — Harper, Washington,68; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 67; Pollock, Arizona, 67; Fowler, Chicago, 65; Blackmon, Colorado, 62; Frazier, Cincinnati, 61; MCarpenter, St. Louis, 58; Votto, Cincinnati, 58.

RBI —Arenado, Colorado, 78; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 77; Harper, Washington, 68; Frazier, Cincinnati, 67; Posey, San Francisco, 67; Stanton, Miami, 67; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 65.

HITS —Goldschmidt, Arizona, 124; DGordon, Miami, 124; LeMahieu, Colorado, 118; Pollock, A izona, 117; Markakis, Atlanta, 113; Panik, San Francisco, 113; Blackmon, Colorado, 112; Vono, cincinnati, 11z DOUBLES — Fraiier, Cincinnati, 3); AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 27; Arenado, Colorado, 26; Belt, San Francisco, 26; Rizzo, Chicago, 26; Mcarpenter, St. Louis, 25; Mccutchen, Pittsburgh, 25.

TRIPLES — DPeralta, Aizona, 8; Giichuk, St. Louis, 6; Revere, Philadelphia, 6; Blackmon, Colorado, 5; DGordon, Miami, 5; GParra, Milwaukee, 5; Realmuto, Miami, 5.

HOME RUNS —Harper, Washington, 29; Frazier, Cincinnati, 27; Stanton, Miami, 27; Arenado, Colorado, 25; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 22; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 21; CaGonzalez, Colorado, 21; Pederson, Los Angeles, 21.

STOLEN BASES — BHamilton, Cincinnati, 49; DGordon, Miami, 33; Blackmon, Colorado, 27; Revere, Philadelphia, 24; Pollock, Arizona, 23; SMarte, Pittsburgh, 20; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 17; Maybin, Atlanta, 17; GPolanm, Pittsburgh, 17; Upton, San Diego, 17.

PITCHING — Gcole, Pithbugh,144;CMartinez, St. Louis, 11-4; Wacha, St Louis, 11-4; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 11-5; Heston, San Francisco, 11-5; Ameta, Chicago, 11-6; Scherzer, Washington, 11-8.

ERA — Greinke, Los Angeles, 1.37; deGrom, New York, z05; scherzer, washington, z22; Gcole, pittsburgh, z24; sMiller, Atlanta, 2A4; Kershaw, Los Angeles, z51; cMBrtimez, st.

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STRIKEOUTS — Kershaw, Los Angeles, 185; Scherzer, Washington, 172; Shields, San Diego, 148; Arrieta, Chicago, 147; Liriano, Pittsburgh, 140; Hamels, Philadelphia, 137; TRoss, San Diego, 137.

SAVES — Mela neon, Pittsburgh, 32; Rosenthal,

St. Louis, 31; Kimbrel, San Diego, 30; Storen, Washington, 29; Familia, New York, 27; Casilla, San Francisco, 26; Grilli, Atlanta, 24.

Tennis WTA Brasil Tennis (hp Thursday, At federacao Catarinenl: de Tenis, Rorianopolis, Brazil Purse Q50,000 (Intl. j S urface: Hard~oa r Singles-Quarterlinah Annika Beck (3), Germany, def. Gabriela Ce, Brazil 6-3 6-3.

Anastasija Sevastova, Latvia, def. MariaTeresa Torro-Ror, Spain, 7-6 (4), 6-4.

Teliana Pereira (4), Brazil, def. Laura Siegemund (7), Germany, 6-3, 7-5.

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Gstaad, Switzerland Purse: $4&2~ (W1250j Surface: Clsy&utdoor Singles — Second Round David Goffin (1), Belgium, def. Horacio Zeballos, Argentina, 6-1, 6-1.

Dominic Thiem (3), Austria, def. Federico Delbonis, Argentina, 6-3, 64.

Joao Sousa (6), Portugal, def. Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan, 6-7 (6), 6-3, 7-6 (4).

Pablo Carreno Busta (7), Spain, def. Robin Haase, Netherlands, 7-6 (3), 64.

ATP World Tour bet~-home Open Thursday, At Rothenbsum Sport GmbH Hamburg, Germany Purse: $1 Amillion (W1500) Surface: ClayOutdoor Singles — Second Round Andreas seppi (4), Italy, def. Flosan Mayer, Germany, 44, 6-2, 6-3.

Pablo Cuevas (5), Uruguay, def. Jerzy Janowicz, poland, 6-3, 4-6, 6-z Rafael Nadal (1), Spain, def. Jiri Vesely, Aech Republic, 6-4, 7-6 (2).

Simone Bolelli, Italy, def. Jaume Munar, Spain, 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-4.

WTA Baku Cup Thursday, At BskiTennisA kademiyasi Baku, Azerbsijan Purse $250,000 (IrrQ Surface: HardClutdoor Sngles — Second Round Karin Knapp (2), Italy, def. Anett Kontaveit, Estonia, 6-1, 64.

Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium, def. Vitalia Diatchenko (7), Russia, 64, 7-6 (5).

Patrida MarciaTig, Romania, def. OlgaSsvchuk,

Ukraine, 7-5, 64.

Evgeniya Rodina, Russia, def. Oleksandra Korashvili, Ukraine, 6-1, 6-1.

ATP World Tour BB&T Atlanta Open A U.S. Open Series event Thursday, At Athntic Station, Athnts Pume: $5854N (WT250) Surface: Hard&utdoor Singles-Second Round Denis Kudla, United States, def. Jack Sock (3), United States, 7-6 (6), 6-3.

Dudi Sela, Israel, def. Benjamin Becker (8), Germany,7-5, 6-3.

Rica rdas Be rankis, Lithuania, def. Steve Johnson (6), United states, 6-4, 6-z

Soccer Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Rs GF GA D.C. United 11 7 5 38 27 22 Columbus 8 7 7 31 34 33 New York 8 6 5 29 29 23 Toronto FC 8 7 4 28 31 31 New England 7 9 7 28 29 35 Montreal 7 8 3 24 25 27 New YorkCity FC 6 9 6 24 29 31 Orlando City 6 9 6 24 26 31 Philadelphia 6 12 4 22 2 8 3 7 Chicago 5 11 4 19 2 2 3 0 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T PIs GF GA FC Dallas 11 5 538 32 25 Vancouver 11 8 3 36 27 22 LosAngeles 9 7 7 34 36 28 S porting Kansas City 9 4 6 3 3 2 9 2 0 Seattle 1 010 2 3 2 2 5 2 1 Portland 9 8 5 32 24 28 RealsaltLake 7 7 8 29 23 27 Houston 7 8 6 27 27 26 San Jose 7 9 4 25 22 27 Colorado 5 6 9 24 18 19 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Saturday's games Montreal at New York City FC, 11 a.m.

Real Salt Lake at D.C. United, 4 p.m.

New York st Philadelphia, 4 p.m.

Toronto FC at New England, 4:30 p.m.

Columbus at Orlando City, 4:30 p.m.

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Los Angeles at Colorado, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Seattle, 7 p.m.

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FC Dallas at Chicago,4 p.m.

Golf Women's Mtish Open

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Ricky Barnes Sean O'Hair Russell Knox Fabian Gomez Vijay Singh Cameron Percy Steven Alker Vaughn Taylor Brian Davis Billy Hurley III Brendan Steele Sangmoon Bae Harris English Carl Pettersson J.J. Henry Brian Stuard Martin Flores Troy Merritt John Huh Bo Van Pelt Robert Garrigus Nicholas Thompson Nick Watney Gary Woodland Martin Laird Erik Compton Michael Putnam Shawn Stefani Johnson Wagner Tony Finau Colt Knost Carlos Ortiz James Hahn Scott Pinckney Luke Guthrie Jason Kokrak Chad Collins George McNeill Jon Curran

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alter testing o psitiv eforaperformanceenhancing substance in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

Amescan League

BOSTON RED SOX — Designated OF Daniel Nava for assignment. Recalled RHP Jonathan

Aro from Pawtucket (IL). Optioned LHP Tommy

Layne to Pawtucket.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Activated InF Jed Lowrie from the 60day DL. Designated RHP Roberto Hernandez for assignment.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Activated INF-OF

Ben zobsst. optioned QF paulo orlando to Omaha (PCL).

NEW YORK YANKEES —Placed RHPMichael Pineda on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Bryan Mitchell and RHP Nick Goody from Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre (IL). Optioned RHP Caleb Cotham

to Scranton/Wilkes-sarre.

SEATTLE MARINERS —Acquired OF Ramon Flores and RHP Jose Ramirez from the New York Yankees for OF Dustin Ackley. Recalled 16 Jesus Montero from Tacoma (pcu.

TORONTO BLUEJAYS —Acquired LHP David price from Detroit for LHp Daniel Norss, LHp Matt Boyd and LHP Jairo Labourt National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Acquired INF Hector olivera, LHp paco Rodsguez and RHp zachary Bird from the Los Angeles Dodgers and Miami's 201 6 competitive balance draft lottery selection A for LHPs Luis Avilan and Alex Wood, RHPs Bronson Arroyo and Jim Johnson and INF Jose Peraza.

CINCINNATI REDS — Recalled LHP David Holmbergand RHP Keyvius Sampson from Louisville (IL). Optioned C Kyle Skipworth to Pensacola (SL). Placed RHP Nate Adcock on the 15-day DL. MIAMI MARuNS — Acquired RHPs Kevin Guzman, Jeff Bsg ham andvictor Araujo from

the Los Angeles Dodgers for RHP Mat Latos, 1B Michael Morse and cash considerations.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — DesignatedRHP Vance Worley for assignment. Activated RHP Joe Blanton.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Acquired OF-1 6 Brandon Moss from Cleveland for LHP Rob Kaminsky. Placed OF Matt Holliday On the 15-day DL. Recalled INF Greg Garcia from

Memphis (PCL). Designated 1B Dan Johnson for assignment.

Eastern League TRENTON THUNDER — Announced RHP Joel De La Cruz was transferred to the team from scranton/wilkes-Barre (Iu and RHp Andrew Bailey was transferred ScrantonNVilkes-sarre.

American Association AMARILLO THUNDERHEADS — Released RHP Anthony Figliola. Signed RHP Mark

Haynes. Acquired RHP Richie Mirowski from

washington (Fu for a player to be named.

GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS — Traded OF Tillman Pugh to Winnipeg for cash.

GRAND PRAIRIE AIRHOGS — Traded OF Chris Elder to La redo for cash.

JOPLIN BLASTERS — Signed LHP Scott Heath.

SIOUX FALLS CANARIES —Signed INF Angel Chavez.

Released LHP AlYevoli.

WICHITA WINGNUTS — Signed INF Jerry Gonzalez.

Athntic League SUGAR LAND SKEETERS —Soldthecontract of RHPTimstauffertothe Ne YorkMets.

Frontier League

GATEWAY GRIZZLIES —Signed INF KJ Bark SOUTHERN ILUNOIS MINERS —Traded RHP Pete Perez to Gateway for RHP Scott Harkin.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NEW YORK KNICKS — Signed C Kristaps porzingis and G Jesan Grant.

NBA Development League IOWA ENERGY — Named Nicki Gross assistant coach.

FOOTBALL National Football League

ATLANTA FALCONS — PlacedOT omar Holmes on the PUP list.

BUFFALO BILLS — Raced DE M aggio Williams,

K Dan Carpenter and CB Leodis McKelvin on the active/non-football injury list and TE Chris Manherlz and CB Cam Thomas on the PUP list.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed WR Avius Capem and P Man Wile. Waived CB Gary Peters.

Placed De'Andre Presley and TE Brandon Williams on the PUP list and OT Jonathan Martin on the reserve/did not report hst.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed WRs Desmond Lawrence and Greg Little. Waived WR Gobi Hamilton. Placed LB Ray Maualuga on the active/non-football injury list.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Placed LB Darius Eubanks,WR Marion Moore and RB Glenn Winston on the active/non-football injury list.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Placed RB Darren M cFadden and LB Rolando McClain on the PUP list and OL Chaz Green, LB Mark Nzeocha and C Shane Mcoermott on the active/nonfootball injury list. Announced the retirement of LB Keith Rivers.

TENNESSEETITAN S—Agreed to terms with NT Isaako Aaitui. Placed NT Sammie Hill on PUP list and TE Dorin Dickerson on injured %$8IV8.

HOCKEY National Hockey League PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Agreed to terms with RW Jakub Voracek on a multiyear contract extension.

W ASHINGTON CAPITALS — Signed DJonas

Siegenthaler to a three-year, entry-level contract AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Re-signed F Shawn O'Donnell.

ECHL READING ROYALS — Agreed to terms with D Derik Johnson. Signed Fs Justin Crandall, Cam Reid, Mike Pereira, Joe Rehkamp and lan Watters, and D Jordan Heywood, Curtis Leonard and Sam Windle to one-year contracts.

MOTORSPORTS INDYCAR — Announced the resignation of president of competition Derrick Walker, effective at the end of the season.

SOCCER Major League Soccer COLUMBUS CREW — Signed D Harrison Afful.

LA GALAXY — Acquired G Donovan Ricketts from orlando sc for a 201 6 second-round draft pick.Placed G Jaime Penedo onwaivers.

North American Soccer League JACKSONVILLE ARMADA — Signed F Derek Gebhard.

COLLEGE AUBURN-MONTGOMERY — Named Paige Wetzel volleyball coach.

DAYTON — Named Kayla Ard women' s assistant basketball coach.

DELAWARE — Promoted Dana Griskowitz to assistant volleyball coach. Named Bsan Toron director of volleyball operations.

IOWA — Announced sophomore DB Solomon Warfield will transfer.

LEES-MCRAE — Named William Tatge women's volleyball coach.

OHIO STATE — Suspended junior DE Joey Bosa, sophomore HB Jalin Marshall, senior WR Corey Smith and junior HB Dontre Wilson one game for violating depanment of athletics policy. sAINT LEQ —Named Esn Mykleby assistant athletics director for marketing, fundraising, and communityengagement; and Conner Kilpatrick assistant director of intramurals and recreation. Promoted Mike Madagan to assodate athletics director, Pete lafresne to assistant athletics director for communications and Erin Bean to director of athletics communications.

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21600 FAITHE CT $299,000 CHARMING40'SSTYLE FARM HOME Home on .95 ac features custom rock walls with high open Beamceilings, hardwood floor, newer interior upgrades, 2 bdrms/w outside access each with their own fireplace, Ig covered porch jetted tub and walk in shower. ¹20151366 CBML w/ oversized trex style deck, Ig 3 car garagew/ 532-6993 workshoparea.Community pooland clubhouse plus many year round recreation activities. ¹201 51405CBML532-6993

9687 MANZANITA $256,900 COULTERVI LLE/GREELEYHILLCOUNTRY Preparetobe impressed!Immaculate 3bed/2 ba.homeon4acresadjacent toforestlandscoveredw/majestic pines&oaks. All the desiredamenities with built-in appliances,coriancounters, quality cabinets, all lovinglycaredfor. Airtight woodstove, hot tub in anoutdoor sparoom,workshop/storage shed PLUS2cari 3cargarage,bothfinishedw/roll updoors.

Usableacreagewithterraced gardens82wells. Short trip to Yosemite,peaceful8private! ¹20151407CSSEG532-7400

17864 ROBIN ROAD $255,000 STATELY HOMEnestled in desirable BrentwoodPark subdivision. Spacioushomeboasts 1,980sf, 3 BR/2 '/2 BA,familyroom, bonusroom,andenclosed deck.

Enjoy thepeacefulmountainSerenity andnaturethat adds to theappeal ofthis uniquemountainhome.

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20465 SOULSBYVILLE ROAD $239,000 WITHIN YOUR BUDGETThis affordable home is located on Soulsbyville Road, close to the Willow Springs subdivision and Soulsbyville Elementary School. It has 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, office, central heat & air+ woodstove 8 over 1600sf. It sits on a 0.39 acre lot w/ fencing, patio, deck & a 2 car garage. Call for more info.

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19560 RIVER BIRCH ¹6 20824 KOTEO LANE JUBILEE COURT LOT ¹4 PARCEL 2 SILVER SPUR ROAD $205,000 $159,000 $145,000 $179,000 WALK TOTHELAKE 2bd, 2ba home on level SONORAHILLS HOMEDesirable location SoCUTE CABIN IN Ml WUK Cute little 2 bedroom, SUPERB 6.1 4ACRES BELOW THE SNOW BE INSPIRED!Theperfect land to build your lot surrounded by gorgeous shade trees that nora Hills near the pool spa club. House is 3/2 1 bath cabin. Nice level lot that backs up to U.S. Mostly level acreage with excellent access dream home is here! 11.74gorgeous acres backsuptothecreek.Impeccable home all upgraded. Very large homecovered deck, Forest Land. ¹20151379 CBTH 586-5200 and adorned with beautiful oak & pine trees. in one of the County's most desirable areas off with beautiful master suite. Composite deck & beautiful inside and out. Private gate to park Multiple building sites and gorgeous location. Yosemite Rd. Useable and gently sloped attached 2 car garage with workbench. 2 com- at rear. Pool and a brick patio vaulted ceilings, Close to town yet very peaceful and private. land with a nice spot to build. Very quiet and munity lakes, clubhouse, stables & muchmore. walk in closets, windows w/ hutch, 2 car garage, Check out this amazing property. ¹20151402 private location with turn back creek bordering ¹20151394 CBTH586-5200 washer etc.¹20151403 CBML532-6993 CBTH 586-5200 the lower portion. Come check it out! ¹20151360 CBSEG 532-7400

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19600 JUBILEE COURT $629,000 COUNTRYPRIVACYSet on 7.2beautiful acres, this property includes a wonderful Farmhouse, fenced pool, horse arena, round pen, barn w/5 stall, wash rack & tack room. Thehome has been updated & remodeled in the past 2 yrs & includes 2800 sf w/4bd, 3ba, beautiful kitchen & home office. Come home to country! ¹20151057 CBSEG532-7400

16711 DUTCH MINE ROAD 22854 MIDDLECAMP ROAD $429,000 $419,995 COUNTRY ESTATE2 homes atop Quartz Mtnw/ MAJESTICPROPERTY INTHE PINES!Gorviews to Table Mtn. Main home 3bd, 2 ba, 1900 geous 3 acre parcel with 3 bd, 2 bath homein sq ft, 2 car garage w/central heat & air. 2nd pristine condition. Kitchen built ins, skylights, home 2 bd,1 ba, 1000 sq ft above over sized 2 french doors are just a few of the unique feacar garage. All on 5.5 acres w/fruit trees, mine & tures of this home, 2car garage and 2 carports mineral rights. ¹20150860 CBML 532-6993 with RV parking. Large fenced area andcorral for animals. Gated for maximum privacy. ¹201 50827CBTH586-5200

10626 N AIRPORT ROAD $369,000

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PRIVACYINCOLUMBIA Ranch style home on PEACEFULSPOTDOWNTOWNMature and de9+ acres with a beautiful view to the west! Gat- sirable neighborhood adjacent to the Dragoon ed entry and private/wooded drive to the home. Gulch Trail. Large Family rm upstairs, living rm Vaulted knotty pine ceilings in great room which downstairs, 3bd, 3ba, & the kitchen opens up opens to eating area and kitchen. 3 bed and 2 to a Ig deck. Great outdoor spaces including baths all on entry level with no steps, and large decks, sitting areas, a lawn, &gardens to bonusroom downstairs.Updated windows and enjoy. Separate entrance to a bonus roomand newer HVAC. ¹20151190CBSEG532-7400 1/2 bath off of the lower deck. Lots to offer! ¹201 50440 CBSEG532-7400

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20815 LONGEWAY ROAD $274,999 OPPORTUNITY! 3bd, 1ba on alevel 2.95 acres Zoned BP. Lots of potential here! Private yet easy access to Hwy108. ¹20150355CBTH 586-5200

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28470 ITALIAN BAR ROAD $160,000 REMOTE PROPERTYHaveyou been looking for remote property with room for a crowd?

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16933 EBROOKSIDE DRIVE $155,000 HEAR THEWATER RUN BY! Enjoythesounds of the nearby creek & the fresh mountain air.

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21398 CRESTVIEW DRIVE $257,900 BETTERTHANEVER3bd, 2ba w/ a spacious 2 car garage. Uniqueopenfir plan. Roomy kitchen w/ an extended granite eating area. Plenty of cabinets, pantry & nice range. Newwd heat stove. Lg rms. Bathrooms using stamped concrete. Stamped concrete patio shaded byhuge shade trees. ¹20150715CBSEG532-7400

20818 WILLOW SPRINGS DR PARKRIDGE AVE $244,900 $175,000 MOVE INREADYCustom built 3 bedroom, 2 A LOT TOLOVEThis beautiful 3 acre parcel, bath home with open floor plan. Lowmaintelocated in Ridgewood Estate may bethe perfect nance yard with lots of parking for RV,boat etc. place to build your dreamhome. Call today!

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16288 STAMP MILL LOOP EAST $99,900 DEVELOPED ACREAGE! Well, septic, two large capacity storage tanks &electric already installed! Building site already graded. House plans included! Panoramic beautiful views to enjoy spectacular sunsets! Quartz mountain beauty. ¹20150688 CBML532-6993

18783 MAIN STREET $94,995 EXCELLENTINVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY Adorable cottage in Tuolumne with all new upgrades throughout. Walking distance to town and the casino. New windows, roof, flooring, countertops with huge custom shower. Double level lot & fenced yard. Great for rental investment & tenant would love to stay. ¹20150754 CBTH 586-5200

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CASE MANAGER III Deputy Conservator ($28.22-$34.33 /hr.) needed to provide services & supervise staff in the provision of casemanagement services for persons on LPS or Probate conservatorship.

Must have relevant Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of full-time exp. providing case management services in a behavioral health setting. Master's degree may substitute for two years of req'd exp. For detailed job flyer and specific app requirements visit

COST-U-LESS NOW HIRING for «Vault Clerk, •Stocker & «Cashier.

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E.O.E. 760 Mono Way. DENTAL ASSISTANT needed for our growing high quality dental practice. Must be energetic 8 have a great attitude.

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Applicants must be able to communicate and interact with a wide variety of skill level individuals, work safely, have good attendance.

Bkground check & drug test req'd. Excellent pay and benefits. Accepting apps Mon-Fri, 8am-5pm (530) 258-4412 Collins is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

HIRING CAREGIVERS! Men & women; must be a compassionate, loving person that perhaps has taken care of a family member / friend.

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HOME AIDE NEEDED; a compassionate live-in for F/T or P/T in Sonora.

Call (425) 221-0462 IF YOU ENJOY HELPING SENIORS, contact SENIORITY LIFECARE about being paid as a CAREGIVER. Not just a job; a perfect career for a compassionate, dedicated team player. We provide support, training and benefits! P/T and Flex.

(209) 532-4500 JAMESTOWN RANCH in Sonora has FT & PT positions open; Direct Support Providers who work with intellectually disabled men. Must be physically fit - able to hike and work outdoors. «weekends, «holidays •days/nights - 24/7. Exp preferred. CDL in good standing. $12.25/hr. Call Marianne, (415)661-7468

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SONORA 2BD/1 BA/1Car Gar. 100-A Preston, Storage, partial basement, OH&A, W/D hkup. $1050/mo+dep. Credit ck. Call (209) 532-4950 SONORA 2BD/1 BA/1Car garage; at 120B Preston Pl., fenced yd., deck, $900/mo+$900dp. $500 pet dep. Credit ck. req'd. (209) 532-4950 RETAIL / OFFICE SPACE near The Junction; 2,186 sq ft. Call 775-225-5683

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588-4515 Preston Pl., fenced yd., Call John 818-472-9230 deck, $900/mo+$900dp. $500 pet dep. Credit ck. VACATION RENTALS CAREGIVERS P/T, F/T, Daily/Weekly/Monthly, req'd. (209) 532-4950 starting at $75/night Varied shifts. Must pass SONORA 3/2/2OH&A 209-533-1310 DOJ/ FBI fingerprints!

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209-984-5124 245 $1,295/mo+dep. 11209 Racetrack Rd. 532-8244 Commercial SONORA 3/2/2 AVE Remodelled. Private. No CAMAGE Industrial space up to smk/no pets. Gardener s.f. for lease. incl'd. $1,300/mo+1k dp 21,000 Call for info 533-8962 Have Ref's. 770-4142 AND EXPLORE SONORA 3/2 MH ON z '/ COME Mono Village Ctr. Lease acre; 3 miles to town. available. Randy Perfect 4 retired couple; spaces Sigler, Bkr. 532-0668 garden. $1000/mo+dp.

CASE MANAGER I/II HISTORIC BUILDING (209) 288-8876 — 2 positions 24 S. Washington St. 205 Sonora- Can be used (I: $20.52-$24.95; II: $25.58-$31.11/hr.)

Rentals/Apartments for office or retail. 2K sq. needed for our ASOC ft. Ph. (209) 586-6514 DOWNTOWN SONORA and CSOC programs.

NEW COMMERCIAL 55 & Older. Studio Apt. ASOC case mgr. will $495/mo & 1BDR-$550/ BLDG. Sonora off Hwy. provide support ser108. 1000 sf & 2000 sf month. Call 533-1667 vices to adults.CSOC Bernie (209) 586-6514 case manager will MARK TWAIN APTS. provide support serRETAIL / OFFICE Newly Remodelled 1 & vices to TAY (ages SPACE near The Junc2 bdrms. CURRENTLY 16-25). For detailed FULL! (209) 984-1097 tion; 2,186 sq ft. Call job flyer, education 775-225-5683 and experience requirements and NEED QUICK CASH? specific application process, please visit Sell any item for $250 htt://hr.calaveras ov.us ONO VILLAG or less for just $8.00 FFD: Apply immediPARTMENT ately. Positions are Call Classifieds open until filled. EOE Pool, On-Site Laundry No Application Fee

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ISN'T THERE ANYONE Left ln Tuo County that is gualified to do repairs on a '95 Chevy Corvette? Ph. 586-7643 BUYING JUNK, Unwanted or wrecked cars, Cash paid! Free P/U Mike 209-602-4997 HONDA '02 DIRT BIKE XR 80-R. Good Cond.

BRENTWOOD LAKE (T.H.) Membership for SALE. Incl's 2015 dues paid. Don't miss out on this!! (925) 794-6028

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Medical benefits, vacation and 401k avail. Fax Resume: 209-795-1065 BRET HARTE UHSDAccepting apps for (3) POSITIONS: ¹1. Utility Worker, Tue - Sat, 8hrs/day; $16.55$18.21/hr;¹2. Special Ed. Para (Aide) and ¹3. Bilingual Para. $14.63-$16.09/hr DOE. Closing Date: 8/3/2015.

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LEGAL CLERK I/II I: $1 4.00-$1 7.09/hr.

II: $15.47-$18.89/hr.

TUOLUMNE County Probation is seeking qualified candidates to perform legal secretarial & clerical support work for professional staff.

Req's HS Diploma or GED equivalent with supplemental coursework in legal terminology and document format and one year of legal clerical exp. Apply online at www.tuolumnecoun .ca. ov Closes: 8 12/1 5 MECHANIC I YARD PERSON Service 8 Delivery for equipment rental yard. Must have own tools. Apply in person only w/ Resume+ attached DMV Report at SONORA RENTALS, 13613 Bergel Rd. Sonora, Mon-Fri. 7:304:30. No phone calls!

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Call 588-4515 MIDDLETONS FURNITURE and appliance looking for delivery person to deliver, install and remove furn., appliances and electronics.

Must be able to lift 150 lbs. Must have clean DMV and pass drug test. Apply at 374 N. Main St., Angels Camp.

MOORE ROOM SEEKING motivated Individual for our manufacturing facility in Jamestown to perform welding, painting, on-site builds/deliveries.

Drug free 8 Clean DMV required - will train. $11/hr. 209-984-3462 NEED CASHIER 8 SALES ASSOC. Will train. 17867 HWY 120 Big Oak Flat. 962-1884 OAK TERRACE MEMORY CARE now hiring CAREGIVERSHoursand shifts vary.

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SIERRA PACIFIC INDUSTRIES TRUCK DRIVERSLOG AND FLATBED Must have 2 years of

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• Flatbed Driver - on the road all week and pay is by percentage of the load. Must meet dispatch schedules on time.

• Log Driver - Paid by the hour. Accepting applications at Sierra Pacific, 14980 Carnage Rd. in Sonora, MondayFriday from 9 - 4 or fax resume: 209-536-2255.

We are a drug/tobaccofree work place. A verifiable SS ¹ is required.

E.O.E., including the disabled & veterans.

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PLAN CHECKER ($21.80-$26.48 Ihr.) needed to perform technical reviews of architectural and engineering plans for compliance with codes, ordinances, and related laws and regulations. HS/GED and four (4) years of journey level experience in general contracting, plan checking or related, OR two years as a building inspector. For detailed job flyer and specific app requirements please visit

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SALES ASSISTANT Full-time. HOTEL meeting/ sleeping room sales. New position!

Self- starter, detail and service oriented, excellent computer skills, some weekends/ evenings, will receive specific on-job training.

Apply in person at Best Western PLUS Sonora Oaks Hotel.

SONORA LUMBER is looking for two (2) friendly, energetic team members for the positions of Cashier and Yard Associate.

Experience is preferred.

Must be great at customer service 8 avail to work on weekends;have a HS diploma & driver' s lic. Background check req'd. Pick up app at: 730 S. Washington St., Sonora and return it. No phone calls, please!

SONORA SCHOOL DISTRICT seeks 2 P/T Duty Aides for the 2015 -16 school year. Call 532-5491 for details.

Closes: 8/5, noon. EOE. SUMMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is accepting apps: Instructional Aide Special Education, P/T, 23.25 hrs/wk. Salary: $16.51-$19.27/hr. Apps avail at Summervile HS, 17555 Tuolumne Rd. Tuolumne, CA 95379 FFD: open until filled.

No phone calls, please!

SUMMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is accepting apps: Tutor/Detention Supervisor Aide, P/T, 4.0 hrs/wk. Salary range is $17.12-$20.03/hr.

Apps at Summerville HS 17555 Tuolumne Rd, Tuolumne, CA 95379 FFD: Open until filled.

NO Phone Calls Please!

TH LUMBER HAS 2 SALES assoc. postions open. Exp. pref'd App. online or in person. twainhartace.corn 209-586-3571

The Union Democrat has a dedicated team of volunteer weather watchers who keep track of high-low temperatures and precipitation.

They call the newspaper with fresh numbers early every morning for that day's weather page, on the back of the sports section. The only pay is an annual gathering - sometimes a picnic hosted by the newspaper, sometimes dinner at an area restaurant - where they are honored and thanked. Necessary equipment, which the volunteers must provide themselves, are a thermometer that records the high and low temperatures of the day and a rain gauge. They must also submit snow depths and melt snow, when they get it, to include its water content with their precipitation. Volunteers are needed right now in, Tuolumne, Pinecrest and San Andreas.

Anyone interested in becoming a volunteer may call Pam Orebaugh 588-4546 or e-mail orebau hOuniondemocrat.corn

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event, it appears that the groom's moth-

er,"Dolores,"istryingtotake control.

For nearlyevery detail that my daughter and I agree upon, Dolores steps in and wants to make changes.

While I appreciate her enthusiasm, is this the way that things are supposed to be? She is putting my daughter in the middle and making the situation terribly uncomfortable, especially since the groom is in the military and the wedding won't take place for another 18 months.

I'm not sure how long this can go on before we have words. My husband and I have given the bridal couple what we considered to be a generous budget, but Dolores keeps 06'ering to pay for any additional expenses so she can make it be the day she wants. While we can afford to give our daughter more money

for the wedding, we would like them to spend wisely for this one-day celebration.

Dolores has already married off a daughter. I'm only going to be the mother of the bride once in my life. Is it too much to ask that this day belong to me? How do I keep peace with my daughter and make this the day that we have dreamed of without constant conflict with her mother-in-law?ONCE IN MY LIFE DEAR ONCE: These days, the bride's family doesn't get to control every aspect of the wedding.

Grooms alsoget a say.And many families split the costs right down the middle, giving each an equal voice in the planning.

This day does not belong to you.

Your daughter is the one who decides how to handle her future mother-in-lawand what compromises she is willing to make. For your sake, as well as hers, please take one step back and be as gracious and accommodating as possible. It's a good lesson to teach your daughter. It may not be the wedding you dreamed of,but it could ease the way for your daughter to have the marriage she wants and a better relationship with her in-laws. Isn't that what counts?

DEAR ANNIE: Recently a reader complained that you never write about the good stories. Here's one I hope you will share.

I want to publicly thank my husband's ex-wif eforbeingadearand special person. For the first 10 years of my marriage, I experienced the animosity that many ex-wives inflict on the new wife (and vice versa). Then I extended an olive branch, and we both put away our resentful and angry feelings and

To Your Good Health Keith Roach, M.D. creaseinresearch funding overall.

The basic scientific understanding gained from researching these important conditions is applicable to many different illnesses. However, there are other diseases that have much less funding given the amount of disability they cause in the population. Arthritis gets relatively little funding compared with HIV and cancer. Interestingly, the two conditions that get the least amount of funding considering the amount of conditions — HIV and breast cancersufferingcaused by them are depresthat have much higher funding than sion and COPD. While I might wish for others. I don't mean to suggest that more overall funding for research, it breast cancer or HIV have "too much" doesseem from this paper and others funding. I would like to see a major in- that the distribution of funding isn't as

equitable as possible.

Despite a relative lack of funding, there is still much research being done on improving the cartilage lining the joints, one major site of damage in osteoarthritis. Stem cells are one possibility. Unfortunately, a spray-on substance hasn't quite been worked out yet.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I'm in the middle of a dispute between my neurosurgeon and cardiologist, and would appreciat e your opinion.I'm a 70-yearold male with extensive cardiac issues, including a heart attack, stent, ablation and A fib. I have a pacemaker/defibrillator implanted in my chest. I recently was diagnosed with a herniated disc, and the neurologist wants to perform surgery. He insists that I stop taking my daily 81-mg aspirinseven days before surgery.My cardiologist absolutely refuses to allow this, and states that stopping the aspirin could be life-threatening. The neurosurgeon will not operate unless the aspirin is stopped. Neither doctor will budge.

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I OSCOP E Birthday for August 1.The world is your oyster.

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it happen. Support and get supported today and tomorrow. Partnership is your magic elixir. Find creative ways to collaborate with someone attractive. Don't rush ... take it easy. Do your work slowly and once.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):Today is a 7 — Profit from meticulous service. For the next two days, fulfill promises. The details are important. It could get intense. Take To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the time for good food, exercise and rest; this is your energy easiest day, 0 the most challenging. source. Breathe deeply. Compromise.

Aries (March 21-April 19): Today is a 7 — Clarify your Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):Today is a 6 — Enjoy the direction today and tomorrow. Take time for emotion. game without taking expensive risks. There's more time Breathe deeply. Seek out harmony. Complete projects for relaxation and romance over the next few days. with soft music and tea. If you' ll be late, call. You may Prepare for a social event. Hide out, if necessary. Circumhave trouble getting adjusted. You' re more sensitive. stances demand responsible money handling. Stifle your Taurus (April 20-May20): Today is a 7 — Friends are rebellious tendencies. very helpful over the next two days. Check public opinion.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):Today is a 7 — Get Don't fall for an old trick. Listen carefully to a teacher. creative with color. Household projects produce satisfying Be patient with a resister. Something's off. Postpone an results today and tomorrow. Learn from experts. Choose important decision until you' re sure. privacy over publicity. Avoid reactionary upsets. Clear out Gemini (May 21 June 20):Today is an 8 — Assume space for what's next. Find a new use for something old. more responsibility today and tomorrow. You' ll be tested.

Capricorn (Dec. K Jan. 19):Today is a 9 — Studies, reCarefully monitor your expenses. The better you serve, search and writing go well today and tomorrow. Defend the more you benefit. Consider new opportunities to exyour position with charm. Be tolerant of ridiculous sugpand your bankroll. Work it out with your partner. Avoid gestions. Misunderstanding fogs the path. Adaptations silly arguments. required. In case of temporary overwhelm, take a walk.

Cancer (June 21 July 22):Today is a 7 — Your wanderFollow the money trail. lust is getting worse. Travel and romance both look good Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):Today is a 9 — Keep to the for the next few days. Mail packages. Make a budget and budget. The next two days get profitable, if you play your stick to it. Weigh pros and cons before choosing. Measure cards right. Proceed with caution. A disagreement about thrice and cut once. Defer gratification. priorities or motivation would slow the action. Don' t respond automatically. Think about where your bread is Leo (July 23-Aug. K):Today is an 8 — Sort, organize and file. Handle finances today and tomorrow. Take stock. buttered.

Prayer and meditation are powerful tools. You may not Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20):Today is a 6 — Take charge agree about priorities. Keep your agreements. Get deof your destiny. You' re ready to make changes for the termined, not dissuaded. Be extra considerate. Use your better over the next few days. You' ve got plenty of supbest judgment. port. Stay out of someone else's fuss. Invest in efficiency.

Virgo(Aug.23-Sept.22):Today isa 9 — You can make Balance logic and emotion.

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found out we had a lot in common, in addition to the man we both had married.

We "grew up," and our relationship flourished over the next 15 years as we shared birthdays, graduations, marriage, a grandchild, holidays at each other's homes, even family vacations.

We recognized that jealousy and hate only destroy one's self, and that harmony brings peace and contentment to thesoul.It's a wonderfulfeeling to have such a treasured friend.— TRULY GRATEFUL FRIEND DEAR GRATEFUL: We love this.

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Research fundingdoesn't match disability DEAR DR. ROACH: I read a lot about research for cancer and HIV, and nothing about money spent for help with arthritis. That one strikes almost everybody, with age.Issomeresearch in progress for inventing a substance that can be sprayed on joints aflhcted with a loss of cartilage to make them slippery? How much money is provided for arthritis compared with other diseases? —E.M. ANSWER: Funding for research in a particular disease is decided by a largenumber offactors — everything from the public health burden of a disease to the effectiveness of the lobby by aparticulargroup ofsupporters.An interesting paper looking at National Institutes of Health research was done a few years ago, showing that, adjusted fortheamount ofdisabilityattributable to a particular condition, there are two

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there some alternative? — R.G.J. ANSWER:I'm sorry, but I can't overrideeitheryourcardiologistoryourneurosurgeon.

Both are doing theirbestto make sure you are safe, from their respective pointsofview.

When surgery is absolutely indicated, we sometimes use heparin (or one of its newer cousins) by injection for the week before surgery. It wears off much more

quickly than aspirin does.So,by stopping it right before surgery, you are only without an anticoagulant for the few hours duringthe surgery,and you restartthe aspirin as soon as the neurosurgeon allows. This plan minimizes bleeding risk during surgery and also clotting risk in the days before surgery.

If your back is bad enough to be worth both of these risks, then I would ask both yourcardiologistandyourneurosurgeon whether they would consider this plan.

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Today in history Today is Friday, July 31, the 212th day of 2015.

There are 153 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History: On July 31, 1715, a fleet of Spanish ships carrying gold, silver and jewelry sank during a hurricane off the east Florida coast, scattering most of their treasure along the ocean floor. Of some 2,500 crew members, more than 1,000 d I ed.

On thisdate: In 1930, the radio character "The Shadow" made his debut as narrator of the "Detective Story Hour" on CBS Radio.

In 1933, the radio series "Jack Armstrong, the AllAmerican Boy," made its debut on CBS radio station WBBM in Chicago.

In 1964, the American space probe Ranger 7 reached the moon, transmitting pictures back to Earth before impacting the lunar surface.

In 1972, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton withdrew from the ticket with George McGovern following disclosures that Eagleton had once undergone psychiatric treatment.

In 1973, Delta Air Lines Flight 723, a DC-9, crashed while trying to land at Boston's Logan International Airport, killing all 89 people on board.

In 1989, a pro-Iranian group in Lebanon released a grisly videotape showing the body of American hostage William R. Higgins, a Marine lieutenant-colonel, dangling from a rope.

In 1991, President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow.

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As a consequence, alldoubles by the 483 opening side are for penalty and all passes Dealer: South below game are forcing.

Vulnerable: East-West Look at today's auction. Over North's r edouble, East ran to two clubs. Note that South West Nor t h Ea s t t his promised no values because the logic of 14 Dbl .

Redb l . 2 4 t he auction (an opening bid, a takeout double p a s s pass 2 4 Pas s and a redouble) made it clear that fourth 4y pass pa s s pa s s hand had next to nothing.

Now, if South had bid immediately, it pening ea:4Q would haveannounced a minimum or subminimum opening. Here, South, after making a forcing pass, learned that his partner had game-invitational values with exactly threecard spade support, and jumped to four spades.

West led the club queen. After declarer covered with dummy's king, East won with his ace, cashed the club 10, and shifted to a heart.

Since West was sure to have the heart king for his takeout double, South won with his ace. Then, if he had played a trump immediately, he would have lost one spade, one heart and two clubs. Instead, declarer cashed three diamond tricks to discard his heart loser. South's 10 tricks were six spades, one heart and three diamonds.

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE TS ¹ CA-15-4692-CS Order ¹ 150101609-CA-VOI Loan ¹ 9803817411 [PURSUANT TO CIVIL CODE Section 2923.3(a), THE SUMMARY OF INFORMATION REFERRED TO BELOW IS NOT ATTACHED TO THE RECORDED COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT BUT ONLY TO THE COPIES PROVIDED TO THE TRUSTOR.] NOTE: THERE ISA SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION IN THISDOCUMENT ATTACHED YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 6/29/2006. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IFYOU 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): GARY M. GRANGER AND ELENA M. GRANGER Recorded: 7/20/2006 as Instrument No. 2006012800 in book xxx, page xxx of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of TUOLUMNE County, California; Date of Sale: 8/1 3/2015 at 3:30 PM Place of Sale: At the front entrance to the Administration Building, at the County Courthou.se Complex, 2 South Green Street, Sonora, CA 95370 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $495,422.98 The purported property address is: 20050 GIBBS DR SONORA, CA 95370 Assessor's Parcel No. 034-310-03-00NOTICE 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 saledate 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 714-730-2727 or visit this Internet Web site www.servicelinkasa .corn, using the file number assigned to this case CA-15-4692-CS. 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 Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. 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 Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder's sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse.

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Date: 7/10/2015 SUMMIT MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC 16745 W. Bernardo Dr., Ste. 100 San Diego, CA 92127 (866) 248-2679 (For NON SALE information only) Sale Line: 714-730-2727 or Login to: www.servicelinkasa .corn Reinstatement Line: (866) 248-2679 CECILIA STEWART, Trustee Sale Officer If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of persona! liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right's against the real property only.

THIS NOTICE 15SENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF COLLECTING A DEBT. THISFIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT ON BEHALF OF THE HOLDER AND OWNER OF THE NOTE. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED BY OR PROVIDED TO THIS FIRM OR THE CREDITOR WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations. A-4534237 Publication Dates: July 17, 24, 31, 2015.

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Groveland CA, 95321 The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 09/2015 This Business is conducted by: an individual.

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).) s/ Lucille M. Morris-Tyndall NOTICE: This statement expires five years from the date it was filed

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT TUOLUMNE COUNTY CLERK 2 S. GREEN ST. SONORA, CA 95370 (209) 533-5573 FILE NO. 2015000272 Date: 7/28/2015 11:34A DEBORAH BAUTISTA, CLERK 8 AUDITORCONTROLLER The following Person(s) is (are) doing business as: Fictitious Business Name (s): SOUTH BAY ROOFING SERVICES Street address of principal place of business: 16500 Dutch Mine Road Jamestown, CA 95327 Name of Registrant: Vingo, Raymond Kristian 16500 Dutch Mine Road Jamestown, CA 95327 The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/-/2015 This Business is conducted by: an individual.

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).) s/ Raymond Vingo NOTICE: This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. A new FBN statement must be filed no more than 40 days from expiration.

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