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Devastation.

That's what members of the Angels Camp Police Department felt after the passing of 6-year-old police K-9 unit Kain in late October.

Kain's health deteriorated rapidly and unexpectedly, and the loss was so tough that Police Chief Todd Fordahl said Sgt. Steve Poortinga, Kain's handler, took time

Road closedYosemite' s Tioga Road closed for winter.A2

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SupervisorsTuolumne County leaders to consider jail design changes in light of estimates putting the project $3.5 million over budget.A3

Seen andHeard — This week's photo opinion asks, "What is your favorite wintertime activity?" A3

ROadWOrk — A list of upcoming roadwork planned in Tuolumne and Calaveras counties, including times, dates, locations and expected delays.A3

OPInIOn — Elias: UC heeds critics; will take more Californians.

Towery: Naive international policy will force next generation to learn 'duck and cover' drills.

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Accident reported — Two injured after vehicle collides with tree.AS

COMMUNITY • GIVING BACK: Chicken Ranch Casino welcomes all to annual holiday dinner.B1 • CASAS: Lunches, classes planned at Senior Center.B1 • VETS' CORNER:VA makes changes to Veterans Choice Program.B1 • OMEGA NU:Catered party offered as prize in drawing. B2 • RELIGION: Events and outreach planned in the Mother Lode.B3

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Chris Loh, owner of the Iron Door Saloon (above), says mobile phone service has improved but remains limited in Groveland, where's he lived the past 15 years. Patti Beaulieu (below) has limited bars on her Verizon mobile phone Thursday at Groveland Community Hall.

Service expansions planned in Yosemite, Groveland

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adding a third carrier, T-Mobile, to the site.

Yosemite is a protected national treasure,and it's also viewed as a 1,169-square-mile economic engine for gateway communities in Tuolumne,Mariposa, Madera and

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Mobile phone service in Groveland is spotty at best for many residents and people who work in the area, and some of them wonder why plans are afoot to improve coverage for visitors in Yosemite National Park.

There are also plans for new cell towers near Tenaya Elementary and Pine Mountain Lake Golf Course, and raising the height of an existing tower near Pine Mountain Lake Airport, said Mike Laird, deputy director of Tuolumne County's Community Resources Agency.

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mated 4.04 million visitors spent $354.7 million in and near Yosemite National Park, supporting more than 4,600 jobs in the area, According to the National Park according to the Park Service.

Service, Verizon Wireless has reThe Groveland area is one of the quested to add a third tower to the principal gateways to Yosemite, wireless telecommunications site and it has a year-round population in Yosemite Valley. AT&T Mobility of about3,400 people.Groveland and Verizon Wireless already have facilities, and the plan includes See SERVICE / Back Page

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work with another police service dog.

"You spend all the time at work with them, plus they live with you at home. In reality, we spend more time with these animals than we do our own families, because they' re with us all the time," said Fordahl, a handler himself since 2005. "A person who becomes a good dog handler is going to get attached to that animal. If they' re not, there's something wrong with them."

The loss of Kain left the Angels Camp Police Department with just one K-9 unit, Kato. Normally, the department has two policedogs on staff,keeping at least one available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Fordahl said the department's use of Kato has increased.

"As an example, I was working patrol last Sunday and I used him for three different calls that I was on, primarily as a locating tool. That is typically what we use them for," Fordahl said.cWe're starting to see the need and the usage increase because of the activity going on around us, and it has become pretty apparent that having two is ideal."

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Donna Vial thinks computer coding classes can "light a new spark" at Rail Road Flat Elementary School.

"This school is under-served, under appreciated, under ... everything,"Vial said."I want it on the map so it won't be dismissed so easily."

The 45-student, two-teacher school 20 miles east of San Andreas sits in hills hit hard by September's Butte Fire, and only in June got reprieve from a constant threat of closure when the Calaveras Unified School District enacted a three-year ban on attempts to shut it down.

Vial, a volunteer with a special enrichment program at the school, led nearly the entire student body in a nationwide

Mother Lode Congressman Tom McClintock, R-Roseville, said he supports a Republican House candidate's plan to reward campaign donors with firearms at a fundraiserscheduled for this weekend.

Johnny Tacherra, a Republican who is challenging Fresno Democrat Rep. Jim Costa in the race for California's 16th congressional district, McClintock will host the "2nd Amendment BBQ" at Full Spectrum Firearms Saturday in Fresno.

An invitation on Tacherra's campaign Facebook page in late November listed McClintock as an "honorary co-host," along with other GOP House members from California.

The event has since made headlines in the wake of last week's mass shooting

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'Shop with aCop'

Event helps children, aims to improve relationship with law

By TORI THOMAS The Union Democrat

Tuolumne County law enforcement officers will take v • I rt more than 60 kids shopping on Saturday.

The event, "Shop with a Cop," is a nationwide program that p a rtners l aw enforcement officials with underprivileged c h i ldren.

It was started in Tuolumne County in 2007 by Jail Sgt. '/s Shaylene Graziose and her husband, Daniel, through the Deputy Sheriffs Association.

"The main purpose of 'Shop with a Cop' is for us to provide a Christmas to underprivileged c h i l dren and to give them a positive experience with law enforcement," Graziose said.

The children will shop at Walmart w it h c ounty law enforcement officers including members of the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Courtesy photos Office, Sonora Police De- Previous "Shop with a Cop" law enforcement participants include (above, from left) Sonora Police Officer Johnathan Ma, Sheriff's Office dispatcher Howard Roberts and partment and the California Highway Patrol, Graziose Sonora Police Det. Ibrahim Khalil. Tamara McCaig, Sheriff's Office jail commander said. (right), helps a child shop for items, including toys.

"Each kid gets to spend schools, welfare services and participate Saturday. The kids know the deputies and $100," she said.

The children are chosen Child Protective Services. program is funded solely by law enforcement are there Teri Ferrell, treasurer of public donations. to help." based on lettersof recom"We' re thrilled by the outmendation from v a r ious the program, said $8,196.39 Last year, about 60 law agencies across the coun- was raised this year, and pouring of donations this enforcement officials volunty, including elementary 62 childrenare expected to year," she said. "It lets the teeredand about 45 children

participated, Graziose said.

"I had one young man wanting a new tire for his bike, and he found out he could afford to buy a whole bike. He was really excited," she said, recounting past events. "I took a little girl shopping and she bought a bunch of new clothes for herself and a little gift for her mother."

Donations to the program are accepted throughout the year,Graziose said.Leftover money will be rolled over into

next year's program.

The event will take place during regular store hours, with multiple checkout stations open exclusively for the program.

Monetary donations can be m ailedor dropped offat the SherifFs Office, 28 N. Sunset Ave., Sonora, CA 95370.

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Yosemite's Tioga Road closed for winter

By GUY McCARTHY The Union Democrat

People who manage road closures in Yosemite National Park closed Tioga Road between Crane Flat and Tioga Pass more than a month ago.

The 45-mile stretch of Highway 120 between Crane Flat and Tioga Pass gets closed every winter, even when it' s unseasonably warm like last winter season.

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try, road bosses in Yosemite announced road at times between the Big Oak the official closure of Tioga Road for Flat entrance and Yosemite Valley in the rest of this winter season. recent weeks, with chain controls in efeWith several major storms coming fect at times for vehicles without snow through the Yosemite area later this tires and four-wheel drive. week, Yosemite National Park is closRangers say all roads in the park are ing Tioga Road for the season," rang- subject to chain controls and tempoers said in a statement. "Tioga Road rary closures due to hazardous driving typically closes each fall and remains conditions. Every vehicle is required closed throughout the winter months. to carrytire chains,even if equipped The road reopens when weather condi- with four-wheel drive, during winter tions permit in the spring." months.

The Tioga Road closure in late OctoFor current road and weather condiber ended road access to Olmsted Point, tions in Yosemite, call 372-0200 then Tenaya Lake and Tuolumne Meadows. press 1 and 1.

The rest of Yosemite National Park is billed as open year-round with periodic Contact Guy McCarthy at Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat snow removal on all other roads in the gmccarthy@uniondemocrat.corn or Tioga Road in Yosemite National Park is closed for the park.

588-4585.Follow him on Twitter @ season.The above photo,taken Oct. 17,is a view of aspen There's been ice and snow on the GuyMcCarthy. east of Tioga Pass.

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nora Regional Medical Center in Conference Room 3 on the ground floor. The support Sonora Regional Medical groupisfree,and registration Center will sponsor an Adult is not required.

Diabetes Support Group enFor more information, call dorsed by the American Dia- Jodie Rodriguez at 536-3728.

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The group is for people living with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes.

Each session will include a topic of interest and time for discussion. Light refreshments will be served.

The Adult Diabetes Support Group meets monthly, alternating between day and evening schedules, on the third Tuesday of each month as fol lows: 1 to 2 p.m .Nov.17; 5 to 6 p.m. Dec. 15.

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free.

For more information, call Nina Schloff'el at 532-6119.

CALENDAR You may have noticed that our Emergency Department is busting at the seams.

This next year we are expanding our Emergency Department to meet the needs of our community.

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The Junction shopping center, Mono Way, East Sonora.

SantaLand,11a.m.to3p.m.,

Don Pedro Recreation

Jamestown Santa,noon to Agency Board of Control, 10 2 p.m., Rocca Park, Jamestown. a.m., agency headquarters, 31 Friends of the Sierra RailBonds Flat Road, La Grange.

road, 1 p.m., Bay Avenue and

Preschool Story Hour, "Sto- Pine Street, Tuolumne. ries with Grandma," 11 a.m., Second Saturday Art Night, Tuolumne branch library, 18636 5 to 8 p.m., downtown Sonora, Main St., Tuolumne, 928-3612.

Washington Street.

Sing Along, 11 to 11:30 a.m.,

Come see what everyone is talking about. It's not only a draw, it's a win.

8 a.m. breakfast, 9 a.m. ride, My Garden Cafe,14270 Mono Way, East Sonora, 288-2477.

Sierra Waldorf School, 19234 Rawhide Road, Jamestown, 9840454.

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TODAY SATURDAY Angels Camp Library StoryMiner's Christmas, 8 a.m. to time, 10 a.m., Angels Camp 4 p.m., Columbia State Historic Park.

branch library, 426 N. Main St., Angels Camp, 736-2198.

Kiwanis Club Open Air Mar-

Questions? 209-536-3600

SATURDAY ket, 8a.m. to 4 p.m.,Mono Village Center, Mono Way, East SoMurphys Historical Walknora, 532-01 40. ing Tour, 10 a.m., tours start at Christian Motorcyclist As- the Old Timers Museum across sociation, Sierra Saints Chapter, from the Murphys Hotel.

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Supervisors to consider jail design changes

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PUBLICMEETING: The Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors, 9 a.m. Tuesday, fourth floor, County Administration Center, 2 S. Green St., Sonora.

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With new estimates putting Tuolumne County's new jail at $3.5 million over budget, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will be asked to consideralternative designs to bring the cost down.

County Admimstrator Craig Pedro said the new estimates come from architects con-

BRIAN FARMER, Sonora,owner of the Lighthouse Deli

tractedtowork on designs for

"My favorite activities are skiing and snowboarding."

the new 216-bed facility that wouldreplace the county'sold jail on Yaney Avenue.

'The SherifFs team and myself met with the architectural team Monday and went over some alternati ves," he said."Those things will be discussed with the board Tuesday to see what they would like to do."

Original estimates placed the cost of constructing the new jail at about $36 million, most of which will be funded by $33 million in state grants.

The county will be required to payfor the construction of roads and installation of utilitiestoservethe site.

Pedro said on Thursday he was still finalizing the alternatives that will be presented to the board at Tuesday's meeting.

Also at Tuesday's meeting, county officials are scheduled to unveil a program aimed at addressing widespread tree die-off'and ask for further directionfrom the board.

JULIO DENYS Twain Harte, retired "Stayinghome and doing the firewood."

NOAH PARKER, 8 Jamestown "Opening presents."

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Inefficiencies with the existing Tuolumne County Jail include the laundry facilities, with just one washing machine and two dryers to service all the inmates' clothes (above).

Construction on a new jail, expected to be completed in 2019, is $3.5 million over budget. The jail, built in 1961, poses safety concerns for both staff and inmates (below).

The program as proposed would be 75 percent funded through the California Disaster Assistance Act, though private landowners will not be eligible for relief.

Pedro called the county's plan an "organizational approach" that will help ensure efficlency.

An executive order issued

by Gov.Jerry Brown in late October requires public agencies to submit i ndividual plans with how they would

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The Calaveras County Chamber of Commerce is taking nominations for its 2015 Community Recognition Awards.

Categories includes Business of the Year, Small Business of the Year, Entrepre-

CAROLINE VASSAR Newport Beach, unemployed "My favorite activity is tennis."

neur of the Year, Professional

oftheYear,NonprofitOrganization of the Year and Citizen of the Year.

To nominate a business or

individual, go online to calaveras.org and follow the links.

Deadline is Dec. 30.

MARIANNE WRIGHT owner of Tar Flat Sonora

New class for youth mental health set

"I like to hang out with my horses. Ride with my horses."

A free youth mental health first-aid course will be held from 8 a.m. to noon Dec.

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Tuolumne Utilities District the plan.

The county intends to form and Groveland Community Pedro said the county may a planning team that would Services District. have to work with private "This helps define the dif- landowners who have dead include decision makers from use the money t o

r e move Cal Fire, U.S. Forest Service,

14 and 15 at the Tuolumne County Superintendent of Schools Office in Sonora.

The classis designed for people who work with young people ages 12 to 18, including teachers, coaches, faith leaders, social workers, and caring citizens. The class teachesa 5-step action plan to offer initial help to young people showing signs of a mental illness or in a crisis, and connect them with the appropriate professional, peer, social or self -help care.To register, call 533-1397, ext. 270.

county will be eligible for assistance, but they are trying to "put some political pressure in the right places in Sacramento," Pedro said.

Other items the board is scheduled to consider Tuesday include: • Supporting the transfer of the 400-acre Ackerson Meadow to Yosemite National Park.

• Awarding a $ 728,820 contract to George Reed Inc., based in Modesto, for a project to install a stoplight at Tuolumne and Standard roads. The project also involvesconstructing dedicated left and r ight-turn lanes, sidewalk and drainage improvements and installing signage.

• Approving a resolution recognizing Chief Probation Officer Adele Arnold's upcoming retirement on Dec. 30. The board is also scheduled toconsider approving a resolution allowing Arnold to work at an hourly rate of $59.50 after her retirement to assist interim Chief Probation Officer Don Meyer with the transition. Pedro indicated at an earlier meeting that

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trees on their property that are threatening public facilit ies,such as roads,power lines and water-delivery sys-

the temporary employment would last through the first week of January.

Contact Alex MacLean at

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ROADWORK Tuolumne County HIGHWAY 49 — One-way traffic control will be in effect from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Wednesdaythrough Thursday from Woods Way to High School Road for shoulder work.

Expect five-minute-delays.

Calaveras County HIGHWAY 26 — One-way traffic control will be in effect from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday from Main Street to Gill Haven Drive for utility work. Expect 10-minute delays.

HIGHWAY 26 — One-way traffic control

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will be in effect from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

M onday through Friday from Happy Valley to Lower Dorray roads for tree work. Expect 15-minute delays.

HIGHWAY 49 — One-way trafflc control will be in effect from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Thursday from Frogtown to Gun Club roads for utility work. Expect 15-minute delays.

HIGHWAY 12 — Right shoulder work will be in effect midnight to 7 a.m. today through Dec. 31 from Pine Street to Cosgrove Creek for highway construction.

HIGHWAY 26 — Right shoulder work will be in effect on a 24-hour basis through Dec. 31 from Nove Way to Highway 12 for highway construction.

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After more than three years of steadfastly denying the increased enrollment of foreign and out-of-state students could endanger the very California identity of the University of California, it's stunning and encouraging to see the 10-campus system do an about face.

The switch came late last month, when UC regents voted overwhelmingly for a plan to increase in-state enrollment at the elite university system by 10,000in-staters before the 2018-19

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ments of 5,000 next fall and 2,500 students each of the next two academic years.

A pp r o v a l o f t hi s change pro, T hOITIaS posed by u niver s i t y P resi d e n t J anet N a politano was a tacit admission that critics who wondered whether UC's character might be permanently altered could be right. There's no doubt about the big changes that have occurred or about the financial difficulties behind them.

Where the university had only about 5 percent foreign and out-of-state undergraduate enrollment 12 years ago, by this fall that figure had risen to 21 percent. Even more worrisome to many parents of California high school graduates with top grades was the fact that well over 30 percent of the admission offers sent out by UC last spring went to non-Californians. This included 45 percent of all offers to attend UC Berkeley, 42 percent for UCLA and 35 percent at UC Davis.

The university tried to explain this away by noting it has longstanding records of how many admission offers are accepted by out-of-state and foreign students and that these assured that new non-California enrollees this fall would not number anywhere near 30 percent.

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By all accounts, the large non-California contingent is a response from Napolitano and her immediate predecessors to funding cuts the universityendured under several recent governors.

Out-of-statestudents pay just over $24,000 per year more in tuition than state residents. This gleans hundreds of millions of dollars yearly, making up for much of what the state no longer provides.

But overthe last two years, legislators began hearing complaints from constituents about all this. They responded by tossing UC an extra $25 million in the current budget, earmarked for increasing the number of in-state undergraduates by 5,000 no later than next fall.

Napolitano agreed to that, even though the $25 million would cover only about half the cost for those additional students. The university promised to seek more money in the next two budgets for yet another 5,000 California students.

Any shortfall can be made up with just a relative few out-of-staters, thus holding pretty steady the percentage of non-Californians enrolled. The university now says it will increase the actual number of out-of-staters, but slow theirrate ofincrease in order tokeep percentages steady. Tuition for the non-Californians will rise, too, even as in-state tuition remains frozen at $12,200at least untilthe fallof 2017. Other money for new California students will come via reductions in loans and scholarships for new enrolleesfrom out ofstate.

No one is saying which campuses the new California students will attend, but it's a safe bet the vast majority will not wind up at high-demand campuses like Berkeley, UCLA, Davis and San Diego. Still, Napolitano assured the regents that all those campuses nevertheless will get significant numbers of the new students.

The upshot of all this is that the outrage of California parents who watched their children meet every requirement for UC admissionand still not get in — has produced results.

It's one of the rare times in recent memory thatboth legislators and other top state offi cials actually listened to their constituents. Maybe some other so-called public servants watching this happen will also learn a little responsiveness.

Thomas Elias writes a column about California government and politics that appears

in 93 California newspapers. He'sa veteran journalist rvho has worked for Scripps Howard Newspapers and the Associated Press.

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Naive international policy will force next generation to learn 'duck and cover' drills For decades I was convinced the degreeI received in international relations at Cambridge was basically useless.

After all, the Soviet Union had fallen and relations with nations such as China seemed concept of mutually assured to have stability, if nothing destruction. That meant, for else, out of mutual interests in example, that if we attacked commerce and trade. I never the Soviet Union they would thought that my grandchildren retaliateat an equal or greater might have to learn a more level and the ensuing retaliadvanced versionof the civil ations would surely destroy a defense training I received in great deal of civilization. That elementary school. Does any- concept worked because, for one recall the "duck and cover" all of the bad aspects of what drills of the 1960s?

Ronald Reagan called "the And while I' ll still l ikely Evil Empire," there remained never make a dime directly a desireamong its leaders and from my time studying what their countrymen to preserve I later thought to be out-of- whatever life they had. dateissues,such as tacticalor Now we enter into an era in strategic nuclear theory, I can which leaders of nations that certainlyattest that we are have, or easily could have, nuswiftly returning to the days clear capabilities are seemingwhere such training will once ly less focused on what former again be quite relevant.

President George H. W. Bush As a result of our nation's might have termed "that prescurrent foreign policy, which ervation thing." to be kind I call naive but What brings this all home is which could more accurately the combination of the rise of be labeled idiotic, we are again radical Islamic terror, the Iran swiftly approaching days when nuclear agreement and the rethe threat of nuclear warfare cent alleged testing of balliswill not only exist; it will be far tic missiles by Iran. What ups more likely. the ante even more is Russian During the Cold War it was President Vladimir P u tin's not asecretthat the force that comments that basically boil most likely kept us all from a down to saying, "I'd rather not nuclear apocalypse was the have to use nuclear weapons to

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And with news of two alleged Iranian tests of potentially nuclear-carrying missiles, which violates at least the spirit of an 11-year-long U.N. ban on such tests, confidence in the agreement is at an all-time low.

If one needed any additional evidence of the administration's naivety, look no further than to th e statements of a

State Department spokesman, John Kirby, on alleged missile tests.

As reported by the AssociatedPress,he "stressed that ballistic missile activity was not a violation of the July deal," and that the "U.S. would monitor Tehran for'destabilizing' behavior.' " Not too comforting from a crew that dubbed ISIS the JV team, botched Benghazi, claimed ISIS was contained and still can't spot radical Islamic terror or utter the phrase.

With world powers muttering about the use of nuclear weapons, and with the U.S. policy so profoundly out of touch, it regretfully might be time to bring those duck-and-cover drill films back into the classroom.

the leaderless U.S. response to the so-called "Arab Spring" and to the Obama administration's childlike insistence on a nuclear agreement with Iran (I'm still buying defense stocks, by the way). It's been a great way to see my portfolio grow in an otherwise sideways trading stock market. The problem is, of course, what good do profits do if the whole world is marching toward doomsday?

Putin still seems the less threatening of the potential nuclear players. He comes &om the old school Soviet line: Bluster, but don't press the "red button."

But Iran is a different matter altogether. The U.S. agreement, which seems riddled with holes Matt Towery is a nationally and exceptions, and which in great part is weak and un- syndicated columnist, pollster, verifiable for enforcement, has author and attorney, who lives terrified other nations, Israel in Atlanta with his wife and the most obvious among them. children.

burns for one hour. Candles are first lit just west of the International Date Line

To the Editor: Do you want a safe community which is free&om terroris t attacks? Ifso it is tim e To the Editor: to support sensible gun control. No civilian It was a few weeks before Christmas needs to possess an assault weapon. Please 1969. I was stationed in the Philippines be- encourage your congressmen to pass a bill fore deploying to Vietnam. making it illegal for anyone except police ofI received a letter &om my parents, Bill ficers, military personnel and licensed gun and Evelyn Heseman of Twain Harte, alert- range owners to own assault-weapons. The ing me toexpect a "specialpackage" in the weapons used in the San Bernardino attack mail. were legally purchased.

When I received "the package" I wondered what was in the four-foot long cardAnn Leonard boardtubelabeled "open thisend."

Sonora As soon as I opened the package I recognized the odor of a Christmas Tree ... My dad, a logger, had sent me a four-foot white fir tree from right here in Tuolumne County.

The rest of the men in the barracks were To the Editor: amazed.We as a group decorated the tree When a child dies in your family, the and did the usual $5-limit gift exchange. world changes, and you will never again be My parents are both gone now, but that the same person. The loss of a child, no matChristmas still ranks among my most terthe age or circumstance, istruly one of life' sharshest blows. memorable.

Please do not forget our men and women Compassionate Friends, a self-help overseas on this holiday season. bereavement organization, created the God bless them all.

Worldwide Candle Lighting. It is always held on the second Sunday in DecemDouglas L. Heseman, U.SA. ber which, this year is at 7 p.m. Sunday, Sonora Dec. 13. Each person lights a candle that

and an hour later in the next time zone,

eventually creating a 24-hour wave of light to remember all children who have dletl.

Roger andI invite you and your readers to light a candle at 7 p.m. Sunday, the 13th, in remembrance of our children.

Please add your fiame to the wave of light around the world.

Kathy Francis Sonora

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put down ISIS, but they are on the table."

Putin's sobering "musings" may one day be remembered as the moment that nukes were officially put back on the table as viable weapons of war.

I wrote in my new book, " New svesting," that I p u r chased numerous d efense stocks in 2014 and 2015 as I continued to dig deep into the

Sensible guncontrol

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Shelters for immigrant children to open DALLAS (AP) — A new spike in unaccompanied Central American minors crossing illegally into the United States is pushing federal officials to open shelters in Texas and California.

A total of 10,588 unaccompanied children crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in October and November, more than double the 5,129 who crossed during the same two months last year, according to the U.S. Border Patrol. The number of family members crossingtogether has nearly tripled, to 12,505.

Increasing gang violence is pushing people out of Central America, said Maureen Meyer, a senior associate for Mexico and migrant rights at the Washington OIFice on Latin America.

"We need to look at this as much more a refugee situation," she said.

Migrating through Mexico and across the U.S. border is very dangerous, but "the level of desperation" in their home countries is making families decide it's worth the risk, she said.

More migrants are crossing the border even as n e w c heckpoints between Central America and the United States are turning thousands of people back, said Emilio Gonzalez Gonzalez, a political scientist and independent researcher in Mexico City.

"We are not talking traditional migration trends. This is a new refugee

influx and it should be managed that way," he said. "They could be candidatesforinternational protection."

Incoming family groups are usually sent first to detention centers, and adult migrants are often jailed when they are apprehended, but children travelingalone need special treatment under federal law, so officials plan toopen atleastthree shelterstwo in Texas and one in California-

to accommodate them.

The additional beds will enable the U.S. Health and Human Services Department to shelter up to 9,800 unaccompanied minors at a time.

"What we don't want to have happen ishave a backup of people" at the border, agency spokesman Mark Weber said. "We are making sure we have the capacity in place to take care of the children."

By law, the Border Patrol has 72 hours to turn unaccompanied minors from Central America over to Health and Human Services, which is then responsible for their care until they are placed with a sponsor or have an immigration hearing.

Border crossings have not reached the levels of two summers ago, when a migrant surge prompted Texas officials to deploy the National Guard.

More than 10,000 children arrived in the United States that June alone.

Still, the numbers began to pick up again this June, and have remained high since then. It remains to be seen whether this is a true resurgence, but Meyer says it is a telling sign that more families and children are coming during fall and winter months, when migration generally s lows dowii.

As many as 1,000 of the children will stay at two rural camps outside Dallas: the Sabine Creek Ranch in Rockwall County and the Lakeview Camp and Retreat Center in Ellis County.

Lakeview's executive director, Jaroy Carpenter, announced that a team of 200 adults are ready to work with new arrivals at the camp.

"While here, these students will experience recreation, e ducation, church services, and other typical camp programming,"Carpenter said in a letter on the camp's website. "It is an absolute privilege that we have the facility, infrastructure, and support to coordinate such an opportunity in service to displaced children."

U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, a Texas Republican who represents Ellis County, saidhe expects the children to stay no more than 21 days, and that local authorities will hire off-duty police officers or sherifFs deputies to help with security.

Two injured after vehicle collides with tree

By TORI THOMAS The Union Democrat

Two 19-year-old Sonora women were injured Wednesday night after a vehicle crashed into a tree on Soulsbyville Road.

Samantha Castro was driving a 2004 Kia Spectra north on Soulsbyville Road when she crashed into a tree near Black Oak Road at 8:48 p.m., California Highway Patrol OfIicer Josh Mahaney said.

"She was going a little bit too fast for Mahaney said Butynski was pinned (a) curve and she went off the shoulder inside the vehicle after the collision.

"Her leg was pinned underneath the to the right," he said. "She wasn't able to negotiatethe curve....She overcorrect- dash," he said, adding that firefighters ed, which caused her to go back across had to use tools to extricate her from the both lanes, off the shoulder on the other vehicle. 'They had to cut open the door." side — and collide with the tree."

Both women were transported to SoCastro suffe red lacerations to her nora Regional Medical Center following head. the incident.

Her only passenger, Ciarra Butynski, Their conditions were not available suffered a broken right femur.

Thursday night.

NEWS OF RECORD TUOLUMNE COUNTY

2:33 p.m., Sonora — A phone was stolen last month on AlThe Sonora Police Depart- lison Way and has been "used the whole time." ment reported the following: 2:41 p.m., Sonora — Two boys trespassed onto the backWEDNESDAY 9:30 a.m., threats — A girl yard of a West Walnut Street was threatened by a nother residence.

2:49 p.m., Tuolumne — A girl's mother on North Stewart Street while walking to school. woman driving o n C anyon 11:45 a.m., theft — Musical Drive allegedly tried to run over instruments were stolen from a children. When confronted by a West Stockton Street business deputy, she denied it.

3:27 p.m., Sonora — Two last month.

5:53 p.m., vandalism — A dogs tore up a company truck person threw something at a at aMono Way business.

4:34 p.m., Sonora — Money windshield of a vehicle off of was stolen from a wallet at a Snail Street and Spring Hill Mono Way business.

Road, shattering it.

6:54 p.m., Sonora — An "ag5:56 p.m., suspicious circumstances — A man watched a gressive" man was in the parkSalvation Army volunteer col- inglotofa M ono Way business.

7 22 p m., La Grange lect money.

Someone tried to kick down 6:54 p.m., lost propertyA black wallet was stolen at a the door of an Avenida Central residence.

Sanguinetti Road business.

11:47 p.m., Jamestown 10:11 p.m., public peacePeople on Shaws Flat Road had Someone with a f l a shlight band practice late at night, up- walked on a North Drive property. setting neighbors.

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Herbert 'Doug' Douglas Minton II

Doug is survived by his two sons, Herbert Douglas Minton III (Bert Minton), of Arnold, and Tim Minton, of San Francisco; his mother, Erlene Minton, of Los Alamitos; his two sisters, Debbie Gott (Ted), of Chico, and Pam McGill (Kenny), of Riverside; many nieces and nephews; as well as former spouse and good friend Gail Minton, of Arnold.

Doug was preceded in death by his father, Herbert Minton.

A privatefamily servicehas already been held.

Jan. 18, 1960 — Nov. 24, 2015

Herbert "Doug" Douglas Minton II, of Arnold, passed away peacefully in his sleep on the morning ofNov. 24, 2015. He was 55 years old Doug was born on Jan. 18, 1960, in Denver, Colorado, and grew up in Los Alamitos.

After flnishing college, Doug married his college sweetheart, Gail, and relocated to Arnold where they raised two sons, Bert and Tim. Doug was an electr ician in the area for

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GRITZ — A funeral service for Ruby Virginia Gritz, 88, of Sonora, who died Wednesday more than 25 years. at Sonora Regional Medical He was quick-witted and Center, will be held at 2 p.m. had an incredible sense of Dec. 19 at Terzich and Wilson humor. Doug was appreciated Funeral Home, 225 E. Rose and loved by his family and St. in Sonora. Burial will be at friends. He especially loved Mountain Shadow Cemetery the outdoors and enjoyed fly in Sonora. Terzich and Wilson fishing and sport shooting Funeral Home is handling ar(his favorites). rangements.

Judge orders mansuspected of aiding terror group toeat SANTA ANA (AP) — A federaljudge ordered a California man suspected of trying to aidthe Islamic State group to eatdinner tonight orbeforcefed.

The order from Judge David O. Carter was given Thursday to 24-year-old Muhanad Badawi, who has been refusing to eat for three weeks.

'Mr. Badawi, this is going to end today," said Carter, who pulled out his own money to pay for the meal before the marshals in charge of Badawi

saidthey would takecareofit.

Carter said at the hearing in Orange County that Badawi looks emaciated and is down to 110 pounds from a previous 140.

Badawi has not made it entirely clear why he's refusing

walked around a Palmer Road resto eat, insisting he'd not on a idence and looked into windows. hunger strike and saying he 9:47 p.m., Angels Camp — A 7he SheNF's CNice reported wants to fast on certain days. woman pushed someone on Cothe following: But Carter rejected relipello Drive. gious claims behind the re10:37 p.m., San AndreasWEDNESDAY fusaltoeat,sayingthefasting Noises were heard in the attic 3:56 a.m., Angels Campdoes not coincide with any or roof of property on East Saint Someone walked on a narrow Muslim holy days.

Charles Street. part of the road while holding onto the embankment off Highway 49 and Cosgrave Road.

9:40 a.m., San AndreasShots were heard on East Saint Charles Street.

11:21 a.m., Mountain RanchSeptember 17, 1925 - December 1, 2015 Trees were stolen on Jesus Maria Road.

11:37 a.m., Copperopolis — An argumenttook place on Canoe Surrounded by several of her loving family members, Colleen Street.

Smart passed away peacefully on December 1, 2015 following 12:25 p.m., San Andraas — An a brief illness. Born on September 17, 1925 to Lloyd (Richargument took place on West ard) and Grace Looney. Colleen spent her early years in the Saint Charles Street. town of her birth, Turlock, California. Caught in the depths of 1:22 p.m., Valley Springs — An the Great Depression, the family moved to Merced, Califorargument took place on Highway nia where work opportunities were more prevalent and where 12. extended family members could provide added support to the family. Although the family 1:24 p.m., Douglas Flat — Items struggled, Colleen often remembered that what were then called "hobos" would come from were stolen from a yard on Live the nearby rail yard to the family home's back gate and ask for scraps of food. Colleen reOak Court. membered her mother offering a buttered biscuit more often than not.

6:37 p.m., San Andreas — A Colleen was predeceased by her husband, Elliott A. Smart in October, 2007. She is survived suspicious person was on East Felony bookings The Sheriff's Office reported Saint Charles Street. by her six children, Elliott (Jody) of Quincy, Randall (Kathleen) of Murphy's, David (Maria) the following: 7:58 p.m., West Point — Kids of Davis, John (Diane) of Boulder, CO, Sally Kester (Casey) of Murphys and Lori SkevingWEDNESDAY ton (Terry) of Yuba City. She is also survived by 11 grandchildren and one great grandchild.

3:12 a.m., Sonora — CanWEDNESDAY Colleen was born to a family of fiddlers. Her grandfather, uncles and cousins frequently yon David Fox, 26, address not 3:34 a.m., Jamestown CLAssIFIED ADs served as the players and callers at barn dances and other events both in Kentucky and in was booked on suspiPeople were inside a vacant available, the Sacramento/San Joaquin valley. So it was that at an early age Colleen also took up the WILL WoRK FoR cion of inflicting corporal injury house onGolfLinks Road shinviolin, first learning to play by ear and by watching family members. Later, as a teen, she after an arrest on Rough and ing flashlights.

Yov! 588-4515 Ready Trail. learned to read music and developed a lifelong passion for the instrument. After graduating 9:54 a.m., Soulsbyville — A from high school, Colleen moved to Stockton, CA, to attend college. She was the first in generator was stolen from a her family to do so. It was while attending college that she learned the College of the Pacific residence on Charlotte Court. orchestra needed a viola, so she learned to play viola in addition to her beloved violin. It 12:11 p.m., Sonora — A shed was therethat she met and became friends with Joanne Smart (Baldwin) of Murphys, CA was broken into on Wards Ferry who was also a student, studying music. Joanne introduced Colleen to her older brother Road.

I Elliott, a Navy veteran of WWII, who was attending UC Berkeley. The two soon fell in love 1:10 p.m., Tuolumne — Monand were married in the Congregational Church in Murphys, CA on September 10, 1948. ey was stolen from a wallet at a Tuolumne Road residence.

The marriage was duly noted in Herb Caen's San Francisco Chronicle column under the 1:13 p.m., Sonora — Property heading, "Looney gets Smart". was vandalized on Yerba Santa Elliott reentered the uniformed service in the US Air Force while still in college. His postDrive. ings took Colleen and their young family to Germany, Minneapolis, and Travis AFB in Cal2:07 p.m., Tuolumne — An ifornia and San Antonio, Texas. During their travels Colleen purchased many handcrafted assault occurred at Summeritems, much of which was displayed at her home. In 1967, When Elliott learned he would be ville Union High School. assigned to Cam Rahn Bay during the Vietnam conflict, Colleen took her family, now num2:09 p.m., Sonora — Two bering six children, to Murphys, CA where Elliott's family roots had been long established. men yelled at another man at a Mono Way business.

Following retirement from the Air Force, Colleen and Elliott moved to their newly built Pa& y oslltr'"" SONORA Underneaththe huge 2:10 p.m., Sonora — A man home near Murphys. Here, Colleen began her second career (raising her family was the Amerce flat,o Mo o Way! on Valley Oak Drive said he was first) working in the medical field. It was at this time that Colleen became active in the comgoing toshoot a woman "and 588-8080 • 14301 Mono Way munity, specifically in activities and programs that supported the provision of health care to her house."

R M O r e Mon. Fri.9to5• Sat. IOt04• QosedSun. the communities of Calaveras County. She also took part in promoting music and the arts.

She served for nearly thirty years on the Mark Twain Health Care District Board and was the Board's president for over twenty years. She was a founding member of the Mark Twain Medical Center Foundation that has a significant history of direct support for improving and expanding community health and the Mark Twain Medical Center. Colleen was also watch Christmas magic as a member of the Calaveras Arts Council, Bear Valley Music Festival, Mother Lode Youth Symphony and others. In February, 2013 she received a Golden Health Award honoring her for contributions to improving the health of Calaveras citizens.

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In addition to her work on health care and promoting the arts, Colleen's passion through her life remained her family and her violin. She would look forward to holidays and other reasons for the family to gather at her home. She played in a number of symphony orchestras (from Sacramentotothe Sierras), string quartets and sometimes even jammed with her children playing old time fiddle tunes with her children accompanying her on mandolin and guitar when they gathered for the holidays.

Serviceswilltake place at the Congregational Church in Murphys, CA at 2:00 p.m. on December 19th. A social gathering will follow. In lieu of flowers, contributions in Colleen'sname can be made to the Mark Twain Medical Center Foundation,768 Mountain Ranch Road, San Andreas, CA. 155378 121115

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rni xtremistmessa esexc an e U.S. officials search

were missed in the last two years.

Meanwhile, the investigation into the shootings that left 14 dead last

of the House Homeland Security Committee.

Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat

ahead of shootings

week continued in San B ernardino,

on the House Permanent Select Com-

for missed redflags

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government appears not to have picked up on extremist messages exchanged during the online courtship two years ago between the American-born man accused in the California shootings and his future wife in Pakistan, according to closed-door briefings to Congress provided by federal officials on Thursday.

American officials say Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, discussed martyrdom and jihad online as early as 2013.

But the couple never surfaced on law enforcement's radar and Malik was able to enter the U.S. on a fiancee visa last year despitehaving professed radical views online, raising concerns among lawmakers about whether any red flags

where an FBI dive team searched a small, urban lake about 3 miles north of the shooting site.

FBI Director James Comey and other senior American officials briefed members of Congress on Capitol Hill about aspects of their continuing investigation into the terror attack.

One official said information that the FBI has been able to glean about the couple comes from an examination

mittee on Intelligence, said it was understanding that Malik was subjected to an in-person interview during the applicationprocess for a visa.

Republican Rep. Will Hurd of Texas, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said there's currently no evidence Malik's radicalization would have been readily apparent when she was evaluated for a fiancee visa.

"I don't think there was missed inof theirelectronic devices, rather than formation," he said. "It appears that intercepts. there was not any evidence that would "Everyone's asking the same ques- have been discoverable during an intions about how it is that law enforce- terviewfora visa." ment didn't know, or intelligence ofHe declined to discuss what specifificials didn't know — that they could cally led investigators to conclude that have fl own under the radar and noth- the couple had radicalized indepening gave an indication that they were dently as early as 2013, but suggested a threat," said Rep. Jim Langevin, a the information did not come from inRhode island Democrat and member tercepts.

Facial, eye scans launched on border SAN DIEGO (AP) — The f ederal g overnment o n Thursday began collecting facialand eye scans of foreigners entering the U.S. at a busy border crossing with Mexico, a first step in one of its most ambitious efforts to

track people who stay in the country illegally after their visas expire.

Up to halfof the people in the U.S. illegally are believed to have overstayed their visas, but the absence of a checkout system has l eft authorities with n o

way to identify them.

In a push to change that, Customs and Border Protection began s canning foreignersentering on foot at San Diego's Otay Mesa port of entry. In February, it will start collecting the same information on foreigners walking into Mexico through the checkpoint.

The trial run, which lasts through June, will help determine if authorities expand screening to foreigners at all land crossings on the 1,954-mile border with

M exico. Authorities w i l l look at the accuracy of the cameras.

Congress has long demanded biometric screening such as fingerprints, facial images or eye scans from people leaving the country, but the task poses enormous financial and logistical challenges, especially at land crossings.

On Thursday, foreigners put their travel documents on a reader at one of the San Diego crossing's six kiosks and looked into a camera

positioned at arms' length.

The process took seconds.

Then, they walked a few steps toa border inspector for questioning.

"It's very fast, not inconvenient in the least," said Rosendo Hernandez of Tijuana, who was on a trip to buy tools.

T he g overnment h a s not announced details on how faces and eyes will be scanned when foreigners leave the country, but an official said most won't have to stop walking. Scanners will r e a d c h ip-enabled traveldocuments at a distance and match the infor-

NOTICE OFPACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY'S REQUEST TO INCREASE RATES FORTHE 2014 ENERGY STORAGE REQUEST FOR OFFERS (RFO) COST RECOVERYAPPLICATION (A.15-12-004) On December 1, 201 5, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG8 E) filed application 15-1 2-004 with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) requesting approval to increase rates for two contracts for new electric storage resources. The two contracts will include rate recovery for Wrt-up costs, financing, and maintenance and operations charges through the end of 2020. The two new resources are referred to as the Old Kearney and Mendocino storage projects. The resources will be fully operational by April 201 8 and will be owned and operated by PG8E. The CPUCwill review the contracts in a public process and decide what is reasonable for customers to pay in rates. If this application is approved, the request will increase PGBE's revenue requirement by $0.936 million in 201 8 and $1.2 million in 201 9.

Summary As part of the CPUC's Energy Storage Procurement Plan, Public Utilities Code Section 2836, PG8E will secure energy storage resources to meet the state's targets. The principles of this program are to reduce greenhouse gas, optimize electricity grid usage, and integrate renewable energy resources.

The amount of energy storage sought will increase every two years to allow for additional storage resources. By the end of 2024, PG&E will have a total of 580 megawatts of operational storage.

If approved, these contracts will count towards PG8 E's 90-megawatt target for 201 4-201 5.

This application requests cost recovery from all benefiting customers, including customers receiving energy through another energy service provider. The costs for the two energy storage resources will be included in utility charges for energy transmission and distribution services currently found on your energy statement. PGB E's cost recovery plan for the new storage resources would result in the collection of approximately $1.2 million in 201 9, which is the highest single year recovery for the project.

How will PG&E's application affect me?

If the CPUC approves the request, PGB E estimates that the requested increase associated with the new resources would be collected in 2018 and 2019. The total request for recovery is less than 0.1 percent per year to rate payers. For an average bundled residential user the collection amount will be less than $0.01 per month.

If the CPUC approves PGLE's request for an electric rate increase, the electric bill for atypical residential customer using 500 kilowatt hours per month would increase by $0.01 or 0.01 percent from $93.69 to $93.70. Individual customer bills may vary. Rates would become effective April 201 8.

How will PG&E's application affect non-bundled customers?

Direct Access (DA) and Community Choice Aggregation (CGA) customers receive electric transmission and distribution service, but not their energy supply, from PG&E.The application addresses the storage cost responsibility of DA customers and CGAcustomers that purchase electricity from another provider but transport it through PGLE's electrical distribution system. The net impact of PG&E's application on DA and CGAcustomers is $0.1 million, or an average increase of 0.01 percent.

How do I find out more about PG&E's proposals?

If you have questions about PGBEs filing, please contact PG8 Eat1-800-743-5000. For TDD/TTY (speechhearing impaired), call 1-800-652-471 2. Para mas detalles liame al1-800-660-6789 • 5 5 ~~ 5 4 1-800-893-9555.

If you would like a copy of PG8E's filing and exhibits, please write to PG8 Eat the address below: Pacific Gas and Electric Company 2014 Energy Storage RFO P.O. Box 7442 San Francisco, CA 94120 A copy of PGB E's filing and exhibits are also available for review at the CPUC's Central Files Office by appointment only. For more information contactaljcentralfilesid@cpuc.ca.gov or 415-703-2045.

PG&E's application (without exhibits) is available on the CPUC's website at www.cpuc.ca.gov/puc.

CPUC process This application will be assigned to an Administrative Law Judge (Judge) who will determine how to receive evidence and other related documents necessary for the CPUC to establish a record upon which to base its decision. Further, evidentiary hearings may be held where parties will present their testimony and may be subject to cross-examination by other parties. These evidentiary hearings are open to the public, but only those who are formal parties in the case can participate.

After considering all proposals and evidence presented during the hearings, the assigned Judge will issue a proposed decision which may adopt PG&E's proposal, modify it or deny it. Any of the five CPUC Commissioners may sponsor an alternate decision. The proposed decision, and any alternate decisions, will be discussed and voted upon at a scheduled CPUC Voting Meeting.

The Office of Ratepayer Advocates (ORA) may review this application. ORA is the independent consumer advocate within the CPUC with a legislative mandate to represent investor-owned utility customers to obtain the lowest possible rate for service consistent with reliable and safe service levels.

ORA has a multi-disciplinary staff with expertise in economics, finance, accounting and engineering.

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mation to entry records.

"It's basically to verify that the same person that came to the United States is the same person that' s exiting the United States," said Joe Misenhelter, assistant director at Otay Mesa, the nation's fourthbusiest port of entry last year.

stun gun use urged in shooting aftermath SAN FRA N CISCO (AP) — San Francisco is one of only two of the nation's largest cities in the country that do not equip officers with stun guns, a situation the city's police chief wants to change after police fatally shot a knife-wielding stabbing suspect last week.

Police Chief Greg Suhr publicly renewed a call Wednesday night to add the weapon to his department's arsenal, exactly one week after five officers shot and killed 26-year-oldMario Woods in th e c i ty's Bayview neighborhood. The shooting was captured on video and circulated widely online, fueling community protests and calls for the chief's resignation.

The police chief said the fatal shooting could have beenavoided ifthe responding officers had been equipped with Taser stun guns, which deliver 50,000 electrical volts and are designedto temporarily incapacitate suspects without killing them.

Critics say the weapon sometimes kills suspects in poor health and officers can mistake it for a gun, with fatal consequences. Civil r i ghts groups and community activists say that, instead of more equipment, police need additional training

NEWS NOTES

Yahoo CEO gives birth to twin girls Study: Mental health SAN FRANCISCO — Yatreatment paysoff hoo CEO Marissa Mayer has STATE

SAN FRANCISCO — A new study shows that more California college students are seeking mental health treatment — and that's a positivetrend according to the authors.

Researchers from the nonprofit RAND Corporation report in the study published Thursday that the proportion of studentsatthe state'spublic universities and community col leges increased by more than 10 percent between 2013 and last spring.

During that time, county governments directed a combined average of $8.7 million a year to campuses for outreach campaigns to reduce the stigma around mental health issues and to train faculty and staA' to recognize students who may need help.

The RAND r esearchers estimate that 329 more students will graduate each year as a result of such interventions, yielding a "societal benefit" of up to $56 million a year through the graduate's increased earning power.

Psychedelic art coming to San3ose SAN JOSE — A $600,000 project is bringing a little color to underpasses in San Jose.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the artwork is funded by grants and developer fees. The concrete structures are painted with

murals and equip LED lighting and sensors that allow passers-by to interact.

San Jose public arts director Jennifer Easton says the splashesof color are meant to make downtown "look and feel like the capital of Silicon Valley."

She says some of the underpasses will be lit up for the holiday Friday

Funerals begin for massacre victims

followed a major business announcement with some big personal news.

She gave birth to twin girls Thursday, the day after unveiling plans to hatch a new company to control Yahoo's Internet business.

This is the second time that the 40-year-old Mayer has given birth since Yahoo hired her as CEO in July 2012. She and her husband, Zachary Bogue, have a 3-year-old son, Macallister.

A Yahoo spokeswoman declined to reveal the twins' names or weights. Mayer and the twins are both doing well, according to the spokeswoman.

Mayer on Wednesday announced that Yahoo will spin off its Internet operations into

a separate company in 2016 or 2017 if the company can gain all the required approvals. The breakup is an alternate to another tax-dodging plan that Yahoo had been working on throughout this year: spinning off its $32 billion stake in China's Alibaba Group intoa new company called Aabaco.

As she did with her son, Mayer plans to only take a "limited" time away from Yahoo's Sunnyvale, California, headquarters. Mayer kept her maternity leave to two weeks in 2012, prompting some parentsto criticize her forsetting a bad example for other working mothers trying strike a balance between the demands of the their personal lives and their jobs.

Yahoo Inc. offers up to 16 weeks of paid maternity leave.

Mayer has a lot of work in frontofher.Besides overseeing the complex spinoff of Yahoo's Internet operations, she is also drawing up plans for a cost-cutting overhaul that will shed unprofitable products and possibly lay o6'hundreds of workers. She has promisedto provide detailsof the reorganization late next month when Yahoo releases its fourth-quarter earnings.

COVINA — On the morning of Dec. 2, Yvette Velasco got dressed up and flat-ironed her hair. It was an important day: The 27-year-old was going to receive a gold badge BUENA PARK — Orange officially recognizing her as County will auction off doza San Bernardino County ens of vehicles — including a health inspector at a holiday 1930 Ford Model A Roadster work event.

— that belonged to a man The world now knows what with no clear heirs who died happened: Syed Farook and in 2014. his wife, Tashfeen Malik, The collection of 69 cars is stormed into the gathering, just part of a multimillionopening fire on Farook's col- dollar estate involving a leagues. Velasco and 13 others half-dozen Southern Califorwere killed in what the FBI is nia properties and other asinvestigatingas an actofter- sets being sorted through by rorism. the Public Administrator's The ceremony marked the Office. startofa grim procession exThe Orange County Regpectedtotake place through- ister reports Gerald Willits out Southern California over of Buena Park died without the next week: about a dozen having a legally recognized memorials, funerals and buri- beneficiary. His most recent als for those killed in the at- will, from 2002, was found in tack. a car trunk and is not considered legitimate because it's a copy.

The newspaper says the auction,slated for Sept. 1, is expected to yield up to HEMET — Federal offi- $150,000 from lots includcials say a Southern Califor- ing dozens of Fords, Chevys, nia couple has been arrested a 1965 Volkswagen van and on suspicion of smuggling even an experimental ai rmore than 900 endangered craA. and threatened sea turtle — The Associated Press eggs into the U.S. from Mex-

Car collection on auction block

Sea turtle egg smugglers indicted

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charged in a four-count indictment. Each faces a maximum sentence of 50 years in prison and $1 million in fines if convicted of all charges.

Officials say the eggs are considered a delicacy in Asia and believed to have aphrodisiacproperties. A Sea Turtle Conservancy spokeswoman told The Riverside

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the eggs typically bring between $3 and $5 each on the black market.

It w a sn't i m mediately known if t h e d efendants have attorneys who could comment on the indictments.

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Train leaves station without operator BOSTON — A s i x -car train carrying about 50 passengers left a suburban Boston transit station without

a driver Thursday and went through four stations without stopping, and investigators were focusing on "operator error" as the reason

why.

The trip began shortly after 6 a.m. at the Braintree

profanity-laced answers to a voluntary survey conducted by the RAND Corp., more than 7,600 of America's specialoperations forces spoke with nearly one voice. Allowing women to serve in Navy SEAL, Army Delta or other commando units could hurt their effectiveness and lower the standards, and it may drive men away from the dangerous posts.

An overwhelming majority of those who agreed to respond to the RAND survey said they believe women don't have the physical strength or mental toughness to do the grueling jobs.

LE BOURGET, France (AP) in the text. Previous versions have inFrench Foreign Minister Laurent Fa- cluded similar terms that are generally bius on Thursday presented a new draft understood to mean no more emissions of aglobal climate accord that showed than the Earth can naturally absorb. headway on some key issues and staleThe issueappeared farfrom settled, mate on others as the talks outside Par- however, with one negotiator from a is headed into the final stretch. developed country saying his delegaThe 27-pagedraft— two pages short- tion would "push back" on the longer than a previous version — included a term goal. He spoke on condition of long-term goal of keeping global warm- anonymity because the talks were oning "well below" 3.6 degrees F, while going. pursuing efforts to limit the temperaFabius, who is leading the talks, told ture rise to 2.7 degrees F. negotiators to review the draft and come The dr y a l so said governments back in two hours to continue the talks. would aim to peak the emissions of The Paris conference was scheduled to heat-trapping greenhouse gases "as end on Friday, but the annual U.N. talks soon aspossible" and strive to reach rarely finish on time. "emissions neutrality" by the second "I think, I hope that by the end of this half of the century. night we' ll have a dry of the final text," That was weakerlanguage than in Fabius said. "We are much closer." previous drafts that included more spe- Diplomats from 196 governments cific emissions cuts and timeframes. aretrying to forge a globalpactin Paris Emissions neutrality wasn't defined to slow global warming by collectively

station and ended about nine minutes later when power was cut to the rails, transportationofficials said.

No passengers were hurt.

WORLD S tephanie Pollack, t h e state'stransportation secre-

tary, said the investigation was focusing on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority train's operator, who had sought and received permission to move the train despite a signal problem.

The operator, a 51-yearold man with more than 25 years of experience with the MBTA, got off the train to execute a procedure to put the train into "bypass mode." The ongoing probe, Pollack said, was focusing

U.S. Muslim women debate their safety

NEW YORK — On the night of the California shootings, Asifa Quraishi-Landes sat on her couch, her face in her hands, and thought about what was ahead for her and other Muslim women who wear a scarf or veil in public.

The covering, or h ijab, often draws unwanted attention even in the best of times. But after the one-two punch of the Paris and San on whether t h e o p e rator Bernardino attacks by Isfailedtoproperly secure the lamic militants, and amid braking system before exit- an anti-Muslim furor stoked ing the train. by comments of D onald Trump, Q u r aishi-Landes, an Islamic law specialist at the University of WisconsinMadison, wanted to send a W ASHINGTON — T h e message. men in the U.S. military's Amid a reported spike most dangerous jobs care in h a r assment, t h r eats little about political cor- and vandalism directed at

Congress intensifies Gun from Paris attack came through U.S. final budget talks WASHINGTON (AP)With the holidays becko ning, negotiations i n tensified on Capitol Hill Thursday on a $1.1 trillion government-wide spending bill and a sprawling tax package touching all sectors of the economy.

Dozens of i ssues remained unresolved, mainly policy disputes over environmental and other issues that lawmakers of both parties were trying to attach to the must-pass spending legislation. Rep ublicans sought to l i f t the oil export ban and roll back various Obama administration regulations;

er renewable energy.

"We' re not going to get everything we want in negotiations. The Democrats aren'tgoing to get everything they want in negotiations," House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, told reporters. "But I believe that we will successfully complete these negotiations."

Under current law, government funding expires Friday at midnight, when the last short-term spending bill expires. The Senate agreed by voice vote and without debate Thursday to extend that deadline through Wednesday Dec. Democrats were m a neu- 16 toallow more time for vering to protect Presi- talks. The House was exdent B a rack O b ama's pected to follow suit Frienvironmental rules and day, but Ryan allowed that enact permanent tax cred- even more time might be its for wind, solar and oth- needed.

U.S. commandos say no to women

rectness or gender equality.

A merican Muslims and a t

And they have a message for their political leadership.

When they are fighting in the shadows or bleeding on the battlefield, women have no place on their teams.

In blunt and, at t imes,

mosques, Muslim women are intensely debating the duty and risks related to wearing their head-coverings as usual.

slashing emissions, mostly from the burningoil,coaland gasforenergy.

The biggest challenge is to define the responsibilities of wealthy nations, which have polluted the most historically, and developing economies including China and India where emissions are growing the fastest.

That draft suggested compromises were emerging in some sections. But the text still contained competing options on the key issue of transparencymaking sure countries follow through on their emissions targets.

That section included an option asking fordifferent rules for rich and poor countries, which the former have said is unacceptable.

"Reporting and verification of emissions is the heart of a strong agreement and will clearly be the last thing decided," said Paul Bledsoe, former Clinton White House climate adviser.

— The Associated Press

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — One of the guns linked to Islamic militants in the Parisattacks thatkilled 130 peoplewas exported to the United States in 2013, the head of a Serbian arms factory said Thursday.

Milojko Brzakovic of the Zastava arms factory told The Associated Press that the M92 semi-automatic pistol's serial number matched one his company delivered to an American online arms dealer in May 2013. It was not clear how the gun got back to Europe.

At least seven of the weapons used or discovered aRer the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris have been identified as being produced by the Serbian factory located in Kragujevac, in central Serbia. Most were manufacturedbefore Yugoslavia

broke up in a civil war in the 1990sand most ofthose are modified versions of the Soviet AK-47, or Kalashnikov.

Brzakovic said all the guns

were deliverers legally but couldhave later found their way into illegal channels.

He said the M92 pistol "is a semi-automatic weapon, a hunting and sporting w eapon ... i t

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barrage fire, only single shots ... which are legal in America."

He said it was exported to an online arms seller in the United States, the Florida-based Century Arms, to which his factory exports up to 25,000 hunting and sports guns every year. He said the gun was delivered as a semi-automatic, but he

did not know whether someone turned it into an automatic after delivery.

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computer coding seminar Wednesday hosted through Code.org, a nonprofit organization that offers lesson plans and streaming video to guide students through the process of programming a computertocomplete specific tasks. The goal of the site

businesses serve thousands of visitors during summer months, especially holiday weekends. nll

Selfies in nature Some Groveland residents wonder why people who are going to commune with nature need mobile phone service, while some accept that mobile phones have become indispensable

is to expand access to com-

puter science education and increase the participation of minorities and women.

The website is also where Vial taught herself to code before signing up to teach a regular coding class last spring, and where she continues to pull materials, lessons and programs for students — all fiee of charge, she said.

The seminar Wednesday featuredan opening videoon the importance of technology education featuring President Barack Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and musician will.i.am, among innovators in the computer science field.

Students cheered as the day's challenge flashed onscreen — a

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themed videogame.

Split into groups, some students worked on computers to program characters, while others practiced finding errorsin the code,called "debugging," through pencil and paper exercises. The process is very similar to work Vial has students complete each week.

to the tourists their town's economy relies on.

Sean Carson /Union Democrat

Volunteer teacher Donna Vial (left) sits next to student Nathan Welch, 9 (center), as he explains computer programming to Principal Angela Howard Wednesday at Rail Road Flat Elementary School. gela Howard said. "(Coding) work, would be awarded in opens up a world to these January with projects taking kids who don't often get off place through 2016, Ric Stitt, the mountain."

Calaveras Unified School However, the school still District Chief Technology Ofneeds to increase Internet

ficer, wrote in an email.

speeds to reli ably stream video and use various other online media and programs, Howard said.

"It's something that is really being promoted and pushed by t h e d i strict," Howard said. "To make a plan so this school isn't different than some of the bigger schools in Jenny Lind or Valley Springs.... It's really locality that is our hurdle."

The video shown Wednesday could not be streamed live, and a recorded version had to be made.

The dist ricthasappliedfor a state grant to fund bandwidth upgrades at both Rail Road Flat and West Point elementary schools. The grant, part of the BIIG 2.0 program administered by the California K-12 High Speed Net-

A ccording to Stitt, t he schools passed initial eligibility requirements and will likely receive the funds, but "nothing is guaranteed."

The issue of bandwidth is one that stretches beyond the campus borders, and one Vial has taken into her own hands.

When she wanted to host a coding retreat for students

at nearby Camp Load Star, she upped the bandwidth for the property with the help of a localInternet service provider.

The retreat is not finalized yet, but is the project of Vial and Calaveras Unified School District Board of Trustees member Zerrall McDaniel. The two hope to

"I haveAT&T, and itworks good enough to send textmessages and getcalls,"said Robert Raingsan, manager of Groveland Mini Mart, formerly Groveland Liquor, at Highway 120 and Ferretti Road.

"It's not like I'm in downtown Sonora and I get a good steady signal," Raingsan said Thursday. aWith AT&T, the data doesn't work up here at all. Not on my phone at least."

Groveland resident Jason Campbell said he usesVerizon and theservice could bebetter.

"It's pretty choppy up here," Campbell said.

Guy McCarthy /Union Democrat "The towers aren't connected. I have Boost Robert Raingsan, manager at Groveland Mobile, and itseems like Igetcoverage every- Mini Mart, talks Thursday about mobile where except here. It works fine for work in phone coverage in the Groveland area. the valley — L.A., Modesto, San Francisco. In Yosemite, yeah, today it's a cellphone society."

Tourists rely big-time on their mobile "People coming up here, they have phones for getting to their destinations, Raing- no GPS and way to call their hotels san said.

"They are using their phones for navigation probably 90 percent of the time," Raingsan said. "They always stop here and ask for directions because their phones don't work here."

'It shouldn't be either-or. It should be both.'

Now, almost two months since Kain's death, the department is evaluating po-

Improving mobile coverage in Groveland and along the Highway 120 corridor would make life easier for residents and workers and tourists, Raingsan said.

"For people here and people trying to make it to Yosemite, it makes sense," Raingsan said.

"I live in Sonora, and I do rely on my phone when I come up here to work. I usually just rely on email. I have Wi-Fi here so it helps compensate."

Raingsan said he rarely goes to Yosemite Valley, but he knows many people who rent homes in Groveland would benefit &om improved mobile coverage in the immediate area.

'The people who come up from the Bay Area, I'm pretty sure their phones don't work up here," Raingsan said.

At Groveland Community Hall on Thursday, volunteers were wrapping presents and preparing for the annual Christmas Basket

tential r e placements. For-

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dahl said they have been testing potential candidates to determine whether they have personalit y traits that make them suitable for training. "(We' re looking for) a social animal that has confidence in a public setting to be able to go out and interact with the public and

Patti Beaulieu said she uses Verizon and, in Groveland, "it's horrible. It's bad. I' ve lived here full-time since 2003. Basically there wasn't any coverage up here at first. aYou had to have Golden State, which is now Verizon, to get any service," Beaulieu said.

Mobile coverage needs improving in both Yosemite and in Groveland, Beaulieu said. aYou have to have both, because people coming up here, they have no GPS and way to call their hotels for reservations," Beaulieu said.

"They need reception on the corridor. We call ourselves a tourist town. It shouldn't be eitheror. It should be both."

Groveland resident Malcolm Brown said he uses AT&T service and he's less than satisfied.

"My cell phone, I get it through AARP and the service is hit-and-miss," Brown said. "We can get it at the country club, but there's no service at our house lower down and no service here in town. I'm just blown away AT&T doesn't seem tobe interested."

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not perceive everyone as a

threat," Fordahl said, adding that the animal needs to be in good health. "In addition to that, they need to have the courage above and beyond the normal pet to do the work. And there are some tests we can run to determine whether or not the dog has the capabilities to do police work."

A number of people from within Calaveras County have volunteered their animal for police duty, but the

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out-of-the area vendor that specializes in breeding police dogs. Fordahl said the animals can cost as much as $10,000 to $12,000, though he believes the department can find a high quality dog

ous other causes.

"I have a service dog of my own. I have a service dog that helps me," said Ryan, who added he has raised closeto $100,000 for veterans since 2007. "I have a lot of respectfor Todd and the Angels Camp Police Department, and I love animals."

The Wintercreek Foundation in San Andreas on Tuesday offeredto provide the balance of whatever funding is needed. Ultimately, if a payment is not required, Fordahl says the department will either find other uses for

Fordahl said he hopes to have areplacement selected by the second week in January. At that point, the animal would go through six to 12 months of training to earn certification for police work.

"They have to be able to do all the basic obedience stuff.

Sit, stay, come, all the things that a normal dog would have to do," Fordahl said.

'Then our dogs are cross trainedfor narcotics detectionand alsoforpatrolwork.

Thosearetwo differentdisciplines that require certification ."

for a lower price.

To help offset the entire cost for a new police dog, the community has made several donations to the Angels Camp Police Department.

Among the contributions was a $1,000 gift from Ric and Joanne Ryan. Ric Ryan is also known as the philanthropic "Walking Man of

Business andpublic safety Chris Loh, owner of the Iron Door Saloon, said he's been in Groveland 15 years.

"I use Verizon, and it seems to be the most reliable up here," Loh said.

Bartender Evelyn Cooper said she uses AT&T and it doesn't work most places in Groveland.

"It works in the Miner's Mart parking lot and a little out at the airport," Cooper said."It' s not reliable at all."

Loh said he would like to be able to rely on his mobile phone for business and public safety but he can' t.

"I use it for all that in San Francisco when I'm down there, but it's not the same up here," Loh said. "Spottiness, speed, everything. Improving it would help business up here. People going to Yosemite don't need it. Nobody really, really needs it.

"Some people go to nature and turn their music on and blast it at a quiet lake," Loh said.

Tacherra and I applaud his "The most defense against an armed support of the second amendterrorist is an armed American."

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In remarks given on the — CongressmanTomMCClintock, R-Roseville in San Bernardino, which House floor Thursday, Mcsparkedwidespread call s for Clintock railed against calls enhanced gun control mea- from the White House for sures in the United States. more restrictions on g un government to get my name McClintock also said he Roll Call, a political news- ownership. He argued that removed fi om that list." used to support requirements McClintock said he would for individuals to undergo paper based in Washington, "the most effective defense D.C., reported Tuesday that against anarmed terrorist is onlysupport Obama's propos- a mental health evaluation Congresswoman Mimi Wal- an armed American." al if it established a judicial before being able to buy a McClintock opposed Presi- process where an individual gun, until he discovered that ters, R-Irvine, has tried to distance herself fiom Saturday' s dent Barack Obama's calls could contest placement on would potentially prevent event and asked Tacherra to for Congress to pass a law the list through the courts. military veterans with postIn regard tothe contro- traumatic stress disorder remove hername fiom pro- barring those on a no-fly list motional materials. from beingable to purchase a versy surrounding Tacherra's fiom owning afirearm.

McClintock, speaking gun, saying that he was once event being held 10 days afWhen asked if there were Thursday fiom the Nation's put on the list a decade ago ter the shooting that left 14 any gun control measures he Capital in a phone interview, afterbeing confused for an people dead and 21 injured, would support, McClintock said that he won't be in Fres- Irish Republican Army activ- McClintock echoed remarks said he wouldn't discuss the no this weekend to attend ist with the same name. he made during his speech on matter " restriction by r eTacherra's event. H owever, "I, at least, had the office of the House floor. striction," but believes that "If there had been one per- the American people "have a he fully supports the candi- the Senate Sergeant at Arms date's reported plan to give a to work through — something son in that room in San Ber- right to defend themselves."

9mm or .40-caliber handgun an ordinary American would nardino last week who would "That right makes us a to those who make the maxi- not," he said in his speech. have been able to return fire, safersociety,"he said."It'sthe mum donation of $2,700 to his "Even so, it t ook months a lot of innocent lives could single best defense we have CBlllpalgn. working through that office have been saved," he said in against agrowing terrori st "I strongly support Johnny and repeatedpetitions to the the interview. population that have been

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forreservations.Ihey needreception on the corridor. We call ourselves a tourist town. It shouldn't be either-or.

It should be both."

— Petti Beaulieu, Grevelend resident

'That drives me crazy."

Telecommunications in Yosemite No matter who your carrier is, sometimes

your mobile phone will pick up signal in and near Yosemite Valley. Three weeks ago you could send and receive texts in real time from the cave below Upper Yosemite Fall, which stands about 1,000 feet above Yosemite Village.

People at Yosemite National Park say AT&T voice and data services are available in parts of Yosemite Valley, at Tuolumne Meadows, when it's open for the spring and summer season, at Crane Flat and at Wawona.

Verizon Wireless voice and data services are available in parts of Yosemite Valley and El Portal. Voice and some data service is available at Tuolumne Meadows, Crane Flat and Wawona.

WirelessInternet access atYosemite Lodge costs $5.95 for 24 hours. It's fiee for Yosemite Lodge overnight guests. Wireless Internet access is also available at the Curry Village Lounge for Curry Village guests.

One of the most popular Internet spots in Yosemite Valley is Degnan's Cafe in the Village,where Internet kiosks areavailablefor$1 per three minutes of child-friendly Internet ac-

cess. Limited free wireless access is available to park-related websites, and full wireless Internetis available for $2.95 for4 hours,$5.95 for 12 hours, and $9.95 for 24 hours.

Wireless Internet is also available to hotel guests at The Ahwahnee.

Upgrades in Groveland The new multi-carrier cell tower near Tenaya Elementary has been approved, and a building permit has been submitted, Laird, with the Tuolumne County Community Resources Agency said. The tower is expected to boost coverage for AT&T and Verizon.

The use permit for a new tower between the eighth and ninth fairways at Pine Mountain Lake Golf Course will probably go to the Tuolumne County Planning Commission in January, Laird said. The tower is billed as a multicarrier, butVerizon isthe soletenant sofar.

Raising the height of the existing Verizon tower at Pine Mountain Lake Airport will require a use permit fiom the Airport Land Use Commission, because it's close to the runway, and a building permit from Tuolumne County, Laird said.

In addition, farther down the hill on the Highway 120 corridor, there's a tower being planned near the Hetch Hetchy surge tank at the top of a hill south of Old Priest Grade, Laird said.Information about the carrieror carriers for that tower was not available Thursday.

admitted to this country be- State, and Defense, all aimed cause of porous borders and at ensuring that those admitlax immigration laws." ted donot pose athreattoour O n i m migration, M c - country," Obama administraClintock said he supported tion officials said in the statelegislat ion passed by a veto- ment.

While McClintock was critproof289-137 vote,with 47 Democrats in f avor, that icalofObama'sstance,healso would r equire e n hanced disapproved of GOP presiscreening of refugees from dential-nominee frontrunner Syria and Iraq before enter- Donald Trump's recent proing the U.S. posal to ban all Muslims fiom The White House, which entering the U.S. has proposed offering asylum McClintock called the plan to 10,000 Syrian refugees, unconstitutional. He also said said in a statement that the he doesn't support Trump's bill would introduce "unneces- candidacy, though he didn' t saryand impractical"require- offer a specific endorsement ments and undermine efforts foranother candidate.

"I'm toprovideassistance forthose not s u p porting fleeing fiom violence.

Trump," he said. "I think we 'The current s c reening have better qualified candiprocess involves multiple dates who are more reliable Federal intelligence, security in their devotion to conservaand law enforcement agen- tive and constitutional princies, including the National ciples."

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Holiday services — The Union Democrat wants to publish holiday church services and events. Is your church planning something special? lf so, send information to features I uniondemocrat.corn, or call 588-4535.

As 2015 comes to an end and 2016 approaches, it's a time of new endings and a time of new beginnings. I would like to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

Following are some happenings in December into e arly next y ear a t th e Tuolumne County Senior Center. Mark your calendars!

• A Christmas buffet will be held Dec. 18. The meal will include baked ham or roast chicken, a dinner roll,

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Coat drive led by student Sonora High School AFS program president Sophia Klein has started a coat drive for Butte Fire victims.

Donations of gently used coats are requested and can be dropped off at Emberz restaurant, 177 S. Washington St. in Sonora or at the Sonora High School culinary arts classroom.

Klein's goal is to collect 100 coats by Wednesday. Call her at 768-6618 for more information.

Breakfast with Santa is Saturday Children will have the opportunity to dine with Santa Claus Saturday at the Jamestown Community Hall.

Breakfast with Santa, presented by the Tuolumne County Recreation Department and Jamestown Youth Center, will allow children to have breakfast and get their pictures taken with Santa from 9to11a.m.

The menu will include scrambled eggs, bacon, fruit, choice of drink and all-you-caneat pancakes. Cost is $4 for children 11 and younger and $6 for adults.

Tickets are available at the Youth Center (984-4188) or the Recreation Department (533-5663).

The Jamestown Community Hall is at 18250 Main St.

Birders sought for annual count Experienced and novice birders are needed for three Christmas bird counts in which the Central Sierra Audubon Society will participate.

A bird count will take place Dec. 16 in Groveland, Dec. 19 in Sonora and Jan. 2 in Calaveras County.

Contact Steven Umland at 352-6985 for more information about the Groveland and Sonora bird counts.

Contact Barry Boulton at 596-0612 for more information about the Calaveras County bird count.

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Caesar salad, fruit salad, g ingerbread cake an d a drink. RSVP by Wednesday by calling 533-2622.

• Soup and a salad bar are offered each Wednesday at the center.

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• Win C h r istmas door prizes, including poinsettias and other items. Prizes are awarded Fridays during bingo at 1 p.m. Must play bingo to win. Sponsored by the Senior Center Site Council.

• An estate planning seminar will be held at 1:30 p.m.

Jan. 11, sponsored by the Senior Center and Sonora Regional Medical Center. Let us

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Chicken Ranch Casino serves about 1,200 people at its annual Christmas dinner each year (top). About 30 to 40 casino employees volunteer their time to help put on the popular event (above).

Chicken Ranch welcomes all to annual holiday dinner

The purpose of the annual dinner is to find a special way to give back to the community as a whole, said Jamie Lloyd, marketing manager at Chicken Ranch Casino.

About 30 to 40 employees volun-

tant questions and how the estate-planning process can benefit you, whether you already have an estate plan or if you would like to develop one. Please join us. Contact Leon Casas Jr., 533-2622.

RSVP by Jan. 8. No cost.

• Because of the current crab alert along the West Coastand closure ofthe crab

teer their time to help serve a din-

season, our second annual

ner of turkey, ham, stufFmg, mashed potatoes, rolls,vegetables and pies.

The meal will be served from 4:30 to 8 p.m.

"Every child who attends will receive a gift. We like for everyone who attends to leave with something," Lloyd said. Shopping is done year-round in preparation for the

Crab Feed scheduled for Jan. 23 has been cancelled. We will be back in 2017! Mark your calendars for Jan. 21.

Special thanks to all of our supporters who came this past January to support our event. Thank you!

• Valentine s Ball coming Saturday, Feb. 13, at the Senior Center Ballroom.

This year's theme will be "A Masquerade of Hearts." Last year's event sold out. Tickets will be available soon, so purchase early!

Gifts for children and meals for all others will be ofFered Dec. 18 at Chicken Ranch Casino in Jamestown.

event.

Six new bikes sizes small, medium and large will be raffled off at the event. The drawing will take place at the end of the dinner, and those entering do not need to be present to win.

The event in past years has seen an average of 1,200 people.

Kat Country 103.3 will be at the event with games and prizes, Lloyd sard.

Krinklies the Clown will paint faces, and Bob the Balloon Guy will make balloon animals for children.

Planning for the event usually begins in September of each year, Lloyd said.

"It is such a humbling expe-

Santa and Mrs.Claus make an appearance at a previous event. rience helping out at this event.

Everybody is always just so appreciative to have a nice warm meal and to receive presents. It is a completely happy experience and is very, very rewarding," Lloyd said.

This year, the casino has large tentstohelp protectpeople standing in long lines from the rain.

"We will also serve hot choco-

lateto keep everybody warm," Lloyd sard.

The event will be hosted inside the Chicken Ranch Bingo Hall, 16929 Chicken Ranch Road in

AARP tax assistance AARP offers free tax help to th e community. Even though free tax help is available to all individuals in the

Jamestown.

community, emphasis is on

Linkline Shuttle will ofFer free rides to anyone in Tuolumne County.

Rides must be arranged the day before the dinner by calling 694-8747.

helping individuals with low and moderate incomes, espeSee CENTER / Page B2

VA makes changesto Veterans Choice Program The Department of Veterans A f f air s re c ently I = announced a n u mber of changes to make participation in the Veterans Choice Program easier and more Frank Matranga convenient fo r v e t erans who need it.

The move, which stream- Robert A. McDonald. "It is lines eligibility r e quire- our goalto do all that we ments, follows f eedback can toremove barriers that from veterans along with separate Veterans from the o rganizations w orkin g o n care they deserve." To date, their behalf. more than 400,000 medical "As we implement the appointments have been Veterans Choice Program, scheduled since the Veterwe are learning from our ans Choice Program went stakeholders what works into effect on Nov. 5, 2014. and what needs to be reUnder the old policy, a Vetfined," said VA Secretary eran waseligible for theVet-

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erans Choice Program ifhe or Under the updated elishe met the following criteria: gibility r e quirements, a • Enrolled in VA health veteran is eligible for the care by Aug. 1, 2014, or able Veterans Choice Program if to enroll as a combat veteran he or she is enrolled in the to be eligible for the Veterans VA health care system and Choice Program; m eets at leastone ofthe fol• Experienced unusual or lowing criteria: • Told by his or her loexcessive burden eligibility determined by geographical cal VA medical facility that challenges, environmental they will not b e able to factorsora m edicalcondition schedule an appointment impacting the veteran's abil- for care within 30 days of ity to travel; the date the veteran's phy• Determined eligible sician determines he/she based on the veteran's cur- needs to be seen or within rent residence being more 30 days of the date the than 40 miles driving dis- veteran wishes to be seen tance &om the closest VA if there is no specific date medical facility. from his or her physician;

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miles driving distance from the closest VA medical facility with a full-time primary care physician; • Needs to travel by air, boat or ferry to the VA medical facility closest to his/ her home; • Faces an unusual or ex-

cessive burden in traveling to the closest VA medical facilit y based on geographic challenges, environmental factors, a medical condition, the nature or simplicity or frequency of the care needed and whether an atSee VETS/Page B2

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husband was so thankful.

This gentlemen had a very difficult time being able to walk and his wife was experiencing some health issues. They had only a few piecesofwood leftand were overwhelmed with gratitude forthe load of wood they received.

For more i nformation on these and other Senior Center programs, services and activi ties, drop by the Senior Center at 540 Greenley Road in Sonora (8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays), call 5332622, or go online to www. sierraseniorproviders.org.

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cially those 60 and older.

Tax assistance is available at the Senior Center, 540 G reenley Road (next t o the Tuolumne County Library) starting in February.

For more information, call Vickie Garrett at 533-2622.

as prize in drawing The Sonora Chapter of Omega Nu has come up with an unusual prize for its newest fundraiser.

The group will h old a prize drawing Feb. 13 for a fullycatered and staffedappetizer party.

T he winner o f t h e drawing will be entitled to a catered appetizer partyforup to 30 guests.

Hot and coldappetizers, desserts and beverages will be served by members of Omega Nu. Tickets cost $20 each or six for $100 and will be available in front of Soma Fitness Studios, Joan's Boutique and Sharon Malone Lingerie during Second Saturday Art Night on Saturdays Dec. 12, Jan. 9 and Feb. 13 in downtown Sonora.

Tickets can also be purchased by calling 7431096.

The date of the appetizer party can be chosen by the w i nner b etween

March and June.

P roceeds fro m t h e prize drawing will benefit Omega Nu projects, including s c holarships for high school and college students and holiday gifts for children.

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Forest Meadows resident Fred Cooper donates a bag of groceries to food drive organizers Mike and Leah Brown.

Mother Lode card clubs have announced these scores: Mother Lode D uplicate Bridge meets at noon Mondays and Tuesdays at the Union Congregational Church in Angels Camp: Nov. 30, six-table Howell movement — 1) Ann Sturm and Duane Oneto; 2) Alan Hamilton and Deloris Ankrom; 3) Olivia Althouse and Glenna

Larson; 4) Mama Ferreira and

Forest Meadows drive collects 1,652 pounds of food, $4,255 "Once again, the Forest Meadows community has been generous in donating food 1,652pounds offood and $4,255 to the San- and money to those less fortunate" said ta's Express Resource Connection.

Mary Piumarta, event coordinator. "We During November, Forest Meadows vol- hope our food drive will help to make the unteersdistributed grocery bags donated holidays happier to families and children

by Save Mart to each residence with a let- throughout Calaveras County". ter attached requesting a donation of food This was the fifth annual food drive in or a check be left inside the bag. Donations which Forest Meadows residents have parwere collected on Monday. ticipated.

Residents of the Forest Meadows gated

community near Arnold have donated

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identified in the practices Continued from Page Bl of some VA prescribers on the overuse of opioids and about the Veterans Choice benz odiazepine, especially Program and VA's progress, for veterans challenged by go online to www.va.gov/opa/ mental illness. choice act.

The bills, S 1641 and HR Source: VA.gov 4063, are omnibus measures that deal not only with new procedures for Bills introduced to prescribersbut also estab-

VA physicians who make medical errors and mistakes.

Please contact your elected officials to urge them to cosponsor and support passage ofthese bills during the 1 14th Congress.

Veterans in VA health care should not be exposed to over-prescribing with danstem overprescribing lish new programs for com- gerous and addictive subof cerai tn meds plementary and alternative stances. These bills would Sen. Tammy Baldwin of approaches to dealing with advance standardized proWisconsin and Rep. Gus chronic noncancerous pain. tectionsfor veterans.

Bilirakis of Florida have in- Finally, the bills would esSource: Moses McIntosh, troduced similar bills to ad- tablish new controls and DAV national commander, Linda Stake, DAVA national commander INTRODUCING THE UNION DEMOCRAT EMPLOYEES

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Darryl Rosenheim; 5) Dave Jenkins and Bonnie Landis Dec. 1, fi ve-table TEAM game — 1) Alan and Susan Hamilton, Bill and Jeanette Hutchinson; 2) Darryl Rosenheim, Mary Crook, Yvonne Tiscornia and Catherine Holt Gold Country Duplicate Bridge meets at noon Wednesdays at the Calaveras Senior Center in San Andreas: Dec. 2, si x-table Howell movement — 1) Dave Jenkins and Bonnie Landis; 2) Joan Thorsen and Mike Weisberg; 3) Bill Hutchinson and Darryl Rosenheim; 4) Don Cross and

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days in which to present its plan to Congress.

V FW N a t ional C o m mander John B i edrzycki said women have served honorably a n d br a v ely throughout our nation's history.

These veterans died on these dates: Samuel Girvan III Patrick, 72, April 14 , 1 943 to Nov. 13, 2015. Patrick served in the Navy.

Michael Yancey Jones, 42, served in the Army National Guard for six years. Full Secretary of Defense military graveside service opens all career fields performed for this veteran to women

by VFW Post 3154 Honor Secretary of Defense Ash Guard .

Carter announced his deciRobert "Bob" Raymond sion to open all remaining Riede, 73, March 19, 1942 to military occupation special- Nov. 25, 2015. Bob served in ties to women. the Army National Guard.

The move could open up about 220,000 combat arms Frank Matranga, of branch positions primar- Sonora, served in the ily in the Army and Marine U.S.Air Force for nearly Corps, as well as opportuni- 40 yearsand is a past ties in the Navy SEALs and commander of the Veterans Air Force pararescue and of Foreign Wars Post tactical air control party 8154,post commander of fields, among others. the Disabled American In makingthe announce- Veterans Chapter 119 ment, Carter stressed that and isa life member of equal opportunity doesn' t the American Legion Post necessarily m ea n e q u al 58. If you have veterans' participation in all special- information, call him at ties, and that there would 588-1926.

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Duane Oneto; 5) Glenna Larson and Don Cross Sonora Duplicate Bridge meets at 12:30 p.m. Fridays at the Tuolumne County Senior Center in Sonora: Dec. 4, seven-table Mitchell movement — North-South1) Alan and Susan Hamilton; 2) Olivia Althouse and Darryl R osenheim; 3) V i cky a n d Duane Oneto. East-West — 1) Alice Stoll and Grace Dickson; 2) Ann Sturm and Mary Crook; 3) Dana and Tim Davis Player of the Month for November for Mother Lode Duplicate Monday is Duane Oneto with 3 .12 M P ( Master points). Player of the Month for November for M o ther Lode Duplicate Bridge Tuesday is Don Cross with 2.34 MP. Player of the Month for November for Gold Country Duplicate Bridge is Glenna Larson with 2.01 MP; Players of the Month for November for Sonora Duplicate Bridge are Ron Michaelis and Dick Rosenbaum with 1.87 MP.

Jamestown Community Hall 18250 Main St, Jamestown 533-2622for reservations

The Little House 11699 Merrell Rd, Grove)and 962-7303for reservations

Tuolumne Memorial Hall 18375 Fir Avenue Tuolumne City 533-2622for reservations

Calaveras Senior Center 956 Mountain Ranch Road San Andreas 754-3967

Lunches for Seniors Tuolumne County Senior Centerserves lunches from 12:00 to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday. Seniors of all ages are welcome. For seniors 60 and over, the suggested donation is $4.50. To receive the discount price, registration is required. For nonregistered and individuals under 60, the fee is $6.00 per person. No eligible senior is denied a meal for inability to donate.

Tuolumne County SeniorCenter MoNDav, DEcEMsER x4 F ilet o' fish with tartar

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potato and onion, wheat bread with margarine, romaine salad with t o mato, peaches. Happy Birthday, Tuolumne.

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Po rk r o a s t, mashed

potatoes with gravy, spinach salad, whole wheat bread with margarine and mixed fruit cobbler.

Happy Birthday, Jamestown.

THURsDAY DEGEMBER 1 7 Italian sausage, pasta

with marinara sauce, wheat bread with margarine, spring and romaine salad, Mediterranean blend veggies, tropical fruit. Happy Birthday, Groveland.

FRIDAY, DEGEMBER 1S Christmas Buffet — Senior

Center only. Baked ham R roast chicken, dinner roll with butter, roasted butternut squash, Caesar salad, fruit salad, gingerbread cake.

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EVENTS St. Patrick's Catholic Parish will hold two events in the coming days.

• An Advent Penance Service will be held at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church at 4 p.m. today.

• An Advent Penance Service at St. Patrick's Catholic Church will be at 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday.

Call532-7139 for more information.

Sierra Bible Churchwill hold "Joy to the World-Celebrating Christmas with Music and Laughter" this weekend at the church.

The &ee event will feature holiday treats, music and the comedy of "clean" comedian Rich Praytor.

Presentations will be given at 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.

Tickets are &ee but required and ar e a vailable at the church offijce, 15171

Tuolumne Road near Standard.

An annual Christmas Sing will take place at 3 p.m. Sunday at Morgan Chapel on Wards Ferry Road in Sonora.

TheMother Lode Jewish Community will hold its annual Chanukah party Sunday in Murphys.

The casual event, for families and adults of all ages, will begin at 5:30 p.m. Anyone wishing to attend should call 533-1650 or email motherlodejc@yahoo.cornfor direc-

OUTREACH Free meals, food

Christmas Eve/Day services Country Cowboy Church will hold a Christmas Eve candlelight service at 6 p.m.

Dec. 24.

Refreshments will be provided.

The church is at 14888 Peaceful Valley Road in East Sonora.

Sierra Bible Church will hold a Christmas Eve service at 8 p.m. Dec. 24 in its Worship Center, 15171 Tuolumne Road near Standard.

St. Matthew Lutheran Church will hold Christmas Eve candlelight services at 5 and 7 p.m. Christmas Eve, and a Christmas Day service at 9 a.m.

The Church is at 13880 Joshua Way in East Sonora.

For more information, call 532-4039.

352-6791 or 536-0701.

St. Susanna Orthodox Church is at 10825 Robinwood Lane, at the intersection of Jamestown Road, in Sonora.

The Tuolumne and Soulsbyville United Methodist churches will hold a candlelight service at 7 p.m.

Christmas Eve at the Soulsbyville United Methodist Church, 19982 Community Drive, Soulsbyville.

St. Susanna Orthodox Twain Harte Bible Church Church will hold Christmas will hold its annual candlelight Eve and Christmas Day Christmas Eve service at 6 services. p.m. Dec. 24.

The church will celebrate This year's celebration will with a festive "Eve of the focus on Jesus as coming Nativity" vigil service at 6 p.m. "From Heaven to Earth," and Christmas Eve. On Christmas will include narration, congreDay, the church will celebrate gational singing and special a festal Divine Liturgy for the music pieces.

Nativity at 10 a.m. The vigil The church is at 23191 Mark service is a sung service with Twain Drive in Twain Harte. many hymns. The Divine Liturgy is known for its majestic Tolist your church's and worshipful nature, stated holidaycelebration, email a press release. features@uniondemocrat For more information, call corn,or call 588-4535

noon all other Tuesdays.

• The Ama d or• Columbia PresbyteTuolumne C o mmunity rian Church of the 49ers Action Agency di s trib- offers free food and clothing utes food &om 10 a.m. to each week. noon on the third Tuesday Helen Johnson Comof each month at All Saints' munity Dinner, free to Catholic Church, corner of all, is served at 6 p.m. every JoaquinGully and Cherokee Monday in the church soroads in Twain Harte, and at cial hall, 11155 Jackson St., Tuolumne Memorial Hall, Columbia. Donations are Fir Avenue in Tuolumne; accepted but not required.

A-TCAA Food Bank, 10059 Free showers are offered Victoria Way, Jamestown; preceding the dinner from 5 Church of the Forty Niners, to 6 p.m.

11155 Jackson St., Colum- ATCAA Food Bank bia; Lake Don Pedro Baptist distributesfood at 10 a.m.

Church, 4175 Abeto St., La on third Tuesdays of each Grange;Mount Calvary Lu- month in Lower Sanctuary. theran Church, 24176 Pine - Nancy's Hope CommuLake Drive, Sugar Pine; nity Center, located on the Sonora Baptist C h urch, church campus, is open daily 412 Stockton Road, Sonora; &om 9 to 4:30 p.m. weekdays Tuolumne County Senior and 10 to 4 p.m. Saturdays.

Center, 540 Greenley Road, Many &ee programs are Sonora; Tuolumne Veter- available. Call 533-2647. ans Memorial Hall, 18375 Call the church at 532Fir Ave., Tuolumne. They 2441 for more information.

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Faith Lu t h eran Monday through Thursday Church, 65 Mitchler St., and Friday by appointment Murphys, hosts a food comat Columbia College. They modities distribution on the alsodistribute from 10 a.m. first Thursday of each month to noon the Friday after the including dry and canned third Tuesday at Groveland goods. There is also a food Evangelical Free Church, bag distribution from 9 a.m.

19172 Ferretti Road, Grove- to 1 p.m.Monday through land.

Wednesday, available once a • All Saints operates a month to local residents, in food pantry from 10 a.m. to conjunction with the Mur-

phys Senior Center, co-located on the campus.

For more information, call 728-2041.

• Interfaith Community Social Services, 18500 Striker Court, 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 is open 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekdays.

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

For more information, call 532-0905.

• Mount Calvary Lutheran Church in Sugar Pine holds several events each month to help the community.

Events include: - Senior Exercise, 10:30 a.m. every Thursday - Senior Lunch, noon to 1 p.m. every Thursday (call See OUTRl<MCH / Page B4

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The event is free, but those attending should bring a potSt. Matthew Lutheran and will be led by Kurt and luck dish, and all are welcome C hurch Women's M i s- Margie Wiley. to bring amenorah. Volun- sionary League will colThe group will teach peoteers areneeded to help set lect winter outerwear and ple the difference between up and clean up. blankets for donation to In- good and bad anger, how to terfaith Community Social gain control of it, and how A special "Blue Christ- Services during December. to use it i n c onstructive mas" service will be presentAnyone wishing to donate ways. ed at 6p.m. Wednesday at can do so at the church from the First Congregational 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays Church United Church of through Fridaysand from 8 Christ in Murphys. a.m. to noon Sundays.

The service is intended to For more i n f ormation, offer encouragement to any- call the church at 532-4639. one feeling alone, sad or inseThe church is at 3 880 cure for any reason.

Joshua Way, Sonora.

The service will be presented by the First CongregationSt. Susanna Orthodox al United Church of Christ, Church offers a series of MoNDAY Murphys Covenant Church, ongoing Catechism classes Now when Jesus was born Faith Lutheran Church and for entry into the Orthodox in Bethlehem ofJudae in the days of Herod the Union United Church of Christian Church. king behold, there came Christ.

C lasses are held a t 6 The service will be held at p.m. each Tuesday and of- wise men from the east to Jerusalem.

509 N. Algiers St., Murphys. fer study of the Catechism Matthew 2:1 KJ series, written by the reSt. Susanna Orthodox nowned Orthodox educator TUESDAY Saying, Where is He that Church will begin activities Father Thomas Hopko, and for its annual Parish Feast the New King James trans- is born King of the Jews? for we have seen His star in Day with a Hierarchical Di- lation of the Bible. the east, and are come to vine Liturgy at 8:40 a.m. Dec For more i n f ormation, worship him.

20. call 352-6791.

Matthew 2:2 KJ The chief celebrant will be St. Susanna Orthodox His Eminence Archbishop Church is at 10825 RobinWEDNESDAY Benjamin, of the Diocese of wood Lane, at the intersec- When Herod the king had heard these things, he was the West in the Orthodox tion of Jamestown Road, in troubled, and aH Jerusalem Church in America.

Sonora. with him.

A festal potluck meal will Matthew 2:3 KJ follow the Divine Liturgy.

Religious education classFor more information, call es continue on Wednesdays THURSDAY 352-6791 or 536-0701. at St. Patrick's Catholic And when he had gathered St. Sus anna Orthodox Church in Sonora. all the chief priests and scribes Church is at 10825 RobinClasses for students in of thepeople together he demanded ofthem where wood Lane, at the intersec- kindergarten through sixth Christ should be born. tion of Jamestown Road, in grade meet in the Parish Matthew 2:4 KJ Sonora.

Hall from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Confirmation can d i d ates FRIDAY A combined choir service of (seventh gr ade t h r ough And they said to him, In the Tuolumne and Souls- h igh school) meet in t h e Bethlehem of Ju-dae': for byville United M ethod- Steinmetz house from 6:30 thus it is written by the ist churches will be held to 7:45. prophet.

Matthew 2:5 KJ at 10:30 a.m. Dec. 20 in For more information, call Tuolumne.

Kathy Casas at 770-5987 or SATURDAY The musical service, titled 532-7139,ext. 110, or email And you Bethlehem, "One Small Child," will be kathy®stpatssonora.org. in the land of Ju'da, under the direction of Mark are not the least among Seiver.

Meditation and M odthe princesof Ju'da; for The Tuolumne U n ited ern Buddhism in Sonora out of you shall come a Methodist Church is at 18851 is offered from 3 to 4 p.m.

Governor, that shall rule Cedar St., in Tuolumne. each Sunday at the Aronos My people Is'ra-el.

Matthew 2:6 KJ Clubhouse, 37 E. Elkin St., Heritage Chr i s tian in Sonora.

SUNDAY Church in E a s t S o nora The meetings p r ovide Then Herod, when he had will hold a special service of group study, meditations privately called the wise Christmas carols and music and discussion. Hosts will men, enquired of them beginningat 5p.m .Dec.20. play recorded teachings by diligently what time the The community is invited. A merican Buddhist n u n star appeared.

The church is at 19530 Kelsang Chogyop.

Matthew 2:7 KJ Hillsdale Drive. For more inA $5 to $10 donation is formation, call 532-8550 pr requested.

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For more i n f ormation, Daily Word sponsored by call 588-8109. , IOf p~ The children ofTwain Harte Bible Church will New Li f e Rec o very present the musical produc- Group will host a "Christ tion "A Tree Lot Christmas" Centered Life Group" from Dec. 20 during the 10:45 a.m. 6 to 8 p.m Tuesdays at Harchurch service. Children ages vest Fellowship R . I.O.T. Pastor Tom & Donna Modrell 3 to 12 will perform with Center at13849 Mono Way, Service Sunday 10 a.m.

Wednesday 7 p.m. backup from the youth choir. across from Burger King in 10249 Doxov~wSTREET The church is at 23191 Sonora.

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Curtis Creek, Jamestown, Soulsbyville, Twain Harte, Tenaya schools list honor rolls Several Tuolumne County schools have announced first-t rimester honor roll s for the 2015-16 school year:

Agne, Gerald Quinn Alcorn, Kaitlyn Balibrera, Gia Broughton, Nicholas Calles, Valarie Camarena, Sara Crow, Angel Figueroa, John Lang, Asher

Nathan Hawkins, Evan Lear,

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Matthews, Alexandra Meek,

Joshua Stewart, Esmeralda

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Grade seven 4.0 — Faizon Hilson, Derek Matthews, Jayden McKeon, Hannah Sousa 3.5 to 3.99 —Paige Angelo, Isaac Evermon, Abigail Hall Elliott, Charlie Nau, Kevin Quinn Alcorn, Claudia Salazar, Hannah Vienop, Isaac Wells

Grade eight 3.5 to 4.0 — Vanessa Anderon, Devyn Avila, Rachel Babcock, Tanner Foote, Anneliese Gaughan, Amelia

4.0 GPA — Brady Arnett,

Or Yam Bisset, Leila Castle, Ava Holland, Broen Holman, Cooper Knobloch, Jack KruFile photo /Union Democrat

Do you remember this? If so, write us your recollection — context, date, names — and we' ll run it in a subsequent "Flashback" (100 words or less, please). Answers can be emailed to features@uniondemocrat.corn, dropped off at 84 S. Washington St., Sonora, or called in to 588-4535. "Flashback" is a weekly feature in The Union Democrat.

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fastfrom 6:30 to 8 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday in the Continued from Page B3 parish hall at 127 Jackson St., Sonora. Everyone is welcome.

• Tuolumne U n ited 586-8166 for reservations) - Parish Food Pantry, 10 Methodist Church offers a.m. to noon, first Tuesday of free food to anyone in need each month from 10 to 11 a.m. every SatWorship services begin at urday. The church is at 18851 11 a.m. weekly.

Cedar St., in Tuolumne. For The church is at 24176 Pine more information, call 928Lake Drive. Call 586-3616 for 1376 or 206-3090. more information.

• M u rphys Covenant Church hosts "Ks Kitchen," a ministry of &ee hot meals offered from noon to 1 p.m. each Thursday at the church, 34 Jones St. • Seventh-day Adventist Community Services, 87 S. Forest Road, Sonora, offers clothing, small appliances, blankets, sheets, linens, shoes and coats to anyone in need

&om 9 a.m. to noon Mondays and Wednesdays. Groceries are given out Mondays and Wednesdays.

For more information about services or making a donation, call 532-1872.

• The Food Pantry program at Sierra Bible Church distributesfood on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays &om 10 to 11:30 a.m. in the office conference room at 15171 Tuolumne Road, Sonora.

• St. Matthew Lutheran Church hosts a &ee lunch at the Lambert Community Drop-in Center on the last Saturdayofeach month.

The lunch is served from noon to 1 p.m. at the Center, 347 Jackson St., Sonora. The Center is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. for fellowship and games.

For more information, call 533-4879.

• St. Patrick's Catholic Church serves a &ee break-

peropolis. Dinner is served at 6:30 p.m., and the meeting begins at 7 p.m. For more information, call 743-4594.

• A cancer support group, Snuff Out Cancer, meets at 7:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month at Family Community Church in Angels Camp. The church is on Main Street, with a second-floor entrance on Raspberry Lane.

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CIF STATE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP BOWL GAMES Ackerman — wa-

Sonora ready to host Hanford in state playoff

terfowl more active with the winter, cooler temperatures taking hold. C3

tempo was up, everything Gino Bergamaschi who made the The kicking squad brought its cel- 'Today, reception just over the goal line and ebration into the post practice huddle felt right. There weren't many misinside the pylon for a and the team finished takes. We' re coming together," said The Wildcats were more spirited in touchdown. its final day of hard Wildcat guard/linebacker Killian RosHmFORD(12-1 ) practice Wednesday afternoon than Page took off runpractice and appear ko. 'We' re excited. This is somewhere they have been maybe all season. ning down the field 7:30 p.m.today,at ready forthe school's Sonora High School has never been »<nv /Tet" Sonora quarterback and holder h ollering and t h e first appearance to- before. It's an honor and we want to Sammy Page received a short lateral kicking unit celebratnight in the Califor- live up to this. It's a huge deal for us. pass &om placeki cker Riley Garrett, ed scoring on the trick play like, well, nia Interscholastic Federation Re- It's huge deal for the town and our the icky rolled a touch to his right like they had just won a state playoQ' gional Football Championship Bowl and fi red a 30-yard striketo receiver game.

Games at Dunlavy Field.

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By BILL ROZAK The Union Demoerrtt

CommentaryLuke Walton-Andre Iguodala bond important for Golden State.

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BRIEFING

Dodge RidgeSki Bus starts Dec.19 Dodge Ridge andTuolumne County Transit have teamed to bring local skiers and riders an alternative to driving to the mountain.

Starting Saturday, Dec. 19, the Dodge Ridge Ski Bus will run daily through Jan. 3 and the cost is $10 for the round trip. After Jan. 3, the bus schedule will switch to weekends and holidays through April.

The bus route runs from Sonora to Dodge Ridge with about 15 pick-up and drop-off points in locations like The Junction shopping center, the hotel at Black Oak Casino Resort, Twain Harte Market and Sierra Village Market.

Pickup times and locations can be found at DodgeRidge.corn under the Getting Here page or by visiting dodgeskibus. corn.

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By BILL ROZAK The Union Democrat

Champion vs. champion.

Division V vs. Division III. Mountain toughness and physicality vs. freakish speed and athleticism.

Band vs. band.

Crowd vs. crowd.

Tonight's California Interscholastic Federation State Football Championship Division IV-AA Bowl Game matchup between the Sonora Wildcats and Hanford Bullpups at Dunlavy Field is the first ever of its kind for the local high school. And it will be the first time Sonora has taken a snap or played a down inthe month ofDecember.

'The place will be buzzing, it will be electric," said Wildcat head coach Bryan Craig. "I think we' ll have a big crowd. It might be cold.

But it's going to be really exciting."

The Sonora Wildcats

Walton could coach All-Stars NEWYORK (AP)Steve Kerr wouldn't be eligible to coach in the All-Star Game. The NBA hasn't determined if Luke Walton would.

League spokesman Tim Frank says it' s "premature" to address whether the interim coach of the undefeated Golden State Warriors could lead the Western Conference if Kerr hasn't returned following back surgery.

The coaches whose teams have the best record in each conference following play on Jan. 31 earn spots in Toronto for the Feb. 14 game.

But coaches aren' t allowed the honor in consecutive years, a rule that dates to Pat Riley's dominance with the Lakers in the 1980s, so Kerr is disqualified.

But Walton, who won Western Conference coach of the month for October/November and is eligible to win Coach of the Year even though the Warriors' 23-0 record is all credited to Kerr, hasn't been ruled out yet.

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Sonora quarterback Sammy Page (right at top left) gives to fullback Brett McCutchen during practice Wednesday. Wildcat receiver lan Cicero (above) leaps to make a reception with Bradnon Murphy defending. Sonora guard Killian Rosko (left) works on technique.

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'Cat grad, 'Skins coach Clifton forced to step down Kraig Clifton (left) sits with his father Dale Clifton Thursday at the Bret Harte Tournament in Angels Camp.

Kraig Clifton was forced to step down from his head coaching duties which Dale took over forthe rest of the season.

Longtime coach diagnosed with pancreatic cancer

By GUY DOSSI The Union Democmt

Dale Clifton sat alone at 4 p.m. Thursday inside the Bret Harte High School gymnasium watching the Bullfrogs take on the Sierra Ridge / ROP Rams. One-by-one, spectators approached Clifton and shook his hand and gave him a gentle pat on the back. "Old School," as he is afFectionately known, forced a smile at each friendlyface and had a brief conversation with each person.

The exchanges were not about the upcoming Calaveras Redskins basketball game, or tonight's Sonora High football game. Rather, offers of best wishes and thoughts and

prayersdirected towards Clifton's son, Kraig.

Kraig, who is the Redskins head coach, was diagnosed Sunday with pancreatic cancer and had to relinquish his coaching duties for the time being. The Redskins are still being coached by a Clifton, but it is Dale, who came to the aid of his son.

"He just came out and said, 'Dad, you can't be retired any more. You gotta come help,' " Dale said. "So I could not turn that request down."

Nearly two months ago, Kraig started to feel less than perfect. He didn't pay attention to it, but over time, the pain gotprogressively worse.

After being convinced by his wife, Kraig paid a visit to a

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doctor. After being examined, Kraig was told that his liver counts were elevated.

He shared the results with family members, some of which are in the medical field, and they requested he go to the emergency room for more tests.Pancreatic cancer was

the verdict.

ARer sharing the devastating news with his family and close friends, there was one more group that needed to be told — his team. ''We got all three levels together on a practice night and sat them all down," Kraig said.

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PREps BASKETBALL o ay 4:00 pm(ESPN) NBA Basketball Miami Heat at Indiana Pacers.

4:30pm (CSBA) NBA Basketball Golden State Warriors at Boston Celtics.

6:30pm (ESPN) NBA BasketballLos Angeles Lakers at San Antonio Spurs.

FOOTBALL Today 7:30 pm(CSN) High School FootballCIF Division I Regional Bowl Cham ionship: Teams TBA.

BOXING Today 10:00 pm(SHOW) Boxing ShoBox: The New Generation. Featuring super lightweights Regis Prograis, Ivan Baranchyk, super featherweight Bryant Cruz and middleweight Steed Woodall all in separate bouts. (Same-day Tape)

Foorxuz HIGH SCHOOL o ay Boys — Football: 2015 CIF Regional Football Championship Bowl Games, Division IV-AA NorCal Final, Sonora vs.

Hanford, 7:30 p.m., Dunlavy Field.Basketball: Bret HaIte/Calaveras at Bret Harte Tournament, Angels Camp, TBA Girls — Basketball:Sonora at Ceres Tournament, TBA; Calaveras vs. Riverbank, Mike Flock Gym, 7 p.m.; Summerville at Waterford, 7:30; Bret Harte at Linden Tournament, TBA Saturday Boys — Basketball: Calaveras, Bret Harte at Bret Harte Tournament, Angels Camp, TBA; Sonora at Alisal, 6 p.m.;Wrestling: Calaveras/Sonora/ Summerville at James Riddle Classic, Oakdale, 9 a.m.

Girls — Basketball:Sonora at Ceres Tournament, TBA; Bret Harte at Linden Tournament, TBA Monday Girls — Basketball:Sonora vs.Manteca,Bud Castle Gym, 7:15 p.m.

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Bullfrogs split pair at Brut Harte Tournament

By GUY DOSSI The Union Democrat

The Bret Harte Bull&ogs needed 4 minutes of overtime, but the extra

time was enough to knock of the Sierra Ridge/Right of Passage Rams 6154 Thursday night in the first round of the Bret Harte Tournament in Angels Camp.

Colin Preston showed he was ready for abig game after the first minute.

With an assist from Michael Ziehlke, Preston scored and got fouled. He made his &ee throw and Bret Harte led 3-0. After an ROP basket, Kyle Olsen scored and Ziehlke followed with a strongdrivetothebasket fora layup.

With Bret Harte leading 7-6, Preston scored six of the final eight points of the quarter, including a shot in the paint as the buzzer sounded.

Bret Harte had a 15-6 lead heading into the second quarter, and head coach Jeff Eltringham elected to put his second string in to give them some valuable minutes. The Bullfrogs second team played well, but couldn't hit their shots. Pierce Gill made a 3-pointer from the corner, and that ended up

being the only points Bret Harte would score in the first six minutes of the sec-

ond quarter.

"I believe in my second team," Eltringham said. "I honestly think that our secondstring are really good basketball players. But, we didn't come out with focus all the way around. I know we built a little bit of a lead, but it still wasn't us. But trying to get these younger guys minutes is always complicated, especially in the preseason.

You are playing teams that have been in the playoffs and have a confidence level that is higher than them. It' s

way I can do it is to rebound and I did that on the offensive glass."

Bret Harte took the lead on a steal

by Olsen, who found an open Bucky Bret Seawell for a layup. ROP answered Halte's back and retook the lead at 34-33 with a Michael 3:39 remaining in the third quarter. gggll Ziehlke Senior Isaak McCamey hit a corner brings three for Bret Harte and the Frogs led the ball the remainder of the quarter. Olsen U pcourt scored the final basket of the quarter for the on a left hand shot in traffic, and Bret Bullfrogs Harte led 41-36.

Thursday In the fourth quarter, Bret Harte in Angels kept going for the jab, but couldn't land Camp. the knockout blow.

Guy DossiI With 3:03 remaining, Ziehlke scored Union Democrat in traf5c to give the Bull&ogs a 50-44 advantage.But ROP fought back and took a 52-50 lead with 42 seconds left.

Olsen drained two &ee throws to tie the game at 52, and following an ROP hard to find minutes for those guys. So, turnover, the 'Frogs got the final shot. slowly trying to get them in is always Ziehlke drove to the hoop and in the a challenge." process was fouled with 1.4 seconds Bret Harte was outscored 20-7 in remaining. He could not connect on eithe second quarter and trailed athalf- ther of his &ee throws, and the game time 26-22. went into overtime.

Preston did not enjoy his time on As a team, Bret Harte was 10-24 the BretHarte bench, and made up from the &ee throw line. eWe've been working on our &ee for lost time in the beginning of the third quarter. The 6'5 junior scored throws and have switched some guys eight points right out of the gate and shots, "Eltringham said. "I'm confident tied the game at 30-30 with a rebound in this group. Th ey'll start falling and and basket with 5:24 remaining in they will start making &ee throws the third quarter. Preston finished the the more we play. I'm not too worried game with 23 points, 12 rebounds, nine about it." were offensive.

In overtime, Olsen took over. He "Coach told us that we needed to made two free throws, scored with a start putting some heart into the left hand shot in the paint, and added game," Preston said. 'They (ROP) a rebound and basket with 2:34 recame back when we had a six point maining in the overtime period. Bret lead. I thought that I should try to do Harte had a 6-0 run and it was thanks it myself. Not to be selfish, but to help to Olsen.

"Itwas really astruggleformetoget the team out any way I can. And the

some shots in early in the game, so I

tried to distribute the ball and give it to players that I knew were going to score and keep us in the game," Olsen said. Coming into overtime, I just had to stay focused and not give up on myself."

Olsen finished the night with 16 points and a team-high 13 rebounds.

"It's my job to get those rebounds and I wanna get as many rebounds as I can," Olsen said. "I wanna get more rebounds than points. It is hard for refs not to call fouls that you think are fouls. You can't let that get to you and you have to keep on playing."

McCamey drained a corner 3 which was enough of a cushion and Bret Harte held on for the win.

Ziehlke had 11 points and five rebounds. But it was the play of Olsen and Preston that helped push Bret Harte past ROP. "It's one of the first times that I have ever had that kind of ball player down low," Eltringham said of Olsen and Preston. 'They can score and put the ball in the hoop. It's fun for me, being a post myself, actually finally getting some height that can score. We' ve had height, but height that can really score is fun for me to watch them pound the ball in the paint."

Bret Harte lost in the second game it played Thursday night 72-53 to Union Mine. Two games in one day had a little to do with the play of the Bullfrogs, but according to Eltringham, tired legs were not the main issue.

"Yeah, there possibly was some fatigue," Eltringham said. "You could notice a little, but at the same time, we

weren't executing either. I think that had more to do with it than us being

tire."

'CATS Continued from PageC1 enter the NorCal final as the Mother Lode League and division V Sacdoaquin Section champions. The Bullpups, young bulldogs and not firearms with actions behind the trigger mechanisms, won the division III Central Section crown for the second straight year and finished in second place in the West Yosemite League.

The teams have identical 12-1 records. The Wildcats are on a 12-game win streak.

The losses each team suffered were to upper division foes that finished as runners-up in their respective divisions.

Sonora lost to D3 runner-up Oakdale. Hanford lost to D2 cally and make Hanford quit runner-up Lemoore. answering the bell snap afIer eWe're treating it like we' ve snap.

"Having aton ofplaymakplayed every other game," said Wildcat junior guard/ ers is probably an understatelinebacker Killian R osko. ment," Craig said. "They have "There's gonna be more peo- lotsof speed.Their quarterple and alot of excitement, back is talented both throwdefinitely more of a pre-game ing and running the ball. He' s pump up it is gonna be good." gotgreatwide receivers,four guys he can throw the ball to.

And he's got a running back Playmakers vs. with 1,900 yards, so they can spirit crushers attack us in multiple ways.

"But it'ssupposed to be The Bullpups want to get the ball in the hands of their tough. It wouldn't be State if many game-changing play- it wasn't tough." makers while the Wildcats The Bullpups have four will try to dominate physi- receiverswith at least 33 receptions and no more than 41 led by Juwuane Hughes' 739 yards and eight TDs and averages over 21 yards per catch.

Their quarterback, Ryan Johnson, has thrown for 2,573 yards and 29 TDs.The junior has also rushed for 658 yards and nine scores.

Hanford's running back has 1,827 yards and 21 touch-

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Petrey also has seven sacks and 13 tackles for loss.

When the Bullpups fire passes through the air, they better watch for Rodgers, Sonora's ball hawking safety that has a school record 11 interceptions this season.

'Cats are good builders without their Hammer Sonoralostits best player, Bradley Canepa, just before the final game of the regular season.

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The team is loaded with speedy stars.

"We' ve gotta make sure we do our jobs, make the correct calls and play as hard as we can," said Wildcat junior defensive tackle/fullback Nate Gookin.

But the Wildcats are loaded

with 775 rushing yards, 320 receiving yards and has also thrown for 90 yards. Rogers has 18 total TDs, 10 rushing, five receiving, two passing

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and one interception return.

their offensive line t akes pride m wearmg down opposing defenses.

SeniorSammy Page guides Sonora's powerful triple option and has rushed for 713 yards and passed for 898 yards and has 15 total touch-

Gookin has 861 yards rushing and 11 touchdowns.

The Bullpups are averaging 430 yards per game, the Wildcatsare averaging just over 400.

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Senior slotback Wyatt Faughnan leads the Wildcat position players in total yards &om scrimmage with 804 rushing yards and 11 TDs while also catching a teamhigh 18 passes for 383 yards a five scores.

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strong against the run.

The Wildcats have surrendered just 69.7 yards per game and just 2.25 yards per carry over its last 10 games.

"First off, our DC (defensive coordinator) Jed Malone does

a great job of putting schemes and game plans together," Craig said. "And we' ve got a lot of heart on this team. That front seven against the run, they play hard. They' re not the biggest guys youil ever see, but they' re quick and they get in the right spots and they make tackles."

That &ont seven — defensive linemen Shane Petrey, Brett McCutchen, Nate Gookin, defensive ends Garrett Bozzo and Jacob Dowler and linebackers Rosko and Blake Graham — play downhill and getbodiesto thefootball.

T he defense is led b y Gookin who has recorded a whopping 16.5 sacks this season and leads the team in solo stops (87) and total tackles (97) and 13 of those tackles

The physical junior linebacker/fullback, known as the Hammer, suffered a seasonending injury and was hospitalizedforseveraldays.

After missing the last game against Bret Harte, Canepa was on the sidelines watching the Wildcats build their section championship, wishing he could have played a bigger role.

'Td trade anything to be on the field right now," Canepa said."I'd go to the doctor today. I'd get on my pads and do anything. I'd run the scout teams, I don't care. I wish I was doing something with pads on."

"We miss him. The physicality he brings to our team, the leadership, the way he displays himself on the field, we miss that a lot," Craig said. "We wish we could have it back especially for the state playofF game. And I feel bad for him. He feels like he's not a part of it, but we wouldn't be here without him. He's a big partofthisteam."

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BRIEFS 1952 ToppsMantle rookie card sells DALI ' ( A P) — A rare Topps 1952 Mickey Mantle rookie card has sold at auction for more than

$5oo,ooo.

Dallas-based Heritage Auctions said the pristine card sold Thursday night to a collector who wanted to r emain a nonymous for $525,800. A Heritage statement said the price set arecord for a Mantle rookie card.

The '52 Mantle rookie card has long been the most valuable postwar baseball card, with comparable examples selling for $386,000 to $486,000 over the past 12 months.

Brazile surges in NFR standings LAS VEGAS (AP)Trevor Brazile almost took over the tie-down roping world standings lead after he won his event in record time during round eight of the National Finals Rodeo on Thursday night.

Brazile o f De c atur, Texas, won the round in

a Thomas & Mack Center (NFR host since 1985) recordtime of6.5 seconds (ties Cody Ohl, 2003) and came within $537 of the world standings lead.

Defending t h ree-time worldchampion Tuf Cooper,also from Decatur,remained in first in the world standings with $187,976 after tying for second in a time of 7.4. Brazile, a three-time tie-down roping world champion, is next behind Cooper, his brotherin-law, with $187,439.

HOST Continued from PageCl school. It's incredible."

The division V S acJoaquin Section champion Wildcats (12-1) host the division III Central Section champion Hanford Bullpups (12-1) at 7:30 p.m. in the NorCal final.

The winner plays next Saturday for the division IV-AA state championship. If Sonora wins, it will play for the title on its home turf.

Local advertising was removed Wednesdayfrom the chainlink fence that surrounded the old tennis courts to make room

forCIF State approved ad banners and the dirt track around the gridiron was graded and steamrolled in hopes it will not be a wet, muddy mess with Thursday's wet weather.

An extra set of bleachers will be placed in the south endzone for Hanford's 40to 50-memberband to offset the 95-member Golden Regiment who resides in the north end zone.

About 400 pre-sale tickets were sold by Thursday, and Sonora receives$1 for every pre-sale ticket after the first 100 were sold. Presale tickets will be available through today at the end of school. The CIF receives all proceedsfrom ti cket sales at the gate.

The gates to the stadium open at 5:30 p.m. Ticket pricesare $12 for adults and $8 for high school students with valid ASB card, seniors 65-plus and children.Parking in thePG&E lot will be $5.

Following the game, fans will not be allowed on the field until the conclusion of the awards presentation.

The temperature will be around 39 degrees at kickoff with a 25 percent chance of rain according to weather.corn. The mountain air may be brisk and the concrete bleachers probably chilly. But that's all part of Sonora's home fi eld advantage. That and a large, passionate home crowd.

"It's hard to come here and play. It's a different kind of s tadium," said Wildcat head coach Bryan Craig. "Weal have our band, a big crowd here and it's a long drive for them, so I'm tlnnking all of those things will work in our favor."

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Waterfowl more active with cooler temps Waterfowl hunters are beginning to see the action pick up as winter weather takes hold.

Last Wednesday, Dec. 2, Danny Layne, of Twain Harte, and Bob

722 feet. At the only launch ramp off Glory Hole Point, the Bureau of Reclamation continues to dump gravel and as the lake rises, this will be more hard packed, making launching easier.

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the blind before daylight, there seemed to be ducks everywhere.

When shooting time began they burned a lot of ammo trying to hit those fast flying targets but managed to bag limits by 11 a.m.

On Sunday, Dec. 6, Layne was out on Modesto Reservoir with Bill Caldera and brothers Chance and Colton Vines, all of Sonora.

Hunting from a floating blind they had a pretty good shoot, bagging a mix of drake pintails and mallards by 9:30

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Duck Harvest numbers via the California Department of Fish and Wildlife indicate greater numbers of birds moving into the Sacramento Valley. Last Saturday the Colusa Refugeposted a 5.91 birdsperhunter average; Delevan a 5.04; and Sacramento a 3.58. In the Los Banos Complex. North Frietas was high with 2.69 and San Luis, Volta, and Kesterson were close behind. The current weather pattern should start

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A new potential world record spotted bass has turned up at Lake Berryessa, caught last week by Paul Bailey. The big fish was weighed in at 11 pounds, 4 ounces on an uncertified scale.

The angler wanted to release the fish alive, so weighed it on three differentscalesbeforerelease.Thescales will now have to be certified and that information, along with photos, will be submitted to the IFGA to determine if it is a new record.

The Mother Lode Gun ClubJuthe lakehas dropped to 797 feet el- nior Trap Team is taking sign ups for evation, the second lowest since it was prospects age 10 up toeighth grade.

At New Melones Reservoir, the f il led.

For more information, call John drought has taken its toll. This year In 1 993 it reached an all-time low of Luckie at 533-2162 or 559-2078. more birds moving south.

SOCCER

US women beat Trinidad 6-0 at Alamodome SAN ANTONIO (AP)Christen Press scored three g oals after e ntering t h e game as a second-half substitute and the United States defeated Trinidad and Tobago 6-0 in an exhibition at the Alamodome onThursday night.

Carli Lloyd, Alex Morgan and Lindsey Horan also scored as the U.S. team continued its victory tour to celebrate the Women's World Cup victory in Canada this past summer.

Press first scored in the

61st minute, right after she came into the game. She also scored in the 75th and 84th minutes for her third career hat trick. Press also scored three goals in an 8-0 victory tour win over Costa Rica on

Aug. 17 in Pittsburgh.

The match capped a week of drama for both teams, who had been scheduled to play last Sunday in Hawaii.

It started last Friday when U.S. midfielder Megan Rapinoe tore a ligament in her right knee during training in Honolulu. Rapinoe will need

surgery for the injury, mean- were sold for the match. ing she won't be available for The players later issued Olympic qualifying in Febru- a statement on The Players' Tribune website.

"We have become so accusOn Saturday, the U.S. practice at Aloha Stadium tomed to playing on whatwas cut short and players ever surface is put in front complained about the condi- of us. But we need to realize tion of the playing surface. that our protection — our Goalkeeper Hope Solo posted safety— ispriority No. 1.At a photo to Twitter showing a the end of the day, we expect player pulling up a seam in to betreated equally as our the artificial turf. male counterparts. And we U.S. Soccer canceled the hope that, in the future, our match later that night and fields and our venues will be saiditw ould provide fans re- chosen and inspected at the funds. About 16,000 tickets standard of an international

match — whether it's men or women playing on the field," the players wrote.

A class-action lawsuit on behalf of fans who were planning to attend the game was filed on Tuesday in Honolulu.

The Trinidad and Tobago players, meanwhile, threatened to boycott Thursday's match in San Antonio because of a dispute over pay.

The United States plays China in the final two games of the tour. The first match is set for Sunday in Glendale, Arizona.

CLIFTON Continued from PageCl to know and that it needed to come from me. I know a lot of rumors get out there and I just wanted to make sure they understood. They deserve that. They knew that with me missing that something was wrong. They knew already.

I'm very comfortable with the sta6' I have and I know the kids are in good hands."

The news floored his players.

"Sometimes life slaps you in the face and it really woke us all up," said senior Dylan Byrd. "It made us all realize how fragile we actually are.

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While Kraig steps away from the hardwood, his father jumped in head first. Coaching is nothing new for Dale, who began his coaching career in 1961.

There is nothing more difficult for a parent than to see their child suffer, and knowing there is nothing they can do to relieve the pain. For Dale, being involved in the Calaverasbasketballprogram has helped him cope with what is a parent's worst nightmare.

"I'm just really trying to stay positive and take everybody's prayers to help him pull through this," Dale said. "Just being in his program is helping me stay a little stronger.

We have to be strong for his family, his kids, because it's going to be a long battle. But, we believe in miracles and we believe it's going to happen. He' s just a tough, tough kid. He' s a tough athlete and he never quit on anybody or anything and he's not going to quit on this."

Though Kraig is no longer the Redskins head coach, he still spends time thinking about plays, situations and upcoming games. And then, reality sets in.

"I'm still at the point where I am still ~ g abo u t the team at night," Kraig said.

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Calaveras coach Dale Clifton leads a Redskin huddle Thursday during the first round of the Bret Harte Tournament in Angels Camp. Clifton recently took over head coaching duties after his son Kraig was forced to step down.

"I' ve lived my entire fe li being competitive. But, this is on a much larger scale and is a completely diferent ballgame. With all the support, I' vegot my team behind me.I call them my army. We are going to get more details tomorrow (today) and then we aregoing to dive right into it and do what we have to do."

— Kraig Clifton, Calaveras Redskins basketball coach and Sonora High graduate

What are things we still need toputintogetourselvesready for league? But, to be honest, with what I'm facing now is a lot more important. It's taken

tribute to their beloved coach on their wrist.

"We put KC.' on our tape just to remind us who we are playing for and that he's done

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knowing they are a connection of him, too. But, after tonight, you know I'm going to be right back there in that worry seat."

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t h i s p r ogram one-on-one battle, for Kraig,

On Thursday night, the and had such a big effect on there is no lack of support.

Redskins were warnmg up to our lives," Byrd said. "It's to From family, friend, sports play the Lincoln Zebras in the remind us that this game is teams, and random communifirst round of the Bret Harte a privilege to play and there ty members, the outpouring of Tournament. Minutes before are much bigger things in life loveand support forKraig has tip-off, Kraig, accompanied by than basketball." been non-stop and will continhis wife and children, entered While Dale uses practices ue until he comes out on top.

"I can't even explain how the gymnasium to watch his and games as a distraction to Redskins. He took a seat two what is going on in the life of blown away I am," Kraig said. rows behind the Calaveras his son, distractions can only "I'm receiving phone calls bench, and quickly turned on last so long. But for the time from people I haven't heard coach-mode. being, any distraction is a wel- from or seen in years. People He clapped when his play- comed moment of relief. that Isee every day are giv"Sports is a d i straction, ing me hugs and good wishes. ers succeeded, and groaned when they failed. He could but after it's all over, you still I can't even explain it. I can' t even be heard arguing with have to put things in perspec- say I didn't expect it, but you what foul was and wasn' t tive," Dale said. "Sports helps. just don't ever think that this called.

It really does. And I feel good is going to happen. So, I didn' t Every player had a small just being there with the team know what to expect. It does

make me feel good and it is inspiring at the same time. I do appreciate everybody."

From his time as an athlete, to his years as a coach, Kraig has only wanted to win. He knows what it takes to win and the effort and dedication that goes into becoming a winner. Now, in the challenge of his life, Kraig will once again try to prove he has what it takes to be a winner.

"I' ve lived my entire life being competitive," Kraig said.

"But, this is on a much larger scale and is a completely different ballgame. With all the support, I' ve got my team behind me. I call them my army.

W e aregoing to getmore details tomorrow (today) and then we are going to dive right into it and do what we have to do."

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Walton-Iguodala bond important for Golden State

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lastseason, moved up to replace former No. 1 Alvin Gentry this summer when Gentry took over the New Luke Walton hasn't changed, not Or leans Pelicans, then was handed i n the spotlight, not after 23 con- t h e interim role indefinitely while The San Jose Mercury News

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ment he moved one seat and tions after multiple back surtook over as the Warriors' ingeries. terim coach in late-October.

Now Walton is guiding the Walton hasn't changed now defending champions, off to one that he's temporarily replacing of the greatest starts in AmeriSteve Kerr — Walton is the same can sports history, and Iguodala, 31, d roll, level-headed, friendly, wise- i s one of his most important players, c racking guy he has always been. c omrades and team barometers.

"Both (Walton and Iguodala) have How do we know for sure?

Because if Walton had changed hi gh basketball IQs," said Warriors o ne fraction, if he had suddenly a s sistant Bruce Fraser, who played t urned into a frantic control freak, a t Arizona with Kerr. "They both W alton would have heard about it h a ve really good feel for the game f rom his old friend and former Ari- a n d alsofor people. They're both zonateammate Andre Iguodala,the ve ry aware of spaces on the floor, off Warriors' invaluable role player and th e floor, people they see.

"If they walk in a room, they both 2015 NBA Finals MVP. Would haveheard &om Iguodala see everything. So that awareness first and piercingly. allows them to be great on the floor "Absolutely," Walton said recently, they see the same things." laughing."Yeah. I mean, you know This is still Kerr's team, built on you' re getting whatever's on Andre's hi s values and his sensibility, and nllnd.

Walton is a direction extension of "He's been like that, too, since he th at. was 18 ... He's been like that since But with Walton in charge for I ' ve known him, and I respect him n o w, maybe there's a slightly differfor it. It's a rare quality for someone en t tone to it. to always be honest with people."

The upbeat, imaginative Kerr, a That's just one part of the unique fo rmer deep-shootingguard,largely bond between Walton and Iguodala, co aches and views the team through who were teammates at Arizona for th e incandescent play of Stephen one season — 2001-02, when Iguoda- Cu rry, the serene superstar point la was a freshman and Walton was gu ard scorer. an All-American senior forward.

From the startof last season, Then the pair reunited last sea- Curry has taken the Kerr plan into s on when Kerr — a proud Arizona i ncredible heights this season.

But Walton, the wry, contemplaproductfrom an earlier vintagew as hired as Warriors coach and t i v e son of ebullient Hall of Famer gave Walton his first full-time side- Bi 'll Walton, in many ways coaches l ine job soon after Walton's retire- a n d views the game through the ment as a player. pl ay of Iguodala, a subtle, do-it-all, Walton was the No. 3 assistant se mi-reluctant shooter who prides

himself on quietly connecting with teammates on the floor and in the locker room.

"I feel, even though it's playercoach with Andre, that our friendship is bigger than that," Walton said. "I feel comfortable talking to him about anything. I think he probablyfeelsthe same.

"So he might call me with stuff that he wouldn't normally call another coach with. And I have no problem reaching out to him and asking his advice on what he sees, what's going on with the team right now, &om his perspective what he thinks we should work on or address."

Walton, 35, calls Iguodala his "security blanket" on the floor; Fraser jokes that every time Walton's assistants tell the coach that Iguodala's minutes are piling up and he should come out soon, Walton says "not yet."

Iguodala,of course, helped save the Warriors against Cleveland in the Finals — when he was switched back into the starting lineup to defend LeBron James — and he remains the connective material to everything in this Warriors machine.

He's also the most accomplished, respected veteran on the Warriors' roster,with a 2012 Olympic gold m edal to prove it.

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that Walton was in some ways his liaison to Iguodala, and saluted that long friendship, which goes back to their Tucson days matching up against each other in practice under

the watch of legendary coach Lute Olson.

As a freshman, Iguodala says he didn't talk to Walton much back then, but he saw that people liked being around the senior.

"Just quiet, reserved, really mature — just knew how to have a good time," Iguodala said of Walton.

"A real good dude.

'You kind of sensed that he was a guy who you could trust and somebody who would always be there for you."

Iguodala watched Walton play, always pass-first, always trying to set up his teammates and filling in where he was needed.

And Iguodala thought: I want to play like Walton is playing.

"That'skind ofhow my game developed, asfarasbeing able topass the ball, being able to read everything, being kind of the brains on the floor," Iguodala said.

"I don't know if he realized it or not, but I learned all that pretty much from him ... I just watched and I saw how effective he was on the floor, without being athletic.

"And I felt like I could do the same things, plus my athleticism would take ittoanother level."

Walton said he had no idea Iguodala felt that way back then, but now says he's obviously flattered and always was impressed by Iguodala, even when he was a teenager.

"He was a phenomenal basketball player," Walton said. "And I'm not even sure he realized how good he was ...

"I kind of came to the conclusion quickly that either I wasn't very good or this 18-year-old kid is going to be a star one day. It was probably a little bit of both."

They stayed in touch aAer Walton left for the NBA, then Iguodala landed with the Philadelphia 76ers (alongside Allen Iverson) and Walton won titles with the Los Angeles Lakers (as a role player behind Kobe Bryant).

And now they' re back together, in the middle of this potentially historic season.

Walton's bond with Iguodala was a key part of Kerr's staff winning the trust of the entire team, Fraser

notes, and Iguodala's acceptance of the decision to move him out of the starting lineup was symbolic of everything the Warriors believed and accomplished.

Now, Iguodala says moving to the bench was no big deal. But he adds that some Warriors players asked him about Walton before last season, and his answers were clear.

"It was simple — 'Luke's a good guy, just wait 'til you meet him,' "Iguodala said.

"It's kind of hard to explain it all because he's so quiet, he's reserved.

But more like family to me."

Why are things working so well for Walton and the Warriors this season?

Partly because Walton is the kind of person and coach who can have such a closetie to somebody as smart and circumspect as Iguodala.

"You always wonder how a coach's demeanor will be going from assistant to head coach," Iguodala said recently. "They can kind of change, the personality, and you don't know how that will affect the team or how they see him.

"But (Walton) stayed the same.

He's been consistent. And I think that's what helped him most and what's helped us most.

"Because he stayed who he is and he hasn't let it go to his head and we' re just rolling with him."

Twenty three games into this, the Warriors are missing Steve Kerr, but have zero losses, and they have Luke Walton, with Andre Iguodala right there beside him.

Rondo'sdunk helps lead Sacramento past New York SACRAMENTO (AP) Rajon Rondo had 16 points, 12 assists and a jawd ropping dunk in t h e fourth quarter that led the Sacramento Kings to a 99-97 victory over the New York Knicks on Thursday night.

Rondo added nine rebounds to finish just shy of his fifth tripledouble of the season.

DeMarcus Cousins had 27

points and 11 rebounds for New York trailed by 19 the Kings, who have just their beforemaking itclose in the second winning streak of fourth quarter. Rookie Krithe season. Sacramento staps Porzingis' three-point also won three in a row play cut Sacramento's lead to in November. three points late in the period.

Carmelo Anthony had The Kings then cleared it 23 points and 14 rebounds but out for Rondo, who burst past missed a potential game-win- JoseCalderon and went fl ying ning 3-pointer at the buzzer in for the one-hand slam with for the Knicks, who have lost Anthony only able to watch. four straight and eight of the But the Knicks did not go past 10 games. away, cutting the lead back to

two on Anthony's drive with 8.6 seconds to play. Darren Collison then lost the ball on the inbound pass with 4.6 seconds to play, but Anthony missed from near midcourt with the shot that would have won it.

Rondo helped Sacramento build a 19-point lead midway through the third quarter with a few highlight-reel plays. He faked an around-

the-backpass before driving switch up his starting lineup past Porzingis for a layup and to sparkhisteam but decided then fed Cousins for a three- to stick with his usual five. point play the next trip down It didn't matter. Sacramento put Sacramento up 70-51 to built an eight-point lead in on his 10th assist of the night. the fi rstquarter and expandOne night after losing by ed it to 15 midway through 21 in Utah in a game they the second when Cousins emonly led when it was 2-0, the phatically sent in a one-handKnicks started slowly again ed dunk over Robin Lopez. against t h e mo r e-rested But the Knicks managed to Kings. Coach Derek Fisher whittle the deficit down to 46had intimated that he might 39 at the break.

SCORES & MORE Hockey National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division G P W L O T R sGF GA Montreal 29 19 7 3 41 95 66 Detroit 28 15 8 5 35 73 72 Ottawa 28 15 8 5 35 90 83 Boston 27 15 9 3 33 88 76 Florida 2 8 13 11 4 3 0 71 70 Tampa Bay 2 8 13 12 3 2 9 66 65 Buffalo 2 8 11 14 3 2 5 67 78 Toronto 2 8 10 13 5 2 5 64 76 Mebepolitan Division G P W L OT R s GF GA Washington 26 1 9 5 2 82 57 N.Y. Rangers 2 9 1 8 8 3 39 81 60 N.Y. Islanders 29 1 6 8 5 37 82 70 Pittsburgh 27 15 1 0 2 32 65 64 N ewJersey 28 1 4 1 0 4 3 2 71 69 P hiladelphia 2 8 1 1 1 1 6 2 8 57 78 Carolina 2 8 10 14 4 2 4 64 87 C olumbus 29 11 1 6 2 2 4 68 84 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division G P W L O T R sGF GA Dallas 28 21 5 2 44 9 9 7 5 St. Louis 28 16 8 4 36 7 2 6 8 Chicago 28 15 9 4 34 78 70 Minnesota 26 14 7 5 33 70 64 Nashville 28 14 9 5 33 73 75 Winnipeg 2 8 13 13 2 2 8 76 85 Colorado 2 9 12 16 1 2 5 79 85 Pacilic Division GP W L O T PtsGF GA Los Angeles 2 7 1 8 8 1 37 7 1 5 7 V ancouver 30 11 1 1 8 3 0 79 82 San Jose 28 14 1 3 1 29 75 76 Arizona 2 8 13 14 1 2 7 75 89 A naheim 28 11 12 5 27 5 5 6 8 Edmonton 29 12 1 5 2 26 7 5 8 5 Calgary 2 7 11 14 2 2 4 69 96 NOTE: Two points for a win, onepoint for overtime loss.

Thursday's games Montreal at Detroit, 4:30 p.m.

Ottawa at Tampa Bay, 4:30 p.m.

Washington at Florida, 4:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at St. Louis, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Nashville, 5 p.m.

Columbus at Winnipeg, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Calgary, 6 p.m.

Today's games Detroit at New Jersey, 4 p.m.

Los Angeles at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m.

Winnipeg at Chicago, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Arizona, 6 p.m.

N.Y.Rangers atEdmonton, 6:30p.m Carolina at Anaheim, 7 p.m.

Basketball National Basketball ssocialmn EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 14 9 .609 Boston New York 10 14 .41 7 4 ' / 2 Brooklyn 7 1 5 .31 8 8/2 Philadelphia 1 22 .04 3 13 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Charlotte 13 8 .619 Miami 12 8 .600 '/2 Atlanta 1 4 10 .58 3 '/~ Orlando 12 10 .5 4 5 1 ' / ~ Washington 9 1 1 A 50 3' / 2 Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland 14 7 .667 Indiana 12 8 .600 1' / 2 Chicago 12 8 .600 1' / 2 Detroit 12 1 1 .5 2 2 3 Milwaukee 9 1 4 .391 6 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 18 5 .783 Memphis 13 1 0 .5 6 5 5 Dallas 13 1 0 .5 6 5 5 Houston 11 1 2 .4 7 8 7 New Orleans 5 1 6 .2 3 8 12 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 14 8 .636

Utah Minnesota Portland Denver

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Thursday's games Brooklyn 100, Philadelphia 91 Chicago 83, LA Clippers 80 Oklahoma City 107, Atlanta 94 Sacramento 99, New York 97 Today's games Miami at Indiana, 4 p.m.

Detroit at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.

Cleveland at Orlando, 4 p.m.

MilwaukeeatToronto,4:30 p.m .

Golden State at Boston, 4:30 p.m.

Washington at New Orleans, 5 p.m.

Charlotte at Memphis, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Denver, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Utah, 6 p.m.

Portland at Phoenix, 6:30 p.m.

LA. Lakers at Ssn Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

KINGS 99, KNICKS 97

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SACRAMENTO (99) Casspi 4-1 0 3-6 11 Gay 4-1 6 1 1 10 Cousins 12253427, Rondo 7-101-1 16, McLemore 2 5 2-2 7, Belinelli 3-10 0-0 6, Koufos 3-5 0-0 6, Collison 7-1 2 2-2 16. Totals 42-93 12-1 699.

New York 16 23 26 32 — 97 Sacramento 24 22 30 23 — 99 3-PointGoals— N ew York 9-29 (Thomas 2-4, Calderon 2 5, Vujacic 2-6, Poriingis 1-2, Galloway 1-2, Anthony 1-3, Williams 0-1, Afflalo 0-6), Sacramento 3-1 6 (Rondo 1-2, McLemore 1-2, Gay 14, Cousins 0-2, Casspi 0-2, Collison 0-2, Belinelli 0-2). Fouled Out — None. ReboundsNew York 62 (Anthony 14), Sacramento 49 (Cousins 11). Assists —New York 17 (Anthony 4), Sacramento 24 (Rondo 12).Total Fouls —New York 22, Sacramento 20. Technicals — New York Coach Fisher, Koufos. A —1731 7 (17,317).

Golf Franldin Templeton Shootout Thursday, At ~ r l t on Resort rliburon Gcj Naples, Ra. Pume: $3.1 million; Yardage: 7~; Par. 72 Rrst Round Harris English & Matt Kuchar 58 Billy Horschel 5 Hunter M ahan 59 G raeme McDowell & Gary Woodland 59 Daniel Berger 5 Charley Hoffman 60 Cameron Tringale fk Camilo Villegas 60 J.B. Holmes 5 Patrick Reed 61 Jason Dufner & Brandt Snedeker 61 Charles Howell III 5 Rory Sabbatini 62 Retief Goosen 5 Danny Lee 63 Zach Johnson & Patrick Rodgers 64 Sean O'Hair tk Mike Weir 65 Kenny Perry & Steve Stiicker 65

Football National Rxrtbsll League American Confemnce East W L T P c t Pf Pa New England 10 2 0 . 8 33375 247 N.Y. Jets 7 5 0 . 5 83295 248 Buffalo 6 6 0 .5 0 0296 278 Miami 5 7 0 . 4 1 7240 300 South W L T P c t R Pa Indianapolis 6 6 0 . 5 0 259 0 %5 Houston 6 6 0 . 5 0 253 0 264 Jacksonville 4 8 0 .3 3 3275 341 Tennessee 3 9 0 . 2 5 245 0 296 North W L T P c t Pf Pa Cincinnati 10 2 0 . 8 33334 196 Pittsburgh 6 5 0 .5 4 5266 230 Baltimore 4 8 0 .3 3 3272 291 Cleveland 2 10 0 .167 216 347 West

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W L T Pct Pf Ps 10 2 0 . 833 269 210 7 5 0 . 5 83 321 240 5 7 3 9

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5 7 0 . 4 17 257 286 5 7 0 . 4 17 278 302 5 7 0 . 417 307 296 4 8 0 . 333 223 277 South W L T Pct Pf Ps 11 0 0 1 .000332 205 6 6 0 . 5 00271 298 6 6 0 . 5 00 279 257 4 7 0 . 3 64 261 339 Norlh W L T Pct Pf Ps 8 4 0 . 6 67289 238 8 5 0 . 6 30258 255 5 7 0 . 4 17 251 290 4 8 0 . 333 253 315 West W L T Pct Pf Ps 11 2 0 . 8 65405 252 7 5 0 . 5 83305 229 4 8 0 . 3 33189 257 4 8 0 .33 3 178 291

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Seattle St. Louis San Franc|sco x-clinched division Thursday's game Arizona 23, Minnesota 20

Sunday's games

Detroit at St. Louis, 10 a.m.

San Diego at Kansas City, 10 am.

Washington at Chicago, 10 a.m.

Buffalo at Philadelphia, 10 a.m.

Ssn Franci sco stCleveland,10B.m .

New Orleans st Tampa Bay, 10 a.m.

Tennessee at N.Y. Jets, 10 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 10 a.m.

Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 10 a.m.

Atlanta at Carolina, 10 a.m.

Seattle at Baltimore, 10 a.m.

Oakland at Denver, 1:05 p.m.

Dallas at Green Bay, 1:25 p.m.

New EnglandatHouston,5:30p.m.

Monday's Game N.Y. Giants at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

NCAA 201 5-16 Bowl Glance Satunhy, Dec. 19 Celebration Bawl Atlanta Nc A&T (9-2) vs. Alcom State (9-3), 9 a.m.

New Mexico Bowl Albuquerque Arizona (64) vs. New Mexico (7-5), 11 a.m.

(ESPN)

les Vegas Bawl BYU (9-3) vs. Utah (9-3), 12:30 p.m. (ABC) Camelia Bawl Montgomery, Ah. Ohio (84) vs. Appalachian State (9-2), 2:30 p.m.

(ESPN)

Honolulu Cincinnati (7-5) vs. San Diego State (10-3), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 26 St. Petersburg (Ra.j Bowl Marshall (9-3) vs. Uconn (6-6), 8 a.m. (ESPN) Sun Bove El Paso, Texas Miami (84) va Washington State (S4), 11 a.m.

(CBS)

Heart of Dallas Bawl Washington (6-6) vs. Southern Mississippi (9-4), 12:20 p.m. (ESPN) Rnsbipe Bowl Ihenx, N.Y. Duke (7-5) vs. Indiana (6-6), 12:30 p.m. (ABC) Independence Bowl Shreveport, la.

Virginia Tech (6-6) vs. Tulsa (64), 2:45 p.m.

(ESPN) Fosler Farms Bcwvl Santa Clara

Nebraska (5 7)vs. UCLA (84), 615 pm. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 28 Military Bowl Annapolis, Md. Navy (9-2) vs. Pittsburgh (8-4), 11:30 a.m.

(ESPN) Quick lane Bowl Debwt Central Michigan (7-5) vs. Minnesota (5-7), 2 p.m. (ESPN2) Tuesday, Dec. 29 Armed Forces Bowl Fort Worth, Texas Air Force (8-5) vs. California (7-5), 11 a.m.

(ESPN) Russell Athletic Bowl Orlando, Ra. North Carolina (11-2) vs. Baylor (9-3j, 5:30 p.m.

(ESPNj Amma Bowl Tucson Nevada (66) vs. Colorado state g5), 430 p m.

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Texas Bowl Houston Texas Tech (7-5) vs. LSU (8-3), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 30 Birmingham (Ah.j Bowl

Auburn (6-6) vs. Memphis (9-3), 9 a.m. (ESPN)

Mk Bowl Charlatte, N.C. NC State (7-5) vs. Mississippi St. (8-4), 12:30

p.m. (ESPN)

Music City Bowl Nashville, Tenn.

Louisville (7-5) vs. Texas A&M &L), 4 p.m.

(ESP N)

Holiday Bowl San Diego Wisconsin (9-3) vs. Southern Cal (8-5), 7:30 p.m. (ESPNj Thursday, Dec. 31 Peach Bawl Athnts

Cure Bowl Orhndo, Ra. san Jose state (5-7) vs. Georgia state (6-6), 4

Houston o 2-1 j vs. Florida state (10-2), 9 a.m.

(ESPN) Orange Bowl (Rsyolf Semilinslj Miami Gardens, Ra.

New Orleans Bowl Louisiana Tech (8-4) vs. Arkansas State (8-3), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 21 Miami Beach Bowl

Alabama u2-1) vs. Michigan state u2-1), 5 p.m. (ESPNj

p.m. (CsssN)

clemson o3-0) vs. oklahoma o1-1), 1 p.m.

(ESPN) Cotton Bowl Qassic (Playoff Semilinal) Arlington, Texas

South Florida (8-4) vs. Western Kentucky (11FMsy, Jan. 1 Outback Bowl 2), 11:30 a.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Dec. 22 Tampa, Ra. Famous Idaho Potato Bawl Northwestern (102) vs. Tennessee (84), 9 a m.

Boise (ESPN2) Akron (7-5) vs. Utah State (6-6), 12:30 p.m.

Gtrus Bowl Orlando, Ra. (ESPN) Boca Rston (Rs. j Bowl Michigan (9-3) vs. Florida o 0-3), 10 a.m. (ABC) Temple oo-3) vs. Toledo (9-2),4 p.m. (EspN) Fiesta Bowl Wednesday, Dec.23 Glendale, Ariz.

Poinsetlia Bowl Notre Dame (10-2) vs. ohio state (11u, 10 San Diego a.m. (ESPN) Northern Illinois (8-5) vs. Boise State (84), 1:30 Rose Bowl p.m. (ESPN) Pasadena Gooaddy Bowl Iowa o2-1) vs. stanford (11-2), 2 p.m. (EspN) Mobile, Ala. Sugar Bawl New Orleans Bowling Green oo-3) vs. Georgia southern (8-3), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Oklahoma State (10-2) vs. Mississippi (9-3), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 24 Bahamas Bowl Saturday, Jan. 2 TaxS layer Bowl Nassau M iddle Tennessee (7-5)vs.Western Michigan Jacksonville, Ra. Penn St. (75) vs. Georgia (93), 9 am. (ESPN) (7-5), 9 a.m. (ESPN) HawaI Bowl Liberly Bowl

Memphis, Tenn.

Kansas St. (6-6) vs. Arkansas (7-5), 12:20 p.m.

(ESPN)

Alamo Bowl San Antonio

Oregon (9-3) vs. TCU(10-2), 3:45 p.m. (ESPN) Cactus Bawl Phoenix West Virginia (7-5) vs. Arizona State (&6), 7:15 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 11 College Football Championship Game Glendale, Ariz.

Orange Bowl winner vs. Cotton Bowl winner, 5:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Transactions Baseball American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Claimed LHP Edgar

olmos off waivers from the chicago cubs.

Designated OF Junior Lake for assignment.

BosTQN RED sox — Traded INF-QF Garin

Cecchini to Milwaukee for cash considerations.

LOS ANGELESANGELS —Agreedto terms with OF Craig Gentry on a one-year contract.

TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms with OF James Jones on a minor league contract.

Acquired RHP Myles Jaye from the Chicago White Sox for LHP Will Lamb.

National League COLORADO ROCKIES — Traded RHP Luis Perdomo to San Diego for 8 player to be named orcash considerations.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with RHP Juan Nicasio on a one-year contract.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Acquired OF Jabari slash from Oakland to complete an earlier trade.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Agreeedtoterms with RHP Jonathan Broxton on a two-year contract.

American Association LAREDO LEMURS — Signed RHP Troy Marks.

SIOUX FALLs CANARIES — Released RHP Garrett Granitz, INF Tyler Shannon and LHP Chris Anderson.

WICHITA WINGNUTS — Released RHP Jason VanSkike and RHP ScottRichmond.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Signed LHP Nick Gonzalez.

Frontier League LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS — Signed RHP Justin D'Alessandro.

NORMAL CORNBELTERS — Signed 2B Santiago Chirino and RHP Cody Gappa to contract extensions.

WASHINGTON WILD THINGS — Traded OF C.J. Beatty and RHP Tim Giel to Sussex County (Can-Am) for OF Jamal Austin, OF Ryan Matthewsand a player to be named.

Traded RHp shane street to uncoln (AA) for RHP Sam Agnew-Wielandand RHP Chase Cunningham.

FOOTBALL National Foalball League BUFFALO BILLS — Signed LB AJ Tarpley from the practice sqaud. Placed LB Tony Steward on injured reserve.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed TE Gary Barnidge to8 contract extension.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed RB Mack Brown to the practice squad.

Canad|an Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Announced the retirement of QL Tommy Gsffiths. signed LB Kyle Knox.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Placed F Travis Zajac on injured reserve, retroactive to Dec. 3. Recalled F Joseph Blandisi from Albany

(AHL).

Amescan Hockey League SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Recalled D

cody corbett from Fort wayne (AHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer PHILADELPHIA UNION — Traded D Ethan white to New York city Fc for a 2017 fourthround Superoraft pick. Ddeclined contract

options on G zac MacMath, D steven vitosa, Ms Fred, Eric Bird, Danny Cruz and Jimmy M cLaughlin, andFsDzenan Catic,Conor Casey and Antoine Hoppenot.

COLLEGE

CALIFORNIA — Agreed to terms with football coach SonnyDykes on a contract extension.

PITTSBURGH — Signed football coach Pat Narduzzi to a contract extension through the 2021 season.

RUTGERS — Named Vince Okruch special teams coordinator.

SHAW — Announced the contract of football coach Robert Massey will not be renewed.

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565 E BALD MTN ROAD $369,000 TO LIVE WITHNATURESet on 2.51 acres, this home is DEVINE DESIGN!Located just above downtown Sonora in country living only mins to town! It has so much to offer Myers Hill with an amazing view! This homehas beenreincluding a 2 story, 3bd, 2 ba home, 3 stall pull barn, 20x30 modeled, stripped down to the studs, and lovingly rebuilt as insula tedshopw/220 8 woodstove,greenhouse,chicken a neutral canvas to makeyour own! It is bright & sunny &just coop+ more! Youhave to see this property to appreciate all under 3000sf w/ 5bd, 3ba & a 2 car garage! This is a special ithas!¹20152000 CBSEG 532-7400 property, call today. ¹20151856CBSEG532-7400

22022 THUNDERBOLT DRIVE $299,900 TURNKEY HOME ON4.96ACRES.Up and beyond a private gate. You will find this perfect 3br, 2ba mountain getaway or full time residence. Site built 630 SFattached two car garage plus 40' long storage unit with power room for boat and RV on or near the substantial asphalt and concrete driveway. 3 separate parcels create privacy adjacent to Twain Harte. Completely furnished. Just bring your toothbrush! ¹20151659 CMBL532-6993

-.- ~l 19381 HILLSDALE DRIVE $297,000 LOVELYNEIGHBORHOOD.This pristine single level home is located in the desirable MonoVillage neighborhood. Three roomy bedrooms two baths with a lovely yard. All level living. Close to town. ¹20151910CBTH586-5200

17227 KELLEHER COURT $289,000 RELAX & UNWINDThis is your golden opportunity! This home is located in a cul-de-sac near the Willow Springs Lake...Enjoy the views from the expansive deck! It has a great floor plan w/living rm, den, fun &spacious kitchen w/ island & pantry & 3bd & 2baths. Enjoy living in the Sierra Foothills near Twain Harte, Sonora 8 year-round recreation.

14330 EDGEMONT ACRES ROAD $284,900 FARMHOUSE ON1.2 ACRES! Convenient East Sonora location ready for your family andanimals. Formal dining and living rooms. Woodenpaneling in family room andmaster bedroom.

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55 BRADFORD AVE 19535 SOULSBYVILLE ROAD $239,000 $199,995 HISTORICVICTORIAN!The character flows through each LEVEL 2.28ACRES. 3 bedroom 1 bath with large basement. room with classic hardwood floors, large rooms with high 3 car carport. Fenced meadow in back of property. Great ceilings, and grand centerpiece fireplaces. Main home is 3 location. ¹20151967 CBTH586-5200 bed, 2 bath with bonus rooms or it can be divided into two units with a second kitchen upstairs. Separate apartment in the back. ¹20142119CBSEG532-7400

12800 HONEY LOCUST ¹5 $159,900 WELCOMEHOMEto this Bonanza model home in Sonora Hills. 2 bedrooms, 2 bath plus full den. Newexterior paint Private deck with outdoor built-in BBQ for entertaining. Front kitchen faces cul-de-sac. All appliances stay. ¹20151740 CBML532-6993

87 S ARBONA CIRCLE $247,900 MOVE-IN READY This home is located in a nice neighborhood near downtown Sonora and the high school. Its among other nice homes and has 2 levels of decking with great mt views. The home istwo levels with main level master, great room withaccessto thedeckand 2 bedrooms anda bath downstairs. Call for more info. ¹20151943CBSEG532-7400

625 TWILIGHT LANE $159,000 PRIME RESIDENTIALLOT INSUNRISE HILLS. This Unique property is nestled in a quiet cul-de-sac. It boasts fantastic views of Sonora; large lot has partially level building area with utilities. Perfect location to build your dream house!

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LOCAL PROPANE GAS COMPANY seeking full time SERVICE TECH with experience in plumbing and technical repairs including trouble shooting systems.

Position req's being on call for a week's duration at a time. Qualified candidates may drop or mail resumes to: 564 W. Stockton St. Sonora Ca. 95370 -or- fax same to (209) 532-4837 MIA'S IS NOW HIRING: Dishwashers & Bussers F/T 8 P/T. Exp. preferred. Apply at: 30040 Hwy. 108 in Cold Springs. (209) 965-4591 MOUNTAIN SPRINGS GOLF COURSE - P/T Cart/Range positionmust be able to work a.m. & eves., weekdays and some weekends.

Req's. valid D.L. & must be 18 yrs. of age. P/U job application in the Golf Shop at 17566 Lime Kiln Rd., Sonora.

PERSON TO TEACH novice, Mac CPU. to

sign up/enroll in e-bay selling programs. Hrly rate. Al Costa 532-0660

RN -RELIEF POSITION Supportive team seeking RN with excellent nursing and patient relations skills to provide relief part-time coverage in accredited eye surgery center. Exp in OR & Recovery preferred. No weekends; no on-call. Fax resume to 209-532-1687 or email to DesireeT©SonoraE eSur e .corn SALES ASSOCIATE F/T, for local retail store

Need a helping hand? to be responsible for all Check out the Call an Expert sales activities; inside 8 outside customer sersection in the Classifieds vice. Must have clean DMV. Send Resume to U.D. Box¹90391643 c/o The Union Democrat 84 S. Washington St. Sonora, CA 95370

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PARKING & BASE AREA ATTENDANT Performs necessary tasks to provide quality arrival, parking & base area exp for guests. Incls snow removal & janitorial work. Outgoing and welcoming personality req. P/T w/addi hrs during holidays. 18 yo+ Starts /N$10/hr. DOE SNOWSPORTS INSTRUCTORS-

Becomepart of an awesome team & share your enthusiasm for the sport you love! Teach skiing/ riding to children & adults. Intermed. skiing/ riding skills req. Learn teachings skills through series of training clinics. FT/PT, 16 yo.

Starts © $11/hr. DOE RETAIL ASSOCIATE & TECH /DEMO SHOP Sales Assoc. assists guests w/selection & sale of ski/ride specific gear. Techs req mech. & intermediate skiing/riding skill. Must be service oriented, have ability 8 desire to learn product details and have sport related knowledge.

FT/PT, 18 yo, Starts © $10.25/hr. DOE.

GUEST SERVICES ASSOCIATEAssistsguests in friendly & prof. manner answering questions, providing resort info & selecting skier/rider services to incl. tickets, lessons & rentals. Great job for individual that enjoys spending rec time skiing/riding. P/T w/ additional hrs during holidays. 16 yrs old.

Starts ©$10.25/hr. DOE. LINE COOKResponsiblefor food prep & cooking on main line & BBQ. Req proven exp that demonstrates strong cooking & plating skills. Enjoys working directly w/ guests & being part of a team. Safe food handling 8 prof. appearance req'd. FT/ PT,16 yo. Starting O $10.25/hr. DOE.

Details, apply and more opportunities: Dod eRid e.corn HRODod eRid e.corn (209) 536-5386 EOE.

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DEPUTY PROBATION OFFICER I ($19.55 - $23.76 /hr.) needed to provide supervision of juvenile and adult applicants for probation.

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SURGICAL INSTRUMENT TECH Surgical Instrument Tech with excellent attention to detail and infection control to join our supportive team.

Accredited eye surgery center with a superb reputation. F/T position w/ benefits. No weekends; no on-call. Please Fax resume to: (209) 532-1687 or email to: DesireeTOSonora ~gegur e .oom

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BLOOD BANK VOLUNTEERS NEEDED to serve cookies and juice to our donors. Call Deb at (209) 473-6471 for more information.

WATCH RESOURCES Share your knowledge of: fiber arts, cooking, fitness/wellness, ceramics, computers, or janitorial skills w/adults w/intellectual disabilities We train for F/T & P/T positions. You will make a difference in a person's life. Details at www.watchresources.or OR-(209)533-051 Ox105 WORLDMARK BY WYNDHAM is currently seeking motivated professionals to join our sales team. If you bring high energy, strong comm. skills, and a willingness to train, we can show you how to excel in this position.

Average annual income of $60k-$80k+. F/T position w/benefits, background check req'd. Please send resume to Amanda.Santiow n.corn

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W/WWTREATMENT PLANT OPERATOR OIT/I for CCWD$3687-$4940/month.

Driver's Lic. required; W/WW Treatment Operator Cert highly desirable. More info & application avail online at ~www.oowd.or Contact Stacey at 209.754.3015 with any questions.

Applications due by Dec. 18th at 4:00 p.m.

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THERAPYAIDEOT Outpatient Clinic Patient care w/admin duties. Medical exp preferred. Fax resume to 209-533-1611.

UD BOX REPLIES for accurate delivery, proper addressing is as follows: UD BOX¹ c/o The Union Democrat 84 S. Washington St. Sonora, CA 95370

WEATHER WATCHERS NEEDED 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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590- GarageSales

FARM ANIMALS and PETS 601- Household Pets 605 - PetSupply/Services 610 - PetsWanted 615 - Livestock

620- Feed/Tack 625 - Boarding aud Care 630 - Training/Lessons 635 - Pasture 640 - Farm Equipment

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TEMPORARY CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE THE UNION DEMOCRAT has an immediate opening for an entry level Customer Service Rep in our Circulation Department.

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Punctuality, good attendance and a professional attitude are mandatory. Full time temp position with benefits. Preemployment drug screen is required.

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515 Home Furnishings

550 Antiques/Collectibles

WOOD STOVEModel Warnock Hersey 1000-never used. $900.

Designer Rug; 8.5 x 11 100% wool. Like new.

Beige. $900.

Brass & Glass End Tbl.$600. 310-869-3936 520 Home Appliances

ANTIQUE ROCKING CHAIRS - Good cond.

His & Hers. $175 ea. or $250 both. 532-1064

BISSELL CARPET CLEANER - Brand New. Never used. Ask $60.

Leave msg: 536-0459 REFRIGERATORS, Ranges, dishwasher + more! All New 50% off!

Direct Outlet, 238-3000 directappliance.corn 530 Sports/Recreation

lt is illegal under California law to transfer ownership of a firearm except through a licensed firearms dealer.

PRO FORM 950 ELLIPTICAL Trainer$99 Like Newi Works great! Call 586-6454 540 Crafts

555 Firewood/Heating ALMOND • DRY • 90% Split $275/cord. Free Delivery & Stackingl 209-622-6967

ALMOND SEASONED 2-yrs. 16-18« delivered Wood Stove Quality 852-9170 - ZWART'S SAL'S FIREWOOD «ALMOND-DRY • 16", $280/cord.

Free Delivery! 358-3697 SEASONED OAK $130 a Half Cord; Delivered! Call Bill at (209) 984-4666

SEASONED OAK $300/ CORD. Half cords also avail. PINE- $170/cord.

(209) 588-0857 565

Tools/Machinery

CRAFTSMAN LT2000 42" MOWER HD Deck, 17 hp Pro Kohler motor Gd cond. $350. ColumCANDLE MAKING class bia Cemetery 532-3396 /N Seven Sisters Soap ECHO CHAINSAW and Candle, Columbia.

16 in. Used. Works

Dec 11, 6-9 $35 pre-reg required. 536-9047 R/ e Do you have a collection, hobby, or unusual skill you would be willing to share with readers of The Union Democrat? Do you know someone who does?

If you live in our circulation area, we want to hear from you. Please call (209) 588-4535 or email features© uniondemocrat.corn

great. Asking $75.00 Call 532-1064

SEARS AIR COMPRESSOR 2 HP Good condition with air tools. $50. 768-1972 580 Miscellaneous ARMOIRE -WOOD-4TV MLCS Thrift Store Too 14705 Mono Way, MonSat. 10-5pm 536-9385 CHRISTMAS SWEATERS GALORE!!

Community Thrift Shop 797 W. Stockton Road Mon-Sat 10-5. 532-5280

Quick Cash Package • Advertise any item under $250 for only $8!

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(Private Party Customers Only)

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Founded in1989inSonora, Mountain Alarm isstill locally owned andfamily operated. With nearly 90yearsof combinedtechnical experience,the management andstaff isreadytoserveyou.

Throughout theyears,their goal hasremainedthe same, to workeven harderto ensure their customer'ssatisfaction andsafety. Whether youareinterested in asecurity or fire alarmsystem, medicalalarm, video surveillancesystem,intercomor newconstruction pre wire, onecall doesit all.

The Peoples Choice for alarm companies in Tuolumne County for 8 years running!

2f Best Alarm Company 2008-2015 2? State f certifiedlfactory trained technicians Zf A+ Better Business Bureau Rating Zf Celebrating our 26th year!

Zf Fully staffed local office Zf Provider to majority of loca/insurance firm Zf24/7365 technicalservice Zf No oneprotectsmorehom es& businessesinthecounty 21115 Longeway RcL Unit B, Sonora • Call (209) 532-9662 • www.mossntainaiarminc.corn

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532-9662 ACO¹3058 Boat Covers SEASPRAY AWNINGS & BOAT COVERS Custom awnings bimini tops & upholstery 533-4315 Lic¹981187

Computers & Service

Decks/Patios/Gazebos

Hauling

House Cleaning

Storage

Well Drilling

COMPUTER SICK? CALL Me! House Calls, PC Set

QUALITY INSTALLATION

Decks Concrete Windows

U-CALL - WE HAUL!

Up, Repair, Networking, & more. Mark 962-5629

694-8508 Lic.¹8493742

KATHY'8 CLEANING SERVICE-Residential & Comm'I. [Bonded/Ins'd] 209.928.5645

MOOREROOM.COM Quality Steel Sheds, Garages & RVports On Site Bid 984-3462

TANKO BROS., INC. Wells & Pumps 532-7797 Lic. ¹395633

Construction

Flooring

GENERAL ENGINEERING GENERAL BUILDING

Excavation/Grading Asphalt/Concrete Simunaci Construction Lic. ¹619757 532-8718

Chimney Sweep

Contractors

Winters Cleaning Svcs Chimney Sweep/ Repairs

SONORA CONSTRUCTION Remodels, additions & decks. 533-0185 ¹4012»

Certified & Insured

(209) 532-5700

Jim Brosnan Const.

HIGH SIERRA HARDWOODS Refinish/ Prefinish/ Showroom. 588-2779 14741 Mono. ¹887275 Hi s ierrahardwood.corn

Handyman HANDYMAN Small jobs O.K. No lic., 768-6315

Pine needles, brush, cleanup, chainsaw work (209) 586-9247

AA Brush Burning, Hauling, Weedeating, Pine Needles [no lic.]

770-1403 or 586-9635

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Yard Maintenance

Plumbing ANDERSON'S PLUMBING & DRAIN Quality plumbing, sewer drain cleaning. Modular specialist. 20 yrs. exp.

Lic.¹ 739224 536-9557

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Tile TRADITIONAL TILE A Family tradition since 1923. Granite/Tile/ Marble. Lic. ¹421264 Free est. Call 754-9003

THUMBS UP Would love to come &

help you w/your yard.

We offer basic yard care & more! City Lic., bonded, insured. [no iic] Free est. 536-1660

NOTICE TO READERS: California law requires that contractors taking jobs that total $500 or more (labor and/or materials) be licensed by the Contractors State License Board. State law also requires that contractors include their license numbers on all advertising. Check your contractor's status at www.cslb.ca.gov or 800-321-CSLB

(2752).Unlicensed persons taking jobs that total less than $500 must state in their advertisements that they are not licensed by the Contractors State License Board.

04 — Friday, December 11, 2015 580 Miscellaneous

615 Livestock

CHEVROLET '96 S10 2.2, runs, as is. Needs clutch work. $2200 or best offer. 586-9648

BUYING JUNK, Unwanted or wrecked

It's as simple as that!

FORD '95 3/4 TON Dump Bed, LANDSCAPERS TRUCK. $6,500. firm -ANDINTERNATIONAL'73 LoadMaster BOOM TRUCK, gas engine.

Good cond. $5,500.

Call 533-4716

701 - Automobiles 705 - 4 Wheel Drive 710 - Trucks 715 - Vans 720 - SUV's 725 -Antiques/Classics 730 - Misc. Auto 735 - Autos Wanted

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AERBUS'98 MOTOR HOME 29 ft. Wide Body Chevy Vortex eng.

47K mi, awnings, Dual A/C's, Onan Generator, All oak interior, exc condition. Tow Pkg. & brake buddy inch. $25,000 (209) 533-2731

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• CAMPER • LONG BED '88 Western 11 ft. A/C, generator, full kitchen, full bath/shower.

Good Condition. $2,850.00 Call Jim, (209) 559-5446

FORD '55 DODGE '07 DAKOTA SLT, 115k mi, showroom quality, clean title. $10,800 obo. 852-9912

Friday & Saturday 9a.m.- 3 p.m. Moving Sale! Something for everyone!!

JAMESTOWN 13030 Shotgun Creek Dr. off O'Byrnes Ferry Rd. Fri/Sat 9-4. New items, great gift ideas.

Sheets, pillows, jewelry.

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DODGE '08 NITRO 199k mi, great cond, new tires, brakes+ many xtras. $5,800 471-6812

COLUMBIA 23493 Gold Springs Dr.

GMC '04 YUKON DENALI - Sun Roof, leather, 8 seats, DVD, with towing pkg. $7,000 obo. Ph. (209)768-3655

CUSTOM LINE SHOW CAR: built on the TV show Fast & Loud, "Gas Monkey Garage" for Mark Cuban. 302 eng.

5spd manual, runs great! Must See! $28,500. 890-3291

'78 Aluminum-19 FT. 150 HP Merc with 7.5 HP Trolling Motor Lots of Extras!

Good Condition. $2,450.00 Call Jim, (209) 559-5446

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810 Boats

GULFSTREAM '08 CANYON TRAIL 26 ft. 5th wheel w/super-slide. Rear kitchen w/lots of counters/cabinets.

Bench style dinette.

Sleeps 6. Many extras. Like new. $18,500. 928-1532

20 Ft. 350 Chevy; New Interior, Rebuilt Outdrive, New tire/rims.

Excellent Condition!

Extras! $3950.00 VERY FAST...!

(209) 559-5446

'12 SPORT 19FT Merc 4.3 Ltr V6 Max HP 220-Immaculate!

Only 31 hrs! Incl's Bimini cvr, built-in ice chest, ski locker,

sound sys, new in 2013. $25,000. Call or text 770-2387

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Sell your Car, Truck, RV or boat for $1.00 per day!

4-lines/20 days.

If it doesn't sell, call us and we will run your ad for another 20 days at no charge.

820 Utility Trailers AMERICAN '99 HORSE TRAILER

SNOW TIRES AND SPIDERS- barely used.

Fits '12 Outback tires225/55/R17. Cost $1125 Ask $400. 352-2198 or bi hill irlome.corn

HONDA '04 CRV 4WD 185k miles, one owner.

Runs Great. $6,750.

(209) 288-8118

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CHAPARRAL H20

730 Misc. Auto

CHOCOLAT LAB PUPS 2 males, 9wks, shots, AKC, Champions. Sacrifice-$500ea. 928-3413

4 slides, 6 pt. auto leveling, 4-season rating, dual a/c, double refrigerator, low mileage & great condition! $58,000.

(209) 694-3982

Camper Shells

725

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SUNDANCE10 hrs. on rebuilt motor & outdrive.

New upholstery. Full kitchen & bath.

Sleeps 6-lots of xtras.

Excellent Condition! $6,500.

(209) 559-5446 STARCRAFT

BAYLINER '88

Antiques/Classics

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MONTANA '13 BIG SKY 3402 RL

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orig. owner, exc. cond.

Power windows/ locks, newer tires, 28-34 mpg.

All new timing belt, H20 pump, rotors & brakes. $3,900. obo 532-7038 MERCEDES '87 Clean, loaded! Forced to sale. Make offer.

209-962-0333

810 Boats

805 RVs/Travel Trailers

It works!

HONDA '01 ACCORD Silver, 211k mi, 5spd,

A $2,000 GRAND

Call Classifieds At 588-4515

Very well taken care of. Very Cleanalways garaged.

Removable windshield. Runs like new!! $3,850. OBO Call (209) 768-3413

CONSIGNMENTS WANTED! Looking for a professional to sell your car at no charge?

WE ALSO BUY CARS! Call us today! 533-8777 CORVETTE '04 6-SPD Convertible, Like New! Rare color. Must see!! $19,000. (209)785-3638 FORD '03 TAURUS New brakes and tires.

Runs good. $2,000.

OBO 989-2331

Sell any item for $250 or less for just $8.00

YAMAHA '01 VSTAR 1100 Excellent Bike.

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588-4515

JAYCO '02 EAGLE 5th Wheel, 31 ft.

2-slideouts. Central Heat & Air. Sleeps 4, Queen bed, Irg. tub & shower. Microwave, 3-way fridge/freezer.

Good condition! $11,500 obo (209) 770-5287

RELIANCE BOXES Gravel Truck 425 Cat / Retarder 13-Speed, Good Condition. $20,000. OBO (209) 532-1126

701 Automobiles

LAGUNA '80 REFURBISHED 24' SAILBOAT w/Galley, 3 sails, new carpet, table, toilet, 4 life jackets, generator and 3 coats bottom paint. Trailer: sandblasted & painted; new bearings, wench, lights/wiring. $2,950 obo 962-0445

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SUZUKI '07 BURG MAN Like new 400CC scooter. New battery, tires 8 drive belt.

35,000 miles.

Asking $2,200 obo Call: 209-694-3161

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801 - Motorcyctes 805 - RV's/Travel Trailers 810 - Boats 815 - Camper Shells 820 - Utility Trailers 825 - Leasing/Rentals 830 - Heavy Equipment 835 - Parts/Accessories 840 - Airplanes

TRAILER-24 FT Customizedenclosed. Locking cabinets, winch, pwr converter, kill switch, elec landing gear, & new tires. Used only 8X! Always garaged.

15,000 obo (209) 533-2035

801 Motorcycles

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CATEGORY 701-840

810 Boats

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For merchandise under $100Call The Union Democrat Classified Advertising Dept. at 588-4515

805 RVs/Travel Trailers

735 Autos Wanted

710

Trucks

AGH HOGS FOR SALE A Heritage Breed Hog. 2 Litters. $125 ea. Parents on site. 768-9950

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PUBLIC NOTICE

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT TUOLUMNE COUNTY CLERK 2 S. GREEN ST. SONORA, CA 95370 (209) 533-5573 FILE NO. 2015000414 Date: 11/24/2015 08:38A DEBORAH BAUTISTA, CLERK 8 AUDITORCONTROLLER The following Person(s) is (are) doing business as: Fictitious Business Name (s): A) MOB MIX, LLC B) MOBILE MIXOLOG I ST C) MOBILE-MIXOLOGIST. COM Street address of principal place of business: 3400 Sullivan Court, ¹203 Modesto, CA 95356 Name of Registrant: Mob Mix, LLC Residence Address: 3400 Sullivan Court, ¹203 Modesto, CA 95356 Articles of Incorporation¹ 201530610155 CA The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 10/29/2015 This Business is conducted by: limited liability company.

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).)

Mob Mix, LLC s/ David Eclevia Manager 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.

This filing does not of itself authorize the use of this name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state or common law. (B & P Code 14411 et seq.)

CERTIFICATION: I hereby certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of the original on file in my office.

DEBORAH BAUTISTA, County Clerk & Auditor-Controller, By: Karen Gray, Deputy Publication Dates: December 11, 18, 25 & January 1, 2016The Union Democrat, Sonora, CA 95370

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Find your Future Home in The Union Democrat Classifieds TRAFFIC ENCROACHMENT NOTICE

Due to tree work in front of the Tuolumne Co. Probation Dept. at 465 S. Washington St., the northbound lane of Washington St. will be reduced to 1 lane at this location on Dec. 15, 2015 from 8:00 am4:30 pm. Alternative routes may be advised.

Publication Date: December 11, 2015 The Union Democrat, Sonora, CA 95370

Public Notice of Provisional Appointment (Pursuant to Education Code tJ5091 and li5092) NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN that a vacancy on the Curtis Creek Elementary School District Governing Board has occurred because of the resignation of a board member during the term of his or her office, due to moving out of district.

The resignation was filed at the Tuolumne County Superintendent of Schools on October 30, 2015 with the deferred effective date of November 10, 2015.

On December 8, 2015, the CURTIS CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT GOVERNING BOARD made the provisional appointment of Melissa Knobloch to fill the

above-mentioned vacancy.

Those requesting a special election must file a petition with the Tuolumne County Superintendent of Schools within 30 days of the provisional appointment. If no petition is filed within 30 days of the Board's provisional appointment, the appointment shall become effective.

Any petition for a special election must contain the following number of signatures: If there were more than 2,000 registered voters at the last regular election for governing board members in the district, then:

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If there were less than 2,000 registered voters at the last regular election for governing board members in the district, then:

The petition for a special election must be signed by at least five (5) percent of the number of registered voters of the District at the time of the last regular election for governing board members.

Dated: December 9, 2015 Michael Holland, Clerk Curtis Creek Elementary School District Governing Board Publication Date: December 11, 2015 The Union Democrat, Sonora, CA 95370

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cerned that a loved one has expressed

a desire to commit suicide. Depending on the circumstances, what's so terrible about that?

When you have lived a full life and are in failing health, ending your life cumstances is to consider the benefits of certainl y seems to be a reasonable conallowing caring people into your world sideration for many. You know you are when coping with serious health issues. not going to get better, so why not end Feeling the love, and letting others lift your life in the most humane way you your spirits when you may not have the can desig n foryourself? energyto do so yourselfis extremely Dying is the last thing we do, so we valuable to recovery.— THE MORE may as well make it easy on ourselves.

I'm 81yearsold,havebeen married for THE MERRIER DEAR MORE: No one expects a 50 years, have two dozen grandchilseriously ill person to look great, dren and great-grandchildren, am in have aspotless home and bring re- fair health and live comfortably. Should keshments as if you are hosting a those circumstances change for the lighthearted get-together. You are worse, I know how to end my life sucwise to see that friends and fam- cessfully.— BUT NOT JUST YET ily simply want to spend time with DEAR NOT JUST YET: There you and provide support. We wish are already laws in place in three you and your husband complete states that permit the terminally ill recoveries. to hasten their deaths. If one is not DEAR ANNIE: Every so often, you expected to live much longer, and print a letter &om someone who is con- what's left is mostly painful, we

agreethat the person should have some control over his or her death.

But too many people decide on suicide because they are depressed. They aren't in poor physical health. They aren't terminally ilL They are in psychological pain and don't believe life will ever improve. Laws must distinguish between those who might be helped through counseling or medication, and those whose doctors concur that, medically, there is no future beyond a few months. Anyone who would like additional information can contact Death With Dignity (deathwithdignity.org).

Annie'sMailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime ed-

itors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@creators.corn, or write to: Annie's

Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

Youcan alsof/ndAnnieon Faeebook at Facebook.corn/AskAnnies.

Value of vitamin D in disease prevention questioned DEAR DR. ROACH: Please give your take on the importance of vitamin D. There's been a lot of research in the past 15to 20 years.I have read that

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it greatlyreduces cancer Ask for most

types of cancer and that it activates anti-infection genes and anti-autoimmune Keith Roach, M.D. disordergenes and reduces the rate of Alzheimer's disease.

I also have heard that the dose needs to be high enough to get to the middle of cific circumstances, especially in bone the "normal" range, and that for adults health, where inadequate vitamin D is thismeans adoseof5,000to 7,000 IU. associatedwith a greater risk ofosteoConsidering the above, it really an- porosis and fracture. And although the noys me that the major organizations studies do show that people with higher fail to publicize prevention information. levels of vitamin D are less likely to dePerhaps they have too much invested in velop some cancers, especially in the coexpensive cure research and thus a fi- lon,a study published in October 2015 nancial incentive not to emphasize pre- found that vitamin D did not prevent vention.— J.M. the development of polyps.

ANSWER: I have seen many proLarge trials are ongoing. They will posedpreventive treatments for cancer give us much more information within a fail when they get tested in large trials. few years. Until then, I remain cautious I am thus cautious not to overstate the

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Seeing friends, family trumps a clean house DEAR ANNIE: I am writing in response to "Anonymous," who is undergoing chemotherapy and thinks people who want to visit are expecting too much of her to put on makeup, clean her house and shop for refreshments.

Recently, both my husband and I were diagnosed with different forms of cancer. Family and friends visited, brought meals, phoned, emalled, texted and more. Typically, I would do all of the things Anonymous listed to welcome guests into our home, but it was too much. I determined that I preferred to welcome family and friends rather than push them away. So I might be in nightclothes with no makeup, with my bald head exposed in all its glory. I offeredbottled waterifIhad it.

Having the support and love of family and friends lifted us above and through the difhculties of our treatments and surgeries. My husband is in remission now, and I begin 33 rounds of radiation next week. My advice to those in our cir-

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about vitamin D and confident that the

benefits of promising small trials and major organizations wish to see more epidemiological data, such as the kind proof before making recommendations. you mention above. It is clear that vi- I rejectthe suggestion that research tamin D has significant benefits in spe- organizations are deliberately with-

holding information on a cancer cure or prevention for profit; I know too many dedicatedand honorable researchersto believe it.

The standard dose of vitamin D is 1,000 to 2,000 IU. Although 5,000 or even 7,000 is unlikely to cause harn, I wouldn't recommend a dose that high without cause.

DEAR DR. ROACH:I am a 64-yearold male. I had a stroke and lost vision in my right eye in 2005. I am righthanded. I had very high blood pressure at the time, and it's now under control with drugs. Since then, I can no longer wear polarized sunglasses. I have light-

lenses, then I have no problem. Thank you.—J.O. ANSWER: While everyone is unique, thisisacondition Ihaveheardofbefore.

In fact, I know people who deliberately watch television with one eye in order to enhance the 3-D effects. Polarized light does tend to accentuate lines and edges, so it doesn't surprise me that with your one working eye you have an accentuated 3-D sensation — your brain has learned to use cues that people with two working eyes might miss. In your case, the brain has interpreted things so strongly that you are having some optical illusions. sensitive eyes, but most over-the-counSadly, I don't have any practical adtersunglassesarepolarized. vice beyond finding nonpolarized lenses.

My ophthalmologist and other eye Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to special ists tellme they've never heard answer individual letters,but will inof my problem occurring. With polarized corporate them in the column whenever glasses on, I see in 3-D. Blue lines in the possible. Readersmay email questions roadway and sewer lids or any metal to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu coveringappear to be3-D tom e.Ihave orrequestan order form of available to be careful stepping over the handicap health newsletters at 628 Virginia Dr., space lines because they look like curbs. Orlando, FL 32803. Health newsletters Have you ever heard of this, or am may be ordered from www.rbmamall.

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IIORIICIIPE Birthday for December 11.Personal growth and expansion reaches new heights, with Saturn in your sign.

Prepare your home this spring for a social year (especially after Jupiter enters Libra on 9/9). Autumn eclipses bring a rise in professional status and domestic changes that require adaptation. Tend your garden with love.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):Today is a 7 — Begin a family, fun and passion phase.Complete one game and begin anew with this New Moon. A romantic relationship transforms. You have emotional support. Things fall together for you today and tomorrow. It's all for love.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):Today is a 7 — One domestic phaseclosesasanotherbeginsunderthis New Moon.

To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the Complete the past and invent new possibilities for your easiest day, 0 the most challenging. family. Adapt household infrastructure to suit. The next Aries (March 21-April 19):Today is an 8 — One door two daysare good form aking changes athome. closes as a new one opens in a professional adventure Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):Today is a 9 — A new phase with this New Moon in Capricorn. Begin a new career in your creativity rises with the New Moon. Focus on phase. Consider your actions before launching. Test communications, including research, broadcasting, writthoroughly before committing. An opportunity pulls your ing, recording and publishing. It's a time of intense learnheartstrings. ing, especially today and tomorrow. Begin a new stage.

Taurus (April 20-May 20):Today is a 7 — Go to the Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):Today is a 9 — A new source. Begin a new phase in your education, travels financial phase dawns with the New Moon. Letgo ofan and exploration with this New Moon. Your wanderlust old habit. A breakthrough allows for a new level of prosespecially tempts today and tomorrow. Do the homework perity. Put your back into your work, taking care around before committing funds. A romantic destination calls. sharp tools. Seize a lucrative opportunity.

Gemini (May 21 June 20):Today is an 8 — A turning Capricorn (Dec. 224an. 19):Today is a 9 — Begin a new personal phase with tonight's New Moon. Take adpoint arises regarding family finances with this New Moon. Together you' re more powerful. Carefully file vantage of energy and confidence to step into leadership. papers. Close (or open) an account. Focus on money Use your power for good. You' re taking control. Advance management today and tomorrow. Determine priorities to the next level. Keep your objective in mind. and strategies. Collaborate.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):Today is a 6 — Get into Cancer (June 214uly22):Today is a 9 — Begin a new thoughtful planning mode, especially over the next two phase in your partnership or relationship under this days. Transitions mark a new phase in your private plans New Moon. Realign your collaboration to new priorities. under the New Moon. Complete previous projects as you Support each other. Negotiate to refine the plan. Don't be prepare forwhat's next.M ake the changes you've been afraid if you don't know how. wanting.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20):Today is an 8 — Begin a Leo (July 23-Aug. 22):Today is an 8 — Begin a new service, work and health phase with tonight's New Moon. new phase in friendship, social networks and community It's especially busy for the next few days. With power with tonight's New Moon. A new stage dawns in a group comes responsibility. Listen to your heart. Believe in your endeavor. Set up meetings. Encourage your team. Particiown abilities. Take a creative tack. pate for a community cause, and widen your audience.

Today in history Today is Friday, Dec. 11, the 345th day of 2015. There are 20 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 11, 1844, the first experimental use of an inhaled anesthetic in dentistry took place as Dr. Horace Wells of Hartford, Connecticut, under the influence of nitrous oxide, had a colleague extract one of his teeth.

On this date: In 1928, police in Buenos Aires announced they had thwarted an attempt on the life of President-elect Herbert Hoover.

In 1936, Britain's King Edward Vill abdicated the throne so he could marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson; his brother, Prince Albert, became King George Vl. In 1941, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States; the U.S. responded in kind.

In 1972, Apollo 17's lunar module landed onthe moon with astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt aboard; during three extravehicular activities (EVAs), they became the last two men to date to step onto the lunar surface.

In 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed legislation creating a $1.6 billion environmental "superfund" to pay for cleaning up chemical spills and toxic waste dumps.

"Magnum P.l.," starring Tom Selleck, premiered on CBS. In 1994, leaders of 34 Western Hemisphere nations signed a free-trade declaration in Miami.

In 1997, more than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to control the Earth's greenhouse gases.

In 2008,Bernie Madoff was arrested, accused of running a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. (Madoff is serving a 150-year federal prison sentence.)

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The Rabbit ruffed, cashed his heart ace, played a heart to the queen, discarded a club on the spade ace, ruffed the third round of clubs in his hand, returned to the dummy with a trump, and discarded a diamond on the club eight — the only way to make the contract.

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