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On Monday May 18, 2009 United News Magazine opened it’s doors for a public open house. Hosted in part by The North Valley Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and The Luis Barrera Design Studio, the event was open to the public and it featured many writers and monthly contributors of the publication. The event marks the first Piñata Breaking hosted by the North Valley Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in the Colusa County area. “We are very lucky to have publisher Luis Barrera, not only as a member of the North Valley Hispanic Chamber, but also to serve on our executive board of directors” said Toni Frequez, vice president for the chamber. “I’m very exited to see the magazine do so well” said publisher Luis Barrera. “I think the community has really seen the potential it has, and how the readers and advertisers have benefited from the publication” Barrera added. The evening concluded with the ceremonial piñata breaking and a give a way door prize raffle, with gifts sponsored by some of United’s advertisers including, Colusa Casino Resort, Touch of Health - Massage Therapy, Vigiani’s Auto and The Luis Barrera Design Studio among others.

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Tillis’s performance on stage is as energetic and as captivating as her voice is torchy, forceful and direct. See her electrifying performance on July 24 with one show at 8:00pm at Colusa Casino Resort. Even before the world was hearing her voice rang out on radio and video, Tillis had already achieved success with her strong songwriting ability-a craft she continues to home even while she is busy touring. Despite the hustle and bustle she finds time to collect her creative thoughts and put them down on paper. In addition to writing most of her own material, Tillis has also penned songs for a number of artist including Highway 101, Juice Newton, Ricky Van Shelton and the late Conway Twitty. Tillis was introduced to country music by her farther renowned singer Mel Tillis. Pam tagged along with her farther to the recording studio as well as to the Grand Ole Opry. At the Opry, she meet such country queens as Dottie West and Tammy Wynette. These childhood experiences left a lasting impression on Tillis, who is fond of saying “I’ve got one foot in old Nashville and one foot in new Nashville”. Her performance debut was with her farther when she was only eight years old. While still a teenager she began her country music career as one of the back up vocalist in her father’s band. But as she has revealed in interviews, the singer found that sharing her father’s stage was “Like being a little plant in the shade of a big

tree. I couldn’t grow.” Pam’s debut single “Don’t Tell Me What To Do” soared to the top of the country charts in 1991. Then her debut album was certified gold the next year. Other hit songs from the album included “One of Those Things” and “Maybe It Was Memphis” her second album, Homeward Looking Angel produced such hits as “Shake The Sugar Tree” and “Cleopatra Queen Of Denial.” Tillis’s third album for Arista Sweetheart’s Dance was released in 1993 and yielded the hit single “Spilled Perfume.” Tickets are $35 for Preferred or $25 Reserved and on sale at the Casino’s Gift Shop or at www.starticketsplus.com

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Williams Family Action Center The Williams Family Action Center would like to thank all those who supported their efforts to the community when voting no on Proposition 1D. Since none of the funding was reallocated from their major funding source—First 5 Colusa, they will be able to continue to provide all the services available in the past. These services include Kids Academy, ESL, GED, Computer classes, tutoring assistance, health application assistance, and general assistance in a variety of community needs. Other recent activities of the Williams Family Action Center include participating in the Williams Pioneer Day Parade as well as free bounce houses in the park on that day. As of June 4, Marisa Prado, One-Stop, is available in the center every Thursday from 2:00 to 4:00 to help with resumes, job search, job training, and more. They continue to do whatever they can to assist community members ready their children for school and improve their lives. They understand these are tough times for all and community members have more and greater needs. Please do not hesitate to contact them for any need you may have or to inform them of needs you see in the community. They are located at 901 E Street, in the library building, and the phone number is 473-5400.

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Carolan Meek:

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© 2009 Luis Barrera Photography Design When Colusa County native Carolan Meek joined the Colusa County One of highlights that Meek said comes with fair management is to Fair as its manager in 2005, she said she felt as if it was her life’s see our mission to educate about agriculture succeed. Most of those programs are youth oriented, and Meek said that in this county dream coming true. there are opportunities not received in large communities. “I always wanted to be a fair manager, “Each February, The Farm Show educates about farming and equipbut I just figured my time hadn’t come yet” ment, the fair educates about livestock and agriculture, and our “I always wanted to be a fair manager, but I just figured my time facility is used annually for most of the youth oriented organizahadn’t come yet,” she said. “I just thought that when it was time I tions to fundraise money for the youth of Colusa County,” she said. She said that the fair and the citizens of Colusa County are fortunate would be one,” she added. She first worked at the Fairgrounds as manager’s assistant in 1984 to live in a small community like Colusa County. for then manager Roger Gibbs. She said from that time on she knew “It is a great place to raise children, it is she wanted to manage fairs, and specifically the Colusa County Fair. Meek returned to Colusa County when she was offered the post here, nice to know your neighbors and not worry but the years leading up to her return were filled with a variety of about your home...” exciting and challenging jobs. She worked for Gibbs through her high school years, but when she “It is a great place to raise children, it is nice to know your neighleft the county and the employ of the fair she joined an event servic- bors and not worry about your home when we are gone,” she said. es company called Contemporary Services Corporation. She served “We are all watching out for one another. Everyone has been so as an assistant manager of the West Coast. Her duties were to ad- generous in always being there to help the fair and its staff,” she minister the event staffing contracts for the San Francisco 49’ers at said. “It is like having an extended family to live and work in Colusa Candlestick Park and the Cal Berkley Bears football team as well as County.” Meek grew up in Maxwell, and in her youth she was a member of numerous convention centers in the Bay Area. Meek spent five years working there and was able to attend three 4-H where she attained the rank of All Star at the age of 19. Later she attained the rank of State Farmer in the Future Farmers of America Super Bowls. She then met and married her husband Don Meek, and the couple program. She shared that she is most professionally inspired by a couple of other women in the fair industry. branched out with an events management company of their own. She has a BS in Ag Education and a minor in Fair Management from ”Trish Scariani and Becky Bailey Findley are among the first female Cal Poly SLO, and she has worked at 37 of California’s Fairs and fair managers in the State of California and have paved the way for the rest of the women who are now in management in what was three out-of-state fairs as well. While it has most certainly been Meek’s dream to be the Colusa primarily a male dominated industry,” she said. County Fair manager, the reality of achieving that dream has not Meek said managing the Colusa County Fairgrounds is a great source of joy in her life, but that it is family time that gives her the come without challenge. She said the biggest challenge has been not having enough money most joy. to do the all of the projects they want to do such as upgrading the It is her son Johnnie (9) and daughter Gracie (7) along with her buildings and the grounds. “There is usually never enough money, three stepchildren Blake, Cherie and Donnie and the time she and never enough staff, and never enough time to do all the things we husband Don spend with them doing anything; swimming, going to the beach, fishing, or any kind of family time that gives her the want to do,” she said. While there are challenges in her fair manager life it does not come most joy in her life. without great satisfaction as well. “I get great satisfaction from man- Meek is living her dream job, and she said she is especially happy to aging all of the myriad aspects of putting on a successful event, and be living that dream at the Colusa County Fair. seeing the enjoyment from our patrons when it is completed,” she said.

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On Thursday May 14th, 2009 Colusa Casino Resort open their Comedy Club Doors to host two very talented comedians. Headlining the evening was Fielding West. West’s routine included a mixture or comedy and magic and has previous open for such celebrities as Liza Minelli, Glen Campbell among others. Like a great performer West beautifully blended his magic and comedy in a very exiting routine. Everything from fire eating, rabbits appearing from hats, doves appearing and reappearing from no where to creative audience participation. There was something for everyone and he was a sure crowd pleaser. Opening for West was comedian Susan Rice. Rice has been performing for over 25 years. In her routine Rice talked about everything from being her parent’s caregiver to her battle with her weight watchers program. She even included local retailer Mary Lou’s Vision in her routine. The Comedy Club will once again open it’s door at Colusa Casino on the evening of June 18th 2009 starting at 7:00pm. Headlining the evening will be Michael Pace. Also opening for Pace will be Don Barnhart. For ticket information please visit www.StarTicketsPLus.com or the Colusa Casino Box Office.

When I hear the term slippery slope, I usually think of snow, ice, or shale because if you’re not careful you will fall on your butt. Well, our country’s economy is on a slippery slope as we speak, and if our politicians don’t make the right decisions, you know the “rest of the story”. What really troubles me, is the fact that Congress voted to spend $787 Billion of our money on this American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, aka the Stimulus Plan, and NONE of the members of Congress READ THE DOCUMENT before they voted. Folks, this is like putting a sack over your head and walking along that slippery slope. Anyway, the blank check has been signed and we are off to the races. The infrastructure problem in California alone will require an estimated $500 billion to correct. I’m sure it is possible to find out the combined infrastructure costs for all the other states, but I probably don’t want to know. At least not right now, its tax time. It seems that the best solution to this long-term problem is the creation of public-private partnerships that would finance, design, construct, and sometimes operate and maintain public facilities.By utilizing the strengths of each sector, the publicprivate partnerships would produce better designed projects, at lower costs, and on a faster completion schedule. Publicprivate partnerships are not new. They have been widely used around the world. In California, not so much for obvious reasons: regulations, politicians, environmentalists, and being the left coast. The public-private partnerships would not harm organized labor in either sector. The efficiencies gained through the joint effort of government and the private sector working together will increase the number of projects under construction and completed, and increase the number of public and private workers. This can be a win, win situation for all, and the best “bang” for our tax-payer ”buck”. (Reference material: Office of the Governor, and the article Partnerships to Improve Infrastructure by Carl Guardino). For additional information please

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Central Valley Gas Storage (CVGS) is the 2009 Colusa County Fair Wooden Coin sponsor. Central Valley Gas Storage is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nicor Enerchange. Nicor is listed on the New York Stock Exchange with the symbol “GAS”. CVGS is currently in the development phase of a natural gas storage facility between Princeton and Colusa and has for the past few months been getting to know the community and its residents. Project Development Director Jim Kiefer commented that it has been a pleasure getting to know and work with the people in the community. Earlier this spring CVGS hosted the annual Fair Manager’s Dinner, and now it has agreed to sponsor the wooden coin project as well. A few years ago, Colusa County Fair CEO Carolan Meek devised a fair promotion using wooden coins. Its popularity and success in Colusa County earned it the title of Small Fairs Best Single Day Promotion from the Western Fairs Association, and resulted in a number of other county fairs picking up the idea for their fairs. Thanks the generosity of CVGS, $1,000 in wooden coins redeemable at any Colusa County Fair food vender are once again being handed out by fair “spies” around the county. If a fair patron is wearing his or her fair button, or is overheard by a fair spy promoting the fair, they will receive a wooden coin. This year, the coins are available at Bank of America, US Bank, Umpqua Bank, Butte Community Bank and Wells Fargo Bank in Colusa. In Arbuckle they can be found at the Umpqua Bank and at the U.S. Post Office. In Williams they are at the U.S. Post Office and at US Bank. In Maxwell, Stonyford and Princeton, the coins are at the U.S. Post Offices. Collecting the coins has become competition among some coffee groups and Meek said she anticipates that competition to spark again this year. She also reminds fair patrons that only the 2009 coins will be redeemable at the fair. “Previous years’ coins are no longer redeemable, but they are still great collectibles,” she said.

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Colusa County Fair CEO Carolan Meek announced that the Colusa County Fair is very excited to welcome The Royal White Tiger Discovery Education Program and Exhibit to this year’s Fair. The program, brought to the fair by Zoo Dynamics is especially designed as an exhibit and conservation education program. Its goal is to promote and excite people to the many conservation issues involving the last five remaining species of tigers in the wild. Along with valuable conservation education, this 4,200 square foot display consisting of more than 2,400 square feet of animal habitat also brings excitement. Zoo Dynamics is designed to provide its exhibit animals to zoo’s and theme parks, but it also provides temporary zoo-like exhibits in venues such as the Colusa County Fair. Visitors to the exhibit will see several beautiful adult Royal White Tigers together in a special tropical jungle setting complete with sound effects, fog and chilled misting systems all in a controlled exhibit environment. The animal keepers with the exhibit are available to answer questions from the public and also perform daily shows. The public will witness the keepers feed the tigers and conduct “Tiger Talks”. Meek said she is very excited to welcome the tigers back to Colusa. “This is a wonderful exhibit, and one that won’t soon be forgotten by the people who see it,” she said. Promoters of the exhibit say that the interactive activities that the program provides helps to bring people closer to the true meaning of conservation, and inform as well as excite them to all the wonderful programs they can get involved with to help promote the conservation efforts with the last remaining five species of tigers in the world. Currently there are only about 40 Royal White Tigers on exhibit in zoo’s throughout the United States, and less than 400 in the world, with none left in the wild.

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Fair Opens June 4 – 7

It is almost Colusa County Fair time. The gates will officially open at 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 4 and run through midnight Sunday, June 7. Fair CEO Carolan Meek and her staff have been preparing for months for this year’s fair, and Meek said it looks to be a great fair once again. “We are really excited to have the White Tigers, the Shark Experience and the Tuff Trucks Mud Bog as well as numerous other exciting acts and exhibits. The Friday night concerts, sponsored by Colusa Casino Resort are expected to be great show featuring headliners Kenny Bob Davis and Derryl Perry. “We are just so lucky to have the support of the Colusa Casino Resort in bring top talent to our Grandstand Arena stage,” said Meek. Of course Sunday night, the arena takes on a whole different look when the 70th annual Demolition Derby is expected to fill the grandstands with derby fans. On Saturday night, the arena will be host to the Tuff Truck Mud Bog. Overall, Meek said she expects this fair to be great. “We just have so many wonderful attractions and events,” she said. “Russell Bros. Family Fun Circus will be here, as will the carnival rides by Midway of Fun, and many more returning favorites.

One change this year is that the Mini Miss Colusa County Pageant will take place the evening before the fair opens. The pageant will be at the grandstands arena at 8 p.m. on Wed., June 3. The Miss Colusa County Pageant will move to Thursday night, June 4. “This way, Miss Colusa County and her court as well as Mini Miss and her court will have been selected prior to Friday night’s parade,” said Meek.

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