Charlie Brown, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for his chance to run for the 4th Congressional District seat currently held by John T. Doolittle, was the keynote speaker at the Auburn Area Democratic Club fundraiser at Latitudes Restaurant on Sunday, Oct. 7. Photo by Don Chaddock.
Mayor Bob Snyder and the city council commended the Auburn Community Cancer Endowment Fund this week. Accepting the honor from the mayor were Bart O’Brien, center, who chairs the endowment’s board of directors, and Dr. Ralph deVere White, director of the UC Davis Cancer Center. The endowment, started six years ago by Dick Azevedo, Virgil Traynor, Merv Hall and Norma Harris, now exceeds more than $1.5 million and supports UC Davis’ cancer research activities. Photo by Joe Carroll.
Mayor Bob Snyder conveyed the City of Auburn’s kudos to Patti and Don Henderson this week after Better Homes and Gardens magazine named their Cabin Fever Quilt Shoppe in Downtown one of the top 10 such businesses in North America. The Hendersons opened Cabin Fever in 2002. Photo by Joe Carroll.
One of the members of Mountain Laurel is shown hamming for the camera on stage while performing at the Auburn Bluegrass Fest II on Saturday. The event was a fundraiser for the Auburn Placer Performing Arts Center. Photo by Don Chaddock.
The Auburn Home Show, held last weekend at the Gold Country Fairgrounds, was a hit as the weather turned warm on Saturday after a brief storm the night before. Jutta Baxter, of Auburn, was one of many who attended the event. Photo by Don Chaddock.
Auburn’s Joanne Neft had a special guest in tow at Depoe Bay the other day — Nick Coombe, manufacturing manager of the Honey Collection in New Zealand, which produces honey-based Manuka Naturals healing skin creams. The pair celebrated the FDA’s recent approval of Active Manuka Honey for the treatment of wounds and burns. Neft, Manuka Naturals’ distributor, said the products are available at Auburn Drug Company, Eisley’s Nursery, Lincoln Produce Market, Newcastle Produce & Deli and Auburn Nutrition Center. Photo by Joe Carroll.
Bob Mason, left, of Auburn Hardwoods, and Christopher Watson, of WUDesigns, pal around at a special customer appreciation luncheon and tool demonstration at Auburn Hardwoods last Wednesday. Photo by Erin Gallup-Main.
Auburn Recreation District Board Chairman Jim Carroll, left, and A.R.D. Administrator Kahl Muscott are shown prepping for the district board’s most recent meeting at which officials of the Meadow Vista Community Center requested $100,000 in county park mitigation funds to complete work on the center. The board took the request under advisement. The board still is considering a proposed five percent cost-of-living raise for non-union employees.
Volunteers who built the new gateway monument sign off I-80 near Ophir Road were treated to a thank-you lunch in the Auburn Alehouse last Friday by Old Town’s Brian Hayes, who was too bashful to be photographed with his guests who were, from the left, Mayor Bob Snyder, architect Michael K. Murphy, Jim Bennett, Jon Rubenzer and Virgil Traynor. Bart Ruud, another volunteer, was participating in a Sierra College seminar for war veterans and couldn’t stop by. Photo by Joe Carroll.
