An errant driver wiped out one of the venerable fence posts at the Historic Placer County Courthouse last weekend. The damaged fence post was prone in the gutter still clinging to its chain but no word has reached our desk as to any injuries sustained by the perpetrator.
Dave and Cathy Kauffman celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary with family and friends this past weekend. Hosts for the anniversary party were Ed and Shirley Bayne of Meadow Vista.
Upward of 300 persons, most of them drivers of school buses and transit buses, participated in last Saturday’s training exercises at the Auburn Airport. Above, Auburn Firefighters Robert Zaucha and Brian Gouge showed viewers how emergency personnel can cut through the roof of an overturned school bus. 49er ROP students were volunteer casualties. In the second photo, members of the Auburn Police Department’s SWAT team showed how they might handle a hostage situation aboard a school bus. Auburn Fire Chief Mark D’Ambrogi and the Placer County Driver Training Advisory Council planned the event. Photos courtesy of Sonny Harris, City of Auburn.
Erin Lee, of Lee Photo, was one of dozens of local business people who attended the Think Auburn First forum last Friday, Aug. 10, at City Hall. The keynote speaker was Michelle Long, right, of Bellingham, Washington. Long has successully spearheaded a “shop local first” campaign in her area and was on hand to discuss her experiences with local business owners and leaders.
COMING TOGETHER – The new gateway monument sign, located just off eastbound I-80 before the train trestle in Auburn, is nearing completion. The mining-themed structure was designed by local architect Michael Kent Murphy. Photo courtesy Kathleen Sailor.
Placer High School Track and Field Coach Rick Foley spoke to the Auburn Gold Country Rotary Club last week at The Ridge and presented a slideshow. Foley is also the Junior Varsity Football coach and a mathematics instructor at the high school. Foley told the gathering that he teaches his pupils to “be nice, work hard and use your manners.” Unlike ball sports, Foley said the school’s track program is all inclusive. “I want to include everybody in track,” he said. Foley has been with Placer High for eight years. To learn more about the school’s track program, visit www.PlacerTrack.org.
Work continued this week on a key phase
of the School Park Preserve project on the 4.3-acre site behind City
Hall and across High Street from Placer High School. Workmen are shown
placing vegetative soil layers of alders, willows and dogwood to
strengthen the banks of Lincoln Creek, which has been “daylighted”
after being underground for several decades. The current $2.6 million
phase of the project, which includes flood protection features, will be
completed in October and the park is expected to be open for public use in spring 2008.
Bon Appetit! — Some local ladies and gentlemen were learning the art of French cooking in an Aeolia Heights kitchen this week and among them were, from the left, Karen McGillivray, Evelyn Willmott, Kris Moore, Jerry Burns and, at the far right, Pejo Bruich. To Bruich’s left were Susan Loomis, the class instructor who spent six years in France honing her culinary skills, and Harold McGee, who earned a doctorate in food science at Yale. The class lasts six days.
Anita “Pinky” Migliore, of Emeryville, poses beside her restored 1958 Studebaker Provincial station wagon during Friday’s Cruise Nite in Downtown Auburn. Migliore has been featured in various newspaper and magazine articles related to car shows and car restoration. For more on Cruise Nite, see “Biscuits & Gravy." Photo by Don Chaddock.
