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Nevada County Nugget..August 10, 1066. 3
“TRADE WINDS Town Talk,
By Jessica Bain.
ait
Hjalmer Berg, owner of the 3R's
Productions at 217 West Main .
Street in Grass Valley, is shown
here with a ticket for the com-.
ing season of the Twin Cities.
‘They worked side by side for
Over seven years to build their
nursery into a natural looking,
attractive setting, Sorenson
was a mason and has done all
President of the local association this year,
himself,
Concert Association, Berg is
the rock work and designing.
The Sorensons were vacation
County First..Fairground Use..
Mall Committee..Sure Bets
Nevada County, which has
seen many firsts, will see another one Saturday when dedication ceremonies are held for
thenew Malakoff State Historic
Park,
The first comes in the fact that
the new park is being dedicated
at the beginning stages of development rather than after it is
all finished, It is refreshing to
see something started at the beginning for a change instead of
working fromthe middle toward
either end of a project.
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He has been a teacher and professor for moré than 30 years.
His work in “teaching the three
R's," he said, gave him the
idea for the name of his store
in Grass Valley which he opened
two years ago,
The store iscompletely stocked by purchases from local
people including antique glass
bottles and dishes and paintings
by local artists. A collector of
rarebooksand manuscripts, one
of his most unusual items is a
18th century Venetian book of
records bound in human skin,
facilities for a long time, but
we have not had the kind of
promotion that would bring people here and then send them
home to tell their friends about
the good time they had here,
Hopefully this trend is just the
beginning of a new era for the
county.
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The Grass Valley City Council
has agreed to appoint a Central
Business District Committee to
work on the proposed Mill Street
mall and other improvements
things,”
eesee
T he Nevada County Board of
Supervisors will probably pack
the house tomorrow and Friday
for the hearings on the proposal
to increase the assessed valuations of Southern Pacific Co,
and Fibreboard Paper Products
land in the county, The recent
allegations by the Nevada
County Taxpayers Association
that land owned by both firms is
under assessed has raised a lot of
interest anda lot of speculation.
The hearings.should draw a big
crowd,
for the downtown area. This
It was interesting to walk
committee is supposed to work
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around Lions hake last week and
withthe city engineer and other
Robert Wood, manager of the
talk to some
of the delegates at
merchants in the city to get the
Sacramento
Valley Council of
the national rally of the Travel
downtown revitalization project
the California Chamber of ComTrailer Club of America, The
moving.
merce
will bethe speaker at the
trailer buffs came from all over
e@eeseoe
regular
membership meeting of
the United States and Canada
The Nevada City Council
the
Grass
Valley Chamber of
and were delighted to be in
learned Monday night that it
Commerce
Tuesday in The OfNevad
a
County. What is perhaps
will probably be sometime next
ing here from Southem Caltffice.
Wood
will speak on the
more
interes
ting
were
the
comyear before the Nevada City
ornia and liked it so well that
topic "What A Chamber Means
me
the
nt
visitor
s
s
receiv
ed
from
segment
of the Grass Valley they bought the property and
To A City And Its Area.” Now
some of the local merchants
Nevada City freeway is commoved here immediately,
that
the county has approved
when
they
went
into town to
pleted. Art Nelson, resident
Their goal for the future is to
formation of a county chamber
store
upon
grocer
ies.
The
merengineer on the project for the
include gifts and pet supplies
it should be interesting to learn
State Division of Highways, told just what a chamber can do for
and have a hot house full of the chants were delighted to have
the
visitor
s here because they
the council that the work was
more tender house plants,
the area,
immediately saw the impact
going well, but that the job was
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probably falling a little behind
Charles and Barbra Sailor, such a conclave could have on
One of the biggest topics in
schedule and it would now be
owners of Sierra Saddlery, 162 the local econo
the
county these days is the tight
The
nation
al
rally
at
the fairsometime next year before the
South Auburn Street, Grass Valmoney situation and how it is
ground
s
last
week
was
anothe
r
job was finished,
ley have a collection of "Blue
killing the building business,
Council membersare partiRibbons” over their fireplace in in a series of events held there
In
light of all the complaints
this year, The local campground
cularly interested in completion about the situation in Nevada
the shop,
and fairground facilities have
of the Broad Street bridge which
probably had more continued use
has closed off the main business County it is interesting to see
since
year
any
in
than
this year
. thoroughfare, Nelson was asked what is happening nearby, In
Placer County to the south,
the fairground was first conwhen that would be finished and
building
in the incorporated
@ructed, This is due to the efhe said he thought it would be
areas
reached
a record high last
forts of fair manager Malcolm
ready by September. Asked if month as permits
worth
Hammill and a small group of
he was taking bets on the pros$3,810,
667
in
construction
were
sesidents inthe Twin Cities area
pects of a September compleapproved.
This
is
$100,000
who have been actively ‘promottion date for the bridge, Nelson
fmg the area, We have had the
replied, “no, I only bet on sure morethan the amount approved
for the same month a year ago,
wsExt SOee
4
Ons
eee
Ware
Frank and Betty Sorenson,
owners of the Del Oro Nursery
on the Marysville Highway at
. Bitney Springs Road, have just,
Knuckles, The Sailor family
has had a home in Rough
and
Ready for over seven years,
weTliLliili
completeda new greenhotse,.
on by their daughter Mary aa
i half Arab horse, Brass
MR. ROY MARCHER showing us his new fall
fabrics at his Save-More Variety Store, at
408 Broad Street, Nevada City.
"The Brownie Meeting" by Debra Briggs
Mrs. Chapman's Second Grade
---Bell Hill School,