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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada County Nugget

December 24, 1969 (8 pages)

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Oe ee é ; ? i 4 & =o aaa. it Workshop receives _ check for $4,000 . The Nevada County Community Workshop received a check for $4,000 last week according to workshop director Robert M, Grek. Grek and Delton Pharis, chairman of the Nevada County Council for the Retarded, received the check from Mrs. Coy Miller, chairman of the 1969 Golden Gala Ball, Mrs, $4,000 donation represents largest amount the Gala has raised in any one its five-year history. ed that ttle ‘Golden has contributed $14,600 to the workshop the generosity of Gold Cities’ Grek and Pharis said part of the $4;000 check would be used to purchase a badly needed truck for the workshop. The . Nevada County Community Workshop produces grade stakes for a number of iocal engineering firms, Grek said that to at a“ 4 “~\ “date the workshop has depended on the loan of a truck from a local dealer in order to make its deliveries. He said the investment in a iruck will enable the workshop to operate on a more business-like basis and expand its operations, Both Grek. and Pharis expressed their appreciation of the local business firms which have supported and encouraged the workshop by lending them equipment like the truck and oe 94,4 4 be ducts are the pine cone wreaths, baskets, bells, candleholders and other decorative items that the workshop produces on a year-around basis for sale in the pre-Christmas season, These are sold in several large cities as well'as locally. Kathy Smith, who is. production manager for this phase of the workshop's production, said that the workshop had an especially successful booth at the Artist's Christmas Fair in Nevada City during Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Report on seismology WASHINGTON, D. C. Congressman Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson, has presented the Sierra College with copies of a national academy of sciences report on seismology. The report was written by the national research council's committee on seismology and follows an extensive study of earthquakes and attendant phenomena, Handler said he hoped that the reports prepared by the academy would increase the effectiveness of seismology in serv‘ice to the ‘nation. A CHECK FOR $4,000 went to the Nevada County Community Workshop, proceeds from the annual Golden Gala Ball held last month. Shown at the check presentation were: (clock wise starting from lower left) Mrs, Lynn Bramkamp, vice president of the ball committee; Del Pharis, chairman of the workshop board; Mrs. Coy Miller, president of the ball committee; Bob Grek, executive director of the workshop and Mrs. Robert Gibson, ping of the ball commite. a Two men given probation in ~ Superior Court Superior Court Judge Vernon Stoll Friday granted probation
to two men, and set probation hearings for two others. Steven Matzen Leonhard, 19, no credit for time served, as part of five years probation granted after a conviction 0° bringing marijuana into the jail when he reported for weekend sentences. A deputy found marijuana in the toe of Leonhard's boot. Leonhard was sentenced Feo cae Road acceptance plea causes small tempest A request for county acceptance of a road, after it is built to county standards, triggered a small tempest-for the board of supervisors this week. However, it appeared to cool later when representatives of ‘The Jolly Roger Bowling Alley and George Ellsworth, the principals involved, announced they had tentatively arbitrated the matter themselves. The situation concerned a portion of an-off ramp in the area of State Highway 49-20 and Brunswick Road. The road is being built by Ellsworth and serves his property and Olympia Park Road, Ellsworth is building a family recreation center to replace the burned out 14,1, Sharon Mahaffey of the county planning department said the ; commission recommended that the board approve Ellsworth's request to improve the road to county standards and todedicate it to the county. Attorney Jerry Davis, speaking for the bowling alley, asked that construction be stopped because it has detrimental effects for the bowlingalley. "Our client sold the land to the department of highways," he said and continued, "By a peculiar arrangement approved in July 1969, Ellsworth was allowed to remove the off ramp and to cut property." ment permit for the road and contended Elisworth-was problems, problems, According to Glenn Williams, Ellsworths' engineer, the department of public works apthey had made an on-site inspection and believed they had. come to. a "meeting of minds." The matter was continued until next week for a more complete report. a Bob Robinson new head of BS Council The Tahoe Area Council conducted its annual meeting on Tuesday at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Auburn. Elected to succeed Charles F. Parsons as president of the council was D, R. "Bob" Robinson. Robinson received, his scout training and his Eagle Scout Award in the Tahoe Area Council, 1970 will be the first time since the council was formed in 1924 that the son of a former council president will serve as president. K. D. Robinson, father of the president-elect, served as president in 1935, Elected to serve as vice presidents of the council were Harold M. Weaver, Theodore J. Waddell, and John A, Fulton. Clyde A. Sipe, a long-time scouting leader in the Auburn area was selected to serve as council commissioner and will be as‘ sisted by assistant council commissioner Jack Yokote. Walter A, Rickey and Albert G, Simonet will serve as treasurer and assistant treasurer. District‘chairmen of the two scouting district's of the council will be Eugene C. Croft and E, Andy -Anderson, The installation of officers and board members was conducted by Loren S, Dahl, chairman of the regional committee of Region 12, Boy Scouts of . America, Dahl is an executive beaver and the silver antelcpe awards for service to boyhood. Awards for outstanding service to the council were presented to Mitchell C. Lewis, Walter A, Rickey, Harold M. Weaver, Jack 0, Poulsen, Theodore J. Waddell, John A. Chappie names student advisors ey tees eh