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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“
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“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
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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
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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
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