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2 The Nevada County Nugget — Wednesday, July 1, 1970
The Sounding Board
WHAT DOES INDEPENDENCE DAY MEAN TO YOU?
Ernie Roberts, Nevada City:
"Flags flying, fire crackers
Rita Dowler, Nevada City: ''One.
thing its my birthday. means
caring about our country and
wanting peace for it."
vada City.
Colleen McGrath, 16,Nevada
City: "When I think of it I
connect it with freedom. Ithink
I am thankful for all the men
who have fought and died to
~ make this world peaceful."
NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET)
PUBLISHED EVERY
WEDNESDAY BY
NEVADA COUNTY
PUBLISHING CO,
$01 Broad Street
Nevada City, Ca.
95959
Telephone 265-2471
Mack Gilpin, 18, Nevada City:
"Fireworks, that's what I am
out trying to earn money to
buy."
Second class postage
paid at Nevada City,
California, Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada
County Superior Court ,
Juce 3, 1960. DecreeNo, 12,406,
Subscription Rates:
one year, $3.00; two
years, $5,.00, .
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PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER
Christie Farguson, 11, Owyof the hee, Nev.: "That we don't have
NEWSPAPER to be tied up with other nations and can be a free country
and have our own laws."
Ler Presa 4 ‘se aw
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popping, and a parade in Ne.
_in Grass Valley, to increase munity
eat a ae i a Se a oe Oo ee
Storm spoils parties
in R&R, on Ridge
hour, depositing large doses of
rain on the gound. In Nevada
City, weekend precipitation toThe thunder roared, the
lightning flashed, and the rain
that resulted washed out the
final. portions of two community celebrations in the Golden
Empire Sunday.
The citizens. of Rough’ and
Ready had just completed their
traditional Secession play when However, lightning was surthe sudden, heavy storm broke prisingly light, considering the
about 4 p.m. The crowd of about severity of the thunder and
500 people scattered to porches water. California Division of
and cars, and outside displays Forestry reported only two
were “well dampened," .an ob-~ lightning strikes, and none were
server said. ; noted in Tahoe National Forest,
At North San Juan, the Cherry the. U.S. Forest Service said.
Festival had "a heck of a However, both agencies precrowd," according to Babe Pidicted some "sleepers" might be
naglia, but they too fled the found today as the sun came
scene when. the rain fell. The out bright, making visibility
downpour forced a quick end good.to the horse show and the girl
riders suffered “bedraggledhair. They looked like they had
sign from the beach," Pinaglia
It was as noisy a thunderstorm as has been experienced
in the Golden Empire in quite number of small, scattered outsome time as thunder claps ages. The largest was in the
reverberated for most of an Penn Valley area.
Community workshop
Valley 30 hundreths of an inch.
Most of the totals were recorded in‘ Sunday afternoon's
storm.
formers ,"and quite a few prigets $15,928 grant
th eee tl casi iter ler tlt tl maar i an AARNE A Sey Sty Ai hitched tie temo nm
Nevada Gity
taled 1.19 inches and in Grass
‘ard Sweringen said four transthe
mary fuses" went out, causing a
SACRAMENTO — A grant of organization raised $3,982 in
$15,928 has been awarded
the Nevada County Community amount of money available f
Workshop, it was announced tothe project to $19,910, 2a
day by the State Department of The funds were made availRehabilitation. able by the federal Rehabilita. The grant will enable the fation Services Administration and
Cility, located in the Idaho granted by the State Department
_Maryland Mine building of Rehabilitation under contract
on Idaho Maryland Road with the Nevada County ComWorkshop.
its vocational rehabilitationser_ A private, non-profit organivices to disabled persons living zation, the Nevada County Comin the community. The facility munity Workshop provides emcurrently serves 26 clients.
The funds will .be used to mentally retarded and physipurchase more production cally handicapped of Nevada
equipment and to employ addiCounty with vocational evaluational staff. tion and work adjustment serTo qualify for the grant the vices as needed.
a ae
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.to private funds, bringing the total. §
-ployment and training for thea4
€.% sae
£2 Hic
gets lease to
state armory
Nevada City and the state have
signed a lease which gives the
city free use of the state-owned
and now abandoned armory on —
Tommyknocker Way for approximately a year and a half,
City Manager Beryl Robinson Jr: and Mayor John Rankin, left to right, are shown
Signing the agreement at a special city council meeting held
last night. Dan Woodard, superintendent of the Nevada City
School District appears pleased with the agreement, because
the school is negotiating to use.
the facility.
The state required the city
to prove dedication to public
use as a condition of the agreement. The school district will
probably conduct classes in the
ting, George
A study of longterm sustained
rge Leonard of the Ta-_
hoe National Forest timber management office told The Union.
Ras
"There will be no immediate
increase here or elsewhere,"
Leonard said.
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