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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada County Nugget

July 1, 1970 (12 pages)

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te eS eee . REA Gy ay ab Dh Aa hh oh BD eh ghey ra sf * Bd ‘ Eh ete ee ee eee meee ; 4 <>. << tae fap re eee ees So dota Oe 64.3 OO 6 iw 2S ® 2 85 Se ee 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, . 196 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 Se eee eee wee ene een nae ee 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 aac ly Re Ds ae — vo prerets 2 avs ence pee ns eres : COPE Ss .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. Paes © . sae a ab 8 “E57