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< Saturday, May 15, 2021 >


All Day Calaveras Connect Will Provide Free Shuttle to Calaveras County Fair
Angels Camp, CA...The Fair is back and so is Calaveras Connect’s Shuttle Service! May 13 thru May 16, Calaveras Connect will provide free shuttle service between the Save Mart Bus Stop in Angels Camp and the Fairgrounds for the 2021 Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee.


The shuttle will run Thursday through Sunday, every 30 minutes from 11:20 AM to 6:00 PM. A complete schedule is available at CalaverasConnect.org, as well as information about connecting services from other Calaveras County communities.

In addition to stops at Save Mart and the Fairgrounds, the bus will pick riders up along Hwy 49. People wishing a ride to the Fairgrounds can flag the bus down by waving, anywhere along the route (Highway 49) that is safe to stop the bus. On the return trip, they can simply tell the driver where they’d like to be dropped off.
Calaveras Connect Executive Director Amber Collins says, “This is the easy way to attend the Fair, without the hassles of traffic and parking at the fairgrounds. And this year, it is completely free.”
All Day Back in the Saddle A Calaveras County Homecoming May 13-16, 2021
Angels Camp, CA...(Frogtown, USA)...Below is the schedule of events for the Homecoming & Frog Jump for this year. Click on an image below for larger version or go to Frogtown.org.



10:00 AM Scouting Outdoor Extravaganza
The Boy Scouts of America are proud to host the Outdoor Extravaganza in Manteca and bring scouting to families in neighboring communities. We will be having crafts, games, bounce house, pinewood derby, magic show and more! Our units and scouts will also have informational booths to show parents and children in the area more what our boy scouts do. Come join us!

Greater Yosemite Council Boy Scouts presents our Scouting Outdoor Extravaganza, taking place at Bass Pro Shop Parking lot on May 15th, Saturday. The address location is 1356 Bass Pro Drive Manteca, CA 95337. The event will be held from 10am to 2pm.

The event is free for all and all families are welcome to attend. We hope to see you there for some summer fun and put the outing in scouting!

Contact Information for the event: Call James Smith at 209-566-7705 or email him at james.smith@scouting.org
10:00 AM - 04:00 PM Holistic Health and Wellness Fair
The Holistic Health and Wellness Fair offers a holistic experience of encouragement and support by connecting the community with local health and wellness opportunities and resources. Coming on Saturday, May 15th, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. at the Mountain Ranch Community Park, located at 7869 Whiskey Slide Road, Mountain Ranch.

*Free for All Ages*

We invite you to come and experience the many healers and holistic offerings in our community. This is a space to share, create, learn, play, and connect.

TBA: Schedule with workshops, musical performances, and vendors. Please check out the Facebook page for the most up-to-date information regarding our workshop schedule, vendor list, and additional information about this event at https://www.facebook.com/mountainranchresourcecenter

If you're interested in becoming a vendor, leading a workshop, being a speaker, or even volunteering, please contact us at mrcrcenter@gmail.com or # 209-754-4073.

*COVID Precautions Taken*
Please share the event and invite friends and family. This event is hosted by the Mountain Ranch Youth Alliance and Resource Center, a registered 501(c)3 non-profit, and all proceeds will benefit our Mountain Ranch Food Pantry and Lunch with Us programs. Bold Text
06:00 PM Grover Anderson, Live at Calaveras County Homecoming May 15 at 6 p.m. on Main Stage
Angels Camp, CA..(Frogtown, USA)...For years, Grover Anderson wrestled with his commitment to holding a day job. Always eager to pursue a career as a singer-songwriter, the desire to start and support a family landed one all-important notch higher on life’s priority list. For the last six years he’s been making both work—teaching high school English & drama in his small mountain town, building a devout local following, and touring the US in the summer. He released four albums and played in 23 states, yet still he wondered if he’d given short shrift to a dream. Then 2020 happened, and as he witnessed the hardships endured by career performers, Grover had never felt more fortunate to hold a secondary gig.


At the beginning of last year, Grover and his bandmate Josh Certo began mapping out songs for what was to be Grover’s fifth album. The intent was to use the recordings as a foundation on which their band, Grover Anderson & the Lampoliers, could collaborate through a busy year of gigs and rehearsals. When lockdown began, their project quickly changed directions—Grover, Josh, Marshall Henry, and Anthony Delaney recorded their parts in home studios, sharing tracks virtually to create a fundamentally different album.

All the Lies That I Have Told is a collection of small town stories. Written around a high-country campfire, in a Texas Uber, and amidst Wikipedia deep dives, the songs dig a little deeper than traditional rural clichés. “From a Golden State” is a diary entry from a metropolitan teen forced to move to a place where everyone already knows your story. The duet “Willie Nelson” follows recent divorcees prepping their answers for the same questions that everyone’s asking. Inspired by true crime stories from early 1900’s America, “Tom Horn” and “Man from the Train” explore the impact of heinous villainy on tight-knit communities. It’s not all dark and gloomy—“Backseat Chorus” developed on the twice-daily drive out a one-and-a-half lane road into town, and “Icarus” reflects on a family’s perseverance through tragedy. Two songs, considering the emptiness of infidelity (“In the Nighttime”) and the impact that free two-day shipping has on the worker who makes it possible (is “Amazon Song” too stark a title?), along with a honky-tonk cover of Swedish murder ballad “The Gardener”, round out the album.

The narrative lyrical content in All the Lies That I Have Told stands in stark contrast to
Grover’s autobiographical release The Frontman (named the #1 album of 2019 by IndependentClauses.com), but shares the genre-hopping breadth of 2014’s The Optimist, from which “Little Spoon”, “Grindstone”, and “Sick of You” continue to attract new fans. Those songs and others, like the 2011 surf duet “Moonshine”, have been streamed by over 650k people on Spotify and have found homes in 38k listener-made playlists. The variety of bands that he’s opened for (including America, Matt Stell, Birds of Chicago, and The Charlie Daniels Band) reflects the crossover appeal of his music, which folks have labelled folk, country, rock, and Americana. Grover doesn’t really care what folks call it as long as it moves them.

When distancing guidelines cleared his 2020 touring calendar, Grover began playing Pickup Truck Concerts, driving all over Northern California to play safely-distanced acoustic shows from the bed of his truck for folks in their driveways. People who’d loved shows with his band The Lampoliers developed a new appreciation for Grover’s assiduous songwriting and fanciful narratives at these small, modified house concerts. Grover played these shows through the end of 2020 and plans to continue them for a second season this year, in addition to a modest public schedule with The Lampoliers until live music reopens for good.

Grover lives in Murphys, CA with his wife Katie (also a high school teacher) and their two daughters. Grover will be playing at the Calaveras County Homecoming on Saturday May 15, 2021 at 6 p.m. on the main stage. The show is free with the price of admission.

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