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< Thursday, October 27, 2022 >


All Day Red Ribbon Week Say No to Drugs Poster Contest
San Andreas, CA...October 23rd through October 31st is Red Ribbon Week. Red Ribbon week is a drug awareness program held annually during the month of October. The Sheriff’s Office, District Attorney’s Office, and other county departments participate by hosting a coloring contest for students in grades 1st through 8th. Each year the theme of the poster changes. This year the theme is “Celebrate Life. Live drug-Free.” Posters should be submitted within student’s school by Tuesday October 25th.


This year’s poster contest theme follows the 2019 Red Ribbon Week theme of “Send a Message. Stay Drug Free”. This poster contest was created locally in 2015 to incorporate alcohol and drug discussion with creative expression and increase participants’ self-esteem. The contest has been on hold since 2019 due to changed school schedules and attendance resulting from the pandemic.

The contest is presented annually by the Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office, Calaveras County District Attorney’s Office, Angels Camp Police Department, and the Calaveras County Office of Education. Thank you to all of the students and schools who participated.

THE RED RIBBON CAMPAIGN™ AND ENRIQUE KIKI CAMARENA
Since its beginning in 1985, the Red Ribbon has touched the lives of millions of people around the world. In response to the murder of DEA Agent Enrique Camarena, angered parents and youth in communities across the country began wearing Red Ribbons as a symbol of their commitment to raise awareness of the killing and destruction caused by drugs in America.

Enrique (Kiki) Camarena was a Drug Enforcement Administration Agent who was tortured and killed in Mexico in 1985. When he decided to join the US Drug Enforcement Administration, his mother tried to talk him out of it. "I'm only one person,” he told her, "but I want to make a difference."

On Feb. 7, 1985, the 37-year-old Camarena left his office to meet his wife for lunch. Five men appeared at the agent's side and shoved him in a car. One month later, Camarena's body was found. He had been tortured to death.

In honor of Camarena's memory and battle against illegal drugs, friends and neighbors began wearing red satin badges. Parents, sick of the destruction of alcohol and other drugs, had begun forming coalitions. Some of these new coalitions took Camarena as their model and embraced his belief that one person can make a difference. These coalitions also adopted the symbol of Camarena's memory, the red ribbon.

In 1988, NFP sponsored the first National Red Ribbon Celebration. Today, the Red Ribbon catalyzes to mobilize communities to educate youth and encourage participation in drug prevention activities. Since then, the campaign has reached millions of U.S. children and families. The National Family Partnership (NFP) and its network of individuals and organizations continue to deliver his message of hope to millions of people annually through the National Red Ribbon Campaign™.
All Day Caltrans To Begin Culvert Project on State Route 49 Near Angels Camp
Angels Camp, CA...The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will install drainage pipe systems (culverts) on State Route 49 from approximately a half-mile south of Red Hill Road to Gun Club Road near Angels Camp in Calaveras County. Culverts drain water to help prevent erosion and maintain the structural integrity of roadways. Construction is scheduled to begin on Monday, October 3 and continue until November 2022. One-way traffic control with flaggers will be employed from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and from 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Friday.


Motorists should expect 5- to 10-minute delays and are advised to use alternate routes, whenever possible.
Culverts will be installed at two locations south of Red Hill Road, one location north of Whittle Ranch Road, and one location south of Gun Club Road.

The estimated $275,00 project will be performed by Quimu Contracting Inc. of Dixon, CA.

This work is scheduled to begin as listed, but is subject to change due to traffic incidents, weather, availability of equipment, and/or materials and construction related issues.

For the safety of workers and other motorists, please Be Work Zone Alert.

For the latest road conditions, visit quickmap.dot.ca.gov.

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All Day Columbia College Presents Art Exhibition Extended Through November 18th
Columbia, CA...“Pain and Beyond” – a collection of oil and mixed media paintings, completed between 2011 – 2018 by Columbia College Art Professor, Li Ching Accurso, is now on display through October 18th, in the Columbia College Manzanita Building Rotunda (11600 Columbia College Drive, Sonora). The upper level of the Manzanita Building is open to the public Monday – Friday from 8am to 5pm. During the period Li Ching worked on these pieces, she was experimenting with materials combined with oil, such as glitter, confetti, and fabric.


The ceramics that are on display were produced between 1996 – 2009, when Li Ching was continually discovering new expressive possibilities with clay.

Li Ching began painting small watercolors in February, 2022, as a convenient medium to travel with, and a discipline for painting from observation.

“In all my work, I want to express strong emotions of joy, color, hope, and enthusiasm,” Li Ching says.
A Taiwanese-American woman artist, Li Ching Accurso has served as a full-time member of the art faculty at Columbia College since 1995. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from UC Berkeley in Painting and was a Fulbright scholar.
“This is a beautiful and impressive collection of work, said Columbia College President Lena Tran. We invite the wider community to come and enjoy this exhibition.”

For information on the artwork, contact Li Ching Accurso at 209-588-1530 or accursol@yosemite.edu. Paintings not included in this exhibition are available for viewing and purchase. Instagram: lichingaccurso, Facebook, or lichingaccurso.weebly.com.

WHO: Columbia College
WHAT: Paint and Beyond – Art Exhibition
An art display showcasing work by Li Ching Accurso
WHERE: Manzanita Building (upper level Rotunda) at Columbia College
WHEN: September 19 – November 18, 2022 M-F, 8am – 5pm
All Day Prescribed Burn Operations to Begin Near Dorrington
Dorrington, CA...Fire personnel with the Stanislaus National Forest’s Calaveras Ranger District will conduct prescribed burn operations near Dorrington. Ignition of the prescribed burn is expected to begin the first week of November and will continue up to seven days as long as conditions allow. Burning is contingent on weather, fuel moisture, and air quality. All burning is monitored and conducted in accordance with state and county air quality guidelines. And closely coordinated with local county air quality control districts.


Characterized as an understory burn - a prescribed fire ignited under the forest canopy that focuses on the consumption of surface fuels but not the overstory vegetation - prescribed low-intensity fires enhances wildlife habitat, protects and maintains water quality and soil productivity, improves forest ecosystem health, and reduces the threat of uncontrolled conflagrations.

Crews hope to treat up to 33 acres with low-intensity fire. Daily area burnt will vary based on environmental conditions and smoke production. Crews on hand will consist of three engines, two hand crews, 1 water tender, one patrol unit, and one dozer in addition to various overhead personnel.

The Sierra Nevada is a fire dependent ecosystem, where fire is a critical part of the natural forest process and helps to maintain resilient forests.

Smoke may be visible from Hwy. 4. Fire managers are working closely with local air districts and the California Air Resources Board to Mitigate the effects of smoke on the public.

Please do not report as a wildland fire.

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.
02:00 PM - 05:00 PM October at The Library
Arnold, Ca... Arnold Library News. October at The Library, New Books, and More. September flew by. We had our monthly giveaway, Cozy Up to a Mystery. The prize included a gift certificate to Bistro Espresso, mystery books, and espresso candles.



We are quickly moving into October and new giveaway, Adventure Awaits. This giveaway will include a gift certificate to Sierra Nevada Adventure Company (SNAC), books, and a ToGo mug. Come Check out a Sci-Fi, Fantasy, or Western book and enter to win.

We will also be having a Scarecrow Social Thursday, October 27 from 2-5 pm. Kids of all ages are welcome to come dressed up and join the fun. We will have prizes, treats, activities and book giveaways. We will only be open from 11am- 2pm that day for library services and then the fun begins.

NEW BOOKS at the LIBRARY
Courtesy FOTAL Board

TOMORROW and TOMORROW and TOMORROW
By Gabrielle Zevin

Two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.

LESSONS
By Ian McEwan

From the Suez Crisis to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall to the current pandemic, Roland Baines sometimes rides with the tide of history, but more often struggles against it.

GLORY
By Noviolet Bulawayo

“Manifoldly clever…brilliant… ‘Glory’ is its own vivid world, drawn from its own folklore. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny.” —Violet Kupersmith,
The New York Times Book Review

BABYSITTER
By Joyce Carol Oates

A novel about love and deceit, and lust and redemption, against a backdrop of shocking murders in the affluent suburbs of Detroit.

FOX CREEK
By William Kent Krueger

The latest in the New York Times bestselling Cork O’Connor Mystery Series from the “master storyteller” (Kristin Hannah,

#1 New York Times bestselling author) follows Cork in a race against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthirsty mercenaries.

FAIRY TALE
By Stephen King

A seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours.

ACT OF OBLIVION
By Robert Harris

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliantly imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King Charles I and the implacable foe on their trail—an epic journey into the wilds of seventeeth-century New England, and a chase like no other.

DINNER IN ONE - Exceptional & Easy One-Pan meals
By Melissa Clark

100 all-new super-simple and incredibly delicious one-pot, one-pan, one-sheet—one-everything!—recipes from the star food writer and bestselling author of Dinner in French.

DONATIONS

The Arnold Library is now accepting donations of books, puzzles, CDs and DVDs.
Please bring them inside the library during our business hours:
Tuesday – Saturday 10-4
PLEASE DO NOT leave them outside.
PLEASE DO NOT put them in the book drop.
Thank you for your contributions.





LAST WORD

LIBRARY PROTOCOLS

Masks are recommended but not required, regardless of vaccination status. Thanks for your cooperation.

JOIN THE ARNOLD FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY

Join the Arnold Branch of Friends of the Calaveras County Library at https://www.friendsofcclibrary.org/membership-form indicating Arnold as your branch. If you wish to make a direct donation to the Arnold Branch, checks may be made out to: “Friends of the Arnold Library” and sent to the address below.

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This newsletter is from the Friends of the Calaveras County Library, Arnold Chapter, aka Friends of the Arnold Library, a volunteer group providing support to the Arnold Branch Library through bi-annual giant book sales, fundraisers and community outreach. The Friends of The Calaveras County Library is a tax exempt (501.c3) charity.


If you did not get this newsletter by email, but wish to, please send “newsletter request” to: friendsofthearnoldlibrary@gmail.com. To be removed from this mailing list, click on “Unsubscribe” below.


 Friends of the Arnold Library

P.O. Box 788

  1065 Blagen Road

    Arnold, Ca 95223

     209-795-1009





04:00 PM - 10:00 PM Looking for Saturday Plans? Bear Valley Parents Group is Hosting Halloween Bash This Saturday!
Bear Valley, CA... Looking for Saturday plans? How about a bash?! The Bear Valley Parents Group is Hosting Halloween Bash This Saturday! BV style. And the best part of all? All proceeds and donations will benefit BV kids. Bring the family to Bear Valley Lodge for a Halloween extravaganza! Join us for Trunk or treating before heading inside to explore haunted rooms, games and activities for kids, raffle, live auction, and dinner buffet provide by the Creekside Bistro. Event Agenda and Halloween Menu Listed in Images Below...





SO MANY WAYS TO SUPPORT BV KIDS!
-Donate a prize for our auctions or raffle
-Sponsor a hotel room for $100 to decorate yourself
-Donate a small dessert for the Cake Walk
-Buy raffle tickets from Bear Valley students (kid who sells the most gets a prize!)
-Volunteer! We can always use the extra hands
***Message any of the event hosts with questions or to donate

Event by Melissa RyndAmy Adams and 4 others

Mark Twain Medical Center
Meadowmont Pharmacy
Angels & San Andreas Memorial Chapels
Bear Valley Real Estate
Gerard Insurance
Bank of Stockton
Fox Security
Bistro Espresso
Chatom Winery
Middleton's Furniture
Bear Valley Mountain Resort
Cave, Mine & Zip Lines
High Country Spa & Stove
Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway
Sierra Logging Museum Calaveras Mentoriing
Jenny's Kitchen

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