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Publisher's Letter
FROM THE PUBLISHER
July is the month where summer lives. Each July we would pack up the kids, the kids' friends, our friends and relatives and we would go to the old Oakland Ski Lodge located just outside of Sugar Bowl. The lodge was built in the early 1940s and was designed by the same architect who designed Sugar Bowl’s lodge. Over the years the lodge was added onto in ways that didn’t quite fit the original architecture. With additions like the “polar room,” which was also the poker room (no heat except a small wood burning stove), built into the hill under the main part of the lodge (cold!), the rec room, mostly for the kids, with pool tables, paddle tennis, huge old big screen TV with lots of old videos. The living room was large and had a floor-to-ceiling window where you could gaze out at the falling snow or the lovely meadows. Big deck outside, giant kitchen. It was not fancy. We would take all kinds of hikes, find our way to small lakes high in the surrounding Sierras, swim in nearby Lake Mary. In short, we had a blast! One memorable hike was to Long Lake, an isolated lake that took about an hour of hiking over steep terrain. There were about 5 teenage boys, 3 or 4 girls, myself and my husband Jon. One of the boys, Chris Owens, told us that he wasn’t supposed to do anything too active because he was recovering from a dislocated shoulder. But there was a rope swing over the lake, and really, what could he do? He said he would use his good arm but that didn’t quite work out. He landed awkwardly and yes, dislocated his shoulder. There was no one around anywhere and it was at least a mile back to the car. Jon yelled out over the lake “Is there a doctor anywhere?” After a few minutes we heard, very faintly, “I’m a pediatrician.” A tiny woman made her way to us, and she called urgent care and they told her, step by step, what to do. After a short painful moment, Chris was okay and he was quite sure it was a miracle.
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Have a safe, fun July and enjoy the 3 & 4th festivities as well as Pedrotti’s Ace Hardware Centennial … just wait until you see the drone show!
"If summer had one defining scent, it'd definitely be the smell of barbecue." Unknown
—Mary
