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Marshall and UCD team up for cancer care Thomas Frey Staff writer Marshall Medical Center and UC Davis Health have partnered to give patients access to leading cancer care without having to leave the Western Slope of El Dorado County. The cancer services based in Cameron Park will be known as Marshall Cancer Center, a UC Davis Health Affiliate. “We’re very grateful for the ability to work with a big academic medical center like UC Davis and the positive benefits it can bring for patients right here in El Dorado County,” said
“Our goal is to improve cancer care in community hospitals so patients can access top-notch cancer care.” — David Lubarsky, UC Davis Health CEO Marshall CEO Siri Nelson. UC Davis Health offers all the advances that come with the latest clinical trials, as well as the newest discoveries in cancer care. On top of that, Marshall oncologists will work directly with UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center oncologists to ensure the latest diagnostic and treatment options are available to patients.
6 COVID cases shut down education camp Eric Jaramishian Staff writer Two days after reopening since closing at the start of the pandemic, the Sly Park Environmental Education Center was shut down again Jan. 6 as six students signed up for a camp there tested positive for COVID-19. A group of 80 sixthgrade students and their chaperones from Rocklin’s Rock Creek Elementary School went to Sly Park Tuesday, Jan. 4, where the six positive COVID cases were confirmed after an onsite symptom screening. All from the elementary school were sent home Thursday and the camp closed the same day by recommendation from public health officers from both El Dorado and Sacramento counties, according to Sacramento County Office of Education PLACE ADDRESS LABEL HERE
public information officer Tim Herrera. “We are happy that our plan worked if cases were detected and that we were able to send the students home safely,” Herrera said. Requirements for visiting the education center include a negative test three days before arrival. Testing opportunities were offered to the traveling group Sunday, Jan. 2. The Sly Park Environmental Education Center opened to 40% capacity with a maximum number of 80 guests. “We have some schools scheduled for the residential portion of the camp throughout the rest of the month and the year but right now we are in ‘wait and n
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“We are pleased to welcome Marshall Medical Center into the UC Davis Health Cancer Care Network,” said UC Davis Health CEO David Lubarsky. “Our goal is to improve cancer care in community hospitals so patients can access topnotch cancer care.” Marshall’s providers n
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Marshall Medical Center and UC Davis Health are partnering to bring the latest in See Cancer Care, page A3 cancer treatment to Marshall Cancer Center in Cameron Park.
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The hefty delivery of snow from late December storms has transformed Forebay Reservoir in Pollock Pines into a chilly snowscape. The snow is starting to fade away with mostly blue skies and temps in the low 60s forecast for this week.
Projects planned on county fairgrounds Eric Jaramishian Staff writer A recently approved five-year strategic plan for the nonprofit El Dorado County Fair Association comes with a long list of goals and capital improvements for the county fairgrounds that could be realized within three to five years, some longer. The El Dorado County Fair Association’s Board of Directors sought to fund some of its projects through American Rescue Plan Act funds, also referred to as the COVID19 stimulus package. The fair board will be able to use $800,000 of ARPA funds. With the past two county fairs canceled due to COVID-19 and then the Caldor Fire, in addition to numerous other events the fairgrounds usually hosts, the organization is not seeing as much revenue. When the fair was called off in 2020 El
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Dorado County Fair Association CEO Jody Gray told the Mountain Democrat the fair brings in about $650,000 each year, which is roughly half of the fairgrounds’ annual budget. Included in the list of 29 infrastructure goals for the fairgrounds is the repair and replacement of asphalt over the lower fair grounds, a project that has not been fully completed since Gray came on board 20 years ago, Gray told the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors at its Jan. 4 meeting. “We anticipate the asphalt improvements could be anywhere between $350,000 and $400,000,” Gray said. “That is going to fix some of our drainage issues that are not associated with our curb and gutter issues and it will get rid of trip-and-fall hazards we have.” Also on the list are upgrades to the inside of the Forni Building to make it more aesthetically pleasing, restore of its
bathrooms and make improvements to the building’s audio and visual equipment, a project which has a bid for $225,000. The fairgrounds’ board room needs a new roof, walls and a heating and A/C unit, which will be replaced with a mini split air conditioner — all anticipated to cost $11,000. Capital improvements also include improving aesthetics of other buildings with fresh paint, adding automatic irrigation, replacing livestock panels in the barns and increasing the size of the Forni kitchen. The 2021-26 plan states the association will work with the El Dorado County Water Agency and Caltrans to eliminate or control overflow of water that directs from above Highway 50 to the fairgrounds, which experiences occasional flooding due n
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