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Main Street Farmers Market uprooted by council Odin Rasco Staff writer
The Mooney Lot on Main Street between the Pearson Soda Works building and Hangtown Cantina in Placerville is the likely new landing spot for the Main Street Farmers Market.
Many may have bought a peach in the shade of Placerville’s Bell Tower for the last time without even knowing it, as the Main Street Farmers Market will no longer set up next to the Placerville landmark. Following years of discussion, Placerville’s City Council decided in a 4-1 vote Tuesday to change the contract between
Mountain Democrat photo by Krysten Kellum
the city and the El Dorado County Farm Trails operated market, requiring them to relocate for the 2023 season onward. Councilmember David Yarbrough was the sole dissenting vote, voicing a preference to wait to move the market until 2024, in consideration of the longstanding contract between the city and EDC Farm Trails. The action item regarding the market as it appeared on the council agenda specified
that it would be moved next year to the Fox Lot. By the end of Tuesday night, both those details had changed. The council moved to change the details of the contract with EDC Farm Trails, relocating it this year to the Mooney Lot (located next to Hangtown Cantina and across from the Ivy Lot) or, if that was not a viable location, to the as-yetunconstructed parking lot next n See Farmers market, page A3
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Mindy Danovaro is the new executive director of the Marshall Foundation for Community Health.
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EDH Fire Capt. Dan Nelson, Roseville anesthesiologist Dr. Brandon Winchester, lucky patient Karen Allen and Kaiser Permanente Dr. Aaron Baker, left to right, as well as Barton RN Daryl Braga via Zoom, celebrate Allen’s recovery from her in-flight heart attack.
EDH fire captain part of mid-air miracle Noel Stack Managing editor
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flight to Maui turned anything but relaxing
when Auburn resident Karen Allen suffered a heart attack aboard Hawaiian Airlines Flight 59 in January. Though she was flying with strangers at 35,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean, Allen had new
friends in the making on her side — four medical professionals on the flight to paradise, including El Dorado Hills Fire Capt. Dan Nelson. “The loudspeaker came on with the flight
attendant asking if there was a doctor, nurse or any medical personnel on board,” Nelson told Mountain Democrat. “As I turned to look behind
Marshall nonprofit has new leader Odin Rasco Staff writer The Marshall Foundation for Community Health has announced new leadership as part of recent changes to its organizational structure. Mindy Danovaro will act as the executive director for the nonprofit, according to a Feb. 16 press release. Danovaro has extensive experience as a philanthropy executive, most recently serving as executive director of Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital for 11 years and as the Dean of Advancement at McGeorge School of Law for six-and a-half years. A highlight of Danovaro’s philanthropic career so far is her securing a gift of $25 million for McGeorge — the largest single gift in the university’s history. Danovaro wrote in an email to the Mountain Democrat that she plans to use her skillset to help “ensure that Marshall Medical Center is able to provide the highest
n See Inflight rescue,
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