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Half-sisters make their lives whole Sel Richard Staff writer
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knew I had a sibling out there,” said El Dorado Hills resident Sherie Tobin. “Alora didn’t. She thought the man who raised her was her father.” Alora Rothafel Steele is Tobin’s half-sister and now, more than 50 years later, they have just discovered each other. As a child of hippie parents, Tobin grew up knowing her father had had another child. “My father and I talked over the years about this sibling that we thought was a boy,” she said. Tobin spent her childhood on a New Mexico commune with her brother and parents, but when Tobin was 5, her mom and dad separated. “My father left and went to California with my brother and my father asked my mother to drop some money off with Alora’s mother,” said Tobin. “My mom and I went and brought $29 to this woman. I have a memory of this baby sitting in a high chair. She would have been about 8 months old.” Little did she know that the baby was her half-sister and it would be a lifetime later before n See Sisters, page A4
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Board making some changes at CP Lake Jana Rossi Staff writer A very full Cameron Park Community Services District Board of Directors meeting adjourned after nearly four hours with the board establishing changes that will impact activities at Cameron Park Lake. A record number of Cameron Park residents attended the March 28 meeting, with the intention of making themselves heard on two controversial topics.
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Alora Steele, left, and half-sister Sheri Tobin met earlier this year after more than 50 years apart. Tobin, who lives in El Dorado Hills, found her long-lost sibling on Ancestry.com.
Leading off the meeting, General Manager André Pichley read the posted agenda transmittal that outlined agenda item No. 1 — pickleball play at Cameron Park Lake. At issue is the noise level and sound that property owner Liz Gates, whose property backs to the courts, has been dealing with since the CSD modified the area in 2017, turning tennis courts into pickleball courts. Gates described her living situation as “unacceptable” and said she reached out to the board three years ago. In 2022 CSD staff visited the property to n See Lake, page A4
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