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Clubhouse, pool, tennis & more 4975 Del Mar Drive, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 916-304-9711 | Lennar.com/Sacramento Pursuant to the Fair Housing Act, this housing is intended for occupancy by at least one person 55 years of age or older per home. Plans to build out this neighborhood as proposed are subject to change without notice. Features, amenities, floor plans, elevations, and designs vary and are subject to changes or substitution without notice. Items shown may contain options that are not standard on all models or not included in the purchase price. Availability may vary. Prices do not include closing costs and other fees to be paid by buyer (including a builder fee as described in the purchase agreement) and are subject to change without notice. This is not an offer in states where prior registration is required. Void where prohibited by law. Copyright © 2022 Lennar Corporation. Lennar and the Lennar logo are U.S. registered service marks or service marks of Lennar Corporation and/or its subsidiaries. Lennar Sales Corp., CA DRE Broker #01252753 (Responsible Broker: Joanna Duke). BMR Construction, Inc., CA CSLB #830955. CalAtlantic Group, Inc., CA CSLB #1037780. Lennar Homes of California, Inc., CA CSLB #728102. Date 09/22
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Cameron Park’s Rasmussen Pond and the surrounding acreage, while privately owned, has been open for public recreation for decades. The Cameron Meadows housing development is proposed for the 104-acre site.
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The UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center bouy floats in Lake Tahoe, equipped with scientific instruments that collect environmental data.
Battle over Rassmussen Lake Tahoe blues Pond development begins a positive note Odin Rasco Staff writer
Battle lines and property lines are being drawn as a development company has submitted an application to bring a residential project to the
land encompassing Cameron Park’s Rasmussen Pond. The developer wants to “allow for coexistence” with nature and neighbors but a local group is working to stop construction entirely. The True Life Companies
filed a formal development application for a project in Cameron Park with the El Dorado County Planning and Building Department March 13. The project, called Cameron
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For the last five months of 2022, Lake Tahoe was the clearest it had been since the 1980s. That is due in part to a resurgence of the lake’s native
Half-sisters make their lives whole after 50-plus years 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 they would meet again. Steele’s mother went by her hippie name Quanu, her father by the name of Zol. Quanu and Zol had agreed to raise the girl. “So my father kind of went about his business,” said Tobin. Tobin’s father, Daniel Baginski Allen, subsequently had two more marriages, each with two more children. Tobin has kept in touch with her four other half-siblings along with her full brother over the years, but the mystery of the seventh child remained obscured. Initially, Tobin was merely interested in her Lithuanian grandparents who had immigrated to the United States around 1910. She uploaded her DNA information to Ancestry.com in
Alora Steele, left, and halfsister 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.
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