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VOL. 29 ■ ISSUE NO. 18
MAY 4, 2022
Commission continues CEDHSP project Sel Richard Staff writer Last week’s El Dorado County Planning Commission hearing on Parker Development’s proposal to build 1,000 homes along El Dorado Hills Boulevard drew a crowd of residents attending the standing room only meeting, as well as approximately 200 more listening in virtually. Ultimately, due to the volume of documentation and its recent availability, the commissioners unanimously voted to continue the hearing to June 9.
“I was trying to gather the feeling of the community in terms of the 500 emails that I’ve gotten,” said District 2 Commissioner Kris Payne regarding the Central El Dorado Hills Specific Plan that requires a county General Plan amendment to allow zoning to be changed from recreational facilities-high intensity to medium and high density residential on the now defunct executive golf course at the El Dorado Hills Boulevard and Serrano Parkway intersection. Other project details include 11 acres set aside for civic-limited commercial use, a 15-acre village park alongside Highway 50, 190 total acres of open space/
parks, 1.5 miles of Class I bike and pedestrian trails and a new connection between El Dorado Hills Boulevard and Silva Valley Parkway via Country Club Drive. As only Commission Chair Jon Vegna was present for the project’s four previous hearings, the proceedings began as an informational overview for the public and the remaining commissioners. County staff and Parker Development’s Director of Government Relations Kirk Bone presented the project, which ■
See CEDHSP, page A5
Rare tie at Camellia Cup John Poimiroo Special to Village Life
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Hands4Hope – Youth Making a Difference cultivates community service leaders. The nonprofit has created youth/adult teams to raise funds during the Big Day of Giving May 5.
Big Day boosts nonprofits Hands4Hope teams on a fun fundraising mission Andrew Vonderschmitt Staff writer
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riginally coordinated by the Sacramento Region Community Foundation, a regional collaborative fundraising campaign, the Big Day of Giving has been aiding nonprofits in fundraising efforts
since 2013. To date, the annual campaign can boast $65 million of raised funds from more than 50,000 donors. This year more than 700 non-profits serving El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento and Yolo counties will participate. From animals to arts and culture, ■
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Lido 14 and Banshee sailboats tied at the 55th Camellia Cup Regatta on Folsom Lake April 23-24 in a rare finish that had Steve and Pat Galeria on the Lido and Charles Witcher on the Banshee sharing honors as the Sacramento Valley’s finest sailors. For the Galerias, a husband/wife team from Lincoln, it was their first win, while Sacramento’s Witcher is the winningest Camellia Cup Champion with 10 victories in the venerable cup’s history. Witcher is the only sailor to have ever tied twice (he did it once before in 1985). Years before dozens of 14-foot Lidos competed in the regatta, yet it had been a decade since one had won, when Sacramento’s George Koch, then 85 years old, captured it in 2013. As for Banshee wins, they have come often and many, mostly due to Witcher’s prowess on the 14-foot, singlehanded racing dinghy.
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Charles Witcher of Sacramento navigates his Banshee through the Camellia Cup course. To share honors as Camellia Cup champion, the Galerias on Fair Play, and Witcher on Ghost, finished first in all four of their qualifying races. The fifth and last race was a throw out. For
their reward, in addition to having their names jointly engraved on the 55-year-old silver cup, the Galerias’ Lido and Witcher’s Banshee will be See RACE, page A2
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