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Juniper Ammons, 4, lights up the room with her smile as she rests in a hospital bed with her stuffed animals July 5. Juniper has been transferred to pediatrics and is showing signs of recovery.
‘Miracle’ Juniper
out of the ICU
n Family asking for community’s
continued prayers Eric Jaramishian Staff writer Encouraging updates have come out on the recovery of 4-year-old Juniper Ammons, one of five children hit by
an appliance van while crossing Pony Express Trail in Pollock Pines May 31. After spending nearly five weeks in ICU, she has been moved to n See JUniper, page A3
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When Keep Tahoe Red, White and Blue cleanup volunteers arrived at the unmanaged beach Zephyr Shoals on Lake Tahoe’s east shore they found more than 6,000 pounds of litter.
Tahoe’s Fourth of July aftermath a
cleanup ‘hangover’ Ashleigh Goodwin Tahoe Daily Tribune
The League to Save Lake Tahoe hosted its 10th annual Keep Tahoe Red, White and Blue July 5 cleanup but rather than celebrating its decade milestone, volunteers and
cleanup organizers witnessed a “landfill” at one of Tahoe’s beaches. After a spectacular fireworks display celebrating Independence Day, spectators left behind some 8,559 pounds of discarded cigarette butts, plastic food wrappers, beach toys
and even barbecues that were collected over the course of three hours by cleanup volunteers. A total of 402 volunteers worked six locations around the lake, according to a League to Save Lake Tahoe news release. n See Cleanup, page A6
Cameron Park’s Saint to play in Kenya rugby tourney Isaac Streeter Staff writer
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l Dorado County resident and college rugby star Cormac Saint is traveling to Kenya to play for the United States’ Under 20s Rugby National Team as it attempts to reach the highest division of international rugby. Saint, 19, was born in England before his family made the
decision to move to Cameron Park, when his dad Tony took a job with Intel’s Folsom campus. Cormac was 5 years old when they moved and earned his citizenship when he was 15, making him eligible to play for Team USA. Tony played in England before becoming a coach for Motherload Rugby, then called the Oak Ridge Rugby Club. The opportunity allowed him to coach all four of his children, including his youngest, Cormac. “It’s been really exciting. We’ve had a great club experience at Motherload,” Tony said.
“Especially being his coach — I got to see (his development) up close.” Cormac began playing rugby when he was 6-years-old. After a decade of development and hard work, the Ponderosa High School graduate became the first Motherload player to receive an offer to play college rugby at the University of California, Berkeley. The mecca of college rugby, the Golden Bears have won 33 national titles since the rugby championship circuit began in 1980. “I took it, no questions asked,” Cormac said of n See saint, page A6
Mountain Democrat photo by Isaac Streeter
Rugby standout Cormac Saint played some of his first Motherload Rugby games on the Christa McAuliffe Park fields in Cameron Park. Now he’s set his sights for the 2031 Rugby World Cup to be held on U.S. soil.
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