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Bryce Bazor’s life, legacy celebrated Jana Rossi Staff writer
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Jim Bazor speaks to those who attended a vigil to honor his son, Bryce, who died after a battle with cancer. The El Dorado Hills teen was remembered as a determined young man and a good friend.
Friends and family gathered around the El Dorado Hills rock Thursday night to share memories and to mourn the loss of a life taken much too soon. Eighteenyear-old Bryce Bazor, an Oak Ridge High School student and baseball player, lost his battle with osteosarcoma, BRYCE BAZOR a rare form of bone cancer, Oct. 12. He had been fighting the disease, with the entire community rallied behind him and his family, since his diagnosis in July 2021. Oak Ridge JV baseball coach Wes Clanton addressed the crowd while standing in front of the rock painted in Bryce’s honor. The Oak Ridge baseball team stood by his See BRYCE, page A4
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Easy access to Training center taking shape library thwarted EDH FIRE FACILITY Noel Stack Managing Editor
Sel Richard Staff writer
The sounds of hammers striking nails and tractors navigating across dirt pathways are music to El Dorado Hills Deputy Fire Chief Dustin Hall’s ears. The entire department is celebrating, actually, as construction progresses on the long-awaited fire training facility on Golden Center Drive in the El Dorado Hills Business Park, with phase 1 scheduled to open in May 2023. “We’re definitely excited about it coming along ... and right on time,” Hall told Village Life. Phase 1 includes a streetscape with twostory and three-story residential Class “A” live fire training structures totaling approximately 10,000 square feet and a 1,600-square-foot
Some Serrano neighbors are questioning the recent appearance of a sign at the pedestrian gate near the library parking lot denying access across the short strip of dirt that has been trampled by pedestrians. “It is used by students — grammar school through high school — traveling Village Life photo by Sel Richard to school, neighbors A sign prohibiting use of a popwalking to the library, ular shortcut to the El Dorado the HOA offices and Hills Library has some residents the hiking trails, as scratching their heads. well as people walking their dogs,” nearby resident Craig Daniels told Village Life. He described his neighborhood as homes of about 25 years old and speculates the gate has existed for most of that time. Daniels noticed the sign last month, much to his chagrin. “If obeyed, this would require pedestrians to double back to the main entrance of our village and then walk to the library along Silva Valley,” he noted.
Village Life photo by Noel Stack
Crews work on one of two burn buildings under construction as part of the El Dorado Hills Fire Department’s training center in the EDH Business Park. outdoor classroom with storage and bathrooms as well as a water reclamation area plus grading, paving and utilities groundwork for this and future phases.
Hall said the facility has “real-world application” for firefighters in El Dorado Hills. The burn structures are built into the hillsides, creating ascending and
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