we had great feed back about our special edition: 2010 Colusa Colusa County
Fair Guide, everyone seemed to love the photos and the look of this year’s
official fair guide and I’d like to thank James Nair, Kathy Craigo, Carolan
meek and the Fair staff for all working together in putting together the guide.
also the miss Colusa County Coordinators for allowing us access to the girls
for their two photo sessions. enjoy the fair gallery page, if you want a copy of
your photo let me know. hope you have a great month and stay cool everyone!
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The thing about these small towns is there just aren’t many options for a woman like me. Never married, no children, no baggage… seems like a great place in life to be, but when you live in a town with a population of no more than 6,000 the pickings are pretty slim. Don’t get me wrong, everybody knows somebody that’s a “great guy” that they just can’t wait to set me up with. Here’s a little secret… He’s a great guy to you because he’s your friend. My guy friends are all great too, but there are good reasons they’re my ‘friends’ and nothing more.
I looked in the mirror for the 37th time before heading out the door to meet Bachelor Num-
I’ve once again entered the single-girl dating realm. It is nerve wracking to say the least! Getting ready for my first date in years, I cut my leg shaving, sneezed right after I applied my mascara (which every girl knows equals a black smudgy face) and changed my outfit approximately seven times before finally set-tling on something.
“Ron what do I wear?” I pleaded with my cousin. “I want to look hot but not like I’m ask-ing for it but not like I’m not asking for it but not like too young but totally not like I’m old or something but - ” Ron cut me off and told me to send him pictures of my outfit choices and we settled on nice jeans, stilettos, and a new
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making a DiFFerenCe:BLoCkBusterheLPing the trooPsColusa’s local Blockbuster is helping keeping our troop’s sweet tooth happy. “We are sending candy and other snacks to the troops” said store manager Nick Helm. The Colusa location has partner with Junk Food for Jar heads and are currently taking donations in the form of cash, or candy and other snacks. “We have actually already sent quite a bit of snacks to the troops, it’s something that we will be do-ing on going” added Helm. The cash donations will be used to purchased the items directly from the Colusa Blockbuster branch. “We used all the dona-
tions to buy the candy, soda, popcorn and such items” said Helm. Once the purchases are made Helm and the store staff pack up the goods and prepare them for shipment. “They go all over, mostly over seas to Afghanistan and the middle east where we have the most active troops” said Helm. Helm added that he hopes that people continue to support the troops and stop by the store and donate whatever they can. The Colusa Blockbuster store is located at 1029 Bridge Street in Colusa and is taking donation during regular business hours.
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preciation of a specific historical period, place or group of people. This event is based more upon Colusa County’s agricultural presence and how that presence is historically relevant. Because that rel-evance extends to all periods in history, all of the participating groups have agreed that the location, rather than the time period will be the focal point of this faire. “This event will allow residents and visitors the op-portunity to participate in Colusa County’s Renais-sance,” said White.Because of the shared latitude between Spain and Colusa County, many of the same agricultural prod-ucts and value added agricultural products were available historically.White explained that rice, olives, mushrooms, beans, vine crops, grains, fruits and vegetables were all staples of the late 15th and early 16th centuries.Wine was produced from locally grown grapes, bread made from locally grown and ground grains, and cheeses were made from locally produced milk.All soap, perfume and medications were made at home, using locally produced products. Traditionally sheep, goats, chickens and pigs were kept domestically. Game birds, venison and wild boar were hunted to supplement the table. “All of these products are still available here in Colu-sa County,” said White. Vendors and participants who have agreed to take part in the faire so far are an herbalist, two black-
Late this fall, The Colusa County Harvest Renais-sance Faire will arrive in Colusa.On Oct. 23 and 24 the Community Foundation of Colusa County in will host the county’s first renais-sance faire at the Colusa County Fairgrounds.The faire is set during 1474-1516, in the court of Ferdinand and Isabella, the first of the Renaissance Monarchs. Foundation member Cheri White is spearheading the event. She said there has been a tremendous response to the idea of holding such an event in Colusa County.
“We are more than excited about the possibilities,” she added.So far three reenactment groups have agreed to participate in the faire, as have several vendors.The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), a medieval re-enactment group from Colusa and Sutter County will be a part of the event. The Army of Montrose, an English Civil War re-en-actors group from Woodland will be here, and the Historical Forces Association, a Scottish Jacobite Re-enactment group from Williams will take part.The Army of Montrose will provide drills once every hour. “This group also travels with chickens,” said White. They have a large display of functional black powder muskets and operable cannon.The SCA is a group that teaches the domestic skill and applications of the period such as spinning, weaving and tatting as well as food preparation and many necessary skills such as woodworking, leatherworking, tent making, etc.The Scottish Jacobite group will do 18th Century drills and will provide history of the Scottish High-lands.Most events of this kind are created by the ap-
smiths, a wool and fabric dyer, a glass blower, handmade clothing, fruits, animals, musicians, and food such as stew in bread bowls, breads, stuffed peppers, beef on a spit, sausages, spiced pome-granate drink, cheeses and game birds.White said there is still a need for more vendors. “We’d love to have spinners, candle makers, soap makers, jewelry makers, wood carvers, furniture makers, weapons sales, and wine, mead and beer makers,” she said.White add that there is still plenty of time for ven-dors and community members and groups to get involved.
“This is good for our community, and an opportu-nity for us to learn and teach history through skills we already have,” she said. Any local group or vendor may participate with no vendor fee. A nominal fee will be charged to out-of-county vendors.“The beauty of this event is that it brings the com-munity together, and any fundraising efforts stay with the individual vendors,” said White.For more information or to register as a participant contact White at (530) 458-4222
We are more than excited about the possibilities
This is good for our community, and an opportunity for us to learn and teach history...
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Center consists of one spacious room and large pa-tio where clients enjoy many activities, crafts, pro-grams and gatherings. All Colusa County Behavioral Health clients are welcome at Safe Haven.Colusa County provides space and utilities for the center, however any program costs rely solely on donations and private contributions.“Once established fund begins to grow, it is antici-pated that the programs and act ivies will grow as well,” said program director Valerie Stirling. The Safe Haven Fund board members include Kathy Craigo, Valerie Stirling, Debbie Naylor and Ken Ed-wards.At a recent meeting of the board, Edwards, pas-tor at New Life Christian Center in Williams pledged to contribute a percentage of the church’s Farmer’s Market sales to the Fund. Edwards’ congregation is participating at the Colusa Farmer’s Market selling nuts, honey and butters in an effort to raise needed building fund money for the church.Now that the Safe Haven Fund is under the um-brella of the foundation, its donation recepticale (a lighthouse) will be included in the with other fund receptacles on display during foundation fundraising
The Community Foundation of Colusa County of-ficially adopted the Safe Haven Fund in June.Acceptance by the Foundation at its June 10 meet-ing provides the Fund with the opportunity to oper-ate under the umbrella of the foundation’s 501 c 3 non-profit status. Any donations or contributions made to the Safe Haven Fund will now be tax deductible to the do-nor.The foundation will match up to $250 for the fund’s initial start up monies. To get the fund started, and as an incentive to other potential donors, foundation board member Jim White graciously pledged $50 toward the needed $250 start-up money for the fund. Now only $200 needs to be raised in order to have the $250 match.The fund, was established as a mode of fundrais-ing for Safe Haven Drop-in Center, a project de-signed to provide a safe, judgment free supportive environment for recipients of care through Colusa Behavioral Health. This fund will be used to support activities and programs which are consistent with the Safe Haven program, directives and goals. Safe Haven Drop-in Center is located in the Behav-ioral Health Building at 162 E. Carson in Colusa. The
events.But, it is also up to the fund volunteers to plan fund-raising events and projects.Stirling commented that a number of people have volunteered to assist in fundraising efforts. “Some of the ideas we have so far are; bake sales, craft sales and a possible quilt raffle,” she said.Currently, the board is selecting a logo for the fund, and also developing a contribution campaign program.Most recently, a group of volunteers painted the Safe Haven room with paint donated by Messick’s Ace Hardware and Tom Reische.“The group of volunteers took great pride in the work on the room and were especially pleased with the way it turned out,” said Stirling. “We are very grateful to Tom for his generous do-nation,” said Stirling.To make a donation to the fund make tax deductible checks payable to Community Foundation of Colusa County with Safe Haven Fund notated the check memo section. Contributions should be mailed to Safe Haven Fund c/o Valerie Stirling, 162 E. Car-son, Colusa, CA 95932.
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There isn’t many twenty some-thing year olds that can say they truly enjoy their work, however Chris Middleton can. Many of you might know him at the manager of the Colusa Theatre but he’s more than that. Middleton is also head of Promotions & Group Sales (Jr. Partner) at Peerless Entertainment LLC. (Parent Company of Riverside Lanes and The Colusa Theatre).Middleton has lived most of his life in Colusa County and is now mar-ried to his wife Jennifer Middleton, also of Colusa. Middleton said that one of the things he enjoys about Colusa County is the scenery be-cause “I can get amazing pictures just about any time of year, and the people around here are willing to do anything for there neighbor” He added of Colusa is “So far it’s just been a nice place to live.”Middleton says that even though
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he enjoys his work, it was by acci-dent he became involved “I had just moved back and was apply-ing for jobs in the area. I was origi-nally hired to work a few days of the week at Riverside Lanes and the other days at the Theatre. And it just progressed to where I am at today”. He goes on to explain that what he loves the most about his job is “premiere nights, I love seeing a bunch of people in and out of the theatre (bowl too when I am there). I just enjoy interacting with every-body. Nothing better than to have that rush of people and getting to see all the different people get en-joyment from something as simple as popcorn, soda, and a flick.” Mid-dleton says it’s nice to know that the Colusa Theatrer can be an escape for people, even if it’s only an hour and a half long movie. He says that they hope, that everyone is able to
leave the world outside and en-joy themselves when at the the-ater.Middleton says he is constantly striving to provide the best experi-ence as possible. He also explains that they are doing key upgrades that will allow them to stay com-petitive, in the last month they have upgraded the sound and have become a Technicolor 3D house. He says that “we also have a couple other projects in the works, that we hopefully will be unveiling soon too”. There is also exciting things hap-pening at Rive Side Lanes. Mid-dleton commented ”We are also hoping to re-establish our youth bowling program.” Middle-ton says that bowling is an ever changing business, while the sport of bowling is the same they are always trying new things, from ex-panded beverage selections and new menu items to simple things like new shoes and leagues. Middleton says that “there are a few thing that are still in the development stage, so be sure to check our website (www.ColusaTheatre.com) or find (us) the Colusa Theatre or Riverside Lanes on Facebook” to stay con-nected and up to date with Peer-less Entertainment.
The Colusa Theatre is located at 513 Market Street in Colusa, Cali-fornia. Riverside Lanes is located at 420 Main Street also in Colusa, California.
New York, NY - June 29, 2010 - MTV’s new docu-series “If You Really Knew Me” goes inside high schools across the country to discover what can happen when students peel back their public personas, break out of their cliques and show their peers who they really are. Premiering on Tuesday, July 20, at 11pm, each episode visits a different school, following five students as they tear down the walls that divide them through a transformative one-day program, “Challenge Day.” Reminiscent of the film “The Breakfast Club,” this real life series goes beneath the surface and behind the labels, ultimately uniting these students as they surpriseeach other with illuminating yet sometimes difficult truths about their lives. “’If You Really Knew Me’ is an incredibly authen-tic and compelling docu-series that takes us on a 24 hour journey through a high school’s social transformation. It shows us what happens when kids from various cliques decide to break down the walls that divide them and commit to change,” said Tony DiSanto, President of Programming for MTV. “It’s an intense and dramatic experience, but ultimately uplifting and universally relatable for all of us who have gone through high school or are about to.” Each episode takes place at a different high school with its own set of issues and its own unique set of cliques. In the series premiere, viewers go inside a Northern California school divided by race and cliques, a symptom of a newly-diverse student
body that has grown from 500 to 2,400 students in just 10 years. As the season progresses, theshow profiles a variety of schools struggling with everything from cyberbullying to small town rumor mills. Viewers learn that all of the young people profiled are striving to make the best of their high school years, while experiencing many of the same doubts and fears that are part of being a teenager. Deep down, all of these students want to be ac-cepted for who they really are. “Of all the programs I’ve ever filmed that help young people, Challenge Day is the most impressive and effective,” said Arnold Shapiro of Arnold Shapiro Productions. “Bringing MTV and Challenge Day to-gether for this life-changing series has resulted in some of the most rewarding, amazing and uplifting hours I’ve ever produced.” “’If You Really Knew Me’ illuminates the power and strength that young people have when they share and connect in a vulnerable and authentic way,” said Jaime Polson, Chief Executive Officer of Chal-lenge Day. “We truly believe that this series has the power to transform people’s lives, and by working with MTV and Arnold Shapiro Productions, we’re able to bring Challenge Day to even more people across the country.”Online at MTV.com (http://www.mtv.com/shows/if_you_really_knew_me/series.jhtml), viewers can find exclusive content and updates on students featured in the series, sound off in an in-teractive discussion forum, and locate information
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and resources on issues touched on in the show. Fans tweeting about the show can use the official series hash tag #IfYouReallyKnewMe. Additionally, educators, organizations and individuals will be able to access information on Challenge Day, including weekly discussion guides that can be used as a resource to open up a dialogue and apply some of the training used by Challenge Day in the show. As the series progresses, “If You Really Knew Me” touches on a number of issues young people struggle with today, from mental health to cyber-bullying. On-air and online, MTV will connect view-ers to information and resources for many of the topics addressed in the show, often integrating the network’s core public education initiatives includ-ing A THIN LINE, which aims to empower young people to stop the spread of digital abuse; Half of Us, mtvU’s Peabody Award-winning campaign to fight stigma around mental health; and It’s Your (Sex) Life, MTV’s Emmy and Peabody-winning partnership with the Kaiser Family Foundation to encourage young people to make responsible de-cisions about their sexual health. “If You Really Knew Me” is Executive Produced by Arnold Shapiro and Paul J. Coyne of Arnold Sha-piro Productions, and Angie Day for MTV. Tony DiSanto is President of Programming for MTV, Liz Gateley is Senior Vice President of Production De-velopment for MTV, and Tamar Zohar is Senior Director of Series Development for MTV. Concept by Arnold Shapiro.
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2010 Miss Colusa County
Katelyn MenaWho’s that girl?
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Who’s that girl? She seems familiar. She has that something. These are comments that you could hear around the grandstand on the evening that Katelyn Mena was crowned the new Miss Colusa County at the June 2010 Colusa County Fair. Many know Mena as the daughter of Fred and Alicia Mena of Colusa. Others know her because of her older sister Megan Mena. Yet, Mena has made many fans since she started working at the Colusa Theater in downtown Colusa a year ago.No matter how you know her, the one thing most people will agree, she shined like a star on the evening of June 10th 2010.“My facebook has been busy that’s for sure” said Mena as she describes the last month. She adds “I talk to mini miss Christina Godinez a lot, we actually have the same birthday.” She also has been getting a lot of recognition, she says “when I go to the softball games, I get “aren’t you Miss Colusa County?” -
“That’s really cool”Mena, advises any young woman who may want to enter the competition in the future to “Definitely do it, it’s a great experience, I’m meeting a lot of new people” she said recently in an interview with UNITED.Since that time, she has continued to be-come more involved in the communities of the county, and she has worked at doing her best to represent the county. “I really liked the diaper derby, it was really entertaining”She said she entered the competition because “I was on my way to Disneyland, it was the last day to enter and I was talking to my friend and my mom. I was still uncertain if I should do it, so I called my dad and asked him if he could get the application for me. He did, it was literally the last hour to sign up”Mena has always considered going to a Uni-versity or a Technical School to become an Anesthetist, Ultra Sound Tech or a Physician Assistant.
When asked why she thinks she won the ti-tle, Mena replied she believes it was because “I feel I’m not afraid to speak my mind and stand up for what I believe in. For my inter-view, I was also very creative in my speech; I made them listen to my message.She was confident and said it was a fun ex-perience being on stage and that it wasn’t as nerve wracking as she had anticipated. While the pageant seems to be almost ef-fortless on stage the night of the event, the contestants work very hard to prepare for it. Weekly rehearsals begin a month before the pageant. Mena recalled that the rehearsals were no easy task. She said “It was basically walking and speaking” she added “ we don’t practice the wave like people believe”. “We had the dance finalized two days before the pageant - there was some tense mo-ments with our choreographer, but all the girls pulled together and we even added our own
dance moves to the routine”All of the rehearsals were held on the ‘hot’ stage. A week prior to the pageant each con-testant was interviewed by the judges. One of the questions she remembers the most is “What things do I do around the community that support my morals and values” - She replied “I’m in Life Teen, a Catholic youth group, and also do the annual Walk for Life in San Francisco. _Next year Mena plans to participate in the Miss California pageant. “I’m really excited, because I will have to do a talent portion of the pageant” Mena is very appreciative for the support re-ceived from her family and gives big thanks. “I would also like to thank Kirkman Jr., he was the inspiration behind my speech. Thanks to my dad for filling out my form and also Talyn for encouraging me to do it, as well as all the other girls for making it so much fun.”Right now, she is focusing on being a role
model and a good representative of the county. She’s a very involved young woman. She is part of ABS at school - “I’m the newly elected ABS Vice President, I’m also involved in the Leadership Program.”“I would like to encourage young people to take a leap of faith and go out side the box and take advantage of every opportunity to experience new things.”When her name was called as the winner, Mena thought, “I can’t cry, that’s something Anastacia Cristler had said not to do.”She said the biggest issue for teens in the county is that there is not a lot to do around here, “so we become kind of lazy and when things like Miss Colusa County come up, there is a lack of involvement. In a county like Colusa you can’t expect things to happen, you have to go out there and make them happen” she said. Mena describes Colusa County as a “small
county, that’s family oriented, people are very supportive of one another and it’s a quiet county. You kind of fall in love with it, be-cause it’s comfortable, as much as I’m look-ing forward to new experiences outside the county, I’m going to miss it”
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Some of Our New Projects… 2010 Chamber Membership Drive 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular Colusa Certified Farmers Market Grand Opening Day !! June 7th, 2010 5 pm to 8 pm. Recently Celebrated…
President’s Message: The Chamber Board is pleased to announce that Mrs. Melanie Jacobs has accepted the position of Administrative Assistant. The Colusa County Chamber of Commerce is now Open For Business FIVE DAYS PER WEEK. We sincerely hope that everyone in the community will take a few minutes to stop by and say “Hi”, to Melanie and take a look at this beautiful facility. We have a vast amount of tourism information available at the Chamber Office, as well as resource information to help your businesses survive and thrive during these tough economic times.
Don’t forget to ask “Mel”, about the County Bounty Gift Baskets, they make excellent raffle prizes and are great gifts to mail to friends in other places. Thanks, Ben Felt.
JULY 25Bowling for Boobs!@Riverside Lanes
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Mondays 5:00PM to 8:00PMJune Through September
Memorial Park - 10th and Market in ColusaFor more information call (530) 458-5525
New Location!starting in JulyJuly 21
CRMC Board of Directors Annual
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FestivalFriday 6 p.m. - Midnight
Saturday 10 a.m. - Midnight
Sunday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
JULY 29 Concert in the Park
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“Blue Moon Rising”
JULY 15 Concert in the Park
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“Feather River Gypsies”
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Free Auto Technology Hybrid Training Available through One-StopColusa County One-Stop is offering an opportunity to become certified in the field of auto technology and hybrid training at no cost to the students.A program in partnership with Yuba Community College District, North Central Counties Consortium Workforce In-vestment Board and local One-Stop Centers is providing Auto Technology Hybrid training. This is an opportunity at no costs to qualified participants.Colusa County residents interested this training are asked to contact Colusa County One-Stop at (530) 458-0326 prior to August 16. Sutter County residents should call (530) 822-5120 ext. 3031, and Yuba County residents may call (530) 749-4850.Participants must be 18 years of age and older, and able to at-tend evening classes.The training will be completed in six months and will provide certification in basic fuel and emission systems, basic electri-cal systems and fundamentals of hybrid vehicles. Students will earn ASE (Automotive Service Excellence) certifications and three industry certifications. This training is an Equal Opportunity Employer Program. Aux-iliary aids and services are available upon request to individu-als with disabilities.
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From The Colusa County Arts CouncilIt is time to sign up for your membership for the 2010-2011 fiscal year.
Our dues covers July to June 30.
Membership:Individual $30Family $40
Business $100+
Upcoming events:
BIRTH OF IMPRESSIONISM ONE seat left!! July 13
de Young Museum,San Francisco (transportation) provided
Member discount (update your membership now)
PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW Chairman Ralph Newlin
October 16, 2010 Senior Center, Colusa
VAN GOGH, GAUGUIN, CEZANNE, AND BEYOND de Young Museum,San Francisco
(transportation provided) October 2010
Member discount (update your membership now)
We are on our way! Thank you for your support and your participation.Colusa County Arts Council Board
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Christmas, Halloween, Spring holidays and others. The appeal of a year round Christmas store has grown over the past 20 years as the collectabil-ity of Christmas and Halloween has increased dra-matically. Featured products from Department 56, Katherine’s Collection, Mark Roberts, Kurt S Adler, Midwest CBK, Winward and Arty Imports will be presented as vignettes running front to back along the store sides.
“We chose Old Sacramento because it is truly the jewel of the capitol city,” says Amy Guthrie of C & C Merchants, Inc. “The appeal to tourists and locals alike is obvious by just spending some time here. It is nothing like what it used to be. It is fun, safe, and clean.”
When asked about the Old Sacramento site, Mark Snyder from C & C Merchants, Inc. stated “Our way of merchandising is to present a fantasy for the home in a way that is magical yet obtainable.” He also stated that the built in charm of the shop-ping district and the 2 to 3 million unique tourists each year sealed the deal of the location. “Why sit in a mall waiting for people to find you. Come to Old Sacramento and the people come to you.”
Not so many years ago, the National Park known as Old Sacramento was known as the capitol city’s “skid row”. Littered with dilapidated and failing buildings, scarred by blight, and ignored by locals, Old Sacramento was written off as no longer a vi-able business district.
In the mid-1960’s, a plan was set forth to rede-velop the area and through it, the first historic dis-trict in the West was created. Today, with 53 his-toric buildings, Old Sacramento has more buildings of historic value condensed into its 28 acres than most areas of similar size in the west. Registered as a National and California Historic Landmark, the properties in the district are primarily owned by private owners, with individual businesses leasing shops and offices. The area has flourished and is once again a thriving commercial trade center.
C & C Merchants, Inc. is pleased to become a part of the Old Sacramento business district by intro-ducing a new shopping experience in a brand new building developed by The Scurfield Company. Oc-cupying what is now known as the Empire House/Ebner Hotel Building, C & C Merchants will conduct business as a kitchen and cooking shop and a year round Christmas store. The buildings are being built as one with 2 distinctly different facades each one housing a unique store offering Old Sacramento a new way to shop and expanding upon the experi-ences already asserted by Evangeline’s, Stage 9 Productions and G. Willikers Toy Emporium.
C & C Merchants, Inc. presents Chef’s Mercan-tile and Christmas & Company. These stores oc-cupy the Empire House and Ebner Hotel buildings respectively. Chef’s Mercantile is a full service cooking, kitchen and accessory store boasting a coffee bar and cooking demonstration space. The roughly 1,900 square foot culinary store will offer well priced items for baking, cooking, presentation, entertaining and more from companies, like Breville, Capresso, BIA, Mauviel, All-Clad, Le Creuset and much, much more.
Christmas & Company is a year round seasonal shop featuring holiday décor and collectibles for
Old Sacramento State Historic Park is a cluster of noteworthy, early Gold Rush commercial structures. Historic buildings include the 1849 Eagle Theater; the 1853 B. F. Hastings Building, once home to the California Supreme Court; and the 1855 Big Four Building. Old Sacramento’s historical significance comes from it being the western terminus of the Pony Express postal system, the first transconti-nental railroad, and the transcontinental telegraph.
Old Sacramento is a California Historical Landmark. The National Park Service named the entire original historic 1850s business district of Old Sacramento a National Historic Landmark in 1965. With over 50 historic buildings, Old Sacramento has more buildings of historic value in its 28 acres than any area of similar size in the West.
Old Sacramento State Historic Park is located in downtown Sacramento and is convenient to reach by all freeways. Coming from any direction in the state, take Interstate 5 to the ”J Street” exit and follow the signs into park. Abundant covered park-ing is available at the main parking structure located at 3rd and J Streets. There are a limited number of metered, 90-minute on-street parking spaces throughout the park.
C & C Merchants, Inc. does business as Chef’s Mercantile and Christmas & Company at 118 and 116 K Street, Sacramento, CA, 95814. It is op-erated by Mark Snyder and Amy Guthrie who are the children of William (Bill) Snyder and Jennifer Bomberger.
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page sixmagazineFOURTH OF JULY COVERAGE:Donations stiLL neeDeD to Pay For inDePenDenCe CeLeBration
works display” said Felt. So far, other sponsors for this year’s event are Colusa Industrial Properties, Davison Drugs & Stationary, Reading Oil, Superior Tires, Sunsweet Dryers, Kittle’s Outdoor & Sport, and the Ramada Motel. We greatly appreciate the support that we have received, but are still short by $16,500 of covering our costs. There has prob-ably not been a time in our nation’s history, where we needed to reflect on what the 4th of July means to us, then now. So, I sincerely hope that our lo-cal businesses and industries can come forward to sponsor this Community Event so that our tradition is not lost.
Contributions can be made to the Chamber of Commerce at 2963 Davison Court, Colusa, CA 95932.
The Annual Colusa County celebration and firework display went on without a hitch. The question now is how will this annual celebration make a return next year?
“We certainly hope so, but this years might have been the last one”, was the response from the Colusa County Chamber of Commerce president, Ben Felt. This 2010 year’s celebration was the second year that the Chamber of Commerce has organized the Fireworks Display. The Colusa City Fire Department had done an excellent job of orga-nizing the event for the previous 35 years. How-ever, each year it seems to get harder and harder to raise the necessary money for the event. With the current tough economic conditions, this year is an even bigger challenge. The Fireworks Display alone costs $14,500 and the Chamber expects the total event to cost about $24,000 this year. “Without the very generous commitment from the Colusa Casino Resort of $5,000 for this year’s event, we could not have even considered a fire-
We certainly hope so... but we have to pay off this year..
Without the very generous commitment from the
Colusa Casino Resort of $5,000 for this year’s event, we could not have even considered a fireworks display”
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