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Sheep victims of attacks by dogs
Teacher assaulted on Yosemite campus
Missing hunter is OK
A number of wrecks, injuries in YLP area
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Artist Joan Brumley shows the painting she is donating for the third annual Casino Night to be held Saturday evening [November 6] at the Oakhurst Community Center. Admiring the work are Dale Blea, who will serve as the master of ceremonies, and Peggy Shepard, representing Mountain Community Women.
The event, which features blackjack, crap tables and more as well as food, baked goods and music, begins at 7 p.m. A live auction begins at 11 p.m. Casino Night has been held on New Year's Eve for the past two years but the date is advanced this time. Admission is $15 per person and includes $75 play money and hors d'oeuvres.
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‘Star' begins 43rd year
The Sierra Star celebrates the start of its 43rd year of service to Eastern Madera County with this edition.
"We promise that the Sierra Star will be an increasingly important instrument in tying together the mountain communities, encouraging growth and giving an identity to an area whose people are deserving of the best, the publishers proclaimed in the first edition on November 7, 1957.
"That remains our primary objective, says current publisher Betty E. Linn.
The newspaper has grown steadily with the communities it serves during its four-plus decades. It converted to twice-weekly publication in October of last year, responding to pleas by readers for more current news, and by advertisers for a more frequent means of soliciting business.
Comparisons cited include a population sign at the edges of town noting Oakhurst - in 1957 - had a population of 800. Today the sign says 13,300.
When the Sierra Star greeted its first visitors, there was no ambulance service; fire protection was strictly volunteer. A sewer system was a thing of the future for central Oakhurst. There was no chamber of commerce, no television cable service, no local radio station.
The area had but two churches; now there are more than 30.
After "noodling about the idea of starting a newspaper for a couple of years, founders Jack Gyer and Cal Ragland, associated in a real-estate business, circulated an undated sample paper that outlined the goals of the project and asking for subscriptions at $2 a year.
Some 600 people responded and the first official edition was issued. Mr. Gyer continues to reside in Oakhurst; Mr. Ragland in Clovis.
It was not necessarily a profitable business. "Some-
times we ate, sometimes we didn't, Mr. Gyer recalled during an interview two years ago marking the 40th anniversary.
The newspaper was housed in several central Oakhurst locations before coming to its current home in what was once the Bank of America, along Crane Valley Road.
The original press is still used by Cleon Jones, a later owner-publisher, at his Ponderosa Printing in Oakhurst.
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It's that time of the year …
A traditional recipe for home cooked beef stew with lots of vegetables will be the menu for the annual stew feed sponsored by Sierra Historic Sites Association Saturday [November 6], starting at noon.
The recipe was passed down through generations in the family of one of the SHSA volunteers at Oakhurst's Fresno Flats Historical Park, the site of the annual event which marks the coming of cooler days and stew and soup weather.
Chairman Jane Fall is coordinating the event.
Tickets for the feed which includes biscuits, dessert and beverage may be obtained for a $5 donation at the historical park or the historical research center and library. Both are on the corner of School and Indian Springs Road, Oakhurst.
Proceeds will be used to maintain the Fresno Flats museum complex, a collection of historic buildings which recall life as it was at the turn of the 20th Century and before.
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