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DNA goes in time capsule
1,000 years: envisions of life
Coarsegold Elementary School students predict Earth’s future
HIGH ACHIEVER
 Alexander Cano was honored as Rotary Student of the Month at the Rotary breakfast meeting last month. The Coarsegold Elementary eighth-grader received a certificate and a $50 Savings Bond. While maintaining a 4.0 GPA , Alexander is student body president and participates in soccer, football, basketball, softball, wrestling, cross country and track teams.
Joining Alexander are Coarsegold Principal John Stafford and Rotary member Steve Raupp.
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Venezuelan seeks
Mountain Area aid
MADERA — The expansion of “roadless areas” within Sierra and other national forests proposed by the Clinton administration was rebuked here last week by Madera County supervisors.
Supervisors, at the urging of Supervisor Gary Gilbert [District 5-Mountain Area] and several organizations, adopted a strong resolution opposing the so-called “roadless” plan.
Mr. Gilbert sees the issue as “far-reaching” and “perhaps even larger than the YARTS issue.”
(Mr. Gilbert led county opposition to the plans of YARTS — Yosemite Area Regional Transportation Strategy — that included buses to haul tourists into Yosemite National Park.)
Mr. Gilbert notes that a key element in the proposal for roadless areas is the definition of a road.
“The implication of this action is significant to rural counties such as Madera,” Mr. Gilbert suggests.
Among others, the Home Rule committee and the Coarsegold Resource Conservation District agree that the roadless concept goes too far.
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No library book sale in January
There will not be a Friends of the Oakhurst Branch Library book sale in January.
The next book sale will be Saturday, February 5, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The library accepts book donations any time during the month.
Grandparents and Books (GAB) volunteers are scheduled to read every morning from 10 to 11 a.m. Check with the library for additional times.
The library will be closed Friday, [December 31] and Saturday [ January 1].
The library will also be closed Saturday, January 15, to observe Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.
Best sellers purchased in December from proceeds of the FOBL book sale are:
Agatha Raisin and the Witch at Wyckhadden, Beaton; Atlantis Found, Cussler; Christmas Cookie Murder, Meier; Daughter of Fortune, Allende; Crimes of Charlotte Bronte, Tulley.
Friendship with God, Walsch; Further Chronicles of Conan, Jordan; Gravity, Gerritsen; High Tide, Devereaux; A Highland Christmas, Beaton; Hunting Badger, Hillerman.
In A Class by Itself, Brown; John Glenn: A Memoir, Glenn; The Long Program, Fleming; The Looking Glass, Evans; Million Dollar Mermaid, Williams.
Monster, Kellerman; Murder at the Library of Congress, Truman; Phantom of Manhattan, Forsythe; Unexpected Guest, Christie; A Walk to Remember, Sparks.
The new unabridged books on tape available at the library are:
Dead Side of the Mike, Straight, Twice Shy, Monday the Rabbi Took Off, Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet, A place in Normandy.
Under the Tuscan Sun, Unexpected Mrs. Polifax, Amazing Mrs. Polifax, A Palm for Mrs. Polifax.
Mrs. Polifax on Safari, Mrs. Polifax on the China Station, Mrs. Polifax and the Hong Kong Buddha, Mrs. Polifax and the Golden Triangle.
Mrs. Polifax and the Whirling Dervish, Mrs. Polifax and the Second Thief, Mrs. Polifax Pursued, Mrs. Polifax and the Lion Killer.
Mrs. Polifax, Innocent Tourist; The Horse You came in on, Borrower of the Night, Street of Five Moons, Silhouette in Scarlet, Trojan Gold, Night Train to Memphis.
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