Sierra Star, Oakhurst, CA

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Wednesday, September 29, 1999 Online Edition

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Broncos buck Badgers 42-0

Grad-ceremony committee making guidelines for YHS

Summer at Bass Lake has been a thrill for generations of vacationers.

Harvested pot blazes away

Marijuana - "pot - blazes away after piles of the illicit weed were hauled to the Clearwater Fire Station in the Sierra National Forest east of North Fork last week.

Sign law seminars
scheduled Thursday

    An effort to explain to business owners - and all residents - the requirements for signs in Oakhurst will be made during a two-session seminar on Thursday [September 30].
    The seminars will be held at the Oakhurst Community Center starting at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. and will feature presentations by Manuel Ruiz, code enforcement officer for the Madera County Planning Department.
    The Planning and Image Committee of the Eastern Madera County Chamber of Commerce scheduled the seminars after hearing repeated complaints about lack of enforcement of the law, adopted in 1991.
    After reviewing those complaints with Mr. Ruiz, the committee decided an important step would be to make certain everyone affected by the ordinance understood its requirements.
    Mr. Ruiz explained that in case after case while attempting enforcement, he encountered business owners who claimed to be unaware of the ordinance.
    The ordinance was the result of months of study and meetings by a chamber committee.
    Many of the stringent provisions do not come into full force for several years yet because of a 15-year "grandfather clause included when the law was adopted in 1991.
    Other regulations, however, apply now and Mr. Ruiz has been working hard to achieve compliance.
    Although the ordinance has been in effect for years, enforcement has been sporadic because the county Planning Department lacked staff for inspections and issuing citations to offenders.
    That changed earlier this year with the hiring of Mr. Ruiz.

Historic ‘red house' will
be demolished

    The little red house in front of Oakhurst Community Center is history.
    Literally.
    The historic house will be dismantled Friday and Saturday [October 1-2].
    The project was approved by the Board of Directors of the Oakhurst Community Center following a lengthy but fruitless effort to find a use for the house - or to get someone to move it to a new location.
    "Nobody can afford it, or find a useful purpose for it, and that is very unfortunate, says board member Vivian Cooper. She is in charge of the dismantling project this weekend.
    "It is a liability that we need to do something about, says Mrs. Cooper. "It has a beautiful history and it served its purpose. We hate to see it go.

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Weekend activities
Festival, craft
fair at BL

    BASS LAKE - This community hosts its 17th annual Bass Lake Fall Festival and Craft Fair this weekend.
    There will be plenty of fun and lots to do and see Saturday and Sunday [October 2-3].
    Activities begin at 9 a.m. both days, continuing until 5. Admission and parking will be free.
    The events at the Pines Village are sponsored by the Bass Lake Chamber of Commerce and The Craft Fair.
    Artists and crafters will be bringing work for sale such as country folk art, pottery by Scott Vaughn, jewelry of all kinds, clothing, birdhouses, Hmong needlepoint by Welma Vang, fine art, and more.
    For those who don't know about "pa dau, the Hmong needlepoint, it means "flowering cloth, and is very traditional and beautiful.
    There will be live country, folk and bluegrass music by singer-songwriter Mike Knapp of North Fork.
    There will also be gourmet Thai food.
    Information: 877-3474, 642-3676.

Chris Russell named new Chamber executive

    The appointment of Oakhurst business owner Chris Russell as the new executive director of the Eastern Madera County Chamber of Commerce has been announced by the Board of Directors.
    Mr. Russell fills a position vacant since the January resignation of Dave Lapic.
    He was chosen after a recruitment campaign and interviews of several applicants.
    Mr. Russell will begin his new chamber duties on October 25.
    In addition to being a partner in Adrianne's, a store in the Silver Creek Center at the north end of Oakhurst, Mr. Russell is also a coordinator of Mountain Marketplace, the highly successful Sunday program that includes the farmers farmer and entertainment.
    He has also been very active in the chamber, serving on its Board of Directors since January and coordinating the chamber's weekly Business Forum on Wednesday mornings.

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