Mountain Democrat (Newspaper) - March 21, 1986, Placerville, California Rites of spring begin Inside fn a A UTV A-V God's It's Friday your in the Real Estate Spectrum VOL. 136 NO. 37 Placerville Times 1986 Dy the Mountain all reserved FBI MARCH Serving El Dorado County since 1851 FOUR FORTY-EIGHT TWO SUPPLEMENTS 2T Insurance shocker Cameron Park tennis neighborhood parks to be closed 5 By CLARE WOOD Staff writer CAMERON PARK Swimming and boating will not be allowed at Cameron Park tennis not be played on the community's workers will take down children's playground equipment and neighborhood parks will close when Cameron Park runs out of in- surance March 28. The Cameron Park Community Services District board of tors decided Tuesday to curtail high-risk activities when it ed that the district had been unable to get another liability in- surance The previous rier canceled the policy as of Feb. 28, then gave the district a one- month District Manager Gene inger said workers are already posting signs and taking down equipment in preparation for the March 28 Some such as classes the district considers low will hopefully will be able to continue because they're self-insured through their Geringer Essential CSD such fire will But boating will not be ted on the the the tennis courts and neighborhood parks will be ed; and most of the playground equipment will taken the board Geringer said he hopes that eee A-S No no decision Honor farm 3 years off By CLARE WOOD County supervisors decide to build an honor they will not be able to finance the project for at least three Board members in January said they favored the idea of building a work camp for about 200 Sheriff Richard said at that time he had found a suitable for the honor farm acres of Bureau of Land ment land in Omo Ranch and the board asked him to provide a detailed Omo Ranch residents did not like the They showed up in force at a capital outlay session Wednesday and told in no uncertain their thoughts on the Supervisor Pat whose district includes the Omo Ranch area and who has opp ed the i called for the capital outlay session to ning for correctional Members of the board were at first unwilling to allow Omo Ranch residents to saying the meeting was intended to be an not a discussion of specific will not sit here and be HONOR A-C Long-range expect more rain Democrat photo by Greg Clark COMING DOWN Parks supervisor Dick Cribbs and Bob Laudermilk dismantle a swing Wednesday in the island playground in the center of Cameron Park By BRIAN ROKOS Staff writer shoes and sleeve shirts are beginning to emerge from dusty shoe boxes and regions of bedroom closets ig- nored since finding their way onto the feet and backs of El Dorado County the first day of ing was greeted by sunny skies and warm And this weather should continue through most of the forecasts in the Western Weather bulletin and Old Farmer's Almanac J. Marvin Dodge of Davis issues the Western Weather long-range His outlook is based on energy transfer and heat ex- which Dodge says are the basic driving forces creating storms and weather He is calling for precipitation to be 110-120 percent above normal for tapering off to normal in May and Temperatures should be above normal with unseasonably hot periods in late May and The implications of Dodge is that forage growth on state rangelands should benefit from the warm weather he should be a good water year for most of the western cording to should be ample supplies for domestic and industrial hydroelectric power irrigation and groundwater Peak snow melt and runoff may occur fairly early in the The 194th edition of the Qld Farmer's Almanac also rain for with above temperatures but below The almanac vides this spring fore- cast for the rainy and with rain in the tral and 27-31, rain in the April 1-3, rainy and 44, clear and 943, rainy and 14-18 sunny and 19-22, eee SOFAR financing could take six more months to nail down Democrat staff It may take up to six more ths to finance the South Fork of the American River the Mountain Democrat has Project officials have been ing the project will be financed in time to begin work this But a group of three large U.S. companies has just begun ing the a process which could take two to six cording to Joseph who represents the Rowan is senior vice president of son Lehman Brothers Inc. of New players are essentially at the first he adding that they to on the process. He said the first serious meeting with the other major backer the debt lender was held this Rowan said the companies he represents will hire an dent engineer to assess the making potential of the project and have tax attorneys determine if tax benefits will be Company representatives also will be traveling to this area possibly in April to gauge the level of local indifference and he If the lineup of potential in- changes during the project analysis the process will have to be repeated or at least possible that one or more the will he Three large U.S. companies are now investigating They have made tentative com- to participate in their commitments will become final if their tions are completed to their see Henningsen Sons Inc. 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