Colfax Book Chat Showcases Two Local Authors
Colfax hosts a Book Chat at Basement Wines featuring Evelyn Berglund Shore and Julianne Balmain. Shore’s Born on Snowshoes recounts life on an Alaskan trap line in the early 1900s, first published in 1953 and reissued with expanded editions. Balmain, aka Nadia Gordon, discussed Death by the Glass, the second in a Napa Valley mystery series, with HBO showing initial interest pending more material.
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Napa Valley
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Colfax High Student Heads to State Miss Teen California Pageant
Colfax High School student Casey Schlittenhart, Meadow Vista resident, will compete April 16 18 in the Miss Teen California Scholarship pageant. She balances dance at Pamelot School of Dance, teen advising at New Life Pregnancy Center, and singing in Colfax High School Choir as she pursues the crown.
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Realistic toy guns spark law enforcement dilemma at range
Placer County officials and Auburn officers staged a live fire demonstration using colorful balloons and realistic toy handguns to show how easily a replica can be mistaken for a real weapon. Officials warned that synthetic guns complicate decisions about force on juveniles, noting recent incidents and urging schools to enforce bans on fake firearms.
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Placer County
E.V. Cain
Highway 49
Gary Pantaleoni
Placer High School
Trish Anderson
Placer County Public Defender’s Office
Ted Peterson
Anderson
Stephanie Swanburg
Stephanies
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