Colfax Spring Festival Showcases Community Volunteers
Our View highlights Colfax Spring Festival a event run by volunteers. Activities run 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. with breakfast, plant sale, 10K and 5K run, children's half mile, food booths, historic society exhibits, helicopter static display, vintage cars boats fishing demos, art contests, chili contest, rededication, theater films and live music. The piece credits local volunteers as the key to Colfax’s success.
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America
Colfax
Colfax High School
Colfax Garden Club
Main Street
Soroptimist International
Colfax Historical Society
California National Guard
Lot of Art Park
Colfax City Chooses Urgent Plan For Wastewater Upgrade
Colfax City Council Work Study Session concludes only option two remains to meet state standards. Expansion and regional plant merger are ruled out due to cost and 2006 deadline. City Manager says time extension unlikely. plan due June 14 with work finished by 2006.
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Colfax
Lincoln
Regional Water Quality Control Board
Bob Perrault
A Mother's Day tribute to a steadfast Colfax mother
Editor notes a Colfax Elementary School manager Robert Chipp paying tribute to his mother Jacqueline. The piece chronicles her 13 year daily ritual of leaving home to pursue education and teaching, facing doubt, sacrifice, and family strain, until earning a college degree and special education teaching certification.
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Colfax
Robert Chipp
Jacqueline
Navy
Local legislators and Colfax council contact details
Elected representatives include State Senator Rico Oller, First District, with Sacramento office 5064 and phone 916 445 5788. State Assemblyman Rick Keene, Third District, Sacramento office 5160, phone 916 319 2003, fax 916 319 2103. Placer County Board of Supervisors Rex Bloomfield, Auburn office 5175 Fulweiler Ave, 95603, phone 530 889 4010. Colfax City Council Mayor Sherrie Blackmun. councilors Dave Gard, Sandra Kellams, Sharon Gieras, Bryan West. phone 346 2313.
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Placer County
United States
Colfax Record
Auburn Journal, Inc
High St
Auburn
Stades
Church St
Colfax
California
Rico Oller
State Capitol
Sacramento
Rick Keene
Board of Supervisors
Rex Bloomfield
Fulweiler Ave
Sherrie Blackmun
Dave Gard
Sandra Kellams
Sharon Gieras
Bryan West
Colfax Chronicles highlights from Colfax area history
A digest of past Colfax news items captures events from 2002 to 1928. Topics include Whitcomb Avenue propane land purchase withdrawal, Colfax High golf’s first Div III section title, downtown Spring Festival planning, Mountain Java opening, business awards, snow survey results, student recognitions, a 1953 resignation and local barn dance plans, Farmers Night program, a 1928 store front upgrade, and notes on the Colfax Chronicles weekly compilation.
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Whitcomb Avenue
Colfax
Colfax High
Angels Camp
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Colfax Sentinel
Colfax Enterprise
California Newspapers Publishers Association
National Newspaper Association
Craig Dennis
A. Thomas Homer
Mike
Joan M Miriam Vinder Anke Lee
Carter Townshend
Office Taanttend
Colfax Marke
Corpax
Mom
Gail Garrido
Declan Naughton
Mountain Java
Depot Street
Colfax Greyhound Is
Colfax Chronicles
Nevada Irrigation District
Weimar Hills
Aimee James
Leaf Everest
Alta-Dutch Flat
Mike Smith, Jr
David Campbell
Placer Hills
Brian Bacal
Charles
Jim) Henry
Ted Cosby
Tom Hanford Chevrolet
City Hall Auditorium
Studio Nine Orchestra of
Ted Mann
Colfax Lions Club
Veterans’ Memorial Hall
Kuenzly’s
Joan Meyers
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