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ONE YEAR AGO July 31, 2003 — Three years ago Larry Hillberg walked 2,000 miles from New Mexico to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for his high school reunion. Last summer he took a 2,650 mile five month stroll along the Pacific Coast Trail. But perhaps the most important walk of his life occurred last Sunday along the Stephens Trail. The eight mile hike included helping save a pair of hikers who were overcome by the 100- degree heat in the canyon. 10 YEARS AGO July 27, 1994 — The Colfax Hotel will be given another extension of the dead line for fire safety improve ments to be installed, but city officials said they will pro ceed with a threat to condemn the building August 15. With countdowns and cut backs becoming more and more the norm for high school athletic budgets around the state, the word “fund-raising” continues to perhaps be a term that keeps coming up more often than not in the 1990s. 20 YEARS AGO August 1, 1984 Sparked by community action, Heart Federal Savings and Loan officials have reversed their decisions to close their Colfax branch. Heart Federal President Stuart Foster said the associa tion board reached the deci sion July 25, to keep the branch in Colfax open. It may have been softball, but it sure looked like foot ball on a play at the plate dur ing last weekend’s state fast pitch tournament champi onship game between Discovery Office Systems of Santa Rosa and Shasta Co. Merchants of Redding. 50 YEARS AGO July 30, 1954 — About 19 per cent more was paid in aid to the aged in Placer County during May than was paid to all the needy aged in the entire state of Delaware dur ing April, California Taxpayers Association report ed today. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Anderson of Citrus Heights, and their two daughters Sharon and Norma Lou, were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Story this past week. 75 YEARS AGO July 26, 1929 Widespread indignation and disgust on the part of the citi zens and taxpayers is the result of the publishing of the Grand Jury’s report and the auditor’s expose of conditions around the court house, the blame of which has been placed on the shoulders of the Board of Supervisors. While the Grand Jury failed to suggest a remedy word has reached The Record, that private citizens are ready to swear to complaints against the officials who have willfully disregarded the law and have allowed such intol erable conditions to exist. Jay Bruce, state lion hunter, entertained the Colfax Lions, their families and friends on Monday night with several reels of motion pic tures and a splendid talk on his work of hunting and killing lions. Colfax Chronicles are compiled by Lacey Waymire.
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Colfax Record
Colfax, California, US
Thu, Jul 29, 2004
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