Tutors workshop planned for April in Ukiah
Ukiah Adult Literacy Council hosts a tutor training workshop April 7 and 8 at the Presbyterian Church. Sessions run 7 to 10 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 30 p.m. Saturday. Council members met last week at Marjorie Burr’s home to plan, with 20 tutors serving 25 adults across Mendocino and Lake Counties.
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Ukiah Adult Literacy Council
Presbyterian Church In
Ukiah
Marjorie Burr
Mendocino
Lake Counties
Closely Watched Trains to Open Friday Screening
Milosa a 17 year old trainee at a provincial railway station under German occupation in Czechoslovakia is the subject of Closely Watched Trains which won best foreign film. The Jim Menel directed feature will be shown Friday at 8 p.m. in Ukiah Fairgrounds Junior Building as a Rancho Mariposa School benefit for Spanish and German classes. The Golden Fish, Edward Secham's award winning film, accompanies the program. Admission is 1 for students and 150 for adults.
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Milosa
Czechoslovakia
Jim Menel
Ukiah Fairgrounds
Rancho Mariposa School
Edward Secham
Green Apple Pie for St Patrick Day Dessert
A tempting dessert option features green apple pie chosen to celebrate St Patrick s Day. The dish blends tart apples with a sweet filling and a flaky crust for a festive treat.
Firebelles Food Booth Raises Over $160 at Ball
Ukiah Firebelles earned more than $160 from a food booth at the Firemen's Ball on Saturday afternoon and evening. Treasurer Shirley Orbaun hesitated to confirm totals. the group had stocked 200 tacos and 200 sandwiches and bought 50 pounds of popcorn. Most tacos and sandwiches sold, with crab sandwiches and salami and cheese the top items.
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Ukiah
Shirley Orbaun
Holmes Sentor wedding set for April fifteenth
Willits High School graduates Jenny Lyn Holmes and Charles E. Sentor will marry April 15 at the Willits Methodist Church. The bride's parents, Mr and Mrs Gil Holmes, announced the engagement. The bride, a 1970 graduate, works at her father's business while taking classes at the Ukiah ROCC. The groom, a 1968 graduate and Vietnam era Army veteran, works at Little Lake Industries in Ukiah.
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Willits High School
Jenny Lyn Holmes
Charles E. Sentor
Willits Methodist Church
Gil Holmes
Ukiah
Vietnam
Little Lake Industries
Comptche marks Lena Meshishnek 80th birthday with 125 guests
Mrs Lena Meshishnek of Comptche celebrated her 80th birthday on March 2 with a surprise Potluck at Comptche Grange Hall. Around 125 friends relatives and neighbors traveled from the Bay Area Ukiah Mendocino Fort Bragg Little River and Merced to attend. A sixty fold mural depicting her early life was created by local artists Jody Evans Ruth Haley Judy Shandel Judy MacDonald Nan C Tunzi and Jean Petersen and performed by Tyne Darlene Judy Cor deiro Anita Greenough Alice Holmes Ellen Hollister and Henry Johnson while Signe MacDonald narrated. A longtime friend had not seen her in fifty five years. She received a money tree a potted azalea and other gifts.
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Comptche
Lena Meshishnek
Comptche Grange Hall
Bay Area
Ukiah
Mendocino
Fort Bragg
Little River
Merced
Signe MacDonald
Jody Evans
Ruth Haley
Judy Shandel
Judy MacDonald
Nan C. Tunzi
Jean Petersen
Tyne
Darlene
Judy Cordeiro
Anita Greenough
Alice Holmes
Ellen Hollister
Henry Johnson
Fourth Grade Breakfast Aims for San Francisco Trip
Redwood Valley School hosts a ham and egg breakfast with hotcakes juice and coffee on Saturday morning. Adults pay 1, children 50 cents and preschoolers 25 cents. Proceeds fund the class trip to San Francisco. Mrs Vernon Harper and Mrs Leo Nunnemaker organize the event for Mrs Verna Watkins class who needs about 140 dollars.
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Redwood Valley
San Francisco
Vernon Harper
Leo Nunnemaker
Blood Bank Schedules Donor Drive in Ukiah Sunday
Soroptimist sponsored collection by Sonoma County Community Blood Bank will be in Ukiah Sunday from 9 30 p m to 1 p m Jane Rinehart chairman urges donors aged 18 to 66 to give a pint blood use rises as medical science advances Isabel Lahne leukemia patient needs blood to save a life
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Sonoma County
Ukiah District Considers 5.9 Million School Bond
Dr. DeMartini and Nancy March outline the 5.9 million dollar school bond election set for March 21. Films show crowded Ukiah High classes and proposed classroom designs. A 1967 master plan spurred by committees aims to move the high school, renovate current buildings for a junior high, and relocate Yokayo pupils to Pomolita, with capacity planned for 20 years barring rapid population growth. Nancy March leads a lively Q and A session.
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DeMartini
Ukiah Unified School
Nancy March
Board of Education
Ukiah High School
Yokayo
Pomolita
Mendocino Women Attend California Demeter Conference in Napa
A motorcade of 24 Mendocino County Club of Demeter members joined 92 attendees at the second annual California Clubs of Demeter conference in Napa. Delegates from Ukiah Willits Fort Bragg Boonville Redwood Valley and other counties represented. The event featured Hawaiian decor, greetings from the Brazilian Embassy, and plans for future expansion including northern and southern Humboldt reorganization and new county admittances.
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Club of Demeter
Mendocino County
California
Demeter
Napa
Club No. 1
Alice Trimble
Claude
Mesdames
Virginia Shields
Lillian Alberti
Grace Gowan
Retha Neblett
Jim Markham
Erroll Tait
Ukiah
Willits
LaVerne
Willis Compton
Marge Johannes
Hazel Hammond
Lorena Pullen
Hattie London
Alice Wallace
Redwood Valley
Gunner
Mary Erickson
Gertie Fee
Dana Lane
Ada Dimmick
Harvey Rivers
Fort Bragg
Boonville
Minnie
Ray Morgan
Napa-Solano
Mendocino
Lake
Solano
Sonoma
Placer
Nevada
el Dorado
Sutter
Sacramento
Yolo
Butte
Merced
Stanislaus
Tehama
Tuolumne
Amador
Humboldt County
Kern
Yuba
Club
Welcome Grange Hall
Napa Foothills
Islands
Hawaii
Welcome Grange
National Grange
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County Schools Vocational Department
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Sue Miller
Sally Rex
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Kelseyville
Edna Cox
Mrs. Weelge
Burr
Johnson
Ukiah Grange
Grange Hall
Shirley Ornbaun
Firebelle
Karen Anderson
Journal
Fae
ST. Patrick’s
S.oak Corner
Xmas Tree Lane
T Panei
Tig
Davis
Verna Watkins
HONDA
Cobbies
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Isabel Lahne
Fabric Lane
Seersucker
Sale Good Thru
W. Standley
Fae Woodward
Shirley Ann Munroe
Dorothy Prichard
Brazil
Los Angeles County
Club No. 3
Merced County
Club No. 4
Baronet
Ring
Yokago Shopping Center
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