Archive - Aug 2012
August 24th
By
George Shirk - Times News Editor
An unusual pattern has developed during this summerâs festival season.
The events start out under blue, beautiful skies, are interrupted by the usual thunderstorm and in the end, everyone has a fine time and goes home.
So it was last weekend when the Mammoth Festival opened with a wine walk in the Village on Friday night, and an evening of music at Samâs Woodsite on Saturday.
The star, Kenny Loggins, was just about the only star anyone could see as he strode on stage, what with the last vestiges of that afternoonâs rain clouds moving off.
An unusual pattern has developed during this summerâs festival season.
The events start out under blue, beautiful skies, are interrupted by the usual thunderstorm and in the end, everyone has a fine time and goes home.
So it was last weekend when the Mammoth Festival opened with a wine walk in the Village on Friday night, and an evening of music at Samâs Woodsite on Saturday.
The star, Kenny Loggins, was just about the only star anyone could see as he strode on stage, what with the last vestiges of that afternoonâs rain clouds moving off.
Lost in the drama of the last-minute Town Council closed meetings dealing with MLLA was the tale of Councilman Michael Raimondo, who was airlifted to Reno after complaining of chest pains. The Docs cleared him, but not before he conferenced in to the meeting while hooked up to oxygen and whatever else they were giving him via IV. Turned out to be an enzyme reaction, not a heart attack. …
Yosemite National Park will celebrate the 96th birthday of the National Park Service (NPS) by holding a series of activities focused on âWhat NPS Rangers doâ on Saturday, Aug. 25.
The activities will be held at the Yosemite Valley Visitor Center from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and will include presentations on search and rescue, fire management, education, resource management and science, and the University of California at Merced Ranger Program.
Additionally, a youth-oriented service project will be led from the visitor center.
Beginning Sept. 7, a special personal use fuelwood cutting area in the June Lake Loop will be opened by the Inyo National Forest. This area is located on the north side of S.R. 158 opposite from the Fern Lake Trailhead.
You must have a valid 2012 personal use fuelwood permit to collect dead and down material only.
This area will be closed Oct. 31, or sooner, if the Forest Service has determined sufficient firewood has been removed to reduce hazardous fuel conditions.
Dog Sled Adventures owner Jim Ouimet got support from most of the Mono County Board of Supervisors Tuesday to work with county staff to find a âbare bonesâ way to give Ouimet a better living situation.Ouimetâs dog sled business is located on county land, under a county lease, off the Casa Diablo Road east of Mammoth Lakes and the S.R. 203/U.S. 395 junction.
Mono County holds its annual budget hearings next week, beginning on Monday, Aug. 27 and ending on Wednesday, Aug. 29.
The hearings will be held in Bridgeport on Aug. 27 and Aug. 29 at the Mono County Courthouse Board of Supervisors Chambers.
They will be held in Mammoth Lakes on Aug. 28 at the third floor of the Sierra Center Mall (Shogun mall).
The hearings begin at 9 a.m. each day.
June Lake residents gathered together this past weekend to assign volunteers to work on the coming winterâs plan to keep June alive in the face of the closure of the June Mountain Ski Area. The residents were given $100,000 from Mono County last week toward the effort, with the money funneled through the countyâs tourism department.
The California Public Utilities Commission voted Thursday to approve a $286,398 grant to Verizon California, Inc. to bring high-speed internet broadband service to Swall Meadows and Crowley Lake even before the Digital 395 project is completed, according to Steven Kalish.
Kalish is a Swall Meadows resident who has been working on the issue for several years.
The cable must be in place by Jan. 28, Kalish said.
âThey are under orders to get it done by then,â he said.
Car registration documents seem to be the primary target in a string of car break-ins over the past few months, according to Mammoth Lakes police officers.
Stolen car registrations (along with some low-value items like cell phone chargers and lipstick) concern Mammoth Lakes Police Detective Dan Casabian.
âYour address is on the registration,â he said. âIâm wondering if they might be using this to target other burglaries.â
He said what bothers him most is that all the cars were unlocked.
âI hear it all the time, âThis is Mammoth Lakes and nothing happens in Mammoth,ââ he said.
If Mono County doesnât grab the incoming wave of international tourists in the next decade or so, it will be stuck as it is nowâa weekend and holiday destination for drive-up visitors from the Bay Area and Southern California.
If it does, it will have the opportunity to sharply increase the number of visitors that come on weekdays, during the shoulder season andâmost criticallyâspend a lot of money while they are here, compared to domestic visitors, according to Mono Countyâs chief economic development manager, Alicia Vennos.
Ladies, Paul Ryan is your worst nightmare
August 24, 2012
Want a smaller government? Â
Well this guy will put the government right inside your hoo-ha. Todd Akin, a Missouri congressman who, by the way is on the Science Committee, let it slip that many in the Republican Party believe that if a woman is âlegitimately rapedâ her own bodily trauma will prevent conception from occurring. Â
The conclusion which must be drawn from this statement is that raped women who did become pregnant (about 32,000 a year) must, somewhere deep down in their glands, have wanted to be raped.