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Dec 31, 2008 04:00PM ● By Super Admin
Can you believe that it’s 2009 already? Brace yourselves for another year that will fly by. There’s plenty going on to keep you busy this year...

January is National Blood Donor Month, so visit BloodSource at 3105 Cedar Ravine Road, Suite 102 in Placerville to do your part...

If hiking is your thing, the American River Conservancy is offering a Waterfall Trail Hike on January 31. For more information and meeting locations, call 530-621-1224...

Sign your kids up for little league! The Pony Express Little League and Ponderosa Little League have merged and spring signups have begun. For more information, visit pondolittleleague.com or call 530-677-5555...

Congratulations to the Eskaton Village Placerville Lodge, which will open its new Assisted Living and Memory Care apartments on January 15 from 5 to 7 p.m....

If you’re looking to tickle your funny bone, the Sequoia Restaurant is hosting a comedy showcase on January 7, starting at 7 p.m. For more information, visit sequoiaplacerville.com or call 530-622-5222...

Don’t miss Grammy Award winning Native American Flutist Mary Youngblood for a one night only performance at the Imagination Theater on January 31 at 8 p.m. For more information, visit imagination-theater.org...

If you’ve ever wanted to travel back to the Gold Rush era then come out on January 24 to the Gold Rush Discovery Day Celebration to commemorate the discovery of gold in the South Fork of the American River by James Marshall. This event will feature a reenactment at the very site where Marshall struck gold. For more details, contact the Park Museum and Visitors’ Center at 530-622-3470 or the Events Line at 530-295-2162...

Placerville’s Marshall Medical Center has cleared the final hurtle in their new expansion, which will include a 17-bed birthing center, a 12-bed intensive care unit, and 34 beds for acute-care patients. Marshall Medical Center is one of the few independent community hospitals in California and the only hospital on the county’s west slope...

Go stargazing at Cameron Park Rotary Club Community Observatory and learn about the stars from a trained observatory docent Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings, weather permitting. For more information, visit communityobservatory.com...

The Friendly Visitors Program of El Dorado County is looking for volunteers to enrich the lives of homebound senior citizens in the El Dorado County area. If you would like more information on becoming a volunteer please call 530-621-6119 or e-mail [email protected].

Since we love getting feedback from our readers, we would like to invite you to a FoothillStyle Reader’s Appreciation Lunch to discuss you likes and dislikes. Send our editor an email at [email protected] and let us know if you’d like to join us for lunch in the future...

Also in an effort to get our readers involved, we’d like to include your favorite recipes (any and all courses) along with specialty drink recipes too, in our annual Food & Drink feature to appear in the March 2009 issue. Please email your recipes, and photos if you have them, to [email protected] with “Food & Drink Feature” in the subject line. That’s all for now, but check back next month for our annual Home Design Feature!

Send your news to: [email protected].