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Help Care For Animals Injured By Fire

Last week the Butte Fire in Amador and Calaveras counties ravaged my hometown communities. Calaveras took the biggest beating, with many of the 75,000 acres burned and 545 residences/356 outbuildings lost, in that county. County lines have all but diminished however, with families and local businesses from both pulling together to help those impacted by…

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Five Amazing Olympic Victories

For more coverage on the 2012 London Olympic Games, check out the Olympics Spotlight Page The torch has been lit! The thirtieth Olympiad is officially underway, and were poised and ready to watch the worlds finest compete for the gold (although, were a little peeved that NBC has refused to post a live stream of events. Who really wants to wait for primetime?).

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My Passover with Cher

I wrote this in honor of Passover AND Cher: I invited Cher, Baruch Hashem, to my parents house last year for Pesach. It had been on my to do list for quite some time, but well, you know how it is. Life just seems to get in the way, and shit is put off for yet another day. But I finally moved it to the top of my list.