Birthday greetings for the month of October go out to: Jim Boyer, Carol Davis, Bev Noe, Dick Muniain, Lisa Dolling, Glenda Maisel, Natalie Albarico, Kody Simons, Nathaniel Van Ryn, Mike Ohe, Lis Whalen, Julia Nilsson, Alec Ray, Lisa Fogarty, Andrew Schlegel, Austin Page, Ivan Garcia, Faviola Garcia, Dusty Hobbs, Lenin Palafox, Bailey Stepp, Merna Jergentz and Nicolas Gonzalez.
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Michael and Maureen McKibban have returned from Ashland, Oregon, where they attended the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. They saw “Two Gentleman of Verona” with an all female cast, “The Tempest” with beautiful costumes and staging, “Water by the Spoonful”, a new play and “Comedy of Errors” set in Harlem, which was a blast. They had a good time and ate some great food!
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Hurry and heal your wrist Katie Feichter!
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At the Community Club meeting last Thursday, Stanislaus Consolidated Fire Chief Randy Bradley, and firefighters Rob Hoyer and Jared Eckle were there to speak on the Oakdale Rural Fire Department and the Knights Ferry fire station. The fire departments (Oakdale Rural and Oakdale) contract for services from Consolidated. Oakdale Rural now has their 12 firefighters working for Consolidated. The ORFD trucks still belong to ORFD.
The ORFD board is still active. Oakdale City now covers our area when our station is not manned. The talk of a new station at Wamble Road was mentioned as a way to get firefighters to Knights Ferry sooner, seven minutes opposed to 17 now. That is just a discussion item. Also discussed at the meeting was the annual Pumpkin Roll and that Orange Blossom 4-H will take over the community garden.
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Audrey Mack, former Knights Ferry Student, has been awarded an Academic Merit Scholarship for California State University, Monterey Bay. Audrey is majoring in Liberal Arts with an emphasis on Human Development.
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The large pipes on Sonora Road are for the Oakdale Irrigation District’s piping water through Karen Eakin’s property and the Oak Grove Cemetery to the ditch on Richard Bell’s property to by-pass the Frymire Ditch.
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FYI - The Bureau of Reclamation plans to “pulse flow” water from New Melones to help the fall-run salmon, draining about 35,000 acre-feet of water out of Melones by November even with the drought! Fish experts say the releases will create flows on the Stanislaus River that would only occur once in a century under natural conditions without dams. Once water flows down the Stanislaus River to a point near Tracy, state officials consider the water “abandoned” and can export it to water contractors farther south! This information was taken from the Sonora Democrat paper.
