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< Saturday, May 6, 2023 >


All Day Studio 4 Dance Theater Invites the Community to Spring Showcase on May 5th & 6th
Angels Camp, CA...Angels Camp - Dancers from the Studio 4 School of Dance will perform dance numbers in a variety of dance styles the first weekend in May at the Bret Harte Theater in Angels Camp. Dancers are excited to welcome the public once again to the beloved Studio 4 Dance Theater Spring Showcase.


Dance genres that will excite the crowd include jazz, contemporary, hip hop and ballet. Studio 4 School of Dance and Studio 4 Dance Theater have a long history going back 18 years in Calaveras County when Tammie Lee first opened the dance studio.

Artistic Director Tammie Lee is pleased to continue the tradition of showcasing the various dance styles that Studio 4 School of Dance offers to the community. The Spring Showcase features choreographer, former school of dance student and current instructor Iris Stafford, in a youth contemporary dance to the song “Crystals” by Of Monsters and Men. Current dance student Stacia Sharp has choreographed a Jazz dance to the song “Luck be a Lady” by Frank Sinatra and Ashley Hancock, also a current student, is doing a Jazz number to “Axeman Jazz” by Squirrel Nut Zippers. In addition, Sarah Long will present contemporary, hip hop and jazz dances. Tammie Lee will showcase two traditional ballet pieces, including a youth ballet piece from Cinderella.

“The spring showcase is a refreshing show that highlights our youth in Calaveras County,” expressed Artistic Director Tammie Lee. “We get to see the next generation of dancers and our seasoned dancers express their love for dance, it is sure to impress the audience!”

What: S4DT Spring Showcase 2023
Where: Bret Harte Theater - 323 S. Main Street, Angels Camp
When: May 5th @ 7:00pm
May 6th @ 2:00pm
May 6th @ 7:00pm

Advanced tickets may be purchased at the Studio 4 School of Dance on April 22nd and April 29th from 11:00am-1:00pm. Tickets will also be sold at the door, 1 hour before each show. Doors will open 30 minutes before each show.

For more information on the Studio 4 School of Dance and upcoming performances visit http://studio4schoolofdance.com/ or https://studio4dancetheater.com/ and follow on Facebook @Studio4SchoolofDance and @Studio4DanceTheater.

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All Day The 22nd Annual Hot Copper Car Show
Copperopolis, CA...Hot Copper Car Show May 6, 2023, 8 am to 3 pm in the Copper Valley Town Square! Car enthusiasts love the Hot Copper Car Show, a fundraising event for the Copperopolis Lake Tulloch Lions Club, which takes place on the first Saturday in May each year featuring classic, custom cars, trucks and motorcycles. In fact, this event has been going for over 20 years now, and continues to grow in popularity year after year. Featuring over 200 cars, a raffle, live music, art & craft vendors and great food and drinks.


More information at https://www.facebook.com/HotCopperCarShow/
All Day MCT’s Quill to Act New Play Festival is May 5th-7th
Murphys, CA...Three Days. Three New Plays! MCT Announces its 2023 New Play Festival.  Three scripts were chosen from submissions from across the country and will be given curated staged readings for your entertainment and feedback. After each reading, there will be a talkback where you can give us your feedback on the scripts.

Based on your feedback, our panel will choose one of the three finalists to be produced as part of our 2024 season!

Admission to the festival readings is now Pay-What-You-Will. If you can donate something in support of the play festival, fantastic. You can follow the ticket link and contribute from there, or our concessions bar will be open for each show, and there will be a box on the bar for in-person donations. (MCT is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation and receipts for your tax-deductible donations can be made available upon request.)

“Theatre should be available to everyone. Being a more significant part of the Murphys community is truly our greatest goal, and to make our productions more accessible to our supportive local patrons, we are removing the price for admission to our new play festival readings to encourage your feedback and select the script YOU want to see produced in our 2024 season. Come out and give us all of your opinions! (How often do you hear that?!)” - Todd Thomas, Murphys Creek Theatre Artistic Director

Come! Give us your feedback and help us select the script YOU want to see produced in our 2024 season!

SCHEDULE:

5/5 at 7:30 PM

A SIGN YOU WERE ALIVE

James desperately seeks supplies and knowledge for his daughter, Chelsea, who’s hiding in her bedroom after a traumatic incident that seems to be linked to a mysterious illness, possibly a pandemic, and has turned Chelsea into a vampire.

5/6 at 7:30 PM

HALLWAY HOUSE

Michael, Dianne, and Emily lived in the same hallway at college, where they met their freshman year. Now, years later, Michael and Emily seek refuge in Dianne’s huge house, which they call Hallway House. Divorce, sexual identity, and career crisis sparks clever and heated debates among this witty collective.

5/7 at 2:00 PM

SEVEN HUNDRED SQUARE FEET

James and Gloria live in a West Side apartment in New York City. Their busy professional lives are immobilized by COVID-19, and they are forced to face the empty room where their son Paul lived before his death at age 7. They also have to confront the issues in their own marriage and a society that is breaking down before them. In the end, they find a way to reset.

WHERE: Murphys Creek Theatre

ADMISSION: Pay-What-You-Will

TICKETS: murphyscreektheatre.org/quill-to-act-festival


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ABOUT

Murphys Creek Theatre is a professional, regional theatre located in the charming and historic goldrush-era town of Murphys, California. With our year-round venue in downtown Murphys, everyone can enjoy great live theatre in Calaveras County throughout the year!

All Day Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, May 5 – 14, 2023
San Andreas, CA...All our old friends, plus a few new ones, are here in this classic, marvelous musical adaptation. We’ll meet the captivating Princess Snow White, the prince, the evil queen, and, of course, the seven mischievous dwarfs — Sarge, Gabby, Gloomy Gus, Ticklish, Spritely, Snore, and Slowpoke. There’s also a hilarious palace cat and an enchanted vixen — a fox, you could say! Following the traditional storyline, the fairy tale is brought to life with an eclectic score of toe-tapping tunes.


Metropolitan
59 Main St. San Andreas, CA 95249
209.754.5555
09:00 AM - 01:00 PM The 23rd Annual Kid's Fishing Clinic
Murphys, CA...To create the best fishing conditions, Utica will temporarily reduce stream flows during the kids’ fishing clinic. Come out, have fun, and stay safe around the water. Such a special local event… bring your kids/grandkids to Murphys Park this Saturday. The creek will be freshly stocked with trout for this incredible annual day of fun!

09:30 AM - 01:30 PM Wildfire Community Preparedness Day is May 6th
Arnold, CA...Residents and property owners from Murphys to Camp Connell are invited to a Wildfire Community Preparedness Day event May 6 to learn about what’s being done to prevent catastrophic fire inside their Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) surrounded by national, state and private forests – and what they can do.


The event, from 9:30-1:30 at Independence Hall in Arnold, features wildfire prevention-savvy speakers, experts and exhibits. Kids will be able to explore the new Ebbetts Pass Fire District‘s all-terrain fire & rescue vehicle and greet vegetation-eating goats from Motherlode Goats, which rents goats to clear and maintain land, including defensible space and fuel breaks.

“Fuels reduction to reduce the risk of catastrophic fire is everyone’s responsibility,” said Ebbetts Pass District Fire Chief Mike Johnson, who spearheaded the event. “Folks will learn about what they can do, from wildfire-resistant landscaping to how their neighborhood can be recognized as a ‘Firewise Community’, which can reduce insurance costs.”

Attendees can also pick up an application for the Calaveras Foothills Fire Safe Council’s new Door-to-Door Chipper Program – available while funds last.

Speakers:

· New CAL FIRE Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit Battalion Chief Dennis Lange

· Ebbetts Pass Fire District Chief Mike Johnson

· District 3 Supervisor Martin Huberty, representing Murphys to Camp Connell

· State Parks Central Valley District Natural Resources Manager Heather Reith

· Calaveras-Amador (CalAm) Forestry Team’s Pat McGreevy, retired Calaveras resident.

Since the devastating 2015 Butte Fire, McGreevy and his all-volunteer team have written and implemented $20 million in fuels reduction grants received from CAL FIRE, the US Forest Service, Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) and PG&E.

McGreevy will present a detailed, color map he created of the “Highway 4 Wildfire Defense System” – continuous shaded fuel breaks on strategic ridges on the Wildland-Urban Interface over 20 miles between Murphys and Camp Connell. The goal of the strategic defense system is to protect 8500 structures on the Highway 4 Corridor from catastrophic fire, and it will maximize the success of first responders, providing anchors to launch their wildfire defense.

The Highway 4 Wildfire Defense System is a collaboration between the CalAm Forestry Team, Ebbetts Pass Fire District, CAL FIRE and Firewise Communities. Seven of the 13 homeowners associations on the Corridor are Firewise sites in good standing as of February. The Firewise USA recognition program provides a framework to help neighbors work collaboratively to create ignition-resistant communities, reducing their shared wildfire risk (www.readyfor wildfire.org).

In March the CalAm Team wrote a grant application on behalf of the Calaveras Office of Emergency Services and the US Forest Service. They were awarded $2.1 million from the SNC for a fuel break to protect communities from Arnold to Dorrington from wildfires originating in the North Fork Stanislaus River canyon. The McKays Strategic Fuel Break project will reduce hazardous fire fuels on nearly 1,000 acres of mixed coniferous forest on US Forest Service land.

Booths, Exhibits & Experts:

· Mother Lode Prescribed Burn Association will explain how they teach property owners to use fire as a land management tool—giving them the tools, training and resources to conduct burns on their own property.

· Ebbetts Pass Fire District will show off its new all-terrain fire & rescue vehicle.

· CAL FIRE will have information on home hardening, wildfire-resistant landscaping and evacuation planning.

· Stanislaus National Forest, Calaveras Ranger District works to create a healthy forest on both sides of the Highway 4 corridor from below Avery to Bear Valley.

· Calaveras Big Trees Association (CBTA) advocates to protect the Park’s giant sequoias from catastrophic fire. Believing the Park in “dire condition”, it has urged the state to urgently increase the pace and scale of work and expand its methods to reduce the massive buildup of fuels.

· Motherlode Goats offers targeted goat grazing services to property owners, businesses and land management agencies to clear and maintain land.

· Calaveras County Water District provides vital support during a wildfire by operating 1100 fire hydrants. Learn about the CalAm Forestry Team’s recent grant to do fuels reduction work that will protect its plant that provides water service to more than 6,000 customers who live along the upper Highway 4 Corridor.

· Calaveras Foothills Fire Safe Council will have copies of applications for its free Door-t0-Door Chipper Program. Contractors chip piled up vegetation less than 8" in diameter and no shorter than 3'. https://www.calaverasfiresafecouncil.org/Documents/Chipper%20Form.pdf

· Wildfire Safety Solutions will offer color copies of the new Hwy 4 Wildfire Defense System map created by the CalAm Forestry Team, and information on home hardening.

· Defensible Space Clearing will exhibit a masticator & evacuator.

· Arnold Rim Trail Association will explain opportunities to serve as a docent or trail crew member for its two dozen miles of hiking trails in the Stanislaus National Forest.

· Cal-Waste Recovery Systems will offer a free lunch to all!

The event is sponsored by Ebbetts Pass Fire District and supported with donations from: Ebbetts Pass Property Owners Council, Calaveras Big Trees Association, Defensible Space Clearing of Murphys, Wildfire Safety Solutions, Cal-Waste Recovery Systems, Gold Country Roasters of Murphys, Arnold Discount Market and High Sierra Framing & Gallery in Arnold, and ThePineTree.Net.

For questions, call Laura Baughman, Board member, Ebbetts Pass Property Owners Council: 650-588-8620

WILDFIRE COMMUNITY PREPAREDNESS DAY
For Murphys to Camp Connell Communities

When: Saturday, May 6, 2023, 9:30 am-1:30 pm

Where: Independence Hall, 1445 Blagen Road, Arnold

Why: Wildfire is Coming … ARE YOU READY?

Features: Wildfire prevention-savvy speakers, experts & exhibitors, new color map of the
Highway 4 Wildfire Defense System of fuel breaks, info on the free Door-to-Door
Chipper Program, the latest on CAL FIRE ‘s Defensible Space Zones,
grazing Motherlode goats, Ebbetts Pass Fire District’s new all-terrain fire &
rescue vehicle, a fire truck, a forest masticator – & a free Lunch!

MURPHYS TO CAMP CONNELL RESIDENTS & HOMEOWNERS INVITED TO WILDFIRE COMMUNITY PREPAREDNESS EVENT IN ARNOLD, SATURDAY, MAY 6

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11:00 AM Soroptimist 13th Annual Chili Cook-off
Chili Cook-off ("Great Bowls of Fire" ) at the Murphys Historic Hotel. Tastings $12 per person, under 5 free, raffles, music by "Plan B". Come have fun!!!
11:00 AM - 02:00 PM The 13th Annual Soroptimist Chili Cook Off is May 6th!
Murphys, CA...Soroptimist International of Calaveras County is busy preparing for their 13th Annual Chili Cook Off held at the Historic Murphy’s Hotel on Saturday, May 6! Tasters and Cookers come together on the Hotel lawn for this fun event from 11 am to 2 pm with live music from Plan B Band! This year’s theme “Twisted, Silly or Gourmet Chili” promises great $10. Chili tasting. Trophies go to Best Judged Chili and People’s Choice Best Chili plus best overall theme and costumes.


New this year an award goes to the Taster who comes in the silliest costume! 2 fabulous Raffle Baskets valued at $500.00 each from SICC Members & local Sponsors plus an Event Gift from Ironstone Winery add to the excitement! Kids 6 & under are free with an adult ticket. Be happy, taste chili, come join the fun; check out our homemade dessert table. Proceeds benefit women and children in the Motherlode region! Call 209-753-9700 for more information!
01:00 PM A Celebration of Life for Doug Brown to be Held at The Angels Camp Museum
Angels Camp, CA...A Celebration of Life for Doug Brown to be Held at The Angels Camp Museum on May 6th at 1pm.

01:00 PM - 05:00 PM Ironstone Vineyards Kentucky Derby Party
Murphys, CA...It's time to bust out your best billycocks and bob hats on May 6... Because we're hosting a Kentucky Derby viewing party! In our beautiful Garden Breezeway and Wine Cave. What will we be watching the Derby on?
A 12ft LED backlit screen. Will just the main race be played? No, we plan to play the entire telecast of the afternoon/event. Yes, we’ll have a variety of southern food options that are included in the price of your ticket. Wine, beer and Mint Juleps will be available for purchase.


Will there be any pools or contests?
Well, of course! In terms of contests, included in the price of your ticket are entrance into a variety of costume contest categories: best overall, best couple, best bowtie, best hat, and best shoes. For the pools there will be 3 separate pools as well as a grand finale pool. Winners of each of the 4 pools will be entered into separate drawings. Entry into each of the preliminary pools are included in the price of your ticket as well.

What sort of prizes are there for the contests/pools?
We’ll have a variety of prizes, including but not limited to, cases of wine, Ironstone merchandise, lunch and tasting for four, elevated tour and tastings and concert tickets.

Kentucky Derby Viewing Party
1:00 PM to 4:30 PM Sat, May 6, 2023
Venue: Ironstone Vineyards' Garden Breezeway
Contact: Ironstone Vineyards 209-728-1251, info@ironstonevineyards.com
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM S4DT Spring Showcase
Dancers from the Studio 4 School of Dance will perform dance numbers in a variety of dance styles the first weekend in May at the Bret Harte Theater in Angels Camp. Dancers are excited to welcome the public once again to the beloved Studio 4 Dance Theater Spring Showcase.
02:00 PM Mountain Melody Spring Concerts 2023
Calaveras County, CA...“Be Kind—Rewind! Mountain Melody Favorites Old and New”. Please join us at one of our performances: Saturday May 6th, Hotel Leger Banquet Room in Moke Hill 2-4 pm. Sunday May 7th, Union Congregational Church in Angels Camp 2-4 pm. Saturday May 13th, Baker St West in Jackson 2-4 pm. $10 suggested donation.


www.mountainmelody.org

Original Artwork by Kevin Brady
Flyer design by Rupal Patel
06:00 PM Howard's Mystic Saloon's Full Entertainment Calendar for May!
Avery, CA...May at the Mystic!! Howard's Mystic Saloon's Full Entertainment Calendar for May!


07:00 PM - 08:00 PM S4DT Spring Showcase
Dancers from the Studio 4 School of Dance will perform dance numbers in a variety of dance styles the first weekend in May at the Bret Harte Theater in Angels Camp. Dancers are excited to welcome the public once again to the beloved Studio 4 Dance Theater Spring Showcase.
07:00 PM - 08:00 PM S4DT Spring Showcase
Dancers from the Studio 4 School of Dance will perform dance numbers in a variety of dance styles the first weekend in May at the Bret Harte Theater in Angels Camp. Dancers are excited to welcome the public once again to the beloved Studio 4 Dance Theater Spring Showcase.
07:00 PM - 11:00 PM Saturday Night Live Music!
Sonora, CA... Come out and support Live Music every Saturday night at The Game Room 7-11PM! All Ages! $12 door/$10 advanced tickets available from performing artists or at the Game Room. Ages 12 and under are FREE Admission. Different genres each weekend. Admission includes table game play!


Games like billiards, darts, shuffle board, ping pong, air hockey, plus arcade, and the wall of 99 beers! There's fun for everyone we hope to see you here.

Mark Twain Medical Center
Meadowmont Pharmacy
Angels & San Andreas Memorial Chapels
Bear Valley Real Estate
Gerard Insurance
Bank of Stockton
Fox Security
Bistro Espresso
Chatom Winery
Middleton's Furniture
Bear Valley Mountain Resort
Cave, Mine & Zip Lines
High Country Spa & Stove
Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway
Sierra Logging Museum Calaveras Mentoriing
Jenny's Kitchen

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