Lower Yuba River cleanup day

On 1 Sep 2004 16:33:18 -0700, (cruxgems) wrote:

You should have seen that gravel bar on the Yuba, below the bridge
on Hwy.20 below Narrows dam seventy years ago, Sid. Probably 75
prospectors camped there each summer. I'm sure it's a lot more
sanitary now than then.

Man, I would like to have seen that. And, yep, you're no doubt right
about the improved sanitation down there these days. Still, what it
lacks in quantity these days, though, it certainly does try to make up
for in, umm, quality. There are something like 20 sites we send crews
to every year for this cleanup day. Every year, we have a contest for
the most interesting bit of trash collected and every year the Parks
Bar site seems to come in first, whether it be for the really quite
stunningly arranged set of marital aids from two years ago, or the
bong constructed from a cow's skull we found last year (that one
actually may have been more art than trash...it's a fine line these
days, as any roff reader can attest).

My Grandfather used to go down and talk with
some of the old-timers camped there. I'm pushing 80 now, and use to
play softball in Memorial park in the '30's.

Are you still in the GV\NC area? Come on down for the barbecue
afterwards...be great to hear some stories.

- Sid

Sid Heaton wrote in message
Are you still in the GV\NC area? Come on down for the barbecue
afterwards...be great to hear some stories.

I left G.V. years ago, and now live up near the Canadian border, but
my 91 year old sister still lives on Alta Hill in the house she and
her husband had built in 1936. She still drives her 4X4 to do her
shopping and drop by her Dr's. office now and then to tell him he's an
idiot and that she's not going to take that damn medicine. Speaking of
stories, did you know there's an elephant buried in a mine shaft on
Murphy hill in G.V. A circus came to town around 1928 and when the
elephant got sick and died they pushed it down the shaft. There were a
lot of interesting stories the old 'cousin-jacks' knew about the area,
but they're all gone now. Hope you have a good turn out on your clean
up day.

Sid Heaton wrote in message
Are you still in the GV\NC area? Come on down for the barbecue
afterwards...be great to hear some stories.

I left G.V. years ago, and now live up near the Canadian border, but
my 91 year old sister still lives on Alta Hill in the house she and
her husband had built in 1936. She still drives her 4X4 to do her
shopping and drop by her Dr's. office now and then to tell him he's an
idiot and that she's not going to take that damn medicine. Speaking of
stories, did you know there's an elephant buried in a mine shaft on
Murphy hill in G.V. A circus came to town around 1928 and when the
elephant got sick and died they pushed it down the shaft. There were a
lot of interesting stories the old 'cousin-jacks' knew about the area,
but they're all gone now. Hope you have a good turn out on your clean
up day.