EASTER EGG HUNT TODAY!

The annual Easter Egg Hunt is today.

1 p.m.

Zerga property on Pela Road, along the old golf course

How do the Easter eggs get filled?  With the help of Easter elves of course!  Students, members of the MAHA (Mi Wuk Area Homeowners Assn) board and passersby helped, in the 'great room' of the Mi Wuk Village Community Center,  to fill around 1,000 eggs with candy for the hunt .

 

We hope you come out today, cool and rainy as it may be, and enjoy the hunt, refreshments, and prizes along with the kids.  Don't forget: 

THE EASTER BUNNY WILL BE PRESENT FOR PHOTO OPS!

I wish you a safe and wonderful Easter Weekend.

MEET WITH EVAN ROYCE, OUR COUNTY SUPERVISOR

 

Our District 3 Supervisor

Evan Royce

 will be at the Mi Wuk Library on Wednesday, April 20th, 

1:30 - 2:30 pm.

for his monthly 'office hours' 

with Mi Wuk, Sugar Pine, Sierra Village and other local area residents.

 

Evan will also be at the MAHA Spring Meeting 

on Saturday, April 30th.  

Got questions for Evan? 

Got comments for Evan?

Let's show him some support by showing up to talk with him.

*** SAVE THE DATE *** for the MAHA SPRING MEETING

The Spring Meeting of the Mi Wuk Area Homeowners Association 

will be held on 

Saturday, April 30th, 2011, 10 a.m.

at the Mi Wuk Community Center and Lending Library.  

Come early for coffee and cookies.  

Fire Chief Randy Miller will be present.

More information as I know it.

Please join us if you're in town.

Please join us if you're a full time resident! 

You are a member of this community and we'd love to see you at the meeting.  Meet your neighbors.

ARE WE BEING NEGLECTED?

On Wednesday I attended the monthly meeting of the Mi Wuk Sugar Pine Fire Protection District Auxiliary, as known as the Fire Auxiliary.  Fire Chief Randy Miller gave us a very juicy Chief's report based a lot on the past storm and accompanying outages, downed trees and unplowed roads (took 2 days to get most of Mi Wuk's roads even begun to be plowed).

Here are some of his points:

• When a storm hits down in the lower elevations, i.e., Sonora, all of the resources are directed there first.  People down there aren't prepared for snow and generally don't know how to drive in it.
• Suggestion:
• Divert one snow plow to Mi Wuk for both highway and village roads
• Divert one snow plow to Twain Harte for the same usages
• Communication between the Tuolumne County Emergency Operations Center and the communities needs to be improved!
• This relates to distribution of information to and from Cal Trans, County Roads, and PG&E.
• There was frequently no response to calls.
• Calls had to be made multiple times before they were acknowledged or acted upon.
• There were several LARGE generators 'up the hill' that were available for community usage.  No one in Mi Wuk was made aware of these generators although the power to the Mi Wuk Water Company was out and the warming center at the Word of Life Center had to be closed down and the patrons evacuated.  The generators went unused during the outage.  What a shame.

What can we as a community do?  Contact your county supervisor who in our case is our District 3 Supervisor, Evan Royce.  Evan can be reached at 533-5525.  E-mail: eroyce@co.tuolumne.ca.us  His local office hours are on the third Wednesday of each month at the Mi Wuk Community Center and Lending Library.  I plan on being there this month, April 20th (although I have a class this same time in my stamping studio).  I'm really concerned about these issues.

(eerie music).........IT'S BA-A-A-A-CK!

At least for a few hours this Wednesday afternoon, the snow is back.  We had a bit of rain, some heavy hail/corn snow, and then abound 3/4" of snow.  As I write right now, the sun is shining brightly.  Who knows!?

This Afternoon: A chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 39. Southwest wind around 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Tonight: A slight chance of rain and snow showers before 11pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 27. Northwest wind between 3 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 51. Northeast wind 5 to 7 mph becoming west southwest.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 38. North northeast wind between 5 and 9 mph.

Friday: A 30 percent chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 60. West northwest wind between 3 and 7 mph.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 46.

Saturday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 61.

Yesterday, my visiting-from-Switzerland-cousin Nate, his sister Christy, Russ and I took a day trip, in beautiful sunshine, to Yosemite.  What a perfect day.

 Upper Yosemite Fall

 Half Dome and the Merced River

 Blythe & Russ braving the wind and mist at Lower Yosemite Fall

 Half Dome around 5.30 p.m.  Today's clouds are beginning to come in.

 Hwy. 120, headed out of Yosemite Valley, homeward to Mi Wuk Village.  How nice it is that we live so close to this National Wonder.

Please stayed tuned for important community announcements in the next few days.  Chief Randy Miller from our Mi Wuk Sugar Pine Fire Department has some community activities to report about and request participation in.  LET'S BE SUPPORTIVE!  It's all for our benefit.

A LITTLE SNOW HUMOR

Since we obviously have no power over Mother Nature, we might as well share a little humor.  These cartoons are compliments of Russ (Klipple):

Click on the images for larger views so you can read the words.

WELL........IT'S BACK!

Mi Wuk Village woke up to a few inches of snow this morning with more added during the morning.  I have 5" - 6" on the steps outside my window.

Today Snow Likely Hi 33 °F

Tonight Chance Snow Lo 22 °F

Friday Chance Snow Hi 34 °F

Friday Night Chance Snow Lo 24 °F

Saturday Chance Rain/Snow Hi 44 °F

Saturday Night Mostly Cloudy Lo 31 °F

Sunday Partly Sunny Hi 51 °F

Sunday Night Slight Chc Rain Lo 36 °F

Monday Mostly Sunny Hi 48 °F

Today: Snow showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 33. Southwest wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible.

Tonight: Scattered snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 22. West wind between 4 and 7 mph becoming calm. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Friday: A 50 percent chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 34. Calm wind becoming west southwest between 5 and 8 mph. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Friday Night: A 50 percent chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 24. Calm wind becoming northeast between 4 and 7 mph. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Saturday: A chance of snow showers before 11am, then a chance of rain and snow showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 44. East northeast wind around 8 mph becoming west. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31.

Sunday: Partly sunny, with a high near 51.

Sunday Night: A slight chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 36.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 48.

Monday Night: Clear, with a low around 34.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 50.

Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 37.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 51.

And here's the funny from our back yard here on Tobacco Mountain (as opposed to Tobacco Road!).

We weren't thinking!