Heidi Hovatter’s Blog

Concerts In the Pines are presented every Saturday night, during the summer months. Located on the Rotary Stage at Eproson Park, concerts start at 6 PM and are free to the public. Picnics, blankets and low-back chairs are welcome but you may want to arrive early to secure a spot on the grass. Please join us for another great year of Concerts In the Pines.

This Saturday (July 4, 2009) Brad Wilson will be performing and “Rockin’ the Blues”.

Annual Twain Harte 4th of July Activities
8:00 - 10:00 am Pancake Breakfast-Eproson Park
Come and be a participant or spectator for the Twain Harte 4th of July Parade. The parade begins at 11:00 am. After the parade stay to listen and dance to the band. Fun! Fun! Fun!

11:30am Parade from Eproson Park and through the Arch
Other activities at Meadow Plaza until 4:00pm include:
Dunk Tank,18ft Water Slide,Slip-Dip,Bouncy House,Live Music,Rotary BBQ for lunch at TH Mini Golf,Fire Engine Rides,Face Painting,And More activities and food.
6:00-8:00pm Concert in the Pines-Eproson Park
The band: Brad Wilson-Rockin’ the Blues
If you have artwork or a product that you would like to promote, please give us a call. For more information and entry forms email to info@anyeventml.com or call 352-6267. Directions:
Follow Hwy 108 toward Pinecrest. Follow the sign to Twain Harte. Parking will be available at the school adjacent to town. Just look for signs.

The 43rd Annual Father’s Day Fly-In is scheduled for Saturday, June 20th and Sunday, June 21st. The fun begins with a traditional Father’s Day Pancake Breakfast from 7:00 to 11:00 am on both days. The entire family will enjoy seeing the Experimental, Classic and Warbird aircraft, along with airplane and biplane rides, aviation vendor booths, food and beverage booths, CDF aircraft and demonstrations, aircraft fly-bys, a Saturday night BBQ and more! Activities will also include a spot landing and flour bombing contest. Don’t miss this year’s event, it promises to be fun for everyone!

The P-51 Mustang is the Highlighted Event Plane this year with at least three attending Saturday. Visit www.mustangsmustangs.com.

This Saturday, April 18th, ICES (Infant-Child Enrichment Services) will have its annual Fair at the Motherlode Fairgrounds.  The fair is free but children must be accompanied by an adult.
The fair will feature a number of children’s activities, including face painting, crafts, a bean bag toss, a scavenger hunt and bowling for children ages 8 and under.

Entertainers will include Mountain Mischief jugglers, magician Donny Crandall and ventriloquist Tony Borders.

There also will be about 50 agencies and businesses present to hand out information about services and programs available to foothills families.

Hot dogs will be available for purchase.

Hope to see you there.

It was recently announced that Gottschalks will be closing.  There is a Sonora location as well as in the Modesto mall.  It said it won’t be able to avoid liquidation and will sell merchandise and other items at its retail stores and distribution center.  The going out of business sales may begin as early as Friday.

Begining April 1st you can enter the Century 21 Sweepstakes to win $221,000 and that’s no April Fools Joke!  Just visit century21.com/sweepstakes to enter.  Also up for grabs is eight prizes of $5,000 plus many other instant prizes.  I hope to see you at an Open House in Sonora, Soulsbyville, Twain Harte, Jamestown or Mi Wuk Village.  Look for Century 21 signs from directing you to Open Houses this month.  Or call Heidi Hovatter at 209-743-3010 or visit my website SonoraProperties.com for more information.

You read it right…you can enter to win $221,000 from Century 21.  You can enter at century21.com or directly at century21.com/sweepstakes  You can also visit Open Houses in Sonora, Twain Harte or anywhere a local Century 21 agent like Heidi Hovatter is holding an Open House.  One winner will win the grand prize while eight others will win $5,000 each.  Keep checking back here for Open House updates.

You read it right…you can enter to win $221,000 from Century 21.  You can enter at century21.com or directly at century21.com/sweepstakes  You can also visit Open Houses in Sonora, Twain Harte or anywhere a local Century 21 agent like Heidi Hovatter is holding an Open House.  One winner will win the grand prize while eight others will win $5,000 each.  Keep checking back here for Open House updates.

As you can imagine we have very limited shopping in Sonora, California.  A few months ago we lost Mervyns.  Mervyns was a great store to shop for the kids.  They had great Wednesday sales.

Now Gottschalks is having problems too.  They filed for bankruptcy in January.  But good news may be on the way…2 companies have made bids on Gottschalks.  If there is a successful bid that could mean that the East Sonora location in the Junction WILL remain open.

Check back soon to see what happens!

Our Sonora High School Golden Regiment Marching Band traveled to San Diego to participate in the 29th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade on March 14th.  Congratulations to the band which placed 1st!  The judges ranked the bands on routine, performance, sound, uniforms, selection of mucic & audience response.  The band was even invited back to participate in next year’s parade.  Way to go Sonora California!