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December 30, 2005
| Evergreen in 2005: A Year in Review |
By Bea Baechle
Editor
Before you set forth on fulfilling your personal goals or resolutions for 2006, take a moment to review some of the local highlights covered by the Evergreen Times in 2005.
It was a year of triumphs and challenges for Evergreen—celebrating park, theater and restaurant openings on the one hand and grappling with efforts to intelligently manage future development on the other.
As the Evergreen Heritage Room celebrated its grand opening in March, La Rochelle Winery closed its doors in August, marking the end of a 150-year era of winemaking in Evergreen.
It was a year of school districts skating on thin financial ice and developing creative solutions to Read
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Evergreen couple perishes in small-plane crash
Riedlins will be missed at home, work, community
By Bea Baechle
Editor
Vern Riedlin loved to fly. Rather than drive to Visalia to deliver Christmas presents to relatives, he and his wife Terrie opted to fly in his six-seat, single-engine plane as readily as most people would hop in a car.
Yet on Dec. 10, the plane vanished from air-traffic radar at about 9 p.m., eight miles south of Kingsburg. Dense fog impaired the sheriff’s deputies search for the missing plane, and they decided to resume the Read
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