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News, Views & Culture of the Eastern Sierra TRAGEDY in JUNE LAKE the WOLF PHOTO: GAYLA Station helpers dance for runners and walkers during the Eastern News,sheet Views & Culture of the Eastern Sierra Sierra Cancer Alliance 5K run/walk on Saturday, October 15. For more photos, see p. 11. Saturday, October 22, 2016 FREE Vol. 14, No. 43 TRAGEDY IN JUNE LAKE FOUR GENERATIONS Three men perish when boat capsizes during high winds By Rea he communities of the nardino Sheriff Emergency said Braun on Tuesday. Eastern Sierra and Te- Operations Dive Rescue, All five men are from Te- Thachapi are reeling this MCSO Search and Rescue, hachapi, MCSO reported, and week after a boat carrying Lyon County Search and Res- are related to one another. five men overturned in the cue, June Lake Fire Depart- Don Maben, Jacob’s grand- choppy waters of June Lake ment, Lee Vining Fire Depart- father, told Bakersfield Now on Saturday, October 15. Two ment, Mammoth Lakes Fire that Jacob was the youngest of the occupants of the boat, Department, Mono County of three kids and had aspira- 22-year old Caleb Crouch Paramedics, the U.S. Forest tions of becoming a military and 22-year-old John Langs- Service and Lifeflight, as well policeman. “He was looking ton, managed to swim to as Mary Cabik and her search forward to going into a career shore. The other three men, dog, Inca. in law enforcement,” Maben 46-year-old Doug Langston, At the Mono County Super- told Bakersfield Now. He said 21-year-old Caleb Johnson, visors meeting on Tuesday, Jacob had recently joined the and 14-year-old Jacob Langs- Sheriff Ingrid Braun wept Tehachapi Police Explorers to ton, all disappeared into the over the loss of the three gain some experience in his water. None of the men were men. She said that the death chosen field. wearing life jackets, accord- of the youngest, 14-year-old Hillary Romo, a special ing to the Mono County Jacob Langston, hit particu- education teacher at Te- Sheriff’s Office (MCSO). larly hard, and spoke of how hachapi High School (THS), Recovery efforts for the his mother, Hillary Romo, wrote an email to The Sheet three men started Saturday, had been strong throughout about the efforts to bring PHOTO COURTESY URSULA JONES when the boat overturned the ordeal. She said that the home her son, who was in Julia Parker (center), her daughter Lucy (left), granddaughter Ursula and continued until Tuesday, incident will linger in this 10th grade at THS. She said (right) and great-granddaughter Naomi (center top) will be teach- October 18, when the three small-knit community, much that Jacob’s alarm for school ing a tule twining basket class at the Eastern California Museum in men and their boat were like the tragedy that occurred had just gone off at about 5 Independence on Saturday, October 22. See story, p. 13. located near the middle of at Convict Lake in 1990 when a.m. on Wednesday, when she the lake around 11:30 a.m., seven people drowned— was writing the email. Romo FRIEND WITH BENEFITS according to a press release three teenagers and four expressed her gratitude to the from MCSO. Recovery efforts would-be rescuers. “It’s going Eastern Sierra communities Council oblivious while Holler buffs out buddies were assisted by the San Ber- to stick with us for a while,” see BOAT, page 18 By Lunch ammoth Lakes Town As Mammoth’s Planning Council approved a and Economic Development M$150,000 consulting Commission Chair Madeleine contract at its regular meet- “Mickey” Brown said at the ing on Wednesday without meeting, “I’m shocked that the project going to bid. Council would even con- The contract was awarded sider a service agreement of to Darin Dinsmore, a long- this dollar amount without time crony of Town Manager issuing a Request for Pro- Dan Holler. The relationship posals first …I don’t know if between Holler and Dins- ever there’s been a previous more dates back until at least incident where we’ve issued 2000, when Holler served as something for $140,000 with- County Manager of Douglas out issuing an RFP.” County, Nevada and Din- Brown requested some smore was with the Sierra clarification regarding Town Business Council. guidelines for RFPs. In other The contract with Dins- words, what requires some- more Sierra LLC is for the thing to go out for bid, and facilitation of a “public when is the Town able (via its visioning/planning process Town Manager) to simply is- PHOTO COURTESY: MCOE for a revitalized downtown sue a scope of work to any The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s dive team was one of many entities who assisted the search for three Mammoth Lakes.” missing Tehachapi men who disappeared into the waters of June Lake on Saturday, October 15. see HOLLER, page 2 SCE soothes? Lulling engines First class Request for Hot chocolate proposals /p. 6/ /p. 3/ /p. 5/ /p. 16/ /p. 10/ 2 I www.thesheetnews.com THE SHEET I Saturday, October 22, 2016 HOLLER the Ted Carleton ....... Jack of all Lunches continued from page 1 760.937.4613 / [email protected] particular individual? June Simpkins...Jack of everything else When Colin Fernie followed up by asking about the lack of an RFP directly, 760.937.3967 / [email protected] Holler replied, “If you put the RFP out it would be awarded in November or the sheet Mike Bodine ..................Writer first part of December or later, so we would have lost a couple months doing that.” News, Views & Culture of the Eastern Sierra [email protected] Brown also questioned the wisdom of bringing someone in who isn’t familiar Sarah Rea ..................... with the town or what’s been done to this point. “Why would we bring in a new “Hoc est non meus domus...” Writer consultant, not familiar with the community or previous work, to facilitate this -Cabezas Parlantes/Keith Davies [email protected] implementation strategy [following through on the Hart-Howerton concept]? Charles James .............Contributor And pay that consultant to review the work of other qualified consultants?” 760.614.0546 Town Manager Dan Holler said, “The goal of the work is really to come in and JACK LUNCH work and meet with property and business and homeowners in area.” Holler Clouds McCloud ......... PUBLISHER Ass-trologer touted Dinsmore’s resume, particularly as it related to his familiarity with tax- increment finance districts. “He’ll be bringing some of the financial tools to us P.O. Box 8088 Abagael Giles .................Writer so we can look through those [for] what make sense in Mammoth Lakes,” said Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546 [email protected] Holler. 760.924.0048/[email protected] Councilman John Wentworth attempted to soothe Brown by saying, “I appre- An adjudicated paper of general circula- For a subscription to The Sheet contact ciate your frustration.” tion. ©2016 The Sheet, all rights reserved. Lunch at his above e-mail address, or call the Brown retorted, “This is more than frustration.” office. Issues are mailed out bi-weekly. Cost But this was not the only contract Dinsmore was a part of on Wednesday www.thesheetnews.com Check out for is $65/year. night. There was another contract, an agreement with Sierra Nevada Destina- more content, daily updates and free online tion Services, to hire a Special Events Director to “implement the Town’s Special classifieds. Events Strategy.” The proposed agreement was a three-year deal worth $425,000. of the personal relationship between Holler and the Davies, old pals from Grass Sierra Nevada Destination Services principals’ are a husband-and-wife team, Valley. Holler served as City Administrator of Grass Valley for approximately five Robin Galvan-Davies and Keith Davies of Grass Valley. years from 2008-2013. After a mid-meeting recess, Mayor Shields Richardson announced that the In fact, an online posting from The Union newspaper based in Grass Valley agenda item was being pulled, so it never came up for discussion. But it’s worth indicates that Davies and Holler both served and may continue to serve on the discussing further for several reasons. Board of Directors of Nevada County Television. Like the above visioning/planning contract, this contract similarly did not go Further, the article states that Davies and Holler together loaned NCTV out for bid—or it did, according to Town Manager Dan Holler, but only infor- $10,000 in 2013. mally (it was not published in a newspaper of record). The position was floated Davies and his wife Robin were named Co-CEOs of the Grass Valley Chamber on the Town’s website and Holler reached out to various parties (including the of Commerce in 2013. The couple signed a three-year contract extension in Davies) seeking interest. 2015. There were ultimately two bidders. After interviews (Holler, Stuart Brown, Under the general provisions section of the draft contract in Wednesday’s John Morris and Brent Truax comprised the interview panel), the Davies were agenda packet, section 3.5.2, titled “Delivery of Notices,” states: “All notices per- selected. mitted or required under this Agreement shall be given to the respective parties What the other three panelists may not have known at the time was the extent at the following address.” For the consultant, the address is: 213 Scotia Pines Circle, Grass Valley, Calif. 95945 ATTN Keith Davies. For the Town, its P.O. Box 1609 in Mammoth ATTN Daniel C. Holler. Turns out the Grass Valley address is Dan Holler’s. That’s right. He is the owner of 213 Scotia Pines Circle, a fact verified by the Placer Title Company.
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