APRIL 2019 AN ANTELOPE NEWS Your Community News Source Since 1990! antelopenews.com EBRATIN From Your County Antelope Lions Invite Community EL G C Supervisor to “Breakfast with the Bunny” YEARS! A Bumpy Road to Fully 29 On Saturday, April 13, 2019, the guests really like the Easter Egg Hunt! Funding Road Repairs Antelope Lions are hosting their 3rd Children are encouraged to hunt for eggs IN THIS ISSUE BY SUE FROST, Sacramento County Annual “Breakfast with the Bunny” whenever they (and their parents) Supervisor at Firestone Park in Antelope.elope. Just choose.choose. Eggs are hidden under Local PGA Professional — HOPE ......3 $5 for adults and $3 forr children straw, makingm them a challenge As you are for a delicious breakfast toto fi nd!nd! Additional fun includes undoubtedly aware, ACTA, Library Events ..........................4 California voters of pancakes, sausage, JordanJordan the Magnificent, face fruit, juice, coffee, and painting,pain and Easter crafts – all Dry Creek School District ....................5 went to the polls last November and voted water. The event is 8:30 free!free For more information, Center Booster Club .............................6 not to repeal the “gas – 10:30 a.m., with the andand to purchase your tickets tax”, which is the largest Easter Egg Hunt running early, please go to www. Center Joint Unifi ed School District ...7 tax increase in the throughout the morning. PleasePlease antelopelions.org. If history of California. notice the date as this iss thethe you are interested in SRPD Activities .....................................7 The gas tax is here to Sue Frost Saturday prior to Palm Sunday,nday, learning more about stay, and local roads in not the Saturday before Easteraster the Antelope Lions, Antelope Profi les ...................................9 Sacramento County will start getting repaved later this fall. But strangely enough, even Sunday. We have also changednged please join us for dinner. Antelope News Classifi eds ................11 though this tax has only been in place for a venue, as Firestone Parkk has WeW meet the 2nd and 4th more parking for our guests!guests! WednesdayWed of each month at And Much More . little over a year, there are local governmental entities currently having discussions about Children of all ages are invitedvited to 6:306:3 at the VFW Hall, 3300 (cont’ on page 10) visit with the Easter Bunny.ny. Past U Street in Antelope. HAPPY Scout Troop 224 Antelope Men’s Basketball Coach Rob 5K Fun Run/Walk Richards Steps Down After 10 Years BY CAMERON SALERNO May 19, 2019 • 8:00 AM After coaching 10 years for Antelope and 25 years overall, Rob Richards knew this year Gibson Ranch Park was the right time to step away. After founding Come out and enjoy the fun! the Titans basketball program when the school opened in 2008, Richards has been the only Read the Boy Scout Troop 224 is hosting our 1st coach in school history. Annual 5K Fun Run/Walk at 8:00 am on “Coming into this year (after having the Antelope News Sunday, May 19, 2019 at Gibson Ranch, 8556 heart attack last year) I wanted to see how online at Gibson Ranch Rd, Elverta, CA 95626. The this year went and how I would manage a new cost is $35.00 per person and will include lifestyle,” Richards said on his retirement. AntelopeNews.com! a t-shirt. “Having a heart attack at age 49 wasn’t the The event is open to everyone greatest thing and I even ended up in the ER in the community both children and when we played (against Rocklin) because of adults. Registration will be available on our my blood pressure. So at the end of the day, Facebook page BSA Troop 224 Antelope coaching didn’t fi t the lifestyle I wanted right CA and through links on our website www. now and I want to be around my family more.” Rob Richards PAID troop224antelopeca.com. Just days after suffering the heart PRST STD Runners/walkers should check in at attack, Richards was back doing what he U.S. POSTAGE PERMIT NO. 70 PERMIT NO. ROSEVILLE, CA 7:00am for a event number. The event will loves - coaching. After this life-altering event, success. Coming off his fi rst year as coach of promptly start at 8:00am and follow the Richards would return to fi nish coaching in the the Titans, his team fi nished the year with a trail throughout the park. The trail itself Antelope Alumni game. It was the place he 9-18 record. With no seniors on the team that is a relatively fl at trail that is perfect for needed to be after going through all the trauma. year, everyone was hungry to come back the all to enjoy on an early Sunday morning. “Even though at the alumni game there next year to show what they can do. A Taste of Tuscany will be providing pizza wasn’t much coaching to be done, I felt like for purchase. that was the place to be — I needed to be out In the 2010-11 season, the Titans made This Fun Run benefi ts Boy Scout Troop there with (my staff),” he said. “Being back a statement and showed why they were the 224 to help with troop functions, troop out there let me know everything was going next big team in the Sacramento area. 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ADVERTISING PGA HOPE introduces golf to Veterans with Gregg Goldthorpe disabilities to enhance their physical, mental, social and emotional well-being. CONTRIBUTORS Epperly, a military Veteran himself, joins PGA Professional Robert Epperly (right) Lisa Lisonbee, Sue Frost, Brad Tooker, Scott A. Loehr, the PGA HOPE National Training Team helps adisabled military Veteran during Mark Stotlar, Becky Hammack, Cameron Salerno, PGA HOPE workshop. Gregg & Liz Goldthorpe Allene Salerno, Erica Olmstead, Jaina Knight, alongside lead instructor Judy Alvarez (South Rickie Whitmore, Elizabeth Turcan. Florida PGA Section); Brian Oliver (Carolinas PGA Section) and Joe Grohman (Southern PGA HOPE has helped thousands of Veterans CIRCULATION SUBMISSIONS CA PGA Section). The National Training assimilate back into their communities through The Antelope News is mailed free to The Antelope News welcomes Team, all experts in teaching golf programs the social interaction the game of golf provides. 10,000 homes in the Antelope community. announcements from social clubs, for individuals dealing with physical/cognitive Today, PGA HOPE programs are currently The delivery is targeted for the fi rst week of schools, charitable organizations, non- disabilities, will be responsible for delivering being offered at over 90 locations in the U.S. each month. profit organizations, local government PGA HOPE golf training seminars to PGA today, positively impacting more than 2,000 READ ONLINE - DIGITAL ISSUES and community events. Also, editorial Members across the nation. The simulated Veterans annually. 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