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Konocti Youth Soccer League has teamed up with Challenger Sports to host a weeklong British soccer camp June 27-July 1 at Westside Community Park.
The camp will run Monday through Friday and each child will be coached by a member of Challenger’s team of 1,000 British soccer coaches flown to the USA exclusively to work on these programs.
Challenger Sports will hold over 3,000 British soccer camps this summer and will coach more than 120,000 players between the ages of 3 and 19.
The British soccer camp is more than a week of drills and skills. In addition to taking part in a daily regimen of foot-skills, technical, tactical practices and daily tournament play, Challenger has partnered with the NAIA to help educate players in lessons on respect, responsibility, integrity, leadership and sportsmanship.
The British soccer camp program also provides a unique cultural experience for the players, highlighted in the Camp Word Cup.
The coaches use this daily tournament to teach the players about life, customs and traditions of other countries.
The campers are asked to make up soccer chants, wear the team colors of their country, bring flags and learn as much as they can about the country they represent.
Konocti Youth Soccer League is offering British soccer camp sessions for the following ages:
Ages 3-4; First Kicks; 9 a.m.-10 a.m.; $71.
Ages 4-5; Mini Soccer; 10 a.m.-noon; $96.
Ages 6-14; Half Day; 9 a.m. to noon; $101.
Ages 8-14; Full Day; 9 a.m. to 2.30 p.m.; $138.
Teams are also welcome to attend and receive a week of focused instruction to prepare them for the fall season. Team camp rates are available from your camp coordinator.
Each camper will receive a free soccer camp t-shirt, a free soccer ball, a free giant soccer poster and a personalized skills performance evaluation.
In addition, any child who signs up online at least 45 days prior to camp will receive a genuine British soccer replica jersey, valued at $39.
Space is limited – parents are encouraged to sign up on line in advance to avoid disappointment. Sign up at www.challengersports.com or, for more information please contact Mike Sheets, 707-263-6979, or email
Challenger Sports has been conducting soccer camps in the US for more than 20 years and in addition to coaching youth players throughout the country, Challenger will also run hundreds of free parent/coach soccer clinics throughout the country in partnership with the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.
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The results were:
“A” flight – The team of Don Dornbush/Bill Helt took first with a net 31, Jim Brown/Jim Wilson was second with 32 and Paul Bertlin/Fred Figg placed third with 33.
“B” fight – The teams of Jerry Tamura/Pete Gumina, Glen Neasham/Dennis Day, and Gary Pickrell/Mill Grant all tied for first with 31.
Closest to the par 3 pins were Ron Clark and Cliff Hughes.
Fifty-four men (27 teams) participated in the day's event.
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Two state agencies, the California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) and California State Parks (CSP), worked together with the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office to investigate the case and aggressively prosecute the crimes.
“Illegal commercialization of California’s abalone resources will not be tolerated,” said Tony Warrington, assistant chief of the DFG Law Enforcement Division.
In the fall of 2009, CSP rangers began to suspect abalone trafficking after making multiple contacts with diver Michael Sean Miller, 55, of Petaluma, in the area around Fisk Mill. Rangers relayed the information to DFG’s Special Operations Unit, which began to investigate.
Wardens soon observed Miller harvesting abalone and transporting them to the rear entrance of Pacific Restaurant, 1045 Terra Nova Blvd. in Pacifica.
There, Miller was observed selling the illegally taken abalone to the restaurant’s owner, Pim Lim Szeto, 51 of San Francisco. Wardens arrested both subjects for the illegal sale and purchase of abalone.
The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office began to prosecute the case in October 2009. Szeto was subsequently fined $20,000 and sentenced to 90 days work release time. His fishing license was revoked for life.
In May 2011, Miller pleaded guilty to poaching charges. He was fined $15,000 and sentenced to 90 days work release time with three years probation. He was also ordered to forfeit all dive gear and fishing equipment. His fishing license has been revoked for life and he is prohibited from possessing abalone.
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Sixteen talented artists from around the country submitted their original art for consideration for the stamp.
In past years, California waterfowl hunters were required to purchase the stamp and affix it to their licenses.
This year, the implementation of a new licensing system means that hunters no longer need to carry a physical state duck stamp in the field, but the stamps will still be produced and will be sent to licensed duck hunters, upon request, after July 1.
The contest, sponsored by the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) was open to all artists. Entrants were required to paint, draw or sketch the duck species chosen by the California Fish and Game Commission, which, this year, was the Barrow’s Goldeneye.
This year’s contest rules did not require submissions to feature both a male and female Goldeneye within the painting, but allowed entries to feature the species in an array of groupings at the artist’s discretion.
The contest entries will be on display under tents in front of the State Capitol, beginning at 11 a.m. The judging will run from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
The judges’ panel, which will consist of experts in the fields of ornithology, conservation, art and printing, will choose first-, second- and third-place winners, along with an honorable mention.
All winners will be on display at the Pacific Flyway Decoy Association’s annual show in Sacramento at the Double Tree Hotel in July.
All proceeds generated from stamp sales go directly to waterfowl conservation projects throughout California.
For more information about the California Duck Stamp program, please visit the DFG Web site at www.dfg.ca.gov/about/duckstamp.