you know story read by michaud randell see so small describes himself as a bit of a very close that is until it comes to roasting chestnuts sounds boring and odd to sixty year old grass valley resident said but when you give something away to the general public and they're not being nickeled and dimed the comments and reactions are genuine it's good for the soul he's the one standing in front of the fire pit in tales and talking entertaining visitors with their eyes all aglow at grass flowers corn and christmas in the venice city's victorian christmas by day he works as  surveyor caltrans ironically he got to get it because he was unemployed started nineteen ninety three when cathy went slowly will say of the nevada city chamber of commerce and ask if he would be willing to supervise a far pit at the victorian christmas out of the blue a visitor showed up with chestnuts snow who doesn't cook was clueless but before long he learned a few best practices the plane must be as hot as possible you must move the not so they don't burst good just as burn on the outside and warm on the inside it's the heat that draws out the sweetness snow is lived in the area since one thousand nine hundred three has to gather in all its own chestnuts he starts weeks before the event contacting area residents with trees in their yards one supplier is a donnie bill resident who owns a trio of chestnut trees he dubbed the magical forest typical tree yields one hundred pounds of just nuts but the quantity depends on whether snow can harvest it just minutes before the squirrels deer and beer bear get some beer one year he wasn't so lucky a bear took a liking to one of the trees and began frequently frequenting the magical forest you knew there were groceries where the grocery is worse no having this year that just and the fire away it helps that he works for the state caltrans is very hopeful helpful in pointing out the word he said when trees fall or caltrans clears trees for construction they took off snow chopped it and uses it for roasting some people show up to snow as far put pitt year after year telling them that they have to start their christmas season with a hot slightly sweet rose to just met for visitors it's as nostalgic as yuletide carols been s choir and folks dressed up like eskimoes if i'm sitting on this side of the street trying to sell two burnt chestnuts they'll say take a hike he said but if you go there and it's free and i'll show them how to do it they'll say well i never really like them he said but most people want one or two and then they're done until next season cecil does a great job he does a great job at the very to control you know all the richards out there in a story written by flippen now just in november he would be to leave the office at the end of the year he was elected in two thousand and six for a term that will run out in january twentieth eleven meanwhile two men with lengthy experience and counsel for new assessor offices have applied for time in the orange and placer county assessor offices united states army reserve major served thirteen months in afghanistan during two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight at the point in my career where i'm ready just it up and running an operation blaster it said is terrific opportunity for me and i'll try to take advantage of it if i get appointed hour run blatchford added if i don't get appointed i've probably won't power of the incumbency it will make it a lot easier to run by st said i'm a political unknown in the county and i have an uphill battle if not appointed jim del bon rough and ready as another interim but the former associate recorder of marin county is only interested in helping the county through the rest of the flippancy term  running absolutely not in the june primary doubront said i thought the staff needed someone to bring calm to the situation there will be an election going on dollar bond so i thought if my background w due to the confidentiality of her process said well said people apply in confidence and we keep that in confidence no bad position for colleagues both foreign and owens offered a similar reason for not applying for the interim spot preferring to wait for the do an election i did not want to put my colleagues in that position i wouldn't want them to do that either owen said i'll run in the election i wouldn't want to put my colleagues in a bad position horne said it's smacks on cronyism and i need to run for the c and get to support from voters instead i'm still considering a run in the june primary but i made no final decision yet one added make my decision by the first of the year can it click recorder gregory d who is in charge of elections said recently he believes owens would have to step down from his last three years as a supervisor if he wants you so serious because the offices are incompatible the assessor is the one of the three elected county offices that must be field under california constitution dhea said the other two are sheriff in district attorney should owens way and in terms supervisor could be appointed by governor arnold schwarzenegger to come here can he also could call a special election to fill the void or may not apply for the in terms but probably just wait and pull election papers in january burning having county executive officer recap he said the county will deal with the treasury tax collector situation in january and another local story woman of wars has twenty five local families who need help for christmas but a nonprofit that helps people get back on their free has not been able to find enough angels this year here are the stories of three of the families who have asked wow for help a mother survivor teacher i'm single mother of three i'm domestic violence rapes viber my ex husband kidnap me and terrorize me and kill my stomach until i miscarried our unborn child even though i feel as though i have been to hell and back my past is not my destiny i went to school got an education and now a teacher have three of the best children and woman can ask for all my income is used to pay bills and purchase the minimum so please adopt my children they have been through a lot last baby's last home my wife oh well that's one last baby's last home my wife and i have had a very hard year i'm currently on disability we've gone from a furnished home to an empty apartment i it took all of our income to move our family in the hopes of a better life we lost two in boise this year in childbirth my wife barely survived our hearts are saddened that we never got to know them we would like to put something under the tree for our other children but can't even imagine the extra money to purchase that reluctant to ask for help this year we have gone from living in four bedroom home driving a new car and having a new baby to being homeless and living in a van that is given i was given to use it added to our financial stress when my sister was tragically killed our parents recently gave up their savings to get us into an apartment my husband is doing odd jobs and i am doing some house cleaning and babysitting to help every bit of income is gone before it comes in we have always been given it's hard to ask for help but we are struggling and don't know what else to do how to be an angel if you have a church group or organization that is looking to provide help to a local family this year please contact woman of worth for details about these three families and adopt in a local family they asked a christmas angels brain at least to get new gives for each member of the family families are asked for the basics pajamas blankets hooded sweatshirts running toys twenty sheet set and twenty comforters while needs gets to be read turned by five p m monday december fourteenth there are several drop off locations one in grass valley the union for sixty four certain way that's d eight hundred pine shadow lane highway twenty cells towards seventeen thousand to twelve cattle drive sounds county and auburn there century twenty one forty zero realty one thousand and sixty in the parking lot eleven forty a m a man from one hundred block of east main street reported another man hit him in the head to avoid two pm a call from one hundred block of clinton drive reported a man in the lobby causing problems and at one and five twenty p m a call from the street reported a drunken person was trying to get into a vehicle and drive the person was gone when officers arrived and at five twenty one p m call from allison ranch road and mel street reported  overturned vehicle five twenty three p m a caller from one hundred block of maryland drive reported water pouring out of an apartment five forty one p m caller from two and a block nor school street reported water point out of the house seven fifty five p m call of three hundred block of north church street reported water gushing from a neighbor's house and eleven o six p m a call from cork street party to possible drunken person sleeping in the street the person was arrested on an out of county want thursday to a five p m caller from idaho maryland drive would not provide any information the situation was mediated one twenty one p m woman from twenty two thousand block a cameo drive reported the mailbox stand had been vandalized and at one fifty nine pm caller from sixteen thousand block of old mill road reported an insult and it to twenty six pm a woman from eleven thousand block a green bar greenbrier away reported someone trespassed on the property and possibly took items to forty seven p m a man from ten thousand block of pittsburgh  contacted by a fraudulent credit card company and at three o three p m a woman from twenty two thousand block a cameo drive reported the mailbox had been broken into and mail stolen and for eighteen p m a man from twenty thousand block of new rome road reported delivering a washing machine to a person who could not move it into the residence and left it outside all night the person then called to complain the washing machine did not work in felony charges were going to be filed and in five or three pm a woman from eleven thousand block a uber rich drive reported to man from fifteen thousand block of little valley road reported the woman might have be having a heart attack the woman said he was drunk and they were having an argument she said here is trying to choke her earlier in the evening neither party wanted law enforcement involvement letting forty block of bourbon road reportedly broke his hand punching a tree he did not want medical attention was icing his hand a twelve p m call from washington street of cross crossing reported someone throwing snowballs off the overpass into traffic and that's it for the police blotter and now from one of our hopeful attacks ecuador says and egypt builds new border wall on gaza border pentagon declared in contempt of court and get more case and senate bill permits insurers to limit medical coverage u s mining giant reaches a one point seven nine billion dollar environmental settlement and the people speak to bear in the u s in today's first story here in copenhagen the obama administration is coming under criticism for refusing to acknowledge a climate debt to poor countries suffering for breath of global warming this week's u s climate negotiator todd stern categorically rejected calls for climate reparations to developing countries on thursday bolivia climate negotiator responded in an address before the alternative summit of climate forum and said whatever amount of money you give me it will never and i repeat it will never compensate a single great year that will be lost in bolivia a single species that will be lost in one of our rainforest this is not about money because we are not beggars we are just asking for reparation by developing countries so they pay us their debt in other news from copenhagen ocean scientists have released a report showing the world seeds are growing increasingly acidic from store in the main greenhouse gases caused by global warming carol turley a plymouth marine laborde tory or laboratory said always things are seriously threatened unless emissions are reduced and said the ocean has already taken up twenty five percent of the c o two since the industrial revolution because of its vastness and when you add c o two to seawater it becomes an acid a mild acid so the oceans and last two hundred years have become thirty percent more acidic and that's lower nobel peace prize obama used his acceptance speech to defend the excavation of the afghan war calling it a a just use of force us peace activist cindy sheehan addressed a crowd of marchers in os low she said how dare the committee give the peace prize which will forever be known as a peace prize to obama and how dare he accept it how dare the committee legitimize the crimes in the war crimes and other crimes of bush regime by rewarding obama for continuing them meanwhile in new york dozens of people marched in a parallel rally against obama's nobel prize the demonstrators carried mock coffins as they walked around the united nations to a military recruiting station in times square one processor said he kind of rehashed a just war argument and it's something that i think is kind of offensive personally to try to paint a military effort where people are going to be dying in terms of peace and in terms of you know positive thinking and it just doesn't make any sense i don't think i'm  details have surfaced about the private military from blackwater's extensive role and u s operations abroad the new york times is reporting blackwater forces have taken part in arm cia raids in iraq and afghanistan blackwater is said to have played  central role in almost daily snatch and grab operations in iraq between two thousand and four and six former blackwater guards so they also assisted cia rendition flights transporting prisoners from for imprisonment and torture abroad to guard so their involvement was so intense it that it became difficult to distinguish blackwater operations from those of the cia or the u s military in pakistan the five u s citizens arrested earlier this week are being accused of seeking to join militant groups to fight u s troops in afghanistan five young men were arrested after their families reported them missing in northern virginia last week pakistani police say the men told interrogators they came to pakistan to engage in the hardest activity ecuador's accuse new u s involvement in colombia's two thousand eight attack and for rebels in a quick ecuadorian territory to cross border bombing killed more than twenty people including civilians and a new report to the ecuadorian government says u s military officials helped plan attacks from the manta air base in ecuador ecuador ended u s operations at the base earlier this year and egypt has begun constructing a new border wall to further see a lot of the gaza strip the israeli newspaper ha'aretz reports that egypt is installing an underground wall to block terminals used for gandhi harder has been on a hunger strike for nearly four weeks since moroccan interest denied her entry into western sahara rocker has demanded a how to recognize moroccan sovereignty over her homeland and apologize to the king on thursday h news conference at the spanish airport where she's been confined since last month and said the spanish government has to give importance to human rights and change its attitude and defend those interests which are above those of the government nobody can push me or feed me against my will head our went on to issue a plea to president obama saying u s involvement would sway their moroccan government to allow her to return jackal's busy day a federal judge has declared the pentagon in contempt of court for failing to videotape guantanamo bay prisoner who challenge his detention military had been ordered to record mohamed al adachi when he testified to guantanamo in june judge so did i doubt his testimony should eventually be made public the justice department is challenging a court ruling ordering a guy he's released for lack of evidence against him in patient rights advocates are criticizing a loophole in the senate health care reform bill that would allow insurance companies to limit health care benefits even for seriously ill patients an earlier version of the bill have banned the annual caps but it sense reappeared as the bill moved through the committee on thursday a single payer activist protested at senate offices nationwide against democrats latest agreement to abandon public option nine people were arrested in a new york offices of the democratic senator charles schumer the justice department has announced a settlement with the mining giant asarco for the cleanup of more than eighty polluted sites in one thousand states  will pay one point seven nine billion to settle series of clean it's believed to be the largest environmental bankruptcy settlement in u s history and howard zinn's bestselling book a people's history how the united states is headed for televised to to television this week first published more than a quarter of a century ago the book has sold more than one million copies people speak airs sunday night on the history channel so i guess this is monday so you must get a doctor tomorrow