The CD single features a song based on a poem written by Regina Sund, Carole's adopted daughter. The proceeds will benefit the non-profit Carole Sund Memorial Reward Foundation, which was established by the Carrington family. The Carringtons, Carole's parents, were also attending a fund-raising dinner at the Del Rio Country Club in Modesto this week for the cause. Calling all diggers Budding archaeologists wanting to get down and dirty in California's mining history are urged to sign up with the Six Rivers National Forest within a week. The Forest Service will furnish the tools, knowledge, food, water, ice and stove.
Day trips are welcome.
Last year, diggers from as far away as Berkeley received a crash course in archaeology and uncovered remnants of the town's general store and blacksmith's home. Even the Six Rivers' superintendent came out to work at the site last summer. The project is cosponsored by the North Coast Forest Service district, Del Norte County Historical Society, Cal-Nickel Corp. which owns the property, PAR Environmental Services, California Conservation Corps and Americorps. For more information, call Six Rivers National Forest Archaeologist Ken Wilson at 441-3529. Strom-Martin, the author of the bill, introduced the measure after the recent school shootings prompted debate over whether the tragedy could have been minimized with phones in the classrooms.